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sagacity of a Connecticut Dog,

Our neighbor Chauncey Hart has dog that Is remarkable for his apparent knowledge of the English language, if his owners statement about the dog is true--and as to veracity there is no queS tion. Mir. Hart is blacksmith by trade, and has an acre or so of land which he cultivates, and during the season of hoe ing he rises at about four o'clock in the morning to subdue the weeds. His dog is always with him. When the time ar rives for making fire to prepare the morning meal, Mr. Hart goes into the house, makes the fire, and says to the dog, "Go call your mistress He goes immediately to the bedroom and wakes her. If she does not notice the call, the dog will pull the clothing off the bed, and will not leave until she gets up. If MT. Hart sees pack. peddler coming, he says to the dog, Carlo, there is pack k-peddler coming" He will start off at once, and prevent his coming on to the premises.
 On another occasion Mir Hart walked over to a neighbours house just as the neighbor came home with some bones he had procured for his chickens and threw them out of his wagon. Carlo got one of them and brought it near where they were talking. When Mr. Hart saw it he said, "Carlo, that bone don't belong to you; go carry it back where you found 1t, and go home" Carlo carried the bone back 10 the place where he got it, trotted off about ten rods toward home and sat down waiting for his master. The neigh bor also had dog of about the same size that Was in hearing. Seeing Carlo where he had sat down, the other dog picked up the bone and carried it to within few feet of Carlo; there he laid 1t down and came back a little way. Af- ter waiting while and seeing that Carlo did not take it, he placed it little near. CT, came back as before, and waited for Carlo to take it; but Carlo would not. The third time the bone was placed near er--very close to him this time--but he would not touch it, but sat there until Mir. Hart went home. When he came up to where the dog Was sitting he said, Carlo, you may have that bone now. ? The dog immediately picked 1t up and carried il home Nothing was said to either dog but the order It carry back the bone. But both dogs seemed to know what was said the visited dog was de- termined that Carlo should accept the prOtfered bone as pledge of friendship and as hospitable eDtertainneHt.-- UA- i0nctNe (CO'4nl Letter to LarJ0rd Times.
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Giving Advice.

Advice is a tirst-rate thing when the person knows what he or she is talking about. Bat there e volumes of advice and council W h,ch are utterly useless, be cause 1t Is simply the result uf all uncon- trVliable desire to Say sUmething-what, makes no difference. Advice, to be worth anything, needs to be matured in the mind before it is uttered IL is alto gether better. however, as rule, to at tend to your business and let other peo- ple's alone, unless you are invited io in terfere. Public men are especially the victims of the advice given. All men and women in the world think them selves called upon to give man who happens lu be in public life a sort of ad- vice, seeming entirely to lose sight of the very nnporiant fact that any who has mind enough ln attract any considerable share oi public attention probably has enough io tnais rgc his Owa affairs. Get IU0r Ov affairs Ill good shape and keep them in II and dO mol waste so much Vf lite in leoking after other people.
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The Trifier's Victim

Slowly tolled the deep. toned bell of the church of St. Louis, while from be- meath its massive arches issued forth long funeral procession. By the coffin, covered with white satin, and blazing with rich silver plates, the snowwhite plumes of the hearse with it's draperies of spotless white, and by the four young girls. who, dressed in white, and wear ing long white veils reaching to the ground. each holding in her hand one of the four white ribbons attached to the coffin, might be known that she whom they were bearing to her last resting place was young, while the long train of carriages that followed bore ample testi- mony to the wealth and rank of the de ceased. The priests clad in their long scarlet tunics, and bearing aloft blazing torches, their company headed by the
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SANDY HOOK.
CHURCHES.

MEIHoDIsT.-Rev James Taylor, pastor. Ser vices, lo-S0 A. M., l.30 ahd r. M. sunday school ll.45 A. M. Prayer meeting Thursday evenings, s F. M.
 6r- JoHS's CHAPEL Rev. Francis W. Bar nett assistant minister. Services l PM. Sunday School F M-
 SOCIETIES.
 GRANITE LODGE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF Coop TEaPLARs:-moet in hall over H. L. Wheeler Furniture Wareroom every Friday evening. Otfi- cers, J. F. Biackman, w. C. I, Mrs. W. W. Per kins WY. T, Christian Beahler, W. s. Mrs. k. A. Bennett, W. F. D., Mrs. H. L. Wheeler w. T.. Wm. B. Terrill, W. M Miss N. A. Judson, ". | G., Miss Ella 5. Peck, W. o. G, John I. Griffin, I. W. T.
 HIRA& LODGE, No IS, F. A. M.--Meet in Ma sonic Hall, lst aud Sd ednrsdys of each month Officers: Wm. 1 Saudford, WAL, john Sandford, Sr. w., Bomers Croiut. Jr. w.. James A. Wilson Sect. H. L. Wheeler, Treas and Chapn., Mm. Ackley, Sr. Dea-, Chester Hard, Steward. A. W. Orgelmann, Tier
 ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER. Meet Second Thursday of each month, in Masonic Hall. Officers; Geo. Wodenden, Il. P. H. L. Wheeler, K., James M B.seknaan, bciibe-, Wm. l. sanford, c of H., Jar A. Wilson. P. B.. G. A. Hough, R. A. c.
 ALPHA JUVENILE TEMPLE No l.--meet In Lodge Room over Furniture store every Sunday after. noon, at 4.3o o'clock. Miss Ella Peck, Supt. r " ferkins. W c T.
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HnlIsatnnic Railroad,

