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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
FACTS ABOUT GREECE.

1t has population of 2,187 ,2O8.
1t is called "Hellas by the people.
1t has an area of "a, 977 square miles.
No part of Greece is 40 miles from
the sea or ten from the hills.
About one half of the population
are agriculturists and shepherds.
1t is the only country IN the world
whose armies are provided with the
Gras guns and paper covered cart
ridges.
the Greek flag is white cross on
blue ground-the Bavarian color
and the Greek cross.
Greece is more thickly populated
than any other country in Europe,
with the exception of Sweden and
Prussia.
1t has few rivers and many hills.
None of the former is navigable, and
many of the latter are fortified.
It's present boundary limits were
determined by an arrangement among
0ISdU DTlCStIu, TIduCo, RuSSId duO
Turkey, concluded at Constantinople
on July 81, 1882.
Only about 10000 of the inhabitants
speak any language other than Greek
and only 10000 profess any religion
other than the orthodox.
The chief characteristics of the
average Greek are his inquisitivenes
fondness for excitement, love of dis
cussion, desire for knowledge, an ap-
titude for learning and aggressive
patriotism.
The climate has two striking pecu-
liarities-the heat in summer and the
cold in winter are far more intense
than those of any other country in
the world lying in the same latitude.
Cell once remarked that in travelling
through the Morea in March he found
summer in Messenia, spring in La
coma and winter in Arcadia, without
having moved beyond radius of so
miles,"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

eyes," said Archie, +" 81 should ad-
mire to be soldier, to carry sword
and gun and lead my men through
Businesses in the mountains, where
the enemy lie concealed two to our
one, and we would die like heroes
with our boots on"
"Archie," said his mother, "go into
the woodshed and get me an armful
of kindling."
"Will you hold the light, mamma?"
"What do you want of light in
quired his mother.
'Tm afraid d.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
gracefully.

81 have never had days sickness in my
life,' said middle aged man the other day.
''What a comfort it would be- signs some
poor invalid, Ito be in his place for year or
two" Yet ha.f the invalids we see might be
just as healthy as he, if they would only take
proper care of themselves, eat proper food
and digest it. It's so strange that such SIM
pie things are overlooked by those who want
health. Food makes health. 1t makes strength
and strength wards off sickness. The man
who had never been sick was strong because
he always digested his food, and you could
become the same by helping our stomach to
work as we'll his. Shaker Digestive Cor
dial will help your stomach and will make
you strong and healthy by making the food
you eat make you fat. Druggists sell it.
Trial bottle 10 cents.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS SQULB BILLINGS.

Some of the railroad lines in Russia
have smoking cars for ladies'.
Eagles rarely change their mates,
as do other birds. They usually mate
for life.
The risk of being struck by lightn-
ing is five times greater in the coun-
try than in cities.
The tallest man on the police force
of Philadelphia is George F. Osborne,
whose height is & feet go inches.
A very precise Oklahoma senator
moved that 'this body do now ad-
journ until two o'clock p. m. this af-
ternoon."
Japanese female servants prove ad-
mirable attendants, and are coming
families in New York.
To distinguish mushroom from a
toadstool, sprinkle salt on the under
side. If it turns black the vegetable
is edible, if yellow, it is poisonous.
The champion shorthand writer is
Isaac S. Dement, of Chicago. At re-
cent test of speed he took down 402
words in a minute.
An experiment in the breeding of
elephants, lions, tigers, and other
foreign animals is to be tried on a
thousand acre menagerie farm in
MERGED county, Cal.
The Harvard athletes, when train
ing for a boat race, eat each in one
day an average of two pounds of meat
and Il eggs, most of the latter being
swallowed raw, with orange juice.
Byron T. Ross of Chicago, bought
hotel at Hurley, Wis, for $4,000, and
paid for it in Cancelled postage stamps.
The prices of the stamps averaged in
value from ten cents to 81 800 cash.
The lips and threats of bicycle rid
ers often become dry and parched.
This trouble is caused by riding with
the mouth open. The remedy is to
keep the mouth shut and breathe en-
tirely through the nostrils.
A Louisville bank had in it's vaults
$4,000 in gold when the only man
who knew the combination died. The
most expert lock picker in the city
was occupied ten hours in getting in
to the vault.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
10 THE "GULF OF MAINE.n

