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Fair play., 1893-11-18

A clergyman was annoyed by
people talking and gigling. He
paused, looked at the Gisturbers
and said: "Some years since, as
| was preaching, a young man
who sat before me was constant
ly laughing, talking and making
uncOuth grimaces. l paused and
administered a sad rebuke. At
ter the close of the services a
gentleman said to me: Sir, you
made a great mistake that young
man was an idiot Since then /
have always been afraid to re-
prove those who misbehaye them
selves in chapel, lest l should
repeat that mistake and reprOve
another IDIOT During the rest
of the services there was good
order.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

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Fair play., 1893-11-18

Nothing has 50 well illustrated
the irawing power Of the World 5
Fair rs the case of Roy LcngWell
% lo~a, while serving II six
months sentence in the CreSton
jail, broke out of that institution.
we't to Chicago, and, having put
in Ten days at the fair, returned
to CrestOn to serve ont his sen
tence. He felt he could do this
with joy and not with grief. his
mind and heart having been ex-
allied and enlightened by the
sight of the treasure of art gath
cred al the great Worlds Expo
sition.
Fair play., 1893-11-18
A Qscer Wager.

An American acrobat III Vienna
lately won queer wager. He bet a
considerable sum with Vienna
strong man tha, he could not endure
+" have liter Of water fall drop by
drop from II height of three feet upon
his hand When three hundred DROPS
had fallen the athletes face became
red and he lnoke,! as if in pam. Al
the four hundred and twentieth drcr
he gave up, Sa, iug il WAS impossible
:" bear the pain any longer. Tie
palm oi his hand WAS swollen aud in.
hsmra. and III one place The skin had
broken open. Oul, small portion
nf the Hitter Of water had gone tn
make III, ihc four hundred and TWEEN
" drnvs
Fair play., 1893-11-18

The New York World sees vic.
tory in the defeat the Democrats
received last week. Here is
what it says: "The rebuke Of
the bosses is not the only bright
spot for Democracy in the results
of the election. There is a silver
lining in the Ohio disaster which
may grow brighter if the Demo
cratic majority in Congress fulfils
its pledges. The great victory of
Mckinley puts him in the lead of
the Republican possibilities for
the presidential nomination. His
friends will point to his enormous
majority as a vindication Of M
Kinley and proof of a strong re.
action towards protection. With
a satisfac Ory tariff reform bill
passed by Congress, what better
fortune could come 10 Democracy
than the forcing of the issue Of
McKinleyism upon the Rrpubli
caus? There may be food for
Democratic rejoicing in the
triumph of Mckinley"
Fair play., 1893-11-18

1t often happens that a man is
annoyed by having to identify
himself at bank, but in Mary.
land a convict has been vexed by
the refusal of a penitentiary War
den to admit him until the Sheriff
should come and identify him.
The poor man had to 60 and hunt
up his Sheriff and was delayed
for several days by the OfficiOus
red tapeism of the Warden.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

Operators of type-writers will
soon become so plentiful rs to be
a drug in the market. The Chica.
20 board Of education has CON-
manded that the art of working
the singularly ingenious and use
full machines shall be taught in
the many public night schools of
the city.
Fair play., 1893-11-18
Mild Winter Predicted. :.

From the Troy N " Times.
just three weeks ago we quoted the
vaticinations of the prophet OF the
Chenango Valley, whom his neighbors
have for years regarded rs infalliblc
lie found many signs of All unusually
severe winter-indecd, 1t was going
TO be the coolest since 1888, whei,
Gen. jackson was President. The
e, ,idences to sustain his position were
numerOus. The husks on the corn
were thick and yellow the hogs
melt ran jagged the goose bone WAS
large and had spots resembling the
canals of Mars; the squirrels were
la, ing in unusually large stores OF
nuts the partridges and wOOdcock
were lighting in barns and outhouscs
instead of trees the ducks were fly
ing in U shaped flocks southwark,
aud the green frogs were changing
their skins aud seeking winter quar-
ters very early. These signs were so
numerous as to act many All impecu-
nious youth to gathering the nuts tina,
were in danger of being absorbed by
the squirrels, the sale of which was to
provide him with the means for a
visit to the ''uncle" with whom he
had hung up his Overcoat in the first
flush Of spring.
But now appears the prophet of the
Lackawauna Valley, as venerable and
sage as he of the Chenango. and count.
ers upon him with the prediction of a
winter of almost etheral mildness. The
signs which he mas seen are also nu-
merons and convincing. Caferpillars
were crawling on the ground all
through October robbins were thick
in the sumachs aud laurcls on All
SAINTS Day OIL the 2nd inst. he
picked a ba-ketful of danGelion and
crOwsfOOt blossoms on the highest
hill in Lackawanna county he also
found some boneset and ferns that
had not been touched by frost on
the afternoon before Halloween he
knocked over chipmuuk and found
il without a single beechnut in its
chops, though the woods were full OF
them he saw, October %, Il wood
cock sitting on a stone wall toatls
are hopping Oh the leaves in moist
places and were singing sixteen days
later than usual meadow moles are
still roofing up little mounds of eSrtl'
in rich soil the fur Of skunks and
coons is thinner by half than it was a
year ago. and rabbits are lean to wha,
they were last year.
This man has been prophesy,ng OF,
weather for sixty years. and he de.
clares that in all that time he has
never snem 40 many indications of All
open winter as this fall. lie thinks
the trade in slrigh>. iurs and fuel will
he small. But he SAYS nothing about
the goose bone. and il is to be hoped
that some good friend will send h,m
one in day or two. 1t ia possible
that the result of the election may
have wrought some change in its war
like aspect.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

