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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13
Land Sale for Taxes.

Fhe nonresident proprietors of the Town
Westmore, in the County of Orleans, and
BITE of Vermont, are hereby notified that
3 taxes assessed by said Town for the years
II, 1898 and 1894 remain in whole or in part
paid on the following described lands in
id Town, to wit:
Dine hundred acres of Lot No. 48 in the first
vision of lots in said Town, in the original
sht of Justus Ripley, now set in the grand
to Robert McKillop;
Also, thirty acres off the southerly side of
Ne north half of Lot No. 40, the original right
NJ Samuel B. Webb in the first division of
IS in said town, excepting about eight acres
the southerly side of said parcel of land
I'D described in deed by A. B. Smith to F. A.
krker, dated Oct II, A. d. 1885, said deed now
record in Book 6, page 107 of Land Records
Westmorer the above parcel of land is now
NJ in the Grand List to the Estate of Hattie
Huntley.
ALSO, fifty acres off the northerly end of
pit No. 49, the original right of Samuel B.
/ ebb, in the first division of lots in said
bwn; said land lays between lands of John
IcSherry n the east and the Murphy heirs
p the west, being all and the same land
beded Geo. l.. Huntley by David Trull, May
A. d. 1885, and now set in the grand list to
hmes Wise.
And so much of said lands will be sold at
hblic auction at the Town Clerks Office, in
bid Westmore, Saturday the 25th day of May,
I ID. 1895, at 1 O'Clock in the afternoon, as
ball be requisite to discharge said taxes
nth cost, unless previously paid.
5. A. HUNT, Collector of Town Taxes,
|ated at Westmore, this oath day of April,
A. d. 1895. 17-19
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13
ssTrilbY'' has started Woms

''Trilbyo has started women on a
fresh crusade in the care of their feet.
1t gives "black eye" to tight shoes
If the foot is to be beautiful, bare, the
shoe must be loose Gas Trilby knew.
The one thing that can keep the feet
perfectly soft, the skin all over them
like baby's, is oil. Cocoa oil is the
best for them, and they should be
rubbed with it every day. The re-
suit adds greatly to comfort as well as
to beauty.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

The financier is the man who gets
the better of the bargain.
Politics makes strange fellows
who have to lie awake watching one
another.
It is a great deal easier to criticise
a person for doing something than to
do it yourself.
If the pulpit could read the thoughts
of the pews many sermons would be
vastly different.
The coming woman is she who will
care more for an idea than for hus-
band. But will she ever come?
A preacher who clings to dogma
worships by a candle-dip in darken-
ed room while Gods glory is shining
outside.
There is no rose without thorns.
There is no shad without bones. And
shad roes by no other name could
taste as sweet.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

If a doctor makes a mistake he
take he never tells it, if a lawyer
makes a mistake he crawls out of it.,
but if an editor makes a mistake he
puts it on a sheet of paper for the
world to look at, and in every COM
munity there are cranks who think
that they are models of wisdom be-
cause they occasionally discover it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13
Above the headboard of Pats bed

Above the headboard of Pats bed
was affixed on the wall nondescript
arrangement which quite resembled
small inverted saucepan, with ham
mer and spring attachment, from
which a piece of Irvine dangled to
within convenient distance of the
bolster. "What sort of an arrange
ment is that, PATTI" I asked. "Sure,
and it's an alarm clock, =" he answer
ed. Does it work mechanically? !"
" Av coorse it do, sor. It's devil a
bit ov thing Oh have ter do at all
but pull the stirring, and it wakes me
up in jiffy."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

A grouty old gentleman, after max
ing his will, called his serving man,
and remarked, "Michael, I've left
you in my will all the impudence /
possess"
Michael Faith, Pm glad to see that
by your generosity I inherit the
greater part in your estate"
"Well, we'll, Michael, you've come
into your inheritance remarkably
SOON"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

A young girl in some of the Persian
tribes costs her first husband 100 to-
mans, or about $4,000. Should her
first husband die, the second sutton
must pay 200 tomans before he can
make the widow his own, and SO On
each time she marries, up to the tenth
time. This ascending scale is be-
cause her value is supposed to in
creasase she gains greater experience
as carpet weaver and housewife.
The money is paid to her father, and
if he is not living, to her nearest male
relative.-Philadelp TEnass. II
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13
Manv of the retail lumber dealers

Many of the retail lumber dealers
who are provided with wharves and
docks are deferring their purchases
of yard spruce until the opening of
the saving season on the Penobscot
and Kennebec, and the arrival of
floods of spruce by vessel. We think
they are mistaken in their estimates
of prospective supply from these
points. The advance in the price of
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13
knights of the Maccabees.

