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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
WE'LL DRESSED At SMALL
EXPENSE.

Of course, the girl who aspires to
be well dressed, when her wardrobe
consists practically of one gown
chooses black for that. She does not
choose a smooth cloth, for dust will
cling to smooth faced black material
closer than brother. Cheviot,
cancels hair or serge is selected in
stead.
The gown is we'll made. The skirt
hangs we'll, and is lined, not with
cheap, glistening, rustling taffeta silk,
but with a good quality of farmers
satin. If rustic is desired, three or
four taffeta ruff1es are attached to the
foot of the skirt. A close fitting
tailor bodice, cut to wear with a mar
row, full-length vest, is made, and
jaunty short, double breasted Jacket.
The tone gown grip then has mar
row vest of dark red broadcloth and
another of tan coler. These are to fit
perfectly smooth beneath the edges
of the black bodice, which are cut off
about three inches from the middle.
A gathered vest OF black chiffon, with
a stock collar to match, and another
of white chiffon, equip the stone gown
grip for most of the ordinary chances
of existence.
A waist of black mousseline de sole
over black silk, made so that it may
appear either as semi decollete af-
fair at dinner or as high-necked
one at the theater, helps the owner of
the gown out considerably. The
waist should be cut in a shallow
square at the neck and edged with
black jet .passementerie. A narrow
dull rose colored yoke and crush col
lar, which may be worn with the low
necked bodice on occasion, makes it
serve double purpose.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

There is more catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years supposed to
be incurable. For great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local tseatment, pronounced it in
durable Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co.
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure
on the market It is taken internally in dos
es from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for circu-
lars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHEN
Fly CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist, rs.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
OUR CROPS IN 1896.

Sweet Potatoes.-The average yield
is 70.s bushels per acre, while it was
70 bushels in 1895, and 924 in 1894.
Buckwheat.-This crop has the high
average yield of 1877 bushels per acre,
which has been exceeded only in 1895
since 1890.
Tobacco.-Preliminary returns of
yield per acre of tobacco make an
average of 679 pounds for the coun
try. In 1889 the returns showed a
yield of 645 pounds only, but the low
est figures since that year, excepting
those of the present, were 682 pounds
in 1892 and 695.3 in 1898.
Irish toes.-Preliminary re-
turns for this crop indicate an aver
age yield of S6.S bushels per acre,
which, although far below the phen-
omenal average of 1895, is neverthe-
less considerably above the average
for the past ten years. In the New
England and middle western states
there are numerous complaints of po
tato rot, and none of the large pro-
ducing states indicate an average
yield approaching 100 bushels per
acre.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

Sam Jones said recently at Column
bia: ssI am for determination rather
than regulation of the liquor traffic,
tor you can no more regulate the sale
DO that men will not be debauched,
boys ruined, wives murdered, chill
dren butchered and homes made
desolate, than you can regulate chol-
ra by a license system or legislative
enactment, or any more than you
IAN regulate the ravages of hydro
phobia through the same channel.
The profit and beverage question will
aamn South Cardinals dispensay in
| he eyes of all God-fearing men. How
hny protested Christian can stand be-
hind a counter and deal out liquor in
The name of his State as a beverage
Tor his fellow citizens, and deserve
inviting else but contempt of all
hood people, I cannot understand"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
PLA YING KEEP SALOON.

