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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-06-14
THE SHERMANS AND EWINCS.
General Ewing's Views on important Que
tons.

Much has been written about the
Shermans and the Ewings, but never
could understand the relations be-
tween the two families. yesterday
ran across person familiar with their
histories, who gave me facts that have
never been in print.
There were eleven Of the Sherman
children. The old Sherman mansion
stills stands on the hill, at Lanchas-
ter, Ohio, q house or two removed
from the old Ewing homestead. The
head of this large family was Judge
Sherman, a Judge of the Supreme
Court of Ohio in it's earliest days. He
was a Connecticut Yankee, and a
granddaughter of old Revolutionary
Sherman. He came to the new coun-
try in the early settlement of Ohio, or
rather shortly after it's admission to
the Union. An intimacy was formed
between him and Senator Tom Ewing
which lasted until Sherman's sudden
death. which occurred at Lebanon,
Ohio, in 1928, of cholera. He left
eleven children and a small property.
The eldest, Charles Sherman, lives at
Cleveland, was Judge and disgraced
lions few years since. jim Sherman
the secsnd son, was merchant,
loving whisky better than business
He has been dead some years. VIM
II. Sherman, the General, was the thirC
son. He was bright boy, and Ton
Ewing took a fancy to him, and, not
withstanding he had four boys an(
two girls of his own, he took the boy
Bill as he was called, to his own hearth
stone. Through the Ewing influence
young Sherman was sent to Yves
Point by Tom Richey of Perry Count,
who was one of the few Representa-
tives of the young State in Congress
During his residence in the Ewin
family he formed the attachmen
which led to his happy marriage to on
of the two Ewing girls. Lampso
Sherman is an Iowa farmer John Shel
man is a Senator, and about rs mean
prominent man as breathes the air O
the American Continent. Hoyt Shel
man is National banker at De
Moines, Iowa, and when his brothe
John concocts financial measure h
always has his eye on Hoyt's and hi
own bank stock.
Inc SlTlS WeIc dll IIltIIlCus dIIO w
came Mrs. Reese and Mrs. Willoch {
Lancaster, Mrs. McComb of Mansfiel
Mrs. Barclay of Washington, an
Mrs. G. w. Moulton of cincinnati
OF this remarkable family of children
ten out of the eleven of the childre
are living, and the grandchildren wi
aggregate fifty.
OF the Ewings. General Hugh, j ude
Philimon and General Tom all liy
here; General Charley Ewing resid,
in Washington. The men who are
figure most prominently in the ne
Administration and in Congress Al
all connected by ties of blood ar
marriage. When Jim Blaine raise
the war-whoop in the Senate ov
HAYES Peace on-earth-good-will-t
men policy, and reached for Jol
Sherman's scalp. he was. in fac
going for one of his own family. TT
daughters of old Neal Gallespie.
Brownsville. Pennsylvania. were t
mothers of jim Blaine and the Ewin,
The SC" in Mr.. Blaine's name cal
from his grandfather. We will ha
old. Neal Gallespie's fighting blood
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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-06-14
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Observation-Disclosures

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The Company obtains its title to these lands
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They are being offer at prices lower than
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12
GOSSIP AND ITS CURE.

The very simple reason why the world
is full of gossip is that those who in
dulge in it have nothing else in them.
They must interest themselves in some
thing. They know nothing but what
they learn from day to day, in inter
course with, and observation of, their
neighbors. What these neighbors do
what they say-what happens to them
in their social and business affairs, what
they wear-these become questions of
supreme interest. The personal and So
cial life around them-this is the book
under constant perusal, and out of this
comes that pestiferous conversation which
we call gossip. The world is full of it,
and in million houses, all over this
country nothing is talked of but the per-
sonal affairs of neighbors. All personal
and social movements and concerns are
arranged before the high court of gossip,
retailed at every ireside, are sweetened
with approval or embittered by spite,
and are gathered up as the common
stock of conversation by the bankrupt
brains that have nothing else to busy
themselves with but title tattle. The
moral aspects of gossip are bad enough.
| II = - oo,oIox4 -, Fro o+;oy, &C +bo Ian
rule it is full of all uncharitableness.
No man or woman likes to have his or
her personal concerns hawked about and
talked about and those who engage in
this work are meddlers and busybodies
who are not only doing damage to 9TH
ers-are not only also engaged in most
unneighborly ofice-but are infictlng a
great damage on themselves. They SOW
the seeds of anger and animosity and
social discord. Not one good moral re-
suit ever comes out of it. 1t is thorough
ly immoral practice, and what is worst
and most hopeless about it is, that those
who are engaged in it do not see that it
is immoral and detestable. To go into a
mans house, steadily when he is away
from home, and overhaul his papers, OF
into ladies' wardrobe and examine it.
would be deemed a very dishonorablt
thing but to take up mans or wo
mans name, and smutch it all over with
gossip-to handle the private affairs o.
neighbor around hundred freside'
why, this is nothing 1t makes con
versation. 1t furnishes topic. 1t keeps
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12
THE GRANDPA.

