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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-05

ing in the house with Nettie had taken
her with them. Whittier this family
had gone could not tell. They were
a strange, wandering family, and had
left for parts unknown in the night. |
have travelled far and wide, and have
spent good-sized fortune searching for
my little one, but I fear [ shall never
see my little Mamie again. Fortune
has been kind to me; I am rich now,
and I'd give my whole fortune for my
child if could but find her."
There were tears in his eyes as he
ceased speaking, and we all felt sad, for
we were beginning to love the man Of
whom papa had SO often told us. But
Quiz was very much excited, her cheeks
were red, her eyes full of tears while
her breast heaved with every breath as
she learned forward with clasped hands.
"Did you learn the name of the family
who took the child? asked papa, af-
ter pause.
.'Yes; they were called Sam and Lue
Brown"
At this Quiz uttered cry and sprang
forward.
.sI know it now. I'm Mamie, I'm
Mamie, I'm Mamie p she exclaimed,
passionately, falling at Mr.. Wilburton's s
feet, and sobbing as hard as she could.
"What does this mean % faltered
Mr.. Wiburton. frederick, is not this
your child?"
In as few words as possible papa told
him the story of how Quiz came to be a
member of our family.
"But have you nothing. my child
which you brought with you from youl
old home?'' asked Mr.. Wilburton
trembling between hope and fear
"Only this sobbed Quiz taking q
locket from her neck; the sick woman
who called me Mamie gave it to me tt
keep always"
With trembling hands Mr.. Wilburtor
took the trlnket and opened it, ther
pressed it to his lips as he exclaimed
'.It's Nettie herself, her own face I re
member the locket now."
We young people slipped out of th'
room then, and when we returned Qui,
was leaning against Mr.. Wilburton'
chair with her hand in his, looking
brighter and happier than We had eve
seen her before.
1t was very hard for US to give he
up just as she had become the deares
sister in the world, but Mr.. Wiburtol
did not take her far away. He bough
beautiful house not far from US, owe
which Quiz presided in her sweet VIC
manly way.
When she was eighteen Fred persuade'
| her to become our sister-in-law and no,
she is the mother of his baby, Nettie
but we still call her Quiz sometimes, an
her father agrees with us that the nam
is quite appropriate, for she never seem
tired of asking questions about he
mother Nettie, whom she can hardl
remember.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-05

A GLIMPSE OF JEAN INGELow.-As
We alighted at our destination-a square
red brick house set back few feet from
the road-the butler threw open the
wide hospitable doors. and we looked
through the broad entrance hall into
the pretty garden beyond, its fresh ver-
dure shining under the June sky, one
might almost have fancied ones self in
the country. In no city save London
are such gardens to be found-gardens
which transport one as if by magic far
from the smoky streets with their rows
of dingy, yellow houses, to the greenness
and quiet of a country scene. Enter
ing the house, the guests were shown
into large cheerful room on the left
of the hall, where in a broad window
was spread the usual afternoon tea table.
Two rosy-cheeked maids, in white caps
and aprons, served the incoming friends,
who, having taken their cup Of tea stand
ing, repaired to the drawing-room on the
opposite side of the hall. A long. pref
ty room it was. filed with dainty,
womanish belongings. In smaller
room at the end, which looked into
conservatory at one side and the garden
in the rear, beside an Oriental divan,
stood Miss Ingelow, small, slight
woman of perhaps forty years, with a
pleasant manner and quiet, somewhat
timid smile. Her eyes were bright and
expressive; her hair tinged with gray,
was drawn smoothly from her forehead,
under head-dress of muslin aud lace.
Her dress was of black silk, trimmed
with Grape. Altogether she looked
model of quiet English lady in pleas
ant English home.-Hmper's Basar
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-05
THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
ASTRONOMY MADE EASY.

