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SIGNIFICANCE OF PERSONAL
BEAUTY.

A beautiful person is the natural form
of beautiful soul. The mind builds its
own house. The soul takes precedence
of the body and shapes the body to its
own likeness. A vacant mind takes all
the meaning out of the fairest face. A
sensual disposition deforms the handsom-
est features. A cold, selfish heart shriv-
els and distorts the best looks. A cher
ished hatred transforms the most beau
tiful lineaments into an image of ugli-
ness. 1t is as impossible to preserve good
looks with brood of bad passions feed
ing on the blood, set of low loves tramp
ing the heart, and a selfish, disdainful
spirit enthroned in the will, as to pre-
serve the beauty of an elegant mansion
with litter of swine in the basement, a
tribe of gypsies in the parlor, and owls
nd vultures in the upper part. Bad
ness and beauty will no more keep COM
pany great while than poison will con-
sort with health, or an elegant carving
survive the furnace fire. The expert
ment of putting them together has been
tried for thousands of years, but with
one unvarying result. There is no sculp-
tor like the mind. There is nothing
that SO re6nes, polishes and ennobles face
and mien as the constant presence of
great thoughts. The man who lives in
the region of ideas, moonbeams though
they be, becomes idealized. There are
no arts, nogymnastics no cosmetics which
can contribute tithe so much to the dig
nifty, the strength, the ennobling of a
mans looks as a great purpose, high
determination, noble principle an un-
quenchable enthusiasm. But more pow
erful still than any of these as beauti-
fer of the person is the overmastering
purpose and pervadlng disposition of
kindness in the heart. Affection is t he
organizing force in the human constitu-
ton. Woman is fairer than man because
she has more affection. LONELINESS is
the outside of love. Kindness, good
will, and prevailing desire and deter
mination to make others happy, make tie
body a temple of the Holy Ghost. The
soul that is full ofpure and generous af'
fections fashions the features into its
own angelic likeness, as the rose by in
herent impulse grows and blossoms into
loveliness which art cannot equal
Home Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
WHAT FOUR WOMEN DID.

The Boston TraveLer tells story OF
four sisters who we're left orphans by
the death of their father. Vermont
farmer. They had farm up IN the
mountains, which. at best. yielded but
q scantv income. Their only brother
was a young boy, for whom they were
ambitious. With little money and a
great fund of energy they came to Bos-
ton; not to put their names on some
..Woman's Union" or semi-charitable
institution, as highly educated young
ladies' who want ladylike employment
and sit about for something to turn up
finding fault. meantime, with a cold'
unfeeIing world. They took house IN
the business part of the city, took what
boarders they could accommodate but
made the piece de resistance OF their
enterprise, day board.
They opened two parlOrs' which were
for a dining-room. They were carpeted
draped. picture-hung and made gener-
ally refined, and people like to come to
them. The table is arranged with the
most scrupulous neatuess. The linen Is
dainty and always fresh; the silver is
bright; the details in every respect are
those of refined home. The meals
are not elaborate, but everything is ez-
cellent of its kind, perfectly cooked and
perfectly served.
With the aid of one servant these
four young women manage their estab-
lishment. In dainty, white, ruf1ed
aprons they serve the Eguests at their
table in graceful, lady-like way that
attracts people. They have placed their
young brother in school, they are
making a comfortable support, and have
their own pleasant home together.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
THE LITTLE OLD WOMAN.

