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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-15

all be done IN minute buS we believe
it can be done. Talk il up.
Another possibility within the
power of the club is the organization
of a Barton board Of trade. Through
their effort old home week could be-
suitably celebrated with great pleas
ure to our people. It is within their
power to form canoe club, snow
shoe club, gun club. They could
make Crystal Lake the first lake in
Vermont for fishing; it IS among the
first already, several trout being
taken from it's waters weighing fifteen
pounds and one eighteen. How
about a debating society, formed
within the club? A chess club and
endless other clubs and organizations
are within the power Of the club, and
work for the good of the community.
With an organic alton of this kind
there is foundation to work upon.
This is the first organization in Barton
where the men are linked together
and are capable OF bringing about
results. Barton should be benefited
by it and it should be supported and
benefited by Barton. Again we
repeat, great possibilities lie within
the power of this organization, wait
ing for the executive mind to
develop them.
May the club prosper and work for
the good of the town always. Some
believe it to be simply a place where
the "fellows' meet and smoke and
tell stories with no aim. Such is not
the fact, it has come to stay and is
power in the community and every
member should work to sustain it's
good name and make it a success.
If the MONITOR has put one thought
into the mind of anyone reading this
article that sometime takes root and
grows it has accomplished it's object.
If our readers have views let them be
expressed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-15
Lishtning's Singular Freaks.
LIGHTNING strokes frenuentlv

Lightning strokes frequently re-
suit in blindness, deafness or paraly-
sis. Sometimes the lightning as
sails single object on mans per-
son without apparently touching the
man himself. Coins have been melt
ed until they stuck together in a
mans pocket while he suffered no
Ill consequences. Keys, watches and
watch chains, metal cartridges and
eyeglass frames have been more or
less damaged while the person who
wore them was almost uninjured.
There have been many cases where
clothing has been almost demolished
without injury to its wearer. Iron
pegs have been pulled out of shoes,
and rubber boots have been DESTROY
ed frequently. The brass eyelets
were torn out of a mans shoes, but
he felt only slight harmless shock.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-15

with private lockers for oars, paddles,
fishing tackle, etc. Nineteen of the
twenty five stalls were taken at once.
The upper story was finished for a
club room, with floor suitable for
dancing, and lighted with electricity.
The room was suitably provided with
easy chairs, divans, reading tables,
etc., is heated in mild weather by
fireplace and in cold by stove. In
hot weather the large sliding doors
that connect the club room with
broad upstairs veranda extending
over the water are opened, and
hammocks hung where breezes from
the lake reach with refreshing cool
ness. A piano has also been rented
for the room, making withal very
cozy and delightful place in summer
or winter.
During the fall and winter many
social entertainments have been held
in this room with pleasure and profit
to the members and those entertained.
That the venture on the part OF the
stockholders is a profitable one is
shown in the fact that a six per cent
dividend is soon to be declared.
The lie Belle Lac Boat Club is not
connected with the Barton Boat Club
Company, but simply rents the rooms
and boat stalls of the stockholding
company. 1t is probable that the
building will be enlarged the coming
summer to accommodate growing
demand for boat stalls and the club
room for social functions.
FUTURE POSSIBILITIES.
The greatest future possibility that
lies before this organization locally il,
we believe, the advertising of Crystal
Lake and Barton as summer resort.
This same great future lies before
Vermont as whole and she is in t
waking to the fact. Last summer
more visitors came within the borders
of our. state than in any previous
year. This was due chiefly to the
effort put forth on the part of thu
press of Vermont. the railroads. and
certain organizations and individuals.
The towns of Manchester, for Instance,
has formed what is called the IN
chester Development Association, y
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-15

There is more Catarrh in this sect on of the
country than all other diseases pat together
and until the last few years it was supposed to
be incurable. For great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced 1t in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure
on the market. 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops TO teaspoonful- 1t acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the ~ stem. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails TO cnre. Send for circu-
lars and Testimonials.
Address. FL CHENEY co, Toledo, o.
Sold By druggists, price 75c.
Take Rall's Family Pills for constipation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-15
MR.. EDITOR:

Mr.. EDITOR:
In your last issue / read that a policy
holder of the National Life Insurance Co
received his $1,000 endowment insurance
two months before 1t was due. Very good.
for him, but how about the rest of us who
have life contracts, with prospective divi-
bends? AS the Company advertise TO be
strictly mutual, why not keep this at In
terest until due and let Us have our share
! of the profits? The Company cannot tell
Just when we are TO die, so of course can
not pay us two months In advance. Use
MS all alike.
POLICYHoLDER.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-15
From Our Readers.
MR.. EDITOR.

