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The age-herald., 1900-02-23
CRONJE ASKED ARMISTICE
Afterward Sent Word He Would Fight
 to the Death

London, February A.-The Daily News has the following despatch from Modder river dated Wednesday afternoon, February 21:
 "The Boer forces under General Cronie are estimated at 5000 men. At 12 o'clock he asked for an armstice of twenty-foua hours which was refused. Later he sent a messenger to say that he would surren- der.
 '"The British general sent a reply telling him to come into camp. General Cronje re- fused saying there had been a msunder- standing and that he would fight to the death. The bombardment was then re- opened and our lyddte shells set fire to the Boer wagons. We continued sheling the laager through the night and in the morn ing we resumed with Maxims and rifles principally from the northsde.
 "On Sunday there was much waste of life in attacking and the same result will be achieved without it. During Monday night seven Boers made an attempt to break through our lines, btu they were captured and their leader was killed. Four were carrying letters. It is believed there was one other who got through.
 "Other prisoners say General Cronje marched from Magersfontein here without stopping, a distance of thirty-three miles. Had he succeeded in escaping it would have been one of the finest performances in the annals or war. The CanaQlanS maQe gail lant charge at the laager but were driven back with loss. General Macdonald and General Knox are slightly wounded.
 Boer organization is Perfect
 Paris. February 22-A letter from Colonel de villebois Mareuil, General Joubert's chief of staff, to whom the Boer victory at Co., qenso Is mainly attributed by the French papers, Is published to-day. In the course of his communication, the colonel says two of the Oreusots representatives rendered the Boers valuable aid. One named Greun- berg, he said, is the head of their artillery, and the other, Leon, Is the head of their engineers Leon directed the hoisting of Long Tom to the dizzy heights around tualling of the camps, which he himself To- cated.
 The writer expresses admiration for the organization and arrangements of the Boer camps. The Burghers, he says get excellent meat, bread or biscuit, coffee, rice pota- toes and other condiments with surprising liberalfty. He pays high tribute to the unsuspected military capabilities of the Boer leaders and declares every detaM of the Boer organization works like clock work.
 Roberts Makes q Report
 London, February 23.-1:30 a. m-The war cfice has issued the following from Lord Roberts:
 "Paaderberg, February 22.-Methuen re- ports from Kimberley that supplies of food and forage are being pushed on as fast
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
Roberts Makes a Report

London, February 23.-1:3o a. m-The war cfilce has issued the following from Lord Roberts:
 "Paaderberg, February 22.-'Methuen re- ports from Kimberley that supplies of food and forage are being pushed on as fast
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The age-herald., 1900-02-23
THE WEATHER.

HAIR AND WARMER FRIDAY; SAT URDAY, RAIN, WINDS SHIFTING TO BRISK SOUTHEASTERN.
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
NOT dead BUT SLEEPETH.

We had not heard from the Barton Furniture Store for three
weeks and went in to what We found Mr. Jen
very busy unpackng goods His whole line of Furniture,
Carpets Mattngs Crockery Curtains and Draperes have
nearly doubled His to all Drummers is "If
find place for the goods in my store, will take them" He
informs that while the wholesale price has advanced about
20 cent that he placed his orders last fall and able
to furnish house at nearly last fall prices On his first floor
found nearly hundred styles of Odd Chairs ranging in
price from $500 $1,000 These very attractive chairs
and should sell we'll We particularly attracted by his
fine line of Morris Chairs and Couches His line of Rugs and
Carpets large and surprised to learn
that he is selling his all wool carpets the old prices and
that the customer has about twenty patterns to select from
He had 1000 rolls of Wall Paper which he promised he
would have ready for exhibition this week this with the 5000
rolls already tor inspection makes immense display.
He has also purchased large line of beautiful Jardnie
In Crockery he has twenty patterns to select from. He has
nice line of Iron Beds with Tables and Washsands in white
enamel to match His Sideboards Desks and Bookcases
all worth examining if one does not wish to purchase
Up stairs he has everything the line of Beds and Bedding
and excellent Tables which he is selling very
able prices. AS tell the people Of but small
of what there will suggest that they call and in
spect the store for themselves Mr. enness outside trade
increasing He showed where he had been filling orders
for parties living Morve and for others WocO
OBSERVER.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02