There's little old woman lives over the way
In gambrel-roofed cottage unpainted and gray,
And where the brown grape vine is climbing across,
The shingles are covered with patches of moss.
By the wood fre-side, in the winter she sits
In llst-botomed rocker, and sings as she knits
In quavering voice with tremulous Groom,
And the click of her needle keeps time the tune.
Her Bible she reads, slowly turning the leaves,
And she garners bright grain from it's beautiful
sheaves;
And the tears dim her eyes as she lifts them on high
In search of her treasure laid up in the sky
In her best Sunday gown, whether alling or well,
She trots to her meeting at sound of the bell,
And she sits in her pew like wren on perch,
This little gray dame in Puritan church.
Our very old people remember, they thIuk
When her hair was as glossy and black mink.
And her cheeks red roses her teeth white pearls
And this little old woman the farest of girls.
She had dear lover, alack and a day!
sailor who sailed from the beautiful bay;
And the summers may .lush and the winters may
pale,
But their sun never shines his homecoming sail.
AT q little round table from over the sea,
She sits at the sunset and pours out her tea,
And the delicate cup and It's saucer are white
As floating pond-y just kissed by the light.
And the ship under sail, with its flag at the mast,
All laden with memories brought from the past,
Is painted upon them as life-ike and fair
AS the mirage that floats in the orient air.
His ship that he sailed in, his sweetheart to wed,
By others fOrgotten-the sunset grows red
But the little old woman just murmurs prayer,
And smiles as she knows her lover is there.
But day will soon come when the lilac's perfume
Through the half open window will float through the
room,
And the house will be quiet and she be at rest,
With single white rose on her motonless breast.
And the angels will with their glittering WINGS
While the parson he prays and the choir it sings,
And bear to the home that is farer than day
The little old woman from over the way
Providence Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
THE CLEAN NEWSPAPERS.

There is a growing feeling in every
healthy community against the journals
who make it their object to minister to
perverted taste by seeking out and serV-
ing up in a seductive form disgusting
scandals and licentious revelations.
These is good reason to believe that the
clean newspaper is more highly priced
to-day than it was four or five years
ago. 1t is also safe to predict that, as
people in all ranks of life, who wish to
protect their own at least from contami-
nation, become more conscious of the
pernicious influence of certain class of
journals, called "enterprising" because
they are ambitious to serve up dirty
scandals, they will be careful to see
that the journals they permit to be read
in the family circle are of the class that
never forget the proprieties of life.
Already men and women of refinement
and healthy morals have had their at
tention called to the pernicious infu-
ence of bad literature. and have made
commendable efforts to counteract the
same by causing the sound literature to
be published and sold at popular prices.
These efforts are working silent but
sure revolution. The best authors are
more generally read to-day than at any
previous time. The sickly sentimental
story paper, and wild ranger and pirate
story book, are slowly yielding the field
to worthier claimants. 10 the praise
of the decent newspaper it may be said,
that where it has a place in the family,
and has been read for years by young
and old. it has developed such healthy
tone and such discriminating taste
that the literature of the slums has DO
admirers. Fortunately, the number OF
sueh families is increasing IN the land,
and as they increase the journal that
devotes itself to sickening revelations OF
immortality will be compelled to find its
supporters solely among those classes
that practice vice or crime, or are am
bitious to learn to follow such ways
Boston Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

he gives start an shout as rang in
our ears like trumpet. Joe!' he cried
Joe Look at him-!- In the Flytrap 7
We all turned an looked where he was
pointin'. Jerusalem l think we won't
get that picter out of our minds agin.
One of the great leaves of the Flytrap,
that had been shut and touchin' the
ground as it lay, was slowly rolling
back its hinges. There. like child in
its cradle, was Alabama Joe in the hol-
low of the leaf. The great thorns had
been slowly driven through his heart as
it shut upon him. We could see as he'd
tried to cut his way out, for there was
slit in the thick feshy leaf, an his
bowie was in his hand but it had
smothered him first. He'd laid dewn
on it likely to keep the damp off while
he were awaitin' for Scott, and it had
closed on him as you've seen your little
hothouse ones do on fly; an there he
were as we found him, torn and crush
ed into pulp by the great jagged teeth
of the man aatin plant. There, sirs, |
think you'll own as that's curious
story"
"And what became of Scott ?" asked
Jack Sinclair.
"Why, we carried him back to Simp-
sons on our shoulders, we did. Made
a speech, too-a fine speech-from the
counter. Somethin' about the British
lion an the 'Merican eagle walkin' arm
in arm forever an a day. And now,
sirs, that yarn was long and my cheroot's
out, so | reckon I'll make tracks afore
it's later" and with "Good-night ~
he left the room.-Londoa Society.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
Twisted hemp cures felons.

