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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-29

A writer in the Book Buyer gives
some interesting incidents in the ca
reer of Julian Ralph, the wellknown
newspaper man of Boston. One Sc
cret of his success is that everything
is perennially interesting to him. ''By
Jove,o he once said to an old New
Yorker, "have you ever seen the City
Hall? Have you? Well, I stumbled
across it yesterday, and I'm proud to
be in the same town with it, Although
he must have travelled upward of one
hundred thousand miles in different
parts of the world, strangely enough.
he has never been in Maine and Texas.
Before he went to China he prepar-
ed himself very carefully in pigeon.
English, which he had been told he
would find useful, and on discovering
a Chinaman in his bedroom at hotel
in Shanghai, remarked: ssHello! What
fashion man you b'long? What side
you come?' To which the Chinaman
replied: ''This is Mr.. Ralph. I pre-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-29
INFORMATION FROM 4 NAN.

The bloomer dress is a pair of
trousers, very baggy at the knees, alb
normally full at the pistol pocket and
considerably full where you strike
match.
The garment is cut decollete at the
south end and the bottoms tied
around the ankles or knees to keep
the mice out.
You can't put it over your head like
you do your shirt, nor around you
like corset, but you must sit on the
floor and pull it on just as you do your
stockings, one foot at time in each
compartment.
You can easily tell the right side to
have in front by the buttons on the
neck band.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-29

'sNaturally we become sour and
grabbed when we are not appreciate
and when things go i'll with us. To be
misunderstood by friends, to suffer
earthly losses, to be rebuked, or to be
assailed is a trying experience, yet it
need not, and should not, embitter us
and make US testify, petulant and
cynical Better to turn the face to-
ward the sunshine, and let in the rays
of hope, love, kindness and charity.
This will cause sweetness of soul
that makes itself felt in word, feeling
and act"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-29
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to regu-
late the bowels and kidneys will find the true
remedy in Electric Bitters. This medicine
does not stimulate and contains whiskey
nor other intoxicant, but acts as tonic and
Alternative. 1t acts mildly on the stomach
and bowels, adding strength and giving tone
to the organs thereby aiding nature in the
performance of the functions. Electric Bit
tiers is an excellent appetizer and aids diges-
ton. Old people find it just exactly what
they need. Price fifty cents per bottle at H.
G. Pierce's dru store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-29
A lamnwick will never smoke if

A lampwick will never smoke if,
when new, it is soaked in vinegar for
a little while and then allowed to dry
1t is better not to wash chimneys, but
to rub them with cloth dampened
with alcohol. When the burners be-
come blackened put them to boil in a
pot of vinegar, to which tablespoon
full of salt has been added.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-29

sumo. We have mutual friends who
suggested my calling on you. Oh,
that's all right. I spent eight years
at school in Norwich, Conn.," "Ah!"
said Mr.. Ralph, partially recovering
his presence of mind, lively we'll, vely
well.n
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-17

