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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
PENSION LEGISLATION.

The house Of representative pass
ed, last week, bill repeating section
4,7S4 of the revised statutes of the
United States, which latter prescribes
the manner Of paying pensions, Civ
ing to pension agents authority to
"take and certify the affidavits of all
pensioners and their witnesses who
may personally appear before them,
in which case the check for the pen
sion, when due and payable shall be
given direct to the hand of the party
entitled thereto, if! desired, and not
mailed to his address," This privilege
has resulted in recent years in seri-
Gus abuses, the veterans frequently
falling into the hands of sharpers, con-
fidence men, and others, who manage
to relieve them Of large amount, if
not all, of their quarterly payments.
The effect of the bill passed by the
house, if it shall become a law, will be
to provide that hereafter all pension
ers of the United States shall be paid
by checks sent through the mails, and
it is calculated that it would have the
effect of breaking up the practice,
which is becoming SO common, Of
pensioners calling at the pension
agencies in person and receiving their
quarterly payments.
In the report accompanying the bill
it is stated that the evident intention
of the law was to accommodate those
pensioners who resided in the cities
at which the pension agencies were
located. Statistics show that but ten
per cent. of all the pensioners avail
themselves of the provision of OBJ
tanning their checks in person. Con-
tinuing, the report says:
The custom of social intercourse
that was at first occasioned by the
meeting upon pay day. has been dis
placed by the baneful practice of de-
upon the weaknesses of the veterans
and surround them with pitfalls of
vice and temptations, into which they
frequently soon deposit the pittance
which a grateful government has
provided for their support and the
ma intenance of their families.
AS the proposed legislation will
wholly abolish personal payment by
checks transmitted through the mail,
and as it's object is the protection of
the veterans and their families, the
bill was passed without objection.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
State News Items.

William G. Austin, citizen of Mil
ton, who was recently elected con-
stable, suddenly dropped dead March
18th, while in the woods drawing
wood. He was talking with two men
who had been chopping in the woods
and had started over backwards,
dead. He leaves a family of eight
children, the Oldest only II years Of
age.
Mr.. Marshall Peck of Brookfield
died Of typhoid fever February %, in
Parkersburg, West Virginia, after an
illness of some two weeks. He was
buried at his home on the 4th inst
Mr.. Peck was bright and promising
young man of "a years of age, and was
the Oldest son of Hon. Cassius Peck,
trustee of the University of Vermont
and State Agricultural College, to
whom and all members of the family
the sympathies of many friends
throughout Vermont are sincerely
rendered.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
4 NEW CURE.

In his treatment for tuberculosis DR..
Cyrus Edison makes an interesting di-
vergence from the methods at pres
ent most in vogue. He agrees with
Pasteur, Koch, Behring, and their
colleagues in charging the origin and
ravages of the disease to bacteria, and
in recognizing the need Of destroying
the bacteria tC get rid of the disease.
But he differs from them radically in
the nature of the germicide employed.
They have used organic substances,
such as "cultures' of the bacteria
themselves in various media, immun-
lied blood serum, and the like. He,
on the contrary, turns back to the
realm of inorganic chemistry, and
makes use Of one of the most familiar
of the ''coaltar derivatives''-to wit,
phenol. Much further trial will, of
course, be nece ssary, to demonstrate
the actual worth of the aseptolin
treatment. At present, however, we
may certainly regard it as an expert
me MT of more than ordinary interest,
and of not less than ordinary promise.
Tribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
MISLEADING DEMOCRATIC
PROMISES.

A good many of the 100000 Of
people who are dependent on agri-
culture in this country, and who re-
call the fervor with which the Demo
cratic statesmen denounced the Nc
KinIey law as hostile to the farmer
and characterized the Wilson law as
one which would be greatly to his ad
vantage, will be surprised to learn
that under the Wilson law the imports
of farm products in competition with
their own labor have been much
greater than they were under the Nc
Kinley law, while the exports of farm
produc is have fallen off since the re-
peal of the Mckinley law. The ora
tors who denounced the Mckinley
law and favored the Wilson law insist
ed that they were legislating in way
that would protect the farmer and
yet increase his sales abroad. That
their promises were misleading, mac
curate, and untrue is apparent from
comparison of the actual workings of
the new law with those of the McKin
ley law.
In all the great articles of farm pro-
duction, such as wheat, barley, wool,
hides, tobacco, meats, flax, hops, hay,
breadstuffs, cotton, and others, the
importations have largely increased
under the new law, while in the same
class of articles the expectations un-
der the new law have decreased. The
statements are based on official figures
furnished by the Treasury Depart
ment, covering the years most touch
ing the date at which the change was
made from the Mckinley law to the
Wilson law. In the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1894, the last fiscal year I'M
der the Mckinley law, the exports of
products of domestic agriculture
amounted to S62S, IA, 773. In the year
1895, the first calendar year under the
Wilson law, the exports of products
of domestic agriculture amounted to
only S545, ia 1875. This was a falling
off of $50, 900, 900 in the amount ex-
ported. That the new law actually
discriminates against the farmer is
shown by the fact that but 81 per cent
OF the total exports of 1895 under the
new law were agricultural products,
while over y per cent of the exports
in the last year Of the Mckinley law
were agricultural products.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
on. What happened at that time

