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HOW FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN.

Fresh, ripe, perfect raw fruit is safe
and healthful at all seasons of the
year, and amid the ravages of dis
ease, whether epidemic, endemic,
or sporadic, general, special or To-
cal. Under proper restrictions as to
quantities such fruits as named will
cure diarrhHa aid in removing cold,
collie, fever, Or any other disease
whose treatment requires the bowels
to be kept freely open; for this effect
fresh, ripe fruit is acknowledged to
have; but to be used advantageously
in health and disease, the following
rules are Imperative:
1. Fruit should be eaten ripe, raw,
fresh and perfect.
2. It should be eaten in moderation.
3. 1t should be eaten no later than
four O'Clock in the afternoon.
4. No water or fluid of any descrip-
should be swallowed within an hour
after eating fruit.
5. To have its full beneficial effect,
nothing else should be eaten at the
time fruit is taken.
1t is to the neglect of these observ
ances that erroneous impressions pre-
vail in many families; and to an ex-
tent too, in some instances, that the
most luscious peach, or apple, or
bunch of grapes, is regarded as that
much embodied cholera and death.
When will men learn to be observant
and reflective?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15
A Soothing Bell.

Many sensitive persons are startled
by the abrupt, incisive sound given out
by the ordinary electric bell. M. Guerre,
Paris electrician, who has been work
ing on the idea that this characteristic
of the electric bell was not irremedia-
BILE, has produced a bell which gives a
continuous musical sound. The note is
very soft and sweet, although penetrat-
ing, and is said to be an exaggeration
of that obtained by rubbing the edge of
a glass with the finger. Instead of a
bell with a hammer and a spring inter-
rupter, a steel bell is used, which is its
own interrupter. When the circuit is
closed by the pressure Of the button at
the other end of the line, it is released
from the electro magnet, forced forward
and released again for number of
times with great rapidity. The vibra-
ton set up produces the pleasing hum
ming instead of the familiar sound SO
irritating to nervous people. The pitch
of the note can at any time be changed
For instance, should there be sickness
in a house, and it is desired to reduce
the carryir. .aality of the note, it can
be lowered until it is audible only to
the servants Or others whom it is in
tended to summon.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15
Another English Compliment.

Noting the rumor that the empress of
Russia may try to have decree issued
by the czar forbidding smoking by
women, The Sketch says: However
much the czarina may dislike the habit
in members of her sex, and however &C.
termlned she may be not to have those
who practice it about her person, she
may be trusted, as the daughter of our
own lamented Princess Alice, to have
too much respect for the liberty of the
subject to make herself responsible for
any such despotic and i'll advised ordi-
nance. Such interference with personal
liberty would be resented-and not un-
naturally so-even in Russia. In fact.
there is only one civilized Countrywide
United States of America-where this
kind OF legislation is regarded as a mat
ter of course. y
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A cHlLD,s WONDERFUL MEMORY.
She LIS Able to Repeat. 1T L. Asserted,
Anything She Ever Heard.

/ She Is Able to Repeat, 1t IL AsserCeos
Anything She Ever Heard.
Baby Ethel Carroll of Oakland Is
human photograph. Every word OF
conversation-no matter how long
names, dates, figures and bits OF oratory
of all degrees of merit, songs and jokes
spoken In her presence she is able TO re-
call, word for word, even though IL De
weeks and months after. At her age
for she is only years old-much that
| she hears no doubt is quite un1ntell1gl-
BILE to her. She simply repeats every
thing from memory without knowing
| aught Of the text of her words At the
Hotel Crellin, where she lives with her
parents, she is the idol and wonder OF
all who know her, for she is as pretty
as she is clever. The first time that the
child showed her phenomenal trait was
at the age of II months. At that time
she was taken to see one of HOyt's plays
at the Macdonough theater. Upon re-
turning to her home she surprised every
one by repeating, word for word, one OF
the popular songs.
From that time until now little Ethel
has been a regular playgoer. Now, at
the age of 4, her memory has developed
SO remarkably that it is a common thing
for her after seeing new play to sing,
without mistake or the least sign of
hesitation, song after song that she has
never heard before. She can also repeat
the lines Of the play with wonderful
correctness The child has a retentive
memory for names and dates. In spite
of the fact that large numbers of people
see her daily, drawn by curiosity, she
never forgets the name of any one who
is introduced to her, and can tell even
the exact day when she first met them,
though it may be months after.
Recently her wonderful memory was
put to a severe test at a concert recital
in Oakland. After the performance she
was asked if she remembered a certain
recitation on the programme remarkable
alike for it's length and peculiar phras-
ing. She had never heard it before, but
with confident smile and certain en-
chanting carelessness of manner she re-
cited the entire piece without break.
San Francisco Examiner.
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LongfelIow's House.

