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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
When the Earl and Countess of Alb

When the Earl and Countess of Alb
erdeen made their first visit to Amer
lea, some years ago, they had an or
iginal experience with a folding bed
in a large Chicago hotel.
1t was the first continuance of the
kind they had ever seen, and SER
want explained it's mysteries to the
Countess.
During the night, however, their
bell in the office rang a loud call for
assistance, and charnbermaid, who
was dispatched to the suite of rooms
occupied by the lordly pair. found
the noble Earl, clad in a hastily
donned dressing gown, frantically
endeavoring to extricate the fair
Countess from the jaws of the bed,
which had been closed on her un-
expectedly.- Peorson's Weekly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

Thousands of reapers and mowers
are in operation today in Central
and North Texas and the Panhandle,
and if the rain will hold off for two
weeks the state will have the largest
grain crop in it's history. Conserva-
tive estimates place the wheat yield
at from 20, 900, 900 to $4,000, 900 bushels.
1t will easily bring 6Oc per bushel, or
$15, 900, 900, and the oat crop is estim-
ated at 10000, 900 bushels, at zoe
bushel, or ss,OOO,Oo There is great
demand for laborers to help harvest
the great crops.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

If you eat what you like, and digest it, you
will surely be strong and healthy. But if you
don't digest it, you might almost as well not
eat, for what good can your food do you if it
doesn't nour1sh you? Ifyou find that you
can't digest it, there is a simple help for your
stomach. It is Shaker Digestive Cordial,
made by the Shakers of Mount Lebanon. 1t
has never failed to cure the worst case of in
digestion. Strength and health come from
the food you eat, after it has been digested
and has gone into the blood. The best tonic
is digested food. The best aid to digestion,
Shaker Digestive Cordial. When you have
acid quotations, nausea, headache, wind,
dizziness, offensive breath or any other symp-
toms of dyspe psia, Shaker Digestive Cordial
will cure you. At druggists. Trial bottle 1Oc.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
The Discovery Saved His Life.

Mr.. G.. Caillouette, druggist, Beaversville,
ILL.,, says: ITO DIR. Kings New Discovery L
owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe and
tried all the physicians for miles about, but
of no avail and was given up and told 1 could
not live Having DR.. Kings New Discovery
in my store sent for bottle and began it's
use and from the first dose began to get bet
ter, and after using three bottles was up and
about again. 1t is worth it's weight in gold.
We won't keep store house without it,
Get free trial at III. G. Pierce's drug store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

Most melon growers are agreed
that a cold rain will clear out the lice.
1t is on the same principle that ice
water spray is effective. Kerosene
emulsion, bordeaux mixture, paris
green and lime or soapsuds if applied
cold will all do as well, not because of
the material in them, but because of
the chill. Spraying with anything
more than cold water, therefore, is
waste Of material.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

If you have any land that cannot be
cultivated to corn or potatoes do not
allow it to remain for the weeds to
exhaust, but NOW down the weeds
when they are young and in August
SOW the land to crimson clover, to be
ploughed under next spring. 1t is a
good plan to SOW crimson clover on
every vacant spot and thus improve
the soil by taking advantage of it's
capacity for gathering nitrogen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

Say! Do you see those worm nests
on your appleatrees? Go immediate
ly and destroy them. These pests
were never SO plenty as this spring,
and unless vigorous war of EXTERN
ination is waged upon them, fruit and
shade trees will be denuded of leaves,
and mayhap, many of them destroyed.
Destroy the nests before the young
worms are able to begin their work
of depreciation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
JOHNNY AND THE GATE.
Johnny, want you to do an err
rand for me.o

