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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13
THE DEATH OF ENGLISH KINGS,

William the Conqueror died from
enormous fat, from drink and from the
violence of his passions.
William Rufus died the death of the
poor stags which he hunted.
Henry I. died of gluttony.
Henry II. died of of a broken heart
occasioned by the bad conduct of his
children.
Richard Ceur de Lion, like the ami
NAL from which his heart was named,
died by an arrow from an archer.
John died, nobody knows how, but it
is said from chagrin, which, we suppose,
is another term for dose of hellebore.
Henry III. is said to have died a
natural death.
Edward |. is also SAID to have died of
would puzzle all the college physicians
to denominate.
Edward II. was barbarously and in
decently murdered by rufians employed
by his own wife and her paramour.
Edward Ill died of dotage, and Rich
ard II. of starvation-the very reverse
of George ~.
Henry ". is said to have died of
"fits caused by uneasiness," and uneasi-
ness in palaces in those times was very
common complaint.
Henry V. is said to have died of a
painful affliction. prematurely." This
is courtly term for getting rid of a
king.
Henry VI. died in prison, by means
known then only to his jailor, and now
only known in heaven.
Edward V. was strangled in the Tow
er by his uncle, Richard Ill.
Richard Ill. was killed in battle.
Henry VII. wasted away, as a miser
ought to.
Henry VIII. died of carbuncles, fat
and fury.
Edward VI. died of decline.
Queen Mary is said to have died of a
broken heart
Old Queen Bess is said to have died
of melancholy, from having sacrificed
Essex to his enemies.
James l. died of drinking and from
the effects Of vice.
Charles |. died on the scafold.
Charles II. died suddenly-it is sale
of appoplexy.
William III. died of consumptive hab
its of body and from the stumbling O.
Queen Anne died from dropsy.
George I. died from drunkenness
which his physicians politely called al
appoplectic ft
George II. died of a rupture of th,
heart, which the periodicals of the day
termed visitation from God.
George III. died as he had lived;
madman. Throughout life he was a
least consistent monarch.
George ". died of gluttony ant
drunkenness.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13
THE GIRL OF THE CRISIS.

Broken, and crushed. and sad,
Father comes home at night;
Rogues have stript him of all that he had,
And his hair is thin and white;
bravery re tos All Ine Gay,
And thinks that we do not see
His heart in his mouth, when he looks the way
ofmother and Winnie and me.
Work with the hand OF the head,
With needle or broom or quill;
Daily work for my daily bread
Work must have, and will
have youth, and health, and brains.
They said was clever at school;
Others are earning their honest gains.
And why should sit here and pule
know that he does not care
For the coat that is no more new,
Or the dingy house, or the scanty fare,
lfhe could but pay atl men their due;
But it pains him to think that we
May not lounge in easy-chairs,
With music and novel and afternoon tea,
And gossip of others affairs
Oh. if he only just knew
How weary was of all thatl
How longed for a life that was earnest and true,
And some useful work to be at!
heed not what people may say;
All the bondage of fashion scorn.
To bring girls up in that idiot way
1t were better they never were born.
But what can do? could teach;
But scores will be eager to try,
With their music, and German. and French; and eac
Far better to do than l.
l had nice nmble fingers Of old
For trimming bonnet or gown;
But now folks will find better use for their gold
Than to 1aunt in gay dress about town.
l know l could tidy room
And give it ladylike look;
And I'm almost sure 1 could handle broom,
And iron little and cook
ButI must be at home every night
To kiss him and plague him while,
And comb the old hair that is thin now, and white,
And send HIM to bed with smile.
Work oh dear, what can do?
hurt my soft hand and it bled;
And wish it were roughened. and blistered too,
lfit would only win me my bread;
Yet shrink from the girls at the mill;
watched them last night in the dark
Coming out, and it smote my weak heart with chill
But could be a telegraph clerk.
Sickl l am weary and SICK
Ever fretting for something to do;
M, .,x~..lI.ss. -..rS-
Father and mother, for you?
Ye are dearer than ever TO me,
So meek, and gentle, and brave;
But your shadows grow long. and seem to see
Them creeping out close to grave.
Work with hand or with head,
With broom needle or quill;
Daily work for my daily bread
Any true work that you will
Oh just for week to have toiled,
And to give him my wages and kiss,
Saying, father dear father my hands may be soiled,
But my heart is purer for this.
Waller Smith. in Edinburg Scotsman.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

WHITTIER AT HoME--I spent pleas
ant day at "Oak Knoll" Danvers, last
week, with the dear old poet, who un-
like Bryant, refuses to appear on public
occasions. His one big dinner, he says,
was quite enough. But friends from all
parts of the country visit him daily, SO
he is never solitary. His present home
is farm of so acres of undulating
land; the house very plain, but furnish
ed for comfort. Followed by his three
dogs-a Newfoundland, Roger Williams
a bright faced Scotch terrier, Charles
Dickens, and graceful greyhound-we
rambled over the hills, visited the pet
cow. who put up her handsome head for
a petting, and enjoyed the fine view. |
told him | believed he answered every
begging letter with uniform and untir-
ing amiability, but he acknowledged
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13
A DREADFUL MISTAKE.

