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The times., 1899-03-26
Good Friday buns.

These are made by first boiling six ounces
of loaf sugar and four teaspoonfuls Of water
to a syrup; beat up two eggs and pour the
syrup hot upon them, stirring all the time;
add two ounces Of butter cut small, and
beat the whole for fifteen minutes; then
stir in eight ounces OF -four, four ounces OF
currants, one ounce OF candied lemon peel
cut small, one teaspoonfui Of carbonate of
ammonia dissolved in Tablespoonful Of
milk, and one teaspoonfuh Of ground mace.
Mix all together. pour into a mold, and
bake in a quick oven.
The times., 1899-03-26
SPORTING STYLES
FOR THE SUMMER
New Designs for Golfng, Cy-
cling, and Boating.
Fish-Wife Serge Is Recommended
for General Wear.
Women Want Their Pockets Hack.
But Tailor~ Obdurafely Com
Women Want Their Pockets Hack,
But Tailors Obdurntely Con-
tinue to Refuse Them.

terest women now feel is in their spring
sporting wardrobes. More anxiety is dis
played over the cut of the new golf skirts,
the shape and texture of walking boots,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

Exports of merchandise from the
United States to China in the fiscal
year about to end will be larger than
those of any preceding year in our his
tory. A decade ago the exports to
China were less than 100000, and to
China and Hongkong combined were
little over $6.O00.0OO In the fiscal year
1899 our exports to China will be more
than s13 900 900. and to Hongkong more
than 81, 900 900, making a total to China
and Hongkong of over s20,000.000, OF
more than three times as much as
that of decade earlier. That the bulk
of exports to Hongkong may properly
be considered as ultimately destined
for consumption in China is shown by
the fact that the official reports of the
imports into China show that over Al
per cent of their imports are from the
port of Hongkong. The 1899 exports
to China and Hongkong combined will
show gain of nearly 25 per cent over
those of last year. while the total ex-
ports from the United States for the
fiscal year 1899 will be little If any in
excess OF those of last year, thus show
ing a more rapid growth in our ports
to this particular part of the world
than elsewhere.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

On that memorable May morning.
the anniversary which has recently
been celebrated as Dewey day. little
powder boy on the flagship was put in
chains for leaping into the water,
against orders, to recover his coat.
Admiral Dewey. kindly questioning the
boy, discovered that the photograph OF
his mother was in the pocket OF the
imperiled Jacket. and it was that that
led the lad to risk life and violate or
ders. The admirals eyes filled with
tears, as he exclaimed. "A boy who
loves his mother enough to risk his
life for her picture cannot be kept In
chains on this fieet!" and the lad was
instantly released.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

At the twenty-sixth national confer
ence OF charities held at Cincinnati
last week, Geo. Terrence OF Pontiac
ILL.,, delivered an address on the relation
OF the cigarette to crime. After recit-
ing his experience with boys coming
to his institution. Mr.. Terrence said;
IT am sure cigarettes are destroying
and making criminals of more Of them
than the saloons" In his reformatory
now there are 27S boys. "Of 63. aver
aging - years of age. 5S were cigarette
smokers: of 1873, averaging IA years OF
age. lbs were cigarette smokers; Of 81
averaging Is years, 73 were cigarette
smokers"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

Chief OF Police Devery of New York,
when examined by the Mazet commit
tee concerning the Fitzsimmons-Jef-
fries battle. declared that he saw moth
ing that was not strictly scientific and
within the law. The knockout blow.
said the observant chief. was ''scien-
tific tap" and happened to catch Mr..
Fitzsimmons little off his balance,
thus causing him to fall gently and
easily to the floor. Battles with axes
or cleavers would probably be con-
demned by Chief Devery. but the heav-
lest blows struck by such burly men
as Jeffries and Fitzsimmons are only
scientific taps" and no violation OF
the statutes.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

