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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
AFFLICTION.

The tendency of aff1iction is to devel-
op beautiful traits of character. Some
of the most notable characters who have
ever lived, have been brought to our
view through affections. The flames of
persecution have lighted up the sublim-
est virtue. The deep, dashing waters of
sorrow have washed out these embedded
qualities, and the tempests have swept
them into notice. Are not there thou
sands who are thus brought out and de-
.Yeloped by the trials of life? You have
seen the seeu cast into the earJn you
have also seen it bring forth a harvest.
The rain, the wind, the dark night, all
have some part to act in producing
that grain in abundance from a single
kernel. The uninterrupted sunshine
would never have done it; the heat of
summer, undimlnished and constant,
would not have done it. But night
came with its dews, the wind with its
breath, and they all combined to produce
that harvest. So out of trials have come,
at times, the finest specimens ofnobility.
and the rarest instances of god-like de-
votion. Ay, the mental storms which
sweep over the world now and then have
much to do with training men for use
fulness on earth and glory in heaven.
As Curtis, in his History of the Con-
stitution," pertinently remarks:
'There is law of the moral govern
ment of the universe which ordains that
all that is great and valuable, and per-
manent in character, must be the result,
not of theoretical teaching or natural
aspiration, or of spontaneous resolve, or
uninterrupted success, but of trial OF
suffering, of the fiery furnace of tempta-
ton, of the dark hours of disappoint-
ment and defeat"
1t is the hard discipline of pain and
sorrow, the stern teachings of experience,
the struggles against the consequences o1
errors. and the chastisement inflicted by
these errors, which give the man the
strength, the fortitude, the unchangine
principle, and the moral and intellectual
power which form the character in aftel
years, as distinguishable from that of hi'
childhood.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
SCANDAL.

woman to the holy father went,
Confession or sin was her intent;
And 50 her misdemeanors, great and small,
She carefully rehearsed them all;
And chiefest in her catalogue of sin,
She owned that she tale bearer had been,
And borne bit of scandal up and down
To all the long-tongued gossips in the town.
The holy father for her other sin
Granted the absolution asked of him.
But while for all the rest he pardon gave,
He told her this ofiense was very grave,
And that to do fit pennance she must go
Out by the wayside where the thistles grow,
And gather the largest, ripest one,
Scatter the seeds; and that when this was done,
She must come back again another day
To tell him his command she did obey.
The woman, thinking this penance light.
fastened to do his will that very night,
Feeling right glad she had escaped SO well.
Next day but one she went the priest to tell
The priest sat still and heard her story through,
Then said "There's something still for you to do;
Those little thistle seeds which you have sown,
bid you 60 gather every one"
The woman said, "But, father, 'twould be vain
To try and gather up those seeds again;
The winds have scattered them both far and wide
over the meadows, vale and mountain sde."
The father answered "Now hope from this
The lesson have taught you will not miss;
You cannot gather back the scattered seeds,
Which far and wide will grow to noxious weeds
Nor can the mischief once by scandal sown,
By any penance be again undone"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
THE AMEN OF THE ROCKS.

Translated from the German of Rosegarten for the
Sunday School Times
Though blind with age forth Beda went with zeal
The tidings of salvation to proclaim.
Through towr and hamlet. guided By boy,
The pious father wandered, full of love,
And preached to dying men the word Of life
The boy once guided him into vale
oerstrewn with rocks and mighty heaps of stone,
And there is wontonness, not malice, said:
most revrend father, many men are here,
And wait to hear the wold of gospel truth"
The blind old man arose with joyful haste,
Chose his text, explained it and applied,
Exhorted, warned rebuked and comforted
So loving that the tears rolled down his cheeks
And gently hid themselves in his gray beard
When in conclusion then, as it is ht
lie prayed the prayer the Savior taught and said
"Thine is the kingdom, thine the pow'r and thine
The glory unto all eternity"
There burst from out the vale mighty shout
"Amen, most rev'rend father" and "Amenr'
The boy was frightened; kneellng down with shame
He to the holy saint confessed the sin.
son." said the father, "hast thou never read,
When men are silent, rocks and stones will cry?
Mock nevermore, son. the word of God;
twoedged sword it is, and quick. and sharp,
And powerful. And if the heart of man
Should turn to stone, defyng truth and love,
The rock with human heart will tbrob aloud''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
Ten drops make one taste ten