Hi-diddle-diddle,
The Sun in the middle,
And the planets around HIM SO grand
Are swinging in space.
Held forever in place
In the Zodiac gIrdle or band.
Hi-diddle-diddle.
The Suns in the middle,
And Mercury next to the Sun;
While Venus SO bright,
Seen at morning and night.
Comes second TO join in the fun.
Hi-didde-dicdle,
The Suns in the middle.
And third in the group is our Earth;
While Mars with his FIRE,
so warlike and dire,
Swings around to be counted the fourth.
Hi-dlddle-diddle.
The Suns in the middle,
While Jupiter's next after Mars;
And hisfour moons at night
Show the speed Of the light;
Next golden-nnged Saturn appears.
Hl-diddle-didde.
The Suns in the middle,
After Saturn comes Uranus afar;
And his antics so queer,
Led astronomers near
To old Neptune, who drives the last car.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-05
The Monitor"
PUBLmHED WEEKLY ny
GEO. H. BLAKE,
BARTON, VT.

TERxs.-,ytrictiy IN adpance. $1.50 per annum. II
paid In advance, $500 year. Subscribers living
outside Of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
for postage. For convenience In remitting, we will
give credit for year and four months for $500, TO
subscribers in the county and year and three for
81 90 TO subscribers without the county, when sent
sfricfiy IN ddcdnce.
RATES or ADVERTISING made known on application.
Remit by p. O. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
Draft. Watch thoabe on your paper and notice when
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not advanced within two weeks, notify us by postal
card.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-05
ELIMINATION.


Our bodies are in state of incessant
waste and repair. At countless millions
of points old materials is being used up
and instantly replaced by new material
that is as instantly cast aside.
For this reason it is true not only
that ones body is wholly changed every
year, but that it is not the same at two
successive moments. Hence the impor-
tanee of eliminating organs, to drain off
this dead matter.
Arterial blood furnishes all the new
material. while the old is brought away
in the veins, from which, it having been
eliminated. the residue returns to the
heart purified for further use.
The eliminating organs are the lungs,
liver, kidneys and skin. The lungs
eliminate carbonic acid-the most abun-
dant of all the waste the liver, choles-
terine-waste of the brain and nerves
the kidneys, the waste of the muscles.
the skin, more or less of carbon. but es-
peclally the salts of the system.
If any eliminating organ is inactive
or diseased, so as to be unable to per
form its Office properly, the effete matter
is left in the blood, to accumulate in the
circulation. except that some one or
more of the other eliminating organs
come to the help of the former.
The skin often does so much of this
viearious work that single glance at
the diseased mans face will sometimes
enable the physician to know what elm
mating organ is diseased or torpid.
This waste matter left in the system re-
suits in various diseases-sometimes in
blindness, sometimes, in ulcers and va
rious eruptions, and often in death, the
system becoming at length fatally pol
soned with -Youth's Companion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-05

How to keep your rooms warm-Keep
your CRATES coal'd.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03
Nervous Men.

Although women are usually consd-
cred to be more nervous than men. they
certainly tidget less. Put an equal
number of men aud women to sit for
half an hour upon arm-chars with loose
chintz covers and antimacassars. When
the women rise the general appearance
of their seats will be little altered: but
when the men leave their chairs there
will remain visible evidence of a screw
like action upon the chintl, and it will
be miracle if half the antimucassars
are not torn from their places; or, if a
lady and gentleman converse together
beside drawing room table covered
with knick-knacks, the former will not
touch them, but the latter will select
some object and nervouslv play with it
in a meaningless manner. One of the
most wearisone and provoking forms Of
tidgetiness. is that known as "pacino
the quarterback, y in which the offender
traces and retraces short space Of
ground or carpet like wild beast at the
geological gardens when feeding time
draws near. In this habit, and in many
of the other ways in which man can
show that he has got what children
term "the fidgets in the legs he has
the power of making an intolerable
nuisance of himself. The arch tidget
of history was the great Napoleon. Not
only did he pace up and down, but he
whitfield chairs and tables, and did
other naughty things for which Il Judi
cious nurse would have tied ND his
hands in tingerless gloves Such habits
are but forms of nervousness, and it is
certain that Napoleon was essentially {.
nervous man. OF all minor forms OF
the malady the most serious in its re-
suits of social torture is that which
manifests itself in what is vulgarlv
known as "the devils tattoo.n Who
shall describe the horrors of this evil
habit An organ grinder is an enemy
to mankind, but the tattoo heater surely
owes his origin to something worse
than human. For such criminals, and
indeed for most men who are given to
making morning calls, we would sug-
gest that digitoriums should be provided
in every drawing-room. These harm
less instruments might then be the
means, like scientific toys, OF combining
amusement with instruction-Art Inter-
chgnQe.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03
That Block Puzzle.

