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HIS HEAD IS ALWAYS disconeerting habit
 AMONG THE STARS. of looking at you with far-away expression in his blue eyes and saying: What's that?"
 This is aggravating when you have been trying to say something important. Another defect in Alton is his laugh. Now. men cannot be too careful as to how they laugh. Atoms cachination is a high, continuous squeal with stae- cato notifications. Very few men know how to laugh, alasl
 Tn spite of the fact that Alton laughs, or rather squeals, occasionally he is, as a rule, tremendously solemn. l have seen the pyramids of Egypt. l have oazed upon the ruins Of the Acropolis. [ have beheld Niagara. Not one of these is so tremendously solemn as Al fon.. You could actually cut his gray ;tv with knife, and many time Vane has put inc table in q roar by naimick- mo Alton's impressive good morn ;ne,,' and 'won't you come in ?" Vane has hit upon q peculiar way of mock
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CLEVER CHILDREN.
Re Worried More Than Pleased if Your
 Child Ia Precocious.


 Child Ia Preeocious.
 Never allow children to use their brains too much, for if they do so the result is often very serious. Some children are naturally ambitious, and will strain every nerve, as it were, so that they may have the honor and glory of being at the top of their class in school, and in this they are unwisely encouraged by their parents, whose vanity is so great for their offspring that they wish them to outshine their little contemporaries, quite careless or oblivious of the fact that undue precoei- ty has to be paid dearly for later on.
 Many children, without being ambi- tious, have an unsuitable thirst for knowledge, which is the result of an abnormally developed brain. In these cases, instead of being encouraged to learn, children should be kept back as much as possible, and encouraged to play out of doors, and to do everything that will give the active little brain rest, for you may depend upon it, whether you wish it or not, the child's mind will work harder great deal than is good for it, in asking the why and wherefore of all it sees around it in the wonderful world.
 How seldom is a mother content to have baby without any sort of little tricks to show off to her friends. What pleasure it is to her to hear her friends say what wonderfully clever child hers is. when at few months old it can point to grandpapa's picture on the wall, or can play pat-a-cal1e. Or, later on, how supremely delighted the parents are when their little girl or boy lisps out John Gilpin," or some other nursery tale in verse. Poor, deluded people Can they not see that these per- formances are about on the level with the tricks of dog, or with the talking of tame parrot, and that in order to gratify their parental vanity the child's mental capacity is being overtaxed and weakened?
 In the first years of life child has quite enough to occupy his brain in learning about the things it sees around it. Take care then not to let the men tai growth get ahead of the physical, or your child will be handicapped in later life by weakness of either body, or brain, or perhaps both.-Philadefphia Press.
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the engagement of HER WARD.
 his daughter, and utterly refused to hear of the matter. She became il in consequenee; and at last her mother relented, and begged the stern father to relent. The daughter, meanwhile, went about her Sunday school work Istlessly enough, and was active in her little league to discourage smoking by little boys. Miss Rockefeller was, in
 ruth, very prominent in anti-tobacco c1susades. She used to invite youthful smokers in her Sunday school to visit her, and when they did so lectures on the evil Of smoking were read to them. But she lost interest even in this cher sished propaganda, and gave it up, great ly to the grief of her scholars. There upon, the stern papa relented and con ssented, stipulating, however, that no
 ;h dowry should be expected. This
 Is agreed to, and the engagement was
 Announced. Miss Rockefeller will therefore not prove 8 pecuniary prize to her husband, but she will be pearl ef great price in all other respects. She is much liked by those who have met her.
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DIARY OF A MAN OF TASTE
The Danger of Affectation in Youths Who Lack Experience.
Peril in Certain Faults-The Parasite Is a Type of Club Man We'll Worth Close study Making Religion
 a Moekery.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.

