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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19

THE HONEY BEE.-The honey bee is
the emblem of order and industry. The
queen is the mother of the whole hive,
and her eggs become males, females and
workers, or neuters, which last make
the combs and cells, and collect the
honey. The queen produces some thous-
ands of workers, and then males, which
the workers kill at the end of the sum-
mer. The workers attend the queen
with anxious respect. If she die, they
raise new one by various arts from a
working worm. Two queens cannot live
in the same hive, and one is destroyed.
The females or workers have a sting
but the males or drones none. In pro-
portionate size the queen bee is eight
and one half. the male seven and the
workers six. A queen will lay 200 eggs
daily for fifty or sixty days, and the
eggs are hatched in three days. The
workers are five days in the worm state,
and in sixteen days is perfect. When
eggs are converted into queens the old
queen destroys them, or if there are
two young queens they fight till one has
killed the other. One author asserts
that single queen has produced 100,-
900 bees in season. Every thing de-
pends ON the workers; they collect the
honey, make wax and build the combs,
they supply the worms with food and
protect the entrance of the hive, separate
business being performed by classes.
There are about 5000 cells in comb
of foot square. Their first purpose is
as nursuries for the young, and they are
then cleaned and filed with honey. Five
thousand bees weigh a pound. Twenty
or thirty pounds of honey are generally
got from hive; sometimes eighty or
100 pounds, and even more. A swarm
of bees contains from 10000 to 10000
in a natural state and from 10000 to
10000 in hive. All the experiments
on bees prove that love for their queen
and her progeny is the sole stimulus to
their persevering industry. Their joy,
grief and other passions are distinguish
ed in the tone of their humming, which
to them are articulate sounds.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
Craftsbury Academy.

The kall term OF this Institution will commence ON
WEDNkLDAY, AUGUST 2s. under the charge Of
GEo. W. HENDERSON. A. B., the Principal OF the past
academic year. assisted by full corps OF competent
teaeherH
TUITION Primary Branches. $500; Common Eng
hah - 90; Higher English. $4.O0 Ancient Languag.
%. - 0Oi Modern Languages $500; Instrumental
Music. $1,000 Tuition payable at middle Of term. A
competent teacher will give instruction In vocal music
Tor small additional tuition Free-hand Drawing will
be taught without charge 10 all who desire IT, Puuis
Win be furnished tickets 10 the Craftsbury Lecture
Course at reduced rates.
FOR Information respecting board or rooms apulca-
ton may be made 10 AUGUSTUS PADDOCK, Agent
JOS. BOARDMAH. MOSES ROOT. r. T. HAsTTHGg
Of w. w. MILES. seey., North CTallsbuTy, VI
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19


A CONVINCING ARGUMENT.--He was
squirting tobacco juice over the floor Of
the saloon, and telling how capital op-
pressed labor, when one of the dozen
men in the place inquired
"Air you one O. them Communists %
ST hold sir, that we must have an
even distribution of property-yes, sir,
or we'll fight, sir ~ was the pompous
reply.
stranger, kin you lend me chew Of
tobacco ?" asked the inquirer.
A box full of fine cut was handed
him. He put it in his pocket, and was
walking away, when the Communist
called out:
beg pardon, but you are carrying
off my tobacco p
"S'all right-s'all right" replied the
other. Il was out, and you have plen-
ty. We've got to even this business up.
you know. and you keep the box, and
I'll keep the tobacco"
He was to big to lick, and the Com
munist put the empty box in his pocket,
and refused to laugh with the crowd.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
ROOM AT THE TOP.

Never you mind the crowd, lad,
Or fancy your life won't tell;
The work is the work for a. that
To him that doeth it well.
Fancy the world hill, lad;
Look where the millions stop;
You will find the crowd at the base, lad
There's always room at the top.
Courage and faith and patience,
There's space in the old world yet;
The better the chance you stand, lad,
The further along you get.
Keep your eye on the goal, lad,
Never despair or drop:
Be sure that your path leads upward;
There's always room at the top.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19


