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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-17

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09
THAT Roy.

Dramatis PERSONNEL young Amer
lean in roundabout and leggins. perched
upon the fence deyouring huge piece
of mince pie, and maiden of five summers,
in pantalettes, looking very wistfully at
the gormand on the fence. Young Amer
ica-"I say, sis, does your mar make
mince pies? If she does I'll bet they
amt SO good as my mars" Little Miss
(timidly)-''I like mince pie awful well"
Young America-"Well. now, that's
funny! Just look here drawing a quar-
ter of pie out of his jacket pocket) and
it's boss, too /! Amt my mar good %
Carefully slowing it away in his pocket).
That boy sis father to the mai" who
must have his cigars and any other mas
culine luxury his contemplate sel6shness
Graves, while his poor sickly wife must
do the work Of two women ("glrls waste
more than they earn he says. and for
the want of a little money to purchase a
few bottles of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription, the sovereign remedy for female
diseases and weaknesses, she is literally
dying by inches-and all because of that
masculine selishness that would not d.
vide the childish luxury with his play
mate, and now tactlty refuses his wife
the luxury of health.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

CONCERNING HOUSE PLANTS.
MAKING PREPARATIONS.

MAKING PREPARATIONS.
By all means have few house plants
there is nothing else in the world,-ex-
cept a baby, to be sure,-that gives
such bright look to a room. Never
mind if you have plain furniture and
hard, uncarpeted floors, and many cares
and few luxuries.-you can still have
plants. Trouble OF course they make
work, but trouble-never They make
work, but it is delightful, recreative
work, THAT is what | keep them for"
is the reply | make to people who tell
me what a care our plants must be.
Everybody ought to have something to
take care of, that will give only spir-
itual return. Begin then at once my
reader, and have few plants, and I'll
tell you how to start in the matter.
No matter if the ground is frozen,
no matter if not so much as green
thing remains to take up from the
garden, there is still no reason why
your windows should not be hung with
vines and blossoms before the winter
SHOWS shall be half gone. Let US be-
gin at the very beginning, and take
everything in order, with few plain
directions for all the work of window
gardening.
The common red earthen-ware pots
are the best. They are not ugly either
their color harmonizes we'll with the
green foliage, and before all other rea-
sons for their general use, they are
cheap. But if you cannot get pots take
boxes. Or, if you have no little boxes
at hand, why get the handiest male
member Of the household to make some.
If home made, it is far better to fasten
the Joints of these boxes with screws
than nails, because with nails they a0sA
warp.
Paint the boxes if you like,-not q
staring red, but a reddish brown, OIL
slate color; or, what is better thar
paint, cover them with little split cedar
sticks, arranged in fanciful patterns
If you have broken wooden bowl
you can easily fashion it into a hang
ing basket that will hold lots of plants
Then, too, those little strawberry
baskets,-the square ones, made o.
splints,-make pretty hanging baskets
Put wood moss about the sides to keel
the soil and moisture in, and put rel
cord at the corners to hang them u
by.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09
Seligiplls department.
WEEK OF PRAYER, 1879.

The Executive Committee of the
Evangelical Alliance of the United
States makes the following suggestions for
the observance of the Week of Prayer,
subject to such alterations as local cir
cumstances may render desirable.
The Alliance is now SO widely ex-
tended as to include in its membership
Christians in all nations, and the first
week in January, 1879, will be OBJ
served in all Christian countries and at
missionary stations in heather lands.
For the Sabbath, Jan. 5, as a SUBJ
ject for the pulpit "Christian Union"
MONDAY, JAN. 6.
Thanksgiving for the blessings of the
year past, and prayer for their continu-
ance
TUESDAY, Jan. z.
Prayer for the Church of Christ Its
ministers, its growth in grace, and its
enlargement.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. s.
Christian education: the family: the
young: colleges, seminaries of learning,
Sunday and other schools: Christian
Associations of Young Men and Of
Young Women.
THURSDAY, Jan. 9.
For nations: rulers and people: for
peace and religious liberty in the earth
FRIDAY, Jan. 10.
The Press: for blessing vu pub
fishers, editors. and authors the cause
of Temperance and other social reforms.
SATURDAY, Jan. IL.
Home and Foreign Missions and the
conversion of the world.
On Sabbath evening. January r.
it is suggested that public union meet
ings be held for prayer. praise and the
presentation of the object and work o
the Evangelical Alliance.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09
SEEDS AND CUTTINGS.

