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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
The First TMentN Years.

4 good minister of the Gospel once
said in an address to young people,
''Live as long as you may, the first
twenty years form the larger part of
your life. They appear so when they
are passing; they seem so when we
look back on them; and they take up
more room in our memory than all
the years that come after them.
"Take good care of the first twenty
years of your life. On the use which
you make of them your happiness and
usefulness in after life will very largely
depend. See that they sre spent in
learning right habits and cultivating
good t2stes'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
OUR FARMERS.
MORE APPLE FIGURES.

Some weeks ago the Vermont Ex-
pertinent Station was responsible for
the circulation of some figures show
ing profits made in apple growing.
! Briefly, these figures showed that
Mrs. Laura E. Allen of South Hero,
VT. had cleared 500 an acre from
fourteen acres of orchard in 1899, and
that the crop of 1900 brought a net
profit of $183 an acre.
These figures seem not to have been
satisfactory to an inquiring and cap
tious public. Some persons who know
nothing about the apple business
thought it was fish story pure and
simple,-others who are growing
apples themselves protested that they
had done better, and that the case
therefore had been unfairly presented.
Several communications were re-
ceived on the subject by the hortl-
culturist of the Experiment Station,
who is now happy to add the following
statistics to those already published:
Mr.. Lucian Allen, also of South Hero,
has 300 bearing apple trees, covering
between five and six acres of land.
From these he sold in New York 257
barrels of the crop of 1900, for which
he received gross return of $975.25,
or an average price of So. 40 barrel.
Freight, carriage and commissions ate
up$147. rs of this SUM, leavinga net cash
return of S7OO.5O. These figures are
taken directly frora the returns of the
com mission man, (and the commission
man seldom returns more money than
the fruit brings.) In addition to the
S70O5O received for apples sold in
New York, Mr.. Allen sold a consider
able quantity at home, from which he
realized an additional $198.50. This
makes a total of 1899 for the years
crop, or $3.50 to $3.50 an acre.
Another Vermont apple grower, who
objects to having bis name used, but
whose accounts have been examined
and found correct, has made still more
remarkable sales. Last year his total
sales (not nett were So, 543125 from
1917 acres. One single block of trees,
covering AZ acres gave net return
of 81, 272, or over 1892 an acre clear
profit on the farming. The figures
from this orchard are not now avail
able for previous crops; but to the
writer's personal and disinterested
knowledge the returns have been al
most equally good-sometimes full
better-every year for several years
past. During at least ten years there
has not been single crop failure in
this orchard.
And there are plenty more figures
like these.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
Grain for Calves.

Discussing the proper amount of
grain to feed calves, the Breeders CD
zette recently said: In the matter of
the amount of grain which any farm
animal can take a great deal depends
upon previous feeding and the man
ner in which they are brought up to
take grain Calves which have had no
grain should be given a very small
quantity at first end the amount in
creased as the animals digest and util-
ize it properly. Such calves should
be started on daily allowance of not
over three quarters of a pound Of grain
per hundred pounds live weight.
When the animals are utilizing this
properly, then it E1ay be increased to
from 1 to 1 = pounds, according to the
character of the animals, the nature
of the roughage supplied, etc.
Here is a case where the eye of the
master must guide the hand which
deals the feed. Enough corn is vast
ed each fall in the middle west by our
stockmen to run adj the agricultural
colleges and all the agricultural news
papers in America on a higher plan
than they are now being operated and
still good margin would be left Cor
those who are conducting these opera
tions. The mere feeding of grain lib
eraly will not make cattle of desir-
able class nor fatten them econom-
icalIy. Feeding is an art and must be
learned often by dearly bought expe-
rience.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
Bits of Dress Gossip.

Dainty turnover collars are of white
silk, hemstitched and embroidered.
A short bolero with an AigIon collar
and rather military as to its trimming
is a model that Us becoming popular.
Muslin gowns are being made with
founces of color-as for instance, a
white muslin with pale blue ruffies.
Collars will be fancier than ever,
and will be made from the same ma
terial as the dress, frightened by loops
of contrasting silk drawn through
tiny buckles or fastened by an enam-
elled pin.
With taffeta gowns there will be
worn bIouses of the finest of white
fabrics.
The very newest trimming, in the
fashion line, is one that has just been
introduced by a few mo distes, and
owing to it's recent adoption, it is too
early to predict amy popularity for it.
This trimming is in the form of a
pearl button outline. Dozens of little
pearl buttons, very small, are sewed
side by side in such a way as to form
trimming,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
Good Road Difficulties.

