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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-08-20
Rart0n.

Barton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Skinner spent
two or three weeks visiting in n. FL.
Geo D. Bickford is making quite
extensive repairs on his farm build
ings.
Miss Edie Dewey, who has been
spending fortnight at home, returns
to Boston to- day.
The Odd Girls will meet at the NJ. e.
church parlors next Wednesday af-
ternoon. Tea at O'Clock.
Our village boys were defeated in
their second ball game with the Land
ing boys, in a score of II to 5.
Well, well, Warren! We expected
it, but didn't know just when it was
coming off. See West Burke items.
Quite large number from this vi
cinity attended the circus, also the
Breeders meeting at West Derby last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs Warren Simpson have
been camping at Lyndonville grove
the past two weeks and remain thro'
campmeeting.
Campmeeting at Lyndonville COM
nenees to-day and closes next Mon
DAY. The Sunday Schools are invited
10 be present on Thursday.
Frank Lang was among the most
successful drivers at the races at New
port last week, his horses being win
ners Of purses in several races.
F. T. Hale of Chicago, whose family
haze been here this summer, arrived
last week and will spend some days
with his family at S. @. Curriers'.
Fred. Browning of St. Johnsbury
has been spending his vacation in this
viliage-Homer Smith and wife of
ST. Johnsbury have been in town sew
eral days.
F. w. Baldwin and wife spent about
week at Cottage City, Marthas Vine
yard recently. w. E. Dodge and family
from Minneapolis were there at the
same time. The trip was a very pleas
ant one.
j. P. Baldwin was nominated for
town representative by the democrats
Saturday evening. This is putting
tbs r best man to the front, and the
only reason why he viii fail to ssget
there" is the matter of politics.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-08-20

o. D. Owen will pay cash for Butter
and Eggs, at all times and in any
quantity.
Tower Bros. have a car of Clap
boards and Lath to sell cheap from
car this week.
SPECIAL NOTICE. I yet sell first
class sewing machines, needles, oil,
shuttles, etc, and clean and repair
ali, kinds Of sewing machines at the
very lowest prices. ]. J. Hill.
For PIcNICs AND CAMPERS, we have
Deviled Ham, Boned Turkey and
hieken,@Luneheon Beef, Sardines,
Canned lobster and Salmon Steak,
Picked Olives, Onions, Gherkins,
Chowchow, and canned Fruits and
Vegetables. O.. D. Owen.
LosT.-On Thursday, July 26, be-
tween Glover and Willoughby Lake
a silver chain bracelet. The finder
Will be suitably rewarded by address
ing: A. J. Day, West Swanzey, N. FL.
Velvet Yachting Caps, also new
lire of wide black Bourbon Laces, at
Mrs. E. L. Barstow's, Ovens Block.
Those having .,crayon portraits at
my store Will please call ando take
them. Geo. FL. Davis.
See Bert Ovens ad. in this paper
relative to the sale of bicycles.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-08-20
LOCAL ADVERTISING.

Advert .ements and notices, as prone
nades, shows and other entertainments Will
be published under this head for TWO cents a
word for first insertion, cent a word
thereafter. We shall run advertisement
among local items. Cash must accompany
the order. No CHARGE WILL BE MADE OF LESS
THAN FORTY CENTS.
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-31
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The topper devotes himself to one absorbing
topic, and that is himself.
The moderate drinker is one OF the best
helpers the devil has on earth.
Women arc employed at railway switches
and crossings in Italy because they keep
sober.
Whenever you see drunken manit ought
to remind you that every boy in the world is
in danger.
The devil has both arms around the man
who feels confident that moderate drinking
won't hurt him.
If the money spent every year in this coun.
try on drink were given tc person IN 80
gold pieces, he might walk round the world
ut the equator and drop three at every step,
and then only just exhaust the supply.
Some OF the adulterations found in beer
are cocculus indicus, capcicum. ginger,
nuassia, wormwood. ealamus root, caroway
and coriander seeds, copperas. .sulphuric
acid, cream of tartar, alum, carbonate OF
potash, ground oyster shells, nux yomlca,
plcrotum and strychnine.
Says Frances willard: 81 once asked
Thomas A. Edison II he were total abstain
or, and when be told me that he was l said,
May Inquire whether 1t was home intiu-
ence that made you So! and he replied, No,
think ii was because always telt that mad
better use for my head.
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THE MIpwEEK PRAyER-l1EETINa.

