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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-31
Barton.

Barton.
a petition is out to straighten Prospect
street.
last w eek.
Sara Stone and her son Charlie visited
friends here over Sunday.
There have been 90 cases of measles re-
ported in the village school.
Quite number of our village people
have gone to Newport today to listen to
SOusa's band.
Mr.. Conner is in town and will start the
wood work for Mr.. Cuttings new house
as soon as the weather will permit.
Aaron Skinner has taken the agency of
Orleans county for the book entitled
%sThe Earth Girdled,' by Rev. DR.. Tai
mage.
Put it down in your memorandum that
when taxes in a town or village exceed
200 per cent. men and money move
out.
Prayer meeting at the NJ. E. church will
be held Wednesday evening this week in
stead of Thursday, because of the gradua-
ting exercises of the academy. s.
Yesterday was Montpelier Seminary
Sunday at the NJ. E. church and the
amount apportioned this church, S24, at
the last conference was easily raised.
Christian Endeavor meeting this even
ing at 7:15 instead of 1880 as usual. After
roll call, MIR. Arthur Drew viii give talk
on 'sThe Colored People of the South
The alumni of Barton Academy and
Graded school will hold a banquet at
Hotel Barton on the evening of June 4th,
which promises to be very pleasant
thing.
The examinations for promotions in the
graded schools will occur on Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday of this week. 1t is
very necessary that all candidates for pro-
motion be present.
Last week was very rainy and cold and
little work was done out of doors in the
line of farming. Springs work is late and
the ground is very wet. The grass is grow
ing well meanwhile.
1t is reported that Benjamin Mossman
and his granddaughter, Gertrude and
Mauds, viii not return from California
this season. Mr.. Mossman has purchased
a house in San Bernardino.
A. B. Douglass of Manchester, n. H.,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-31

e. Brooks is about to move back to
Springfield, as he cannot find tenement
here. 1t would seem as though some man
or men who have money would find it to
their interest to erect some tenement
houses here.
Capt. VIM. III. Johnson died at his home
five miles northwest of Columbus City,
Iowa, May IA, aged 78 years and rs days.
He was born in Queenstown, Canada,
April II, 1919, and was a son of Alexander
and Amoret (Hamm) Johnson. In 1S43
he was married to Miss Emily Hight of
this town; to them were born three child
rem, Laura, wife of A. Merrill, Clara and
Orlo,I all of whom with his wife survive to
mourn his loss. He was converted in
early manhood and though never united
with any church he lived CONSTANT
life. At the breaking out of the rebellion
he enlisted and went out as crptain of Co.
I. 18th Reg. VT. Vols. He was a faith
full and loving husband and father, and
those who knew him best knew how mn
selfish was his life. VT. papers please
copy. L.
The following very pretty verses on the
life and death of Geo. HI. Phelps, who
sacrificed his life for his country, and for
whom the G. A. r. Post in this town was
named are very appropriate at this time. 1t
was the good fortune of the senior editor
of this paper to know Mr.. Phelps, and he is
pleased to speak of his ability and his ex
ceIlence and to add one more tribute to
his memory:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-31
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR.
PRORATE COTRTS

Probate Courts will be held at the Probate
Office in Newport each Monday. At the Office
of +. w. Baldwin in Barton on the second
Friday of each month; al the office of b. +.
ID. Carpenter at Barton Landing in the after
noon of the third Friday of each month.
Parties having business with the Court at
Barton or Barton Landing concerning pend
ing estates will please inform the Court in
advance that he may take the necessary
papers with him.
E. E. ALFRED, Judge of Probate.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-31
st. j. & L. e.. II. II.

Passenger Trains Leave
HARD WICK-EAST-5:50 q IN: 1925 m; 7;Z7
pm WEsT-9:O4 M; 4:45 P m; 1927 p M
EAST WORCESTERSHIRE m; 1875
m; 1886 D m. WEsT-S:54 q m; 4:36 p m;
7:05 m.
GREENSBORO-EAsT- m; 1850 a m;
7:45pm. WEsT-S:45 M; 4:28 p m; $50
ST. Y-EAsr-s:45a m: 1900 noon;
$3.50 I'm. WEsT-7:25 m; 1920 p m; 4:4O
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
MATRIMONY AND MENNONITES.
The Minister Does the Proposing for
the Girls Hand.

