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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
THE DYING SON.

"Gone to ruin said father to me one
day while speaking Of his son. who |
had informed him was just dying, and
that through the influences of strong
drink. "Gone to ruin, and that with
drink said the father, whose heart
was like to break for the poor, lost child.
'Come and see him." l said. The
father went, and, as he looked on his
dying boy, he asked him how he had
been brought to this. The son replied
that it was his father who was the cause
of his ruin. He did not say that his
father had intended to bring about such
a fearful result-far from it: but by
what he had thoughtlessly done, he
had actually brought his boy to the
brink of a drunkard's grave.
Chow could this be ?" do you ask.
l will tell you. The father had been
accustomed to have liquor on the dinner
table and when friends called on him,
he would give them some, and take some
of it himself. He had-also thought that
his little son might take little with.
out any harm.
His child had been in the habit Of
taking the little drops that were left in
the bottom of the glasses, especially
when good deal of sugar had been put
in it and by-and-by when he became
a young lad he sought some of it him.
self, and the desire continuing, he had
at last sought after it when he cared
for nothing else. He had thus become
a drunkard while quite young and wher
it was too late, he told his father the real
cause of his ruin.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
3eligiolas department.


"But they had faults, says one. OF
course they did, and am glad of it.
They would never have founded this ma.
ton had they been faultless. If, haply,
the church at last renders the people
faultless. she does not send them to
bleak New England. They are wanted
in city of jeweled walls and pearly
gates and golden streets of perpetual
fountains and eternal fruits, and man
sions made ready for them. where the
society is fit for mating with their own
purified and stainless souls. '.They had
faults" did they How do you know t?
Because they gave you the school where
you learned the larger meaning of right
and wrong. Father and mother toll
early and late; grow old prematurely
pinch and starve themselves that they
may send their dear boy to college. He
comes home by-and-by and taunts them
because they do not know Latin. l sup
pose the faults of the Pilgrims would be
a great stumbling block to that young
man. In the light of to-day, which
they kindled for US, we can see the
faults of two centuries and half ago;
but In their own day, who could point
out the mistakes of the pilgrims ? Was
it England? Her fires of martyrdom
Ask the Huguenots. Was it the Span
iards? He does not know yet what lib
erty means. Was it the Dutch repub-
lie? Holland could not hold the dead
body of the Pilgrim pastor and reformer
for less than dollar a month. There
was no civil or religious organization
then in existence that could criticise for
one moment the Christian church which
came from Leyden to Plymouth. A
mans soul looks out of his eyes, and
the narrow soul will have narrow
vision. Some men look at the Pilgrims
and behold colossal heroes march in
stately procession across the stage of
history. clad in all the radiance of self
sacrifice. Others, after much study of
colonious times. will tell you of band
of bigots who kept the Sabbath too
strictly. and brought up their children
Zoo soberly. by their fruits" says
one, eye shall know them" Not by
the graceful foliage which dallies with
the summer breeze; not by the flower
which fades away with the perfume
which it scatters on the gale; but by
the golden perfect fruit, in which the
mysterious life of the plant Is garnered
up, which even when it perishes, leaves
behind it the germs of continued and
multiplying existence" Yes, sainted
dead A pilgrim band, indeed Ye
have passed into the heavens faultless
now. Ye gave us our birth and our
baptism, and we thank God through
Jesus Christ for you all, that at last
your faith is spoken of throughout the
whole world. -Rev. f. s. Hatch.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
STARVING TO DEATH.