Some of your plants will do better
if started from seeds. while others must
be started from cuttings. If you plant
seeds,-you must be careful for two
things-frst not to rot your seeds with
too much water, and, secondly, not to
kill the young plants with too much
sunlight. In planting fine seeds in
boxes, give the earth good watering,
sprinkle on the seeds,-then sift on
layer of earth twice the thickness of
the seeds. Let the earth not come with
in an inch of the top of the box, and
lay over the top of the box sheet Of
white fools.cap paper. This will keep
in the moisture and exclude the sun.
Put your box in hot place.-on man.
tel-piece, perhaps,-and do not take ii
to the window till the young plants be-
gin to show themselves. The paper
should be kept on the box till the Sc.
cond set of leaves appears.
1t is surprising what tenacity of life
what facility of reproduction and in
crease is hidden in most of our ordinary
house-plants. Take slip of almost
any of them,-let it have one, or two
or three eyes, or leaf joints,-put i
into moist, sandy soil, keep it shaded
for few days, then bring them int
the sun, and, almost before you know
it, it has leaves of new growth, and is
cutting no longer, but plant. In
pudding dish, or even wooden box o
an old pan, not more than three or fou
inches deep and ten inches wide, 20
can start twenty-five cuttings easily. G
and make calls some afternoon teI
your neighbors that you are about
start window grader, and see no
quickly those of them who have plant
will offer you slips. Take them hon
fill Jour dish or box, smoothe it of
make holes with pencil, put in yor
slips up to the first bud, water the
| we'll, and don't worry about them an
more, only keep them wet and see the
grow.-N. Y. Observer,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09


The following might be read with
profit by many in whose vicinity the
Prayer. meeting is not dead, but is liv-
ing miserable exis tence for the want
of a healtful Christian support:
A SAD DEATH.-Died-In Laodicea,
the Prayer-meeting, aged three years
and one month. The health of this
little meeting was poor most of last
year, during which its life was often
despaired of. A few anxious friends
kept it alive, and at times it would SO
revive as to encourage them. Discour-
agement at last prevailed, and the meet
ing died from neglect. Not Christian
was present when it died. Over forty
were living within mile, and not one
was there. Had two been there its life
might have been saved, for "where two
or three are gathered together" etc
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

Know and improve every talent to
the utmost, whether in preaching. writ
ing, speaking or acting. l feel con-
WINGED that every man has given him
of God much more than he has any idea
of, and that he can help on the worlds
work more than he knows of. What
We want is the single eye that will see
what our work is, the humility to accept
it. however lowly, the faith to do it for
God, the perseverance to go on till
death.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

The Christian shines unconsciously-
as the jewel sparkles, as the bird sings.
Self-forgetfulness is the first sign that
we are doing work for the God above us.
A life in which the will of the Father is
all in all, will accomplish good on the
right hand and on the left. and keeps no
record.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09
THE LIGHT ON THE WAVES.

