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I shall keep business hours now. Off
in the morning-home for an hour at
lunch-and then off again until din
ner.o
ssHave you heard?" she whisper
ed.
'sYes. Do I seem hard and un-
feeling, darling? Forgive me. But,
Hattie dear, you shall not feel any
privations that my love can keep
from you. We shall not be rich;
many things must be spared; yet,
trust me, I will work hard before you
shall suffer. Oh, / cannot cannot
help it, Hattie ! am glad-glad of
this ! You are mine. Now | can
prove to you and to the world that
your fortune was nothing to me. /
have seen your uncle to-day, and
through his kindly exerted influence
/ have secured the situation as book
keeper in a wholesale grocery store.
"You-you, Edward, with your re-
fined tastes and luxurious habits? p
"Why, Hattie, the salary is 81 900
year. Think of earning that!''
"Oh, Edward, my own love ]"
And here the sobs came too thick for
more words. His own voice was
husky as he said:
''But for you, Hattie, should be
now miserable lounger- gambler,
perhaps, or worse. | feel that | am
a man, with true heart and will
ing energy, and the turning point of
my life was your words, i trust you,
Edward You did trust me, and
God willing, l will win that trust
worthily."
Nobly he kept his word. The lux
urious home was sold, and in a quiet
house they began life again humbly.
There is one child, a second Edward,
to knit his parents hearts in a
yet closer bond, and Hattie knows
that between her poverty there stands
willing, strong man.
"For better, for worse" they took
their path in life together, and the
trust of their betrothal will make
their life sunny, though sorrow may
for time shade their way.
"WHAT ALEXANDER MIGHT HAVE DoNE."-The late
Gar of Russia eminent great man. his action
in liberatng thirtysx million sers from slavery quail
flied him to be. Yet with all his greatness Alexander
left it to Dr. Swayne TO lberate the world from the
annoyance and pain of of skin diseases by pro-
ducing Swayhe's Ointment Think of the tens, hun
dreds. thousands it has cured and then remember it
is economical effective, reliable and pure. and if you
will only try it you win have cure.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

stice. Their continuance is, there
fore, thirty-nine days. Years ago
the dog days were reckoned in our
almanacs from the cosmical rising of
Proceyon, viz. on the 30th of July,
continuing to the 7th of September.
Now the dog days are so arranged as
to depend on the summer solstice,
and not on the variable rising of any
particular star.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
WINDFALLS.

There is proverb which says,
"Light come, light CO." signifying
that the things we acquire without
effort do not stand by us, have a fac
ulty of slipping through our fingers.
The windfalls in the orchard are al
ways the speckled fruit, which has a
spot too mellow for health about it,
or worm at the heart, and the anal
ogy holds good in most cases where
windfalls are concerned. The mon
ey which lottery ticket brings in is
apt to burn a hole in the pocket of
its owner; it has come so easily that
he spends it more lavishly than if he
had burned the midnight oil, or used
muscle and nerve to spin his straw
INTO gold. Perhaps for the same
reason, it so often happens that mon
ey which generations have amassed
by years of self denial, by the sweat
Of the brow and the throes of the
brain, is squandered by the heirs IN
the twinkling of an eye, who would
think twice before spending their
own earnings. An unexpected lega-
cy tempts Us into extravagancies
which our regular income would new
er countenance; we grow easily into
the habit of prodigal expenditure,
the legacy becomes exhausted, but the
habit remains. The Persian rug
which we drew at the charity fair for
fifty cents cost us in the end more
than fifty Persian rugs, so to speak
and the horse which our neighbor
loaned US for the winter not only ate
more bank bills than would have
bought four in hand, but gave our
neighbor a mortgage on our gratitude
on which we cannot even expect to
pay the interest. Wedding gifts seem
at the time like so many windfalls,
but though the credit is long, the bill
always falls due, sooner or later. In
fact, rather than be on the watch for
windfalls, it were wiser to stand from
under, and dodge them if need be.
Though they may serve in an emer-
gency, they too often prove a snare
and a delusion, and their mischiev-
Gus effects are shown when we get to
look for them to bel p us out of diff
ficulty-get to rely on some possible
miraculous interference rather than
upon our own mother wit and exer-
tions. By growing to depend upon
them, they demoralize US; if we have
a windfall to-day, why not to-mor-
row, and the day after? Let us fold
our hands, then, and wait for wind
falls. In this view it is often better,
as matter of charity, perhaps, to
give work and wages rather than
money and gifts.-Hdrper' Bdzdr.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
FOR THE BREATH AND
TEETH.

