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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14
MACHINE POLITICS.

All the defeated candidates regard
the persons who defeated them as con-
stituting machine, and always imagine
that there is some wicked conspiracy at
the bottom of the machine. Some of
the recent reformers regard the people
who take part in the early stages of a
political campaign, who attend caucuses
and primaries, who speak of politics to
their neighbors, as members and parts
of the machine, and regard only those
as good and reliable citizens who take
no part whatever, simply reserving the
right to grumble after the work has
been done by others. Not much can be
accomplished in politics without an or
ganization, and the moment an organi
cation is formed, and you might say,
just little before, leading spirits will
be developed; certain men will take the
lead, and the weaker man will, in a
short time, unless they get all the
loayes and fishes, denounce the whole
thing as machine, and to show how
thoroughly they detest the machine in
politics, will endeavor to organize lit
tie machine themselves. Gen. Garfield
has been in politics for many years.
He knows the principal men in both
parties he knows the men who have
not only done something, but who are
capable of doing something, and such
men will not, in my opinion, be neg
lected. do not believe that Gen. Gar
field will do any action calculated to di-
vide the Republican party. No thor
oughly great man carries personal pre-
judices into the administration of public
affairs. Of course thousands of people
will be prophesying that this man is to
be stumbled and another to be paid but,
in my judgment, after the 4th of March
most people will say that Gen. Garfield
has used his power wisely, and that he
has neither sought nor Stunned men
simply because he wished to pay debts,
either love or hatred-Robert IngerSoU
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

THE CHOICE OF BooKs,-A very elegant
little volume with the above title, by
Charles F. Richardson, is just issued by
the American Book Exchange, Tribune
Building, New York, at the very low price
of % cents also cheap paper edition at
the nominal cost of five cents. 1t will
delight all who love good books, and in
its wise suggestions will be greatly help
full to all who want help in choosing the
best books. In it's various chapters it
treats of The Motive of Reading, The
Reading Habit, What Books to Read, The
Best Time to Read, How Much to Read
Remembering what One Reads, The Use
of Note Books, The Cultivation of Taste,
Poetry, The Art Of Skipping, The Use of
Translations, How to Read Periodicals,
Reading Aloud and Reading Clubs, What
Books to Own, The Use of Public Libra
ries, The True Service of Reading The
volume is remarkably rich in striking
| quotations from the worlds most famous
| authors and thinkers, from Aristotle to
Emerson, including such names as Addi-
| son, Bacon, Burns, Cato, Carlyle, Disraeli,
| FenelOn. Gibbon, Hugo, Keats, Lamb,
| Locke, Luther, Milton, .Petrarch, Ruskin,
| Shakespeare, and Thoreau. 1t is real
| literary treasure house.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

closely as sardines and stood four mortal
hours about the inaugural stand, risking
health and even life for the pleasure of
being within sound of the Presidents
voice. As the hour at length came for
the appearance of the Chief, enthusiasm
reached its highest pitch and when the
president-elect, seated by him whose light
was waning to final extinction, appeared
cheer after cheer arose and with the soft
voice of music and the tramp of twenty
thousand soldiers feet the one man for
whom all this parade was made stood be-
fore the people, kissed the Holy Book,
then turned and kissed his dear mother,
who had lived to see this proud day, then
kissing his wife and shaking hands with
Mrs. Hayes, the ceremonies ended. The
President delived his inaugural scudding
under bare poles-or to speak more plain
ly-baring his bald head to the piercing
blast. A man who can endure such
weather, hold reception the evening of
the same day, shake hands with half the
nation the next day, give private audience
to tOw-path clubs, Garfield clubs, Office
seekers, etc, can surely hope to sLight
his torch at Natures funeral pile" The
visitors are not all gone home yet; on
Sunday thousands visited the different
city churches, and the Christian church
which Garfield attends was especially
visited, indeed it was visitation. Hun
dreds could not gain admittance, and the
President coming late-he doubtless over
slept-found blockade through which he
struggled with difficulty. Across the riv-
er, in Alexandria, crowds of visitors
thronged Christ's church throughout the
day to look at the building so dearly as
ISOLATED with the name of Washington
and also with the Lee family. Many OF
visitors broke off small twigs of bushes to
carry away from the sacred spot and one
enthusiastic devotee picked up an OLD
boot which was lying in the yard, declar
| ing he would take it to his northern home
| as memento of his visit. The military
| display on the fourth of March was the
finest since the great review of July 1865
HIS TX MARK.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

