Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-10

Or shares of railroad stock.
Committees of investigation
Did then no task perform.
Nor cover up their brothers acts
Under the cloak-reform.
Their President was model man;
He would neither smoke or swear;
His horse might be an army mule
For aught he would think or care.
Of relatives, in all the world
He did not one possess
Fathers and wife's brothers had grown
So beautifully less.
Woman's rights no more us haunted,
It's ghost at last was laid,
The vexed theme forever settled,
And this arrangement made:
From the lowest to the highest
Was the great Creators plan,
This principle proving woman
On a higher plane than man.
Man still ruled the lower creatures
With his old familiar sway,
Himself subject to woman
Always having her own way.
Fashion, the relentless tyrant,
Whose dominion was the world,
Conquered by good taste and Judgment,
Had her gaudy banner furled.
Lovers proved the saying, falsehood,-
'True love never ran smooth, y
Matches seeming made in heaven,
By their harmony and truth
No drunken men could there be seen,
AS now, in every town,
King Alcohol had lost his crown,
His throne came topping down.
Among all classes, none were found
Who vile tobacco used;
Where once they chewed the filthy drug
They now the drug eschewed.
That amusing class of bipeds,
The dandy, who dressed so sweet.
Barnum's museum had the last one,
They were so near obsolete.
And lawyers other business sought
Than foolish men to fleece
For neighbors learned the golden rule,
And always lived in peace.
The doctors then did not prescribe
Such bitter drug or pill,
The sight of them would almost make
Zen a we'll person i'll.
But such delightful remedies
"Fresh air would do you good,
Suppose yon take pleasant ride
And-let me see-your food?
By all means do not starve yourself;
Eat whatever you may please
Pickles, honey, cake and sweetmeats,
Cookies, tarts, mince pies or cheese.
Throw aside your broths and Cruel,
Poor crust coffee and weak tea;
Without doubt, at my next visit
Great improvement [ shall see"
The tailor, when he made coat,
Sent home each remnant left,
Nor pilfered from the largest piece
] Son Tim, or John, a vest
Shoemakers always kept their word,
And if they promised true
Shoes should be done on Saturday,
Sure Saturday brought the shoes.
Whoever drew load of wood,
And he who cut, or sawed,
Had learned by some new method tina
Just eight feet made cord.
Millers did not-absent minded
Send home toll instead of grist
: Their fat hogs, compared with others,
S Did not always head the list
Y Milliner's stitches were so short,
And taken with SO much care,
y The very best material
1t was found they would outwear
y Merchants sold the purest sugar
Not the faintest trace of sand;-
. And such coffee the farmers grumbl,
/ To raise peas was waste of land
u The silk worm spun the thread of all
e The yards Of silk he measured;
W His all-wool goods, both warp aud fill
J. From the sleeps back was severed
Z Of the ..nobleman of nature
is School boys ever wrote and spoke,
Little dreaming that trite saying,
u Time would prove to be no joke
= The theory was exploded,
70 make farmers of the boys
2 Who Of business or profession,
as We're not capable of choice
> But he who had the largest brain.
n And readiest wit OF all,
ID With depth Of thot and strength of "
!" No hardships could app;lll.
Had proved himself Lord Of the soil
Dame Natures favorite son.
IN A leader 'mong his fellow men,
i The nations chosen one.