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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
Why BARRIERS Get Tired

0F course, it will be said that it is because
~ they walk long distance around their
chairs. Perhaps that helps to make them
tired but have you ever counted the number
of little strokes a barber makes when he is
shaving you? If not, the next time you go
into a shop to get shaved do SO. You will
have to pay the closest attention, when
the barber is finishing up he takes many
short strokes with his razor and takes them SO
rapidly that you will have difficulty in getting
your mind to act quickly enough to count
them.
However, the average barber makes from
four to seven hundred strokes for each shave.
Suppose that barber shaves twenty people
in a day. At that rate, allowing five hundred
and fifty strokes as an average number, bar
Der would make eleven thousand distinct vol
urtary strokes with his right hand in days
work
The most curious thing about it is that not
one barber in hundred has any idea of the
amount of physical effort expended in shaving
man. Of course, they know they get tired,
and when you ask them why they nearly al
ways answer that they have to walk SO far
about their chairs.
Of the ten BARRIERS the writer asked about the
number of strokes they made in shaving man,
not one guessed within two hundred strokes
enough The nearest estimate was made by
an English barber, who set it at three hundred.
The others, with the exception of one, guessed
from seventy-fve to two hundred and fifty.
The last man asked was German. How
many strokes do you make in shaving mann
-" Just enough" was his reply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
Still More Prosperity Coming

THE systematic movement now on foot ade-
L quately to improve the Mississippi Valleys
vast system of waterways will add immensely
to the Valleys wealth, prosperity, prestige,
and political influence. The people of the
Great Valley are just waking up to the fact
that God. in His infinite wisdom and benef-
cence, never vouchsafed to any other people
such magnificent system of waterways as He
has given to them, and that no people ever SO
S1gnally failed to improve them for all they
were worth. In his great speech before the
St. Louis river and harbor convention Henry
T. Rainey of Illinois predicted that men would
before long behold the amazing spectacle OF
an American battle ship going from the Gulf
to Chicago by way of the Mississippi River
the Illinois River, and the Chicago Drainage
Canal. He also confidently predicted nine feet
of water from Pittsburgh to Cairo nine feet
on the upper Mississippi, and fourteen Ieet
from St. Louis to the Gulf Add to these the
Improvement of the Missouri and other great
rivers, together with the building of the Lake
Erie & Pittsburgh Canal, and there will come
such an impetus to commerce in the MiSsls-
sippi Valley and such a cheapening of freight
rates as will multiply both the population and
wealth of that vast region many fold before this
new century is old.
From the earliest settlements west of the
Alleghenies the Mississippi River has been a
potent factor in our affairs. The lnvinCIble
determination of the western frontiersmen to
have free water access to the Gulf was what
induced lnomaS Jefferson 10 make the LOUISE
ana Purchase, the most stupendous transac-
ton in real estate suggested on earth since the
devil took the Savior to the top of high noun
tain and offered Him the dominion of the world
to fall down and worship him. Even at this
late day it makes patriots blood run faster
to read Jetfersons sentence, The MISSISSIPPI
must flow unvexed and unfettered to the sea- J"
1t was the determination of the people of the
upper Valley that the lower Mississippi should
not be owned by another nation, which con-
solidated them in favor of the Union far more
than any other cause. They proposed that
the Great River, like the Union, should forever
remain one and indivisble
In the centuries yet to be America will dom
mate the world, and the Mississippi Valley will
dominate America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
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ASTH N A SUFFERERS
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Without Loss Of Time or Detention
from Business.

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Don't put this off until you have another attack,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
WHEN THE MISS
ISSIPPI RULES

succeeded by reason of the death of his chief,
was a non-Valley man.
1t is also apropos to state that while in the
first thirty-six years two New Enganders-the
Adamses. father and son-were elected for one
term each, in the last eighty-four years only
one New Englander, Franklin Pierce, was
elected, and he for only term; while only
one other, James Gillespie Blaine, was nom
mated. No New Englander has been elected
since 1882; and at the present writing New
England has no favorite son who seems to have
any reasonable prospect of reaching that high
station; notwithstanding the fact that Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts re-
ceives sporadic mention in that connection,
and that wee bit of presidential boomlet
was started for Senator Winthrop Murray
Crane. also of Massach dsetts, by Congre
gatonal minister at preachers meeting dur
ing the Christmas festivities 1t is safe to
say that neither of these eminent statesmen
lies Awake nights inducing insomnia by poster
ing his head to count his delegates to a
tional convention or his votes in the Electoral
College. From the foregoing figures it is easy
to see that the influence of the Valley in elect
ing Presidents increases quadrennially.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
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Comfortable, Invisible.
and Perfect Fitting.
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Ever pair of Sound Magnihersf
They soft in the tell they wearing
them
either they sight
when Wilson's Ear Drums weak hearing what
spe tacles to weak sight.
Because they sound magnhers just glasses sight
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They the Ear Nerves by taking the strain off them-the
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And they be for weeks time, because they
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inner parts of the from wind cold, dust sudden and
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03

