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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
President Krurer,s Wife.

/ have seen Tanta Sauna on several
occasions and have noticed her one style.
She always dresses in black, and the cut
of her gown would certainly not be an
advertisement to west end dressmaker.
Comfort, not elegance, is her maxim.
Plain though Mrs Kruger is in the mat
ter of dress, she has her little vanity.
She positively refuses to see a visitor
who may happen to call before she has
"tidied up" The tidying up takes place
in the afternoon and consists of putting
ON her best black gown with trimmings.
Mrs. Kruger is famous for her coffee,
with which visitors are always RECALLED
when they go to the presidential resi-
dence in Pretoria. Mrs. Kruger thinks
she makes the best coffee of any good
s'huisvrouw" in Pretoria, and she
boasts that she can make tin of con-
densed milk go farther than any one
else. Mrs. Kruger, while thinking her
imam" the greatest statesman the
world has seen, takes no sort of interest
in politics. She, ] believe, does not
know what the franchise means, but
anything her husband tells her in con-
nection with political matters she I'M
hesitatingly accepts. In conversation she
always addresses her mann as Dom,
and he in turn calls her Tanta. They
are a happy couple, although her hus-
bands sleeplessness and devotion to the
affairs of state in the midnight hours
distress her considerably.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
Eye Poultices.

Do not poultice an eye under any cir
cumstances whatever Binding a wet
application over an eye for several hours
must damage that eye, the assertions of
those protesting to have personal expert
ence in this to the contrary notwith-
standing. The failure to aggravate an
existing trouble by binding moist ap-
plication over an infamed eye, which
application is supposed to remain for an
entire night, can only be explained by
the supposition that guardian angel
has watched over that misguided case
and has displaced the poultice before it
had got in it's fine work All oculists
condemn the poultice absolutely in ev-
cry shape and in every form. Tea leaves.
bread and milk, raw oysters, scraped
beef, scraped raw turnip or raw potato
and the medley Of disgusting domestic
remedies popularity recommended are,
one and all, capable of producing ire
mediable damage to the integrity of the
tissues of the visual organ. New York
Ledger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
Doing Very Wen For s. Prince.

For some time past those who have
watched the course of events have had
reason to believe that the Prince of
Wales was giving himself seriously and
earnestly to those good works which lie
within the province of his duty. There
are great many fields of public labor
from which he is absolutely excluded
by virtue of his position. 1t is only IN
the domain of pleasure and sport that
every avenue is open to the heir to the
throne. But in those labors for the pub
lie benefit from which he is not de-
barred the Prince of Wales is showing
year by year an increased devotion TO
duty which cannot be too warmly COM
mended. London Speaker.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
NICHOLAS ups OBJECT LESSON.
He Rides on a Street Car to Show His or
fcers That 1t Isn't Disgrace.

dcerS That 1T Isn't q Disgrace.
Nicholas II of Russia has had some
trouble in bending the stiff necked mill
tary etiquette of his st. Petersburg reg
iments to suit his rather liberal ideas
He is not popular with the army, as
were the three Alexanders, despite his
gifts of reading rooms and dining halls
to crack regiments, and therefore the
innovations he recommends are intro
duced very slowly. Ever since he as
cended the throne, for instance, he has
been trying to tliscredit the notion that
an army officer may not ride with pro-
priety in common street car. The
army officer in ST. Petersburg has long
been supposed 20 be too rich and power
full and too far superior to civilians to
associate with the ordinary street car
crowd
One of the few untitled officers in the
Russian capital ventured few weeks
ago to ride in street car to his bar
racks. 1t was a presumptuous and
courageous act. for he had to alight be-
fore the crack cavalrymen's casino of
the city. 1t proved to be a very indis-
Greet act, too, for his fellow officers at
once took him to task for disgracing his
uniform, refused to listen to his cita-
lions of the czar's remarks on the sub
ject, and eventually, after days of per-
secution, began urging on him the pro-
priety of his resigning his commission.
In his distress the prosecuted officer
turned to friend in the ministry of
war, who brought the whole affair to
the czar's notice. 1t was O'Clock
in the afternoon when Nicholas heard
the story. He at once put on dark
suit ordered his adjutant to do the
same, and together they went TO the
spot where the prosecuted officer had
taken a car. They boarded car, rode
on it to the barracks, alighted, boarded
a returning car, and went back to the
palace. The car wrote out brief ac-
count of this little trip, and added to it
the inquiry:
''Am / still worthy to wear the uni
form of a Russian officer?'
He signed the document Nicholas, :"
and sent it to the colonel of the perse-
cuted officers regiment. Since then
there has been peace in the officers
quarters of that regiment, and the man
who rode on horse car has been treated
with the Difference belonging to one
who pulls wires at court.
Perhaps Nicholas got his idea of an
object lesson in this case from Emperor
Francis Joseph Of Austria. The emperor
heard several years ago that his officers
in Vienna were agitated over the ques-
ton of the propriety of riding in omni-
buses. He remarked impatiently that
this was weighty subject for large
brains and should be settled before any
body's mind broke down under it. He
then put ON full uniform, took with him
an adjutant in full uniform and had an
omnibus ride. The ride was reported in
the newspapers, and the question of
prOpriety was settled.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20

