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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

FALL PLowING.-The better the pre-
paration of the ground the better the
crop. The high average yield of the
English farm is no doubt largely owing
to the through preparation of the ground
before seeding. Our climate is superior
to that of England for wheat growing /;
yet yied of GA bushels per acre is not
at all unfrequent among good farmers
there. while here 40 bushels per acre is
an unusual yield. Two plowings, sew
eral borrowings, and in many cases roll
ing or crushing; and the excellent pre-
paration of the soil by previous root
crop must have a much better effect
upon the soil than one blowing, very
poorly done, because of the hardness
and dryness of our soil in midsummer,
and very imperfect narrowing. Itmight
be we'll for us to lay out more labor on
our wheat crop, and so prepare the
ground better, and raise our average
from II to at least 20 bushels per acre.
The difference in the amount of wheat at
harvest would pay for good deal Of
extra work in blowing, etc.. and YET
leave profit; besides, the soil would
not forget the generous treatment in one
year nor two.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

NECESSITY OF PERsEvERANcE.-Int the
heathery turf you will often find plant
chiefly remarkable for its peculiar roots /;
from the main stem down to the mlnut-
est fiber, you will find them all abruptly
terminate. as if shorn or bitten off, and
the quaint superstition of the country
people alleges, that once on time it
was plant of singular potency for heal
ing all sorts of maladies, and therefore
the great enemy of man in his malignity
bit off the roots, in which its virtues re-
sided. The plant with this odd history
is very good emblem of many well
meaning but little effecting people. The
efficacy of every good word lies in. its
completion, and all their good works
terminate abruptly, and are left off. The
devil illustrates their efficacy by cutting
off their ends; their Improbable history
is made up of plans and projects, schemes
of usefulness that never were gone about
and magnificent undertakings that were
never carried forward.-Jdmes Hamil
ton, d. d.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

This is the way farmer in Wilt
mantle, Conn.,, describes his mode of
life: Il work hard early and late, plain
living, drink pure spring water, take no
medicine of any kind, sleep well, no
pains or aches, read the Bible every day,
am happy in my work and in the study
of nature. Who would not be farmer I?
I have no necessity of going to the sea-
shore or mountains for health or vaca-
ton, l have plenty of that on my farm.
If should leave for two or three weeks
the weeds would get the Advantage of me
and it would be hard to get them out.
am thinking that the vacation business
is carried too far for the good of the
world, especially among ministers.
The weeds of sin gather very fast in
their absence"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
"LAUcH AND GROW FAT"

This ancient bit of advice is we'll
enough for .spare" people, but how about
those that are already too fat? What
Is to become of them? Sit still. and
I'll tell you. After many experiments,
extending through months of patient in
vestigation and toll, the celebrated ana
lytical chemist, J. G. Allen. has perfected
and given to the world Allan's Anti-Fat.
Thus far in several hundred cases this
great remedy has never failed to reduce
eorpulent person from three to six
pounds per week. 1t is perfectly harm
less and positively efficient. Sold by
druggists. ~ sN1 -
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22


The SABBATH.-The ffty-two Sab
baths of rest, with which the year is
interspered, are like patches of verdure
watered by ever-springing fountains,
that dot the inhospitable wilderness,
and invite its travellers to exhilaration
and repose. Oil precious dayl the
workman's jubilee-the shield Of servi-
tude-the antidote of WEAKNESS. How
it smooths the brow of care.
Companions of labor Have you ever
attempted to compute the value of the
Sabbath, even in its lowest of uses, as a
provision of rest for the body? Oh, glo.
rious Sabbath, almoner and nurse Of
health. We, the children of toll, flee te
the shadow of thy protection. Thou
! standest beside US like some guardian
spirit, casting over us the shield of thine
excellency, enfoldiug our jaded bowers
in thy sustaining arms, and saying t
the encroaching tide of human selfish
ness :-"Hitherto shalt thou come, bu
no further; and here shall thy PROUD
waves be stayed" May thy bulwarks
Notwithstanding all the hostile assaults
stand strong among US for everlasting
ages as covert for the refuge of men.
A really sancti6ed Sabbath Throughout
the world would be one of the most in
teresting spectacles that could be wit
messed on earth.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
2eli0iolls Department.
is 1T SINCEREa

