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

WOOL WANTED-Good clean stock
at 20 cents per pound, also sugar and
live stock at highest market prices.
Both phones. G. S. Dodge, Barton
Landing. 32tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09

FOR SALE-Pair six-year-old chest
nut horses, weighing 22O0 pounds.
True workers, nice drivers. Not afraid
of autos. Inquire at Monitor office.
31tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09
LOCAL ADVERTISING.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head at tDo certs per word for first inserti on
and one cent per word thereafter. Cash must
accompany the order. No advertisement aoiLI
be inserted for less than t,centy- fUe cents.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09

FOR SALE-Cedar shingles, four
grades. Also my driving horse, safe
for ladies. M. H. Lewis, West
Glover. 2Otf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09

FOR SALE-Eight room house in
Barton Landing. Built in 1905. Price
S21OO On good street and large lot.
c. E. Gay, Barton Landing. 29 If
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09

WANTED-Man and woman to
work on farm. Apply to box 43, Bar
ton. 33tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09

FOR SALE CHEAP-One Grey
separator. nearly new. B. F. Colby,
Barton Landing, Vt. Peoples phone.
1886
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09

FOR SALE-Seven pairs of heavy
work horses, the best we had. Skin
ner & French, Barton Landing. 32tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Maple stove wood and
yellow Vermont seed corn. Milo J.
Owen, Barton. 22tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09
WANTED.

WANTED Kitchen girl. at the VAL
ley house, Barton Landing. 2Stf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09

FARMERS TAKE NOTICE-We pay
} cent less per pound for buck lambs
than for ewes and weathers. No
stock taken later than $50 p. m. any
Monday. Winslow and Hanson. 1888
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

See ad. wool carding and hand spun
warn. 23-24-e3W-45
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09

Congregational Church Notes.
The weekly prayermeeting will be
omitted this week.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-09
TO RENT.

TO RENT.
TO RENT-Office on second floor
in Owen block, formerly occupied by
The Monitor. E. w. Barron, Admr
16tf
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

II HE strenuous life Is not for Lemon,
a small bull pup, whose habitat,
until recently, was the White House.
Lemon noticed door ajar the other
morning while roaming the White
House, looking for excitement, and has
not returned.
Though his name might not indicate
1t, Lemon is a puppy of class and
caste. But for all that he's dog and
the sight of his vagabond brothers
romping in the streets, lodging auto.
mobiles and swapping at horses heels
disgusted the Lemon with being the
f1rst dog in the land and he beat It.
Lemon is the property of Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, debutante elect, who report.
ed her loss to the police. Instanter a
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
Ethel Roosevelt Mourns Loss Of Lemon

general lookout order was sent to
every district in the precinct, and by
nightfall there was not dog ON the
streets OF Washington. In the coliec-
ton held for Identification was every
species of canine from a NANCY mas.iff
to fiea-bitten flee, but none answered
to the name Of Lemon.
Various motives, II dog may have
motive, may be assigned to Lemons
abrupt departure from the Roosevelt
household. He might have had q
vision Of small bull pup swinging to
the port side of lion in the wilds of
Africa, and his masters voice shout
ing "sic 'em Lemon"
Again, he might have dreaded the
time when he would reach the proper
age to be harnessed to one OF Master
Archie's carts, or be matched in a
main with the household cat, or wear
an empty can attached to his tail.
However, Lemons motive for running
away is purely speculative, fof 1t 10
not given insthe police report, and his
mistress can attribute no cause for
the rash act"
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
Copyright, by Joseph b. Bowles.)


