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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
GENERAL GARFIELD.
HIS INTELLECT AND PERSONALITY AS DE-
SCRIBED BY MARY CLEMMER IN THE
INDEPENDENT.

scRIBED BY MARY cLEMMER IN THE
INDEPENDENT.
One sometimes meets a man or wo-
man in whom there appears to be ma
terial enough, personal and mental, to
make half dozen of the average sort.
This impression one gets from General
Garfield. The first consciousness is Of
his immense vitality. Had he less
brain, he might make himself famous as
champion prize fighter. He is said to
be six feet high; but looks shorter,
from the breath and depth of his should
ers and chest. The large nutrition of
the vital temperament supplies his very
large brain, making powerful enginery
as the physical basis of manhood and
craftsmanship. His type is pure Saxon,
in itself sufficient to account for the
fictitious story of his German ancestry.
His eyes are light blue, perceptlve
rather then deep, while harmony and
strength combine in features and pro-
file. He once called the attention of a
friend to the fact that the most intel
lectual men in the departments, as
class, were very deficient in "back
head" lack that never will be observ-
ed in himself. The depth of his head
from the arch of the nose through, in
its way, is quite tremendous but the
length from the top of the ear through
the preceptive faculties is the most pow
erful mental characteristic of his head.
1t has also great height from the ear to
the moral organs. The reasoning facul-
ties. not small, seem so only by compar-
ison with the remarkable development
of the rest of his head. Such head
sustained and driven by the motive
forces of powerful vital temperament,
make the man what he is-a giant in
certain directions.
intellectually he is strongest in his
perceptive faculties. To see, to know.
to understand, through an extended
range of vision; to retain what he
knows, to use what he knows, in per-
feet rhythm and order-his knowledge
available at the swiftest call and at ev-
cry opportunity; combined with his ex-
treme cultivation, his love of sacred aud
classic story, his instructive veneration
for the good and great, his penetrating
perception of the finer shades of charac-
ter and feeling, his subtle tact in deal
ing with persons, his suave voice and
affectionate manner-all make him a
personal favorite in social life and with
his political comrades.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

Husband-'M my love, this apple
dumpling is not half DONE" Wife-''Well,
finish it, then, my dear"
There is now great rivalry between
Leadville and Deadwood to see which
city raises the most money to send mis-
sionaries to the heather.
Grandpa-'Now, Tommy, can you tell
me where port comes from?" Tommy
''No, sir; but know where it goes to-
The question is not pressed.
They met, they smiled, they wept, they
loved, he called her Jane, she called him
Thomas-a richer man rode down the
lane, and Tom brought suit for breach of
promise.
A Middlebury young lady just home
from boarding school, ON being told by
the servant that they had no gooseberries,
exclaimed, "Why, what has happened to
the goose?"
An Albany barber having a very intem-
perate man to shave on Sunday, begged
him to keep his mouth shut, as it was a
punishable offense to open a rum hole on
the Sabbath.
A man can't stand everything A Mil
waukee man who was knocked down by a
stone in the toe of a stocking, SAYS what
maddened him most was that the stock
ings wasn't clean.
A citizen of Leadville took his shot gun
and pursued to the mountains the coro-
ner's jury which censured him for stab
bing man. 1t doesn't do to trife with
the feelings of citizen of Leadville.
poet asks: ''Wben 1 am dead and
lowly laid, And clods fall heavy
from the spade, who'll think of me?"
Don't worry. Tailors and shoe-makers
have retentive memories, and you'll not
be forgotten.
pickpocket, who had been ducked for
his malpractices, accounted to his breth-
rem for the arrangement in his appear
ance, by coolly observing that he had not
been able to change his dress since his
return from a celebrated watering place.
Nasby takes pride in the service of his
father and grandfather, in one way and
another. AS for himself, he says: ''My
own military record is clear. In the late
rebellion served my substitute 1 furn-
ished three substitutes, all of whom to-
day are in good health-in Canada
minister was questioning his Sunday
school concerning the story of EutychRs
the young man who, listening to tine
preaching of the Apostle Paul, fell asleep,
and falling down, was taken up dead
''What," said he, edo you learn from this
very solemn event?" when the reply from
little girl came very pat and prompt,
''Please, sir, ministers should learn not to-
preach too long sermons"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

