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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15
VigOr.

Men of weakened Power, Exhausted
VigOr.
Weak men suffering from nervous debility,
weakened power and exhausted vigor, can
now take new hope. DIR. Greene, "a Temple
Place, Boston, Mass, who Is without doLb
the most successful specialist in curing this
class of diseases, offers to give free consulta
ton by mail to all weakened, vigorless and
nerve exhausted men. You have the priv
lege of consulting DIR. Greene by letter de
scribing your complaint and he will, after
carefully considering your condition, send
you free letter fully explaining all your
symptoms, telling yon everything about your
complaint so plainly that you will understand
exactly what ails you. Write to him at once
and get back your strength and vigor.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

An old lady living on the skirts of
Dartmoor was asked, What is the
meanin' of this yer Jewbilees Well,
my dear, she answered, tits this way
If you've been married to a man
fifty years and the mans alive tits
Golden Weddin'; if he's dead, tits
Jewbilee.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

Minutes seem like hours when life Is at
stake. Group gives no time 20 send for doc
tor del ay may mean death. One Minute Cough
Cure gives instant relief and insures recovery.
The only harmless remedy that produces Inn
mediate results. IA. @. Pierce. Bartons ID,
w. Hildreth Barton Landing; AZ. Is. French
Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

Little Willie (to mammals GALLERY
Mrs Tolquer, do you carry your
dynamite around with you? Mamma
What do you mean, Willie? Little
withdrawing, only l just wanted
TO know, cause papa says Mrs. Toll
quer is always blowing her husband
up.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

My friends, said aEbuiIder, whose
health had been drunk at a dinner In
celebration of the completion Of a
public hall which he had constructed,
my friends, would gladly express
my feelings, did not feel that am
better fitted for the scaffold than for
public speaking.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

greater and a better man than his
predecessor, remarked the first can
nibal. Unless he is u better man, re-
joined the second cannibal earnes thy,
L should not wish that he we're great
err. There was quito enough of the
other one.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

LosT.-A dear little child who made home
happy by it's smiles. And co think. II might
have been saved had the parents only kept In
the house One minute Cough Cure, the tntal-
lible remedy for Group. n. e.. Pierce, Bar
ton; ID. w. Hildreth. Barton Landing; II. r.
French. Glover
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

Troubles never come sin ely, sad
the man who secured a divorce.
what's the matter? Oh, first / got
clear of my first wife, and then, like a
fool, L married again.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

indirectly to some arrangement of the or
gans distinctly feminine. Troubles of this
kind are often neglected because very nat
ural and proper rnodesty keeps women away
from physicians, whose insistence upon ex-
animation and local treatment is generally
as useless as it is common. DIR. Picrcc's
Favorite Prescription will do more for them
than 90 doctors in 100 II will do more than
the hundredth doctor can unless lie pre-
scribes it. 1t is prescription of DR.. X. v.
Picrce's, who for 30 years has been chief
consulting physician of the Worlds Dispen-
sary and Invalids' Hotel, at Buffalo, N. "
Send cent stamps to cover cost of mail
ing oniy. and get his great book, The Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser. absolutely FREE
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

Soothing for burns, scaids, chapped hands
and lips. Healing for cuts and sores. Instant
relief Tor piles, stops pain mt once. These are
the virtues of De Wits Witch Hazel Salve-
III. @. Pierce, Bartons ID. w. Hildreth, harton
Landing; R. T.. French Glover
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

Professor called, madam, to give
your daughter lessons on vocal cul
ture. Madam-Bdt L didn't engage
you. Professor-I Know; out the
neighbours did.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

that will resist the arrogance of
fashion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

A weed in the garden can be easily destroy
ed wneli IL nrSJ starts. consumption can DE
nipped bud Dy One Minute Cough Cure
q. PIttce, karton; -. w. HIldreLn, Bar
ton LanoIu x; IL. h. tIeL,h Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