A party of young Hoosiers who hCa
been up to the lakes got aboard an
accommodation train in southern In
diana a few months ago. They were
mostly young fellows from the farms,
and real cut-ups. Having been away
from home over night, they were
now Travelled men of the world, they
wanted you to know, and they took
possession of that sleepy old coach
in real coltish fashion. I've seen that
type often, in so many places that
was not especially interested. Across
the aisle from me- though, occurred q
rather Illuminating incident.
Two of the excursionists, young
man and his STEADY company" seat
ed themselves in front of Jenkins,
who travels for book house in New
York, and who is really one of the
most cultivated and urbane men on
the road. Young Hayseeds lighted
rank cigar, and began to smoke, to
the evident distress of the girl and
several ladies near by. In a minute
jenkins leaned forward and tapped the
smoker on the shoulder.
Pardon me, my friend but this 10
not a smoking car"
you darst smoke on excursion
trains" came back the rather belliger-
ent answer.
"Ah," very politely "but this is a
regular train, not an excursion train.
And you will find a smoking car for
ward"
With look of triumph, and note
of contempt for jenkins ignorance,
the pumpkin retorted: Huh! But
this is an excursion train, cause
| have an excursion ticket"
On ceylon's Spicy Isle.
There was no. gainsaying such mon
umental proNncialism as this, and
jenkins sank back in sheer enjoyment
of the situation. He has all the literary
mans love of types" | watched the
barnyard rooster turn to his compan.
| ion and crow over the defeat of that
| greenhorn back of him. He knew the
world, he did; and he could tell them
all thing or two.
l suppose if Jenkins were to moral
ize aloud over the incident he would
say that the commonest fault in all
this big world is just provincialism
Every pig thinks his own barnyard
the universe.
The episode recalled my visit tc
Ceylon. had done some business fol
the house at Colombo, which is g
more important city than a man from
Boston thinks, and having full day
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Ixy ASHINt;TON.--It was generally
w known that divorces in the
United States were getting more
numerous each year, but nobody was
prepared for the surprising statement
made in a census bureau report that
one marriage out of every twelve in
the country terminates in divorce.
Yet sach ia the case, as shown by the
bureaus hgu:es.
The statistics are the result of care
ful gathering of figures in every state
In the union, the period covered being
from 1887 to 1906 The last set of
national statistics on marriage and
divorce covered the period from 1867
to 1885. The present set of statistics,
taken in conjunction with the former
one, therefore, gives a view of the
marriage and divorce question for the
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

IIy HEN 1t comes to diplomatic
w maneuvering to accomplish their
designs the officers of the navy can
give pointers to the Russians cad the
Japanese. AS an instance the case Of
The hospital ship Relief may be cited.
1t will be remembered that last win.
ter President Roosevelt made an or.
der that the Relief should be com.
manded by medical officer. The men
at the navy department were amazed
that doctor should be given COM
mand of vessel, but there was no
appeal from Mr.. Rooseyelt's order.
The Relief was detailed to accompany
the feet on its trip around the world.
Letters from men who are with the
feet have been received here telling
of the sad experiences of the hospital
ship and her commander. In describ-
Ing these experiences one writer pref
aced his letter as follows: "The Re-
lief Is the most unpopular institution
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
Naval Officers Experts in Diplomacy

In the navy. There is no exception.
The Relief has everything else beaten"
The story is that the Relief has been
burdened with woe ever since the
cruise began, and that every officer of
the navy, except the doctors, is
tickled to death that this is SO. The
line officers who didn't approve having
a doctor as their commander have
found many ways, the story goes, of
making life miserable to the men In
charge of the hospital ship. OF course
the suggestion of a service conspiracy
to this end would be resented and
could not be proven, but .here is
sub rosa intimation that something
very like cabal has been firmed with
the purpose of proving how tsuch doc
tos doesn't know about running ship.
Wherever the feet has bsen the Re-
lief has usually limped along behind
the procession. She has had trouble
getting supplies. getting coal. getting
consideration of all kinds. 1t always
just happened this way and nobody
in particular was to blame 1t is
hinted that when the fleet returns sug.
gestions will be made in many quar-
ters that the cruise has demonstrated
that nobody is competent to manage
war vessel who is not an accredited
officer of the navy.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
Amazing Increase in Divorce Is Shown