With due attention to the health,
and thorough brushing of the teeth
at least night and morning, all that
is needful to secure a sweet breath is
to chew a bit of licorice after using
the tooth brush. This will even
counteract the effects of diseased
breath, and does not convey the un
pleasant suggestions of chacous and
spice that are used to hide an offence.
Licorice has no smell, but it actually
sweetens the mouth and stomach. A
stick of it should be Clipped for use,
and kept in a box for the toilet.
A tincture for the teeth and gums
which restores soundness to the lat
ter is an infusion of one ounce of
coarsely powdered Peruvian bark
STEPPED fortnight in half a pint of
brandy. Gargle the mouth night and
morning with a teaspoonful of this
tincture, diluted with an equal guam
tity of rose water.
For decaying teeth make balsam
of two scruples of myrrh in fine pow
der, scruple of juniper-gum, and
ten grains of rock alum, mixed in
honey. Apply this balsam frequent
ly to the decayed teeth.
A very agreeable dentifrice for
good teeth is made from an ounce of
myrrh in fine powder, and little
powdered green sage, mixed with two
spoonfuls of white honey. A drug
gist will make up the compound, and
the teeth should be washed with it
every night and morning. Spite of
all that is said against it, charcoal
holds the highest place as a tooth
powder. 1t has the property, too, of
opposing putrifaction, and destroys
the vices of the gums. 1t is most
conveniently used when made into
paste with honey.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN

The following quaint advice from
the Burlington Haackeye man has the
"pith of truth in it:
Remember, son, that the world is
older than you are, by several years;
that for thousands of years it has
been so full of smarter and better
young men than yourself that their
feet stuck out of the dormer win
dows; that when they died the old
globe went whirling on, and not one
man in ten thousand went to the fun
eral or even heard of the death.
Be as smart as you can, of course.
Know as much as you can, without
blowing the packing out of your cyl
inder-heads shed the light of your
wisdom abroad in the world, but
don't dazzle people with it, and don't
imagine thing is so simple because
you say it is. Don't be too sorry
for your father because he knows so
much less than you do; remember
the reply of Dr. Wayland to the stu
dent of Brown University, who said
it was an easy enough thing to make
proverbs such as Solomon wrote.
''Make few" tersely replied the
old man. And we never heard that
the young man made any. Not more
than two or three anyhow. The
world has great need of young
men, but no greater need than young
men have of it. Your clothes fit you
better than your fathers fit him !;
they cost more money, they are more
stylish, your moustache is neater. the
cut of your hair Is better, and you
are prettier, oh, far prettier than
"pa." But young man, the old gen
tleman gets the biggest salary, and
his homely, scrambling signature on
the business end of a check will drain
| more money out of the bank in five
minutes than you could get out
with ream of paper and a copper
plate signature in six months.
Young men are useful and they are
ornamental, and we all love them,
and we couldn't engineer a picnic
successfully without them. But they
are no novelties, son. Oh, no, moth
ing of the kind. They have been
here before. Do not be so modest
as to shut yourself clean out; but
don't be so fresh you will have to be
put away in the cool to keep from
spelling. Don't be afraid that your
merit will not be discovered. People
| all over the world are hunting for
you, and if you are worth finding,
they will find you. A diamond isn't
so easily found as a quartz pebble,
but some people search for it all the
more intently.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
How TO KEEP WooD FROM SHRINK

How TO KEEP WooD FROM SHRINK
ING.-A new composition used to
prevent wood from warping or shrink
ing, and which can be applied to the
felloes of wheels to prevent the loos-
ening of tires, as well as to buckets
or casks which are to stand the sun,
is composed of one gallon of linseed
oil, four ounces of common salt, two
ounces of saltpetre, and one pint of
turpentine, to be thoroughly mixed
and applied to the wood while hot.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
OLD CHURCH BELLS.
Ring out merrily,
To,1l, aboor;Iy

