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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27
in the choice. Col. Ethan Allen, after

in the choice. Col. Ethan Allen, after
his exploits at Ticonderoga and Grown
Point, more than once crossed into
Canada during Gen. Montgomery's
| operations on the northern frontier.
Now, the purpose of the new fort is to
form rallying point on the eastern
side of Lake Champlain for regulars
and volunteers, should it ever become
necessary to carry on hostile opera
tons against our friends and neigh
bors of the Dominion. In order to
secure the legislation for this purpose,
which a wise precaution demands, it
became necessary to announce with
great frankness the object of the new
post; and this object was explained
both in the report Of Secretary Proc
tor and in recommendations of Gen.
Schofield. The latter, in letter to
Mr.. Elkins, describes the plant
I have the honor to report that the
we'll considered military policy of the
United States, in view of the possible
contingency of war with Great Brit
ain, includes prompt and energetic
aggressive action toward certain i'm
portant strategic points in the Domin-
ion of Canada. To be prepared for
such action it is of vital Importance
that permanent military posts be
maintained at convenient points near
the northern frontier, at each of
which may be stationed the nucleus
of an army, to be composed mainly, in
the event of war, Of the state troops
quickly assembled from the neighbor
ing states. The place named in the
bill, on the line of railway between
Burlington and Highgate, is perfectly
we'll adapted to the purpose had in
view, and I think it would be mani
testify wise to commence at this time,
SO far as therein contemplated, the
preparations for the establishment of
such post.
In a previous letter to Secretary |
Proctor, the same officer had explain
ed that certain points on the northern
frontier must be made ''the nuclei of |
troops of all arms infantry, cavalry
and artillery where the forces from
the adjoining states might Immediate
vent the enemy from using their wa
terways to move gunboats into the
lakes. With this end in view, cav
airy station, suitably located near the
northern border of New England, is
Infantry and light artil-
lery garrisons at Plattsburgh and
Madison barracks were pronounced to
be other essential features of this
plan, and appropriations were long
ago made for enlarging the Platts
burgh post to carry out this purpose.
Secretary Proctor, in recommend
ing the subject to congress, judicious-
ly remarked that these were smeas
ures not to provocation, but rather of
prevention, and for the continued
preservation of peace" Such indeed
they are, They may be described as
measures to guard against
any troubles which Great Britain
might imprudently fo1hent in this
hemisphere: The erection of Fort
Ethan Allen is temporary precau-
ton, the need of which will quite dis
appear when our northern border is
moved up to the Arctic ocean, where
no garrisoned posts will be required.
VERMONT PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27

Our guarantee is like n Bank 7
Check-if your purchase does L
not suit you, bring back the 4
goods and draw. your money. j
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
Governing Children.

1t is scarcely too much to say that al
most as many children are spoiled by too
much government as by too little. AS
between the two courses, the child that
is judiciously let alone is much better of
than the one that is too much controlled.
With naturally good impulses, the young
ster, unless brought up in solitude and
with selfish instincts and habits, is fairly
likely to develop a not Objectionable
character. Continual contact with play
fellows of his own age and condition
brings out the manly and independent
characteristics, and if there is freedom
from irritation at home, there is little to
fear from the average youth. He goes
out light of heart and free from annoy
ances, and all the world looks bright to
him. But the child who goes from home
with mind warped and temper soured
by perpetual fault-fnding and pickering
is in a mood to take all things ill. He
goes about with metaphorical chip
on his shoulder, and there is little
wonder if he gets into all sorts of
trouble.
An experienced teacher used to say
that he could tell the children who lived
unhappily at home. They were much
more troublesome at school and were al
most always ON the alert for Sights and
offences, and far more difficult to con-
troll than the children who came from
happy and peaceable families New
York Ledger.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
Two Of Evsrts' Jokes.

