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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-11
8sligiuns department.
IDLE INDUSTRY.


There is a deal of it in the world,
and it is almost always busy and bus
Ting in its manifestations. The brus-
que. buzzing way some have of expend-
ing their energies is as unpleasant and
upsetting to others nerves as a breezy
north-easter. We need hardly add that
it is as fruitless as it Is disagreeable.
Effort spent in noise and fluster is just
so much subtracted from working
strength. Quiet work is what tells.
Self-pOssession is the first element of
well-directed labor. Thought must
precede action, or false moves will fol-
low. Plan and purpose are indispensa-
bic. Seeming idleness is sometimes
prolific of power and progress. Steady,
calm thinking, wise planning before
blow is struck, may prevent ill-directed
effort and experiment. Who is buster
than some idle souls we wot of? They
never have any time. What they do
with the twenty-fOur hours per diem
vouchsafed to ordinary mortals is an un-
solved mystery. Whipping around in a
circle, exhausting themselves. wearying
everybody, enriching nobody, by efforts
too puerile to awaken even pity, unless
allied to contempt.
Most Of US waste time hunting for
things we never sheuld have lost, pick
ing up things we ought not to have drop
ped, and going back after things we
should have remembered to take along
when we started out.
Self-discipline, resolution and rigid
retrospection conduce to efficiency. A
daily summing up Of accounts-asking,
what have 1 done to-day ? and, did it
pay, or has my time been wasted p
often results in more profitable to-
morrow. There are puny moods OF
mind in which we are even conscious of
half doing things, with dim sense that
they must need be done over again.
Then is the time to rouse ourselves to
thOroughness.
This principle applies to Christian
labor. Approaching friend on relig.
iOus topics with a little timidity, q
good deal Of inde6niteness, and no par
ticular plan, you may part from tina
friend really as ignorant of his position
and difficulties as if you had been silent
and having built by your roundabout
way barrier between you besides
Kindheartedness but clearheadedness
not roughness or abruptness must char
acterize fruitful Christian efforts Fin,
out what you intended, aud finish u
the work committed to you by tn
Spirit, not being thrown from the trac
by aimless, irrelevant conversation Q
Christian at Work.
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THE DELEGATES STORY.

1t was just after the battle of Will
liamsburg, where hundreds of our brave
fellows had fallen, and where hundreds
were wounded, that soldier came to
the tent of a delegate of the Christian
Commission and said, chaplain, one
of our boys is badly wounded. and
wants to see you right away"
Hurriedly following the soldier, says
the delegate, | was taken to hospital,
and led to bed, upon which lay no.
bic young soldier He was pale and
blood-stained from a terrible wound
above the temple. 1 saw at a glance
that he had but few hours to live on
earth. Taking his hand, l said to him,
"Well, my brother, what can I do for
your"
The poor, dying soldier looked up in
my face, and placing his finger where
his hair was stained with blood, he said,
chaplain, cut big lock from here for
mother-for mother, mind, champlain p
l hesitated to do it. He said, "Don't
be afraid to dis6gure my hair. It's fol-
mother, and nobody will come to see me
in the dead-house tomorrow"
l did as he requested me. "Nowi
chaplain" said the dying man, al wan
you to kneel down and return thanks t
God" "For what ?" / asked. "Fol
giving me such mother. Oil chap
lain, she is good mother; her teach
ings comfort and console me now. And
chaplain, thank God that by his grace
| am Christian. Oh ! what would
do now if l wasn't a Christian2
know that my Redeemer liveth. l fee
that his finished work has saved me
And, chaplain, thank God for dyinI
grace. He has made my dying be-
feel soft as dOwny pillows are Than
him for the promised home in glory
I'll soon be there-there where there
no war, nor sorrow, nor desolation, no
death-where I'll see Jesus and be fol
ever with the Lord"
] knelt by the dying man, and thanl
ed God for the blessings bestowed upo
him-the blessings of mother. Chri
tian hope, and dying grace, to bear te
timony to Gods faithfulness.
Shortly after the prayer, he sal,
"GoOd-by, chaplain; if you ever s,
mother, tell her it was all we'll"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-11

