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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-05-08
LOCAL NEWS.
CONTINUED FROM FIFTH PAGE.
SHEFFIELD.

Young's mill has been shut down for
week, waiting for repairs.
w. K. McNeal and family of East Burke
visited at J. c. Kings last week.
Harley Davis and Mr.. Dodge were in
LuDenburg last week buying cattle.
Ben Hubbard was recently injured about
his head while working at Young's mill.
Mrs. Bert Watson has been keeping
house for Mrs. Cora Chsppell while the
latter was at her home in Sutton.
Mrs. Clara Wilson of Boston, Mass, and
Mrs. Viola Jenness of Barton have been
visiting their mother, Mrs. l.. Hanscom.
SiIas Gray has purchased Charles Shell
don's house and Herbert Sheldon has
bought w. II. Chase's house in the village.
Burt Jenness Of Westmore and Pearl
Jenness of st. Johnsbury with their fami-
lies visited their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o.
II. Jenness, over Sunday.
Miss Marion Kirby teaches the spring
term of school at the Square, Miss Leslie at
the red schoolhouse, Mrs. Chesley in
district No 3, Miss Miles in district No. 1,
Leon Ross in Upper Nation and Miss
Ellen Goss in the Hall district.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-05-08

In memory of little Willie W. Smith, only
son of Mr.. and Mrs Elmore w. Smith of Cas-
wells Mills, Holland, Vt, who died Feb. 18th
age years, 10 months and Is days.
The sun rose bright over many happy
baby song. bird had flown. for God willed that
he should go from papa, mama and frlenos 70
the Beautiful Home beyond. The pretty
playthiuRs that made our darling happy nave
been LAID away together with ms Ittle Of
the table is vacant. He is gone. but not Tor
gotten. Only those who have experienced IN
sad parting with love ones know no" greaC
is the loss Little Willie was with us but
short time and it Will be only snort time
until we see b M again, and as we turn from
the grave we know he is not there put son {
to Him who said "Suffer the little cnlIoren 10
come unto Me-" Dear friends, your loss is
Willie's gain. He is now an angel, he mas
paid the great debt and is now free from all
sorrow and pain. Look to Jesus for comfort
In this bereavement.
Home is not home, little Willie is not there,
Dark is his room, empty his chair,
Sleep little Willie with your hands on your
breast,
Dear little hands forever at rest.
Dearly we loved you, but God loveth best.
In memory of Ethel Marion McLane who
died in Wheelock April 18th.
And has she gone, that little one
Ger whom we watched with tender care,
The lamp Of life gone out soon,
And we no more her presence share.
She is gone, but is an angel bright
Within the Home Above.
She wears glorious crown of light
All gemmed with jesus love
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-05-08
SUTTON.

Miss Sadie Blake is teaching in Charles
ton this spring.
DIR. Burke has returned from his trip to
North Carolina.
Corydon Parker has rented his farm and
moved to his village home.
Mrs. Burleigh Ruggles entertained the
Ladies' Aid Society at their hall last Thurs
day.
Mrs. Nancy Ingalls, and daughter are
visiting Mrs. Mary Morgan at M. A.
Taft's.
Fred Drew and family have moved from
Lyndonville into Frank LaClaIr's house at
the village.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bradley of Mime
apolis, Mimi, are visiting friends in this
and nearby towns.
Mr.. Saul Holtham, who was called here
by the death of his brothers wife, returned
to New York Monday.
Mrs. Olive Harris, who has spent the
winter with her sister at Barton Landing,
has returned home for the summer.
Mrs. Rollins Frost went to st. Johns
bury last week to have one of her eyes
removed. She is in Brightlook hospital.
Mrs. Loren Lee and little daughter are
here from the vest, spending few weeks
with Mrs. Lees sister, Mrs. J. E Went
worth. Il
Fred Parker's house nysteriously took
fire in partition one day last week. The
fire was seen from some distance and help
soon arrived and extinguished the flames.
Mrs. Irving Fellows of Guildhall was in
town last week calling on friends and rela-
tiEea, taking home with her daughter,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21

