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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
RECEIPTS.

To PREVENT HAIR FALLING Our
Glycerine, one ounce; eau de Cologne,
four ounces aqua ammonia, one fluid
drachm; oil origanum and rosemary, of
each one half drachm; tincture can
tharides, one ounce; briskly agitate
them together for eight or ten minutes,
then add eight ounces of camphor water
agitate these we'll together and use.
Brush the hair we'll and apply the pre-
paration once day.
LEMON SYRUP.-Squeeze the lemons ;
strain the juice carefully, lest any pulp
should remain; to one pint of juice add
two pounds of sugar; set it away till
completely dissolved, stirring it occasion
ally; then bottle it. One or two tea
spoonfuls of this syrup stirred into q
glass of water will make delightful lem
onade.
Ice CREAM.-Take mornings milk
three quarts; nice sweet cream one
quart; one dozen fresh laid eggs; one
pound coffee sugar flavor to suit the
taste. Beat the milk and cream to geth
err; beat the eggs to perfect froth; sti
them in the cream add the sugar ant
Aavoring and it is ready to freeze.
For BALD HEADs.-Common coal OF
as it comes from the earth is newly
discovered hair restorative, bad as
may look and smell. / know of ma
trying an experiment with it on a bal
spot on his head, and shortly after tw
applications the new hair began t
start.
To MAKEA STIFF, GLOSSY STARCH
For one pan of starch take piece (
white wax and sperm. the size of hicl
DRY nut; one tablespoonful of liquid gu
arabic tablespoonful of salt. Use
rough polishing-iron, the kind made
tiny checks.
SPIoED ToMAToEs.-Four pounds
brown sugar, one pint of vinegar to s
+ pounds ripe tomatoes, one tablespoon
> of cloves, and two tablespoonful of ci
; namOn; scald and peel the tomatoes
! press as for preserves.
Il WINDSOR TOILET SoAP.-Cut SOL
n nice white bar soap into thin slices, me
it over a slow fire, scent it with oil
. lavender; when all dissolved pour in
= a mould and let it remain week; tn
!, cut it into the required size.
To RETAIN THE Color OF LAWN
CALICO DREss.-One tablespoonful
alum, one tablespoonful of salt, dissolv
in one gallon of soft water soak |
nd dress; wash as usual, and rinse in |
ee salt and alum.
C. Hay,sprinkled with little chloride
lime and left forkan hour in a cloi
room. will remove the smell of \
paint.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12

FOR THE CARE OF CHILDREN.

The New York Board of Health has
published the following rules for the
care of children during the hot season.
They will be found useful in any locali-
ty.
NURSING OF INFANTS.
Over feeding does more harm than
anything else; nurse an infant a month
or two old, every two or three hours.
Nurse an infant of six months and
over five times in twenty-four hours, and
no more.
If an infant is thirsty, give it pure
water or barley water: no sugar.
On the hottest days few drops of
whiskey may be added to either water or
food the whiskey not to exceed tea
spoonful in twenty-four hours.
FEEDING OF INFANTS.
Boil teaspoonful of powdered barley
ground in coffee grinder) and gill of
water, with little salt, for fifteen min
utes; strain, then mix it with half as
much boiled milk, add q lump of white
sugar, size of walnut, aud give it luke
warm from a nursing bottle. Keep bot
tie and mouthpiece in bowl of water
when not in use, to which a little soda
may be added.
For infants five or six months old,
give half barley water and half boiled
milk, with salt and lump of sugar.
For older infants give more milk than
barley water.
For infants very costive, give oat
meal instead of barley. Cook and strair
as before.
When your breast milk is only hal
enough, change off between breast mill
and this prepared food.
In hot weather. if blue litmus paper
applied to the food, turns red, the fooG
is too acid, and you must make fresl
mess, or add a small pinch of baking
soda.
Infants of six months may have bee
tea or beef soup once day, by itself, o
mixed with other food and when ten o
twelve months old, crust of bread ant
a piece of rare beef to suck.
No child under two years ought to ca
at your table.
Give no candies, in fact, nothing tina
is not contained in these rules, withou
a doctors orders.
SUMMER COMPLAINT.
1t comes from overlooking. and he
and foul air. Keep doors and window
open.
Wash your we'll children with col
water twice day, and oftener in the hC
season.
Never neglect looseness of the bowe
in an infant; consult the family or di
i pensary physician at once, and he wi
give you rules about what it should tax
and how it should be nursed. Kee
your rooms as cool as possible. have the
I. we'll ventilated, and do not allow ar
r smell to come from sinks, privies, ga
i bage boxes, or cutters about the hou
where you live. See that your apar
ments are right. Where an infant
cross and irri table in the hot weather,
, trip on the water will do it great de
of good (ferryboat or steamboat), al
may prevent cholera infantum.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
MITTENED.
BY c. W. W.