The will of the late Carter Fl.
Harrison leaves property valued
at 5000, 900 to be divided among
his four children after the lapse
Of two years, and beqneathes
$4,000 to charity. The mayor
probably gave his children con.
siderable property before he made
the will, as it is not long since his
fortune was estimated at about
s3,OOO,OOO.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

The first issue of the Register.
Democrat, published by B. A. Roy
at Rome Terre, Mo-, reached us
this week. The paper is a five-
column quarto and is a credit to
it's publisher. "BOb" is an old
Ste. Genevieve boy and we are
glad to see that he is meeting
with success.
Fair play., 1893-11-18
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Fair play., 1893-11-18

It is a we'll known fact that in
off years the elections always 60
against the party in power ut
Washington so the Democrats
can find some consolation in this.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

Following is the list of patents
granted to Missouri inventors
this week, reported by e a.
Snow & Co., Solicitors Of Ameri
can and Foreign Patents, Opp. Z.
s. Patent Office, Washington, ID. G.
F. J. Branch, St. Louis, putty
knife. f. n. and J. j Ryers,
Cameron. car coupling. T. Cole.
st, Mary's, box fastener. .. } e.
Deckelmann, ST. Louis, index
tab. I. NJ. Dennis. Joplin, water
elevating bucket. L. 5. Evans.
81. LouiS. valve. a. +. George,
Kansas City, Windmill. y. r.
Hayworth, Tarkio, plane. T. W.
U,semaun. Back Jack. harvester.
II Mcdonald, St. Joseph. fold
ing guide for sewing m,ch'nrs
FL, and \. L. NcGaham, ST.
Jouis. safety attachment for oil
burners. + paItrry. Macon axle
iuhricaiins device f"r car wheels
!, stock ST. I.pmiS. gas
stove burner. w. c. Wilson.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

The man who wrote "After
the Ball" has at last met his fate
he so richly deserved. He has
married a Chicago girl.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

Mckinley is only fattenlng for
the slaughter of SO, says the
Chicago Tribune.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

A device for setting type by
telegraph has recently been
patented.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

Connnty Court is. in session
this week.
Fair play., 1893-11-18

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Fair play., 1893-11-18

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,NrUeDAy. NOVEMBER 1>ea
Fair play., 1893-11-18

UEERY l.. Inns hd'tof
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27
:. C. T. u. COLUMN.
Tod and Home and Native Land. .
AMERICAN WOMEN.

Fhe London Queen in an article on
lerican woman, says: "There are
y things an American woman will
do, if necessary, from Harvesting
|orse to going on detective service.
Fre are, however, two things no
lerican born or Americanized wo-
|n will consent to do: she Will not
an another PERSONS boots, and she
1 not milk her own cow. The pro-
6ional boot black must do the one;
husband will attend to the other.
i American excels in metaphor and
sentiment, but lacks that incisive
bctness which, perhaps, with US
'hetimes degenerates into bluntness.
these facts, Notwithstanding the
4erican woman has not entered
\ n public life,' in the political
BE of that word. She is admired
men, and treated with Difference
bly, accorded to the Englishwoman
her countrymen; but at the same
|e she is a creature apart from men,
|ng very much in a world of her
b. There are no organizations of
men which in the least compare
b our Primrose League or Women's
'bral Federation. American wo-
b take little or no part in general
Etions, they rarely speak on politi-
platforms, and the occasional
Bence of a woman at presiden
or other political convention is
Hgraphed from one end of the con-
" MT to the other as a most remark
occurrence. The reason for this
e of things is not far to seek.
erican politics are as yet in the
erialistic stage. Politicians ring
NJ changes on wool, lumber, pig
and SALT and will wax eloquent
/ the chemical constituents of tin
" e. while the American woman,
her English sister, is most con-
led with those matters which touch
social and moral well-being of the
pie, and which, happily for us,
in these latter days come within
range of practical politics"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27
THE BOY PLA YED JONAH.

