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luck 4 Itnyucr's, " Bfnrs" cologne Is n per-
fuE,o Of conspicuous excellence lii Christmas
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
nent when the muzzle was in actual

ment when the muzzle was in actual
contact with the Chancellor's body.
81 owe my extraordinary escape from
death" he observed, partly to the So
lidity and hardness of my rib. and part
ly to the strength of my muscles. Blind
had scarcely raised his pistol when I
grappled with him, and got his right
arm in tight grip. which never re-
laxed until he was secured by patrol
of the Guard. Of the five shots be fred
whilst We were struggling. only this
one." pointing to his side. '.took effect
for | had my wits about me and man
aged to keep his pistol hand bent out
ward, except just at the end of the tus-
sle. when he succeeded in turning the
barrel full upon my body. But the bull
let, though it stung me so sharply that
thought it had gone clean through me.
only glanced off my Rib. l ran much
more imminent risk from the fair-play
instincts of an honest Prussian Guards
man than did from that foolish lads
revolver. You see, he was smallish
fellow, and 1 am rather big one While
We were wrestling, my hat fell off. and
| suppose my bald head proved tempt
ing object to one of the soldiers who ran
up to see what was the matter hearing
the report of the pistol for this worthy
fellow, perceiving tall man. as be fan
cied. ill-treating short youth. clubbed
his rife, and would assuredly have
brought the butt-end down with crash
upon my bare pate had not caught
sight of his attitude in time to shout,
Hold on (! l am Bismarck upon which
he dropped his weapon in much great
er fright than even my owl" From
the SsOiss Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE.

The man who stands upon his own
soil, who feels that by the laws of the
land in which he lives-by the laws of
civilized nations-that he is the right
full and the exclusive owner of the land
which he tills, is by the constitution of
our nature under wholesome influence
not easily imbibed from any other source.
He feels-other things being equal
more strongly than another. the charae-
ter of lord Of the lnanimate world. Of
this great and wonderful sphere which
fashioned by the hand of God and up
held by his power. is rolling through the
heavens, part is his-his from the CEN
trail sky. 1t is the space in which the
generation before moved in the rounds
of duties, and he feels himself connected
by visible link with those who follow
him and to whom he is to transmit a
home. Perhaps his farm has come down
to him from his fathers. They have
gone to their last home But he can
trace their footsteps over the scenes of
his daily labors. The roof that shelters
him was raised by those to whom he
owes his being. Some interesting do
mestic tradition is connected with every
enclosure. The favorite fruit tree was
planted by his fathers hand. He sport
yd in childhood beside the brook which
still winds through the meadow. The
path to the village school of earlier days
lies through the field. He still hears
from his window the voice of the Sab
bath bell which called his father to the
house of God, and near at hand is the
spot where his parents lay down to rest,
and when his time has come he shall be
laid by his children. These are the feel
ings of the owners of the soil. Words
cannot paint them-gOld cannot buy
them. They flow out of the deepest
fountains of the heart; they are the life
springs of fresh. healthy and generous
| national character.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
EVILS OF GOSSIP.

l have known country society which
wirhered away all to nothing under the
dry rot of gossip only. Friendships
once as firm as granite dissolved to jelly
and then ran away to water, only be-
cause of this; love that promised a fu-
ture as enduring as heaven and as sta
BILE as truth, evaporated into morning
mist that turned to days long tears.
only because of this; father and son
we're set foot to foot with the fiery breath
of an anger that would never cool again
between them, only because of this; and
a husband and his young wife, each
straining the hated leash which in the
beginning had been the golden bondage
of god-blessed love. sat mournfully by
the side of grave where all their love
and all their JOY lay buried. also only
because of this. have seen faith trans
formed to mean doubt. hope give place
to grim despair, and charity take on IT.
self the features of black malevolence,
all because of the spell-words of scandal
and the magic mutterings of gossip.
Great crimes work great wrongs and the
deeper tragedies of human life spring
from its larger passions; but woeful and
most melancholy are the uncatalogued
tragedies that issue from gossip and de-
traction; most mournful the shipwreck
often made of noble natures and lovely
lives By the bitter winds and dead salt
waters of slander. So easy TO say, yet
so hard to disprove-throwing on the in
nocent all the burden and strain of prov
ing their innocence. and Furnishing them
as guilty if unable to pluck out the
strings they never see, and to silence
words they never hear-gossip and SLAM
der are the deadliest and cruelist weap-
ons man has forged for his brothers
hurt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
ssTHE GIRLS DID IT."

