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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
ssFIVE AND TWENTY YEARS
AGO"

All! good wife, have you forgotten
Days when you were young and fair =?
Time of rosy cheeks and dimples,
Time of sunny, golden hair?
Not thought of toll could vex US.
Grief or care we did not know;
You and were young together
Five and twenty years ago.
In the strength of hopeful manhood.
1.-the and straight and tall stood;
And you waited close beside me.
Crowned with blooming womanhood;
Now, life's twilight shades are falling,
While the years crowd on apace,
And on heart and form and feature
Care and grief have left their trace.
We have heard the church bell tolling,
We have filed pale hands with flowers,
We have robed our precious darlings
For the graves dark, lonely hours;
We have seen the wee chairs vacant,
Aged friends we've bid "Good-bye;"
Ger green graves we've wept together
All how ofteni you and I.
But the summer bloom is followed
By the ''sear and yellow leaf"
And the golden harvest comes not
Till we break the burdened sheaf;
Hearts may love in sunny weather,
When youths freshest roses glow;
That can i'll hatida tho pait;np
For the ripening years of snow.
But the rapture of loves morning
Brightens still our noon-tide ray,
And hope paints glorious sunset
For our last declining day:
And cen long or short the journey,
That our tagging feet may know.
Love is ours, the love we plighted,
Five and twenty years ago.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
MISSED THE GLORY.

''No, I'm not one of the old veterans
of the war; he slowly replied to the IN
quiry, but it wasn't my fault. l want
ed to be there. but something always
held me back"
"That was too bad"
eyes, it was. When the war broke
out | offered to 60. but was in Jail on
SIX months sentence and they would
not take me. l was innocent, of course,
but as I was in jail the recruiting officer
had to refuse me. Lands but how |
did ache to get down to the front and
wade in gore"
'.And when you got out of Jail"
"Yes, got out, but just then my
mother died. was on my way to en-
list when she died, and of course that
altered my plans. No one knows how
badly | wanted to be down there and
wade around in blood and glory"
"Well, you didn't have to mourn all
through the war. did you? % -
"0h, no. Bless your soul, but only
mourned for thirty days, and then |
started out to enlist in the artillery.
was just about to write down my name
when a constable arrested me for breach
of promise. and it was four months be-.
fore | got through with the suit. All !!
sir, but if you only knew how ! suffered
ar being held back when others were
winning glory on the field Of carnage,
you would pity mel"
"But the suit was finally decided ?"
.Yes. finally, and within an hour af-
ter the jury brought in verdict | start
ed for Toledo to enlist in the cavalry"
"And you enlisted p
"Almost. | was examined by the
doctor when l got dispatch that the
old man had fallen into the we'll, and Of
course had to 60 home. l hadn't got
the undertaken paid when lightning
struck the barn. Then some one set
fire to the cheese factory. and soon after
that had three ribs broken and was
laid up for a year. When finally did
get around to enlist. the doctor rejected
me because was color-blind. near-sight-
ed. lame and deaf. tell you, sir,
when | think of the glory lost and the
gore didn't shed. it breaks me right
down, and don't even care for soda
water. Hear the band! See the old
vets and the ex-prisOners! Hang my
hat, but why wasn't | born with legs
long enough to kick myself over into
Canada T. .sr -s..s +-.--
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

A Toronto paper says that two young
ladies, actresses, on thier way East, from
California, became interested in the sto-
ry of poor widow whom they met on the
train, and who was bringing the body of
her husband and her four children from
Chicago to Boston. Their sympathy was
actively manifested. for heading su0-
scription literally themselves. they col
lected fund of nearly one hundred aed
fifty dollars from their fellow travellers.
and caused the widows tears to flow
afresh by presenting it to her.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

ness, wear it manfully and proudly, but
holly. Woo woman bravely. If
there is anything huniliating to a wom-
an it is to have a lover, whom she wish
es to honor, weak and vapid, ever yield
ing and half afraid of her. She longs
to tell him to "act like man ~ The
man who conceals or denies his love for
fear of being laughed at is coward.
A love that has no element of divinity
in it is not love. but passion, which of
itself has nothing ennobling. That was
beautiful inscription on an engage
ment ring. "Each for the other. and
both for God .
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

MEN AS LovERs.-In the FIRST place,
it is an imposition on any well-bred girl
to keep her up later than 1890 o'clock.
when you have the opportunity of seeing
her often. If you always leave her with
the wish in her heart that you had stayed
longer. you gain SO much. Never run
the risk of wearyiug her with your pres
ence. Be just as earnest and straight
forward as in your honorable dealings
with men. Impress your friends with
the worthiness and seriousness of your
love, 50 that vulgar and senseless ban
tering will appear to them as such.
Love is religion-the supremest happi.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