In no department of the great New
England summer vacation field have
more extensive preparations been
made this season for the increased &C
commodation of tourists than in the
picturesque sea shore section of the
"Gulf of MaineD Someone has re-
vived this fitting old-t time appellation
of that part of the Atlantic lying be-
tween Cape Ann and the beginning of
the Bay of Fundy, and to it's alter
nately rock bound and shingly shores
thousands of expectant vacationists
will hieing.
scattered along the coast line of
Maine, the hotel and boarding house
managers have been getting their
hOstelries i'll shape for the summer ar
my, and wisely foreseeing that this is
likely to be a ''record breaker" in the
summer outing line, have in many in :
stances added materially to their ac-
cOmmOdatiOns and cOnveniences. In
the past few years the growth of this
cool and health giving section has
been something phenomenal, and it
looks as if this season the railroads
will have their passenger facilities
pretty severely taxed.
True to its traditions as an up-tO-
date transportation line, the Boston &
Maine Railroad has made advance
preparations for the comfortable and
expeditions handling of this seasons
big hegira of seekers after outdoor
pleasures, that will make any serious
delays or discomforts impossible. It's
connections with stDown East" rail-
road and steamboat lines will be bet
ter than ever this year, the most i'm
portant change in this respect being
the placing of the favorite steamer
Crank Jones' upon the new Port
land, Mt. Desert & Machias route. The
steamer will leave Portland for it's
various eastern calling places, instead
of Rockland, as formerly, enabling
the tourist to enjoy full nights rest
on the boat; close connection being
made with express trains from Bos-
ton.
Those who contemplate visit to
any portion of this glorious surfside
section of New England should send
to D. j. Flanders, General Passenger
Agent, Boston & Maine Railroad, Bos-
ton, for the company's Summer Tour
Book, containing hotel and boarding
house list, and any other general in
formation they may desire.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

A horrible accident happened at the
Manufacturing and Planning Mills
company's works at st. Louis recent
ly, by which Gottlieb George lost his
right arm. George is a planer EN- =
ployed at the mills, and was at work
with rip saw when he stumbled and
fell across the iron table in which the
slant the teeth of the saw severed his
right arm at the elbow. The cut was
as clean as though the severed limb
had been amputated by a surgeons
knife.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

Seems as if all the things we like disagree
with us, and all the things we don't like.
agree with us. Dyspepsia turks in most of
the good things we eat, and indigestion fol-
lows the qualification of the appetite OF
course, it isn't Natures fault. Nature does
the best she can, and if a man will only help
her little bit at the right time, he may eat
what he likes and much as he likes. DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are for people who
are troubled with indigestion. Particul arly
for those in whom it manifests itself in the
form of constipation. Tha Pellets are qu1c K
and easy in their action. They are in perfect
harmony with Nature. They effect perma-
nent cure. You need take them regularly
only little while, After that, use them &C.
casional1y when you need them-when you
have eaten anything that disagrees with you.
They may be taken just as freely as you would
take water or any other necessity of life
Once used they are always in favor.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
JUST FOR FUN.

Mud doesn't seem to keep you from
wheel riding, Jackson? No; any old
road is good enough for me when my
wife is cleaning house.
Charlie Chapleigb-I love you more
than any other girl in the world.
Penelope-Oh, don't be too sure.
! Some of the other girls love me lots.
Hicks-Brown says he saw Miss
| Grimes today and that she was look
ing heavenly. Wicks-Yes; some
times the heavens are cloudy, you
know.
An authority on palrnistry says
that a woman with a long thumb will
always do her best to have her own
way. So will almost any other
woman.
Inspector = What's your name?
Prisoner Patrick insolvency. What
countryman are you? An Oirishman.
What's your business? An Italian
organ grinder.
Bank Defaulter-I would give ten
years of my life to be out of this
scrape. His Lawyer-That's about
what you will get if I don't succeed
in getting you off.
The lie passed between them. And
yet they parted as friends. To re-
lieve the awful uncertainty it may be
stated that the lie was printed on
can of maple syrup.
Harriet-Harry is such good COM
pany! He can talk upon any subject.
Old Gentleman-H'm Think should
enjoy his company better if he could
keep still on any subject.
You ought to see Hortense in her
spring gown. 1t is artistic. 1t has a
bright purple background, violent
yellow foreground, and five shades of
pink and green in the middle dis
lance.
Hobson-Have you any mosquitoes
where you live in Jersey? Dobson-
Millions, but everybody has the chills
and fever, and we shake SO that the
mosquitoes can't stay long enough in
one place to sting.
It's pretty tough, sighed the small,
sickly tree. There are ten girls in
this block learning to ride the bicycle
and am absolutely the only object
they can run into. If there was only
a hydrant Or something!
Mrs. Nuwed-Why did yon bring
the pie back? I said you could eat it
if you would saw that cord of wood.
Hungry Henry-I cum back to tell
yer, mum, eff it's just de same ter yer,
I'll eat de wood and saw up de pie.
They didn't have all this slang and
idleness in my day, said grandma.
When a girl meant no she said no, and
she put in her time knitting. And
now, the sweet one replied, instead
of knitting and saying no, the girls
are knowing and saying nit.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