Ring out merrily,
Loudly, cheerily,
BIthe old bells from the steeple tower
Hopefully, fearfully.
Joyfully tearfully.
Moveth the bride from her maiden bower.
Cloud there is none in the fair summer sky;
Sunshine filings benison down from on high;
Children sing loud as the train moves along.
Happy the bride that the shineth on
Knell out dreaiily,
Measured and YEARLY,
Sad old bells from the steeple gray.
Priests chanting lowly;
Solemnly, slowly
Passeth the corse from the portal to-day.
Drops from the leaden clouds heavily fall
Drippingly over the plume and the pall
Murmur old folk, as the train moves along,
"Happy the dead that the rain raineth on.''
Toll the hour of prime,
Matn the vesper chime,
Loved old bells from the steeple high
Rolling like holy waves.
Over the lowly graves,
Floating up, prayer-raught, into the sky.
Solemn the lesson your lightest notes teach;
Stem is the preaching your iron tongues preach;
Ringing in life from the bud to the bloom.
Ringing the dead to their rest in the tomb.
Peal out eyermore-
Peal as ye pealed of yore,
Brave old bells, on each Sabbath day,
In sunshine and gladness,
Thro clouds and thro' sadness,
Bridal and burial have passed away.
Tell US ifes pleasures with death are still rife;
Tell us that Death ever leadeth to Life
Life is our labor, and Death is our rest,
Ifhappy the Living, the Dead are the blest.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
.sBEST THINGS"

The best theology pure and be-
neficent life.
The best philosophy contented
mind.
The best law-the golden rule.
The best education self -knowl-
edge.
The best statemanship-self-gov-
ernment.
The best medicine -cheerfulness
and temperance.
The best art painting smile upon
the brow of childhood.
The best misunderstanding sun
shine from a cloudy way.
The best war-to war against ohe's
weakness.
The best music-the laughter of an
innocent child.
The best journalism-printing the
true and the beautiful only, on mem
ory's tablet.
The best telegraphing- flashing a
ray of sunshine into a gloomy heart.
The best biography-the life which
writes charity in the largest letters.
The best mathematics which
doubles the most joys and divides the
most sorrows.
The best navigation-steering clear
of the lacerating rocks of personal
contention.
The best diplomacy-effecting a
treaty of peace with ones own con-
science.
The best engineering building a
bridge of faith over the river of death.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

CHOICE EXTRACTS PROM DRUGGIsTs.-"We know
the value of malt. hops qunine bark and asparagus
composing Malt Bitters.''
''Best kidney medicine on our shelves"
"Our lady customers highly praise them"
physicians prescribe them in this town."
1.-THE largest bottle and best medicine"
"Our best people take Malt Bitters.'"
Sure cure for chills and liver Diseases"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

4 BENEFIcIENT ACTIoN.-The miserable looks and
feelings of those confined desks work tables
caused by weak stomach, kidneys bowels. Parkers
Ginger Tonic without intoxicating has such benef-
cent action on these organs and cleans the POISON
Gus matters from the system, that rosy cheeks and
good health are soon brought back again n-Erpress
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

Browns IRON BITTERs is
composed of Iron in soluble
form; Cinchona the great
tonic, together with other
standard remedies, making
a remarkable non-alcoholic
tonic, which will cure Dys-
pepsia, Indigestion, Malaria,
Weakness, and relieve all
Lung and Kidney diseases.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
How ? By getting one
bottle of BROwN' IRON BIT
TIERS, and taking it regularly
according to directions.

Mansfield, Ohio, Nov. a6, 1881.
Gentlemen -Ihave suffered with
pam in my side and back, and great
soreness on my breast, with shoot
ing pains all through my body, at
tended with great weakness, dcpres-
sion of spirits, and loss Of appe-
tite. | have taken several different
medicines, and was treated by prom
inent physicians for my liver, kid
neys, and spleen, but got no relief.
| thought | would try Browns Iron
Bitters I have now taken one bottle
and half and am about well-pain
in side and back all gone-soreness
all out of my breast, and l have 4
good appetite, and am gaining in
strength and flesh. Itcan Justly be
called the king ef medicines.
john K. ALLENDER.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

Never interrupt any conversation with hacking
cough; it creates a bad impression. Better invest
quarter of dollar in bottle of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup
and cure it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
HE GOT 'EM MIXED.