Just prior to the demise of the much
old Snowman in a reminiscent mood,
I was touring in Connecticut and call
ed upon the great Snowman at Bridge
port, who invited me to see the cir
Gus animals in winter quarters. On ar
irving at the great caravansary, where
the wonders that tour the country
year after year are stored the illus
trious owner was informed that Beta,
the prize trick elephant, was ailing.
All the symptoms of the poor beast
pointed to the fact that she was suf-
fering from acute gastralgia and
means had been tried to relieve her
without avail.
1t was finally discovered that Beta
had by some means wrenched off an
iron bar from her stall and as it could
not be found it was surmised that she
had swallowed it, and that accounted
for the gastric irritation of the valua-
BILE pacyderm.
Mr. Barnum saw that poor Beta must
SOOu SuccuHIU w OAO 11htL1
caused by such a foreign body and
with ready wit resolved on a unique
plan to relieve it.
Attached to his large winter hotel
was small colored boy who went by
the name of Niger Joe. He was but
little larger than full grown POISON
and P. T. sent for him and explained
that he must take a rubber tube in his
mouth to breathe through and with a
rope around his waist must go down
into the elephants stomach and get
out that bar of iron.
Joe rolled his eyes and demurred,
but he knew his employer too well to
refuse. Accordingly Joe was anonited
with a pound Of vaseline, and Beta
being safely gagged, he was gently
pushed down the giant aesophagus
head first, a smooth stick well oiled
landing him at the bottom.
According to instructions the boy
soon gave three tugs at the rope to be
pulled out again, and sure enough,
tightly clasped in Joe's hand was the
offending and indigestible iron bar.
1t is needless to say that Beta's life
was saved and that Niger Joe was
handsomely rewarded for his cure Of
the valuable elephants Indigestion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27
EXCITEMENT AND EXHA USTTON.

The deadliest foe to mans longevity
is an unnatural excitement. Every
man is born with a certain stock of
vitality, which cannot be increased,
but which may be expended rapidly
or husbanded as he deems best. With
in certain limits he has his choice, to
move fast or slow, to live abstemious-
ly or intensely, to draw his little
amount of life over large space or
condense il into a narrow one; but
when his stock is exhausted he has no
more. He who lives abstemiously,
who avoids all stimulants, takes light
exercise, never overtasks himself, in
dulges no exhaustive passions, feeds
his mind and heart on no exciting ma
terial, has no facilitating pleasures,
lets nothing ruffie his temper, keeps
his "accounts with God and man duly
squared up" is sure, barring acct
dents, to spin out his life to the long
est limit which it is possible to attain;
while he who intensely feeds on high
ly seasoned food, whether material or
mental, fatigues his body or brain by
hard labor, exposes himself to inf1am-
matory disease, seeks continual ex-
element, gives way to his passions,
frets at every trouble and enjoys little
repose, is burning the candle at both
ends, and is sure to shorten his days.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27


|MPERANCE THESIS. - Drinking is
b sin: drunkenness is. Moderate
king often leads to excessive
king, that is, to drunkenness
by no means always, and, taking
whole world over, in only mi
by of cases. But the number of
cases is SO large, and the evil is
'reat, that prudence counsels alb
Fnce. But, more than prudence,
counsels abstinence. Especially
|nerica, with its stimulating eli
p, its eXcitable people, it's drink
customs, it's liquor traffic interest
b extend drinking and to stimu-
trade, and not scrupulous as to
|hods, he who lives that he may
ster to, not be ministered unto,
who believes that he has liberty
IN occasion to the flesh, should
ways willing to deprive himself
bat little pleasure wine gives him,
III VASES, vi w 1lctU
osed benefit it gives him, for the
of others who may be led by his
by into servitude and perhaps
b. Speaking broadly, the tenn
nee issue is the issue between the
and the spirit. On the side of
esh are enlisted three cardinal
Enthusiastically American sins,
tite, covetousness, and ambition,
petite, because there is no form
petite so easily excited and so
pit to resist as the appetite for
olic stimulants; greed, because
is no business in which it seems
BY to make money with so little
ion as the liquor business; am
b.because the saloon is the source
litical power and promotion. In
lie in which appetite, greed, and
ion are leagued together on one
ought not to be difficult for
tian man to choose on which
e belongs.-Christian Union.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27

