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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
LETTER FROM MASSACHUSETTS.

Editors Monitor:
The MONITORS weekly visits are
very welcome and bring me very
many bits of county news that would
not otherwise reach me. BY this
weeks number notice the death of
my old comrade, F. A. Belknap, who
has always had my esteem and friend
ship, also of Comrade Hastings from
whom the overflow of good feeling
made many hearts glad when they
met him, and also the death of Com
rade NJ M. Whitney SO well known in
Barton and vicinity. There were 81
items in that issue in which I knew
the parties mentioned. So I count
the paper of much benefit indeed.
For few weeks I have been in New
Hampshire towns. The manufactures
are different from those in the locality
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
State of Ohio, Toledo, Lucas Co., SIS.


Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney &
Co., sdoing business in the city of Toledo,
county and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of Ole Hundred Dol
lars for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. Frank j. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day of December. A. D.
1896. A w. Gleason, notary public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system Send for testimonials,
free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

At the dinner of the Brooklyn, NY.
Sons of Vermont last week, Gen.Still
man F. Knceland told of a Grand
Army reunion after the war when he
had said to Gen. Phil Sheridan, "Ex
cuse me for speaking to you, General,
but was one of your boys. I was in
the Vermont brigade that day when
you rode from Winchester" "The
ing" continued Gen. Kneeland, ssand
said: you tell those Vermonters
when you see them that If it had not
been for the old Vermont brigade the
poem of Sheridan's ride would never
have been written
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

There is just one thing which vii
bring about trouble between Spain
and the United States in Cuba. It is
not small thing, either. 1t is the
great undeniable fact that the auton
omy scheme was intended to delude
for a time the people Of the United
States. The plan by which in Cuba it
was hoped that the bogus autonomy
proposals might be used in way to
injure the insurgents ought also to
be clearly understood. Instead of
having these proposals submitted in
a straightforward and proper manner
to the central authorities, civil and
military, of the Cuban republic, it
was the plan Of Blanco to send ennis
saries into detached camps, with spec
ial inducements to the leaders of a
great number of different bands of
insurgents. 1t was while on one Of
these bribing missions that Ruiz was
killed, and it is the general scheme it
self which has killed Blanco's chances.
Record
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
MARYLAND REPUBLICAN.

Maryland has elected a republican
senator for the second time in thirty
years, and the solid south continues
broken. The first state to return to
the democratic fold after the war, she
has been ruled for years by the most
capable of democratic bosses, whose
influence has been felt alike in the
legislative halls of Maryland and the
nation. The tone Of public life and
the system Of administering justice
which ring rule under Senator Cor
man developed in Maryland may be
judged from the fact that Mr.. Charles
j. Bonaparte, one of the ablest and
purest public men Of that state, has
openly apoiogized for lynching before
a northern audience, and suggested
that to hang few United States SEN
ators to lamp posts may teach the res
a much needed lesson.
The revolt against Gormanism,
which led Maryland to elect a repub
lican governor in 1895, was followed
by revolt against Organism, which
gave her vote to Mckinley in 1896. A
republican plurality of 100 for comp
troller, the only state officer elected
asst year, showed that the presiden-
tial tidal wave had not subsidized, and
the election of republican gold stan
dard senator proves that Maryland is
still moving in the right direction.
Two republican United States sena-
tors and three successive republican
victories at the polls warrant the
placing of Maryland in the republican
column. Her eight electoral votes
will not be given to candidate nom
mated on the Chicago platform with
out a radical change in her political
conditions. The great organizer who
SO long controlled her politics is not
only defeated and discredited, but out
Of sympathy with the populistic ele-
ments which have taken possession
of the democratic party. His sue
cessor is republican of distinction
and ability, in whose success Presi-
dent Mckinley has taken an interest
almost equal to that which he felt in
the case of Mark Hanna.-Reporter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