The following true story-only the
name was not Smiths told in the
Pittsburgh Dispatch:
ST hear that Smith has just sold out
his saloon," said one of couple OF
middle aged men who sat slipping
their beer and eating bit of cheese
! Ia Smithfield street saloon.
ssYes," responded the other rather
slowly.
nWhat was the reason? I thought
he was just coming money there"
The other nibbled a cracker alb
stractedly for a moment and then
aid:
sits rather a funny story. Smith,
you know, lives on Mt. Washington,
light near me, where he has an ex-
eellent wife, nice home, and three
As pretty children as ever played OUT
{doors-all boys, you know, the Oldest
not over nine, and all about the same
| lie. Smith is a pretty respectable
sort of a citizen-never drinks or
rambles. and thinks the world of his
fhmily.
swell. he went home one after
noon last week and found his wife
/ But shopping, or something OF that
8ort. He went through the house in
| to the back yard, and there under the
apple- tree were the little fellows
|playing. They had a bench and some
Bottles and tumblers and were play
Iine keep saloon He noticed that
Tthey were drinking something out of
pail and that they acted tipsy. The
The youngest, who was behind the
bar. had a towel tied around his waist
md was setting the drinks up pretty
|ree. Smith walked over and looked
/ INTO the pail. IL was beer, and two of
HE boys were so drunk that they
staggered. A neighbours boy, two
years older, lay asleep behind the
|tree.
My God! boys, you must not
|tlrink thati' he said as he lifted the
|six-year- old from behind the bench.
&" Yves playin' s'loon, papa, an [
|Eas a-sellin' it just like you,' said the
little fellow.
"Smith poured out the beer, car
|Fied the drunken boy home, and then
hook his own boys home and put them
Ito bed. When his wife came back
| She found him crying like child.
ssHe came down town that night
|And sold out his business and says he
|Eill never sell or drink another drop
|bf liquor. His wife fold mine about
Ht, and she broke down crying while
|she told it.''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

man may dress we'll as his own good judg
ment and the assistance of an artistic tailor
elect He make take his tubs but if his di-
gestive organs are out of order, he will have
an unwholesome appearance. His complex
ion and the white of his eyes will have yell
lowish cast His tongue will be coated, appe
tite poor, his teeth rusty, his breath abomin-
able. He is one big, unmistakeabie sign of
way to cure this troubles to take DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. They are made of refined,
conc entrated vegetable extracts. Nothing
in the least harmful enters into their compo-
sition. They hunt down all impurities, and
make them move on" They are the pro-
duct of many years study and practice. Dr.
Pierce cannot afford to put forth worthless
article Address with 81 cents in one cent
stamps to cover cost of mailing only. World
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.
Y, and get free copy of the Medical Advis-
or
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
Free Samples For
Farmers.

The next time you are in the
village call on III. Il. Seaver and
ask for sample package of Dairy
Washing Powder, the sweet clean
err. 1t washes milk cans, pans,
pals, watts, separators, churns, but
ter workers and all dishes Of tin,
glass wood, iron or paper used in
the dairy. 1t kills all germ life
and keeps the milk from souring.
1t makes hard water soft and has a
delightful, clean odor that clears
the air of all impurities. Makes
the hands soft and white.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

The Utah Legislature which adj
|journed the last of March prohibited
|the sale of liquor within ten miles of
an Indian reservation. The law
makers of this country, state and fed
|eral, do not propose to have any of
The 1900, 900 boys wanted by the sa-
Hoon-keepers recruited from the
Ranks of the semi civilized "wards of
the nation" With a magnanimity
which would be praiseworthy were it
not SO farcical, they permit the de-
Btroyer. for the sake of revenue, to
lay snares for their own boys and
girls, but make the homes of the In
dian secure from invasion by throw
Ing around them the protecting arm
bf the law.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

"Going into decline.' How often do we
hear this expression What does it mean?
Lt meaus that people are tossing flesh, grow
s ng thin, wasting.
The way to correct this condition is to i'm
Drove the digestion. The condition arises
from an inability to eat and digest food. In
fact food does more harm than good because
it ferments and putreies in the stomach, de-
Eeloping poisonous substances which when
absorbed cause various disorders.
What is required is that the stomach be
made to perform its dnties. The Shaker Di-
Eestive Cordial is a food already digested
|Bnd digester of foods aswell. 1t viii make
/ he stomach healthy. Get book from the
Druggist and read about it.
California chemist has robbed Castor
bill of its bad taste Laxol is its name
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

A large number of orchards have
never paid and never will. The most
common cause is starvation, for the
average farmer who plants an orchard
or buys one goes on treating The land
as if such thing did not exist. He
crops the ground in rotation and out
of it, until it is wonder that his Or
chard lives at all.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
Nv. 9. T. u. COLUMN.
otto: ''God and Home and Native Land"

The close connection between beer
II had stronger liquors is Gifted denied,
but facts in abundance exist to prove
Ina t no drunkard was ever reformed
by being induced to give up whiskey
Ind stronger liquors, and substitute
beer: while thousands of persons who
have been totally abstinent, ON begin
hing to drink beer have gone on to
stronger liquors.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
OUR FARMERS.
FARM NOTES.

