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PET THE OLDER ONES.

1t sometimes occurs to US that the
babies get more than their share of pet
ting, not that anybody can help it. The
dear little dimpled things, with their
sweet ways and their helpless depend
ence, and the charm of some new reve-
lation every day, invite our caresses and
our whole store of complimentary ad-
jectives. Darling, and treasure, and
the common stock of nouns of endear-
ment and appreciation, come easily to
our lips when we talk to the little
ones.
How often we drop these pretty forms
of speech as they grow older. They
leave the cunning age behind and grad
uate into the awkward one. Girls and
boys alike pass through period when
they are shy, sensitive, morbid, and
self-conscious, yet perhaps withal arro-
CANT, conceited, and opinionated- With
what motchIess confidence sixteen and
eighteen adopt and parade notions on
subjects which have puzzled prophets
and sages Then their fathers and
mothers too often feel impatient and dis
appointed. They do not remember that
this queen husk will fall away, and
from it emerge flower by-and-by.
So gradually and insensible do moth
ers lose the habit of caressing their OIL
der children, that the latter would look
very much surprised at kiss bestowed
out of the regular way.
The habit of morning and evening
salute is kept in families where it is
merely mechanical and prefunctory.
Yet it is better than no kiss at all. The
magnetism of mother-love shown to the
boy or girl, however unamiable their
transitory mood may be, is strong enough
to save them from the attack of tempta-
tion. Do not slight so strong power.
Even though you fell difident in taking
up what should never have been laid
aside, begin again and pet your big sons
and daughters.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

DON'T LOSE MINUTE.-Keep busy.
The man who has nething to do is the
most miserable of beings. If you have
no regular work, do chores as farmers
do when it rains too hard to work in the
field. In occupation we forget our troub-
les, and get a respite from sorrow. The
man whose mind and hands are busy
finds no time to weep and wall. If
work is slack, spend the time in reading
No man ever knew too much. The har-
dest students in the world are the old
men who know the most. If you lack
books, there are free or very cheap lib
raries, at least in cities, at your COM
mand. The man who does not acquire
some item of useful information between
daybreak and bedtime must mournfully
say with the Roman Emperor, 81 have
lost day."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

SECRETS OF SUCCESS WITH POULTRY.
Il am now keeping 800 hens and 900
chicks with satisfactory results. The
fowls are kept in separate houses, each
Of which holds so. There is good
range in which the fowls mix together,
but all return to their own roosts at
night. The houses are sheds 20 by IA,
eight feet high in front, and sloping to
the ground at the back, having open
lattice work at each END for ventilation.
The roosts are movable, six feet long,
two inches wide, and one inch thick,
and are frequently taken down, cleansed,
and soaked with kerosene. The sheds
are kept thoroughly soaked with lime.
wash, with some carbolic acid in it oc.
casionally. The sitting nests are treat
ed similarly. The feed consists OF shorts
and bran, wheat and oats, boiled bee1
heads, chopped cabbages and cornstalks
and boiled potatoes alternately. Run
ming water passes the sheds and coops
Eight hundred hens consume 10 pounds
of oats daily; 26 dozen of eggs have
been gathered in one day. The secre
of success is cleanliness, a variety o
good food, and pure water. With thes
REQUISITES there need be no failure.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

LITTLE BY LITTLE.-If you are gain
ing little by little every day be content.
Are your expenses less than your income
SO that, though it be little, you are yet
constantly accumulating and growing
richer and richer every day Be con-
tent; so far as concerns money, you are
doing well.
Are you gaining knowledge every
day? Though it be little by little, the
aggregate of the accumulation, where
no day is permitted to pass without ad-
ding something to the stock, will be
surprising to yourself.
Solomon did not become the wisest
man in the world in a minute. Little
by little--never emitting to learn some
thing, even for a single day-aiways
studying little between the time Of
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13
A PRAIRIE MINUET.

