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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-02-19
His Definition.

"A teacher in a certain school asked
for the definition of a furrier. \ hand
was raised well. John, YOU tell US
what furrier is "A man who deals
hn furs.r correctly replied the pupil.
lrhen, turning TO, another scholar, the
keacher asked for rhe definition of
.rurrier- a. man who deals in ours"
was the unexpected reply of the eager
#,ov.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-02-19

They ufver grippe or cken. but cleanse ard
This 1s4rhe uuivf rsal verdict OF the many
thousands who use DeMitt's Little Early
Risers. These famous 'litsie pills relieve
headache, constipation, b liousness, jaundice,
torpid liver sallow CON plexion, etc. Try
Little Early Risers. II. G. Pierce, Barton; F.
j. Kinney, Barton Landing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-02-19
The Poultry Industry.

Tic Fo2atiy aFGuSTTys
tits fact not generally known that
of ali farm products poultry stands
fifth in value. 1t is estimated that the
cash derived from the sale of poultry
and eggs amounts to half billion dol
lars annually. Farmers. however. are
only beginning te realize the profits
that can be obtained from u well cared
for flock Of hens. 1t is doubtless true
that many could more than double
their present gain if they gave a little
more attention to the feeding problem
Guy II. Parker of 1Iiddletown Springs,
VI, writes Of the way he increased tie
egg production Of his fowls: ''AIy hens
have doubled on the number Of eggs
since 1 began to use your Pages Per
fected Poultry Food
Any one sending his address on a
postal card to c. S. Page, Hyde Park.
Vt, and mentioning this paper, will re-
ceive by mail. free, postpaid, a sample
package OF Pages Perfected Poultry
Food"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-02-19
Good Old Renedr

How did you cure your boy of
swearing?'
BY the laying on of hands, principal
fy."-Chicaso Record-Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-02-19

Score: Co. ID "a; Barton 30. Goals from
the floor, Smythe 10, McGovern 7, Beck 1,
Wright 3, Carr ?, Dana 8, Webster 1, Bar
rows 2, Cloutier, Heath, Rines. Goals
from fouls--Beck, McGovern. Referee,
6ulIoway, umpire, Lacair. Time, 3 10
minute periods.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

broken. how? There was the fire,
now sunken into a heap of ashes,
long, large, white heap, very large for
a cowman's camp fire. And there
And there was it, There was some
Thing There lay the object of their
search. In a fash the revolyers COW
cred the covering figure of the giant,
who, prone upon his knees, was now
raving, gibbering. praying. calling up
on longforgotten saints to save him
from this sight. 20 Santa Maria O
Purissima o Madre de Dios," he
moaned, wringing his hands and shiv-
ering as though stricken with an ague.
He writhed among the leaves, his eyes
fixed upon that CHASTITY shape which
lay before him.
There. in the ashes of the dead fire,
as though embalmed, as though alive,
as though lingering to accuse and to
convict, lay the body of Greathouse,
the missing man. Not merely a
charred, incinerated mass, the figure
lay in the full appearance of life. a
fineness from the white ashes of the
fire, Not feature, not limb, not a
fragment of clothing was left unde-
stroyed! yet none the less here, stretch
ed across the bed of the burned-out
fire, with face upturned, with one arm
doubled beneath the head and the
other with clinched hand outfung,
lay the image, the counterpart, nay
the identity of the man they sought
1t was a death mask, wrought by the
pity of the destroying flames. These
winds, this sky, the air, the rain, all
had spared and left it here in accusa-
ton most terrible, in evidence unpar-
alleled, incredibly yet irresistibly
true.
Franklin felt his heart stop as he
looked upon this sight, and Curlys
face grew pale beneath its tan. They
gazed for moment quickly, then
Curly sighed and stepped back. Keep
him covered, Cap" he said, and, 60
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