In speaking of Longfellow's house in
Nahant, which was burned the other
day, the Boston Transcript says: ssThe
house where Mr.. Longfellow spent his
summers for % years, from 1857 until
his death in 1852, was at first rented bv
him of Mr.. Thomas Wetmore of Beacon
street and purchased, with his brother
in-law, Mr.. Z. G. Appleton, after the
death OF Mr.. Wetmore in 1860. Until
the death of Mr.. Longfellow, in 1882.
he was always, during the season Tex
cept in 1868 and 1869, when he was
abroad), in the brown cottage by the
willows on the village street, with its
sea views and sea breezes. This was the
house where a number of years before
Motley wrote the first chapters of the
Dutch Republic.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15

Here is what the Rural Nea0 Yorker
says of borax as fruit preservative:
A borax producer in California is said
to be experimenting with this sub
stance as fruit preservative. The
fresh fruit is to be packed in barrels
with the powdered borax. A ship
ment of cherries packed in this way
reached Chicago in s'prime condition. !"
This is far more honest than it is to
buy cents worth of borax, mix it
with a little salt, sugar, etc., name it
"Preservaline," and sell it for so
cents, but it will not prove profitable.
Borax should not be used on fruit just
before it is to be Gated. While it will
undoubtedly keep the fruit in fresh
condition, it is injurious to health, and
the health boards in large cities where
fruit is sold will surely prohibit its use.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15
MI. Leon Saw.

ssIt is interesting to note, says the
London Times "that M. Leon Say 8 an
cestor, as he told the Academy Of Moral
Sciences in 1891, was an Englishman
named John Say, possibly connected with
the Sage and Sele family, or with the
Lord Say condemned by Jack Cade
John Say went to Holland as merchant
and thence to Mines, where he married
a French woman. The persecution of
Protestants obliged his widow and three
children to escape to Geneva. The small
basket containing all her possessions is
still family heirloom. One of the
sons. Jean Say, born in 1899, was a
draper at Geneva, supplying serge to the
French monastries Of the adjacent part
of France Jeans son, also named Jean,
born at Geneva in 1889, was sent to the
counting house of Castanet, merchant
at Lyons, married Castanet's daughter,
and succeeded to the business. Reverses
Of fortune made him migrate to Paris.
He had three sons, and the eldest, Jean
Baptiste, who had been in Paris bank,
went to England to learn the language
and complete his commercial training.
He was then 10, and his brother Hor-
ace, five years his junior, accompanied
him.
"a Miss Child, who had been lodging
for two years in Paris with their uncle
Delaroche, a doctor, procured them a
home in the family of a Scotch school
master named Bisset at Croydon, not as
pupils, but as dodgers. Just at this time
the window tax was introduced, and
Bisset unceremoniously stopped up one
Of the two windows which lighted Says
small bedroom. This incident suggest
ed, 80 years later, curious chapter on
taxes which bring in nothing In this
dimly lighted bedroom Say read Adam
Smith, who, he always said, was my
master. -
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LADIES' COLUMN.
TIE ESTA TIES OF"MRs. HARRIS"