There is an editor who published a
paper at Storm Lake, Iowa. He left
there the day after the issue of the
last paper, and is supposed to be
crossing the state on foot to get
away from an infuriated female pop
ulation. It seems there were a con-
cert given by some young ladies of
the city, and the gallant young edi-
tor wrote it up in splendid shape.
The same day he had visited herd
of short-horn cattle, owned by a
farmer in the vicinity, and he wrote
up the cattle also. The cross-eyed
foreman of the office got the two ar
ticles mixed up as follows: "The
concert given last evening by sixteen
of Storm Lakes most beautiful and
interesting young ladies was highly
appreciated. They were elegantly
dressed, and sang in most charming
manner, winning the plaudits of the
entire aunience, who pronounced
them the finest short-horns in the
county. A few of them are of a
rich brown color, but the majority
are spotted brown and white. Sew
eral were fne-bodied, tight-limbed
animals, and promise to prove good
property. Their limbs were shapely,
and their movements graceful. The
farmer who secures them may well
smack his lips"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

Don't waste money trashy extracts when you
buy lasting perfume delightfully."- fragrant and
refreshing as Floreston Cologne
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

SILENT PEOPLE.-We all reckon
among our friends or acquaintances
some silent man or woman, whose in
f1ueace is felt, whose rarely expressed
opinion we value, whose few words,
we'll chosen, spoken in clear, harmo-
NOUS tones, 90 at once to the point
and decide it.
We have all met quiet, well-read,
well-bread persons whose society we
have sought and always found an
ever increasing thirst for-persons
whose minds unfold leaf by leaf rare
beauties, which made us feel better
for every hour spent with them. To
know such persons is to study them
to study them is to love them, to
hunger for their society, to prize their
presence, to regret their absence and
to mourn for them forever when they
have passed into the s'silent land
To such women the world owes
much; far more than those who
speak. Those are the women who
make the home happy and life beau
tiful; to whom the cross word, and
impatient tone, are strangers whose
children are surprised at harsh tone,
and who never fear the blow they
have no knowledge of. These are
they who say nothing of woman's
rights, think more of woman's duties
the chief of which is the privilege
making home happy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

You can continue feeling
miserable and good for no.
thing, and no one but your
self can find fault, but if you
are tired Of that kind oflife,
you can change it if you
choose.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04

health and avoid sickness.
Instead Of feeling tired and
worn out, instead of aches
and pains, wouldn't you
rather feel fresh and strong?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
Orleans County Monitor,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. H. BLA h H,
BARTON, VT.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

C.F. PERCIVAL,
nEALEE IN FURNITURE. COFFINs AND
J Baskets. Barton,Vt.
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Aph0~isms.

Responsibility educales.
Prosperity makes few real friends.
Devotion is the last love Of woman.
Gold is the sovereign of sovereigns.
Death is a panacea for all evils.
Tue breaking of a heart leaves no scar.
them.
We are never so happy or unhappy as we
fancy.
Jealousy is the homage that inferiority
pays to merit.
Grief counts the seconds happiness for
gets the hours.
Better a man with p~aradoxes than a man
with prejadices.
Women are too imaginative and sensitive
TO have much logic.
Revenge at first, though sweet, bitter ere
long back on itself recoils.
Of all the riches that we hug, Of all the
pleasures tIat we enjoy, we Can carry no
more out of this world than out Of q dream.
The road to success is not to be run upon
by little, Bit 10y hit-that is the way to wis
dom, wealth and glory,
We are not only pleased but turned by a
feather. The history of "A man is y calender
of straws. 1t the nose Of Cleopatra had
been shorter, said Pascal, in his brilliant
way, Antony might nave kept the world.
We are never without a pilot. When we
know not how to steer, andsdare not hoist a
sail, we drift. The current knows the way,
though we do not. The ship Of Heaven
guides itself, and will not accept a wooden
rudder.
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Am EX-J sssige la srpanE an A pplc stand