ing to his horse, he loosened the long
lariat.
"Arriba, JUAN" he said quietly.
Get up, and the giant obeyed as
meekly as a child. Curly tied his
hands behind his back, took away his
knife, and bound him fast to a tree.
Juan offered no resistance whatever.
but looked at Curly with wondering
dumb protest in his eyes, as Of an
animal unjustly punished. Curly
turned again to the fire.
TITS him, all right" said he; that's
Cal" Franklin nodded.
Curly picked up a bit of stick and
began to stir among the ashes, but as
he did so both he and Franklin ut
tered an exclamation of surprise. By
accident he had touched one of the
limbs. The stick passed through it,
leaving behind but crumpled, form
less heap of ashes. Curly essayed in
vestigation upon the other side of the
fire. touch, and the whole CHASTITY
figure was gonel There remained
no trace of what had lain there. The
shallow, incrusting shell of the tickle
ash broke in and fell, all the thin ex-
terror covering dropping into the cav
ern which it had inclosed. Before
them lay not charred and dismem.
bered remains, but simply fiat table
of ashes, midway along it slightly
higher ridge, at which the wind, hith-
erto not conspiring. now toyed, flick
ing away items here and there, car
rying them. spreading them, returning
them unto the dust Cal Greathouse
had made his charge, and left it with
the Frontier to cast the reckoning.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

of the first day brought the travellers
well within view of timber line, bat
the rough country along the stream
was not yet reached when they were
forced to quit the trail and make their
rough bivouac for the night
There was a curious feeling of GER
tainty in Franklin's mind, as they
again took saddle for the journey, that
the end of the quest was not far dis
tant, and that its nature was prede-
termined. Neither he nor Curly ex-
pected to find the ranchman alive,
though neither could have given letter
and line for this belief. AS for Juan,
his face was expressionless as ever.
"Que Gamma - onde, amigo?"
asked Curly in cowboy patois. which
way?"
The Mexican pointed up the stream
with carelessness and they turned
thither. AS they resumed the march,
now along the level floor of the wind
ing little valley, Franklin was revolv-
ing a certain impression in his mind.
In the mud at the bank where they
had stopped he had seen the imprint
of naked foot-a foot very large and
with an upturned toe, widely spread
ing apart from its fellows, and it
seemed to him that this track was not
40 fresh as the ones he had just seen
made before his eyes. Troubled, he
said nothing, but gave a start as Cur
ly, without introduction, remarked, as
though reading his thoughts:
Cap, / seen it, too"
His footprint at the bank?"
Yep. He's shore been here afore."
Neither man said more, but both
grew grave, and both looked uncon-
sciously to their weapons. The Mex
lean plunged ahead as confidently as
before. and in the tangled going his
speed was greater than that Of the
horses. "Cuidado!" (carefun Juan, ="
cried Curly warningly, and the latter
turned backed a face inscrutable as
ever.
The turned an angle of the valley,
and came out upon a little fiat among
the trees. Toward this open space
the Mexican sprang with horse, ex-
cited cries. The horses plunged back.
snorting. Yet in the little glade all
was silence, solitude. Swiftly Frank
lin and Curly dismounted and made
fast their horses, and then followed
up the Mexican, their weapons now
both drawn.
This glade. now empty. had once
neld man, or men. Here was trod-
den place where a horse had been
tied TO a tree. Here was the broken
end of lariat. Here had been a little
bivouac. bed scraped up OF the
scantr fallen leaves and punches of
-~llef grass Here were broSen bushes
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Body of the Crime.

The Body of the Crime.
Hour after hour. in the heat of the
Cay or the cool of the evening, the
giant Mexican strobe on by the side
II the two horsemen, sometimes trot-
ling like dog, more often walking
With shambling, wide-reaching step,
,ireless as any wild animal Express
sionless, mute, the colossal figure
strobe along, like some primordial
creature in whom a human soul had
not yet found home
The Mexican was running the back
trail of the horse of Cal Greenhouse,
the missing ranchman, and it was
very early seen that the horse had
not returned over the route taken by
Greathouse when he started out He
had gone along the valley of the
Smoky River, whereas the course of
the loose animal had been along the
chord of a wide arc made by the val
ley of that stream, a course much
shorter and easier to traverse, as it
evaded part of that rough country
known as the breaks of the Smoky,
a series of gullies and draws" rum
ming from the tableland down to the
deep little river bed. The afternoon
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26
CHAPTER XXI.
The Trial.


