Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-10

pired seems generally to have prevailed.
Your RADIx has been accused of cruel |
for having suggested |
that the proper time to lay aside the
outward signs of grief was when the
martyrs form was removed from earth
sight, and he has accordingly and per-
haps weakly keptl the black staff up,
though his views are, he thinks, sup
ported both by precedent and common
sense. When soldier died, and, as is
usual IN peacetime, is decorously laid
away with military honors, his COM
rades sadly follow him to the grave, the
escort with reversed arms, the music
playing dirges. When, lat the final
closing of the grave, three volleys in
the air emphasize the martial farewell,
the scene changes; the weapons are
brought to their normal erectness, and
the troops march off to the gay and in
spiriting quick step. 1t is not that
they are supposed to sound less, but to
mark the fact that the world is notsdead
because one man dies; there areN duties
which should be met cheerfully for sur
vivors, and it is unmanly to pine and
lot h. o11a1
In other words, the old custom of ar
mics goes tos confirm the imperishable
phrase Of Garfield, the bold peacemaker.
who ragged at Lincoln's death, "God
reigns and the Government at Washing
ton still lives"
The suggestion has been made and
repeated over and over again, that the
old calico, Grape, cashmere, and what
not, which has been gwen to the breeze
to mark respect for Gar6eld's memory,
should be gathered together and sent
either in kind or in the shape of the
proceeds Of their sale to the houseless
and ill-clad sufferers by the Michigan
forest fires. This seems to your RADI1
thrifty attempt to kill two birds will
one stone bordering on the mean. I
this idea prevails it would be an addi
tional argument for pulling down tn
weeds and shipping them off right ava.
for not only does he give twice VIII
gives quickly, but when the Michiga
unfortunates want shirts. it is rathe
hard to make them wait till the end G
the grief for Garfield. and then Civ
them black ones to remind them of thei
own private and particular losses, be
! sides, every day the material is expos
, ed to wind and weather lessons its va
7 ne. I think, however, that it would /
o more charitable and decent general
o not to mix up the two ideas. 1t is
+ be presumed that the dollars and cen
4 spent to honor Garfeld's memory we
d not grudged and if We want to he
g our neighbors we might more graceful
+ scrape up some more dollars and cen
l. without, as it were, giving them the r
version of the dead mans shoes ar
l. aiding the orphans of the fires to r
= member the calamity that ruined the
/. by dressing them up in black calico u
dergarments and so on. Economy is
virtue, we all know, but little eve
twist or so may tangle it up into gree
avarice, miserliners, and kindred thin
- which can scarcely be reckoned as "
81 tues, and, indeed, are usually considt
u ed somewhat unlovely. Why t
t. whole thing is ridiculous. The worl
& which has SO tenderly sympathized wi
L. US, would explode with inextinguist
ne BILE laughter and contempt at the sig
80 of a burnt out Michigander with
ne black papermuslin shirt, black cashm'
Vi pantaloons and black Grape neck
fastened with black and white roset
Y Faugh !! Cheeseparing, wooden nutm
Nh dom ! Get thee behind me !!
i' RADIX