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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
HIS TITLE AT COURT.

Robert Heller, in one of his recent
bewildering performances, alluded to
the "darkity and blackity" of certain
proceedings of the '.Ring" men of this
city. 1t reminds us of the general tur-
pitude that prevails in some of the 'front.'
ier towns of Texas, and the hilarious
character of the local jailer thereabouts
let us say at San Antonio, whence
comes the following sketch
Not long since young man with
blonde hair, freckled nose, and other
marks of personal attractiveness applied
to the deputy-sheriff for a pass to see
his father, who he had reason to sup
pose was an inmate of the county Jail.
whats your name?" asked the Of
6cer, turning to his register.
"I'm Jim M'Snifter, from the Arroyo,
Colorado"
"What peculiar kind of playfulness
has your feyther been amusin' himself
at-murder in the first degree ?'
"Wusser than that" was the M'Snif-
terian response.
All levity vanished from the face of
the officer, who was really a kind heart
ed man, and there was human sympathy
and perhaps a tear, in his eye as he
turned over the page, and said in low
voice.
Worse than murder 4? My God he
must have stole a pony p
"It was some misunderstanding about
newell" observed M'Snifter Junior,
furnishing his cowhide boots with his
quirt.
"There are none of the M'Snifters in
Jail. Maybe I've got capias for you. -
81 bleeve in the last indictment the
old mans name was spelt Bob White.
The title of the suit is the State agin
White"
"Why didn't you say so at once
You mean that is the title at court.
Why. certainly Just you come along,
and I'll present you to his royal Majes-
ty. He is in the ground cell. Just
come along: I want to see if the old
rooster hasn't been trying to saw his
hobbies off,"
And hncklino on h;s 49, A. -
.,4-- ebariff condncfad the. crown prince
across the square to the castellated
summer palace of his royal PARENT
Harpers Maqazine for Nouem6er.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

That Canadian weather prophet, Mr.
Vennor. has re-appeared with new In
stallment of weather predictions, which
may be summarized as follows: Autumn
marked by fine warm Indian summer
after rather early cold term, and end
ing wet. Winter short, warm, wet and
open, with one or two severe terms OF
short duration-altogether gloomy and
not healthy. Spring very wet up to the
middle Of June. Summer intensely hot
and oppressive. The winter (lS78-9)
will be favorable to the increase Of throat
diseases and fevers-also cattle diseases.
Mr.. Vennor says: II agree with Prof.
Mansill in anticipating the approach OF
Asiatic cholera towards northern lati-
tudes." Rather an unfavorable prospect
Mr.. Yennor. But, anyhow, give us a
little more of that Indian summer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
TEN DERNESS.

Not unto every heart is Gods good gift
or simple tenderness allowed we meet
With love in many fashions when we lift
First TO our lips liie's waters bitter-sweet.
Love comes upon us with resistless power
or curbless passion and with headstrOng will
1t plays around like Aprils breeze and shower;
Or calmly flows, a rapid stream, and still
It comes with blessedness unto the heart
That welcomes it Alright. or-bitter fatei-
II wrings the bosom with SO fierce a smart,
That love, we cry, is orueller than hate,
And then, ah me, when love has ceased to bless,
Our hearts cry out for tenderness
We long for tenderness like that which hung
About US, lying on our mothers breast;
A selness feeling. that no pen nor tongue
Can praise Alright, since silence sings 1t best;
A love, as far removed from passions heat
AS from the chfliness Of its dying fire;
A love to lean upon when the falling feet
Begin TO totter and the eyes to tire.
In youths brief heyday hottest love we seek.
The reddest rose we grasp-but when it dies,
God grant that later blossoms, violets meek.
N.Y. spring for us beneath llfe's Antn.nn skiesl
God grant s0me loving one be near to bless
Our weary way with simple tendernessi
All the Fear Round.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
THE MExICANs IN SAN ANTONIO.