Your honor" said Franklin to the
Court, Il appear to defend this man"
The opening sentence Of the young
advocate might have been uttered in
burlesque. To call this a court of
justice might have seemed sheer libel.
There was not the first suggestion Of
the dignity and solemnity of the law
Ellisville had no hall of justice, and
the court sat at one place or another,
as convenience dictated. This being
an important case, and one in which
all the populace was interested, Judge
Bristol had selected the largest avail
able assembly room, which happened
to be the central hall of Sam Pres
tons livery barn. The Judge sat be-
hind large upturned box, which sup
ported few battered books. At his
right the red-nosed prosecuting attor-
ney shuffled his papers. Along the
sizes of the open hallway, through
whose open doors at each end the
wind passed freely. sat Jury aud audi
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26
No CHANCES.

This is the new year." said Mrs
Brown as she and Brown sat down to
dinner, and perhaps we ought to
make some little changes for 1906"
Il am willing" he replied Eyes,
have been thinking that would make
a few changes"
THAT is nice of you. You know
that you swear and that don't like 1t
at all II will be so sweet and kind
and considerate to give it up for my
sake"
Give up swearing! Not on your
lfe,"
What then, did you mean by
changes?"
Why, I have been allowing you So
per week as pin money and | know
that you simply fool most of it away.
One of the changes contemplated was
to cut the sum in half
Samuel Brown," exclaimed the
wife. as she knocked on her plate with
her fork TO emphasize her words,
don't make any mistake on your wife
Mary You will continue to swear as
hard as you wish and as often as you
wish, and my IS pin money comes to
me every Saturday night or there
won't be any glass left in the front
windows to last over Sunday !"-Balti-
more American.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26
Slur on Montana.

Henry H. Rogers, the Copper and
Standard Oil magnate, was visited "a.
Gently by one Of his friends who has
been under the weather for months.
Mr.. Rogers inquired kindly after tbs
health of his caller.
I have been staying down at Lake
wood, N. j., for six months" wa, tbs
reply. and I've been pretty low. In
TACT never was in so bad state be
fore"
Mr.. Refers smiled and asked ou,r~.
ly:
you've never been in Moutan..
have your" New York Tinss
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26
HISTORY OF COTTON THREAD,
Napoleon's Seizure of HAMBURG Dr.
rectly Forced Its Use.

NaPoleon's Seizure of Hamburg Di-
reetly Forced Its Use.
EX-Provost Clark of Paisley. Eng
land, has been relating the origin of
cotton sewing thread, which was first
used In that town in the weaving of
heddles" as a substitute for silk.
which was stopped by Napoleon in
1913, when he seized Hamburg. Mr..
Clark's grandfather and his brother
then bethought them of cotton. which
worked so smoothly that Mr.. Clark's
father. then youth, took to recon-
mending it to women instead of linea
then mostly used.
Originally it was sold in hanks or
skeins. These the women had to
wind into little balls, as they do a
cut oil wool at the present day. Wish
ing to convenience them, young Clark
on selling a skein of thread would sit
down at a pirn wheel and wind the
thread on bobbin, for which he
charged a halfpenny. This halfpennv
was refunded when the empty bobbin
was returned. Such was the begin
ming OF cotton thread.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26
Larkln Mason,s Report.