ton What happened at that time
might be repeated again, and the new
American navy, however small it may
be in the number of its ships, might
we'll be able to make more imposing
enemy suffer very considerable losses.
A nation that lives upon it's maritime
commerce alone has much to dread
from the attacks of cruisers boldly
commanded And since the Ameri-
cans have refused to sign a sanction
of the treaty of Paris, which would
bind them to the suppression of pri-
watering, they are at perfect liberty
to create any number they please of
auxiliary cruisers, so that the war
which they could wage upon English
steamers and sailing vessels might be
redoubtable in the extreme"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16

Speaking of the delegates which
Vermont shall send to st. Louis the
Republican very properly says:
'EFormal instructions to delegates
do not infrequently prove embar-
RAISING, and it is question whether a
complete representation of the States
sentiment as to presidential candi-
dates could not as we'll be assured by
an informal expression of opinion by
the convention, without the lacking
on of any definite, binding instruc-
tions. Such course, it seems to US,
would be safe one, Indicating plain
ly what would please the people Of
the State and at the same time ap-
plying no awkward brake to the exer-
else of discretion on the part of the
delegation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
Il COMPARISON OF FORCES.

lie Figaro, French paper has the
following: an. Vignaud's statement
that the American fleet would be able
to destroy or to paralyZe in one month
all the commerce of England and that
the United States would Immediately
find the millions for as many warships
as they might need, has not influence
ed the English. Confident of the
power of their fortyfour battleships,
their 142 cruisers and their 10 torpe-
do boats, our neighbors on the other
side of the strait look with a certain
contempt upon the fleet of the United
States, which numbers only about for
ty vessels, or nine battleships, a few
torpedo boats, and twenty five cruis-
ers. This disproportion of forces ap-
pears to the English so utterly crush
ing that they will not admit the pos
sibility of repulse.
On the other hand, the Americans,
in blowing the war trumpet immedia-
tely after the defiant message of Pres
ident Cleveland, seem to be a little
too hasty. 1t is evidently the recol-
lection of the wonders accomplished
by their sailors during the war of the
rebellion that fires their ardOr. 1t is
true that during that fratricadal war,
which lasted during four years, the
Federals and the Confederates sue
ceeded in creating fleets almost out
of nothing.
1t is true that, taking advantage of
the initiative spirit and the boldness
which have never deserted the Ameri-
cans, the men of both North and
South, were able to revolutiOniZe the
art of naval warfare. They made i'm
provements, and invented new en-
gines, such as ironclads monitors and
torpedo boats.
But in 1861, at the commencement
of hostilities, the two adversaries
were evenly matched in the means at
their disposal, means which were ut
terly insufficient, if not completely
worthless. The conditions of the pos
sible future conflict are altogether diff
ferent. If the spirit of invention and
of enterprise still remains as active as
ever among the Americans, if their
industrial resources have been devel-
oped during the past few years in
marvellous proportions, if by intelli-
gent and patient efforts they have
been able to create a fleet, without
drawing upon any foreign products, it
must none the less be remembered
that they propose to quarrel with a
power essentially maritime, which, on
the other hand, occupies, in an in
dustrial point of view,7 an incompar-
able position, and on the other pos
sesses the greatest navy,in the world.
Englishmen would do well to re-
member that in 1912 the Americans
made war upon them with a fleet SO
small in number and weak in prepa-
ration. But for all that, five English
frigates fell into the hands of the enc
my during the very first months OF
the struggle, and it did not take long
for those in London to become con-
WINGED that their enemy, so much des-
pissed on the outbreak of hostllltles,
was we'll worthy of serious considera-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16

A deaf and dumb couple in Cleve-
land are fighting each other in the
divorce courts. Thus it is seen that
marriages do not always turn out
happily, even when contracted under
the most favorable auspices.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16

Do not do tkis. Do not be induced to buy
any other if you have made up your mind to
take Hoods Sarsaparilla. Remember that
Hoods Sarsaparil1a cures when all others
fail. Do not give up in dispair because other
medicines have failed to help you. Take
Hoods sarsaparilla faithfully and you may
reasonably expect to be cured.
Hoods Pills are purely vegetable, carefully
prepared from the best Ingredients 25c.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
Estate of Caroline Fisk.

