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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

A,noble and attractive everyday hear
ing comes of goodness, of sincerity, of
refinement; and these are bred in wears,
not moments. The principle that rules
your life is the sure posture-master Sir
Philip Sidney was the pattern to all Eng
land Of a perfect gentleman; but then
he was the hero that, on the field of
Zutphen, pushed away the cup of cold
water from his own fevered and parched
lips, and held it out to the dying soldier
at his side. If lofty sentiments habitu-
ally make their home in the heart, they
will beget, not perhaps Fictitious and
tinical drawing-room etiquette, but the
breeding of a genuine and more royal
gentility, to which no simple, no young
heart will refuse it's homage. Children
are not educated till they catch the charm
that makes the gentleman or lady. A
coarse and slovenly teacher, vulgar and
boorish presence, munching apples or
chestnuts at recitation like squirrel,
pocketing his hands like mummy, pro-
jecting his heels nearer the armament
than his skull, like circus clown, and
dispensing American saliva like mem
Der of Congress, inficts wrong on the
school-room, for which, no scientific at
talnments are an offset.---F D. Hunting.
ton.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08


In announcing that it would observe
Thanksgiving Day by suspending publ
cation, the Macon (Ga,) Telegraph CON-
forts its readers in the following Job-like
style: "Let US maintain cheerful COM
posture and grateful hearts that affairs
are no worse with us than they are
Some old grumbler will ask, how could
they be worse? Shut up, you old Turk,
and we will tell you. If you were in
one of those Northwestern States-with
your shops, mills, house, furniture, cloth
ing, provisions, all burned up-half Of
your family destroyed, and you with
your hair singed of-your right arm
burned to a crisp-your back in, a bis
ter, and lying in the snow without blank
cts and the mercury thirty degrees be-
low zero, you would be in worse con-
dition than you are now"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08
THY SOLDIER AND THE THISTLE.

Little Minnie in her eagerness after
flowers, had wounded her hand on a
sharp, prickly thistle. This made her
cry with pain at first, and pout with
vcxation afterward.
81 wish there were no such thing as
a thistle in the world" she said pettish-
ly.
"And yet the Scottish nation think so
much of it they engrave it on the nation
al arms" said mother.
at is the last flower l should pick
out" said Minnie. II am sure they
might have found great many nicer
ones, even among the weeds"
"But the thistle did them good service
once, said mother; 'they learned to es-
TEEN it very highly. One time the Danes
invaded Scotland, and they prepared to
make night attack upon a sleeping gar
rison. So they crept along barefooted
as still as possible, until they were al
most up to the spot. Just at that mo-
ment a barefoot soldier stepped on a great
thistle-the hurt made him utter sharp
shrill cry of pain. The sound awoke the
sleepers, and each man sprang to his
arms. They fought with great bravery,
and the invaders were driven back with
much loss. So you see the thistle saved
Scotland, and ever since it has been
placed on their seal as their national
bower"
"Well, never suspected that so small
thing could save nation" said Min.
ME thoughtfully.
"God can make use of small things as
well as great to accomplish his purpose
and it is said that very small circumstan-
ces often turn the tide of battle In the
war of 1912, the British feet were sail.
ing in the harbor of New London, and
were asked afterward why they did not
destroy the town, when they could SC
easily have done it.
81 would" replied the commander
''if it had not been for that formidable
long fort whose guns command the har
bor." That long fort, he learned, was
an old rope-walk, and the many gum
were the small windows on the side.
1 presume the New London peopl,
looked with new eyes on that old rope
walk after they learned the good service
it had Christian Instructor.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

And l said to Parson Bolles: 'Parson,
if you pulpit folks could set off godlike-
ness, and show how it would work we'll
wherever folks had mind to put it.
as well as those fellows set off one O. their
machines, there'd be lookin' up in
meetin' house matters.
Astonishin' how they do talk. There
was man with Woods Mower he would
have made you think there never was
such mower; and when we got clear O.
him, there was man with the Clipper,
who made out hiis'n the best, jist as clear ;
and then we come upon the Buckeye, and
there it was agin; there warn't anything
like that. But when this last man heard
had one at home, he stopped off short
S much to say mo kind O. need O.
wastin' talk on you"
There's another lesson for you," saws
|, "Parson. 1t seems to me you waste q
good deal O. powder on good set o folks
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