One autumn day, watching for ducks
while ensconced on a musk rat house in
the great Mendocio marsh, which ex-
tends back many miles from the Missip-
pi River opposite Clinton, I noticed
some objects moving on the summit of a
knoll. By careful watching I discovered
they were prairie-fowl and moved by
curiosity, carefully approached them.
AS I drew near I discovered fifteen prai-
rie fowl apparently dancing a minuet.
They were scattered about on the short
turf, twenty yards apart, nodding their
heads at one another, and presently two
would run out and perform the figure
which in country dance is known as
''cross over and back to places" all the
while uttering soft note of ''ceo-cooe," p"
the last syllable being much elongated.
Then would follow "salute your partners .
and "doS a dos" This scene of merri-
ment was sustained for half an hour and
until a shot from neighboring gun
caused the birds to run into the tall
cover of the reeds. The bright sunshine
of autumn and the conspicuous group of
native birds impressed the scene vividly
on the spectators mind. A neighboring
farmer to whom the circumstance was
mentioned, said:
"Yes, the same birds skye around
there mostly every day."
The other varietiei of prairie grouse
indulge in the same of amusement
Charles E. Whitehead, IN ,Scribner.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13
QUITE AN ADVENTURE.

Two little children of E. R. Turner
of North Concord, VT. aged four and
six years, met with quite an adventure,
recently, which but for the GOODNESS and
bravery of the little boy, who was the
elder of the two, would have made their
parents hearts unspeakably sad, by the
death of one of them. Mr.. Turner's
farm lies upon both sides Of Moose riv-
er, and to reach the meadow on the op-
posite side from his house, a foot bridge
consisting of a single plank, some
eight inches wide-has been thrown
across the river, which is here some for
ty feet wide. The little boy having been
led safely over this bridge by an older
boy, some time previous, thought he
could do the same thing by his little
sister, The crossing over to the meadow
was safely accomplished; but on the re-
turn, when some twenty feet from the
shore, the little girl slipped off the plank
upon the up river side. The current be-
ing quite swift, carried her under the
plank at once, but her brother clung to
her hand till he could reach down and
get hold of her, with his other hand on
the down river side of the bridge, and
then drew her ashore, not being able to
get her upon the plank, as she, although
tive years his junior, was as heavy as
he. The two children went home cry,
ing, the brother saying, 81 did not lei
her drown. mamma" and the sister re-
| naatinn. 1lI Al not GET drnwnad mann
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

CLovEs.-Cloves are unopened flowers
of a small evergreen tree, that resembles
in appearance the laurel or the bay. It
is native of the Molucca or Spice ISL
ands, but has been carried to all the
warmer parts Of the world, and is large
ly cultivated in the tropical regions of
America. The flowers are small in size
and grow in large numbers in clusters at
the very end of the branches. The cloves
we use are the flowers gathered before
they are opened and whilst they are still
green. After being gathered they are
smoked by wood fire and then dried
in the sun. Each consists of two parts
a round head, which is the four petals
or leaves of the flower rolled up, inclos-
ing number of stocks and flaments.
The other part of the Glove is terminated
with four points, and is, in fact, the
flower cup and the unripe seed vessels.
All these parts may be distinctly shown
if a few leaves are soaked short time
in hot water, when the leaves soften
and readily unroll.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

ma p About the time the children got
to the house, the father, returning from
his work in the meadow, on coming to
the bridge, found a lot of pebbles which
the children had gathered in a heap
which told him they had been there, and
looking around and not seeing them. he
became alarmed fearing they might have
got drowned. On hurrying home he
found them alive and safe. With what
thankfulness he clasped his darlings to
his bosom, after learning how nearly one
of them had been folded by the angels,
none but parent VINO has passed thro'
a similar experience can realize.-Cole-
fIo7aan3z
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

ADoRNMENT OF HoME.-Money which
goes to buy picture, statuette, or
tasteful brackett for home adornment is
wisely spent. The general character of
home will make great difference to
the children who grow up in it, and to
all whose experience is associated with
it, whether it be beautiful or cheerful
one, or only homely and bare one, or
a merely formal and conventional one.
The relation of these things to education
is all that gives dignity or poetry to the
subject, or makes it allowable for a rea-
sonable man to give much thought to it.
But it has real vital relation to life,
and plays an important part in educa-
tion, and deserves to be thought about a
great deal more than it IS. Seeming
trifes like this make life either happy
or miserable Western Agriculturist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