story and point their own moral. The
rule should be that where flowers are
kept in bedrooms they should be
changed frequently, and those which
yield a heavy odor should not be pre-
served after the day is over. In sit
ting rooms the case is somewhat diff
ferent. But even in them flowers
should not be kept for more than
few days and the vases in which they
are placed should be we'll washed out
with hot water once or twice a week"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
IMAGINARY TROUBLES.

Shakespeare makes Caesar say that
towards die many times before their
deaths. And so they do. And so do
thousands upon thousands of persons
who erunt their lives away. They
make themselves old with imagined
aches and pains, and anticipated dis
tress. It is not good to give way to
megrims. Anticipation brings the
misery that it looks for. If we think
we are sick, we shall be sick. If we
anticipate decrepitude, it will run to
meet us. Borrowing trouble is au-
other fruitful cause of gray hairs and
crows feet. And this is a weakness
more common in women than in men;
for while man may be unduly nerv-
Gus and worried about his business
and other affairs of import, his wife
will fret over trivial affairs. She
worries about the dust on the furni-
ture, the scorched Or UNDERGONE
bread, the style of her bonnet or the
fit. of her gown-and these things
make her old as surely as do real
troubles. Let us all, then, keep clean
minds in clean bodies. Let us keep
light hearts, and interest ourselves
in the happiness and enjoyment of
others. By SO doing we may grow
old without feeling old, and without
looking old-that is, we grow old
gracefully.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
Estate of Aurelius Morse.

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 Aurelius Morse,
late of Craftsbury, in said district, deceased,
and all claims exhibited in offset thereto,
purposes aforesaid, at the residence of
John A. Morse, on the 2sth day of June
and 10Th day of October next, from
one O'Clock p. m until five O'Clock, p. m,
each of said days, and that six months
from the 9TH day of May A. D., 1897, is
the time limited by said Court for said credi-
tors to present their claims to us for examin-
alton and allowance.
Dated at Craftsbury, VT, this Bird day OF
June, A. D. 1897.
oa5 B. 3. M N: bE2ToN. Commissioners.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
All Free.

Those who have used DR. Kings New Dis
covery know its value, and those who have
not, have now the opportunity to try it free.
Call on the advertised druggist and get a trial
bottle, free. Send your name and address to
II. Z. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get sam
pie box OF DR.. Kings New Life Pills, free, as
we'll as copy of Guide to Health and House
hold Instructor, free. All of which is guar
anteed to do you good and cost you nothing.
Sold at II. c. Pierce's drug store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what it was made for.

Do you think your sister likes me,
Tommy? Yes. She stood up for you
at dinner. Stood up for me? Was
anybody saying anything against me?
No, nothing mnch. Father said he
thought you were rather a donkey, but
sis got up and said you weren't and
told father he ought to know better
than judge a man by his Looks.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

Don't thin your blood with sassafras or
poison it with blue-mass; but aid Nature by
using De Wits Little Early Risers, the famous
stomach and liver troubles. They are purely
vegetable. II. G. Pierce, Barton; R. E. French
Glover; d. w. Hildreth Barton Landing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

Some for ten some for twenty and some for
thirty years have suffered from piles and
cured by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve,
the great remedy for piles and all forms of
skin diseases. III. G.. Pierce, Barton; ID. w.
Hi1dreth, Barton Landing; r. E. French,
Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

After relating several instances
where flowers have proved injurious
when kept in the bedrooms of inva-
lids, the Hospital says: sit is not
necessary to comment at length upon
cases like these. They tell their own
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
Chow to Cure All skin Diseases.

