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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

PURITY OF CHARACTER.-Over the
beauty the plum and apricot there
grows bloom and beauty more exoui-
site than the fruit itself; soft delicate
flush that overspreads its blushing cheek.
Now, if you strike your hand over that,
and 1t Is once gone, it is gone forever,
Tor 1t never grows but once. The flower
that grows In the morning, impearled
with dew arrayed with jewels-once
shake 1t, SO that the heads roll off, and
may sprinkle water on it as you please,
yet 1t can never be made again as it was
when the dews fell lightly on It from
heaven. On frosty morning you may
see the panes of glass covered with land
seapes, mountains, lakes and trees. blend
ed into beautiful fantastic picture
Now lay your hands upon the glass, and
by the scratch Of your finger, or by the
warmth of your palm, all the delicate
tracery will be obliterated. So there is
IN youth beauty and purity of char
acter which when once touched and de-
filed can never be restored; a fringe
more delicate than frostwork, and which
torn and broken can never be remember
ed. A man who has spotted and soiled
his garments in youth, though he may
seek to make them white again, can new
er wholly do it, even were he to wash
them with his tears. When a younp
man leaves his fathers house with the
blessing of his mothers tears still wet
upon his forehead, if he at once loses
that purity of character it is a loss that
he can never make whole again. Such
Is the consequence of crime. It's effect
can only be eradicated, it can only be
torgiven.-Beecher.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09
Stables Department.
UNHEALTHY WOMEN.

In the country. our unhealthy women
are the laborers CT farmers wives who
have many children. many tolls. few as
slstants, few diversions and therefore
many nerves and ailments and few en-.
Joyments or points of cheerful outlook
into the future. Their young daughters,
thin and sapless at birth, are perhaps
fed on pork and cucumbers, and chained
to great, heavy baby, during all the
years of growth; and in young ladyhood
they diet on poor novels, and are chain
ed to the needle or the sewing machine.
Even the country fresh air is not fair
offset to a regimen like this, so that both
the red and the white damsels are "a
common hereabout as the two patches
OF red and white flax in the country gar
dens, the varieties having grown so
closely together that the colors are great
ly mixed. The domestic women are not
all dead yet, either in town or country,
and the female sex has not yet gone en-
mdSSe to Newport or to Saratoga.
"No end" of toll is perhaps quite as
bad as no beginning. Incessant brain.
work is doubtless a severe trial to the
nervous system; but ceaseless nursery
details, added to the endlessly repeating
processes of the three meals day adj
mlhlstratlon, are a tax UNNECESSARILY
more severe upon any human organlza-
tloh' male or female. The one may
have slain its thousands of American
men, but the other, with It's steady twep-
ty-tour hours beat of care. never wholly
lald down even in sleep, has slain its
tens of thousands of American women
Nerves? Certainly. Not until the ma
ternal heart of the nation has found the
conditions where it can rest and enjoy
TRANQUILITY, free from all harassing cares
some few hours at least out of every day.
may we ever expect anything except
nerves, either for the mothers or their
children.
UlVe every matron three full hours
daily for her own enjoyment, and per-
suade her to spend 1t in the open air
exercise of brain, muscle and lungs .
and depend upon it, We shall speedily
create race of healthy women among
u.s. despite any exhausting peculiarities
of our Western climate.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09
WANTED TO BE HEARD FROM.

1t anybody has ever used the thorough
and scientific course of treatment recon-
mended by the proprietor of DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy for the cure of Catarrh
and has not been perfectly cured. the
proprietor, DR.. R. V. Pierce, would like
to hear from that person, and by address
sing him at the Worlds Dispensary,
Buffalo, n. Y, such person. if there be
one, will hear of something to his or her
advantage, as the doctor is in earnest
when he offers $500 reward for case
of Catarrh which he cannot cure. and is
perfectly able to pay it if he fails in a
single case, as any one may ascertain
upon enquiry. The thorough course of
treatment referred to and recommended
by DIR. Pierce consists in the use of DIR.
oage,s Catarrh Remedy with DIR. Pierce's
Nasal Douche which is the only means
by which the fluid can be carried hicb
up and applied to all parts of the nasal
passages and the chambers connected
Herewith in which ulcers exist and from
which the discharge proceeds. In addi-
tlon to this thorough application of the
Remedy which should always be used
warm, DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery should be taken earnestly as con-
stltutional treatment, without which few
cases can be cured as the disease is
always constitutional and must be treated
accordingly. This treatment has no ur-
pleasant features about it, and has the
Of never driving the disease
to the lungs as there is danger of doing
by the use of strong, irritating snuffs or
poisonous solutions.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09
FREE FRANCE.