THE PAwNBRoKER's SHoP.-Stop and
look into the window of that pawnbrok-
er's shop. Elegant furs, elegant watch
es, elegant scarfs, elegant flutes. Peo-
pie stand with pleased look gazing at
these things; but l look in with a shud-
der. as though had seen into a window
of hell.
Whose elegant watch was that? 1t
was drunkard's watch
Whose furs 2? They belonged to a
drunkard's wife
Whose flute ? Whose shoes 2 Whose
scarf? They belonged to the drunkard's
child
If l could, l would take the three
brazen balls hanging at the doorway,
and clang them together until they
tolled the awful knell of the drunkard'
death. The pawnbrOker's shop is only
one eddy of the great stream of inimica,
drunkenness.
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MAKING A HOME OF THE FARM.

The farm as home will have its gar
den and its orchard, for beauty as well
as profit; will have poultry and animals
which possess other than money value.
The eye of the owner will be seeking
vistas through the groves and forests,
through which sun and shade may play.
If he clears away the ancient trees, he
will spare copse here and thicket
there, for his very cattle will thank him
for their shelter, and no passer-by will
fail to admire the taste and forethought
which, with the meadow or the ployed
field, retains the glories of maple, or
birch, or elm, or gnarled beech.
Such things are coming even among
us to have a value even in dollars and
cents. With better roads, which are
the crying need of our rural districts,
drive of four or FIVE miles, or twice as
much, is not always an evil. The purer
air, the restful quiet, the retirement for
study, counterbalance some of the con-
veniences of the village. The homestead
with acres for lawn, decorated with q
stream which grows and changes with
the season; with groves that are rich in
original treasures Of the forest; with
something new always in the fields rip
ening for the harvest, and in the or
chard as responsive to the seasons fash
ions as any Fifth-avenue belle; with
poultry and sheep and cattle and horses
that welcome you, and are grateful fol
your care-must be something more
than shop or fastory. Because Amer
leans have had too much land, they
have not learned yet, as the English il
their restricted island have done, t,
count their trees and inventory theil
watercourses, and make much of ever,
hill and valley. every phase and variet,
of scenery. Instead of degrading tn
farm more into treadmill of compul
sorry labor, we need more and more t
| decorate it with the attractions of home
: to connect it with pleasures and cultur
to bring out the best features Of il
: landscape, the special beauties of gorg
t or hill or grove or meadow with whic
nature has adorned it. The most care
' less observers learn how venerabl,
graceful or sturdy trees designate a
t entire district; how a well-cultivate
garden wins admiration how the yer
q soil and air may tell that farm has
man of taste and brains for its maste
e He has made his home there; he b;
S treated the acres in kindly, generol
way. He has not gone at his farm ;
Q if it were a slave, to be abused an
z, stinted, with the one purpose of givir
y it the least possible, while extorting Il
s most from it. Even as question
y profit, the wise rule is to care for Il
Il farm as home.-George II. Warin
an ScTibaer's M0ntlsLy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-11

"WHERE AM 1 GONG ?"-One fine
summer evening, as the sun was drop
ping into the west, man was seen try
ing to make his way through the lanes
and crossroads which led to his village
home. l say "trying," because, al
though he knew the way perfectly, and
had Travelled it, man and boy, for the
last thirty years, yet that night he was
confused and bewildered. Do you ask,
"By what?" His flushed face and un-
steady gait told the sad tale-Drink
Utterly puzzled, he called out with an
oath to passer-by, I've lost my way /;
where am going?" ITO hell !' was
the answer, sadly and quietly given. A
savage glare instantly sparkled in the
drunkard's eyes but after moment or
two, with groan he murmured, think
1 am" "Come with me-" said the other,
kindly; "I'll take you home" The
next day came; the fumes of the liquor
had passed away; but the two words by
which his friend had answered him were
striving in his heart. The arrow Of con.
viction, launched by the Spirits power
had struck home. "To hell Yes, 'tii
true, I'm going straight to hell, and
know it, o God, save me |" That mar
by Gods mercy, faced about He wa
going straight to hell, as he said. Blu
he truly repented of his sin, sought par
don and a new heart through Christ
and began to walk in the way of life
Reader, where are you going?
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Agrifnltnral department.
ORNAMENTATION OF FARMS.


