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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08

The kind Of flower oftenest raised by
the mothers of unruly boys-The "lady
slipper"
The best summer resort for babies
Rockaway. The best for bad boys
Long branch.
People learn wisdom by experience.
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh.
A fool has many disadvantages-he
cannot indulge in the luxury of making
a fool of himself.
There is man in Scituate who snores
so loud that he is obliged to sleep in the
next town so as not to wake himself
nights.
Some of the last spring chickens who
have just found out that they are roos-
ters, make great fuss about 1T these
mornings.
Never 90 round the back way if you
want to call on q mule. He might mis-
take you for tramp and kick you into
the next town.
You're a smart fellow" sneered q
lawyer to a witness, the other day. "Td
return the compliment if / wasn't under
oath" replied the witness.
Enthusiastic Youth on horse car
''That star over there is Mars" Un-
sympathetic Driver-'Is it? Then the
other one, l suppose, is pas"
When a clergyman remarked they
were to have a nave in the new church
an old lady whispered that she ''knev
the party to whom he referred"
The sting of hornet will paralyze 9
spider. 1t has q directly opposite efFec
on man, rousing all his faculties into tn,
widest and most vigorous action.
The economical baby put its toes it it
mouth in order to make both ends meet
-Neac Orleans Picay1me That's wha
makes so many tOe-headed babies.-.St
Louis Journal.
"Oh. George, I'm ashamed of you
rubbing your lips like that, after tha
dear little French girl has given you
kiss p "I'm not rubbing it out, nanny
Pm rubbing it in"
One of the noble red men recently car
tured and taken to Washington senter
tiously observed, on seeing locomotiv
for the first time, "Heap wagon,-n
hoss."
The man who comes to the depot OIL
minute behind time. and sees the raj
road train scudding out of the other en'
derives no satisfaction or comfort fro
the prOverb Better late than never"
my son, would you suppope Il
Lords Prayer could be engraved in
space no larger than the area Of nick
cent?" "Well, yes, father, if cent
o as big in everybOdy's eye as it is
D yours l think there would be DO dificr
ty in putting it on about four times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08
BOYS.

What daredevil, fnn-loying and inde-
pendent creatures boys are. Never tired
of getting into scrapes, they are and ever
will be trial to mothers and an unread
able book to people in general. Although
but an embryo man, in his opinion, he
always was. and in Importance is, man.
He is always ready to advance his opin-
ion on all occasions of Importance, and
seldom willing to be seen and not heard.
Your true boys only regular habit is
the habit of being on hand at meal-timc,
where he does full justice to all that is
set before him. But "boys will be boys"
and therefore let US make them men in
their youth.
Some say that boys arc not sensitive
and are ill-mannered and selfish. But
do not think that because he does not
wish to give up some plan of his, for the
sake of obliging you, that this is the
case. He has entered into whatever
plan he has made with his whole sole,
and is as fully taken up with his ideas
as stock speculator is with some of his
transactions. Let the boy grow conf
dent in his own opinions and give him a
chance to circulate and he will soon find
out when it is best to speak or keep ST.
lent If they don't know how to lift
the hat or make bow, say thank you,
or if you please, it does not matter.
You can easily see whether a boy is
grateful for kindness or not. Idislike
to see boy mimicing fashionable fop
who would not have the energy to lift
his hat if it were not for the sake of
appearance. And this wearing cane.
1t is silly and looks weak; looks as
though you were dependent, like the boy
who does not know what to do with his
hands and would give dollar for cane
to twirl. Get them in the habit Of read
ing. If you can get them started on
good books, all right But ten to one
they will, if they have the inclination,
read all they want of the latest novels
and you never know thing about it
Encourage them to bring whatever they
read into the house and read it openly
If they get started on dime novels LEI
them have their fill. They will soon gel
tired of it if you will not oppose them
and will want something more solid
something they can see through like
pane of glass. There is good deal O
sound sense in a boy if you will let hin
Judge for himself. / think that in som,
? of our public libraries there are novel
drier than husks and which it is impos
sible for any one to read unless it i
fashionable, or the reader has some dis
= ease of the brain. If your boys ge
strange freaks in their heads let then
: run to the end of the rope and they vii
seldom call for more.
Young America especially hates t
have his opinions taken for naught, an
. when he finds he is losing ground he wi
be ready enough to try something els
s more favorable. Make them toe th
+ mark in one thing, at all odds. That
in sending them to school regularl.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08