The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Hon. Probate Court for the District of
Orleans, commissioners. to receive, examine,
and adjust all claims and demands of all per-
sons against the estate of Caroline Fisk,
late OF Barton, in said District. deceas-
ed, and all claims exhibited in offset thereto,
hereby give notice that we will meet for the
purposes aforesaid, at the residence of f.
F: button, IN Barton, on the 2sth day OF
of March and 18th day of August next, from
1 O'Clock, p. m. until O'Clock, p. M, each of
said days, and that six months from the 2nd
day OF Maarcn, A d. 1896, is the time Limited
by sald court for said creditors to present
their claims to US for examination and allow
ance.
A. D. 1896.
1912 f. " Y lpgE Commissioners.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16

Coughs, colds, and consumption in Its oarly
stages are Immediately relieved and quickly
cured by Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam,
an absolutely safe remedy for all throat and
lung affections. Ice and 35c.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16

Beecham's pills for consti-
patton 1od and 25e. Get the
book at your druggists and
go by it.
Annual sales more an 6,O0OOOo boxa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
GEO. II. DAVIS,
NELSON Block, Barton, VT.

( Our guarantee is like a Bank !
Check-if your purchase does
not suit you, bring back the
goods and draw your money
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
Fur Coats !

We have several on hand, both for Ladies and
Gents, and ready give the april prices today
For example: A $50 C0atat So; 500 Coat for SIS;
an SIS Coat at$z3, etc. Can any afford TO suffer
these cold days Wzh such prices made known Them?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16

Annual sales more than 6,ooo.ooo boxes.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16

Saturdays football game at the Is
land ball park is the talk OF the town.
Tickets have been put on sale at
Goetzes drug store. and the leading
hotels. Manyyyisstors from. out Of town
will be in Wheeling that day, college
students, past and present, predomi-
mating. The society people OF Fair
mont and Parkersburg have made
great efforts to make the games sue
cessful, and should Saturdays at
tendance discount that OF Parkers-
burg's. the game in December between
the Princeton Tigers and the Noun
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16
THE HONEST SHAKERS AND THEIR
CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA.

The shopkeepers who cheats us by
lying with regard torthe quality of his
goods, and the grocer or the butcher
who gives US short weights, is a thief.
I However, their 1snavery touches moths
Ing but our pocketbook. There Is an;
other widespread form Of misrepresen-
tation Of far more dangerous and VIII
famous character. r a.
We refer to the false statements and
worthless guarantees that frequently
accompany medicines. To guarantee a
medicine to cure Is to brand 1t as quack
product If we can guarantee to cure
disease, then we guarantee everlasting
life, for In large majority of cases
people die Of disease. the proportion
OF violent or accidental deaths being
very small rs sif, fg}f IsSgjj-S
The Shakers have always been known
as a most upright and honorable people.
and their success In the manufacture OF
medicines has always been well known,
1t lis therefore not surprising to find
them pursuing very original and
novel plan for the Introduction OF their
remedy for dyspepsia. 3, q, "A u
5s These God-fearing people. whose mot
to has always been TRY all things and
hold fast that (which is good" have put
upon the market ten cent sample bot-
ties OF their product, or sufficient to give
1t a trial. If u; 4. q s
The Shaker Digestive Cordial Is so
prompt in Its, action that for the trivial
sum Of ten cents, 4 person can usually
determine rs to whether or not 1t meets
the requirements Of his case. There
are forms Of dyspepsia which 1t won't
help, but these are very rare. In most
cases the first dose relieves all distress.
and an increase ofappetite at once fol-S
lows. z g. AZ s54i u n
All druggists have It, and the next
time YOU are troubled with indigestion
send out and try this popular and sue
cessful product. 1t represents nearly
a hundred years OF patient investigation:
and study. III az sai N
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16

IS letter, eczema and all similar
skin: troubles are cured blythe! use Of
De Wits Witch Hazel Salve. 15s5 Il
soothes at once, and restores the It's
sues TO their natural condition, and
never fails to cure piles. Charles 4sIl
GoetLe. corner Twelfth annd Market
streets: Bowie & Co., Bird seport; Pea
body d Som ERenNnni all.l.. u Itl.e- ~ :.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16
Izrakn,nrcr.. Piano rnr. Sal.