The Greenback party is a power, SO the
Greenback orat ,rs say at least, and yet one
OF the most prominent Of the local Green
hackers, one Of their best orators, Judge
Maddox by name, has failed to get the recog-
nitiol he claimed. He got something, how
ever, and to this extent possibly he did better
than some Of the other orators Of that party
will do. | don't know exactly how much
,tcognition he claimed and probably never
will know, but | know he has got the right
and the privilege to open an apple stand near
the main door Of the House, in the hall lead
ing to the gallery. He opened up Business
bright and early Monday morning, his stock
consisting of about two pecks Of very nice
looking apples. The spectacle Of the Judge
in a dress suit of black cloth, high choker
collar and wearing a fashionable beaver tile
sitting behind his stock Of apples and news
papers was not exactly what many who
heard his eloquence during the late campaign
would hardly expect to witness. And vel
the Judge looked happy and smiled pleas.
antlV.
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Why No ScOLcnnlen Gu I'D Heaven.

Long years ago., in times so remote that
history does not fix the epoch, 9 dreadful
war was waged by the King Of Scotland.
Scottish valor prevailed, and the King OF
Scotland. elated by bis success, sent for bis
Prime Minister, Lord Alexander.
well, Sandy" said he, lis there ne'er a
king we Gamma CONC Ter 0 p
s.An'. it please your Majesty, | ken o. a
king that your Majesty Gamma vanquish.'
can who is he, Sandy 2"
Lord Alexander, reverently looking up,
said, s.the king O. Heaven"
1.-The king O whaur, Sandy ?"
.Tne king o. Heaven
The Scottish king did not understand, but
was unwilling to exhibit any ignorance.
.sJust gang your ways, Sandy, and tell the
king O. Heavens to gle up his domInions Or
I'll come myself and ding him him DOT o
them, and mind, Sandy, We dinna come back
to US until We haze dune DOR biddin."
Lord Alexander retired much p~erplexed,
but met u priest, and, treasured. returned
and presented himself.
"Well, Sandy" said the king, ''hae ye
seen the king o. Heaven, and what says no
to DOR biddin' Z"
"An' it please your Majesty, i have seen
ane O. his accredited ministers"
aWeel, and what says he :"
HE says your Majesty nay cen .hae his
Kingdom for the asking o. IL"
TWAS he Sac civil p said the king, warm
ing to magniminity. 1Just gang your way
back, Sandy, an tell the King O Heaven
that for his ciyilty the dell . Scotchman
sahll set foot in his kingdom"
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dress of soft, blue cloth, with two rows Of
ruth IS up the back -stretch, and q p~olonaise
that never costs less than $22.
well, Bertrace, have you concluded to
shake me ?" says the man.
The sunbeams flicker erratically down be-
tween the leaves, making little lights and
shades on the veranda; the grasshoppers sing
among the red ~clovers; the little foot, which
has suspended its movements during the de-
livery Of this interrogatory, resumes its oc-
cupation. Adelbert's gaze is still fastened
upon the pretty face that looks slylY down,
but the smile has fl led.
No answer comes.
A moment longer and the foot-taps cease;
one or two irfesolute movements of the body.
and then the white arms, cleaning out from
the loose sleeves, are around his neck, and
the brown locks and golden beard are
mingled, while the little head goes down on
his shoulder amid a storm Of sobs.
she b g hit her bunion.
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Romance AS Id Is.

The south wind is signing softly among
the sturdy oaks, whose leafy branches shield
from ano s,tiless rays of . July sun the vel
vety-sofr lswn that stretches away to the
eastward In front of a lovely Du Page County
villa. On the veranda stands q girl, lovely
beyond compare, TO whom q man--one
whose sunny locks AMI beard of swany gold
hue tell plainly of the Saxon blood thai
Il TVS in his yeins-is talking in ali earnest
manner. There is \ loving look ia bis soft,
blue eyes, aud he speaks with . tender earn
estness that shows he is trying TO get there.
The girl il tapping lightly with = croquet-
mallet the pretty foot that peeps OUT half
.imidly from beneath the pretty morning