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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-29

evidently thought we would run back
to our lines if we had the chance, and
the cavalry were to be used in place
of hounds to run US down in case we
attempted it. A squad Of prisoners
were marched past US and upon some
one asking what they were, was an
swered that they were sixth corps
men-that the whole sixth corps had
been captured, and that General Grant
was on the retreat for Washington.
This exhilerating piece Of falsehood
was probably intended as a sort of
soothing syrup to allay any timidity
we might have as to our not having
plenty of good company, thinking
nothing Of our aversion to Grant and
the rest Of the army going back north
and leaving us down there in such
pickle.
Had we remained in our lines that
night we should have drawn three
from each company, and gone to the
quarter masters before we went to
the front, and the men in these details
escaped capture. 1t was reported
that we were to draw rations of
bakers bread-a great rarity to us
in those days-and some of US had
been to a eighboring orchard and
gathered haversacks of green apples
and our mouths had already grown
moist in anticipation of thick slices of
''soft bread" spread with stewed
green apple sauce sweetened with
muscavado sugar. Under the circum-
stances, however, we concluded to
dispense with this sumptuous banquet
and content ourselves with some
thing more plain and less costly, and
our entire bill of fare from soup
to desert consisted of few crumbs
of hardtack from the bottom of our
haversacks; after which, our hosts
offering US no better sleeping apart
ments than we had been having in
our own lines, without undressing, we
went to bed on the ground and slept
more or less soundly in our boots and
thinking caps.
My first recollections of the next
morning are of comrade by my side
in half sitting half reclining posture,
leaning on his hand. [ asked him
what he was thinking of.
'He heard it, but he needed not, his eyes
Were with his heart, and that was far away"
knew he had a young wife at home
who was waiting as anxiously as he
for the cruel war to end. He never
lived to see it but died at Florence, s.
c., the 18th of January. I saw sober
faces all around me and OWNED the
thoughts of the rest without questions.
I almost thought OF my own sweet
heart, but I remembered that wise
saying of Josh Billings, "Every groan
drives one nail in, and every laugh
pulls one nail out of your cofin," and
SO [ tried to ''cheer my comrades and
be gay"
TO BE CONTINUED.
r. Fl WEBSTER
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-29

Hon. William J. Bryan will be in
Montpelier, Friday, February, 2, the
guest of the Vermont Democratic
club. The business meeting of the
club will be held in the afternoon and
Mr.. Bryan's address will be given in
the armory in the evening. The usual
banquet will be abandoned. After
the address Mr.. Bryan will hold an
informal reception.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-29

They have saved hundreds of dol
lars every year on account of these
sales, and this year the chances are
they'll save more than ever.
Thousands of dollars worth of
goods are here and owned at old
prices, and these goods will be offered
very much below the ruling whole
sale prices OF to-day, which means
| that you can buy such goods as you
may need in this line for less money
than merchants can buy the same
make of goods in market now. Let
everyone who can do SO, be on hand
Thursday, February 1st, for the spec
ial bargains that will be offered then.
A BIG LOT OF JARDINIEREs
Bought under price for your bene-
fit, will be ready here Thursday for
you to take them, at probably less
than half you ever bought them at
before in Orleans County. Don't miss
this first offering.
CELERY DIsHER AND BERRY Bowls.
A lot of these will also be offered at
less than half regular prices.
ODD PIECES OF FANCY CHINA
Will be offered during this sale at
prices way below what you'd pay at
most stores.
Then there are all the other goods
that you'll save money on here at the
February prices.
You will buy some of the linens at
less than you ever bought them, and
you must know that manufacturers
are getting higher prices now.
TABLE DAMASKs AND NAPKINS.
A big variety as usual, five or ten
times as many as you'll see in any
other store, and if possible the designs
are little better-they are different
anyway.
TOWELS.
Some of the best values we have
ever offered are here. For instance,
we offer at % cents each-S3. .4S per
doz.-a big lot Of towels that the
wholesale price was $3.50 per doz. We
save yon fifty per cont. from what
the regular retail price would be at
most stores. Other towels at $3.50
per doz., all linen and the best values
you've seen.
BEDsPREADs.
If you don't buy this month here,
you'll pay a good deal more. We /
haven't any more than it will take to /
supply the demand for the month.
Here are sheets and sheetings, pillow 4
cases and pillow tubings, and at prices
less than makers ask.
BED. BLANKETS AND COMFORTABLES, /
PILLOWS AND PILLOW TOPS, J.
TRAY CLOTHS, LINEN SCARFs
AND SQUARES,
All at bargain prices which it will
pay you to take advantage Of. :
We invite you to what we hope will
be our biggest February sale.
Gilman Accompany.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-29
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. TE. BLAKE & CO..
BARTON. VT.
BARTON. VT.
w. l.. JACOBS, Editor.