Every where about the outskirts of
the town are innumerable low huts built
of sticks and mud and straw and any
old drift, rooted with thatch coming al
most to the ground, and presenting an
appearance of the utmost squalor. These
are the Mexican jacals. The chimney
and its ovens are usually in cone of
baked and blackened mud little re-
moved, and under a rude awning or
tree the whole family is usually to be
seen, with mules, donkeys, chickens,
and horde of dogs, among the latter a
hideous, hairless animal, promiscuously
intermixed. Dogs are largely in the
majority of the population in San An
tonic, and their baying divides the noises
of the night with the cock growing that
resounds from house to jacal, from farm
to ranch, and rises on the ear in broad
surges of sound like the waves of the
sea. If you should glance into one Of
these jacals, you would find an earthen
floor cleanly swept, bed neatly made
and brightly covered. and the place
garnished after its sort; and although
the general idea is that it is nest Of
filth, to the casual eye it seems clear
and orderly, but poor to the last degree
of poverty. Yet the Mexican here can
live on less than any. In the summer
the corn and onion and peppers. of his
garden patch meet his needs; in the
winter, even when he owns his bit of
land, a fvepenny soup bone and one
sweet-potato comprise his usual market
ing. But poor as he may be, his daugh-
ters do not 60 out to service; his moth
er wraps his ribosa-that remnant of
the Spanish mantilla-about her with
the grand air and he himself. although
in rags, salutes you on the street with
the grave courtesy of Spanish don.
Making exception of the proud old
Mexican families of lineage and repute,
who live in seclusion, it is not possible
to feel that these people who are known
as Mexicans have any claim to the name
as we use it. They are simply gentler
Indian, accepting sort of civilization,
now and then with a fairer tint, now
and then with wave in the hair that
tells of darker blood, and always with
high cheek-bone, following them to
the tenth generation. The proud Cas-
tilian has but small part in them, the
gentle Montezuma race perhaps has less.
One having those two strains in the
Yeins-tAe Spauiard. with his hemls-
tezuman, representing ancient and right
full empire of the continent-should
wear, it would seem, other than these
low -browed faces stamped in their dumb
and sullen ignorance, whether you see
them on the women squatting on the
brick floor of the cathedral, or. on the
men lounging in the plazas against any
thing which will uphold them, darker
and more sullen for the shadow of their
huge sombreros.
San Antonio is, in fact, a Spanish
town to-day, and the only one where
any considerable remnant of Spanish
life exists in the United States.-Har-
riet Prescott Spaford, IN Haper's
Magazine for Novena6er.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

Hops bear to many of the farmers of
the hill towns of Vermont the same re-
lation which tobacco bears to the lower
meadows of the Connecticut. It is
speculative crop, though never reaching
the extremes of profit which tobacco af-
fords, but often descending to an equal
extreme Of loss. Last year a general
failure of the crop elsewhere carried
prices up so that 25 and % cents a
pound was realized by the farmers.
The temptation to hold for 80 cents, how
ever, unfortunately prevailed to great
extent through central New York and
Vermont. Now prices have fallen to
eight and ten cents pound, and the
farmers have two crops to dispose of
on these terms. The present year has
proved to be a good one. New York,
which raises four-fifths of the American
crop. reports good yield, and we hear
nothing unfavorable to the Wisconsin
and Michigan crop, while California,
which comes in between these states
and Vermont, in the amount Of its hop
harvest. is already exporting the new
crop at Is cents. An English hop cir.
cular of September IL says that prices
we're advancing there, and that the wei
weather had damaged the Belgian and
Bavarian crop, which was still, however
supposed to be large. The English crol
was late in picking, and had not beer
estimated. Our exports of hops hav'
been about 100000 pounds for th'
past two fiscal years each, valued a
S2,3O5, 900 in 1857 and $1,384, ,O0(
in 1856.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

THE MISSISSIPPI MoNsTER.-A Mis-
sissippi river tow-boat captain relates an
on recent trip which casts
into the shade all previous observations
of sea monsters. He was towing string
of coal barges just above Memphis, Tenn,
when he heard loud putting noise up
the river, and presently monster hove
in sight which caused his blood to cur
die and his hair to stand on end. He
describes it as resembling a vast snake.
with bull dogs head and pelican's
bill about ten feet long, lashiug the wa
ter into foam with its enormous tail and
oblique streams of water forty
feet high. The creatures neck was COW
cred with FURNISHED scales; from the
top of the head hung a long greenish
name, and immense fins projected from
the neck and sides. Again and again
the monster attacked the barge, which
fortunately had been detached from the
others, with violence frightful to wit
ness, plunging his beak again and again
into the side of the barge and making
the river boil in its mad fury. Its rage
was soon vented, however, and with a
below which made the boats culver, it
plunged beneath the surface and shot
down the channel with remarkable speed.
On examining the shattered barge, the
captain found splinter from the mon
ster's bill embedded in the timbers,
which he says resembles ivory and is as
hard as steel.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

