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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
Salt as a Fertilizer.

Salt has long been recognized as a
valuable ferti1izing agent, especially
for use on light, sandy or WORKOUT
land. 1t is claimed that an oat crop on
such soil is more than doubled by the
use of salt.
Farmers of Northern Vermont have
been accustomed for many years to OBJ
tain their Fertilizing Salt OF G.. S. Page
of Hyde Park, VT. The Salt he selsl
is that which has been used on Hides,
Skins, etc., in his hidehouse and con-
tains more or less waste matter that
really adds to its fertillzlng value.
Last year the demand far exceeded the
supply and Mr.. Pages stock was ex-
hausted early in the season, so that he
was obliged to disappoint many farm
ers who sent in their orders late. 1t is
advisable, therefore, that farmers who
intend using Pages Salt this season
should place their orders early.
The price this year is only $500 per
ton, f. O. b. Hyde Park. The railroad
company makes an especially low rate
on twelve ton carloads. If you will
write Mr.. Page, he will tell you the
exact rate to your, station.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
Bradley Dewey's Will.

STATE OF VERMONT, In Probate Court
Orleans District, SIS. held at Newport
in said District, on the 7th day of March,
A. D. 1908.
An instrument purporting to be the last
will and testament of Bradley Dewey, late
of Irasburg. in said District. deceased, being
presented to the Court by Charles E. CLARK
custodian. for Probate: 1t is ordered BY said
Court, that all peri ons concerned therein be
notified to appear at session of said Court,
to be held at the Probate Office Newport, in
said D,st,ict. on the 25th day of March, A. D.,
1908, and showcause if any they may have,
against the Probate of said Will: for
that copy of this record of til 8
order be published three weeks successively
in theOrleans County Monitor, a newspaper
printed at said Barton previous to said
time appointed for hearing. SId
By the Court. Attest, F. e. ALFRED, judge.
10-11-12
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
GAMES.

Animals-A very jolly game for a
number of boys and girls requires no
preparation beyond writing the names
of different animals upon as many slips
of paper as there are players. These
should be pinned to the backs of those
taking part, and each one is expect
ed to ask the other players some ques-
ton concerning his animal, which can
which have to do with the letters COM
prising the name are barred out, how
ever AS each of the players is very
anxious to ask questions and somewhat
reluctant to answer them, the result
is amusing. No one is allowed to ask
two questions of the same player in
succession. One of the company, usu-
ally the hostess, acts as umpire, and
when one of the players thinks he has
guessed his animal correctly, he tells
her what he thinks it is. If correct,
he is declared the winner, though the
game continues till all have guessed
their animals. If you wish to make
the contest longer, you can write the
names of many more animals than you
have players and pin fresh slip on
the back of each one guessing correct
ly. Limit the time as you please, and
ring a bell when it has expired. In
thisEcase the person guessing the larg-
est number is the winner.
The. Laughing granddaughter is
contagious, and that is the reason
for.the success Of the game about to
be described. 1t will not do for an eve
ning's entertainment. Twenty minutes
is quite long enough for it. But for
getting a company into a thoroughly
good humor it has few superiors. The
company is divided into two sections
which are seated in opposite ends OF
the room, and the master of ceremo-
MES stands between them, taking in
! his hand a hat Or small basket. He
explains to the group on his left that
he will throw the hat into the air, and
if it falls with the crown up they must
all laugh. Those on the other side are
supposed to keep perfectly still, ane
anyone laughing must leave his divi
sion and join the others. But if thu
hat falls with the crown down, tn;
PLAYERS on the right must all laugh
while the others preserve decorou
silence, under penalty of being trans
ferred. For the first few times tn
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
CHARACTERS FROM LONGFELLOW