How is battle fought ? with tremen-
dous volleys, the ranks standing firm
and steady as on dress parade-with en-
thusiasm, with deafening cheers, with
music, and finished by a glorious bayonet
charge? Nothing of the kind. Here are
simply some thousands of men on either
side who have been marched out this
pleasant day to butcher each other Mod
ern firearms are terribly effective weap-
ons-a good Springfield musket will kill
at thousand yards; and by the time
you have drawn these opposing forces
to within two hundred yards of each
other, or about the distance across a good
sized wheat field, the battle is resolved
into a simple problem-which army can
stand the most killing and wounding
without breaking up? when that ques-
ton is answered you can tell which side
will be victorious. The business of the
officers is to hold the men to the work
to compel them to load and fire until so
many of the enemy are put hOrs dm COM
bat that he is forced to withdraw. Take
your regiment into battle as orderly as
you may, before it has been under fire
half an hour it will become resolved into
knots and groups from the drawing to-
gether to fill the places of those stricken
down, and the survivors will be lying or
kneeling, forced down by the irresistible
instinct of self representation. The sights
and sounds of battle are well-nigh in
describable. Noise, tumult, danger, ex-
| element, all blend to make a scene which
| think can have no parallel on the hith-
er side of the internal regions. During
his first battle, perhaps the novelty of
the thing may fill the recruit with genuine
enthusiasm and put fear in the back
ground; but after that he will find the
poetry of the battle field somewhat over
done in "Hohenlinden," and fighting it.
self rather prosaic and dangerous
butchery. There is nothing less like a
pageant, I verify believe, than battle.
The arms are not polished and shiny
now, for the dew of last nights biyouac
in the grass has furnished them; very
plain blouses have taken the place of
straight bodied, corsety coats; belts are
loosened, or in the fury of the fight are
thrown aside altogether; shoulder-straps
and epaulets are discarded, out of whole
some regard for the enemy's sharpshoot-
ers; and after the fight has progressed an
hour, you will find those who are still
fighting, dirty, grimy, and laboring to
kill the enemy with about as hard man
ual labor as your wood-sawyer employs
on your -pile.-Lappincot's Maya
| zine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

A man in Wisconsin has applied for a
divorce, upon the ground that his wife
married him under false pretences. He
says that she told him while he was adj
dressing her, that she could hoe an acre
of potatoes and split two cords of wood
between breakfast and dinner and she
had proved herself a fearful fraud, be-
cause she could only split half q cord,
and hoe only three times across the field.
It seems hard that men are continually
to be made the victims of these design
ing women. Why will wives trife in
this manner with the tenderest affections
of their husbands? Why will they thus
shatter their heart strings?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

Make up congregation of thousand
Christians. Divide them into five class
es, according to the age in which they
became Christians. Place in the first
class all those converted under twenty
years of age, and in the fifth class all
those converted between fifty and sixty.
Of your thousand Christians there
were hopefully converted under twenty
years of age 548; between fifty and six
ty years of age 3. But, you ask, why
stop at sixty? All well, then, if you
will have a sixth class-converted be-
tween sixty and seventy years of age one.
Just ONE out of a thousand Christians
converted over sixty years old F! What a
lesson on delay DR.. Spencer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08
Scene AT BARNuM's MrNAaERrr