Any boy with common sense will, by the
time he is sixteen, be perfectly satisfied
with the arrangement. and would be the
first one to blame you if you had let him
have his own way. You have heard the
motto wherever there is will there is
way" You will find that boys, if
they have a will, will always find the
way. Therefore be sure that you keep
them busy at something you know of,
rather than having them working at
something secretly.
Do not be in hurry to make little
gentleman Of them. They will be gen.
tlemen soon enough, for no boy when he
becomes old enough likes to be thought
ill-mannered. Give me the boys who go
to school and mind their books and never
think Of taking their girls to parties till
they are not afraid of getting homesick
if they should stay away from their
mother a month.
Boys, remember some day that you
will be men, and don't act SO like calves
in your boyhood, that you will be
thought calves all your lives.
Give me energetic, blunt. hearty. out
spoken boys and those who can listen
when older people talk, and talk them
selves, of politics, news and the events
transpirlng, as well as Of cigars, balls,
styles and dress, like some boarding.
school miss of sixteen. These will make
your outspoken, true gentlemen and you
may depend on them in every emergen-
cy. The 'boy is father of the man,
can be said with few exceptions. There
fore make your boys something like you
would have your men, in disposition
and character. Ohio Farmer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08

"You may bet your life on that" l
returned, staggering up to the corner
where had seen the old woman count
ing and packing the counterfeit half
dollars.
Fortune favored me. None of the
men present had ever seen Ned Willett,
although his reputation was well known
to them, and my staggering, insolent
manner had somewhat thrown them off
their guard, yet I could plainly see that
all their doubts were not removed.
"And you call these things well done,
do you ?" I asked, taking up roll of
the money. "well, all can say is that
if you can't do better than this you had
better shut up shop, that's ALL
's3z you show US anything better !"
asked one the men.
81 rsyther think can. If couldn't
I'd 60 aad hang myself"
"Let's see it, they all cried.
This was my last coup, and one on
which knew my life depended.
"Lookee here, gentlemen, I exclaim-
ed, taking one of the counterfeit half
dollars from my pocket which has been
rejected at the bank, "here is my last
job; what do you think of it?"
1t was passed from hand to hand,
some saying it was no counterfeit at all,
others saying that it was.
elbow will you prove it is counter
felt ?" asked one of the men.
"By weighing it with a genuine one, "
l replied.
This plan was Immediately adopted,
and its character proved.
Perhaps he got this by accident" l
heard one of the men whisper to an
other
"Try these" said 1 taking the other
two from my pocket.
All their doubts now vanished.
beautiful p exclaimed some" Splen
did," said others.
When-they had examined it to their
satisfaction, they all of them cordially
shook me by the hand, every particle of
doubt having vanished from their minds.
| carried out my part we'll. Some ques-
tions were occasionally asked me, in
volving some of the technicalities of the
business these however, I avoided by
stating that was on a journey of pleas
ure, and would much rather drink a
glass of whiskey than answer questions.
II. whiskey was produced, and we
made a uISuV AZ, ssuu ",ss unUrl
morning had dawned that we separated.
The next day returnrd to Chicago,
and brought down the necessary assist
ance, and captured the whole gang Of
ccunterfeiters in the very act. This
party was broken up forever, and most
of them were condemned to serve term
of years in the State prison.
l have those counterfeit half dollars
still in my possession, and intend never
to part with them, for they were certain
ly the means of saving my life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08
AN OLD UMBRELLA.
DY @. p. oRANcH.