! who had to leave his native State ant
; go elsewhere to seek employment by
| which to make u support for his f;tmily
| DO not belivo in insulting the dead OF
bounding down the living. Senator
Butler dis wrong when he became ar
Independent candidate. and he wa!
rcbuked by his people with u crushing
defeat. Let us now leave him in peace
and remember that he left u portion O
his body upon the battlefield of Vir
ginia. If Senator Butler aspired fol
Office today would oppose him, for he
does not represent the sentiments o
myself or my people. condemn hi.
independent candidacy us much as any
one, but nothing that Nj. G.. Butler car
do will cast Il reflection upon those old
dust repOSc in the soil of Saluda.
"SenatOr, do you expect opposition
for reelection to the United States
Senate ?"
rcally do not know. understand
| that q secret caucus has alresdy beer
held, and slate ticket formed in Co
lumbia. But [ do not care the snap o
my finger for the mAchination of the
politicians. | have anchored my faith
and my hope in tho people, and when
L get the people on my side can buy
up all the politicians | want at sc
apiece. Next year we must go before
tho people, and they will decide who
they desire to represent them in the
Senate. | am willing to trust them,
and If they say that [ must stay at
home, and they prefer to be represent.
ed by some one else, | will gracefully
bow to their will and earnestly work
for the nominees of my party with the
samo loyalty and devotion that gave
to Senator Tillman when he wanted
Office and to Gov. Evans when he aspir-
ed to the position he now holds. |
have made war on no one. Whom the
I'illman = Hemphill Barnwell Evans
caucus was held, | denounced IT because
| knew that 1T meant ruin to our Re
form movement. Even Senator Till
man afterwards confessed that | was
right and he was wrong when he re.
pudiated the agreement entered into.
| worked for the calling OF d constitu-
tionai convention, plcdging our white
voters that not one man should lose
his suffrage. | never have mislcd or
deceived the people, and do not intend
to. [ may be struck down, but shall
go down holding aloft the Reform ban
ner, and advocating the same princi-
pies that Tillman and myself advocated
in 1890. have an adjoining faith in
the loyalty, wisdom and patriotism of
the Reform voters of South Carolina.
| shall stand by them as loyalty and as
devotedly us they have stood:by me. do
not propose to trucklc to any politician
or so-called leader for office. | place
my trust in a sovereign people, Shall
go before them and plead my cause
and gracefully bow their decree, what
ever it may be. shall enter into a
combination with no nam or set o.
men to secure re-elcctiOn. [ shall rur
| upon the record that have made il
| the Senate, and upon that shall stant
| or go down. | have never betrayct
| my people or sold them out, and move
SHALL
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-17

james Longstrcct the only surviv-
ing ex-licutenant.gencral Of the Con-
fcdcracy, was given an informal rcccp-
ti0n at Orms's Hall, in Washington on
Wednesday evening by tho members
Of the Confederate Veterans AssOcia-
tion, and large number Of Southern
ladies. The ball was handsomely do
coratcd for the occasion, and besides
flags, plant and towers many pictures,
relics and war decorations were pom
dant from the walls. The hall was
throngcd all the evening, probably
every S0utherner OF note in the CITY
being present.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-17

Governor Evans has filled the va
cancy existing in the corps of physi-
clans at the State lunatic asylum, caused
by tho resignation Of DR.. Kirby, by ap-
pointing a woman, DR.. Sarah Campbell
Allen, q young lady who balls from
Charleston, who has attained q splen-
did reputation as q physician, and his
action will doubtless meet with univer-
sal consideration in Wow of the fact
that the need Of woman physician for
the care OF the many female patients
has long been felt.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-17

An editor who died OF starvation
was being escorted to heaven by an an
gel who had been sent for that purpose.
"May look at tho other place before
we ascend to eternal happincss?" asked
the editor, Eyes" said the angel. So
they went below and skirmishcd
around taking in the sights. The angel
lost track OF the editor and went
around Hadcs to hunt him up. He
found him by big furnace tanning
himself and gazing with rapture upon
a lot OF people in the fire. There was
a sign on the furnace which read ''Dc-
linquent Subscribers" Get a move
on you," said the angel, "we must 60"
"You go on" said the editor, 81 am
not coming. This is heaven enough
for me-"
Constipation and sick headache posi-.
lively cured by Japanese Liver Pellets,
purely vegetable, small and mild. Fifty
doses, Is cts.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-17

The declaration in South Caro-
!lna's new constitution against divorces
ls attracting mach attention In the
newspapers. The matter Is dealt with
as a new departure. It does not see,n
to be generally known that such has
beon the law In South Carolina all the
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-17

JPhnson's Magnetic OH Is the great
est Internal remedy for cramps, collie
ana all internal aches and pains for
man man or beast. Large Bottles, 25 and
80 cts. "-'~
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
The summer Resorts.

OF the New England and Eastern
States, the White, Adirondack and
Allegheny Mountains, Canadian and
Michigan points, the Rocky Noun.
tains, and the great Northwest with its
attractions, and nearer home the
splendid Mexican Gulf Coast, are
reached in quick time by the Mobile &
Ohio Railroad, which has placed on
sale round-trip tickets at greatly re-
duced rates to all these points, good
for return passage until November 1,
1895.
Fast double daily through trains
are run, equipped with Pullman Pal.
ace, Buffet, Drawing Room, Sleeping
cars and handsome day coaches. The
passenger is provided with every com.
fort and convenience.
For information concerning the
many resorts, how to reach them, dis.
tances, time, rates, etc., call on OF
address the nearest Mobile & Ohio
ticketagent, or address
E. E. PosEY,
Gen'l Pass. Agt.,
Mobile, Ala.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
The Cat Got IL.