Sairey Camp was wont to fortiIy
her statements with the testimony OF
certain Mrs. Harris, who enjoyed
her confidence to all unlimited extent.
The partner of Mrs. Camp, Betsey
Prig, became weary of the constant
illusions TO Mrs. Harris and in ut OF
anger declared, 81 don't believe
there's no SIGH person" And really
there wasn't.
One by one the dreams of the heirs
to estates of enormous value awaiting
claimants somewhere, generally in
Holland, are being dispelled and it
would be the part of wisdom for those
who are asked to contribute toward
obtaining possession of these myth
cal fortunes to emulate the example
of Betsey Prig and deny a belief in
the existence of these Mrs. Harris
estates.
One of the latest explorations in
this direction had reference to the es-
tate of a Dutch manufacturer who
died century ago, leaving about
$4,000, 900, which was to be allowed
to accumulate for one hundred years
and then be divided among his heirs.
The story was told with a careful at
tention to detail and any and every
body who could trace his or her an
cestry back to the Amsterdam gin
maker was invited to contribute
toward the prosecution of claim.
The obvious thing to do in the first
instance was to ascertain if such an
estate was in existence. This, how
ever, as is generally the case, was the
asst thing to be done. Meetings of
the heirs were called and held, law
yers were employed, and agents were
hired to visit Amsterdam and make
formal demand for the delivery of the
estate, which now amounted to some
over 500, 900, 900.
Finally some one Dethought him or
her to write the American consul at
Amsterdam for particulars. Consul
Downs replies there is no such estate
and if there ever was one it long ago
reverted to the government under a
statute of limitation passed more than
forty years ago. Of course, this stat
ute of limitation applies to all the
other estates lying around loose in
Amsterdam or somewhere else in
Dutchland, and all who have sent
their good money in search of a slice
of any or all of them are poorer in
pocket though they may be somewhat
richer in experience.
There is not the slightest danger,
however, the number of these estates
will perceptibly diminish. Only make
the bait large enough, draw the details
with sufficient care, there will be plen-
ty of nibbles. The Mrs. Harrises of this
world form an innumerable army, and
their estates will continue to be dis
covered to the last syllable of record
ed time.
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Oh. CASS, South Albany.
NOTICE.

All accounts due A. d. Beede & Co. partner
ship, now dissolved, must be paid at the store
Iatety occupied by them Please call and
nav the same. E. A. MILLER.
Barton Landing, May 25.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15
DOESN'T LIKE CONNECTICUT
1t Banfshed His Father Years Ago For
Cleaning His Nails In Church.


Cleaning His Nails In Church.
A strange tale. Of a man S resentment
for an injury done his father more than
three-quarters of a century ago was
brought to light on recent Sunday by
the visit to this city of Daniel Porter, a
wealthy merchant of San Jose, Cal.
True to a VOW registered many years
ago he refused to stay longer than "a
hours in a state that had melted out to
his father unjust and terrible punish
ment for a trivial offense, the mere
thoughtless infraction, in fact, of a
blue law even at that time almost in
desuetude. Although pressed to remain
by his host, a well known west end
man, his determination not to pass two
nights i'll the old Nutmeg State could
not be shaken, and he left for New York
Sunday afternoon.
In the year 1915 Mr. Porter's father,
whose name was also Daniel, was
young man of IS years in the little
town of Coventry. Sermons were tedious
things in those days, and one Sunday as
young Porter sat in church he allowed
his thoughts to wander. Absentminded-
~ he drew his knife from his pocket
and commenced to cut his finger nails
The sharp eye of the tithing man caught
the dissertation Of the sanctuary, and
Porter was at once placed under arrest.
The court in which he was tried pre-
served the usages of old colonial days,
the present constitution of Connecticut
not having been adopted until 1918,
and the gravity of his offense was clear
" recognized under the old code. The
court found punishment to fit the
crime, and Porter was ordered to be
banished from the state for life. What
is more, he had to go, for there was no
dallying with the law in those days.
Porter had expressed a desire to go to
sea, and constable escorted him to
New London, where he found ship.
He followed the sea for more than 20
vars, but early in the forties drifted to
Cincinnati. Here he married and had
two sons. One of these is the one who
paid the city a flying visit on Sunday.
Early in life he went to California and
has become a wealthy man.
Mr.. Porter said, while he recognized
the fact that his father could have re-
turned without molestation many years
before he died, he thought that he had
been done an irreparable injustice,
which never could be forgiven. He en-
tertained, he said, no feeling of love for
or pride in the old state which had been
the birthplace of his forbears.
Mr.. Porter arrived in the city Sunday
morning, and late in the afternoon left
for New York. He saw but little of the
city, and said that he was not interested
in anything that came from or was a
part of Connecticut. Bridgeport Union.
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indirectly 70 some derangement OF the or
gans distinctly feminine. Troubles of this
kind are often neglected because very nat
ural and proper modesty keeps women away
from physicians, whose insistence upon cx-
animation aud local treatment is generally
as useless as il is common. DIR. Piercc's
Favoritc Prescription will do more for them
than 90 doctors in 100 1t will do more than
the hundredih doctor can unless lac pre-
scribes it. 1t is prescription of DIR. r. V
Perce's, who for 30 years has been chief
consulting physician ofthc Worlds Dispen-
sary and Invalios' Hotel, at Buffalo, n Y.
Send 2r one cent stamps to cover cost Of mail
ing 0nly and get his great book, The Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser. abs0infeLy FREE.
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That Altered the Case.

