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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
THE LOST OCCASION.
BY JOHN GRERNLEAF WHITTIER.

BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
Some die too late and some too soon,
At early morning, heat Of noon,
Or the chill evening twilight. Thou,
Whom the rich heavens did so endow
With eyes of power and Jove's own brow,
With all the massive strength that fills
Thy home horizons granite hills,
With rarest gifts Of heart and head
From manifest stock inherited,
New England's stateliest type of man,
In port and speech Olympian;
Whom no one met at first, but took
second awed and wondering look
(As turned, perchance, the eyes of Greece
On Phidias' unveiled masterpiece);
Whose words, in simplest homespun clad,
The Saxon strength of Cadmon's had,
With power reserved at need to reach
The Roman forums loftiest speech,
Sweet with persuasion, eloquent
In passion, cool in argument,
Or, ponderous, falling on thy foes
As fell the Morse gods hammer blows,
Crushing. as If with Talus' fail,
Through Errors logic-woven mail,
And failing only when they tried
The adamant Of the righteous side,-
Thou, foiled in aim and hope. bereaved
OF old friends, by the new deceived,
Too soon for us, too soon for thee,
Beside thy lonely Northern sea,
Where long and low the marsh-lands spread,
Lay wearily down thy august head.
Thou shouldst have lived to feel below
Thy feet Disunions's fierce upthrow,-
The late-sprung mine that underlaid
Thy sad concessions vainly made.
Thou shouldst have seen from sumpter's wall
The star-fag of the Union fall,
The armed Rebellion pressing on
The broken lines of Washington
No stronger voice than thine had then
Called out the utmost might Of men,
To make the Unions charter free
And strengthen law by liberty.
How had that stern arbitrament
To thy gray age youths vigor lent.
shaming ambitions paltry prize
Before thy disillusioned eyes;
Breaking the spell about the wound
Like the green withes that Samson bound;
Redeeming, in one effort grand,
Thyself and thy imperiled landl
All, cruel fate, that closed to thee,
o sleeper by the Northern sea,
The gates of opportunity
God fills the gaps of human need,
Each crisis brings it's word and deed.
Wise men and strong we do not lack:
But still, with memory turning back,
In the dark hours we thought of thee,
And thy lone grave beside the sea.
Above that grave the east winds blow
And from the marsh-lands drifting slow
The sea-fog comes, with evermore
The wave-wash ofa lonely shore,
And sea-bird's melancholy cry,
AS Nature fain would typify
The sadness Of closing scene.
The loss Of that which should have been.
But, where thy native mountains bare
Their foreheads to divner air,
Fit emblem of enduring fame.
One lofty summit keeps thy name.
For thee the cosmic forces did
The rearing Of that pyramid.
The pre- scient ages shaping with
Fire. flood, and frost thy monolith.
Sunrise and sunset lay thereon
With hands of light their benison.
The stars of midnight pause to set
Their jewels in its coronet
And evermore that mountain mass
Seems climbing from the shadowy pass
To light, as If to manifest
Thy nobler self, thy life at best.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14

Courage is a wonderful agent in
throwing off disease. A walk OF hve
miles would cure many an occupant of
the lounge. Will-power will surpass
nill-nower in nine cases out of ten, If
not in every one. To hold a bottle Of
smelling salts in one hand on account OF
a headache may be just the thing at
times, but to fling pound of fruit cake
out into the alley, and then walk fur
long as a reward for not eating the
compound, is nearly always much
better thing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
HUMoRING THE CHILDREN.