The microscope shows variation in
the thickness of human hair from one
two-hundredth part of an inch. but not
withstanding such fneness, each hair is
a massive cable when compared with
some other fbers. The thread Of the
silkworm, for instance, is from one
seventeen-hundredth to one two-thou-
sandth of an inch thick. Even this.
however, is far surpassed in slenderness
by the spiders thread, which has been
found in some cases to be no more than
one thirty y-thousandths of an inch in di-
ameter. The fbers yielded by the veg
etable kingdom are also of astonishing
minuteness. Every fiber of fax is
found to be composed of bundle of
other fibers, which are about one twen-
ty-fve-hundredths of an inch in thick
ness. Similar 6bers from the pineapple
plant have been ascertained to be no
more than one 6ve-thousandth, or even
one seven-thonsandth of an inch in di-
ameter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

having moved off some distance from the
them from the chamber. Hearing his
wife say that she would return to the
house, he cried, $50 on! go on quick!'
We fed, thinking that he might defend
himself and the house better with us
away. We few to place of refuge and
I secreted my babies in the chamber of
neighbor's house. From an open window
we could hear Mr.. and a few friends
who had gathered to assist him, pacing
the piazza and keeping up din that was
calculated to impress the assassins with
the idea that there was formidable force
about the house.
After about two hours the REGULATORS"
returned, but fearing they might be fred
into, they made no attack. Just before
daylight, having obtained reinforcements,
they came again but did not approach
near enough to get in range of the long
gun or the revolver of Mr.. -. 1t turn
ed out that there were about twenty-five
in the gang, and whether any were injur-
ed by the shot fired into them or not we
did not learn.
There was one ludicrous circumstance
connected with this adventure that I can
not forbear to mention. When Mr.. -
ran up stairs, he seized very large gun,
which he loaded very heavily some time
before, and stepping out on to part of
the piazza or house over the edge of the
greenhouse fired into the band of assas-
sins. The recoil of the gun knocked him
off the house and he fell crashing down
through the greenhouse, making noise
that not only startled all within the house,
but frightened the enemies so that they
| withdrew to a safe distance. Fortunate
ly he was not seriously hurt.
We sent to the house early in the morn
ing, and returned later to find Mr.. -,
who had so bravely defended his domicile,
| quietly sleeping amid a half dozen re-
volvers and other weapons, ready to de-
fend himself and his hearthstone if anOth-
er occasion demanded it. If your readers
enquire who the Kentucky regulators
are, and why they sought the life of Mr.
-, will try to tell them in my next
/
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
TOO WONDERFUL A JUMP.

The idea of railway train leaping a
river like a fox-hunter's horse, or
shooting" chasm like chamois, is
no impertinence in certain of Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale's amusing extrava-
ganzas; but Major Neely, civil engi-
neer for the Cincinnati Central railroad
contractors, credits the same fancy to
the ignorant Tennessee "corn-cracker."
The major was engaged in tunneling a
mountain right ON the back of the Cum
berland river, said river now being
spanned at that point by fine bridge,
though then there was no sign of the
structure.
One morning a cracker rowed across
the river, and upon approaching the ma
jor the following colloquy ensued:
"Mornin''
"Good morning"
"You seem to be scatterin' dirt and
gravel around here pretty peert.
"Well, yes. We are getting through
the hill quite lively"
"Who's payiu' for all this fuss p
"The city of Cincinnati
"Wall, it must cost heap Nv money.
What's it fer. anyhow"
The major thought he would enlight-
en- the native. so he told him be was en-
gagged in building tunnel, and he fur
ther explained that it was cheaper to
bore hole through the mountain for
the cars to run through than to level it
or make .'cut" down the grade. The
native took it all in, and then queried:
$50 the steam kyars is going to come
right through this tunnel away north ?"
'.Yes, that's just it, responded the
major.
"Well, major, that's askin' too much
for man to believe" replied the crack
er. | don't swallow it, no how you can
fix it, that every time that ere iron boss
of yourn jumps across the river he's
goin' to strike this little hole right
squar' and fair. No, sir, | can't swal-
low it."
The major didn't try to make him.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