The following remarks relative to
subject very interesting to owners of
farms or small tracts of land in or near
to towns or villages were made at the
meeting of the New Jersey Horticultural
Society. by E. S. Carman, of River Edge,
Bergen County, N. ]. After impressing
upon his audience the necessity of close
ly adhering to nature in their efforts to
copy her. he said
''Our first motive in embellishing our
grounds is to render them as attractive
as possible. that they may become the
dearest spots on earth to us. To this
end, if we are to have but so trees and
shrubs, let every one be different, and
as possible. Let us have no pairs or
triplets, or quadruplicates of anything
as if every tree needed sentinel, or
as if it were afraid to stand alone, or as
if two or more individuals we're needed
for the completion of one another. Here
to the right we have maple. There to
the left, situated relatively to other OBJ
jects precisely the same. another maple
each the ghost of the other. Both
are thrifty, shapely, fine. They are SO
nearly alike we can detect no difference.
Nothing is to be learned-no impress
sion formed from looking upon both
that is not as we'll formed from looking
upon one. Why then, have both? Why
not have in the place of one of them
another species of genius that creates a
new impression and gives additional food
for pleasurable study? And yet these
monkey grounds. as we may call them,
are the rule whithersoever we 60. A
mile or so from my own residence is a
lawn planted with arbor-vit@-in rows
as we would plant an orchard-and
with little else but arbor-vite. They
are, perhaps, 10 feet in height, and all
are of the same stiff, conical, monumental
form. l never pass this place without
being reminded of burial ground with
evergreen and tombstones
we are instructed by the books at
first alluded to that there is something
unpleasing' in the introduction of fruit
trees among elegant ornamental trees on
a lawn-one class of vegetation suggest
ing the useful and homely alone to the
mind, and the ,.other ayowediy only
the ornamental. That apple OF
pear trees, so mingled, do produce al
unplcasing impression upon the mind is
in the main, true enough. But doe
not the fault lie rather in the mind thar
in the apple and pear trees? If there il
q tree that combines the beautiful of al
trees-picturesqueness, flowing lines
symmetry-it is the apple when givel
the same care that our favorite orna
mental trees receive. And little les
need be said of the pear. 1 once saw
% yards off in a garden-a tree so com
pact. so shapely. that fastened neare
to ascertain what it was. The impres
| sion of its exceeding beauty RENAME
: unchanged until l discovered that
was Seeker pear tree. Then it lost
part of its exceeding beauty woul
use fruit trees as sparlngly as any otht
in ormental grounds-but it is mea
= taste that excludes them, because the
; are useful as well as ornamental"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-11

A BANK FOR LOsINGs.
BY REV. T. L. ouYLER, D. D.