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and liver difficulties and all troubles
arising from or promoted by impure
blood or low condition of the system.
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June 80, 1906 No 1874
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
"Children Teething,"

Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP should always
be used for children teethng. 1t soothes the child,
softens the gums allays all PAIN cures wind collie and
is the best remedy for diarrhna. Twenty-Five cents
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
OLD FOES AT GETTYSBURG.
Survivors of .Pieksts's Charge Meet
Philadelphia Veterans.

After forty-thTee years survivors Of
General George Z. J';ckett's division
and the philadelphia brigade met last
September on the spof where the world
famous charge was made on the third
day Of the decisive hattie of the civil
war. The brigade was composed of
four regiments. Of the Pennsylvania
volunteers, who assisted in fighting of
the charge. and one feature Of the day
was the return by veteran Union men
TO their former enemies of the sword
os Brigadier General Lewis addison
Armistead. which fell from his hands
when he was killed just as he reached
the cannon Of Gushing.
Although the survivors Of the famous
charge on both sides were aged and
bent. they went over the ground of the
battle with the enthusiasm of youth,
and the return Of the sword started
many train Of Renaissance Of the
man who had waved it.
General Armistead was the son Of
Major General Armistead Of the Unit
ed States army and went to West
Point until he smashed a plate over
the head of General Jubal \. Early.
He was appointed a second lieutenant
IN the army in 1899 and served
throughout the Mexican war, where
at the battle Of Chapultepec, he was
brevetted for gallantry in action. He
was a captain when the war began,
but Immediately resigned to become
colonel Of Il Confederate regiment. He
was promoted to brigadier general fin
1862 andpdded to Pickett's division.
In the famous charge the four regi-
ments commanded by General ARMS
tead occupied the center and when the
fateful orders were given they went
forward. Armistead leading, his hat
held aloft on the point of his sword.
Although a hundred guns cut down
more than twO-thirds Of them, while
the musketry of the infantry protected
I Cemetery hill with a screen of death
/ Armistead went up. He was the first
/ to leap the stone wall on the top of the
hill, with Come on, boysr' and had
| one hand on the muzzle of one OF
! Cushings cannon when he received
his death wound. 1t was at the same
moment that Gushing, himself was
killed
The sword after the war went tC
Philadelphia, where it remained al
these years until in the era of goot
feeling it was resolved to return it
New York Herald
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
WHAT RUSSIA DID FOR US.
An Alleged Authentic Bit of Unwritten
HISTORY

history.
Interest in the Alaska Yukon-Pacific
exposition, which will be held at Seat
tie in 1909 to exploit the territory, has
brought to light an old bit of secret
history of the times of the civil war.
1t now appears from the story of an
old sailor who fought under Admiral
Farragut that the purchase of Alaska
from Russian in 1867 for 81, 100000 by
William III. Seward, secretary of state
was not only made to please Russia
and to express the thanks of the Unit
ed States for Russia's friendship for
the north by taking from the car at
a high figure what he thought was a
bit of useless property, but was also
part Of a deeply laid bit of the diplo-
macy of those stirring times. In fact, it
would look now as if the purchase of
Alaska were portion of the price that
the United States paid Russia for keep
ing 10000 men at Cronstadt during
the latter years of the war in order to
have them available for Americas use
and for embarkation on active service
as an ally of the north did Great Brit
/ ain openly cSpOuSc Iuc CduSS VI Tic
| COnfederacy.
! And another portion of the service
rendered by Russia for the Alaskan
| purchase price was the lending of 500
/ of her best sailors for service in the
| American fleet, with Russian officers
! to translate the orders of the Ameri-
! can commanders. These men, accord
! ing to the story of the old sailor.
! fought for some months under Farra-
! gut, made brilliant showing and final
ly were shipped back to their native
shore in the same surreptitious manner
! that marked their arrival.
The story is given in the Portland
! OregOnian of Jan. 13 last. The writer,
! Gabriel Justus Dahlgren, relates that
he got the story from a resident of
] Salem, Ore, one Thomas Thompson, a
we'll known sailor of that place.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

Cornhill Magazine tells of an Eng
lishwoman of high station who bewail-
ell to a friend the loss by death of a
somewhat i'll bred but extremely
wealthy neghbor who had been very
liberal in his help to her country chart
ties. mir. Y. is dead" said she He
was so good and kind and helpful to
me in all sorts of ways. He was SO
vulgar. poor dear fellow. we could
not know him in London. but we shall
meet in heaven"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
An Ancient PRAYER.

