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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08
ENGLISH COTTON TRADE.

The agreement which has been
operatives in the English cotton
trade to submit to arbitration the
proposed reduction Of five per cent
in cotton spinning wages averts the
threatened strike in the trade, and
will afford time for thorough con-
sideration of all factors in the prob
lem.
The reduction of wages had been
agreed upon by more than eighty per
cent of the spinners, that is to say,
by spinners controlling more than
eighty per cent. of the spindles in
the trade. The Master Weavers'
Association has been working in
cooperation with the employing spin
ners, and has given notice stimuli
taneously of a ten per cent. reduc-
ton in weavers' wages.
The employers in all departments
of the English cotton trade regard
the situation as desperate, unless a
sufficient saving can be made,
through reduction of wages, to al
low small m margin of profit in COM
petition with foreign manufacturers.
They profess an extreme reluctance
to reduce wages, and claim that every
other possible reduction has been
made in the cost of manufacture
without materially improving the
situation. During the last five years
about three million spindles in Lam
cashire have gone out of work, while
there has been large increase in the
producing power of competing coun-
tries abroad, particularly on the
Continent and in the far East. The
growth of competition in the East is
regarded with special solicitude, be-
canse it seems certain that the opera
tives in China, India and Japan will
become more and more expert in the
handling of cotton machinery as time
goes on, and will accordingly supply
an increasing proportion of the trade
hitherto supplied by Lancashire. At
tention is called to the fact that the
Lancashire machine shops are now SO
largely employed on foreign orders
as to make it necessary for Lancashire
operatives to consider the alternative
between lower wages and no wages
at all.-JourRaJ
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08
State News items.

! The farmers in some sections of the
western part of the state are Just fin
ishing their haying.
Bishop John II. Vincent will preside
at the Vermont Methodist Conference
which is to be held at Springfield
April 20, 1898.
In eleven days from the time that
Joseph Russell broke into the Barnet
| post Office he was arrested, tried con
victed and sent to Windsor.
The celebrated murder case in which
Mabel Brewster is to be tried for the
murder of rival, will commence at
Montpelier next Monday.
Col. Erastus M. Jewett of Swanton.
Department Commander of the G. "A. R.
of the state, was married to Miss Ed
ia Clark Lawrence of Swanton last
week.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Fish and Game league will be
held in Rutland November IL. This
will be the first time that the league
has met in Rutland.
Ralph Carpenter of 5Richford, a
freshman at the University of Yer
mont, was seriously injured Thursday
night while being inflated into Aiphan
Tau Omega fraternity. He is at pres
ent at DOCTORS sanitarium, where
he is being treated. The doctor is I'M
able to tell whether his arm is broken
or severely strained. Members of the
fraternity acknowledge they had him
outside the city ''playing horse" with
him, but refuse to give particulars.
The New England Tale Company,
composed of Boston capitalists, is pre-
pairing to do business on large scale
this winter. Their qnarry is situated
on top of high mountain in Stock
bridge, and for the past year the COM
pany has been working the mine, but
leaving the product in rough stage
on top of the mountain, as there was
no accessible way of removing it. A
tramway 2,400 feet long, is now being
built from the quarry to the public
highway. The Bleichert system is
is used, which consists of two over
head cables, one for the loaded cars
going down and the other for the
empty ones going up. Three cars will
go down at the same time loaded, and
will drag back three empty cars. The
cars will run 1,080 feet apart, and the
system will have capacity of $4,000
pounds day. This tale is mostly
used for sizing for the finer grades of
paper.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08
PROBATE COURT.