Ten drops make one taste; ten tastes
make one smile; ten smiles one drunk,
and one drunk $40. or sixty days.
The principal beauty of the Mormon
religion is that the same woman doesn't
have to get up first the entire winter to
build the kitchen fire.
'Shall | hereafter darn your stock
ings p is said to be the fashionable Ian
guage for young lady to use when
making leap-year proposal.
They say the difference between a.
grasshopper and grass widow isis
by heavens there is no difference. They'll
both jump at the first chance.
Country people are always good. The
wife may SOW tares, rip and darn in the
house. while the husband goes down to
the meadow and dams the brook.
A bridal couple, from Washoe Valley,
at breakfast conyersed as follows .Shall
| skin your pertater. honey? mo,
thank you, dearie, have got one already
skun."
A modern philosopher thinks it is a
mistake to suppose that women have
stronger attachments than men. A man
is often attached to an old hat; but, he
asks, "who ever heard of woman being
attached to an old bonnet?"
The young man who sat up on Thanks
giving night to see the shooting stars,
saw none until he entered his room in
the dark. He then collided with half
opened door, and estimates that he saw
in half second, SO,OO0.OOl of them.
The odd one was the lost Biela's comet.
There is nothing so charming as the
innocence of children. Mamma" said
a fiver-year-old the other day, II wish
you wouldn't leave me to take care Of
baby again. He was so bad that had
to eat all the sponge cake and two jars
OF raspberry jam to amuse him.
"Does he know anything ?" anxiously
inquired friend, bending over the body
of a man who had just fallen from tn,
roof of house. Don't know, In
sure" the physician replied, "he neveI
did know anything, but you can't tel
what effect the fall may have had upol
him until he regains consciousness"
The Duke of Argyll was once givin.
evidence before a committee of the Hous
of Commons on the temperance question
"But. said member inquiringly, ION
Bailie MACPHERSON, apparently person
of authority, deposes that he never say
any one drunk in his district ?" ..Ver,
likely" replied His Grace. "Scotchmel
will hardly allow man to be drunk S,
long as he can lie still on the floor.
1t is stated as fact that New Eng
land Baptist IN preaching few week
ago from the text sin those days cam
John the Baptist preaching in the wi
derness of Jud@a,' used the followin
words: 'Oh how | like to read thes
words in the blessed Bible. You don
read anywhere in it about John th
Methodist, nor about John the PreS6s
terian. nor about John the EpiScopalim
nor about John the Congregationais
But it is John the Baptist! Oh how
like to read that !"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
Providence, however, was disposed t.


set aside this determination.
As he was returning one day from a
distant stock-farm his horse SHE'D and
threw him near the Hitler ranch, drag
ging him for some distance by the stir
rup. He was carried in to Mr..
Byrd's house. where it was discovered
that his head and face were SO badly cut
and bruised that it would be necessary
to remove his hair and beard.
When this operation had been per-
formed Mrs. Worsham came into the
room for the purpose of helping to dress
his wounds, and fairly shrieked as she
saw him.
"Albert Wakely r. she exclaimed. sis
it really you?"
"Yes, Mary, it is quiesly replied
General Chance. "If you are going to
do anything for me, please do it without
a fuss"
Mary Worsham took care of him and
he encouraged her attendance. When
he was stronger he spoke to her more
freely.
"Mary did you really object to a di-
voice and to your second marriage ge?'
"Yes, Albert, never loved any man
but the father of my child, in spite of his
great fault, and ! objected to everything
that could injure you. But you ought
not to blame father. He meant to act
for the best.
l didn't blame him. 1t was for the
best. 1t made man of me, and l am,
as l ought to be, deeply grateful to him.
Mary, that is fine boy of ours"
Within month there was wedding
on the San Benito estate which was made
such an occasion of rejoicing as to be
long remembered in that region. The
contracting parties were Walter Chance,
as he was still determined to be known,
and Mary, Widow of Abrm. Worsham.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09

missed we're left behind. No noise was
heard, though in the room below reclin-
ed a sleepless invalid. Altogether, it is
very strange case, and will exercise
the keenest ingenuity of the detectives
to unravel.
It is estimated that no less than
$1OO.OOO,O0e worth of buildings are
annually destroyed by fire. We're these
enormous losses not distributed by means
of Fire Insurance Companies, the con-
sequences would be ruin to many of the
most enterprising people. 1t is impor-
tant that insurance should be effected
where losses will be paid. Like capital
invested in other directions, insurance
follows the line characterization. While
many hundreds of the smaller fry of
companies are cutting rates and running
each other, and becoming utterly unreli-
able from their rabid scramble for scan
ty earnings during their precarious ex-
istence, such corporations as "The
Home" for instance, keep steadily accu-
mulating funds and adding to their re-
serve even during the darkest periods of
depression. During the early portion of
last year there were some terrible fires.
not only in the dry goods district in
New York (by far the richest district in
the city, but in various parts of the
country. Of course the largest and
strongest companies have their full share
of the loss. On examination of report
just published by the "Home'' see that
they not only continue to pay their reg
ular dividends, but have already recov-
cred their loss by these great fires, and
present as strong an array of undoubted
assets as ever for the protection of their
many customers.
a pretty good hit at the pompous par
ties who are always going to reform pol
itics and usually fail in the most lament
able manner has been made by grocer in
one of cur least savory localities, name
ly, Avenue A, more commonly known as
Dutch Broadway, where the least aristo-
cratic of our German fellow citizens do
greatly congregate in multitudes. He
remarks that taxpayers association is
''an organization for the employment of
lawyer and to listen to each other"
The ocean suburbs of Brooklyn are to
be improved in marvellous way. Two
colossal enterprises are now under way.
One is to improve the far-famed and for
merly fashionable watering place, Rock
away Beach. to the extent of S5. .OOO.-
OOO. prominent feature being mann
moth hotel some two-thirds of mile
long, with all the appurtenances sug-
gested by the late success at Coney Is
land The other scheme is a new rail.
way to connect New York with Coney
Island by circuitous route involving
the bridging of the East River at Black
wells Island. And no doubt there will
be mints of money in both of them.
RADIx.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
GEN. GRANTS ROMANCE.