The Minister Does the Proposing for
the Girls Hand.
When a Mennonite young man desires
to marry q Mennonite young woman,
instead of telling her about 1t he con-
fdes in the minister. If the latter
thinks well of the proposed match he
informs the young woman and gener-
ally devotes considerable time to plead
ing the case of the lovesick swain, since
1t Is considered somewhat indelicate for
the woman to yield too easily. Even
sfter their engagement the minister
conducts most of the negotiations lead
irg up to the marriage ceremony.
This always takes place in church,
TO which everybody is entitled to adm1s-
sion on the wedding day withoutinvfta
ton Two weeks before the wedding
the "banns" are called from the pulpit
end during that fortnight the bride anu
groom are allowed to meet without the
presence of third party. The first
portion of the ceremony consists OF O
sermon, generally on some suoh suolec'
as the duties of husband and wife. One
such sermon preached at a wedding lost
su1nmer lasted about two hours, al
though the minister announced in the
beginning that because OF the NOT
weather he would "be brief" AT the
close of the sermon the contracting par
ties, who had been seated on opposite
sides of the church, walked to the
altar, where they answered affirmative
ly series of questions and were pro-
nounced man and wife. Then they re-
turned to their seats on opposite sides
of the auditorium and the regular serv-
ices of the day were resumed
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
SUBSTITUTE FOR SWING BRIDGE
Carious Engineering Structure at
the Month OF the River Nervion.

Carious Engineering Structure at
the Mouth OF the River Nervlon.
At the mouth of the river Neryion,
which flows into the Bay of Biscay be
tween Portugalete and Las Arenas,
curious engineering structure has been
erected within the last few years to
transport passengers, cattle and We
hicles without interfering with the
river traffic 1t consists, says the Man
chester Guardian, of a couple OF towers
200 feet high, one on each bank; from
these n bridge Is suspended by chains
at a height sufficien. to clear the masts
of vessels-that is, nearly $50 feet above
the water level of the spring tides.
This bridge carries n line of rails on
which trolley is pulled to and fro
by an engine on the Las Arenas or
northern side. With 1t goes car, hung
by steel cables, in which the passengers
take their seats. This Is not wound up
to the top, but stays at the level of
the quays. Thus the transit is effected
quickly and regularly, without the de-
lay inseparable from swing bridge.
A similar 'pont transbordeur" is to be
set up over the Seine near Rouen by
O French company. In general ap-
pearance 1t will resemble the Span
ish one, and II equally successful will
probably lead to the application of the
principle elsewhere. 1t seems odd that
for such simple and useful device
engineers should have to go to Spain.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
CHINESE OBSTACLES.
Evil Spirits Which Must he Driven

Out.
If house Is to be repaired wonder
ful forethought is necessary. The evil
spirits which are supposed to occupy
| each dwelling that mortals have inhab-
tted cause the carpenter no end of
trouble and no trifing expense, says
Lippincott's. First, an astrologer must
be consulted with regard to the most
lucky day for beginning the work;
thsn square suspended from the ridge
beam is a notification to the spirits of
darkness that their dwelling-place Is
TO he disturbed, wherefore the square
thing for them to do Is to move out
quietly and peacefully. Next the car
| penters make offerings to these IN
seen residents. These gifts seem to
say: ''If you please, spirits of dark
ness, accept this bribe and speedily
take your flight"
Next the neighbors must be warned
that these evil influences are about TO
be turned loose, perhaps to seek shelter
under neighboring roof. Every house
on that street receives a-notice that
upon a certain day and hour repairs are
to begin on the dwelling of All Sin.
Each household can then pay the imps
not to enter their doorway, but to 90
TO the next neighbor.
Even the farmer cannot begin his
work in the spring until after the ma
tional festivals are celebrated in honor
of the special gods who are supposed
to make it their particular business to
look after the welfare of those who till
the soil. In land where more than
100 1000, 900 people are supported by agri-
culture, where many farms have been
in cultivation for three or even four
milleniums, we naturally expect to find
skill in that line of work. In this we
ore not disappointed, for Chinese farm
ing Is scientific handwork
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
THE, CITIZEN
The South aud Cuba Libre.
PfttSburr Daily NcwS.l

