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GENTLENESS.

Whoever understands his own inter-
ests, and is pleased with the beautiful,
rather than the deformed. will be careful
to cherish the virtue Of gentleness. 1t
requires but slight knowledge of hu-
man nature to convince US that much of
our happiness in life depends upon the
cultivation of this virtue. The man Of
wild, boisterous spirit, who gives loose
reins to his temper, is, generally speak
ing, stranger to happiness he lives in
continual storm-the bitter waters of
contention and strife are always swelling
up in his soul, destroying his peace, and
impairing its beautiful influence on all
with whom he is connected. He excites
the disgust and i'll will of those who are
acquainted with his character, and but
few can be found to wish him success in
any of his undertakings. Not so is the
influence of gentleness. This virtue will
assist its possessor in all his lawful un-
dertakings; it will often render him
successful when nothing else could it
is exceedingly lovely, and attractive in
appearance; it wins the hearts of all
it is even stronger than argument, and
would often prevail when that would be
powerless and Intellectual it shows that
man can put bride upon his passions
that he is above the vulgar, whose char
acteristic is to storm and rage like the
troubled ocean, ~t vrv.y IIUUl0 ad,u.~--.y
or disappointment that crosses their
paths it shows that he can soar away
in the bright atmosphere of good feelings
and lives in continual sunshine, when
all around him are enveloped in clouds
and darkness, and driven about like ma
MACS in the sports of their passions.
The most favorable situations in life, the
most lovely objects in nature, wealth.
and all that is calculated to increase the
happiness of man, lose their charms upon
heart destitute of this virtue.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

his efforts upon the very crest of the
wave which he has already mounted, and
in full view, is the temptation to crime,
to shield him from the disgrace which
he thinks must inevitably follow in the
wake of defeat. To those he yields, and
the first thing he realizes is to find him.
self the violator of the law, criminal
in the eyes of the community. and an in
mate of the prison, waiting trial, all
brought about fer the want of little
manly frmness in the outset of life to
prompt him to choose an avocation in
life where the penny earned would bring
with it its sure reward. Then let our
young men spurn the idea of obtaining
money without rendering an equivalent /;
let them be ready and willing to occupy
positions in life which will give them
the best possible opportunity to develop
their natural talent, and do good to 9TH
ers while helping themselves. In this
way we may have a nation of noble men
and women, which shall be source of
profit and pleasure to us, and an object
of admiration to the world.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17
ON NOSES.

1t is said that the most extraordinary
men of every age have been distinguished
by having extraordinary noses. Begin
ming with the ancients, Scipio Nasica
derived his name from his prominent
share of this feature; so did Ovid, sur
named Naso, on which account Pope rep
resents his fatterers persuading him that
he had ''a nose like Ovid's;'' Cicero's
nose was distinguished by vetch (eicer);
Sylla's by profusion of pimples. This
latter made great figure in those days,
and the Athenians, while he was besieg-
ing them, cut number of jokes on it.
They compared it to ''a mulberry dredged
over with meal, as we read in Plutarch' s
Life Of Sylla. This joke, as many other
jocose things often do, cost the inventors
of it very dearly when the revengful die
tator put his nose within their city gates.
The nose of Cromwell was well calculated
to vie with that of his Roman prototype,
if we may credit Cleveland, Birkenhead,
and other contemporary writers. 'Crom-
wells face" says Birkenhead, "wears a
natural tiffany, and his chin may furnish
a rusty coat of mail. His nose is COM
ct in grain. Certainly it is no human
feature, but the emblem of mandrake.
And yet this basillsk would king it y
Napoleon the First was wont to say,
"Give me man with plenty of nose
long nose, long head" His best gener-
ais were, as rule, remarkably well pro-
vided in this particular. His own was
ezquisitely chiselled, sculpturesque in
mould, form and expression though
strangely enough, not one of his brothers
had nose worth looking at. But the
most prominent nose in Europe was Ar
thur, Duke of Wellington's; and the
Iron Dukes captains, Anglesey, Picton,
Combermere and Hardinge, were men all
noteworthy in this respect also. Sir
Charles Napier, the Conqueror of Seinde.
was similarly favored. HIS nose was
'like the beak of an eagle, it was curved
and keen as the blade of scythe. >
| CaSseUS Magazine
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17
OUR BROAD DOMAIN.