The grandpa IL an individul, aged
somewhere between fifty and one hund-
red years, and IL a common occurrence
in most well-regulated familys.
Next to helthy mother-in-law, they
have more business on hand than any
other party in the household.
They are the standard authority on
all leading topicks, and what they don't
know about things that happened sixty
five years ago, or what will happen for
the next three years to cum, IL a dam
age for anybody to kno.
Grandpas are not entirely useless
they are handy to hold babys, and feed
pigs, and are very smart at mending a
broken broom handle or putting up the
clothes line on washing days.
hav seen grandpas that churn good,
but 1 konsider it a mighty mean trik to
set an old fellow ov eighty years to
churning butter.
am grandpa miself, but i won't
churn for no concern, not ifi understand
miself.
I am willing to rock baby ggvaBh, aBBhilff Z ab1 a@
reddy to kut rags to work up into rag
carpets they kan keep me hunting hens
eggs, or picking green kurrants; or i
will even dip HANDLES or kore apples for
sass; but won't churn.
Grandpas are poor help. at bringing
up children they are full enough of pre-
cept and katekism, but the young ones
all seem to understand that grandpa
minds them heap more than they mind
grandpa.-JoSh BILLINGS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12
HE ORDERED OYSTER sTEws.

One of those toil-hardened, true-heart-
ed chaps, often read of in romances.
made his appearance on the Campus
Martius, recently, and his sympathies
were at once aroused by the sight of
three or four old men standing around
with their buck-saws and waiting for
work.
"I'll be hanged if it isn't tough he
replied, when they told him that they
hadn't had any work for a month. "How
would you like some oysters %
They smacked their lips by way of
reply, and he gathered up a crowd of
eight, and marched them to restaurant,
and ordered oyster stews for each one.
'It just does my soul good to see
them eat !'' he said to the owner of the
place as the eight got to work.
"Yes it's beautiful sight" was the
reply.
cit makes me feel good in here, con-
tinued the stranger, laying his hand on
his heart.
ga good deed brings its own reward,
was the soft answer of the restauranter,
as he calculated his profits.
81 can't rest here-I must do further
good" said the big-hearted stranger,
and he rushed out and brought in three
negroes, chimney-sweep, two boys and
an old woman, and ordered more oysters.
The fifteen people went for oyster
soup in manner vte te fee@gtaaf1fanter in tie
ribs and said:
"See the gentle lambs! Oh, that I
could feed the poor of all America p
"You are good man, and heaven
will reward you, replied the proprietor,
as he filled the dishes up again.
The stranger said he wanted to bring
in just five more, so as to say that he
udu 16u du GfGu SCOIC1 duu uS IuoHCu
out after them, while the restauranter
sent after more oysters and crackers.
The stranger didn't return. He was last
seen climbing into farmers sleigh on
State street and guiding his team to the
west The fifteen in the restaurant lick
ed their plates clean and departed in
joyful procession, and the last one had
passed out before the man who furnished
the soup had got through waiting for
the return of the big-hearted stranger.
There were oaths and slang phrases and
watchwords and expressions, delivered
in the purest of English, but what mat
tered it to the fifteen soup-devourers who
drew up in line opposite and
Resolved, That them oysters just
touched the spot.-DetrOit Free Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12
SOMETIM T..
BY MRS. MAY RILEY SMITH.

Sometime, when all lifes lessons have been learned,
And the sun and stars forevermore have set,
The things which weak judgments here hav
spumed,
The things DER which we grieved with lashes wet,
viii fash before us. out of life's dark night.
As stars shine most in deeper tints Of blue.
And we shall see how all Gods plans were right
And how what seemed reproof was love most true.
And we shall see how, while we frown and sigh,
Gods plans go on as best for you and me;
How, when we called, he needed not our cry
Because his wisdom TO the end could see.
And cen as prudent parents dsallow
Too much Of sweet to craving babyhood
SO God, perhaps, is keeping from US now
Lfe's sweetest things, because it seemeth good.
And II, sometimes, cOmmingled with life's wine,
We find the wormwood and rebel and shrink,
De sure wiser hand than yours or mine --s-
Pours out this potion for our lips to drink.
And il some friend we love is lying low
Where human kisses cannot reach his face,
Oh, do not blame the loving Father so,
But wear your sorrow with obedent gracei
And you shall shortly know that lengthening breath
Is not the sweetest gift God sends his friend,
And that, sometimes, the sable pail Of death
Conceals the fairest boon his love can send.
If we could push ajar the gates of life,
And stand within, and all Gods workings see,
We could interpret all this doubt and strife,
And for each mystery could find key.
But not to-day. Then be content. poor heart
Gods plans, like lilies. pure and white unfold
We must not tear the clOse-shut leaves apart;
Time will reveal the calyxes Of gold.
And II, through patient toll, we reach the land
Where tired feet, with sandals loose, may rest,
When we shall clearly know and understand,
think that we will say "God knew the bestr'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12