Thousands of men and women are
starving to death. They dare not eat or
drink this or that, fearing it will increase
their flesh. Life depends upon continu.
Gus self-denial. The only safe and reli
able remedy for this terrible condition is
Allan's Anti-Fat. 1t is wholly vegeta-
BILE and perfectly harmless. Its use In
sures reduction of from two to FIVE lbs.
per week. Sold by druggists.
Buffalo, N. Y, June Is. 1873. To
the Proprietor's of Allan's Anti Fat
Gentlemen-The following report is from
the lady who used Allan's Anti-Fat 1T
Ghe Anti-Fat) had the desired effect,
reducing the fat from two to FIVE pounds
week, until ! had Lost twenty-five
pounds. | hope never to regain what
have lost Yours respectfully, Powell
& Plimpton. Wholesale druggists"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

l may wander in sad and pensive
thought upon the sunny banks of flowing
rivers. may tread carpeted wales, or
climb Handicapped mountains, revealing
amidst beauty, grandeur and simplicity,
and yet find no repose for this restless
mind. no place for this troubled heart,
no hope for this sinful and lost soul.
Not flower below, not star above
tells me of Jesus, Saviour. / turn to
the glorious gospel of the blessed Lord,
and my case as ruined self-destroyed,
condemned sinner, is met by that single,
but comprehensive and sublime, an
nouncement: "This is a faithful say
ing. and worthy of all acceptation, that
Jesus Christ came into the world to save
sinners. "-Octavius Winsloao.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

The internal revenue returns for the
last fiscal year show that the consumption
of beer has risen to l0,OOO,O 900 barrels,
an increase of twenty-five per cent in the
five years of dull times. Since the Ger
man immigration began to set 10 this
country, it has shown a steady increase.
In the last thirty years its annual produc-
ton has doubled six times. and bids fair
to go on increasing now that its sale is
fairly established in the South.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

Labor to grow better under all your
Affections, lest your affection grow
worse, lest God mingle them with more
darkness, bitterness and terror. Follow
after that which calls you into, and you
will find light arising in the midst Of
darkness. Hath he cup of afliction
in one hand ?-lift up your eyes and
you will see acup of consolation in an
other. And if all stars withdraw their
light, whilst you are in the way of God,
assure yourselves that the sun is ready
to Oacen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
agricultural department.
BUSH TIME.

Judging from what we have seen while
riding through the State, cutting bushes,
which in earlier times was popular
and profitable pursuit among Vermont
farmers, is in many sections one of the
lost arts. The "bush hook" has gone
with the pod-auger and wooden pillow,
and the bushes flourish like green bay
tree, with none to trouble them. In
many instances this is well enough.
Hundreds of acres of land in Vermont
have been cleared and put under the
plow, which we don't believe the Creator
ever intended to have titled, and which
it was folly to attempt to till; and the
best use that can be made of it now is
to leave it to bear bushes which will
some day be large enough to cut into
wood. But it is not on this kind of land
alone that bushes are. getting the best
of the scythe and pillow and hoe. Good
fields and pastures owned and occupied by
farmers who pride themselves on doing
their work well, are too often left to fall
a prey to the bushes which spring up
spontaneously in every nook and corner
and by every fence and hedge, sapping
and shading the ground and robbing the
farmer of the crops which belong to him;
and this is bad.
Vermont land won't produce two crops
grows bushes, it will not yield corn, po-
tatoes, or grass. But getting rid of
bushes requires hard work and hand
work, which in these times. when nearly
everything is done by machinery, is not
as popular as it might be. Beside it is
job which need not be done at any
particular time. and is, therefore, put
off from day to day and very often alto
gether; and, again, it is work which
does not bring an immediate return.
Nevertheless, a man cannot do his duty
by farm without cutting bushes, and
there is no better time in which to do it
than in August. There used to be a
theory, which some intelligent men still
cling to, that. if bushes were cut in Au-
gust on the old of the moon, they would
not spgout up again. Probably no man
ever proved this by actual experiment,
and it may safely be stored away as
moonshine; but there is no time in sum-
mer when farmer has more leisure for
odd jobs like bush-cuttlng than in August
and, whether the moon be new or old,
that is good month to do this bust
ness in.
The most effective way to deal with
bushes that grow in punches is to pull
them up by the roots, and in this work
a stump-puller can often be used to adj
vantage; but single ones must be cut
with an ak or scythe and should then be
piled and burned. There is, as we have
said, work in this, but not as much as
might appear. A hundred small bushes
make good deal of show in field, but
it does not take much time to get rid Of
them when one sets about it in earnest.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
Manhood. How Lost, How Restored