me following Is Vne eIoquenC COLL
clus ION of Dean Stanley's sermon preach
ed in New York and printed in The
Tribune: "May l close these remarks
by an illustration which | once heard
from the lips of rough seafaring man
-one of few survivors of great ship
wreck which took place some years ago in
the Bay of Biscay? AS soon as those
who had escaped from the sinking ves-
sci found themselves in the small boat
in which they had taken refuge, in the
midst of the raging sea, they found that
their chief danger came not from the
solid massive sweep of waters, but from
the angry breaking waves which. from
time to time, descended upon them, and
against which every eye and hand had
to watch with undated attention. AS
the shades of evening drew on, SO the
survivors told me, their hearts sank at
the thought that in the darkness of the
night it would be impossible to see those
insiduous breakers, and that sooner or
later they would be caught and ingulfed
by them. But with the darkness there
came corresponding safety. Every one
of them was crested with phosphores-
cent light which showed it coming far
of, and enabled the seamen to guard
against it as carefully as if it had been in
the full light of day. The spirits of the
little crew revived, and those who, from
time to time-the towards and despera-
does among them-were for turning
back to the ship, were guided by these
corruscations through the night, and in
the early dawn they caught view of a
distant vessel, by which they were at
last saved. Mark that crest of phosphor-
escent light. On the top of these break
ing pillows is the light of divine grace,
the compensating force of Providence.
In the darkness of this mortal life, and
on the wave of this troublesome world
our perplexities and dangers and griefs
bring with them. or may bring with
them, their own remedy. On each
bursting wave of disappointment and
vexation there may be the grace o.
heavenly light which reveals the perils
and shows the wave and guides u
through the roaring storm. Out o
doubt may come faith, out of grief ma,
come hope, aud to the upright and god
ly disposed there rises light from dark
ness. With each new temptation Their
may come way to escape, with eacl
new difficulty there may come some ney
explanation. As life advances it doe
indeed sometimes seem to US as vesse
going to pieces, as though we were onl
fragments of broken ship or of soil
tary skill on the wide waste of waters
but so long as our mortal existence last
we must not give up the duty of hoE
,, ing. The sense that kept US back i
, youth from all Incorporate gladness-
that same good instinct forbids unprofI
able sadness. We must perseveI
until the morning breaks. That spec
on the distant horizon may be the ve
sci by which we will shape our cours
Forward, not backward, must v
steer. The speck becomes mass, an
the mass becomes ship. Have patien'
!, and perseverance, and believe that the
is still future before every one, al
: SO we shall at last reach the have
!" where we should meet"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

~ 4 business you can engage in. s. to $50 per
RACh day made by any worker OF either sex. right
86A lin their own localities. Particulars and
samples worth S. free. Improve your
spare time at this business. Address STINsoN d Co.,
Portland, Maine. oil
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

1t is not the strange sights that we
shall see in heaven that will so much
delight us; not the glitter and the glory
not the diamond and topaz; no, it is
God; He is all in all-Richard Vat
SON
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

Study the Holy Scriptures. It has
God for its author, salvation for its end,
and truth. without any mixture Of error,
for its matter.-Locke.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09
Sugar & Butter Tubs.

We have lot Of co. So 40 and so pound butter tubs
which will sell TO butter makers or sugar makers
very cheap. Enquire at the MONITOR oTFIoE.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09
EARTH.

Having obtained the pots, the next
thing is to find something to fill them
with. If the ground is frozen, bring
in lump of it, and put it in an oven.
to thaw it. This process has double
advantage, it takes out the frost and
kills the worms. Then from barn eel
lar get some well-rotted manure. That
found in the crevices of the stones is
best, as it is likely to be several years
old. Go into the woods, if there is no
snow, and get a basket of the friable
soil that is just under the leaves. 1t is
indeed but broken leaves and rotten
twigs. If there is snow. perhaps you
can find something pretty nearly like
the woods earth, under the old chips in
the woodshed. Take one part Of this
decayed vegetable mould. one part sand
one part manure and two parts of loan ;
sift them all through coal sieve and
mix them we'll, and the earth is prepar-
ed
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

Two-thirds of the forty might have been
there had they been SO dispose; but
they were not and the prayer-meetlng
died.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09
BRICK ]! BRICK Il!