Secretary Blaine intimates that the
public would probably be surprised to
learn how many men declined cabinet
positions before the list of secretaries
was made up. There would be nothing
surprising in this to any one familiar
with the increasing difficulties of Sec
rotary at the head of Washington de-
partment. A cabinet officer can do a
good deal in carrying out existing laws
and managing his department to suit
himself. provided always he is resolute
man with as much backbone as brains !;
but in that wide field of official action
where new laws are needed to make ex-
ecutive reforms possible secretary is
practically helpless. He has no vote in
Congress, no means, outside of the post
Office and possibly the treasury depart
ment, for influencing votes, and he is
simply forced to struggle along as best
he can with the laws as they are. Sec
rotary Sherman won brilliant reputa-
ton executing the funding act of 1870
and the resumption act of 1875, which
he drew but in procuring legislation
his career as cabinet officer was dead
failure, and he left office with all the
reforms he proposed in his first report,
and which depended on legislation un'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.

ESPECIAL coRREsPoNDENcE OF THE MONITOR
WASHINGTON, d. c., Mar. Z, 1881.
1.-THE night ushered in by thunder,
Terrific lightning blazed along the sky,
thrust my head two feather pillows under,
And said my prayers and then prepared to die
Heavens artillery was brought to bear
upon the one point where the massed
troops from North, South, East and West
waited to do honor to the incoming pres
ident. Thursday night will be long re-
membered. Early in the evening a real
old fashioned thunderstorm, accompanied
by rain, burst upon the city and was sue.
ceeded by a binding fall of snow. No
pageant planned by man could have been
half so attractive. The Capitol was lost
in the white shroud, only the light upon
the dome which hung in mid-air as though
let down from the sky, or it might have
seemed the misty light in one of those
beautiful air castles we build whether
waking or dreaming. On the east side of
the Capitol soldiers, bearing torches, were
drilling in the snow, and the star-like
glimmer of each light, added to the gilt
ter of the city lamps, made a picture no
artist could copy. As the wind howled
around the corners, rafting loose shutters
and threatening to demolish the work of
weeks that had been finished but that day.
in view of the Inauguration, every one
was saddened by the prospect of what
awaited us on the morrow. At midnight
the storm still ragged and Friday morning
found the rain beating against the win
dows and the wind blowing young tor
nado. At an early hour the sound of
music broke upon the ear above the din
of the war of elements. The splendidly
dressed companies of soldiers breasted
the gale and began forming in line. Now
the storm ceased, though the wind kept
on its travels as it had not quite reached
the end of its journey. The sun at length
consented to smile and, but for the wind
and the wet, cold pavements, the day
might have been comparatively respecta-
ble But weather has little effect upon a
Yankee nation like ours if there is any
thing like menagerie, circus, camp meet.
ing, or military parade on hand, and there
| were hundreds who packed themselves as
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

en- fitness and ability. 1t suffers i'm
measureably at the outset by compari-
son with Mr.. Hayes choice of advisers,
but that aside. it is unquestionably
much above the average of cabinet or
CARNATIONS. Gen. Garfield will COM
mand the ship. This fact will signify
in administrative councils and conduct
what Gen. Grants command of the ar
mics of the nation implied in the pros
ecution of the war of the rebellion.
The secretaries are all men in the prime
of life, able. aggressive and loyal, rep
resenting faithfully republican senti-
ment. Con6ding in President Garfield S
good judgment, the people will look to
see efficient officials develop among the
members of the new cabinet Vermont
WatchDaan.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