master solve the '.ve1ed" problem of
what to do for the homeless dogs,
while they give their attention to ex-
listing evils that create diseases, and
especially the evils existing in the
tenement districts.
There is ample room in Chicago for
such crusade. The city is not so
much in need of laws as it is in need
of law enforcement. Dirt is the foun-
dalton of disease, and while the BUSH
ness interests of the city are making
an effort to secure that cleanliness that
is next to godliness in the business
district the tenement sections are en-
tirely forgotten.
There is law in the city that
makes it misdemeanor to throw dirt
into the streets 1t is not enforced.
The streets of the tenement districts
are the dumping grounds for all sorts
of refuse. and the excuse given is that
''it is a convenience for the poor peo-
pie of those districts
There is law in the city against
smoking chimneys. 1t is not enforced.
Two-thirds of the factory chimneys OF
the city pour out constant stream OF
black smoke and SCOT that must be
breathed into the lungs Of the people,
and yet the people are called upon to
pay salaries TO a force of smoke in
spectors.
Dust is breeder of consumption,
and every wind that blows in the city
sends clouds Of this ger-n-fruited
scourge into the faces of the thou
sands of pedestrians on the city
streets. The health crusade may be a
fad, but it is worthy one.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
CHURCH AND SCHOOL NoTABLEs

The late bishop of Southwell, DR.. Rid
ding. was regarded as the finest Greek
scholar on the Episcopal bench, but was
noted for his carel-ssness in the use OF
English.
Rev. Francis Aidian Gasquet, presi-
dent of the English Benedictines. who
is visiting this country for the first time,
is at present at Notre Dame, Ind. He
has written many books, including
Henry VIII. and the English Monas-
teries," and THE Eve Of the Reforma-
tion.'
Mrs. A. r. Mcfarland. of Alva. Okla.
was the first American missionary to
Alaska, whittier she went some 30 years
ago as representative of the Presby-
terrain church. 1t is thought she was
also the first American woman to go
there in any capacity. Mrs. Mcfarland
remained in Alaska until her health
gave way. some time ago. She has now
returned to Oklahoma
Rev. L. NJ Foster. Of Charles City. Ia.
retired minister of the Congregational
church, is unique character. His
mother was second cousin Of Lucien,
Jerome and Napoleon Bonaparte. and
they were cousins of King Louis XIV.
One of his ancestors was sentenced for
marrying outside of the royal family.
but when Louis XIV. became king he
was reprieved and his sentence changed
to Punishment to America, and this Is
how Mr.. Fosters branch of the Bona
parte family came to tais country.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
HANDMADE LAcES OF INDIA
Hindoo Weaver May Be Illiterate and
Ignorant, But His Work
Is Exquisite.

The hand-Woven, hand-dyed and
hand-embroidered laces of India are a
revelation of decorative possibilities
dear to the heart of the artist. The
Hindoo weaver may be illiterate and
stupid to everything else, but in the
matter of lace-making he is an expert,
whose work is not to be successfully inn
itated by any machine-made textile. At
the worlds fair, says the Detroit News
Tribune, there are now being shown
examples of this work that are simply
marvellous. A writer, who has been care
fully viewing these laces in all their sub
tie coloring, says that the eye of the
trained critics finds an individuality and
a soft blending OF colors and weird de-
signs in the hand-wroughtf fabrics which
no machinery can duplicate.
1.-The Indian weaver and dyer lives
where human life and labor are most
superintendent and cheap, and time al
most valueless. He is an illiterate man;
and all of the rules of his art, all the
minutiae of his wool, all the Sc
crets of his dye pots, all the
formulate for his fabrics and de-
signs, are oral traditions men,
rized and repeated in a monoto-
nous sing-song as he performs the pro-
scribed manipulations in his slow, care
full and absorbed manner. You would
think him performing some mystical re-
ligious rite as you hear him singing his
directions to himself while preparing
his various dyes, or twisting around his
cloth the knots and wreaths of thread
that are to shield it in spots from the
dye and produce the wonderful pattern
of his dream after succession of plunges
in the different colors
The beautiful lace dye is made OF
myriads of minute insects and never
fades. The printing of silks and cottons
by means of hand blocks is another In
dian industry, producing prints artisti-
cally superior to any machine printing.
While the men do this exquisite weay-
ing and coloring, the elaborate and
much-admired emDroideries of India are
stitches are handed down as a precious
heritage from mother to daughter, and
the expert can easily tell where each
product halls from
This is especially the case with re-
spect to the Phulcari patterns, which
form part of the bridal outfit and dowry
of the Hindoo woman. The silken petit
coats of the Rajputs are often used in
decorative arrangements The metal
wrought wooden fabrics shown are used
as table spreads Or saddle covers, and
the refined gold used in them is unfair
nishable The subdued and blended coll
oring of these textiles makes them in
valuable for harmonizing stronger tints
in decoration
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
CURIOUS ORGANISATIONS.

