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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18

know of no state officer who does not
fully earn the moderate stipend he re-
ceives in such capacity.
The amount expended during the past
year in completing the House of Correc-
ton and paying its running expenses
since about November 1st, was $43,-
129.4S. We have always held grave
doubts as to whether an institution of
this kind in our small state could be
made advantageous or desirable. It's
friends and those best acquainted with
the matter, however, insist that it is not
only desirable, but a necessity, so that
we can do but little more than "hold
our BREATH" and await the result of the
experiment.
The -AvnAnaas off tha Reform School
during the year were $14,771.46. which
is probably as low as they ever will be,
and possibly as low as they ought to be.
81 The expenses of the State Prison were
$22, ,59O.26, from which should be de-
Quoted the sum of $19,o4O.73 received
from contractors for labor of convicts.
This is an excellent showing, and under
the present efficient direction of the in
stitution it will doubtless continue so
to be.
The educational state expense during
the past year was $2,8O6.93, to which
should be added the sum of $IO,822.24
for services of town superintendents.
The first item may be, and undoubtedly
is, all right, but if any one thinks that
the service rendered the cause of educa-
tion by the occasional visit of a town
superintendent to the schools is worth
the money expended for this purpose we
think they are greatly mistaken, or are
unacquainted with the quality of timber
from which these officers are too often
manufactured. The correspondence be-
tween the auditor and many of these
officials discloses an ignorance on their
part which should consign them behind
a scholars desk instead of the position
they hold. .-a51 .
Our militia tax is very light-lighter
we imagine than that of any other state
in the Union. The total expense for
last year was only $ll, ,262.1l.
The last year was not good one for
bears. or else our mighty Nimrods have
lost their cunning with the rifle. Only
twenty-one bears and one lynx are re.
ported as killed, involving the state to
the amount of 1926.
In addition to the thirty odd thousand
dollars paid the Insane Asylum at
Brattleboro annually. the state paid last
year the American Asylum for deaf and
dumb at Hartford, Conn.,, S3.559.74;
the Clark Institution for deaf mutes at
Northampton, Mass, 1876; the Perkins
Institute for the blind, at Boston, ST.
$50, and the Massachusetts school for
feeble minded and idiotic children, at
Boston, $3.50.
The above sums constitute the main
items of expenditure of the state for the
past year. They are we'll worthy of
study and intelligent criticism, to which
we invite the attention of all. a
But while our state finances are In the
main in creditable, if not fattering.
condition, We must yet bear in mind that
many of our towns are burdened with a
load of local or municipal taxation, which
is exceedingly grievous to be borne. 1t
is therefore only by the wisest and
strictest economy that We can expect to
be prospered as people and flourish as
communlty.-Montpelier Watchnadn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18
THE BOY ILOVE.
By ]. t. TRowBRIDGK

My boy, do you know the boy love?
t. fancy see him now;
His forehead bare in the sweet spring air,
With the wind of hope in his waving hair,
The sunrise on his brow.
He is something near your height. maybe.
And just about your years;
Timid as you but his will is strong,
And his love OF right and his hate Of wrong
Are mightier than his fears.
He has the courage of simple truth,
The trials that he must bear.
The peril the ghost that frights him most,
He faces boldly, and like ghost
1t vanishes in air.
As wild fowl take. by river and lake,
The sunshine and the rain,
With cheerful constant hardihood
He meets the bad luck and the good,
The pleasure and the pain.
Come friends in need9 With heart and deed
lie gives himself to them,
lie has the grace which reverence lends
Reverence, the GROWING flower that bends
The upright lily-stem.
Though deep and strong his sense of wrong
. Fiery his blood and young,
His spirit is gentle, his heart is great,
He is swift to pardon and slow to hate;
And master of his tongue.
Fond of his sportsP No merrier lads
Sweet laughter ever rangI
But he is so generous and so frank
His widest wit or maddest prank
Can never cause pang.
His own sweet case all things that please.
~ He loves like any hoy;
But fosters prudent fortitude;
Nor will he squander fortune good
TO buy ieeting joy.
Face brown fair? little care,
Whatever the hue may be,
Or whether his eyes are dark or light;
II his tongue be true and his honor bright,
He is still the boy for me.
Where does he dwell? cannot tell;
Nor do I know his name
Or poor or rich? don't mind which;
Or learning Latin. or digging ditch;
love him all the same.
With high, brave heart perform your part,
Be noble and kind as he,
Then. some fair morning when you pass,
Fresh from glad dreams, before your glass,
His likeness you may see.
You are puzzled! What you think there is not
A boy like him-surmse
That he is only bright ideal?
But you have power to make him real,
And clothe him to our eyes,
You have rightly guessed: in each pure breast
Is his abding-place.
Then let your own true life portray
His beauty, and blossom day by day
With something of his grace.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18

