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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-03
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to regu-
late the bowels and kidneys will find the true
remedy in Electric Bitters. This medicine
does not stimulate and contains whiskey
nor other intoxicant, but acts as tonic and
Alternative. 1t acts mildly on the stomach and
bowels, adding strength and giving tone to
the organs, thereby aiding nature in the per-
Torrance of the functions. Electric Bitters
is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion.
Old people find it just exactly what they need.
Price soc and 81 per bottle at H. c. Pierce's
drug store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-03

Blithely he strobe toward the portal
of the mansion that sheltered his
loved one. Suddenly he turned on
his heel. On the principle that one
good turn deserves another. For her
little brother had seen him coming
and turned on the hose.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-03

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. H. c. Pierce, Barton; II. S. Webster,
Barton Landing; q. w. Russell, Irasburgh;
r. E. French, Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-03

TASK your grocer to-day to show you a pack
age of Grain-O the new food drink that takes
the place of coffee. The children may drink
it without injury well as the adult. All
who try it. like it. Grain-O has that rich
seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made
from pure grams, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress. q the
price of coffee. 25c and 25 cts. per package.
Sold by all grocers.
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TO BE CONTINUED.
Piles, Piles. Itching Piles.

Sym ptoms-Moisture; inteuse itching and
singing; most atInight; worse by scratching,
if allowed to continue tumors form, which
often bleed and ulcerate, becoming very
sore Swayne's Ointment stops the itching
cases removes the tumors. At uggists. or
by mail. for SO cents. DR.. Swayne & Son,
Philadelphia. ne Avoid all substitutes. So
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-03

Our foreign exports for 1897 will
strengthen the claim that this is a
billion dollar country. The total for
eleven months is 1914, OOO, 900.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-03
NOTICE.

The Stockholders of the Barton Building
Association are hereby notified and warned
to meet at the office OF II. w. Baldwin. i'm Bar
ton. on the 4th day of January, A. d.. 1897,
at 7.3' O'Clock p. M, for the purpose OF hold
ing their annual meeting, election OF officers.
etc.
F. w. BALDWIN, Clerk.
Barton, VT, Dec. %, 1897.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-03

The First
Sign of a Cold
should remind you that the best
time to commence taking some
thing is at the beginning. 1t
should also remind you that the
best remedy is DIR. SIAS' WILD
CHERRY COUGH SYRUP, which
is warranted by warrant that
means something by
Barron & Hamblet, Barton.
H. G. Pierce Barton.
A. e. Anderson, Glover.
E. o. Randall, West Glover.
Giffin e. Simpson, Sheffield.
Charles Switser, o. K. Bundy, Sutton.
G.. M. Dean & Sons, West Burke.
o. j. Paquette. Dana o. Cowles, Hardwick.
NJ. ]. Leach. Wolcott.
J. d. Leavitt, Craftsbury.
A. Paddock, North Craftsbury.
e. b. Marcy, Mill Village.
Randall & Crane, Greensboro.
b. o. Davis a. Son, Greensboro Bend.
c. w. Wheeler, Irasburgh.
FA. Buchanan,
~ w. Hildreth, Barton Landing.
III. S. Webster,
w. III. lib belts. Coventry.
A. III. Allard, Evansville.
j. S. Sweeney, East Charleston
w. III. Chapell 4"
Davis a. Cook, Newport.
j. Bryant, w. Holland.
c. /. Moore, Morgan.
b N. Stevens, Morgan Ctr.
w. c. Daniels, westmore.
ID. w. Kelley, No. Troy.
ID. H. Buck & Co., South Troy.
w. M. Hodsden,
H. ID. Miller, Westfeld.
w. e. Curtis, Lowell.
/. Stephenson, "
L. r. Wellman,
BOYNTON e. EASTMAN,
Reliable Pharmacists,
36-3S Eastern Avenue,
st. JOhnsbury, VT.
The herald., 1898-06-26
A Somnolent Meeting