1t is not easy to say anything new on
the subject Of Sunday school hymns
but Professor William G. Wilkinson
seems to have succeeded in doing SO in a
recent article in The Sunday School
Times. Ho says:
There is nothing else that saves, in
human achievement, as does sincerity.
This is as true in literature as it is in
anything else. 1t is as true in religious
literature as it is in literature of any
other sort. 1t is as true in hymns as
it is in any other department of religious
literature.
Here is your true test and touchstone:
Is that sincere Does it express real
emotion? The answer to these questions
will generally decide whether given
hymn is to be sung, or to be despised.
Technical faults, or technical excellences,
are not to be considered, until the main
question of sincerity is settled. 1t is
not much matter that hymn halts in
rhythm or in rhyme-that its grammar
fails, that its rhetoric sins. These are
quite subordinate points. The thing
that aequits, or that condemns, is diff
erent matter. Did the writer have a
true experience in mind and in heart,
and Is this hymn transcript of that
experience If yes, then his hymn
shall be sung GRO nn,as 80 o.s.-....'-.'
rhetoric or no rhetoric, rhythm good or
bad
Well, we must not let our zeal for
sincerity make us insincere. We cannot
altogether mean the whole of what we
say. We are only oversaying this,
namely, that sincerity is though not
everything that is to be considered in
deciding for or against hymn, yet
more than everything besides. The
chief trouble with the wretched hymns
that rhymewrights and accomplice
printers spawn upon us in these Sandas
School Times, the chief trouble with
these execrable productions is not theil
outrageous imagery, their feloniou'
grammar, their technical faults of every
kind, it is their radical falseness, theil
scandalous want of sincerity.
Let pastors, Sunday School superin
tendents, leaders of prayer-meetings, SCI
to it that the hymns they give out to b.
sung, whatever else they may lack. hav
the salt of sincerity in them. The i'm
portance Of this Is great, and it is press
ing. The educating force of hymns i
enormous. A generation of Christian
is now to great extent receiving it
impression from fashion of hymns a
present prevailing-a fashion in whic
the saving salt of sincerity is not tn
element most unfortunately demande
by those who sing them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
LIZZIE P. ALIENS ESTATE.
Application Of Guardian to sell real es
STATE OF VERMONT
IOrleans Distrie


In Probate Court, helden at Irasburgh, In and
said District, on the 9TH day of Sept A. d. 1872
Sidney Puslfer, Guardian unto Lizzie P. AllenE
nor child Of Charles p. Allen late OF Irasburgh in
district, deceased, makes application to said CourE
license to sell part OF the real estate OF said wal
Irasburgh aforesaid to wit Being the Brick STORED
Wooden Back Store, the Horse Sheds adjacent thet
and the old Bank Building, so called, at Irasb{
Common and the land connected Herewith,
bounded as follows, viz: East by land owned by ]!
n Cushman, South by land on which the Court III
now stands, West and North by the center Of the II
way, and representing that the sale thereof would
conducive to the interest Of said ward for the pur
of putting the proceeds Of such sale at interest on
vesting it in stocks or other real estate
Whereupon, it it ordered by said Court that
application be referred to session thereof, TO be
at L. H. Thompson's Office in said Irasburgh on the
day of Sept. A. D. 1879 for hearing and decision Their
And. it is further ordered. that all persons interd
be notified hereof by publication Of notice of said
plication and order thereon three weeks SUGGEST
in the Orleans County Monitor. printed at BartoI
said District. before said time Of hearing. that
may appear at said time and place. and, il they
cause, object thereto.
By the Court-Attest
$3.50 L. H. THOMPSON, Jude
Atrue copy Of Record.-Attest,
OBJ L. II. TH0MF SON, Jud[
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
S9rifnlinral department,
WHAT THERE is In WHEAT.