There is learned man in Michigan
who would rather have a rare speci-
men from the animal, vegetable or
mineral kingdom than high political
office. Working for him is a sympa-
thetic son of Erin who processes as
much interest as though he knew all
about these things, a bit of shrewdness
that nets him many favors. The
other day he went rushing to his en-
ployer with letter, stating that it
was from his brother Mike, a coal
miner in Ohio, telling how they had dug
out a serpent turned to stone 30 feet
long and as thick as barrel.
The savant never stopped to read.
He took the first tram and reached
the little mining town by the shortest
route. The next evening he was back
and only grunted when his eager en-
ployee greeted him.
Did yez find the schnake, ventured
his man.
Yes. The snake in the case is that
brother Of yours. He's the greatest
liar unhung. His serpent so feet long
and as thick as a barrel was the petri
fed root of a tree Is inches in length
and half an inch in diameter.
There's no loirs av our name, sor.
Tt must be the thing shrunk, sor, after
they put it in the sun.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
THE BLIGHT OF NATURE.

The following is clipped from the
Union Signal:
Just now in California where the
many broad vineyards of table grapes
hang full of clear and brilliant fruit,
and the vines still retain their soft
bright green, one can not but COM
pare them with the many vineyards
of wine grapes in the same localities
which stand as though touched by
fire, brown, twisted and leafess.
1t is not long since these wine grape
vineyards presented as green and
foufishing an appearance as the vine
yards of table grapes, and furnished
the massive wineries with an album
dance of material but now large
amount of the supply is cut off and
many wineries are closed.
So far the table grapes stand I'M
harmed, and it seems kindly act Of
nature that spares this variety and
consumes the wine grape. Nature is
slowly working in unison with those
who are laboring for the betterment
workers for temperance are favored.
And this blotting out of wine vine
yard is not alone for season, but for
all time, for when it withers and dies
from phylloxara, the process SO poi
sons the ground that this same vari-
ETY. of plants can never again be
grown IN the same soil. Even the
sweet old Mission grape, priced by all
Californians, which somewhat resem-
bles some varieties of wine grapes,
remains untouched by this disease
and fiourishes where the wine grape
would perish. MAUD B. RODGERS.
Menlo Park, Cal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
FREE TO INVENTORS

The experience of @. A. Snow & Co.
in obtaining more than 10000 patents
for inventors has enabled them to help
fully answer many questions relating
to the protection of intellectual prop
erty. This they have done in a pam
phlet treating briefly of United States
and foreign patents, with cost of
same, and how to procure them; trade
marks, designs, caveats, infringe
ments, decisions in leading patent
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This pamphlet will be sent free to
anyone writing to G. A. Snow Co.,
Washington, D. @.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
THE F OURTEEN MISTAKES OF
LIFE.

1t is a great mistake to set up our
own standard of right and wrong, and
judge people accordingly.
To measure the enjoyment of others
by our own.
To expect uniformity of opinion in
this world.
To look for judgment and expert
ence in youth.
To endeavor to mould all DISPOSE
tions alike.
To look for perfection in our own
actions.
To worry ourselves and others
with what cannot be remedied.
Not to yield in immaterial matters.
Not to alleviate all that needs allie
Walton so far as lies in our power.
Not to make allowances for the
infirmities of others.
To consider everything impossible
that we cannot perform.
To believe only what our finite
minds can grasp.
To expect to be able to understand
everything.
And the last and greatest mistake
of all is to live for time alone, when
any moment may launch us into
eternity.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02

