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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
THE CHARGE OF BALAKLAVA

Our readers are familiar with Tenny-
sons magnificent ode, descriptive of
"The Charge Of the Light Brigade" at
Balaklava. One of the troopers who
then rode into the jaws of death is
working in an iron mill in Ohio. His
name is Mark King, and reporter of
the Cincinnati Gazette recently drew
from his the following graphic narra-
tive of the famous charge:
Well, young man, l can't describe it
in a very fine way. but l will do the
best can. You sec, l was the SER
want of Col. James Brown, and though
the servant of an officer does not have
any picket duty to perform while in
camp or in fort, be has to take part
in all the fights.
The British army were in possession
of three batteries, situated on bluff,
one above the other, and the brigade
composed part of their support.
AS we sat in our saddles that morn
ing, watching the progress of the battle
before US, and saw the redoubts taken
by the Russians, the order came to ad-
vance.
1t was delivered by Capt Nolan. Be-
ing the servant of an officer, was near
the commander when the order was de-
livered.
l distinctly heard Lord Cardigan say
'Impossible How can we do it?"
Then came the reply. There is the
order, there are the men, and there are
the batteries So
Nolan also said, 81 will CO."
We were then ordered by Lord Car
digan, who led us, to charge. We has
to ride perhaps mile across marshy
ground, under FIRE all the time, before
We reached the bluff on which were tht
batteries.
But we went. l tell you. and wen
like the wind, the mud from the marshy
ground flying up behind US in perfec
shower. Not a shot was fired until W,
reached the first battery, which we rod'
right over, firing our large horsepistol
as we went.
OF course we did not have time to re
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
DEAD STARS.

Like the sand of the sea, the stars of
heaven, says Sir John Lubbock IN his
opening address at the recent meeting
of the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, have ever been
used as effective symbols of number, and
the improvements in our methods of OBJ
servation have added fresh force to our
original impressions. We now know
that our earth is but fraction of one
out of at least 100000 worlds. But
this is not all. In addition to the lu-
minous heavenly bodies, we cannot
doubt that there are countless others,
invisible to US from their greater dis
tance, smaller size, or feebler light
indeed. we know that there are many
dark bodies which now emit no light OF
comparatively little. Thus in the case
of Procyon, the existence of an invisi.
BILE star. Again | may refer to the
curious phenomena presented by Algol,
bright star in the head of Medusa
This star shines without change for two
days and thirteen hours then. in three
hours and half, dwindles from star
of the second to one of the fourth mag.
nitude; and then, in another three and
a half hours, reassumes its origin al
brilliancy. These changes seem GER
tainly to indicate the presence of ar
Opaque body which intercepts at regu
lar intervals part of the light emitted
by Algol.
Thus the floor of heaven is not only
"thick inlaid with patines Of brigh
gold" but studded also with extinc
stars-once probably as brilliant as oul
own sun, but now dead and cold, a
Helmholtz tells us that our sun itsel
will be, some seventeen millions o
years hence.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

load them, and we grabbed our short
swords. which were made secure by a
loop of leather over our wrists.
On all sides We could see our men
falling like grass before moving ma
chine, but on we went, not daring to
show the least eowardice, for we well
knew that the rule among the British
ers was to shoot the first man who
showed the white feather.
Reaching the second battery, the
worst part of it came, for there it was a
regular hand-to-hand fight with knives.
But we went through them, cutting
and slashing on this side and on that,
killing the gunners and other soldiers
like so many sheep, while the blood
flowed almost like water down the slope.
After taking the second battery We
were going for the third, but our ranks
were so thinned out that it was too
much for us, and we wheeled around,
retreating past the first two batteries,
which were instantly manned by re-
endorsements from the Russians.
Hastily gathering our men together,
the order was given to charge again,
which we did. taking the batteries the
second time, but again failing to take
the third.
We were ordered to retreat, which
we did, riding down the hill at break
neck speed, trampling the dead and
wounded under the horses feet, and
killing all who came in our way.
Reaching the place from which we
had started, what few men we had left
we're faced about, and raising our caps
gave cheer that could be heard for a
mile, while the soldiers on all sides of
US cheered with all their might.
When We went into that charge we
had about six hundred or six hundred
and fifty men, and We brought out about
one hundred and fifty or one hundred
and sixty:
"What was thought of the order when
it was received, Mr.. King ?"
"Well, everybody thought it was a
mistake. To US it seemed impossible to
even ride across the plain without all
being killed, for the plain was being
swept by perfect hurricane of bullets. "
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