Monday.-Vane has exquisite hands. They are very white and the fingers taper delicately, like lily stems. He never wearies of motioning with these flowers of hands of his. Poor, laugh able, crude Huggard who has had the misfortune to take Vane as his model, is forever initiating any such manual gesture as strikes his fancy and, nat urally, makes a guy of himself.
 Most inexperienced yonng men are foolish after this fashion. Some ele- gant fellow or other captivates their untaught fancies, and they make them selves the mirrors of his folly. Hug gard wears very pointed shoes because Nane affects them. He wears curly bangs over his forehead because Vane does. We're Vane to fall il, am sure Huggard would take to his bed.
 My heart bleeds for Hnggard. He is very tall and also thin. He has hay colored hair, quite scant and dead, and his walk is that lank, ostrieh-lilke strut habitual to boys who have been brought up in the country. He got into Dur Se1 purely tS u IGohib o1 deei- dent, but it is intensely ludicrous to observe the airs he puts on and the lofty condescension with which he treats his erstwhile intimates. He is at the club meg2ing, noon and night, a eonsfancy Wlr&h betrays his inexperi- enoe. Huggard is Q terrible warning to those young fellows who permit themselves to be made the victims of their own inexperience.
 I would not pay so much attention to Huggard were 1t not for little in cident which drew my particular at- tention to him. It happened one even ing that we were all discussing Stock, whose verses aroused great interest lately.
 "stoelx may write poetry" Alton said, "but if it really Is poetry, why I'm poet, too.'
 "Then why don't you write verses as well as he?' asked Hawkins.
 That set the ball rolling, and we all began to scribble lines In imitation of
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revenue. It is clear to me now that Vane only cultiyates Huggard for the sake of using him. There are many men who have this capacity for making friends of those whom they propose to use. You will often hear q man say it is wise to be in the society of those who are successful. Any man who is a power is thus sought out and culti- yated In reality, however, this policy is mistaken. The parasite may dis guise hin1sris as often as he plcases, but he is a parasite still. The temptation to be parasite $ strong, at times, admit, but to yield to itis fatal. Iknow of no man who has handled the parasite better than dear old Plautus.
 Do you know Plautus at all ?"l asked Vane, in sarcastis tone.
 ..The rhinoceros is indifferent to wasps," he replied.
 "Does Plautus belong to the club?' inquired Huggard.
 s.No, ''said Vane, 'but l wish he did. He'd like to meet you, Huggard.
 Then the pair of them went up to the billiard d-room, and rang for absinthe.
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ing Alton. ne treats him with aezere!

 ing Alton. He treats him with severe respect
 Good morningl" Alton will say.
 Good morning, sir Vane will re- ply, with an impenetrable solemnity of countenance.
 Alton-How have you been?
 Vane-Very well, sir; how are you, sira
 Alton We'll, thank you. What Is new to-day?
 Vane-Nothing that know of, sir.
 Vane, during this dialogue has as- sumed heavy grandeur of expression that is a caricature of Alton's face, and we who look on think vane ab. surd; but then he makes Alton ridicu- luous. The moral of Alton's personal ity, is that men should beware of ele- phantine dignity, because it places
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wirnd SILK Pettlcoat.