The impassioned appeal of the archbishop
of Canterbury at the S. p. G. meeting yes
terday produced a most remarkable effect
upon the front bench of the platform.
Even before the primate had finished
speaking Sir Richard Temple had gently
subsded into slumbers soft, ard during the
address of the following speaker, Bishop
Mylne, Bishop Barry followed Sir Rich
ards example. When Bishop Goulburn
had got half way through the statistics Of
his Australian diocese. the soporific influ-
ences had become terribly contagious, and
the remarkable spectacle was revealed of
the primate, Bishop Barry. Sir r. Temple
and Mr.. j. G. Talbot all asleep in a row.
Only the happy collapse of an umbrella Oh
the platform prevented the bishop of Win
chester from joining so goody a company,
and the joke was that the archbishop, at
the top of his voice, that voice of old, had
lust been scolding everybody for not arous-
ing and awaking to a sense of their duty to
mission work-Westminster Gazette.
The herald., 1898-06-26
CASTLES IN AMERICA

The Counts de Dos Toros and Hijo
Grande sat together in the latter gentle
mans ancient hall slipping Spanish claret
and building castles in America.
Said De Dos Toros II have already pc
titioned his majesty to grant me an estate
in America. L will fight for his majesty
and help him whip that pig country"
| He blew thin thread of smoke from his
| lips and watched it curl upward toward the
armorial bearings. over the fireplace. Count
lIijo Grande sighed, holding his claret
| glass to the light.
II, too, have asked for like favor of his
majesty" he murmured.
| For awhile they sat silent, heavy with
meditation. Then spoke De Dos Toros
These, our estates near Valencia border
on on one another-let it be so in America
will ask his majesty to give unto me Chi
cago Count de Dos Toros de Chicago.
How is that?"
The other aristocratic face frightened
with the glow of a beautiful idea.
'"rhen L will have New York. l will be
Count Hiio Grande de New York, and we
will continue to be neighbors."
They lifted their glasses and gulped the
claret, smiling it spite of it.
'There is a divine beverage in that pig
country" said De Dos Toros. ''It is called
club cocktails; we will presently be drink
ing that
Hijo Grande relit his cigar, tho 1t was
burned to the butt.
Good" said he, land we will sail about
the Mississippi in the yacht now owned by
that pig Vanderbilt. 1 think the Missis-
sippi is in your land"
Verify" replied his friend, "and those
dogs of Cubans must return to their bus-
ness of growing tobacco for u.s.
The serene faces of twenty-seven ances-
tors gazed down at DE Dos Toros with a
smile of appreciation on their naughty lips.
1.-The king" said Hijo Grande, will
mako the capitol his summer resort.
myself would fain put up for awhile at the
treasury
He spread his slim hands on the table
beside the decanter of sour claret.
MY brother, pray advance me thirty
peseta pieces" he murmured.
The Count de Dos Toros de Chicago smote
his pocket.
81 cannot" he cried, in CONSERVATION. "I
have but seven."- Theodore Roberts In the
Criterion.
The herald., 1898-06-26

