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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-16

Heavenly JOY" is the name of a Neva-
da town. The first settler found a glass
Of whisky there and got full.
A great many peoples morality resem-
bles sign-posts at the corner of country
roads. They point in the right direction,
but they don't bulge an inch themselves.
The new science is sometimes very sat
isfactory. 1t tells US, for instance, that
heat expands and cold contracts, and that
is the reason why the days are so long in
summer and short in winter.
An exchange says that the national debt
in silver dollars could be removed by rail
by loading five thousand five hundred and
fifty cars with ten tons each. We can't
believe it. If it was so, why isn't it done?
Richard Grant White claims to have
coined 80 new words during the last year
without affecting his health in the least,
and there is some hope that by and by he
will speak in language entirely his own.
1t is not polite to tell a gentleman who
apologies by saying that he fears he has
lntruded upon your attention, ''That he
need not mention it, because you have
been thinking Of something else all the
time.''
Every traveller can sympatiZe with the
tourist who wrote home that in the south
OF Germany he got on very well because
he could speak broken German, but in the
north he couldn't get on at all, because
the language was so hard it wouldn't
break.
A famous surgeon advised one of his
patients to undergo an operation. 'sIs it
we're severe?" asks the patient. ssNot for
the patient, says the doctor; ''we put
him asleep; very hard on the operator. -
GLOW SOP" ''We suffer terribly from
anxiety. Just think, it succeeds only
once in hundred times.''
A Yankee physician was lecturing late
~ ON the ignorance of people of their own
complaints, and said that a young lady
once asked him what his next lecture
would be upon, and being told the s'Cir-
culation of the Blood" replied that she
should certainly attend, for she had been
troubled with that complaint for a long
time.
There is no better bon-mot in literature
than the reply Of a girl who heard her
father criticised severely across a dinner
table. The careless critic paused mo-
ment to say, 81 hope he is no relative of
yours, Miss LIP" and quick as thought she
| replied, with the utmost nonchalence
''He's only connection of my mothers
by marriage"
A Philadelphia man who has six little
sons, went to the nursery the other even
ing and found them in a desperate melee.
They were biting, kicking and pounding
each other savagely, and the furniture
was terribly broken up. He sprang in
and stopped the combat Then he de-
manded to know what the quarrel was
about. eve weren't quarrelling, papa,
said one of the youngsters, wiping the
blood from his nose. '"Then what il
heavens name were you doing?" CRIED
the amazed parent. ''Playing we were
New York Board of Aldermen
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-16
Itching PIes-Symptoms and Cure.

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.
''DR. SwAYNE'S ALL-HEALING OINTMENT
is pleasant sure cure. Also for tetter,
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 DR.. 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, 1881-05-16
HOODS SARSAPARHLA

|Ts a skilfully-prepared compound, concen-
rated extract, by a process peculiarly our
pam, of the best remedies of the vegetable
kingdom known to medical science as altera-
lives, blood-purifers, diuretics, and tonics.
Sold by all druggists. Price 81, or six for
s5. C. l. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-16

It's ACTION Is SURE AND SAPE.-The celebrated
remedy Kidney Wort now be obtained IN the usual
dry vegetable FORM in liquid form. 1t put In the
latter way for the especial convenience of those who
cannot readily prepare 1t will be found very con-
centrated and will with equal efficiency in either
case Be sure and read the new advertisement for
particuars-South and WesL
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-16
WEST GLOVER

FAILING HEALTH CAUSES THE sUBsCRI-
r TO OFFER THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY
R SALE:
STORE, DWELLING HOUSE AND BARN
TACHED.
ONE good DWELLING HOUSE AND
RN ATTACHED.
ALSO ONE FARM OF 100 ACRES, ONE
LIE FROM SAID WEST GLOVER.
FOR A MORE FULL DESCRIPTION CALL
D EXAMINE THE PREMISES OR ADDRESS
E SUBSCRIBER.
A LIBERAL AMOUNT OF THE PURCHASE
NEY CAN LAY ON MORTGAGE IF DESIRED.
GOODS CHEAPER THAN EVER UNTIL
ORE Is SOLD.
E. @. RANDALL.
dec. 27, 1880.
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SCROFULA,

