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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-20

{ by the way, Joseph Bowes, who stuffed
the little jokers" into the ballot-box at
precinct Is in 1875, was the Superintend.
ent of Schools in Leon when the most of
the school debt was contracted. After
his election fraud was detected, he left
the State between suns" destroying or
carrying with him the county school rec.
orda He is now an ofice-holder in Wash
ington under "our model President
To show further the crushing and ruin
ous extravagance of the old regime in con-
trast with Democratic management, we
present the criminal costs paid by the
county in the three last years (ls74, IS and
~ under the Republicans in comparison
with the same payments in 1877, g and
.. These costs embrace Jail, clerks, con.
stables and Justices fees, and feeding
county prisoners:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
SELF-MADE POVERTY.

would not say harsh words against
poverty wherever it comes it is a Bit
ter i'll but you will mark. as you no.
tiee carefully, that while few are poor
because of unavoidable circumstances, a
very large mass of the poverty of Lon
don is the sheer and clear result of pro-
fuseness, want of forethought, idleness,
and, worst of all, drunkenness. All,
that drunkenness that is the master
evil. If drink could be got rid of we
might be sure of couquering the very
devil himself. The drunkenness Great
ed by the Internal liquor dens which
plague-spot the whole of this huge city
is appalling. No, did not speak in
haste or let slip hasty word. Many
of the drink houses are nothing less
than Internal; in some respects. they
are worse, for hell has its use as a d.
vine protest against sin, but as for the
gin palace there is nothing to be said in
its favor The vices of the age cause
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
AMERICAN FOOD EXPORTS.

The State Department at Washing
ton furnishes the following: DAY by
day American products. in European
markets grow steadily into popular fa-
vor. The department is constantly in
receipt of information from our consul
lar officers in all parts of the world
showing that this gratifying exhibit ex-
tends to every part of the globe. Their
personal testimony not only bears wit
ness to it, but foreign journals forward
ed by them are conclusive evidence Of
the fact. The public have no concep-
tions of the extent to which our manu-
features, and products are entering and
monopolizing foreign markets. A re-
cent dispatch from the Consul at Gene
va shows that American beef and live
stock have reached there and that the
value of choice cattle raised in Switzer-
land for the French markets has been
sensibly diminished. Preserved meats
and fruits from the United States are so
we'll established that they may be left
to take care of themselves, but butter
and cheese could be sold in much larger
quantities in Central and Southern Eu-
rope and profitable market for Ameri-
can flour be found. a newspaper slip
from the Journal de Gene0e of July Is
remarks that every Swiss is aware Of
the serious injury which has been sus-
tanned by the Swiss watch manufactu-
rers and that the same result appears in
the trade in butchers meat, there being
not family which does not frequently
buy one of the so-called "Chicago" cases
containing salt beef or pork of an ex-
cellent quality. Further remarks in the
same strain follow"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
VALUE OF INSECTS.

Who thinks of it :? And yet in the
economy of nature, of what immense i'm
portance they are in all seasons, every
naturalist knows, while in commerce
the amount derived from them is as
founding. We have no figures to pro-
duce in regard to our own trade, for our
statistics do not reach that high state
of perfection which will admit of it, but
Great Britain pays annually $1,000
900 for the dried carcasses of that tiny
insect known as the cochineal; while
another, also peculiar to India, gum
shellac, or rather its productions, is
scarcely less valuable.
More than |, 100000 human beings
derive their sole support from the cul-
ture and manufactures of the fbers
spun by the silk worm. of which the an
nual circulating medium is said to be
100000. In England alone, to say
nothing of the other parts Of Europe,
100000 are spent every year for the
purchase of foreign honey, while the
value Of that which is native is not
mentioned and all this is the work of
the bee; but this makes no mention of
the 10000 pounds of wax imported ev-
cry year.
Besides all this, there are the gall
nuts, used for dyeing and making Ink !;
the cantharides or Spanish fly, used in
medicine. In fact, every insect is con-
tributing, directly or indirectly, in
swelling the amount of our commercial
profits. Even those which in some
cases prove plague and become de-
structive, have their place in the order
of nature, and prevent worse.
Italy is preparing to hold a worlds
| fair at Rome In 1865.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