With the name of the good woman
and faithful wife who accompanies Gen.
Grant to our city, there is romance
connected. While Grant was at West
Point he had friend, or chunky" as
the "plebes'' say, for whom he formed a
strong attachment. When leaving the
academy in l843, his young friend in
vited him to pay a visit to his home,
and the invitation was accepted. On
being gazetted to his regiment, the Fourth
infantry, Grant took the usual three
months cadet leave and went to see his
friend and classmate, Frederick Dent,
who lived with his father, Judge Dent,
at st. Louis. 1t was here Grant saw
for the first time Julia Dent, his friends
sister, she being then girl of II. The
little lieutenant laid seige to her girlish
heart, and soon won her consent to be-
come his wife. The Dents lived about
four miles from Jefferson barracks, and
Grant, to his inexpressible delight, was
ordered stationed at the barracks.
War clouds with Mexico were arising
and Grant was soon ordered off with his
regiment. All! then there was hasten
ing to and fro with the little lieutenant,
and his marriage had to be postponed.
The leaving of sweetheart behind is
about the hardest thing in all nature,
but it often happens to officers of the
army. How often have we seen a pale
Hamlet stalking through the camp late
at night with an order in his pocket for
the frontier.
Talking of sickness, death in the fam
lily, the loss of father, brother or sis
ter, what are these things when compar-
ed with the blow which tears a fond
young fellow away from pair of loving
arms ? If the lieutenant ever wept it
was when he thus parted from his de-
voted Julia to take the chances of get
ting his head knocked off in Mexico.
Grant participated in 16 battles in Mex
leo, and at the close of the war returned
to ST. Louis with his regiment, and in
l848 was married to Miss Dent.
Many people will to-day contrast the
gray-haiFed soldier with the boy and
wonder what he looked like. An officer
who was at the military academy when
Grant was cadet there gives the fol-
lowing description of him =
81 remember him WE'LL He was a
small, tiny-looking little fellow, with an
indenendent air ahnnt him and a Dnnd
deal of quiet determination. 1t was a
long time ago, but when I recall old
scenes, can still see Grant. with his
overalls strapped down in his boots,
standing in front of the quarters. 1t
seems as though it were yesterday that
saw him going tt. the riding hall with
his spurs changing on the ground and his
great cavalry sabre dangling by his side.
1t is 38 years since, and the General
and | must be growing old, but it is
wonderful what short time it seems
since | was a young man and saw the
famous soldier mere STRIPPING lad al
the Point Up PbiLodeL,,ban Times
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09

ONES CHANCES OF LIFE.-The follow
ing is one of those well authenticated
tables in use among London assurance
companies, showing the average length
of life at various ages. In the first col
umn we have the present ages of persons
of average health, and in the second
column we are enabled to peep, as it
we're, behind the scenes of an assurance
office and gather from their table the
number of years they will give us to live.
This table has been the result of careful
calculation, and seldom proves mislead-
ing. Of course, sudden and premature
deaths, as we'll as lives unusually ex-
tended, occasionally occur, but this is a
table of the average expectancy Of life
of an average man or woman:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09

To sweep and dust room properly is
an art, and like all fine arts has right
method. Well done, it renovates the
entire room, and the occupant takes pos
session feeling that 'all things have be-
come new." 1t is not merely perform
ance to be done by the hands, but a
work into which taste and judgment. in
other words, brains must enter. Are
these closets opening into the room to
be swept? Arrange the shelves, drawers,
or clothing preparatory to sweeping day.
then let this be the first to be swept.
Cover the bed with soiled sheets, as al
SO all heavy articles that cannot be re-
moved first. however, having carefully
busted and brushed them. Remove all
the furniture that can easily be set in
the hall or adjoining room, having first
busted it; then taking a step-ladder,
begin to sweep or brush, or wipe the
cornice and picture cords and pictures.
Draw the shades to the top of the win
dow, or if there are inside blinds, dust
| them carefully.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09