SIT WORKS LIKE A CHARM patient
from rheumatism, sent for Compound Ok
ygen, and a week after receiving it,
wrote: sit works like charm! For six
weeks had suffered agony, and nothing
relieved me until your medicine came. 1t
is one week today since / commenced the
inhalations. and the Improvement is Won
derful, and thank God and you." Treat
ise on Compound Oxygen" sent free.
Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

II just went out to see friend for
a moment" remarked Jones to bis wife
the other evening as he returned to his
seat in the theater. "Indeed." replied
Mrs. J., with sarcastic surprise. al sup
posed, from the odor of your breath.
that you had been out to see your worst
enemy" Jones WINGED.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

Do you wish to master any science or
accomplishment Give yourself to it.
and it lies beneath your feet. Time and
pains will do anything. This world is
given as the prize for the men in ear
nest.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

We cannot live on probabilities. The
faith in which we can live, bravely and
die in peace must be certainty. SO far
as it processes to be faith at all, or it is
nothing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
LYDIA =. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
Is a Positive Cure


for oil those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses
e. common to our best female population.
1t will entirely the worst form CT Tccla,o Com
plants oil ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Ccera
tion Falling and Displacements, and the consequent
Spinal Weakness and Is particularly adapted TO the
Change of Life.
1t will dissolve and expel tumors from the uterus in
early stage Of development. Tho tendency TO can
cerous humors there checked very specify its
1t faintness, fatulency destroys oil craving
for stimuants and relieves weakness OF tac fomach
1t Bloating, Headaches, Nervous frostrntton,
General Debility sleeplessness Depression and lndi-
gestlon.
That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight
and bockache is always permanently cured by its use
It will ut all times and under all circumstances act In
harmony with the laws that govern the female system
For the of Kidney Complaints Of either sex this
Compound is unsurpassed.
LYDIA E. PINKHAMS VEGETABLE COM
POUNDS Is prepared at 233 and a35 Western Avenue
Lynn Mass Price 81 Six bottlesfor So. Sent by NAL
in the form of pills, also in the form of ozenges
receipt of price, 81 per box for either. Mrs Pnkhn
freely all letters Of inquiry Send for pamph
let. Address above Mention this Paper.
No family should be without LYDIA z PINKHAM's
LIVER PILLS. They constipation, biliousness
and torpidity of the liver Is cents per box
EE Sold by all Druggists. IA
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

81 can't think that all sinners will be
lost" said Mrs. Nimbletung. There's
my husband now He's bad man. a
very bad man but | trust he will be
saved at last. | believe be has suffered
his due share in this life" "Amen !"
shouted Nimbletung from the back seat.
Mrs. N. gave him such look. but said
nothing. eHas
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
ISN'T TT SO

Mans fool
When it's hot he wants it cool;
When it's cold he wants 1t hot
Ne'er contented with his lot.
When It's dry
He for showers is heard to sigh;
When-to meet his wish--it rains,
OF the wet he then complains.
Hot or dry, cold or wet,
Nothing suits that he can get;
/ consider, as rule,
Mans fooli
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

To REMOVE DANDRUEF.-This is a
natural secretion but becomes a cutane-
GUS complaint by neglect. Take an
ounce of powdered borax. piece of un-
Stacked lime the size of chestnut and
a tablespoonful of spirits of ammonia !;
put them in quart bottle and fill it
up with boiled or pump water. After
twelve hours apply it best with fine
sponge. Rinse with tepid water. Af-
ter few applications the scales will
disappear, the hair become soft and
brilliant, and the young hair will be
seen to start out. Dandruff should be
cured gradually. SO as not to produce
sick headache or dizziness by its sud-
den suppression.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18


tive fact.
CHELSEA, VT, Feb. "a, 1879.
MEssRs. G. /. HoOD & Co., Lowell, Mass:
The 9th day of last June was taken sick
with swelling on my right foot, and with an
My face was swelled so that could with diff
1iculty 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. F. Hood (of the firm
of A. r. Hood & Son, druggists of this town.,
handed me bottle of HOODS SARsAPARII-
LA, and told me to take it. / did so, and by
the time had taken one bottle found that
it was doing me good. I have since taken
five bottles more After / had taken three
bottles my soreness began to leave me, and
that to-day I can walk without going lame.
l have no soreness in my ankle and it has
healed all up, and does not run at all. owe
my recovery to your Sarsaparllla. write
this to let you know that think it 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.
MOTHER Sarsaparilla has 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 C. I. HOOD & Co.
ApOthecarieS, Lowell, Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

It's hard to believe Miss Whittier was
cured of such terrible sores by Hoods Sar-
saparilla, but reliable people prove it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
"shall you profit by it?,' asked Jen.

