Orleans County Monitor from Barton, Vermont • 6

W. C. Twombly STANDARD GRANULATED SUGAR lb- Baps at low prices no Will change with tlx' market. iLeni i ISO lb. Bags for Cattle, 85 cts.

Worcester I lb. Bags for Butter, 65 cts. four yoke of oxen attached to each wagon. The Progress Co-operative Brotherhood broke up, and most of the members went to the Black Hills. A few of them owed on their subscriptions to The March of Progress, and the editor denounced them in the columns of his sheet as unworthy the proud dower of freedom.

Exchange. Catarrh Cannot be Cured With local applications, as ey cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional dioease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies Hall's Catarrh ure is taken internally, and act directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription, it is conposed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces.

The perfect combination of the ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh Send for testimo-711 cils free F. J. CHENEY Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 75c. EIGHT YO UNcTn A TUB A LISTS.

The Help That Comes Too Late. "Tis a wearisome world, this world of ours, With its tangles small and great, Its weeds that smother the springing flowers And its hapless strifes with fate; But the darkest day of its desolate days Sees the help that comes too late. Ah! woe for the word that is never said Till the ear is deaf to hear, And woe for the lack to the fainting head Of the ringing shout of cheer; Ah! woe for the laggard feet that tread In the mournful wake of the bier. What booteth help when the heart i3 numb; What booteth a broken spar Of love thrown out when the lips are dumb And life's bark drifteth far Oh, far and fast from the alien past, Over the moaning bar? A pitiful thing tbe gift to-day That is dross and nothing worth, Though if it had come but yesterday It had brimmed with sweet the earth A fading rose in a death cold That perished in want and dearth. For baffling most in this dreary world, With its tangles small and great, Its lonesome nights and its weary days, And its struggles forlorn with fate, Is that bitterest grief, too de for tears, Of the help that comes too late.

iwraispu member of the supreme court of Ne-braskai a Minnesota congressman, and various other dignitaries, all speaking highly of him. Some thought that there was rather too much resemblance between the handwriting of the various letters, but it was decided that this was too trivial a matter to stand out about, and the man was taken in, of course on an exact equality with the others. The new man gave his name as Peter soon settled down to work. He was generally voted an eccentric sort of a fellow, and one with whom it was difficult to become intimate. He seemed thoughtful and much given to examining the horizon and making calculations on his boot leg with a piece of chalk, hastily erasing the figures if approached.

His personal aspect remained about the same. He always wore the appearance of having had his beard singed off rather than shaved, and it was the popular belief that he caused a miniature prairie fire to run over his face every Sunday morning. At the table he seldom spoke, but leaned far over it and set little stacks of food into his mouth in much the same manner that one would set a stack of dishes into a dumb waiter. Not much attention was paid to these little peculiarities, nor, indeed, to the man himself, till one day in the fall when he had a misunderstanding with William Hyde, chairman of the board of managers, and generally looked upon as the leader of the colony, if there can be a leader where all are equal. The trouble was brought about by a political argument.

Hyde said the government ought to issue four hundred millions of greenbacks without delay to make money easy. Hapgood answered that any darned fool ought to know that two hundred millions would be sufficient. Hyde replied that he knew of one darned fool that didn't know anything of the kind. Hapgooa's lip curled with scorn as he said that he was sorry to say that he knew one too. Of course peace with honor was only possible through fighting.

Now it happened that tne constitution of the Progress Co-operetive Brotherhood prohibited all quarreling and fighting, and in the contract which every member had signed when he joined he agreed to do everything in his power to stop any trouble which might occur in the colony. But when Hyde and Hapgood rose and faced each other they all forgot this agreement, and formed a ring and encouraged the combatants with loud shouts. The engagement lasted ten minutes; it probably would have been longer had not Hyde at the end of this time found himself in a bent and disjointed condition, able only to lie on his back, wave his arms, and roar lustily. Hapgood was unharmed, and after offering to give a similar lesson in political economy to any man wanting it, and getting no reply, walked off. The others held a public meeting, and passed resolutions pointing with pride to the peaceful tone of the Brotherhood, and viewing with alarm the recent occurrence.

