Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-15

ed by child; if he has brothers or
sisters, will they not think it enough
for the son and brother to come home
in charge of an officer, who will ex-
plain as he leaves him at the door, II
found him drunk in the street,"
A MAN1Ao's WoRK.-A tragedy by an
insane and irresponsible author has late
ly excited the village of White Corners
New York, in which Horace Sprague of
that place murdered his child and at
tempted to murder his wife. During the
night, before which nothing unusual had
been observed about him, he arose, say
ing he could not sleep, and proceeded to
build fire. A little later his wife was
awakened by his Selling hold of her and
attempting to cut her throat with razor.
Comprehending the real state of things,
she wrenched the weapon from him and,
throwing it behind her, pushed him to
the floor He then grasped an ak that
was in the room and rushed upon her,
laying her nearly senseless at the first
blow, but she recovered herself and again
fought desperately for her life. Though
blows continued to rain down upon her,
she succeeded in making her escape
through the door. Her husband follow
ed her out, but after pursuing her little
way returned to where their three child
rem were covering and screaming with
terror. Selling the youngest, little
girl and mere infant, with one blow of
his ak he severed her head from her
body. He then went to the house of a
physician and told him he wanted help.
The doctor asked himfor what, and soon
perceived from his conversation and APP
pearance that the man was u raving Ia
matte. Sprague remained but few
minutes, then returning to his own house
he put on his boots, and bare headed
and in his shirt-sleeves took his depar-
ture, no one knew whittier. The whole
village was speedily aroused, the muir
derer pursued and taken into custody at
the house of friend, where he stopped
after leaving the village. The woman is
in pitiful condition, having besides
innumerable bruises, received fifteen
cuts about her head and neck, two of
which injured the skull.
WHAT is HOME-''Home, says Rob-
ertson, in his sermon, SIS the one place
in all this world where hearts are sure of
each other. It the place of confidence.
1t is the place where we tear off that
mask of guarded and suspicious GOODNESS
which the world forces us to wear in self
defence, and where we pour out the I'M
reserved communications of full and con-
fding hearts. 1t is the spot where ex-
pressions of tenderness gush out without
any sensation of awkwardncss, and with
out any dread of ridicule Let man
travel where he will, home is the place
to which ''his heart untraveled fondly
turns" He is to double all pleasure
there. He is to divide all pain. A
happy home is the single spot of rest
which man has upon this earth for the
cultivation of his noblest sensibilities."
TOO RELIGIOUS" Too religious, in
the proper sense of the word, we cannot
be. We cannot have the religious SEN
timents and principles too strong, or too
deeply fixed, if only they have right
object. We cannot love God too warm
ly, or honor Him too highly, or strive tc
serve Him too earnestly, or trust Him
too implicitly; because it is our duty to
love Him with all our hearts and all
our soul, and all our mind and all oul
strength
But too religious, in another sense
we may, and are very apt to be; that
is, we are very apt to make for ourselves
too many objects of religious feeling.
Now Almighty God has revealed him
self as the proper object of religion:
the one only Power on whom we are t.
feel ourselves continually dependent fol
all things, and the one only Being whose
favor we are continually to seek. And
lest we should complain that an Infinite
Being is an object too remote and incom.
prehensible for our minds to dwell upon,
He has manifested himself in His Son,
the man Jesus Christ. whose history and
character are largely described to US il
the Gospels; so that to love, fear, hon
or, and serve Jesus Christ, is to love
fear, honor, and serve Almighty God
Jesus Christ being zone with the Faith
err, and call the fulness of the Godhead'
dwelling in him.-Archbishop Whately
I Aparty of forty kidnapped FIJI Island
ers, while being conveyed in schoone
to place of bondage, attacked thei
keepers with axes, and chopped them t