Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-23

Carl Bean there will be only short
business meeting OF the Grange to-
morrow evening.
It is with sadness we record the
death of Mrs VIM Wylie, who died
very suddenly Sunday The funeral
was held Tuesday at the house. Much
sympathy is felt for the bereaved
family.
WEST GLOVER.
John Borland is away on hunting
trip.
Mrs. Melvina Wright is helping at
Walter Scott's.
Bert Gleas of Barton is painting
E. C. Bakers house..
The Willing Workers met with Mrs.
E. c. Baker Wednesday.
Mrs. L. L. Hastings is spending the
week at Morgan and East Charleston.
Mrs. N. C. Stevens and Miss Jennie
May Salmon attended st. Johnsbury
fair Wednesday,.
Miss Elizabeth Donald of Springfield,
Mass, is visiting her friend, Mrs.
AAOAAS OhANASAs
Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Cutler and Mr..
and Mrs. A. B. Ross were at Glover to
attend the concert Friday evening.
A few from this place attended the
| reception given Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Stiles at their home Friday evening.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Walter Scott are re-
joicing over the birth of a daughter,
Myra Elizabeth, September a. Miss
| Parlln is caring for Mrs. Scott.
| There is a special class of farm la
borers in Sweden who are given 50
many acres of land for their own use
in consideration of so many days la
Dor during the year for the owner of
the farm. These ''torpares'' are sort
| of fixture to an estate, and their like
exists in no other country.
A Mighty Eruption.
1t has been calculated that the
quantity of solid matter elected by
the great eruption of Krakatoa. in the
strait of Sunda, in August, 1888, was
Ala cubic miles To give some idea
of the enormous volume this repre-
sentS we may take the following illus
tratiOn: The largest of the pyramids
of Egypt, known as the Great Pyra-
mid, contains about 100000 cubic
feet of masonry. 1t would therefore
take about 1850 of such structures to
equal in bulk the matter that was
thrown out by this eruption-New
York American.
Spirited Repartee.
In making a sharp turn the rear end
of a street car struck an express wag-
on laden with jugs of whisky. Nearly
all the jugs were precipitated to the
pavement, with the natural disastrous
result. The driver of the wagon alight-
ed and, pointing at the pile of demol-
ished earthenware. said to a bystand-
er, That's hadeS, amt it?'
The spectator, who happened to be a
minister, replied, We'll, my friend,
don't know that l would say that. but
it's at least the abode of departed spir
s"-Lippincott's Magazine.
King Cotton.
According to the common under
standing, the expression liking cotton,
or cotton is king" was first used BY
the Hon. James II. Hammond in thu
| year 1858. Hammond was from thu
state Of South Carolina, the chief prod
uct of which commonwealth was cot
ton. Mr.. Hammond's idea was tina
cotton, being the great commercial ex
port of this country and the chief arti
Gle of manufacture in Great Britain
was king and that no politics was al
lOwable that crossed the grain of the
kings interestS.-New York Ameri
can
Tom Walker.
Tom Walker, whose name is so affec
tionately lined with that OF his Satanic
majesty in the worldwide saying, "The
devil and Tom Walker" was a poor
old miser, born in Massa chusetts about
the year 1927. Tom suddenly became
very rich and opened Il counting house
in Boston during the panic which pre-
vailed in the time of Governor Belcher
4 He grew rich and richer, but one day
as he was foreclosing a mortgage with
l poor land jobber black man appear
] ed on horseback and knocked at his
Office door. Tom went to open it and
4 was never seen again OF course the
good people Of Boston Immediately
voted that he had sold his soul to the
4 devil for wealth.-New York American
Some Definitions.
The late Frederick r. COudert, the
noted lawyer and wit, had a grea
fondness for children. He collected
indefatigably the quaint saying of chill
dren, and one of the treasures of hi:
library was small manuscript vol
ume called "a Child'S Dictionary" an(
these are some of the definitions tina
Mr.. Coudert would read from it:
"Dust-Mud with the juice squeezed
out of it."
"Snoring.-Letting off Sleep"
"Apples.-The bubbles that appl'