past 40 years.
The total number of marriages fs-
corded for the 20-year period from
1887 to 1906 was 12,832,0a4. The total
number of divorces for the period was
945, ,625.
In discussing the relation OF divorces
to population, the bulletin says An
increase of 80 per cent. in population
between the years 1870 to 1880 was
accompanied by an increase of 79 per
cent, in the number Of divorces granted
In the next decade. 1880 to 1890. the
population Increased 25 per cent. and
divorces 10 per cent, and in the fol-
lowing decade. 1890 to 1900, an In
crease of 21 per cent. In population
was accompanied by an increase Of
&C per cent in the number Of diiorces..
In the six years from 1900 to 1906.
population, as estimated, Increased
10.5 per cent and divorces 2o.3 per
cent.
Two-thirds OF the total number Of
divorces granted in the a0year period
covered by this investigation were
granted to tho wife. Children were re.
ported in 39.s per cent. Of the total
number of divorce cases.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
Weather Kiosk to Be Placed on Street

that only meteorological facts In their
simplest form shall be shown.
Officials of the weather bureau be,
'lieve there win be great public inter.
est In their new scheme. II their
hopes are realized similar kiosks will,
be erected in about 15 cities In the:
course of the next Ave or six months.
Among other things expected OF
these kiosks is that they will ruin ths
regulations held by many cities Of the
United States, especially Washington,
for excessive summer heat, many rec.
ords Of this kind having been estab-
lished by inaccurate thermometers be-
ing hung outside stores and other
buildings not conducive to correct
readings.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

A N interesting experiment is about
"A to be conducted in Washington. II
1t meets with success it. will be ex-
tended to other cities. In the course
Of few days there will be opened at
one of the busiest points on Pennsyl-
vania avenue a weather kiosk similar
to those now in use in Berlin and
other places in Germany. The object
Of the agricultural department in
bringing about this innovation is to
supply meteorological information iii
popular form Behind the curtained
windows OF the kiosk Will be copies OF
the daily weather charts. forecasts is-
sued by the weather bureau, MAXI
mum thermometer and theronograph
for recording Temperature and rair
gauge. There will be no barometer
Tor Il ls the wish Of the department
aaN
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
THE CONQUEST FAULT IS Pp0ENcIALI5n

before my steamer sailed, had run
up to Handy, a beautiful mountain
town that is the center of Buddhism
Buddha's tooth-or what passes for
Buddha's tooth-is worshiped there.
A black and oily Buddhist, with few
clothes and vast array of misin-
formation, had attached himself to me
as guide. He was supposed to be
educated, and halfway Buddhist
priest himself, so he gave me quite
lecture on Buddhism, and the glories
of this particular shrine, winding up
with the assertion that "All the world
comes to Randy every full moon"
And he believed 1t. His horizon was
narrow, that was all; his little world
was peopled chiefly with dusky devo-
tees of ''the greet gawd Bhudd."
II is human to think your way the
only way. The Britisher who cleverly
breaks the top of his boiled egg and
eats the contents from the shell is
horJihad at the mussy American way
of cutting the egg in half and spilling
the whole mess into cap. The Ameri.
can thinks the Briton 'Queer" because
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

There has recently been opened In
one of London's fashionable streets a
toilet club for dogs. There the pets
of the smart set can have their hair
dressed and their coats trimmed to
immaculate perfection, For three shil-
lings they can be bathed. If their
teeth are imperfect they can be filled
or extracted, and if their claws pro-
trude too far they can be daintily mani.
cured.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