The Hon. I.arkin d. Mason of Tam,
worth. n. H. was judge of probate
for his county, and very prominent
man in politics in his day His son
came home on furlough from the army
during the civil war, and brought the
army itch, and the whole family took
e.
Mr.. Mason called in doctor from
the neighboring town of Meredith.
who left some medicine to be taken &C.
cording to directions The doctor told
Mr.. Mason that he wanted to hear
from HIM in few days.
Mr.. Mason reported as follows: I'VE
have used the medicine internally and
externally, the disease still RACES in
formally. and it looks to me as though
IL would last eternally."
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

1t must not be imagined that the
life at Whiteway is a mere round of
sordid toll in the fields. The colony
possesses some excellent musicians
and couple of first class elocution-
lists, and there are almost nightly
concerts and readings in one or other
of the cottages.
Then, in the seasons when work in
the fields is slack, there are expedi-
tons on foot to some of the many
points of interest in the neighbor-
hood. That part of Worcestershire is
rich in historic and antiquarian in
terest
mile from Whiteway is the vii
lage of Miserden. which was a Ro-
man stronghold in its day, and in a
field outside the village are great
mounds, which the villagers declare
are the graves of the Roman soldiers.
A mile or two away is a perfectly
preserved Roman military road and
on foggy nights the country people de-
clare that ghostly legions may be seen
marching along it, fighting over again
their battles with the ancient Brit
ons.
Gloucester has a fine cathedral, and
that at Cirencester, while smaller, is
said by experts to be one of the most
beautiful in England.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26
CHAPTER xlx-continued.

The left arm of the sheriff dropped.
The whole body of Ike Anderson, shot
low through the trunk. as was the
sheriff's invariable custom melted
down and sank into sitting posture
leaning against the edge of the stoop
The sheriff with leap sprang behind
the fallen man, not firing again. Ike
Andersen, with black elm now come
upon his eyes. raised his revolver and
fred once, twice, three times, four
times, five times, TAPPING the space in
front of him regularly and carefully
with his fire. Then he sank back
YEARLY into the sheriff's arms.
"All right, nanny" remarked Ike
Anderson, somewhat irrelevantly.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

The fact is that the colonists are
nearly all from a much higher sta
ion in life and better educated than
their neighbors One is the son OF a
5arcHet who sacrificed his material
prospects in life for the sake Of liy.
ing in accordance with the principles
IN which he believed
Another was the manager Of pros
porous bank in Scotland and a third
= as large farmer in the south OF
England. There is sprinkling of
city folk, clerks and the like, and
there is a retired sailor. whose skill
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26
All Colonists Welcomed.

All CoionlStS welcomed.
The land, of course, so far as its
legal aspect is concerned, is held alb
solutely by the trustees. but any one
who Is willing to work on 1t and live
In harmony with the colonists is well
come to settle on an acre and cult
yate 1t. He may do so free of all
charge, but he must not attempt to
acquire any title to II. and as soon as
he ceases to cultivate it with his own
hands all his interest in it ceases.
There are at present about dozen
families in the colony and there are
a couple of acre plots vacant but it
Is expected that they will soon be
taken up. They were rendered vacant
by the efforts of the persons who had
taken them up to secure absolute
ownership in them
Apart from their peculiar views as
to ownership in land and the immo-
rality of living by the labor of others,
the colonists are perfectly normal
people, Living. as they do. an open
air life, they have adopted some re-
forms in dress, but these are not the
result of any fixed belief rather they
are the result of an effort to find the
clothing most suitable to the condi-
tions under which they live
The women as a rule wear an outer
garment of the flowing Grecian type.
and the men kniekerbockers and soft
cotton or wool shirts, open at the
neck. In the height of summer they
sometimes dispense with the shirt
while working In the fields
Both men and women go barefooted.
partly from preference and partly be-
cause shoes are an expensive luxury
TO persons living from the product of
an acre of rather unproductive soil.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

A New York doctor says that skeIe-
tons should not be used in women's
classes in teaching the principles of
first aid to the injured Women" he
declares, are too feminine to see
skeletons-it makes them nervous.
And yet every woman has one.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

1t has been decided that men may
eat dinner at the big restaurants in
New York without wearing evening
dress. This is another important tri-
umph for the advocates of personal
liberty.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Scientists claim that insanity is
caused by microbes. If proof is want
ed they can point to large number
of people who have grown crazy over
microbes and others who are still go
Ding.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Now that Pierpont Morgan has paid
$4,000 for some Robert Burns manu-
scripts, the conviction of the average
contemporary poet VIII be strength
ened that all he needs to get good
prices for his stun is To be dead
hundred years.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