All the different forms of skin troubles,
from chapped hands TO eczema and indolent
ulcers readily cured by DE Wits
witcn Hazel Salve, the great pile cure. ii. q.
Pierce, Barton; ID. w. HIldretn, Barton Land
ing; r. E. French. Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

torpid liver means a bad complexion, bad
breath, Indigestion anu frequent headaches.
10 avoid SUCH companions lake DE Wits
Lutte early Risers, the famous little pills.
ID. y. Pierce, barton; ~. w. Hlldretn, Barton
Landing; II. French. Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

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 WON en- Is
traceable directly or
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That Is what 1t was made for.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15
CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
OF ST. JOHNSBURY.
Capital Stock,
Undivided Profits,
Savings and BuSine

Undivided
Savings Busn Deposits, 1,120,O2014
allowed small wei
paid by Bank deposits less than
10000: era banking business transacted
nvidual $500 $500
ank pt IN tiles.
and for rules and regulations.
A
A. GEO Vice Press
JOHN RIrcHIE, E. Ass-
j. Hov JAMES 1rcHE CHAsR,D c.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

00f up ana carried noT, ne KNEW 1lOG
how, up the bank and away till he stag
gered into his mothers cottage.
Could she be in better hands? Still
unconscious, but with signs Of returning
animation, he left her and fastened to
the mill. The lights still burned in the
Office The masters were seated by the
fire, and in the background sat the mes
senger and Jabez Smethurst.
'sHow dye do, James-you got our
wire?''
ST did, sir, thank you. -
ssBoy, tell us again what you told
this morning. Whereupon the penitent
lad, with fearful looks at Jabez, told
how the overlooker had terrorized him
about small betting debts; how, at his
instigation, he had obtained blank
check from the office lad at Bromley's;
how Jabez had filled it in, copying the
writing from another OF Bromley's
checks; how he had presented it with
the rest at the bank and got the cash.
The sequel was known and did not need
recounting. Jabez swore it was parcel
of lies, but the boys evident sincerity,
revelations of Jabez' s bookmaking trans
actions and later Rache1's account of her
rejection Of his suit. and his subsequent
threats and persecution, convinced the
masters Of Smethurst' guilt. They sim
ply discharged him and eased their con-
sciousness of Jim's overhasty dismissal
by raising his salary to ESQ a year.
The folks who cheered a happy pair
and pelted them with rice did not see
scar on the brow of the bride, for it was
covered BY her bridal veil.-Tit- Bits.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17

"Oh, no" replied the captain "this is
a very good prize" and turning over the
paper he showed the little one three dol
lar pieces upon the paper. The girl was
aghast. II think Pl try another OF those
prizes" said the captain.
"Oh no" said the girl swinging around
and holding shut the mouth of the bag.
Then she made off and got quietly into a
dark corner. The captain crept softly up
behind her. She had all the prizes out of
the bag and was diligently searching them
all over to find if there was another three
dollar one among them.
The captain is the first magician who
adopted the costume of knee breeches in
appearing before audiences. This has
since become the regulation habit. He
intends changing one OF the buildings on
the island into theater with stage
erected, upon which during the evenings
of this winter he will give entertainments
and from which the residents and visitors
upon the island will witness some of the
most marvellous performances in magic
which the present century affords. OF
the good he has done through his abilities
as an entertainer there Is no estimating
He has afforded many hours OF health!ul
amusement to thousands of people and he
has moved innumerable dollars from the
pockets OF those who could afford to give
to carry comfort to the needy and solace
to the poor. JOHN 6. BENNETT.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
Not Born for the Scaffo1d.
n OOOh
He took.