We thought France was free We
know that Germany laid a heavy indem.
nifty upon her; but were we not called
upon last fall to rejoice with our French
fellow citizens that the last cent had
been paid, and that France stood up
again before the world as free country ?
We think so. How is it, then, that
Bismark dictates, and France obevs +?
A Paris letter says:
The recent suspension of the great
est of the French Catholic papers,
l. Universe, at the instance of Prince
Bismark, furnishes a striking proof of
how complete is the subserviency of the
French government to German orders
Here is where We want light. What
right has Bismark. to make such an or
der? Does not France humiliate herself
in complying with it? When several
foreign powers claim that they WANT
peace, we begin to expect war There
seems to US to be a speck upon the hor-
lion, and we publish this dispatch from
ST. Petersburg, to prove it.
"a grand ball was given last even
ing. Feb. 10Th by the Gear, to his royal
visitors. In speech he said the En-
peror of Germany, Queen of England,
Emperor of Austria and himself would
preserve the peace of the world. The
Prince of Wales bowed his acquiescence,
while the Emperor Francis Joseph an
Swered by reiteration of the settlement
1.-The Empire is at peace. said Ma
poleon, when he was straining every |
nerve to get an army into Prussia If
hey will fight, we can feed them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

10 DESTROY INSECTS Hot alum wa-
ter Is recent suggestion as an insect.
tude. 1t will destroy red and black
ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz bugs
and all crawling pests which infest our
houses. Take two pounds of alum and
dissolve 1t in three or four quarts of boil
ing water; let it stand on the fire until
the alum disappears then apply it with
a brush while nearly boiling hot, to
every JOINT and crevice in your closets
bedsteads, pantry shelves and the like
Brush the crevices in the floor of the
Sklrting or mopboards, if you suspect
that they harbor vermin. If in white
washing ceiling plenty of alum is add.
ed to the lime, it will also serve to keen
insects at distance. Cockroacbes will
nee the paint which has been washed in
cool alum water. Sugar barrels and
boxes can be freed from ants bv drawing
WIDE chalk mark just around the edge
OF the top of them. The mark must he
unbrOken Or they will creep over it, but
continuous chalk mark half an inch in
width will set their depredations at
naught Powdered alum or borax will
keep the chintz bug alta respectable dis
lance and travellers should always carry
package oft in their hand bags to
scatter over and under their pillows in
places where they have reason to suspect
the presence of such bed fellows.-.Iourn
al Of Chemistry.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09
2Rclieio,ts Department.
THERELIGION WE WANT.

We want a religion that bears heavily,
not onl y on the exceeding siGfulness OF
sin, but on the exceeding rascality OF
lying and Stealing religion that will
Danish small measures from the counter,
small baskets from the stalls, pebbles
from the cotton bag, clay from the paper,
sand from sugar, chicory from coffee,
| alum from bread, water from milk cans.
The religion that is to save the world
will not put all the big strawberries on
top and the small ones at the bottom.
1t will not make one half pair of shoes
OF good leather, SO that the first shall
rebound to the makers credit and the
second to his cash. 1t will not put Jou-
wins stamp on Jenkins kid gloves, nor
make Paris bonnets in the back room of
a Boston milliner's shop; nor let piece
of velvet that processes to measure twelve
yards come to an untimely end in the
tenth, or a spool of sewing silk that
VoucheS for twenty yards be nipped in
the bud at fourteen and a half; nor all
wool delaines nor all-linen handkerchiefs
be anal gamated with clandestine cotton:
nor coats made of old rags pressed to-
gether be sold to the unsuspecting pub
lie for legal broadcloth. 1t does not put
bricks at five dollars per thousand into
chlmneys it contracts to build of seven
dollar material; nor smuggle white pine
into floors that have paid for hard pine
nor leave yawning cracks in closets where
boards ought to join; nor daub the seal
ings that ought to be smoothly plastered
nor make window blinds with states that
cannot stand the wind. paint that cannot
stand the sun, and fastenings that NAV
be looked at, but are on no account to
be touched. The religion that is going
to sanctlfy the world pays its debts. 1t
does not consider that forty cents return
ed for one hundred cents given is accord
ing to the Gospel, though it may be ac-
cording to law. 1t looks on a man who
has failed in trade and continues to live
IN luxury as a thief.-YHe Boston
Christian.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09
2fericllltlrral department.
BREEDING DAIRY STOCK.