rled men of the same age. The difference
is still more marked as time goes on. At
60 years of age there are only twenty-five
bachelors to forty-eight married men. The
statistics of Scotland show that out of 1000
married men seven die annually, while fif-
teen deaths occur among the same number
! of unmarried men.
| And yet, in the face of facts like these.
we still find men daring to remain single.
1t really is as much as their lives are worth,
according to these statistics. Men may
talk about their lives being shortened by
domestic worries and cares, but it is evil
Gent that the bachelor stands in far great
er risk of a shortened span.
| 1t is a singular fact that MANY of the
large families, often ranging from ten TO
fourteen children. John Mott of Edenvilla
| VT, died in 1868 at the age of 1O2, and he
was the father of nineteen children. Mrs.
Lucy Arthur, coiored, died at Stockton.
Cal, in 1896 at the age of 1OS She was
born in Kentucky and was fifty years a
slave, and the mother of seventeen chill
dren. She retained all her faculties to the
last. Mary Prescott of SUSSEX, England
died in 176S, at the age of 1O5, after having
Deen the IHOlueT Ol 81 cHlluren-lI we may
believe her descendants. Robert Gibson
was living in Macon county, Mo-, in 1888, at
the age of 116 He had been twice married
and had thirteen children living and nearly
400 descendants, reaching to the fifth gen.
Grafton. James Hubbard of Mapleton, Ind =,
died in 1891 at tho age of 106. He had ten
children and $50 descendants His father
lived to the age of 100 and his grandfather
to 105.
| Peter Neeb celebrated his Tooth birthday
at Shelbyville, Ind, in 1896 He was born
| in Germany, being one of a family of fif-
| teen children. Mrs. Sarah Stockwell cele-
rbated her 1O5th birthday at Brattlebro,
| VT. in 1888. She married at IS and was tho
mother of ten children William Sloan
Green is now living at Dunkirk, N. Y, at
| the age of no. HI is the father of twenty
| nine children, fourteen of whom are alive.
His youngest son was born when he was
So. Samuel Lutz, the father of fourteen
children, celebrated his Tooth birthday at
| Salt Creek, Ohio, in 1885, His physical Wig
| or was well preserved and he retained the
| full strength of his mental faculties.
Southern California Advantages
! If a person desires to live 100 or 15O years.
Southern California has advantages of cl.-
mate that arc most favorable to a long
calm and happy life. A temperature that
orl 4 condition Of the
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overstate the age in respect to the very Old
| and many false claims have been exposed
| but there is no longer any doubt that many
persons have lived more than century
| and many such persons are now living who
We're born more than 100 years ago.
| Haller. British statistician, states that
in the year 1891 he found authentic records
OF 1000 persons in England between 100 and
| ITO years of age, sixty between 110 and 100,
twenty between 120 and 130, fifteen be-
! tween 100 and 140 six between 140 and $50, and
one who had celebrated his 169th birthday.
According to a table of Expectation of
Life" published in Whittaker's Almanack
based on the deaths which occurred during
the decade of 1S71-1SS0 out of 1900 900 per-
sons born, eightytwo males and 225 females
ultimately reach the age of 100.
While this might at first blush seem an
excessive estimate, an examination of the
census, both of this country and of some
European nations, discloses facts that are
surprising to those who imagine that it is
very rare occurrence for an individual life
to span an entire century According to the
census of 1890 more than 1000 people in the
United States were upwards of 100 years
old. During the preceding ten years the
deaths of POS centenarans were reported in
the state of Massachusetts alone. That
showed one person in about 1900 in that
state had reached the 10O-year limit. In the
same census year twenty-one persons in
Iowa had passed their 10Oth year, and up
wards of 800 were above 90
The Massachusetts registration reports
for the decade ending 1890 showed that out
of 1894, 4S4 deaths during that period, 203 were
upwards of 100 years of age. OF these 16S
were between 100 and 105, 81 between 105
and 10, between ITO and lis, and was us
years old. No less than 1853 of these CEN
tennarians were females and only so were
males.
The Philadelphia Ledger periodically de-
votes good deal of space to what it calls
"local longevity" In its issue of January
I'd, 1885, it thus summarizes the cases pub
lshed in its obituary columns during the
year 1884: Total number of octogenarians
! (persons who had lived TO or beyond the age
| of so years. 914. of whom 376 were men and
537 women. OF these twenty-one reached
the age of 80 years; thirty-two, 81 years.
fourteen, 92 years. thirteen 90 years; thir-
teen, "a years; four, 95, 96 and 81 years re-
sectiveply; six, 9S years; two 90 years.
three, 100 years. and one each, 1922 1903, 1O4.
1O5, 1O9. 40 and 115 years. The last two
were Richard Rice, 110, and Mary Smu.-
ling, 115.
The obituary columns Of the same paper
announced for the year 1892 the
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elements that permits one to live a great
deal in the open air, to sit by open windows
when not out of doors, to dispense with
close-heated rooms. is the ideal climate for
the person who intends to become cen-
tennarian.
Too much moisture, as well as too much
dryness, is unfavorable to long life, while
a moderate degree of moisture is conducive
to longevity. We in Southern California
are specially favored with these climatic
conditions, being open to the equalizing
temperature of the sea on one side, and shut
off by mountains from cold northern winds
in winter and from hot desert winds in
summer. The extreme longevity of many
of the native inhabitants proves the health
funess of the climate.
Charles Dudley Warner speaks of we'll
authenticated cases of Mission Indians in
Southern California who reached ages
ranging from 100 to 14O years. "In that
euuable region he says, "all the great
functions of nature go on with regularity,
so as to induce long running of the human
machine. Besides, these old men were
probably free from care and from political
worry and ambition. They were simple and
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your body overfed, your temper irritable
and your mind befogged. and the under
taker will be reasonably prompt in calling
for the permaturely wornout machine which
held your injudicious soul.
Everybody, under ordinary circum-
stances, says DR.. Lewis A. Sayre, the IA
nous surgeon, fought to live to be one hun
dred years old. AS it is, people live from
eight to fifteen years longer than their fore
fathers did"
They eat better food. their homes are bet
ter ventilated, the towns are in better
sanitary condition, and they know how to
take better care of themselves.
There is, however, serious drawback to
this picture. We who live in the last two
or three decades of the nineteenth century
are victims of corroding care, worry and
anxiety. Says DR.. Sayre, Many are very
The herald., 1898-06-26