The State Commander writes US from Lin
coin, Neb., as follows: "After trying other
medicines for what seemed to be very OBJ
stinate cough in our two children we tried
DR.. Kings NewEDiscovery and at the end of
two days the coughI. entirely left them. We
will not be without it hereafter, as our exper-
fence proves that it cures where all other
remedies fail" Signed F. w. Stevens, State
Com. Why not give this great medicine a
trial, as it is guaranteed and trial bottles are
free at H. c. Pierce's drug store. Regular
size SOC and 81.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

An unusual method to GUST a tenant
was resorted to by Charles Franks, of
Reading. The tenant occupied his
house at Cedar Hill and refused either
to pay rent or vacate the premises.
Franks then had the roof of the house
taken off. This drove out the tenant,
after whose departure the roof was
replaced by the satisfied owner.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

Some people contend that dog has
more sense than a horse. But read
the following anecdote, and you will
see that certain horses at least have
as much intelligence as any dog /: A
sleigh was lately upset in Belleville,
N. J. A four year old boy was thrown
out of it directly under the feet of a
horse that was passing at the moment
drawing florists wagon.
The child fell exactly between the
fore and hind feet of the horse, SO that
a step of the iron hoof would crush
him. But the florists horse stopped
dead still and did not move till the
child was picked up.
One cannot escape the conclusion
that he saw an accident reasoned on
it intelligently and decided that he
must stop in order to save the boy.
In the face of such manifestations
of humanity, how can men and boys
beat and starve horses and keep them
tied for hours with the cruel bits in
their mouth? Even when a horse is
we'll fed and cared for he must often
be lonely for want of that companion
ship which should always exist be-
tween man and his most useful SER
want.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13
Bucklen's Arnica SaIve.

The Best Salve in the world for cuts, bruis-
es, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tet-
ter, chapped hands, chilb1ains, corns, and all
skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or
no pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box. For sale. by II. G. Pierce.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

spruce logs on the Maine rivers indi-
Gates either great shortage or an
unusually heavy demand. We do not
think the water mills of Maine can
be depended on this season for large
supplies OF desirable spruce lumber at
any considerable reduction from the
prices established by the railroad
mills.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13
JUST FOR FUN.
A BIZ metallist-the junkman