Johnny, I want you to do an err
rand for meo
"Where, mamma?n
cover to Mrs. Roots. Here is a
note for her. Put it in your pocket"
| Johnny set out on his errand, soon
arriving at Mrs. Roots gate. And
here he found trouble. The latch on
the gate was so tightly caught that he
| could not open it. With all his might
| he tugged at it, but his small hands
| were not strong enough. What did
he do? Turn about and go home
again with his errand undone? No,
Johnny was not that kind of boy.
He had been sent to give that note to
Mrs. Root, and he meant to do it. He
tried to climb over the gate, but it
was too high. Then he looked about
him. The gate belonging to the next
house was low. He was an active lit
tie fellow, and could easily climb
that. He walked carefully along the
fence until he came to the board wall
which divided Mrs. Roots lot from
this one. There was ledge along it.
He climbed on this, then hung by his
hands and dropped into Mrs. Roots
yard. Coming out, he found it easy
to open the gate. Within sight of the
gate there was tiny park with seats
under the trees. AS Johnny started
for home, he saw his father sitting on
one of them.
CHOW long have you been here,
papa?" he asked.
'About ten minutes,'' said his
father.
"Did you see what time had get
ting into Mrs Root's?"
eyes"
"And you didn't come to open the
gate for me-" said Johnny, feeling
little injured.
''No, because L was thinking of the
times when I shouldn't be with you,
and you would have to make your
own way, just as you did now"
"But don't go to Mrs. Roots very
often. Perhaps I shan't go there
again for a great while, and perhaps
the gate will be fixed then.'
ST mean, my boy, that was think
ing of the times which will come to
you as you go on in life, when they
will seem hard for you, and you will
have to work it ont alone. Now God
has given you your strong, active
body and your bright mind, and he
expects you to use them. When you
cannot do thing one way by the pow
ers of your body, you call on the
powers of your mind to tell you of
some other way, just as you did in
getting into Mrs. Roots yard when
you could not open the gate"
eyes, I had to think it OUT" said
Johnny, brightly.
s'I was much pleased at seeing that
you did not give it up when you met
with a difficulty. A boy who brings
his best thought and power to the
overcoming of an obstacle will be
sure to make his way."-N. Y. o.
serUer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
Fewer acres and more bushe

Fewer acres and more bushels
should be always the object. Large
farms are not undesirable if the own
er has the capital to give the land the
highest cultivation, but it is seldom
that an ordinary farm is made to
produce to it's fullest capacity unless
the efforts are concentrated on the
smallest possible area. Labor and
manure cannot be distributed over
large surface with advantage.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

Corn fodder contains more starch
tina clover, while clover is richer in
protein. A ration of both clover and
fodder is excellent where no grain is
allowed. as is sometimes the rule in
warm weather. A mixed ration is
better at all times than to rely entire
ly upon one kind of food and for all
classes of stock.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

TRY GRAIN o. TRY GRAIN o! Ask
your grocer to-day to show you pack
of Grain-O the new food drinkthat takes
the place of coffee. The children may
drink it without injury as well'as the adult
All who try it, like it, Grain-O has that
rich seal brown of Mocha Java, but it is
made from pure grains and the most deli
cate stomachs receives it without distress.
a the price of coffee. 15c. and Csc. per pack
age. Sold by all grocers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

At ten cents a bushel potatoes do
not pay the grower, but they will pay
the dairyman who purchase them at
that price to feed his mich cows.
Farmers who are hauling potatoes out
to the field to be used as fertilizers
will find it will pay better to first put
them through live stock.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

Helps them ALT have taken Hoods Sar-
saparilla for distress in the stomach and it
has given me relief. My sister has taken it
for loss of appetite and it always helps her.
An aged lady who lives with me was prostrat-
ed by the grip, but she has been restored to
good health by Hoods Sarsaparil1a.'' Mrs.
J. w. Smith, Box 295, Gardiner Maine.
Hoods Pills are the favorite family cathar-
tic, Easy to take, gentle, mild. Is cents.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
Chocolate Ice Cream

Make a smooth boiled custard of three
pints of milk, two oupfuls of sugar,
four beaten eggs, two tablespoonful Of
flour and one-quarter teaspoonful Of
salt. Cook we'll. Melt one-half ounce of
shaved chocolate, scant half cupful of
sugar and spoonful of water. Add to
the custard. Flavor with teaspoonful
of vanilla. When cool, add a pint of
cream and freeze.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
a Delicate Cake.

A dainty cake that can be made in
hurry and commonly known by the
name delicate cake calls for the follow
ing ingredients: Whites of 4 eggs, cup
of milk, one-half cup of butter, 2 cups
of sugar, az cups of -four, 1 heaping
teaspoonful of baking powder.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
OUR FARMERS.

Since the beginning of the year
$50, 900, 600 pounds of wool have been
bought in Boston. In the same period
last year the amount purchased was
$4,000, 900 pounds. 1t is thus Uncle
Sam loses money through delays in
passing tariff law.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14
CUR =

was sufferer from an attack of complicat-
ed kidney disease in its most severe form,
that was forced to give up my situation, and
unable to perform work of any kind for
a period of six months. was advised to use
DR.. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills, and after
taking three boxes, was completely cured of
one of the most intense and painful troubles
a person was ever Athlete d with. am now a
of its reappearance. I cheerfully advise all
sufferers to use DIR. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney
Pills, knowing that the results will always
prove my experience, a permanent and speedy
cure. FRANK RoBILLARD, Sc Rodman St.,
Fall River, Mass,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
A Business Horse.