Isn't it curious that the south, which
has employed every means fair and foul
to keep down her own negroes, should
be so Jealous for the liberty and indie
pendance of the Cuban negroes?
NO: it is not curious?"
You say it is not curious?"
That is exaC sly what 1 said; what
did you think l said?'
We'll, ii is curious to me.
why is it,"
Because it Is so inconsistent
What Is inconsistent?
"Oh. thunder and lightning, you
know what I mean Why do you ask all
those fool questionsr'
Il have only one more, foolish or
otherwise Do you go about telling
folks that a thing is curious with
ont trying TO learn why it is curious!
Il have tried to learn.
Why did yOu not say so at oncez'
The explanation of this fact. which is
curious to many perhaps, may be found
by going no further back than the first
years of this half of the century. In
1852 Franklin Pierce, Of New Hamp-
shire, was elected president, but i'll spite
of him and all who thought as he did,
the Free Soil movement moved right
along, and it disturbed the southerners
Notwithstanding their supremacy III the
land and their confident assertions that
they would maintain their supremacy.
There had long been discomfort III
Cuba with the rule of Spain, and III
1S4S the year of revolution, President
Polk, hoping to benefit by the fears OF
Spain that the revolutions would extend
to the island instructed the American
minister at the court of Madrid to offer
her 500, 600, 600 for i. He did so, and
received a curt no for an answer The
next year Lopez, the Venezuelan adven-
turer, organized a filibustering expedi-
ton in the United States, but the au-
thorities prevented it from sailing. The
next year it got off, but accomplished
nothing, and the next year it was tiled
again, but with disastrous results.
Lopez was captured and garroted in
Havana, and Col Crittenden and many
othels We're shot Crittenden was a
southerner, and veteran of the Mexican
war though only % years OF age; the
expedition was applauded in the south,
where no attempt was made to conceal
the object of it. Crittenden refused to
kneel with his back to his executioners,
but faced them.on his feet saying that
he knelt only to God. His ia tie awak
ened intense feeling in the south, and
the spirit in which he met it.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
One Why to Cure Green Reporters,

The Albany Journal tells a story of
two green reporters, Englishmen, who
were sent by the city editor of a Ger tain
newspaper to suburban town to write
up the burning of an orphan asylum.
Late that night when the news editor
was wondering why no copy about
the fire was coming by wire, telegraph
messenger rushed in and handed him a
dispatch. He opened it and read;
"Dear sir-We are here. What shall
we do2"
1t was signed with the names of the
two men sent to write up" the fire.
The news editor made few remarks,
which, while they were appropriate to
the occasion, would not look we'll In
print; then he wrote on o telegraph
blank this brief message;
"Find out where the fire Is hottest,
and i,lmp in"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

An Ohio girl has been sleeping for
twenty days. No Ohio man has slept
that many days since Mr. McKinleys
election, unless he has already got mis-
appointment
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
A RuNHinn .TOLe.

One reads in q Russian periodical
which has a corner devoted to the
"comic," this pleasantryi What, Van
yousha. drunk again? / thought you
only got drunk on the great holidayHT"
i'1o-day is great holiday; my mother
in-law has gone away"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
The Climax Brandy Of 1876
Vintage.

Has proven to be superior distilla
tion, and with years of ripening is now
put upon the market by the Speer n
j. Wine Co. 1t is Il superior mellow
brandy, possessing all the medicinal
properties for which brandies from
grape are so eminently useful Sold by
druggists.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
GIRLS
WILL JUMP ROPE.

Let them jump they will not jump
long, the time will come when they will
not care to jump. Buy them good shoes
and let them go. children are hard on
shoes at all times and when rope jump
ing begins that's when they wear out the
fastest.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
Aunt Eachac's iiorphound and
Cicc1nIpanc for Singers.

