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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

An Oil City maiden, who had just re-
covered from two days attack of green
apple cramps, recited in public the other
night that touching poem, $50 feel what
L have felt" with such emphasis that2it
brought tears to the eyes of a green gro
GER.
The polite reporter Of the New York
Sun who interviewed Thomas Hughes on
his arrival, in place of describing him as
baldheaded, writes ''The fine outlines of
his head are not hidden by any growth of
hair except at the sides and back, where
there is a fringe of iron gray"
When some one remarked to Judge
Black, well-known lawyer and a Pres
byterian of the strictest school, that the
lines which formerly divided people in
matters of religion were fading out, he
answered: eyes, and nice distinctions
between right and wrong are fading out
with them.''
'T can't tell for the life of me-" said an
old farmer at the White Mountains to a
party of city visitors the other day, "What
you fellows see up here to draw We. For
my part, these alfred hills have been the
worst things we've had to contend with.
Still, it's all right if you like it; we're
glad to see ye; only it's mighty funny"
promising youth of only seven sum-
mers, who had been accused of not ALWAYS
telling the truth, cross-examined his
father. "Father, did you use to lie when
you were a boy!" 'No, my son." said
the father, who evidently did not recall
the past with any distinctness. "Nor
mother, either?" persisted the young
lawyer. ''No; but why?" "Ohl because
l don't see how two people who never
told lie could have boy that tells as
many as do
patron of newspaper said to the
publisher, "How is it that you never call
on me for pay for your paper?" ooh"
SAID the editor, eve never ask gentlemen
for money" 'Indeed," replied the pat
ron, "how do you manage to get along
when they don't pay?' ''Why," said the
editor, "after a certain time we conclude
he is not a gentleman, and ask him. :"
"Oh !-ah !-yes-I see. Mr.. Editor, give
me a receipt" and hands him the cash.
"Make my name all right on your book
that is, put it down among the gentlemen" :"
''Deer Georg: Fauther is orfully oppoS-
ed. Pleas doant meet me at the harm
yard gate eny more for a whial. Me
Fauther has got orfuly skeered about
hoars theevs, and he staze up all mite with
a doubled barld gun watcher the barn.
He put NOR as a powned of shot into
Parkses dog that was cumin over the
barn gate last mite. Deer Georg Goant
cum till tell you. You're luying pink
Rose bud. p. S. take motifs: The roze is
red the vilets blue, wouldent get drunk
if was yew, some hukellberies are black
and some are blew, l wouldent cum georg
if was yew."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
THE SMALL DAYS OF
CHICAGO.

New York and Boston, about $50
years old, have respectively 100000
and $4,000 inhabitants. Chicago
made up her half million in little over
forty years. In New York and Boston
one sees the graves of eight generations,
and the relics of colonial times. In
Chicago Mr.. Gurdon S. Hubbard is now
living, an active man, scventy-eight
years of age (and looking sixty, who
came to the spot when there were but
two houses there.
The site of this great city, favorite
one with the Indians, was early visited
by some of those splendid old "pioneers
of France in the New world" who have
been made famous in this generation by
the pen of that accomplished and genial
historian, Mr.. Parkman. Old Pere
Marquette was there in 1878, and re-
turned in the winter of 1674-75. 1t
was also known to Joliet (for whom a
town not far off is now named,) Henne-
pin, and La Sale. The name is of In
dian origin. cheecaQua meaning strong"
and being also the term for kind of
wild onion found on the shore of the
lake in old days. The place is first
known to geography as the "Fort Checa-
gou' of a French map published toward
the end of the seventeenth century.
Fort Dearborn was built by our govern
ment in 1904, and the late John H.
Kinzie, an eminent pioneer and citizen
of Chicago, celebrated the first anniver-
sary of his birthday on its site. his faith
er having arrived three days before, in
company with Major Whistler and his
command. The Fort Dearborn massa-
ere, perpetrated by the Indians, was in
1912, and the bones of the soldiers were
lying unburled near the shore when
young Kinzie returned from Detroit in
1916.
Here the memoranda which Mr.. Hub
bard has kindly prepared for the pur-
pose may be appropriately inserted:
81 was born in Windsor, Vermont,
August %, 1902. In the spring Of
1918 l engaged, with the consent of my
parents, to the American Fur Company
(of which John Jacob Astor was presi-
dent), for the term of five years, at a
salary of sl20 per annum. On the 18th
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
SIXTEEN AND SIXTY.