[Some poor fellow who had the misfortune to b.
'mittened sat dQwn in his loneliness and penned tn
following pathetic lines which he is very anxious t
have appear in the MONITOR. He adds in his post
script. "Pleas put them in have rote them" AM
we comply with his wishes.]
Thay say we are severed forever
Our paths in the future must part
All me shall know again never
The peace that once dwelt in my harte?
met the when life was the brtest-
The world picture to me-
When my laugh it was ever the lightest
Ny heart full of innocent glee.
loved the my days passed in dreams!
Dreams of sweetest purest delight
I said surely love on me beams
1 thought of no dark coming night.
Alas for the fast falling tears
Oh weep for my dreams that is GER
Alas for the cold cherries years
The lost shall know never more.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
VEGETINE.
Twill try Ve&etine.
He did,
AND WAS CURED.
pxnAwAnx. O. Feb. le 1877

DELAWARE. o.. Feb. 16. 1877.
Mn. II. r. SrEyESs:-
Dear slr,-I wish 10 give you this testimony, that
YOU may know and let others know what Vegetine has
done for me. About two years ago small sore came
on my Leg tsoon became large Ulcer, so troublesome
that consulted the doctor but got no relief growing
worse from day TO day. suffered terribly; could
not rest day or night / was so reduced my friends
thought would never recover; l consulted doctor
Mt Columbus. / followed his advice; II did no good
can truly say was discouraged At this time was
looking over my newspaper; saw your advertisement
~ Vegetine the Great Blood Purifier for cleansing
the blood from all impurities, curing Humors Ulcers
&C. said TO my family, will try Yegene. Before
had used the first bottle began TO feel better made
up my mind had got the right medicine at last.
could now sleep well nights. / continued taking the
Vegetine took thirteen bottles. Myheath Is good.
The Ulcer Is gone and able 10 attend TO business.
/ paid about four hundred dollars for medicine and
doctors before bought the Vegetne. have recon-
mended Vegetine 10 others with good success. all
ways keep bottle In the house now. 1t Is a most
excellent medicine. Very respectfully yours.
Y. ANTH0NI.
Mr.. Anthon is Of the pioneers Of Delaware, o..
He settled here in 1884, He is wealthy gentleman,
Of the firm OF " Anthoni q Sons. Mr.. AnthOni is ex-
tensively known. especially among the Germans. He
Is well known in Cincinnati. Ho is respected by all.
IMPURE BLooD.-In morbid conditions Of the blood
nre many diseases; such as salt-rheum, ring-worm,
boIls carbuncles Sores ulcers and pimples. In this
condition OF the blood try the VEGETINE. and cure
these affections. As a blood purifier II has equal.
It's effects wonderful
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
The Machine was Worn Out.

Why? Not because it was not well
built, but it was wrongly run. Thous-
ands of men who have run down long
before their threescore and ten years are
accomplished, might have been renewed
into sprightliness and vim if they had
tried the well known Peruvian Syrup,
which contains among its compounds the
Protoxide of Iron. SO combined that it
assimilates with the blood and invigor-
ates the whole system. This syrup has
proved eficacious in thousands of cases,
and will do everybody good who uses it.
All druggists keep it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
Moving Machines Repaired
ON SHORTEST NOTICE.

ON SHORTEST NOTICE.
All kinds OF Casting done; Machinery Built and
Repaired and satisfaction guaranteed. Come and sec
my Flows. Sugar Arches. Horse Powers. churns. &c
Photograph Of Arch or Horse Power sent on appli
cation.
J.w. MURKLAND.
r.-ton u. -. "a 1o,o
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
VEGETINE.
Cured Her.
DORCHESTER, MASS, June IL.