Each StanZa is taken from one of
Longfellow's poems and represents
character or characters mentioned by
the poet.
''Thy playmate once: see him now
A boy with sunshine on his brow
And hear in Stratford's quiet street
The patter of his little feet"
dead he lay among his books!
The peace of God was in his looks"
cit was fifty years ago,
In the pleasant month of May,
In the beautiful Pays de Wand,
A child in it's cradle lay"
From my study l see in the lamp
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegro,
And Edith with golden hair"
1.-The great Italian poet, when he
made
His dreadful journey to the realms
of shade,
Met there the old instructor of his
youth.
"Garlands upon his grave,
And flowers upon his hearse,
And to the tender heart and brave
The tribute of this verse;
"When l remember them, those friends
of mine
Who are no longer here, the noble
three,
Who half my life were more than
friends to me-"
"An old man in lodge within a park
The chamber walls depicted all around
With portraitures of huntsman, hawk
and hound.''
''The young Endymion sleeps Endymi-
On's sleep:
The shepherd boy whose tale was left
half told.''
"Silent are all those sounds of day,
Nothing | hear but the .chirp of
And the cry of the herons winging
their way
Ger the poets house in the Elm
wood thickets."
81 see amid the fields of Ayr
A ploughman, who, in foul and fair,
Sings at his task
Last the Musician, as he stood
Illumined by that fire of wood:
Fair-haired, blue-eyed, his aspect
blithe,
His.figure. tall and straight and 1.-the. y
"1n.the old churchyard..of his native
town,
And in the ancestral tomb beside the
wall,
We laid him in the sleep that comes
to all,
And left him to his rest and his re-
nown."
-Woman's Home Companion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
Trust Estate :of S. r. Corey
of CraftsburV,

STATE OF vERMONT,l In Probate Cou TT
DISTRICT OF ORLEANS IS. held at Newport, In
said district, Gu the 7th day of March,
A. D. 1908
James A. Gallagher, Trustee OF the Trust
Estate of S. R. Corey, late of Craftsbury, in
said dist let, deceased presents his trustee a.
count for exam nation and allowan.e e, aud
makes application for decree of distribute n
and partition of the trust estate Of said
deceased. Whereupon. it is ordered by SAID
Court, that said account and said application
be referred to a session thereof to be held at
the Probate Office in said Newport, on the
goth day of March, A. D. 1908, at one
O'Clock in the afternoon for hearing and de-
cision thereon. And it is further ordered
that notice hereof be given to all persons
interested, by publication of the same three
weeks successfully in tue Orleans County
Monitor. newspaper published at said Bar
ton previous to said time appointed for hear
ing, that they may appear at said time and
place, and show cause. if any they may hav
why said account should not be allowed, al
s1ch decree made.
By the court. Attest. F. E. ALFRED D, Judge
10 HIP
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
ECZEMA NOW CURABLE.
All Itching Skin Diseases Which
Are Not Hereditary Instantly
Relieved by Oil of


Can Eczema be cured?
Some physicians say Eyes"
Some say mo"
The realIquestion is, What is meant
by Eczema?" If youa mean those scaly
eruptions, those diseases which make
their first appearance, not at birth, but
years afterward, and perhaps not until
middle age-then there can no longer
be any question that these forms Of
| Eczema are durable.
| Simple vegetable oil of wintergreen,
mixed with other vegetable ingredi-
ents, will kill the germs that infest
the skin. Apply this prescription to
the skin, and instantly that awful itch
| is gone. The very moment the liquid
is applied, that agoniZing, tantalizing
itch disappears, and continued applica-
lions of this external remedy soon cure
the disease.
We carry in stock, this oil of winter
green properly compounded into D. D.
D. Prescription. While we are not
sure that it will cure lithose cases of
skin trouble which are inherited, we
positively know that thisssD. D. D. Pre-
scription, whenever rightly used, will
cure every last case of genuine EcZ-
ema or other skin trouble, which did
not exist at birth.
| We know this. Anyway you, your
self, will know that D. D. D. Prescrip-
ton instantly takes away the itch the
moment it is applied to the skin. F.
! D. Pierce, Barton; F.s J. Kinney, Bar
ton Landing. Stop that itch TO-DAY
instantly. Just call41at our store and
try this refreshing and soothing liquid );
also ask about D. D. D. soap.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
Estate o D. Owen,

The undersigned, having been appoint.
BY the Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Orleans, Commissioners. to receive
examine, and adjust all claims and demands
of all persons against the estate OF y. ".
owen, late of Barton in said district, 1e-
ceased, and all claims exhibited in offse
thereto, hereby give notice that we will me At
for the purposes aforesaid. at the residence
Of Mary A. 0 ven, on he 3rd day of APRIL and
20th day of July, next from O'Clock IN.
Until q O'Clock pm, each of said days, and
that 6 months from the 25th day OF January
A.Dl97s is the time limited by said Court til
eaid creditors to present their claims to Ut
$50 80 e1amination and allowance.
Dated at Barton, this 4th d,y OF March
A. q. 1908.
J. VI !. S 4. We sFsa. Commissioned
1911 II
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
An Incident.