Time Table. To take efisPt July 10, ls7I-
 Trains Leare Nssotosoia tsoing North, l0. 4 a. n, 1: .45 3.U5 5. g ana 7.O5 P. m. lO-47 4. III. and 5 .2g D. in tralris connect tt BrOohheld Junc- tion with trains for DaIbury.
 Going South, 6. Is and | 40 q. m., 5.05 and 7S5 p. h. Sunday Train, I.45 p. m.
 frains Leare HaaoLeyeius Going North, l05' a. m., l 20 S.25 5.iU aud 1.z0 F.. iu. lO e1 q. ln- and 5 40 D. LII. trains connect at Brookfeid Junc- ton with tnuns for Dsanbury.
 Going Sos.th, 6. .95 and Il 80 a. m., 455 and 72O D. Ill. sunday Milk Traiu, 7.3O P m
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Shepaug Railroad.

ARRANGEMENT OF TRAINS. commencing August i3, loI1. Connecting Trains Ledue Nertotcn at lO, ,4I a. m. and 5.2g p. m. Arriye at Lltchneld Z. 20 and f-o9 D. m Saturddys an additional Connection is made by Train passing Aewtown at 7.t5 m-. with Train arriving at Litchteld at l0.0o P. III. L<aut LisehfeId al 9-S5 a. n. Mondays [. 10 a. ni.l and s.5op III arriving at Hawleyville Il. 80 a. m- [Aondays 9. 10 a. m.l and 7.03 p.m., con- meeting with trains on Housatonic R. K
 !Sunday Ailk Trufn leaves LItchteld 1. 70 ?. m. and connects with HuusAtonic AIilk Train.
 c. Il. PLATT, Supt.
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
hewtown & Woodbury Stage Line.

Leaves Woodbury ut 7.3O g. m., sonthbury at 8.su a.ln., South Britain at a. m ., Bennett's Bridge at 5. 3U a. nl., Berkshire Ut 10 q. m Sandy Hook at 10. 50 a. Ill. arriving at Newtowu to meet the 10. f a.m. Up Train, and leaves for Woed- bury the arri7al of the l1.40 rn Down IT an, and arrives at Woodbury ut p. h., the same time as the Woodbury and Seymour Stage.
 GEORGE TYLER, Proprietor.
 Gesotospn. Aug. 2d, lsI.
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PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
~ @ w 2 " " Ats POST-OFFICE,

Mails Open Prom the South, ll.2O A. NJ. and -UU r. M. From the North, l2.U0 M. and co P. n. Mails close:-Going North, l0.SO A. NJ. and 4.45 P. N. Going eouth, at Il. .2j A. NJ. and i. .45 P. M
 z 5. PECK, I. M.
 CHURCHES.
 TRINITY CHURCH. Main Street. Rev. Newton E. Marble. D. D., recsur- Services 10 3u 4. k. Suu- day School, F n. Afternoon service, atl. CONGREGATIONAL Man Street, Rev. James P Hoyt, pastor. Services l0.50 A. M. sunday school II, A. M. Afternoon Services, l P. M CATHoLIo:--Main Street, Rev. Father McCarton pastor. Services, 1915 A. M Sunday School, l2.30 F. N.
 SOCIETIES..
 OLIvE BRANCH JUVENILE TEMPLE NO H.-Pub- lie meeting every Sunday afternoon at 6 o'clock, in South Centre School house, officers; Mrs $ \ Beers, Snpt, Miss M F Peck, erc ST- PATRICKs TEMPERANCE SoCIErY-Rey Fath- CT James McCartan President, John Mooney Vice, President, Thomas Egan Secretary, Patrick Cain Treasurer.
 NEwTowS LIBRARY AssoCIATIoN.-E. L John- son President, Charles BeresfOrd Vice President, A. F. Peck Secretary aud Treasurer.
 M. r. PECK Librarian.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Special Notices, Ten Gents per line first, and Five Cents for each subsequent insertion.
 Transient advertising payable iu advance. No dead-beat advertising taken. Yearly advertise fessionxl and Business Cards ito occupy not more than five lines s5.OO year. Regular yearly ad vertisers, whose bills amount to .lU or over, will receive the paper free. .
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Peoples Line.