SCENE AT BARNUM's MENAGERIE
Nor Down IN THE BILLS. 4 few
days ago Mr. Bergh visited Barnum's
show, now exhibiting in New York |
and requested that hyena, well
known by all Mr. Barnum's employees
to be the most ferocious animal in the
mengerie, whose viciousness, he was,
told, was beyond doubt, should be
unclaimed and allowed to roam its den.
The agent reluctantly ordered this
demand to be carried out, although in
his own mind he felt confident that
the bars of the cage would not keep
the "death prowler" prisoner. A
few evenings since his doubts were YER
flied, for the hyena by some means es-
capped from his den and Immediately
commenced to attack and devour ev-
erything that came in its way. A Loop
ard was in the adjoining cage, and
with one desperate effort the hyena
tore down the partition and soon en-
gagged in terrible and deadly conflict
with the queen of the felines. After
lacerating and cowing the poor animal,
he next attacked an elephant, who
proved rather tough customer for
the savage beast, who was beaten off
without doing any serious harm Moth
ing daunted, it next attacked an inof-
fensive camel, which animal it left in
such deplorable condition that it has
since had to be killed. After despe-
rate and determined resistance the
beast was captued with lasso by q
Diggar Indian, and is now again chain
ed down in his den. The lacerated
leopard alluded to is valued at $4,000.
The hyena is sixty-five years old, was
captured in Senegambia, Africa, and
was exhibited in Europe for twenty
years. 1t belonged to the Londor
Geological Gardens for ten years, anC
has been exhibited in this country in
travelling menagerie for thirty-fvt
years, during which time it has de
stroyed more than two dozen massiv,
4 iron dens and killed twenty valuabl,
4 animals. Except the brute he tethered
nothing less than solid iron cage vii
3 hold him, as he has the largest ant
most powerful jaws of the canine spe
cies.
The Governor elect of Massachusetts,
the Hon. WILLIAM B. WAsHBURN, i
a stanch cold-water man, and dur Ing
his entire career in Congress neve
: touched the wine that is red, nor an,
i other tipple. On the night he wa
nominated for Governor at Worces
ter he was at home at Greenfield, and
like a good Congregational deacon, a
r he is, took his wife on his arm anc
), went to the regular prayer-mstng 0
i his church.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08


THOMAS NAsT.-Thomas Mast, the
great caricaturist, is thus described by
his friend Nasty: "Nast is man about
81 years Of age, and about five feet
seven inches in height. He has keen.
sharp eye, and a good German face;
has black hair, and is dapper and neat
in his person. / think he was born in
Breslau, Germany and came over here
when he was about three years of age.
His father wanted him to be ajeweler,
but he was already betrothed to art.
Frank Leslie, l think brought him out
first; at the time he sent him to Eng
land to make pictures of the great
Heenan Savers prize fight. And then
when the war broke out Harpers sent
him South to sketch battles. 1t was
in 1862, just after the election, when
all the country was clamoring for
peace at any price, that he struck the
particular vein in which L. has since
become famous. The picture he drew
then, entitled Peace, was grand. It
represented a Union soldiers grave,
over the tombstone ofwhich was weep
ing Columbia. At the foot stood a
companion of the dead loyalist, strip
ped of his arms, and shaking hands
with rebel armed to the teeth and
with one foot npon the grave. That
picture made his reputation. He was
as we'll known the next day as he is
now. It was circulated by the million
as a campaign document. He lives,
L think, in One Hundred and Twenty
fifth steet, New York, in a modest
frame house. His wife and his three
sons constitute his family. They have
no servants. At the end of the lot on
which his house stands is a one-story
brick building, where he does his work.
He has there the quaintest collection
of curiosities, chiefly of art, that could
be imagined. His wife is lady Of
rare intelligence, who assists him in
| his labors. She Is relative of James
Parton. Mast is man of indomita
bic eouarage and rare intelligence. Pc
litically he is most intese radical.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

Did you know that the first time that
ever fired gun, it was at a ''chippy,"
and that did not hit him! Ny father
it was, that let me trot behind him, a
seven or eight-year old, while he hunted
through the fields. How my nerves
screwed up when he took aim and what
q crash in my over-sensitive ear was the
report 1t was always painful and al
ways an irresistible fascination. And So
one day, returning home, out ran bold
chipmonk, and coursed along the wall
with trailing tail, then mounting a stone,
tail cooked, he said, "Hit me, hit me, hit
me, he, he y "Here, Henry, do you
want to shoot?" "Yes sir-no-yes, I
do" "Get behind me-let the gun rest
on my shoulder-now take aim-come,
pull the trigger or he'll be off," l shut
up one eye in manner that carried the
other with it. l opened both. The
tears came. The squirrel seemed six or
seven squirrels whirling round in the air,
took aim but it would not stay aimed.
Somehow, saw the sky, the stone wall,
great mullen stalk, the squirrel, and
twenty other things, all in jig. Bang
went the gun. "Chigger-ree-ree' went
the squirrel as he dived down, laughing,
Into hole.
Well, I've seen many a minister do the
same thing with a sermon, and feel as
satisfied as I did To be sure had not
hit anything, but l had made a splendid
noise. ". Beecher, IN Christian
Union. II l
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08