Affairs ran on quietly enough for the rest of season, though it was generally conceded that William Hyde was not a proper man for chairman of the board of managers. Some talk of Hapgood for the place was heard, but the election was still in the future. Winter closed down early, and after a considerable snow storm there was a thaw, which was succeeded by extremely cold weather, which made the roads icy and slippery. Cord wood was sailing for twelve dollars a cord at Yankton, forty miles distant, and there being considerable timber along Choteau creek, the Brotherhood wished to send as much wood as possible to market. But there was a difficulty in the way.

Tho colony was provided with oxen only, no horses; and the icy condition of the roads made it necessary that they be shod. Now it happened that though there were two or three horseshoers among the Brotherhood, there was no one, so far as known, who could shoe oxen. This may seem strange to the reader who is not an ox owner, as no doubt some readers are not, but the fact is that the ehoeiug of the patient ox is a delicate matter. In the first place, an ox can never be taught to stand still like a horse while the shoe 3 are being applied, but must be put in an immense sort of vice; in fact, before the ox can be shod he must, to all intents and purposes, be put into dry dock. If this is neglected, and the wrong-headed animal is not securely fastened the blacksmith will find himself kicked into splinters.

Further, the foot of of 'the ox being cloven, the shoes have to be made in two pieces, and of a peculiar shape, and applied in a particular manner. The pro3pect was certainly gloomy. Wood twelve dollars a cord at Yankton, roads like a skating-rink, and oxen unable to skate, though better prepared for it than for walking. At this juncture Peter Hapgood arose and casually observed that he had shod more oxen than the whole Brotherhood could shake a stick at. This intelligence was received with shouts of gladness.

But the next moment they were turned to moans of conster nation. "I cannot," said Peter Hapgood, "do skilled work like that, re-quirin' brains, for one cercifkite a day. The least I will work for is ten certifkits." A first the Brotherhood was speechless, then all the members talked at once. The matter was discussed for the better part of a day. Hapgood was appealod to in vain: All talk of eqality of man, eternal justice, the Tramp of Progress, and the Prostrate Poor, made not the slightest impression on him.

He simply folded his arms and replied: "You bushwackers ignore the great law of supply an' demand. With forty ox shoers an' one ox certifkit would prob'ly be all O. but with forty oxen an' one shoer the price nateral-ly takes a jump. Ten certifkit or you don't see old Peter Hapgood hangin' on to the leg of no ox." Of course there could be but one outcome of the matter. The constitution was stretched and Hapgood allowed ten certificates a day.

Accordingly for the next three months he worked industriously at nailing shoes on the unwilling foot of the struggling ox. He drew his ten certificates each night while everybody else drew but one. He spent but little money and lived quietly. The belief that he was the proper man for chairman of the board of managers grew, two men" that Hapgood occasionally gave a lesson in ox shoeing being particularly outspoken in his favor. About the middle of February the snow became so deep thatt was impossible to get to Yankton or anywhere else.

Blizzard followed blizzard, and the Progress Co-operative Brotherhood was cut off from the rest of the world. Even the mail bearing The March of Progress ceased to come. Early one morning, just as another blizzard was beginning to become excited, Hapgood appeared at the Brotherhood store and said to the man in charge "Prices the same, I s'pose, whether a feller buys much or little?" "Yes sir," replied the man. "That's right equalerty of man, everlastin' justice, progress humpin' herself! Figure up what yer whole stock is worth I want to buy it. The man was somewhat astonished, but complied.

Hapgood sat on a box by the stove and whistled "Old Hundred," and occasionally stopped to dump a half-scoop of brown sugar into his mouth. In an hour the man told him that the entire stock footed up exactly 1000. "Here's yer money," said Hapgood, pushing a stack of certificates over the counter. "I shan't need you I think I can run their yer business myself," and he pulled out his piece of chalk and began to figure on his boot leg. The man took the certificates and started out.

He paused at the door, came back, and said." "Come to think of it, I we need a bag of flour at our house. I'll bo your first customer," and he handed out two certificates. "You'll hev to act dif'rent frum that if you be," returned Hapgood, as he continued to make mysterious marks on the leg of his boot. "What do you mean?" "I mean that owin' to the skercity of flour that the price of the same has riz. Best quality flour is now six dollars a bag, cash money, as owin' to the stringency of the times and the financial distrust certifkits will no longer be received." The man was dumbfounded, but as he had to have the flour, he took it on Hapgood's terms, and went out into the storm with the bag on his shoulder.

