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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27
A SAD STORY.

A little boy having heard a beautiful
story about little boy and Ratchet,
and how, because the little boy wouldn'
tell lie, he, in time, got to be presi-
dent of the United States, was very
much impressed by it. Now, it so hap
pened that on the last day OF March, he
was just ten years old. and his father
asked him what he would like to have
for birthday present. Very naturally
the boys answer was, "a little Ratchet,
if you please, papa. :" The father bought
him little Ratchet that very day, and
the boy was so delighted that he actual
ly took it to bed with him. Early the
next morning he got up, dressed himself,
took his little Ratchet and went out into
the garden. There as luck would have
it, the first thing that caught his eye
was his fathers favorite cherry tree
My eyes !'' exclaimed the little boy to
himself, "what time my father would
make if fellow were to cut that treer'
1t was a wicked thought. for it led him
into temptation. There was the tree
tall straight and fair-standing invit-
lngly before him-just the thing for
sharp little Ratchet. And there was the
hatchet-strong, sharp and shining
just the thing for favorite cherry tree.
In another instant the swift strokes of
the axe we're heard in the still morning
air, and, before long, small boy was
seen running towards the house. His ia
Their met him at the door. "My boy,
what noise was that | heard just now {? |
Surely you have not been at my favorite
cherry tree p The boy stood proudly
before him, but with downcast eyes and
flushed cheeks. Father" he said, 81
cannot tell lie. That cherry tree is
-" ''say no more" said the father
SACeHuIuS HIS arms. - lou nave zone
wrong, my son and that was my favor
tie tree; but you have spoken the truth.
L forgive you. Better TO- This
was too much. The boy rushed into his
fathers arms. Father ~ he whispered.
april fool l haven't touched the
cherry tree but l most chopped the
old apple stump to pieces" ''You young
rascal, you l' cried the father, do you
mean to say you haven't chopped my
cherry tree ? April fool your old father,
will you ? Take off your coat, sir l''
With suppressed sob, that little boy
obeyed. Then shutting his eyes, he felt
his fathers hand descend upon his
shrinking form. "My son, said the ia
Their, solemnly, as he stroked the little
shoulder, ''itis the first of April. Go
thy way.'-Fr0ms Jack-in,the-P Pulpit, st.
Nicholas for Apr4I.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27

LIVES DIsowNING LAMBs.-Noticipg
IN the Observer statement by J. L. B.
that he had never succeeded in making
an eve own her lamb when once she had
made up her mind to desert it, for his
benefit as well as all others interested
give my method, which with me has
never failed.
When an eve will not own her lamb
L confne her in small pen with the
lamb. AT first, if she is wild. hold
her three or four times day, while the
lamb nurses; but after a few times
when she has learned what is required
OF her, | slap her ears a little and seold
her, when she viii stand without seold.
ing. The lamb soon begins to 90 to
the sheep as soon as it sees any one near
70 help. A few days is generally all
onat Is necessary to keep them shut up.
although sometimes l have had TO keen
them penned for two or three weeks
They are just as fond of their lambs as
though they had owned them at first
have had as many as ten shut up at
once, but have always succeeded in max
ing them own their lambs. After the
lamb has nursed, l feed it at least twice
day as the sheep seldom eats enough
to support her lamb while shut up. |
tie a cloth upon the spout of an old tea
pot, and the lamb learns readily to nurse
IT. flied while it is young. 1 always
have them nurse the sheep first, for if
led hrst, they sometimes will not notice
the mother.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27

CARE FOR .DAUGHTERs.-Would YOU
show yourself really good to your daugh-
tiers p? Then be generous to them in a
truer sense than that of heaping trinkets
on their necks. Train them for indie
pendence first, and then labor to give it
to them. Let them, as soon as ever
they are grown up, have some money,
or means of making money, to be their
own, and teach them how to deal with
1T, without needing every moment, some
body to help them. Calculate what
you give them or will bequeath to them,
not, as is usually done, on the chances
of making a rich marriage, but on the
probability of their remaining single
and according to the scale of living to
which you have accustomed them. Sup
press their luxuries now if need be, but
do not leave them with scarcely bare
necessaries hereafter, in striking con-
trast to their present home. Above all.
help them to help themselves. Fit them
to he able to add to their own means.
rather than to be forever pinching and
econOmizing, till their minds are mar
rowed and their hearts are sick. Give
them all the culture you can to every
power which they may possess. If they
should marry after all. they will be the
happier and the better for it. If thew
should remain among the million of the
unmarried, they will bless you in your
grave, and say of you, what cannot be
said of many doating parent by his
surviving child; my father cared that
L should be happy, after his death, as
we'll as while | was his pet and his tow
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27
Ayers
Sarsaparilla