Webster's eloquent description of the
British empire is familiar to every read
er, but we doubt whether it is generally
realized that we, too, have a dominion
on which the sun never sets. 1t will
scarcely be believed. perhaps, without
an examination of the maps, that San
Francisco, instead of being at the west
ern limit of this dominion, is only about
midway between our eastern and western
limits; and yet it is a fact that the
farthest Aleution isle acquired in our
pUrcnase VI puss1au nmvrICa Is as lar
to the west of that city as Eastport,
Maine, is to the east of it. Between
the Northwestern limit of Washington
Territory and the Southeastern limit of
Alaska there is break of few degrees,
but, with this sligh deduction, our ter
ritory extends through 1877 degrees of
longitude, or seventeen degrees more
than half way round the globe. Hence,
when the sun is giving its goodnight
kiss to our westernmost isle on the con-
fines of Behring's sea, it is already food
ing the fields and forests of Maine with
its morning light. aud in the eastern
part of that State is more than an hour
high. At the very moment when the
Aleutian fisherman, warned by the ap-
preaching shades of night. is pulling
his canoe towards the shore, the wood
chopper of Maine is beginning to wake
the forest echoes with the stirring mu-
sic of his axe; and by the time this
fisherman has crawled into his hut, the
operatives of eastern factory towns are
emerging from their cottages or tene.
ments, and, by many converging ways
are hurrying along towards the whirring
hives of industry in which by scores OF
hundreds together they pursue their
daily toll.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17
DANGEROUS COMPANIONS.

When a young fellow has made up
his mind to walk on the edge of preci-
pices for the sake of seeing prospects,
he always finds plenty of company.
There are abundance of people with
strong heads, having walked these paths
till they are quite certain of their foot
hold. are ready to go out with giddy
new beginners. If they accidentally lose
their heads and fall over, whose fault is
that? Not theirs, of course. They nev-
er fall. They look where they step, and
their heads do not turn. 1t is not drunk
ards and thieves who are dangerous
companions to the green boys just from
the city-oh, dear, no 1t is your re-
spectacle young men that have learned
to sip discreetly in all sorts of forbidden
fountains, and nlbble here and there
carefully of the forbidden fruit. They
are held up as patterns. They drink,
but are never drunk. They have ex-
actly the knack of seeing and knowing
all that is to be seen and known in the
way of wickedness, and yet even keep
step with the righteous. Some of them
are church members and Sunday school
teachers; some are shrewd, regular bus
mess men. They are never going to
hurt themselves, they tell you, but they
believe in a certain freedom. They nev-
er could see the sense of temperance
pledges. For their part they do abomi-
nate, it's your radical, straight-laced
people, who keep always in the dusty
turnpike for fear of the prccipice.-
Harriet Beecher .Stoa0e.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

WHAT Is CASTLE SoAP?-A subscri-
Der wishes to know how this differs from
other soap. The hard soaps made in
this country are almost exclusively from
animal fats; in the south of Europe,
where the olive grows abundantly, the
poorer kinds of olive oil are used for
soap-making. Common soaps are soda
and animal fat, CASTLE soap is soda and
vegetable oil. In making CASTLE soap,
great care is taken to avoid excess of
alkali (the soda), only just enough being
used to neutralize the oil. On this ac-
count the soap would irritate and give
pain. The notified appearance of CASTLE
soap is due to small quantity of solu-
tion of copperas (sulphate of irony which
is stirred into it before it hardens; this
leaves blush oxide of iron in the soap
which, when exposed to the air. becomes
changed to the red oxide. White CASTLE
soap is also sold, which is the same as
the other, without the coloring. Though
called CASTLE. it is by no means exclu-
sively made in Spain, the largest share
coming from the south of France, and
indeed it is generally known in Europe
as Marseilles soap.-Americao Agricul-
tar9St.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17
TW WENTY.ONE.
BY MRS. JULIA c. R. DoRR.

Grown to mans stature! my little childl
My bird that sought the skies so long agoI
My fair, sweet blossom, pure and undehled.
How have the years flown since we laid thee low
What have they been to thee2 If thou vert here
Standing beside thy brothers, tall and fair,
With bearded lip, and dark eyes shining clear,
And glnts of fsummer sunshine in thy hair,
l should look up into thy sweet face and say,
Waverng, perhaps, between tear and smile,
10 my sweet son, thou art man to-day
And thou wouldst stoop to kiss my lips the while.
But-up in heaven-how Is It with thee, dear?
Art thou a man-to mans full stature grown2
Dost thou count time as we do, year by year?
And what of all earth's changes hast thou known7
Thou hadst not learned to love me. Ddst thou take
Any small germ of love to heaven with thee,
That thou hast watched and nurtured for my sake?
Waiting till its perfect flower may see
What is II to have lived in heaven always?
To have no memory of pain or sin?
Meier to have known in all the calm, bright days.
The jar and fret of earths discordant din?
Thy brothers-they are mortal-they must tread
OlbtLnee III IOuBHi naIu ways, Win UleeulnS leeL'
Must fight with dragons, must bewail their dead
And fierce Apollyon face to face must meet.
who would give my very life for theirs,
cannot save them from earth's pain or loss;
cannot shield them from Its grefs or cares;
Each human heart must bear alone its crossI
Was God, then, kinder unto thee than them,
o thou whose little lfe was but span?
All, think it not In all his dadem
No star shines brighter than the kingly man,
Who nobly earns whatever crown he wears,
Who grandly conquers, or as grandy dies:
And the white banner of his manhood bears,
Through all the years uplfted to the skiesI
What lofty peans shall the victor greetI
What crown resplendent for his brow be hti
o. child, If earthly life be bitter sweet
Hast thou not something missed in missing it?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

