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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1872-07-16

a Danbury, Connecticut, gentleman came
home late one night. His wife, who was
10 bed, heard an unusual noise below, and,
going down, found her lord on his knees 10
iront OF her best set of furs. He had O gun
10 bis band, and look Of anxiety upon his
face. The instant the door opened be hast.
iiy exclaimed: "Hush-tb, old woman,
don't scare 'em." "Scare what, you old
tool?' mnrmured hiC vile. "Motbs!n he
hystericaily whispered, "1'm goin' for EN-,
old woman; the first moth what shows bis
head cut of them furs will get bis limbs
shattered, or I'm---." Sick at tesrt
and humiliated beyond description, the
miserable woman dragged herself back to
bed.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1872-07-16

The Daily Bulletin is tho name of o new
evening daily which viii! make Its appear
ance in Erie 10 few days. 1t will be man.
aged by r. Lyle White, formerly Of the
MeadviIle Republican, and latterly Of the
Erie Gazette.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22
THE POOR CUSTOMER.

''How much butter ?'-"One-half
pound, if yon please"
And sugar ?'-"Half a pound, sir. -
land those oranges ?''-''Half doz-
en-. sir
'You go by halves, to-day. Well
what else? Be speedy, ma'am, you are
keeping better customers waiting"
''Half a peck of Indian meal, and one
French roll, said the woman; but her
lip quivered, and she turned to wipe
away trickling tear.
| looked at her straw bonnet, all
broken-her faded shawl, her thin.
stoop form, her coarse garments and I
read poverty" on all-extreme poverty.
And the pallid, pinching features-the
mournful but once beautiful face-told
me that the luxuries were not for her.
An invalid looked out from his mar
row window whose pale face longed fol-
the fresh oranges for whose comfort the
tea and the butter and the fine French
roll were bought with much sacrifice.
And l saw him sip the tea, and taste
the dainty bread, and praise the flavor
of the sweet butter, and turn with
Frightening eyes to the golden fruit
And | heard him ask her, kneeling al
the smoking hearth, to taste them with
him. And as she set her broken par
on the edge to bake her coarse loaf,
heard her say, by and by, when | an
hungry
And "by and by when the eyes Of
the sufferer are closed in sleep, | saw
her bend over him, with blessing il
her heart. And she laid the remnant
of the feast carefully by, and ate he
bread unmoistened.
started from my reverie. The gro
GERS hard eye was upon me. You are
keeping better customers waiting"
Oh, how | longed to tell him how
poverty and persecution, contempt ant
scorn, could not dim the hearts fin,
gold purified by many trial and tina
woman, with her little wants and hol,
sacrifice, was better in the sight of Goc
than many a trumpet-tongued Dives
who gave that he might be known t
men.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

THE ONION MAGGoT.-In response to
the inquiry as to the best method of
preventing the maggot from destroying
onions, the Massachusetts Ploughman
replies:
Various remedies have been tried in
Essex County, where the onion is extern
sively cultivated. Mr.. B. 2. Ware of
Marblehead, prevents the attacks of the
fly by sowing the seed two inches deep
err than he otherwise would, so that the
fly cannot get to it to lay its eggs. The
maggots usually appear in Essex County
about the middle of May, and by the
third week in August most of them
change into the chrysalis state. The
egg from which the maggot comes is
laid near the root by the onion fly. The
use of SCOT in the drills has generally
been regarded as the best preventative
known to cultivators, but Mr.. Ware has
found deep planting equally eficacious,
and there is certainly less trouble in
application.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

A bill has been reported in congress,
which, if it should become law, will
seriously interfere with the business of
the counterfeiters. There are very few
outside the banks and large business
houses who cannot be imposed upon by
spurious treasury or national bank-notes,
and as the person passing such currency
cannot be punished unless it be proved
that he knew the character of the notes,
the traffic in bogus money has been an
unfortunately safe one. The pending
bill requires the officers of national
banks to stamp the name counterfeit"
on all spurious or altered notes shown
at their counters, whether offered as
genuine or only shown for examination.
The effect of this, of course, will be to
make the time during which spurious
note can be circulated an exceedingly
short one, and it is to be hoped that the
bill will speedily become law.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22
HOW TO COMMENCE BUSINESS.