GOOD RULE FOR HoME.-Do not eX-
press your opinion too freely and decid-
edly when it differs from those around
you, merely for the sake Of saying what
81 think" when no good will be done.
Try to give up your will and way to
others in trlfes, as we'll as in more i'm
port matters, except where principle is
involved.
Do not complain of little discOmforts.
but bear them cheerfully.
Try to avoid making disagreeable re-
marks of any description, and make no
unpleasant comparisons.
Do not perform disagreeable duties
with martyr-like air, but always cheer
fully.
DO not indulge the idea that in a
different position from the one in which
God has placed you, you would lead a
better or happier life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12
TO SMOKE OR NOT TO SMOKE.

To smoke or not to smoke-that is the question:
Whether it's better to abjure the habit.
And trust the warnings of a scribbling Doctor
Or buy at once box of best Havanas.
And ten day consume them? To smoke to puff
Nay, more to waste the tender fabrics OF the lungs
And risk consumption and its thousand ills
The practice leads to-'tis a contamination
Discreetly to be Stunned. To smoke to puff
To puff perhaps to doze-aye, there's the rub;
For in that doing state we thirsty grow.
And, having burned the tube up to a stump,
We must have drink, and that's one cause
We modern youth are destined to short life;
For who can bear to feel his mouth parched up.
His throat like whalebone and his chest exhausted
His head turned gddy and his nerves unstrung,
When he himself might drench these ills away
With wine or brandy? Who could live in smoke,
And pine and sicken with a secret poison,
But that the dread OF breaking Ger a rule
Prescribed by fashion, whose controllins win
None disobey, puzzles ambitious YOUTH
And makes us rather bear the ills we feel
Than others that the doctor warns us off
Thus custom does make specters Of us all
And thus the native hue Of our complexion
Is sicklied DER with consumptive cast;
The appetite, loss Of greater moment,
Paled by the weed, and the digestive powers
Lose all their action.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12
HOW LATE MAY A LOVER STAY.

Miss Abby J. Terry, an American
young lady of literary procllvities, in a
recent publication, says:
''It is an imposition on any well-bred
girl to keep her up later than half-past
ten o'clock, when you have an opportu-
nifty Of seeing her often. If you always
leave her with the wish in your heart
that you had staid longer, you gain SO
much. Never run the risk of wearying
her with your presence. Woo woman
bravely. If there is anything humiliat-
ing to a woman, it is to have a lover
whom she wishes to honor, weak and
vapid, ever yielding and half afraid of
her. She longs to tell him to act like a
man.
Mrs. Terry, it will thus be seen, holds
the same profound and correct views of
the female heart which were entertained
by Mr.. Weller, who commended the
"bob-tailed style of love letter" because
it made the recipient wish there was
more of it. For our part, we take excep-
tions at once to Mrs. Terry's ruling.
Why should it be an imposition to keep
well-bred girl up later than half-past
ten, conversing with her betrothed, or
probable betrothed, on the same sofa in
parlor with the gas turned down for
economy, as becomes these times of re-
trenchment and reform, and not an i'm
position to take her to ball, where, un-
der the glaring light, she will dance till
four a. M, with score of people, to not
One-half of whom she can re1fiFaGTss 1fFGs, there
should be moderation in lovers visits.
Such visits should not be prolonged, as
a rule, till what the society reporters
call that "late, or rather early hour"
when, as Tennyson beautifully observes,
1.-THE cat sneaks home and light has come,
And the milkmen jump upon the ground"
But except in the backwoods, under
the dispensation of pine knots, it is hard
to say why either economy or prudence
should refuse the limit of a later hour
than that designated by Miss Terry, say
eleven or half-past Miss Terry's caution
to young men against wearying the OBJ
ject of their attention is, however, incon-
trovertibIy judiclOus. There is nothing
so beneficial or fattering to true wom-
an as little wholesome neglect. Anoth-
er acute observer of women and things,
Mr.. Joshua Billings, in one of his essays,
enlarges upon this point, and lays down
the rule that it is "well sometimes to
draw in your wind and look as though
it hurt you, for she will pity you" and
pity, it is an established psychological
fact, easily melts the heart to love. 9th
clio was skillful practitioner in this
kind, if Shakespeare may be believed.
Miss Terry, who insists on perfect hon
esty between lovers, perhaps would not
sanction such a ruse, and perhaps she is
right, though it has been well said that
in love, war and politics, deception is
often the better part of valor. Her last
rule, "Woo woman bravely," is ad-
mirable, though in commenting upon ii
she betrays some personal feeling, as il
she, so to speak. knew how it was her.
self.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12