DORCHEsrER, MASS, June II.
DR. STEVENS
Dear SrI feel IL my duty TO say word in regard
10 the great benefit have received from the Of one
OF the greatest wonders OF the world it is your Vege
tine. have been OF the greatest sufferers for the
last eight years could be living. do sincere
ly thank my God and your Vegetine for the relief
have got The Rheumatism has panied me to such an
extent that my feet broke out IN For the last
three years have not been able to walk now l can
walk and Sleep and do my work as well as ever did,
and must say It all TO your blood purifier Veg
etine. MARGERY WELLS.
VRaRTINE-The great success of the VEGETINE as
cleanser and purifier OF the blood is shown beyond
doubt by the great numbers who have taken it, and re-
ceIved immediate relief with such remarkable cures.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12

"Ts there anything that will make
grain come up quick ?" asked gentleman
farmer of an old farmer. well, no,
don't know of nothin' that'll do it" was
the genial old fellows reply, .sunless it's
crows" Then the gentleman farmer
wanted to know where he could get some.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12

There is no time through the day
when fly is so much of an annoyance
as early in the morning when man is
endeavoring to have his finishing nap.
Sleep must be tenderly wooed. It won't
do to take her by the throat. The very
suggestion of violence frightens her away.
But man cannot be calm, cannot be
tender, with a fly perforating his flesh.
And yet he expects to get to sleep by
founcing from one side of the bed 10 the
other. by doubling up the clothes into
hard Jumps and lying on them, by div
ing his heated head into the smothering
recesses of the pillow. He had better
by far get up at once and flee the room.
A man trying to force sleep in the pres
ence OF flies presents surprising spec
tacle to the disinterested observer. If
he could catch but glimpse of himself
in mirror he would not remain abed
another instant. We talk good deal
about "the good old times" which shows
that we don't always know what we are
talking about. Prof. Marsh has unearth-
ed among Western fossil about 1000
pterodactyles, a flying dragon, with a
spread Of wings from thirty to forty feet
Fortunately for the pterodactile it is ex.
tinct. If man can't patiently abide a
| fly with spread of wings less than an
inch, he would make it very hot indeed
for pterodactyle. Danbury Nescs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
FARMERS

You can buy the very best Flows. including the cee-
brated wooley Pows the best kind Of Side Hill Plows.
aud all kinds Of Horse Hoes. Also repairs for almost
every pillow made You can see NEW SUGAR
ARCH. made OF iron. that is CHEAPER and BETTER
than any brick arch ever made. 1t takes only small
quantity Of wood and be set up in ten minutes on
the floor or the ground.
You can buy HORSE POWER FOR $50. suitable
for churnng or other light work. all set up and ready
10 put the belt on to. You can buy a SQUARE BOX
CHURN. or a BARREL CHURN. with crank or
puy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
ARE YOU iGAINING I?

If you are gaining little every day,
be content. Are your expenses less than
your income, so that, though it be lit
tie. you are yet constantly accumulating
and growing richer every day? Be
content, for as concerns money you are
doing we'll. Are you gaining knowledge
every day? Though it be little by lit
tie, the aggregate of the accumulation,
where no day is permitted to pass with
out adding something to the stock, will
be surprising to yourself. SolOm on did
not become the wisest man in the world
in minute. Little by httle-never
emitting to learn something even for a
single day-always reading, always
studying little between the time of ris-
ing up In the morning and lying down
at night; this is the way to accumulate
full store-house of knowledge. Final
ly, are you daily gaining in character
Be not discouraged, because it be little
The best men fall far short of what they
would wish to be. 1t is something, il
is much, If you keep good resolutions
better to-day than you did yesterday
better this year than you did last year
Strive to be perfect, but do not becom,
downhearted so long as you are ap
preaching nearer and nearer to the higl
standard at which you aim. Little b,
little fortunes are accumulated little b,
little character and reputation ar
achieved.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-12-19
BY EsrELLE YEHsE.