A curious case is told in the law records
of Bristol, England. An elderly lady
being found dead in her bed, man
named Lee was charged with the murder
There was little evidence against the
man, except that he was in the house
when the crime was committed. Never
theless, Lee was convicted and sente need
10 be hanged. The scaffold was tested
and found all right. Lee was led upon
the platform still protesting his inno-
cence. The rope was adjusted, but when
the hangman drew the bolt the trap re-
fused to fall. He stamped on it with his
foot, but it still refused to move. Finally
Lee was led TO one side while the trap was
examined. Then it was found that the
trap was all right; in fact. would iall of
its own weight. Again Lee was placed
upon il, and again it refused to work.
Tried again and again, it still refused to
act. Then the Sheriff ordered Lee back
to his cell and telegraphed the Home Sec
rotary Tor instructions. The case came up
in Parliament, and it was decided that a.
Lee could not be hanged he should be i'm
prisoned for life. A few years afterward q
tramp confessed to the murder for which
the authorities had triet to hang Lee.
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ton of it from the ashes-these and hun
dreds of others the captain includes in his
repertory.
In his experience the captain has met
with some odd incidents. Some years ago
while stationed at Fortress Monroe he was
giving an entertainment at the theater at
Old Point Comfort for the benefit OF the
Johnstown sufferers. The show included
the Indian box trick, which, though old,
is always mystitying. The entertainment
was to run two nights and the audience
was so confounded with the box trick that
he was requested to give it again on the
following night. This he consented to do,
but next morning he found that popular
curiosity had become so intense over the
trick that during the night some one had
got into the theater and smashed his box
in an enGeavor to see whether the thing
came apart or not. The captain was in a
uuandarv, for it required highly seasoned
wood to make box, but the quartermas-
ter came to his aid and furnished him
with lumber and a carpenter made the
box, using wrought nails and clinching
them on the inside. When the box was
finished it was inspected by the officers in
the army, who expressed great surprise
that the box should be so made that it
would be impossible to get it apart with
out knocking it to pieces.
The captain holds flannel bag, into
which an auditor drops his watch; the
bag is then banged upon the floor until
the watch is broken to pieces; pistol is
fired at a loaf of bread, which, when
broken open, reveals the watch in its CEN
ter. The captain performed this trick
once in New Orleans, and the gentleman
to whom the watch was returned placed it
in his pocket without looking at ii, not
thinking that it was his watch, but believ-
ing it was some other watch, and that the
captain, whom he knew, would return to
him his own property after the show. He
waited around until o'clock in the morn
ing. looking for the captain, and finally re.
solved to go home. Then he pulled out
the watch TO note the time and was aston
ished to find that the instrument which
had been returned to him was really his
own. This trick was done by Houdon be-
fore the Pope, the magician taking the
watch of Cardinal. The real watch was
dem olished. but Houdon had previously,
at great expense, got precise dupli-
cate of the Cardinals watch made by the
same matchmaker who had made the
Cardinals, and a fac-simile in every re-
spect. The original was broken to pieces
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
The Judge OCT
Bushwhacking,
January 10, 1897.

Old Judge Wiggles was a campaigner
from away back. Commencing at least
two months prior 10 a general election
which included the office be held-he
would pass few people on the street with
out some solictious inquiry, preceded
and concluded by hearty shake of the
hand.
As soon as the campaign fairly opened,
this handshaklng became more general
and no one escaped a greeting and from
one 10 six of the Judges election cards.
Il am a great believer in cards" the
Judge would say.
Personal solicitation beats speech
making TO death. A shake OF the hand is
the nearest road to a vote, and many a
vote is lost because it's owner believes you
didn't believe it worth while coming for.
Il tell you, my boy, at every campaign
in this county make it ny business 10
personally interview every voter in it
Yes, sir, every voter in this county will
shake ray hand before election"
The Judge was telling me this one even
ing as we were hurrying to meet an en-
gagement in one of the mountain towns in
the extreme northern part of the State.
1t was growing dark; we had long
distance before us, and l was praying that
we would find but few voters along the
way for the Judge to shake hands with.
was about to congratulate myself upon
the few stops we had made when the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17