A remedy that can destroy the germs of
Scrofula, and when once settled has the pow
er to root it out, must be appreciated by
those afflicted. The remarkable cures of
young children and the more wonderful cures
of those of middle age and late in life, as il
uStrated by our printed testimonials, prove
HOODS SARsAPARILLA to be reliable rem
edy, containing remedial agents which do
positively cure scrofula and eradicate it from
the blood.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-16

If an editor omits anything, he is
lazy. If he speaks of things as they
are, people get angry. If he CLOSES
over or smootbs down the rough points,
be is bribed. If he calls things by
their right names, he is unfit for the
position of an editor. If he does not
furnish his readers with jokes he is an
idiot; if he does, be is rattlehead,
lacking stability. If he condemns the
wrong, he is a good fellow, but lacks
discretion. If be lets wrongs and in
juries 60 unmentioned, he is coward.
If he exposes public man. he does it
to crafty spite. is the tool of the clique.
or belongs to the "outs." If he INDUCES
in personalities, he is blackguard; if
he does not, his paper is dull and insipid.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-16
WARNER. N. Fl. Ian. 81 1870

WARMER, N. H., Jan. Il, 1879.
MEssRs. G. |. HOOD & Co., Lowell, Mass:
Gentlemen-For ten years previous to the
early part of 1877 had been a constant suf-
ferer from scrofulous ulcers or sores, which
pad finally reduced me to a helpless cOndi-
tion, as described in my letter to you in Sep
tember of that year. The continued excel
lent health which enables me to keep house
for my aged father and to enjoy life, keeps
alive my intense personal interestIn In HOOPS
SARSAPARILLA,an and cannot refrain from ex-
pressing my gratitude for the permanent
cure this wonderful medicine effected in my
Ease nearly two years ago. while living in
Lowell, when all my physicians gave me up
hS being in an incurable condition. One
thing before close. l have recommended
your Sarsaparilla to hundreds, and l think
more than thousand cases, and my faith in
is invincibility in curing scrofula has be-
come absolute by the wonderful cures it has
Effected aside from my own. 1 trust you
will not be slow in making the merits of
HOOPS SARsAPARILLA known everywhere,
for it is a duty you owe to mankind. With
best wishes remain very truly yours,
SARAH G. WHITTIER,
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Drleams County @onitor,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
GEO. H. BLAKE,
BARTON,VT.

Enthusiastically in Advance, 81 so per annum. II
lot paid in advance, 81. 90 year. Subscribers living
utsde of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
pr postage. For convenience in remitting, we will
We credit for one year and four months for So co.
ubscribers in the county, and year and three for
200 to subscribers without the CO unity when sent
trictly in GdUdnce.
RATES OF ADVERTISING madeknown on pplicaton. 1.
Remit by P. o. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
raft. Watch the label on your paper and notice
hen your subscription expires. and see that your
|ayments are kept in advance. When money is sent
Is we shall give you the credit the label at once
the label is not advanced within two weeks notify
L by postal card.
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q ga week in your own town. Terms and S. outfit
OOfree. Address z. Eallett Co., Portland, Maine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-02-16
KxNDNEss 70 ANzMzLss