The subscriber having just opened kiln Of excel
lcat BRICK. oferers them at reasonable rates. Find
them at the old Brick Yard at Barton Village
P.S. These brick will be sold on an average of So
per thousand.
36tf JAMES LEWIS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

A sorrow shared is but half a trouble.
But joy that's shared lie q joy made double.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-21

One of the editors Of the Chicago Adj
vance. in letter published in that paper,
says;s 1.-The news of renewed outrages
in South Carolina and Louisiana, now
that there are no United States troops to
provoke or hinder, or avenge them, is fix
ing weighty responsibility on Governors
Hampton and Nichols. As the President
and the Administration have stood from
UNDER the black burden will fall where
1t belongs. President Hayes should
utter proclamation according to law
or If such a law does not exist, 1t should
be enacted, to protect all citizens in their
right peaceably to assemble for political
debate and to cast each an unintimidated
vote. That question is not settled by any
body's policy II soiH never be settled
until IL is settled right viz: that to the
citizen OF every State shall he accorded
the rights that belong to the citizen of any
State"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-21
From the Eastern Argus.
The Schools and the Legislature
To the Editor of the Aruus

noticed an article lately in the columns of the
Argus think. in reference to a meeting Of dem
ocrats and greenbackers looking to a reduction 10
the running expenses Of our State government
and presumably in other directions.
Among the list of curtailments will probably
come our school expenses.
am democrat and believe in oil consistent
economy, but trust there will be men enough in
our incoming legislature, though they come from
all parties, who acting from a strict sense of duty
will continue our present system Of schools and
The Mill Tax,
There are several potent reasons for the contin-
uance of this system and but one objection, viz,
its expense.
Our men Of property, aided by the various cor
porations to large extent pay this tax. Those
who clamor for its repeal are, on the other hand,
but little affected by II pecunsrily. Would it not
prove poor economy
Towns that have instituted and maintained free
high schools are now furnished with native teach
ers, educated to their calling at home, without in
curing the expense VIII ich attaches TO attending
an academy or seminary at distance, which was
formerly the only way offered by which to pre-
pare themselves, and they are being well fitted
for their work, for we have had some most excel
lent schools under this arrangement in charge of
the best of teachers.
The general tone Of nearly all our schools has
been greatly improved in this way. Young men
aud women who would not and could not under
the old system, obtain any education beyond that
VI auisulct school, nave IN these schools made of
themselves good teachers and fitted themselves
Tor their life duties in manner utterly .impossi-
BILE under the old order of things.
By cutting off these facilities for an education
ihnlViinals, lit will be individual may pocket
rev dollars In the course of time and their chill
ofen, the coming men and women of this State.
pocket the consequences Of limited school train
ing Abolish anything rather than what i to ad-
vance the present and future interests of our State
beyond any other Tans 1t seems "a penny
WISE and pound foolish" idea of retrepchment.
bnt the chances are that it will be carried into
enect unless strenuous efforts are made to still
continue IT, Let us hear from others interested.
DEMOCRAT.
CLINTON, Nov. 16, 1873.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-21

The reception OF the new Governor
General of Canada at Halifax, will be a
great event in the Dominion. Prepara-
tons are being made on large scale TO
render it brilliant and imposing specta-
Gle. The highest dignitarcs of the Do
.minion government will be present. Her
Maiesty's ship Black Prince, commanded
by son of Queen Victoria, has arrived
to take part in the affair. The steamer
Sarmstian, in which the Marquis and
Marchioness of Lorne took passage,
is expected to- arrive off the harbor Al
Halifax next Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-21
General News.