"I have used Puritana for torpid
liver, indigestion, and n species of
dyspepsia, and IL has given me such
relief that i felt made over new.
For these troubles / would rather
have one bottle OF Puritana than q
barrel of any other medicine"
She can eat anything now, but her
life was hanging I'm the balance, when
her stomach could not digest the
simplest food. Mrs. Belle w. Gale, Of
Charlestown, Mass, tried country air
and seven doctors in vain, but Puri-
tana gave her a new stomach and n
new lease of life.
Mrs. Henry w. Craigue, OF Concord,
N. H., was i'll for years. She had no
appetite, no strength, no ambition.
Her life was one constant round OF
misery and suffering. Puritana gave
her an appetite and rugged strength.
1t made a new woman of her.
No chance, was what the doctor
said about George II. Dunning, OF
Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. He
had nervous prostration, had nc
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20

appetite, could not sleep, could not
walk alone. Puritana made him over
new from head to foot. 1t gave him
sleep, appetite, and strength.
After trying many doctors, hospi-
tails, and medicines in vain, Mrs. j. :.
DAILY, of Cambridge, Mass, had also
abandoned hope, when Puritana was
brought to her relief. 1t gave her
strength and health, pure, rich blood,
vigorous digestion, and raised her
from the sick bed TO tho full vigor
of happy womanhood.
Yes, one drop of Puritana will
bring more real relief, moro real cure,
more real strength, more real nerve
force, more real power and vital
energy, more real " lifc-is.worth-
living" than a dipperful, a bucketful,
n barrelful of so-called tonics, blood
cures, nerve foods, pills, and doubtful
preparations from unknown sources,
that is the reason why Puritana is
the most economical medicine as
well as the most effective in the
world.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20

other palate-tickling concoction. The
one drop of Puritana is real medicine
-itc cures. The dipperful is anything,
everything, and nothing, when 1t
comes right down to real cure.
Puritana is the prize formula of
Prof. Dixi Crosby, who was for thirty
two years at the head of Dartmouth
Medical College. 1t strikes at the
root of 90 per cent. of human suffer
ing, and brings new strength, new
health, new life through the power
producer of the system. Puritana
makes the heart right, lungs right,
liver right. blood right, kidneys right,
nerves right, and health right, because
it makes the stomach right. To any
man, woman, or child who will take
it as directed, Puritana will practi-
cally give new stomach. That is
why hundreds and thousands of
people have proved that it cures from
head to foot.
j. F. Scott, for years prominent
contractor and builder in Concord,
n. H., says:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
DROP And DIpPER PUZZLE
1t looks Strange but it is
True.
A Case i'm Everyday Life Where
Single Drop Weighs More
Than a Whole Dipperful.

1T looks like puzzle, and it is a
puzzle until you try it yourself.
That solves it. Every man can solve
it. Every woman can solve it. On
one side of the scales is a single drop.
On the other side is a dipperful.
Yet the drop carries the most weight.
Why is it, and how is it s? Here is
the explanation.
The one drop is drop of Puritana.
The dipperful is dipperful of So
called blood purifier, nerve tonic, or
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
The Tailor's Hint.