The following business was transacted
during the past week:
Henry A. Hardy estate, Troy. On appli-
cation Melissa Hardy appointed Admins
tratrix.
Sarah B. Wiley estate, Derby. Admin
istrator's inventory returned and accepted.
Aurilla Todd estate, Derby. Hon. S. E.
Fletcher, Administrator, settled his ac-
count. Decree of distribution made.
Alvin o. Bayley estate, Morgan. Ad-
ministrator settles his account. Decree of
distribution made.
II. Addison Eastman estate, Greensboro.
report returned and accept
ed.
George w. Bruce estate, Jay. Apprais-
ers supplemental inventory returned and
accepted.
VIM. G. Hawkins, non compos, Barton.
Appraisers inventory returned and ac-
cepted.
Huldah L. Hackstaff estate, Craftsbury.
Last will and testament presented for pro-
bate by Emma N. Nelson Executrix there
in named. Referred to Barton, Dec. 10th
1897.
Peter Gravelin estate, Greensboro. Ad-
ministrator presents his account Referred
to Newport, Nov. 9th 1897.
Richard Wilcox Choate, minor child of
Dorothy Choate of Barnet, VT, adopted
and made heir at law of George o. Allen
and Ella L. Allen his wife, of Greensboro;
said adopted person hereafter to bear the
name of Richard Choate Allen.
Eliza E. Thrasher estate, Bloomington.
G,,7o Uni ir4o
Administrators.
Nancy w. Mitchell estate, Bloomington.
Petition of Emeline S. Mitchell to have
estate opened, heard, and ordered that Ad
ministrator render supplemental account.
Administrator presents supplemental
count. Referred to Nov. 9th, 1897.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08
HOw'S This?

any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by
Halls Catarrh ,Cure. F. j. Cheney & Co
Props, Toledo, o. We, the undersigned,
have known F. j. Cheney for the last Is years,
and believe aim perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm. West & Truax, wholesale druggists.
Toledo, o. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
wholesale druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting di-
rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by
all druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08

Recent corrections in the statistics
Of the Union army in the civil war
swell the aggregate of recorded deaths
TO $50, 207. The number killed out
right in action was 67,O5s, and 1851
died Of wounds, but this total of 1O9,
639 was less than half that of the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08

deaths from disease, which aggregat-
ed go, $685. An army of Union soldiers
numbering 10, 1913, died in prison. 1t
seems there are more than two chanc-
es to one that the soldier who dies
for his country will be carried off by
disease instead of bullet.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08

IThe Government Monetary Com
mission, Of which Ex-senator Ed
munds is the president, is very busy
formulating a report to be made in
Congress when itassembles in Deem
ber The Commission has obtained
views Of eminent financiers in all parts
Of the country and their report ought
to carry great weight, but it is hardly
to be expected that it will convert the
free silver men, Notwithstanding re-
cent experience. We notice that
western free silver farmers are not
averse to taking the advance price of
wheat in gold or money as good as
gold. If their object was to get a
good price they ought to be salts
fed, and glad that it is not in a de-
preciated currency.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08
SEALERS AND SEALS.

The powers Interested in the pre-
servation of seal life with the excep-
ton of Great Britain have come to an
agreement, and the treaty which will
be signed this week by the United
States, Russia and Japan will provide
If they were the only parties interest
ed, the extinction of valuable fur
bearing animal, which has been going
on at rapidly accellerating ratio OF
late, might be checked and the seal
population of our Alaskan islands re-
stored in time to their normal num-
Der. But the effectiveness of the
proposed measure is dependent upon
the assent of Great Britain, and that
in turn upon the attitude of Canada,
many of whose citizens are engaged
in an unlawful traffic which it is the
object of the treaty to break up and
destroy. If the welfare of a few Can
adam sealers still outweighs in the
mind Of Great Britain the broad in
terests of commerce and humanity,
the attempt to save the seals may as
we'll be abandoned as hopeless. Rus
STA and Japan cannot retaliate against
Canada, and for the United States to
do so alone would be to incur the risk
Of tremendous international conf1a-
grafton which ought to be avoided if
possible.
One course remains for the United
States if Great Britain takes the re-
sponsibility of shielding the destroyers
of seal life. The slaughter of the seal
herd on the Priblov islands will de-
prive Canadian pirates Of a rich booty
and swell Uncle Sans revenue from
that source once more. 1t is we'll that
the consequence of the refusal of her
CO. operation should be made plain to
Great Britain to assist her in judging
whether it is worth her while to de-
fend business which three out of the
four powers interested have condemn
ed as ruinous to the fur seal industry.
Let congress at it's next session make
it clearly understood, if Great Britain
remains obdurate, that the pelagic
seals must go, if not before, then with
the fur seal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
Estate of Betsey Howard.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District
of Orleans, Commissioners, to receive, ex-
anime, and adjust all claims and demands OF
all persons against the estate of Betsey How
ward, late of Barton in said District, deceas-
ed and all claims exhibited in Offset thereto,
purposes aforesaid, at the office tof B. f. ID
Carpenter, Barton Landing, VT, on the Gath
day of November, and 9th day OF April next,
each of said days, and that six months from
the 2Sth day of October, A. D., 1897, is the
time limited by said Court for said creditors
to present their claims to us for examination
and allowance.
Dated at Barton, VT, this Sd day of Novem-
ber A, d. 1897.
4. D. MATHEWS M IT Commissioners.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08
ButteriCk Patterns