TIMELY WARNING, OR THE EXPERIENCE OF A MIN
IsrER.-I you suffer from general debility brought
by too close application to business and excessive
brainwork or from increasing prostration and sink
ing spells. that rest or removal of the cause
will not relieve, make haste to do did reverend
friend of ours. He secured from his druggist bottle
of Browns Iron Bters having heard of its merit from
physician who told him not to take any other hitters
tonic, for with the exception of Browns Iron Bit
ters, they all contained alcohol, and had failed to give
his patients lasting relief should he take any
other preparation of iron for with the exception
Browns Iron Bitters, they all blackened the teeth.
and often gave headache. which Browns Iron Bitters
did, but in fact cured headache The effect was
most satisfactory he Immediately realized wonderful
results. His old energy returned his natural force
came back. and he felt himself altogether man.
full Of health strength and vigor and he has contnu
ed to remain SO since. Now he recommends
Browns Iron Btters to all his friends which we un.
hesitatingly do to all our readers.-Globe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

"After an hour of terrible agony, |
was released and carried tenderly to
the engine Of my train, and immediate
ly conveyed to Tifin, where I was put
in the hands of the doctor, and Phil
telegraphed for you.
"Oh, Nellie, had | but given you the
promise you asked for, that night, [
would not now be lying with crushed,
broken limbs, out of heart, as well as
situation; for, of course, they will new
er employ me again, even if do recov-
er the use of my limbs, which is doubt
full, to say the least"
But he did recover the use of his
limbs, after many weary months, and
they did employ him again, despite his
gloomy forebodings. The superintend-
ent called to see him, and Harry made
a full confession of the cause of the
double accident to himself, and all the
mishaps of the night, and begged that
as they would no longer need his SER
vices, they would give Phil Cotter a
train, as he was capable and richly de-
served it.
This the superintendent promised to
do, but he showed his good sense in not
discharging Harry, we'll knowing that
the lesson he had received would last
him lifetime.
And when next time you ride over
the Valley Road, and see tall, fine
looking fellow, with genial smile and
a courteous word for every passenger
on his train, and note that he is lame,
you may know that he is Conductor
Harry Rowland, and that the superin-
tendent was right.
The lesson of that terrible night was
never forgotten; and when he makes
his reports, and hastens home to meet
his now happy wife and children, it is
with mind unclouded and breath free
from the taint of the poison that "biteth
like serpent and stingeth like an
adder"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
THE EASTERN SENTIMENT
TOWARD THE MORMONS.

While this system is spreading and
being daily strengthened. while some
thing is going on in Utah which, if left
exclusively to itself, would, in gener-
alton, bring women to the auction-block
and utterly brutalize men, the people
of the East do not seem to be greatly
worried. Though the Gentiles of Utah
never wronged the Mormons, though
they have given to Utah its prosperity
and accumulated wealth, though they
own quite two-ffths Of the property of
the Territory, and though they have
never asked anything of the Mormons
except that they obey the laws, still,
the sentiment of the East is that they
are predatory set, and that the Nor
mons are entitled to peculiar and ten
der consideration, because they, when
their presence and customs had become
intolerable to the people among whom
they dwelt, started out into the wilder
ness and established a striving Territory.
While doing this the Mormons have
shrunk from no crime, recoiled at no
falsehood, have murdered and robbed
Americans in secret, and laid the crime
to savages, and still. while despoiling
Americans, have shed crocodile tears
over their own extreme suferings. They
have disobeyed and derided the laws,
and still continue to do so; they have
insulted and driven away United States
officials for no offence except that of
trying to do their duty under their oaths
and all this has been performed by the
orders of less than thirty men, who, in
the mean time, have absorbed so much
of the earnings of the people that they
possess more money and property than
five times twenty thousand of their
dupes possess. Worse than all, they
, have again forged the chains Of an ig-
nominious slavery on the wrists of wom-
en-; what they call their religion offers
perpetual premium for mems lusts !;
their teachings kill the germ of chasti-
ty in the hearts of childhood before it
is ever warmed into life, and destroys
the honor and sacredness of home.
The men of the East should consider
these things, and should remember that
once before there was an Institution in
this country around which there was a
shield of sympathy; its divine rights
were declared from thousand pulpits !;
Congress was too sordid and too coward
ly to deal with it; wholesale merchants
and great corporations lent their in
huence to perpetuate it, and venal
press rang with anathemas against any
who dared to denounce it. But there
came day at last when men had to
choose which should live and rule, that
institution or this nation.
The history of what followed is fresh
IN all minds; and little as the masses
believe it now. there will come a time,
if this monster in Utah is left to grow,
when there will be another call for vol
unteers and for money: and. as before,
tens of thousands of brave young men
will go away, never to return; as be-
fore, the country will be hillocked with
graves, and the whole land will be
moistened by the rain of women's tears.
%. O. GOoda0in, in Harper's Maga-
zine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