o, grandma sits in her oaken char,
And in flies Bessie with tangled hair,
sim going to be married, oh, grandmamma
I'm going to be married. Hal haI ha! haI"
o, grandma smooths out her apron strings;
'Do you know. my dear, tits a solemn thing ~
"'Tis solemner not to, grandmamma.
I'm going to be married. Hal ha ha! hal"
Then grandma looks through her sixty years,
And sums up woman's hopes and fears;
Six of 'em living and two of 'em dead;
Grandpa helpless and tied to his bed.
Nowhere to live when the house burned down;
Years of fighting with old mother Brown;
Stockings to darn and bread to bake,
Dishes to wash and dresses to make.
But then the music of pattering feet,
Grandpa's kisses so fond and sweet,
Song and prattle the livelong day,
Joy and kisses and love alway.
o. grandma smooths out her apron string,
And gazes down on her wedding ring,
And still she smiles as she drops a tear:
"'Tis solemner not to. Yes, my DEAR"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

An eminent divine from one of our
inland districts, having very lively
horror of the dangers of the sea, took
passage on board of an ocean steamer.
with a particular recommendation to
the care of the captain. On the first
day out, the wind being fresh, and the
sea lively. the parson was quite alarmed,
and spoke to the captain, who smilingly
taking him by the arm, led him to the
forecastle scuttle, and told him to look
down. When he heard the men talking
very roughly to one another. and swear
ing and damming each others eyes and
limbs, be was struck with horror, and
the captain said to him: "Do you sup.
pose these men would use that kind of
language if they thought there was any
danger?' A few days after a severe
and very dangerous storm was encoun-
tered, and the parson was observed by
the captain making his way with great
difficulty forward to the forecastle scuttle.
He Immediately came back, muttering
to himself, Thank God, they're swear
ing yet.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

A TRIBUTE TO VERMoNT.-A corre-
spondent of the Boston IraUeller in
letter to that paper. pays the following
compliment to Vermont:
Between the unyielding granite
boulders of the White Mountain range
on the one side, and the Adirondack
wilderness on the other, lies this happy
valley of simple contentment, with its
mellower soil and gentle water courses,
its thriftier farmers and more numerous
herds, Its marble ledges, its fertile up
lands, and its own mountains of gentler
slope and softened outline AS one
travels through the state after having
been whirled hither and thither in other
more thickly populated and more stir
ring commonwealths, he is pleasantly
impressed with the quiet industry. pas
toral contentment, outdoor luxury, and
indoor comfort that exists among the
farms or pleasant villages of the Green
Mountain State. AS an eloquent writer
once observed Vermont impresses one
as the land where wealth will seldom
accumulate, and men should never decay
whose dwellers may forever praise
God for all its characteristics, and none
need be enemies. but all must be allies. "
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
MRS. JUDsON's GHOST.

DR.. Wayland. in his Lste Of hudson,
has but feebly portrayed the scene of
Mrs Judson's funeral. Our decks were
crowded by sailors of all nations. and
every flag was at half-mast, while long
line of boats took ours in tow, and on
arrival at the wharf the clergy Of every
denomination formed the head of the
procession, which moved through the
main street, while all the shops were
closed.
My recollections of DR.. Judson are Of
the most agreeable kind. Deeply afiict-
ed as he was by his loss, he still main
tanned cheerful demeanor, impressing
all of US with love and veneration for
his character. His life was a constant
sermon.
But scenes like that of the death and
funeral they had lately witnessed pre-
pared the minds of the crew for the ac-
cess of superstition. Soon after leav-
ing St. Helena the second mate called
me suddenly in the night. The poor
fellows tone evinced that he was as
much frightened as were the sailors,
who, he said, had seen ghost.
ga ghost, Mr.. Bronson p | asked
"What kind of a ghost p
"Mrs. Judson's. sir; we can all see
it in the foretop."
"Pshaw p
Captain, do come on deck, do, and
you will see it for yourself" replied
Mr.. Bronson.
Well, as ! had never seen ghost,
complied with his request, and walking
into the waist, where the watch were
gathered in stupe6ed amazement, they
pointed their trembling fingers to the
foretop, whispering, in hushed voices,
"There she is, sir-look at her"
Yes, there she was-a perfect figure
of woman in a white dress, with out
stretched arms and a CHASTITY face.
will confess that no little astonishment
was combined with my incredulity.
had been awakened from sound sleeE
to behold this visitation with half-open'
ed eyes. But in moment [ saw tht
cause of the singular deception.
"Boys," | said, "who will 60 will
me into the foretop and speak to her ?"
There were brave men among th'
crew who would have gone aloft on my
order to send down a royal yard, ever
if they thought the mast might go ovel
the side, but now none of them woult
stir. At last | said, Do you think it i
my place to 60 up there and stow tha
top-gallant studding-sail ?"
Then they understood the meaning o
the apparitioD. This sail, which, wher
not in use, was lashed against the fore
top-mast rigging, had got adrift, ant
spreading itself across to the foremas
head, had assumed the weird and un
earthly appearance of ghost. So thi
puzzle for metaphysicians was solved.
Had | sent the men below and gon
up and slowed the sail myself. as l wa
tempted to do, no argument would eve
have convinced them that they had nc
seen the ghost of Mrs. Judson.-Ha'
per's Magasine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
SCROFULA,

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WARNER, n. H., Jan. q, 1879.
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
EVERY YEAR.