"Counterfeiting, remarks the DarbarY
Ne'os, "has finally got down to where it
really concerns us. Bogus 10 cent pieces
are afoat.''
Kansas school-teacher: "Where does
our grain go tor" sInto the HOPPER
'What hopper?" "Grasshopper, tri-
umphantly shouted scholar.
Very concise verdict that of coroner's
jury in Idaho, and racy of the soil: 'We
find that the deceased came to his death
by calling Tom Watlings liar
John, how many times have 1 told you
always to eat bread with your meat?"
"Papa, how many times have you told
me never to do two things at timer"
The poet Tennyson is worth 81, 900, 900,
and we don't see what use there was in
his writing "Come not when 1 am dead. ~
They'll be on hand, every one of them,
when the will is opened.
A Pennsylvania clergyman seeing a
young man standing in the doorway of the
church and look hesitatingly about, paus-
ed in the midst of the sermon and ex-
claimed; $50 out young man! She is
not here!"
1t is all plain enough now. 1t is said
that the last meal Tanner ate before COM
mencing his 40-days' fast was composed
wholly of dried apples. When he found
he was losing flesh he drank little
water, and he soon swelled up to his usu-
al proportions.-Nor NorTistoaon Herald.
Edward, you have disobeyed your
grandmother, who told you just now not
to jump down these steps" Grandma
didn't tell us not to, papa. She only
came to the door and said, Il wouIdn' t
jump down those stairs, boys;' and l
shouldn't think she would, an old lady
like her."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
HOW TO SELECT A HUSBAND,

1t has been profoundly remarked that
the true way of telling a toadstool from
a mushroom is to eat it. If you die, it
was toadstool; if you live, it was
mushroom. A similar method is en-
ployed in the selection of husbands !;
marry him, if he kills you he was a bad
husband: if he makes you happy, he is
a good one. There is really no other
criterion. Some young men that seem
unexceptionable, indeed very desirable
when they are single, are perfectly hor-
rid as soon as they get married. All
the latent brute there is in the heart
comes out as soon as sensitive and
delicate being seeks her happiness in
his companionship. The honeymoon
lasts very short time, the receptions
and the rounds of parties are soon over,
and then the two set down to make
home happy. If she has married So
ciety man. he will soon begin to get
bored he will yawn and 60 to sleep on
the sofa. Then he will take his hat
and 90 down to the club, and see the
boys, and perhaps not come home till
morning. If she has married man en-
crossed in business, he will be tagged
out when he comes home. He may bt
a sickly man that she must nurse, {
morose man that she must seek to cheer
drunken man that she must sit uI
for, violent man that she fears, a foo
whom she soon learns to despise, vul
gar man for whom she must apologize
in short, there are thousands of way
of being bad husbands and very few
ways of being good ones. And th'
worst of it is, that the poor silly womel
are apt to admire in single men tn,
very traits that make bad husbands
and look with contempt or ridicule up
on those quiet virtues which make hom
happy. Men with very little persona
beauty or style often make the wifi
happy-and sometimes quite the re
verse. The number of ways of being
bad husband is almost as great as tn
number of ways of being ugly. No on
can tell from the demeanor of singl
man what sort of husband he will bt
However, she must marry somebody.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
"GRoWING YOUNG AGAIN %

A gentleman, the cashier of a Western
bank, who had used Compound Oxygen
for little over month, says in letter:
81 gained eight pounds while 1 was TAX
ing it, and almost began to think that |
was growing young again. As / had no
distinct ailment, but only general sense
of good-for-nothingness accompanied by
extreme nervousness and a inability to
sleep long at a time, my case is not so
striking as many others which | have
read of in your pamphlet; but there must
be multitudes in my condition who would
use your preparation gladly if they knew
of it," Our Treaties on Compound Oxy-
gen, which is sent free, contains large
amount of information in regard to this
new treatment. Address Drs. Starkey &
Palen, 1l09 and iii Girard Street, Phil
adelphia.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
THE TWO VILLAGES.