But did you ever hear Martin L.
Clardy's story about keeping the
peace: 1t seemed that some good
Christian upon the promise that he
would adopt the Hebrew faith married
jewess. After the marriage many
weeks elapsed and the new husband
remained as he was, a Christian. In
this state of affairs the wife sought
the advice of her mOther-in-law and
this resulted in calling in to the triad
Rabbi. The husband had INDUCED
freer than usual-consequently slept
sounder-awoke with start and
found himself-a Jew. Naturally he
was indignant and when dressed found
his way to the Office of a Justice of
the 7Peace. He told his tale and
wanted a warrant for the arrest of all
parties concerned.
The justice looked over his books
looked wise and said:
81 see no other resource than to is
sue vol IOA NACAA anu
bind them over to keep the peace"
That won't do'' replied the en-
ragged husband. Find some other
way to punish them"
II can't" replied the Justice.
There is no provisionin in the statutes
covering the enforced change in
mans religion, binding them over to
keep the peace is the best can do. :"
"But you can't do that" replied the
husband.
"And why not?" asked the justice
almost ready to enter up a fine for
contempt.
Because the cat got it, was the
husbands answer and Mart Clardy
found the Justice several weeks after
unable to hear a COW case he wanted
him to try.-St Louis Critic.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
SILVER IN MISSOURI,
Results of Democratic Conventions
in several Counties.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, July 30.-Dem.
ocratic conventions were held in sew.
eral Missouri counties to select dele.
gates to the State Convention to be
held at Pertle Springs, August 9TH.
The results We're:
Clinton County adopted resolutions
for free coinageand st. Clair the same.
Saline named nine delegates, who
were instructed in favor of free coin
age. Linn required pledge favOring
free coinage from her delegates. La
fayette had big fight over the adop
ton of 16 to / resolutions, but it was
finally agreed to.
Cleveland was declared more arbi-
trary than any hereditary monarch.
Audrain County selected twelve dele
gates, all for free silver. The attend
ance was small.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
WILL HOLD THEIR WHEAT.
Combine OF Northwestern Farmers
TO Advance the Price of Their
Ceaeals.

| ST. PAUL. MINI. July 30.-A let
ter addressed 20 farmer in Wright
county under date of Minneapolis.
and headed Triple Alliance Head
quarters. Circular No. 3. fell into the
hands of your correspondent this
evening. Ii says that over 10000
farmers in this section have pleged
themselves to hold their wheat. Il is
sensational. and the first information
that has reached the public that the
farmers were uniting, as they tried to
do in 1892, for high price for their
cereals. This circular says:
The Triple Alliance of the farm
ers of the two DakOtas and Minnesota
is now a fixed fact. The utmost secre-
cy must be maintained. 1t is desired
that the Importance of this be i'm
pressed upon you and all the friends.
If a majority, or even respectable
minority, of the farmers of these three
spring wheat States will pledge them
selves and keep it to themselves to
hold their wheat for a dollar bushel.
but if the fact of an alliance leaks out
and the wheat gamblers get hold of it
prices will be depressed. There are
three hundred and forty odd thousand
farmers in the three States. Over co.
900 of them have already taken the
pledge and more are taking it daily,
as rapidly as the:130 agents can ad-
minister oaths to them. The work is
being done satisfactorily, and much
more rapidly than it was done in the
winter wheat States. The movement
was inaugurated there in January.
and with an ultimate number of agents
amounting to over 300, 10000 pledges
had then been taken up to May l. The
general agent of your section lis
Blake but we want half dozen
sub-agents. No one can become an
agent until he takes the oath. Call on
the general agent and assist him all
you possibly can. Our time is getting
short. Not much work has yet been
done north of the forty-seventh paral-
lei. Talk to all of your acquaintances
whom you can safely talk with and
urge upon them to enlist. Urge them
to borrow money to pay machinery
bills, twine bills, grocery bills, mOrtg-
ages and everything they owe. It will
pay them in the end. They can pay
5 per cent per month and still come
out ahead. Anything of Importance
pertaining to the cause that you
may learn we beg of you to communi-
cate to us. but do not write to head
quarters. Tell it by word of mouth to
a general agent, who will attend to it.
Yours for the cause.
Executive Committee of the Triple
Alliance.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
WOMAN AND THE LAW.
She Now Possesses Rights Which
Many .AgitatOrs Ignore.