"But mind, Oliver" said she .'its a
secret II
..Oh, of course % said Mr.. Oriel shut
ting her mouth with a kiss. sao.s
And the dream of the rose-covered
cottage has come true-but Bridget
0'Brien never knew what a long journ-
ey her photograph took. 4R
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18
THE BEAUTIFUL.

Beautiful faces are those that wear
II matters little II dark or fair
Whole-souled honesty printed there.
Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where hearth-hres glow.
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs OF birds;
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.
Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministries to and fro
Down lowliest ways, II God wills 1t so.
Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens of homely care
With patient grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless
.essossO frrOHS ndPpfuOoos
Whose hidden fountain but few may guess.
Beautiful twilight. at set Of sun,
Beautiful goal, with race we'll won,
Beautiful rest, with work well done.
Beautiful graves, where grasses creep.
Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep,
Over worn out hands-oh, beautiful sleepl
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18


THR TREATMENT OF BUNIoNs.-The
treatment consists in removing all press
ure from the part affected. The forma-
tion of bunion may in the beginning
be prevented; but when formed, it is
scarcely possible ever to get rid of it.
and it remains an everlasting plague.
To prevent the formation of bunion. it
is necessary, whenever and wherever
shoe or boot pinches. to have it eased at
vuoo, or.d@-> lnng 40 sk-t Part of the
foot pinched remains tender, not to put
on the offending shoe again. When
bunion has once completely formed. if
the person wishes to have any peace, and
to have it eased. he must have last
made to fit his foot, and have his shoe
made upon it. And whenever the bun
ion becomes inaamed, and is painful, 1t
must be bathed with warm water and
poulticed at night.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18
STATE INCOME AND EXPEN-
DITURE

We present our readers this week with
the detailed statement Of our state treas
urer, enumerating the various sources
from which our yearly revenue Is derived
and the various channels through which
1T is distributed. A careful study of
this document discloses the fact that in
order to defray the expenses of the state
for the coming year the treasurer has on
hand, after paying the claims properly
chargeable to last years account, the
meager sum of scarcely thirty-fve thous-
and dollars. To be sure, this sum may
be increased by the early payment Of
the tax for next year and, by using
s"ss 1nSvn10 rO.s ssss----1-------L s----'-.-----
penses, instead of appropriating it where
it belongs, he may possibly bridge over,
and not be obliged to borrow very
large sum of money during the current
year. But this is all wrong. A state
cannot be run without necessary and un.
avoidable expense, and this penny-wise
and pound-foolish practice of auticipat-
ing our revenues is not creditable to the
state. The main object of our represen.
tatives seems to be, to be able to 60 home
and inform their constituents that they
have reduced the state tax, and in this
they glory abundantly, not taking into
consideration that by SO doing thy are
involving the state, and really working
against its best interests.
The plain fact is that the amount of
cash on hand will be entirely expended
by the lst day of Sept. and the state
will be not only virtual but an actual
borrower for the coming eleven months
to pay its necessary expenses. This was
| plainly told the committee of ways and
means at the last session of the legisla-
ture, but they entirely disregarded the
warning. and this is the result. A re.
deeming feature of this situation, how
ever, may be found in the fact that the
credit of the state is second to that of
no other in the Union, and money in any
necessary quantity can be readily pro-
cured at the very lowest rate of interest.
Another pleasing fact is that our
bonded war debt with a trihing excep-
thion, not yet presented for payment) is
extinguished. 1t is paid, not refunded,
or its obligation renea0ed. We doubt if
any other state in the Union can show
go good and oreditable financial record.
The following is the treasurer's state
| ment:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18
poulticed at night