The newest silk petticoats are wired with feather bone around the hem. The feather bone is, of course, invisible, and the skirt is fluffy with ruffies. The most elaborate are of heavy brocade, cut in the circular pattern. They are trimmed with four rufiies. alternating from bro- cade to lace. Changeable faffefa silk skirts are made to flare in the same man. ner. The latest are in dark colors. and are trimmed merely with the taffeta ruff fes graduating in size.--N. I. Post.
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a .3s1-N v <oi-ANA1S' IdcllOn III the me ropolis which has always antagonized Mir. Cleveland. The idea is to represent he chief magistrate as the political Don Quixete, armed for a fray with
 e Wind1nills of popularity, and in all
 spects a ridiculous travesty of the
 ,ble old Roman who put ambition
 way from him. But these attempts 'e palpable failures. Even the pseudo ostility to third terms is a sham, or Ianized by those who boom the very Lea itself, and the end and aim of the }cleme is to insult AIr. Cleveland. Over \ over again it has been asserted for
 president that he knows he cannot, in any event he will not, serve a Fs d term. Still the noisy din is kept ' by those who are afraid Mir. Cleve- lands influence will enable him to name his own successor. This it is de- sired to prevent. and this alone.
 Therefore, those who on principle are to an overthrow of the un- written constitutional mandate need not be afraid of MT. Cleveland's al-
 sd designs. The president is known
 feel the ridiculous position in which
 has been placed very keenly.
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yerthe l e s s, t will be an occasion of decided interest to the numerous branches of the family, all 70 f whom are to#be well represented. It HOW transpires that the great nil- lionaire was very much opposed to
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JO QO W1Cn IL. lie is very m II c h worked up over the odium heaped upon him as the gold bug who crept into Miss Columbia's bower and stole all the
 brightness away, He maintains that the country is real ly under a great ahI;no4iop 40 b;1,
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break seriously in terfered with busi- ness. This is large 1y because the men have had real grievance, and have W n their point after consolidating public opinion by "a
 friendly attitude.
 The -situati of the working classes
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that many would imagine. The New Workers who went over to Philadel- phia to see him a f e W weeks ago were in reality greatly impressed by the mysterious powers of Keeley's
 contrivance. A
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I have heard of lit RELIGION IN, HIS tie, round, fat, oily HANDS IS A CLUB. ., men 'ss or God, but the bishop Is wt;aSS1ll ' big, burly marching if'sg eii'i giniseft se f sal. vation. If there is anything of Which man should beware it is making re- ligion a mockery,
 After all, the faults of men hare SO interesting that one may pardon their existence. Some faults are the jesuit of crudity and inexperienee, like Hug gard's; others spring from ones very nobility of soul, like Alton's, and still others are due to earnest and sincere conviction, like the bishops. The man of taste will remember that to be with out faults is to be without virtues. and act accordingly.
 Thursday Huggard, of late, has been treating me with grafe-like loftiness that impels me to kick him, but refrain and simply give him all the rope he wants. Vanc has been borrowing money of him lately, and Huggard struts like peacock on the strength of it. Nothing is more cal culated to earn a man the contempt of his fellow creatures than t turn the attachment. .ef~~-'' Sosrrce of
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Talleyrand says the faul t s of our friends are our own stepping stones to perfection, and AL ton must, there fore, be a eort of
 ID or l staircase. Alton is tall, hand-
 some, blue-e y e d
 and fair. He is so wrapped in dreams that Vane calls him the astronomer, be- cause his head is al- ways among the
 stars. Alton has a
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Stocks, and read them 10 each other with infinite merriment.
 I should have forgotten this incident completely if Huggard had not ap- preached me few days later at the club.
 Do you remember" he fa1tered, in that unsteady speech of his, 'Sthe verses you wrote in imitation of Stoek's?''
 1 remember them.
 Well, said Huggard, .I repeated them to some men here--er--and they thought -er-ah-that wrote them sr-and they complimented me--er-- and told Stock I wrote them-er"
 In short, the poor, raw lad had ac- lsnally stolen my credit and was beg ing gsesme not to betray him. 1 was exed, l aieA,lmit, but I laughed and ssured hum he rsNSssss.edn't be afraid. Many time those verse;, have been quoted t the club and laugGte. at, and Hug ard has been praised in my plessneas.l 2 or writing them. He reminds me of sheep at such moments. 1 am sorry or the poor fellow. He has parted with his self-respect. However, he IS warning to all snobbish young men, nd he will have his fall In due time. Tuesday-Alton is a magnificent fel- nv. His faults are magnificent faults
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withtsanding t h e sedulous efforts to
 impress the rest of the country to the contr ary. T h @ whole business is recognized now as an attempt to an- noy and humiliate the president by a foafion ip fba n,a
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nmanee 
 
   he
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expense. He hap pen e d n o t long since to visit his old house on Fifth ave nue occupied by his sister. The place h a q n o t beenI open for some days and the old retain CT left in charge os
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usiu BTUWH HtS MAhINI A HI.
 1igent. file had his kinsman, MT. Chan 7ox. with him, and the two yainly rang for admittance. Finally, Mir. Astor had tp open the door with his latchAkey, and
 iscovered a laekey asleepln in chair in
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The Gold Bug.

In case there is new bond issue Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan will have nothing
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Making 8 Hit.

John Jacob Astor is by no means xcnsitive to jokes that are made at his
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The Wedding to Come.