DR.. John Vincent writes forcibly Of the
prayer-meeting in an article for the Treasury.
He declares that the pray-meeting may be In
the popular thought too much time, place
and thing to which we are summoned by
the regular ringing OF bells, and In which we
are in peril of monotony and mechanics. We
may depend too much on the isinging," the
people" the "interest," ;" and the set ''pray-
ers," so often liturgical, although unwritten.
We may 60 simply because we ought. We
may take credit to ourselves for going-al-
most as the knowledge Of penance done works
peace within. oh, when shall the church
bell call US to higher order Of spiritual SER
vice." o.
The prayer-meeting is spiritual opportu-
nifty. It Is for spiritual edifcation and TOR
spiritual worship. What the praycr-meeting
needs is faith in the realities keen, penetrat-
ing, ethical conviction; religious desire with
conscience In it a sense of sin and burning
desire to get rid of 1t; q sight Of holiness and
an overwhelming, insatiate longing to pos
sess IL. This faith, this conviction, this de-
sire md longing, must be the fruits, the truths
Of the Holy Scripture apprehended, pondered,
accepted, appropriated, Then prayer Is born
- true prayer, fervent prayer.
Out OF such spiritual service comes consist
ent living. The atmosphere OF the world ls
filed for us with spiritual power. Habits,
choices. aspirations, trend OF soul come un-
der the spell of this Scriptural' life. 1t may
not yield perpetual rapture, but it gives per-
petual peace. 1t touches every hour OF every
day Of every week the long years through.
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A p1saUsrED DRUNKARD.

One woman determined that her husband
should know how he looked when he was
drunk. She knew how he looked, well
enough, and needed not that any man should
tell her. Her children also knew by sad ex-
perience, but the man himself had very I'M
perfect idea of the state of his case. So once
when he came home and fell into maudnn
slumbershe sent forthe photographer to come
forthwith; and on his arrival she set him to
work. She ordered the photographer to pho
tograph her husband as he sat in his chair en- ::
The photographer did his work and did II
we'll: and when the photograph was finished
and laid beside the husbands plate at break
fast it was revelation, and the sobered
gentleman experienced decidedly new SEN
sation. There was no need or explanation ;
the thing explained itself. There was no
chance for contradiction the sun tells no lies.
There was no room for argument. There
was only one thing to do, and that was to
quit; and it is very fortunate that the man
had courage and sense enough to- do
it.-GSelected.
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An Era or BrIdge BIild1ng

The present seems to be an era OF big
bridge building in both this and foreign
countries. The bridge across the Mersey at
Liverpool o 10 consist of three arcaed sus-
pensioL spaa1 Of LEO feet, LEO fees aoove
high water. with railway tracks. 1t is pro-
posed to bridge the Bosphorous at con-
stantinople by structure s645 feet long. :,
The channel bridge between England and
France rs at present proposed will consist
of seventy-three spans alternately lSoo ana
1925 feet in length with clear Roadway OF
It's feet.
Two bridges have just been completed
across the North Sea and Baltic Canal with
1900 feet spans carrying railway tracks, road
way and loot paths.
In this country the new East River bridge
at New York, as projected. will have have span
of 1910 feet. total length OF 5000 feet,
clearance OF 14O feet, and will carry four
railroad tracks. The North River bridge
as provided for by recent bill passssd oysHs ytns
n clear waterway Of 1900 feet and 4 clearance
of $50 feet.
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DRINK AND DEsTITUTIoS.