A Is widely known
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"A >&SH b as one of the most
M@ Id A efectual remedies
ARM I'D UNA ever discovered for
MNxNA IN NHER cleansing the sys-
&S&VFsAYl8 tenn and purifying
~ - the blood. 1t has
\NNaSWVN whit stood the test of
SSNNNMA years, with con-
S stantly growing rep
56V1Ss utation, based on its
intrinsic virtues, and sustained by its re-
markable cures So mild as to be safe and
beneficial to children, and yet so searching
as to effectually purge out the great cor
ruptions of the blood, such as the scrofulous
and syphilitic contamination. Impurities,
or diseases that have lurked in the system
for years, soon yield to this powerful anti
dote, and disappear. Hence its wonderful
cures, many of which are publicly known,
of ScrOfula, and all scrofulous diseases,
Ulcers, EruptiOns, and eruptive dis
orders of the skin, TumorS, BlOtcheS,
BOils, Pimples, Pustules, Sores, st.
AnthOny'S Fire, Rose or ErySipe-
las, letter, Salt Rheum, Scald
Head, RingwOrm, and internal UI-
ceratiOnS of the Uterus, Stomach,
and Liver. 1t also cures other COM
plants, to which it would not seem especi-
ally adapted, such as DrOpsy, Dyspep-
STA, Fits, Neuralgia, Heart Disease,
Female Weakness, Debility, and
LeucOrrhpa, when they are manifesto
tons of the scrofulous poisons.
1t is an excellent restorer of health and
strength in the Spring. BY renewing the
appetite and vigor of the digestive organs,
it dissipates the depression and listless Ian
guor of the season. Even where no disorder
appears, people feel better, and live longer,
for cleansing the blood. The system moves
on with renewed vigor and new lease of
life.
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27
HOUSEKEEPER', OF HEALTH.

The liver being the great depurating
or blood cleansing organ of the system
set this great 'housekeeper of health"
at work. and the foul corruptions which
gender in the blood, and rot out. as it
were, the machinery of life, are gradual
ly expelled, from the system. For this
purpose DIR. Pieree's Golden Medical
Discovery with very small daily doses of
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets
are prominently the articles needed
They cure every kind of humor from the
worst scrofula to the common pimple.
blotch or eruption. Great eating ulcers
kindly heal under their mighty curative
influence. Virulent blood poisons that
Turk IN the system are by them robbed
OF their terrors, and by their persevering
and somewhat prctracted use the most
tainted systems may be completely reno
waited and built up anew. Enlarged
glands, tumorS and swellings dwindle
away and disappear under the influence
OF these great resolvents.
DOCTORS COULDN'T HELP HIM.
MEIGsvILLE, Morgan Co., O., J
March 9th, 1872.
Dear DR. PIERCE:
When [ was II Or Is years of age I
took what is called Kings Evil, and by
constant doctoring it would heal in one
place and break out in another It also
broke out In my left ear. l first found
your name in the Christian Adrocate
and sent ten miles for the first bottle
which did me more good than all other
medicines l ever used I am % wears
old and doctored with five doctors. and
not one of them helped me so much as
your bottle of discovery. l have got
we'll and able to do good days work.
JOHN A. WILSON.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27
UUUIUhS UUULDN 7 HELP HIM.
MEIGsvILLE, Morgan Co., O., !
March 9th, 1872. [


The best gift of God to nations is the
GIT OF upright men-especially upright
men for magistrates. statesmen, and rul.
ers. How bountiful soever the heavens
may be; how rich the earth may be-in
harvests; though every wind of heaven
watt prosperity to its ports till the land
is crowded with warehouses stuffed TO
repletlon with treasure, that country is
poor whose citizens are not noble, and
That republic is poor which is not gov
erned by noble men selected by its citi.
zens. The signs of decay in the life of
a nation show themselves as soon as
anywhere else in the character of the
men who are called to govern it. When
they seek their own ends, and not the
public veal, when they abandon prin-
cipies' and administer according to the
personal interest of cliques and parties :
when they forsake righteousness and
call upon greedy, Unsuitable selfshness
Tor counsel; and when the laws and the
whole framework of the government are
out SO many instruments of oppression
and OF wrong, then the nation cannot be
lar from decadence. When God means
TO do we'll BY a nation that has back
Sudden, among the earliest token of his
Deneheent intent is the restoration of
men OF integrity and of honor-men
who live for their fellows, and not for
themselves.-H. ". Beecher
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27

Don't keep a solitary parlor, into
which you 60 but once a month with
your parson or sewing society. HANG
round your walls pictures which shall
tell stories of mercy, hope. courage. faith
ana charity. Make your living room
the house. Let the place be such that
when your boy has gone to distant lands
or even when, perhaps. he elings to q
single plank in the wide ocean. the.tbo't
OF the old homestead shall come in his
aesoiatlon, bringing always light hone
anu l0Fe- Have no dungeon about YOUR
hUuse-no room you never open-no
blinds that are always shut
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27