It may not be generally known,
but ex-senator Eyarts Is the possessor
Of yeritable fund OF dry and ready
wit: He was given, in the prepare
ton Of his speeches and opinions, to
exceedingly long and involved,
though perfectly lucid sentences.
This gave rise to more or less jocular
criticism on the part of the press.
Someone mentioned 1t to Evarts one
day. His eye twinkled as he says:
"Yes, I know there are two classes
of people who are very much opposed
to long sentences; one is telegraph
operators and the other Is criminals. I"
When Queen Kapiolant visited
America few years ago Senator
Eyarts was one of the party on an
excursion up the Potomac River
given In her honor. An army officer
and he were giving her the history
of the various points Of interest
along the river The officer finally
pointed out bend in the river ahead
where Washington marched his
troops across the stream. But, !"
said the officer, lit is said you could
throw dollar across the river then.
The queen again expressed her
wonder, when Senator Evarts came to
her rescue. "You see madam" said
he, "the conditions are greatly
changed since Washington's time. A
dollar went a great deal farther in
those days than it does now"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
Pointer for Whist Players.

An expert mathematician once set
himself the nice little sum Of calcu-
lating the number of different ways
In which tlfty-two cards Of pack
can be distributed among four play
ers, thirteen to each, taking every
possible combination and permuta"
tion.
It would be no use to present the
answer here in long row Of figures,
for no one can realize to himself what
such a numerical array really con-
veys; nor would 1t be much better to
play with the words billions and tril-
lions, seeing that these are mere
words and nothing more to most Of
US; but the following illustration is
more likely to be appreciated by the
ordinary reader:
If the entire population of the
earth taken at one thousand million
of persons, were to deal the cards in
cessantly, day and night, for one hun
dred millions Of years, at the rate of
a deal by each person a minute, they
would not have exhausted the one
hundred thousandth part of the
number of essentially different ways
in which the cards can be so dis
frihute6
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
MARK TWAIN AS A REPORTER.
Some of His "Fakes - Would Make
Modern sc Hustlers' Blush,

Mark Twain was fond of manufactur.
ing items of the horrible kind, but on one
occasion he overdid this business, and
the disease worked its own cure. He
wrote an account of horrible murder,
supposed to have occurred at Dutch
Nick's, station on the Carson River,
where Empire City now stands. He
made man cut his wife's throat and
those of his nine children; after which
diabolical deed the murderer mounted
his horse, cut his own throat from ear to
ear, rode 10 Carson City "a distance of
three and half miles, and fell dead in
front of Pete Hopkins saloon.
All the California papers copied the
item and several made editorial COM
ments upon it as being the most shock
ing occurrence of the kind ever known on
the Pacific coast. OF course, rival Virginia
City papers at once denounced the item
as ''cruel and idiotic hoax" They
showed how the publication of such
shocking and reckless falsehoods" dis
graced and injured the State and they
made it as "sultry" as possible for the
Enterprise and its STOOL reporters"
When the California papers saw all this
and found they had been sold, there was
howl from Siskiyou to San Diego.
When Mark wrote the item he read it
over to me, and asked him how he was
going to wind it up so as to make it
plain that it was a mere invention.
"Oh, it is wound up now," was the re-
ply. cit is all plain enough. l have
said that the family lived in little cabin
at the edge of the great pine forest near
Dutch Nick's, when everybody knows
there's not pine tree within ten miles
of Nick's. Then l make the man ride
nearly four miles after he has cut his
throat from ear to ear, when any fool
must see that he would fall dead in q
moment. - Californian.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
CAD WORK OF VOLCANOES.
What an Active Oae Can ID When Fully
Aroused.