A dainty dessert can be made by US
ing old remnants of cake, but the cake
must be of excellent quality to begin
with, and of the white, sponge, or
plain variety. Pour one pint of hot
milk over the beaten yolks of three
eggs, add half teaspoouful of butter
and three tablespoonful of powdered
sugar, cook until the mixture coats
the spoon, then cool, beating con-
stantly. When cold add one and a
half cups of stale cake crumbs and one
teaspoonful of vanilla, or any flavor
ing to suit individual taste. Pour into
dish, cover with thin layer of jelly
or marmalade, then with merin
que made of the whites of the eggs
and two tablespoonful of powdered
sugar. Pile this into a mound with a
broad knife wet in cold water, brown
slightly in the oven and serve very
cold.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02

The little dear is lost again, she said,
as soon as she got home. Yes, that
pug, if you must talk like brute, and
I want you to advertise for him. And
this is the advertisement as it appear
ed: "Lost-A sausage shaped yellow
dog, answering when hungry, to the
name of Baby. A reward will be paid
for his return to 81 Blank street, dead
or alive"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
CAUGHT A DREADFUL COLD.

Marion Kooke, manager for 7. M. Thompson, a
large importer of fine millinery at 1858 Milwaukee
Avenue, Chicago, says: During the late severe
weather caught dreadful cold which kept me
awake at night and made me unfit to attend to my
work during the day. One of my milliners
taking Chamberlains Cough Remedy for a severe
cold at that time, which seemed to relieve her
quickly that bought some for myself. 1t acted
like magic and began to improve at once. am
now entirely well and feel pleased to ackno Wedge
its merits" For sale by E. W. Barron, Druggist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
w. c. T. u. COLUMN.
A WARNING TO TLPPLERS.

DIR. Frank III. Wade, of Pittsburg, il
an eminent specialist in dipsomania
From an article of his in the New
York Herald warning against the use
! of alcoholic liquors, we give the fol-
lowing as especially interesting to
moderate drinkers and users of beer
and light wines. DIR. Wade says:
"It is a statement frequently made
! that it is not the moderate use of al
cohol which does the harm, but the
abuse of it. This is as foolish an error
as it is an unfortunate one. In these
United States thousands of people are
annually made victims of the very
worst forms of organic disease simply
by the moderate but habitual use of
alcoholic drinks, such as beer and light
wines, containing only very small
percentage of alcohol, and they are
people who have never known the
slightest sensation of drunkenness in
their whole life, and never will.
cat the present time the evils in
separable from any form of alcoholic
stimulation are greatly aggravated
by the impossibility of obtaining any
form of alcoholic drink which is not
adulterated with the most poisonous
and deleterious drugs. Several years
ago there was organized in New York
a society for the promotion of mod
crate drinking. It regarded itself as
temperance society, though not a
total abstinence one. It's members
were pledged to drink moderately.
Recognizing the evils arising from
the adulteration Of liquors SO univers-
ally practiced, the society was desir-
Gus of finding some brands of pure
beer which it could advise it's mem
bers to drink to the exclusion of
every other. Accordingly commit
tee appointed for that purpose pro-
cured samples of the most celebrated
varieties of beer direct from every
principal brewery, and a competent
analytical chemist was employed to
analyze them and detect what impur-
tiles, if any, they contained. The re-
suit of his investigation showed that
there is not drop of perfectly pure
beer brewed in this country. Instead
Of containing only malt, water and
hops, every specimen of beer exam.
ined was found to be adulterated with
resin, aloes-a powerful purgative,
which irritates the rectum and tends
to produce hemorrhoids; picrotoxin
"a peculiar bitter principle derived
from the seeds of coculus i11dicus, and
a poison so deadly that five grains of
it are sufficient to kill the largest and
strongest dogs-and many other drugs
of an equally deleterious and danger
Gus character. Equally general and
equally dangerous authorizations are
made in every form of alcoholic bev-
erage of which we have any knowl-
edge.
"Alcoholic liquor of any kind, even
at it's best and purest, cannot fail to
be injurious to any one in health. 1t
destroys the brightest intellect-it de-
grades the purest woman. 1t cor
rupts the judicial ermine, it under
mines the very foundations of gov
eminent. 1t is the DEVILS best friend
and Instrument
CRANK II. WADE"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02

Yes, admitted Uncle Reuben Thros-
tledyke, with some reluctance. I did
buy a gold brick wunst fur 500, but
the money wuzn't altogether throwed
away. My wife uses the brick fur
keeping her feet warm these cold
winter nights.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
TRY GRAIN-O! TRY GRAIN-O!