offer my services to the travelling pubic, and can be found all times ready convey passengers aud from the De yot, or to Sandy Hook and NewtUwn St. Charges moderate. Remember the "G.wernsr,
 GEORGE REDSTONE.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-15

When young heart grows weary and
sorrowful Ger the little ills Of life that
no one can hinder, it is better to bear
than to murmur. It is always better to
turn away from trouble than to add to
it by brooding over it in sadness. The
heart ever feeds freely on the food we
prepare for it. If the mind is busy with
scenes and achievements of the pure, the
good, and the beautiful, little room will
be left for despair. Do the trials of life
thicken about us? So have they done
to others. Is the journey of earth dark
ened by defeat, hope hidden away in
the chamber of disappointment So has
it often been to others of our race, and
so it will be through all generations.
But in the darkest of life's dreariness
some bright memories will steal over us,
and from the prayer of the never forgot
ten past will be found volume of good
thought wherever bitterness has been
sweetened by hope; and sorrow may be
mellowed by gladness. None are 50 poor
but others have tasted of poverty's cup
before them none are SO grieyed but
others have borne sorrow equal to their
own: and none are 80 cast down as to
be below the lowest of their race.
Some friends may prove treacherous,
others will be true. Some hearts may
betray us, others will support and COM
fort us. We may be strangers cast In a
lonely country, with little to enliven or
encourage good living. but nearer than
ever will come back the joys of other
days, and more fond than ever will be
their memory.
It's something to have lived some good
days something to have known what
Joy is, and what happiness is. when it is
rightly understood. It would be rare
life and rarer history to find a whole
life of unalloyed enjoyment; it would
be wonderful if more than one-half oul
days should pass in perfect pleasure
Courage, then, is the cure for disap.
pointment. A busy life full of good
thoughts, useful employment and self
denial-a heart oyerhowing with love
for humanity, will clear the blue sky o.
its darkness, and let in the sunshine Of
brightness and good cheer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-15
INDUSTRY.

The industrious man always finds
more leisure for study and investigation
than the lazy, shiftless man. The busy
men keep the world moving the busy
men sustain the farmers clubs, the
Oranges and the main projects of pro-
gress and improvement. The lazy man
is always full of trouble; he never sue
ceeds /; he is always finding fault with
every one but himself. 1t is the idle
men who mutiny at sea, and there IS a
wor Id Of philosophy in realizing the fact.
We remember an old Cape Cod sea cap
tain who, when there was nothing else
to do, ordered the watch on deck to scour
the anchor. Some one calls cheerfulness
the daughter Of employment, and it is
certainly true that occupation is the nee
essary basis of all enjoyment. Men who
have half dozen irons in the fire are
not the ones to go crazy. Put in all the
irons you have, shovel, poker, tongs and
all. without the least fear of being too
busy. 1t is the man of voluntary or
compelled leisure who mopes and pines
himself into the mad-house or the grave.
Employment is natures physician, ac-
cordlng to Galen, and any occupation
which is innocent is most certainly bet
ter than none at all.
Schiller declared that he found the
greatest happiness in life to consist in
the regular discharge of some mechani-
cal duty. Motion is natures law; &C.
tion is mans salvation, physical and
mental. Stagnant water becomes putrid,
flowing water is pure and sweet. Idle
ness IN man is just as surely moral
death. No thoroughly occupied man
was ever yet miserable, though he may
have had an idle moment in which he
may have thought SO. Discomfort arises
under want of occupation, and that no
man need be without who is blessed with
health, eyes, hands and the usual ply
sical endowments. Real life is thought
and action. and usefulness lengthens our
days. Laziness, like rust, eats into the
very heart of our strength !; it is the
paralysis of the soul. Nature never lies
fallow if we grow nothing useful, be
sure we shall ourselves run to weeds.
And yet nine persons out of ten are
looking forward to the coveted hour
when they shall have leisure to do moth
ing, or, in other words, to allow their
energies to stagnate. False philosophy.
All power appears in transition; the
FREELY only glows when upon the wing.
Keep busy, that is the. true motto. That
man among US is only truly wise who
lays himself out to work till life's latest
hour, and that is the man who will live
the longest and who will live to the
most purpose. We live in deeds, not in
years. Keep busy
"Absence of occupation is not rest;
A mind quite vacant is mind distressed"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-15
THE BLUES.