Old John Ward. who was pilloried
by Pope in the "Dunciad'' and who
actually stood in the pillory in the
yesr 1927. when he was said to have
been worth 100000. was nevertheless
pious man. He had large estates in
London and Essex and did not omit
to pray for their welfare in the follow
ing manner: 20 Lord. beseech thee
to preserve the two counties of Middle
sex and Essex from fire and earth
quake. and as I have a mortgage in
Hertfordshire | beg of thee likewise to
have an eve Of compassion on that
county. and. for the rest of the coun-
ties deal with them as thou pleaSeth.'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
CATARRH CAN BE CURED.

Kill the Germs by Breathing
Hy-o-mei. Gives Quick Relief.
Many people who have suffered with
catarrh for years naturally think they
cannot be cured, and become discour-
aged.
The reason they have failed of cure
is because they have not treated the
disease with the local remedy, Hy-o-
mel, which is breathed through a neat
pocket inhaler 80 that its healing med
icated air reaches the remote air cells,
kills all catarrh germs and restores
the mucous membrane of the nose,
throat and lungs to healthy condi-
ton.
Catarrh is really local disease and
to cure it it must be treated by a
remedy which reaches every spot in
the nose and throat where the disease
germs lodge. Hy-o-mei does this
and gives relief from the first days
use.
A complete Hy-o-mei outfit costs
but s1.O0 and F. d. Pierce gives a
guarantee with every package to re-
fund the money unless it cures.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

Learning that the house in the city
Of Orleans in which Joan of Are once
lived was to be demolished soon, E.
II. Sothern and Julia Marlowe have
autographed to the mayor of Orleans,
offering to purchase it with a view of
transferring it to New York, where
they will present it as gilt to Central
Park. The mayor has telegraphed in
reply that he has laid the matter be-
fore the city council.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
BULLET, NOT CONSUMPTION.
New Jersey Veteran Carried Lead In
Lungs Forty Years.

Lungs F0T1y Years.
A violent fit of coughing. physicians
say, recently saved the life of Caleb
Muir, veteran of the civil war, residing
at Four Corners, near Plainfeld, n. J.
Muir's case probably is without paral-
lei in medical records. For thirty years
or more Muir has been pointed out as
a victim OF lingering consumption"
His death was expected at any time
Grownup men had heard when they
were boys Muir was in the firm grasp
OF the dread disease.
But Muir lived on. Three weeks ago
he had one Of his sinking SPELLS" &C.
companied by a violent At Of coughing.
Muir coughed up lead bullet weigh
ing half an ounce.
The veteran has fully recovered and
says he never felt better in his life. In
three weeks he has gained eight
pounds. For thirty years doctors had
been treating him for consumption.
The bullet In Mulr's body is one of
three received when he was with the
Union cavalry under General Philiu
Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. He
was shot in the body three times, the
bullets entering near the lungs.
After being wounded he was taken
to a hospital in Washington, where two
OF the bullets were removed, while the
one which he has coughed up was over
looked by the hospital corps.-Chicagt
Inter Ocean.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
Ocd Coincidence.

Not many years since a pastor in
New York state read in his pulpit this
portion of hymn:
Wen. the delightful day will come
When my dear Lord shall take me home,
And l shall see his face
Just then he was stricken with paral-
ysis and died in few moments. Thir-
ty-three years before in the same pui-
pit another pastor was reading the
very same stanza when he. too. was
stricken and died.-Scrap Book.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

A Methodist negro exhorter shout
ed: "Come up an jire de army of de
Lohd."
''Ise done jined," replied one of the
congregation.
"Whar'd yoh jine? asked the ex-
horter. ''In de Baptis' church."
"Why, chile" said the exhorter,
"yoh amt in de army; yoh's in de
navy."-Harper's Weekly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
LRrTHR TO
II. G. GAY,
QaRwON W.

Dear Sir: why do people send us such tAlas
~ this?
d. @. smith, Madison, Fla. had his mothers
house painted Devoe II years ago, and the
house looks better to-day than other houses
painted with other paint 8 or years ago.
They are full Of goodwill for Devoe.
Yours truly,
- F.w. DsvoE & Co.,
NewiYork.
p. 8. Z. ". Barron Co Barton; Twombly g.
Cotton. Barton Landing; F. Il. Pierce,
Albany; and Sears a Russell, Irasburg; sell
our paint.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
Painfully Absentminded.