Simply apply Swayne's Ointment. No In
ternal medicine required. Cures letter, ecz-
ma, ITCH all eruptions on the face, hands,
nose, ETC., leaving the skin clear, white and
ers are possessed by no other remedy. Ask
your druggist for Swayne's Ointment.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

"They are dandies" said Tbos. Bowers. of
the Crockett, Texas, Enterprise, while writing
about DeWitts Little Early Risers, the ia
nous little pills for sick headache and disor-
ders of the stomach and liver. 81. G. Pierce,
Barton; d. W. Hildreth, Barton Landing; r.
E. French. Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

w. B. Johnson, Newark, o., says: zone
Minute Cough Cure saved my only child from
dying by Group" 1t has saved thousands of
others suffering from Group, pneumonia,
bronchitis and other serious throat and lung
troubles FL. G. Pierce, Carton; d. w. Hid
reth, Barton Landing; r. E. French, Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
o. V. JOSLYN, Agent
Estate of James Guild of
Barton.

STATE OF VERMONT, ORLEANS DISTRICT.
- SIS. In Probate Court, held at Newport,
in said District, on the 18th day of June,
A. d. 1897.
r. B. Skinner, administrator of the estate
of w. F. Robinson, deceased, late admins
traitor of the estate of James Guild, late of
Barton, in said district, deceased, presents
his administration account for examination
and allowance, and makes application for a
decree of distribute and partition of the
estate of said deceased
Whereupon, it is ordered by said Court,
that said account and said application be re-
ferred to session thereof, to be held at the
Probate Office of in said Newport, on
the Both day of June, A. D., 1897, at one
o'clock in the afternoon for hearing and de-
cision thereon
And, it is further ordered that notice hereof
be given to all persons interested, by publ
cation of the same three weeks successfully
in the Orleans County Monitor, a newspaper
published at Barton previous to said time
appointed for hearing, that they may appear
at said time and place, and show cause, if any
they may have. why said accounts should not
be allowed, and such decree made.
BY the Court-Attest,
"a &c F. e. ALFRED, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
Our stock of
CLOTHING
Fancy Shirts.

Laundered white, colored bosom,
plated bosom, soft bosom with two
collars and cuffs or with collar and
cuff attached.
Our stock of Furnishings is COM
plete. Collars and Cuffs, Hats and
Caps, Travelling Bags and Suit
Cases.
In Hosiery we give you best
black hose at 15c or two for 25c-
the best that can be found.
On Summer Underwear we can
suit you. In the Furnishing Goods
line we can please you all.
Yours for business,
j. f. BATCHELDER.-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-09
1T LOOKED wARLIKE.
Spanish MfnIatcr WAS Alarmed at n
Sensational JunI<et to Havana.

Spanish MinIatcr Was Alarmed at a
Sensational Junket to Havana.
Senator Calls proposition for u con-
gressional investigation of the circum-
stances surrounding tho death Of
Maceo reminded Senator Proctor OF n
funny story, says the Washington Post.
Some years ago when the Questions
of immigration and yellow fever and
cholera were being looked into a sub
committee of the senate was appointed,
consisting OF Senator's Proctor, Chan
der and Call. to visit Havana. 1t was
just before tho Christmas holidays, as
in this case, and visit to the Cuban port
in the winter season is not without it's
attractions. The proposed trip, how
ever. rather disturbed the Spanish min
lister. lie knew the belligerent pro-
pensitics of Chandler and Call and he
FASTENED TO the state dcpa rtment with
a dispatch from Madrid. anxious 10
learn whether the investigation was
proposed with peaceeblc intent.
Secretary Foster listened to the ex-
cited minister with great suavity.
There is no occasion for alarm" he
said, rcassuringly. You know that
the holiday recess Is approaching and
these senator's arc simply arranging for
"A pleasure trip | am sure there Is moth
ing else in it."
a great light of intelligence broke
over the Spanish minister's face.
"Oh." he exclaimed. "a peek-ncelx.
peek -neek!"
And he went away much relieved.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-09
PAs1 HE pooRKEEPERs.
lew Two Little Children Went ON the
House Floor.