s'Have you heard about young Mo-
lard? He has just walked off with 30, 600
francs of his employers money"
''Hal hal The lucky rascal''
''Besides, he has bolted with your
umbrella.
''Oh. the internal scampl"-Le Pa
pillon.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15
Bucklens' Arnica Salve.

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
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or moneyIrefunded. Price
25 cents per box For sale by b. G. Pierce
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15

There is no JOY I'm
this world equal TO
the happiness Of
motherhood
A woman's health
is her dearest pos
session. Good looks,
good times. happi
ness, love and its
continuance, depend
on her health. Al
most all of the sick
ness of women IL
traceable directly or
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of her glory? What ruthlessness defaced
her sculptured wall and broke obelisks
and left her indescribable temples great
skeletons of granite? What spirit of de-
struction spread the lair of wild beasts
in her royal sepulchers, and taught the
miserable cOttagers of today to build
huts in the courts Of her temples, and
sent desolation and ruin skulking be-
hind the obelisks, and lodging among
the sarcophagi, and leaning against the
| columns, and STOPPING under the arches,
and weeping in the waters which go
mournfulIy by as though they were car
rying the tears of all ages? Let the
mummies break their long silence and
come up to shiver in the desolation and
point to fallen gates and shattered statues
and defaced sculpture, responding:
''Thebes built not one temple to God.
Thebes hated righteousness and loved
sin. Thebes was star, but she turned
to wormwood and has fallen.
Babylon, with her $50 towers and her
brazen gates and her embattled walls,
the splendor of the earth gathered with
in her palaces, her hanging gardens
built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his
bride, Amytis, who had been brought
up in mountainous country and could
not endure the fat country round Baby
lon-these hanging gardens built, ter
race above terrace, till at the height of
400 feet there were woods waving and
fountains playing, the verdure, the foil
age, the glory looking as if a mountain
were on the wing. On the tiptop king
walking with his queen, among statues
snowy white, looking up at birds
brought from distant lands, and drink
ing out of tankards of solid gold or
nations subdued and tributary, crying,
SIS not this great Babylon which have
built?'
What battering ram smote the walls?
What plowshare upturned the gardens?
What army shattered the brazen gates?
What long, fierce blast of storm put out
this light which illumined the world?
What crash of discord drove down the
music that poured from palace window
and garden grove and called the ban
queters to their revel and the dancers to
their feet? walk upon the scene of des-
olation to find an answer and pick up
pieces of bitumen and brick and broken
pottery, the remains of Babylon, and as
in the silence of the night hear the
surging of that billow of desolation
which rolls over the scene, / hear the
wild waves saying: Babylon was
proud. Babylon was impure. Babylon
was a star, but by sin she turned to
NORWOOD and has fallen
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known in this country. She landed as an
emigrant at Ellis island in the spring of
1891. She was highly educated. speaking
English and four other languages besides
her native tongue. and II was her inten-
ton to fit herself in this country for
Christian missionary work among her
own people in Syria. Though she soon
learned to love America, she did not lose
sight of her original idea. even after she
married young graduate of Harvard.
Their decision to go to Syria was hasten
ed by her i'll health. They sailed last fall,
but II was too late, and the news of her
death has just been received.
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M {. NJ