Never ring pig, even if you do the
old hogs.
If an Improbable scrub is sick bet
ter let it die.
Never will good breeding animals
be cheaper. Breed up.
Ground fresh bone is good for hogs
as well as for poultry.
Steaming corn fodder, cutting it
and mixing it with grain, will pay.
Don't try to make silage do as a
complete ration. A little hay and
grain are needed with it.
The average age of a dog is ten
years, but in isolated cases these ami
mails have been known to live twenty.
Feed the stock at regular hours.
Regularity in all things systematic
ORDERS one of the chief secrets of
success.
The dog is regarded as a distinct
species of an animal, closely akin to
the wolf on the one side and the fox
on the other.
Your hogs ought to have roots now.
If you haven't any this winter lay the
lesson to heart and provide some next
season.
When it is time for any sort of
work to be done push it along as fast
as possible. Never let it push you. It
costs no more to hire fen men one
day than one man ten days.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
COLUMN.
WHAT SHOULD BE KNOWN
ABOUT Il RANGE.

ABOUT Il RANGE.
| Whoever has the charge of the
range should understand exactly how
to manage it so that it will accom-
plish good work with the least
amount of coal necessary for the pur-
pose.
She should understand how to
make the fire, using as little kindling-
wood as possible. To do this the
sticks must be crossed over each
other in the fire-box to let the air be-
tween them, and not piled side by
side.
She should understand that SCOT
and ashes, if not brushed from the
top of the oven each morning, will
prevent the oven from heating at the
top.
She should be instructed that to fill
stove above the top of the oven to
the covers with coal will interrupt
the passage of heated air over the
oven, and will injure the stove, be-
cause covers and stove top brought
to red heat will warp and crack,
letting in air to the frebox, and
no amount of stove backing will
ever disguise the fact that it has once
been overheated, for it will always
remain dull red.
Many dollars are wasted each year
in coal, because the fact is not real
lied that when once the coal either
in stove or furnace has become red
all through, the best heat has gone,
and from that time it begins to die
out, and must soon be replenished. 1t
is a waste which should not be ex
cused.
Baking and ironing days, when
brisk fire is needed for several hours,
replenish the fire frequently with
sprinkling of coal, because a large
amount of coal at once will check the
heat for some time.
When the cooking of meal is
over, replenish the fire with cinders,
not with fresh coal, and open the
slide or draft that let's cold air over
Inc top Oh UI10 IRE.
All these points must be thoroughly
undertood by the mistress, or the
system of household economics is not
what it should be. Waste in any de-
partment is not to be tolerated.
EGG CooKING.-A boiled egg must
be either soft boiled or hard enough
for the yolk to crumble to be easily
digested. An authority upon egg
cooking says that boiled eggs to be at
their best should not be boiled at all.
If desired hard, they should be kept
in water just below the boiling point
for 20 minutes. For soft eggs, put
them in cold water, and when the
water reaches the boiling point the
eggs should be taken out, and they
will be found creamy and delicate.
When poaching eggs, to make
them into ball shape but one egg
should be cooked at time. After
the water begins to boil rapidly stir
it around until small circle is form
ed in the water, drop the egg into
boiling water will form circular
covering of white around the I'M
broken yolk.
Rolls are more crisp and tender
when baked quickly, and the heat of
the oven should be somewhat greater
for rolls than for bread. They should
also be considerably lighter than
bread when put to bake, as the fer
is arrested SO rapidly by
the heat required for baking them
properly that they rise but little after
they go in the oven.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