AhSAO 10 q WOAA0 VI 0AACAOnSC W.
tween humoring the children to what is
good for them, and what is bad for
them. 1t is bad to humor them in hav-
ing their own way, for this will come to
be the thing they chiefly value; and in
the long run nothing can be more dis
astrous to a child than to always have
Its own way. 1t is bad to humor them
in habits of deceit, disorder, tardiness,
llltemper, and in the expectation of be-
ing waited on unnecessarily, pampered
and coddled. 1t is bad to humor them
in eating what is not good for them. in
sitting up late, in reading frivolous or
low-toned papers or books, in neglect
ing habits of personal cleanliness and
tidiness. 1t is very bad to humor them
in expressions or conduct showing a
lack of honor for parents. respect for
their seniors, courtesy toward their
mates, and kindness to servants. 1t is
bad, in word, to humor them in any,
thing as children, that you would not
wish them to be or do as men and wom-
en-.
1t is good to humor them in all nat
ural manifestations and cravings of their
affections. A child hungry-hearted for
love, is one of the saddest sights IN the
world. Hardly less pitiful is the con-
dition of little one who is perpetually
repressed or discouraged in the sweet
impulses that prompt it to give express
sion to its love. That way danger lies.
The boy or girl will not easily go wrong
whose arm is twined morning and night
around mothers neck, or whose head is
welcomed to its cuddling place on faith
er's shoulder. 1t is on the side of their
affections that children are most easily
held and guided, and the frmest rein is
the invisible, golden cord of love. 1t is
good to humor children in following
their natural bent in all right and help
full directions. Remember that educa-
tion is only the leading out of powers
and faculties that arc within. Encour-
age, therefore, such inclinations toward
books. studies. mechanics, music, out
of-doors pursuits and healthful sports.
as shall help most truly to develop your
child. If your boy is square peg hu-
NOR all his efforts to find square spaces
into which to fit his growing life. If
he is round don't try to shuttle him in
to the square holes that he can never
fill.
As education comes more and more
to include the discovery and develop
ment Of natural aptitude. it will be
more and more successful. 1t is good
to humor your children in preserving
their individuality-in being alone,
when they nationally choose to be,-and
in fostering true self-respect. Con-
formity mars more characters than it
makes. 1t is well to crafty their de-
sire for spending money by teaching
them early the value of dime and dol
lar. If you can give them but five cents
a week, tell them what it costs somebody
in labor, and hold them strictly to their
allowance.
The philosophy of early training is
to make the child father to the man.
mother to the woman. The homely
proverb, ''As the twig is bent, the tree
inclines" is not yet outgrown. 1t is as
true now as in ancient times, that if
some twigs are permitted to grow as
they incline, the tree will be crooked
one.-Golden Rule.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
CHuRNS.

We make the very best churn for large daries that
made In the United States. They are the Improved
sx Churn. We make them in sizes TO suit and prices
|e ali the way from SO to $50. So one will churn
pm 10 80 pounds, sic one from to 60 pounds
|her sizes IN proportion. All can be run by power
|e also sell Barrel Churns.
HORSE POWERS to run churns from SI2 upwards
on work for platform or round table horse powers
Is the best and cheapest for a cheap power. Porta-
I Cider Presses and Grinders, Blacksmith Tire Bend
D, Tuyere Irons, Clothes Reels ito be used out Of
ors), Clothes Dryers Or indoors) Box Stoves No. 26
III 80, Post Drivers, French Roll Pans Baking Pans,
pye Backs, Harrow Teeth. Crestng and Iron Fence
ork. Wagon Jacks. Sled Shoes. Sugar Arch Doors,
fates. Pan Rests, Heater Frames. Cast Iron Sugar
fches-l6 different sizes-all the way from a small
garngo stove to the very largest evaporator (send
4 get circulars), Window Weights Buzz Planers,
Unstable Saw Benches, jacquard Machinery, Looms,
no Card Cutters, Gear Cutting Gearing and Pulleys
"nd and Power Elevators, Portable Forges Iron
ftings Generally.
Machinery OF all kinds made to order. Machinery
Barring promptly done. Agent for the American
tpd Saws, will not crack in running Please give me
enll ifyou want anything in my line. Yours,
John w. MurkIand.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
|Fhe purest and Best Medicine ever mado.N

A combination OF Hops, Buchu, Mandrake
ana DnndeltOn, with all the best and most cura-
tive properties OF all other Bitters makes the great
est BLOOD Purifier, Liver Regul ulator, and Life
and Health Restoring Agent on earth.
No disease or I'll health can possibly long exist
are their operations.
They give IifO and vgor TO the aged and lnnrm.
To all whose employments cause irregularity of
the bowels or urinary organs or who require an Ap
petizer, Tonic and mild Stimuant, Hop Bitters are
Invaluable without into xicatinR.
No matter what your feelings or symptoms are
Don't walt until you are sick, but If you only feel
bad or miserable, use the Bttters at once. 1t may
save your life. Ithas saved hundreds. 60 |
$500 will be paid for case they viii not cure OF
help. Do not suffer nor let your friends suffer- but
use and urge them to use Hop Bitters.
Remember, Hop Bttersis no vile, drugged, drunk
en- nostrum, but the Purest and Best Medicine ever
made; the "Invalids Friend and Hope" and
no person or family should be without them.
Get some this day.
HoP CoUGH CURE Is the sweetest, safest an d best
Ask Children.
One HOP PAD for Stomach, Liver and Kidneys "A
superior to all others. Ask Druggists.
ID. i. @. is an absolute and irresistible cure 70 4
Drunkenness, use Of opium, tobacco and narcotics!
Altsdby druggists. Hop Btsr MfE. Cs. Rsohsstsr T..
Send for Circular ~
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14