81 think l shall try" said she.
But we will not say whether she prof
tied by the tale of her aunt or not.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

MANNER AND ITS lNFLUENCE.-Many
person who has nothing but sweet
manner to recommend him, is remarka-
bly, popular among his fellows. Suaye
people seldom 60 out of their way to
help friend in distress. but they have
smile for everybody, which costs moth
ing. They lubricate the path of their
pilgrimage with soft words. "If they
feel obliged to decline" doing the favor
you ask of them-and this they are
pretty sure to do-they refuse with such
grace that they seem to be comforting
an honor upon you. Others are unpop-
ular simply because of their want OF
manner. They may be just and gener-
GUS, but they are not always careful to
confer favors with gentleness and amen
ity. Those whom they aid do not love
them any better for their gifts. They
never give unless they are satisfied that
the gift is needed, and will be rightly
used. They never give. merely because
they are asked to give. They do moi
make parade of their gifts, because
they are not liberal for the sake of max
ing themselves popular. They are faI
better friends than the first named class
but they are not nearly as well beloved
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

A certain amount of opposition is a
great help to man. Kites rise against and
not with the wind.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

SELLING PEDDLER.-A correspond
ent tells of an amusing incident that oc-
CURED on train that was crossing the
Rocky Mountains A travelling peddler
undertook in the cars to sell a large
diamond" ring to a miner who had
made his pile. "Humph." said the mi
ner, after critically examining the ring,
"they've got common stones up in the
diggins where I've been that'll cut that
diamond all to pieces !" "If you'll find
a piece of stone that will cut that dia-
mond I'll give it to you," replied the
peddler. ''All right said" the miner. 'ff
can't cut that diamond with a stone
Iii buy it of you" Thereupon the mi
ner took the ring in his hand and pulled
from his vest-pockot piece of brown
looking stone, similar to bit of dark
freestone, except the grain was very fine,
and with this he proceeded to cut and
scratch the diamond with several ugly
looking scratches. A group of passen-
gers that had gathered around the miner
were amazed, but while they smiled, the
peddler with his diamond withdrew
discounted. THAT little piece of brown
stone" explained the miner. sis piece
of corundum that | got in the Rocky
mountains. and it's the best diamond
tester in the world. 1t won't scar a
genuine diamond, but it will everlast-
ingly cut up pieces of glass or quartz"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

I recommend no sour, ascetic life. |
believe not only in the thorns on the
rose-bush, but in the roses which the
thorns defend. Ascerticism is the
child of sensuality and superstition.
She is the secret mother of many sin.
God, when he made mans body, did not
give us fibre too much, nor passion
too many. I would steal no violet from
the young maiden's bosom rather
would | fill her arms with more fragrant
roses. But life merily of pleasure, or
chiefly of pleasure, is always poor and
worthless life, not worth the living al
ways unsatisfactory is its course. al
ways miserable in its end.-1heados.
| Parker.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
HOODS
SARSAPARIL-LA

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 a pos
tive fact.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
J. A. PEARSON,

HE OLD DENTIST. MAIN STREET. BARTON,
Vt. All work done in best manner and war
Jed. Gas and Ether used when desired.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

ENLIST. BARTON, VT. OFFICE IN ROBIN
sons Block over Halls store Consultation free.
and Ether administered forthe painless extraction
eeth. Naboli used to prevent pain in filing teeth.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
G. H. GREEN,
T. M PERRY.

G. Fl. GREEN,
EALER IN BURIAL ROBES, G OFFINs, CAsK-
cts and Furniture. Austin's Block, Barton
ding, Vt. Hearse provided at funerals.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18

When you rise in the morning form a
resolution to make the day happy one
to fellow-creature. 1t is easily done;
left-off garment to man that needs it,
kind word to the sorrowful, and encour-
aging expressions to the striving-trifes
in themselves light as air-will do it, at
least for twenty-four hours. But if you
are young, depend upon it it will tell
when you are old and if you are old.
rest assured it will send you gently and
happily down the stream Of time into
eternity. By the most simple arithme-
tical sum, look at the result. If you
send one person, only one, happily through
the day, there is three hundred and sixty
five in the course of a year. And sup
pose you live forty years after you COM
mence that course of medicine, you have
made fourteen thousand six hundred
beings happy. at all events. for time.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
G.. H. NEWLAND,

MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN FURNI.
ture. Collins and Caskets, Carpets, Room Pa
etc., Glover, Vt. Ill
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
|rleaas County Momitpr,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO III. BLA hE,
BARTON,VT.