Il is fact beyond dispute, 81 any observe
Ing naturalist win affirm, that the cyoser thu
relation bctween animals and man The more
Intelligent and docile win the animal becones
Upon the farm there Is every reason Why ami
mails, especially horses, should Be treated. not
as dumb beasts, " bat as intelligent creations
OF the same Being who made their MASTER
The Arabs, who are the most successful horse
trainers in the world, appreciate the value of
kindness, and By making their horses equals
in one sense--dwelling with them in the same
tent, bestowing upon them almost the same
love and caresses as are bestowed upon their
children, who are allowed the colts for play-
mates, the Arabian horse has become the
most intelligent and easily controlled of it's
race. It Is not enough to feed an animal and
give 1t a comfortable bed it has feelings as
well as its master and can appreciate kind,
ness. 1t must be uniform kindness, how
ever; pot to-day and kick to morrow
amounting very nearly to continued abuse
at least so far as horses temper is concerned.
Many horse has been injured if not spoiled.
by being placed in the care of a half.Qrown
boys whose only idea of driving, and showing
his authority, seemed to be jerking at the
reins and yelling. unfeeling or impatient
hired help, also, do much toward making
ugly or tricky " Horses. An animal treated
with unvarying kindness will soon learn to
have confidence in it's master, and is therefore
more readily trained. Flu Belgium, horses arc
so we'll trained that they are guided almost
wholly by word Of mouth, the driver relying
upon the intelligence of his horse rather than
upon the bit. A Belgian plough.hosse In an
awkward situation will obey readily as mai
as five separate and distinct ordersy the single
check.ren meanwhile remaining attached to
the plough handle, leaving the drivers hands
free for the harder task of guiding the plough.
This certainly illustrates the economy of hav-
ing trained animals for farm work. There is
much In finding out the peeuliarites Of
horses disposition he may have some whims
shat 1t will pay to occasionally indulge. Make
him feel your friendship, treating him firmly
but with uniform kindness. showing that you
are not only his master but friend, and he
will return the kindness with interest. Caas.
e. Dodge
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-02-16

A NOZZLE TRIBUTE TO NOBLE WOMAN.
We do not doubt that there are thousands
just as fearless and true women in this coun-
try as Mrs. Hayes, but providentially she has
been placed where an opportunity has been
afforded her of standing by the right, under
circumstances of great temptation and diff
Guilty, and nobly has she done It. "Geo. w.
Bungay, in his Pen Portraits In the Ma
tional Temperance Adpocats, says Of Mrs.
Hayes She has done more to bring the
wine-drinking habit into disfavor in the
circles of fashion than any other woman In
America. Her education, culture, and
womanly giaces have enthroned her on the
hearts of the best citizens. At State dinners
at the White House she had the courage to
refuse wine to her guests, and she did het
duty In that respect with such blended cour-
tesy and sweet dignity no offense was given.
The influence of this brave woman had a
marvellous effect upon high life and fashion,
able society at the Capitol. Her example
was copied by other noble ladies, and to this
day all kinds of Intoxicating drinks are ex-
cluded from parties in the best and most re-
fined society in the city Of Washington. We
cannot over estimate the worth Of true wo-
man who dares TO do right in the face OF
the world, for she puts her precept into
practice in the presence Of Representatives Of
all the first-class nations on the giobe.'"
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A PRINCELY B0Y.

/
In the palace Of a small German capital n
German duchess, distinguished for her good
sense and kindness Of heart, was celebrating
her birthday.
Tnv voszs congratulations wor1 svvur, and
the lady retired from the scene Of festiyity to
the seclnsiou of her private room. Presently
she beard light footsteps coming up the stairs.
"Ah (" she said, "there are my two little
grandsons coming to congratulate men
Two rosy lads. ten and twelve years of age,
came In. one named Albert, the other Ernest.
They affectiopateiy greeted the duchess, who
gave each Of them the customary present of
ten louis dor {about forty eight dolars), and
related to them the following suggestive an
ecdote:
"There once lived an emperor in Rome
who used to say that no one should go away
He was always doing good and caring for bis
people, and when, one evening at supper, he
remembered that lie had not done an act Of
kindness TO any one daring the day, he sx-
claimed, with regret and sorrow, My friends,
have lost day. My children, take this
emperor for your model, and live in a princely
way, like him"
The boys went down the stairs delighted.
At tho palace gate they met q poor woman,
wriukled and old, and bowed down with
trouble.
"Ah, my good young gentlemen" said she,
"bestow trife on an aged creature. My
cottage is going to be sold for a debt, and
shall not have anywhere to lay my head. My
goat, the only means Of support l have, has
been seized. Pity an old woman, aud be
charitable"
Ernest assured her that he had no change.
and SO passed on. Bot Albert hesitated. He
thought moment Of her pleading looks, and
tears came to his eyes. The story of the Ro-
man emperor came into his mind. He took
from his purse the whole of the ten louis dor
and gave them to the woman. Turning away
with heart light aud satisfied, he left the old
woman weeping for joy. The boy was Prince
Albert, of England, justly called g. Albert the
Good and afterwards the husband of Queen
Victoria.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-02-16
TIE H1sToRY OF THE POTATO.