The chief difficulty in the matter of
good roads is the ignorance of the
farmers in many sections as to their
construction. They build them care
lessly or improperly, and the new
roadway soon goes to pieces. The
farmers lose heart and come to the
conclusion that it hardly pays to con-
struct roads which last SO short time.
The first thing to be done, therefore,
is to show the farmers how to con-
struct and maintain roads. This is
easy. The roads are not expensive,
and when once properly constructed
they can be maintained at a minimum
of cost. This has been the experience
wherever the National Good Roads
association has been at work.-NelU
Orleans Times Democrat.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
An Instructive Exhibit.

Chauncey M. Depew says "Twenty-
veyears ago knew every man, wom-
an, and child in Peekskill, n. Y,
and it has been study with me to
mark boys who started in every grade
OF life with myself, to see what be-
came of them. I was up last fall and
began to count them over, and it was
an instructive exhibit. Some of them
became clerks, merchants, manufac-
turers, lawyers and doctors. It is re-
markable that every one of those who
drank is dead, not one living OF my
age. Barring few who were taken
by sickness, every one who proved
wreck and wrecked his family, did it
from rum and no other cause. Of
those who were church going people,
who were steady, who were frugal
and thrifty, every one of them owns
the house in which he lives and has
something laid by, the interest of
which with his house, would carry
him through mary a day. When
man becomes debased by gambling or
drink, all his finer feelings are crowd
ed out, and the poor women at home
suffer-suffer for those they love bet
ter than life '-Tenlperance Tribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
Goodness and Hanniness.

"Be happy and you will be goodf7 is
very wise injunction. We may also
add Through happiness you will be
successful" 1t is the nature of hap
piness to radiate and enlarge it's ex-
preston by finding others with whom
it can share it's joys. Goodness and
happiness are really interchangeable
terms. When we have succeeded in
obtaining happiness for ourselves or
others we may be sure we have been
gaining and bestowirg both goodn ess
and power. The only trouble with
many people is stagnation through
depression. Their ckief lack is mo-
nentum. A little more forcible mo-
ton would take them away altogether
from their difficulties and diseases.
They wear their yokes like oxen be-
cause they 90 not realize the power
in themselves. Let their realization
be awakened and their spiritual will
aroused and applied with it's tremen-
dous energy, and all bonds and OBJ
structions Will easily fall away from
them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
SAVES TWO FROM DEATH.

"Our little daughter had an almost fatal
attack of whooping cough and bronchitis, .
writes Mrs. w. K. Haviland, of Armonk, N.
Y, "hut when all other remedies failed, we
saved her life with DR.. Kings New Discovery.
vanced stage also used this wonderful medi-
cine and to-day she is perfectly WELL" Des-
perate throat and lung diseases yield to DR..
Kings New Discovery as to other medicine
on earth. Infa1lible for Coughs and Colds.
soc. and SLIGO bottles guaranteed by II. C.
Pierce. Trial bottles free.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24

The doctors told me my cough was inCura-
BILE. One Minute Cough Cure made me a well
man."-Norris Silver, North Stratford, N. H.
Because you've not found relief from a stub
born cough, don't despair. One Minute
Cough Cure has cured thousands and it will
you. Safe and sure. Pierce, R E
French, FL S Webster. Russell & Sears.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
TIRED MOTHERS.

It's hard work to take care of children and
to cook, sweep, wash, sew and mend besides.
1t makes shop of the home-a shop, too,
where sixteen hours make a day and yet there
is much working overtime.
Hoods Sarsaparilla helps tired mothers in
many ways-it refreshes the blood, improves
the annette. and ASSUMES restful sleep.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
DIDN'T MARRY FORMONEY

The Boston man, who lately married a
sick1y rich young woman is happy now, for
he got DR.. Kings New Life Pills, which re-
stored her to perfect health. Infallible for
Jaundice, Biliousness, Malaria, Fever and
Ague and all Liver and Stomach troubles.
Gentle but effective. Only Csc. at II C Pierce's
drug store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24

Home.