THE OTHER SIDE OF 'EARLY RISING"
For farmers and those living in local
tiles where people can retire at eight or
nine o'clock in the evening, the old no.
tion about early rising is still appro-
pirate. But he who is kept up till ten
or eleven or twelve o'clock, and then
rises at five or six, because of the teach
ings of some old ditty about ''early to
rise" is committing sin against his
own soul. There is one man in ten
thousand who can afford to do without
seven or eight hours sleep. All the
stuff written about great men who slept
only three or four hours night, is apo
cryphal. They have been put upon such
small allowance occasionally, and pros
pered; but no man ever kept healthy in
body and mind for a number of years
with less than seven hours sleep. If
you can get to bed early, then rise ear
ly. If you cannot get to bed till late,
then rise late. It may be as proper for
one man to rise at eight as it is for an
other to rise at five. Let the rousing
bell be rung at least thirty minutes be-
fore your public appearance. Physicians
say that sudden jump out of bed gives
irregular motion to the pulses. 1t is
barbarous to expect children to land on
the center of the floor at the call of their
nurses, with the thermometer below ze-
70. Give them time after you call them
to roll over, gaze at the world full in the
face, and look before they leap.-Eva'a-
geiSt
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

Something over seven hundred men are
now employed on the Waterloo & Ma
cog and the Missisquoi & Black River
railways. The pay Of the men is 80
cents day. and small as is the remu-
neration applicants for work have to be
turned off every day. What these men
will do this fall when work ceases on
the roads is problem they themselves
would like to solved.-.St. John Neacs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.-Pay no at
tention to ISLANDERS and gossip mongers.
Keep straight on in your course, and
let their back biting die the death of
neglect. What is the use of lying
awake at nights, brooding over the re-
mark of some false friend. that runs
through your brain like lightning!
What is the use of getting into worry
and fret over gossip that has been set
afoat to your disadvantage, by some
meddlesome busybody who has more
time than character? The things can
not possibly injure you unless, indeed
you take notice of them, and in CON-
batting them give standing and charac-
ter. If what is said about you is true,
set yourself right; if it is false, let it 60
for what it will fetch. If a bee sting
you. would you 60 to the hive to destroy
it I! Would not thousand come upon
you? 1t is wisdom to say little respect
ing the injuries you have received. We
are generally losers in the end, if we
stop to refute all the backbiting and
gossiping we may hear by the way.
They are annoying, it is true, but not
dangerous, SO long as we do not stop to
expostulate and scold. Our characters
are formed and sustained By ourselUeS,
by our own actions and purposes, and
nUJ by oUneIs. Leu US always peaK IN
mind that "calumniators may usually be
trusted to time and the slow but steady
justice of public opinion y
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

Nos Cures. Cents.
1. ReverB Congestion, Inhammations, 20
2. Worms, Worm Fever, Worm Collie, 70
8. Crying-Colo, or Teething Of Infants 20
4. Diarrhna, OF Children or Adults, 25
5. Dysentery, Gripping. Bilious Colo, 20
0. Cholera-Morbus, Vomiting %
7. Coughs. Colds. Bronchitis, 25
8. Neuralgia, Teothhche Faceache, 20
0. Headaches, Sick Headache, Vertigo, 25
10. Dyspepsia, Bilious Stomach, ~
II. Suppressed, or Painful Periods, 26
l2. Whites, too Profuse Periods. 25
l3 Group, Cough. Difficult Breating. 25
a. Salt Rheume EryBipelas, Eruptions, 25
Is. rheumatism, Rheumatic Pains, 25
l6. Fever and Ague, Chill Fever, so
~. Piles, Blind or Bleeding, 80
1s. Ophthamy, OF Sore or Weak Eyes, so
10. Catarrh, Acute OF Chronic. Influenza. so
30. whooping- Cough, Violent Coughs, so
81. Asthma, Oppressed Breathing, 80
90. Ear Discharges, Impaired Hearing, 80
23. scrofula, Enlarged Glands. svelngs 80
"a. General Debility. Physical Weakness, 80
25. Dropsy and Scanty Secretlons, 80
20. sea-slckness Sickness from Riding, 80
e. Kidney Disease, Gravel, 80
2s Nervous Debility, Seminal Weakness or
Involuntary Discharges. 90
80. Urinary weakness. wetting the Bed, so
81. Painful Periods, with spasms, 80
SO. Disease Of Heart, Palpltations, etc, 90
%. Epilepsy. sgasms, 81. vitus' Dance. 80
94 Diptheria, liberated Sore Throat. so
S5. Chronic Congestions and Eruptions, so
FAMILY CASES.
Case (MOrocco) with above 35 large walls and
Manuel OF directions, $40 0C
Case (MOrOccol Of go large vials and Book, 9 0C
20 These remedies are sent by the case or
#lngte box 10 any part Of the country, free Oi
charge, on receipt Of price. Address
Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co.,
once and Depot, No. 100 Fulton Street. NY.
For sale by all Druggists.
es Sold in Barton by r. Y. Dutton and L. ID. Wilson
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13