The Dublin correspondent of the New
York Times says that the government
has done little or nothing toward allevi-
ating the distress in Ireland. The loans
which it was proposed to offer to landed
proprietors and poor law boards demand
interest at six and a half per cent, which,
it is declared, would make them bur-
den rather than otherwise. while the
schemes for the drainage of the Shannon
and various harbor and road improve
ments, which are under consideration.
are SO delayed by red tape and other cir
cumlocution. that there is no prospect of
anything being done this winter.
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CAST IRON
SUGAR ARCHES !.
TO SUGAR MAKERS

TO SUGAR MAKERS
Nov is your time ordor Iron Arches aud not
as many were last season. too late to obtain them.
have made quite a number Of improvements on them
during the past summer and made one new style,
which think the best thing out
Take notice, that warrant every Arch not to crack
for one year. and every knows that If they are
going to crack at all they will crack the first year.
have made new CRATE pattern, and think the best
CRATE ever made for Sugar Arches. The Arches are
made 90 and 40 inches wide and any length. The 40
inch are designed for evaporators. sold IA Arches
last season, and not failed to give satisfaction
where heater, and straight pipe, Is or 90 feet high
damper; 1 have had trouble with Arches where they
were "set up" with pipe running into brick chim-
ney and an elbow in the pipe-by that means not
getting good draft Please call the shop and look
the Arches over for yourself send or call and get
circular containing prices Sizes and what people say
who have used them.
Agents wanted in every town.
j. w. nIURKLAND,
Founder and Machinist, Barton, Vt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
now SMALL ITEMS COUNT.

Five cents each morning, mere trifie !;
thirty-fve cents per week, not much yet
it would buy coffee and sugar for whole
family $l0.25 year; and this amount
invested in savings bank at the end of
year and the interest thereon at six
per cent, computed annually, would in
twelve years amount to more than $3.50,
enough to buy good farm in the West.
Five cents before each breakfast, dinner
and supper, you'd hardly miss it. yet it
is fifteen cents a day, $1.O5 week !;
enough to buy small library of books.
Invest this as before, and in twenty
years you have over $4,000. Quite
enough to buy good house and lot.
Ten cents each morning. hardly worth a
second thought. yet, with it you can buy
paper of pins or spool of thread.
Seventy cents per week would buy sew
eral yards of muslin; $500 in one
year. Deposit this money as before and
you would have $2,34O in twenty years,
quite snug little fortune. Ten cents
before each breakfast, dinner and sup.
per, thirty cents day; it would buy a
book for the children; $2.1O cents each
week. more than enough to pay years
subscription to good newspaper; $l05..
so year, and with it you could buy 6
good organ, from which you could pro
duce good music to pleasantly while the
evening hours away. And this amount
invested as before would in forty years
produce the desirable amount of $l5,
600.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
WHAT is A COLD?

It is startling to discover how little
we know about the common forms of
disease. For example. ''a cold s" what
is it? How is it produced, and in what
does it consist? 1t is easy to say a
cold is chill A chill of what part
of the organism? We know by daily
experience that the body, as whole, or
any of its parts, may be reduced to a
considerably lower temperature than
will suffice to give man cold if the
so-called chill be inflicted upon the sur
face suddenly. Is it, then, the sudden
ness of reduction of temperature that
causes the cold ? 1t would be strange
if it were so because few of the most
susceptible of mortals would take cold
from simply handling a piece of cold
metal or accidental contact with ice.
The truth would seem to be that what
we call cold-takipg is the result of a
sufficient impression of cold to reduce
the vital energy of nerve centres pre-
siding over the functions in the special
organs. If this be the fact, it IS easy
to see why nature has produced the stim-
ulus of strong fit of sneezing to rouse
the dormant centres and enable them at
once to resume work and avoid all evil
consequences. This explains why the
worst effects of cold do not, as rule,
..-l.II,, ,-.s--
much sneezing.
Shivering is a less effective convul-
sion to restore the paralyzed nervous
energy, but in a lower degree it may
answer the same purpose. The shiver-
ing that results from the effect of a poi
son on the nervous centers is totally
different matter. We speak only of the
quick muscular agitation and teeth-chat-
tering which occurs whenever the body
is exposed to cold, and evil results do
not ensue. 1t follows from what we
have said that the natural indication to
ward off the effects of chill is to re-
store the vital energy of the nervons
centeres. and there is no more potent in
fuence by which to attain this object
than strong and sustained effort of the
will. The man who resolves not to take
cold seldom does.-Londom Lancet.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
IT an average man or woman

Our readers will easily gathera from
the above tabulated statement the num-
Der of years to which their lives, accord
ing to the law of averages, may reasona-
bly, be expectedTEto extend.-Harper's
BQeor.