She gave him a beautifully worked
pair of slippers, and although they were
across the toes, he smilingly submitted
to the martyrdom which they imposed,
and vowed they should never leave his
feet.
This reckless statement will be re-
ceived by the reader with becoming eau
tiousness.
And so the young man made return
of her offering 1t was his picture en-
cased in a handsome frame.
He wrote note to send with it, and
at the same time replied angrily to an
oft-repeated dun for an unpaid-for suit
of clothes. He gave boy ten cents to
deliver the package and notes, giving
explicit directions as to the destination
of each. 1t was an unusually intelligent
boy with a freckled face, and he dis
charged his errand in manner that
should give him niche in the temple
of fame.
The young lady received a note in
her adored ones handwriting, and few
to her room to devour its contents. She
opened the missive with eager fingers
and read:
| "I'm getting tired of your everlasting
attentions The suit is about worn out
already. 1t never amounted to much,
anyway. Please go to thunder!''
And the tailor was struck utterly
dumb when he opened parcel and dis.
covered the picture of his delinquent
customer with note that said:
"When you gaze upon these features
think how much owe you
When that unfortunate young maj
called around. that evening, to receive
the happy acknowledgement of his sweet
the steps and over the fence by the
young lady's father; and in the morn
ing he was waited upon by the tailor
lawyer and imperatively ordered to SETTLE
or suffer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

Temptation is fearful word. 1t in
dicates the beginning of possible Sc
ries of infinite evils. It is the ringing
of an alarm bell, whose melancholy
sounds may reverberate through eternity.
Like the sudden, sharp cry of Fire"
in the night, it should rouse to instan-
taneous activity, and brace every mus
Gle to its highest tension.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

A lecturer on chemistry said; ITO
illustrate how elements perfectly harm
less in themselves may become destruc-
tive by combination, take the case of a
gun and small boy. What can be
more harmeless than each of these alone
by itself, or what can be more danger
Gus in combination ?" Great applause.)
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

The English dairy farmers get i'm
mense returns from their grass lands by
free use of bone manure. One Ches-
hire farmer says that by this means he
is able to feed forty COWS from land that
formerly gave him product sufficient for
only twenty. The English farmers be-
lieve in "boning' grass land especially.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

There is burden of care in getting
riches, fear in keeping them. temptation
in using them, guilt in abusing them,
sorrow in losing them, and burden of
account to be given up concerning them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13
Poultry should not be plucked to

Poultry should not be plucked too
soon after killing. If feathers are pull
ed out while the blood is still fluid, the
vesicle at the root of each feather be-
comes engorgcd and the skin spotted.
Don't feed before killing fowl killed
while digestion is going on will hardly
keep week.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

In nine cases out of ten, the wisest
course is, if man cheat you, quit deal
ing with him if he be abusive, quit his
company if he slander you. take care
to live so that no one will believe him.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

The natives of Lord Howe's island in
the South Pacific petitloned for four
schoolmasters and some iron pots. The
gentle aborigines evidently contemplate
giving a party.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

A western poet, who had expressed a
wish to die amidst the grand solitude Of
the eternal mountain-tops, was killed
by the explosion of pint of cheap kerr
osene
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13
Written for the MONITOR.
THE HOME OF THE WEARY.

On the banks Of the dear mystic shore,
Where the star of life fades never,
Where wait the loved who have gone before
With joys that are joys forever.
There bright skies by storm-clouds ne'er grow dark
And love and peace are ever glowing;
There the soul may launch its spirit bark
On the waves Of truth allowing.
On the banks OF the dear mystic shore
Where Edens bowers are shining.
Immortal flowers their fragrance pour,
Richest garlands ever twining.
Guide safe, oh God, to the shining strand,
The storm-tossed bark of US mortas,
That crowned with glory we all may stand
Within the heavenly portals.
STELLA BoGUR.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

A RECIPE TO Color BRowN.-For
five pounds of goods. two of eateshu, and
two OF. of blue vitrol; dissolve in warm
water, enough to cover the goods; let
them remain one hour, stirring often.
Dissolve ounces of bichromate of pot
ash in another vessel; rinsing out the
bichromate from the catechu and dip in
the bichromate, to remain until the COL
or suits these are warm or set dyes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