That is, transformed a home from
rudeness to refinement. The parents
had lived during their earlier years bent
upon the sole aim of making money.
They ordered their premises with entire
reference to that attainment. If they
bought, it was upon the plan of adding
something to their wealth If they sold
it was with the one thought that they
could have so much to invest for further
productiveness. Under such plan it
was impossible for the house to have any
other air than that of place of business
or work, its character as place of cul-
ture where the mind and higher nature
should have enjoyment and expansion
being left entirely out of sight; and the
man and woman, and even the little
children. all seemed to grow up in
sympathy with the roughe aspects of
life. caring nothing for that which is
beautiful and improving. But 1.-THE
girls" grew up toward young woman
hood and found themselves longing for
something better than their home afford
ed them. They had hearts that were
craving for intelligence, feeling and con-
geniality with the better life around
them. They grew tired of the simple
hard moil and toll of money-making.
Gradually. but surely, they began the
work of reformation. and by the skillful
management that they knew SO we'll
how to employ, they changed the whole
life of the household. Its rigors began
to relax. Books, newspapers, music,
and other attractions had gradual in
PRODUCTION, and flowers bloomed, and
spread their fragrance about the door
yard. The father and mother entered
into new life that thrust itself upon
them, and. though never. perhaps. blam-
ing themselves for their earlier behav-
iour and experience. they were glad to
acknowledge themselves happy amid the
pleasures that had been brought them
by their children. 1t was noble mis-
sion nobly fulfilled United P-es6y-
teriGn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
ZEAL.

A man may be industrious, temperate,
prudent, honest and reliable, and win
the good reputation which these qualities
Justly confer, yet if he lacks in zeal in
the prosecution of his business, he will
fail to make the most of his opportuni-
ties, or to WELD that influence in the
community and among his associates to
which those excellent traits fairly enti-
tie him.
The world likes heartiness and earn
estness. These will often compensate
for the lack of some other sterling quail
tiles of mind and heart. Zeal is infec-
tious. When foreman of factory
moves about among his men with spirit,
and drops quick, earnest word here
and there, the workmen about him un-
consciously become imbued with like
earnestness, and he will, by mere force
of example, secure better results from
his employees. How often have known
farmer in the olden time, before now
ing machines were invented, to get near
ly double tho amount of work out of the
same gang of men, by starting out at
the head of the swath with CHEEKY words
and gamey air, bidding the boys come
on and see if they could keep up with
him.
Be thoroughly interested in your oc-
cupation. however humble. and you will
if there is spark of genius in you, give
it a respectable air, and command the
respect for yourself that secures promo
ton. A menial waiter, by untiring as
siduity, becomes head-waiter, then stew
ard, and finally proprietor. The bright
and prompt errand-boy rises to clerk
ship. and the earnest and spirited dis
charge of his duties in that position Sc
cures a partnership. The pastor who
drones through a prosey and pointless
sermon, mumbles to a thin and half
asleep congregation while the preacher
who is fred with zeal born of inward
conviction, that hurls words that burn,
aiming fearlessly at current evils and
those who perpetrate them, talks to
crowded audiences and sets influences at
work that result in reform.
Zeal is the handspring of most of the
great business and commercial enter
prises of the day; and if you find you
are not keeping abreast of your fellows
in the struggle of life, make careful
self-inspection. and see if you have not
omitted to infuse this important ingredi-
ent into your daily endeavors.-Pain
Talk, IN Farming World.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
BISMARCKS ESCAPE FROM
DEATH.

Hard by, where the kleine Mauer
Strasse debouches into the Linden, Prince
Bismarck had a narrow squeak for exist
ence at the hands of young Blind. not
many months before | made the person
al acquaintance of the great German
statesman. 1t was not, however, until
the autumn of 1867 that one night dur
ing a long tete-a-tete with which he hon.
ored me in his old house in the Wilhelm
Strasse. he gave me detailed and graph
ic account of his recounter with Blind
and placed my finger upon the bony ex-
crescence that had developer itself on
one of his lower ribs in consequence ofa
wound inflicted thereon by bullet dis
charged from Blinds revolver at a mo-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20