was sounded, and sound something
between screech and moan was heard
in the distance. Winthrop exclaimed
with joy, at is Alpha" but none Of the
others believed it to be the sound of a
human voice. They sounded again and
again, but there was no response. The
poor, lost boy as it proved, had fallen
into a death-like lethargy and the noise
he had made was more involuntary than
natural, and he had not reused from the
deep sleep that fell on him the night
before.
Eagerly pursuing the course from
which the sound had proceeded, the
long lost boy was found. With great
difficulty he was aroused and brought to
semi-consciousness. Fires were quickly
kindled, little food was administered,
benumbed and stiffened limbs were Wig
orously rubbed, and preparation was
made for taking the boy several
miles through the woods to his home.
It proved afterwards that the noise AL
pha made was the result of dream. He
thought himself in sight of home and
tried to call loudly to his sister to bring
him his mittens, so that, providentially,
the sound made by the wild wanderings
of his mind during his distressed sleep
proved his rescue.
1t was past noon on Monday when
the boy was found and resuscitated as to
be fit to be borne home. Guns had
been fired, as a signal that the lost was
found and large force of the hunters
had come to the spot where the boy and
his rescuers remained. The boy was
carried on the back of the kind-hearted
men, each taking his turn in bearing
the burden. The boy was so lame and
sore, SO weak and childish, that hecried
bitterly to be rested and relieved from
the suffering he endured in being car.
ried toward his home. After several
hours the men came out in a clearing
on lot No. Is, in Charleston, but did
not know where they were. But follow.
ing on they afterwards reached the home
of Philip Davis before mentioned. After
a time spent in rest and the administer.
ing of little food and stimulants, Alpha
was carried to his home on horse back
The news of the boys discovery had
preceded his arrival home and ample
preparations had been made for his
reception and comfort.
TO attempt a description of the scene
when the lost son and brother was re-
turned to his home, would be useless
There were tears of rejoicing and CRATE
full prayers for his deliverance, mingled
with deep anxiety that he would never
recover from the great shock to his sys
tenn which he had suffered. DR.. New
comb. of Derby. was sent for and thu
most possible done to restore the boy t.
health. He recovered, slowly, but never
regaiped his former strength and agility
He lived to become a very useful anc
respected citizen. He married Adelaid,
Nash, most estimable woman, ant
they reared eight children, the most o
whom are now alive and known to man,
readers of this paper.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
REFORMING TURKEY.

The English seem disposed to take
hold of the work of reforming the mis-
erable government of Turkey in good
earnest. It is herculean task, but it
is grand field on which to do a good
and great work. In the House of
Commons, on Thursday night, Sir Staf-.
ford Northcote, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, in answer to questions and ar
guments of Messrs. Fawcett and Edward
Jenkins about the Anglo-Turkish Con-
vention, made the follwing encouraging
statement.
.sWe have undertaken certain obliga-
tions in respect to the defence of the
Asiatic provinces from future attacks by
Russia, and as consideration. or COM
plement, of that undertaking, Turkey
has promised to enter into an agreement
with US as to the carrying out of certain
reforms. These reforms will require
very great care; they will have to be
elaborately discussed between the two
powers. We hope for certain amount
of success. We are already in commun-
ication with the Porte in regard to va
rious points of detail which are we'll un-
derstood, and have understood, and have
| already been the subject of a good deal
| of examination. What we hope to do
is to induce the Porte to enter into an
agreement to effect such reforms as are
desirable, and give specific guarantees
for the carrying out of those reforms
There is probability of our materially
improving the administration in those
provinces in certain particulars which
are vital. There are three great depart
ments to which we are intended to direct
our attention, the revenue, the judicial
system, and the police. Our object will
be to bring about practical improvements
which will be guaranteed by treaty and
not by mere general promise"
In the meantime Sir Garnet WolseleY
has entered upon his mission as Cover
nor of Cyprus. resolved to do as good
work as a governor as he has done as a
commander in the field. A mixed COM
mission of English and Turkish officials
has been appointed to traverse the is
land and inquire into the various ten
ures and ownership of land. The island
is to be divided into five districts, ad-
ministered each by a British commits
sioner, assisted by British magistrate.
In the Governors proclamation to the
inhabitants, they are assured of Her
Majesty's warm interest in their pros
perity, and of her intention to order the
adoption of the measures best calculated
to promote and extend commerce and ag-
riculture, and afford the blessings of
freedom, justice, aud security. The
English government has an admirable
opportunity to secure these blessings for
portion of the Eastern world, and we
do not doubt that great good to the peo-
| pie will be the result.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19