Over the river on the hill,
Lieth a village white and still.
All around it the forest trees
shiver and whisper in the breeze;
Over 1t sailing shadows 60
or soaring hawk and screaming crow
And mountain grasses, low and sweet,
Grow in the middle of every street.
Over the river under the HILL
Another village lieth still;
There see in the cloudy night
Twinkling stars OF household light,
Fires that CLEAN from the smithy's door,
Mists that curl on the river shore;
And in the road no grasses grow
For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
In that village on the hill,
Never is sound of smthy or mill;
The houses are thatched with grass aud flowers,
Never a clock to toll the hours;
The marble doors are always shut,
You cannot enter in hall and hut;
Never a'grain to SOW or reap;
Never in dreams to moan or sigh
Silent. and idle, and low they lie.
In that village under the hill,
When the night is starry and still,
Many weary soul in prayer
Looks to the other village there,
And, weeping and signing. longs to go
Up to that home from this below;
Longs to sleep by the forest wild
And heareth. praying, this answer fall.
"Patiencel that village shall hold ye ALL"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

A few years ago the States Attorney
in northern county in Vermont, al
though man of great legal ability,
was very fond of the bottle. On one
occasion an important criminal case was
called on by the clerk, but the attorney
with owl-like gravity. kept his chair.
"Mr. Attorney, is the State ready to
proceed % said the judge. "Yes-hic
-no-your Honor" stammered the
lawyer; the State is not-in state to
try this case, to-day; the State, your
Honor, is-drunk 2"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
PLAIN LANGUAGE.

The story is told of sophomore in
college who brought his composition to
the tutor for examination and correc-
tion.. Its subject was conscience :"
and one of It's sentences read, "The ma
ture and province of conscience are such
that, in view of the revealed and per-
feet standard of truth and duty, this in
ward monitor enables us to discriminate
between that which, on the one hand. is
forbidden, and evil in its tendency, and
that on the other which is commanded
and correct in theory and beneficial in
practice"
As the tutor read the sentence, he
said to the student. "What, exactly do
you mean by that?"
why" said the latter, 81 mean that
conscience tells US when we do right,
and when we do wrong" "Then, why
didn't you say so?" said the tutor ?
And the lesson is, "Say what you have
to say in a few words, and words 80
plain that all may understand your
meaning"
Not long since we heard Of return
ed missionary who preached sermon
one Sabbath morning, on missions tc
the Gland of Sinim - and half his hear
ers did not know what land he meant
till, in the evening, the pastor of the
church explained that by Sinim he
meant China.
And the story is told of city minis
ter who, after preaching for a friend il
the country, was told by the latter
"You have given us a very good ser
mon with one exception, and that is
you used some words our people DON
understand" The former thought tn
latter was certainly mistaken, and ask
ed what single word he has used tina
all could not easily understand.
"Why," replied the other, said "yo
felicity instead of happiness. Now al
our people know what "happiness'' is
but great many of them, am sure
do not know the meaning of felicity.
AS the preacher doubted this, the coun
try minister said. There comes one Q
our plain, sensible farmers; We will as
him."
AS the farmer came up he said, "W
were just speaking about word-th
word felicity; can you tell us what
its meaning ?" "Why, yes" said th
farmer; certainly | know what 'fel
city is; it is something inside pis
tho l don't know exactly what ?"
Edward Everett once said he ha
long since found that the great mass {
what are sometimes called plain an
common people could always understan
a speaker if he understood himself ar
used plain language.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

KEEP THE ROADS IN ORDER.-Keep
it before the people, that the trouble
with the country roads is that we hur-
rah boys and spend a pile of money
somewhere, and leave our work-our
work. mind, no matter whose shovel did
it-without the subsequent care needed
for its preservation. We never shall
have good common roads until individ-
ual property holders along the highway
are ready to take pains to stop this waste,
and give some care to their road front,
wherever the town has fixed it for them,
at least. Making good road along
streets where the people don't care for
it is casting pearls before swine. There
are many places in the road where a
wheelbarrow load of gravel. settled with
a pail of water, will prevent bad era
dle-hole, and where few shovels of
earth with the back of hay rake, at
water bar before a shower, will prevent
bad washout.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
IN HARVEST DAY.