Ask your Grocer to day to show you package OF
GRAIN-O, the food drink that takes the place
of coffee. The children may drink it without injury
well the adult All who try it, like it.
GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha OF
Java, but is made from pure grains, and the mos
delicate stomach receives it without distress. a
the price of coffee. 15c. and % cts. per package
Sold by all grocers
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02

daughter has received from the use of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. After beginning the use of
your medicine she began to mend
rapidly and is now able to be at her
work Her menses are regular and
almost painless. feel very thankful
to you and expect to always keep your
Vegetable Compound in my house. 1t
is the best medicine ever knew. You
have my permission to publish this
letter if you wish, it may be the means
of doing others good. Mrs. MATILDA
A. CAMP, Manchester Mill, Macon, Ga,
September IS, 1899.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02

A TESTIMONIAL FROM OLD ENGLAND.
ST consider Chamberlin's Cough Remedy the best
in the world for bronchitis" says Mr.. William
Savory, of Warrington, England. "It has saved my
wife's life, she having been martyr to bronchitis
for over six years, being most of the time confined
to her bed. She is now quite well'' Sold by E. W.
Barron Druggist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02

Mrs. Harriet Evans, Hinsdale, Ill. rites 81
never fail to relieve my children from Group at
once by using One Minute Cough Cure. I wo uld
not feel safe without ito Quickly cures coughs,
colds grippe and all throat and lung diseases.
III Pierce, Barton; French, Glover; FL S
Webster, Barton Landing; G w Russell, Iras-
burg.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02

"DEAR Mrs. PINK
HAM 1T affords me
great pleasure to tell
YOU of the benefit nv
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
A MOTHERS STORY.
and How She was Relieved
Two Letters to Mrs. Pinkham.

"MRs. PINKHAM Il write to tell you
about my daughter. She is nineteen
wears old and is fOWinr all the time
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-26