DR.. Norman Ditman has received
the Gibbs prize of $4,000, offered by
the New York academy for the best
original research work on the kidneys
The prize was founded to create an
interest in the study of Bright's dis
ease. DR.. Ditman's investigations
tried to account for the unnecessary
two-thirds of mans meat diet, and to
see If this had any close connection
with the poisons present in the sys'
tenn of a person afflicted with Bright's
disease.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

the English way in everything is the
only way, and her comments upon
what she saw, made in loud enough
voice for her neighborhood to hear,
would have been madde1ing were we
not all so highly amused at her.
The climax came when the whole
trainload Of people had to change cars
at little junction, where there were
few conveniences except lunch coun-
ter. Into this most of us had piled,
and were ornamenting the stools near.
est to the grub when the door opened
and a familiar voice called, "Pawtah!
Pawtah!"
No porter responded, for the simple
treason that there was none and after
madam had again cried, "Pawtah!
Pawtah!" this time more peremptorily
| than before, good-natured drummer
near the door stepped up and, raising
his hat, asked if he could be of any
assistance. Giving him cold stare
| through her lorgnette, the old dame
demanded, Are you the pawtah?"
The drummer confessed that he
wasn't, but that every American man
was at the service of any lady in
need.
ooh, but I'd ever so much rather
have the pawtah,' was the disconcert
ing response.
II know it, madam, but regret tC
say that there is no porter here. Car
help you?" Quite ungraciously the
snorting traveller, muttering comments
aloud about how much better they dc
things in England, allowed him tc
transfer her IS pieces of hand luggage
to the other train. Then, when he
had finished, she offered him tip!
Anybody who has been thousand
miles from his own doorstep can mnl
tiply instances of this sort indefinite
ly. For the moment, though, / am In
terested in the truth that provincial
ism is one o., the great factors in the
worlds religious life. 1t is petty-mind
edness that has filled the earth with
local deities, or with partial and made
quate ideals of Supreme Being. Gt
where you will and you will find loca
customs being practiced, instead o
a supernatural religion. Provincial
creeds take the place of universe
truth. Puritan ancestors are followed
iHstead of the Almighty. We all seen
bound to worship God, If at all, &C
cording to Luther, or Wesley, or Cal
win, or Claiming, or Campbell, o
! some still smaller man.
AS have sized up the situation, tn
J greatest barrier encountered by tn
bigness of the Christian religion I!
the smallness of human nature. Seem
J to me that the Founder of Christianit
was done to death by provincials be
: cause he preached gospel too big TO
his time. Ever since then his true rel
resentatives have been trying to pul
men ahd women out of their two-by
four state of mind into the broade
view, deeper sympathy and longe
reach of universal religion. TIL
spirit of proyincialisrn and the spirl
), Of Christianity are deaaiy enemies.
u THE DRUMMER.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

About 250 buffalo, remnant of the fa'
nous Pablo herd recently purchased
by the Dominion government, will be
taken from Montana and placed in the
new buffalo park on Baltic river, a
thousand miles northwest of Winni-
peg. The animals now are being
rounded up by Michael Pablo in Mon
cial trains.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Germany in 20 years has increased
its yearly mining product from 10o,-
100000 metric tons to 242,609, 900
metric tons, worth s4S9,OS6,20O. Coal
forms S5 per cent of the output. Other
minerals are salt, iron ores. copper,
lead, zinc, pyrites, gold, silver, man
ganese, arsenic, saltpeter, vitriol and
alum. The workmen number about
100000, and the companies about
2,000
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Cornetists standing in. the belfry of
the Park Street church in Boston
played America at noon on October
niversary of the birth of Rev. S. f.
Smith, the author of the words sung
to the music in this country. Amer
ica' was first sung publicly in this
church, on July 4, 1892.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

In view of the fact that the price of
stock exchange seats in New York
has jumped recently from $4,000 to
$4,000, it is a little discouraging to
learn that the owner of pew in fash
ionable Grace church, OH lower Broad
way, which he bought for $4,000, has
been able to get only $1,100 bid for
It, at auction.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