The spring has less Of brightness
Every year:
And the snow a ghastlier whiteness
Every year;
Nor do summer flowers quicken,
Nor autumn fruitage thicken,
As they once did, for they sicken
Every year.
1t is growing darker, colder
Every year;
AS the heart and soul grow older
Every year;
/ care no more for dancing,
Or for eyes with passion glancing,
Love is less and less enhancing
Every year.
or the loves and sorrows blended
Every year;
OF the charms of friendship ended
Every year;
OF the ties that still might bind me,
Until Time to Death resigned me.
My infirmities remind me
Every year.
All how sad to look before us
Every year;
While the cloud grows darker o'er US,
Every year;
When the blossoms all are faded.
That to bloom we might have aided,
And immortal garlands braided
Every year.
To the past go more dead faces
Every year;
AS the loved leave vacant places
Every year;
Everywhere the sad eyes meet US,
In the coming dusk they greet US,
And to come to them entreat us
Every year.
"You are growing DID," they tell us
Every year;
"You are more alone." they tell us
Every year;
"You can win no new affection,
You have only recollection,
Deeper sorrow and detection
Every year."
Yesl the shores OF life are shifting
Every year;
And we are seaward drifting
Every year;
Old places changing fret US,
The living more forget US,
There are fewer to regret US
Every year.
But the truer life draws higher
Every year;
And its morning star climbs higher
Every year;
Earth's hold on US grows sIighter.
And the heavy burden ligher,
And the dawn immortal brighter
Every year.
Albert Pike in Courier Journc
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

Two grammarians wrangling. one con-
tending that it was only proper to say,
"My wages is high" while the other
noisily insisted that the correct thing
was, my wages are high" Finally
they stopped day laborer, and submit
ted the question to him. (which do
you say, Your wages is high or Your
wages are high p" "0h, off wild your
nonsense" he said, resuming his pick,
eyer naythur ov We right; me wages is
/ low, bad luck to 'em."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

The present cattle grazing belt of the
United States wild lands) Is about
1000 miles in length and $50 in
breadth. 1t stretches from the Rio
Grande to Manitoba.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

A little girl. noticing the glittering
gold filling in her aunt's front teeth.
exclaimed: "Aunt Mary, | wish had
copper toed teeth like yours.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20


to be protected. Won't you buckle on
your militia sabre, please 2"
l complied.
"Now, Mortimer, you ought to have
some way to protect your feet. Do
please put on your spurs"
[ did it,-in silence,-and kept my
temper as we'll as l could.
Mortimer, it says, 'Das Gewitter
lauten, ist sehr gefahrlich, we'll die
Glocke selbst, sowie der durch das Lau-
ten veranlasste Luftzug und die Hohe
des Thurmes den Blitz anziehen konn-
ten.' Mortimer, does that mean that it
is dangerous not to ring the church bells
during thunderstorm.
"Yes, it seems to mean that,-if that
is the past participle of the nominative
case singular, and reckon it is. Yes,
[ think it means that on account of the
height of the church tower and the alb
sence of La.ft1ug it would be very dan
gerous (sehr getalarlich1 not to ring the
bells in time of storm; and moreover,
don't you see, the very wording
'Never mind that, Mortimer; don't
waste the precious time in talk. Get
the large dinner-bell it is right there
in the hall. Quick, Mortimer dear,
we are almost safe. Oh, dear, do be-
lieve we are going to be saved, at last !"
Our little summer establishment
stands on top of high range of hills,
overlooking valley. Several farm
houses are in our neighberhood, the
nearest some three or four hundred
yards away.
When |, mounted on the chair. had
been changing that dreadful bell mat
ter of seven or eight minutes, our shut
tiers were suddenly torn open from with
out, and brilliant bull's-eye lantern
was thrust in at the window, followed
by hoarse inquiry =
"What in the nation is the matter
here 2"
The windows was full of mems heads
and the heads were full of eyes thai
stared wildly at my night-dress and my
warlike accoutrements.
| dropped the bell. skipped dowr
from the chair in confusion, and said,-
There is nothing the matter, friends
only little discomfort on account Of
the thunderstorm. l was trying tt
keep off the lightning"
Thunderstorm? Lightning? Why
Mr.. McWilliams, have you lost your
mind 1t is a beautiful starlight night
there has been no storm"
| looked out was so astonished
could hardly speak for awhile. Ther
| said,-
II do not understand this. We dis
tinctly saw the glow of the fashe
through the curtains and shutters, an,
heard the thunder.
| One after another those people la
down op the ground to laugh-and tw
of them died. One of the survivors re
marked
"Pity you didn't think to open you
blinds and look over to the top of th
high hill yonder What you hear
was cannon; what you saw was tn
flash. You see, the telegraph brough
some news. just at midnight; Garfield
nominated, and that's what's the MAJ
ter p
"Yes, M. Twain, as | was saying i
the beginning (said Mr.. McWilliams)
the rules for preserving people agains
lightning are so excellent and so limit
merable that the most incomprehensibl
thing in the world to me is how any
body ever manages to get struck.
So saying, he gathered up his satche
and umbrella, and departed; for tn
train had reached his town.-Mar
Tscain.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
Orleans County SNunitur,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. H. BLAKE,
BARTON, VT.