SAM so MUCH BETTER. ."-Extract from
letter of a patient in Biddeford, Me-, dat
ed November 1, 1880: sit is with pleas
ure tell you what Compound Oxygen
treatment has done for me. Last April,
when / commenced using it, | was very
low; suffered from a weak. tired feeling
all the time. Had not been able to do
any housework or sewing for four years,
and but very little for ten years past.
Had not been free from a cough for four
years. Now / do most of my homework;
all my family sewing; walk out every
pleasant day; think could walk a mile
and not be very tired; am so much hap
pier to feel that / am some use in the
world" Treaties on Compound Oxy-
gen" sent free. Drs. Starkey & Palen,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

A correspondent of an English medi-
cal paper says: We have had great
relief in Group and whooping-cough in
the following remedy: Take two parts
best sweet hogs lard and six parts pull
verified sugar or molasses mix thor
oughly. For Group give teaspoonful
every fifteen minutes till relief is obtain
ed. 1t is very important in Group cases
to begin IN time. Children who have
the whooping-cough will fly to the cup
of medicine when paroxysm comes on,
and soon become fond of it, and will
dose themselves if it is left within their
reach.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

"Ashburnham, Mass, Jan. II, 1880. l have been
very sick over two years. They all gave me up as
past tried the most skillful physicians. but
they did not reach the worst part. TAe lungs and
heart would fill up every night and distress me, and
my throat very bad. told my children l never
die in peace until had tried Hop Bitters. have
taken two bottles. They have helped me very much
indeed l am now well. There lot Of sick folks
here who have seen how they helped me, and they
used them and cured, and feel as thankful do
that there is valuable medicine made. Mrs. Julia
G. Cushing"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
HER LAST LETTER.

'Tis but a line, a hurried scrawl,
And little seem the words to say,
Yet hold me in reproachful thrall:
"You quarreled with me yesterday;
Tomorrow you'll be sad"
Ay. you'll be sad." the words are few,
And yet they pierce my soul with pain:
Ay, you'll be sad." the words are true;
They haunt me with prophetic strain:
Tomorrow you'll be sad"
We quarreled, and for what? word,
A foolish speech that Jared the ear,
And thus in wrath our pulses stirr'd;
Then came her letter: "Dear, my dear,
Tomorrow you'll be sad"
Few words half mirth and half regret,
The last her hand should ever write
Sad words learned long ago, and yet
Fresh with new pain to ear and sight:
Tomorrow you'll be sad"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
rEsr1MoN1A1s PROM TEE People