An old umbrella in the hall.
Battered and baggy, quaint and queer
by all the rains OF many year
Bent, stained, and faded-that is all.
Warped, broken. twisted by the blast
or twenty winters, till at last,
Like some poor close-reefed schooner cast,
All water-logged, with half a mast,
Upon the rocks, II finds n nook
or shelter on an entry hook:
Old battered craft, how came you here9
All. could II speak, 'twould tell Of one
Old Simon Dowles, who now is gone
Gone where the weary are at rest
or one VINO locked within his breast
His private sorrows DER his lot.
And his humble work forgot
That he was but a toiling bark
Upon the billows in the dark.
While tho brave newer ships swept by.
Sailing beneath a prosperous sky,
And winged with opportunities
Fate had denied 10 hands like his.
A plain old-iashioned wight was he
As these sport-loving days could SEQ.
He in his youth had loved and lost
His loyal truo-love. Ever since
His lonely life was fiecked and crossed
By sorrows nameless shadow-tints;
Yet never a murmur from his lips
Told Of his darkenod souls eclipse.
often think l stIll can hear
His voice So blithe, his tones Of cheer.
As. dropping in TO say good day."
He gossiped In his old mans way.
And yet we laughed when he had gone.
We youngsters couldn't understand
No matter II IL rained or snone,
lie held the umbrella in his hand.
Or # he set II In the hall,
Where other shedders Of the rain
Stood dripping up against the WALL
Ills was too shabby and too plain
To tempt exchange all passed 1t by,
Though showers Of rain were pouring down
And all the cutters Of the town
Were torrents In the darkening sky.
He never left II once behind.
Save the last time he crossed our door.
Oblivious shadows o'er his mind
Presaged his falling strength. Before
The morning he had passed away
In peaceful sleep from night TO day.
And here the old brown umbrella still
In its old corner stays to fll
Tho place. as best IL may. OF him
Who. on this wild and wintry night.
Is surely with the saints Of light;
For whom my eyes grow moist and dim
While this simple rhvme lndite.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08
WE CAN MAKE HOME HAPPY.

Though VIC may not change the cottage,
For the mansion tall and grand.
Or exchange the little grass spot
For boundless stretch Of land
Yet there's something brighter, dearer,
Than the wealth we'd thus command.
Though we have no means TO purchase
Costly pictures rich and rare
Though we have no silken hangings
For the walls so cold and bare,
We can hang them DER with garlands
For the flowers bloom everywhere.
We can make home very cheerful
II the right course we begin;
We can mako the inmates happy
And their truest blessings win,
It will make small room brighter
II we let the sunshine in.
We can gather round the fire-side
When the evening hours arc long
We can blend our hearts and voices
In happy. social song;
We can guide some erring brother,
Lead him from the path Of wrong.
We may fll our homes with music
And with sunshine brimming o'or.
II against all dark intruders,
We will firmly close the door;
Yet should the evil shadow enter,
We must love the other more.
There are treasures for tho lowly
Which the grandest fail 10 find,
There's a chain Of sweet affection
Binding friends of kindred mind,
We may reap the choicest blessings
From the poorest lot assigned.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08
BUsIN Ess PUNCTUALITY.

1t is astonishing how many people are
unpunctual. Thousands have failed in
life from this cause alone. 1t is not on
ly serious vice in itself, but the fruit
full parent of numerous other vices, so
that he who becomes its victim is soon
involved in tolls from which it is al
most impossible to escape. 1t makes
the merchant wasteful of time, saps the
business reputation of the lawyer, and
Injuries the prospects of the mechanics
who might otherwise rise to fortune; in
word, there is not profession nor
station in life which is not liable to the
canker of this destructive habit.
Many of Napoleon's great victories
were won by infusing into his subordi-
mates the necessity of punctuality to the
minute. It was his plan to maneuvre
over large spaces of country, to render
the enemy uncertain where he was about
to strike, and when suddenly concen-
trate his forces and fall with irresistible
force upon some weak point of the ex-
tended lines of the foe. Execution of
this system demanded that each divis-
ion Of the army should arrive at spec
fled point punctually, for if any part
failed to come up, the battle was lost
1t was by initiating his plan that the
allies finally succeeded in overthrowing
the Emperor.-The whole Waterloo
campaign turned upon these tactics
At Mt. st. Jean, Blucher was punctual
while Grouchy was not, and the result
was, Napoleon fell and Wellington tri
umphed.
In mercantile affairs punctuality il
quite as important as in military
Many are the instances in which neglect
to renew an insurance policy punctually
has led to serious loss. Hundred o
city merchants and manufacturers ant
publishers are now suffering in conse
quence of want of punctuality amonI
their country customers in paying u
accounts. 1t is sound policy whicl
moves the banks to insist, under penal
ty of protests, upon the punctual pay
ment of notes; for, were they to d
otherwise, commercial transaction
would fall into inextricable confusion
Many time has the failure of one ma
!, to meet obligations brought about th
ruin of score of others, just as the tor
pling down of the first in line of brick
causes the fall of all the rest.
r. IL
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08