There is little prospect that the per-
feet dairy COW will be produced to any
extent until the practice of breeding and
dairying through the same herd shall be
adopted. The practice of dairymen is
now quite unfortunate and destructive
to their own business. 1t is a great
point with them to pick up through the
country the best milking COWS, and to
use them In the dairy until they shall
grow old, without raising from them a
single calf. By this cause the very COWS
which ought to be kept for breeding,
being devoted entirely to the dairy, and
their calves slaug htered at all early age,
are entirely lost as breeders, and the
greater proportion of COWS are bred from
second or third rate mixers, IN this way
the dairy stock is continually depreeia-
ting.
Why will not dairymen make an eff
ort to make their mark by establishing
a race or breed of distinguished mixers ?
The task is not difficult or expensive
one. Let dairymen bring into their
herds as large number of first rate
mixers as practicable and breed them
to bulls whose ancestry are or were from
the best milking stock. Let them rear
the most promising calves from the best
mixers, and let each heifer be brought
into milking at the earliest practicable |
age, and be properly fed and treated, |
with view to the production of the
greatest quantity of milk.
1t is not Of any great Importance upon
what breed the ideal milking herd shall
be based. 1t may be upon careful
selection of COWS from the common, stock
of the country, from the Ayrshire, the
Holstein, the Norfolk polled COW, or the
Devon, or Durham, or from mixture
OF any of these, provided calves for the
dairy are bred only from the best milk
ing stock. 1t must be remembered that
each COW must have good pedigree
she must trace her lineage on both sides
for many generations through the first
rate mixers. 1t would be we'll if herd
book of distinguished mixers should be
established, in which should be recorded
the most distinguished milking COWS.
and their exploits at the pail and that
premiums should be offered at the acri-
cultural fairs for the most distinguished
milking COWS whose lineage should be
recorded in the herd book.
The COWS kept for milking do not
produce in the aggregate more
than half the value in milk that thew
might with proper breeding, keeping
and treatment, 1 am not disposed to
overlook beauty in form, but for dairy
stock this should be secondary to milk
ing capacity. Culture is as essential to
the perfect milking COW as to the perfect
horse, or the perfect beef-making Dur s
ham.-Cm. Coaoat,y Gent.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

HE PRESIDENTS INVESTMENTS
Washington letter to the Troy Times
says; The President has just bought
large lot in the northwestern part of the
city for his future town residence. He
pays So, 900 for II, 900 feet and his
mouse Is to cost. with the lot, near $780,
ooO. 1t is understood that the Presi-
dent, when he is released from his offic-
lal duties, will divide his time between
MS three residences-on the ST. Touis
farm. at the sea shore at Long Branch
and IN Washington. He will retire from
public life in very comfortable circum-
stances. He has been, since he entered
the army in 1861, one of the luckiest
OF men, and IN this respect his history
Is curious and interesting. Up to a
certain date his life was unluckv-uni
formly SO. Everything that he under
took proved failure. till he was actually
d poor man when he offered his services
TO the country in the war of the REBEL
Ion. Since then his course has been
almost invariably successful as a soldier
politician. and a man of business RI
am told by those who know the facts
ana are competent to judge of such mat
ters' that Gen. Grants investments have
all been made with great wisdom with
the sole exception of the small venture
IN the Seneca Stone Company and |
even that concern is looking up of late
Ills investments here, at Long Branch /
and especially near St. Louis, peop)e cav
'nat his farm in that vicinity will alone |
make him a larger fortune, so rand l.
the increase in its value.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