Who have lost their youthful vigor and
are prematurely old should consult DIR.
Sweany at once. Take time by the fore
lock. A little medicine now will do more
good than a whole drug store by and by.
YOUNG MEN. II you are troubled with
night emissions. exhausting drains. pim-
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stupidness. dependency. loss OF energy,
ambition and self-conhdence. which de-
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marriage-if you are thus afflicted you
know the cause. Get we'll and be a man.
MIDDLE AGED AND OLD MEN there
are thousands OF you troubled with weak,
aching backs and kidneys; frequent, pain
full urination and sediment I'm urine: i'm
potency or weakness of sexual organs,
and other unmistakabls signs OF nervous
debility and premature decay. Many die
of this difficulty, ignorant OF the cause,
which is the second stage of seminal
weakness. The most obstinate case of
this character treated with unfailing sue
cess
Private diseases-gieet. gonorrhoea. in
Examinations. discharges. structures, vari-
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cured without pain or detention from
business.
cATARRH. which poisons the breath,
stomach and lungs and paves the way
for consumption. throat. liver. heart. kid
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internal troubles; also rupture. piles. hs-
tula. treated far In advance of any other
institution in this country.
BLOOD AND SKIN diseases. sores.
spots. pimples. scrofula, syphllitic taints,
tumors. teete-. eczema and other impuri-
ties of the blood thoroughly eradicated,
leaving the system In a strong. pure and
healthful state.
LADIES will receive special and care
ful treatment for all their many distress.
ing ailments DIR. Sweany cures when
others fail.
WRITE your troubles II living away
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county for the benefit of wool shippers
at the first opportunity.

Ex-Sheriff W. ID. Deaton OF Fergus
county has purchased the Calbreath
and Walker cattle from the Judith
range. The former are said TO be the
finest bunch of cattle in the county
and number abut 1926 head. The Walker
cattle number about $50 and the price
paid for the two bands is private,
though 1t is said to be something bet
ter than SIS. Mr.. Deaton already has
several hundred beef steers which will
be In good shape for the fall market.
He commenced the moving of his re-
cent purchases Tuesday of this week.
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BECAUSE

The wonderful cures he has made have
created condolences and delight in the
hearts OF those who have struggled in
vain against the ravages of nervous de-
bility and other diseases until this sue
cessful doctor (whose picture appears
above) cured them.
DR. SWEANY does not allow the
names of his patients or their diseases to
be published or exposed. but he cures
them. He observes absolute confidence
and the strictest secrecy in all his pro-
fessional dealings.
The Dr. has thousands of testimonials
on file in his private office and consulta-
ton rooms. They are not fictitious or so
licited. They are genuine. and were VOL
unfairly given "a true. deep. sincere and
heartfelt expressions OF gratitude and
thanks from our best merchants, manu-
facturers. mechanics. miners. ministers.
farmers. lawyers. laborers and literary
people who have been cured by him and
made happy. Examine them and learn
for yourself what he has accomplished
in cases Just like yours. To do so would
make your heart leap with Joy and re-
neWed hope.
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What have Italians to be proud of,
from a military and naval point of view.
since the aims of Mazznl and Garibaldi
were attained by the consolidation OF al
most the whole of the peninsula. together
with the island OF Sicily, under the house
OF Savoy? They have fought two great
battles upon land and one at sea. At Lis
sa they showed no trace of the skill in
maritime warfare for which they were
formerly renowned. At Custozza in 1856.
and again the other day. at Adowah, al
though the Italian soldiers were not
wanting in courage or endurance, tho
Italian general evinced a woeful incapac-
ity for leadership. Neither great Italian
admirals nor great Italian commanders
were wanting in former times. Must Wa
conclude. then. that the breed is lost? Or
should we rather surmise that owing TO
some serious fault in the present system
OF government, the best men never reach
the top?