There was rose tint in everything
in Bella's home that evening. From
the cold, half Indifferent husband, Har-
ry was transformed to the warm, atten-
tive lover. How many times, as she
turned her eyes upon him, did she catch
a look of tender admiration or loving
pride
"What made you SO charming to-
night p he said, as he kissed her once
more. "You look as pure and sweet as
lily"
"Love for my husband" she answer
ed, and then in tear, in which joys
sunlight made a rainbow, stole out from
the dropping lashes, and lay crystal
drop on her cheek.
She made no confession of her though
less neglect or the means by which
hearts are held in thrall to love, though
her husband half guessed at the fact
that something had awakened her to
the truth.
On the next afternoon Harry rode out
with lady again but the lady was
his wife. He was never afterwards in
danger of being won away by faithful
love, for Bella grew in his eyes more
attractive, more charming, more lovable
every day. And she thus saved him,
in his younger and less stable years,
from being drawn aside from the right
way, and both herself and him from
years of wretchedness
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

Their aggregate capacity is l6,S40,-
900 bushels; individual capacity from
10000 to 100000 bushels. They
are in different parts of the city, but
those at the disposal of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad give
nearly one-third of the whole capacity.
One of the newest of them. Armour
Dole and Co.'S elevator 3D. may be
taken as what it is the fashion to call a
Representative" elevator. 1t certainly
is very fine one, and should be seen
by all inquiring visitors. 1t was begun
in 1875. is 386 feet long. 100 feet wide
and l45 feet high, required FIVE million
feet of lumber in its construction, and
cost S35O,OOO. One can easily obtain
permission to inspect it, and the super
intendent will enlighten his ignorance,
or increase and qualify his knowledge,
as the case may be. He is conducted
to little .'elevator" (here is this con-
fusion of names again it is what our
English friends call "lift"). and
hoisted to the top floor. At one end he
sees. swiftly passing over. a shaft. the
largest belt in the United States. 2S0
feet in length. and eighty inches in
width. Below him are great scales. and
bins sixty feet deep. A fine and sug'
gestiye dust gradually covers his clothes
as he listens tc the polite cicerone, who
is telling him that there are twenty-siS
standard Fairbanks scales in the build
ing. and that they weigh SO accurately
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
AUTUMN WOODS.

Mountains bending.
Steep ascending,
Clad in colors bright and blending,
Windy woodlands-neYer ending.
Flaming floods on every slope;
Fiery bushes.
Tawny flushes;
God is In the burning bushes
And the vision on us rushes
Like the rosy heights Of hopeI
Crimson, yellow,
Misty. mellow;
How the forests bow and billow!
Maple, ash and oak and willow
Shed the trophies OF the year;
Thus we render
All our splendor.
Leaf by leaf in sad surrender,
Pomp and pride and pleasure tender.
When our days are in the scar.
Down they shiverl
Quake and culver!
On the swift and silent river,
Where the current glides forever
To the wide and winding seal
Sitting. sowing.
Drifting, blowing;
Now they're fioating-gaily going,
Like the lives of men allowing
To the life that is to be.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