The world contains at least four
mountains composed of almost solid
iron ore. One is the iron mountains
of Missouri, another in Mexico, anoth
er in India and fourth in that ia
nous region of Africa explored by
Stanley, and there have been reports
of such a mountain existing in Sibe
ria
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

They are made of refined concentrated
vegetable extracts. Nothing in the least
harmful enters into their composition,
They hunt down all impurities, and make
t1--m move on" They are the product OF
rna1ly years study and practice. Doctor
Pier cannot afford to put forth worth
less sicle. Send for free sample.
Address with Fl cents in one-cent stamps to
Medical association Buffalo, N. Y, and get
Tree cooy = = Peoples Medical Adviser"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
JUST FOR FUN.

Maggie, I've made mistake. I'm
not an author, I'm born chemist.
Why do you think that? Why, every
book write becomes a drug on the
market.
Clerk see by the papers that Mr..
Differs is going to be married. En-
ployer-Great snakes! Run around
to his Office and collect this bill before
it is too late.
Dentist as the patient opens his
eyes)-It's out. Patient (still dizzy
from the gas)-Yes, of course. I
never got drunk in my life that it
didn't get out.
She-Do you suppose man ever
spoke the truth when he told a
woman she was the only girl he had
ever kissed?. He-Well, don't think
Adam lied about it to Eve.
Jinks-There is a man who has a
number of movements on foot for
making money. Bink-Who is he?
Jinks-I do not know his name, but
he's dancing teacher.
How did Liebig Boomer, the press
agent act after called him liar and
turned on my heel? Half tickled to
death. You said he was the most
original and versatile liar in New
York.
A western rural paper, giving a list
of the presents received by the new
ly married couple, states that from
Aunt Jane was received a card board
and crewel motto, "Fight on, fight
ever"
Dobson-What became of that man
who had twenty seven medals for
saving people from drowning? Dock
mantle fell in one day when he had
them all on, and the weight of 'em
sunk him.
Mebbe, said Uncle Eben, er small
boy wo uldn't be so anxious ter copy
de bad habits oh his father eff de OF
gemman acted like he was gettin de
same amount o. inj'yment out'n de
good ones.
William, said the teacher, can you
tell me anything about the shape of
the earth? Only what my father
found out in the newspaper. What is
that? He says it's in mighty bad
shape just at present.
Mrs. Smythe-Have you any idea
why Mrs. Tompkins is SO disappoint-
ed because their baby is girl?
Smythe-Why, sure! She wanted to
show her mother law the proper
way to bring up boy.
The Lady at the Kitchen Door-No,
I've nothing for you. I find it very
hard to make both ends meet these
days. Blizzard Bill-If you will make
both ends bread and never mind de
meat, I'll be puffectly satisfied, mum.
Mrs. YEAST wish I could think of
something to keep my husband at
home nights. Mrs. Puncheon-Get
him bicycle. That would take him
out more than ever. Oh, no, it
wouldn't; my husband got one the
day before yesterday, and the doctor
says he won't be out for month.
Real Estate Agent (out West)-
This is the house I told you about.
Eastern Man (anxious to grow up
with the country Rather pretty
place. Contains all the modern i'm
provements, does it? Agent-Yes.
Which will you look at firSt-the cy-
clone cave or the earthquake cellar?
Mistress reprovingly y Bridget,
the breakfast is very late this morn
ing. I noticed last night that you
had company in the kitchen, and it
was nearly twelve o'clock when you
went to bed. Bridget-Yes, mum;
knowed you was awake, fur I heard
We movin' around, an | said to me-
self y'd made Shape this mornin' an
wouldn't disturb We wild an early
breakfast, mum.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

Group and whopoing cough are childhood IS
terrors; but like pneumonia, bronchitis, and
other throat and lung troubles, can be quickly
cured by using One Minute Cough Cure. b. &C.
Pierce, Barton; D. W. Hi1dreth, Barton Land
ing: R. E. French. Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

When the spring times comes, 'tgentle An
ME-" like all sensible:persons, will cleanse
Wits Little Early Early Risers, famous lit
tie pills for the stomach and liver all the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
elbow to Cure All Skin Diseases.