What an Active Oae Can ID When Fully
Aroused.
The Philadelphia Press says: Few
people In this country imagine what
terrible work a volcano of the regula-
ton size can do when it once gets
fully aroused. In 1888 Cotopaxi threw
its fiery rockets moro than 5000 feet
above the crater and in 1887, when
the blazing mass confined in the same
mountain was struggling for an out
let, It roared so loud that the awful
noise was heard for distance Of 600
miles. In 1907 the crater of Tungu-
ragua, one Of the great peaks Of the
Andes, flung out torrents Of mud and
lava which damned up great river,
opened new lakes, besides making a
deposit Of seething mud, ashes and
lava 900 feet deep over the whole
area Of valley which was twenty
miles long and averaged 1000 feet in
width. The stream of lava which
flowed from Ncsuvius in 1887 and
passed through the Valley Of Terre
del Greco is estimated to have con-
tanned 1888, 900, 900 cubic feet of solid
matter In 1860 4Etna poured out a
food of melted stones and ashes which
covered eighty-four square miles Of
fertile country to depth Of from ten
to forty feet. On this occasion the
sand, scOria, lava, etc, from the burn
ing mountain formed Mount Rosini.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
just What a NOrther Ia.

"What is Texas northern" The
question was putt by a Globe Democrat
man to Major B. NJ. Vsnderhurst, of
Texas, who was airing his Apollo Belvi-
dere figure in the glad sunshine that
crept under the awning of the Lindell.
"a Texas norther, my inquiring friend,
is an extremely damp and disagreeable
wetness that crawls up out of the hole
where the north pole used to be and
swoops down upon the sometimes sunny
southland at Nancy Hanks gait, catch
ing you with your mosquito-bar under
clothes on and your overcoat in soak.
1t is more penetrating than ammonia,
and requires but ten seconds to work
its way to the most secret recesses
of fat mans soul and cause him
to regard the orthodox hell of fire as
the one thing in all the world
most to be desired. When a
norther has the victim in its grip he feels
that he has combination of buck ague
and congestive chills. 1t is the custom
in Texas not to mike fire until some
body freezes to death. It would be
slam on the most delightful climate on
earth Few houses built prior, to the war
had any provisions for heating. The
custom was when norther announced
itself to keep piling on coats until it got
discouraged and gave up the contest.
That custom is still generallW followed.
Northern people regard this accentricity
of the Texas climate with extreme dis
gust. They 60 down there expecting to
find ten months of summer and two
months of early fall weather.; to revel in
the glad sunshine and to inliale the unc-
tuons perfume of magnolia buds all the
year. They get into their picnic clothes
and send their heavy weights to friends
back home to be given to the poor or
packed away in camphor. just about
that time a norther arrives and, for three
days, they long to go to Manitoba to get
warm "
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
A Siiecure.

Sir Boyle Roche was fine, bluff,
soldier-like old gentleman, holding
some post at the viceregal court, sit
ting for a government borough, and
always voting faithfully for the Gas
tie" The debate one night was on
sinecures, which Curran had indig-
nantly denounced, and twitted by
one Of the opposite side on some per.
sonal inconsistency in the matter, he
replied, hotly; "Sir, I am the guar.
dian of my own honor" To which
Sir Boyle neatly reioined: Then the
gentleman himself has got a very
nretty Sinecure.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
Disappearance Of the Duster.

Where has the buster gone? 1t Is
still worn In the West. 1t still ap-
pears on longer lines of travel. Its
manifest and sensible convenience
endears it to middle-aged men. But
on a short line like that between this
city and New York the buster has
disappeared as completely as last
winters snowflakes. The clothing
stores keep them on the back shelves.
Few are sold. The big wholesale
dealers do not sell dozen where they
once disposed of bales. In a few
short years this convenient garment
has been relegated to the country
districts and the provinces. Yet in
our climate, with our hot, dry sum.
mers, our abundant dust and long
railroad Journeys, the buster ought
to have become a permanent articl~
of clothing for all travellers. -Phila-
delphia Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