There are many young men who are
in the habit of excusing their idleness
and ineficiency with the plea that they
can do nothing without capital. The
lack OF means Is the ready reply they
make to every appeal to action. They
imagine that they possess in themselves
all the prerequisites to success except
capital. If they only had capital, in
addition to their other imagined virtues.
they would do great things in the world,
they would grow and astonish the ma
tlves with the boldnesss and brilliancv
of their enterprise. They would become
immensely rich, and lay the world un-
der perpetual obligations to them by
the magnifcence of their benefactions.
This is the way they think and talk,
and they roll the vain glorious idea over
in their minds until they come to imag-
inc that the world is an immense loser
by their poverty.
These persons forget one important
fact-that all capital is the product of
labor. That nearly all rick men in this
country were once poor That nearly
every personal fortune they can enumer-
ate is either the product of its owners
toll and skill, or the representative of
his fathers toll and skill.
How did the makers of these fortunes
get along without capital =? Had they
spent the vigor of their youth in idle
and foolish lamentations over their
poverty, they would have lived and died
poor, and left nothing but an inherit
ance of honesty behind them. Capital
allied to labor and skill can work won
ders in the war Of material enterprises.
But money is not the indispensable thing
to young men. There are other kinds
of capital besides accommodating money
brains, muscle, industry, honesty, dill
gence, truth, fidelity, skill, tact, educa-
tion--aU these are capital, and all Of
them have commercial value, which
the owner will be able, sooner or later,
to command in the market. Provided
with these, any young man in this coun-
try may make more than he needs to
spend every year. and thus have some
thing at the end of each year to invest
in money capital If he needs money
let him 90 to work and make it, and
thus give proof of his ability to use i
; proftably and judiciously. If we g
into any great city, or into any prosper
Gus agricultural district, we find tn,
capitalists are those who have made
their fortunes without any outside aid
They did not waste their time in repin
ing at their poverty, and in silly dream
=. of what they could do if they had tn
money to do with. They went boldl
: and resolutely to work they toiled ano
: thought and planned, and kept tollin!
e and thinking and planning, patiently
' until at last they grasped the fortunat
: moment, and succeeded. Exchange
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22
PUBLISHING UNDER DIFFICULT
TIES.

The publication of the Dundee Week
ly in Illinois has been discontinued
This is the sixth time that the Weekly,
under successive proprietors, has come to
an untimely end; and in its final issue
the rules are turned and the resources
of the Office in the way of CHASTITY cuts
of collins and tombstones are exhausted
in the effort to render suitable mortuary
honors to the expiring journal And as
the editor had many gaping columns at
his disposal which should have been fill
ed with paying advertisements, but ow-
ing to the penuriousness of the non-ad-
vertising population of Dundee were
not so occupied, he took occasion to fill
the vacant space with earnest and IN
equivocal expressions of his candid opin-
ion in regard to the place and its inhab-
itants. His description of Dundee is
hardly calculated to attract immigra-
ton to that particular part of Kane
county. He calls it Chicago burned
into crust by the fires of misery .
San Francisco shocked by the earth
quakes of meanness into grabbing after
pennies and cold victuals; and declares
that if Gabriel's horn is ever heard
within its precincts its sound will be
drowned out by the clamors of its hun
CRY people thinking it an invitation to a
free lunch. He pathetically alludes to
his own trials while endeavoring to es-
cape starvation, and recites the melan-
choly experience of some of his prede-
cessors who had been deluded by fair
promises into the disastrous experiment
of publishing a newspaper in the foul
graveyard" as warning to printers
who may hereafter be enticed to bury
their talent in an unpromising fcld.-
And finally with sardonic glee he directs
the attention of his readers to cut
which he tells them represents the iden-
teal train of cars in which he intends
to leave for any place on the earth
which will take him out of sight of the
dead things that walk the streets of
Dundee. If the editors prudence was
equal to his disgust, he did not wait to
observe the effect of his valedictory upon
the minds of his patrons
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