ERMs-Strictiy in aduance, ,$1.5 per annum. If
paid in advance, 90 year. Subscribers living
ide Of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
postage. For convenience in remtting, we will
credit for one year and four months for So co. to
scribers in the county, and one year and three for
IttLy in GdUGnce.
TIES OF ADVERTISING madeknown onapplication
init by P. o. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
II. Watch the label on your paper and notice
'n your subscription expires and see that your
lnents are kept in advance. When money is sent
We shall give you the credit on the label at once;
pc label is not otadvanced within two weeks, notify
.y postalcard.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
L. H. THOMPSON
]. f. DWINELL


TTORNEY, COUNSELOR AND SOLICITOR
Also Bounty and Pension Agent. Irasburgh, Vt
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-12
The Mayor Wants to Sec Thee

A young man mad been to sea, and on
his return he narrated to his uncle al ad-
venture which he had met on board
ship.
III was one night leaning over the taf-
frall, looking downinto the mighty ocean,"
said the nephew, whom we will call VIII
liam, ''whcn my gold watch fell from
my fob and Immediately sunk out of sight.
The vessel was going ten knots an hour,
but nothing dauntcd, sprang over the
rail, down, down, and after long search
found it., came up close under tho stern and
climbed back to the deck without any one
knowing had been absent"
"William," said his uncle, slightly Gle.
vating his broad brim, and opening his eyes
to their widest capacity, show fast did
thee say that the vessel was going?"
"Tcn knots, uncle"
"And thee dove down into the sea aud
came up with the watch, and climbed up
by the rudder chains2'
"Yes, uncle"
"And thee expects me TO believe thy
story2'
"Of coursc You wouldn't call me a
liar, would yous"
"William." replied the uncle, gravely,
'thec knows mover call anybody names;
but, William. if the Mayor of the city were
to come to me and say: "Josiah, want
to find the biggest liar Ia all Philadelphia,
l would come strnight to thee, and put my
hand on Thy shoulder, and say to thee,
William, the Mayor wants to see thee"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-12
The McXiCA IBurrOH,
~

The morning after the day l reached
Santa Fe, l left my mud hotel early and
strolled slowly about, taking IN greedily
the fresh, cool air and the unusual sights.
Turning corner off from the plaza-what
in the States would be called park, a
square, common, or something else
saw just ahead group of burros, or dim.
inutivc donkeys, urged OH by Mexican
and his son. Each donkey was loaded
no, overloaded-wilh stovc-wood bound to
a pack saddle. AS the pony walked brisk
ly the load swaycd and shifted, threat
ening every moment to slide off,
but only threatening. The Mexican
hurried on his burros by small
stick, and by rolling out an al
phabct every few feet that it seemed to me
ought to scare each donkey's soul clear of
his body. But they only amblcd little
faster fora moment, and then rclapscd
INTO their fast walk, picking up each foot
nlmb.y, and putting it down surely. They
had no headgear Of any kind on, and seemed
to be guided entirely by the drivers voice
and stick. AS ! watched the group the
driver suddenly stopped his burrOs. and
going 10 front window in low adobe
house that seemed to FIJI completely the
small square bounded by four streets, he
exchanged q few words IL the Spanish or
Mexican language with lady who had
drawn across her face, just below the nose,
the inevitable mantilla. The window soon
closed, the driver gathered together his
straying donkeys, and, urging them on
with even more energy than before, turned
two corners, and then stopped before n
gate IN tho high, dead wall. 1t opened
presently, and he started donkey through.
But although the gate was double one,
and the way very wide, the donkey's load
was wider. And then what twisting, and
straining, and contriving, and, fear,
swearing a Ia ttone edge of the load was
got through. and then tho other; the dom
key, meanwhile, aiding in every possible
| way. | was much surprised to catch a
glimpse, through the gateway, of an open
| space, which had supposed, from an out
side view, was occupied by the house en-
| tirely. This space, or court, Is common,
| learned, and Is called the placcta; II is an
exceedingly poor mans house that ls not
arranged in this way, having It's four sides
inclosing the hollow squares within. AS
turned from these donkeys saw most
astonishing sight, a load of cOrnfOdder
coming briskly up the street apparently OF
its own volitionl But on nearing mo there
was to be seen the long noddlng cars, the
little feet and the slim legs Of the omni
present burro. The patient little beast was
loaded all but out of sight; his burden ap
pcared as large as a cOmmon-sizcd load OF
hay (though, of course, 1T was noD, ant
stil he hurried on, entirely oblivious of tht
fact that his driver had stopped In door
way to exchange buenos dias with {
friend and roll cigarette, probably hil
sixth or eight since breakfast, an hour ant
q half ago.