MR.. EDITOR:
As citizen of Barton village | would
like TO have the people who attended the
concert in the opera hall last Monday eve
ming know (through your paper that the
respectable citizens OF this village do not
sustain or uphold IN any way the conduct
of those young gentlemen who stood at
the foot of the stairs and haIlooed and
shouted as the people stepped from the
stairs to the piIzza floor, some slipping
while many others came near doing so.
p. j.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-15
How He Spelled 1t,

A Brooklyn physician, whose
memory for names is very poor, re-
Gently had a patient in his Office fol-
whom he was asked to fill out an ap-
plication for some position. Not
wishing to betray the fact that he
had forgotten the mans name, he
casually inquired as he raised his
pen above the paper:
'By the way, how do you spell
your name?:"
The man gave him a curious
glance and said, COMES ones. "
New York Press.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-20
THE ATOMIC THEORY.
A Mathematician Proof of the I'm
mortality of Man.

DR.. Ivan Slavonski, the eminent
Russian Mathematician, who died in
St. Petersburg in December, 1887,
left, among other curious and valua-
BILE papers, one entitled "The Atomic
Theory-A Mathematical Proof of
the Immortality Of Man.
The learned doctor starts out by
taking the position that the whole
universe is made up Of atoms and
that these atoms are not "innumera-
ble.' but it can be shown that their
number is limited. He further de-
clares that the words "infnite'' and
"innumerable' are only used to COW
er Ignorance, because it is impossi-
bic for our minds to form a proper
conception of vast number Of units.
After making the above and other
broad statements he sets himself to
the task Of proving that the atoms Of
the universe are constantly undergo
ing changes and that the time will
come when all possible changes, COM
binations and permutations will have
been exhausted. Spencer, Helmholz,
Thompson and many other distin-
guished men, living and dead, believe
and believed this queer doctrine.
Thompson says that when these
changes have been exhausted the uni
verse will be at rest. When that day
comes, the sun will cease to shine, the
planets will stop revolving on their
axis, and all the vast systems Of
worlds will hang perfectly dead and
lifeless. But no, Dr. Slavonski does
not propose to have a grand finale
"wind up" at that stage Of the game.
He declares that when these atom
ic permutations have been exhausted
nature will return upon its tracks.
In other words, when the pendulum
has swung to its utmost limit it must
return again. If all the positions of
the atoms Of the universe must again
repeat themselves Slavonski argues
that there must come time when all
nature will again be in the track now
occupied. The earth will again under
60 it's geographical periods, and man
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-20

they should do 50 in 50 simple a case:
still the jury had It's wish. It did not
return. The court adjourned for
lunch: the jury did not come back in
the afternoon in spite of several any-
iouS inquiries from the bench it had
not made up its. mind when the courr
rose for the day-there was one man
holding out. The jury was locked up
for the night and in the morning was
brought into court to return a ver-
diet Of not guilty. This was a poser
and the judge dismissed the jury. say
ing: The blood Of the deceased lies
at Your door.
Private inquiry by the judge elic-
tied the fact that the foreman. a man
Of unblemiShed reputation and Of con-
siderable estate. had been the cause
Of the verdict which the resi- had been
starved into acreptinGS The Judge
sent for this gentleman and IN his prl-
va1c room begged him to explain the
mystery of his obduracy and the
amazin" finding Of his fellow, first
pledYiny himself to preserve inviolate
the confidence which the other might
repose in him.
Then the foreman told him how he
himself had met the victim for whose
murder the prisoner had been tried.
how the man had sought to take ad
vantage of his social position and ex-
act unjust tithes, how they had quar-
relied and fought, how the man had at
tempted to kill him with a fork and
how he (the foreman Of the jury) had
killed his antagonist with his own
pitchfork, then fed. The prisoner,
coming along. had found the; man dy-
ing and in endeavoring to succor him
had got blood upon his clothes and in
his confusion had taken the dead
man s fork and left his own in place.
This was why the foreman had held
out and why the prisoner escaped.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-20
JUROR SAVED A PRISONER.
One Of the Most Remarkable Gases, of
Circumstantial Evidence.