APPLE ORoHARDs.-Trim your old
trees as soon as you read this. Com
mence in that tree that is a mass of
waste sprouts and clean them all off.
Then, if the limbs are so thick as to
shade the center of the tree, when full
of its foliage, trim out part of them. If
two limbs are crossing each other, or
growing in such close proximity as to
interlock together, cut out the weakest
one. Be careful not to trim off the low
est branches on the limbs, but cut out
the center branches at the tip end.
This causes them and the tree to grow
more stocky. Trim out the center limbs
of the tree so as to admit the suns rays
down into the center of the tree. A
tree we'll trimmed, will present an ap-
pearance similar to an inverted I'M
brella.
In trimming young orchard, be care
full to prevent crotches in the tree, by
cutting off one limb where they form a
crotch and if limbs are not formed
above, they can be forced out by cut
ting off the tip end of the remaining
branch or leader.
Saw-dust and tan-bark are good tc
mulch the trees, or a good supply Of
straw or any coarse litter. If the trees
are sod bound, it is good plan to dig
the sod away and put a shovel full Of
unleached ashes around the tree.-Frui1
Recorder.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22
4 WOMAN NEARLY BEHEADED.

Indicating By her Signs that her Husband is her
Aurdercr-Ihe Nan Denying the Crime and Beg
giag has VIE to Sdre him from The Gallo,cS.
PITTSBURGH, April Ia At about
midnight last night Peter Weise. Ger
man cattle broker, living in the Nine
teenth Ward, alarmed his neighbors,
and informed them that his wife had
cut her throat. When discovered the
woman lay on bed and presented a
horrible spectacle, There was deep
ragged cash on the throat, extending
almost from ear to ear, nearly two inches
wide, which had penetrated the wind
pipe. In addition there was a terrible
saving cut on the back of the neck. ex-
tending into the spinal column, and with
that on throat, almost severed the head
from the body. The woman was still
alive, but unable to speak.
On the arrival of the police and ply
sicians they asked her who committed
the act. Though unable to reply, she
appeared to be perfectly conscious, and
raising her hand as an answer to the
question, pointed toward her husband
The windpipe was so badly cut that her
attempts to speak were smothered in a
gurgling sound. Once they endeavored
to give her water, but it passed through
the opening.
Weise was found in an clubhouse at
tached to the building. He appeared t.
take the matter with the greatest indif.
erence, lying down on bed and sleep.
ing within an hour afterward While
he was sleeping, and the officers were
standing near the bedside looking at tht
woman she glanced at them, lifted he,
hand, drew it across her throat, as if IL
the act of cutting it, and then pointed
at her husband. Putting a pencil il
her hand the officer held a piece of pa
per for her. on which she wrote as tn
murderer, '.Peter Weiss
What makes it one of the most quee
circumstances is what followed. Tn
husband states he came home at
o'clock last night, entered the bedroom
and finding no light in it, approached
the bed for the purpose of retiring
His wife kissed him and remarked
''Peter, that is the last kiss you vii
ever get from me- He told her not t
be foolish. She then kissed him again
and fell down on the floor. He LITE
her up, placed her on the bed, ant
striking light, discovered that she ha
cut her throat.
At the time she fixed the crime o
her husband in his presence Weise b
came much agitated He fell down Q
his knees at the bedside, and implore
his wife to save him from being hanget
She denied by signs that he had don
it, and intimated as far as possible u
der the circumstances, that she had con
mitted suicide. Blood was found on Il
door, and the razor. with which the Gu
ting was done, was discovered in a co
. ner of the room. Weise was covert
g with blood. The neighbors say the ty
: were in the habit of quarreling. L
woman 1ivad until naarlv oorninr
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

How IT FEELS TO BE HANGED.-A
Frenchman writing to the GauloaS gives
an account of his sensations while hang
ing himself. which may be Of benefit to
persons of a suicidal turn of mind, and
who would like to know 'swhat the
thing is like" AS if preparing to hang
up his coat, he drove nail into the
WALL and therefrom suspended himself
by Topped cord, which he fastened
about his neck, and then slowly kicked
away his chair. From the crown of his
head to the soles of his feet, he felt
general mixing up of the fluids of
the body" This was succeeded by a
flashing dancing light before his eyes,
and then concentrated at single focus,
and thence rippled into space in concen-
trio circles. His head seemed compress
ed in an iron ring needles without num-
Der seemed to dart from the end of his
fingers and toes then there was terri
BILE swapping at the nape of his neck,
and serpent seemed to wriggle down
his spine. His last sensation was one
of pain at the throat and sheulderblades.
He had expected to wake up and find
himself dead, but kind-or unkind-
friends cut him down.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22
2fsricaslf,sral Department
J. D. B. COLLINS. Editor.
FASTENING HORSES IN THE
STALL.