The other day horse was trying to
get a very small quantity of oats
from the depths of very small nose
bag. In vain the poor fellow tossed his
head and endeavored to get the whole
OF his dinner.
At last, just as he was settling down
to dumb and despairing patience,
brlght-faced boy of perhaps 10 or IL
years of age happened along. Seeing
the dilemma of the horse, the little
fellow stopped and said, Hello
Can't get your oats, can you? Never
mind, I'll fix you!" And straight
way he shortened the straps that
held the bag in place, and, with kind
ly pat and CHEEKY word that the
grateful horse seemed to appreciate,
he went on his way whistling as he
went.
That boy will never be president of
the United States, nor United States
senator. He may never become known
outside of his own immediate circle.
But it is safe to say he will find place
in the world and a place in the hearts
OF his friends. The world needs such
boys. They are worth more than pres
ldents, senators, or merchant princes.
Kindness of heart and tenderness, con-
sideration for the needs of the helpless
and the weak, and the courage that
dares be true to a merciful impulse,
are traits that go far toward making
great man.
kind hearts are more than coronets. -
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
LaStinu,

Your suggestion" said a depositor
TO the bank receiver, offers very cold
comfort. 1t is bachelors comfort
that is to say, no comfort at ALL
What said bachelor to a Bene-
dict, only married year and already
so blue%
All, but groaned the Benedict, 4
never imagined that a wife would
prove so expensive
The bachelor patted the blue mar
rled man on the back in a consolatory
way.
Yes he said, "a wife is an expen-
s1ve article. that is true But then
you must remember that she lasts a
very long time'"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
BOYS AND GfRLS.
Our Cook.

Our neighbors. have dreadful time,
They're almost always troubling;
For half the time. they have no cook
To keep the kettle bubbling.
But we are never bothered so,
There ss never trouble brewing;
Our cook is always on the spot
And always up and doing.
The family's all in love with her
In fact, weshave no other;
For cook-you may have guessed it
now
Is just our darling mother.
Esther Melbourne, age IL.
Exchange.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
PROBATE COURT.

James H. Mcclure estate, Albany.
Administrator inventory returned.
Robert Mathie, insane, Greensboro.
Guardian settles his account.
William Taylor, non compos, Green's
boro. Guardian settles his account.
Sarah S. May estate, Barton. Adj
ministrator settles his account. Decree
of distribution made.
Abigail Salisbury estate, Barton.
Administrator settles his account. De-
cree of distribution made.
William Longevin estate, Barton.
A. S. Redfield appointed administrator.
C. E. Hamblet and S. A. Hunt ap.
praisers and commissioners.
William Longevin minors, Barton.
E. w. Barron appointed guardian.
o. D. Owen estate, Barton. Ap-
praisers' inventory returned.
Diantha McKown estate, Barton.
Executor settles his account. Decree
of distribution made.
Efie V. Waterman estate, Derby.
Administrator settles his account. De-
cree of distribution made.
Bessie A. Cole. non compos, Derby.
Rose Ram appointed guardian.
Horace P. Matthews estate, Morgan.
Last will presented for probate. Re
ferred to April 6, 1908.
Sarah J. Pearsons estate, Charleston.
Administrator presents his account.
Referred to April 6, 1908.
George N. Morrill,, non compos, Bar
ton. Guardians report returned, al
lowing claims of creditors.
William D. Sabin, spendthrift, Troy:
Guardian settled his account.
Michael Lucia estate, Troy Admin
istrator presents his account. Re-
ferred to April 6, 1908.
Charles S. Parker estate, Crafts
bury. Administrator presents his ac-
count. Referred to Barton, April 10,
1908.
Alice B. Skinner estate, Barton. Ad-
ministrator's inventory returned.
Irene A. Parker estate. Executor s
inventory returned. Decree Of dis
tribution made.
Elijah P. Church estate, Irasburg.
Administrator settles his account.
Decree of distribution made.
D. S. Human estate, Derby. Com
missioners' report returned.
David S. Hitchcock estate, Westfeld.
E. L. Miller appointed administrator.
Edward Boynton and c. W. Bryant
appraisers and commissioners.
Mary A. Chapman estate, Irasburg.
Appraisers inventory returned.
Hannah c. Rogers estate, Barton.
Executors inventory returned.
John L. Hildreth estate, Charleston.
Administrator inventory returned.
= Marcellus Way estate, Stanstead, P.
O., to wit, Barton. Last will present
ed for probate by Harrison S. Way,
custodian. Referred to Newport,
April 8, 1908.
William M. Hunt estate, Newport.
Last will presented for probate by H.
S. Root, custodian. Referred to New
port, April 81 $685..
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23