| A OIL moCall1SC-Un0 1unKman-
| The Brooklyn Bridge still continues
to be great jumping off place.
"Where was Magma Charta signed?'
asked teacher in a south of London
Board School. &C Please, sir, at the
bottom"
Grump-"Do you call this steak fit
| for Christirn to eat?'' Waiter-"We
hain't anxious about de religion of
our customers, boss"
" Anything new or fresh here to-
day {? +" asked the reporter. eyes,
said the official addressed, C that
paint you're leaning against"
Jimmy-"What makes the twenty
first of December the shortest day in
the year ?" Father" Er-well, the
Christmas shopping, probably"
Customer-(to proprietor of restau-
rant " What do you do when man
kicks because the food is cold ?"
PROPRIETOR Make it hot for him."
"Dear Tim,-I am sending you my
coat by post. have cut off the
buttons because it will make it light
er. You will find them in the breast
pocket. Yours, Pat"
After the concert.-He-" [ envy
that man who sang the tenor solo. "
She-''Why, thought he had a very
poor voice. " He" So did I but
lust think of his nerVe.''
A few Sundays ago clergyman in
Ireland made the following announce
ment: ''Next Sunday, in this church,
the Rev. Mr.. will renounce the
errors of Rome for those of Protes-
tantism.''
Little Willie" Are you tongue
tied I? - Featherstone-" OF course
not, Willie. What makes you think
SOP" Willie-'s Sister says she has
been waiting months for you to
speak"
Miss Blithely-( interested in sci
ence) Can one get shock from
telephone?'' Top Spiffkins intent
on ethics) 6 That depends, my dear
young lady, on who is talking at the
other end"
A Liverpool merchant thus adver-
tises his candles: s'Without intend
ing any disparagement to the sun,
may confidently assert that my octa-
gonal spermaceti are the best lights
ever invented"
Doctor" You are on the verge of
nervous prostration. You must try
| the rest cure. You must not get up
any morning until ten O'Clock. Now
mind. - Patient-' But I never get
up until eleven"
Teacher-'tDo you understand the
meaning of the terms capital and la
bor?" Small Boy-"Yes'm. If boy
has a sled, that's capital. If another
boy rides down with him and then
pulls the sled up, that's labor
"Who is that long haired fellow at
the other table,-a corn doctor ?"
Goodness, no! That is Bzzzvysk-
czizt, the pianist. He has made a
great name for himself. " " Must
have made it out of barbed wire,
| didn't he 20
A middle aged, bespectacled woman
| appears at the door in answer to the
bell, and the following conversation
ensues. Boy" Shovel off yer snow?"
Lady-'sNo. I've got a husband who
can do it.'' Boy-"My goodness! you
look too young to be married" Lady
ssAhem! Well, you can do it."
No doubt, when one is reforming
from bad habits, he should reform al
together. So, at least, thought an
old lady who was opposed to the use
of tobacco, when she saw an eX-
| drunkard, who Wanted his repent
ance, smoking pipe, II am brand
plucked from the burning" said the
reformed man. " Anybody might
know that" said the old lady; "for
you're smokin' yeti"
| SbiIob,s Cure the preat GOuoh and Group
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

1t is said to require the lives of five
million song birds annually to keep
the hats of American women in proper
feather. The swamps and marshes of
Florida have already been dopopulat-
ed of their aigrets and herons to sup
ply the demands of fashion. AS for
the English women, they have been
sending hunters to the wilds of Afri-
ca for feathered ornaments. Our own
section of the country is made to pay
tribute to this whim of Vanity Fair
abroad as we'll as at home. In a
single season forty thousand tern
have been killed on Cape Cod for ex-
portatiOn.-BOsto7a Globe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

Magistrate very disgraceful
that you should beat your wife," Pri-
soner-"W We'll, your worship, she ag-
grawated me by keepin' on sayin'
she'd ave me hup before that bald
'eaded hold humbug, meanin' yer
worship" Magistrate 'You're dis
charged"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13
USES OF BAMBOO.

The Chinese cultivate bamboo in
plantations. They have a method of
keeping the shoots cut down close to
the ground for three years, not allow
ing them to grow until the fourth.
These young shoots, besides being
boiled and served as fresh vegetables,
are also preserved by different meth
DDS, being either candied or picked
One Of the medicines of Chinese
physicians, called tabachir, is extract
ed from the bamboo, being developed
from fluid secreted in the Joint
But if the leaves possessed the won
derful properties claimed for them,
there would be no need to extract ia
bachir. A charm against ysickness or
misfortune has only to be written on
a bamboo leaf, the leaf burned, and
the ashes mixed with tea and drunk.
While speaking of it as food and
medicine, more direct application
may be mentioned: administered ex
ternally in the form of bastinado,
bamboo has extinguished the life of
many an unhppy wretch, depriving
him Of the existence which it might
also have been the means of support
ing. A most barbarous form Of pun
ishment consists in tying down the
victim over several growing bamboo
stumps cut down close to the ground,
and sharpened to point. In 'pidgin-
English Bamboo chow chow is
term expressing the application of
the rod.-Chanber' Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

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, 1895-05-13

Deans Rheumatic Pills absolutely cure
rheumatism & neuralgia. Entirely vegeta-
BILE. Safe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