and the duplicate given to the Cardinal
1t was an expensive trick to perform,
but it made Houdon's fame and fortune.
1t was in New Orleans also that the
captain expressed desire to do the gun
trick. which Hermann recently elaborated
into having a troop of soldiers fire at him,
he catching the bullets. A bona-fide shot
gun is taken by some one in the audience;
an assistant brings him powder on plate,
which is examined and placed in the gun
then wadding is put in and several bullets
are mex: brought, which are marked, then
dropped by the auditor into the gun,
the captain reserving the right to put in a
paper bullet after all the rest are in,
which acts merely as waddlng. The audi
tor is then told TO take aim at the captain
on the stage and fire; when this is done
the captain spits the bullets out of his
mouth. He was prevailed upon not to do
this trick in New Orleans through curl
Gus though potential reason.
There. almost all men carry pistols. 1t
was thought that it might be possible that
some drunken fellow in the audience
would draw his pistol and say "Wen, if
you can catch bullets, catch this one" 1t
any inherent dangers, but from tie sug
gestions it might make to the audience.
The captain has done it often, however,
and may do it in San Francisco.
1t was while serving with q light battery
in Wilkesbarre that the movement of the
army was stopped to attend an exhibition
given at the Grand Opera house there by
the captain. An order had come from
General Hancock ordering the troops
away on the day before the captain was to
show for the benefit of the City Hospital.
The Thirteenth Artillery band had come
on a special train from Scranton and the
citizens were SO disappointed at the order
which would take the captain away that
an enormous petition to hold the troops
over the next night was telegraphed to
General Hancock. The general replied
that he would not make any formal order
to stop the movement of the army to go to
a show, but that all those in the army
who desired to attend the captains per-
Torrance might do so. This was a way of
cutting around the bush, as no further ad-
vance of the corps was made until after
the magic.
The captains affection for children is
very great and he does many things to
amuse them. He astonishes the little
ones by eating their mud pies, breaking
to pieces their playthings and suddenly
restoring them whole and such surprises.
Once when at a fair he was asked by a
little girl to take a chance at her grab bag,
the captain paid nickel for the privilege
of doing so. He put in his hand and
pulled out an empty piece of paper.
"Oh," said the child, that amt fair i;
you must take another chance for moth
ing; the prize in that paper has come I'M
wrapped"
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time he cares to give to it NAV be con-
sumed in giving entertainments and keep
ing his apparatus in repair. Unlike pro-
fessional, he is always hampered by lack
of proficient assistant, who is the left
hand of the performer. He hopes, how
ever, to train one of the men at the island
into fitness for this, so that his entertain
mems may be given with that smoothness
which can only be attained by the aid of a
trained assistant.
Another drawback which the captain
always experiences in comparison with
the professional is that he has to get the
stage ready for the performance himself,
This takes nearly all day, and at evening
when the show is to be given, instead of
being fresh he frequently complains OF
being tired. The professional does not
have to bother with these things-they are
all attended to for him. The captain,
however, hopes to so shift much of this
work on his assistant in the instance of
his San Francisco exhibitions that he will
be relieved in great measure of the
strain.
Notwithstanding all these obstacles the
captain always gives a wonderful enter
tainment. One OF the most marvellous of
his tricks is the shooting of three half
dollar coins, loaded in the big barrel of an
old pistol, into beer bottle with a corked
mouth, the bottle being held at distance
in the hands OF one of the audience and
covered with cloth.
The only way the coins can be got
out of the bottle is by breaking it. 1t
would be rare exploit to get the coins in
the bottle in full view of the audience, or
in any manner, but 10 fire them into it is
an act which puzzles the most observing.
OF the clever tricks done in the changing
of one thing to another there is a long
list: The changing of ink and water from
one receptacle TO another by wave of the
wand, these being at opposite ends of the
hall; the changing of sawdust to candy;
of cotton placed In two cans into milk,
sugar and hot coffee served to the audi
ence. He has developed the hat trick TO
prominence hitherto unattained by any
magician; he takes an endless variety
OF objects out of the hat, among them be-
ing live canary in big cage He SAYS
he can take anything out of the hat that
he can handle, though he does not seem
to be limited by even this, for among the
objects he takes from the hat Is 13-year-
old girl. Innumerable card tricks also
the captain does and under his direction
the cards perform strange actions-the
proper card called for by the audience
springing out OF q pack upon touching it
with a wand. Solid metal rings, separ-
ated and shown to the audience. are
thrown into links of chain in an instant.
The instantaneous growth of flowers from
a pot of sawdust is another trick. In
creasing of the size of handkerchief in
the washing, decreasing It in the wiring
ing, burning it to cinders and the restitu-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
The Worst River on Earth.