The potato has curious history. It is .
native Of the elevated valleys of the Andes in
Peru and Chill, and is found as far north as
discovery of the American continent, and was
cultivated In gardens as q botanical curiosity.
The tubers being small and not edible In its
wild state, it attracted no attention. In 1885
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced it into Eng
land, and is credited with bringing it from
Virginia, but of this there is no evidence.
Its cultivation in the cool, moist summers of
Ireland soon developed large tubers, which
were found to consist chiefly of salt.
successful experiment was made In the
use of the tuher as food but this was met and
combated by number of learned men, and
several works were written and published to
prove its poisonous character 1t belongs to
the great Nightshade family (Solanace), all
of which are poisonous. This indictment was
true, but they had not yet learned that poi
sonous plant may bear fruit or tuber not
only harmless, but very nutritious. This
prejudice prevented the use of the tomato till
within the last forty years, The truth is.
both these vegetables being of Nightshade
family, are poisonous in stem. leaf and flower,
but this property does not extend to the tuber
of the one nor the fruit of the other.
While on this subject, it is proper to say
that solanine, the poisonous principle of this
family, is sometimes developed in the potato,
even to a dangerous extent. If the tubers,
while growing, are uncovered, SO as to expose
them to direct sunshine, they will assume a
green appearance and become poisonous from
the presence of solanine. The same effect, in
minor degree, is produced in the sprouting
of potatoes. If these are used ia cooking,
they should be sliced and placed in cold water
an hour or two before being cooked. Other
wise sprouted potatoes are unwholesome food.
The potato is a tropical plant, but its tuber
producing quality is a northern modification
of the plant, and 10 this quality it is improved
by the cool summer of the north, and is sue
cessfully cultivated to the Arctic circle. and
with decided improvement in the quality of
the crop and generally in its yield. The crop
is sometimes injured by the intense heat of
July and August, even at the fortieth degree
of latitude. The tendency of the tuber to
degenerate in warm climates will suggest the
precaution of occasionally renewing the crop
by planting northern potatoes. The
Indiana Farmer.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-02-16

SIZES or SHOES. The last place In which
"things are not what they seem " is disclosed
by Boston paper to be the size of shoes
Feet are not increasing in size, so far as we
are aware, bat the manufacturers mark SKIES
and sevens, and one who used to wear one
size finds himself obliged to move up one
stair. The Bulletin says /: " Aud yet, the
sizes of boots and shoes ESQ far as length is
concernei) have been as precisely defined in
the shoe trade for centuries as is the weight
of ton of coal or the length of yard of
cloth. A last for No. / chld's shoe by the
old English size stick is four and one-third
inches in length. A last for No. child's
shoe by what is known as the New York
size-stick is four aud one-eighth inches in
length. But by both Of these measures every
additional size adds one-third Of an inch to
the length of the shoe.
"That is to say, three sizes mako an inch.
II No 1 shoe for child is AZ inches in
length, a No. should be just inches hong,
and No. 10 should be 81 inches. After lbs
the numbers commence at again, boys or
miss's being one-third inch longer than a
child's IS. A woman's 8, therefore, should
be made on last 10 inches long, and man 8
on a last II inches in length. manufac-
turer who produces 100000 pairs per annum,
can, of course. effect considerable saving OF
leather by making all of his goods one half Of
an inch shorter than they are represented to
be. Or jobber who does an equal amount
of business can obtain considerable concessions
in price by similar method
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-02-16