She Now Possesses Rights Which
Many Agitators Ignore.
| I've been to the Woman's Congress
every day and all day for four days.
| have been very much interested dur
ing those four days, but cannot say
that | have been entirely happy. The
dOings of suffrage conventions are
. telegraphed far abroad in these days.
! but somehow they seemed to be worse
when | heard them than when | read
them. | knew they were not true, but
| | could see that the hundreds of wO-
men who We're drinking in the words
of the speeches as thirsty cattle drink
from a running brook thought they
We're true, so | went to the best lawyer
| know. and he's one of the tbest law
yers on the Pacific Coast. one day.
between sessions. and said: Tell me
the truth about the laws concerning
women" And the lawyer took down
the law books and showed me that
every syllable of the statements about
law which those women have been
making was absolutely and entirely
false
He began with the statement that a
married woman doesn't own her own
children. OF course she doesn't own
them. No human being owns another.
A hn nl
over them as her husband, and when
there is trouble between husband and
wife the law always gives the children
to the mother when it is possible to do
so.
The law puts the whole burden of
support and education of children,
born in marriage, upon the father.
He is responsible for and may be
compelled to pay for their nurture,
clothing and education and for their
debts contracted for these purposes.
and the mother is responsible for
nothing. If the support and educa-
ton which the father of a legitimate
child is able to give are inadequate,
the mother must assist: otherwise she
is under no legal obligation to devote
a dollar of her estate to her child.
More than that, the lawyer said that
a woman may earn a salary, say $50
a week. Her husband may be stricken
with paralysis, and she may let him
starve to death. and the law can not
touch her money. If a woman is i'll
however, and helpless, or if she is
we'll and independent, she can make
her husband support her, and if he
doesn't do it, the law will step in and
put him into prison. In every pOssi-
BILE way the laws in the State shield
and defend woman and a wOman's
property. Some unjust laws there
may be. | do now know of them: but
it would be strange if men were the
only ones to suffer from the mistakes
which Legislatures make.-San Fran
cisco Examiner
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
ANCIENT WOOD CUTS.
OId-Time Book-Makers Made Free
with Pictures.

Instances of the same wood blocks
being used over and over again. to
represent different events. scenes and
persons. in the same volume. are so
many in early-printed books that it
might be supposed that every one who
felt interest in books knew of such.
''Vitas Patrum." by Wynkny de
Worde. 1895. is striking example:
most. if not all. of the cuts being re-
peated many times. some OF them six
or eight. and they are about the most
absurd and grotesque ever seen,
although the book is so beautifully
printed that there need be no heslta-
tion in saying it has never been ex-
celled, and rarely equaled, either by
the "Kelmscott" or any other press.
except. perhaps. by Nottingham, in
his folio Victoria Prayer Book. which
he printed for the elder Pickering.
An extremely fine copy of the ''Vitas
Patrum. :" measuring nearly lO4 inches
by 8 inches, quite sound, and almost
as clean as the day it left the printers,
is one of the principal ornaments OF
my modest collection. 1t has the title,
a leaf of table, and last leaf of text in
fac-simile. Coverdale's. Cranmer $.
and other early Bibles have such re-
petitions: and Hollinshed's 'thrOn-
icles" are full of them.
There was another way of handling
wood cuts which has not been alluded
to. viz. dividing blocks into two
parts and mixing up the halves so as
TO form many varieties. Examples OF
these mixed blocks may be seen in the
Srasbourg Horace" and Terence, .
printed about 1890. In the beautiful
edition of Tyndale's New Testament,
printed by Jugge, 1852, are many
of these divided and mixed blocks,
which are shuffied about in the
most ingenious manner. So many
hand-books and ''near cuts" to
knowledge as we now have, it is
wonder these mixed or composite
blocks have escaped notice.
and Queries.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
Missouri on Wheels.