Greenland mas no cats. lmaSlne caCS |
in a country where the nights are six
months long
A Methodist minister being recently |
asked if he had moved to his new ap-
pointment, said, ''Yes but it is disap-
pointment."
The American after. dinner orator In
England will soon be able to say, Speak
ing the same language, and clarifying
the same literature, of the same blood,
and subject to the same pOtato-bug," etc.
"Allow me to be your beau," said
gentleman, placing his umbrella over
lady in a shower. "Thank you I've
plenty of fair weather beaux, so l sup
pose must call you my rain-beau," she
replied, archly.
Twill you please insert this obituary
notice 2" asked an old gentleman of a
country editor. II make bold to ask it
because know the deceased had great
many friends about here who'd be glad
to hear of his death"
An old darkey fishing on wharf at
Galveston was heard talking to the fish
he saw swimming around his line in this
fashion: ''Give me bite, honey. De
children am crying down to my house,
and tell you it's fish or nothing in dat
establishment"
A good story is told of Quaker vol
unteer who was in Virginia skirmish.
Coming into pretty close quarters with
Secessionist he remarked: "Friend,
tits very unfortunate, but thee standest
| just where l. am going to shoot" and,
blazing away, down came his man.
There is reason in all things" but it
tires mans mental strength and faith
most desperately to comprehend the hired
girls reason for blacking the stove with
the shoe brush, when he finds himself at
church with a pair of boots that look
like twin bulletin of stove polish.
An old colored preacher was lecturing
youth of his fold about the sin Of
} dancing, when the latter said that the
Bible plainly said, There is time tc
I dance" "Yes, dar am time to dance, >
said the dark divine, "and it's when q
boy gets whippin' for gwine to ball
A Boston merchant, seeking to badger
one-legged son of Erin, said to him
81 say, Patrick, with all your talk abou
the Virgin Mother, don't believe she
was any better than my motherl' "Tha
may be" was the prompt reply, "but
tell ye there is mighty difference il
the character of their sons" Patricl
remained master of the situation.
This may seem work of superogation
he remarked, as he went down to the from
|; gate, and commenced operations on tn
: hinges with feather and bottle of oil
. But the critical period is approachin
when young man has to be handled yer
delicately, and just the least bit of Sc
back may throw things. The smalles
creak might be disastrous and this gate
} got to stay for two more besides Imogen'
: The following anecdote is told I
Judge Abbott, one of the members
the House Investigating Committee whiC
went to South Carolina: when he W;
:. in Charleston he asked the old darkey
IN work in his room what made him so slO
about building the FIRE. The reply was
: Fact is, Judge, dar is no coal down stair
Use been up and down de alley, and sto
r all the wood could find, and in prese
demor' 'lized condition of society | car
do no better "
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
OLD GRANLEY.
Old Granley swore by all the leaves
That were upon the tree-tree-

Old Granley swore by all the leaves
That were upon the tree-tree-
He'd do more work in one short day
Than his wife could do in three-three.
Mrs. Granley. she came in. she says.
"You shall have trouble now-now--
For you shall do the work in the house.
And I'll 60 follow the plow-plow;
But you must milk the mooley COW
For fear she will go drY-dry,
And you must feed the little pig
Which ls within the sty-sty.
And you must put the cream in the churn
Which is within the frame-frame.
And you must see to the fat in the pot.
That It don't all 60 in the hame-hame;
And you must feed the speckled hen
For fear she'll lay astray-stray,
And you must reel the spool Of yarn
That spun yesterday-day."
Mrs. Granley took the whip in her hand
To go and follow the plow-plow,
Old Granley took the pail in his hand
To milk the mooley cow-cow,
The moOley cow-she kicked-she raved.
She rumbled with her nose-nose,
She kicked old Granley on the shin
Till the blood ran down TO his toes-toes.
He went to feed the little pig
Which was within the sty-sty,
He hit his head against beam
And his hair began to ny-hy.
lie went to watch the speckled hen
For fear she'd lay astray-stray;
But he forgot the spool Of yarn
His wife spun yesterday-day.
He went TO put the cream in the churn
Which was within the frame-frame.
But he forgot the fat In the pot,
And 1t all went into the fiame-hame.
He looked east-he looked west,
He looked TO the sun-sun,
He thought 1t was the longest day.
And his wife would never come-come.
Mrs. Granley she came in.
She saw him look so sad-sad,
She wheeled herself around about,
And said she was glad-glad.
And then he swore by all the leaves
That were upon the tree-tree,
His wife could do more work in day
Than he could DO in three-three.
Boston Womdn's Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
from her eyes and down her cheeks.
She did not wipe them away.