| doubt whether men or women have
any right to life or liberty or the pursuit
of happiness, or, in fact, any rights at all.
l doubt whether liberty is possible or
happiness possible, to the man or woman
who pursues it. | cannot assert my
right to life which was given me in
ignorance of circumstances, without
knowledge or consent, and will be taken
away again equally without my permits
sion, or designation of time or place. l
have lived in different countries and in
the varied relations commonly sustained
by woman, for half the allotted years ac-
corded to the life of man, and [ have
never yet found one that gave me person
al liberty. On the contrary, the rela-
tions which increased my happiness in
creased my duties and my responsibilities,
so as to leave personal freedom out of the
question; yet I rejoiced in them and ac-
cepted them, and would not have ex-
changed them for freedom which can only
exist in isolation. The truth at which
l am endeavoring to arrive is simply
this that duty is about all we have te
do with in this world, and that if this
were done, rights would very readily
take care of themselves. But when some
people do not perform their duty, wha
is to be done then? Why, we can al
least go on and perform ours. Two
wrongs never made one right, and theil
shortcomings cannot excuse wrong-doine
on our part. The assertion of right arms
individuals against each other, while the
recognition of duties draw them nearer
together-"Jennie Jaoae, +" IN Denaorest'
Monthly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08
How sad it is. that. when Christians

How sad it is, that, when Christians
congregate together, whether it be at the
tea-table or elsewhere, there is SO little
talk of the Lord, and so little inquiry
about His truth. We are ever ready to
talk of our sect, our church, our pastor,
our success, our meetings, our enterprises,
tic, but oh, how seldom we sit down
quietly to talk of Jesus. 1t is also very
humiliating to think how little time we
are alone with the Lord, and how little
we relish quiet communion with Him.
self There may be much zeal, much
service, much noise, much appliances
and means, and yet very little of Jesus.
IF a fond father saw his children so
much engaged in service for him as to
have no time to sit on his knee and CON-
mune with him, would it not fill his heart
with grief? And thus it is with our
Heavenly Father when His children are
more occupied with work than Himself.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

ICED PRAYERs.-Th Secretary of the
Navy has recently published little vol
ume on prayers, written by the Rev. Mr..
Newman, Chaplain of the .. S. Senate,
for the use of the adventurous men who
have sailed in the Polaris, in search of
the North Pole. The compilers of the
usual prayer books had prepared prayers
for almost all the ordinary incidents of
life; but they neglected the North Pole
business. Hence the necessity of this
little volume.
In the present fierce condition of the
thermometer, anything icy and cool is
soothing and refreshing; therefore we
trust we shall not be accused of irrever-
ence if we introduce to our readers few
of the arctic beauties of this somewhat
frigid little volume. The prayer on
leaving the ship" informs the seals and
walrusses that eve are here to explore
the unknown regions of our earth, to en-
large the scope of human knowledge,
and advance the best interests of man.
kind" On these premises is based this
remarkably unnecessary supplication :
"Be pleased to suggest to our minds the
direction we should take, and point out
to us the path which will lead US to the
desired destination, that our hearts may
be glad and rejoice in the contamination
of our plans" We consider this peti.
ton quite useless. The direction they
should take, we take it, is northward
and of all people the Yankee tart is pecu-
liar in generally knowing which way tc
steer when he knows where he is going
The most exquisite gem of this unique
collection is called prayer at the North
Pole"
The bare idea is wonderful. 1t trans
cends the grandest poetical flights of fan
cy, and proves its reverend inventor Il
be possessed of first class article O.
''fne frenzy" Conceive, if you can. O
camp meeting round the North Pole
and the chaplain, on the top of the Pole
solemnly offering up 1--WE suppose tina
would be the direction) prayer. We cal
imagine the splendid scene-the waving
of the old fag-the ice mountains-th
GOODNESS of the air-the rigid devotion
of the mariners-and all that. But w
have not been able to see the point abou
establishing elderly, education, and re
ligion'' in region where a polar bea
could not get his life red.-BaLt5
more Saturday Night.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

The Chicago Post gives these interest
ing statistics: ''Our lynx eyed assistants
report this morning that 1743 people
slipped down yesterday on the perfdious
sidewalks. Of those l14O were men,
4O3 women, 200 miscellaneous. The ia
BILE shows that over 800 landed on their
elbows the others sat down, Ofthe en-
tire number, 1743 of them swore; l31
audibly."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