A LESSON OF GRATITUDE.-A oentlo
man was once making inquiries in Russia
about the method of catching bears in
that country. He was told that to en-
tfap Them pit was dug several feet
deep and after covering it over with
'url' leaves ETC., some. food was placed
on tne top The bear, if tempted bv
the bait, easily fall into the snare
''But, he added, ''if four or FIVE han
pen to get in together. they all get ont
again. " "How is that 2" asked +bo
gentleman They form sort of ladder
by stepping on each others shoulders
ana thus make their escape" But how
does the bottom one get out 90 "Abr
these bears, though not possessing mind
and soul such as God has given US. vet
can feel gratitude; and they won't for
get the one who has been the chief means
OF procuring their liberty. Scamperine
on they fetch the branch of a tree. which
they let down to their poor brother, en-.
aollng him speedily to join them in the
freedom Il which they rejoice Sensible
GEARS We should say, are a great deal
better than some people We hear abont.
VINO never help anybody but themselves
The Carrier Dore.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

ALONE WITH GoD.-Christian life in
our days is full of activity. 1t finds
pleasure in planning, giving. and work
ing Tor the advancement of Christs
cause. This spirit of conservation o;vAs
Joy to all Christians who recognize it
and inspires confident hopes in the az
gresSlVe movements of the church. But
1t conceals also great peril. All Chris
tian power springs from communion with
Uod' and from the indwelling of Divine
grace One can do good to others onlv
as his heart pulsates with love to .Iesns
and has present experience of his love
We can impart only what we receive
ANY stream will run dry, unless fed
from unfalllng springs. Any Christian
labor Will be fruitless, and Christian zeal
be like sounding brass, unless the soul
waits daily on God and finds norr
strength in prayer and in studv of tho
Bible.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

ABOUT FURs.-lt no longer is found
obligatory to wear expensive furs MANY
beautiful and cheaper varieties are com.
ing into the market. Seal, as we have
already said, in the sets which include
the sacque, are very expensive; but the
boa and mutt of most excellent quality
can be purchased for S25. The most
popular OF cheaper furs is the lynx; the
long SOFT glossy fur is in itself beauti-
1ul' The bOas are no longer made SO
large, and are much more desirable in
their present shape. Very nice sets can
be found for $50. Alaska sables are
now as low as Sc and 81.
Mink in the cheaper grades is verv
cheap; but it is much better economy
to buy lynx than a poor mink. Hud-
son Bay and Russia sable are still very
expensive and should only be worn by
those who have tOiletes to correspond.
Old turs may be freshened at little
expense. Every lady of ingenuity can
refine her muff. A brown or black eros
gram rlbbcn placed round the middle
and tied IN a smart bow, is exceedingly
pretty. The cords and tassels used 10
ornament mufs have given way to brown
gros grain ribbon ends. trimmed MIL
fringe and medallions of passemeterie.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

a SINGULAR FALL.-As one Of H.
heavily loaded cattle trains from H.
west was crossing the New York Cen
trail Railroad bridge, over the Genesao
river, Sunday afternoon, a car brota
from the train and fell with its load &c
live stock into the river. within = fam
rods OF the brink of the Upper Genesee
rams. A number of them were swent
over the precipice, while others obta;naa
a ioothold on the rocks, and with gre.t
Piuckstood and looked over the fall
Efforts were made to save them but :
was useless, and one by one they wero
swept over. About half of the an;m.l.
were unframed by the tumble. It w.s
over the same cataract that Sam Patch
amused himself for the last time l.,
Jumping although unlike the cattle h.
was killed. NC
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09
NJ" SHOULD A LADY FASTEN
HER STOCKINGS? CARRIERS.
OR WHAT