She did not wipe them away.
Her cheek dropped against the win
dow-pane nearest to her. She had not
loosened her hold of the candle-stick
yet, and her arm rested on the sill.
After awhile she gave one long, shud-
dering sigh, and did not move again.
1t was at that moment that her hus-
band. running homewards along the
road, grew certain that the blurred, yell
low light was that of candle his wife
had set in the window to guide him
home.
He came on towards it faster and fas-
ter yet He saw not only the candle,
but the hand that held it-Katie's own.
He saw her face lying against the
pane--the sleeve Of her worn gown,
through which the arm shaped itself SO
sharply.
"Katie," he cried, with joy, with
hope, with love that seemed newborn,
for his love for his wife had at least
never been sullied by any thought of
another woman.
'Katle Katie, darling I'm here.
I've come home, Katie r.
She did not stir. His voice brought
no answer. He shook the door.
"Katie ~
|. Still no reply.
He pressed his face against the pane.
How still she was. how wan, how pale
"She is asleep" he cried /; "but 1 can
not wait p
And he set his strong shoulder against
the door and burst it open.
He rushed into the little kitchen, the
red freight flashing in his glad eyes as
he crossed it.
katie, wake up" he cried. "Katie,
it's your William come back to you
But Katie would never waken again.
Katie would never know that all her
watching, waiting and praying had not
been in vain. She was dead.
Her light had gone out forever. though
the light in the window burned bright
ly for her husband.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29


There are two sides to the question
of schich is now the aristocracy of the
south. The white people insist. as US
ual, in claiming their supremacy, but
the colored element has its rights which
they hold to be triumphant, as the fol-
lowing instance. The colloquy comes
from an unknown source, but is to good
to be left unpreserved:
"Ephrahem, come to yer mudder, boy.
Where you been? p
"Playin' wild de white folks chilum."
"You is, he? See hyar, chile, you'll
broke yer old mudder's heart an brung
her gray hairs In de grave wild yer
recklumness an carryns wild evil asso-
way way sRouIuB Bbulgnitt nc ttu to go
"Yethum."
Hadn't I bin kline an tender wild
you an treated you like my own chile,
which you is?"
"Yethum."
"Habn't 1 reezoned wild you, an
prayed wild you, an deplored de COED
Lord to wrap you in His buzzum ?"
"Yethum."
"An' isn't yer nater'l detector an
gardeen fo' de law ?"
"Yethum."
"Well, den, do you s'pose Use a
gwine to hab yer morals ruptured by de
white trash ? No, sar Get in de house
dis instep; an if l eber cotch you 'mu-
nicatin' wild de white trash any mo- fO'
de Lord, niger, I'll broke yer black
head wild brick"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
REV. JOSEPH COOK ON CIVIL SER
VICE REFORM.
[FRoM HIS RECENT ADDRESS IN BOSTON.

FROM HIS RECENT ADDRESS IN BOSTON.
We must beware of the demagogues
who condemn civil service reform, and
the ground that it tends to raise up an
aristocratic, ofice-holding class. having
peculiar privileges. What peculiar priv
ileges had the British civil service en-
ployees /? They remained in Office to
serve the country, not to serve the par
ty whether Disraeli or Gladstone were
in power made no difference to them.
They were profession and had the op-
portunity to learn to do their work. Of
fees were not bought and sold. The po-
sition of Senator should not be reduced
to the level of gift enterprise. The
business of the country should be con-
Quoted in the same way that great fac
tory conducts its business. When the
management of a factory covering ten or
twelve acres of flooring changes hands
and passes from one proprietor to anoth
er, it does not change all its agents and
operatives. The new management has
too much common sense to summarily
dismiss those who have grown familiar
with their places and the duties requir-
ed of them, and take on an entirely new
set of hands. The business of the coun-
try should be done in business fashion,
for the benefit of the whole nation, not
of party. There never would be any
peace, any purity for the government
until the day of the disestabllshment Of
the machine in American politics.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
JERUSALEM IN 1877.