A teacher was practising her youth
full class in original composition and
gave one pupil the subject "boy" to
write upon. The subject was to be
treated of in three parts-frst, What is
il Second Wh.t is IFS nse And third,
What is it made of The lad wrestled
hard for few minutes in desperate per-
plexity, and then wandered up to the
teachers desk and submitted the follow
ing:-"A boy is an animal his use is
to carry in wood he is made of bones y
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13
The "Monitor,"
PUBLIsHED WEEKLY ny
GEO. H. BLAKE,
BARTON, VT.

fRMs.-Stricdy in adUance, $l.50 per annum. II
paid IN advance, $2.OO year. Subscribers living
ide OF Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
postage. POr convenience In remitting, we will
credit for one year and four months for So 90, to
bcribers In the county and one year aud three for
pO to subscribers without the county, when sent
'etiy IN ddUdnee.
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|emit by +. o. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
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subscription expires, and see that your payments
kept IN advance. When money is sent us we shall
you the credit on the label Mt once II the label is
advanced within two weeks. notify us by postal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

Chow fragrant it is, said Mrs. Par
tington as she shifted the odor of bot
tie of Jamaica ginger. at is as pleas
ant to the oil factories, and is warming
to the diagram, and SO accelerating to
the clstern that it makes one forget pain
like the oxhide gas that people take for
toothache. 1t should have place IN
every home where people are subject to
bucolics> and such like melodies besides
a spoonful is so salubrious when run
down like boot at the heel in walking
one feels like new creature"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

The Nea0 England Farmer says that
within the past year the oldest COW,
probably, in New England has been fat
ted and sold for beef She was owned
by E. l.. Metcalf, of Franklin, Mass,
and on the day of her sale was within
eleven days of being twenty-eight years
old. She was Jersey, and was giving
four quarts of good, rich milk per day.
Has given birth to but one bull calf,
and all her heifers with one exception
has been raised by Mr.. Metcalf or his
neighbors. The last FIVE years she gave
milk constantly without breeding.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

!. : ] : :; !: : J : :
Gao JOYFUL News for Boys and Girls II
MHAAU Young and Old A NEW IN
smNJVENTI0N Just patented for them,
for Home use
8 Fret and Scroll Saving, Turning,
g1 Boring, Drilling Grinding, Polishing,
~ Screw Cutting. Price S5 to $50.
Send Stamp and address
EPHRAIM BROWN, Lowell, Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

~ week in your own town. s. outfit free
(NNo risk. Reader. If you want business Mt
1Owhich persons Of either sex can make great
pay all the time they work. write for partic-
to II. IIallett h Co., Portland, Maine. oil
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13
MISCELLANEOUS,
FRANK A. SCOTT,

ARNEss MAKER, GLOVER, VERMONT. III
you want Harness or anything in the harness
don't miss calling at the old Shop in Dwinelrs
before buying and examine work and get prices
ork made from the best oak stock and warranted
Q satisfaction. Prices as low as the lowest os-7
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13
WIN b. DODGE.

WELL, VT, AGENT FOR THE VERMONT
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Montpelier
insure Dwellings, Farm Property, Household
ture, etc, and Mercantile Risks for the term OF
or five years. All honest losses equtably
ted and promptly paid. "A SO
l.. II. THUMPsUN,
rToRNRY, COUNSELLOR AND SOLICITOR
Also Bounty and Pension Agent, Irasburgh, Vt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30

The genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has red wax seal on the lid with
the impression DR.. MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS.
Each wrapper bears the signatures of c.
McLANE and FLEMING Bros.
Insist upon having the genuine DR.. C. Nc
LANES LIVER PILLS. prepared by Fleming
Bros, of Pittsburgh, Pa, the market being
full of limitations of the name McLane,
spelled differently but same pronunciation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30
Shopping.
From LippiL colts Magazine.