back, held on firmly for ten minutes, all
the time calling loudly for help. The
| bull made frantic efforts to throw the
| old gentleman, but he held fast until the
owner rescued him by shooting the ami
NAL. 4 year ago the bull gored farmer
to death at Moira.
If Honey Long hadn't had bologna
sausage in his lunch basket it would
never heve happened. Honey lives at
Greencastle, Pa. Twice black snakes
stole his lunch basket and twice he made
after it. Twice Honey cut off the thicf's
head with his axe. Then he threw away
his basket and put his lunch into his
pocket. Ten black snakes attacked
him, hitting him with their tails, whip
fashion. At last he threw the lunch
away and the snakes jumped for that
bologna while he escaped.
A BEGGAR who was arrested at Lee,
Mass, one day recently, was found to
have hidden in the lining of his coat
four savings bank books representing
deposits amounting to SO, DAB, two of the
banks being in Boston and two in Provi.
dence. He also had $3.50 in money in
his pocket, and is credited with the
ownership of real estate in Boston
and North Adams, Mass. In addition
to this wealth he has wife and siy
children.
THE State silk factories of China re,
Gently received an order for 100000
pieces of red silk, each thirty feet in
length and four feet in breadth. These
goods are to be employed in the decora-
ton of the streets of Pekin on the occa-
sion Of the sixty fourth birthday of the
Dowager Empress Of China. The fac
tories intrusted with this work are the
imperial establishments in Marking, Futs.
chau and Hankow.
AT recent auction sale of orchids in
London one rare example of these high
priced parasites brought the extraordi
nary sum of 1925. This was specimen
of the fine Cattleya Mendelli Bluntii. A
good example of the Eulophiella Eliza
bethe, a new species named for Carmen
Sylvia, the Roumanian Queen, brought
$50.
AN Alameda (Cal. man sought refuge
from the noise and smoke of the Fourth
by going into the country. AS he lay
upon the grass he moved his toes in the
mere wantonness of exuberance, and
hunter taking them for the ears Of rab
bit, filed them full of shot.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
Some Seeming Discrepancies.

What is the precise color expressive
of anger or rage? Novelists seem hardly
to have settled the point yet, if we may
Judge from the four passages below,
taken from a recently published novel |:
/. Page 8. "Adrienne suddenly APP
peared, her face white with anger"
2. Page 20. 'sThe little fellow was
trembling with blue rage"
8. Page 81. "Albert was choking
with passion. He turned green in the
face"
4. Page 173. "Rodolphe, who was Of
very choleric temperament, passed in
simultaneously through all the colors of
the rainbow
A regular exhibition of fireworks, an
artists palette for variety, don't you
think? i Chicago Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
500 Reward. 500.

learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all it s
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu-
tionafdisease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood and mucous sur
foundation Of the disease, and giving the pa
tent strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in it's curative
for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of Testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, O.
~ Sold by Druggists, 75c.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

Commends to public approval the California
liquid laxative remedy, Syrup Of Figs. It is
pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on
the kidney, liver and bowels to cleanse the sys-
TEN effectually, it promotes the health and
comfort of all who use it, and With millions it
is the best ard only remedy.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

AN interesting freak of memory is re.
lated Of popular novelist who had near
ly finished an important work upon
which he was engaged when a sudden
failure of memory deprived him of his
plot and necessitated the laying aside of
the book for more than week; then an
association of ideas recalled the missing
plot, the novel was brought to success
full issue and enjoyed wide circulation.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach dis
orders, use Browns Iron Bitters-the Best
Tonic. 1t rebuids the Blood and strengthens
the muscles. A splendid medicine for weak
and debilitated persons.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

No matter of how long standing. Write
for free treatise, testimonials, etc, to >. J.
Hollensworth & Co, Owego, Tioga Co., N. y.
Price 81; by mail. sl.l5.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

For impure or thin Blood, Weakness Mala-
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness,
take Browns Iron Bitters-it gives sire myth,
making old persons feel young-and young
persons strong: pleasant to take.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

Beecham's Pills with drink of water morn
ings. Beecham s-no others. rs cents box.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

The man that makes his own God has one
that is merciless.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
Twain Lied.