much distressed as younger men to know
how they are going to make sure of living.
BY and by, when their reputation has grown
they are driven to death with the work
forced upon them"
1t was Hufeland's opinion that the limit
of possible human life might be set at 200
years. He observed that horned animals
are shorter lived than those without horns
that fierce animals are longer-lived than
timid, that fishes and amphibia are espe-
cially long-lived. The pike will continue
to live for $50 years, and the common turtle
Is good for at least century.
Passing UP the scale of life to man, the
ancient Egyptians lived much longer than
the modern lotus-eaters. Instances of ex-
traordinary longevity among the classic
Greeks and Romans are by no means rare.
William Kinnear, in the North American
Review, agrees with Hufeland that human
life, under proper conditions, might be pro-
longed to 200 years. By observing sanitary
regulations and hygienic precautions not
known or deemed essential a hundred years
ago, the average length of life has been in
creased eight or ten years during the pres
ent century.
The herald., 1898-06-26

ing with undiminished power at 78. Pope
Leo XII is actively directing the great IN
terests of the Catholic church at IS. James
Martineau still wields trenchant pen at %.
Thomas Dunn English, the poet. is 70; Rev.
Newman Hall, so; George Ticknor Curtis,
50; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, SO; Samuel
Smiles, Sc; Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, 8S. In
stances like these of persons whose avoca-
tions imply intellectual activity and who
have passed the fourscore milestone could
be multiplied.
Thus we see that great men carry their
mental vigor and activity into old age, and
it may fairly be asserted that busy men
live longer than idle men; that work is, af-
ter all, the true elixir of life.
Notable Examples
Here are a few examples of intellectual
vigor among centenarans:
Michael Eugene Chevreul, a distinguished .
French scientist, died at Paris in 1882 few
months before completing his 103d year.
He was chemist of the famous Gobelins
factory president of the Society of Agricul-
ture, director of the museum of natural his
tory, commander of the Legion of Honor
and was actively engaged in professional
work to the year of his death.
Rev. John Morrison, the maternal grand
father of Steele Mackaye, began to preach
at the age of IS years, and for just CEN
fury he christened, baptized, married and
performed the burial in the same English
parish, finally passing away at the age
of 122.
Sir Moses Montefiore, Jew, born in Italy,
became a London merchant and philanthro-
pist, where he died in 1885 at the ripe old age
OF 101. He was sheriff of London on the ac-
cession of Queen Victoria to the throne and
was knighted by the young queen. He was
III the enjoyment of his mental faculties oil
his Tooth birthday.
Dimitros Antippa. prominent merchant
of Constantinople, died in 1887 at the age
of lis. He was born in Greece but educated
at Paris and was there during the reign of
terror. He was acquainted with Marat,
Desmoulins. Robespierre and Danton. His
residence was on the Breezy heights just
outside the city of Constantinople. His in
telect was clear TO the last.
Francis Hupozoi died in 1902 al the age OF
115. He was born in Sardinia and was sue
oessively clergyman, a merchant and the
consul to Smyrna. He married his fifth wife
when 9S and had four children by her. At
100 his gray hair became black and at 113
two new teeth came.
Charles Macklin an Irish actor and dra-
matist, died in 1897 aged 20 He remained
on the stage until he was 80.
Varnavas Pangolos, Greek patriot, who
gave an immense fortune to the cause of .is
country, died in 1855 at the age of Ill.
Cyhuiski, a priest in Poland according to
tablet erected to his memory in Warsaw,
was born in 1900 and died in 1867
Luceja, Roman actress, played in pub
lie after she had celebrated her 18th BIRTH
day
Had I space the instances already cited
could be extended by enumerating hun
dreds of centenarians. AS old age is so gen.
orally associated with the idea of mental
decay and bodily decrepitude, it is consol-
atory to know that they are by no means
its invariable or inevitable Accomplishments.
VIM. H. KNIGHT
The herald., 1898-06-26

worthy prize. Cost nothing, worth nothing.
The world belongs to those who will pay
the price. The millions which we can ada
in figures may describe the quantity Of ar
mament which we may have uponsthe sea.
But such deeds as those at Cienfusgos will
tell to all history our navy's peerless quail
ity
Finally, the brave deed was done unset
fishly. Those brave men risked life. were
wounded, died, not for self. They died for
their comrades back in the Nashville and
Marblehead. They died for the United
States. They died for US. They died for
bleeding Cuba They died for humanity in
the unborn ages. They were like Jesus
Christ One died for all. Take him! Thank
him! Love him forever! The lessons Of
war are Christian lessons
The herald., 1898-06-26
PULPIT TALKS ON WAR
AN ARTICLE BY DIR. G.. A. BUR-
CESS, AN OHIO PASTOR
LESSONS FROM HEROIC DEEDS
How the People of This Christian Ma
tion Should Regard the Brave
Acts Of Our Defenders ''