Manitoba Lake, which has given
name to the Province formed out of the
Red River region, is called after small
island, whence, in the stiffness of the
night, issue strangely sweet. mysterious
sounds. The Ojibway Indians who dwell
in that neighborhood believe the island
to be the home of Manitoba, the Speak
ing God, and will not land on or ap-
proach it for any consideration, thinking
they would desecrate or profane it, and
that they would meet with some terrible
fate for their implety. The sound is
caused, it has been ascertained, by the
beating of the waves on the large peb-
bles along the shore. These, with frag-
ments of fne-grained, compact lime
stone that have fallen from the cliffs
above. are rubbed together by the action
of the water, and give out tone like
that of distant church bells. The nat
ural music is heard when the wind
blows from the north, and as it subsidies
low plaintive notes resembling voices Of
an invisible choir, are heard. 1t ha:
been compared to the chant of the nuns
at the Trinita de Monti in Rome, with
which all travellers are familiar. Tht
effect is impressive. Tourists have beer
awakened at night in the vicinity undeI
the impression that chimes of bells wer,
ringing afar off. and that their tones
were ripping over the lake. The mys
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

Within the last ten years Colorado
has increased her flock of sheep from
10000 head to over 100000 head.
This Notwithstanding the effort to pre-
vent the introduction of sheep by the
cattle interest. AS with cattle, the
means used are very simple. The sheep
are herded in focks of 1000 to $500
on the range by day, and corraled at
night. Mexican sheep are worked in
still greater focks, even up to 5000.
The best fockmasters, however, consider
gangs of sheep over 1900 to 1000 head
as not working satisfactorily.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

We have laid our friends in the grave,
but they are around US. The little
children who sat upon our knee, into
whose eyes we looked with love, whose
little hands have clasped our necks. on
whose cheek we have imprinted the kiss
we can almost feel the throbbing of
their hearts today. 1t seems to me
that sometimes, when our heads are on
the pillow, there comes whispers of joy
from the spirit land, which have drop
ped into our hearts thoughts of the SUBJ
lime and beautiful and glorious, as if
some angels wing passed over our brow,
and some dear one sat by our pillow and
communed with our heart to raise our
affections toward the other and better
world.-Bsshop Simpson.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

When you can't remember what your
wife told you to bring home, get hair
pins. They are always handy in the
house.
A gossip ought not to rank as the
equal of sagacious clam; for the clam
knows to nicity when to shut up, but
the gossip does not.
A mules head does not contain brain
capable of culture and refined rearing,
but it is wonderful to what an extent
the other end of him can be reared.
An exchange says: "Aleohol will
clean out the inside of an inkstand." 1t
will also clean out the inside of pocket
book little more thoroughly and quick
ly than anything else on record.
Tongue can not tell the words or ex-
press the astonishment of the crippled
soldier in Connecticut who awoke to find
that his wife was using his wooden leg
to pound the beefsteak for breakfast.
well, Sambo, how do you like your
new place" berry we'll, massa -
"What did you have for breakfast this
morning ?" "Well, you see, missus billed
three eggs for herself, and gave me de
brof."
A new Baptist convert wished very
much to be baptized by one minister and
to join the church of another. She went
to the first and asked him if it could be
done. "Yes," he replied, Il could dc
it, but l don't take in washing"
A sewing machine agent, who was
very i'll, being told that he must pay the
debt Of nature, wanted to know if i
couldn't be paid on the monthly install
ment plan. He was politely Informed
that it was not allowed on that plan il
that quarter.
A presiding elder of the Methods
church asked brother who aspired to
license, what was the difference betweel
an exhorter and preacher. "Well, yol
see" was the answer. "a preacher take
text and sticks to it, but an exhorte
amt bound to stick"
"Do you know any of the effect
of heat and cold ?" "Yes, sill
Heat expands and cold contracts.
"Good, my boy. You have answere
well. Now an example" "Why, sill
the days of midsummer are the longes
and in winter the shortest"
The average small boys ambition
to be trapper, pirate, or song-and
dance man. "When | was little boy,
lisped very stupid society man to
young lady, "all my ideath in life wer
thentered on being clown" ave
there is at least one ease of gratifed an
bition," was the sharp reply.
Papa, me has been baptized ain
me ?" asked a little three year-olc
Eyes, DEAR" "Then me won't have {
be baptized agin ?" mo; but can 20
remember anything about being bapti
ed ?" Il dess l can." "Well, what di
the minister do to you ?" "He shove
up my sleeve, and stuck knife in m
arm"
Little Johnny wanted to 90 to churc
His mother was afraid be would make
noise, but his father said ''Johnr
9 knows better than to make a noise
Q church." So he went. He kept vel
still till the last prayer. By that tin
o he had grown very tired of sitting sti
5 and was standing on the pew cushio
with his back to the pulpit. When Il
lady in the next seat bowed her head
o prayer. Johnny thought she was cryin
= He leaned over and said to the lady,
ID a tone that was meant for whispt
N but which was only too plainly heart
"Poor lady What ee matter? Do
summit ache?"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