London Standard.
Very eminent legal authorities
agree that as to the fact Of case the
jury is more likely to be right than
the Judge. This week, however, we
have had another addition to the
lengthy list of instances of the judge
censuring a jury upon its findings.
Gas clear a case as had ever come
before me,' he said as he ordered the
jury to 60 home.
Possibly the judge was right. It is
well, to remember, however, that had
all the cases, which have appeared so
clear to the judges gone as their lord
ship desired more than a few inno-
cent men would have been sent to the
gallows. An instance comes to mind,
one Of the most extraordinary in the
history of our legal system, the ac-
count Of which we owe to the man
who tried and presided over the trial,
Lord Chief Justice Dyer. This was
"clear case' Of murder. The VIC
tim had been found stabbed to death
in field wood, by some one with a
fork. The man who owned the fork
was arrested and the blood stained
suit he had worn was found hidden in
a mattress.
Short OF testimony from anyone
| who had seen the crime actually com
mitted. there was not a link missing
| from the chain of evidence against the
prisoner. It was in vain that he plead
ed not guilty, everything was so con-
clusively clear against him. A YER
dict Of guilty was expected immedl-
ately from the jury. but the foreman
asked as the life Of fellow creature
was at stake the jury might be allow
ed to retire.
The Judge did not understand why
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-20

will again appear, each individual be-
ing precisely the same individual he
is now. He will be born of the same
parents, reared under the same cir
cumstances that he now lives and with
those with whom he now lives and
will finally die, as he wiz die in a few
years from now. After another IN
told age Of cyclic changes he will
"live again" just as in his former
lives. This is Immortality.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-20
A Unicue Exposition.

The jamestown Exposition IS re-
crivin= The support of the best news
papers throughout the country, simply
because the management purposes to
make the celebration a great national
holiday--;n exposition alnn" entirely
different lines from those preceding
it. The Washington. ID G.. Post says
the following editoriallv:
Truly. # we were not aware that
the proposed Jamestown Exposition
Of 1907 differs radically in every i'm
a"inable respect from the various
fares. ETC.. which have preceded it. we
should hesitate to speak in its behalf.
|\rpnlv as We recognize the vast i'm
portance Of the episode it is intend
~ t. celebrate. and we'll as We realize
tn" momentouS consequences Of which
. HAT episode WAS the pioneer and van-
guard. we should still be unable to
say Z considerations Wur,l IN the line OF
piUmoticn if We were moi sure that
tie Jamestown Exposition will be a
novelty in every sense Of the word.
To state the case briefly. we may
say--as is the simple truth-that this
is the first celebration Of any conse-
quence to be held upon the seashore.
The location, therefore. is ideal.
There is no heated, overcrowded city
in the neighborhood, where the pa
irons will be herded in rapacious
caravansaries, fed on refrigerated -
food, compelled to travel long dis
tances in swarming and uncomfort-
able street cars. and charged extor-
tionately for a maximum Of discom-
fort. The Jamestown Exposition is
to be situated far out in the midst of
salt water and breezy environment.
Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Bay, the
Atlantic itself will hem it on every
side. If there were nothing else, the
visitors would at least have seaside
outing at one Of the most desirable
points on the Atlantic coast. Thous~
ands treat themselves to that recrea-
ton every summer with no extra in
ducement, so every additional at
traction will be that much to the good.
They will have ocean prospects and
environments bathing, fishing, sea
food. yachting, sailing, etc.,-and be-
sides. the most splendid naval and
military pageantry ever witnessed in
the world Even if it stops short
there the patrons Of the celebration
will have had more than they could
get elsewhere on the same terms.
more than they ever got before from
any excursion to the seashore.
That there will be many other at
fractions, We are promised by the
management, and have faith that the
pledge will be abuniantly redeemed.
All the great nations have accepted
President Roosevelt's invitation to
participate. It is, therefore, safe to
count upon naval and military dis
play of surprising splendor and i'm
portance. It will constitute, indeed, a
eront or o1o Tho 1iEa of which hoe not
been witnessed in this or any other
land. No doubt the management will
in due time and with appropriate elo-
quence unfold to the country the en-
tire scheme of the enterprise they
have in view. For the present, we
think it well enough to point out GER
tain features which of themselves con-
fer a special attraction and induce
ment.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-20

Don't forget that your actions are
measured as critically all through life
as is the borrowed butter YOU return
Il, naigi.bor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-01-06
the attention of Mr.. Reed. When the


the attention of Mr.. Reed. When the
republicans regained control Of the
house in the Fifty-fourth congress. Mr..
Reed against brought Asher HiLds to
Washington and he has been here ever
since serving with Mr.. Reed, then with
Speaker Henderson and now with
Speaker Cannon. He stands at the
speakers desk with his book OF rules
q his hand and his own published
book of rules and presidents ready for
reference. When any question arises
on the floor requiring decision, he in
stantly turns to the required rule and
precedent for the guidance OF the
speaker. Seldom if ever is decision
based on his information overruled In
the house.
Mr.. Kinds is typical New England
er with the soft, down-east drawl, and,
although ordinarily a most serious
minded, solemn-faced individual, he
possesses the dry humor so character
istic of the Maine people. Speaker Can
non delights to sit down and discuss
matters with Mr.. Kinds in order to get
the latter's quaint ideas expressed In
still quainter language. He will dis
cuss anything from an abtruse meta
physical proposition to the love AFFAIRS
of a congressman with equa. solemnity
and earnestness. WI
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-01-06
MAKING SURE OF THE TIP.
How Walters Provide the Change Sc
as to Insure q Certain
Rake-Of.