how shall woman fasten her stock
lngs so as not to interfere with the cir
culation of blood, or spoil the shape of
the le-that is, what measure shall be
taken to prevent shrinkage and warping
OF the le-, let us see-of the HON SOFT
gu mat PenSl After the most careful
research, as far as our limited facilities
would allow, we arise from our explora.
lions, and humbly tender the following
suggestions:
Wear them short, and let the tons
bubble over the shoe in form of lace
la beer-mug.
If you will have them long, put muci-
lage inside and stick 'em to you.
Have them long enough to tie about
your waist, using the knot for a panier.
Edge the tops with steel, and fasten
lodestone to your corset.
tasten a strap to each stocking. ex-
tend them gracefully up each side of
the body, and attach, with blue ribbons,
to the earrings.
Fin them to some other article of cloth
ing in their immediate vicinity.
Hold still, now; we are doing this
for your own good.
Fasten them to a nail and 90 bare
footed.
Attach small balloon to each stock
ing.
Make them out of material that will
draw up,
If you are thirty-fve and unmarried
make hole near the top of each stock.
ing and button into it your knee-cap.
These are all the methods that sug-
gest themselves to us at present, and of
the number some one or more NAV he
deemed worthy of adoption. We have
taken sudden and lively interest in
this matter, and shall not rest until the
needed reform is brought about. Wo.
mans limbs shall not be hampered, and
deformed, if we have enough inventive
faculty to bring to light new and health
flu ways of wearing the stockings, and we
have. We shall continue our ;n,,os+;c,o
lions into this subject, even at the haz-
ard of getting our neck into the matri-
momal moose. What the Women-of this
country most need is not suffrage, but
symmetry; not rights, but nationality
not place IN our Legislative halls, but
place to fasten their stockings. Let
all true-hearted men join with us in a
search for that placc.-Carleton No.
Br1mSt0icker.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

Observed duties maintain our credit
but secret duties maintain our life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

FRUIT IN NORTHERN VERMeNT.-Cv.
rus K. Keith, Sheldon, in paper upon
Fruit Growing in Northern Vermont. +"
speaks of the severity of the winter that
demands the hardy varieties that will
rlpen their wood. Drainage is essential
even better drainage than is necessary
Tor corn or potatoes as the trees grow
earlier IN the spring and later in the
fall. Plow moist land into beds, and
set trees eighteen feet apart. Cultivate
with hoed crop until the trees are well
established and not cultivate afterward
as 1t Injuries the roots. Never manure
In spring. Apply manure in the fall
then the growth will begin so early as
to rlpen properly. Prune early in the
season as late pruning causes the branches
left to give late growth that will winter
kill. The value of belt of forest trees
to protect the orchard is often very evil
dent. A hillside is best for the orchard
and better if protected by forest on
north and west. Pears have not been
grown successfully, Cherries of some
good varieties do we'll. Grapes do well
on hillsides sloping to the south, in
warm, dry, soil. Concord and Delaware
are sufficiently hardy to be worthy of a
trial Train vines upon trellis a few
feet from building on the sunny side.
Manure with well rotted manure, wood
ashes and leaf mould. The climate and
soil IN Northern Vermont is such as to
encourage all farmers to attempt fruit
raising.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09
PLAIN FACTS.

FRANkFoRT, Mich, Sept. 10, '73.
A year ago | had bad cough form
the Catarrh which had got in my throat.
L tried good many things but nothing
to do me any good until I used Golden
Medical Discovery and DR.. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy. They cured me in three
months for which am very thankful.
AMOS FISHER.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09

A Chicago man wrote to Agassiz that
he had an apple which he had preserved
ior nfty-three years, and when Agassiz
wrote Tor 1t, the joker said it was tho
apple of his eye.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-23

BAzAINE's PRIsoN.-The isle of Saint
Marguerite, near Cannes, is most beau
tiful place, and there the prisoner will be
allowed to live in the fortress, as if at
home, and with his wife and children.
1t was here that the prisoner known as
the "Man with the Iron Mask was con-
fined. Many distinguished state prison
ers have been sent there, among others,
M de Broglie, bishop OF Gand, and uncle
of the present duke. In one of his let
tiers, given in his memoirs, he says: You
think, perhaps, that | was happier here
than in prison In the interior. All
no. When | saw above me those clear
skies without cloud, when, from the top
of the fortress, | looked out upon that
blue sea, with its white-sailed vessels,
when the sea-birds skinned along the
waves, or scared above me, / felt within
myself the unconquerable need of liber-
ty, need which would have been less
violently felt in an ordinary prison. 4"
The fortress is small, and of the third
class, but very comfortable for the little
garrison. 1t was built by Richelieu, and
repaired after the plans left by Vauban.
For invalids this is charming residence,
but for a prisoner it must be very sad
indeed. Times Paris Correspondence.