Is widely known
as one of the most
effectual remedies
ever discovered for
cleansing the sys-
TEN and purifying
the blood. 1t has
stood the test of
years, with a con-
stantly growing rep
ntation, based on its
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-24

"Well-well," said Mr.. Baldwin, reflective
ly, II never had any thing bring me up with
q round turn like that" Then bright idea
seemed to have struck him, and he demanded,
triumphantly, "Where's your clothes to dress
her in ?"
"She's got all her own gear in her chest,
ready to wear"
"What, in John MewiWs chest do you
mean ?"
"Of course. Whose else should I mean
That's why he-she, I mean-always kept it
locked, and was 80 secret about it.
John Merrill stood no more watches on
board the Amphion, nor went to the mast
head. But Annie Carroll, a beautiful young
lady, save that she wore her hair rather too
much en- qarcon, sometimes took a turn at
the wheelwh she felt in the humor, until our
arrival at Callao, and when her story was
known, she became the heroine, the lioness, Of
the hour. A passage home was secured for
her; and she took leave of US all, with no
desire, as she confessed, to follow any further
the profession ofa sailor.
It was the old, old story. An orphan,
harsh guardian, and an attempt to force
her into marriage with one she disliked. A
madcap scheme, in which she had en-
barked from wayward impulse, and persis-
ted in because she hardly knew how or when
to retreat. And we were constrained to
admit, when we reviewed all the circumstan-
ces, that she had very nobly sustained the
double character and preserved all the finer
attributes of her sex, while she laid aside the
apparel.
And will it be wondered that she lost her
heart on board the Amphion? Not to me, of
course. I was but a boy in her eyes. But
when I last saw John Merrill, he was Mrs:
Captain Wightman, and still claimed to be, if
not the boldest seaman, the best helsman, at
1east of the family circle
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-24

nE A bill has been introduced into the
house by Mr.. Trenholm, Of Charleston, to
provide for the redemption Of the bills Of the
bank Of the State. By its terms the bills are
made receivable for taxes under the following
conditions: First, any person whose lands
have become forfeited for non.payment of
taxes may redeem the same with the bills at
their face value. Second, in the cases now
pending in court where tender Of the bills
had been made for last years taxes, and such
has been held to be legal, the holders may
pay their taxes in such bills, provided they
be endorsed by the judge by whom such bills
may have been held to be legal. Persons
holding bills who are not parties to any such
suits, and who may desire to avail themselves of
the benefits of the act and get their bills ap-
proved, can come into court In all taxes to
be hereafter levied the holders of the bills are
at liberty to pay one-tenth of their tax in the
bills. The act further provides that in the
cases enumerated the bills shall be received
only for State, and not for county taxes, and
directs the various county toeasurers to make
animal returns of the bills of the bank reciev-
ed by them in accordance with the provisions
of the act.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-24
WHY THE RITTER DIDN'T COME.

They have new hired girl over at Key
ser's farm just outside of Newcastle, and on
Tuesday, before starting to spend the day
with friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed the
girl to whitewash the kitchen in her absence.
Upon returning, Mrs. Keyser found the JOB
completed in avery satisfactory manner. On
Wednesdays Mrs. Keyser always churns, and
last Wednesday when she was ready she went
out, and finding that Mr.. Keyser had already
put the milk into the churn, began to turn the
handle. This was at eight o'clock in the
morning, and she turned until ten without
any signs of butter appearing. Then she called
in the hired man and he turned until dinner
time, when he knocked off with some very
offensive language addressed to the butter
which had not yet come After dinner the
hired girl took hold of the crank and turned
energetically until two o'clock, when she let
20, with the remark that conveyed the impress
sion that she believed the churn to be haun-
ted. Then Mr.. Keyser came out and said he
wanted to know what was the matter with the
churn anyhow 1t was good enough churn
if people only knew how to use it. Mr.. Key
ser then worked the crank until halfpast
three, when, as the butter had not yet come,
he surrendered it again to the hired man. be-
cause he had an engagement in the village.
The man ground the machine to an accom-
paniment of frightful imprecations. Then the
Keyser children each took turn for half an
hour, then Mrs. Keyser tried her hand and
when she was exhausted the hired girl, who
said her prayers while she turned. But the
butter didn't come. When Keyser came
home and found the churn still in action he
blasted his eyes and did some other innocent
swearing, and then he seized the handle and
said he'd make the butter come if he knocked
up an earthquake in doing it. Mr.. Keyser
affected about 200 revolutions of the crank
minute, enough to have made any ordinary
butter come from the ends of the earth and
when the perspiration began to stream from
him and still the butter didn't come, he utter
ed one wild yell of rage and disappointment
and kicked the churn over the fence. When
Mrs. Keyser went to pick it up she put her
nose down close to the butter-milk and took
sniff. Then she understood how it was The
girl had mixed the wbitewash in the churn
and left it there A good, honest servant who
knows how to churn can find situation at
Keyser's. There is vacancy.
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and substituted his own. An old trick ena-
bled him to get the real bullet between his
teeth while the waxen one was shattered to
pieces. So with the second ball, it was shat
tered upon the wall, but spot of blood was
produced.
When VIM. H. Seward made his tour
around the world he witnessed some perfor-
nance of juggers in India which were quite
surprising. He saw man climb bare pole
sixty feet high, standing in the open air, and
when he reached the top he mysteriously dis
appeared. After while his feet reappeared,
then his legs and body, and he came down.
He claimed no supernatural powers. How
did he do it?
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-24