There are thousands of cases on re
cord where persons suffering from con
sumption have been completely cured
by the use OF Aunt Rachael's Unre
hound Herb, Elecampane Root, and
Speer's Grape Juice, and persons are
willing today to testify 10 the miracu-
ious cures wrought for them by this
pleasant and most effective remedy.
Used by public speakers, For sale by
druggists.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

After typhoid fever, pneumonia and
other prostrating diseases take Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
A writer says that a few of the
things We ought to know are; That
fresh paint may be removed by rubbing
with gasoline. That salt dissolved in
alcohol will remove grass spots from
cloth. That the bu tier should be kept
That the table should always be so
kept as to be ready for a guest with
but moments notice. That Il canton
flannel silence cloth makes your table
cloth look infinitely handsomer. That
meal should never be announced until
everything is in readiness. That a
pinch of borax in warm water viii re
move grease from the hair That the
hair may be prevented from falling mt
by using six grains of quinine and two
ounces of glycerine in half a pint OF
whisky for two weeks; then omit for
the same time and repeat. That every
one should go out doors at least once a
day That the sunshine and bright
flowers are a good tonic That more
exercise and less medicine would be
beneficial to invalids That invalids
should never be left alone as many a
death has occurred from imprudence
when the nurse has left the room for a
moment That good food is often bet
ter than doctor or nurse, and that prop
er nourishment will often prevent con
sumption.
Here is diamond, here is piece Of
charcoal. Both carbon; yet between
them stands the mightiest of magic
ians-Nature The food on your table,
and your own body; elementally the
same; yet between the two stands the
digestion, the arbiter of growth or decline
life or death.
We cannot make diamond; we can
not make flesh, blood or bone. No. But
by means of the Shaker Digestive Cor
dial we can enable the stomach to di-
gest food which would otherwise fer
ment and poison the system. In all
forms of dyspepsia and incipient con
sumption, with weakness. loss of flesh,
thin blood, nervous prostration the Cor
dial is the successful remedy. Taken
with food it relieves at once. 1t nour-
ishes, and assists nature to nourish
A trial bottle-enough to show its
merit-10 cents.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
Butler Savings Bank
butler, Pa.
TII f.
Butler County National Bank,

Butler Penn,
Capital paid in SIoo,ooo. 90
Surplus and Profits SIG4,o47S7
Jos. Hartman, President; j. V. Ritts,
Vice President; c. A. Bailey. Cashier;
John G.. McMarlin, Asst Cashier.
A general banking business transacted
Interest paid on time deposits
Money loaned ON approved security.
We invite you to open an account with this
bank.
DIRECTORS Hon. Joseph Hartman, Hon.
". :. NaldrOu, Dr. y. VI. Hoover. IT, Nc
Sweeney, /. T.. Abrams. q. p. Collins. I. G..
smith. Leslie T. Hazlctt. NJ. Flncgan. W.
W. II. Larl1ln. John Humphrey, Dr. W. G..
McCamdlcss, Ben Masseth. Low VI. Wise,
j. " Ritts.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
Here is a Diamond. here is a niece

LAXOL is the best medicine for child
ren. Doctors recomend it in place of
Castor Oil
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

BY drinking emb2lming fluid under
the impression that it was whiskey
those two Iowa men were unwittingly
laying themselves out
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

A half cent gallon tax on been
ought not to cause any noticeable reef
ing on the schooner.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

Seven eighths of our own export and
import trade is carried on under foreign
flags
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

'-. - -~-s tttLfs-N SLsSu.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c.
An epidemic of measles has struck
Youngstown, and the board of health
has placed 900 measle cards on the resi-
dences.
KNOCKED OUT-A merchant says
Morrison Bros Cough Syrup has knock
ed out my sales on all other cough cures.
Ont in Kansas they are advertising
for schoolmarms who will agree not TO
marry. Here's hoping they won't find
what they are looking ror. A young
woman who would enter into a contract
to remain single isn't fit to guide and in
struct the rising generation.
ARMSTRONG'S-Little System Pills,
the finest and best ever used. a true
liver pill that is sure TO please,
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
An epidemic of measles has

E00r'G -sJLs cure LIvor Ins, Gil
'cIsDSc5, tndige 3t;on, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
RHEUMATISM CURED IN A DAY.


Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures III to J days
Its action upon the system is remarkable
and mysterious. 1t removes at once the
causes and the disease Immediately dis
appears. The first dose greatly benefits;
Is cents. Sold by J. & Kedic, ard J. L.
Balph Druggists Butler Apr 90
When a man ownes bicycle it is a
good thing but when the bicycle gets
to owning the man it usually makes n
crank Of him.
NATURES Compound is gaining in
favor every day. <. p. Stewart, Salts
burg Pa, says: at hes helped me rso,c
than anything else" =" 1t buIlds up the
system gives a good natural appetite.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

It's quite problem to please
eve;yone's taste in any line you
may select and particularly Of
jewelry, silver novelties, cut glass.
etc, but I'm sure you will find
what you want in my large stock
and at such prices that defy COM
petition. | am making a spe.
cialty Of nobby and find Goods
and want your trade.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

As the duck takes to water does the
great daily paper turn to the cuban war,
now since Greece and Turkey are quiet
ed down again
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
IRON CLAD SHOES.

Will stand the test We have given
this matter of cfildreu's shoes careful
attention and we feel safe in saying that
there are no better made, and if you buy
your children's shoes of MS you will not
be disappointed.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
kLL OUR LINES

Are complete, you will need shoes or
Ii ppers this Spring, try US, mems and
ladies' fine shoes 75c to $500; boys ard
girls shoes 75c to $500; children's shoes
25c 5Oc and 75c
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10
SEE OUR 98c LINE

Mems high cut BUCKLE plow shoes
csc, Ladies fine tan and butt shoes 9S,
Mems fine shoes csc.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

DlPHTHERGA--Niue times in ten a
physician will not be needed If Arm
strong's Diphtheria and Qulnsy Drops
are used as soon as soreness is felt i'll the
throat
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

RHEUMATISM-Nany cases treated
with other remedies, have been cured
with Armstrong; II cure U" 1t reaches
pain, cures pains, bruises, crampcolic,
cholera morbus, etc,
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

order on any dealer for
any Fifteen (S1S.00)
Dollar Cloth Coat or
Jacket they may select.
To the twenty Compe-
titors who send in the
next largest number OF
wrappers from the district
In which they reside. we
will give each an order on
any dealer for any Ten
$1,000 Cloth Coat or
Jacket they may select.
ADDRESS ALL
CON MUNtcArioha TO
Advertising Department
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

There are eight hundred and ninety
three more men than women in centre
county and this fact possibly accounts
for the number of white tapsies that
appear at every term of court.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-10

After typhoid fever, pneumonia and
other prostrating diseases take Hood S
Sarsaparilla.
Evening journal., 1897-06-24
WANT LIDELS TAKEN OFF.

COURT DEGREES THAT ALL PER
SONS HOLDING LTBEIS AGA1NST
THE LAURADA MUST DEFEND
THEM.
Argument on the motion to suspend
all proceedings in the case OF the
steamer Laurada and the. United
States, other than the forfeiture case
until the decree OF the court is enter
cd in said forfeiture case. or until fur
ther orders of the court, was heard BY
Judge Bradford in the United States
Court this morning.
The court decreed that a rule be
issued, and to be made returnable next
Thursday, or all persons interested to
show cause why the time for filing the
claims, answers and stipulations. in all
cases other than the forfeiture case
should not be granted.
Argument on the compensation OF the
Wilmington Dental Company was also
heard.
Evening journal., 1897-06-24

Rosa Mask Thompson, Sarah Mabel
Walter, Winifred Weldin, Robert Gill
bert Bruce, George Lou Coppage, Sam
uel ]. Ott Clifton Tyre Vansant.
The young women graduates will be
rendered a reception by the Alumnae
Association in the Auditorium on
Thursday, July 1.
The Alumni Association will tender
the young gentlemen of the class of '97
a supper and reception in Eden Hall on
July 2.
Principal Berlin, Of the High School,
Is now engaged with the pupils whose
averages did not exceed 75 percentum.
The pupils of the Alexis l. Dupont
school were given their annual treat
OF Ice cream and cakes yesterday after
noon. The scholars were presented
with prizes. The boys received pen
knives and the girls books. The pupils
OF Miss Mabel Beecher, presented her
with gift and Arthur r. Spaid, the
principal Of the school, was given a
travelling case by the pupils OF the en-
tire school. Mr.. Spaid acknowledged
the gift by a neat speech.
ST. PETERS COMMENCEMENT.
st. Peters Parochial School held Its
closing exercises this morning. Bishop
Monaghan presided. The scholars made
an excellent showing in their studies
during the past year. School closed for
the Summer after the program was
completed. St. Peters Female Orphan
age held its exercises this afternoon.