"a Just published, edition of DIR. Culver
81 welPs Celebrated Essay on the radical cure
EaS (without medcine) OF Spermatorrh9a or Seminal
~ Weak ness. Involuntary Seminal Losses. Impoten-
cy. Mental and Physical Incapacity, Impediments to
Marriage, etc.; Also Consumption Epilepsy and Fits,
induced by sefndulgence sexual extravaganza, de-
The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay.
clearly demonstrates from thirty years successful
practice that the alarming consequences of selfabuse
may be radically without the dangerous of
the knife; pointing out mode Of cure at simple
certain and efectua by of which every sufferer
no matter what his condition may be- may cure him.
self cheapy, privately, and radically.
MTs~This Lecture should be in the hands of every
youth and every man in the land
Sent free. under seal. in plain envelope. to any
address. Address the Publishers.
THE CUIVERWELL MEDICAL CO.,
IL Ann ST., New York; Post Office Box 1856.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

| dare not say, much as / lament
many things which have done, that /
wish anything which have suffered in
the course of providence, and which has
not befallen me from my own fault, had
not happened. Miserable l may have
been made by such events as we usually
call mas fortunes but have lived long
enough to see that some of the most af-
ficted of these were the means of pre-
serving me from far greater evils. see
wisdom and goodness and mercy guard
ing and guiding me. and overruling, for
my good, things which almost broke my
heart when they came upon me, and
which seemed at the moment to cut off
hope altogether.-James Montgomery.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
NEW CREAMERY In BARRE.

Very gradually, but surely, the fact
has become established that the making
of butter brings very small profit in pro-
portion to the amount of labor. This
fact first led to the experiment of unit
ing all the diaries of a neighborhood to-
gether, erecting.a suitable building to
receive the milk, and procuring an ex-
perienced manager to see that good but
ter was produced. In many states, and
especially in New York, farmers have
seen SO good a result that in many towns,
and sometimes in every school district,
creamery has been built, improving the
quality Of butter, as well as increasing
the quantity, and giving more profit
with less labor.
With their experience in view, several
of the thrifty farmers of the Carleton
neighborhood in Barre, united last winter
in the project of building the first cream
cry in town, and neat wood structure
80 by 40 feet is the result. This is
situated on land bought of William
Clark, and has an unfailing supply of
very cold water from two large springs
near by. The power necessary for churn-
ing, pumping and heating is furnished
by a seven horse power steam engine,
which works we'll, and from one hundred
to one hundred and fifty gallons of cream
can be churned at time, with less wear
of the muscles than We have experienced
in three minutes charming with the old
dash churn in our younger days.
The Cooley patent can is used to cool
the milk in, and it was rich sight to
see four, to four and half inches of nice
cream on the top of each can. After
the butter is made there is still use for
the skinned milk, and very good
quality of cheese is produced at the rate
of l25 pounds day. The arrangements
can be perfected to accommodate the
milk Of three hundred COWS, and the
favorable results of this summers work
will doubtless cause other farmers to
spare themselves and their families the
drudgery of butter making, and encour-
age those men whose enterprise has
shown the value of united effort.
1t may be interesting to know that
already the orders for the creamery but
ter and cheese far exceed the supply,
showing that good article can always
be disposed of at good price. A visit
to this mandatory will we'll repay one
for the time spent.
The general manager. Mr.. Wallace,
or Messrs. Wood & Clark, the proprie.
tors, will give any information they may
be able with regard to the building and
managing of such an establishment.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
Half
Wagons
Half
Price!