Chollie-How do you account for this
suit shwinking SO?
Tailor-Too much due on it, I 'spect.
Indianapolis Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
ACHRISTIAN MOTHER
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DRAWS A TOUGH
ING AND FAITHFUL PICTURE.

Hannah, the Mother of Samue1-She Was
an Industrious Mother-She Was Intel
ligent, She Was Christian, and She
Was Rewarded-Ripe For Heaven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-10

the eighth day of the Kansas City hot
spell. opened with no prospects of relief.
The outlook. in fact. is for the hottest.
most intolerable weather that the gate
city Of the west has ever experienced. But
little air was stirring. and the sun. II pos
sible. beat down upon the earth with even
mere intensity than 1t had heretofore.
Street thermometers at $50 averaged about
81 degrees. and the mark was gradually be-
ing overstepped.
WICHITA. Kan. August 10-,The wea Their
has been uniformly hot for ten days. with
little relief. Yesterday the thermometer
ranged higher than ever. but at night re-
freshing breeze came up. Today the heat
has returned In all its force. Sunstrokes
are almost unknown In this climate, but
there Is much illness as a result of the ex-
treme heat.
CINCINNATI. Ohio. August 1O.-The heat
continues undated. The sky Is clear and
the atmosphere humid No prostrations
have yet been reported. One death Is add
ed to the list. however. that of Charles
Smith. saloon keeper. who had been pros
trated Saturday. He closed his saloon last
Eight and sat down to cool off and was
found dead In his chair this morning.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. August 1O-The
heat has abated somewhat, but the relief is
only slight. the temperature at { am. be-
ing 20 degrees. from which 1t advanced in
to the eighties during the forenoon. with a
prospect of going above 80 degrees before
II o'clock. The last three nights have
been among the most oppressive ever eX-
perienced In Milwaukee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-10
COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS
A Quiet Day at All of Them, With Only
Routine Business.
Big Amount of Mail Mattcr-Rcpuls-
licans Encouraged by Reports
From Western States.

This has been very quiet day at the
various political headquarters. At the
republican committee rooms no one but
the clerical force was on hand, and those
conducting the correspondence wore look
of wilted haplessness as they looked over
the hundreds Of letters piled around them
This dependency was not on account of
bad news. but mainly grew from the con-
temptation OF the immense number of let
tiers to be attended to. The hot weather
does not lesson the weight Of mall mat
tiers. Letters from Kansas. Missouri and
Iowa declared that matters were looking
bright for the republicans in those states
and that all they needed was great Qulnti-
ties Of literature. A letter from Kansas
expressed the opinion that 80 per cen; of
the republicans who had been disaffected
had fallen back into their party ranks.
4 letter from Missouri said that state
could be carried for Mckinley If the cam
paiga were properly conducted.
At Democratic Headquarters.
At democratic headquarters there was
tine same heat and routine. Senators Jones
and Faulkner returned today from their
Sunday retreats In the country. They did
not get in until after IL O'Clock, and were
ar once overwhelmed with work. prepara-
tory to their departure for New York this
afternoon.
On Mr. Faulkrer's desk were as many let
tiers as advertisers receive in response to
want" or for SAFE ads. IN The Star.
These hundreds of letters were in addi-
ton to what the clerical force had been
able to dispose of since Saturday morning.
and were the IL o'clock delivery INSTALL
ment. Senator Jones, Senator Faulkner
and Secretary Gardner will leave for New
York this afternoon TO attend the meeting
of the national committee tomorrow. and
the notification OF Bryan Wednesday night.
The meeting of the national committee will
he at the Fifth Avenue Hotel at II o'clock
tomorrow.
The important work of the committee
will be to select headquarters and to map
out the campaign. While some of the
western committeeman ere making fight
for Chicago headquarters those on whom
will devolve the work of the campaign are
in favor Of Washington as In every way
the most convenient and desirable point
from which to cCrduct the campaign. 1t
is regarded as almost certain that Wash
ingIon will be selected.
P0pulixts and Silverites.
At the populist and silver headquarters
there was nothing but the usual run Of let
ters great in number. asking for literature
and announcing the formation Of Bryan
silver clubs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-10
Washington stock Exchange.