The guileless believer in equality, who had wished to get away from a world of injustice, now went out and got the two men to whom he had given lessons in ox shoeing and installed them as clerks. He next got out the half dozen repeating rifles which were in stock, polished them up, loaded them, and placed them on the shelves behind the counters in conspicuous and accessible positions. Then he wandered about the store with a blue pencil resolutely doubling and trebling the price of everything. Of course the news of Hapgood's actions soon spread, and produced the most intense The Brotherhood charged the store, but found the new proprietor calm and Napoleonic. He stood behind the notion counter with his hand resting carelessly near one of the rifles, and to the storm of questions, arguments and abuse simply answered that "business was business," sometimes adding that he wished to denounce as a tissue of falsehoods the malicious report that he had come out to the Territory for his health.

His clerks stood farther back, with their hands resting carlessly near rifles, occasionally observing in a low voice; that "there was a man for the office of chairman of the board of mankgers fr you." I At the end of two weeks of blizzard (to cut the story short) Peter lap-good had sold out the entire stock for something like 10,000, and! had every; cept of money in the comtiun-ity and most of the portable property. The first warm day in Marlhhe and his clerks drove away with the chattels loaded on three wagonsSwith ATTENTION ADC" YOU troubled with headaches and neuralgia? YOU have pain in and around the LJKJ eyes? YOU have pain in top of head or back LJKJ of the neck? YOUE eyes weak and watery E7 YOUR eyes or lids red or inflam- A DC YOU troubled with blurred and riilti indistinct sight DOES BBIGHT light hurt vour eves? jQQ YOU sometimes see two objects YOUR eyes smart and burn? YOU see as well with one eye as the LJKJ other? Special Attention and Relief Given to diseased eyes and all the above troubles by Br. H. D. MARTIN, OcnlisT, OP PHILADELPHIA, OFFICE AT ALBANY HOTEL, March 1, 2, 3 and 4.

IRASBURGH HOTEL, March 5, 6 and 7. OFFICE HOURS 9 a. to 8 p. m. GLASSES, Carefully and Perfectly Fitted.

EXAMINATION FREE. VILLAGE (1MB For Sale. On account of failing health, I desire to sell my homestead, situated on Park Street, Barton Village. The lot contains about 1 acres of land in a good state of cultivation; a good set of buildings in first-class repair. For further particulars enquire of the subscriber or E.

F. Dutton. Barton, Vt. J. F.

GOULD. S-T-A-T-E-M-E-N-T SHOWING THE CONDIHON OP THE Orleans Trust Company, Newport, Yt. At Close of Business Jan. 1, 1894. RESOURCES: First Mortgage Loans, $169,951.49 Loans with Mortgages as collateral security, 7,295.00 Loans on other Collateral Security, 5,826.68 Personal Notes, 68,675.59 Loans to Towns, Villages and School Districts, 944.76 School Bonds at par, 1,300.00 Municipal Bonds at par, 5.C00.00 National Bank of Newport stock, at par, 2,000,00 N.

G. Loan Co. stock at par, 10,000.00 Overdraft, 8,85 Furniture and Fixtures, 500.00 Cash on hand and on deposit in National Banks, 41,004,95 Interest due and unpaid, 1,664,29 Accrued Interest, not yet due, 1.804.49 Total, $315,976,10 LIABILITIES: Capital stock, paid in, Due 1074 Depositors, Due State of Vermont, Taxes, Unearned Discounts, Treasurer's Checks outstanding, Bills Payable, Undivided Profits, $50,000.00 257,880.87 750.S3 108,87 584.45 65,90 Total, $315,976.10 C. A. PROUTY, President.

P. J. FARRELL, Treasurer. ORGAN For Sale at less than half Price. SUITABLE FOR CHURCH, VESTRY OR LODGE ROOM.

Apply to C. F. RANNEY, THE PRINTER, Newport, Yermont. SHORT. ELEMENTARY COURSE Free by mall or orallv.

orally. HAND I11CKOX Shorthand School, uopiey square, Boston, the leading and the largest ex-. ciusively SnortnandSchool in the United States. Send for particulars. no FIRST US Three Brands, 28 and 32 dollars a ton for cas Delivered as wanted.