The profession of shopping is thing
OF modern growth. Our grandmothers
loved horads and stores in their own
houseS-to be compelled to begin sea-
son with the feeling that nothing was
on hand in the way of suitable raiment
would have seemed to them but a mar
row, poor, hand-to-mouth way of living,
-and have argued bad management and
want of provision for the future. In
old days every girls pride was in the alb
sence of all need for shopping; the idea
of the absolute necessity for new things
staring her in the face would have been
repelled with Shudder. In closets and
presses were piles on piles of well-made,
neatly embroidered underclOtheS, which
occasioned wild raptures of feeling, and
were possession to Yaunt among her
mates. 1t was her wont to have long
strips of linen on hand to be covered
with pretty sprigs and scallOps; over
this work she dreamed her maidenly
dreams, weaving steadily like the Lady
of ShallOt, and in her mind, as
Moving through mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
For this work had an alchemy all its
own, and transmitted dull leaden labor
into sunny gold, since it was always Il
possible trouSSeau upon which she was
working. You could read all the gentle
meanings of youth and hope in her face
as she wrought. That was before the
era of culture. Nowadays young la
dies are impelled by loftier ambition
the poetry of youthful aspiration is
expressed i'll plaques and panel-paint-
lngs, In gaudy embroiderieS, i'll decora-
ting glnger-JarS, i'll cutting out gigantic
cretonne dragons and fastening them on
fireplace and window draperieS, in sim
ulatIng costly India screens. Each sea-
son offers new variety of fancy-work,
more brilliant, more effective, more ex-
penSIVe; for high art in decoration tends
always toward the coStlieSt and the
rarest, and the pretty limitations of this
year are tawdry and cheap the next.
Thus no wonder that the young women
of to-day are compelled to spend their
efforts i'll search after artistic culture,
and find neither time nor inclination for
prescious old-fashiOned economies. So
when fall comes they must go shop
ping. The pretty belaced and befloun-
ced underclotheS are torn to pieces by
the watering-place laundresses, the sum-
mer toilettes are no longer useful; last
winters dresses can not be used this
year, in spite of the costly silk and vel
vet and satin of which they were made,
for they were cut close and clinging, and
no-a-days everything must be 6OuQdnt,
puffed, shirred and loOped into the dear
Old Pompadour styles. So the shopping
begins.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30

He kissed her as he took his seat be-
side her.
Il am the best judge of that, my darl-
ing. Here, take the reins; the nest is
yours on one condition-that my wife
drives me to our dear little home in a
month"
X
And Miss Josie Gypsum actually has
the audacity to call occasionally upon
Mrs. Dick, and is profuse in her admira-
tion of Daisy's husband, while Daisy's
mother and brother insist that they al
ways so honored Dick Kenneth-such a
prudent, persevering, prosperous man
as he always was, such a model husband
and proYider as he is.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30
POETRY.
THE SAME OLD STORY.

She reads until she could not see
Did ''Ivanhoe" e'er weary?
THEN dropped the book upon her knee,
And said her life was dreary,
sFrom day to day still must tread
The same dull round of duty
OF darning socks and baking bread,
Without one glimpse of beauty.
From week to week my landmarks are:
A sermon dull on Sunday;
Or Friday night the Plumville Star,
The weekly wash on Monday,
And, oh! there's never line of grace,
And Dever a hint of glory"
ST. sighed and heightened her pretty face
at alV ays the same old story?"
She dried her eyes and curled her hair,
And went to the conference meeting
From the garden gate to the vestry stair
The self-same words repeating.
AT last the final hymn was sung,
And all the prayers were ended,
When one from the doorway crowd among
Her homeward steps attended.
They left at length the village street,
And sprang the low wall over,
To cross through Captain Peaslee's wheat
And Deacon Bascombe's clover,
The moon seemed shining overhead
To flood their path with glory;
II ey whispered low, but what they said
Mas-Only the same old story!
Cambridge Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30

E@Democratic Supreme Judge
81; Member of Board Public Works.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.

THE countenance is pale and leaden.
l. colored, with occasional f1ushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu-
pills dilate; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is IT.
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming OF throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; Shiny or furred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with gnawing sensation of the stom-
ach, at others, entirely gone; feeting
pains in the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels II
regular, at times costive; stools Shiny;
not unfrequently tinged with blood
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
the teeth temper variable, but gener-
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DIR. C.. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form it is an innocent prepara-
ton, not capable of doing tile slightest
injury TO tile most tendkr infant.
The genuine DR.. McLANE'S YER
MIFUGE bears the signatures of c. Nc
LANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
wrapper. -:O:-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30
A Gross Ralhy.

Nothing is SO conducive to mans re-
manning bachelor as stopping for one
night at the house of a married friend
and being kept awake for five OF six hours
by the crying of cross baby All cross
and. crying babies need only Hop Bitters
to make them well and smiling. Young
man, remember this.-Ed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30
An old man with brilliantly red nose
should not be held up as a shining exam
pie for young men.-N. o. Picayune.

DR.. Holland says mans character
may be judged by his cravat If he
wears no cravat we suppose he hasn't
any.-Buffalo Express.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-30

FOR SALE.-A light two-seat Car
riage, i'll good order, and as good as new
Enquire of p. E. Zinn, Bridge Corner,
Wheeling, w. Va. 7-17-tf
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GOING EAST AND WEST.
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Through Trains TO Pittsburgh.
Through Trains to Cleveland.
2 Through Trains to Chicago.
Pullman's Parior Cars between Wellsville
and Cleveland.
uoiel and Sleeping Cars on all Trains be-
tween Alliance and Chicago.
Acoopo Mail Expraaa
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