John Henry, whose engagement to
Sarah Emeline is just announced, goes
up to spend the evening with his be-
loved, who has invited few friends to
meet him. He takes the block puzzle
up with him to make it pleasant for
them. He is quite dexterou5 in the use
of the bits of wood, and has come out
even several times. With great pride
he showed it to Sarah Emeline and her
friends. He works it out carefully.
Somehow Or other it bothers him more
than usual this time. 81 wish so many
of you wouldn't stare at me,' he re-
marked ''it makes me nervous" Then
he goes into quiet corner and works
it out by himself After a few minutes
he returns, exclaiming, Eureka!" The
guests all gather around, and there,
sure enough, is IS, IA, Is. cit amt
right, after all, says Sarah Emeline;
you've got Il, II, instead of II, 12.'
And so he had, and no shifting of the
blocks could bring it right. Is it any
wonder that John Henry put the box in
his pocket and never saw his Emeline
more? "For,n said he, retlectively, "a
girl who would take fellow down like
that before room full of invited COM
pany has got no feelin', and it's feelin'
that tells in the long rum
Mark Twain was accused of bringing
a plague upon his country when he in
vented the horse-car poetry,
A blue trip-slip for six cent fare,
A pink trip slip for an eight cent fare,
etc, is a terrible thing to get running
through ones head. But that flows
easily along, aud while it occupies the
mind it does not torture the brain. The
block puzzle turns black hair gray,
makes amiablc men cross and sane men
lunatics. 1t is, however, the bond of
sympathy that binds the people of this
city close together, and when man is
seen to stand upon the corner of street
and throw his hat in the air and shout
for joy, every person who passes that
way joins in the wild halloo, for they
know he has got 13-14-15!-1oteao
B1H7e
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03
Think Before You Do 1t,

The affixing of the stamp is in the
majority of cases the last stage OF the
letter-writing. 1t is kind Of sealing,
signing, and delivering. 1t would not be
bad moral habit for a man to pause
before atfixing his postage-stamp, and
to consider whether judiciously and con-
scientiously he had not better save his
money. When once he has dropped his
letter into the letter. box, he has commit
ted one of the irrevocable acts of this
life. AS Won prepare to affix your stamp,
give one final thought to conscience,
whether you might not alter, improve
or altogether obllterate that letter;
There may be all sorts OF wrong and
evil connected with letter-writing; but
to specialize an instance, you may have
been writing an angry letter: 1t may
be clever, caustic letter, and you feel
rather inclined to regard it approvingly,
considered as literary production.
But it may be passionate and unjust
letter. 1t may be unreasonable
and untrue. You may be giving
unmerired pain by sending it. You may
bitterly regret the moments when your
hand opened the immoral behest of your
mind. You have heard the physicians
prescription about the cucumber; 70
peel it carefully, slice it tendery' be
gingerly with your vinegar snd plente-
Gus with the oil, sprinkle the pepper
brown or red, over it-and then fling
the mess out of the window. So when
you sit down to your letter. my dear
and slightly excited friend, pile. up your
accumulate your adJectlVes'
be caustic and cutting in your phrases
but just before you post it give though.
to the ethics of postage stamp hght
your pipe with it, and save your money.
. TURNER'S Yerk{Y.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03
Science and Industry.

Science and Industry.
g Cotton has advanced 10 to IA pei
cent. since January /.
"A number of farmers are successfully
cultivating upland rice in Monroe Coun.
ty, Ga.
Goat skins worth $4,000 were
shipped from Corpus Christi, Tex, in
one week, recently.
The farmers of Alachua County.
Fla, are cultivating rice more extensive
~, believing that one day it win become
the chief article Of export.
-Cassava-root growing is being sue
cessfully experimental with about Sor-
rento, Fla, and there is talk of estab-
fishing q mill there, for the extraction
Of its starch.
Florida believes there is enough
land in that State fitted for cane grow
ing to make sugar and strip enough to
supply the whole United States, and
save the S1o0,0O0,000 now sent abroad
for it.
Sugar factories are demanded by
the small farmers on the Lower Missis-
sippi, who say they would gladly raise
4iiOiH ~ " ~ dCfcS VI CdHe 0stcl, III Gney
could get it ground near home. 1t now
costs the profit to transport the crop to
a mill.
Prof. Ingersoll of Purdue University,
who has been examining specimens of
the diseased leaves, finds that the trou-
Bile with the wheat in Gibson County,
Indiana, is q fine fungus growth, like
fine sand, upon the leaf. The warm,
moist weather of the winter is believed
to be the cause.
1t is q very common and very erro-
neous impression that iron window shut
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