Home.
Iwant to go home
To the dull old town
With the shaded streets
And the open square
And the hill
And the flats
And the house I love
And the paths know
| want to go home.
If can't go back
To the happy days,
Yet can live
Where their shadows lie
Under the trees
And over the grass
l want to be there
Where the joy was once,
Oh, want to go home,
want to go home.
Paul Kester an McCLWre's Magazine
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
PAINT yoTTR RTIGGY FOR TIC.

PAINT YOUR BUGGY FOR 75c.
with DEVICES Gloss Carriage Paint, ready for
use; 10 co1ors. Gives a high gloss equal to
new. Sold by n. G. Pierce, Barton VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
TODAY.

:. IT were better to send cheap bouquet
To living friend, this very day,
Than bushe1 of roses, white and red,
To lay on his coffin when he is dead.'
-Erchange
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
FOR SALE.

Valuable Village Property For Sale. to
close an estate, consisting of one-half acre
land with large house and barn and small
tenement house on Church St., also forty acres
valuable land known as the Skinner fiat. For
particulars and price enquire of
n. P. COOK,
Administrator, de bonis non,
Barton, Vermont.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
Zinc and Grinding make

Dezoe Lead and Zinc Paint wear twice as lsng
as lead and oil mixed by hanu.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28
PERSONAL AND 1MpERsoNAL.


Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,.
makes a practice of devoting three
hours every day to reading, and no
matter where he may be he has never
neglected this for the past 20 years.
AHutchinson (Kan.) man-has mort
gage on his farm he wants to pay of,
and the loan company refuses to &C
cept the money. The farmer has be-
gun suit to compel the company to &C
cept his money.
Sir Thomas Upton did not neglect
his business while in this country for
the yacht races. He was in constant
communication with his London
agents, and it is said that his bill for
this from the cable company employed
was enormous.
The first five cadets in order of merit
at West Point are all southern boys.
They hail from Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolica and Mary
land. Mississippi bea:s off the palm
with two of her sons. one ofwhom is
the head of the class.
The late Lord Morris did not gain q
very favorable impression of the house
of lords when he made his first speech
there. When asked how he had got
on he replied: "WeIl, made wan mis-
take. l should have practiced spakin'
to lot of gravestones before l ad-
dressed their lordships."
When luncheon time comes the pres
ident chances around his Office at the
white house and says: "Well, let's al
go and have some luncheon" and
marches in at the head of the com
pany that happens to be with him
whether it is one man or dozen. The
number he has had at luncheon will
average three a day, and there have
been a dozen guests at breakfast al
various times.
For the twenty-seventh time w. j
Soulsby has been made private secre
tary of the lord mayor of London, as
the lord mayor elect, Sir j. Dimsdale
has appointed him to that office fol
the coming year. Although Mr.. Souls
by has been secretary to London's lord
mayors for over a quarter of cen
fury, he is not yet so years old. His task
is no light one; every day he has tt
handle 600 or 700 letters and to attend
to the wants of some 200 callers who
seek his advice upon every sort Of
subject from long lost relatives te
taxation and bicycles.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28
Too Previous.

May l." the young man began,
with a quaver in his voice, "may l
presume so far upon our short ac-
quaintance as to ask you"
"Please say no MORE" faltered the
maiden. 81 regret deeply to give you
pain; but if have inadvertently en-
couragsd you to entertain hopes that
can never be realized, I cannot for
give myself. Believe me, am sim
cerely-"
"Pardon me-" interrupted the
youth, who had gasped once or twice
and drawn his hand across his brow
while she was speaking; "but was
only going to ask you for the loan
of twopence for my omnibus fare. I
was stupid enough to come away
from home this evening without my
purse. All! thank you; / will return
it without fail. Good night."-Loa-
don Jit-Bits.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28
The Bulgarians.