In the light of more recent events
1t appears that Cuban honor" is more
a matter OF official restraint than any
thing else. So long as the Cuban SOL
diers were obedient to instructions, the
exchanging of their guns for American
gold was most degrading transac-
ton. but when they broke away from
their officers, the more gold they could
get, gun or no gun, was evidence OF
their shrewdness. The Cubans are not
much unlike the Spaniards. for, come
to think Of it, the Dons parted with
the Philippines for less than 1 per
cent Of what Spanish honor originally
demanded.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

Excessive opposition to trusts would
bar out the department stores; and
how long might 1t be before the oppo-
sition would go down to any partner
ship of two men? 1t is difficult in
these cases to kno1 Nhefe to draw the
tine.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11
Peace In the Philippines

Is bound to prove profitable. Warning
conditions. whether in the Philippines
or in the human stomach, are disas1
trous. If your stomach has rebelled, J
there is one authority that will SUBJ
due it. 1t is Hostetter's Stomach Btu
tcrs, and cures constipation, indiges-l
ton and dyspepsia See that n private
revenue stamp covers the heck of ths(
bottle.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

1t would be interesting to know
whether Andree's latest message was
found in bottle or in a pipe.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

While we have some advantages in
the Philippines, we admit that Agui'
naldo has the run of the Islands.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

Gen. Gomez is probably right in his
remark that the three million dollars
partially intrusted to his care has been
q curse to him. Excessive amounts
are a curse to anybody. Look at An
drew Carnegie and shun such respon-
ability as you would an adder.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

A good housewife never wastes good
bread. by trying to transform it into
bread pudding.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

A Beardstown baseball club is named
for Admiral Dewey, but that did not
prevent the Frederick nine from wax
ing" 1t by score Of Is to a few days
ago.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

The man who is shadowed is apt to
have good deal of light cast on his
character.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

The salutes fired in honor of Dewey
will be heard round the world.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

1t is freely prophesied that the plow
trust will run against a stump.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

No man is to be praised for giving
away the things he's unable to use.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

Doesn't your son inherit his fighting
he got them from his mother"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
TRUSTS AND THE TARIFF.

Mr.. Havemeyer's characterization
of the tariff as 'the mother of all
trusts" is not strictly accurate. 1t
may be admitted that the artificial
stimulus given to industrial produc-
ton by high protective tariff Gre
ated conditions of Improbable COM
petition which it was the purpose of
the trust system to correct. In so far
as articles subject to trust regulation
are protected by high import duties,
the tariff undoubtedly serves to ex-
clude foreign competition, and to as
sist the trusts in retaining the control
of prices in the home market. But
the tariff has not the slightest bear
ing on the recent great combinations
in the iron and steel industry, nor
would the repeal of the whole sched
ule of duties tend in the least to
weaken. these combinations. The
great original trust-the Standard Oil
Company-is quite independents of the
tariff. So is the tobacco trust, the
cottonseed combination, the copper
syndicate, the car trusts and a num-
Der of others. In short, while a re-
vision of the tariff could be so effected
as to abridge the opportunities for
creating monopoly in certain man.
ufactured articles, it would not SER
iously effect the trust system as
whole.-From the Journal of Com
naerce Free Trade.)
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
ENGLISH COLLEGE ATHLETES
BEAT AMERICANS.

The pink checked, beef-fed young
athletics who represented Oxford
and Cambridge defeated the pIucky
fellows from Harvard and Yale, who
crossed the ocean to do them battle
in the international Varsity track
and field meet, July %. The final
score was five points to four, but the
margin of victory, though narrow,
was sufficient. For the winners,
Cambridge captured four of the
events, Oxford taking one. Harvard
won all four that went to the credit
of the Americans, Yale accomplishing
nothing.
The English athletics won the
quarter, half, mile and three mile
running races, and the broad jump.
The Americans won the 1O0-yard
dash, the 12O-yard hurdles, the ham
mer throw and the high jump.
The defeat of the Americans was
due to the unexpected weaken
ing of the American middle
distance runners, who had been
COuC0OOO Od 1O1 FICGOI1OS
in the quarter and half mile runs.
Burke of Harvard and Adams of
Yale each had better records at the
latter distance than their English
rivals, yet the latter defeated both
easily in time that was not wonder
fully fast, though it is only fair to say
it was entirely worthy of the meet
ing.
Again in the quarter the Yale men,
Fisher and Boardman, were defeated
by Dawson in fast time, but no faster
than the Americans have been credit
ed with in practice and public per-
formances.
The exhibition of the Harvard men,
except Burke, who was off form and
finished last in his race, was in dis
tinct contrast to that of the Yale rep
resentatives.
Quinlan surprised even his friends
by the final burst of speed with
which he nailed Thomas at the tape
in the 1OOyard, winning in even time
the fastest century he ever ran in his
life.
"Flying" Fox also ran the race of
his life over the high hurdles, win
ming his event from Paget- Tomlinson
in impressive style.
The victories of Rice in the high
Jump and Boal in the hammer throw
were no less clever performances be-
cause they were expected.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31