Miss Emma Moore Scott, who purg
chased from us about: n year ago, a fine
kraukauer piano, returns to India for
work this week, and fa $
decided to sell her piano. She has
placedi!t in our hands for sale and are
instructed to offer IT. at a very low
price. Tie piano has been but very
little used and Is a rare bargain. MI
T. W. $BAUAIERi Is Co,
go II Nh When1inrr wv eNro r
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16
vz0ttka@EEss

AnxiouslYiwatch declining health Of
their daughters. SO many are cut off
by consumption in early years that
there is real cause for anxiety. III
the early stages, when not beyond
the reach Of medicine, Hoods Sarsa-
parilla will restore the quality and
quantity of the blood and thus give.
good health. Read the following letter:
at is but just to write about my
daughter Cora, aged 10. She was COM
pletelyrun down, declining, had that tired
feeling, and friends said she would not
live over three months. She had bad
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16
THE WAsH.IEreI TEAM
Encouraging Report. Ii,,e,.,e,l -.,r.aA,

Eneonrastng Reports ii,esiyed :, Teah,
Stronger Than Ever Before. 1,
Special Dispatch to the In.eillRenccr. M
s WASHINGTON Pa. Oct 15l--Tbe
work Of the Warrington and JeffersnuI
football team is improving daily. rhclt
interference work 10 the bcs. that ,l,as
ever been seen here. In their practice
games,all their plays are characterized
spy that snap and unity which figure
very prominently In successful football
The material for the team ID good ara
every position Is credltably taken caru
OF by the man who illls It, and there 10
a goodly lumber OF capable substitutes.
The games SO far have been played
With bethany. p. A. c.. md Geneva
The Pittsburgh Athletic. Club team Waa
the only one which was a good match
Tor tho w, ~. boys, us the score n0th-
Inc 70 nothing Indicates. The team n
hard at work to make the score in their
IaVor when they meet p. A. c, againl on
many tWashington!ans will accompany
the team to Pittsburgh on that date.f
The team has a hard schedule ahead
of II. Including games with Ohio State
University and Pennsylvania State COL
Nlege. There Is a possibility OF meet
Ing Princeton, although no tinni M
rangcments hnva been made FOR the
game. si ~
y Quarter. was considered tho difficult
position to Ill until very recently, but
the Improvement OF Davis In tho work
ofthat position has relieved the anxiety
of the coaches. The old men, Inglis,
Edwards, Hall and Brownlee, are play
Ing as Well as ever. 1nglls has been
unfortunate, being injured, but his
hurts have not been serious and the
captain promises to BIO one OF the lead
Ing guards Of the season. or the new
men Matthews and Flowers are n fine
pair of backs. Theurer, OF last years
Greensburg team, Is strong at right
tackle. Seamon at right guard and
Duffy at left tackle handle their work
well for men In new positions: A Right
end is still In question. Lelth has play
ed It so far. but the race IL very. close
among Leith, EIcher and Welty. 3
u Coach Woods leaves Saturday for
Princcton.&s$N We are all sorry to see him
go. for he has made hosts OF friends
here and has certainly proven himself
to be one OF the best coaches In the coun-
try. X. iiiit 3 3i y ]. M. C. at
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16

s!t".Tolly"1' Kane and George westlake
have formed a club out of the nbund-.
'ance of base ball taleht now ,wintering
in Bellaire. The Glass City aggregation
goes to GAINESVILLE to-day, to play! the
team Of that town. a, a. r q ,9 AZ,
Sammy. Nichols has referred n West
ern league club to Smith Whaley,
Wheeling crack. short stop. It is like,
ly3 that Whalcy will be given a trial.,
Gallagher. Baker and Robinson are still
in the city awaiting the salaries due;
them. The former has received an offer
from Paterson. N. j.. Of the Atlantic
league. s M " 20 l;G
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16

tain Ginnts" will be played In Wheel
Ing, instead sof the former city. Such
wished for, Let the sold gold ana blue.
rooters rally In force L. norrow alter.
noon ~ iNtt u fs7i1liI FL
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16

& Professor G. b. Foster Is u native OF
Fayettc county.&thls state. lie attend
ed Shelton College, ST Adams, w. Va,
going from there to the West Virginia
University, whence he graduated IN,
1883. Was pastor OF the First Baptist
church In Rochester, N ". for. n short
TING. afterwards elected professor OF
philosophy In !; McNIas,er University
Toronto. Canada. Before entering IN,
on his duties Mt tho latter institution,
he spent two years OF study In Ger
many. At present he Is q professor OF
the divinity school in the University,
OF Chicago. VI. IN
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16

WHY throw away your money for
every new cough syrup. when you can
buy that standard remedy DR.. Bulls
Cough Srup2 - ~ q. .1s.t.lsl.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16
lyman released Uncon,a No nally.

81 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Oct. 15.-P.
j. Tynan, the alleged jIrish-American
dynamiter, was released from prison at
Z o'clock this evening. n
Tynan's release is unconditional and
he can remain In France &c he wishes.
The news of his release was communI-
Gated to him by the secretary Of the pre-
lecture and the commIssary. He was
delighted and thanked his jailors for
their, kindness during his detention. 4