When the thermometer marks SO de-
grees in the cities a telegram comes
from the seaside resorts stating that the
temperature is only 70 degrees, and
spring overcoats are luxury. You
rush right off down there and are sur
prised to find that the heat you thought
you had left at home has taken short
er route and reached the seaside several
hours before you arrived.-Norrsstoa0n
Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18

The Country Gentleman. alluding to
agents who sell trees. bushes and vines
by sample books. says: A man who
had bought gooseberry bushes of rare
and costly variety, or at least claimed
to be such. complained that they bore
currants. Nothing wrong about that
said the. ready-tongued vender. ''that
sort always bears currants the first year. "
and the purchaser, ashamed at his igno-
rance, had nothing more to say.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18
HOW OLD IS The WORLD.


Biologists, astronomers and physicists
alike have hitherto been bafled in their
attempts to set up any satisfactory kind
Of chronometer which will approximate
ly measure geological time, and thus
give US some clue to the antiquity of
our globe. It is therefore worth noting
that Mr.. Mellard Reade, Of Liverpool,
has lately contributed to the Royal So
ciety a very suggestive paper. in which
he endeayors to grapplc with the ques-
tion by employing the limestone rocks
of the earth's crust as an index of geo.
logical time. Limestones have been in
course of formation from the earliest
known geological periods, but it would
appear that the later found strata are
more calcareous than the earlier, and
that there has in fact been a gradually
progressive increase of calcareous matter.
The very extensive deposition of carbon
ate of lime over wide areas of the ocean
bottom at the present day is sufficiently
attested by the recent soundings of the
Challenger. According to the authors
estimate, the sedimentary crust Of the
earth is at least one mile in average
actual thickness, of which probably one
tenth consists of calcareous matter. In
seeking the origin of the calcareous
matter, it is assumed that the primitive
rocks of the original crust, were of the
nature of gigantic or basaltic rocks. By
the disintegration of such rocks, calcar-
eous and other sedimentary deposits
have been formed. The amount of lime
salts in waters which drain districts
made up Of GRANTEES and basalts is found,
by a comparison of analysis, to be on an
average about 1913 parts in 100000
parts of water. 1t is further assumed
that the excessed areas of igneous rocks,
taking an average throughout all geo.
logical time, will bear to the exposures
of sedimentary rocks a ratio of about
one to nine. From these and other data
Mr.. Reade concludes that the elimina-
ton of calcareous matter now found in
all the sedimentary strata must have oc-
cupied at least 6O0,000,000 of years.
This, therefore, represents the minimum
age of the world. The author infers
that the formation of the Laurentian,
Cambrian and Silurion strata must have
occupied about 2O0,OOO,OO of years !; the
old red sandstone, the carboniferous,
and the poikllitic systems, another 200,-
O00.00O; and all the other strata, the
remaining 2oo,000,ooo. Mr.. Reade is,
therefore, led to believe that geological
time has been enormously in excess of
the limits urged by certain physicists;
that it has been ample to allow for all
the changes which, on the hypothesis of
evolution, have occurred IN the organic
world.-Lomdon Eng Academy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-18
Kentucky Prince.

A Stallion inbred 10 Mambrino Chief sire OF Lady
Thorn record 2:lS l-2 with strain Of Clay and Pilot
NlOOd-of good size-l5 l2 hands-and good cOlor-jet
back-Of even form and fine, stylish way of going
drectly descended In the male line from Imported
tlessenger-his dam also directly descended from
Messenger the father OF trOttersand himself trotter
Rith record Of 2.5l-wl make the season OF 1879,
Wednesdays at Barton Landing the rest Of the time
Barton Village. ...
PEDIGREE
Sired by Caybrino. by Mambrino Pilot. by Mambrino
|Chie[ by Mambrino Paymaster, by MambrinO. by I'm
ported Messenger. Dam by Bngnoli, by Mambrno
Chief by Mambrno Paymaster, by Mambrino, by In
ported Messenger. Claybrnos dam by Strader's Cas-
Plus NJ. Clay, by Old Cassius NJ Clay by Henry Clay,
by Andrew Jackson, by Young Bashaw by the Import
|bd Arabian Grand Bashaw. Mambrino Pilots dam by
Pilot Jr., by old Pacing Pilot.
The following is the record of Kentucky Princes
immediate ancestors, every one OF which trotter:
MambrinO Chief, 6. g. sire on both sides, 2:36
Mambrino Pilot, e. sire, 1927 1-2
Pilot Jr. sire Of dam OF e. sire, 2:24
|straders Casslus NJ Clay sire Of dam OF sre, 2:26
Aiambrino Prince, sire Of dam, 2:3l 3-4
|Clavbrno. sire, ..t-l ..-t..ltl. 2:44
Lady Maynard, dam. 2:4o
TBRMS-$l0 when the mare proves in foal; mares
disposed Of before foalng considered in foa Pastuage
'furnished. 22
j. Q. HOPKINS, Agt.
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GEO. I'll. BLAKE, Publisher.