We. too, like the rest Of oar neighbors,
haze built lot Of cheap a0agons. s0htch
ace aciH sell as lo,o as can be bought IN
Vermont.
al aOe haze to sag IN regard to this
class Of aOagoms IS that they are as good
as can be bought for the money. and ~iu
be sold for as little money as anybody
sells acagon for IN this state.
We might s0arrant them NTH the same
propriety that oar neighbors do; but aOe
don't a0arra'at everything.
1t IS an established fact that my rep
utation as carriage builder, stands
second to no man IN Neao England, and
I am bound to keep that good.
We haze upaoards Of a hundred sOagons
Of all kinds and styles Of the genuine
article. auth the c.. J. Uford name and
stamp upon them. which ioe offer for
sale. that a0iU be warranted IN every
particular and aciN also be sold at cery
toao prices.
All persons aoanting to bug are an
gited TO come and examine them and ask
the price. We kaaoac aohat dollar is
acorth. $50
G. j. UFFORD.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

The church must put off her look of
sel6shness. She must first deeply feel
and then frankly say that she exists only
as the picture of what the world ought
to be. Not as the ark, where choice
few may take refuge from the food, but
as the promise and potency of the new
heavens and the new earth she must
offer herself to men.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

Take care Of the weeds in the garden
and fence corners. 1t is a matter of econ
omy as well as neatness that these weeds
be destroyed before they mature their
seeds and they become scattered over
the ground. Tall weeds growing in the
garden should be pulled up and thrown
to the hogs, or into the compost heap,
and fence corners should be kept trim.
med down with the scythe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

We cannot have fertilizing showers on
the earth without clOuded heaven
above. Il is thus with our trials.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
JOHN BAGLEY's ESTATE.

JOHN BAGLEY'S ESTATE.
Notice of Settlement and Decree Of Distribution.
STATE OF VERMONT
In Probate Court held at rasburgh in said District
en- the goth day of August. A. d. 1879.
EDWARD l.. Hastings. Administrator of the estate
OF John Bagey late OF Craftsbury in said District,
deceased. presents his administration account for
examination and allowance. and makes application
for decree Of distribution and partition of the estate
of said deceased.
Whereupon. it is ordered by said Court, that said
account aud SAID application be referred to session
thereof to be held at L. H. Thompsons Office i'm said
rasburgh on the 25th day of September A. d. 1879 for
hearing and decision thereon.
And. 1t is further ordered. that notice hereof he
given to all persons interested by publication of the
same three weeks successfully in the Orleans County
Monitor. newspaper published at Barton previous
TO said time appointed for hearing that thew NAV an
pear at said time and place. and show cause il any
they may have why said account should not be allow
ed. and such decree made.
By the Court-Attest AstA4
EDISON N. C0NNEL, Register
true copy of Record-Attest
o36 EDISON N. C0NNEL, Register
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

"A AA WEEK in your own town. and no capital
SNH risked. You give the business trial
WV without expense. The best opportunity
ever offered for those willing to work. You
should try nothing else until you for yourself what
you can do at the business we Offer No to
plain here. You can devote all your time only your
spare time to the business and make great pay for
every hour you work. Women make as much as men.
send Tor special private terms and particulars which
we mail Tree. S. outfit Free Don't complain OF hard
times while you have such chance Address H.
HALLET CO., Portland, Maine. OBJ
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

l. GAL CURE was so remarkable that it seemed
to those who had suffered without relief from any
therefore made affidavit to 1t before Seth j.
Thomas, Esq, Justice of the Peace, Boston.
GEORGE F. DlNSMORE, DRUGGIsT, BOSTON.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

Each package Of sANFoRp's RADICAL CURE con-
tainS DIR. Sanford,s Imnroued- IJha Ling Tube rod
FOR sale by all wholesale and retail druggists and
dealers throughout the United States and Canadas
WEEKS & POTTER, General Agents and Whole.
sale Druggists, Boston, Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

An Electro-Ga1 Battery combined
with highly Medicated Strengthening
Plaster, forming the best Plaster for pains
and aches in the World OF Medicine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

A FTER using two bottles I find myself perna-
"A nent,y cured. / have SINCE recommended
'vcr one hundred bottles with the greatest sue
cess. WIN. W. ARMSTRONG.
159 HARRISON Aye BOSTON.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

ME have sold SAEFoRD's RADICAL CURE for
w nearly one year and can say candidly that
we never sold similar preparation that gave such
universal satisfaction We have yet to learn OF the
FIRST complaint.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

I HAVE recommended it to quite number ofmy
friends, all OF whom have expressed to me
their high estimate of its value and good effects
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01

r FOLLOWED the directions to the letter and am
n happy 70 say nave had a permanent cure.
d. W. GRAY, NJ. D., MUsCATINE, iowa.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-11-27
Women and Girls in English Mines.

