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ground out Of them. Witte--now become
De witte-exhibited genius in increasing
the internal revenues, and made conimer-
cial treatlse with Germany ana Austria ~
which Russia's foreign trade swelled pro-
digiously.
MOST Hated Man In Russia.
All this progress was resisted hotly by
ofhcialdom at large. From grand dukes
down, powerful and aristocratic Russians
OF the old school fought for tradition And
strove to ruin the upstart who was over
turning everything. In particular the war
party hated, him because he was for peace
-peaoe during which his country might
win commercial greatness.
Then there are the merchants. They
hate him, too, because they foresee that the
introduction of foreign capital Will reduce
the interest-bearing power of the rubie
from Its present 20 per cent.
even twice az much-down to 10 per cent
at the most. And the manufacturers hate
him because he has limited at free trade.
Both the dead and the present c1ar en-
tertained the highest opinion Of his hon-
esty, and 1t was Alexander III. who con-
ferred upon him the title Of count, which
In Russia is OF much higher value than
that OF prince. For, with the exception OF
the German aristocracy In the Baltic Prov
inces OF the czar's empire, there are few
counts indeed In Russia. In fact, there
have been hardly more than two dozen
Muscovite creations Of count, all told,
whereas, princes are as plentiful as black
berries, the title being much the same az
that Of the English Squire" and carry
ing with 1t no official or even social prero-
gatives.
Forestalls Adverse CRITICISM.
A story that is curiously characteristic Of
M de Witte Ii told In connection with the
publication OF M. de Cyon's IN. -Witte ct
Nm L. tt1f n11
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ys Yea sIpy ss; ,sSaW WY, li!sls while
Ss whs ~ ysa Vii JSe& e doo ord Ts san
you can consume. and almost more than
ToS are .sc,hs .o have II. a,resss kind
going to be any let-ups They are lined up
soaayEIYss1I ssd Es r "a FsSncs ana Ger
products Of. manufactures than We e, ever
S,d before y any year % our soSntrys
sss Il TNsy are pound g win II th 81 co s1S
ras T. sssd &, s.s sr; sp
p PRE- st ra; 81 nothing: she WIN DO any
are are entsrinns s- upon And the wage, which
you. pay yours in Boston today--not one
half. What are you going to DO? Cut
sht endsnsssr he e e. M ne repuS M
of the wares Of the workinsmen in Bcs-
" he the
This reduces the consumption in your
own country.
want to name two or three things.
forts which have been made during the
Fra. thnH p yoy orsht to carry your
your own ships under your own nag.
sen sctSe a snI az ns c
foreign countries today. principally Great
ana Your q imports aGs caFE link your yoa
ought to pay II 70 your own people.
Of the 1900 ships that sailed from New
York to Great Britain. laden with our
wheat and produce; only four Of them
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Dl 50 DEADLY AFTER ALL.
hIE Show Comparatively Few Cas-
ulItles In War.

Q IATISTlC1ANs excel in presenting
y proof In fgures-which are said to
81. oe the only things above ground
nay don't lie--that war is not deadly.
..y exhibit incontrovertibIe evidence
A. s !. ~ wat or peace. so many persons would
r.. ~ year anyway. The consoling fact
". a'sease kills more soldiers than bull
,h..'s.m MADE still more assuaging by the
,,s+ announcement that half of the
er.s s usatns from disease would have oc-
i ~ sven In peace, The old axiom that
s,.rss es ION OF lead to kill a soldier is
s,r, s'se 70 throw valor into the soldiers
NAL urants illustration--shake up a
Mirs.. oean In hat Of white ones, and,
uss% Aoaed pull out the black one--is
taiss = saow'ng the chance Of being hit In
unns sasn newspapers are compiling COL
nos ngures. designed, apparently. to
th,a," !, nose that Tommy Atkins leaves
hfk va t tommy Is pretty sure to come
an n.s sai ene Iransvaal after all. Ameri-
telprsro spapers prepared similar joyful In
sars. - lor our soldiers in the early
nat ae war with Spain. We showed
tu, oA more than $3.50 cartridges to
htotor Vnny heb in our civil war, not to
khsM . .on and half Of lead and near
scs I ssl ton Of powder. And after we had
~ hsm pssa og from the map of the West
seonr.s 'phefe and begun to balance up
lennr,.. we We're gratifed to learn that
II h,m ,.oh worth 100000 and one price
Ceres me were expended in using IN
months I b. squadron. while Dewey. a few
v he ,na so,e. mad put Montejo to sleep
Asl wa ,sSi.ious expenditure OF shot and
hs sot,n $4,000 and losing no lives N
4 NAVAL sand l. congratulating herself that
ham sul,. nllt in the last war with The
W. enrass s e,shly-five out Of the $50 Brit
hn MY We're killed, hoping, however.