BY REV. t. L. oUYLER, D. D.
On the chief thoroughfare of this city
/ often pass stately savings bank, built
of freestone, and see groups of work.
ing people going to deposite their hard
earned money.-.Some are mechanics
some are Irish domestics some are poor
widows laying by few dollars for their
fatherless children.
But on the same street the Tempter
has opened more than one hank for los
ingS. In some parts of the city there is
one on nearly ever corner. In almost
every rural hamlet, too, is there SIM
liar institution. New York city con-
tains six thousand of them.
In each of these banks for losings is.a
counter, on which young men and old,
and even some wretched woman, lay
down their deposits in either paper or
coin. The only interest that is paid on
the deposits is in redness of eyes, and
foulness of breath, and remorse of con-
science. Every one who makes depos-
it gains loss. One man goes into the
bank with full pocket, and comes out
empty.-Another goes in with q good
character, and comes out with the word
drunk written on his bloated counte-
nance. have even seen mechanic
enter in bran new coat, and coming
away again as if the mice had been
nibbIing at his elbows.
l have known young clerk to leave
his situation" behind him in one of
the Devils banks Of Losings. Several
prosperous tradesmen have lost all their
business there. Church members have
been known to reel out of these seduc-
tive thanksgiving to walk straight,
but 6acksliding at every step. What is
worst of all, thousands of people 60 in
there and lose their immortal souls.
If the cashiers of these institutions
were honest, they would post on the
door some such notice as this:
Bank for losings. Open at all hours.
Nothing taken in but good money. Moth
ing paid out but disgrace and disease,
and degradation and death. An extra
dividend Of detirium tremenS will be
given to old depositOrs. A free pass to
PerditiOn given to those who pay well
at the counter: also tickets to Green.
wood and other cemeteries, emitting the
holder to a drunkardS Craze All the
children of depositors sent without
charge to the orphan asylum or the
alms-house.
Young men beware of the bank fo
losings. Some bait their deposition
with champaign; some With ale o
Bourbon; some with pack of cards
and others with a billiard table. If 20,
wish to keep character-keep out
Young ladies never touch the han,
that touches the wine glass. Never wea
the name of a man who is enrolled o
the deposit list of the devils banl
Never lean on the arm that leans on tn
: bar-room counter. 1t will be a rotte
support.
The best savings bank for youn
mans money is total abstinence pledg
> The best savings bank for his time
honest industry and good book. III
best savings bank for his soul is fait
in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But if you do not want your greer
backs turned into black eyes and ri
> noses if you don't want your poke
emptied, and your soul drugged wit
the poisons of the pit-then keep GU
L side of the National Brandy Bank f
= LoSings."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-11

Sin is the most terrible wound in hu-
man nature. The virulence of the poison
is dreadful. The sting has penetrated
the aggregate Of our humanity the race
is infamed by the venom of it. As
gloomy background sin clouds and dark
ems our whole history. Sin is cumula-
tive. One sin opens the way for and
makes necessary another. The first sin
is the entrance on an evil path which
conducts To the pit. Once in this way
Of death, how will you get out ? Satan
would persuade you that there is no es-
cape save by the commission of an ad-
ditional transgression. If you have de-
famed your noighbOr or taken his goods
by unchristian methods, he would have
you believe that only an untruth for
this one can get you out of trouble How
many a poor soul has stumbled on his
way? The foot once in, the whole course
seems inevitable. You seem to be strug-
Cling in a network Of evil, from which
escape is impossible. But it is not so.
Your sin should lead you to your Lord
Jesus. He only can break its power
but He can. and He came on purpose to
save sinners. In your distress and
sense of sin. fly unto Him who came as
our great Rescuer in the grand ship
wreck Of humanity.
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60 No More Physic

Nomore nauseating burning Lniments Lotions, Salves
aud Ointments for Pain and Soreness, but grateful,
healing and soothing external application, such
be had by the Of Collins VOltaic Piasters, the
greatest and most speedy pain relever Ia the world
This great remedy consists of Voltaic Galvanic
carefully attached together and imbedded in
Porous Plaster highly medcated forming the grandest
curative agent Of this century. 1t Is gentle and
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From nm Old Physician.
SOLD EVERYWHERE FOR Is CENTS.

If your Druggist is out of them, send us %
cents for one, 81 .25 for six, or $2.25 for IL,
and we will send them by return mail, care
fully wrapped and warranted perfect.
WEEKS 81 POTTER, PrOp'rs, Boston, Mass.
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BeautifulC Cards

an OF the incest Bristol Visiting Cards. with "
ON name printed on them, for only 20 cts. WI
yeu send 10 cts. extra, enclose beautiful piece
jewelry We use only the finest cardboard. Sho
YOU want smaller packs, we VIII print 40 for Is Ct
Is for 10 cts; or IL for cts. 10 cts extra with
of our packs will the elegant piece Of jewer
Address, THE ENTERPRISE CARD co.
o24 BuRETSGxoNs VI
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SANFORD'S
JAMAICA GINGER !!
THE QUINTESSENCE OF JAMAICA
GINGER, CHOICE AR0MATICS
AND FRENCH BRANDY,