Commenting upon the great distress and
destitution now prevalent In the mining dis
trict OF northern Michigan, the Chicago Trl-
bune says:
"Last year tho saloon-keepers Of Iron
Mountain, Mich, paid $50, 900 to the State
for licenses and more than $4,000 as rent
for their places OF business" This in a
at tho date Of the last census and cannot
since have much exceeded 10000. the total
vote cast there year ago being 1774. Sup
posing the number OF adult males to be
double the number of voters. each Of them
contributed on an average 1923 last year to
pay saloon rents and licenses alone. besides
what 1t cost the keepers for liquors, lighting,
and attendance, and the sums they put by as
net profits after meeting all the expenses OF
the business.
"That statement explains large part OF
the story OF dire destltution that comes from
Iron Mountain. and doubtless similar con-
ditions have existed at several other points
In the now poverty stricken iron ore districts.
While the mines were being operated actively
the miners earned good wages and spent
them lavishly on strong drink. Now they
and their families are menaced with starva-
tion unless the charitable come to their aid"
The Tribune would not withhold charity
In this time OF sore need, especially from the
women and cnlldren, out tnlnhS IL tnouSanu
pitiesthat the liquor-sellers who have fattened
upon the wages of the men cannot be made
to disgorge, and that
SIT is burning shame that the relief must
come out of the savings OF many men and
women who now would have nothing to give
had they been equally reckless in the past as
were tho iron miners on tho Upper PENN
sula."
But the saloon-keepers of Iron Mountain
were doing q "legftimate" business, and
paid the State of Michigan 100000 for their
licenses 1t Is indeed burning shame
that the temperate and prudent are now
obliged, for humanity's sake, to take from
their own savings money for the relief OF the
destituton for which the drink waste Is 80
largely responsible. But it is part of the
outcome Of the license system, which Is
prolific of kindred results wherever 1t OBJ
tains.-National Temperance Advocate.
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SIX SAILORS DROWNED.
They Were Being Rowed to Their
Ship in Baltimore Harbor.

Six men were drowned In the hsrbor at
Baltimore, Nd, owing to the gales vio-
lence. The names OF the drowned men arc:
Neel Finlayson, william 81. Nelson, Robert
J. Wilson, John Hughes, and an unknown
sailor of the British steamer Mareca, and
Peter Safranski, ferryman. Three men
were rescued BY the crew Of the police boat
Lapnon. ...g ..a .s
With the exception Of Safranski, the men
belongedto the British steamer Mareca. At
about 2 o'clock. a. M, the eight sailors en-
ployed the ferryman to row them from the
foot OF Broadway over to the vessel. The
wind was blowing fercely, and the boat was
swamped before 1t had gone 500 yards. Tho
cries of the drowning men was heard on
board the Lannon and Its searchlight revealed
the struggling men in the freezing waters.
One of the Lannon's boats was immediately
launched, but before it .eached the spot st1
Of the men had disappeared. In attempting
the rescue Of the remaining three men the
boat was swamped, throwing Lieutenant
Napier and his two men into the water.
Grasping the exhausted sailors, Napier
and his men supported them until their lusty
yells brought help. A boat from the Ma
reca. manned BY six sailors, came none too
soon. The benumbed men were drawn into
tho boat and hastily conveyed to the hos
pital. All the drowned seanen belonged to
England
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