not give details. But IL ueVei-
ops that he met death in
manner more peculiar perhaps. than any
that has ever been reported on railroad.
whitney was clerk in the city passen-
ger office OF the Northwestern road in
Chicago Years at a desk had caused him
to long for outdoor life. He applied to
the officers of the road for change OF
work He wanted TO be conductor. He
had had no experience in the train SER
vice, but this did not deter him. for ex-
perience was what he sought. The super
intendent told the vhitc-handed clerk,
who had never done any more dangerous
work than to contract a theatrical party
for n Wisconsin circuit. to get lantern
and go TO work.
He was given an easy run. that OF a
freight train on the Chicago division. For
three months his experience was COM
monpIace and he had begun to think
that he belonged on top OF a train instead
OF in an Office. But Whitney was wrong.
Excitement came in due time As his
train was nearing West Bend, Whitney,
who was braking behind. got out on top
20 signal a stop. He reached the mid
die OF the train before his signal was
seen. The train was going about twenty
miles an hour. Just before West Bend
is reached there is water tank close to
the main track. The engineer OF n pre-
cedng train had neglected to run up the
water trough, so that the chain that
hangs down would clear the top of a car.
Just as Whitney obtained reply to his
signal he was struck by tho heavy hang
ing chain from the water trough. Like
n crack from stagedriver's whip the
chain wound around the mans neck He
struggled ms only those who are facing
death know how TO fight But II was OF
no effort. With the first switch of the
chain his lamp fell between the cars and
those who had been watching his light
supposed that IL was another case OF
"srcen man between the cars" During
the half or three-quarters Of a minute
that Whitney retained consciousness after
the chains death grip he fought for life
He was alone. no one knew of the acct
dent and he hung as the train ran I'M
der his feet. The head brakeman. who
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unhung II you persist In II. More'n that.
I says. you'll be dead broke all the days
o. your life"
But you couldn't convince him. There's
four royal Pushes in the deck, Amt there"
says he. an them FIVE cards is just as
likely to come as any other Eve. amt
they? An II there's anything certain in
this here world o trouble an uncertainty.
tits that man'il get 'em soRe time. II
he keeps on tryin'. An say, When do
get 'em, If the Lord spares me TIL that
happy day. won't do anything but swat
the gang
The Lord can spare you easy enough
says |. Disguised. an so can the COM
munity II you go on tryin' to break up
our national institutions by propagatin
SIGH revolutionary ideas. IT'S worse'n So
cialism' | says. It's ridiculous
But there wasn't no moving o. him. an
we Just had TO leave him to the error Of
his ways, an what we thought was the
inevitable vengeance OF heaven An the
boys calculated that bein as how he was
a self-app'inted vessel o. wrath, an bound
TO be skinned In the game as long as he
continued to play II. II was sort O.
missionary work to assist in the skinnin'
Most of em devoted themselves to the
missionary work, too. with such holy zeal
that Pete was broke most of the time.
lie was EoOl GRIT ihous1. NoDouE
never heard him complain. for he seemed
to be sustained by calm confidence In
that royal flush. an every time he went
broke he'd go back to work as clipper as
a catfish. and stick 10 II till he had a stake
to sit in the game with.
THAT was another thing ! used to talk
to him about while I was trying TO show
him the error of his ways. 'Siipposin' you
do get royal flush some time | says,
how can you expect to get a legitimate
profit out of IT, If you go broke all the
time trying to get II? You won't have no
money to bet with / says.
but all he ever said to that was, oh!
the Lord will provide. You don't suppose
things is goin' to be so ordered, do We,
that heavens richest hlessin' would come
TO a man, an him not have the means to
back II up1 Which was next door to
biasphamy, as | told him frequent. but he
on'y smiled. An when the time come. as
1t did finally. when his faith was justified.
an he reaped the reward o. persistency.
II were developed that he had good rea-
son to smile, for he had provided for that
there contingency with a wisdom COM
pared to which the guile o. the sarpent
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had seen his lamp fall was the first 10
get to him. But II was too late He
grabbed Whitney In his arms and ran
along the top of the train in an effort
TO prevent the chains separating his head
from his body. When the train was fin
ally stopped the chain was unwound and
blood gushed from whitney's ears. nose
and mouth. He was taken into the ca
boose. his head on the arm OF his fell
low-brakeman, But before the train
came TO a stop he was dead.
This is but one OF the many peculiar
deaths that happen in railroad work.
Many OF them are never recorded at all,
because the facts are sometimes unas.
certainable. A lamp is seen to go out,
that train ia stopped and the remains are
picked up.
Similar to the Whitney accident is an
other In which two men met death In a
way almost as peculiar. A conductor and
brakeman were about to climb through
the cupola of the way car to give a sig
nal when with crash the cupola was
clearly cut of the roof OF the car With
II went the two men. Both were Instant
iy killed. This was caused by one of
the shoots being left down at coaling
station by another careless engineer
Marvellous escapes are perhaps more nu-
merous In railroad work than the mys-
FERROUS accidents. Railroad men are con-
tinuously on their guard. which accounts
for the large proportion OF escapes to ac-
cidents. The men of the rail treat es-
capes lightly: they become hardened to
them.
Some time ago Eddie" Barrett. n tel
egraph operator, was asleep In n little
station on the Grand Trunk road in Mich
igan. An order had directed him to 20
to another station. about fifty miles east
lie was due at his new post early the
next morning. There were two trains
going east. One was the 'I.imited. :"
which did not stop. and the other was
the local. which he intended to board He
needed rest, and while waiting In the
quiet little depot fell asleep He had not
been In this condition long when he was
awakened by a shriil whistle. Half
asleep. he rushed out on the platform. As
the night was dark and the station
grounds poorly lighted. he stepped OF the
platform directly In front of the Limit
ed, which he had mistaken for the To-
cal. The operator on duty rushed out
with his lantern to look for the remains,
but, to his astonishment. there sat Ed