twenty feet. In back of these, lower
down, there seemed to be big black
hole-evidently a considerable cavern.
I now climbed up and together we
peeped and peeked about for some time.
When we looked down into the dark
hole, there would be low growing.
Three or four hours we're spent. We
found it was no use trying to shoot them
in the dark. There was cave back In
there as large as hall great irregu-
lar cavity emitting very strong bea9ssh
stencil.
In the afternoon we assailed them on
new tack. Vert and Grant split up
lot of wood, which, with their assist
ance, we carried up our log ladder, half
cord of it at least, and then pitched it
into the cavern. A brand was then
fetched up, and we soon had a bonfire
going which lighted up the whole inside
of the den. From where we stood up in
the fssure, the bears could now be seen
crouching behind the black boulders and
in the far corners of the cave, snarling
uneasily at the fire. counted FIVE and
Alf soon made out two others.
To shoot game thus cornered up may
be deemed an unsportsmanlike method
of hunting, but my friend and myself
were troubled by no such scruples.
An hour later we hauled seUen bears
dead ones-out of that cave, which
added to those already secured. made
ten carcasses
They we're remarkably fat bears, too,
with but one exception. Their flesh
had noticeably sa0eet taste, which we
attributed to their getting so much hon.
ey hereabouts. Youths Companion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
GOUT AND DYSPEPSIA.

1t is well known that gout is a COM
mon disease IN England. In this country
it is SO rare that little is known about
it outside the medical profession. 1t is,
however. an exceedingly painful disease,
and the intervals between the attacks
tend to grow less and less-as is illus
trated in the case of Spurgeon, who is
now so frequently driven from his pulpit
by them.
AS the witty Frenchman has described
it. rheumatism is your hand in the wise
till you can stand it no longer; gout is
one more turn of the screw.
Luxurious living. with insufficient ex-
ercise, is universally regarded as its
cause, except that one may inherit
tendency to it, though even this, doubt
less, connects with inherited luxurious
habits.
Dyspepsia, on the other hand, is, in
this country, as common as gout is rare.
This. also. is largely due to improper
eating-improper in quantity or quality.
One may have naturally have weak pow
ers of digestion; or the digestive capac-
ity may have become weakened tempor-
arily or permanently, by grief, care.
anxiety, pressure of business. unremit-
ting brain-work, or too little exercise in
the open air.
At late meeting of the Boston Soci-
ETY. for Medical Observation, DIR. Curtis
pointed out the common origin of the
two diseases in overeating. Gout re-
suits where digestion is vigorous. The
blood becomes overcharged with food,
mainly nitrOgenOus. This, instead of
being eliminated in the form of urea,
carbolic acid, ETC., remains in the system
imperfectly oxidized as the source of the
latter disease.
In the United States, overeating. Civ
ing rise to dyspepsia. prevents that ex-
cess of unassimilated nutriment which
is the foundation of England's more
painful afiiction.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
AN OLD BOAT.

passed boat to day on the shore,
That will be launched on the sea no more.
Worn and battered. the straight keel bent
The side. like ruined rampant rent;
Left alone with no covering,
For who would steal such q useless thing?
1t was stately once, when the shipwright's hand,
Had laid each plank as the master planned.
And it danced for joy on the curling wave,
When first the seas broad breast it clave.
And it felt the pulse of the well-timed stroke,
That rang on the thole-pn of tuneful oak
OFT it has carried home the spoil
or fishers. tired with nightlong toil
And often in Summer days it knew
The laugh of a pleasure-seeking crew;
Or launched by night on the binding waves,
1t has rescued life from the seas dark graves.
1t is useless now, as 1t lies on the beach
Drawn high beyond the billow's reach:
And none of all it has served in stress
Remember it now, in its loneliness.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
"Go WEsT"---THE OTHER SIDE