Miss Stella Snyder, Missouri school,
teacher, was recently sued for $1,000
damages for whipping one OF her pupils.
She won the case and as result OF tho
publicity attending the trial she has Sc
cured an appointment in the state re-
form school for girls.
Though IS years old. Philip Grimes
walked Is miles over the hills. from
New Haven to Derby, Conn, recently to
instruct an undertaken how to bury him.
He made the distance in three hours.
On reaching Joseph Colwells undertake
ing Office he sank down exhausted.
One of the worst perplexities that .
New England school-teacher has met
this fall fell to the lot of young girl At
New Auburn. She had nine small chill
dren arrive at the school one morning
and found that they did not know word
of English and spoke only Russian.
During curtain speech in Chillicothe,
Mo-, the other night. Frank James. the
ex-bandit. said: IF our Saviour was to
come on earth and say to me: 'Whers
can get abrave and fearless man to
assist st. Peter to guard the portals Of
Heaven?' would say: Cole Younger"
Hamlet A. Rye, business man Of
Sioux City, Ia, is organizing society
which is to be called the Appendices
club. Mr.. Rye has called a meeting Of
all who have lost their vermiforms and
purposes permanent organization. 1T
will be something like G. "A. R." Mr.:
Rye said I'VE can talk of our wounds
and our battles within the prison walls
Of the hospitals"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21

stock company career, as far back as
1851
Hundreds of the older residents Of
the scity remember her as she was in
those days of more than half cen
fury ago. and for many of these she
has been the only attraction that
would take them to the theaters dur
ing the last 25 years. One OF these,
in commenting on the death Of the
aged actress, said that while he did
not now approve of the theater as he
did in former years, he always made
an exception to his rule to remain
away from them when Mrs. Gilbert
was in the city. There were many OF
these older residents, some of whom
had seen Mrs. Gilbert make her debut
in stock company work in 1851, at
Powers theater on the night of the
opening of her farewell engagement.
When she appeared before the curtain
at the close of the last act and recited
that old-fashioned epilogue which be-
gan with the lines:
Dear friends in front, the curtain must rot
fall
Until grateful woman says good-by to all.
Just think of all the Kindness that I've got
of you.
I'd like to be the granny of the lot Of YOU
there was not dry eye among all
these old friends.
To the stage people, old and young
Mrs. Gilbert was always Granny"
and they spoke of her with a rever-
ence that showed their affection. She
had no blood relatives, the last of the
family, son, having died several
years ago, but she needed none to be
truly mourned, for hers was a family
that extended throughout all the
broad field of stageland.
She was SO years old the 21st OF last
October, and had been on the stage
since 1916, when she appeared as
ballet girl in England. She came to
America in iS49, and though OF inter-
national fame as an actress, this was
the first season that she played star
parts.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21

pansion. He started the modern Rus
STA on her career and established the
autocracy which after centuries is only
beginning to feel the impulses of the
common people for share and voice il
the government In Peter the Great we
have the rare spectacle of nation being
formed by the work of one man within
the period of 43 years. He was not
afraid of hard work himself and learned
the trade of shipbuilding in Holland
He transformed the customs, habits and
costumes of the Slavs. He opened uI
schools and colleges, and the mobiles and
burghers were encouraged to educate
themselves. He ameliorated the con-
dition of the serfs without abolishing
slavery
Such were the great reforms which
Peter established, and in Catherine H.,
who came to the throne, or rather, who
seized the throne 81 years after Peter
had passed off the stage Of life, he had
a worthy successor Not only did she
continue his work of conquest, adding
territory to the west and south to the
Russian domain, but she also was active
in bringing about reforms within the
nation. She reorganized justice and
education, that is for the higher classes.
She collected about her the most emf
nert French philosophers, and French
literature became the model which Rus
sian writer's endeayored to copy, and
with her reign begins Russian litera-
ture But the condition of the serfs was
not relieved They were still fast bound
in slavery, and the civilization which
was SO marked was Of merely fictitious
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21