The Rockefeller wedding on Decem- $ 12 will be a very quiet affair.
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1 t@a resounding thwack.Z He is al- ways approaching me on the subject
 of my soul. Not
 to speak irrever- ently, he has the grace of God on tap and sprays it all around him like n garden with Q W a t e ri Il g ? 0 t. Every M o Il q a y morning he asks me if went to church yesterday.
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them completely at the mercy of any caricaturist who comes along.
 Wednesday Praisegod Bare- bones of this world are one of it's chief calamities. A certain member of our set is tremendously religious, and Vane alludes to him always as the bishop" The bishop is perpetually praying all over the place, like peripatetic dox- ology. Religion in his hands is a club, and whenever he sees a head he hits
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Keelex.

Keeley is by no means the failure, Sd far as his great motor is concerned.
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 Labor.

The strikes in New York will not be of very long duration, nor has their out
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{ GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Making . Don Quixote Out of
 President Cleveland.
Flow Mir Astor Makes a Hit-Mr. Morgan Angry Because He Is Dubbed a PIu- tocrAt -- The Labor Situation in
 New York Improving.
COPYRIGHT, 1895.

The third term movement attracts no serious attention in New York, not
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23
An Odd Collection

man in Colorado has quaint collection
of bottles. 1t is divided into two sections
Section one is large. Section two is not
Section one contains hundreds of bottles. the
contents of which his wife swallowed hoping
Section two contains few bottles that once
were filled with DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scrption. 1t was this potent remedy that
gave the suffering wife her health again. It
cures all the Irregularities, internal infiam-
nation and liberation, displacements and
kindred troubles 1t has done more to relieve
icine known to science.
Pile tumors, rupture and fstu1ae radically
cured by improved methods. Book, 10 cents
in stamps. Worlds Dispensary Medical AS
ISOLATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23

"Don't put that money in your
mouth" was the startling ejaculation
of an old gentleman to the young lady
in the street car, as the lady placed a
coin between her teeth while she clos
ed her purse and put on her glove.
She looked up with such a sudden
start that the coin dropped down on
the car floor, and after the old gentle
man had fished it from between the
Stats and handed it to the blushing
girl, he said: "Ten chances to Zone
that money has been in the hands and
pockets of thousands of persons You
received it at the grocery, where it
had just been paid in by an Italian
who purchased some macaroni. The
Italian received it from newsboy
whose shoes he mended, and the
newsboy got it from gentleman
who bought paper of him."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23

1t is deplorable fact that the ma
lions that lead the world in the con-
sumption of alcoholic liquors are the
three Protestant nations, Germany,
Great Britain and the United States.
Germany heads the list with a con-
sumption of thirty three gallons per
head. Great Britain follows with
thirty, and the United States ranks
next with sixteen gallons per hea
How powerfully it must tend to coun
teract the teachings of our foreign
missionaries, when those whom they
try to save know that the nations I'M
der the influence of Christianity send
out the most liquor to ruin the bodies
and souls of men. Bishop Foster says
there are 100000 Christian saloons in
the United States, because it is by
consent of Christian churches that
they exist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
Motto: "God and Home and Native Land"

Charles Lamb wrote: "The waters
have gone over me, but out Of the
black depths, could [ be heard, L
would cry out to all those who nave
set foot in the perilous flood. Gould
the youth to whom the flavor OF the
first wine is as delicious as the open
scenes Of life, or the entering upon
some newly discovered paradise, look
into my desolation, and be made to
understand what dreary thing it is
when he shall feel himself going down
a precipice with open eyes and passive
will-to see all goodness emptied out
of him, and yet not be able to forget
the time it was otherwise to bear
about the piteous spectacle of his own
ruin; could he see my feverish eye,
feverish with last nights drinking,
and feverish looking for to nights
repetition of the folly; could he but
feel the body of death out of which
cry hourly with feebler cutlery to be
delivered, it were enough to make
him dash the sparkling beverage to
the earth, in all the pride of it's man
Ting temptation
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23
Four Big Successes.