This city, though 'trodden down of
the Gentiles,' and still desolate and pow
erty-stricken, no longer veri6es an old
prophets utterance as city that no
man seeketh after The death-struggle
of the Ottoman Empire is stirring into
life the political and national existence
of Palestine. The ancient and renowned
city of Jerusalem is becoming more and
more central point of attraction, and
while Protestant Germans, in large num-
bers, have colonized in that city, the
most significant fact of all is the rapid
flow of Jewish people to the land of their
fathers. The Bible-loving Jews have
the powerful stimulus to their movement
of ancient predictions concerning the
Holy Land and the Holy City while
the Talmud jews are cheered by such
utterances of that book as He that walks
four rods in the Holy Land is sure of a
portion of the world to come, and Dwell
ing in the Holy Land is of greater
weight than the keeping of all command
ments. Under such incentives Palestine
Is rapidly increasing in Jewish popula-
tion. Fifty years ago the Jewish COM
munitY of Jerusalem was fifty families.
Now they number fifty thousand souls
with score of synagogues and divers
hospitals, asylums, etc. Forty houses
have been built by the Rothschilds for
Jewish accommodation. Extensive ag-
ricultural regions have been purchased,
and others are in negotiation, for the
constantly arriving emigrants. All these
are indications that these ancient people
are setting their faces Zionward, and
that the old Judea, as it was ages ago,
shall be filled with the descendants of
the patriarchs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

lieve the distress were ill-advised and
utterly inadequate. In some localities
the local officers affected to ignore the
state of things, and even endeavored to
exact taxes from those who were starv-
inc
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

The following admirable parallel of
the sexes exhibits, is strong contrast,
inherent qualities of each: Man is strong
woman is beautiful. Man is daring
and confdent-woman is difident and
unassuming.-Man is great in action
woman in suffering. Man shines abroad
woman at home. Man talks to con-
vince-woman to persuade and please.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

A HINT TO FATHERs.-The great Sc
cret of success in bringing up children
is to establish and preserve confidence
between parents and children. If the
father is the boys best friend, as all
wise mothers are the girls there is no
trouble about keeping them from bad
associates, whose vicious example and
silly bravado have lasting effect upon
forts bseeGter terIurrdfreg Tor your ramIr6s
remember that money will not save you
from many heartache if your boys
go wrong, and that their only safety is
in being kept close by your side, help
ing you in your business, and you in
turn sharing their fun and play. Moth
ing is so hattering to boys as the society
of their fathers, and nothing makes a
man so popular with them as joining in
their amusements. Try to do this, and
your sons will try in turn to understand
your cares and troubles. Take as much
pains to preserve them from contamina-
tion in the shape of immoral compan-
ionship as mothers do their girls, and
you will find them growing up to be
modest and virtuous young men, fit CON-
panions and husbands for girls who
have been carefully guarded from all
knowledge of evil. Devote your even
ings to family amusements and pleas
ures. Invite young people to you house
and pay them attention, instead of 60
ing off to bed, or shutting yourself il
another room the moment they make
their appearance.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
PAR nNTs

Delays are dangerous. The lives of our
little ones are dear to us. and il is the
wish and hope TO see them look bright.
and cheerful and happy.
We advise you not to give them any
of the dangerous worm syrups or liquids
OF any kind or name. They are not only
bad to use and really dangerous to take:
but the stomach often rejects them and
are used with peril to those little Cnes
who look to us for care aud protec
ton. Van Deusens Worm CONNECTIONS
are pure white and are made from the
purest vegetable medicines They are
the only safe and sure worm medicine
ever discovered. They have become a
household remedy, and are now sold in
every store.
Van neusen's CONNECTIONS
Are sure protection.
They bring to terms
Intestine Worms;
Cures every child.
Are tasteless, mild.
Your pets may live,
Ii them you give
Ask for Van Deusen's Worm Confec-
tons. Merchants can get them at whole
sale Drug Stores.
VAN DEUSEN BROTHERS,
KINGSTON. ULSTER Co., NY.
Price rs cents box. gsa
Sold at every store,