An estimable lady who. ten or fifteen
years ago, was compelled by family ties
to stake up her bed and walk" for the
far West, that is. Northern Wisconsin,
thus expresses her present view of facts
and prospects for that section. She was
a native of Washington county, Vt.
rThe cold and deep snow have been ter
ribIe to encounter, though the suffering
here is nothing to what it has been in
Minnesota. They keep everything as
dark as they can. In some cases sever
al families would 90 into one house and
burn other houses und furniture to keep
from freezing. Oh. the horrors of the
Western country! So many have left
comfortable homes to come here to suffer
death. l wish | could preach sermon
that all Vermont could hear. But with
all the suffering there has been, there
will still be lots of fools that will go
West during the coming season. can
not see why they will do it. The FARM
ers here do not begin to lay mp money
as they do East. If they would think
they had better stay where they are. If
the Eastern people could see the mort
cages that are carried here, think they
would conclude they had better remain
East. 1t is awful to see how the poor
people are in debt. You have no idea
of it. Still they crack up the West. 1t
seems to me there has got to come fear
full crash, for cannot see how the debts
are going to be paid. ."-MontPetier
Watchman.
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"Health is wealth." says patent-medi-
cine advertiser. You are wrong, respect
ed sir. If health was more universal. to
you it would be bankruptcy.
A college student, in rendering to his
father an account of his term expenses.
inserted: "To charity, thirty dollars y
His father wrote back: sI fear charity
covers multitude of SINS"
A man who was too poor to indulge in
any luxuries other than children was pre-
sented by loving but unreckoning wife
with triplets-three boys-and he sought
for some family to adopt them. Mr. Clark
was rather inclined to take them, but his
good wife thought that one would perhaps
be enough. They were talking it over
before their little eight-year-old daughter,
who said: 'tWhy don't you take one of
them, ma, or don't they want to break
the set?"
French peasant saw in the river a
floating egg. He thought he could catch
it with his hand, but in his attempt he
fell in the water, and the egg escaped
him. The water was deep and he could
not swim. In terror he believed that God
was thus Furnishing him for his greediness.
To propitiate his fate he vowed that if he
escaped he would never eat another egg.
Instantly a branch of tree presented
itself to him, by means of which he gained
the banks of the stream. Shaking him.
self, he said: 'I suppose, o Lord, that
you, of course, understood me to say raw
egg"
eloquent" said the Chicago lawyer
of his partner. sHe's able to reason the
kick out of a mule. Why, here a while
ago, business was dull, and he declared
that Mrs. Dasher ought to have divorce,
and he'd go into court and get it for her,
and then charge her for it. Somehow she
heard what was going on. She galloped
down to1he court house to stop him, as
she didn't want divorce. She got there
just as he was making his plea for her.
And mind you, she was mad at him; but,
by Jove, sir, she listened to him five min
utes and became SO convinced that she
ought to have a divorce, that she walked
right up to where jury could see her and
shed three pints of tears while he recited
her wrongs. And when he won the case
she embraced him and said he could con
duct all her divorce cases. call that
eloquence."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
LOVE AND PAIN,

Love held to me chalice of red wine
Filled to the very brim
About the slender stem the cinging vine
Was closely twined and round the jeweled rim;
Love held to me cup of bloodred wine
And made me drink to him.
Around the desert of my life lay bare.
waste of reeds and sand
Love stood with all her sunlight in his hair,
And yellow crocus blossoms IN his hand;
And all around the cruel scorching glare,
The waste and thirsty land.
To his white feet the loose gray raIment hung
His flushed lips smiled on me-
Across his pale young brow the bright curls clung,
would have fed. but 1o might not fee,
While through the heavy air thy clear voice rung,
And bade me drink to thee.
took the craven cup. my lips set
Close 20 the jewelled rim,
And to Loves eyes there stole faint regret,
Then bright mist made all the old world dim;
And in the golden cloud our blind lips met
And drank deep to him.
o Love- among the orchard trees lay,
Spring grasses at my feet,
The pale narcissus made the fresh air sweet;
Among the blossoming orchard trees lay,
Waiting my Lord to greet.
Through the green woods the birds sang shr and gay
And then a sudden sound
of coming feet. a glimpse Of raimeat gray,
And shaken blossoms falling to the ground;
Sweet was my dream of Love and Life and Nav,
And blossoms scattered round.
And swift towards me his light footsteps came:
o Love, woke to see
Strange eyes upon me, dark with some spent fame.
So like to thine. o Love, and yet not thee:
Thine was his raiment and he bore the name
Known but to Love and me-
The yellow crocus blossoms in his hand
Were crushed. and wan, and dead;
Lo, as wanderer on an unknown strand
He stood beside me with discrowned head:
"Love comes not twice." he cried, ''to any land,
But am in his stead!"
He held to me chalice of red wine
Filled to the very brm;
The twisted snakes about the tall stem twine
And closely coil around the jewelIed rim;
He held to me a cup of blood-red wine,
And bade me drink to him.
"Love came. but never will he come again,
Drink thou to me;
Love did forsake, but l. his brother, Pain
Will now for evermore abide with thee;
The dark earth mist has gathered round us twain.
Drink thou to mel"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
Piles-Symptoms and Cure.

ICCnInS EIOS-oy HIPUOIIIS dHU y OuI ..
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. SwAYNR's AIL-HRALING OINTMENT
is a pleasant sure cure. Also for letter,
itch, salt rheum, scald head, erysipelas,
BARRIERS itch, blotches, all scaly, crusty,
cutaneous eruptions. Price so cents. 5
boxes for SIPS. 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, 1881-06-20

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orders that surely undermine their health and
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family TO that celebrated medicine. KdBeyW ort.
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