The Hamilton Manufacturing Com
pany of Lowell is to build a new mill
of $4,000 spindles. The building will
be 365 feet long, rs feet wide. and six
stories in height. The new mill will
give employment to 600 or 700 opera
tives. The construction of new cotton
mills in New England by those who
know most about them does not look as
if they feared the sceptre of cotton man
ufacturing was about to pass to the
South.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

Mr.. Moody, with his faithful lieuten-
ant SankeY has conquered San Francisco.
There has long been vague popular be-
lief that the Pacific coast offered only
stony ground for missionaries. Owing,
perhaps, to the veracious pictures of
MIR. Bret Harte, the untraveled Ameri-
can is apt to regard California as peo-
pied solely by bonanza kings, heather
Chinese and gamblers of a murderous
but sentimental character who offer an
unhopeful field to any evaugelists.
Messrs. Earle and Hammond have Wis
tied California, but without success.
The secular papers in San Francisco,
however, state that the result of the
present labors of Moody and Sankey in
that city are not only startling but prom.
Use to be permanent. mo evangelists, -
they say. ''since the days of Whiteield
have seen more immediate or important
effects of their labors than these two
men," From which we may conclude
that men and women in California
whether they are heather Chinese OF
gamblers, are pretty much like men anC
women elsewhere who have souls to b,
saved.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

The present position of the National
banks of the country in relation to the
public debt and proposed rcfunding
operations as indicated in the Funding
bill renders the recent report of the
Comptroller of the Currency of unusual
interest just now. According to that
report, issued November 81, 1880, there
were 1905 National banks in the Uni
ted States, located in every State in the
Union, except Mississippi, and in every
Territory except Arizona. Fifty-seven
National banks were organized from
Nov. |, 1879, to the same date in 1880
with an aggregate organized capital of
S6,374, ITO, to which 1862, 200 in
circulating notes have been issued The
total number of National banks organiz-
ed since the beginning of the system,
Feb. %, 1868, to Nov. |, 1880. is g.
495. Of these 3l4 have gone into vol.
untary liquidation, and Sc have been
placed in the hands of receivers for the
purpose of closing up their affairs. The
capital invested in National banks al
the present time amounts, in round
numbers, to nearly S46O.O0O.O and
their resources to over S2,IOO,OOOO 900
They have circulation of nearly S3l9.
100000. and bonds Deposited with thu
Treasury to secure circulation to tn,
amount of nearly $36O.0O0,OOO. Tn,
banks had on hand at the beginning o
1881, United States bonds amouGtin.
to nearly 100000. The loans ant
discounts of these banks now excee'
81, O4O, 0OO,OO0
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

That was great triumph of Senator
Morrill, of this state in the Senate the
other day, as well as significant of the
standing and influence of the Vermont
Senators. A special committee of six
was raised on a site for the congress
sional library. Senator Voorhees, was
chairman and Senator Morrill, was plac-
ed on the committee. Five of the COM
mittee reported in favor on one site,
while Mr.. Morrill, found himself "alone
in his glory" in favor of another, which
was nearer the Capitol, and of course
much more convenient and accessible.
The majority made their report and ar
gued its adoption. Mr.. Morrill, made
his minority report, ably urged its adop-
ton, and opposed that of the majority,
and the result was the Senate adopted
Mr.. Morrill's report, by vote of three
to one Vermont can take much pride
in the representation in the Senate, and
that too, not in conceit, but on genuine
merit and ability-Betlovs Fall Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

BE Decentralization sickness and depression
comes, do not buy tonic btters 1t is better to die
Of disease than drunkenness. Buy bottle OF Favor
tie Remedy" and cleanse the system. The great null
titude of human ills have their foundation impure
blood. DR.. Kennedys .Favorite Remedy" attacks
these at the fountains head and makes the stream
life pure. Only one dollar per bottle. All druggists
sell it DIR. David Kennedy, proprietor, Rondout, N.Y.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14
Municipal elections were had in the