Of Barton. At Laconia are hosiery
mills, and I visited one in shat locality
The machinery for knitting is Of a
very ingenious make, doing the work
in most rapid and perfect manner
I think each machine costs about 1910,
and at the heel of stocking picks up
the extra thread till the heel is done
and then drops it without being look
ed out for by the operator. AtKeene
there are pail and tub shops, all using
sapling pine in their work. 1t seems
like small business to see sticks as small
as l = inches in diameter in a log pile,
but here they bring it all in but the
pine needles, nearly. Pals are turned
out very rapidly. The painting and
granting is done quickly too. I think
grainer turns out not less than three
per minute. 1t is done by putting the
pail on block, pressing a granting
roll of glue against it, turning the pail
once around, and the work is done;
the figures on the granting block are
painted on the pail. The wood ham
die on the pail is made, when the
lathe on which it is made runs at full
speed, at the rate of about seventy
per minute. This includes boring the
handle and turning it. Extensive
chair works are all about the towns,
and perfect machinery and classified
labor accounts for the low price at
which they can be made. [ visited
the toy works at Keene where many
kinds of iron toys for children are put
up, engines, cabs, banks, wagons, etc.
They also manufacture some useful
tools for bicycle repairing. The Trim
ity Cycle Co. eourteously allowed me
to pass through their works and wit
ness the manufacture of their wheels.
They have every facility for doing
first class WORK and some of their
specially excellent work was pointed
out to me by their workmen.
| attended one meeting of John
Sedgwick Post, G. A. r. IL was at
their installation of officers and the
work was finely done. The installa-
ton of officers of the w. r. @. occur
red the same evening and have never
seen the ceremonies better performed.
Keene has large Commandery of
U. 0. G.. c., over 200 members. I was
present at their installation ceremo-
MES. Grand Commander FL. H. Hill
of N. III. occupied the chair and the
officers of four communicates were
installed by him at that time.
Keene is model New England town,
most of it level, with we'll laid out |
streets, mostly good houses, and we'll |
kept grounds. They have a watchful |
and well dressed police with good !
quarters for them, and one Of the |
most efficient fire companies to be |
found. The "Deluge'' has been ia
nous for fifty years and always will
be.
At Keene 1 found Charles Beedle,
formerly of Barton and we'll known in
Orleans county. He is as devoted to
music as ever and 1 think popular in
his shops and pops'' this winter.
Wilbur T. Chandler of Co. 1, 18th VT.
is at Keene and has not seen mem
Der of Co. I since being mustered out
until my call on him.
With a crowd of memories of the
MONITOR and it's readers, close.
GEO. BUSH.
SOmerUilte, Mass, Jan. %.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

If it shall be true as reported, Prsei-
dent Mckinley is about to issue an
order taking out of the classified list
deputy collectors of internal revenue,
post office inspectors, and private
secretaries, look out for Mugwump
wall from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from the gulf to the lake. Yet those
positions are of a personal and con-
fidential nature, some of the incum-
bents being entrusted with the COL
lection of large sums of money. The
idea that a government official, the
responsible head of department.,
must take for his private secretary
man of whom he personally knows
nothing, who may be in some respects
personally Objectionable to his chief,
is the very mockery of civil service
reform. Why not make it applicable
to private secretaries of the Presi-
dent, cabinet officers and me mbers of
COngress?-Messenge
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
ST. j. 81 l.. G.. II. r..