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-29
Auction Sale.

The sub crfber III So n at Public Auction at
the raplin X Rrweil stables, Barton Landing.
VT Wednesday, January 81, 100 az 10 o'clock
a. ~ - one carload OF heavy, Western Horses.
2 his lot will consist Of twenty OF the best
Western Chunks yet offered on tie market
this year. These horses will arrive on Mon
day, January % aud viii be for sale after that
date. / also have at the above stables ten
Western and several good, second hand
Horses which l wish to close out at once. All
horses not previously disposed OF will be in
cluded in auction sale.
As F.E. KIMBALL.
Barton Landing, VT, Jan. ~, 1900.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-29
See Here !!

You can get your Mill Feed OF all kinds a.
the lowest cash price, and custom grinding
done at NJ. B. JOHNSON'S,
Mill Village, Craftsbury, VT. Sotf
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
1NHUMAN TUG CAPTAINS.
On. Y. journal Of Commercc.)

On. !. journal oil commerce.
We regret to say that the evidence
OF shocking misconduct and even of
merccnary barbarism on the part of
many of the tugboat captains last Sat
urday afternoon is so abundant as to
compel belief. There were enough tug
boats at hand to pull all the imperilled
steamers out of their slips, and the
evidence indicates all too clearly that
everyone of them would have been
pulled out had not one OF them been the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. Here was
Il ship worth millions: TO have any
part in saving her meant a fortune in
the imagina ton of every tugboat cap
tain. For her they all rushed: she was
gotten out quickly with only trifling
of the Bremen and the Saalc were
making desperate efforts to attract the
attention of tugboats, but without sue
jumping into the river, and beneath
men were roasting TO death in ovens
from which there was no escape. but
most Of the tugboat captains had no
mind for anything smaller than the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. The Main
burned at her pier the Saalc and Bre-
men burned loose and driftcd into the
river, and not till then We're any of the
tugboat captains sufficiently at leisure
TO give them attention. 1t was then,
too late for live saving, but there was
still n chance to save some property
and make some money ont of the hOr-
rible scene and tugboatS picked UP the
lines and pulled the burning ships into
Shoal water.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
SOUTHERN WHITE COLLEGES.
mail and EXpress.)

Attention has been called at each
of the three yearly conferences upon
Southern education, held at the beau
tiful and secluded resort of Capon
Springs. in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
to the insufficient and. indeed. wholly
inadequate resources OF the Southern
white colleges. They have not been
getting their proportion of the bene-
factions of men with money. in this
respect not faring so we'll as the in
situations for black education in their
section. AS Gen. Curry. president of
this years conference and agent OF the
Peabody and Slater funds said to a
Mail and Express correspondents: Mil
lions OF dollars have come from the
North for the colored schools. but so
far the white schools have been neg
lected."
The record OF gifts to colleges in 1899
1900. as it has been compiled in part.
hears testimony TO the same condition.
for out OF n total OF $l6.6i4, 392 in gifts
to 2l9 colleges. institutions in rcnncs-
sec received 100000: in North Caro-
lima. SAL 500; in South Carolina. $4,000.
and in the great State of Virginia,
which. before the war. compared IA
vorably with Massachusetts in courses.
teachers and means. only $4,000.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
"OMINOUS SILENCE"
(Pittsburg Post.)