Good FLOUR to match otlierf price and quality. W. TWOMBLY, Barton Landing COPYRIGHTS, CAN I OKI1 A IN A PATENT For a anil honest opinion, write to 1UUN As who have had nearlv fifty vears' business. CommiS tions strictly confidential. A Handbook of TrT tion concerning Pateins andhow to obi tarn them sent free.

Also a catalogue of mechanl leal and scientific books sent free. mecnan-jjtts tak.en,thruSfl Munn Co. receive special notice in the Scientific American, and brob ely before the public with-put cost to the inventor. This splendid naner eny iliustratedThas by fa? the JSm SS511181011 of any scientific work in the S3 a year. Sample copies sent free Building Edition, monthly, U.50 a year- line! cents- number comtfns beau colors, and photographs of new hSSSt2SHa enablinS builders to show thl 811(1 secure contracts.

Address MUNN New Yoke, 3S1 Beoadway. SAP BUCKETS still agent for tne Lane SaD Buckets that i has sold for years. Those wishing to pul chase, call on or write earlv sn to o-ot thJ buckets in season. Also, will do a satisfacl ucuoruiug cattle. Kee him write him at East Albany.

STEPHENSON- We are still offerin special inducements CASH trade, and inten giving our Cr. systed shorter rope than eve during I894. A ver complete line of season able goods constant! on hand at reasons hi prices. Should you need anything in FLANNEL Dress Good Please examine our line and get prices. Respectfully, STEPHENSON BLACKSMITHING AND Horse Shoeing.

I have lately hired Albert "Forte, first-cl Blacksmith and Hoise Shoer, and am prepa ed to do all sorts of shoeing and blad smitmng at lowest living rates. I make a specialty of Cant Hooks, Ned yoKes, wmmetrees, Drills, and wedges a ao general repairs. Price of shoeing all-round with iron steel, $1.00. Shop in rear of and near Percival's uph stery snop. uive me a can.

Aaron Drown FOR SALE. In Glover Village, the Wood Show lat owned by C. S. Leonard, with Water Pow Shafting, etc. A good chance for some one who wana Snop for wood working purposes.

MRS. S.F. LEONARD, Administratrix. SLEIGHS SLEIGHS Just received a fine lot of Portland. Ban Old Comfort, Jumper and Traverse SleiS wnicn will be sold cheap.

H. 0. WHITCHER Lyndon Savings Ban LYIIDOIIVIILE, VT. OFFICERS. I.W.SANBOBN President.

C. D. BIQELOW) Vice-President. I 3. PEA! Treat TRUSTEES.

I.W.SANBORN, H.F.PILLSBIjf J. W. COPELAND, C.D.BIttELOl E.FOLSOM. J.F. RURGLE J.C.EATON.

The Daily Sun, relating how eight New Jersey boys with a taste for natural history and some training in that line, made a very profitable and enjoyable use of a part of their vacation last summer, adds; These boys, who were high-school students, took a walking and collecting trip. In twelve days they travelled one hundred and sixty miles, and came home with a new stock of health and a big load of collections. It was a very cheap trip, too, the total expenses being nine dollars for each member of the party. The expedition left Montclair one morning about the middle of June. One of the boys supplied a strong horse, which was attached to a grocer's delivery wagon.

A vehicle was needed for their camp equipment and their collections. They had a complete camping outfit except a tent, which they had not been able to borrow. So they made up their minds that they would give the farmers a chance to offer them the hospitality of their barns. The idea worked well, and every night they slept on the hay in one or another of the capacious barns of New Jersey. Their wagon carried food supplies for two weeks.

Each boy had a valise and a roll of blankets. Then there were botany cans, a collecting press and dryers, geological hammers, a camera, and all the other apparatus the boys needed for such a tour. Before they left home they agreed upon their daily routine. They were to have cooked meals morning and night, and a cold snack at noon. Four boys each day attended to the culinary department, two serving as cooks, and the other two serving the meals.

The next day the other half of the party took their turn at the cooking pot. commissary detail rode in the wagon, while the others were busy with beetles, bugs, plants and minerals. The boys studied every geological formation from Newark to the Delaware Water Gap. Some of the most interesting places visited were the slate quarries at Newton, and the mines at Sterling Hill and Franklin, which are so rich in the beautiful crimson and green ores of zinc, and the Delaware Water Gap, where the young students were greatly interested in the finely exposed rock formations. Many specimens of everything that interested them were obtained; and, when they came home, they enriched the cabinet of the high school, and had many things to label and store away in their private collections as souvenirs of a very sensible and pleasant vacation jaunt.