A wise man has written, "TherC
is only step from the sublime tc
the ridiculous"
On Christmas morning of the
year 1864 the whole town was a
scene of wild excitement. From
the cannon's mouth "leaped the live
thunder" and echoed back from hID
to hill, until the earth was wrapped
in smoke and trembled, seemingly,
to its very centerl Cavalrymen gal
loped by hurrisdly, and infantry
double-quicked 1t along the street,
while struggling soldiers, hungry
and cheeky, visited the kitchens un-
invited.
A lady living In this nameless
town, and who shall be nameless
also, after feeding the many friends
of the Confederate army who were
then retreating after the disastrous
battles in Tennessee, had just fin
ished cooking the NH meal, which
she hoped to eat with her hungry
family, patiently awaiting their
turn. Too busy with her eWiseRe TO
pay attention TO the heavy tramp Of
the approaching army--and If she
did, thought they had plenty to do
to dodge the bullets that were seek
ing them-made no provision in her
caIculation-of the certainty of her
breakfast-against the struggling
Federal soldier.
Leaving her inviting, savory
yiands ready to be dished for the
table, she stepped across the entry
to her dining room to arrange her
table preparatory 70 serving. Re
turning, the click of the side-gate
caught her attention. Her quick
eye took in the situation like a well
skilled general his battlefield.
Every dish dropped from her hands
with terrible crash, and as quick
as thought she rushed unterrifed
upon the soldierl siPatience hav-
ing ceased 10 be a virtue" with
hunger gnawing at the vitals, she
would, unlike the old man Of apple
tree memory, try the effects of her
well-rounded and shapely fists in
stead OF stones, as the opportunity
was too inviting to be resistedl
In his right hand the soldier held
by the tail q huge well-buttered
smoking mackersl, with his left arm
doubled TO 3 crook and thumb In
button hole, he made a receiver for
all the hot biscuit and corn dodgers
in the stove, adding In bis haste a
roll Of butter on top Of them, which
had begun TO melt and run over the
sleeve of his coat and tricklc down
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-12-19

clerk, married beautiful young
woman of 20, and some ten years
his junior Their tempers were In
compatible, and after two years of
married life they were divorced,
Mrs. Kershaw going home to her
FAINT daughter. Three years later
she became Mrs. Fisher, and ac-
companied her husband to Texas,
who located in Dallas county. The
war called Mr.. Fisher to the front.
In the charge at Man sfield, La, he
was killed. Kershaw, continuing
the steamboat business, became a
popular captain on the lower Mis-
sissippi river, amassed competen
cy, and married Miss Emma Alex
ander, reigning belle of Memphis.
Trouble fell upon him in his sec
ond marriage, and he was made a
widower. Miss Kershaw, the issue
of his first marriage, was married
on her removal to st. Louis. All
communication with Mrs. Fisher
ceased except through his son-in-
law. Eight months ago Mrs Fisher
received letter from her first hus-
band, the purport of which can be
surmlsed by subsequent events
On Wednesday last the long sepa-
rated couple were again joined in
wedlock. The couple will remain
in Dallas until next week, when
they will leave for a months So
journ in St. Louis, before making
Gonzales their home.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-12-19
THANKSGIVING.
The Old Time Spirit of It's celebra-
tion Dying Out.

We cannot spare them from our
family anniversaries, our Christmas
and Thanksgiving festivals. The
char of honor belongs to the patri
arch of the house at these domestic
reunions. Our feast day has found
from the beginning it's chief attrac
tion in the welcome by its parents
and grandparents of the scattered
members of the old home, under
the ancestral roof; but hardly now
so significantly as in former times
of more simplicity and serenity of
living. Our younger people can
scarcely spare hours enough to fly,
even at railroad speed, from their
city residences to the not very re-
mote farm or village, where white
locks and tremulous hands would
rejoice, how tenderly, to embrace
again children and children's chill
dren in the quiet pleasures of an
.old-fashioned Thanksgiving day.
There is q real ground of apprehen-
sion that the genuine spirit of this
thoroughly American institution is
evapor&ting in our modern atmos-
phere-a vague tradition lowering
around the age-marked mansions of
an earlier date, the type of senti-
ment of home attachment and rev.
erence which we seem 20 have small
leisure and a lessening disposition
to cultivate. A GQ ST.
A change is going on in this di
rection, which has many indications
and needs to be checked before it
becomes Aunmanageable. ; We are
turning everything of this sort into
an affair of taste, and patronize the
picturesque on principles of artistic
criticism. An old homestead we
are proud OF, il It has kind Of arls-
tocratic, baronial air;Zand xeStake
our genteel acquaintance Go see it,
il it looks as though the family
which used to live there belonged
TO the upper tens of those times.
But the little one st0ried red cot
tage on the back cross road, we do
not care. to say protected our infan-
cy, il polite people are about. We
admire the ancient spreading oak or
elm. because it sets Off the lawn so
asthetically; but we do not hold it
in veneration almost SIS haliowed
cathedral of Gods building, sacred
and loved as the memorial of count
less divine kindnesses, and human
experiences of hope and fear and
10Y, during its outcry of slow and
silent growth. We are fond of very
nice old people, who look weli in
photograph albums; but we do not
rise up before the hoary head and
honor the face of the old man as
well in deerepitude and burdensome
helplessness. Nevertheless, true
yeneration for the venerable is a
wholesome sentiment, grand and
elevating attribute of character,
whether its object be an inanimate
thing or a living soul. Any observ
ance- or agency which cultivates
this quality among us deserves all
praise and fostering care Sunday
Afternoon.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-12-19
AFGHANTSTAN.
Something About the Country Where
the War Is Going On.