JUDGE BUCHANAN, Lawyer, Toledo, o., says:
"One of Prof. Gumettes French Kidney Pads cured
me of Lumbago in three weeks time. My case had
been given up by the best Doctors incurabe. Dur
ing all this time suffered untold agony and paid out
large sums of money"
GEORGE VETTER, J. P, Toledo, O., says:
81 suffered for three years with Scatca and Kidney
Disease, and often had to go about crutches,
entirely and permanently cured after wearing Prof.
Gullmette.s French Kidney Pad four weeks"
SQUIRE N. @. SCOTT. SylvanIa, O., writes:
81 have been great sufferer for Is years with
Brights Disease of the Kidneys. For weeks at time
was unable to get out of bed took barrels of medicine
but they gave me only temporary relief wore two
Of Prof. Guilmettes Kidney Pads six weeks and now
know am entirely cured.'
MRS. HELEN JEROME. Toledo o. says
'Eor years have been confined, a great part of my
time to my bed with LucorThGa and female weakness
wore one OF Gulmettes Kidney Pads and was cured
in one month"
H.B. GREEN, Wholesale Grocer Fndlay o.. writes
Il suffered for rs years with lame back and in three
weeks permanently cured by wearing one of Prof.
Guilmettes Kidney Pads"
BE-. KEESLING, NJ. D., Druggist, Logansport, Ind,
when sending in order for Kidney Pads, writes:
Il wore one of the first had and l received
more benefit from it than anything / ever used. In
fact the Pads give better general satisfaction than any
Kidney remedy we ever sold"
PROF. GUILMETTE'S FRENCH LIVER PAD.
Win positively Fever and Ague. Dumb Ague
Ague Cake, Bilious Fever Jaundice. Dyspepsia and
all diseases Of the Liver. Stomach and Blood. Price
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| the Kidneys and Liver. free by mail. Address
FRENCH PAD CO., Toledo, Ohio.
E.F. Dutton, Sole Agt., Barton, Vt,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
"REMINISCENCES OF THE
OLD HOME.
BY O. A. CASTLE.

The old house still stands in the meadow,
And the grass has grown close to the door,
And the plaster has dropped from the ceiling
And lies on the old pine floor.
The barn and the woodshed are missing,
They were all torn away long ago;
And the stalls for the cows and the oxen
For many long years have laid low.
You remember the well-curb and bucket,
And the old crank that wound up the chain;
Well, time has destroyed them together,
Not one Of their fragments remain.
The mouth of the well is planked over
But how many times would seem
To be quafing its bright cooling water.
And awakening would fad it a dream.
The currant bush row in the garden
And the red plum tree out on the green,
And the apple trees down in the meadow.
Not one of them now can be seen.
But the old house stands rustic and silent
Like sentinel solemn and lone:
And the clover grows green in the meadow,
But everything else is gone.
Is gone did say ? not entirely,
For the little brook still npples by;
And the bobolink sings just as sweetly
The notes of his old melody.
And under the bank by the wayside
The spring where we used to play,
Where mother sometimes did her washing
Runs as crystal as ever to-day.
And the pine woods where we gathered berries,
Stand just as they did before;
Where our childish feet loved to wander
Far back in the days of yore.
You know that we once had brother,
And the childish advantage took,
When as he lay watching the minnows
tumbled him into the brook
Twas well that dear mother was watching,
And thus his young life she preserved:
But my back felt tnghng sensation,
1t surely was richly deserved.
And don't you remember the bedroom
Where stood the dear old trunlle bed
The room where our dear loving mother
Oft pillowed her aching head?
And that's where she put Us in sickness,
And watched US by night and by day;
Thus nursing US back from our weakness
In her loving and motherly way.
I've nail from that bedroom window,
saw it while passing by
And drew it from out the old easement
shall keep it, think, till die.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

PAsTE.-To ten parts by weight of
gum arabic add three parts of sugar to
prevent cracking; then add water until
the desired consistency is obtained. If
very strong paste is required. add a
quantity of -four equal in weight to the
gum, without boiling the mixture. The
paste improves in strength when it be-
gins to ferment
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

THE ky TO HEALTH.-Have you found the key TO
perfect health and strength? II is Kidney-WoIt the
only remedy that overcOmes at the inaction OF
the kidneys and bowels. 1t purihes the blood by
cleansing .he system OF fou. humors and by giving
strength to the liver kidneys and bowels perform
their regular functions. See displayed advertisement
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