Thro' Farmer Gales wide fields passed
Just yester eve
My week of holiday was spent,
And idly on the stile leant,
Taking my leave
ofall the fair and smiling plain,
Wood, vale and hill,
And all the homely household band,
(The warm grasp Of each kindly hand
Bides with me still(
And was sad. The stricken grain
Around me lay;
could but think of silent glade
OF buds aud blossoms lowly laid
The harvest day.
"And this is ALI" 1 sadly said
"These wthered leaves
This gathered grain Springs hours of bliss
And Summers glory turn to this
Some yellow sheavesr
Then Farmer Gale-that good old man,
So simply wise
Who overheard, and quickly turned,
Said, while spark of anger burned
In his gray eyes,
LAD, thou art town-bred, knowing naught
Whereof thou pratestI
For, be the flower as May,
The fruit it yields in harvest day
Is still the greatest
"And thou-thy spring shall quickly pass;
Fast fall the leaves
From life's fral tree. In harvest day
See that before thy Lord thou lay
Some yellow shesves."
He went his way; mine; and now
hear the flow
OF busy life in crowded street.
or eager voices. hurrying feet,
To come and go.
Yet cen while flashing factory looms
My hands engage,
see that far-of upland plain
Its long, low rows of gathered grain,
Its rustic sage,
And.hear them say: LET pleasures fair.
And passions vain,
And youthful folies, fade and die;
But all good deeds, pure thoughts and hlgf'.
Like golden grain,
"Be gathered STILL" Blest harvest store,
That only grows
In hearts besprinked with the blood
That evermOre-a sacred flood
From Calvary flows!
Lord, when Thou callest, when this world
My spirit leaves,
Then to Thy feet, oh. let me come,
Bringing. in joyful harvest-home,
Some yellow sheaYesl
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

The man drew forth his revolver and
laid his hand in his lap. This made
the barber commence to wet his hair.
81 don't want any pump water on
my head" said the man.
The barber put away the water bot
tie, and was about to apply some oil.
II don't want any cod-liver oil on
my head, either" said the man again.
'aWhy ?" asked the barber.
"Say, brush up my hair will you
I've got to go off to-day"
did you say brush up your hair ?"
Il said comb my hair !"
"No you didn't
The man cooked his revolver and
held it closer to the barber, which made
the barber proceed with the brushing.
"You didn't want your hair cut. did
you 2" asked the barber.
"No."
"Shampooed either, eh p
You're going to finish my hair ?"
"Yes, sir, in a minute. It's done
now"
The man quickly vacated the chair
and wrapped up his face.
"How much Is it?'' he asked the
barber.
"Five cents"
Give cents % said the man, with
disgust, IL wouldn't have that shave
for five cents" here's dime.'
And as the man passed out, the bar
ber cheerily shouted, "Next !'-Bur-
Engton Hasokege.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
A BARMECIDAL FEAST.

Love, we tell tales in the night.
Daily BY streams In the noon,
Sing. and our ballads Of fight
BanIsh the ghosts of the moon.
Music we find in the brake,
Lent by the birds in their bowers;
Dawn hangs our flags in the lake
Out OF the shadow Of towers.
We have the red bridal rose,
Pulse OF the tune Of a song,
sweetened by azure repose
skylark has tarried in long.
silvery light on the spray,
Oceans Of opal and spar.
Ruby-faced walls in array
Under the planet of war.
Porphyry vases Of white
Roses and lilies we mold;
Yellow pistoles Of the light
Dropped in the waters of gold.
Gold Of the earth we have none.
Slave Of the mart never keep;
Ours is the gold of the sun
Stored in the Palace of Sleep.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