During the presidential campaign of
1892 Senator Quay and Senator FL
kins, who were managing the repub-
lican interests, and ex-senator Brice
and Henry Watterson, who were
in charge of the democratic head
quarters, used to live at the same
hotel, and frequently dined together.
One evening as they were sitting at
the same ia BILE Mr. Brice looked over
to Senator Quay and asked:
GLOW are you folks off for mon
ey?"
eve are very hard up" replied the
republican chairman. Chow are you
getting along?"
WELL" SAID Senator Brice, "when-
ever we want money go down into
my own pocket for it. I have not
been able to get much anywhere
else.''
"You are lucky to have pocket to
go into" said Senator Quay. eff 1
had money Of my own L would not
grumble.'
Dut, Sd1U SENATOR br1C0, Il nave
to borrow it.''
Gentlemen" said Senator Elkins,
eI have suggestion to make. Sup
pose we four go down town tom orrow
and borrow 81 ,OoO,o 600 upon our joint
Endorsement, and divide it between
the two parties, and then let which
ever one wins pay the notes.''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
Halls Family Pills are the best.

No time in the year is SO favorable
for making permanent Improvements
|hpon the farm as the period i'm
|mediately following the haying sea-
BON. The land is dry and firm, the
beams are in good working condition
and the men do not need the time
Tor recuperation as they did under
the old system of cutting hay without
The use of machinery. But little grain
LIS now grown in New England and
The period after securing the hay IN
'til the corn is ready for the silo will
be very proftably employed in fixing
mp things about the farm. 1t is the
Reason when our fathers and grand
Ifethers cleared the rocks and bushes
rom the fields and the rubbish from
lie fence corners and built the sub
NJ tantial stone walls which will remain
Wasting monument to their industry
md interest in their occupation, as
FeH as convenience to all who fol-
bw them in the cultivation of the old
Mrm.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31

Advertising is an indication of
prosperity; yet too many merchants
seem to believe that without favor
able trade conditions and actual
prosperity represented by busy mills,
plenty of money and numerous sales,
advertising does not pay. They ap-
pear to forget that from sheer neces-
sity people must be always buying
something, whether times be good or
financially dull. Being, therefore,
compelled to buy, the next question
with the purchaser is where to buy.
Naturally merchants who are not
chary in the use of the advertising
columns of good newspaper will
get their patronage. A mere publ
cation of an intermittent announce
ment is an improbable practice for
the merchant to follow.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
MAKING DAT HAY.

Any of the cereal grains when cut
before reaching maturity will make
hay of from fair to excellent quality.
The oat, wheat, barley and rye plants
are used for making hay in many
parts of the world. Professor Henry,
in Breeders Gazette, says the simplest
method of making oat hay is to cut
the crop with the mower when the
grain is in the milk stage. Handle
and cure exactly as with timothy hay.
The oat plant cures we'll in the cock
for the reason that the long and
rather stiff stems carry the falling
moisture outward and off instead of
downward, as does the clover plant
with it's -spongy leaves. Because of
its rain resisting power oat hay
should be cured in the bunch or cock
to as great an extent as possible in
order to preserve the aroma and
soluble portions.
In many cases farmers have been
pleased with forage oats cut with the
binder and cured in sheaf form. In
this case make small sheaves, bind
loosely and cure in the shock. One
must know how to manage these
things, but the method of procedure
IS not difficult. Of course if the cut
grain is gathered into large bundles,
ifiit is quite green, if the bundles are
bound tight, or if the weather is damp
and rainy, there will be mildewing or
rotting under the band.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
OUR FARMERS.
MAKING NITROGEN AVAILABLE.