The venerable ex-Judge James
Campbell, who died recently, was a
great favorite among young lawyers,
to whom he was never tired of giving
advice and with whom he loved to sit
and chat of the days when he was
prominent among the young men at
the Philadelphia bar.
Not long ago several of the disciples
of Coke and Blackstone and the dem
ocratic party were gathered in the
judges office, and the conversation
turned upon longevity.
To what do you attribute your long
life? asked one of the company of the
octogenarian. To a weak stomach,
replied Mr.. Campbell, with his usual
kindly smile and a humorous twinkle.
A weak stomach? Yes, a weak stom
ach, reiterated the old gentleman.
You see, [ realized forty years ago to
take care of it. AS a result I estab
lished regimen that has resulted
beneficially to not only my stomach,
but my whole system, and here I am
to-day over eighty. Take care of
your stomachs, boys, and your stom-
achs will take care of you.
81 have been using Salvation Oil for lame
back, and think it is the best RENE dy have
used. C. E. During, Is Central ave-,
LYNN
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27

The reason a person sinks in quick
sand is because the latter is composed
chiefly Of small particles of mica mix
ed largely with water. The mica is
so smooth that the fragments slip
upon each other with the great
est facility, SO that any heavy body
which displaces them will sink and
continue to sink until a solid bottom
is reached. When particles of sand
are ragged and angular any weight
pressing on them will crowd them to-
gether until they are compacted into
a solid mass. A sand composed of
mica or soapstone when mixed with
sufficient water seems incapable of
such consolidation
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27
THE MARRIAGE TIE.

Said brilliant woman, whom not
one of the refined coterie who heard
her thought of calling ''immoral:"
CAT eighteen I married, of my own
foolish will, "a man of fifty, who AGO ed
me. At twenty [ had learned that
it would be a sin to waste my full
young life-the only life 1 could know
this side of the grave-in So mon
strous a union. He was a good man,
and, according to his light, a model
husband. I could not but respect him,
but we had not one emotion in COM
mon. We were wholly incompatible
IN feeling, in sentiment, in nature.
Upon this ground, and this alone,
obtained divorce''
Tear away sentimental verbiage
and this woman's case stands thus:
Her husbands ideas and tastes were
not to her apprehension, favorable to
the development of what she sketched
as the life she ought to lead. Her in
dividual happiness outranked all other
considerations in her mind. The mar
riage vow, uttered of her own free
will, because she then fancied that she
was forwarding her selfish interests
by the union, became a rope of sand
when inclination veered to another
quarter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27

overheard some very sensible re-
marks the other day that are worth
making a snap shot of. They were
uttered by a young lady who had had
most practical bringing up or else
whose own good sense gave her the
right view of things. She has evident
ly, discussing men in general, and one
man in particular, with another girl.
She was summing up conclusions and
said:
1t is easy enough to tell good men
from bad men. When a man seeks
my society continually and pays me
marked attention and yet never ex-
presses desire for me to meet his
mother or his sister or his wife, if he
is married, [ know that to cultivate
his acquaintance will do me more
harm than good.
When a man has self respect and
has perfectly honorable and unselfish
motives in his acquaintance with me,
and a desire to never place me in a
position that will be to have me know
the ladies in his family.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27
"BIG AMERICA.D

A few yerrs ago the American col
ony in Paris were celebrating the
4th of July, as their custom was, at
dinner given by one of their number.
The spread eagle oratory that usually
fires the patriotic spirits, was given
with the after dinner toasts. After a
number of complimentary toasts had
been drank and responded to, one of
the party arose and proposed the fol-
lowing: ssThe United States of Amer
lea, bounded on the north by the Brit
ish Possessions, on the south by the
Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the At
lantic Ocean, and on the west by the
Pacific Ocean," Another guest Jump
ed up and said eff you take into con-
sideration the manifest destiny of the
United States, will propose a toast:
"The United States of America, bound
ed on the north by the north pole, on
the south by the south pole, on the
east by the rising sun, on the west by
the setting sum-" The burst Of ap
plause that greeted this had scarcely
aubsided when another member of
the party sprang to his feet and said:
eff you are taking into consideration
the manifest destiny of the United
States, [ will give you a toast: The
United States of America, bounded on
the north by the Aurora Borealis, on
the South by the Possessions of the
Equinoxes, on the east by Primeval
Chaos, and on the west by the Day
of Judgment 1t is needless to say
that thunders of applause greeted this
climax Of grandiloquence. o. V. P.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27

That old established cough remedy, Downs
Elixir, still more than holds it's own in the
public estimation, 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 unsolici
ted recommendation of it speaks volumes in
It's favor.