rising up in the morning and laying
down at night /; this is the way to accu-
mulate full storehouse of knowledge.
Finally, are you daily improving in
character? Be not discouraged because
it is little by little. The best men fall
far short of what they themselves would
wish to be. 1t is something, it is much
if you keep good resolutions better to-
day than you did yesterday, better this
week than you did last, better this year
than you did last year. Strive to be
perfect, but do not become downhearted
SO long as you are approaching nearer
and nearer to the high standard at
which you aim.
Little by little, fortunes are accumu-
laCeu IIUU1V NJ I=tlI-.1 II
ed little by little, character and repu-
tation are achieved.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08
The Fruits of License.

Editors Democratic JStatesnaan In
1867 the prohiDitory law of Massachu-
sets was repealed. At once the sale
of Intoxicating liquors WAS renewed
with vigor, and intemperance and
crime rapidly increased. The report
of the State Board of Charities, made
up from September 80, 1867, to Sep
tember 30, 1868, SO that it embraces
less than eleven months under the
license law, sHys: - The Increase Of
n temperance, which the reaction of
last year against the stIictness Of pro-
hibItion has greatly promoted, inter
feres at once with our industrial in
terests, fosters pauperism and disease,
and swells the list of criminals. That
iutemperance has increased will appear
from the prison statistics, soon to be
submitted that crime and vice have
also increased will be shown by the
same impartial text, as we'll as con.
frmed by the observation of all who
have attended to Ihat subject, and no.
ticed what has been going on the past
year"
They say CT '-yagfsnts or tr syeling
paupers," p. 172: "The number re-
ported under this classification for the
year ending September 30. 1868, is
fifiy-sIx thousand three hundred and
eighiy-two, against twenty-five thou
sand six hundred and twenty-one the
u-svious year"
ssOf the State prison they say, p es:
The hope expressed in the lass report,
that the average number here would
continue 20 decrease, as during the
year previous, has been disappointed,
and the commitments during the pact
year have been one hundred and eighty
10 one hundred and twenty-eight the
year before. But this was written be-
fore the breaking down Of the barriers
against the sale Of intoxicating drinks
and it is to this cause that the prison
authorities ascribe the Increase of their
convicis-a conclusion which the reg.
isters Of this bureau would seem to con-
frm."
Speaking Of commitments to all the
prisons Of the State, they cay, ou
page IS: The whole number oi
persons committed to the isils and
houses of correction is larger by about
one-third than last year, as is also the
aggregate number Of prisoners, while
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08
LET TILDEN SPEAK.

Now let Mr.. Tilden, if worthy OF
the leadership of great and magnan,
lmous party, publicly advise his fol,
lowers to submit cordially and grace
fully aud decently to the action of the
commission which has made Hayes
president. Tilden can do the country
infinite service Just now in aliaying
the passions Of men like Morrissey and
of the sixty seven irreconcilablcs in
the lower house. A brave, manly let
Ter from Mr.. Tilden would do infinite
good. The people would have obiiv-
ion of the past, and 40 more bull-doz
ing or mad partisanship, and would
especially force the incoming ad-
ministration even, by Mr.. Tilden's
example, to promote by every possible
means the repose and quietude of So
ciety and activity of business life ev-
erywhere. If Mr.. Tildea be great, he
will be great in defeat as we believe
he would have been if crowned by vic
tory, and at this moment we will learn
the true meaning Of Tilden's great
ness.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08