At the dinner given in Berlin by the
crown prince of Prussia to the members
of the congress, the table was arranged
with great skill. Before each Plenipo-
tentiary flowers were artistically placed
so as to represent the different national
colors of his nation. The bouquet placed
before the Turkish envoy represented a
crescent in white camelias in the midst
of scarlet roses.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19

Try to disguise it as they will, says
the New York Times, it is nevertheless
evident that the Southern Democrats re-
gard the Independent movement with
increasing alarm. In different methods
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19

In Augustine's words, awhile he
counted himself unworthy that Christ
should enter into its doors, he was coun-
ted worthy that Christ should enter into
his heart" "a far better boon; for Christ
sat down in the houses Of men, as of that
proud self-righteous Pharisee, whose
hearts were not for this the less empty
of his presence. But this centurion re-
ceived him in his heart, whom he did not
receive in his house. - Trench.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
FUNNY SIGHTS.
l saw a cow-hide in the grass.

/ saw cow-hide in the grass.
A rush-light on the floor;
! saw a candle-stick in mud,
And bell-pull at the door.
saw horse-hy up creek,
A cat-nip at her food;
! saw a chestnut-burr, and heard
A shell-bark in the wood.
] saw a jack-plane off board,
A car-spring off the track;
/ saw a saw-dust off the floor,
And then a carpet-tack.
/ saw a monkey-wrench a hat
From a fair. .lady's pate;
i saw a rattle-snake bird.
And a hogs head on a plate.
/ saw sword-fsh from bank,
heard the water-spout;
I saw tobacco-spit, and then
heard an eye-bawl out.
heard a fence-rail at the din,
heard waist-band play
A lovely strain-a sweet spit-toon--
And then l went away.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19

r. B. Conant. cashier of the Elliot Ma
tional bank, Boston. has confessed to the
directors that he has embezzled the funds
of the bank to the amount of $4,000.
He had lost the money through opera
tions in mining stocks,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
Amount of currency Gold value o

From the above figures the following
important deductions and conclusions
are evident:
First. That the volume of the paper
currency outstanding, measured by the
gold value, was greater June 80, 1878,
than at any previous period except
June 80, 1865. and Jun so. 1874.
Second. That the greater contrac-
tion of the currency took place between
June 80, 1865, and June so, 1869,
amounting to almost 100000, o,ooo-at
a period when the business of the coun.
try was prosperous and just at the
verge Of those four years of unpreceden-
ted prosperity which began in 1868
proving that the contraction thereof
did not paralyze but Gf it had an infu-
ence upon it,, to encourage business pros
perity and industrial enterprise.
Third. The volume of the currency,
June 80, 1869 Zone of the most prosper
GUS years., being nearly sS9,ooo,Ooo
less than the amount outstanding June
80, 1874 (the year following the panic).
it is fair to conclude that an expansion
of the currency cannot bring prosperity
to business and activity to industry.
AS there has been much misstatement
relative to the amount of currency of
various descriptions authorized by con-
gress and issued by the treasury depart
ment from 1860 to 1864, the following
extract ffom the circular referred to will
serve both to expose and correct such
perversions:
Description. Amt. authorized. Amt. issued
| Demand Notes. S60000.000 800 .00e
Legal Tender Notes. 45o.ooooOo 44fsoo.oo(
1865. bearing per ct int. 400 100000 211O00. .O0C
| Compound Interest Notes,
bearing 6 per cent. int. 4o00O0,o00 26s,595,44C
Total, $l,9000O0,O0o 81, ,03S 90s, ,3Os
The above includes all the currency
issued by the United States during the
war and Immediately following. but from
these figures it must not be inferred thai
all of the 81, ,033, 1903 was in circu.
lation at any one time. The largest
amount of national notes recognized as
money, outstanding at any time. was
June 80, 1865, as follows:
/ Demand Notes, S472 6oS.0(
| Legal Tender Notes. 4326 ,966O(
| One and two-year Notes of 1868, 42.338. 7I0.0(
/ Compound Interest Notes. 193T56. .Oe0O(
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
THE BANKRUPTCY BUSINESS.