Passenger Trains Leave
HARD WICK-EAsT-5:50 m; 1925 M 1892
p m. WEsT-9:00 m; 4:45 p M 1885 m.
EAST RDWICK-EAsT-6:08 a m; 1885
m; 1851 WEsT-S:51 m; 4:36 p m;
1920 D
GREENSBORO-EAsr- a M 1850 m;
9:05 m. WEsr-S:43 a m; 4:2S m; zoos
p m.
ST.JOHESB URY-EAsT-S:50 a m: 1900 m;
11:2o p m. WEsT-6:40 m; $500 m; 4:50
pm.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

j. A. Perkins. of Antiquity, o., was for
thirty years needlessly tortured by physicians
for the cure of eczema. He was quickly cured
by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve the
famous healing salve for piles and skin dis
eases. II. C. Pierce, Barton; II. S. Webster,
Barton Landing; g. w. Russell, Irasburgh;
r. E. French, Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

This tells where health may be found, and
that is more important than making money.
If your blood is impure, Hoods Sarsaparilla
is the medicine for you. 1t cures scrofula,
salt rheum, rheumatism, catarrh and all 9TH
diseases originating in or promoted by
impure blood and owstate of the system.
Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy to oper-
ate. Cure indigo Stinn. headache.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
News Which is Good News to
Women.

It is fact that women who suffer from fe-
male complaints and are consequently weak,
tired, nervous, dragged-out and full of pains
and aches, do not have the same opportunity
to be cured as do the residents of the great
cities where the most successful specialists
in female diseases reside. DR.. Green, of "a
Temple Place, Boston, Mass, who has the lar
gest practice in the world and who is without
doubt the most successful specialist in curing
female complaints, offers to give free consult
alton by mail to all women suffering from
these distressing weaknesses, discharges,
pains and irregularities. Write at once and
we promise DIR. Greene will cure you.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
VERMONT
KlOndike Expedition Company.
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Directors: Officers.

Directors: Officers.
REV. ]. ID. wALDRoN, President,
EnosburR fallss
Enosburg Fails.
CHARLES A. AvERILL, Secretary.
GEO. j. KELLEY, Treasurer, Newport Ctr
CHARLES A. FORSYTH, Enosburg, FAILS.
W.T.. GILMAN, M. D., Director, Bloomington
WILLIAM F. ROWE, General Manager,
Nontpeiie
Satisfactory evidence of reliability will bs
furnished.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

Mrs. M. B. Ford, Ruddell's, ILL.,, suffered for
eight years from dyspepsia and chronic con-
stipation and was finally cured by using De-
Wits Little Early Risers, the famous little
pills for all stomach and liver troubles. Fl.
c. Pierce, Barton; H. S. Webster, Barton
Landing; G. w. Russell, Irasburgh; R. e
French, Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bill
iousness, Indigestion, Headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
NATIONAL
Life Insurance Go.
Montpelier, VT.

ASSETS.
Bonds, Stocks and Warrants,
market value), $6.101 1865
Mortgage Loans 4,21S, 475.47
Policy Loans and Premium Notes, 2,089, 1866. Is
Real Estate, 1859. 1854
Loans on Stocks and Bonds, 113, 1872. 20
Cash, 273, 1856. 35
Interest due and accrued; Net de-
ferred and unreported Premiums, $50, 1875
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

For other bargains, | will sell :.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
LIABILITIES.

Policy Reserve, (Actuaries'
per cent?
Extra Reserve, Life Rate
Endowments,
Death Claims, in process of
Adjustment,
All other Liabilities,
Surplus,
The Conservative, 1898-07-21
Plant Nut Trees.

If the farmer with an assortment of
poor, scraggly, hillside land were to Sc
lect three to five acres of it and plant
nut trees thereon, seeing likewise that
the young saplings were kept alive and
cared for during the first period of their
existence, in not many years his lean
and unsightly hillside would be the
most valuable portion of his ground.
Nut food is becoming more and more
popular every year. 1t has been found
to a considerable extent.
The hickory tree, the chestnut and
many varieties of walnut will grow any
where in the United States. The best
chestnut is the Japan kind, as hardy as
our own. The pecan will also grow in
nearly every part of the country, al
though Texas is the banner state for
this nut. In the south and southwest
the almond and Persian walnut, mis-.
called the English walnut, flourish and
bear abundantly.
Most ruralists plant shade trees about
their grounds. Varieties of maple are
popular for this purpose. But why do
they not plant the magnificent, spread.
ing chestnut tree? 1t will grow nearly
as fast Is the maple and will have a
solid economic value every year genera
ton after generation. Chestnuts in the
city market are SO high that few people
can afford to buy them, although every
body is fond of them.
The Conservative, 1898-07-21