"Tom, where is that ten dollar coun-
terfeit bill you had while ago :?
"Well, Massa, never was pos tive
about dat ar bill. Some days | tink
it war bad bill !; oder days | tink it
war good bill; SO one O dem. days
when | thinks is war good bill | Jes
dun gone and passed it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
PLOW POINTS.

We own the right to manufacture the "Smith
atent Plow Point" They steel tips or points,
nd can be sharpened and hardened by any blacksmith
o furnish the point for any kind OF land plow point
lat we have patterns for. Names and numbers Of
ow points always on hand.
LAND PLOWs.-Wooley, l, l-2, 2; Morrill, Wool
y, l, 2P and road plow; Barnet l, g. 8; Vermonter,
2, 81; Planters Friend, 81; Bristol. g 2I25, g. !;
luzzell, 2B, @; Double board point, / Clipper l.
lagle, 2, 90; Doe, Il, Concord IN. H., 23,4; j..
curse, l, "a; John Rich and Others
SIDE-HlLL.-Holbrook FTI5A, FH2A, RH2 g.
Z sanborn, ], q Charter Oak $50, 100, 10; Buzz
fn. l,2; Patrick, 9; Rich, 2; Murkland, /; wooey,
Hinesburgh, Strickland 2; Bradford Gold Digger,
2; Eureka, 6; (Morrisvile) and Eureka 4, 5; (Tuu-
|idge) Lufkin, 8; j. NOurse. S3. Bl; Centennial !;
pringhed, u Hakes. 28; Lebanon, /; b. b. Hawes
MI nLhnr.-ann nnn.LauLI. all.,... ~
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14

Milk will keep sweet for longer
time in glass than in metal or wooden
vessels.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
WORTH KNOWING

There are 1850 languages.
Two persons die every second.
The average human life is 81 years.
Slow rivers flow seven miles per hour.
A moderate wind blows seven miles
per hour.
A storm moves sc miles per hour.
A rife ball moves 1000 miles per
hour.
Light moves 10000 miles per Sc
cond.
The first steam boat piled the Hud.
son in 1907.
The first iron steamship was built in
1880.
The horse railroad was built in
1S26-7.
Gold was discovered in California in
l94S.
The first printing press in the United
States was introduced in 1929.
The first almanac was printed by
George Won Purbach in 1860.
Until l776 cotton spinning was per-
formed by the hand spinning wheel.
An acre contains 4,48O square yards
A mile is 5,29O feet or l,76O yards
in length.
A fathom is six feet.
A league is three miles.
A Sabbath days journey in the Bible
is l,l55 yards (this Is Is yards less
than two thirds of mile.
A days journey is 33 l-3 miles.
A cubit is two feet.
A great cubit is i feet.
A hand (horse measure) is four in.
ches.
A palm is three inches.
A span is 10 7-S.
A space is three feet.
A barrel of -four weighs 1876 pounds
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A barrel Of rice weighs 200 pounds.
A barrel of powder weighs 25O pounds
A frkin of butter weighs 56 pounds
A tub of butter weighs 81 pounds.
The following are sold by weight pei
bushel
Wheat, beans and clover seed, &C
pounds per bushel.
Corn, rye and flax seed, Sc pounds
per bushel.
Buckwheat, Sc pounds per bushel.
Barley 49 pounds per bushel.
Oats, 35 pounds per bushel.
Bran, 80 pounds per bushel.
Timothy seed, 45 pounds per bushel
Coarse salt, S5 pounds per bushel.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
Orleans County @pmitur,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. H. BLAKE,
BARTON, VT.
BARTON. VT.

TERMs-Strictly in adUaRce, $l50 per annum. If
not paid in advance, $200 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 $780, to
subscribers In the county, and year and three for
$500 to subscribers without the county, when sent
strictly IN ddUdnce.
RATES OF ADvERTIsING made known on application.
Remit by p. o. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
Draft. Watch the label on your paper and notice
when your subscription expires. and see that your
payments are kept in advance. When money is sent
us we shall give you the credit on the label at
us by postal card.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
Barton Foundry and Machine Shop.