The world wants more sunshine in its
disposition, in its business, in its chari-
ties. in its theology. For ten thousand
of the aches and pains and irritations of
men and women we recommend sun
shine. 1t soothes better than morphine.
It stimulates better than champagne.
1t is the best plaster for wound. The
good Samaritan poured into the fallen
travellers cash more of this than of oil.
Florence Nightingale used it on the
Crimean battle fields. Take it out into
all the alleys. on board all the ships, by
all the sick beds. Not vial full, not
a cup full, but soul full. 1t is good
for spleen, for liver complaint. for neu-
ralgia, for rhumstism, for falling for
tunes, for melancholy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

ssNo words in the English language"
writes lady in Michigan, who is using
the Compound Oxygen Treatment, "can
express the gratitude feel for the bene-
fits / have received and the hope l have
of possessing tolerable health again. 1t
will be ten years, January, $780,. since
was taken sick, and the mental. agony
alone has been indescribable. have two
little girls who have never seen me walk.
| think | shall be able to walk alone
after time. l have been so hungry this
summer that have scarcely been able TO
wait for meals. Every one re-
marks upon the Improvement IN my COM
plexion, and / am putting on flesh rapid
ly. My bowels, which have been consti-
pated all my life, and terribly SO since my
sickness, are now better than have ever
known them to be-" Our Treatise on
Compound Oxygen, its nature and action
and full information for use, sent free.
Drs. Starkey Palen, 1l09 and I'LL Gi-
rard Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
THE NEXT SENATE.

The term of "a Senators expire on
the 4th of next March, and of their sue
cessors five have already been chosen
Burnside in Rhode Island, Garfield in
Ohio, German in Maryland, Malone in
Virginia and George in Mississippi.
Garfield, a Republican, is chosen to sue
ceed Thurman, a Democrat, in Ohio,
and in Mississippi, George, Democrat,
succeed Bruce, a Republican. These
two changes neutralize each other, and
in each of the other three States the
Senators elect is of the same party as
the present Senator. The other Sena-
tors whose terms expire with the present
Congress are Booth of California, Bay
ard of Delaware, Bailey of Tennessee,
Cameron of Wisconsin, Cockrell of Mis-
souri,, Dawes of Massachusetts, Eaton of
Connecticut, Edmunds of Vermont,
Hamlin of Name, Hereford of West
Virginia, Jones of Florida, Herman of
New York, Maxoy of Texas, Mcdonald
of Indiana, Mcmillan of Minnesota,
Paddock of Nebraska, Randolph of New
Jersey, Sharon of Nevada, and Wallace
of Pennsylvania. Of the l9 States
which have to elect Senators, eight can
be counted on with confidence to elect
Republicans Maine Massachusetts,, Ver-
mont, Pennsylvania. Minnesota, Wis
consin, Nebraska and Nevada. Maine
is sometimes reckoned among the doubt
full States, and possibly there may be
some excuse for so reckoning it, SO far
as the State ticket is concerned, but of
the political complexion of the Legisla-
ture no tolerably we'll Informed person
has the least doubt. Four of the 10
States, Delaware. Tennessee and Texas,
are sure to elect Democratic Senators,
and seven, Connecticut, New York. New
Jersey, Indiana, West Virginia, Florida
and California, are more or less doubt
ful.
OF these doubtful States the outgoing
Senators are all Democrats except Booth
of California. In order to secure ma
jority of the Senate it is necessary to re-
tain California and replace a Democrat
by Republican in four of the other
States. 1t is highly probable that this
can be done in New York and Connee-
ticut, not at all improbable in Indiana
and New Jersey. and possibly in Flor
ida. 1t is so unlikely in West Virginia
that that State ought scarcely to be
classed as doubtful for this purpose
Political changes in the Senate are made
slowly. While the whole House o.
Representatives is renewed every two
years, only one-third of the Senate is
subject to biennial changes. The House
became Democratic in 1875, but th'
Senate retained its Republican majorit.
until 1879. 10 restore it to Republi
can control after only one term of Dem
ocratic supremacy would have been
greater success than could have beef
expected year ago, but it seems fairl.
within the reasonable probabilities now
Worcester Spy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
A QUAKER SERMON.