The Republicans arc somewhat
alarmed over the political situation in
Wisconsin. caused by what one of their
leading papers call the ominous ST.
lence among the Germans" The inn
pcrialist plunge of the administration
does not rest easily on the German
mind. The SILENCE" of the Germans
is declared to resemble the sit
uation at the outset of tho
campaign over the Bennett school
law of some years ago. which
drove the Germans in a body over to
the Democrats, and carried the State
against the Republicans. a CORE
spondent of the Chicago Record" at
Milwaukee. writes:
There is absolutely no doubt that
the Germans of Wisconsin are op-
posed to the colonial policy. to the ac-
nuircmcnt of new territory--in short.
to what may be termed the entire for
eign policy of this government during
the last two years. 1T so happens that
Wisconsin has a large proportion of
tho Germans of means and station
who left Germany In 1919 as political
refugees and they see in the new pol
Icy n prospect of the same evils that
caused them TO leave their native
land"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
1t Is apparent from the dispatches

1t Is apparent from the dispatches
that the European Powers have blum
dcred fearfuly in China.
The United Safes has nothing to do
with this ugly affair and should keep
out of it.-Baltimore American.
The American is often amusing. as
any thick and thin Republican news
paper must be, but it has never
achieved anything quite SO funny as
this attempt to put 1t all on the Euro
peans. The Americans have been In
the whole business save the lombard
mcnt of the Taku forts and Mr.. Me
INinlcy has demanded an explanation
of Admiral licmpff for holding aloof
from thntuni unsuitable act of war.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
Suffered Intensely with
Headache and other
Symptoms Of Catanh |!
DR.. Firey's Treatment Again
Demonstrates Its Power
to Cure Catarrh.


MY daughter has suffered for some
years with CATARRH. SHE HAS HAD
FREQUENT HEADACHES, S o Il f
THROAT. EARACEES. AND SUFFER
ED INTENSELY WITH ALL THE
USUAL SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE.
SHE WAS GROWING DEAF. and we
feared that she would lose her hearing.
Sho was treated by an able physician.
but found no relief. a FRIEND, WHO
HAD BEEN CURED BY DIR. FIREY.
advised me to take her to him. 1 feel
that cannot say too much for DR.. FL
rcys' treatment. Everybody says she has
improved so much. HER HEARING; rs
ENTIRELY RESTORED. and hope she
is well to stay well. and that she will
never be troubled with the Catarrh again.
MRS. A. MILTIER,
Deans. va.
Deans Is about six miles from Ports
mouth
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
To Our Advertisers.

Tho NirginianPilot is compelled TO
require that all advertisers desiring to
change their advertisements in our Sun
day edition furnish us with copy not
later than IL o'clock noon Fridays. No
change of advertisement will be guar
antecd In our sunday paper IL copy is
sent later than this hour. This require
mcnt is rendered necessary by tho great
increase In our advertising patronage,
for which we thank our patrons and
trust that they will appreciate the fact
that an early paper will be n mutual
benefit 10 both our readers ana ndvcr-
tiser>.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
ABOLISHING THE JURY SYSTEM
AGAIN.