Russia, and they may certainly be trus-
ted to act in concert with her, both to
protect Danubian Christians from Tur-
kish tyranny, and Christian Europe
from Russian preponderance.-H
MQQdzsne for October.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08
SING MORE.

Cultivate singing in the family. Be-
gin when the child is not yet three
years old. The songs and hymns your
childhood sang-bring them back to
your memory and teach them to your
little ones; mix them altogether, to
meet the similar moods, as in after life
they come over us SO mysteriously some
times. Many time and oft, in the
weary whirl of business: in the sunshine
and gaiety of Fifth Avenue, amid the
splendor Of the drive in Central Park,
some little things wake up in the men,
ory of early youth-the old mill, the
cool spring, the shady tree by the little
school house-and the next instant we
almost see again the ruddy cheeks, the
smiling faces and the merry eyes of
schoolmates, some gray headed now
most lie "smouldering in the grave"
And anon the ''song my mother sang"
springs unbidden to the lips and soothes
and sweetens all these memories. At
other times, amid the crushing mishaps
of business, merry ditty of the olden
times pops out its little head, breaks in
upon the ugly train of thought, throws
the mind into another channel; light
breaks from behind the cloud in the
sky, and new courage is given to us.
The honest man goes singing to his
work, and when the days labor is done,
his tools laid aside, and he is on his
way home, where wife and child and
tidy table and CHEEKY freside await him
he cannot help but whistle and sing.
The burglar never sings. Moody silence,
not the merry song, weighs down the
dishonest tradesman, the perfdions clerk
the unfaithful servant, the prejured par
tner.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08

Whenever you feel that the land is
suffering for rain, either get up fami-
ly picnic or 20 and camp out.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08


The ADVANTAGE OF PovERTY.-Much
is said of the independence of poverty"
That riches nor place, eloquence nor
power, titles nor glory, bring happiness,
is proved in the experience of all coun-
tries, and all people. While this is true
on the one hand, it is equally true on
the other that poverty has its advantag-
es and adversely its uses. If they are
not as "sweet'' as Shakespeare paints
agine. Punch illustrates the common
blessing of common men in the follow
ing truisms:
You wear out your old clothes.
You are exonerated from making
calls.
You are not troubled with many Wis
itors.
Borers do not bcre you.
Spongers do not haunt your table.
Itinerant bands do not play opposite
your window.
You are not prosecuted to stand god
father.
No one thinks of presenting you
with testimonial.
No tradesman irritates you by asking,
els there any little article to-day, sir ?'
Begging letter writer's let you alone.
Imposters seem to know it's no use
bleeding you.
lou swallow infinitely less poison
than others.
Flatterers do not shoot their rubbish
into your ears.
You are saved many debt, many q
deception, many headache.
| And lastly, if you have true friend
in the world, you are sure, in a very
short space of time, to learn it.
/ Why SOME PEOPLE ARE PooR.-Sil-
yer spoons are used to scrape kettles.
| Coffee, tea. pepper and spices are left
to stand open and lose their strength.
| Potatoes in the cellar grow and
sprouts are not removed until the pota-
toes become worthless.
Brooms are never hung up and are
soon spoiled.
Nice handled knives are thrown into
hot water.
The -four is sifted in a wasteful man.
ner, and the bread pan is left with the
dough sticking to it.
Clothes are left on the line to whip
to pieces in the wind.
Tubs and barrels are left in the sun
to dry and fall apart.
Dried fruits are not taken care of In
season and become wormy.
Rags, strings and paper are thrown
into the fire.
Bits of meat, vegetables, bread and
cold puddings are thrown away when
they might be warmed, steamed and
served as good as new.
, FoRGoTToN.-So lately died; SO soon
forgotten. 'Tis the way of the world.
| Men take us by the hand. and are an
xious about the health of our bodies
, and laugh at our jokes, and we think.
t like the fly on the wheel. We have some
thing to do with the turning of the
earth. Some day We die and are bur-
) led. The sun does not stop for our
: funeral; everything goes as usual; we
: are not missed on the streets; one or
' two hearts feel the wound Of afiiction
|. one or two members still hold our names
II. - N a
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-23
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
No 1898 EQUITY

