Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-06-07

which interests every citizen. Let us
have a fire engine; let US build side
walk; let us build hotel; then let us
get the county buildings. When all {
these things come to pass Barton will
be great place, and we shall be
printing a paper as big as the Tri-
bune, only a great deal smarter
Though we may talk lightly Of the
matter, all these things can be done,
and done easily. There is no good
reason why all we have mapped out
for our village may not be accomplished
if everybody in the village and out of
it too, takes hold to bring about the
desired object. Such hotel as we
need would probably cost-furniture
and all-$18,000, and would be quite
a tax on our people to build, but it
would give such start to the place
as would amply compensate US for the
great outlay. 1t would infuse new
life and energy into every branch Of
business, give better name abroad,
and make us feel better at home
There is not one town in Vermont of
the size of Barton and with its amount
Of business but that has a better hotel
than ours. To our shame be it said.
We have capital enough to build
half dozen hotels; it is the spirit of
enterprise and determination that we
lack. What miserable muddy streets,
and how broken in dry time-when
few hundred dollars would make
them pleasant in all seasons. Suppose
we should expend $1,000 this summer
in grading the streets, building good
sidewalks, and in planting trees, does
any holder of real estate think he
would be any poorer for the outlay
1t is a shallow brain that would SO
reckon. No--let that amount of
money be expended in improving the
streets in the way we have prescribed
and property would sell enough better
to pay the outlay, while it would be a
perpetual comfort to everybody. "A
thing of beauty is a JOY forever" "A
thing of beauty" is also often a mine
of wealth. Let US endeavor to oper
that mine here in Barton. We have
a liberal people, moneyed people
and sometimes an energetic people,
That energy is oftenest exhibited
when a lot Of money is thought to b,
made in a cery short time, or wheI
some political axe is sought to b.
ground-energy Of rather question:
BILE morality. Let US turn our energie
into a new Misunderstanding GU
homes, multiplying our firesi6e com
forts, and when we beautify and in
prove these we soften the asperitie
of bad neighbors, soothe the wound
of defeated avarice and triumph owe
self-great victory indeed. Let u
then, fellow-citizens, take hold, beat
tify and improve the village, and thrc
this means-make money. "Wo unit
them that join house to house, that la
field to field, till there be no place" y
Wonder if this passage Of Scriptur
means anything! Guess it does
Woe, then, to Barton; you " shall b
beaten with many stripes" for "y
know your duty and do it not" Lt
us talk less and do more. We covet tn
improvements of other places that hav
not half our capital. We sometime
sheer at them for doing more tina
what some of us think they are abb
to do. Had we not better try and en-
ulate that spirit instead of laughin
at it? Shall we not appear better
1t is by hard and persistent labor tha
great works are wrought; it is b
terrible strokes that big battles ar
won; and it is by large and repeate
acts of benevolence that objects o
public benefit are forwarded. Let u
keep giving and fear not bankruptcy
A liberal people cannot be bankrup
ed and if it could for one we much pre-
fer the spirit that outruns capital,
the spirit that gloats over rusty do
lars or gold bearing bonds. "Bette
wear out than rust out" Bette
break down trying to do somethin
than be devoured by moths. Bal
ton Landing is brushing up smartl
this season, and is determined to o
ahead. If she keeps doing she wi
lead Barton in ten years. We glor
In her spunk! Newport Away
abounded in vigor. Without il sb
would have been nothing. 1t is a
that has made her. When she SUITE,
her spirit to die she dies too. Eve
lrasburgh which has never pretende
to anything but the county building
and chance, has built largely ii
past year and has exhibited symptom
of real life. And though just no
she is little under the weather
consequence of the failure of the Luz