Talk OF abolishinE the jury system
breaks out periodically and Gourishes
vigorously for n week or so, finding
here and there advocates who strongly
urge some specific instance of flagrant
injustice as meet cause for wiping out
the whole system. Some of the news
papers of Virginia think, or seem TO
think, that because the juries in the
Gilligan and Riddcl1 cases rendered
anomalous vcrdicts there should be an
end of juries. Verify, do men talk for
the sake of hearing their own voices.
There is not one of these advocates of
abolishing the jury system that. did
he-haNe--t to be placed in iHnpardA- OF
his life or liberty. would not insist that
jury OF his peers sit upon his case,
though there were n dozen other ways
by which he might be tried. And this
he would do whether innocent or gull
ty of the charge against him. If limo
cent, lie would trust TO prove his inno-
cence to twelve of his fellows; if guilty.
he would take the chance OF their tenn
pering justice with mercy. The politi-
cal party that should attempt TO abol-
y
part of one campalgn; then it would
go to the limbo of the factions that
distracted the last unhappy years of
the Roman Empire. SO much, and no
more. would be left OF it-and would
deserve to be left of It. AS guaran-
tee of the liberty and rights of the clti-
2ens, constitutions are Of no account
as compared 10 this same privilege of
trial by jury, that some of the breth-
rem are in such a fume to make an end
OF, because now and then there is n
palpable miscarriage of Justice. If the
jury system is a failure. what shall
take it's place? The real fault lies not
with the system, but with the men
who have TO do with il. The measure
of justice that is meted out under il is.
on the whole. as high as the desire
and capacity of the people TO do JUS
tce. Until some versatile genius dis
covers a means of raising himself by
his own boot-straps we shall not be
able to devise any system that will
do more than this; for until men be-
come perfcct--when jurics will no lon
ger be necded-there VIII he cases Of
injustice under any system devised
Even the august Supreme Court OF the
United States has been known TO rem
der decisions that did not appeal to
the average citizens ideas OF equity
When the brethren who are laboring
under stress of its iniqui,ics have
abolished the jury system there is yet
more arduous work to be done; there
are several things about the solar sys
tenn that do not meet with universal
approval.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
THE CHINESE SITUATION.

The situation in China has developed
sufficiently t. make II clear that peace
is not TO be looked for until the allied
nations have put All army in the field
capable to annihilate the imperial
forces now estimated at 100000 men.
The whole trend of things since that
event shows that the bombardment
and capture of the forts at Taku had
the effect to at once solidify the
Boxers and the imperial troops and to
overturn the Government OF the EN-
press Dowager. who had preserved at
least a semblance of friendliness to the
allied nations.
With the ascendency of Prince Tuan.
the most bitter of the reactionarles,
the anti-foreign movement has gained
an official head and will undoubtedly
be aided by the dc facto Government
with all the resources at its command
The only encouraging phase of the
situation. from the point of view of
the allies, at this time is the promise
of the Viceroys to abstain from acts
of hostility and to protect foreign in
tercsts in their several provinces
There Is always the danger. however
that. even though they have promised
in good faith, they will not be able to
keep their people from joining the
Boxers from the Northern provinces,
with the result that the whole Chinese
nation will have to be dealt with
The talk of abandoning Tien Tsin
where there arc now 10000 allied
troops. shows that the foreign COM
numbers have learned that the Chinese
soldiers of to-day arc not TO be de-
spised. There must have been n deal
of quiet preparation on the part of
the Chinese for the contingency which
has arisen. while the Powers have
made the same mistake that cost Eng
lssnd so dearly In South Africa. Clear
ly China is not an antagonist to be
despised.
1t has been apparent from the first
that the stronger the resistance that
China made, the greater would be the
danger OF It's partition among the
Powers when the struggle was over.
SO long as 1t was felt that China was
merely huge and impotent Empire
that could be disciplined at will by
any Western nation, the jealouscs of
rival Powers could be trusted TO main
tain its integrity. China as devel-
oping military Power is IL vastly diff
fcrent proposition. Such a Power
would be a menace 10 the holdings
which European nations already have
in Chinese territory, neccssitating the
strengthening of garrisons and state
of watchfulness that would be OK
pensive and inimlcal to commerce.
From the American and English
point of view-lf the two countries are
really opposed to the partition of
China-thc turn is not only for the
worse temporarily. but threatens the
utter destruction OF the so-callcd
open door" policy by substituting
spheres of influence for the Chinese
Empire. There will be. moreover.
heavy demands for indemnity. and
China can not pay. The allied nations
will. therefore, have no choice but to
forcgo their claims or seize territory
for them. Which course they Will pur-
sue 1t is easy to foresee.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
PENSIONS.
philadelphia Record.)