The Bulgarians are the equals in
modern civilization of any nation of
eastern Europe. They are not saw
ages, as some of the most excited Of
our people seem to imagine. They are
q Christian folk, whose good will to-
ward Americans in general and
American missionaries in particular
has been too often displayed to leave
room for any doubt of its existence.
Although the Greek church is the ma
tional religion of Bulgaria, many Bull
garian public men are graduates of
or have been students at Robert col
lege, in Constantinople, an institu-
ton affiliated with our missionary en-
terprises. Indeed, Bulgaria's political
and social development has been in
no small degree stimulated by the
culture spread by our missionary eff
forts. There is not the slightest
ground for the many slurs and sneers
at Bulgaria which have appeared in
the American press since Miss Stone
was taken captive. 1t may be added
that the Bulgarians have what many
persons well deem the national viz
tue of hating the Turks intensely
Boston Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28
THREE GALLONS A DAY.
ployes Who Seem Immune from
Drunkenness.

ssDid anyone ever see brewery en-
ploye drunk when he left his work at
night?"
The question was asked in the
course of sidewalk discussion on
temperance, says the Chicago Trib-
une. An agitator had gathered a
crowd by standing on a keg and at
lacking the saloon as the foe of the
home and the body polite. Then he
attacked beer. A jolly-faced Teuton
who was passing by heard him. At
once the lecture became a debate.
The agitator drew thrilling picture
of the results of beer drinking. The
Teuton turned the walls of sarcasm
on the illustration. Beer was the
milk he had been raised upon, and he
defended it sturdidly.
''Let me tell you," he said. 81 drink
beer every day, many times day.
All the evening 1 drink my beer
while l talk and think. 1t does me
good. Beer? Say, my friend, look
at the men who make it. Honest,
sober, Industrious men. Yet every
one of them drinks enough beer in a
day to drown little fellows like you
How much beer do they drink
TIL tell you. / worked once in a
brewery where we were allowed for
each man four gallons of beer a day.
That was 80 glasses. That. was not
enough for me then, so 1 used to
drink three or four more in the even
ing when with my wife went to
some concert saloon.
(. "Then the company, thinking to
tire the men out, took off the restric-
ton, thinking the men would drink
so much they would get sick and quit
it. Some drank 40 or more glasses in
. day. Many only drank 25 There
was no way to judge of it. Each man
was near the tap, and when he want
ed drink he took it.
'But did those men get tired of ii
or get drunk? Never. / never saw a
brewery workman drunk. The beer
didn't hurt them. To-day they still
drink their Is, 80, 35 glasses day."
What was true in the old Teuton's
brewery days is still true in many
Chicago breweries, where the men are
allowed all the beer they want. Nc
one keeps tab on them, and there is
q reluctance among them to admit
the amount they consume. 1t is said
to average better than three gallons
. day per man.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28
PROTECTED FROM REpRooF,
Chivalrous Act Of . Male Medical
student Toward . Feminine
CIassmate.

Years ago, when the medical pro-
fession was not made easy for wom-
en-, as it is now. one woman was
studying the eye, in Vienna, says an
exchange. The men who were her as
sociates were very unfr.endly, both
professors and students. They lost
no opportunity of criticising her, and
she was conscious that any mistake
she might make, either in profess
sional or in a social way, would be
laid up against her.
One morning events were all un-
favorable, and she was late in class.
Knowing how fatal such lapse
would be, she tore along the streets.
and arrived, hot and painting, just as
q delicate demonstration was about
to begin. The students were stand
ing in semicircle about the profess
sor. and she slipped in among them,
hoping not to be noticed. But mis-
step brought her plunging forward,
and her watch leaped from her belt
and fell, with q clatter, at the pro-
fessor's feet. He glared; but now
came IN oct Of chivalry.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28

Parsons contemplating journey East 9,
West should be careful that the rates Palo
Tor their Transportation do not exceed those
charged by the Nickel Plate Road.
This company always offers lowest rates
and the service is efficient. Careful at
fention is given to the wants of all first
and second class passengers by uniformed
coIored attendants. The dining car service
of the Nickel Plate Road is above criticism
and enables the traveller to obtain meals
at from thirty-fve (35) cents to $l.OO but
no higher. 80
The Pullman service is the usual high
grade standard. Semi-weekly transconti-
mental tourist cars ply between Atlantic
and Pacific Coasts. Confer with nearest
agent of the Nickel Plate Road.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28
A STRONG PEOPLE.
Tall and Possessed of Great
Physical Power.