"THE OLD FLAG."-The stars and stripes
became the national flag of the United States
of America, by virtue Of resolution Of Con-
gress passed June IA, 1777. The use of
stripes to mark the number of states on the
flag cannot be clearly traced, but can be &C.
counted for by custom Of the camp at Cam
bridge The army of citizen volunteers COM
prised all grades Of men. Very few were
uniformed. It was almost impossible for the
sentinels to distinguish general officers from
privates. Frequently officers were placed at
the outposts and held for Identification until
the arrival of the officer of the day. Orders
we're issued that the different grades of officers
should be distinguished by colored ribbon
of light blue. The stars on the blue field
"a new constellation suggested by
the constellation Lyra, time-honored as an
emblem of union. The thirteen stars with
which the flag was originally adorned were
to represent the number of States, and from
time to time as new States have been annexed,
the number of stars have been increased.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-24

as having the right to be placed on the same
footing in every respect as all the other he.
publican Senators. They ask that a select
committee shall be appointed, with power to
make the fullest investigation into Southern
affairs, and they claim that if this is done they
will be vindicated from the charges brought
against them and those with whom they affili-
ate. The labors of Hercules would most GER
tainly sink into insigni6cance by the side of
such an attempt as this. But the Republican
majority in the Senate is very much depen'
dent upon the fidelity of the carpet-baggers,
and realizing this fact, the caucus was con-
strained to promise to take the matter into
consideration"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-24

LuD1cRousS SCENE IN PULPIT.-A South
German paper relates the following: "ln a
Bavarian town of the most pronounced Cath
olic orthodoxy, the priest preached Lately
against Old Catholics, and related such horrl-
bic things about them that his pious hearers
were literally horror.sticken at Old Catholic
impieties. Atlast the preacher cried out, The
Old Catholics are 80 vile that they will all be
cast into the pit, and if what say is not true,
may the devil take me now on the spot !
His excitement was terrible, and he so struck
the cushion that the book fell fromit. Not far
from the pulpit sat an American, who had
negro servant with him, to whom he beckoned
to take the book up to the priest who, per-
haps had never seen one of those sons OF Ham
in his life. The negro at once obeyed, and
as he mounted the lowest of the pulpit steps
the clergyman repeated his wish, that the
devil might come and take him if what he
had said against the Old Catholics was not
true.
"Although thenegro went softly, the preach
er heard bis footsteps, and, turning round,
saw black object solemnly, steadily, and
surely approaching him. He looked at him
WlCl terTOr, auu UelIeFiuS Inoe no "o"u ~
the next instant collared by his Satanic MAJ
esty, he cried out, with trembling voice, 1T is,
after all, possible that there may good people
among the Old Catholics Turning then
round to see if the object had disappeared, he
saw it still steadily approaching. The per.
spiration burst out upon his brow, and full OF
despair be called out, There are many good
people among the Old Catholics? Thinking
that this would suffice, he turned round, but
what was his horror to find the object was
close at hand. Imagining himself in the
very spof Beelzebub, turning partly to the
negro and partly to the congregation, ne
cried out, May the devil come and take me
if all the Old Catholics are not better than we
arep The terrified priest tainted from the
fright, and it was only after some time that
he recovered"
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AN ENGAGING MANNER.-Politeness is to
man what beauty is to woman. 1t creates
an instantaneous impression in his behalf,
while, the opposite quality exercises as quick
pre- judice against him. The politician who
has this advantage, easily distances all the
rival candidates, for every voter he speaks
with become instantly his friends. The very
tones in which be asks for pinch of snuff are
often more potent than the logic of a Webster
or Clay. Polished manners have often
made scoundrels successful, while the best OF
men, by their hardness and coldness, have
done themselves incalculable injury-the shell
being 50 rough that the world could not be-
lieve there was precious kernel within it.
Had Raleigh never flung down his cloak in
the mud for the proud Elizabeth to walk on,
his career in life would scarcely have been
worth recording. Scores of men have been
successful in life by pleasing manners alone.
A trait Of character we'll worth cultivating,
lads. Never forget the value Of true civility.