SURGEONS VIEW OF SUNDAY.-The
Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon recently concluded
an address in the following character
istic fashion: On Sunday, you know, the
commandment is .sYou shall not be hap
py." 1t would be a great wrong if a
preacher made you smile. Idont believe
it. | make people laugh on Sunday. I
believe that the risible faculty does as
much good as the faculty which makes
us cry. don't think it wrong to make
people laugh on Sunday. There arc more
flies caught by honey than vinegar
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

deacons and such but what you want
is, to save your talkin' strength to warp
in the outsiders. "---Abyah Wilkimson, IN
Hearth and Home.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

The Manassas battlefield has been
sold for eight dollars an acre.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08

the same time, the patients are kept in
small stable, filled with bad air and the
eff1uvium of the manure
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j. II. w ebster's,
Barton, VI,
J. n. w ebsGer's,
Barton, W..
J. n. w ebster's.
Barton, 2 C.,
The ONLY PLACE IN ORLEANS Co.
WHERE You CAN GET FHEM.
THE ONLY PLACE IN ORLEANS Co.
WHERE You CAN GET THEN.
TIE ONLY PLACE IN ORLEANS Co.
WHERE You CAN GET THEN.
CALL AND LOOK At sPECINsEKs,
CALL AND LOOK AT SPECIMENS,
CALL AND LOOK At sPECIMEHs,
And be convinced of their superiority.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-07-15
SOCIETIES..
rKErrHos rHrs EVENING.

Washington and Lafayette Chapter, X. A. M.
at Masonic Temple o,.c.,
lows Hail. Sd and King streets.
Hermann Lodge, No 20. o o +, a'odd rel
lows Hall, Sd and King.
Cherokee Tribe, No4, II M, at Red Mems
Hall, 4l6 Market street.
Lenape Tribe. No 8, l NJ, in fourth story
SaVille Building, 9Th and Market street :,
Wilmington and Brandy wine Council, NO. D.
U. A. NJ, at Hall, Fifth and Market streets,
franklin Council, No g.. A NJ, at Mechan-
ics' Hall. 2l9 KING street.
Wilmington Council. No b, Jr, . U A Mat
Hail. 5th and Market streets.
enterprise Circle, B U q A. at Hall ooi Mar
ket street.
Washington Lodge, No l, of T. at knights
| of Pyth.as Hall, No. 2ll Market street
Washington Lodge, No 3. q F, at Good fei'
| lows Hail. Sd and Market. -,
Old Church division. No Is, Of Seventh
be.ow Spruce.
Wawaset Lodge. No l3, y of u T. at room
| 18th and scott streets. >,
Washington Lodge. No !, A A. at hall
Second and King streets.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-07-15
Political Notes.

The indianapolis Journal Of Saturday
morning publishes letter from w. G. Drpaw
declining the nomination for Liz utenant Gov
rrnor Of Indiana on the Democratic ticket.
The Detroit Free Press contains the vale
dictory of its late political editor and an an
nouncr m.nt of change in the propriatorshp
II also pledges itself to support the Baltimore
nominations.
Mrs. Anthony is reported to have said moth.
ing would delight her so much as to have the
Baltimore Convention ''cran woman suffrage
down Horace Greeley's throat"
Ex Senator DOOlttlr left New York Satur-
day to attend the democratic meeting at Raj
eigh, N. G.
The republican congressional convention Of
the eighth Illinois district has just nominated
Mr. j. 7. Fort.
Senator Schurz is to speak in North Carclin'
before Angust.
The ultra Democrats of Oregon propose te
send delegates to the Louisville convention.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-07-15
Furniture and venltIan Binds.
I EJ N HARMAN

M 4lOKING STREET. WILMINGTON. DEL.
.rSs. We respectfully INFORM the citizens o
-~ Wilmington aud the surrounding country
that we continue u napuia"turr and keep
E4Ss on hand It our large and long established
wMrerooms Furniture of every afieiy aud style.
consisting ~ VI ,hogany Rosewood and walnut
Furniture suitable for parlor. dining room and
chnmiei uses
Or assortment nf Furniture as large andvarleu
s cal be una H. Della Sare. and all articles sold al
our estatlrshHent are warranted ss represented.
Veuitiap Blind, 81 the most fashionable de.igl Z
M . To order ana kept constaptly or hand. We
.is, m,nutacture and constantly keep a large rs
sn,,,nent ot Spring, Hair. Moss and Husk Mattress
soi ~ j. j. N. HARTMAN,
jp1 4oAAass"eet'