sands OF persons sit down in the ashes
and let their %neighbors or public charity
feed and clothe them and theirs when
they ought to bestir themselves and get
food and raiment for themselves.
1t is not the will Of any providence
of any kind that human beings should
suffer and starve and be Jumps of inert
ness. At the very time the resigned
paupers are being fed by charity, public
and private, the price Of cotton for
clothing was never sc low, while Amer
ica's chief bread grain, corn, is almost
equally cheap.
1t is well to put up with, for the time,
that cheerfully, too, evil conditions and
situations that we cannot Immediately
get out of, all the while steadfastly
resolving that we will find a way out
of them sooner or later. That state
of mind, however, is altogether differ
ent from being willing to sit stupidity
down and accept as permanent the un.
pleasant situation. Poverty in particu.
lar is something that 10 human being
should be resigned to-. There is plenty
for all of us, and there is no virtue,
neither religion, in being resigned to do
without our just share of things.
There is a decided advantage to the
victims of legal discipline on being
made peers. An English creditor recent
ly tried to obtain all order for imprison-
ment against a recalcitrant judgment
debtor, and the magistrate refused on
the ground that the party had been
raised to the peerage since Judgment
had been given.
The Conservative, 1898-07-21

The parsimonious folly of congress in
it's refusal to heed the reiterated de.
mands of the wal department for smoke
less powder has been we'll demonstrated
by land and sea. Our parochial legisla-
tors, it is to be hoped, will now learn
this as we'll as some other lessons by
bitter experience.
The Conservative, 1898-07-21
About Being Resigned.

There are those who call by the name
of Christian resignation what is in re-
atty a most unchristian mental lazi-
ness. We are not creatures of a blind,
cruel fate that is whirling and hurting
us like footballs here and there. Thou
The Conservative, 1898-07-21

James, earl of Douglass, the "Black
Douglass" one Of Bruce's heroes in old
Scottish days, said, excusing himself
for never defending his ancestral castle,
II like better to hear the lark sing than
to hear the o squeak" Admiral
Cervera has put it in a new form" Any
how it is better to die with my ships at
sea than to perish like a rat in a hole
The Conservative, 1898-07-21
III seems Unfortunate chat some of our

1t seems unfortunate that some of our
retired army officers annot be put on
the active list again now that there are
SO many appointments making from the
~inexperience of civil life. A large ratio
Of these old soldiers are strong and in
the prime of their usefulness, with years
OF military experience behind them. Is
it not a question of politics as we'll as
red tape?
The Conservative, 1898-07-21

We can readily afford a laugh over
the change OF tone in more than one
Thersites Of the continental press. Our
exploits at Santiago have caused a
change of front. Don Whiskerando is
Catching it" now instead of Brother
Jonathan" 1t is always we'll to be on
the surely winning side.
The Conservative, 1898-07-21

Admiral Dewey has been dignified
with the degree of master of military
science by Norwich university. The de-
gree is somewhat unique, but a vast
deal more sensible than that Of LII. D.,
which he has received from other uni
versities.
The Conservative, 1898-07-21
Che Conservative.
Our True Ideal.