It now seems probable that not all
the Innuits of Alaska are so small as
has been supposed. Indeed, if one is
to believe the tales of travellers who
visited an island south of Behring sea,
these Indians must be classified among
the tallest people in the world. The
travellers story is given in Popular
Science News.
On Kings island Indians were found
who by their physical characteristics
belong to the Innuit or Eskimo fam
lily, having small black eyes, high
cheekbones and full brown boards
which conceal their lips. The majority
of the men are over six feet high, and
the women are usually as tall as and
often taller than the men.
These women are also wonderfully
strong. One of them carried off in
her birch-bark canoe an S00-pound
stone, for use as an anchor to a whale
boat. When it reached the deck of
the vessel it required two strong men
to lift It, but the Innuit woman had
managed it alone. Another woman
carried on her head box containing
ESQ pounds of lead.
Both men and women are also en-
dowed with remarkable agility. They
will outrun and outjump competitors
of any other race who may be pitted
against them.
Their strength is gained from very
poor food, and they frequently travel
30 or 40 miles without eating anything.
They live on carrion fish and seal oil.
The fish, generally salmon, are buried
when caught, to be kept through the
winter and dug up as consumption re-
quires. When brought to the air they
have the appearance of sound fish, but
the stencil from them is unbearable.
In the matter of dwellings these Es-
kimos are peculiar. Their houses are
excavated in the sides of hill, the
chambers being pierced some feet into
the rise, and walled up with stones
on three sides. Across the top Of the
stone walls poles of driftwood are
laid, and covered with hides and grass
and lastly with layer of earth.
These odd dwellings rise one above
another. the highest overlooking per.
haps 40 lower ones. Two hundred PEG.
pie live in the village.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28
A LITTLE NONSENSE.


"What troubles you, my lad?" II
wus jist thinkin' how near I comes
to bein' orphan. amt got but one
ma and pa."-Chicago American.
Some men get on in the world on
the same principle that gives a man
with a paint-pot the right of way
through a crowd.-Chicago Daily
News.
Johnnie-"Paw, did you ever hear
nv the missin' link?" Father absent
ly)-"You mean the missing ball. No,
and that makes the fifteenth I've lost
this season."-Boston Post.
Mrs. Stalemate-"I had my fortune
told by Prof. Ketchum yesterday and,
only think, he tells me shall live to be
so years of age" Mrs Sharpe-"What,
again ?"-Boston Transcript.
"After all, you'll find the man who
always tells the truth is the most sue
cessful in business" Huh! He isn't
in it with the man who is believed in
everything he says."-Philadelphia
Press.
Parental Cruelty.-Mr. SMALL M
SON, 1 want to see if you can't climb
to the top of this grass-blade and back
inside of two weeks" Mrs. Snail Tin
terposing)-"Husband, dear, / think
it's wrong to hurry the child so."-Ohio
State Journal.
The story is told of colored man in
Alabama who, one hot day in July
while he was at work in a cotton field
suddenly stopped and, looking toward
the skies, said: 10 Lawd, de cotton
am so grassy, de work am so hard and
the sun am so hot dat 1 b'lieve dis
darby am called to preach!"-From
Booker I. Washington's up from
Slavery"
An Opportune Moment.-"Will yor
marry me, and preside over my house
hold as queen?" he asked. She was
inclined to laugh his proposal t.
scorn. "You may never have such
another chance" he continued, "fol
know of really excellent servant
girl who is about to leave her present
place, and whom 1 could engage al
once" Thereupon she fell upon hi!
bosom.-Philadelphia Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-12-28
Aveta ~ AIligater.

he vas evidently from the country, this
little old German, and ~ his eyes rested on
the elevator, undoubtedly for the first time,
his sense of the ridiculous was touehed..
For q few minutes he stood in wonder
ment and then, laughing softly to himself,
he stopped the first person he CHANGED to
sec, who happened to be the janitor, and
fred this at him: "Vat was dot leedle box
ting vat walks people oop der stairs stooden
Silly"
"Oh, that's the elevator" was the answer.
"Oh, OATS vat idt is, is idt? hat a peck.
etbook made often der peel uf one uf doze. =
He tried ride, but didn't like it. Then he
said: :.
81 would told my wife nefer to go in NIT
Won uf doz alligators ven der Walking BY
hand vas goot."-N. Y. Post.