1t is startling fact that there are still
nearly 5000 women and girls employed
about the GOAL mines OF Great Britain. In
the official summary Of persons employed in
and about The mines, under the Coal Mines
Act, it is stated that 81 females under the
age Of ID years are employed. OF girls be.
tween the ages Of 10 and l6 there are 433
employed; Of young women above the age
of 16 there Are no less than 4,502 employed.
In the mines registered under the Metalif-
erous Mines Act there is larger proportion
ate employment OF females. At the tender
age of between s and ID years, there are 96
girls employed, chiefly in the Cornwall dis
trict; between the ages of 10 and Is, there
are 9sl girls employed above these mines,
Cornwall and the North Wales district EN-,
pioying the bulk; and there are also l,74l
females above the age of l5 employed, Corn
wall, North Wales, and Ireland employing
all these except 20; and Of this score, some
what singqlarly, the chief part are employed
in the North OF England, which has been re-
markedly free from woman's work in the
unfit employment of mining. The propor-
ton of women employed is said to be de-
creaslng but the fact that girls of such ten.
der ages are put to mining operations, r to
work 'sabove ground'' at the minee, is, q
sign that the unsatisfactory symptom is not
likely to entirely die out. s,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-11-27
The Meteoric Shower.

Prof. N. b. Webster, writes to the Norfolk
Ledger the following in reference to the
predicted meteOric shower on the 18th. AS
It will prove interesting to our readers aud
especially 20 those WHO are excited over the
expected fiery display, we reproduce It.
The credulity OF the uniformed public is fire.
quently manifest in the confidence placed in pre-
dictions OF sensational pseudo physicists concern
ing shooting stars tidal waves, &c.
it is not unusual in clear summer and autumnal
The sky. About the 18th Of August, and from the
18TH to the 10Th of November, they are usually
more frequent than at other times. These bodies
have been found by astronomers to become Wis
ible at height OF about IA miles, and to disap-
pear at an elevation of 81 miles on an average,
IL cir velocity being from 20 to 81 miles second.
They are small and light conetary bodies moving
in clusters rings in very ellptical orbits, es-
pecially those OF August ana November.
The shower OF stars" on the morning OF No.
vember 18th, 1888, was widely observed in the
United States. Professor Olmstead says some
persons died Of fright, thinking the Judgment
Day" had come. The Ignorant blacks" were not
the only frightened folks. Stolen property was
restored, and some very ludicrous mutual con-
fessions were made in neighborhood and family
circles. The next year. the morning OF No
vember 14th, less extensive star shower ap-
peared. BY reference to records, it was found
that a great display OF meteors occurred Novem-
Der l2tn, 1889, and also at former dates 81 years
apart. AS expected, there was recurrence OF
the phenomenon November l4th, 1856. and again
i'll 1851
be expected before LOCO, when the earths orbit
and the meteor orbit Will intersect. The reader
is referred to the writings of LOOMS, Lockyer,
Krkwood and others for fuller accounts. No
solid metorites have ever been known to fall
during these Showers 1t is not improbable
that the say watchers will see several shooting
stars every clear night in the autumn. but he
will probably be twenty years older than now be-
fore he sees shower OF them in November.
The light of meteors is attributed by HercheI
aud believed by all astronomers, to be due to the
heat caused by rapid motion through the rare at
mOSphere, which produces fncaudesceDce, anC
dissipates the meteorc matter in the thin air. to
fall eventually as fine dust. and thus increase
the size and mass of the earth. Thus the earth
gro,os by daily additions. estimated of fifty tons
of meteoric matter.