places. Rome had then between three
and four million of inhabitants. The
Circus Maxims had room for $4,000
spectators. There were at that time
900 public bathing places. In the fifth
century. after Rome was plundered by
the Germans and Vandals, Vacharias, a
historian, reports from Rome 3S4 streets,
80 golden statutes, 56,297 palaces, 49,
O52 fountains, 1876 bronze statutes of
emperors and officers. 2S colossal horse
statutes, Al theatres, $500 perfume
stores, and 2,29l prisons. Thebans had
paid for income duty in one year $6,.
100000. Alexandria had library of
100000 volumes, at time when manu-
scripts were rare and costly. Athens
had the theatre of Bacchus, capable of
holding 10000 people.
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Stop-Stop

Stop at tbs Old Stand Crystal Lake Hotel n Won
want flrstClass job done in the Shaving or Hair
Dressing line. Ladies' and Chidren's Hair Cutting a
specially. also keep for sale Razors Shaving soap.
Goods. Oranges and Lemons, Rlgs Rasins. &c Please
give me a call Prices TO suit the times
L. RAIRBR0THER.
Barton, April "a, 1879. I5tf
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Switches, Curls Pufs and Przzes made to order in
neat and worknanlike manner. Also Gents Guard
Chain and variety Of Hair Flowers single or formed
b wreath. Give me a call. All orders by mail
rompty attended TO-
I7tf MRS j. N. SMITH. Park st. Barton VT.
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he Monitor"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY pY
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BARTON. VT. H.

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side Of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
81 postage. For convenience in remitting we will
ye credit for year aud four months for $780, TO
1bscrbers in the county and one year and three for
90 TO subscribers without the county, when sent
Fictiy ia ddodRee. r.
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Remit by T. 0. Money Order. Registered Letter, or
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pr subscription expires and that your payments
\ kept IN advance. When money is sent us we shall
Pc you the credit the label once II the label is
4 advanced within two weeks, notify us by postal
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Fiartery is like cologne water, to be
smelled of, not swallowed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-03
TILDEN TAX SUIT.
Testimony of James b. Colgate.

New YORK, November 1.-The exam
ination OF James b. Colgate, ol the
banking firm OF Colgate x Co., IN the
suit brought by the government against
Samuel ]. Tilden for arrears OF income,
WAS continued to-day. Judge Choate,
before whom the question OF the pro-
duction of the books OF the firm was
pending, gave a decision that the
United States Commissioner could not
compel the witness 10 produce ms
books. as they were only required to re-
fresh his memory. The case was then
resumed before the United States Com
missioner, AMI the witness said that his
firm had some transactions with MI
Tilden, the nature and extent OF Whlch
he did not know. The witness was
questioned as 10 what these were, and
replied that he had no recollection or
impression about them, and could
not give an answer to the question.
A great many orders had been taken
from Mr.. Tilden in the way OF business
Of which no record was made, but wit
ness supposed some memoranda was
made, and when asked il they were
truthful and reliable, resented the ques
ton. Witness could not recollect that
they had any transactions with Mr..
Tilden in which they shared the profits.
The prosecuting counsel questioned
him very closely as to his
recollections or his impressions
about the matter, when Colgate claimed
the protection of the count against
whathe termed the SYSTEM OF badger
ing about this question when he could
not answer it in any other way. After
the question was put in another form
witness answered his impression was
that it was so. He was OF the opinion
that Tilden was at his office about the
time of the leasing of the Fort Wayne
and Pennsylvania railroad, and witness
was also impressed with the idea that
they may have bought the Fort Wayne
stock for Tilden.
Judge Blatchford's overrulmg OF the
defendants demurrer in the income
tax suit brought by the government
against $. j. Tilden, was filed to-day in
the clerks office OF the United States
Court. The costs are taxed and the de-
fendant is given sixty days from the
hearing of the decree to answer the bill
of complaint.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-03
LEAVING CHICAGO.
Solemn and Imposing Services.