The wheat grain is fruit consisting
of seed and its coverings. All the
middle part of the grain is occupied by
large, thin cells. full of a powdery SUBJ
stance, which contains nearly all the
starch Of the wheat. Outside the Gen.
trail starchy mass is single row of
squarish cells filed with yellowish
material, very rich in heterogeneous, that
is. flesh forming matter. Beyond this
again there are six thin coats or cover
ings, consisting much of mineral matter,
both of potash and phosphates. The
outermost coat is of but little value.
The mill products of those coverings
of the seed are peculiarly rich in nutri-
ment, and fine -four is robbed of large
percentage of valuable and nutritious
food. Middlings not only contain more
fbrin and mineral matter than fine -four,
but also more fat. The 6brous matter,
or outer coat, which is indigestible,
forms one-sixth of the bran, but not one
hundredth of the fine flour. Wheat con.
tains the greatest quantity of gluten and
the smallest of starch rye, a medium
proportion of both, while in barley, oat:
and corn, the largest proportion of starch
and the smallest of gluten are to be
found. In practice 100 pounds O.
-four will make from 1873 to 1877 pounds
of bread, a good average being 13t
pounds; hence barrel of 1876 pound
should yield 266 one pound loaves.-
american Miller.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
Half
Wagons
Half
Price!

We, too, like the rest of Our eighbors,
hare built lot Of cheap acago'as. achach
ave aUiU sell as loac as can be bought IN
Vermont.
al a0e hare to sag IN regard to this
class of a0ogons IS that they are as good
as can be bought for the money. and anil
be sold for as little money as anybody
sells a aoagon for an this state.
We might s0arrant them a0iM the same
propriety that oar neighbors do; bat sce
don't sOarrant everythimg. M
Tt is an established fact that my rep
atation as carriage builder, stands
second to no man IN Nea0 England. and
I am bound to keep that good.
We haze upvards Of a hundred acagons
of all kinds and styles Of the ge'satine
article, Nth the c. j. Uford name ana
stamp upon them, aohich zoe offer to'
sale. that aUiH be aDarranted IN every
particular and qciH also be sold at vers
toao prices. a
Al persons aOantsng to bug are an.
vited to come and examine them and ash
the price. I'VE kaoso a0hat a dollar Il
aoorth. ey. sra ~ aN
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
Making per cent.

B9ak1ng pet Cehts
Said per cent. is to be cast upon The original amou
of the premium notes, without reference to any p
n.y. at his office in Montpelier, en- or before the lbI
day Of October. 1879. s5sf
In October. 1878. our plan OF fnsuring was chang|
from the advance pay to the annual assesssent pls
This change made TO meet the demand OF u
times, growing out OF the extreme scarcity OF mon|
and the utter impossbty Of forecasting even .ppro
imately. our aggregate losses. Our members will
notified either by letter. or by our agents. of the ex
amount Of their assessments. aud we ask all our poll
holders to wait until notified before making any ps
ments. The policies which twenty per cent. OF q
Premium Note has been paid in advance, have 10 the
credit amount in OF this assessment and VI
not be called ON to pay under this assessment
Those policies nearly all included in the folio
ing numbers: from number o. 456 to number i0l 81
BY order Of the Directors.
@ GEORGE ". LESLIE Treasurer.
Montpelier, Vt, August 81, 1879. o
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
PROBATE OF WILL OF MARY e. WILSON.
STATE OF VERMONT 49,. r...,.,.. !.

In Probate Court held at Irasburgh said District
on the Ilth day OF September, A. d. 1870.
An instrument purporting to be the last Will and
Testament OF Mary T. Wilson, late OF Craftsbury. in
said district. deceased being presented TO Court by
P. s. Pane the Executor therein named for Probate.
1t is ordered by said Court that all persons concern.
ed therein be notified to appear at session of said
Court to be held at L. H. Thompsons Office in Iras-
burgh. the 7th day Of October A. D. 1879 and show
cause. II any they may have against the Probate Of
said Wills for which purpose it is further ordered that
copy of the record Of this order be published three
weeks successfully in the Orleans County Monitor.
printed at Barton in said district, previous to said
time appointed for hearing.
By the Court-Attest. W i-s-a# y. -s8@
EDISON N. CoNNEL, Register.
A true copy OF Record-Attest. ~ = ea8
o39 EDISON N. C0NNEL, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

Beet sugar when properly refined can
not be distinguished from the best cane
sugar. The two are identical in taste,
appearance and chemical constitution.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