In the Circuit Court Cor Carroll county.
David A. Shamer, Mortgage, vs.. Henry
Stull aud wife, Mortgages.
In the matter of the Petition Of John A.
Brown filed in the above cause.
HNHE object of this Petition is to obtain
A the surplus Of the mortgaged fund in the
above entitled cause reported, if any, applied
to the payment Of the mortgage debt and
interest due 10 the Petitioner.
The Petition states thatthe mortgaged prop.
erty m the above mentioned cause has been
sold by David A. Shamer, mortgage, for
the sum of thirteen hundred and seventy dol
lars and thirty seven and one.half cents
(Sl,870.S7l;) that said sale was duly reported
10 the Circuit Court for Carroll county as a
Court Of Equity, and was by said Court finally
ratified and confirmed on the nth day Of
May, 1877; that said mortgaged property sold
Tor more than sufficient to pay the mortgage
debt and interest due TO the said David A.
Shamer, MORTGAGE, and the costs and ex-
penses incident to the sale thereof; that the
said Henry Stull being indebted unto the
Petitioner on the 9th day of November, 1876,
IN the sum Of four hundred and eighty.ive
dollars by his Single Bill of'that date, PAYABLE
one year after date, with interest from date,
as appears by said Single Bill filed Herewith,
marked Exhibit j. A. b.. that for the pur.
pose Of securing the payment of the said sum
Of S4S5, with the interest thereon to the Pc
titioner, according TO the terms Of said Single
Bill, the said Henry Stull and Eliza j. Stul,
his wife, did by their deed of mortgage of
the same date, grant and convey the ident-
cal property to the Petitioner, which was sold
by the said David A. Shamer, mortgngee, as
appears by copy thereof filed with his Pet.
ton marked Exhibit b. A. j.; that inasmuch
as there will be surplus of said fund after
the payment of the mortgage debt and interest
to the said David A. Shamer, MORTGAGE, and
the costs and expenses incurred in the sale
thereof, that said surplus should be applied
and distributed to the subsequent heir credi.
tors Of said Henry Stull according to the pri.
orlty Of their respective liens; that the said
Henry Stull and Eliza J.. Stull, his wife. have
removed from the State of Maryland, now re-
side beyond the jurisdiction of this Court,
and that he does not know where they do
reside, but that they do live out of the State
of Maryland
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered that
the Petitioner, by causing Il copy of this order
TO be inserted IN some newspaper published
in Carroll county, Maryland once in each of
four successive weeks before the 18th day Of
June, 1877, give notice to the said absent
Defendants of the object and substance of
this Petition, and warn them to be and appear
in this Court in person or by Solicitor on or
before the 18th day of September, next, to
answe- the premises and show cause, it any
they have, why decree or order ought not
to pass as prayed.
FRANK T. SHAW, Clerk.
True copy,-Test:
may 2G-5t FRANK T, SHAW, Clerk.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-23
Thevirginia Land Bureau.
0fice-Harrisonburg, Va.

IN organizing "The Virginia Land Bureau
Il the projectors have in view the dissemina.
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lands IN neutrality-suspicious. mineral and
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Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadel.
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Parties desiring information 10 regard TO
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BAcg and Sgp't Virginia Land Bureau,
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