NIHiltucipIii lSecOTQ.)
1t was supposed that at the end of
the fiscal year 1898. when there were
993,T14 pensioners on the rolls. the max
imum number had been reached. and
that thereafter there would be a grad
ual decrease. There was a sight falling
off In the succeeding fiscal year, when
the number of names carried on the
rolls was 991,5l9; but the Spanish war
and the continuing fighting in the
Philippines have more than made up
for tn ravage of death in the ranks OF
the veterans of the Civil War. So far
loo pensioners who served in the
Spanish War have been added to the
rolls. and there are 10000 applications
pending--ten per cent. OF the total
number of regulars and volunteers I'M
der arms. No country In the world
deals so generously with its soldiers as
the United States. Our wars are as
costly after the fighting has ended as
during the tendency of actual HOSTILE
tics. 9
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
THE DooR-KNoB M1cRoBE.

montgomery NdVertlSer)
The latest microbe to come to the
front is the door-knob variety. and he
is now being exploited by the scien-
lists. People are informed that when
they take hold of II doorknob or bell
pull they arc liable to load themselves
with itch. measles, mumps. lockjaw.
appendicitis and several other small
troubles and inconvenience incident
to modern scientific discovery. Door
knobs must be abolished.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

The last formula for keeping cool
that has been devised this summer is
to rchearse the conditions under which
the census clerks at Washington are
compelled to work. The building in
which they are required to work is
onc-story high and has ground glass
roof; 1T was constructed by a thought
full government especially for the pur-
pose. The result is said to be that
three or four clerks n day collapse
from heat and many work with UNI
brellas open over their desks to keep
off the sun. If the average man does
not feel cooler after comparing his
present state with that OF the census
clerks shut up in a box with q glass
roof he should crawl into the refriger-
atOr,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

Mr. Bryan, in his speech to the Col
orado delegation. made a stinging in
dictment of the Republican party that
will stand:
The Republicans would repeal the
Declaration of independence: the Dem
ocrats would reafiirm it everywhere
throughout the world"
The respective attitudes OF the two
parties cannot be better defined.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
NOTES AND OPINIONS.
NOT FAR TO GO.
(Charlottc Observer.)

General Thomas l.. Rosser, OF Viz
Ginia. has written a letter to Governor
Roosevelt. ,Songratulating him upon his
nomination for Vice President. and an
nouncing his purpose to cooperate
hereafter with the Republican party.
In going over to it General Rosser did
not have far TO so. He has been pretty
much OF kicker and complainer for
several wears past
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
SOAP AND sANCTIMoNY.


The candidates so far settled upon
have all been photographed in khaki,
or cowboy boots and with corncob
pipes. This shows that they are OF the
common people. and the common peo-
pie will rejoice. Later in the season
they will have their pictures taken
with pitchforks in their banda, and
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

hayseed in their hair. Yesterday, Mr..
Mckinley sang. II want to be an an
GEL" in his old pew ut Canton. The
congregation was much affected.
Theodore Roosevelt addressed the
children of a Chicago Sunday school,
and told them how happy they were,
and how they loved their teachers.
Truly, this promises to he u genuine
old-fashioned campaign of soap and
sanctimony.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

The participants ought TO get some
excellent preliminary practice on the
Chinese for the really serious business
that will come afterwards.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

The vigorous ck-rcdalling OF Mr.
Mckinley arouses the suspicion that he
is easing up to see what lies beyond
the bend of the road to Pekin
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay is also
to write his "reminiscences. 1t is not
believed that Hon. John Wanamaker
will be the DIR. johnson of the volume
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

And now it is the Wall Paper Trust
that has quit. The pun possibilities OF
the situation are too circulating for
an extended obituary.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06
EVE PAGES.
GsRlpAY, JULY s, 1900.
JOYS OF MlILITARIsM.

prgeSAde. the well-known au-
~ correspondence at Manila of
RRlsof Record. throws some light
JOYS that are the part of
Van (IIl where militarism and the
ereQf holaf undisputed SWAY.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

by and by there is going to be
trouble for Prince Tuan. who seems tc
have been mainly responsible for il.