Nitrogen is the important element
in plant growth in its earlier stages.
Nitrogen from organic matter does
not become available without heat.
Nitrogen gives the plant its dark
green color. When we have cold
weather in May and June the coru
turns yellow. Why? Because the
supply of organic nitrogen fails.
Potash and phosphoric acid are not
so essential at this time.
Then nitrogen must be made availa-
BILE as fast as needed and the one ele-
ment in the manufacture is the heat.
Another is moisture. The heat comes
from the sun and from the decay of
vegetable matter in the soil. The
greatest amount of heat is in the first
three inches of soil. 1t is very i'm
portant then that these first three
inches are fine and moist.
The object then of cultivation
should be TO get the surface as fine,
mellow and free from other green
plants as possible in order to make
this notification take place as rapidly
as possible. Near the surface is the
place where the work is done.
Cultivate the surface only. Make
this fine and it will be moist. In
starting our springtooth cultivators
this season we were surprised to see
the soil SO moist right at the surface.
We carefully examined the root sys-
tenn of a number of corn plants and
found four fifths of the roots in the
first two inches of soil. Why is this
SOP Because here is where nature is
making the elements that the plant
needs, and if the moisture is there
the roots will be there, too. AS soon
as we get through with the spring
tooth cultivators we will take the
plank cultivators and run over it, be-
tween the rows, then follow with the
weeder, single width, and this will
make the surface as fine as dust.
This we consider ideal cultivation
for corn and potatoes.
1t is to secure the best natural con-
ditions that we cultivate, not to kill
grass and weeds.--Fdrmers' Guide.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
ROOSEVELT TO INVESTIGATE.

The Herald says that Governor
Roosevelt is taking personal cog
nizance of the complaints that have
been made by street car employee S
about the alleged wholesale violation
of the ten hour law by the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company and the Met
ropolitan Street Railway. The gov
ernor, not pleased, it is said, with the
manner in which the overtures of the
arbitration board had been met by
the presidents of these two companies,
has requested the board to make an
investigation into the alleged viola
tions. Both companies, when the
employees complained, and Messrs.
Delehanty, Gilbert and Webster,
members of the board, offered their
services, declared that there was
nothing to arbitrate. The result was
that there were two strikes, consider
able disorder and talk of calling out
the National Guard.
The governor, it is said, is of the
impression that there is something to
arbitrate, if the companies are vio-
lating the ten hour law. He does not
intend to compel them to arbitrate,
but if the law is being violated he
desires that this fact be known and as
soon as the additional deputy factory
inspectors take Office they can look
after the companies. 1t is said that
the governor is very likely to be
heard from on this subject, if the sit
uation is as bad as the strikers have
painted it. He is not opposed to
street railway corporations, simply
because they are corporations. He
believes in protecting them in the
exercise of their charter rights. No
governor, it is declared, would be
quicker to order out the National
Guard to protect property. But no
street railway that violates the law,
and doing SO, brings on a strike, has,
it is said, very strong claim for
extraordinary protection in the gov
ernor's opinion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
DONE BY MACHlNERY.

By the AID of improved machinery
that which at the beginning of the
century was the luxury of the rich is
now the comfort of the poor, says the
Engineering Magazine. Material and
labor are no longer the sole factors of
production. Assisted by machinery
and tools, mems labor now converts
the raw materials of nature into the
useful, necessary, and in some cases,
even the artistic paraphernalia of
civilization with one third of the ex-
ertion formerly necessary. Even
Russia, the latest competitor in the
Industrial field, has, with the aid of
machinery, more than doubled, since
1861, the individual output of of those
employed in her manufactures. In
the course Of 20 years 1S70-1900) the
number of persons employed in the
American manufactures has more
than doubled, and the value of their
product nearly trebled. [ mention
these facts to show the important
part that machinery now plays in
modern Industrial warfare. Few
realize Or stop to think how much we
are indebted to the inventor and ma
chine designer for the comforts, lux
uries and necessities Of our daily life.
The loom which weaves our silks,
cottons and woolens; the harvesting
machines which reap our corn; the
machinery which forms our bricks
and mixes our mortar; the printing
machine which makes the penny
daily possible. Our food, clothing,
furniture, literature, all are produced
on machinery which it is practically
impossible to make or maintain with
out the modern machine tool.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31