TERMs.-Striciiy in advdHce, $l50 per annum. II
Dot paid In advance, S2.OO year. Subscribers living
lutsde Of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
pr postage. For convenience in remittng we will
i've credit for year and four months for So 90 TO
ubscribers In the county and year and three for
P2OO to subscribers without the county, when sent
trietiy in Advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISING made known on application.
Remit by p. o. Money Order Registered Letter OF
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Hhen your subscription expires and see that your
payments are kept in advance. When money Is sent
we shall give you the credit on the label at once
the label Is not advanced within two weeks, notify
Is by postal card. =.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

The Somerville (Ala) Critic is more
frank than the Northern democratic pa
pers with regard to the stufing of bal
lot boxes in that state at the recent al
legged election. 1t publishes a card,
which says: 1--WE stuffed them, and we
mean to do so again in November for
Hancock. as we did in our recent cleo
ton Democratic papers in the North
please copy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

An Oil City maiden, who had just re-
covered from two days attack of green
apple cramps, recited in public the other
night that touching poem, $50 feel what
L have felt, with such emphasis thatEit
brought tears to the eyes of a green gro
Ger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20

YESTERDAY AND To-DAY.-"Hole on
dar," said colored man, hailing an ac-
quaintance. "Does yer cross de street
ebery time yer sees me ter try keep frum
payin' dat bill p
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-03-13

Is the most effective pain destroyer in
the world; viii most surely quicken the
blood whether taken internally or APP
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and is warranted double the strength
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pain in the side, back or bowels, sore
throat, rheumatism, toothache, and ALL
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teaspoonful of the Panacea in atpmbler
of hot water lsweetened, if preferredl,
taken at bedtime, will BREAK Up A
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-03-13
August Flower.

The immense sale and great populari-
ty Of .GEEEN's AUGUsTx FLOWER in all
towns and villages in the civilized
world has caused many imitators to
adopt similar names, expecting to reap
a harvest for themselves at the expense
of the afflicted. This medicine was in
troduced in 1868, and for the cure OF
dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, with
their effects, such as Sour Stomach,
COST geness, Sick Stomach, Sick Head
ache, Indigestion, Palpitation of the
Heart, Vertigo, etc, etc., 1t 'eeuer has
failed to our knowledge. Three doses
will relieve anysfcase Of Dyspepsia.
Two million bottles were sold last year.
Price, IS cents. Samples, 10 cents.
GREENS ATLAS AND DIARY ALMANAC,
the most expensive free Almanac ever
published, sent free on receipt of a two
cent stamp. ei G. q. GREEN,
z . Woodbury., N. j., U. S. A.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-03-13
The sulphur Business.

/. A. Blakeslee, Of Humboldt House,
informs us that the Rabbit Hole sui
phur mines are now being worked ex-
tensively. A donkey engine has been
put in place on one of the principal de-
posits for the purpose Of hosting the
sulphur to the surface. Teams are
steadily engaged ia hauling the sulphur
to the railroad, and some four carloads
a week of it is shipped west by rail.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-03-13
LOCAL INTELLIGEN CE.
Killed by fire water.

A whisky barrel, emptied to the
dregs, was set out in front Of store at
Austin few evenings ago. The Rev
ellie says the Indians discovered that 1t
contained ire water and went for all
that was in it. Result, one dead Piute
and another not expected to live. The
various compounds used in giving spirit
10 the fire water, and Vhich had settled
in the bottom of the barrel, weTe too
much for the savages.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-03-13

The Committee of Arrangements for
the Irish Relief Ball at Centennial
Hall next Wednesday evening, are
leaving nothing undone to make it a
social and financial success. Every
youug man should at once engage a
partner for the occasion and see that all
the young ladies are invited. The
OBJECT is good one, and the proceeds
viii be sent Immediately to the famine
stricken sufferers of the Emerald Isle.