The following story is told Of Marx
Twain by a gentleman who lives near
his residence at Hartford: One day
Mark answered the telephone, and,
after hallooing for some time with.
out an answer, he used some language
not generally seen in print, but which
was certainly picturesque. While
thus engaged he heard an answer In
astonished tones, and recognized the
voice of an eminent divine whom he
knew very we'll. is that you, Doc
tor?" questioned Mark; Il didn't
hear what you said. My butler has
been at the telephone and said he
couldn't understand YOU"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
q peak two miles In circumference
j srI

q peak two miles In circumference
and over 1900 feet high.
In the eruption Of Vesuvius in the
year 10 A. D., the time Of the de-
.truction of Pompeii, the scoria, ashes,
,and, and lava yomited forth far ex-
:eeded the dimensions Of the volcano
tself, while in 1860 Etna disgorged
over twenty times its own mass.
Ve5uvius has sent it's ashes into Syria,
Egypt, and Turkey. 1t hurled stones
of 800 pounds weight to Pompeif, a
distance of six English miles, during
the eruption Of 10 A. D. Cotopaxi
once projected a block Of stone con-
tanning over 100 cubic yards dis
lance of nine and half miles.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

A new grens ina for trimming pur-
poses is checked ~ saqtteQ with color.
It is used overs hade.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
w Cnrc Rupture.

Torment begins when sinner finds on
lbat god sees him.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

IF afflicted with sore eyes DR.. Isaac Thomr
rsEye Water Druggists sell at 25c. a ottle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

Self-deception is one of the most deadly
Of all dangers
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
The NeWBread
As endorsed and recommended by
the NeW=York Health Authorities.

Royal Unermented Bread is Peptic, palatable, most
healthful and may be eaten and fresh without
discomfort by those Of delicate Digestion which
is Of bread made in any other way.
To make One Loaf of Royal Unfermented Bread:
quart flour teaspoonu half teaspoonui sugar,
heaping teaspoonfuls Royal Baking Powder cold boiled
potato the size Of large hens and water.
S thoroughly -four and baking POWDER rub the
smoothly rapidly
poundcake about flour will
the -four
Do dough- the batter
filling half full
baked Bake
baking
top Bake Immediately after mixing Do mix with milk
the Royal Baking udH because it tie
ingredients prepared that continuous
necessary raise tie larger d,ma Aat
The best baking powder made is, shown by analy
Sis the "Roya' Its eavenng strength has been found
superior other baking powders and, far know
the only powder which will raise large bread perfectly
Cyrus Easou NJ D.
Com'r of Health, New-York City.
Breadn1akes using this receipt who will write the result
oftheir experience will receive Free the practical cook
book published containing receipts for all kinds of
cooking. Address
NETWORK.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

The Isabella ring continues to be tbs
most popular in the ii
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16
Pure and Wholesome Quality

The religion that has no joy in it does not
CT me from God.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-16

considerable wealth who died recently
in town in Pennsylvania was buried in
d grave that was dug nineteen years ago.
Her father was buried in it originally,
and after two years his body was ex-
humed and placed in vault. 1t was
principle of the family never to spend
money uselessly, and the daughter, real
izing that she herself would need grave
some time, decided that filling up the
grave would be a waste of good money,
and gave orders that it be kept open for
her. When the not-too long delayed
day came, (she was then eighty -one
years of age, the grave was found to be
halt dozen inches too short. 1t was
heightened and the interment made.
"A RECENT earthquake at San Nicholas
Island, near Santa Barbara, Cal, has re-
yived interest in the story of the old In
dian woman who led Crusoe life on the
island for many years. She was left
there by accident in 1886, and her exist
ence forgotten until twenty years later,
when Santa Barbara hunter, who had
visited the island for offers, found
her there and carried her to
the mainland. She had entirely for
gotten her language, and in consequence
the story of her hermitage was never
known. Three months after her rescue
she died, and was buried by the mission
fathers.
JAMES MULLEss, of Lake Titus, NY,
while in his pasture saw ferocious bull
belonging to neighbor coming toward
him. Mullens 10 20 years old, but very
quick and why. lie realized that escape
by running was impossible, 50 he lodged
the bull. MlpaaAerinSing on the animals