QUEEN VICTORIA Is growing feeble.
JOHN J. INGALLS,, the Kansas orator, Is an
even sixty.
The King Of Siam has sent his eldest sonta
Oxford College, England. ps
IGNATrUs DoNNELLY has been elected Pres
ident Of the Minnesota Farmers Alliance.
SENATOR HUNToN, of Virginia, is now In
his seventy-second year, but Is strong and
active man.
The Prince OF Wales is said to be growing
really handsome as he becomes grayer, gravee
and thinner. ,5.sf
SIaNos GIoLIrTr, an Italian Deputy, wants
to straighten the National finances Of that
country by imposing tax on boards.
MAYOR JOHN P. HOPKINS, OF Chicago, isths
twenty-ninth to occupy the Office. Fourteen
of the twenty-uine were born In the State OF
New York. a-.-.@
EDGAR A. Poe MAS tne contemporary and
Dunn English, now member Of Congress
from the State OF New Jersey.
WILLIAM NJ. CHASE, the famous American
painter. Is one Of the most expert pistol shots
In the world. Some of his scores are sttll
preserved In the Paris shooting galleries. 4
JOHANN STRAUSS, composer of the "Beautf.
full Blue Danube" is q sickly old man, bent
with rheumatism and tortured with the goutl
He lives In Alt Wien, the historic part OF
Vienna. I
DE-. JASON BROWN, Of Sheboygan, Mich,
hae translated his valuable work, "Turnipa
as Disease Producer" into Swedish, fo1
which he has received decoration from the
King of Sweden and Norway. ~ /
EDWARD ATKINSON, speaking Of the Equity
Union In Boston recently, declared Cornelius
Vanderbilt to be the most usefal man who
ever lived In New York. He said the work
Of the capitalist was work Of the hardest kind
THERE are numerous instances where sons
have succeeded their fathers In the House Of
Representatives, but only twice, It Is said, In
the cases of Thomas F. Bayard and Donald
Cameron, have they succeeded their fathers
in the Senate.
ALFRED P1NcHoT Is the first American To-
be graduated at school Of forestry and to
take up forestry as q profession. He ts tho
consulting forester on the estate Of George
W. Vanderbilt In the North Carolina noun
tains, and has published q pamphlet.
TIE family Of the late Mayor Carter Ear
rison, OF Chicago, has placed an order for .
Barre (Vt.) granite monument for the dead
mayor. The spire Of the monument Is forty
feet high, Of dark stock, and the only polish
Is on the letters. .ss2
EDWARD DUNBAR, the author Of the hymn,
"There's Light In the Window for Thee,
Brother" died few days ago In the jail at
Coffeyville, Kan., where he had applied for
lodging as tramp. Dunbar was once
noted evang slist, but his career was cut short
by term In the Minnesota State Prison for
bigamy. -. s4s ;tl
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The Wealth Of the Poor.

While we hear a great deal said
about the fortunes of the few, and
their millions are regarded as fabu-
lous, it is wholesome experience to
call attention to the wealth of the
poor, and the figures which are fur
nished by the recent census in regard
to farm and home proprietorshlp IN
twenty two States and Territories
supply something to go upon. 1t is
estimated that there are 4,5OO, 0OO
farms in the United States, and that
there are e,19O, 152 families that oc-
cupy homes which are not farms. In
the distribution of wealth by classes,
it is found that II, 593, SS7 families are
worth SIT, 1856, ,s37, ,343. Out Of total
of IL, 900, 152 families of the country
it is found that ninety-one per cent.
own no more than twenty-nine per
cent. of the wealth, and nine per cent.
of the families own about seventy-one
per cent. of the wealth. Among the
l,O96, ,265 families in which seventy.
one per cent. of the wealth Of the
country is concentrated there is still
further concentration. 1t consists OF
the 4O47 millionaires, whose property
averages about $3,0O0,000. The fami-
lies here mentioned possess about
seven-tenths as much as do II, ,593, 887
families. They possess two-thirds OF
the property of the United States, and
the poorer families are estimated to
have the other third. By this estl-
mate seventy-one per cent. of the
wealth of the United States is in the
hands of the owners of farms and
homes worth $4,000 and over. This
statement is approximate, but 1t Is be-
lieved to be fair.
Mr.. George K. Holmes, who fur
nishes these statistics in an article on
s'The Concentration of Wealth" in the
Political Science Quarterly, estimates
that about twenty-seven per cent. of
our wealth is in the hands of private
debtors, and that about thirty per
cent. is in the hands Of public and
private debto1s. This wealth is widely
distributed among persons and cor.
porations, and it is mostly subject to
interest charges. When we look to
the increase of large fortunes in the
future, this interest and all profit
above interest are regarded as the chief
among the more permanent and imme-
diate causes of the concentration OF
wealth. Thisinterest fund is reckoned
to be more than 81, 900, 900, ,OOO yearly.
It is equal to one-twent;eth of the
annual product Of wealth and to one-
half of the annual savings. This i'm.
mense sum is paid by the many to the
few. and it shows how the great for
tunes OF the country are maintained
and increased. Mr.. Holmes points out
that the chances for the sudden crea-
ton and concentration Of wealth in
the United States are largely passing
away, and that the fortune building,
on the whole, settles down to an in
vestment of the savings at moderate
rate of interest. The results of the
census indicate that the land is passing
into the ownership of a smaller pro-
portion of the inhabitants, and the
wealth of the poor or of the middle
class of property owners is just in pro-
portion to their SUCCESS in ceaslng to
! be debtors. .
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RELIGIOUS BEADING.
HOW IT BEGAN,