Saies-regular call-l2 O'Clock m-rnItest States
hsns f,s M ,1sa, a AZ e at 100 After call
Government Bonds.-t. :. Is, registered 1851,
ask S. d. los ASKED Is 1a Il c S;d ios Sl Il.
5s l09 bid. 10 asked.
District Of Columbia Bonds eo-year Fund. IS.
Stock clrrney as. 1901. ITO hid Water Stock eur.
rency as. 1903. lilo bid. Fund. CURRENCY 3G5s, ITO
Miscellaneous Bonds.-MetropoIitan Railroad S.
ioo bid Metropolitan Railroad conr. Us. 10 bid
Iaiioad os. 70 bid. .. asked, %"inmbia nailTsoa
% Gs los BID: liz asked Chesapeake and Potomac
and Trust Is. A and o.. 100 BID. Washineton
MARKET M,rket H %n q. ls L., e. loS bid
g. los bid masonc Hall assoi4t sn't st.
Natinnal Bank s,ock..-Rank Of Washington go
bid Bank Of Republic: 2io bid. Metropoiitan.
s7c bid ID, q, Central 20 bid Farmers and Mecan,
asked Traders. loo asked Lincoln. VS. bid. 100 90
asked.
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies National safe
Deposit and Trust. I'D asked. Washington Loan
Trust; l.S asked Wsshinsio3 sats DEPOSIT 30 BID
sia. IS bid. Bell: Is asked. Ectinsian, q asked
Gas and Electric Light Stocks.-washingtan Gas.
~ asked United States Electric Light, rs bid,
Insurance stpks-Firemen's. 81 bid Franklin.
80 bid. Metropolitan. o. bid Cor-oran. 50 bid.
American. iso bid Safionai Tnioo. . bid. u
asked Columbia, bid, IL asked Riggs. bid.
Psop,e,s. s.. bid. c asked Lincoln, asked, Com
,Tite Insunrce stoct..-Reai Estate Title. 100
bid. ITO asked. Columbia Title. asked District
Telephone stocks.-,hesapcake and Potomac. %
n.ked- American Graphol,hone. ~ bid, . asked
MisceTianeous Stocks ~Mergentiaier Linotype lit
a pa IL ns ton y bid ASKED Great
Steamboat, 90 asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-10
LEAGUE WHEELNEN.
The Local Delegation Left for Louis
VILE This Afternoon.

willie This Afternoon.
The delegation from the local division OF
the League of American Wheelmen attend
ing the national meet at Louisville, KY,
left the city yesterday afternoon at go
O'Clock on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
pected. and consisted of but four people
Chief Cor sui Robertson. Capt. William
Jose of the Washington Road Club and the
official Handicapped OF this division: Mr.
John c. Wood Of the Washington Road
Club and Mr.. H. A. Givens. They reached
Louisville this morning at IL O'Clock, In
plenty of time for the opening Of the meet
At Charlottesville the train stopped and
an addition to the party was made. A
number OF southern people en- route to the
meet Joined the party at this place, and
the entire body proceeded as one delega-
ton. After the meet the Washington par
ty will proceed via Cincinnati to Chicago.
probably leaving Louisville by Saturday or
Sunday. On the return home a stop will
be made at the Mammoth Cave in Ken
lucky. and q trip made through the cavern.
The delegation will probably be gone for
two weeks. and during that time they ex-
pect TO have jolly time.
The membership Of the local division has
been steadily crawling up of late, and at
number reaches 200 before the end of the
year the division will be entitled to a del
egate at the meeting of the national as
sembly of the league, which will meet some
time In February next, at the call of the
national president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-10
LEGAL TENDER MONEY.
The Story TO Mr.. COlAamcr 0nd His
Postal Money.