TOD Cr Send Is cents in stamps or
IL rency fora new HORSE DO
1t treats all diseases. has So ne engravings sho'
positions assumed by sick horses, a table OF dosl
nnnU large collection OF yALUA
00A1A~R RECIPES. rules for telling the
OF horse. with an engraving showing teeth Of
year. and large amount OF other valuable horse Il
nation. Or. VIM H. Hall says. al have bought
That paid s. and SIC for, which do not like MS
as DO yours. Send for a Circular Agents Wal
b. j. Kendall. M. D., Enosburgh Falls VI. G
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

Whose pig-pen, or hen-house. or priyy
will be the worse for being cleansed now,
and newly dressed and purified with
fresh earth i?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
Manhood: How Lost, How Restored

"a Just published. new edition Of DIR. Culver
EaH 'welps Celebrated Essay on the radical cure
ES without medicine) Of SpermatorrhHa or Seminal
~ Weakness, Involuntary Seminal Losses, Impoten-
Cyl Mental and Physical Incapacity. Impediments to
Marriage, etc. also. Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits,
induced by seifindugence sexual extravaganza &c.
The celebrated author. In this admirable Essay.
clearly demonstrates. from thirty years successful
practice that the alarming consequences Of seabuse
NAV be radically cured without the dangerous use of
the knife pointing out mode Of cure at simple
certain and eectual by means Of which every sufferer
no matter what his condition may be, may cure him.
self cheapy. privately. and radically.
MHrThls 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 CULFERWEI4L MEDICAL CO.,
Al Ann ST., New YOrks Post Office Box 1855.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

A breeder Of poultry says: farm
ers will feed bushel of corn to produce
six pounds of pork, while the same
amount of corn will keep good laying
hen one year. and she will produce at
least twelve dozen eggs averaging eight
cen cents per dozen. which would equal
two dollars and sixteen cents; in addi-
ton she would rear brood of chicks
worth as much more, making a total Of
nearly five dollars, against six pounds
of pork at ten cents, equalling sixty
cents or, in other words, the hen will
yield seven times as much for the feed. u
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

To act upon determination made in
anger is like embarking on vessel dur
ing a storm.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
BRICK! BRICK !!

vrr JSr5v vIyOIOy1 a. II ed
lent BRICK, offerers them at reasonable rates.
them at the old Brick Yard at Barton Village.
P.S. These brick will be sold on an average OF
perthousand.
36tf JAMES LEVI
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

Dig potatoes, if possible, when the
ground is dry: keep them covered by a
blanket from the sun when in the wag-
on, and place them on lath floor until
cold weather. When thoroughly dry.
place them in bins in the cellar, and
they will not rot Damp potatoes in
large piles are sure to rot.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

Our lady readers might make this
column more interesting by contributing
to it. -i-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
Price. as Cents.

Re careful to-call fore OLLTNS' vOLTAIC PLAS..
TER lest yon get some worthless imitation. Sold
nv all Wholesale and Retail Druggists throug. iouL
the limited States and Canadas, and by WEEKS q
POTTER, Proprietors, Boston, Mass
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
Liberation Notice.

This is to certify that have this day sold my
SANFORD H. BICKF0RD, his time during the
mainder Of his minority. and shall claim none Of
eornings nor pay any debts of his contracting !
this date. 80 GEO. D BICKF0R1
Witness-SEYMoUR AINSWORTH.
Barton, VT. August 8, 1879.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

NATHAN DEWEY'S ESTATE.
Notice Of Settlement and Application for Distribution.
CTATE OF VERMONT
y Orleans District, IS.
In Probate Court held as Irasburgh in said District
on the Sd day of September, A. D. 1879
Henry Somers, Administrator with the will annexed
of the estate Of Nathan Dewey late OF Irasburgh in
said District deceased. presents his administration
count for examination and allowance, and makes APP
pcaton for decree Of distribution and partition OF
the estate of said deceased.
WhereupoD it is ordered by said Court. that said
account and said application be referred to session
thereof. to be held at L. H. Thompsons office in said
lrasburgh the 25th day of Sept, A. ID. 1879, for
hearing and decision thereon.
And further ordered that notice hereof be given
to all by publication of copy Of said
order three weeks in the Orleans Co. Mon
itor, newspaper published at Barton in said District,
previous to said time appointed for hearing that they
may appear at said time and place and show cause, if
any they may have, why said account should not be
allowed, and such decree made.
BY the Court-Attest
E. N. CoNNAL, Register
true copy of Record-Attest
o3S e. N. CONNAL, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22