The funniest thing in the newspaper business is
to watch patent outside editor trying TO explain
why he can't insert an article on the first page
The Canadian papers state that William j.
Spicer Superintendent OF the Grand Trunk, has
been rendered the position of manager of the In
tercolonial railroad, now held by c. j. Bridges.
In the good old time Judge Walter T. Coqutt.
of the Georgia Supreme Court, condemned a
man to be hung. preached sermon, reviewed
the militia, mfrried two couples at night and
then conducted rousng prayer meeting--al in
one day.
The San Francisco stock gamblers had a Blue
Monday The great bonanza stocks toppled over
in all directions. When Sierra Nevada fell from
IFS to SO, it is safe to say that some of these play
ers felt like returning to first principles, and re-
firing to Poker Flat.
An English farmer, touched with compassion
at the sight of feeble woman trudging along
the road carrying child, gave them a lift. He
was promptly summoned and fined Is for using
his cart as carriage when he had not taken out
q carriage license.
Mr.. William M. Hunt, the distinguished Boston
artist is slender, sinewy man, nearly six feet in
height He has fine head, an aquilne nose and
keen gray eyes, often frightened by q twinkle of
merriment. He has a flowing, silvery beard, a
bronzed complexion, and still preserves in his
dress some Of the eccentricites of his student
days. He has a buoyant, cheerful nature, and is
a delightful talker.
A woman's hair has suddenly turned white in
Milan. She was mother, and was going from
church with two children, one Of whom could
walk, while the other held in her arms. The
one who could walk ran down the church steps
into the street, where carriage was passing. AS
the child disappeared between the wheels the wo-
man uttered loud cry and fell insensible, with
the other child in her arms, on the ground. The
child under the carriage was picked up unhurt
The mother when she was restored to her senses
found her hair had turaed perfectly white.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-21
Political.

The Lynn Free Press, organ OF the greenback-
ers, dies al the age of three months.
If the solid South represented . majority in
stead of minority, there would be less demo-
cratic adherence of sectional politics.
Too honest for anything, is the democratic can
didate for Governor Of Maine. He told the Lew
iston Journal the other day 81 don't take any
stock in the cipher dispatches. l have better
opinion OF human nature" But the good doctor
forgot that human nature ought to be as incapable
of forging such dispatches, and attrbuting them
to an innocent man, as of writing them, as al
leged-in fact, little more so-Boston Herald
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-21

on the public debt for the months of Nov. and
Dec. will be about 1929, $50. To this should be
added $500 900 required to pay the British gov
ernment on account of the Halifax award, which
will make the actual coin liabilities between now
and Jan. l. STATS, $3.50. Omtting the amount of
gold bullion that will be purchased for greenbacks
on the Pacific coast. the coin resources OF the
treasury, Jan. !, as will be seen by the figures
given above, viii be about Sl65,Sl0.293. which
will give a net coin balance available for re-
sumption purposes on the LIST day of January of
Sl5l, 030, 1868, q sum nearly equal to so per cent
of the entire legal tender liability. But the treas
ury will be even stronger than is indicated by the
foregoing figures, because at least 500 900, 009
in greenbacks are in the vaults of the treasury
and in the hands of government disbursing Off
GERS, which reduces the legal tender liability by
that amount, because that amount being already
held by the government, cannot, of course, be
presented fsr redemption. Secretary Sherman
believes that $50 000,0 900 of U. S. notes cannot be
collected for presentation for redemption, and if
thes conld the withdrawal of that amount from
business for three days would have a tendency
to create scarcity that would place legal tenders
above gold. Thus it will be seen, the treasury
is abundsntly prepared to aedeem the promise
given by the act of March Is, 1862 that "the faith
Of the T.. S. is solemnly pledged to make provi
sion at the earliest practicable period for the
demption of the L. 5. notes in CON-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-21

In regard to the choosing Of the next
Governor. which devolves upon the Maine
Senate, the Tribune says: There is some
talk Of the republicans dividing their vote
equally between the two, thus Kidding
themselves OF all responsibility and al
lowing the greenbackers to elect their
man, The democrats say this is cow
ardly programme, but 1t does not strike
the outsider in tina. way. There would be
q delicious flavor of retribution about il
for the democrats. They have used the
greenbackers as eatspaw, and if the lat
ter hold on to the chestnuts, nobody will
weep"