always Stock and mailed any address receipt Of pr
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

| hereby certify that in response to
the requests of numerous taxpayers
| have examined the lists of untaXed
lands reported by Hiram p. Tasker
and find them to be substantially cor
rect. From my personal knowledge
of the location of the Allegany county
line can truthfully say that there is
more than one million dollars worth
of coal and timber lands, belonging
to non-residents, that are not assessed
in Garrett county. 1t is a disgrace to
Garrett county that these nOn-resi-
dents have escaped so long, and the
resident land owners taxes increased
to make up the deficiency. By electing
intelligent representatives the rate of
taxation can be reduced about one
fourth.
Respectfully submitted,
ALEX. G. MASON, Surveyor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
tTOrnlaIl.

Rev. W. F. Nine made flying trip
to Elk Garden the first OF last week.
Mrs. p a. Chisholm is confined to
her bed with typhoid fever.
The Dunkards of this community
will hold their annual love feast on
Saturday, the 18th inst, at the Fair
view church.
On last Thursday as Oliver H. Miller
was returning home from a trip to
Cheat river, he was thrown from a
buggy and received several wounds,
but none serious, the result of run
away horse.
The funeral of James Murphy will
be preached at Corunna Chapel, near
Bayard, on Sunday, October 3, 1897,
at II o'clock a. m, by Rev. George S.
Arnold.
J. BIRD.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Resource, Screven Co., Gal have
been subject to attacks of bilious collie
for several years. Chamberlain S
Collie, Cholera and DiarrhOea Remedy
is the only sure relief. 1t acts like a
charm. One dose of it gives relief
when all other remedies fail-G. d.
Sharp. For sale by Oakland Phar-
macy and DR.. j. W. Laughlin, Deer
Park
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

"Dollar wheat" is the derisive cry
wherever eN-candidate Bryan tries TO
renew his silver arguments.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

| know people whose lives seem one
long experience of meeting with bar
ricades on the way OF life, and yet in
their disappointments are theiroppor-
tunities, out Of them they seem to ex-
tract the tenderness of heart that
is touched with Others needs, and that
lovely charity for all who labor and
are heavy laden-that charity that
makes them bearers of good along
pathways that to them are ever
thorny.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Has anybody been heard to express
regret that he voted for sound money
and protection last year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

OF course silver is not to blame for
the change in the price of wheat. 1t
had nothing TO DO with it; never had
in fact.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

That rattliug sound you have heard
over the country Is not caused by the
putting up of shutters, as was the
ease at this stage Of the Cleveland
administration.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

with strength of purpose and direct
his operations with intelligence. He
1t is who makes highways across
trackless deserts; who dares out on
deeps even if alone; who, ever dissat-
istied with those things whereunto
our race has attained, moves us for
ward along new lines, dragging us to
! betterment by his own forces. He it
is who is ever harassed by the indo-
lent who will not act, and the faith
less who will not believe in oppOrtun-
ity until it materializes before their
very eyes. But what of the harvest?
10 such man, no matter how barren
his life may first promise to be, there
Is creditable career, not perhaps of
mOney-grubbing, but, at any rate Of
honest, upright living and kindly be-
nevolence. And to the others? They
see in themselves when buffetings
come and difficulties. special objects
of personal spite on the part of the
Almighty; they crawl off to escape the
hardships; and, when they come to
themselves as life is waning, see moth
ing worthy of a race that has suffered,
and sweated and Travelled for every
single inch it has gained in morals or
materials, They have enjoyed some
of its gains, but they have added
naught to its store. Their hearts
starve and their memories perish.
Cease then to curse the bitter blows offate,
No goal is easy whose reward is great
Each buricr won viii heart and strength
renew
Each step acendod gives q wider view
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