"Boggs." said Mrs. B., suddenly, the
other evening, looking up from the pa
per she was reading, "why don't you go
into bankruptcy and have some style
about you q
$50 into bankruptcy ?" repeated Boggs.
"what for %
because it is the fashion," replied
Mrs. B. Everybody who is anybody
goes into bankruptcy nowadays. Our
neighbors are all getting the start of US.
Here's Soggs. who lives across the
street, he is in the list to-day. Now we
have lived in this town a good deal
longer than Soggs has. Why couldn't
you have got your name in the paper as
well as he %
81 don't want my name in the paper
in that way" said Boggs.
"That's the way always behind ev-
erybody else. We never could hold our
own along with our neighbors."
"But we couldn't hold our own if I
went into bankruptcy" persisted Boggs.
Nonsense" cried Mrs. B. "Don't the
Squiggses, who went into bankruptcy
last summer, live just as well, if not a
little better than before ? Now, Boggs,
do oblige me by buying file."
Buying file ? What for ?"
$50 that you can file your petition. Do
it this very day, and it will be in the
morning papers. Then your wife and
children can hold their heads up with
the best of 'em. Somehow I feel that
we are under sort of cloud now. Peo-
pie look at US as much as to say :
There's something the matter with the
Bogges.' Then you won't become a
bankrupt to maintain our social posi-
tion 2"
''No I won't" said Boggs, bluntly.
"Then I give you due notice that
shall receive or make no more calls.
shall give up our pew in church and
take the children out of school. shall
close up the house, give out that we
have gone into the country, and we will
all live in the kitchen. If we can't dc
like the rest of folks and be somebody,
there is no use trying to live"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19

BARRIERS always predict short crops.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
SIGNS.

People who still adhere to the look at
Your tongue and-feel-of- your-pulse
doctor sometimes express not lit
tie curiosity in regard to DR.. r. v.
Pierce's original method of distin-
gushing all forms of chronic disease
without personal consultation. Some
even suppose thab he accomplishes
this through clairvoyance, or some
other species of professional jugglery.
All this is utterly false. He claims to
determine disease by the rational
methods of science only. Says Come
ly, in his Biographical Encyclopedia
of New York state, speaking of this
distinguished physician: "He per-
ceived that in each of the natural
sciences the investigator proceeds ac-
eording TO a system Of signs. The ge-
ologist in his cabinet accurately de-
.ermines and describes the cleft of
rock. which he has never seen, from
the minute specimen on his table,
And the chemist in his laboratory
notes the constituents of the sun with
the same precision that he analyses q
crystal of rock salt. The analogous
system developed by DR.. Pierce in
Medical Science is worthy of his ge-
MUS, and has made his name justly
celebrated" For full explanation
of this ingenious system Of diagnosis,
see the Peoples Common Sense Med
lea, Adviser, sent, postpaid to any
address on receipt of one dollar and
fifty cents. Address the author, r.
w. Pierce, NJ. D., Buffalo N. Y.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
w ASHlSGToN, !

WASHINGTON, April %.
Harris introduced bill To repeal
the section of the Revised Statutes
which proysdes for a tax on notes OF
State banking associations. Referred.
voorhees, submitted an amendment
to the substitute to the House bill TO
repeal the specie resumption act, re-
ported by the committee on finance,
on "Wednesday last, so az to strike out
that portion naming Oct. lst, 1873, as
the time when U. S. notes shall be
receivable, for Imports, SO as to read
'sthat from and after the passage OF
this act, u. ). notes shall be receiva-
bic in payment for four per centYm
bonds now authorized by law to be
issued, aud for duties on imports
He also moved to amend the substi.
tuie SO as to strike out Oct. LIST. 1878,
as the time when the volume of sail
notes in existence shall not be cancel
ed nor boarded, and insert in lieu
thereof "the passage OF this act" A
further amendment repeals immedi-
ately all that part of The specie re-
sumption act authorizing the retire
ment of so per centum of u. S. notes
Instead OF on Oct. LIST, 1873.
Gordon moved to make the bill the
special order for May l.
Ferry hoped an earlier day could
he fixed. After some further discus.
sion Gordan withdrew his motion
Blaine submitted the following:
ResDlced, Tha, any radical change
in our present tariff laws would, ia
the lad gment of the Senate, be mop.
perfume, would ncsdlessly derange
the business interests of the country
and would seriously retard that re.
turn 10 prosperity tor which ali
should earnestly co-operstc.
Resolped, That IN the judgment oil
the Senate ii should bs the fixed poll.
icy Of this government to SO main.
tain our tariff for revenue as to afford
adequate protection 10 American la
Dor.
Ordered printed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