=" Jefferson Davis's Memoirs " are
promised for early in the fall.
1t is said that in the Welsh language
an infdel book does not exist.
Rev. Herbert H. Hayden who was
lately tried for the murder of Mary
Stannard, in New Haven, Conn.,, is de-
livering lecture ON Circumstantial
Evidence
MIR. Matsdaira, a japanese engineer
working in New York, in addition to
many inventions Of merit, reads eleven
languages, has finished a mathematical
work in three volumes, and is only 80
years of age.
Prof. Fawcett, the blind member of
Parliament, who lost his sight at %, is
expert and happy in casting the line for
fish, and no one enjoys more than he a
brisk canter He rides with friend,
his horse needing a companion to avoid
accidents
M. John Lemoinne, the distin-
guished French journalist, who has just
been elected to the Senate of his coun-
try, is "a years old but still youthful of
aspect. His head is massive, his fea-
lures are decided and somewhat roughly
cut, his eyes brilliant, quick and round.
Mr.. Longfellow has received a gift
of beautiful book containing the names
Of 800 children who presented him last
year the chair made of the Cambridge
chestnut. The inside of the cover has a
panel made of the chestnut and carved
in Illustration of ''The Village Black
smith's'' forge.
-" L'Appressamento della Morte -
(The Approach of Death), a poem by
Giacomo Leopard, which, although
known to be in existence, has hitherto
baf1led all the researches of the Italian
itterateurs, has finally been found by
the poets friend, Prospero Viani. Leo
pardi is esteemed by his countryman the
greatest poet that Italy has produced
since Tasso's time.
"A writer in Temple Bar thus de-
scribes Theophile Gautier: "Imagine
to yourself a tall, massively-framed in
dividual, who treads the asphalt with
alarming composure, attired in yellow
leather slippers and black velvet waist
coat, his long hair waving down to his
waist, his bare head shaded by broad
umbrella, and this at the most fashiona-
BILE hour on the most fashionable
promenade of Europe"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03

Domestic bliss-Kissing the maid
of all work. Domestic blister-When
the mans wife surprises him in the act.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03

"IF this scalp fits you, you may wear
it, scornfully remarked the under H.
dian in the fight. And the VICTOR VINO
was man open to conviction, wore II
on his leggings until he lost IT, some
wears later, in connection with his own
-BavhnqtOn HnWkeVe.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03
School and Church,

in San Francisco the Greek Church
has chapel and about 250 followers.
The English Wesleyans are getting
up Thanksgiving fund, to which no
less than ST., 167 1925 has been promised
There are 100000 members on the
rolls of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, that Church having been or
ganized in 1916. 1t has one college, a
publishing department, six bishops and
many schools.
There are now ninety-one Reformed
Episcopal ministers, eight of whom are
Bishops. Sixty-four of these are in
this country, thirteen in Canada, and
fourteen in England. The Reformed
Episcopal Church is making steady
progress in a quiet way, although its
history has not recently developed any
stirring events.
No ministers suffer more than the
very poverty stricken clergymen in the
English Established Church. The wife
of one of these in a suburb of London
says that true statement of the hard
ships and miseries of the poor clerical
hacks of that vicinity, who are wearing
tHeIl lives away dullu poFeTty, SMOKE,
and dirt, would make the Right Rever-
end Bishops tremble.
The total number of pupils in at
tendance upon the public schools of the
State of New York last year was 1, $780,
900, and the cost of their instruction
was SIC, 34S,91S, of which amount the
teachers received in salaries S7,6OO,392.
There are 1924 school-houses in the
State, and the aggregate amount ex-
pended in support of the schools since
1850 is nearly $2OO,000,O0O.
Elder Forscutt, of the Montana
Church, is trying to present to the peo-
pie of Chicago what he calls the true
ideas of the Mormon faith. He de-
nounces polygamy, and says that gen.
uine Mormonism has nothing to do with
it, but that Brigham Young introduced
it and spread it in Utah. He regards
the Salt Lake Mormons as apostates,
and not as representatives of the Nor
mon faith originally expended by Joseph
Smith.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03