A young bridegroom after the we'd
ding was all over and the brides old
father had gone off to the club began
to search anxiously among the We'd
ding gifts. What are you looking for,
dear?" said the bride. THAT $4,000
check of your fathers" he said anx-
iously. Il don't see it anywhere -
Poor papa is SO absentmindedr' said
the bride. He lit his cigar with it,
st. Louis Republic
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

There is no drug which can compete
with cheerfulness. A jolly, whole
hearted, sunny physician is worth more
than all the remedies in an apothecary
shop. A writer known for his cheerful
sayings received a letter from lady,
stating that one of his humorous poems
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

I'll stop your pain free. To showyou first
before you spend a penny-what my Pink
Pain Tablets can do, 1 will mail you free a
Trial Package of them-Dr. Sboop's Headache
Tablets. Neuralgia, Headache, Tootbache
Period FANS, etc. are due to blood cougek ton
DR.. Shoop's headache Tablets simply Kill
pain by coaxing away the unnatural blood
pressure. That is all. Address Dr Shoop
Racine, Wis. Sod by Knney's Pharmacy
Barton Lano ing; F. D. Pierce, Barton.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

Don't be fooled by Oriental Fancy Names
Campbell's Varpish Stain is the original and
only satisfactory colored Varnish on the
market. No mystery about it. Just the bs 81
varnish and suitable colors. Nothing equals
it for Floors. Furniture and Woodwork. F
ID. Pierce sells it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

A prompt, pleasant, go"d remedy for
coughs and colds is Kennedy's Laxative
Cough Syrup. 1t contains opiates ar
does not constipate. Children like it. Sold
by d. Pierce, Barton; F. j. Kinney, Bar
ton Landing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

There is no case of indigo stiop that will not
be peedily relieved by the use of KodoI.
Kodol contains the same juices found in a
healthy stomach Conforms to the Pure Food
and Drugs Law. Sold by F. D. Pierce, Bar
ton; F. j. Kinney, Barton Landing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
kinney's
esCriptiOn
Department

Means the best of everything-
including service, in your prescrip-
ti7n. When you bring your doc
tors prescription here, you may
depend upon It that every drug az d
chemical that be ordered, is in it,
and that it is compounded exactly
2s he spec fed Our constant aim
is description Perfection
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are uu.
u alton of the bladder and all urinary
troubles. A weeks treatment for rs cents.
Solo by F. D. Pierce, Barton; F. j. Kinney,
Barton Landing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03
The Worcester Kemp Manure
Spreader
Has Taken Another Step In Advance.

Auo AOAVu nuutuui utCp III hufdHU0,
The New Simplex Drive.
Nothing like it. Belts direct
from Beaten to main axle. No
gearing between. Nothing to
break. The greatest achieve
ment in manure spreader art.
No gearing moves in driving
to field. The roller bearings
cut down the daft and we
guarantee this the lightest
draft, the strongest and the
best working spreader made.
We have them in 80, IS, 40 &
so bushel sizes. just call and
see them or send for catalogue
We have just received 2 car
loads of Carriages, Road Vag-
ons, Express wagons and Sur
reys, and can give you the best
value for your money.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-05

helpless. Dumped ashore from the big
immigrant ships, they settle in thu
slum districts of the metropolis. Many
of them are from Sicily and others
from the lower end Of the Italian PEN
insuia, which on the map looks like
the heel and toe of a boot. Their own
government likes to boot certain class
of them out of that country into this.
This class is made up Of criminals.
Some of them have served prison SEN
fences at home. Others have led lives
of brigandage In the Sicilian or lower
Italy style without being caught at it.
But all Of them believed that there is
more liberty In America, and they come
here expecting to carry on their crimi-
nality with lesser degree of molesta-
ton than they find at home.
Extortion on Death Threat.
These rufians are banded together
in a society Of vendetta sort, known
to Americans as the Black Hand. The
symbol of their threat is black hand
impressed upon the letters which they
send to their victims. These letters
demand money on pain Of swift and
horrible death. Their victims are their
fellow Italians. These poor ignorant
people know the weight of the Black
Hand. having felt it in their native
land. They are aware that refusal to
comply with the demands OF the GRIM
inals means death. Scarcely day
passes without at least one murder,
attempted murder or job Of dynamit-
ing in New York by the members of
this Infamous organization. The ag-
gregate OF money which they extort
from those who comply with their de
mands Is enormous.
The Black Hand hovers like a dark
and threatening cloud over the daily
life of thousands of Italians In New
York as well as In other cities
throughout the United States where
Italian colonies exist.
This liz the kind of hobgoblin which
Police Commissioner Bingham Is now
going after with rubber shoes and
baited breath. The hunt should de
veiop some Sherlock Holmeses Of III
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