y
putting up of shutters, as was the
ease at this stage OF the Cleveland
S administration.
Aftcr u series irregular Democratic
rows. the PENNSYLVANIA Democratic
Convention endorsed the Chicago
ftee-silver . latform. .cheered wildly for
Bryan, nominated ticket, and then
adjourned. What fools these NOR
tails be.
Four hundred and fifty thousand
British guincas from Australia have
been received in San Francisco, in
payment for expectations of Ameri-
can wheat This is another case
where the Western farmer is being
tramPcd upon by the gold power of
Great Britain.
Blessed is the country whose sol
diers fight for it and are willing to
give the best they have, the best
chat any man has, their own lives, to
preserve it. because they love it,
such an army the United States has
always commandedin in all her history"
-Presidcnt Mckinley at Buffalo
1t seems as though everything had
turned against the calamity shriekers,
whether OF free-siiver or free trade
type. Their latest misfortune comes
in the way OF a recent announcement
showing the individual deposits in
the national banks of the country TO
be the largest ON record.
From the position Of private soldier
10 that of President of the United
States is q long step and there is but
one man who has yet made it. He
was at the Buffalo reunion the other
day, one Wm. Mckinley. And he
was not a bit lui#ed either when his
carriage Was refused admittance to
the camp by an old soldier who knew
only to obey orders
And now there IS prospect for high
r. prices for corn. The Europeans
are taking our corn III great Quanti-
ties, and here IS statistician b. W.
SNOW Oh Nhlc"Eo' one OF the aDleSt
eNl'eF'7 Oh crops III iile country Wlth
'''l es''''i''le '''''i 'ir corn crop OF the
'"Hhlr! VIII oe more IMAM I'Soo'OJo,00o
puSlleIs Iill' year against ?'?Sj' 'ooo'ooo
HuShels last year. Ihls means hlGher
prices ZOE corn ana yet SILVER con
liEoeS I" iali.
l'l,'7N ''''''
va ~ '''''''. - ','' i''' 'IiI1
Ei.'I - 9 '''7'''i ''' "l''''l II 'He! "o''i''
"''','e '''o 90 ! envy VI 'iie 'ou,'''E
HhoW no" lhu"N the dollar would be
WORTH We KNOW how much 1t IS
UoI'lt-iV cents. Yet the farmers
nave got their collar bushei, and
sou II III Eoou money 700. rms shows
tie wisdom OF rejecting neW-ian%icd
theories without II careful test as to
their probable eject when put into
operation.
'ii',I'' i.i"H roIsf"' ui"'e 'ilti!-
S''N'H 'i'S' i'e I'i''"'eI Ia"' "iilcll
p'','''N 'i'''r l'i""uc'Ioiis thofough-
~ ii''S Soi'e lli'" ol'tIa'Ioh' INC
ir''il' 'el'oI' % l"' bureau oI otatIs-
'''o SHOWS 'i'"i 'le ihl'ort"Iloiis OF l.
g, 50, 'i'i'S o' la III ''o'.''e'-"ooI, co'Iop'
hDPIS, feathers, ClllcOfN. CalUle, Ordl-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Aftcr series irregular Democratic
rows, the Pennsylvania Democratic
Convention endorsed the Chicago
ftee-silver . latfogln, ,cheered wildly for
Bryan, nominated a ticket, and then
adjourned. What fools these NOR
tails be.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

And thus it is with the opportuni-
ties of life. They do not troop up to
us with the blare of trumpets. AS
silently as the sun do they pass us by
and as supremely Indifferent to neg
lect do they sink out of sight. Invis-
ible to the eye of the savage is the
modern war-ship buried in a bed of
iron ore. Just 50 invisible are most
opportunities except to the eyes of
compelling faith. The iron-clad is
there, the opportunities are here, all
around us free as air and discoverable
by every man with full faculties, who
will take of his time freely, mingle it
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
copyrighted by lave & Tabor. |