Solemn and Imposing Services.
CHICAGO, November 2.-The last sad
offices for the deceased Senator Chan
dler were performed at an early hour
this morning at the Grand Pacific hotel.
Rev. David Swing ofIiciated and the
service was necessarily very brief, con-
sisting simply OF prayer and reading
from the Scriptures. Immediately
thereafter the guard, consisting OF a de-
tail OF the First regiment, formed, two
before and fourteen alter the casket,
which was borne out OF
the hotel. John b. Drake,
George K. Davis, Jesse Spaulding, VIM.
Ildrich, Hiram Barber, General |. Mar
tin BEEN and T. Collyer Officiated rs
pail bearers. As the procession moved
through the spacious corridor, some two
hundred veterans formed in twos be-
hind, and with mufiled drums beating,
the coffin was deposited in the hearse.
Three companies OF the First regiment
and a detail OF cadets, under Colonel
Swaine, and a part of the Second battal-
ion, under Colonel Thompson, were
drawn up in line on either
side Of the entrance on Jack
son street. The procession then
formed in the following order; Drum
corps with maffied drums, beating long
roll, First Regiment in column OF
fours. Sixth Battalion band and cadets,
Haverly's bands, hearse fanked by pail
bearers, carriages containing members
of the committee appointed Yesterday
70 escort the body 10 the depot, Union
Veteran Club, employees OF the sheriff's
office, and the Young Mems Auxiliary
Club. The line was over two blocks
long, marching in close order and IN
fours. But for the untoward weather
and early hour it would un-
doubtedly have been very much
longer. The day was raw and chilly,
and about two inches OF snow had fal-
len, making the streets wet and slippery.
The bands PLAYED the Dad NHch IN
S1m and funeral strains from old dirges.
Conspicuous among the mournful
procession were Governors Cullom and
0glesby, Emery Storrs and Robert ].
Lincoln. The line OF march was east
on Jackson 10 Clark, north on Clark TO
Washington, east on Washington to
Wabash avenue and north TO Lake
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PARK ERSBURG.
Harness Thieves-Brutally Beat
en-Red Men-Sudden Death
of Alex. Huffman.

PARKERsBURG, November Last
night some thieves entered the barn OF
James Morehead and stole nearly all OF
his harness, valued at $50. Depreda-
tons OF this character are almost nightly
occurrences in this neighborhood.
A man named Smith got into diff.
Guilty with some roughs last night and
was brutally beaten, having his jaw bro
ken and receiving other serious injuries.
No arrests have been made thus Tar.
The Red Men rode through the town
Of Elizabeth, a few days since. 10 the
number OF about forty. They were all
armed with hickory withes, but made
no threatening demonstration. The
psrties to whom they administered
castigation a few days ago have left the
country, fearing too close investigation
into the facts which brought down the
wrath OF the Red Men.
Mr.. Alexander Huffman, foreman Of
the grand jury OF the Calhoun Circuit
Court, a man eighty-two years OF age,
requested to be excused from duty, as
he didn't feel we'll He was excused,
and went TO his room and laid down
and died
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-03
FRANCE
The Egyptian Debt.

LONDOS, November IA Paris CORE
spondent says it is now certain that
Austria has refused Ia sanction the
Anglo-French scheme for the liquida-
ton OF the Egyptian floating debt. IL
appears that England has taken with
Austria to abide by her decision IN the
matter, which produces much discon-
tent and distrust of England's inten.
tons to abide by the Anglo-French in
tervention. These annoyances are un-
fortunate, especially in the present juno.
turc, when the Frenchmen jealously
watch the English movements, and are
apt to misinterpret every act against the
French policy as an advance toward
Germany. For the past week the Re
puJiiqN-FrdaCdiSe has been sharply at
tackIng the English Cabinet, and its ex-
ample is followed by other leading pa
pprS