A remarkable display Of animal sa-
gacity was given last week in Kensing-
ton by the horse driven by old Harr,s
Pindle, an itinerant coal dealer. Harry
has been a small dealer for years, and
many bucket of coal he sells to Gus.
toners of twenty years standing. Hec.
tor, the old bay horse, has been owned
by Harry for several years, and al
though he is old and lame, the animal
serves his master well. Last week
while out with a load of coal Harry
was taken sick, and leaving his 6-year-
old grandson on the wagon, he went
into a friends house to rest Now,
Hector evidently got tired of waiting,
for when Harry, who had become very
sick, came out with his friend to be
driven home, the team was gone. Late
that afternoon the grandson came
home with an empty wagon and ex-
planned that Hector had gone over the
regular route, and that the people who
had been waiting for their coal, came
out and took what they wanted, and
paid for it. Harry became very ill, and
was confined to bed for over a week,
but the supply of coal never stopped, as
Harry's oldest son would load the wag-
on before going to work and the team
would be sent out in charge of the little
boy. 1t has been proven since that old
Hector never missed a customer along
the route, and he is now pointed out as
a remarkable horse.-Philadelphia Rec.
ord
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
NapOleon's W IL.

The giving up of the log of the May
flower to the United States and the
suggested return to use of the recently
discovered parliamentary journal from
New York call to mind what was prob
ably the most interesting former occa-
sion of similar international courtesy,
says the Westminster Gazette. Ma
poleon's will, which was made at st.
Helena, was proved in London shortly
after his decease, and for long time
remained in the fireproof room of the
Registry Of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury. where it was a standing
object for the inspection of the curious.
After the restoration of the empire,
and in the. year of the Napoleon-E Eu-
genie marriage, the French made ap-
plication for it, and 1t was handed over
to them by Lord John Russell. For
formal purposes an official notarial
copy of 1t was made Tor preservation in
England In place of the original.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
S2oo,ooo,ooo FOR TITLES.
That Amount and Good Girls, Ell
changed for Foreign Bridegrooms.

That Amount and Good Girls. Ex-
changed for Foreign Bridegrooms.
The newspaper gossip about Miss
Pauline Astor and Miss May Goelet,
who, with their millions, are able to
buy anything in the matrimonial mar
ket that Europe has for sale, has re-
vived many "reminiscences of previous
alliances of American ladies with for
eign noblemen. Rumor has it that ne
gotiations are pending for the marriage
of Miss Astor to Prince Alexander Of
Teck, and that Miss Goelet is hesitat-
ing between the Duke of Manchester
and the Duke of Roxeburgh, but
whether she takes one or the other,
neither Miss Goelet nor Miss Astor will
do any better than Miss Mackey, now
the Princess of Colonna, or Miss Van
derbilt, now Duchess of Marlborough.
The question is only one of expense, for
it is perfectly well understood that the
titles are for sale, and also that the
higher the title the higher the price. A
plain count may be had for $4,000 to
100000, duke for $1,OOO,OO0, or as
much more as he can get; an italian
of Germany or England comes much
higher.
During the last quarter of a century
over 400 alliances between American
heiresses and foreign noblemen have
been contracted. The fortunes trans
ferred from America to Europe vary in
amount from $4,000 to half as many
millions, and so far as this country is
concerned is total loss, because the
noble foreigners prefer to spend at
home the money they win in the Amer
lean matrimonial lottery. 1t is esti-
mated that during the last quarter of
a century over $2OO,OOO,OOO of money
made in this country by American citi
zens has been sent abroad as dowries
for American heiresses who preferred
titles to dollars.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
A Noble Woman.

The wife of Gen. Washington proved
herself fully equal to the high position.
Her levees were more select and court
ly than any that have since been given,
yet she preferred home-life and home
comforts, speaking of her public life
as her "lost days" When she took up
her residence with the army her chief
occasion was to care for the welfare of
the soldiers. To those in camp, she
showed a most worthy example Of
courage and cheerful patience under
all manner of privations; to sick and
weary she carried that balm to sooth
weary spirit and body, which only
the presence of a noble and sympa-
thetic woman can bear. Mrs. Wash
ington, with her large fortune, could
easily have outshone all others in fash
ion and display, but instead, she put
herself and her servants in home-m made
materials. Sixteen spinning wheels
were kept in constant operation in her
house. On one occasion she displayed
two dresses of cotton, striped with silk
explaining that the silk stripes were
woven from the ravelings of brown
silk stockings and old crimson damask
chair covers.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
Richest Woman in Texas

Mrs. Richard King, of Texas, is prob
ably the richest woman in the United
States, not even excepting Mrs. Hetty
Green. She is a widow, and her land
ed estates in Southern Texas amount
to ], 1,25O, 700 acres, or about 1000 square
miles. The ranch on which she resides
is the largest in the world. 1t is called
"The Santa Gertrudes.' In the center
of it, thirteen miles from her front gate,
is Mrs. Kings home, central chateau,
looming up like a baronial castle on a
slight eminence. All around it are the
pretty homes of dependents, surround
ed by well-tilled fields and gardens.
The 100000 cattle, of improved and
imported breeds, and all sheep within
the Santa Gertrudes ranch belong to
Mrs. King. The current expenses of
the ranch reach 100000 year. Three
hundred cowboys are in her employ,
for whom she keeps 1,200 ponies.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
THE MOUNTAIN MAID.
She Had Natural Anxiety and She
Sought to A11ay 1t.