st. Louis Republican: Now that
war between England and. Afghan
istan seems to have virtually be-
gun, some facts in regard to the lat
ter country cannot fail to interest
our readers.
Afghanistan is located between
latitude % deg. 80 min. and SO deg.
north, and longitude go. deg. and IL
deg. 30 min. east. It's northern
boundary is Turkestan; eastern, the
Punjaub and Scinde; southern,
Beloochistan; and western, the Per-
sian Highlands of .Khorasan. Its
total area is about 215,000 square
miles and population probably
about 100000. From a topo-
graphical point of view it is what
may be termed a badly broken
country, being composed of high
mountains, deep valleys, and all the
intermediate variations of surface.
The climate presents as great varie-
ty as the land In the noun tains
the snow may he seen all the year
round, while in some of the valleys
the mercury rarely ever falls below
100. But taken as whole Afghan
istan is a more agreeable residence
than India, and generally very
healthy. A large portion of the
soil is fertile, and even the careless
cultivation of the natives is gener-
ously rewarded. Sugar cane, cot
ton and all the European fruits and
vegetables are produced in abun-
dance. The wild animals belong
ing to the tropical and temperate
zones are found here, and the list
of domesticated animals embraces
the horse, sheep, camel, ass and OK.
Iron, lead, plumbago, saltpeter, sui
phur, salt, alum and copper are
among the mineral resources, and
the quality of the first and last is
said TO be especially fine.
The Helmund and the Cabool are
the most important rivers; the form
er overtiowing its banks at regular'in
teryals, like the Nile, and enriching
the adjacent territory with heavy
deposits of vegetable matter. The
four chief cities are Cabool, the cap
ital, Ghuzni, Candahar and Herat.
Their trade is comparatively small,
owing to the peculiar character of
the people at large, who have no
taste for commercial pursuits of
any kind. The Afghans are main
ly agriculturists and stock raisers,
and care very little for anything
else except fighting, which is at
once their business and amusement.
They are brave and robust; 8
tough and giant race, full of energy
and independence, ana not at all
inclined to yield TO a foreign yoke.
They are divided into two principal
tribes-the Durannis and the Chill
jies; the former being the most pow
erful and warlike, and furnishing
the most of the soldiery for the cen
trail government That government
is q monarchy and limited in its ju-
risdiction by the temper of its sub
jects, who, while always loyal to
their sovereign, demand from him
certain concessions to the national
spirit. The kingdom is divided
into provinces, each in charge of q
royal officer, who collects she taxes
and is supposed to execute the laws.
The religion is Mohammedan, which
may prove an important feature in
the approaching war, as the most
troublesome OF England's subjects
belong 10 the same faith, aud will
naturally sympathize with their
brethren and assist them whenever
opportunity offers.
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF BURNS

Though Scotland boasts a thousand names
OF patriot, king and peer,
The noblest, grandest of them all
Was loved and cladled here.
Here lived the gentle peasant prince,
The loving cotter-king,
Compared with whom the greatest lord
Is but titled thing.
'Tis but a cot rooted in with straw
A howell made of clay;
One door shuts out the snow and storm
Ono window greets the day.
And yet stand within this room
And hold all thrones in scorn,
For here, beneath this lowly thatch,
loves sweetest bard was born
Within this hallowed hut feel
Like one who clasps a shrine,
When the glad lips at last have touched
The something seemed divine.
And here the world through all the years
As long as day returns,
The trlbEte OF its love and tears
Win pay to Robert Burns.
-RoBKRT q. lNsERsoLL.