Why is the sun like good loaf? Be-
cause it's light when it rises.
Why didn't dog want place in the
ark? Because he had bark of his own.
Lady to doctor: ''My tongue is very
sore" She protrudes it. Doctor to lady ::
"Only sunburnt, madam"
A young bride being asked how her
husband turned out, replied that he turn
ed out late in the morning and turned in
late at night.
A Western editor, while he disclaims
all wish to injure any one, still wishes his
delinquent subscribers would be seized
with remittant fever.
The Sultan of Morocco has divorced
200 Of his wives, and proposes to pass the
remainder of his life in peace and quiet,
even if he has to go around without a
button on his shirt.
In a paper published in Rhode Island in
1862, the following account of protract-
| ed drought is given: "Our COWS are dry
ing up, our pumps are dry, there is no
water, and the minister of the Baptist
church is dead"
Vennor is red-headed. What could you
expect Of a red-headed prophet? We al
ways did hate red heads, and now we
abhor and detest them. persons with
auburn hair, or golden, or sandy, or ma
hogany-brown are not included in this
| category. )-BOstOn Transcript.
Ella Wheeler, the dreamy-eyed Wiscon-
sin poetess, in poem recently published,
says if she could be aught inanimate she
| would like to be an engine Ella is a
beautiful piece of machinery as she is.
All the trouble with her is that she is dis
connected. What she should have is an
engineer Cleveland Leader.
Old Nose and another old darkey were
standing in front Of the Ne,cs office, dis
cussing matters and things, when Jim
Webster happened to pass. ''Dar am
about forty regular chicken stealers in
Galveston, including Jim Webster" re-
marked the old man. Jim overheard the
remark, so he came right up to Nose and
threatened to eliminate him if he did not
take it back. "Den dar am forty regular
chicken stealers in Galveston, not includ.
in Jim Webster. Is yer satisfied now?'
Jim said, very much affected: "Uncle
Nose, when man 'pologizes, he jess dis
arm me right dar. Shake, old man
'Taint often nowadays dat anybody fiat
ters me as you has jest done. ."-Galuestoa
Nelcs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
IN THE TWILIGHT.

AS we grow old, our yesterdays
Seem very dim and distant;
We grope, as those in darkened ways,
Through all that is existent;
Yet far-of days shine bright and clear
With suns that long have faded,
And faces dead seem strangely near
To those that life has shaded.
AS we grow old, our tears are few
For friends most lately taken,
But fall-as falls the summer dew
From roses lightly shaken
When some chance word or idle strain,
The chords Of memory sweeping.
Unlock the food-gates of our pain
For those who taught US weeping.
As we grow old, our smiles are rare
To those who greet US daily,
Or, if some living faces wear
The looks that beamed so gayly,
From eyes long closed, and we should smile
In answer to their wooing,
'Tis but the past shines awhile
Our power to smile renewing.
As We grow old, our dreams at night
Are never Of the morrow;
They come with vanished pleasure bright,
Or dark with olden sorrow;
And, when we wake, the names we say
Are not of any mortals,
But of those in some long-dead day
Passed through lifes sunsets portals.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

and down several times. If the pain
is chronic it will require more rubbing
to Danish it. This treatment cures
rheumatism, neuralgia, disease of the
spine, congestion, pleurisy, kidney dis
ease, disease of the heart, and a great
many others diseases too numerous to
mention. Persons who are weak and
debllitated can be put on their feet in a
few days by this treatment. The rub
bing must be done by person of ner-
vous temperament to insure success.
Try it: it acts like magic, giving an
aged person a youthfulness of feeling
known only to the young. ] am anxious
to know what scientific persons think of
this. Is it the nerves, the rubbing, or
the tea which performs such miracles?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

1t is said to have cost the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul company at the
rate of $500 mile to remove the snow
blockade on a portion of its line. For
many miles the roadway has been used
for ordinary travel. and the snow was
packed down so hard that it had to be
loosened with picks. A prominent Of
fetal of the Milwaukee railroad is au-
thority for the statement that the cost to
that and the Northwestern company by
loss of business, cost of snow-shoveling,
and contingent expenses growing out of
the snow blockade of the winter, will
not be less than S2,O0O,0O0.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