tic bells of Manitoba have acquired such
reputation that travellers are never sat-
is6ed unless they are heard, and often
spend days there waiting for the blow
ing of the north wind. The Ojibways
have a number of poetic legends about
their Speaking God, whom they pro-
foundly revere.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17
FAMISHED.
BY HELEN RICH.

If only mothers knew, she said,
How hungry children are for love,
Above each little virgin bed
A mothers lips would prove
How sweet are kisses that are given
Between a rosy mouth and Heaven.
If only my mamma would kneel,
As your dear mamma. every night,
Beside her little girl, to feel
II all the wraps are folded tight,
And hold my hands, her elbow fair
Between my cheek and her soft hair,
And looking in my dreaming eyes
As II she saw some lovely thing.
And smiling in such fond surprise
On all my hopes of life that spring
Like flowers beneath the tender gaze,
l could not stray In evil ways.
would not wound the gentle breast
That held me warm within its fold;
My mothers love would still be best
However sad, or plain or old;
And. even when the world forsake,
I'D love her for her loves dear sake.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

GETTING MoNEY.-The most unfortu-
nate day in the career of any young man
is the day ON which he fancies there is
some better way to make money than to
earn it; for from that feeling spring
the many extravagant and visionary
schemes which are INDUCED in for the
purpose of gaining livelihood without
labor. When young man becomes
thoroughly infected with this feeling, he
is ready to adopt any means for the ac-
complishment of his object; and if his
plans are frustrated and he Is foiled in
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NEUTRAL1zING PoIsoN WITH SWEET
OLA poison of any conceivable de-
scription and degree of potency. which
has been Intentionally or accidentally
swallowed. may be rendered almost in
stantly harmless by simply swallowing
two gills of sweet oil. An individual
with a strong constitution should take
nearly twice that quantity. This oil
will most positively neutralize every
form of vegetable, animal. or mineral
poison with which physicians or chemists
are acquainted.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17
THE ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL

A correspondent of the London Times
writing from Switzerland, says: The
Gothard tunnel is now the longest tun-
mel in the world, the length, bored from
both sides, reaching total of 13,48l
yards-23 yards longer than the Mount
Gents. Very nearly 5000 yards still
remain to be excavated, and if the work
goes on as rapidly this year as it went
on last, the navvies from Goschen and
those from Airolo may expect about this
twelve-month to shake hands in the
heart of the mountain. This, however,
is far from being certainty, for accord
ing to the calculations of the geologists,
the workmen will find directly under the
Kastelborn thick mass of serpentine
and schist, which may prove consider
able hindrance Most of the laborers
employed in the galleries are Italians.
They work night and day in shifts of
eight hours each, and their work is de-
scribed as being terribly severe. The
heat is SO great that they can wear no
clothes whatever. They return to the
mouth of the tunnel streaming with per-
spiration, their faces are yellow and
CHASTITY, they cannot bear the light of
the sun, they walk with bent shoulders
and stagger as if carrying burdens toe
heavy for their strength. They are,
nevertheless, said to be cheerful, and
even merry. They support their hard
lot without repining. and save money
1t is satisfactory to know that the con
tractors by whom the men are employed
treat them with every consideration. A
surgeon is always on the spot, accidents
being frequent, and ample hospital &C
commodation is provided for the ailins
and the hurt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-17

WARM CLoTHEs.-Some parents be-
lieve that thin clothing makes children
hardy, and, we often see men who
habitually underdress themselves in re-
spect to comfortable clothing, in the
fear that they will be weak and sickly.
Their ideas are wrong. Our bodies are
warmed Just as room is warmed. The
oxygen of the air and carbon of the coal
unite and give off carbonic acid and
heat. The oxygen of the air absorbed
into the blood unites with the food,
produces carbonic acid and heat. The
oxygen of the air absorbed into the
blood unites with the food, produces
carbonic acid and gives off heat. If the
heat is allowed to escape, it must be
supplied by the food or by burning out
the substance in the body itself. If
child is dressed thinly, he will have to
eat more to keep warm, and this extra
strain on his growing system will pro-
duce anything but vigor. A child may
of course be unhealthily warm, as a
room can, but it is bad economy to freeze
a child into eating.