II was the frst-day meeting,
And the group of gathered folk
Sat touched by the hush of a voiceless spell;
No sound the silence broke.
Until. in her place on the woman's side,
With a sweet and tender face
That bore the pure and peaceful sign
ofthe inward spirits grace,
white-halred woman rose with the word
That was laid on her heart to say
The word that the gathered people
Were waiting that sunny day.
"sister Tabitha all to pieces
My best china teapot broke
But kept my soul in patience,
Nor word Of anger spoke"
That was all; aud down with the sunshine
The silence again fell sweet
Till the elder people gave the sign
That the service was complete,
Do you say that hour was wasted?
That the sermon was trivial, vain,
Textiles, devoid of logic,
Unthrilled by one eloquent strain?
Not so; for that gospel is sweetest
That is won through life's fret and its pain,
That softens the jar of its friction,
And lightens the stress of its strain.
And the love that is over the erring,
The peace untouched by surprise,
The quiet that keeps its sweetest patience,
Are dear in the Masters eyes,
While many rhetorician
Might learn from this homily brief
truth that the wearied people
Would hail as glad relief
That the lesson is most enduring
Close to life's practical lines,
And not the length but the fitness
The heart of the hearer inclnes.
And we all in our plain home duties
Find the thought in the firstday word,
That the least Of our trials and triumphs
Has worth in the sight of our Lord.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
AT PEACE.

Strew on her roses, roses,
And never a spray of yewi
In quiet she reposes:
Ali would that did, tool
Her mirth the world required.
She bathed It in smiles of glee.
But her heart was tired, tired.
And now they let her be.
Her life was turning, turning,
In mazes Of heat and sound;
But for peace her soul was yearning.
And now peace laps her round.
Her cabin'd, ample spirit,
It fiutter'd and failed for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
The vasty hall Of death.
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Drleaus County @unitur,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. H. BLAKE.
BARTON, VT.

TERHs.-Strictly in advance, $l.50 per annum. II
pt paid in advance. $500 year. Subscribers living
ltside Of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
postage. For convenience In remitting we will
We credit for one year and four months for 81 to
bscribers in the county, and year and three for
LOO to subscribers without the county, when sent
richly IN Advance.
RATES OF ADvERTIsINe made known on application.
Remit by P. o. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
raft. Watch the label on your paper and notice
Iyments 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
by postal card.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

An old thermometer is never very
popular. Nobody wants to see ther-
mometer over 70.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
NJ OTICE!

The undersigned hereby gives notice that parties
olicitlng orders for Marble Work in my name do SO
Eithout authority, as have no travelling agents nor
I'm In any way connected with any other firm.
HENRY r. MACK.
Hardwick, Vt. Aug. "a. 1880.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
HOODS
SARSAPARILLA

mas ueclued claims upon the pubic. IhlS
is positively proven by the immense good it
has done to those who have been cured of
diseases from which they have suffered in
tensely for years, as verified by the publish
led testimonials, every one of which is pos
tive fact.
CHELSEA, VT, Feb. "a, 1879.
MEssRs. G. ]. HooD & Co., Lowell, Mass:
The 9th day OF last June / was taken sick
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awful pain. The swelling went all over me-
My face was swelled so that could with diff
|heulty see out OF my eyes, and l broke out
over the whole surface of my body; my right
foot up to my knee was one raw, itching
mass, and my ankle and foot so lame and
sore could not step on it, and it would run
so as TO wet a bandage through in an hour.
In this condition Mr.. w. +. Hood (of the firm
OF A. II. Hood & Son, druggists, of this town.,
handed me bottle of HOODS SARsAPARII.
LA, and told me TO take it. j did So and by
the time had taken one bottle found that
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u have been growing better every day, so
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have no soreness in my ankle and it has
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Yours most truly,
JOSIAH PITKIN.
p. s. Every person that saw me said that
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|haVlng running sore on my ankle; but
thank God have. J.P.
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27

Husband Mary, my love, this apple
dumpling is not half done" Wife-'sWeIl,
finish it, then, my dear"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
CHICAGO GRAIN ELEVATORS.

The major didn't try to make him.