A preparation SO elegantly favored and incidentally
effective to utterly supass all previous preparations
of crude ginger and household remedies for the relief
and cure of diseases and ailments incidental to the
Summer and Winter seasons, and to sudden changes
of temperature.
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ELECTRIC BATTERY,

closely and continuously applied by the adhesion of
the Plaster and is capable of eifecting instant relief
and permanent In the most distressing cases OF
chronic external ailments and in diseases originating
in disordered condition Of the electrical valizng
forces. 1t is unsurpassed as prompt and sure rem
edy in
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Paralysis, Cramps, St. Yitus
Dance, sciatica, Hip Complaints, Spinal Affections.
Nervous Pains and Irrtatious, Epilepsy Fits pro-
ceedng from Shocks to the Nervous System, Rup-
lures and Strains, Fractures. Bruises. Commissions
Weak Muscles and Joints. Nervous and Feeble Mus
cular Action Great Soreness and Pain in any part of
the body.
From an Old Physician.
Genaemen-I hereby certify that for several years
past have used the VoLTAIc PLAsTERs in my practice
and have never known them fail in afordng speedy
relief in those cases for which they are recommended.
They are not quack nostrum, but REMEDIAL agent OF
great value. Very truly yours
Bucksport, Me-. May 81. w. G. COLLINS, M. d.
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M OULDIN 81!
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litigation appertaning to Inventions Patents
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Problem in Medical Science.

The absence of all poisons in the remedy makes it
equally safe in the hands of the nonproessonal as 1t
is in the hands Of the scientific practitioner
SoSCure guaranteed or money refunded
Price SOC and $780, For sale by all druggists and
dealers in medicine. Sent post paid on receipt Of
price by r. z. SMITH 4 CO.. Sole Propretors, Mid
dleburyi vt. Sold by E. F. BUTTON. Barton.
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The back volumes can be furnished, for the pred
at the same rates. but, as nearly half Of the frst
is not stereotyped, those Vermonters who desire
entire work should order at once.
None should lose any time in ordering either volt
as the second and third volumes will only be printe
small editions, as they may be called for; and 1t Il
some time to print even 500 copies.
The publishers think it proper to say to Vernon
everywhere that they have expended large SUI
money in preparing plates for this work. being enc
aged to do so by the reception given to it by the
of the State at its commencement. They were
discouraged by the fact that the second volume
not called for SO largely as the first because they
that 9TH q times were out Of joint"
They have bestowed more labor on this volume
on the second, and if encouraged by liberal sales
fourth volume shall be better than either of its pr
cessors
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THE UNIVERSAL PILE PILLS

strike at the root Of these of functional disease
of the liver:
FIRsr-By relieving the acidity Of the stomach, and
rendering the digestive functions perfect.
SEcoND.-By supplying the blood with proper food
material to perfect the secretons Of the bile.
THIRD by gently stimulating the restored organs
to vigorous efficiency.
In this harmless yet certain remedy is found the
only physiological and philosophical solution OF this
great
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The SUBSTITUTION OF
BRANDY FOR ALCOHOL, the
use of the True Jamaica
Ginger, of their own selec-
ton and importation, its
combination with choice
aromatics, as devised and
originated by DIR. Sanford,
placed this preparation in
actual merit SO far ahead
OF anything before COM
pounded that notwith-
standing the most bitter
opposition from the trade,
its sales in New England
now exceed that Of all
others combined. The
second year of its manu-
facture its sale exceeded
bne previous year by over
thousand bottles.
1t is manufactured on a
scale simply enormous
Two thousand gallons are
always kept made long in
advance of consumption,
by which it acquires a de-
licious flavor and brilliant
transparency. Every i'm
provement in labor-saving
apparatus is adopted SO as
to permit the use of costly
materials and yet retain a
profit. The bottling ma
chine is alone able to fill
taDo thousand four hundred
bottles per hour. From this
brief statement, it will be
seen that Messrs. WEEKS
& POTTER have entered
upon the manufacture Of
Sanford's Jamaica Ginger
in a manner that must IN
time secure for them the
enormous trade in this ar
ticle. Its elegant favor,
great merit, and low price
should be tested once by
those in need Of a family
medicine before allowing
themselves to be induced.
by misrepresentation, to
buy others. Insist on
having what you call for
SANFORD'S JAMAICA
lGINGER.