Itching Piles-Symptoms and Cure.
The symptoms are moisture, like per-
spiration, intense itching, increased by
scratching, very distressing, particularly
at night, as if pin worms were crawling
in and about the rectum; the private parts
are sometimes affected; if allowed to con-
tinue very serious results may follow.
CDR. SWAYNE'S ALL-HEALING OINTMENT
is pleasant sure cure. Also for letter,
itch, salt rheum, scald head, erysipelas,
barber's itch, blotches, all scaly, crusty,
cutaneous eruptions. Price so cents. 3
boxes for SLIPS. Sent by mail to any adj
dress on receipt of price in currency, or
three cent postage stamps. Prepared only
by DIR. Swayne Son, $50 North Sixth St.,
Philadelphia, Pa, to whom letters should
be addressed. Sold by all prominent
druggists. Ally
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

The NUISANCE OF SMoKE.-Men whose
dress is accepted as proof of good man
ners often carry into the parlors of their
lady acquaintance sickening suggestions
of after-dlnner cigars, and even doctors,
on their professional visits, sometimes
sicken with the scent of tobacco, the pa
tients they 60 to heal. There is much
to be said in favor of an occasional cigar
but the habit of smoking should be kept
within decent bounds. Apples are Of
fered for sale as freely as cigars, and
their flavor is generally pleasing, but
if one man of every three OF four were
to MUNICH apples whenever or wherever
he happened to find a few moments of
leisure and were to make all places re-
dolent of apples. the public would de-
nounce the custom as an intolerable nui-
sance. When smoker finds that the
tobacco habit impels him to burn his ia
vorite incense under his nose wherever
he is not strictly prohibited from doing
so, it is time for him to sacrifice his hab-
it to save his manners.-N I. Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
said a western lawyer, "isn'

Judge" said western lawyer, "lsn t
e-q-u-i the way to spell equinOmical? :?
IL think So" said the judge, "but III
look it up in WebsterS dictionary" He
fumbled over the pages for five minutes.
and then said, in heat: "Nell, I've
been a Webster man and voted for him
for president, but any man that will
write dictionary and leave out such a
common word as 'equinOmicaP cant
have my vote any more"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

A lady of experience writes the Inter
Ocean from Woodruff, H.: | have dis
covered that if strong hop tea is applied
with the palm of the hand to any sur
face afflicted with pain, the pain in
most cases will instantly disappear
Have the tea milk warm; dip your
hand in the tea, then rub briskly up
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

What we sow in youth we reap in age.
The seeds of the thistle always produce
thistle. The possibilities that wait upon
YOU who are yet in the spring-time OF
existence, who are yet holding in your
own hands the precious gift of time, can
not be estimated. Do not forget that
a useless life Is an early death
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
DESPERATE CASES.

Many of the cases which come to US for
treatment by Compound Oxygen are of a
class which no physician of any school
would undertake to cure. They are, in
fact, such as have run the gantlet of ex-
pertinent within the regular schools of
medicine, and of quackery without, until
between disease and drugs the patient is
reduced to the saddest and most deplora-
BILE condition, and one for which relief
seems impossible. No curative treatment
can be subjected to severer test than is
offered by these cases. And yet, in many
of these, the most brilliant results have
followed the use of Compound Oxygen.
A record of some of these cases will be
found in our Treaties on Compound Oxy-
gen, which is mailed free. Drs. Starkey
& Palen, 1109 and I'LL Girard Street,
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
WEST GLOVER.

FAILING HEALTH CAUSES THE sUBSCRI-
ER TO OFFER THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY
/ OR SALE:
STORE. DWELLING HOUSE AND BARN
TTACHED.
ONE good DWELLING House AND
BARN ATTACHED.
ALSO ONE FARM OF 100 ACRES, ONE
'tILE FROM SAID WEST GLOVER.
FOR MORE PULL DESCRIPTION CALL
ND EXAMINE THE PREMISES OR ADDRESS
4 HE SUBSCRIBER.
A LIBERAL AMOUNT OF THE PURCHASE
honey CAN LAY ON MORTGAGE IF DESIRED.
4 GOODS CHEAPER THAN EVER UNTIL
bTORE is SOLD.
E. O. RANDALL.
DEO. 27, 1880.
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Orleans County @onitpr,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. HI. BLAKE,
BARToN,VT.