Sermons on the war are the original idea
of famous pastor of Toledo, Ohio Rev.
G. A. Burgess of the Washngton-Street
Congregational church. DR.. Burgess, being
divine of the modern school, has seen
the advantage of taking as subject for
his sermons the topic that is in every ones
heart and mind, the war with Spain; also,
he has been quick to see that sermon
preached to the great multitude of readers
of The Herald is more widely circulated
than one delivered from the pulpit to a con-
gregation For this reason he has written
the following, which he entities Cutting
the Cables at Cienfuegos." 1t will be fol-
lowed by another, written especially for
this paper, on Hobson's heroic deed and
other thrilling events of the war.
The herald., 1898-06-26

Deft-handed women find that it pays
them to take a few lessons in straw sew
ing. The woman who learns saves many
a penny by making her own hats. The hand
sewed hats with lined rims, If made in the
fashionable designs. are always expensive.
There are no mark-down sales on them
until they become cheap and out of date.
1t is here that the amateur straw sewer
finds a chance for thrift. For few cents
she can pick up an old hat sewed in an old
seasons style, and with her supply Of
braid she can quickly resew 1t in any shape
she elects.
The herald., 1898-06-26

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Blood Poison

When you are suffering from Blood
Poison, whether in the first, secondary
or tertiary state. you can be cured with
the S0-DAY CURE. Call on doctoro
OF Hudson Medical Institute or write
for 30-DAY CIRCULARS
The herald., 1898-06-26
Statistics of Centenarians

A few years ago an English authority OBJ
stinately asserted that there was no au-
thenticated instance of persons reaching
100 years. Investigations were set afoot,
and undeniable centenarians turned UP in
plenty. There is tendency it is true. to
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Dr.. Richardson's Rules

DIR. Richardson suggests the following
rules for persons past middle age: Sub
sist on light but nutritious diet; cothe
warmly but lightly; keep the body in fair
exercise and the mind active ard cheerful
maintain an interest in what is going on in
the world; avoid passion, excitement, lux
ury."
An Italian, who was well and hearty in
his 116th year, summed up the secret of
long life as follows:
"When hungry, of the best 1 eat,
And dry and warm keep my feet;
screen my head from sun and rain,
And let few cares perpleX my BRAIN
DR.. Abernethy says: "In your food, re-
strict yourself to quantity rather than
quality; eat slowly. drinking at the close
of the meal; eat of the most palatable dish
first, and but one kine of meat. Attention
to diet, air, exercise, mental tranquility
and not medicines contribute to the preser-
walton of health and the prolongation Of
life"
Does hard thinking shorten life? Is it not
true that the men who do the thinking for
the rest of the world, whether in law. ed
ucation, theology, engineering, commerce
or finance, generally outlive the average of
those who have to have their thinking done
for them?
Jules Simon declares that the secret of
cid age may be formulated in two words
intellectual work. Nothing, he says, helps
SO materially to conserve physical strength
as mental employment. In proof of this
theory, he cites the French institute as but
a congregation of hale and hearty octo-
genarans. The same is true of the Acal-
emy of Sciences, of which many of the
working members are living in their ninth
decade.
The published obituary of the Royal So
ciety of Great Britain is equally significant.
There were twenty-one deaths during the
year ending November, 1897. The youngest
was 43 years of age. the other twenty ranged
from 63 to SO, there being five in the COS,
ten in the 70s and five in the sos. Their unit
ed ages was 1517 years, or an average OF
nearly 76 years. 1t is scarcely presumable
that any ordinary club or society could
show an average death age at all compara-
BILE with these figures.
Living examples of vigorous old age are
numerous Prince Bismarck is hale and
hearty at the age of SO. The composer Verdi
is enjoying good health at So. Herber,
Spencer, who was never Strong" is writ