At rhrda. Z mortality won't occur again
tsrsssssaaa ,aas ! in the soudan, when the
hn cn,s y y. 10000 of their 80, COO England
better Il. 20 artillery ever was band,ed
IT lsn -. mat Of the Germans in the war
Thai "; =, when they aheIled Mezieres "i in
thsIs ! a.. q the rate Of three and a hall
~ and whom they had dis
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patched $4,000 projectiles into the town,
less than IN per cent. of the inhabitants
were killed, or, 1t took CAB shots or shell to
Kill one person. At Thionvflle 1t took TO-
600 shells to kill each person falling. while
at Lorgny $4,000 shells failed in wounding
single individual At Belfort, 99.453 Ger
man shells killed sixty F'renchmen; at
Strasburg, 1922 shells found 300 victims;
while each Partisan killed in the siege
cost the Germans over 1000 shells.
1t took 100000 rounds from the German
batteries before Strasburg to break up 400
houses, or 500 missiles to house. At Glib
raltar's great siege more than quarter
of million shot and shell were hurled
at the garrison, killing and woundng 1,34l
persons.
At Salamanca only one rife shot in 437
took effect; in the Crimea 100000 shots
fired by the British troops killed 2.0OO
Russians %. 900 French shots accounted
for $1,000 of their allies of today, while 49,
900 900 Russian shots placed $1,000 French
and Turkish troops out of the fight
In the Franco-German war the Teutonic
invader fired Off 300O0,0O0 cartridges and
100000 rounds of artillery. with the result
that II took about 400 bullets and five
rounds of artillery to kill or mortally
wound a Frenchman.
Compared to bombardments, pitched bat
ties are far more deadly, but since the
days of Waterloo the danger has decreased
greatly At Wellington's great victory the
mortality of the British combatants was
SIh per cent. of those engaged. At the
Alma ~ per cent. Of the English engaged
were killed. while In the hard-fought bat
tie of Gravelotte the proportion OF the
German and French soldiers fighting who
were killed was over II per cent.
with regard to the Franco-German war.
which cost the French In war expenses
alone about $4,000 for each German killed
(the total cost to France eventually was
about $4,000 for every invader that field.
It Is estimated that per cent. of the Ger
mans engaged were killed in battle. died
of their wounds or of disease, but Of the
$1,000 who owed their death to this cam
paign only 2S,000 fell to the fire of the
enemy, and of the remaining 220o0 who
succumhed from disease, 1o.o0o probably
would have died in ordinary circumstances
apart from war. It took 400 shots TO Kill
each of the 1900 Frenchmen who fell.
In the crimea campaign. including the
siege of Sebastopol $40 shots were fired for
every Russian Killed OF the $4,000 British
lives lost In this campaign only 12la per
cent. or about 200. died in battle: the re-
mainder succumbed to disease. and priva-
ton, assailants far more deadly ~ rule
than bullets,
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ance to the work and renders It the more
dangerous IL that It Is direct appeal to
France to refuse to lend money to Russia
AZ long AZ N. de White 10 finance minister.
NJ. Cyon tells the French nation roundly
that De Witte has decelved them again
and again, that he has deliberately played
on their love Of Russia to extort money
from them, hetraying them to Germany
the whiie--favoring Germany ~ the ex-
pense Of France.
1t CHANGED that Just when tho book was
on the point Of appearing-in Jenuayy.s 1eD6
"a presidential crisis occurred In TrAAces
wfersupon NJ. de Cyon gave orders that
the publication should be stopped, not
wishing. ~ he said, to add 10 the emhar-
rassment of the French government BY
bringing the Franco-Russia alliance into
discradit At the same time he sent, con-
fidentialiy, copies Of the book to four menu
beers OF the Russian state council, IN tho
hope, 40 he somewhat naively confeesess
that one OF them might fail into the hands
Of the GEAR.
Instead OF that one fell into the hands Of
M. de Witte. who straightway sent word
to its author that II he did not publish his
book in Paris and 1T once. he. De Witte,
would publish Il for him In et Petersburg;
aye, and would Distribute copies Of II
gratis all round He sent, too, m an
nouncement OF his intention to the Figaro.
and the result was that the book was hope
lessly diseredited before ever; II was pub
lished.