We make the famous wooey Plow Is sizes). The
o. Is his famous premium plow and all sizes are
st he made them and all work as well and better
han when made by Mr.. Wooley. for the reason they
re all ground smooth before leaving the shop. We
sO make slde-hill plows, and satisfied that
an and will give you better plow for your money
han can be bought elsewhere in Vermont. We have
n hand "A Il ev aecond. ha of tbaru 10
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14

for treating ones elders with the defer
ence due to age, in whatever garb they
are clothed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14

Hitherto when professional diver
went under water tube has supplied
him with air. But Mr.. ,Fleuse has pat
ented process by which an experienced
diver can remain under water for hours,
having within his helmet and dress a
supply of compressed oxygen gas, di-
luted with nitrogen, which is naturally
present in his lungs and in the diving
dress when he assumes it. The exhaled
carbonic acid being brought into contact
with caustic soda, the deadly gas is
transformed into simple carbonate of
soda. 1t is asserted that numerous ex-
periments and tests have conclusively
proved that Mr.. Fleuss' system is at
tended with no inconvenience. and the
expense is one-half that of the old
method. Mr.. Fleuss is only %. His
process has been brought out since the
Tay Bridge disaster.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14

MILK AND LIME WATER-Milk and
lime winter are now frequently prescribed
by physicians in cases of dyspepsia and
weakness of the stomach, and in some
cases are said to be very beneficial
Many persons who think good bread
and milk great luxury, frequently hes
itate to eat it for the reason that the
milk will not digest readily; sourness
of stomach will often follow. But expe-
rience proves says the Journal of Mate
ria Medica, that lime water and milk
are not only food and medicine at an
early period of life, but also at a later,
when, as in the case of infants, the func-
tions are feeble and easily perverted.
A stomach taxed by gluttony, irritated
by improper food, infamed by alcohol,
enfeebled by disease, or otherwise un-
fitted for its duties-as is shown by the
various symptoms attendant upon indi-
gestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery
and fever-will resume its work, and do
it energetically, on an exclusive diet Of
bread and milk and lime water. A
goblet of cows milk may have four
tablespoonfuls of lime water added to it
with good effect. The way to make
lime-water is simply to procure a few
Jumps of unslaked lime, put the lime in
a stone jar, and add water until the lime
is slaked and of about the consistence
of thin cream; the lime settles, leaving
the pure and clean lime-water on the top.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

The sharks fin is a delicacy which il
rarely omitted from the menu at Chi
nese feast, 1t is one of the "great
classic dishes" forming the pieces de re-
siStance of an official banquet, and is
eaten either in the form of joint,
garnished with crabs, or served up in
small pieces in cups placed before each
guest. The consumption of rats,
though it seems to be somewhat on the
decline, is the cause of very impor-
tant traffic in the principal towns OF
certain districts, and especially in a
street in Canton called Hing-Loung-
Kai. Here these animals may be seen
in enormous multitudes hanging up in
the shop windows among chickens and
ducks and geese. They are for the
most part dried and salted, and when
in that state are esteemed a sovereign
recipe for those whose hair is getting
thin. Besides the dishes peculiar to
the Celestials'alone, there are a variety
of differences in their mode of cooking
and eating foods unknown to our cui-
sine. Hams, for instance, are kept for
a year, or even two years, buried in
heaps of saw-dust, which impart to
them taste of wood much appreciated
by the gourmets. Broad beans are fer
mented, and, after being mixed with
salt from very favorite sauce, eated
with all sorts of viands. Finally, the
habit Of eating "rotten eggs" which
sounds so strange to European ears, is
explained by showing that the so-cal1ed
rotten eggs are only ducks eggs pre-
served for long time in air-tight en-
velopes made Of ashes, chalk, tea
leayes and number of other strange
substances, until the yolk turns first to
a green color, and than to fine black,
when it is considered fit to. be eaten
London Globe.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01
The Great Iowa rleteoEite.