n
STALL.
Farmers often find some trouble with
their horses in properly restraining them
in the stable or stall, and how to do it
without any injury to the horse, and yet
the horse to be comfortable under his
restraint is question with them. The
The accidents to the horse in the stable
are various among farmers, for reasons
often that they more frequently do not
take the pains in care that is necessary
to their safety, etc. their other stock
being more numerous, and other cares
being pressing. the one or two horses
kept on the farm are net so likely to re-
ceive so much attention in regard to
safety, comfort, ETC., as the gentleman S
or amateurs; and again, their stables
are differently constructed, so that they
are from these and other causes more IL
able to accidents. If farmers would
take one-half the care of his horses, that
the amateur horse-man does of his, there
would seldom if ever be an accident in
the stable.
Among the various accidents that are
Of somewhat frequent occurrence is that
Of halter casting. not unfrequent dan
gerous and sometimes fatal one. The
very mode of fastening often is the very
worst, and SO dangerously unwise that
accidents of this kind are scarcely to be
avoided if the horse is not cast, he of
ten gets his fore foot over the rein OF
halter-rope, and is thus prevented from
taking his usual feed, if no further in
jury result With suitable care to keep
the halter-rein free from the feet, which
is very easily done, there is very little
danger of any accident resulting from
this cause, and to do it the halter-reir
should not be too long-only just right
when the horse stands up at the mangel
to get his hay from the rack without tht
rein drawing to annoy him. 10 faster
the horse safely, the halter-rein SHOULD
pass through ring at the rear of thu
manger, and the end be loaded with ;
weight of three or four pounds, jus
enough to take up the slack whel
the horse steps toward the manger
from the back part of his stall, a
most horses are inclined, when no
feeding, to step and stand back in OF
der to rest in a more comfortable posi-
ton. In this case the Manager mus
have a suitable height-full breast hig
and the rack not too high, or the rel
cannot be kept with its proper tension
unless the rein passes through rim
affixed above the manager in some way.
In our experience we have found tn;
? to keep horse from backing out to tt
e length of his halter, the best way is
t furnish him somewhat raised platform
t plank OF like, for his hind feet to stan
e ON when he steps to an easy position
regard to his manger. We have notice
strong inclination in the horse, viii
, standing, to have his hind feet above
level with his front ones, and there
will rest contented unless this is SUI
i piled, he is seeking it while not eatin
-Couatry Gentleman.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22
sR elisious department.
R.v. J. W. MALCOLM, Edit,r.
WE SHALL DRINK NO MORE WINE
FOREVER.
BY FRANKLIN J. orrERsoN.

When Rechab's sons in days Of old,
Abjured the rosy wine.
They filed their cups of flashing gold
With nectar more divine;
They quaffed the liquid diamonds then,
And through life's journey trod.
noble race of sober men,
Who loved and honored God.
The grape in purple clusters hung,
To tempt their rowing eyes,
And round them fair Bacchantes sung,
Like seraphs from the skies;
A moment from his vow;
.. that the fire Of honor burned
As radiantly now.
Brave conquerors of appetitel
Your clear heads reasoned well;
The road could never lead Alright
Where Lot and Noah fell,
All honor, then, to those who broke
The fetter Of the vine.
All honor to the men who spoke
The Punishment of winei
Brave men of old the world shall own
The greatness Of your fame,
And DER the drunkard's reellng throne
Shall blazon Rechab's name;
Our men your works shall ne'er forget.
AS customs chain they sever,
And Adams race shall echo yet,
1--WE drink no more forever"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

HELPING THE STRUGGLING At
the anniversary of the Church Exten-
sion Society Of the Methodist Church,
1t was stated that the receipts were
nearly $4,000, and that 233 feeble
churches had been helped, or over
four each week Of the year. It had
aided churches in SO different states
and territories. Large and generous
subscriptions to this fund are constant.
ly received.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