SEDALIA, Mo-, July 29.-Judge Il.
F. Bailey, President, and w. NJ.
Simms, Secretary, left this afternoon
for Kansas City and st. Joseph in the
interest OF the Missouri on Wheels
movement. More than fifty cities and
towns have already taken hold of the
enterprise, and Jasper County desires
to furnish one entire ear. at an ex-
pense of 5000, to exhibit the mineral
resources of that region. The sug-
gestion has already been made that
the movement be made permanent,
and that State immigration society
be organized to cooperate with it, in
the belief that before 1900 the popula-
ton and wealth of the State can be
increased 25 per cent.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
coNvIcTS' TRICKS.
Schemes Resorted to for COmnuni-
cation With Those Outside.

Schemes Resorted to for COmmuni.
cation With Those Outside.
81 was once offered slOOO if would
agree to take a note from a certain
prisoner in one of our big convict
prisons to his friends outside" said
an ex-prison warden to It'd Bits
interviewer the other day. The pris'
oner was a J. p, who had appropriat.
ed some trust money for his own use.
promised to convey the letter, but
instead, of course, took it up to the
Governor.
1T was found to contain a request,
in kind of abbreviated longhand,
not easily readable, that certain pa
pers at the prisoners late home should
be destroyed. On search for the pa
pers being made, they were discover
cd and found to contain particulars
of other misGoings on the part of the
prisoner. On their being laid before
the Judge who tried the case, he, how
ever, after obtaining advice from the
Home Office, decided that the sentence
the magistrate had already received
(ten years. amply covered the other
misdemeanors.
"A successful attempt to communi-
cate with an acquaintance was made
by a convict two years ago. He had
contrived to become friendly-by
signs rather than by anything else
with a good conduct prisoner in the
bake house. From this man he man
aged to get a stump of lead pencil
how the other prisoner had obtained
possession of it passes my compre-
hensiOn, although probably warder
had dropped it. Then on a piece Of
dirty brown paper he wrote a message
in Pitman's shorthand, and when ex-
ercising he dropped the note, rolled
up in small compass, by the bakers
side.
''The latter, however, placed it by
mistake in a roll intended for the
Governors table. But itneverreached
the Governor until onemorning, when,
by an accident, the man mixed up the
roll With some others. At breakfast
the Governors daughter was surpris-
ed to find a piece of paper in her roll.
1t was the shorthand letter, and the
whole scheme was given away. Ithad,
it was discovered, been the bakers
custom when passing within the outer
walls of the prison to throw over the
roll to certain spot, where it was
found by the letter writer's friends. "
-Tid-Bits.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
TYPES OF WOMEN CYCLISTS.
Classified According TO the Reasons
That Lead Them to Ride.

Classified According TO the Reasons
That Lead Them to Ride.
Wheel women may be classified as
riders by the reasons which lead them
to mount a wheel. The best riders
are those who ride because they love
the exercise and all out-of-door sports.
These women are not only good to
look at" but companionable on the
road. They do not worry. about what
they wear, but don the costume which
seems to them best fitted for the sport.
They are encouraging to beginners,
and do not advocate "schorching" or
''over-exertion. Fortunately for all
interested, these women are in the
majority of the bicycle women of to-
day.
Second to these come the women
who ride conscientiously, their physi-
clans have ordered wheels, or they
need open air exercises, or their hus-
bands want them to ride. These wo-
men are not as inspiring as the first
class, but they are sensible, reasona-
BILE riders, and afford satisfaction to
society at large.
Then there is a numerous class who
ride because other people ride, and
who give a vast amount Of considera-
ton to their clothes, unfortunately,
too, not from the standpoint Of fitness
or suitability, but from mistaken no.
tions of "style" and effectiveness. ~
This misguided division of woman.
kind is responsible for the marvellous
compositions of color and uncoutt
cuts which disport themselves before
the startled community. At its worsts
this contingent wears furbelows and
bleached hair and chews gum; at itl
best it is trying to its friends and rel
atives. These individuals are no
given to physical exercise, and will
in course Of time, disappear, save il
sporadic cases. They ride to be see,
of men, and q wobbly wheel attract
more attention than one which goe
straight to Its destination.