A Boston man who discovered that
he hasn't any bad habits to give up
during Lent says that he won't be
caught that way again next year.
Boston Globe.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

What has become of the old-fash-
Toned editor who never used to fill a
gap in one of his columns by asking
what has become of the old-fash-
Toned" something or other?
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Speaking of human nature, the man
who kicks the hardest about the in
crease of 10 cents a hundred pounds
in the price OF ice is generally the
man who pays Is cents for two ounces
of it in a highball.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

A Pennsylvania woman drank caus-
tic potash because her hair was turn
Ing gray. II did not restore the natural
color, but she won't worry about it
any longer.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

The Chinese, even under Japanese
leadership, are not yet ready to fight
the foreign devil. premature move
ment will land them in the chop
suey.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

The Japanese have begun to use
beer instead of sake. This may not
make them taller but it is likely to
necessitate their letting out their
Wristbands occasionally.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

The doctor who predicts that the
world will soon go blind from the eff
fects of electricity might give good
testimony on the progressive soften.
ing of the brain from causes unknown.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Count Whites cabinet is breaking
up This ought to relieve any kind
ling wood stringency that may exist
at st. Petersburg.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

AT least Washington should be
made as much of a model city" as is
possible with frequent congressional
sessions on the premises.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

prove his honesty merely returned "A
Scotch verdict
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Boni de Castellane says he is going
to be good hereafter, unless, Of
course, he should have the luck to get
his hands on some more money.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Mark Twain insists that he knows
veracity when he sees it a block away.
Then why doesn't he cross the street
and make it's acquaintance?
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Granting the correctness of the the
DRY OF evolution, there must have been
time when there was no stork
What?
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Members of English Colony in Cotswold Hills Follow
the Russian Philosopher.
Especial Correspondence

Up on the highest point of the
Cotswold hills In Worcestershire Is
little colony of practical followers OF
Count Tolstoi. people who believe thar
II is wrong to live in any way by the
labor of others. Unable to carry their
faith into practise In the outside
world. they have settled in this re-
mote corner of England to extract
their living from an inhospitable soil
by the labor OF their own hands.
One must not suppose, however.
that this is a colony of wild eyed
anarchists or dangerous enemies of
government. II is true that they OBJ
jected at first to paying taxes to a
government which they declared gave
them nothing In return, and one or
two men actually carried their pas
sive resistance to the extent of going
to jail for their principles. but even
the country people round about to-
day are forced TO admit that they are
good neighbors, pay their debts and
bother no one-this in spite of the
active opposition of squire and par
son, who regard them as dangerous
enemies of church and state.
The little colony, which is known
as Whiteway, is situated about the
center of triangle the angles of
which are formed by the towns of
Gloucester, Cirencester and Stroud
1t is approached by mountainous
roads and lies about seven miles from
Stroud, which is the nearest railway
station.
The land owned by the colony
stretches along the side of hill and
comprises about sixteen acres. The
tract was left to a set OF trustees
headed by Aylmer Maude. the well
known English disciple of Tolstoi, by
a farmer of the neighborhood who had
become a convert to the theories of
the Russian philosopher.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

The savant who says everybody is
going blind because of electricity
can't scare us worth a cent. We've
seen about everything.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

The per capita wealth of the United
States at this present time is $sl.7'
Got yours?
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Mr.. Balfour has managed to squeeze
into parliament. but he is likely to
find 1t a very lonesome place.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Yvette Guilbert is back in New
York but is said to have no naughty
songs. Humph Why. then. is she in
New York?
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

Il is announced that shoes are to
cost more. But let us hope on. 1t may
presently be cheaper to ride than to
walk
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

The feeling of Paris toward Jimmy
Hyde is very cordial, says cable dis
patch. Any time Paris is cross with
a man who has $4,000 900!
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-26

The Englishman who says that he
can measure the ne-seventy-millionth
part OF an inch can safely defy doubt
ers to prove that he is only boasting.