the wheels of society agoing. What is
the cure for gossip? Simply, culture.
There is great deal of gossip that has
no malignity in it. Good natured peo-
pie talk about their peighbors because,
and only because, they have nothing
else to talk about. DR.. Holland IN
Scribner'S Magaztae for January.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12

Il think" said an old topper, comment
ing on the habits of young man who
was fast making beast Of himself,
'.when man reaches certain pint in
drinkin' he ort to stop" "Well, think, !"
said another, ''that he ought to stop be-
fore he reaches PIN"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12
LABELLING LIVE TROUT.

Numerous experiments and continued
observations, made under the auspices of
some of the practical pisciculturists be-
longing to the association, have develop
ed results full of interest and of much
practical value. For instance, in reply
to queries as to the probable age of the
mammoth trout found in the Rangely
Lakes, Professor Agassiz emphatically
declared that "no man living knew
whether these six and eight Founders
were ten or two hundred years old" To
get some light upon this question, Mr..
Page conceived an ingenious device,
which he at once proceeded to put in ex-
ecution. Platinum wire was obtained,
cut into one and a half inch lengths,
fattened at one end, and various num-
bers were stamped on the surface from
IL to 4, also the numbers 20, II, 72,
to denote the year. AS trout were cap
tured they were weighed, one of these
tags was passed through the skin just
under the adipoise fin and securely
twisted, and then the fish was liberated.
In the course of the two or three years
named large number of these trout
were thus labeled. OF course, the chan
ces that any of them would be caught
seemed infnitesimally small, yet in 1873
one of them reported. In June of that
year, Mr.. Thomas Moran, the artist,
captured fine vigorous trout weighing
2 IA pounds. Upon taking him from
the landing net the platinum tag flashed
in the sunlight. Upon examination, the
mark, "1-2-71," was discovered, thus
establishing the curious fact that this
particular fish had gained "a pounds
in two years.-.Scri6mer for February.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12


CARRYING THEIR OWN BIRTHSTONE
After service in place where the
people had been good deal bewildered
by self-ordained preacher, who accept
ed only so much of the Bible as suited
his whims, and who was won't to make
merry over the idea of future punishment
a man stepped up to me and said in a
canting voice, "Bishop, do yon believe
in hell? ?" ] said, care you anxiuos
to know what | think of hell ?" He
said, "Yes." "Well," said |, ''the best
answer [ have ever heard, came from a
poor negro woman. She had a young
niece who sorely tried the poor soul.
The more she struggled to keep this will
full charge in the right way. the more
she seemed to wander. One day, after
hearing new preacher the niece came
bounding into the room:
"'Aunty, aunty, amt gwine to be-
lieve in hell no more. Eff dar is any
hell, just want to know whar dey gifts
all dere birthstone fur dat place; dat's
wot I'd like to know!'
"The old woman fixed her eyes on her
and, with tear on her cheek, said,
'Ah honey darlin', you look out you
don't go dare, for you'll find dey all takes
dere ooo,e birthstone qoiGat
| said, sis there any other question
in theology you would like to ask ?''
He said. "No;" and he went home, l
hope with new idea that sin brings
sorrow, and that to be saved we need
deliverance from sin. Some men carry
"their own birthstone" even in this
world.-BishOp Whipple.
A traveller stepped off train at the
Erie depot and accosting a newsboy,
asked: Sonny, what is the quickest
way to get to the Central depot? ?" "Run =
he answered, and set the example by
getting out of the way pretty fast.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12

A FRUGAL WIFE.-It is astonishing
to see how we'll man may live on a
small income, who has handy and in
dustrious wife. Some men live and
make far better appearance on six or
eight dollars week than others do on
fifteen or eighteen dollars. The man.
does his part we'll, but his wife is good
for nothing. She will even upbraid her
husband for living in as good style as
her neighbor, while the fault is entirely
her own. His neighbOr has neat cap
able and industrious wife, and that
makes the difference So look out young
men, before you go to matrimony. 1t
is lottery in which most men only buy
one ticket, and if that turns out blank
your whole life had better be blank
too. Luckily, no one need go into the
welded state with his eyes closed, as is
the case with lotteries, and we judge
all who are sensible enough to use their
eyes may draw prizes.