Municipal elections were had in the
cities of Maine on Monday. Portland,
Lewiston, Auburn, Bath and Rockland
were carried by the Republicans by
large majorities, while the temperance
candidate carried Gardiner. The may
ors-eIect are: Portland, William SEN
ter; Lewiston, NJ. Y. Laden; Auburn,
Mayor Woodman; Bath, 4. W. Hyde !;
Rockland, John S. Chase; Gardiner,
Joseph E. Lund.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14

We agree with President Garfield
that the negro should be educated and
should be carefully guarded in his
rights. II such work, as he says,
"sections and races should be forgotten
and partisanship be unknown" And
we agree with him in the policy of
"makiDg truce with time by accepting
the inevitable verdict" of the supremacy
of the Union and the fact that there no
longer exists question that can dis
tract the country, divide it sectionally,
or retard the present healthful activity
In every department of trade and COM
merce. Hereafter the man should be re-
garded as little less than criminal
who obtrudes his own passion-conceived
sectlonalism for the opinions of State
or party, or who would interpose the
resurrected bodies of dead issues between
the people and the contamination of a
great destiny. To the people of the
South this is of the first Importance
Memphis appeal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Reports indicate that about fifty towns
in the state elected ladies as superintend-
entS of schools.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03
How Johann Strauss Writes his Waltzes

Strauss and his wife were enjoying q
quiet walk in the park at Schonau re-
Gently, when suddenly the composer ex-
claimed: "My dear, I have a waltz in
my head quick, give me the inside of a
letter or an envelope to write it down,
before I forget it." Alas after much
rummaging of pockets it was discovered
that neither of them had letter about
them-not even q bridesmaids account.
Johann Strauss music is considered
light, but it weighs heavy as lead on his
brain till he can transfer it to paper.
His despair was heart-rending. At last
a happy thought struck Frau Strauss.
She held out q. snowy linen cuff, and
Johann smiled. In two minutes it was
MS. Then its mate shared the same
fate, then Frau Strauss collar, then not
| another scrap of starched linen on which
| to conclude the composition. His own
linen was limb colored calico-no hope
| there. Johann became frantic. He was
much the worse for having been allowed
| to write quarter of the waltz. He
was on the point of dashing home like a
madman when another happy thought
struck Frau Strauss. She plunged her
hand into capacious pocket, fshed out
a purse, opened it and displayed, to his
delighted gaze, bran new hundred
eulden note. Hurrah The entire finale
was written on the bank-note, and then
Johann Strauss relapsed into his usual
placidity.
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stirring all the time. and pour over the

stirring all the time, and pour over the
cabbage, which set away to cool.
PERFECTION CAKE.-One pound OF
flour, one pound of sugar pulverized),
three-quarters of a pound of butter, one
gill of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of
baking powder, and eight eggs; cream
the butter and sugar together until light
as feather beat the eggs separately,
the whites to stiff froth and the yolks
until rich and thick add yolks to but
ter and sugar then -four, and lastly the
whites of the eggs; beat lightly until all
are well mixed, and bake in ordinary
cake tins in very slow oven. For
favoring either vanilla or lemon may be
used.
ENGLISH PLUM PUDDNG.-Take one
cup of raisins, one cup of sugar, three
cups of -four, two cups of suet chopped
fine, and one teaspoonful of salt; mix
these ingredients thoroughly, then add
cold water enough to make it into stiff
dough make it into a loaf like bread,
tie up in cloth and boil steadily for
four hours, at least, and as much longer
as you like. No sauce is better than
butter and sugar. Use neither milk nor
eggs, but above all avoid soda, yeast
powder or anything to make it light the
suet and steady boiling will accomplish
the result without assistance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03
Japan,s National Flower