laughter may be little forced. But
it is surprising how soon the mock
laughter becomes real, and how impos-
slble it is for the players to control
their hilarity. Indeed the exhaustion
induced by such hearty and constant
laughter is one of the reasons why the
game must not be too long continued.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23

Tickling or drv coughs will qnickly loosen
when useing DR.. Shops Cough Cure,
and it is SO thoroughly harmless that DR..
Shoop tells mothers to use nothing else
even with very young babies. The whole
some green leaves and tender stems of a
lung healing mountainous shrub give the
curative properties to DR.. Shops Cough
Cur It Gains the cough, and heals the
sensitive bronchial membranes. No opium mo
chloroform, nothing harsh used to irjure or
suppress. Demand DR.. Shops. Take no
other. Kinney's Pharmacy, Barton Landing
F. D. Pierce, Barton.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23

Lady Poor's Ointment is absoIp tely unique
no poison, no danger. and the very quickest
10 cure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-02
WITHOUT A LEADER.

There may be weeping and wailing
over in dear old Lunnun." There may
also be an aching void, or something
just as bad. The news comes across
the briny deep that the leader of the
American colony in London" who ever
she may be, is coming across and will
sojourn for a time in the White Noun
tains of New England. How can she
do any leading while she is hiding IN
the forests of Yankeedom."
These be grave questions of inter
national import" 1earnedly comments
the Hartford Courant. America owes
a great deal to her colony in London.
If you don't believe this, inquire how
many bonds are held over there Sc
cured by property on this side. Two
classes make up our resident Ameri-
can population. They are those to
whom this country owes so much that
they can loaf where they please and
cut coupons for exercise, and those who
owe so much in this country that they
have had to skip for their personal
safety 1t is, therefore, a somewhat
mixed society and to be the leader OF
it must call for peculiar tact and SAVIOR
faire. In the midst of a presidential
campaign, it would be gratifying TO
learn how this enterprising woman Sc
cured without any public contest the
high and respected position of leader
of our colony in London"
Many people will incline to the opin-
ion that there is yet third class to be
added to the above stated components
of this American colony in London
They are the newly rich who have tired
of the humdrum and low-level life in
plebeian America and desire to see life
as she is" So they put on their best
clothes-which they wear till they get
to a London tailor-and HE them away
to England. There they may by some
lucky stroke of fortune find opportuni-
ty to mingle in the company of lords
and ladies, dukes and duchesses, and
counts and countesses of more or less
account Possibly by some still better
| luck they may happen to touch elbows
with a real prince or princess, and get
a distant view of real king and queen
| And these three classes make up the
| colony which is now-or is about to be
without a leader. 1t is to be hoped
| that a substitute may be found to i'll
the vacancy and save the flock from
| going entirely astray.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-02
THE NoIsELEss GUN.