AMONG the worst men we have
among us are those office-seeking peo-
pie who are going about arraying the
laboring class Of people against CAPT
tai. When we say this we do not
mean to say that capital does do
wrong-that is, that the capitalist will
not seek undue advantages some
times; On the contrary we know that
he will, or rather some will often
times. But there are set of men who
are themselves bankrupt in morals
and means, who go about talking as
though they We're the only honest
men in the land and thunder in thu
ears Of their auditors in the most dra
matte style, how the capital of tn
country is grinding the poor into TIN
dust and crushing with despotic
heartless power, the laboring men o
the country.
1t is not a very uncommon thin(
now to see this kind of men dealing
in the most communistic appeals. WI
can and our readers can call them t.
mind quite plentifully. They have
in many instances been, within few
years, connected with two or three
different political parties. They may
have held honorable and lucrative of.
fees while members of one of the old
parties. They may have even held
two good offices at one and the same
time. They may have been for years
continuously without the lapse of a
single year while they were not al.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
San Francisco Street Scenes.


Street life in San Francisco is ka-
leidoscope that is never at rest.
There ia nothing like it on the CONT
nent. The flower-stands with their
gorgeous array, the Open-fronted al
coves fairly heaped with floral beauty,
as if Eve had just moved in and had
no time to arrange her '.things;" the
glimpses Of bright color from leaf
and blossom that catch the eye every
where, in mansion, shop and shed !:
the bits Of boquets you see on dray-
mems coat-collars, and blooming
from broken cups in thinkers dens
and smithies smiling in churches in
prayer-time; adjoining brides with
collins with everlasting June.
Sometimes painters used to 60 to
Gibraltar TO copy the costumes of far
countries that set the streets in q
blaze; but to see nations, come to San
Francisco You meet Spaniard in
wide hat, an Italian with ink in his
hair, corre!ative Of frogs and soupe-
matgre. all ia minute. A Califor-
MIA Indian in still shoes,a moon-faced
Mexican in partial eclipse and q sort
of African by brevet, Russian with
square chin and furry look, all in
three squares. You elbow South
Americans, Australians, New Zeal
anders. You accost a man who was
born in Brazil, who halls from Good
Hope, who trades in Honolulu. One
of the great Chinese merchants with
an easy gait, an erect head, and q boy
ish face, is coming around the corner.
a man from Calcutta is behind you.
IAN Israelite in whom there is no
guile" is before you. The Scotch
man is here with the high cheek
bones, the blue eyes. and the Guilty.
pipe and word from Robby Burns
iu his mouth. The Dutch have taken
us, and Irish, do they not "thravel
the round wurrld p OF course, New
England is here. and New York and
the South. They are everywhere,
but show us your Colombians and
Peruvians and Sea Islanders, and all
sorts Of people from the outer edges
ofteographies and the far borders
Of aliases, as here. Japanese and
Chinese signs become familiar to you
in week. Sclavonians and Mongo-
lians are as thick rs red pepper in
East India curry. 1t is tremendous
PO,VpiOt,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

Albion, Marshall county, is the
scene of brutal outrage by young
woman who was in charge Of little
girl between four and five years of
age. The child's mother was sick
and the father had fled the country
because of a charge Of forgery. The
young woman who cruelty beat the
little girl, is named Elite Ingldue, and
had been in the habit Of taking the
child for few days at time to her
home. The last visit W % heightened
out to ten days aud inquiry set on
foot by the friends Of the mother re-
suited in finding the little girl in a
frightful condition at the home of
Miss Ingledue. 1t was unconscious
and under the influence Of drugs to
keep it quiet; bruised from head to
foot on all parts OF its body; great
patches of hair had been torn from
its head, leaving spots as large as a
silver dollar bare; lacerated and
bleeding places on its arms; bruised
almost to jelly, looking as though il
had not only been pounded, but bit
ten and chawed; while its ankles
showed plainly the marks where it
had been tied and bound with a cord,
cutting and tearing the flesh, while
not spot on its body could be found
that did not show marks of the most
inhuman and cruel blows. The wo-
man refuses to explain and ia under
arrest.