Bring the change in quarters" said
the man who had paid for four-dollar
luncheon with five-dollar bill.
''Why did you specify the denomina-
tion?" asked the woman opposite.
Because If hadn't that fellow would
have brought in half dollars and then
I'd have had to give him 50-cent tip.
That is trick most walters have.
When it is possible to bring the change
in dollars and half dollars they do it,
so the tip will be correspondingly large.
OF course, in restaurants where rs cents
is the usual tip, they are not quite SO
greedy, and get the change SO cut up
that it shall contain at least one quar-
ter. They are afraid that if that is not
handy they may get turned down with
out anything. and they don't want to
take chances of losing all the way round.
In all restaurants dimes are avoided in
making change whenever possible.
Every waiter considers his services
worth more than that, and he takes
precautions to prevent a patron from
disgracing himself by offering him one.
Cashiers are all in on the game OF
change. They take care to make it in
coins that will insure the waiter a sat
isfactory tip; so unless the customer
has the forethought to ask for little
chicken feed he il doomed to q ruinous
contribution"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-01-06

men. The popularity and success OF
the speaker with members OF the house
like those Of the president with all
public men-depend largely upon the
tactfulness of his secretary. That OH
cial must intuitively know the relative
Importance of the business the visitors
have with the speaker, be able to ar
range audiences for those who have
the most important matters to discuss
and politely to dismiss those who are
inclined to be importunate and whose
affairs are not of the greatest interest.
To discriminate properly and not give
onfense requires rare genius, but it Is
necessary to save the speaker worry
and trouble that would otherwise tend
to break him down.
Mr.. Busby is exceptionally well
equipped for just this sort of work. He
has complete, comprehensive grasp
of all public business and all matters
pending before congress and his judg.
ment of whom to admit to the speaker
and what subjects ought to be discuss.
ed by them is unerring. He is polite
and courteous and is able to deny Wis
itors an audience with the speaker with
q graceful tact that sends them away
disappointed, but not offended. Mr.
Busbey was newspaper man for
quarter of century before the speaker
| asked him to accept this responsible
place. He has a very wide acquaint.
ance with public men throughout thu
country and as correspondent of a Chi.
cago paper accompanied the late Pres
ident Mckinley on all the tours ane
campaigns the latter made for severa
| years before he was nominated for thu
presidency.
Mr.. Busbey is an authority on tn,
tariff and on financial subjects and hi
knowledge in that direction has beer
of great value to many members Of thu
| house.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-01-06

in fact making all preparations. for the
opening of congress as though he had
already been named the speaker OF the
house. In the minds of the members
of the house he is speaker, as there IS
not the slightest opposition to his re-
election and, taking that for granted,
the members, new and old, are consult
ing with him as to good places on COM
mittees.
The ex-speaker and the speaker that
is to be has come back to Washington
in more rugged health than one-half
the young members of the house. He
was SO years old last May, but his
sturdy frame, clear eye and ruddy
cheeks, showing rich, healthy blood,
are those of a man not over SO. He
swings through the capitol and along
the streets with an active, springy step
and, to use his own vernacular, he feels
as young as three-year-old and as MT
as a fiddle" He walks from the cap
itol every day after several hours OF
strain in "jollying" and arguing with
members who want places. 1t is two
miles from the capitol to his home
and he is as fresh as daisy when he
reaches the end of his walk. His in
variable companions on this tramp
home are his secretary, Mr.. Busbey,
and his parliamentary secretary, Mr..
Kinds.
Mr.. Cannon enjoys meeting the con-
gressmen, although he is sometimes
puzzled to find desirable and appropria-
ate places for all of those deserving
such on the committees. He always
refers to them as "the boys" and they
| seldom think of calling him anything
else than "Uncle joe" The real affec-
ton between Mr.. Cannon and the
members of the house of all parties is
the secret of his successful admins
| tration Of his high Office.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-01-06
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