Shiloh's Cure, the great Cough and Group
Cure is in great demand. Pocket size con-
tains twenty five doses only 25cts. Children
love it. Sold by druggists.
The girl who can sew is the really
independent wage Garner; she is al
ways sure of a living. A sensible
young girl said to the writer: 81 left
a business college to learn millinery,
and am glad I did. Pm on pay now,
and my friends who graduated are
still lookinS for work" The time
will come when bread winners in Ger
tain fields of labor will be driven out
by the pin monev workers; they are
routing them now, swarming from
business colleges into post office posi-
tions, and Offering the services at
prices below living rates. Girls with
a living to make should look this fact
in the face and choose trade or at
least supplement their business train
ing with a practical knowledge of
plain sewing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

The legislature of So. Carolina has
passed a scientific temperance in
struction law. This reduces the num-
Der of states without such law to four.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

Do you remember what you promis-
ed before we were married? You said
you would make every effort to make
yourself worthy of me.
Yes, and the result was that over
did the job and made myself better
than YOU deserve
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

I think you must have misunder-
stood my order, said hungry man in
a Harlem restaurant to the waiter.
How SO, sir?
I ordered fried liver, and you have
brought me fried leather.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

Acquaintance-Mr. Bullion, let me
introduce my friend Jones. I've just
been telling him how you made your
pile.
Mr.. Bullion (slightly deaD-G lad to
know you Major Pyle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

Tapley's "Bread Winner outwears all 9TH
shoes.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-06
A Populist Treasurer Upsets All
Traditions
OF PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS
VIII His Clerk Hire Is Paid John Rjork
viii Find Himself without
Salary.

Leavenworth. Wash, April John
BJork, the populist treasurer of Okla
hogan county, started from this city to
the county seat, at Conconully, this
morning, thoroughly impregnated with
the idea that the office is a hoodoo to
him and firmly convinced that his hap
piness will never be complete until he
no longer supports an officials burdens.
BJolk was nominated amid great enthu-
siasm at Chelan last July by the pOpu-
lists, and was subsequently indorsed by
the democrats, and was elected over
what was generally termed the ring"
nominee, Mr. Watson, republican, Of
COnconully. Mr. BjOrk declared through
out the campaign that he did not want
the Office and would not accept it even
II elected, but was finally urged 10 an
adverse conclusion by numerous friends
who wanted to see some one from the
south end of the county represented I'm
the officers.
In January Mr. Bjork went to the
county seat, and. fling his bond, was
installed into the Office. He wanted 70
resign then and there, but the commits
sioners refused to consider such prop
osition, claiming that they could not
consistently permit him to thus shirk
the responsibility, and promised to give
him deputy at salary enough to make
total, including his own, Of Sl2O per
month. This was part Of their ruse. it
seems, to punish him for being SO pre-
sumptuOus as 10 be elected over Con-
cOnully man, for at the first next meet
ing they wiped out all salaries except
that being received by W. W. Weeks.
the present deputy
Mr.. Bjork's idea was that he should
be allowed enough salary on account OF
deputy to pay clerk hire, so that it
would not require his entire salary of
$3.50 per month TO satisfy the financial
demands of his hired help. But when
this was cut off the Office began to rise
before Mr.. Bjorks eyes like a spectre.
assuming hideous forms and a CHASTITY
mien. When he started for the county
seat this morning he went armed with
a document that will defy the commits
sioners to longer retain him in office
against his wishes. 1t is simply notice
from each of his bOndsmen that they
desire to be released from further obi
cation. This will have the effect. of
course, Of leaving him without a bond.
and he will cerainly not furnish anoth-
er. This has been the universal topic Of
conversation among politicians for the
past few days and has been the source
Of much general discussion and interest.
general feeling of Indignation pre-
walls here against the commissioners
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-06
King of Beasts and Monarch Of
American Forests
ENTERTAINED A MEXICANMOB
Account of "A Desperate Encounter in n
Steel Cage sunday at Laredo.
Mexico.