Life appears to be too short to be spent
in nursing animosities, or in registering
wrongs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
I FOR SALE!
DAIRY AND STOCK FAR

or 800 acres in the town of Glover, three miles
village and one-thrd mile from school-house; SIX n
from Barton depot; is one of the best upland IA
in Orleans county. Home place OF 154 acres, on W s
are all the buildings consisting OF house and kite
part 72x26, finished from cellar to garrett four bar
36x20, 40x46, 60x30, 40x30-manure cellar under ed
stabling for 40 head Of cattle, so sheep s calves
horses; running water from the largest and cold
"a deg) spring in town at the house and barn; n
has produced this year 60 to 10 tons o5 loads, md
large) of hay. and other crops proportion has 81
mered IL cows, 20 head Of yearlings and two.year-
8 calves, so sheep, and 8 horse kind; hay Of the
quality, mostly herdsgrass, and fit for market-exd
10 acres OF beaver-meadow and swale-grass from
to so acres of the moving land is thoroughly fitted
much expense, for the mower; whole farm well fen
with stone wall and cedar rails. The wood and tim
lot (60 acres and pasture Of 90 lies in body
mile away and does not quite Join the home farm;
roads to and by it; living water in pastures; E
sugar works could be fitted up Of five to eight hunC
trees-sugar works of 500 trees all on 6 acres of
well up with house, evaporation, pan and 500 bucl
on home place; plenty Of wood and timber for built
and fencing for the future wants of the farm. BIZ
ings, exclusive Of contents. insured in the Verm
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. for $l4OO, ON a recent
vey and cut down nom previous estimates. This {.
has no old war debs or railroad bonds to make big
es. Will sell farm whole divide 1t to suit purcha
Also stock and hay IL desired. VIII take small p
well located towards the farm. il the whole prop
goes together. MB- This farm will be sold VI
CHEAP to cash customer.
EDWARD F. HINCKLE'
Glover, Vt. Sept 5, 1879.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
FARMERS MUTUAL
Fire Insurance COnpan!
NOTICE on AssKssMExr

The members OF the Farmers Mutual Fire Insuran
Company insured in the Farmers Glass are here
notified that the following assessments have been ma
by the Directors Of said Company all notes in fol
in sald class on the following DAYS. to wit:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-31
TOads in Trees and Stones.

A large toad was found few yeare,
ago in an old apple tree at Wonharn
Manor; it came to light when the trtt,
was blown down. The "Memoires oi
the French Academic des Sciences" con-
tain description of live toad found
in the heart of an old elm tree. Near
Nantes, when an old oak was cleft open,
toad was found in the very heart.
wood, although no crevice or other
channel of entrance could be de-
tected; there were about ninety rings
in the trunk of this oak, leading to the
inference according to one theory
that the animal must have been in his
prison.house ninety years. MI. Jesse,
In reference to frog found in the
trunk of a mulberry-tre expressed e
belief that the annual rirgs had been
gradually but surely inclosing the rep
tile. Toads in clay have been more
frequently met with than IN trees;
sometimes whole family have been
thus ferreted out at once. In 1856
load was found at considerable depth
at Benthall, near Brosely, Shropshire
MIR. Bathurst, earthenware manufactur-
er at Benthall, ascertained that the
creature was met with about six feet be-
meath the surface, in layer of tough
clay customarilv used for making coarse
brown ware. Above this layer, in sue.
cessive strata, were ferruginous coal of
poor quality, clay, loan of clay and
gravel, and meadow-turf at the top.
The toad was found filing cavity as
wax does seal. A minute examination
of the superintendent strata failed to
detect any fiss1re through which the
animal could have entered. The light
of day seemed at first to distress it, but
this it soon became accustomed to; the
eyes were brilliant, the skin moist, the
mouth quite closed.-Chamsbers' Jour-
nal,