The Story ns 10 Mr.. COllnmcr and His
Postal Money.
Treasury officials are highly amused at
the experience Of Mr.. Newton l.. Collamer.
a patent attorney of 1905 F street. with the
local post office authorities over the COL
lection of a postal money order for $40.
According to the story. Mr.. Collamer con-
cluded from a perusal of treasury circular
No. 123 containing information in regard to
the national system of finance that while
gold and silver certificates are receivable
for all public dues, they are not legal ten
der. Imbued with this idea. he took
forty-dollar money order to the money or
der department of the city post office and
demanded cash for II. Silver certificates
were rendered him in payment Of the or
der. He refused to accept payment in such
currency, and demanded either gold. silver,
greenbacks treasury notes or national bank
notes. The money order clerk had only sill
Yer certificates, and did not know exactly
what to do in the premises. He held
buried consultation with his superiors. and
an examination was made OF the postal
laws and regulations. 1t is said that Post
raster General Wilson was also consulted.
1t was found that section 1247 of the pos
tai laws and regulations provided explicitly
that:
only legal tender money and national
bank notes are to be received and paiG out
In the transaction of the money order busi
ness
This discovery seemed to sustain the con-
tention Of Mr.. Collamer against the use of
silver certificates. and as there was not any
purely legal tender money on hand Mr.
COllamer was told to call again. In the
meantime. the officials of the Treasury De-
partment were evidently consulted in the
matter. with the result that the local postal
authorities were informed that all the re-
quirements Of the law would be fully met
by the payment of the order in question in
standard silver dollars. which are full legal
tender in all government transactions Al
though not so stated, 1t Is believed that the
local postmaster was given a supply of
silver dollars sufficient to meet Mr.. Cola
mer's order, and all similar demands for
some time to come. 1t is presumed that
Mr.. Collamer has already tired of carrying
his load Of silver. and he has ere now ex-
changed II for silver certificates, the very
character of money which he at first re-
fused to accept Although one Is legll
tender and the other is not. they are inter
changeable and practically the same thing
for all ordinary business transactions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-10
A Better Feeling Prevails in Finan-
cial Circles
LESS HESITATION and UNCERTAINTY
Covering Of Shorts and London
Advices Help Prices.
GENERAL MARKET REPORTS

special Dispat h to The Evening Star
NEW YORK, August lo.-Alihough tn
early cables from London reported our Sc
ctrities listed on that exchange as selling
at a better range Of prices stu our market
opened IN a very slumpsh condition. with
prices about Saturdays closing The con-
dition OF the market at the start this MORN
Ing was simply a culmination OF the slump
that was so prevalent at the closing Of the
market last week, and so characterized in
the prices of some OF the best-listed secur4-
ties.
The feeling OF hesitation and uncertainty
which has been SO prevalent In financial
circles for some time has abated some
what but the necessary amount of courage
VIII not be forthcoming for some time
when affairs will return to their original
state. and the necessary feeling OF con-
hdence will return. In the meantime. how
ever. the feverish and unsettled conditions
OF things may he looked for, which will
not be benefited to any extent by the hard
political campaign now upon us.
The political demonstration of wednes-
Gay night with the extensive preparations
already in progress. has somewhat dis
turbed the street.
As there are a number OF the banks that
are little below their reserve. il is very
likely that In consequence there may be a
shifting OF loans today. but the effect may
not be felt. as the street Is not borrowing
much call money of the banks.
After the noon hour the covering of
shorts. which was Influenced to some ex-
tent by the earlier buying OF London.
caused the market to take on a better tom,
and prices rallied somew hat Sugar after
declining to %. rallied to 9G1-S; Manhattan
sold as low as 14lz during the morning SELL
ing. but recovered to 16 on very light buy
fng. Like recOvertes were noticed in all
the active securities.
The accumulated short interest which
has now assumed enormous proportions
VIII undoubtedly. after this unreasona bic
aud unwarranted scare has simmered down
to its exact state. show Itself In the sharp
advance of prices to an extent counter
part OF this enormous decline
Toward the close a distinctly better feel
ing was developing in the market and the
TACT that loans for the day had been ar
ranged on a basis not above six per cent
and the pronounced weakness of the for
eign exchange market We're the real causes
to this effect. At the same time there has
been disposition to pick up both bonds
and stocks, which closed in a more healthy
dtion.