1.-THE scourge of China" is what they
call the Yang-tse -Kiang River. During
the last 200 years its floods have fourteen
times forced the massive dams OF the CEN
trail provinces and each time covered its
banks with thousands of human corpses.
In 1888 its inundation ravaged the prov
ince OF Hu-Pae to an extent which can be
retrieved only be the labors OF many sue
cessive generations. Another terrible
flood occurred few years since, which
spread its havoc over an area of IS {, 900
square miles in the most densely popu-
lated districts of China. The loss of lie
on that occasion has been estimated at
1000, even after deducting the hundreds
of thousands that succumbed to the sub
sequent famine or those slain by maraud-
ers and hunger-crazed cannibals.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
MARY C. BANTZ.

Judge called my attention to some little
black spots away up on the mountain
side, at least three miles distant
Hold up!' SAID the Judge Them
my injuns."
You are not going way up there? ?"
said l.
Well, 1 guess l am" said he, as he
climbed out of the buggy, removed his
oVercoat, rolled up his pants, took a hand
lul OF cards, and, before had chance to
demonstrate further, disappeared in the
chaparral. l waited in that mountain
road four hours.
Night came on and l could see the dim
hlcker oil the cabin lights, which l hoped
would serve the Judge as guides. At the
commencement of the fourth hour had
about made up my mind to go in search
OF the old man. AS ne weighed over $50
pounds L became alarmed lest be should
have lost his footing or fallen into some
prospect-hole.
Just as had hitched the team and
prepared myself for the journey I saw
coming down the road sight | never ex-
pect to see again.
With his clothes in shreds, his hat gone
and his face scratched almost bevond
recognition, the Judge approached and
leaning up against the wheel of the buppv
said:
'Chinamen, by Gadp'
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
A Legend of the Strand.

IT'S said an author who had starved to death
Went walking, some years after he had lost
his breath,
And found himself before bookman's stand
whats this? he unused, as in his hand
A book
He took.
"Dear me- my verseP' he cried, and kissed the
tome;
'sYou killed me-cost me hearth and home.
To publish you spent
My every cent
No man would buy,
And
Was soon shadow of my former self,
Whilst you lay snugly on my dusty shelf.
Heigho!" he sighed,
"Thou vert my pride
And ruin" Quoth the book: ''Not sol
You died too soon to really know.
have become
rarity and worth a wondrous sum,
And through me now
You wear a laurel on your brow"
Fen as the volume spake
mortal came, the little book did take,
And as the spirit watched him from the shade
Some twenty pounds for it he paid.
'EgadP' the author cried, back he sped
To Hades, 81 have on my head
Enough of hay entwined to feed horsel
Pm proud OF it-oh, yes l am, of course
But what shame 10 decorate
An authors pate
And leave his stomach to disintegratep
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17

From the middle ages to the present
day tie highest price paid for silk goods
that M. Georges d'Avenel, in the Revue
des Duck Mondes. has been able 20 find
was $S3 meter, given by Louis XIV for
the cloth of gold material for dressing
gown.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17

The greyhound seems to have been de-
veloped in level, treeless and shrubIess
countries, where a moving object is visi-
BILE al long distance, and great speed is
therefore necessary to enable predaceous
animal to overtake its prey.