WHAT is AN IDLE WoRD-The
Master says, "For every idle word you
shall give account" By "idle" here
is meant the barren and unfruitful talk
which ministers neither to recreation
nor to profit. That is not an idle
word which bears upon it the mean
ing of a Joyous, affectionate, cheerful
spirit, kindling what it expresses, the
happiness Of human hearts.-Rey. DR..
Du0ingtOn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

THE END OF THE WoRLD.-To
Thousands this is no fction,-no illu-
sion of an over-heated Imagination.
To-day, tomorrow, every day, to thou
sands, the end of the world is close at
hand. And why should we fear it :?
We walk here, as it were, in the crypt
Of life; at times, from the great cathe-
dral above us, we can hear the organ,
and the chanting of the choir; we see
the light stream through the open
door, when some friend goes up before
us; and shall we fear to mount the
narrow staircase Of the grave, that
leads us out of this uncertain twilight
into the serene mansions of the life
eternal !-LonateUoac.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

Home is "Heaven's fallen sister"
A delightful truth lies shrouded in
the designation. A christian home
should be heaven begun on eartI. !;
the happy abode of warm and loving
hearts-thinking, working, and sor-
rowing together; all melted down by
grace, and uniting together in love.
The road to home happiness is over
the stepping stones which lie about
the brook of daily discomforts.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

USEFUL ADvIcE.-A preacher, fond
OF using long words, took for his text,
'Feed my lambs" A plain farmer
very quantity remarked to him, on
coming out of church "a very good
text, sir; but you should take care not
to put the hay so high in the rack
that the lambs can't reach itp'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

TIN PAILs-The old wood
en- milk-pail is very properly being alto
gether discarded by wise dairymen.
Tin pals are easily kept perfectly clean,
and this is now recognized as the chief
requisite to success in making good
cheese or butter. AS soon as the milk
is poured from the pail thorough
scalding and washing should be given
to it, and a sweet and airy place should
be set apart, not only for milk-pails, but
for all utensils used in the dairy. Any
foul odor or mold will affect, to certain
extent, even tin, while wood will very
readily absorb it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

The remedy for rationalism is not
logic. 1t is spiritual quickening. A
blind man cannot be made to appre-
ciate beauty by an argument. Moth
ing will serve him short of restored
eyeslght.
We confess that we wish our ra-
tionalistic friends would ponder Max
Muller's declaration. 1t embodies
the silent and half unconscious belief
Of millions. The faith of Christen-
dom rests on this faith faculty. In
stead of wasting their time and
strength in arguing the falsity of our
creed in the court of reason, let them
consider fairly and impartially the
question whether there may not be a
"third faculty." the faculty Of faith, of
experimenting the Infinite" by which
all questions concerning the Infinite
and Invisible must be finally determin-
ed. For ourselves we decline to take
our creed before the judge of the Ra-
tionalist's appointing. We decline to
argue our faith before the reason
We deny the jurisdiction Of the Ra-
tionalist's court Christian Weekly.
NT,oc,o.-., III Do,, ~.
Williamson, d. d., presents the fol
lowing view showing the relative i'm
portance of China as a field for mis-
sionary labor:
"Suppose no China, and suppose
that the Cinnamon were distributed
over the whole worId-Europe, Asia,
Africa, America, Australia, and the
isles of the sea-every third man you
should meet would be a Chinaman.
and every third house Chinese dwell
ling! Speak of Jamaica, why, there
are more people in Pekin than in the
whole island; or of the Samoan isl
ands, most promising group of the
South Seas, with its $4,000 people
that would only be little bit of city
in China. There are dozen cities
within a few days journey of Chefoo
in which there are as many, and il
several instances, double. that popula
ton. Speak Of Madagascar, with it
100000 or 5,OO0,000-that is onl,
one-seventh Of the population Of the
province in which it is my privilege
to dwell"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-22

Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon says he never
wrote or memorized sermon in his
life. He uniformly carries "brief,"
half sheet of note paper, into the
pulpit with him, but seldom refers to
il