The Buffalo Erpress says: s'The pres
ence of Mr.. Vanderbilt at the Chicago
races is explained by his having taken
advantage Of the low rate of railroad fares
just now prevailing"
a Chicago man told lie and then said,
81 hope to be struck dead if I have not
told the truth!'' He had scarcely ceased
speaking when he fell to the floor-a man
having knocked him down.
Jinks' parents live up in Buffalo and
have to send him money every month to
keep his landlord from evicting him.
Jinks, in writing back his gratitude, al
ways begins, 'My dear payments"
Some one wrote to Horace Greeley in
quiring if guano was good to put on pota-
toes. He said it might do for those whose
tastes had been vitiated with tobacco and
rum, but he preferred gravy and butter.
The degree of D. D. has been conferred
on the general baggage agent of the Cen
tral Pacific. This degree is every day
conferred on the baggage agents, but two
small DIS are considered sufficient to ex-
press the idea.
The manner in which Connecticut
courts and juries are run has provoked
criticism from every state in the Union.
A man who commits murder in that state
has got to own it and prove it before a
jury will believe it.
Felicia asked her brother to buy q
science monthly for her because it had an
article on "Ancient Method of Filtration. y
| When he brought it home she said he was
horrid and mean because it turned out to
be on "Ancient Methods of Filtration"
| ''Vot you sharge pY der week for dose
rooms?" asked German Of the clerk at a
summer hotel. ''Six hundred dollars a
week." was the prompt response. 81
dinks it vas peter dan you go bardner-
ships NIT der telegraph company"
| One of our residents has bottled several
hundred small worms which came from
the water pipes in his house the other
morning. At one time a small water
snake was drawn! Fortunately water is
something we are not obliged to drink
back of the door in the dark.
Little Phil, bright fve-year-old, is
afraid of thunder. During the recent hot
spell his mother would remark, 'sOh, ]
pray for rain" One day when she said il
Phil thus addressed her: 'tOh, mamma
I will tell you why it don't rain. When
say my prayers, des say, Please dom
pay any 'tention to what mamma says
cos / am 'fraid of thunder"
The symptoms of itching piles are mois
ture, like perspiratiOn, intense itching
most at night, seems as if pin worms wer
crawling in or about the rectum. Th
more you scratch the worse they itch
very distressing. The private parts ar
often affected. DR.. SWAYNE's OINTMEN
is the most effective remedy extant for thi
tormenting complaint. Gives rest a
night without that desire to scratch. Ais
has no equal in quickly eradicating letter
itch, salt rheum, erysipelas, BARRIERS itch
pimples, all scaly, crusty, itching ski
eruptions. Here is the proof: ssCertainl
the best remedy ever used in my practice
DR.. Cotton, Woodstock, Vt. :" 'sTrouble
with itching piles for over twenty years
a it cured me completely, L. S. Messer, Ell
field, Me. Sent for so cts, in ct. stamps
3 boxes, S1.25, by DIR. Swayne & Sor
J Philadelphia, Pa. Sold by all druggists
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26

Having a large stock of horse nails on hand, I am
desrous of closing them out even at a price below
cost. Call at GREEN MOUNTAIN STORE.
HIRAM BAXTER.
Barton, August Is, 1881. 33tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
PROF. GUILMETTE'S
FRENCH KIDNEY PAD.

WHICH CURES BY ABSORPTION.
Ask your druggist for PROF. GUILMETTE'S
FRENCH KIDNEY PAD, and take no other. If he
has not got it, send $3.50 and you will receive the Pad
hv vrofur mail
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
Orleaas County Sgtunitor,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. HI. BLAKE.
BARTON,VT.

TERMs.-StrictIy in aduance, 81 80 per annum. If
not paid in advance, $500 year. Subscriber living
outside Of Orleans County must remit 10 extra
or postage. For convenience in remitting, we will
give credit for year and four months for So co. to
ubscrbers in the county, and year and three for
S2OO to subscribers withoutthecounty, when sent
: trictLy in dduGnce.
RATES OF ADyERTIsING madeknown napplication. d.
Remit by P. Q. Money Order, Registered Letter or
Draft. Watch the label on your paper and notice
when your subscription expires. and see that your
payments are keptin advance. When money is sent
we shall give you the credit the label at once;
T the label is nOtadvanced within two weeks notify
us by postalcard.
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HORSE NAILS.

6HO WEEK. $l2aday az home easily made. Costly
e outfit free. Address True Co., Augusta, Maine