HOW 10 Cufe All SIKH DISeaScS.'
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
healthy. It's great healing and curative pow
ers are possessed by other remedy. Ask
your druggist for Swayne's Ointment.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

prove fatal in few days. but old coronic
coughs and throat troubles may receive i'm
mediate rilief and be permanently curedl by
One Minute Cough Cure. III. @. Pierce, Bar
ton; d. w. Hildreth, Barton Landing; r. e.
French, Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03

Some English rep ortersnow take
notes at night by the light of tiny
incandescent lamp attached to the
waistcoat.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-08
Faith Ia Looking I'm.

According TO Dun & Co, the business
conditions are gradually shaping them
selves about the same as they were in
1879, just previous to a remarkable adj
vance in business prosperity. This view
may be Of the roseate order, but ii is based
on facts and figures which the able re-
porter thinks justify It, 1t seems almost
incredible that the volume of business is
now larger than it was in 1S92-the year
Of greatest prosperity-yet such is the
verdict of Dun & Co. But the volume Of
profits is much smaller, making the vol
ume of prosperity correspondingly less.
A very large share of the present volume
of business is the importation of foreign
goods under free trade and low tariff
schedules. This harms rather than helps
American enterprises and the labor there
in employed, or which ought to be therein
employed. We may do a tremendous
business in flooding our markets with
foreign goods to the exclusion of the pro-
ducts of our own labor, but there is no
prosperity to our country in that kind of
business. Last months record of bust
ness failures is decidedly encouraging,
showing, as il does, large decrease in
comparison with previous and correspond
ing months.-Detroit Journal (Rep).
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-08
SiIverites Arc Dumb.

Prices cannot rise so long as the gold
standard obtains" That was the asser-
ton made with endless persistence by the
silver standard orators and newspapers
last year. The basal proposition of Mr..
Bryan was that commodities could not
reach higher values save through the free
coinage of silver. What do we now see
Wheat has advanced, in the face of re-
ports indicating a tremendous yield this
summer. In the grazing regions sheep
have nearly doubled in price since last
year. Wool has gone up fifty per cent.
The cattle market is good. In the general
market there is an upward movement.
The impossible has happened, then. What
do the free coinage advocates say about
the condition that now confronts them ?
Precisely what anyone would expect
them to say-nothing. -Cincinnati Times
Star Rep).
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-08
Imnroved Trade Conditions.

The mercantile reports for the past
week leave no room for doubling the fact
that signs of marked improvement in bust
ness conditions are discernible on every
hand. The unexpected progress made by
the tariff bill in the Senate, with the pros
pect of an adjournment of Congress some
time in July, together with the optimistic
speeches of Secretary Gage, in which he
gave the country assurance of ultimate
relief from certain admitted defects in our
financial system, have all combined to
make the trade record of the week a most
satisfactory one. That the hopeful and
encouraging utterances of the President
and his Secretary of the Treasury had a
marked influence on trade conditions was
evidenced by the increased foreign de-
mand for American securities.-Ch Chicago
Times Herald Qnd).
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-08
Steady Gain in Busiuess.

The gain in business continues. not
without fluctuations, and at the best mod
crate, but yet distinct. 1t is still in GUAM
titles rather than prices, although in some
branches an advance in prices appears, but
on the whole the number of hands en-
plowed, the volume of new orders and
the amount of work done, are slowly in
creasing. Prospects of good crops Of
wheat and corn help; growing demand
from dealers, whose stocks gradually
gaining consumption deplete also helps.
and in the money and exchange market
large buying of American securities has
an influence. Money coming hither from
the West even as late as June 10. with
great crops near at hand, indicates n
healthy condition at the West Indica-
tons Of the volume of business are seen
in clearing house exchanges. which for
the week exceed the last years ST. per
cent, and in railroad earnings, which
amount in the United States alone to
$34, 70S,9S7 on roads reported by Dun's
Review for May. 3.3 per cent larger than
last year, and 3 per cent larger than in
1S92.-Washington Post Dem)