Is IT true that whisky is dominant
in Guadalupe2 What do people COM
ing into Texas think about it2 Would
they not prefer homes in communities
that are not addicted to whisky Must
it be said that the capital of Texas IS
subjected to the sway of whisky 2
Must lawmakers, as in bygoue years,
come hlther to be stepped in whisky 2
Much of the depravlty of Texas legis-
latlon, and each disgraceful scene wit
messed in halls of legislation, had it's
origin in whisky, and yet there ale
those asserting devotion to the con-
monwealth and its capital who wou d
still have dramshops lining every
pathway to the Capitol. Austin, as it
is, should have temple reared in
honor of Bacchus, and that torn down
in which Themls is supposed to be
the ministering spirit.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08

A. 3. SMALL, ESQ, of Houston, Tex
as, is gathering facts and statistics
affecting the grasshopper invasion Of
Texas. He would know, frat, the area
invaded; second, the date of arrival Z;
third, the main direction of flight and
wind; fourth, the area over which eggs
have been laid. The fourth question
is the most important. Those who can
give Col. Small any information in
answer TO tnese 1nquirleo should od
dress HIM at once at Houston. The
facts given Col. Small will be especial
ly useful to Prof. Riley, State Entomol-
ogist of Missouri, in whose ninth re-
port, now almost ready for the press,
letters sent to Col. Small will be in-
serted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08
The LIQUOR CRIME.

Official reports from all parts of the
country, through half century past.
attribute seyen-eighths of the poverty
Of the people to their use of intoxica;-
ing drinks. The drsm-shops are the
active agents Of destruction to the peo-
pie and government, everywhere max
ing the rich richer and the poor poorer.
In 1910, one-tenth part of our people
held une-half the wealth of the coun-
try, but in 1870 one-ten,h of is pop
ula,ion held two-thirds of the wealth.
We are rapidly approaching the time
when the great mass of our citizens
will be poor and dependent on the
rich, and nearly all the wealth will be
grssped by monster corporations, mon
opolists and capitalists. We must
soon meet and answer the question by
our ballots, whether capital shall own
labor, or whether they shall be mu-
tually dependent upon each other; or
the logic Of events viii answer it for
US, in favor of capital. II we would
prevent this bsneful aggregation OF
wealth in the hands Of few, we must
aid and protect the many in acquiring
and holding property. The most cruel
and oppressive and destructive of capi-
tai slavery which is crushing the labor
ing masses of our country and through
out the civilized world is tie liquor
traffic. DR.. Young, chef of our
National Bureau of Statistics, in his
published estimate, based upon sworn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08

SINCE the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Railway Company advertises for
contractors to complete the line to Bel
ton, old fogy property-holders and
plodding merchants and three bankers
of Austin have been seen hob-nobblng
with one another and tipping one an
other sly winks and asking what they
thought fancy property would be worth
in the capital when the Galveston
scheme is perfected. One of them
said to US very solemnly yesterday that
"Mr. Horst was wisest of US when he
proposed to invest most literally in the
narrow gauge leading towards El Paso'
and to connect finally with that which
comes down from Denver.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08

In Galveston, on Texas independence
day, the courts were suspended, public
offices closed, and business generally
was given rest. The Texas Veteran
Association, of which Col. Guy NJ. Bry-
an Is president, met and talked over
the troubles and hardships and perils
through which they passed in hber.
ating Texas from the despotic grasp OF
Mexico. Austin was sadly remlss in the
discharge of duty to our fathers and
to posterity, and yet the banks were
closed, since the law makes the second
holiday. But the independence day
of Texas should be celebrated with
speeches, bonfires and llluminations,
and, not that we love the union of our
fathers less, but the memories of Texas
more, and simply because of the per.
version of fact and philosophy, which
the all-pervading system of federalism
has recently undergone. Local freedom
has been sacrificed on the altar of fed.
eral and partisan greed for imperial
power, and therefore the greater reason
for the ever-recurring resuscitation ol
hallowed memories, to which Mrs.
Saunders appeals so successfully. The
letter we print, having reference to the
same facts, is from the pen of an CID
Texan soldier.