problem that has taxed the ingenuity
Of man for three or more centuries
a means of reaching the north pole.
Nissen believed that if his water bal
loon could be proven navigable he
could utilize it in reaching the pole by
being driven by the winds that blow
across the top of the world. Men OF
ability have pronounced his plan not
entirely unfeasable, and it was prob
ably not more so than some OF the
others that have been tried and
failed
Nissen was scientist in way, and
he might have been taken more serl-
ously but TOR the fact that after he
had successfully passed through the
Niagara rapids he exhibited himself
in a dime museum in this city at a
good price per week. This fact pre-
JUDGED scientific men who might have
believed somewhat in him but for that
fact, and yet the inventor OF the "Fooi-
killers" did that not because he was
seeking cheap notoriety, but as a
means for securing money to continue
his scientific investigations.
Whatever his motive, his appear
ance at the museum after he had sue
cessfully passed the Niagara rapids
proved a bonanza for the men who
secured him, for he was far superior
TO the bearded lady. the glass eater Q!
the Borneo snake charmer as draw.
ing card.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON
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of notoriety, but there is growing up
in the city sort of second ard third
generation class, whose ambition is
to find method of dispensing the for
tunes left them by industrious ances-
tors, whose industry builded Chicago
along with their personal fortunes.
Chicago society of the past has not
been given greatly to fads. In fact,
when Chicago society looked to such
women as Mrs. P. D. Armour, or Mrs.
George M. Pullman. as it's leaders. it
was a society in which ostentation fig
ured not at all. Now younger ele-
ment is coming irto control. and the
frivolities of the east are being i'm
ported and copied. This new element
has not yet been guilty of monkey
dinner" but such things will come.
The latest social fad of the city is
dogs 1t is a fad the Humane society
will undoubtedly approve of, but that
the patronesses of the new charity
are more interested in what amount OF
space the newspapers will give to it
than in the number of cats and dogs
saved, goes without saying.
Mrs. William r. Linn is one of the
younger lights in the city's 400, but
one of it's leaders, and it is 10 her ini-
tiative the friendless animals owe
saeir good fortune. She started the
tad by endowing ten cages in 3 local
veterinary hospital, and others, anx-
ious to court favor with the popular
society leader, have quickly followed
her example One society woman, in
speaking of the charity" referred
feelingly to the large numbers OF poor
little dogs and cats that would be
saved from starvation, and added that
it was the finest thing society could
do.
It is the practical middle classes
who are working to save the friend
less children of the streets, though
they are aided in their efforts by the
society leaders of the rast-women
with both brains and money.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
A VICTIM OF IA GRIPPE.

Mrs. Henrietta A. 8. Marsh, 100 w
18th St., Los Angeles. Cal, President
Woman's Benevolent Assn, writes
"Isnffered with Ia grippe for sevsa
weeks. and nothing Ic0uJd do or fske
helped me until tried Peruna.
q felt at once that had at last
secured the right medicine and kepa
steadily improving. Within three weeks
| was fully restored, and am glad that
gave that truly great remedy trial.
I will never be without it again"
In a letter dated August 81, 1904, Mra
Marsh says: 81 have never yet heard
the efficacy of Peruna questioned. We
still use it. I travelled through Ken.
lucky and Tennessee three years ago
where found Peruna doing its good
work. Much of it is being used herr
also. "-Henrietta A. 6. Marsh.
Address DIR. Hartman, President n
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus
Ohio.
Ask your Druggistfcr a free Pefun1
Almanac for 1906.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
The New York subway cost ss5 ,ooo,.