BY MEMO"
copyrighted by lave & Tabor
To THE MATURE AND OTHERS
The slight chill in the morning mist.
the changed color of an occasional
leaf before it flutters to the ground,
the silencing of the birds, the odor of
the evening air-these signs unite,
with numberless others to announce
that Summer is nearing its end, and
with it is vanishing the opportunity
for raising further crops. Good or
bad, well-tended or neglected, the
results will soon be estimated and the
farmer know whether profit or loss is
the result of his labors The wise
farmer finds the Autumn at hand in its
due season; the wasteful, idle one is
astonished that it is here so soon
after the Spring days when the sun
summoned vegetation to life. But
gone is the Summer and no voice is
so loud or so imploring as to be able
to call it back. One more seed-time
and harvest is gathered into the eter-
nal and irrevocable past and the has
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Wv "''l'li'7' i'ii0'' ''''eii' '''''e''
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Ea w., r' =" Torres "nIe ye may
When tho fro lias.or,I tboIirI,t is,,,,,a
And the ashes shiver pale aud wan;
When the afterglow of November fades,
~ I,r .,ados s'''' ''' '''e "''''S Vi S'i'""'''SS
For september.s davs bring a warnfno c,ear
Which tells that the hour ofdeath is near,
Ana the year strong manhood startled halts,
hd ,''', ,i,'i ''o'I ',e 'i''s l'uiS'
dumb
And its laughter Iulcd-til Spring is come.
~"
The slackening step, the occasional
feeling Of impatiencc at the frantic
and unreasonable joy of children; the
gray hair here and there, and brevity
of the years-these are signs that the
summer time of your life is passing
too. You rub your eyes to see if you
do but dream the message of lessen
ing time that ever buzzes in your ears
The shivering sense Of protest against
the desperate Of Time is the counter
part of that hollow. SOughing sound
that seems now to creep through the
woods;
That shudderng breath. which tells that fire
Is placed to the seasons funeral pyre.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Does the sun make any audible
noise as it peeps over the hill-tOps in
the morning? Does it summon the
farmer to duty with persistent calls
and shakings? No. the day comes
silently; silently does it grow and
wane, and silently does it pass
and without protest, even if
unimproved. The farmers utiI-
ization of time does not orig
mate from any compelling force in
the power of daylight, but from a
purpose within his heart to make the
most of his farm in the days that the
passing seasons give him. COmbin-
ing his powers with the powers of ma
ture that he can control, the barren
place can be made to flourish, and
out of the parched grounds, come
forth food While the idle farmer
frets and fumes and grumbles about
rains, or whatnot, the days hurry by
that are giving his neighbor good re-
turns for effort expended. This is SC
generally true as to be practically
accurate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
BY A CONTRIBUTOR.

The factory smoke seems to have
affected Mr.. Bryan's voice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Four hundred and fifty thousand
British guincas from Australia have
been received in San Francisco, in
payment for expectations of Ameri-
can wheat. This is another case
where the Western farmer is being
trampcd upon by the gold power of
Great Britain.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Blessed is the country whose sol
liers fight for it and are willing to
give the best they have, the best
chat any man has, their own lives, to
preserve it. because they love it.
such an army the United States has
always commanded in all her history. -
President Mckinley at Buffalo.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-04-22
State Land Leasing.


Land Commissioners Winters 10 I'd.
vertlsing In the Weekly Capital . list Of
state and school lands in Stutsman
county for lease Saturday, Jane 18th,
also any common school lands on which
the rent has not been paid by the date
OF June 18th will be offered for sale
again at that time. The lands are
offered in quarter sections or in the
smaller ub.divislons and no bids will be
entertained for less than 8 per cent Of
the appraised value of uncultivated
lands. Tracts appraised at $40 l'er acre
OF more will be leased for 10 years, those
for less for 5 years. The entire amount
of the first years rent must be paid at
the time Of leasing or the tract will be
offered for lease again. The board re-
serves the right to reject any or all bids.
There are about 18O pieces or paroles of
land to be offered IN this county. mostly
In quarter section tracts whose ap.
praised value runs from 5000 to $500, the
average quarter being apprlsed at about
$500. Some Of these lands have been
selected for the various state institutions
and 1t is expected that small revenue
Will be derived from the Leasing.