VA1s DlySO III LILO hDO ioulOh VI ouiy
speech in London said 1.-THE splendid
deeds of heroism Of your soldiers and
sailors thrill our hearts as could no ex-
ploits of men in whose veins our blood
the power to become a great conquering
and colonizing people, but to make a
great people happy, free and prosperous
is nobler than any foreign conquest.
Therefore we hope that nothing will
divert the United States from that
task" This pregnant utterance is worth
weighing and bordering. Whether or
not we enter on a career Of territorial
extension our pivotal interests are at
home. If by foreign ambition we forget
or fall short of a wise and effective re-
gard to our internal greatness as a CON-
monwealth no brilliancy Of exploits, no
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of conquest will give
recompense. The problem which the
United States has so far worked out SO
successfully, that of combining the ut.
most individual freedom and opportuni.
ty with such skillfully adjusted re-
straints as preserve the needs Of law
and order, has been a model and a slim
illus to the world. If we should ever be
diverted from that sagacious study of
the things which belong to this end by
the mere cheats of ambition, it would
be a sad day for us and for humanity at
large.
1t is not necessary to assume that the
immediate profit Of territorial gain and
commercial influence, which seem likely
now to accrue, will divert our attention
from the ideals which are essential,
but that there is always danger Of di.
version under such new conditions his,
tory has shown. To dazzle the national
imagination is sometimes to blunt the
national conscience and to blind the II q
tional common sense. There are many
wise men and good patriots who fear
that foreign conquest points in this di-
rection. Others not less wise and good
do not regard the danger as one to be
counted in the conditions which are
now converging, firm in the belief that
our organic growth is vital in it's health
and power. The future alone can fully
decide this question of political morals
if we decide to plant the stars and
stripes in distant lands. The advocates
Of territorial extension and a large part
in the worlds affairs are no less believ.
ers than their opponents in the impor-
lance of primary devotion to the great
questions of the North American cont.
nent. 1t is to be hoped that this keen
sense will prove an abiding safeguard
whatever steps we may take to reap the
wal harvest ripe for the sickle.
The Conservative, 1898-07-21

There has been a conflict between
"red cross" and ''red tape" The army
surgeons have refused to accept a large
supply of trained woman nurses offered
to them. There was a similar clash in
the earlier times of our civil war. But
officialism yielded when the sanitary
commission came to the front.
The Conservative, 1898-07-21

A political crank has already come to
the front with a nomination of Admiral
Dewey as candidate for the next presi-
dency. We can fancy the gallant old
sea dog hearing of this with a burst of
laughter. He is the last kind of man to
have such a bee buzzing in his cooked
hat. 1t would be a little odd if such a
promotion should occur. For the first
time a president would have been shot
out of a ships gun into the White
House.
The Conservative, 1898-07-21

The bicycle lunatics appear to be on
the increase. A large party recently
started from Brooklyn to do 800 miles
in two days. Result, nine-tenths of
them were seriously disabled and some
probably permanently injured,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-21

Yanez Pinzon and Alfonso XII. the
last named being used as a hospital
ship. No other gunboats or converted
tugs are in port.
The messengers class as false that
vessels have succeeded in entering Ha-
vana with supplies. They assert that
since the blockade only three small
fishing vessels have entered the harbor,
and that no food whatever is received
from Cienfuegos. The Cubans con-
firm the reports that work on the de-
lenses of Havana is proceedings stead
its. Two lines or torpedoes extend
across the mouth of the harbor, which
is said TO be further protected by two
automobile torpedoes, one at each SIDE,
dlschargeable by pressing a button.
The only war vessels in the Harbor
of Havana are small gunboats and the
Alfonso XIII. An auxiliary gunboat
off Cardenas has been visited by a
Cuban officer from the shore, who re-
ported that place to be effectively be-
sieged by the insurgents on land and
by the warships in front. He made the
statement that in two weeks time the
whole population Of Cardenas will be
starving. The Cuban officer has his
father and wife in Cardenas and he
was concerned for them. He described
the people as living on palm buds and
dog meat, which, he claimed, is ccn-
sidered a delicacy.
The vessel which arrived here to-day
has been patroling a regular beat off
the Cuban coast Just like a police
man" going back and forth during the
day and night. Sometimes she saw
Spanish troops moving about but on
the whole the blockade was uneyent-