The New York subway cost $35 ,000,-
600 to build The company that Is
back of the Chicaso subway has $780,
100000 to put into the project. 1t
takes over company that has already
expended over s3o.Ooo,O0O in building
more than 40 miles of tunnels for
freight traffic that are 40 feet below
the city streets, leaving plenty OF
room between that and the surface for
the street car tunnels that are to come
later
Entirely different construction
methods are necessary in Chicago
from those employed in New York
The subway of the latter city was cut
through solid granite. Chicago, on
the other hand, is builded upon a
marsh, with bedrock from SO to 60
feet below the street surface. The
construction of a subway here means
first solution of the engineering
problem of providing for the safety
of the great buildings that line the
streets under which it must pass.
With that problem solved, the actual
construction of the tunnels will be a
much easier matter than it was in
New York But the first problem is
not an easy one to solve.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
WAYS OF OTHER PEOPLES.

No person under 16 years Of age is per-
mitted to enter theater or tavern in
Heligoland.
In Japan no woman is ashamed Of her
age, but she tells It out In the arrange
ment of her hair, SO that all the world
may know it.
A traveller in the African wastes says
that nearly all the natives show great
aversion to solitude, even in broad day.
light. This aversion is due to their SUI
perstitious terrors.
All well-educated Spanish women are
taught from their earliest years to ham
die the sword, and as result they are
noted for their admirable figures and
easy walk
Lancashire agricultural laborers
credit certain of their fellows with pow
er to cast good and evil spells. At Dun
stable men carry live snail In a pill
box to ward of toothache, eat stewed
earthworms as cure for jaundice and
fried mouse for whooping- cough and
cherish all the old superstitions as to the
dead which made Merrie England sad
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
MAY BOTTLE THE ATLANTIC
Water Contains Wholesome Mineral
Salts of Decided Medic
inal Value.

Il have never understood" said doc
tor to New York Sun man, why some
body didn't bottle the Atlantic ocean
and sell the water under fine name
as a mineral water.
1.-THE water of the Atlantic contains
some of the most wholesome mineral
salts, and has decided value medicinal
ly. Some of my patients keep it on
hand much of the time, and profess to
find it vastly beneficial.
"One of these men gets the sea water
several miles off shore and at high tide
so as to be reasonably sure that it is free
from pollution He bottles it in good
sized demijohns, and lets it ripen much
as the famous juniper water of the
Dismal Swamp is ripened for carrying
to sea on board vessels making long
voyages.
Did you ever smell any of those Ken
lucky sulphur waters after they have
lain barreled in a cellar for a few weeks?
The odor is pretty bad, but it isn't worse
than that of ripening sea water.
When you take out the cork the
whole household knows it. After a
while the sea water loses its offensive
smell, and then it is ready for use.
Il thoroughly like it, and if were in
the habit of doing the things that lead
men to drink mineral waters before
breakfast think I'd prefer plain Allan
tic water to a good many that l cosld
name which sell at pretty high prices.
II don't know whether my patients
have ever calculated the cost of bottled
Atlantic, but if the bottling was done
wholesale instead of retail it ought not
to come very high, and it is certainly
one thing that no trust could ever
monopolize. I've notion that the fell
low who first puts up sea water in an
attractive form and gets the attention
of the public will make handsome
little fortune before his competitors can
cut in and undersell or outadvert1se
him !"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-21
BUSY LAKE SEASON ENDS.
More Traffic This Year on e-cat
Bodies Of Water Than
Ever Before.

"The great lakes are about to see
the close Of one OF the busiest seasons
they have ever known" said lake
captain in the Washington Post. "A
large number of immense new vessels
were added to the carrying fleets this
year, hu. the increase in capacity was
not sufficient to meet the increased de-
mand No vessel. no matter of what
class, ever had to be without cargo.
One of the big steel vessels of to-day
carries as much as 25 or 30 vessels of
the tyre in use a few years ago, and
they make .heir trips in about one
fourth or one-fifth the time Why, Il
we had to depend on the old-timers,
the great lakes would have to have
more ships, numerically. than there
are on all the seas in the world"
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bility of the schemes early maturity.
but the first effects in this city will
be far different. from the first effects
in New York, for the purpose OF the
originators of the Chicago scheme is
first, not to take the people eff the
streets. but to make room on the
streets for the people.
Eventually Chicago street cars will
go under ground, but before they dis
appear the freigL-- situation will be
cared for, and. in TACT, the system for
handling the freight traffic of The city
is practically complete now, and the
new subway company recently orga1-
lied in the east comes into possession
of tunnel system, longer than New
York's subway. that is ready for OPP
Grafton.