Laredo. Texas, April lat D. m.
yesterday, in a bull ring at New Laredo,
Mexico. the African lion, Parnell, fought
a terrible battle with an enormous griz-
ely bear of the American type. The at
tendance was large. The animals fought
desperately two rounds, until complete
ly exhausted, but. contrary to expecta-
tons. neither was killed.
1t was a bloody combat. The crowd
went wild when twice the American
grizzly threw his African opponent,
erstwhile king of beasts, so hard upon
the ground that once, had time been
called according to the rules, the lion
would have been counted out. Trough
out the battle the lion showed more
agility and treachery. but to the bear
must be given the palm for stubborn,
stolid strength.
Parnell is owned by Colonel e. Daniel
Boone, the lion tanner. and is the beast
that killed his keeper at the midwinter
fair. The bear is somewhat larger and
heavier than the lion. and was secured
at New Orleans. where he killed two
keepers. 1t is believed it is the first
time on record that such a combat has
taken place. Mr.. Sercombe, editor of
the Laredo Times. was fortunate in Sc
curing four instantaneous photographs
of the battle. The fight took place in a
large circular steel cage 20 feet in diam
eter and Is feet high. No more thrilling
spectacle was ever witnessed than the
sparring match by the lion as he bound
ed into the cage with a magnificent leap
of fully 10 feet and grappled with his
antagonist.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-06
GIVE WASHINGTON BOATS TO BUILD
Senator Squire Believes We Can Con
struct Naval Additions TO Suit.

struct Naval Additions TO Suit.
Washington, April 2.-Senator Squire of
Washington is interesting himself to Sc
cure if possible contract for some of the
new naval vessels provided for at the last
session of congress for his state. The
law provides that one of two battleships
and one torpedo boat be built on the Pa
ciic coast, in case it should not appear
that they car not De bult there except AT
eXorbitant rates, but makes no such spec
ifcations as to any of the six composite
gunbOats provided for in the act Squire
has, however, been assured that the peo-
pie Of the western coast shall have an op-
portunity to put in bids on these boats
also. There is only one institution on
that coast having facilities for building
battleships, and that is located at San
Francisco, but the senator says torpedo
boats and gun boats can be constructed
on Puget sound as economically as at any
other place. The bureau of construction
and repairs of the navy department will
have immediate control of building the
proposed vessels and is already consid-
ering plans for them. 1t is understood,
however, that none of the specifications
will be ready to submit to prospective bid
ders for month or six weeks. The plans
for gunboats now receiving the attention
Of the officials contemplate Boats lCS feet
long, Siis feet wide. u feet draught and
giving a displacement of 975 tons The
bottoms are to be Of wood, covered with
copper two feet above the water line. and
above the copper with steel. The keel is
to be of wood, with side frame of steel,
and there is to be an inside steel frame in
the hull.
There is some doubt in the mind of Of
ficials whether such vessels can be built
for the amount appropriated, $3.50 900 for
each boat, and it may become necessary
to reduce the dimensions in order to bring
the cost of construction within the appro-
priation. The law permits the use of
steel or other metal of alloy in any of the
proposed vessels. The name of the Kear-
sarage will be revived for one of the
battleships.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-06
TAmMANYs FINANCIAL JueeLERY

Every Suhtcrfugc Adopted 10 FmhaTnSS
the Present Administration.
New York. April 2.-Mayor Strong sent
a message to the board of aldermen today
showing the financial condition of the
city. He said there was a big excess in
the budget over previous years and al
legged that this was due to a system of
financial jugglery practiced by previous
administrations. This was evident par
ticulary in the park department, he said,
where a million dollars was expended
under the guise of helping men who were
out Of work" The mayor said that every
technical subterfuge was adopted by the
previous administration to dodge the is
suing of bonds in order to force this duty
upon the administration of 1895.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-06
J. S. sALFoUR TO BE ExTRAolTEo

Great Britain TO Gain pc secession of a
Notorious SwindIer
Buenos Ayers, April "A federal Judge
has ordered the Salta government to de-
liver Jabez Spencer Balfour, whose extra
dition Great Britain has long been trying
to obtain, to the British legation in this
city. telegram from Salta announces
that the court there Will turn Balfour over
TO the federal authorities tomorrow. AS
quickly thereafter as possible he will be
taken to London to answer to the charges
made against him in connection with the
collapse of the Liberator Building So
ciety and allied concerns the failure of
which ruined thousands of persons who
had invested their money i'm the different
concerns. At the time of his flight from
England Balfour was a member of par
lament.