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MAYHEM Gen. Joubert's men captured
w Lieut.. Winston Leonard Spencer
Churchill they did not count upon
the confusion and the complication that
were to follow In the United States of
America. There are two Winston Church
ills. both of them clever young men and
both of them famous. The result has been
that these two rising stars--one in the
East and one in the West-have been ta-
ken for one and the same orb. much to
the credit of both. For four years or more
the newspapers have been publishing an
ecdotes of the. two Winstons. and seldom
attaching the right anecdote to the right
man. The Chicago Times-Herald has his
posed of this heterophemous confusion by
pictorially setting the two young men side
by side and differentiating them biograph-
ically.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. the
man now a prisoner of war at Pretoria, is
the son of Lady Randolph Churchill. He
is a lieutenant of the Fourth Queens Own
hussars He is % years old, and was
educated at Harrow and Sanchurst He
entered the British army In 1870. and
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Now, will not contiguity and, gratitude
give us the commerce OF that beautiful
question. we wit give them peace and
good order, give aecurity 10 capital In
that magnificent island, and you will md
that commerce will be quadrupied In two
years from this time.
Porto Rico Is ours. and its trade win be
ours. The Philippine archipelago II our,
that trade IL something rich, something
which may be made extremely valuable?
That land there Is the finest and the most
prolific UNEMPLOYED land in the entire
world today.
why, Just look at It one moment: In
1897, after that island had been under the
despotic power Of Spain 800 years, when
hand OF the despot; when they had no
modern agricultural implements; no one
cess to the sea: two-thirds OF the product
rotting on the ground where It rested. ac-
cording to the United States commission
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z 4 - banquet Of. the Beacon
|s> ~ X6eton Henator William
4. - 6nino. was the guest OF
1fS tonic Of the address de-
3 - the distinguished menu
s S pa a. peace commission was
~ pnris: the Commercial I'M
~ q 81. ~ Acquisitions Under II, ana
az . e fences in Paris while
49, sSsiESr of the peace commis-
~ mi q the United States; He
4 ~ <Ser61fant requests OF the
i 81 ssiS1ioiers, and how Tor
q SSsTS Il looked as though no
I'M s. Ssrsssd d rnapn %r; nnls es's 81
~ jSls p y who cabled their
IN Mn that the. treaty tell
~, ~ Skin pretense Senator Frye
~ y. ssn,nSido secured considerable
~ ~ }kx rich Filipinos. Then the
Z SscsS IL the famous ultimatum
W ~ Tmerican commissioners gave
+: ~ he, the speaker. was I'M
~ ~. csS,sad 10 giving up any. land.
; IN u I'M With considerable length
y n eEx ~ the decadence OF ship
~ u 4 ~ sountry. He showed O mar
xeoSledre Of statistics In his cxv
.ssoi,S ppeech. He pointed out g
~ w America cou'u wv
- Z. - 4 vigorous denunciation
u Sisfforf5 Of the anti-imperialists:
q kSSSjc illusions to AguinRtdo ana
S25sMSent brought forth consider
SeSiSr, He spoke fully one and
~ u! ~ raid in part: All men
~ 5fsf ~ have no foreign. carrying
- ~. All men know that we only
gx4 I'M YEAR per cent. or our own
<1z!. "a imports In our own vessels,
Gu n ~ IA not, think. recognize the
ss,r oerfectly enormous. domestic
y! !. ~ z trade on our rivers. lakes and
~ - ss y coast Of 1900 miles: we have
ssSni6cenf Great Lakes up here
~ = eSsciiy where they seem to be
-! Y, " I tSnnare engaged In that bus
Z. 2& - 60.11Ynented and undocumented
...slS Il nsarly 5000. 900. more than Ger
Hs{S france and England combined In
y ,srreSsh s mt Ste s Marie locks .
!ss<sS, A lK5O0.00O In eight months, and
4, &c Suex canal the same year, In
"a ~ - wear. only $500, 900. Why. II took
~, 80 4600000 tonnage to carry the
i,,Iui5 ID the Mississippi river alone,
~ yeaf this domestic carrying trade
Grs7 IL, oQo.0oo tons Of freight, and over
@IS9 ~ tint business In the last ten years
4 ~ IN taking today's freight rates, be-
49, fhey are abnornally highl have
~ <6Vn more than one-half. All these
X,s5 combine TO help U.S. Can we stop
49, q are? What about the future?
NJ interest In these foreign markets
- hown greater and greater as the
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ers, that year the exports OF the island
were 1000, and imports 81, 900. and
the balance Of trade in favor Of the ISL
ands over 100000.