Count Carracristi, a mining and oil
expert, arrived in New York last week
on his return to this country, after
having been instrumental in getting
through deal in oil lands involving
$5,000,000. The Count was summoned
to London about a month ago to con-
suit with some oil experts. The deal
in which he was called from this coun
try was the purchase of oil lands in
Ohio and West Virginia. He had in
vestigated the property and advised
that the purchase be made. This was
done and ST, 000,0 900 changed hands.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
$1,000 FOR GLOBE READERS.

In offering $1,000 for the best esti-
mates of the sailing time of the Co.
lumbia and the Shamrock, The Boston
Globe has adopted the best possible
means of increasing the popular in
terest in the great international
yacht contest for the America cup.
With characteristic consideration for
the women and young people among
it's more than a million readers, the
Globe has divided the $1,000, Offering
$500 to the woman or girl, as we'll as
$500 for the man or boy, making the
best estimate of the result. The esti-
mates already are pouring in, these
generous offers having met with an
instant welcome throughout New
England.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
800 Reward, 800.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn
that there is at least dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all its stages and
That is Catarrh Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical fraternity
Catarrh being constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure is
ken internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces ofthe system, thereby destroying
The foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
kent strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative powers, that
hey offer One Hundred Dollars for any that it
Balls to cure Send for testimonials. Address
FL. CHENEY SEQ, Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31

A Kentuckian tells this story of the
impression made by the boy orator in
Louisville:
louisville, as you know, is one Of
the greatest tanning centres of the
world" he said. "The day after
William Jennings Bryan was in Louis
vile / was riding in a street car, when
passenger boarded the car and sat
down next to me. He had the solid,
robust look and dress of a cross be-
tween German American manu-.
facturer and tan yard laborer. The
smell of the lanyard was all over and
all about him. He spied an old friend
sitting just opposite him in the car"
says the New York Tribune.
''Did you hear Bryan?" asked the
friend.
81 did," said the tanner.
"What do you think of him?" said
the friend.
"Vell," said the tanner, "there is
only one truble NIT Brine; he amt
got some sense. He's good for shust
one ting; he would make a good
drummer. He's certainly fine
traveller; makes five or ten towns in
day-been doing it for several years
without losing day, and is always
full of Wind. 1 gif him one hundred
tollar month to go on de road to sell
ledder. If necessary gift him $3.50
for de ferst year, but I wouldn't make
contract nit him for more dan a
year. He is worth nearer $1,000 as
1880, as ledder drummer, and good
for nothing else. He knows a good
deal, but what he knows is all wrong"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
Notice to Wheelmen.

During the season of 99 we shall continue to
offer to riders and all other persons Henry & John-
sons Arncd and Oil Liniment as the very best
remedy for bumps, bruises, scratches gals, cuts,
strains, blisters, sore muscles, cramps, sunburn,
pimples, freckes, chapped hands or face, rheuma-
tism, neuralgia, any ailnent requiring an ex-
ternal application.
Lady riders especially pleased with the
Arnica and Oil Liniment, is clean and delight
full to use. Sold by all druggists at Is cents per
bottle, one three times large for so cents.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31
Give the Children a Drink

called Grain-O 1t is a delicious, appetizing, nour
ishing food drink to take the place of coffee Sold
by all grocers and liked by all who have usedit be-
cause when properly prepared it tastes like the
finest coffee but is free from all its injurious prop
critics. Grain o aids digestion and strengthens the
nerves. 1t is not stimulant but health Ebulder'
and children, as well as adults, drink it with
great benefit. Costs about as much as coffee. Is
and CSC.