TsRMs.-Strictly in aduance, $1.5o per annum. If
OF paid in advance, s.. 90 year. Subscribers living
outside of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
|Or postage. For convenience in remtting, we will
five credit for year and four months for 81 to
ubscribers in the county and year and three for
2.00 to subscribers without the unity when sent
trictly in Advance.
RATes OF ADVERTISING madeknown onapplication. &.
Remit by P. o. Money order, Registered Letter, or
PRATT. Watch the label on your paper and notice
.vhen your subscription expires and see that your
payments are kept in advance. When money is sent
shall give you the credit on the label at once;
the label is not otadvanced within two weeks, notify
k 8 by postalcard.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

Three young lads in New Haven, Conn,
have been bound over for the murder of
Henry w. Wright, whose body was found
at the bottom of Rubber pond, after hav
ing been there eleven days.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
Hair Work! !!

Switches. Curls Puffs and Erzzes made to order in
neat and wOrkmanlike manner. Also, Gents
EuaTd Chains and variety of Hair Flowers, single
formed In a wreath. Give me call All orders
y mail promptly attended to.
MRS. ] N. SMITH. Park St., Barton, VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
" That Extreme Tired FeeIing,D
Ohm C. Haynes & Co.,
99 COURT STREET, BOSTON.

Gusical Boxes in Great Variety.
Brass Band Instruments.
Violins.
american Guitars Warranted.
Imported Guitars.
Banjos from $500 upward.
Violin, Violoncello, Double Bass,
Banjo, Either and Harp Strings
and Trimmings.
Accordeons and Concertinas of all
descriptions. American and For
eign Sheet Music, Music Books,
&C., &C., Wholesale and Retail.
This establishment is one of the branch stores Of
LIVER DITsoN & Co.. and possesses unequalled ad-
ntages for the importation of instruments from the
lest manufacturers in Europe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
VIM. B. DODGE.

r DWELL, VT, AGENT FOR THE VERMONT
i Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Montpelier,
t. Insure dwellings, farm property, household
rniture, ETC., and mercantile risks, for the term of
hree or five years. All honest losses equitaby ad-
listed and promptly paid.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

4 Gea week in your own town. Terms and S. outfit
pOOfree Address z. Eallett Co., Portland. Maine.
Watches. Stem winders s. White metal Hunting Case
S. Imitation gold &C. Solid gold S2 Cheapest and best
for speculative Valuable cat
n Alogue free THOMPSON CO., 132 Nassau St. New York
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NENTIST, BARTON, VT. OFFICE IN ROBIN
sons Block Halls store. Consultation free.
las and Ether administered for the painless extraction
teeth. Nabo used to prevent pain in filling teeth.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26
Stopped the Paper.

Recently we gave our views of the
strife between Messrs. Billings and
Willard, advancing the idea that Mr..
Wizards success would be much better
for the country than the success of
his opponent. A reader in Klickitat
stops his Historian because of his
disagreement with our views. He
says he went to Goldendale because he
had hopes that ''sooner or later" the
railroad would pass there-and now
he stops taking the only newspaper in
Oregon that has ever advocated the
building Of such railway as he desires.
Alas for the short sighteGness of some
men. Do you not know, sir; that a
narrow gauge railway will "sooner or
later" be built from Ainsworth through
the only route available to the Colum-
bia river below Dalles cityl probably
before the locks are finished at the
Cascadesl Can you not see that with
out the Oregon business the Northern
Pacific Railroad company, "nOr any
other man" or set of men, could
make anything by railrOading in
eastern Washington territoryl Do
you realize that the Northern Pacific
railroad company begins and ends no
wherel The Duluth terminus ia block
ed with ice and snow FIVE months
annually. Can you not see that with
in three years Mr.. Willard has advanced
his line almost across the continent,
and that any class of men who will
bli,pily and madly oppose him are a big
ger set of idiots and asses than Prof.
Hornet found at the temperance
lecture in Glocester. We don't beg
for your patronage, sir; but pity your
folly and your ignorance. Wake up,
and have some style about you; comb
that hay-seed out of your hair and be
! a man.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26
County Traasurers Notice.

THERE is MqNEYlIN THE COUNTY
II Treasury TO Iag ar County orders pre-
SeS Se1see P PTGE 70 As5 18th ih,d IO All All such Sa
after this date,/ cHAS. HEILBORN.
COunN Treas1rer Of ClatSop County.
Astoria, Asril II, 81. d&w
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26

An anti-mOnopoly league is be-
ing organized, with branches in all
parts of the country.