Probably every living thing is more
or less subject to depression of spirits
by which we mean to include animals;
and we are by no means sure that the
malady does not extend to the vegetable
kingdom as well.
Is there any earthly cure Certainly.
Plenty of them; just as there ere for
chills and fever. but in like manner they
will not always work. We know one
man who walks off an attack, another
who rows it off, another who rides it off
in the saddle. These are all dyspeptics.
The same prescriptions, aided perhaps
by lemon juice or dilute nitromuriatic
acid, often prove effective in the case of
bilious folks.
When the cause is, as it often is, ner.
vous exhaustion, good remedy is cessa-
tion of all work, religious and secular,
plenty of sleep, and, if the constitution
can bear it, cold water bathing.
Always an ounce of prevention is
worth pound of cure, for when the at
tack has once set in it requires strong
effort of the will to take active measures
for relief
1t is not an easy task to fight off the
blues. Misfortune, sorrow, individual
temperament, and even the accidents of
wind and weather, often combine to
weigh down the soul until, in extreme
instances, insanity may be the result
Probably that which comes nearest to
being panacea is occupation, by which
is meant anything that will interest the
brain or quicken the circulation. Those
who suffer most from the blues permit
mind and body to relax before the at
tack is fully developed.
Nevertheless there is no rule which
can be trusted to cure every one. Each
must find out what is most effectual in
his own case and if he prays for aid
from on high, he must rise up and go
right to work helping himself, if he ex-
poets his prayer to be answered.-Chrss-
tian Union.
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BE NEIGHBORLY.

A few genial, neighborly, klnd-heart-
ed citizens will transform gloomy viii
lage into an earthly paradise. Selfish
ness is apt to color even our thoughts,
and he who begrudges kind words and
pleasant smiles is a miser. The happi-
ness and comfort of each individual men,
Der of society is SO thoroughly dependent
on the bearing and disposition of his
neighbor that it becomes at once the du-
ty, as it is the pleasure, of each person,
to strive to contribute his quota of gen.
erous feelings and considerate actions to
the common fund of human happiness.
To be pleasant, neighborly, good natur-
ed, is not necessarily connected with an
outlay of money; sympathetic look, an
encouraging word. will often accomplish
far higher mission than dollar bill
could hope to reach. A hearty shaking
of the hand and a frank '.goud morning,
slr," awaken kindly feeling that the
clink of silver dollars would quickly
dissipate. One who is suffering from
pain or writhing under misfortune re-
ceives vastly more comfort from neigh
boris kindly Offices and generous sympa-
thies, than any pecuniary gift can be-
stow. Society itself is held together by
mutual forbearance of its members. Did
each one assert his supposed rights by
physical force, instead of mutual for
bearance and consideration for the rights
of others, cities, villages and neighbor-
hoods would be impossibilities. since
peace could only be procured by widely
separating the contending factions.
Aside from the satisfying and elevating
influence of neighborly acts of kindness
and social enjoyment, aside from the
quiet, peaceful atmosphere of an unself-
ish, self-sacrifcing community, such
qualities have mercenary value. Value
of real estate. desirability of certain To-
calities for residence. depend largely
upon the reputation of the community
for generous and commendable neighbor-
ly qualities /; and even public spirit, as
asserted in good schools, churches. parks,
roads and public works, has its origin
in an enlarged, neighborly feeling, a de-
sire to see all about us the comforts and
inestimable blessings of happy, pleasant
| homes
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-15

A SMALL Boy ON ToBAcco.-Tobacco
grows something like cabbage, but |
never saw none boiled, although l have
eaten boiled cabbage and vinegar on it.
and have heard men say that cigars that
was given to them one day for nothing
was cabbage leaves. Tobacco stores are
mostly kept by wooden lnjuns, who stand
at the doors and fool little boys by offer
ing them a bunch of cigars, which is
glued into the Injun's hands, and is
made of wood also. Hogs don't like to-
bacco, neither do /. 1 tried to smoke a
cigar once, and it made me feel like
Epson salts. Tobacco was invented by
man named Walter Raleigh. When
the people first saw him smoking, they
thought he was a steamboat, and they
were frightened. My sister Nancy is a
girl. I do not know whether she likes
tobacco or not. There is young man
named Leroy who comes to see her. He
was standing on the steps one night, and
he had cigar in his mouth, and he said
he didn't know as she would like 1t, and
she said, Leroy, the perfume is agreea-
ble." But next morning, when my big
brother Tom lighted his pipe, Nancy
said, "Get out of the house, you horrid
creature, the smell of tobacco smoke
makes me sick" Snuff is Injun meal,
made out of tobacco. took little
snuff once, and then l sneezed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-15