uSW Two Little Children Went ON the
House Floor.
The cherubic insistence OF childhood
and its utter indifference to established
forms and customs were strilxingly
Illustrated at the capitol the other day.
says he Washington Star. Two little
tots, aged about four and six, were
trotting around after some ladies, and
In the crowd got separated from their
natural protectors. The children
paused I'm front OF tho north entrance
10 the house and looked In through the
doors as they swung back md forth,
then one said: Maybe auutie went i'm
there" ard mhde break for the door.
-Four pairs of hands reached for the
youngsters. all belonging TO as many
agile doorkeepers. but the little ones
flew past aud all but trippcd up long
( legged representative who was just
ahead of them. lie stopped in the door
/ and began TO demonstrate with them,
but. with childish impatience, they
| tried TO push him aside, and not being
/ able to do so, thrust their small heads
between his legs, one after the other.
and scooted in on to the floor. The
tall legislator PAUSED aghnst at the In
trusion and was just about TO let the
door close when two small maids came
rushing pcll-mcll back again, and slid
between his legs ont into the corridor.
"Ain't nobody but men in there" re-
marked one; "auntie must a-gone the
other way," and into the crowd they
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-09
RECKONING TIME siMPLIFIED.
Ten Hours I'm "A Day being Advocated
In France.

The news comes from Paris that the
former assistant secretary of the col.
onies, Deputy Eticnnes, intends at the
next meeting of the French chamber
10 offer decima! subdivision of time
for universal adoption.
The day is divided into 10 hours, the
hour into 100 minutes and the minutes
into 100 seconds, making 1000 minutes
or 100000 seconds per day.
The hour hand always points in the
direction of the sun. Consequently,
as the day begins and ends at midnight,
the hour hand points downward, a.
also do the minute hand and second
hand. at the exact time of the change of
day. or 10 o'clock. Thence it rises
with the sun in its apparent motion
around the earth. points to The zenith
at noon. after which it descends until
il reaches its extreme lower point again
at midnight. Thus the hour hand
makes but one revolution around the
dial each day. 1t is. then, the figure Y
ON the dial at which the hour hand com
mences and ends each day, the minute
hand each hour and the second hand
each minute.
The time indicated by the decimal
clock is always positive time. While
O'Clock n. m. is represented decimally
by $3.50 o'clock and o'clock D. m. is
represented by 1850. noon is represented
by o'clock and midnight by 10 o'clock.
1t provides standard time for the
rntire globe. 1t is proposed to divide
he terrestrial globe into 1000 degrees
# longitude corresponding with the
1000 minutes Of the day, and. by group.
:ng them in 20 seconds of 50 degrees
each. establish standard time for the
whole world.
Giving to Greenwich. where the count
ing of the meridian begins, the mid.
night meridian. and making it 600 de-
grees. the 20 sections would all be reclx.
oned cast of Greenwich and all the way
round the globe.
1t is said that this decimal system oi
time originated in America, being tho
invention of a United States citizen. al
though probably the French will b'
first to recognize and adopt it--ChicagC
News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-09

Is mequalled for Eczema, letter, Salt
Rhcum, Sclld Head, Sore Nipples, Chapped
Hands, Itching Piles, Bnrns, Frost Bites,
Chronic Sore Eyes and GTannEated Eye Lids.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-09
Tact.

Tact Is born with some men md
women. like the supple, delicate fingers
OF the artists hand; and those who have
a use their gift instinctively. 1t is not
sneastSred alike to those who have II.
Men possess II in different degrees.
while others again are wanting in II al
together. 1t Is the outcome of intel
iectaa1 and tempernmental qualiflca-
aions. and implies the possession of
clear perceptions, quick imagination
and delicate sensibilities. 1t is these
Ahat give the tactful person his subtle
Intuition Of nnother's mental processes
nnd modes OF feeling. and In the same
amount exactly the right method OF
de4liBg With these.-N. Y. ledger.