BEAUTY BEFORE UTILITY.-Humbol
tells us that an Orinoco Indian, though
quite regardless of bodily comfort, will
yet labor for fortnight to purchase
pigment wherewith to make himself ad-
mired; and that the same woman who
would not hesitate to leave her hut with
out fragment of clothing on, would
not dare to commit such breach of
decorum as to 60 out unpainted. Voy-
ayers find that colored beads and trim
kets are much more priced by wild tribes
than are calicoes or broadcloths. Ard
the anecdotes we have of the ways in
which, when shirts and coats are
given, savages turn them to some ludi-
crous display, show how completely the
idea of ornament predominates over that
of use. Nay, there are still more ex-
treme illustrations; witness the fact
narrated by Captain Spoke of his African
attendants, who strutted about in their
goatskin mantles when the weather was
fine, but when it was wet took them of,
folded them up. and went about naked,
shivering in the rain. Indeed, the facts
of aboriginal life seem to indicate that
dress is developed out of decoration.
And when we remember that even among
ourselves most think more about the
ineness of the fabric than its warmth,
and more about the cut than the con-
venience-when we see that the function
is still in great measure subordinated to
the appearance-we have further proof
that the artist is first in human devel-
opment.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

No instance can be pointed out where
the democracy has made honorable re-
sistance to any one of the most outra-
geous and indefcnsible of southern de-
mands. Not one l-Detroit Post.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
Orleans County @Onitur,
PUBLfsHKD WEEKLY ny
GEO. H. BLAKE,
BARTON. VT.

TERMs.-Strictly IN adUanee, $l.50 per annum. II
ot paid in advance, S2.0O year. Subscribers living
outside OF Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
Tor postage. For convenience In remitting, we will
give credit for year and four months for S2 90 TO
ubsoribers In the county and year and three for
b2.OO TO subscribers without the county when sent
trictiy IN advance.
RATHs OF ADVERTISING made known on application
Remit by p. o. Money Order, Registered Letter or
Then your subscription expires, and see that your
payments are kept In advance. When money is sent
s we shall give you the credit on the label at once
the label Is not advanced within two weeks notify
10 by postal card.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

A Maryland farmer is making money
out of an enormous crop of potato bugs.
Being opposed to the use of paris green
he rugged up large wash-boiler in his
field, and hiring six men, collected the
bugs, and soused them in boiling water.
About two gallons were collected, and
by accident piece of old sheep skin
leather, used for lining shoes, went into
the mess. After the cooking had been
going on for half an hour he was aston
ished to find that the leather had chang
ed its color to the richest dark crimson.
This arousing his curiosity, he inserted
other materials, and ascertained another
popularity of the liquid. The material
placed in it changed first to a dark
brown, then greenish hue. then pure
yellow, then light blue, changing to
dark blue; then light red. terminting
in the brilliant scarlet, which was the
permanent color. Consequence for
nation of stock company to make dye
ing mixtures from potato bugs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
HOODS
SARSAPARILLA

Has decided" claims upon the public. This
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
ed testimonials, every one OF which Is pos
tive fact
CHELSEA, VT, Feb. "a, 1879.
MEssRs. G. j. HOOD & Co., Lowell, Mass:
The 9th day Of last June / was taken sick
with swelling on my right foot. and with an
awful pain. The swelling went all over me-
My face was swelled so that could with diff
ilculty see out of my eyes, and ! 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 bandage through in an hour.
In this condition Mr.. w. +. Hood (of the firm
of A. r. Hood & Son, druggists, of this town.
handed me a bottle of HOODS SARsAPARII-
LA, and told me to take ii. did so, and by
the time had taken one bottle found that
II was doing me good. 1 have since taken
five bottles more. After had taken three
bottles my soreness began to leave me, and
i have been growing better every day, so
that to-day can walk without going lame.
| have no soreness in my ankle and it has
healed all up, and does not run at all. owe
my recovery to your Sarsaparilla. write
this to let you know that think 1t deserves
the confidence OF the public, especially those
who are troubled with humors.
Yours most truly,
JOSIAH PITKIN.
p. S. Every person that saw me said that
] never would get over my lameness without
having running sore on my ankle; but
thank God have. J.P.
Noother rSarsaparillahass such sharpening
effect upon the appetite. No other prepa-
ration tones and strengthens the digestive
organs like HOODS SARsAPARILLA.
Price one dollar, or six bottles for five dol
lars. Prepared only by G. /. HOOD g. CO..
ApothecalieS, Lowell, Mass.