IwilItelI you how bad and blighted lives
begin-the life Of the deplorable drunkard,
the life of the degraded wife-beater, the life
Of the harlot and the felon, the life Of which
the so-called home is as the lair Of wild
beasts; the life which hides itself in the cell
OF the lunatic and in the grave OF the suicide.
Many million of such lives seemed as fair
and bright in promise as that Of any young
boy here. See them young and happy In the
day-school or the SundaY-school, clothed, as
1t were. and in their right mind-then
looked on twenty, thirty, forty years.
This blighted, loafng, disgraced, blear-
eyed man; this bent thing OF
uselessness and scorn who will soon die Of
delirium tremens and be huddled into pau
pers grave, Is he that once bright laughing,
promising boy? Yes, he is. Look on this
picture and on that! What has made the
frightful difference? How did it begin? It
began In the boy thinking himself too much
man to love, honor, and obey his parents
any more. It began in forsaking the guide Of
his youth and forgetting the covenant OF
his God. 1t began in bad companionship,
eorrupting good manners. It began in
broken Sabbath days and turning the back
on holy communion, and neglecting the wor-
ship of the church Of God. Itbegan ky walk
ing In the way Of the ungodly standing in the
way Of sinners. sitting In the seat OF the
scornful. 1t began when ne went like a fine
young fool, to be treated or to stand
"treat' in vile drink at the public houses.
1t began in the twilight, in the evening In
the dark night, when the young fool in his
desperate simplicity. led by Satan, went as
an OK to the slaughter, as fool to the cor
rection of the stocks, till dart struck
him through his own liver and,
In the midst OF that nasty company
which he now has joined, of which he now Is
one he discovers in shame and remediless hor-
ror- -afterward too late in the ruins OF his life
he discovers that the dead are there, and her
guests in the depths Of hell. All, my dear
young people, one and all Of you, may the
grace of God make you more happy and
more timely wise! And that 1t may do 80.
Remember now thy Creator in the days OF
thy youth. while the evil days come not, nor
the years draw nigh, in which thou shall say,
7 have no pleasure in them. ."-[Archdeacon
Farrar.
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BE PERFECT.

MY faith in perfection is very weak when
look at others; 1t is eXtinguished altogether
when look at myself. But when look at
Jesus can believe in nothing else. he ls
perfect in all His works. and no other aim
than this can ever satisfy Him. The work
which He has undertaken to do for US would
not bear His stamp if it stopped anywhere
short Of perfection; and for such vast ex.
penditure and cost I dare not think OF
anything less than this. Be perfect.
Here it Is that my faith in holiness and
my hope for it begin to live, and SEQ Him
as I linger in His presence and sit at His
feet. when He eometh, what limit shall I set
to His grace? What failing shall HE tolerate?
What sin shall battle HIS skill? So, as stand
looking up that slippery height, wondering
how its summit is to be reached, He cometh
with gracious words: My child, fear not
That which thou seekest Is not in thy climb
ing up: its in NY climbing down. Be perfect.
Rev. NJ. Guy Pearse.
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TEMPERANCE.
"LICENsED."

''LlCENSED.
Licensed to make the strong man weak,
Licensed to lay the strong man low;
Licensed the wlfe's fond heart to break,
And make the children's tears to now.
Licensed to do thy neighbor harm,
Licensed to kindle hate and strife;
Licensed to nerve the robbers arm.
Licensed to whet the murderers knife.
Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain,
And rob him Of his very best;
Licensed to heat his feverlsh brain.
Till madness crown thy work at last.
Licensed, like spider for fy,
To spread thy nets for men, thy prey;
To mock his struggles, suck him dry,
Then cast the shattered hulk away.
Licensed, where peace and quiet dwell
To bring disease. and want. and woe;
Licensed to make this world hell;
And fit man for hell below.