| This great meteOrite, which fell In
Iowa the early part Of last year, Is tkas
| described by Professor THOMPSON, Of
the Minnesota State University, ia re-
cent astronomal essay: MAY 10, l879y
was a bright, clear clOudless lay. Gt
5 O'Clock in the afternoon, in full sun
shine, the meteorite passed through the
air, exploded and fell in the town
of ErterVille, Emmett county, lows,
about ten or twelve miles below Che
Southern boundary of Jackson county,
Mimi, in latitude 43 degrees so minutes
north o. degrees so minutes West from
Greenwich. The path 1T followed
marked a course from Northwest to
Southwest, and was seen for a distance
Of several hundred miles. It's appear
ance in the heavens was that Of huge
globe of fire attended by fiery cloud.
The people who saw it were greatly
alarmed; not more at the flying ball Of
fire which seemed so near to them, than
at the terrific explosions Immediately
above them; those who did not see it
thought an earthquake had occurred,
and were in great terror. The noise
accompanying its flight is described as
rumbling, cracking, crashing, similar
to that produced by train Of cars
crossing a long bridge; then came
very loud report, followed Immediately
by two distant reports in quick success
sion, though not so explosive or loud as
the first. 1t struck the ground in
separate masses, together with smaller
fragments scattered over an area of
three or four miles. There were two
large pieces which fell about two miles
apart. The largest mass, weighing 40
pounds, now at Keokuk, Iowa, pene-
trated a hard blue clay soil, to the depth
of twelve feet. Another mass, weigh
ing 10 pounds, now at the State Uni
versity, fell on dry grassy knoll, and
was buried to the depth Of five and a
half feet. A few rods from the largest
mass was found fragment weighing
thirty pounds, and school-bOy picked
up specimen weighing three pounds.
The form of all the pieces is like that Of
rudely detached masses from quarry,
or elected from the mouth of volcano.
The mass in the museum of the Uni
versity has an irregular rhombOidal
outline, about fifteen by eighteen inches,
of an average thickness of six inches,
and when first obtained was covered, as
most meteorites are, with a black shin
ing coat or crust. The largest mass is
not so regular in its formation. 1t is
more ragged and bristles with points of
nickeliferous iron. Professor Heinrich,
of the Iowa State University, pro-
nounced it the more valuable of the
two large masses; but a full analysis
will probably determine them to be one
and the same. While the nickeliferOus
iron seemed more abundant in the
largest, the crystalline formations are
far more numerous in the smaller.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01
The DeIuge.

The result Of our long review au-
thorizes us to affirm the story of the
deluge to be q universal tradition
among all branches Of the human race,
with the one exception, however, of
the black. Now recollection thus
precise and concordant cannot be a
myth voluntarily invented. No relig-
iOus or cosmonogic myth presents this
character of universally. 1t must
arise from the reminiscence Of real
and terrible event, so powerfully i'm
pressing the Imagination of the first
ancestors Of our race as never to have
been forgotten by their descendants.
This cataclysm must have occurred
near the first cradle of mankind, and
before the dispersion Of the families
from which the principal races were to
spring; for it would be at once inn
probable and uncritical to admit that at
as many different points of the globe
as we should have to assume in order
to explain the wide spread of these
traditi0ns-local phenomena so exactly
alike should have occurred, their memo
ry having assumed an identical form,
and presenting circumstances that need
not necessarily have occurred in the
mind in such cases.
Let us observe, however, that proba-
bly, the diluvian tradition is not primi-
tive, but imported in America; that it
undoubtedly wears the aspect of an i'm
portation among the rare populations
of the yellow race where it is found;
and lastly that it is doubtful among the
Polynesians Of Oceanica. There will
still remain three great races to which
it is undoubtedly peculiar, who have
not borrowed it from each other, but
among whom the tradition is primitive,
and goes back to the most ancient
times; and these three races are pre-
cisely the only ones of which the Bible
speaks as being descended from Noah,
those of which it gives the ethnic fila
tion in the tenth chapter of Genesis.
This observation, which [ hold to be
undeniable, attaches a singularly his
toric and exact value to the tradition as
recorded by the Sacred Book, even if,
on the other hand, it may lead to Civ
ing it more limited geographical and
chronological significance.
But as the case now stands, we do not
hesitate to declare that, far from being
a myth, the Biblical Deluge is a real
and historical fact, having, to say the
least, left its impress on the ancestors
of three arces-Aryan or Indo-Euro-
pean, Semitic or Sero-Arabian, Chami>
tic or Kushite-that is to say on the
three great civilized races of the an
cient world, those which constitute the
higher humanity-before the ancestors
of those races had as yet separated,
and inthe part of Asia they together
inhabited. Contemporary RevteW.