ALL dinners are remembered accord
inc to their deserts.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03

The father OF twins is botanical
euriosity-a double poppy, US it were.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-03

The Adventure of Two Sailor Boys.
The sum of 5000 francs ($60O) will be
paid by the Scientific Association of Morlaix
to any one who shall succeed in tracing the
course of the Larve, and ascertaining
whether it has any underground commune
nofion wit no
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-06
Tho Dukes Escape.

The story Of the escape of the late
Duke Of Gramont from France after the
disastrous collapse at Sedan is full of
romance. The Duke, as Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, naturally heard of the
Emperor's surrender day before. the
news was published in Paris. He saw
at once that flight was necessary, rs the
wrath Of the mob was sure to be turned
against the Ministry, which was rcspon-
siblc for the war. lie accordingly went
to his bankers 10 provide himself with
money and various securities, but was
Informed that the partner who had
charge Of his affairs was in the country,
whittier the Duke pursued him. The
partner was found engaged in burying
his property In his garden, but returned
to Paris and delivered up to the Due dc
Gramont the papers and money which
were required. On tho next day the bad
news was published, and the Minister
fled. lie sent off a servant in his car
riagc openly ana escaped himself by n
private door. The mob pursued the
carriage, but Of course found no one In
1t that they wanted, and the Duke ~ot
safely to Calais. On his arrival there.
however, Il new cause for alarm arose
1t was necessary for him TO produce his
passport before he could leave the coun-
try, and it was evident that in this wav
his In IDENTIFY would be discovered, and
he himself, as seemed only too probable,
would be arrested and sent back to Paris
never to quit it again. The risk, how
ever, had to be encountered, and he
showed his passport to the proper officer
and was, much to his relief, suffered to
z" on board the English steamer without
remark. lie at once scnt to the cabin
and, the better to escape notice. pre-
tended to be very i'll. In a few min
utcs, however, he felt an ominous tan
on the shoulder and looked around cx-
pccting to find himself prisoner. He
saw only the passport officer, who said
to him: "When you were in the Office
you gave my son an appointment. In
return for that have to-day let Won
pass and thereby in all probability
saved your lifc." The officer went his
way and the Duke got safely to Dover.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-06
wild Cattle md Music.

We have heard 1t said that caravan
drivers arc In the habit of singing to
chccr their over-wearied and grooming
cemcls. A similar custom, with like ef-
fects, Is reported of the herders, or
'cow-boys," of Texas. a recent tra.
Weller In that State says. The COWBOYS,
while tending (mountcd on their wiry
mustang ponics) thoir Texan cattlo.
which are almost as wild rs buffalocs.
and as dangerous to man on foot. arc
accustomed to sing great deal to while
away the lonely hours. At night thew
hobblc their ponies, and, wrapped IN a
blanLe', lie down to sleep on the prairie,
Jitle way from tho cattle. Sometimes
In the night a thnDder-clap or some
strange sound will start ND tho cattle
with wild alright, and they will snort
and paw the earth, and in a moment n
Will rush and stampede would com.
mence; but the cowboys would spring
up, and while they loose and mount
their ponies thoy commence singing
their old songs. The cattle. hearing
the well-known and accustomed voices.
VIII soon quiet down, thinking all is
right, and resume their rest again,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-06

BOILED FLOUR FOR GKUEL.-Take Il
pound OF flour, and tie it as tightly as
possible in a pudding-cloth. A piece
of well-washed unbleachcd muslin an
swers every purpose. Put this ticd-up
flour into pot of boiling water, and
let 1t boil twelve hours, adding boiling
water from time to time; remove the
bag and hang it up all night. so that It
will cool and dry; open the bag, and
remove with q knife the dlscolored skin
which has formed around the ball of
flour. Crate, roll or pound the flour,
which should be very hard and firm /;
put the grated flour in Il closcly-covcr-
ed glass jar, and use as you would corn
starch or arrow-root. This Is an adj
mlrable food for Invallds and for chill
drcn, especially those suffering from
summer complaint.