Having the needed merit to more than:.make
good all the advertising claimed for them,
the following four remedies have reached
phenomenal sale. DIR. Kings New Discovery,
for consumption, coughs and colds, each bot
tie guaranteed. Electric Bitters, the great
remedy for liver, stomach and kidneys
Buck1en's Arnica Salve, the best in the world,
and DIR. Kings New Life Pills, which are
perfect pill. All these remedies are guaran-
teed to do just what is claimed for them and
the dealer whose name is attached herewith
will be glad to tell you more of them. Sold
at II. G. Pierce's drug store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23
LADIES' COLUMN.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A level teaspoonful of boracic acid
dissolved in pint of freshly boiled
water and applied cool, is the best
wash for inf1amed sore eyes or granu-
lated lids, and an excellent gargle for
iuf1amed sore throat.
Soft newspaper is excellent to
cleanse windows or any glassware.
Gold tea cleanses paint better than
soap and water, unless the paint is
white, when milk is better.
If meat is tough, or if you have any
doubt of its tenderness, put table
spoonful of vinegar over it when put
on to cook; you will find it very ten
der when done.
Sweetmeats, such as jellies, jams
and pound for pound preserves, must
be saved for luncheon or dinner, and
spiced fruits as rule, do not belong
on the breakfast table; but glass of
cool fruit juice is refreshing in the
morning and decoys one through the
doubtful pleasure of eating bread or
steak
If the hair is thin and dry rub we'll
two or three times week with
mixture of sixty grains af quinine to
an ounce of vaseline. For cleanliness
wash it once or twice a month with
good tar soap and wipe occasionally
with damp towel.
1t is advisable that one should have
one petticoat to be used exclusively
for walking, and this may be faced
waterproof cloth. There will then be
almost perfect protection for the feet
and ankles in wet weather. 1t is the
swishing of damp clothes about the
feet that constitutes most of the dis
comfort of a rainy day expedition, land
the waterproof lining does away with
this.
In making over knit wear for the
children there is disadvantage in
that there are no close fitting bands
for the wrists and ankles. This may
be remedied by crocheting with Ham
burg knitting silk around the edge
very closely, then taking up the mesh
of the crochet work for stitches on
needles, and knitting bands as wide as
seems desirable. Knit one and purl
one, and they will fit snugly, and the
silk washes we'll.
Antique decanters that are not
needed on the sideboard find place
upon the dressing table, where they
hold cologne and other toilet waters
that need stable bottles.
A lemon salad is a German dish that
is highly recommended. Pull the let
tuce leaves in little pieces, squeeze
the juice of small lemon or half of
large one into a tumbler, and a little
sugar, little water and a good pinch
of salt, and pour the mixture all over
the salad.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23

The Chinese method of preserving
grapes is as follows: A circular piece
is cut out of ripe pumpkin, making
an opening large enough to admit the
hand, and the interior is then nicely
cleaned out. The grapes are then put
inside the pumpkin and the circular
piece is replaced and pressed in firm
ly. If the pumpkin be kept where it
is cool, the grapes will preserve their
freshness for an almost indefinite
time. 1t is said that the Chinese, by
this method, have them all the year
round
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23

The manufacture and sale of intox
icating liquors for individual gain or
national revenue is an illegitimate
and pernicious traffic; contrary to
sound morals, social order and nation
al prosperity. At least three fourths
of the taxes and nine tenths of the
crime, want, woe, misery and power
ty spring from the liquor traffic, Ell
Their directly or Indirectly. 1t demon
allies government, impoverishes and
destroys the people, and is anti social,
anti Christian in it's character. Its
tendencies are pernicious and results
disastrous, without one redeeming
quality. We must destroy the traffic
or the traffic will destroy the nation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-23

Every lover Of temperance will SYM
pathize with Lady Henry Somerset,
and wonder at the law which forbids
her to use her own discretion in re-
fusing a liquor license on her estates.
1t appears that certain hotel sought
the renewal of its liquor license, which
she refused. The proprietor appeal
ed; and the Justice in Chancery has
sustained the appeal on the ground
that she is simply holding the estate
as tenant for life, and that her person
al opinions must not affect her fdu-
ciary action. That is, if it is for the
pecuniary interest of those who come
into the estate after her death to ruin
men body and soul by liquor, she has
no right to stop it.