Now, give them decent government:
give them protection to life and property;
give security to capital and safety to In
vestors; open an access to the sea; IN
spire them with desire to work. Give
them all these things, and who doubts
but that commerce quadruples In a short
door. (Applause)
Why will II be ours? Because we will
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A Obssrvins Chil1.

Hazel Is just years old. She goss TO .
kindergarten and Il Just learning her let
ters. Tho other dry the teachsr waA try
ing to teach her the latter part Of tlle ~
phabet and held up block With mg
at" painted on II
Hazel. what letter II thise'
Hasel thought long time ana called y
~"
''No, no, Hasel. You ought to know what
this is. what does your father drink every
night for support"
Y "Beer!'' shouted Hazel, and she wonder
ed why the teacher smiied.-Detrolt Free
Press.
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obliged to relinqush the portfolio of fin
ance. White was elevated to his place.
Here was field for reform In earnest
for Of all the forlorn, crooked, wildcat
muddles outside of bucket shop the fins
ances of Russia we're the most hopeless.
To create anything like decency and order
out OF that chaos was a labor OF Hercules.
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White did 1t. He has been working at it
ever since, making himself illustrious the
world over and hated in his own country.
The credit Of Russia is no longer a by
word among the nations, and the former
assistant stationmaster is the most power
ful man in the empire, next to the Great
White Gar.
Aided by Beautiful Wife.
Meanwhile he has married a wife, one of
the most beautiful, most fascinating wo-
men in all Russia, one brilliantly clever.
too. with keen wits as well as perfect fea-
lures; and the rapidity with which he
rose from post to post must. perhaps. be
ascribed In some degree to the influence
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-15

Barton.
Mr.. Ira Wyman is in very poor health.
n. M. Scott goes to Windsor tomorrow.
Mrs. Lydia Graves remains about the
same.
Mrs. Myrtle Browning is in st. Johns
bury.
Mrs W. L. Jacobs is with her mother in
Burlington.
Dr. Nichols visited his parents at Lyn-
don Sunday.
Mr.. II. G. Spaulding made short visit
to Hardwick last week.
Ascension Day services we're held at the
Catholic church Thursday.
Charles Stone of st. Johnsbury visited
friends in town over Sunday.
o. V. Joslyn is doing a nice piece of
grading in front of his house.
Miss Virginia Tibbetts of Stoneham,
Mass, is visiting relatives in town.
DR.. Pearson is to be at Craftsbury Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday of this week.
Mrs r. S. Twombly is gradually i'm
proving in health. Mrs. Belknap Els bet
ter
Popular communication Of Orleans Lodge
No. So, F. and A. NJ, Friday evening, May
18th.
Several of our local singers will attend
the musical convention at St. Johnsbury
this week.
II. o. Whitcher & Son report remark
ably good trade in agricultural implements
so far this season.
The order of Decoration Day exercises
which occur Tuesday, May so, will be an
nounced next week.
G. V. Frasier has been at home for a few
days. Mrs. Frasier, who has been very i'll,
is improving slowly.
Several from this village attended the
Ascension Day services at Newport last
Thursday evening.
p. L. Webster was in Springfield last
week, accompanying his mother. who went
there to visit some relatives.
One of the small boys fishing in the river
at the rear of the laundry, last Saturday,
caught a troutthat weighed two pounds.
Rev. j. A Dixon of Barton landing
will preach at the M. z. church next Sab
bath morning in exchange with the Ias-
tor.
Mrs. Gorham, Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Pcoy-
SOD will entertain the Cong'l ladies' socie-
ty at the vestry Wednesday afternoon, May
18th.
Engine No. 272 has been sent here as a
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-15

On and after Jan. LIST the Vermont Saw
ings Investment Co. will pay per cent IN
terest on time certificates OF IS
payable in giving 80 days MOTTO. = rlEe
E. E. Blakely, treasurer, Montpelier, VT.
We have tons of Ground Oyster Shells for
hens, and can sell them at rs cts. bag of
100 lbs, also cracked bone and Pages
poultry food at d cents a pound, prolific
poultry food, cheap red pepper etc., for
the hens, at Ovens If.
will buy calves and hogs for stock train
every week through April. Commencing
April 18th, will buy hogs for stock train
lambs an calves every Tuesday forenoon
through the season, at highest market
prices. s. E. Winslow, Barton Landing
1925
Wanted-Five or six experienced table
girls. Apply to Hotel Barton. G. r. Pat
tee. Proprietor 16tf
For Sale-Twenty-five bags of grass
seed and clover sold by the bag cheap. c..
c. Grow, Barton.
Wanted Immediately: a heavy pair of
horses that will weigh from 23O0 to 1900 lbs.
for farm work, address, Alfred Burnham,
Sutton, VT.