There is one social dishonor about which no
one thinks 1t worth while to say much in
reprobation, but which does more harm than
sny other known to us--we mean the dishonor
Of repeating conversations, opinions, circum-
stances, not made under promise of secrecy,
but which high sense Of honor would treat
as confidential, II haply high sense of honor
was the rule. 1t is odd that one of the best
things boy learns at school is to eschew tale
bearing and keep faith with his companions,
while one OF the most common practices Of
society is quite the reverse, namely, to betray
the trust contained in talk. and repeat to all
what has been told in implied confidence to
one. This habit Of repeating what We hear 10
as fatal to the best intercourse Of minds as to
the finer feelings Of integrity.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-02-16

A MoTHERs INFLuENcE.-Mr. Wendell
Phillips related the following in his recent
temperance address in Boston !: "In rail-
way car once, man about GO years old came
to sit beside me. He had heard me lecture
the evening before on temperance. i am
master of a ship, said he, sailing out OF New
York, and have just returned from my fiftieth
voyage across the Atlantic. About thirty
years ago was sot shipped, while dead
drunk, as one of crew, and was carried on
board like log. When came to, the captain
Der your mother?' told him she died be-
fore l coald remember anything. Well,'
said he, | am Vermont man. When was
young was crazy to go to sea. AT last my
mother consented should seek my fortune in
New York. He told me how she stood on
when, with his bundle on his arm, he was
ready to walk to the next town. She said to
him, My boy, don't know anything about
towns, and never saw the sea, but they tell
me those great towns are sinks of wickedness,
and make thousands of drunkards. Now,
promise me you'll never drink a drop of
liquor He said, I laid my hand in hers
and promised, as looked in her eyes for the
last time. She died soon after. I've been on
every sea, seen the worst kinds of life and
men-thoy laughed at me as a milksop, and
wanted to know If was coward. But when
they offered me liquor saw my mother across
the gate, and never drank drop. 1t has
been my sheet anchor owe all to that
Would you like to take that pledge?' said
he. My companion took it, and he added,
It has saved me. have ine ship, wife
and children at home, and have helped
others. How far that little candle threw It's
beams That earnest mother saved two men
to virtue aud usefulness-how many more He
who sees all can alone tell"
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UNNoTIcED AND UNHoNoREU HEROES.
When | see man holding faster his upright.
ness in proportion as it is assailed terrifying
his religious trust in proportion as Providence
is obscure hoping in the ultimate triumph OF
virtue more surely in proportion 10 It's present
Affections; cherishing philanthropy amids:
the discouraging experience or mems unKrnd-
ness and unthankfulness ; extending to others
a sympathy which his own sufferings need
gentler amidst what tends to exasperate and
harden and through inward principle, con-
verting the very indictments to evil into the
occasion of a victorious virtue see an ex-
PLANTATION, and noble explanation of the
present state. / see a good produced, so
transcendent in it's nature as to justify all
the evil and suffering under which it grows
up. should think the formations of few
such minds worth all the apparatus of the
present world. l should say that this earth
with its continents and oceans, its seasons
and harvests, and it's successive generations,
was work worthy of God, even were It to
accomplish no other end than the training
and manifestation of the illustrious characters
which are scatterod through history, and
when consider how small portion of human
virtue is recorded by history. how superior in
dignity, as we'll 10 number, are the unnoticed
and unhonored saints and heroes of domestic
humble life, see light thrown over the
present state which reconcles me to all its
evils. - Channina
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