How TO AVOID BEATING.-A wo-
man who had suffered barbarous beat
ings from her husband, went to a noted
wise man of the village to inquire how
she might cure these paroxysms of vio-
lence. The soothsayer heard her COM
plant; and after pronouncing some hard
words and using various gesticulation
while he filled vial with mysterious
mixture, desired her, whenever her hus-
band was in a passion, to take mouth
full of the liquor, and keep it in her
mouth for FIVE minutes. The woman,
quite overjoyed at SO simple remedy,
strictly followed the counsel which was
given her, and escaped the usual chas-
tisement. The contents of the bottle
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failure And yet she had been inno-
cent before the tribunal of his judg-
ment she was blameless. Yet she was
dead-what mattered this long-deferred
discovery-it was too late now! Too
late for her, but not too late for her chill
dren. They should be his, and he would
be their father. And it was even so.
Richard and Violet Gray went forth no
more from Ireton Hall henceforth their
home was with the early friend of their
mother.
Unbounded was the surprise in Mil
ford when it was known that Mr.. Steele
had adopted two strange children but
still greater was the astonishment when,
on the following Sunday. the rich man
walked into church, leading the orphans,
one on either side. The good work was
begun, and it went on until Richard
Steele's whole nature was revolutionized.
Years afterwards, while he lay on his
death-bed, loving and grieving friends
were around him, and at the very last
he fancied he saw the face of his lost
Violet lowering above the couch.
And at his funeral there were few dry
eyes, for the poor had learned to bless
his bounty, and the sick and distressed
offered up his name in their prayers.
And, therefore, say not that because
men are harsh and cold there is no oasis
in the desert, for in every human heart,
however strong. there is fountain of
sweet water, and happy is he who breaks
the finty barriers and allows the stream
to gush forth.
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being at last expended, she returned to
the wise man, anxiously begging to have
a fresh supply Of the same liquid. "You
foolish woman II said the soothsayer {:
.there was nothing in the bottle but
brown sugar and water. When your
husband is in a passion, hold your
tongue, and, my life for it, he will not
lay finger upon you 2
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No ESCAPE FOR THE SEDUcER.-"No
man will ever prosper who has the curse
of a ruined woman upon him. The mnr-
derer of the body can be tried and exc
cuted by the worlds laws, but the mur-
derer of the soul IS tried by heavens
laws, and the execution is sure as divine
justice"
Aunt Betsey said this as she folded
the white hands of beautiful girl, and
put white flowers and green leaves about
the marble cold forehead. There was
tiny babe beside the girl mother. The
house was hushed, and there was mourn
ing such as people know. Half glad
that the mother and child were dead,
the rest Of the family must perform the
last sad Office of burial. ard bear the
family shame. A haunted housei A
ruined home God the architect, and
man the spoiler. The curse is there. and
the destroyer cannot escape Won'dm's
Journal
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A SONG OF THE COUNTRY.

Away from the roar and the rattle.
The dust and the din of the town.
Where to live is to brawl and to battle
Till the strong treads the weak man down.
Away to the bonnie green hills
Where the sunshine sleeps on the bay,
And the heart OF the greenwood thrills
To the hymn OF the bird on the spray.
Away from the smoke and the smother.
The veil Of the dun and the brown,
The push and the plash and the pother.
The wear and the waste Of the town;
Away where the sky shines clear.
And the light breeze wanders at will,
And the dark pine-wood mods near
To the lght-plumed biren on the hill.
Away from the whirling and wheeling.
And stoamlng above and below,
Where the heart has no leisure for feeling.
And the thought has no quiet to grow,
Away where the clear brook purls,
And the hyacinth droops in the shade,
And the plume Of the fern uncurls
It's grace in the depth Of the glade.
Away to the cottage so sweetly
Endowed meath the fringe Of the wood.
Where the wife of my bosom shall meet me
With thoughts ever kindly and good;
More dear than the wealth Of the world,
Fond mother with bairnies three.
And the plump-armed babe that has curled
Its lips sweetly pouting for me.
Then away from the roar and the rattle,
The dust and the din Of the town,
Where 10 live Is to brawl and to battle
Till the strong treads the weak man down.
Away where the green twigs nod
In the fragrant breath Of the May.
And the sweet growth spread on the sod,
And the blithe birds sing on the spray.