Good Looks. Good Looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the Liver be inactive, you have a Bilious Look, if your stomach be disordered you have a Dyspeptic Look; and if your Kidneys be affcted you have a Pinched Look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Elect.dc Bitters is the great alterative and Tonic acts directly on the vital organs.

Cures Pimples, Blotches, Boils and gives a good complexion. Sold at H. Pierce's Drug Store, 50c. per bottle. 4 It is a strange and solemn power which conscience wields.

In your secret soul you commit a sin. It is a mere passing thought perhaps. No human eye has seen it, no tongue will ever speak of it, yet even in the dark you blush at it. You are degraded in your own eyes. You feel guilty and wretched.

And this guilty wretched ness does not pass away. It may at any time revive. Conscience comes to us in lonely hours. It wakens us in the night. It stands at the side of the bed and says, Come, wake up and listen to me! And there it holds us with its remorseless eye, and buried sins rise out of the grave of the past.

They march by in melancholy procession, and we lie in terror looking at them. Nobody knows but ourselves. Next morning we go forth to business with a smiling face, but conscience has had its revenge. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required.

It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For Sale by H. C. Pierce.

Children Cry for Pitcher's Gastona Hapgood and Co-operation. It was in the spring of 1879, or possibly it may have been a yeai earlier, that the Progress Co-operative Brotherhood was established in Bon Homme county, Dakota. It was composed of something like a hundred persons from different parts of the East, all of whom had been readers of a weekly paper published in Boston, called The March of Progress, a mildly socialistic sheet which proclaimed the general equality of man, and advocated a community of land chattels a3 the remedy for all social evils. It frequently remarked in large type, "Down with robber rich!" and often brought forward as a corollary to this, "Up with the prostrate poor!" and usually rounded off the editorial, and left the subject in a shipshape condition by observing, "Now is the time to subscribe." It was before Mr. Belarny had Looked Backward, but the March of Progress seems to have had many of his notions concerning social evils and the remedies therefor.

Bon Homme county is on the Missouri river, a little way up from the town of Yankton. At this time the country was new, there being uo railroad near, nor were there any other settlers in the vicinity. The absence of the former rather pleased the Brotherhood people, however as railroads were looked upon in the light of long iron tentacles reaching out from a hideous great devil-fish in New York named Wall street. So the Brotherhood came up the Missouri river from Sioux City on a steamboat which had no tentacles, being mora in the nature of an independent shark. Affairs went on smoothly for some time.

All property was, of course, held in common, and each night every man received one day's work certificate. Everything was reckoned by day's work certificates, money only coming into evidence when dealing without barbarians who had not yet seen the New Light. Day's work certificates were, however, redeemable at the rate of $1 a piece from any money which might be in the treasury, and it was confidently hoped that there might be plenty of this in the course of time. Some members of Brotherhood felt hurt when they discovered that the editor of The March of Progress insisted on having for subscriptions the cash of the robber rich as used in Wall street instead of day's work certificates, but the matter was hushed up. One day in July a stranger appeared and after looking about a little went into the Brotherhood store and began to make some concerning the organization.

He said that his ear had caught the Tramp of Progress, and that he wa3 anxious to get into step. He was a tall and powerfully built man with remarkably broad shoulders, long arms, and big bony hands. His clothes were shabby, but it was plain that he was not a vagrant. After having the aim and aids and methods of the Brotherhood explained to expressed his desire to join it, and get away from a grasping world where some men were paid higher wages than others. One of the committee on admissions told him that he would have to procure some references as to his character.

This seemed to hurt him, and he replied in effect, was he not a man and brother? To this the committee an- swered that he appeared to be, but that there were men and brothers that they didn't want in their community. "How do we know that you may not belong to the capitalistic press?" asked the committee. "Do I look it?" inquired the stranger, as he gazed along down the jungle of rags which enclosed his frame. "You may be one of its hirelings," returned the committee. The upshot of it was that the man left his baggage, consisting of a shirt and one stocking tied up in a bandanna handkerchief, and walked away across the prairie after the required references.

In about a week he returned with letters from the governor of Iowa, a.