AS my horse, putting like a porpoise,
drew me and my blackboard up the last
sharp activity of the mountain road
that led out into the pass between the
SUBMITS rising on either hand, he
would have exercised his privilege and
stopped a moment to blow, but a hun
dred yards ahead of us 1 saw bright
bit of calico cleaning in the morning
sun. and driving on l came up to a
buxom mountain maid sitting on a
stump at a point where footpath,
leading up from the valley, met the
main road, says a traveller.
Good morning." she said, before
had a chance to stop, and there seemed
to be an anxious tone in the voice.
"Good morning" 1 responded, and 1
was ON the point of asking her how far
it was to the next place, favorite
manner of starting conversation on
mountain roads, when she broke in.
"Air you a preacher?' she asked. r
NO. l answered, with smile, for
had never been asked that question be-
fore.
Nor squire?"
"No."
"Well, Jim Martins comm along this
way purity soon now an wuz jis' akin
SOS thar wouldn't be no mistakes"
Il, don't quite understand your eX-
planation," l said, completely in the
dark as to what she was trying to
get at.
Il reckon not, but 1 amt takin' no
chances, an l thought I'd better stop
you while had the chance"
''Thank you, I'm sure, but if you will
tell me what's up may be able to know
what you are talking about"
She laughed good-naturedly.
well, you see it's this away" she
said. Jim, he's been a-cOurtin' an
a-sparkin round me fer about two yer
now, an last night he popped an says
ez how eff I'd be here this mornin' ez he
come along we'd go down to Logville
an git hitched, an Jim's mighty on
relia BILE an likes not eff we got thar an
the preacher ner the squire warn't
thar, I'd never git Jim in the mind
ag'in, so l kinder thought mebbe you
might be the squire er the preacher an
didn't want yer to git away. Eff you
meet Jim anywheres down the road
don't tell him you seen me, fer 1 don't
want him skeert."
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
Increased His Glass,

This could only happen in Scotland,
where a way has been discovered by a
Glasgow minister to compel even the
worldly passions of men to make for
righteousness. He noticed that the
young women who came to Bible class
at his house each had a young man
waiting for her. SO one evening what
did this capny Scotsman do, when the
class was in progress, but make an ex-
cuse to leave the room and step out
side, where, as he expected, he found
a small crowd of waiting swains. With
much politeness he pointed out his IN
willingness to keep them from their
sweethearts and invited them to come
inside and see them.
1t is needless to add this Glasgow
minister has a mixed Bible class now
on his hands. And it is doing well.-
Boston Herald.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
TOPICS FOR FARMERS
A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
Best Way tn Feed Corn Fodder How
to Danish the Rats Amount of Water
Cow Drinks Test OF Her MIX
Value.
Feeding orn Fodder.

I last winter put the cows into feed
lot adjoining the farm. Three pigs for
each COW were also placed in the lot.
The COWS were taken into the barn
twice 4 day, fed ear corn, broken, and,
after being MIXED, were turned into
the lot and given unhusked corn fod-
der. In this way each cow received
one and ore-third bushel ear corn per
week ard one bushel of corn In the fod-
der. The pigs in addition to what they
picked up, We're given butterrGilk and
some skim-Ui:K. In return for this feed
received four and one-half pounds
batter and ten pounds of pork per week
per COW, or about two pounds butter
and four pounds pork per bushel Of
corn. The COWS were provided with a
good shed and a thick layer of straw to
lie OLA GriculturiSt.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
To still the Ocean,s waves,

A scheme to increase the efficiency
of oil to still the waves of the ocean in
storm has been thought out by Will
liam Guthrie, of Chicago. His notion
is based on the argument that if oil has
pacifying effect when distributed on
the water in the immediate neighbor-
hood of the ship in trouble. its effect
would be magnified if the oil could be
applied at distance all about the ship,
thus creating calm circle, in which
the ship could ride in safety until the
storm had spent its fury. His PROPOSE
tion is to shoot saturated sponges or cot
ton from pneumatic gun, that being
preferable to a powder gun, as there
would be no danger of igniting the OIL
soaked sponge. Some people interested
in shipping have been impressed with
the idea and application is to be made
to congress for an appropriation to test
its efficiency