The elevator originated in central
Europe. The earliest mention of the
elevator is made in a letter of Ma
polcon I. addressed to his wife, Arch
duchess Maria Louise
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Can the proposition that the mini.
mum salary for an unmarried Episco.
palian clergyman in the diocese Of
New York should be $1,000 and for a
married clergyman $1,000 with suit
able place tv live in, or $1,000 in
money, be taken as an official state
ment of the exact cost of wife?
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

When the officers of the American
battleships arrived at Tokyo last
month they were welcomed by crowds
Columbia and other American songs
in English. When have American
school children ever welcomed foreign
visitors by singing songs in their ma.
tive tongue?
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

DR.. Hills thinks the millennium has
arrived. The man who needs IA tons
of hard coal and doesn't know where
he is going to get the money to pay
for it is probably convinced that a
millennium doesn't amount to much,
after all.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
Ths yackdsws q PuIborouah.

A large number Of jackdaws have
for some time past made their home IN
the tower Of Pulborough church. and
by pecking at the mortar have so se,
riousiy damaged the roof or the church
that 1t is estimated that G ao0 Will be
required to repair it, London Stapd.
ard. Il I. a gs &
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

A simpliiled spelling society in Eng
land wants to have school children
taught to spell by ear. To show how
tastes differ, it is matter of common
complaint among business men here
that some of the graduates of the COM
mon schools spell that way now.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Philadelphia boasts of magazine
devoted exclusively to aeronautics.
One of those fly-by-night publishing
concerns. eh?
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

A western observer says that almost
all the street railway companies now
run "Pay.as-you-enter' cars.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Mrs. Langtry is 30 years old, but al
little distance you can scarcely no
tice it.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

tsis claimed that the mound build.
ers were the first baseball players, but
nobody has ever discovered anything
to indicate that they were the first
umpire manners
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Asbestos sheets are being instituted
under the mattresses of sleeping cars
on some of the railways of the United
States to shut out the heat from the
radiators underneath.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
he ends his breakfast with fruit in.

he ends his breakfast with fruit In
stead of beginning 1t SO, and because
the Briton must have his afternoon
tea, and because he eats such slatherA
Of meat at every meal. This is mere
ly each mans putting up of his own
local standard as universal.
Well do remember the half.con-
cealed look of plying scorn on the
face of my Indian room steward the
first time / ever entered p. and o..
steamer and began to dress for din
ner, as is the way of the world east
of Provincetown. The P. and o. line,
1t would by myriads be considered pro-
vincial not to know, has customs as
firmly fixed as those of court. But,
sir" he demonstrated, "you know we
do not dress for dinner in harbor." l
didn't know, any more than I knew
that 1t was "the thing" for a man to
go into the dining room any time be-
fore eight o'clock in his pajamas for
his little breakfast" or that pajamas
were sufficient dress for deck any
time after II at night and before eight
In the morning. On another line, this
sort of dishabille would not be toler,
ated.
She Wanted "PaWtah."
Speaking of our British friends, re.
minds me of lot of quiet fun car.
load of passengers had over an English
woman who was doing" America
from car window. She had come to
these shores absolutely assured that
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

what is more potent than the COL
lar?" Oh few millions of it.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-04
FOOD TESTERS OFF.
Taft's Inspectors of Panama Fare
 Sail for Canal Zone.

New York, March S.-William Childs. ir.. and Harry Balfe, members of the welfare department of the Ma tional Civic Federation, sailed on tho seamship AIlianca. of the Panama Railroad company, to-day at noon for inc canal zone to make an investiga- tion for the government, as experts, of the food served to the men em- ployed in constructing the canal. This
 investigation is to be made under ex- ecutive order of Secretary Taft The investigators have been authorized to look thoroughly into the question of imnroving the food conditions, and inc inquiry will extend into the meth ods of purchasing. the quality of the food materials, the management of the mess halls and the deterioration of supplies in transporting them from inc United States to Panama and from inc port of Colon across the isthmus tn the various camps.