The noiseIess gun, which has been
in the public conception up to the
present much of a fairy tale had last
week the beginning Of an efficient dem
onstration on the government army
grounds at Springfield, Mass. Mr..
Maxim, it's inventor, is no visionary,
of course, and it was to be supposed
from his announcements that he had
developed real invention. But it
might not work. It is now plain that
it will work. The noiseless gun is a
reality, and being taken up by the gov
eminent will at least be used on gov
eminent rifles. 1t is not yet clear
whether the government will monopo-
lie its use, or whether it will allow it
to be generally applied to all firearms.
There are certain reasons for the hope
that the former is the fact, for noise
less firearms in general use would not
be an unmitigated blessing.
What is this noiseless gun? 1t is
simply an ordinary gun with an at
tachment known as a "silencer'' BY
it's use what is originally a report is
reduced to a click. The normal report
of the Springfield rifle can be heard
500 yards away. With the "silencer'
it can be heard only for 1900 yards,
and then only under the most favor
able conditions. At a much less dis
lance than that the sound of the ex-
plosion of the cartridge would not be
recognized as a shot or even noticed.
| The bullet loses some penetrating
power from the 'silencer," but only
five or six per cent. In other respects
the conditions are the same
More detailed results are expected
from further experiments, but it is
apparent that the main purpose, that
of so reducing or Disgusting the sound
of rife report as to make it, in or
binary practice, noiseless. has been at
tanned. The chief value of such gain
is, of course, limited to actual warfare.
The army equipped with noiseleSz guns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-02
oKLAHoMA's SCHOOL BOOKS

The state text book commission of
Oklahoma has given the people of
mat state something to think about If
The State Capital. one of the leading
newspapers in the state, knows what
it is talking about. 1t declares that
the commission has made thorough
and sweeping change regardless of
whether the books now in use are
satisfactory or not" and adds the pos
tive statement that this extraordinary
change will cost the school patrons of
Oklahoma ntt less than three-quarters
of million dollars in cold cash.
If this is a correct statement the
members of the commission are like
~ to have a hard time explaining to
the people why ali this expense should
be put upon them, especially if the
opinion of the Capital is we'll founded
when it declares that the change will
do more harm than good. In fact,
that paper almost directly charges
that most of the text books thus
adopted are old books which have
been repaired. as might be said, for
the express purpose of working them
off on Oklahoma. If all these charges
are true, it is a great outrage on the
people of the young state and one
that Kansans can sympathize with for
they have had an expensive experience
or two with text book commissions
and that erudite OF monopolites, the
book trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-02

And to think that Dave Mulvane and
Editor An1rine put that little fstic dis
cussion off until after the primary was
over, walls Billy Morgan.
big cities do not produce big men,"
says the FL Dorado Republican. But
what is fully as important they do pro-
duce big leagues, says the Salina Jour
nal.
White-winged doves of peace seem
to have settled down on Coffeyville
and lola. There hasn't been a killing
in either town for a week.-Wichita
Eagle.
Some day." says Charles M. Harger.
"a political party will select as its en-
blem the road drag, and will sweep
the state by umpty-steen thousand ma
jority."
Bourbon county people are all worked
up because the state tax commission
ordered the real estate tax there in
creased. They threaten to hold in
dignation meeting and demand the re-
moval OF the commissioners.
A. S. Bernheisel, editor of the Hart
ford Times, Is spending a month in
Pennsylvania. Miss Anna Brogan,
principal of the Hartford high school,
heiseFs absence, and is doing a re-
markedly good job. In "a Word of
Appreciation" in last weeks issue, Miss
Brogan says: This is a kind old world,
NOBODY can doubt that. Such generous
assistance is offered by all to those
who seem to need it, that a feeling of
gratitude swells up in the breast when
the words advice and suggestion are
heard. Since this paper has been left
to the management of an inexperi-
enced trio, consisting of the foreman,
the devil and a school teacher, the
good people of this town have come
nobly to the rescue and fairly loaded
down the aforesaid trio with sugges-
ton for first aid to the injured. Had
it been possible for these weak vessels
to utilize all the pearly drops of wis
dom that have fairly over-brimmed
them, If the foreman and school teach
er could have preserved in brine and
used at the proper time all these pick
| led treasures, this paper would have
waxed mighty and have become all at
once one of the worlds great weekly
molders of the destiny of the nation.
But alas, the foreman. though fun of
experience, is yet mortal and cannot
| attain at a bound the dizzy heights
| pointed out to him by the village seers
| the school teacher is more accustomed
| to teaching the young idea how to
| shoot, and to welding the pencil over
| the pages of high school compositions
| and prize essays, than to Illuminating
| editorial thunder; and the 'devil'-well,
| what can you expect of the devil, any
way, even real nice tame one?'