For sale-One new cortland" top car
rage. A. r. White, East Coventry, Vt. 90
For bargains in wagons of all kinds, new
and second hand, road-wagons Concords,
top-carr1ages, lumber wagons go to as.
J. Ufford. Also several good young horses,
workers and drivers, for sale at right
prices. Chas. J. Ufford. Barton, Vt.
Teeth extracted.-Dr. Stevens, dentist,
of Bradford, VT, who has wonderful sue
cess extracting teeth, without pain, by the
use of electricity, has extracted teeth for
over 800 people at Barton. People go to
the doctors Office for miles around TO have
I >th extracted. The Vibrator is a wond-
erful invention, and we are glad to lem
that the doctor will be at Hotel Barton,
Barton, again, Tuesday May %, and at
St. Johnsbury May "a. Givebim call, he
VIII please you.
Pasturing to let for one or two cows.
Apply to o. D. Owen.
S. c.; Kimbau of Barton Landing will
pay cash for wool and maple sugar.
Miss Woodward of Barton will be at the
hotel at Westmore this week Thursday and
at the Irasburg house, Irasburg, Friday
and Saturday, to receive orders for MILL
merry work and also to do trimming. 20
We pay the highest cash price for maple
sugar. Tower Bros, Barton, and S. c..
Kimbail, Barton Landing. 2O-1
DIR. Pearson, the dentist, will be at the
Eagle Hotel, .Cfaftsbury, VT, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of this week, May Is,
10 and TO- Call early and make appoint
ments. 20
Good tenement for rent on Main street.
Apply to d. D. Bean. 2Gtf
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Probate Courts.

Probate Courts will De held at the Probate
Office in Newport each Monday. Atthe ohce
of f. ". 6aldeyin in Barton on the second
Friday of each month; at the office OF B. f.
ID. Carpenter at Barton Landing in the fore
noon of the third Friday of each month. Par
ties having business with the Court at Barton
or Battons Landing concerning pending es-
tates win please inform the Court In advance
that he may ia re the necessary papers with
him. T. E. ALFRED, d dge OF PROBATE.
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Local Advertising.

Advertisements aud notices, as promo
nades, shows and other entertainments VIII
be published under this head for ta7o cents q
word for first insertion, one cent word tb ere
after. We shall run no advertisement among
local items Cash must accompany the or
der. No charge DitL be made Of Tess than
foTtu cents.
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estate has se.l -- van King buying the
part that the buildings were on, Elias
Miles another portion and Edward Tic
hurst the remainder.
John Wylie is home from Lowell for a
couple of weeks.-Mrs. George Baker and
her sister, Miss Jennie Wilkinson, are Wis
iting in Wolcott.-Mrs. Wheeler OF West
Townsend, mother OF Mrs. Vincent, is Wis.,
iting her.
We announce the marriage ON Monday
last of Charles Baker, formerly OF this
town to Miss Fa nnie Burdick OF Fargo, N.
Oak. Miss Burdick has been a stenogra-
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1899-01-11

"Nevada is slill in the doldrnms, but
there have been very many advances in
that State during the year past. Two or
three old mining districts have been re-
suscitated some new districts have been
formed, and we suspect that her output
of bullion this year will exceed, in pro-
portion to the members OF her people,
that OF any State 10 the Union. The
road has been started to cross her south
western corner. When hat road il COM
plrted to Los Angeles, or even to the
Atlantic 4 Pacific, all the southern part
Of Nevada will take on new life. We
still hold that natusally she has more
elements of mineral wealth than any
other State in the Union ami that it will
he demonstrated 20 soon MS she has
cheap and rapid communication thr oupli
which her mines may be utilized. Her
day Of full fruiiion has not vet come,
and very MANY people who sneer at her
prpteniions, will, some one OF these days,
be forcet. to admit that the State itself
was ALWAYS All right, and that all that
aas needed to demonstrates that fact was
to remove the haDdicaps that held back
her prosreriiy.'--Sal Lake Tribune.
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How to Prevent Pneumonia.

You are perhaps aware that pneuro-
MIA always results from a cold or from
an attack of la grippe. During the epi-
demic of la grippe a few years ago when
SO many cases resulted in pneumonia, il
was observed that the attack was never
followed by that disease when Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy was used. 1t oun
teracts any tendency Of a cold or la
grippe to result in that dangerous dis
ease. 1t is the best remedy in the world
for bad colds and la grippe. Every bottle
warranted. For sale by ali druggists and
the Commercial Co, of Lovelock.