The cherry blossom is the national
flower of Japan, as the rose is of
England, the lily of France, the thistle
of Scotland, and the shamrock of Ire
land. On the Mikado's flags, pages and
carriages, and on the soldiers caps and
uniforms, you will see the open chrys-
anthemum. But the flower Of the peo-
pie and the nation is the flower of the
blossoming cherry tree. The Japanese
cultivate all over Japan the sakura tree,
which is valued only for the beauty of its
blossoms. From an entire tree you
could not get ripe cherries enough to
make pie; but the blossoms are massed
together on the boughs like clouds, and
the blooms are often as large as rose.
Picnics in Japan are called "going to see
the flowers" In June millions of people
go out to sing and sport and laugh and
play under the cherry trees, or to catch
"the snow showers that do not fall from
the Skies" Some of the people become
SO enchanted with the lovely blossoms
as to even worship the famous old trees.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03
The Speculative Mania.


The disposition to get rich suddenly
ensnares many men who are engaged in
safe pursuits, and with whom it is only
a question of few years when they will
have an assured competence. They are
tempted by the occasional gains of lucky
gamblers, embark on the sea of specula-
ton, and not infrequently lose honor as
well as their worldly possessions. Take
the case in Boston, of Henry B. White,
who was for long period identified
with the insurance interests of New Eng
land. He was greatly esteemed, and
made Secretary of the Shoe and Leather
Insurance Company, of Boston. He was
paid a fine salary, attended closely to
business, and his habits were considered
exceptionally good. Suddenly he disap-
peared, and an examination of the books
of the concern revealed the unwelcome
fact that he had, at odd times, appropri-
ated S15, 900 belonging to the company
to his own use 1t was subsequently
learned that White had been dabbling ID
stocks and losing on his speculations.
As result, he became guilty of en-
bezzlement, lost his place, became
fugitive from Justice, and brought misery
and disgrace upon his wife and children.
The terrible danger of gambling in any
shape is that, with persons OF a weak
nature, it finally holds out some tempta-
ton to betray trust in order to crafty
passion which has become an imperious
necessity. People begin with hazarding
their own money and end with putting
the money of others at stake. The form
of gambling which is illustrated by
speculations usually starts with desire
to make money faster than by the COM
mon routine of business. Men, urged
by their own greed, which is too often
stimulated by extravagant wives and
daughters, and tempted by the chance
fortunes of others who have gone safely
| through the whirlpool, turn aside from
| the slow-going and absolutely safe pur-
| suits which have never failed them, and
| venture into speculations which are at
| best uncertain, and in most cases abso-
| lutely ruinous In a shocking number
of cases there is not simply loss of
money, but as events prove, loss OF IN
tegrity; all that makes life desirable Is
| offered up at the same questionable
| alter. A rational view of life would sug-
| gest that it is not really desirable to get
! suddenly rich. The employment of life
are in the nature of discipline and it is bet
ter that men should fill up the full
measure of their vigorous manhood in
honest and useful work, and take their
ease toward the close. A young, rich
man, will, in nine cases out of ten, get
into evil ways, and if he do not entirely
squander his money he will squander
health, morals and worthy ambition. II
you are doing passably we'll at any vo-
cation, however humdrum, stick to it and
let speculation alone. A bird in the
hand, etc. Any man who can see his
way with reasonable clearness towards a
competence at the end of his journey, is
fortunate and ought to be cstisfied; he
should take no risks whatever. With
the majority of men life is all the way
through simply a struggle for present
need, with nothing to show at the end
Louisville Commercial.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03

THE remarkable discoveries of Jenner,
Pasteur, and others, showing that some
of the most fatal virulent diseases may
be rendered comparatively harmless by
inocculation with a weakened virus,
have led to the suggestion Of the pos
tibility of combating tuberculosis in
the same manner. It is now quite gen.
orally believed that this disease, like
smallpox, chicken cholera and anthrax,
is due to the very rapid increase of GER
tain minute organisms in the body, and
it seems reasonable to hope that inocu-
lation with its weakened germs may
produce as favorable results as have
been achieved in the case of the other
maladies. This is an important prob
lem for science to solve.