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sol N. Fremont ST., Baltimore

sol N. Fremont ST., Baltimore
During the war / was in
jured in the stomach by a piece
Of shell, and have suffered
from il ever since. About four
yesrsagoitbrought on paraly-
sis, which kept me in bed six
months, and the best doctors
in the city said / could not
live. suffered fearfulIy from
indigestion, and for over two
years could not eat solid food
and for large portion Of the
time was unable 10 retain even
liquid nounshment. / tried
Browns Iron Bitters and now
after taking two bottles I am
able to get up and 90 around
and am rapidly improving.
6. DECKER.
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GhGh pairs more Of the Win
SS wv chester Hand made
SHOES, just received and for sale at
20 to 90 per cent. below Factory pri.
ces, by f. RUSSELL & BRO
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BROWNS IRON BlTTERs is
a complete and sure remedy for
Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Malaria,
Weakness and all diseases requir-
Ing a true, reliable, non-alcohoIic
tonic. Il enriehes the blood, gives
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10 The nerves,
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all Paper.
Howell & Brothers.
MANUFACTURERS or
WALL PAPERS AM
WINDOW SHADES
eco West Baltimore S,reo.

BALTIMORE, Nh
Being DESTROYS Of enlargiay their iras. -
County Nerchants, are prsparsi vns "a
large STOCK 10 one- goods q, prices Tia, a.
competition. Seiy
We viii send Sample Books OF w<li p.
free OF Charge. TO all Country N r,chs,,, ts,A
viii Apply to us by letter fo- The same vac
window Shades of every quality ana ,....
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Miss BEowS who is no longer young,
wa5.chidinE Miss MorrE Tor her foolish.
ness in carrying paraaol which Miss
Brown said was useless and a piece of
'iectation. I mover carry q parasol. she
SAID No, replied Nss aloire poo-
pie on the shady aito cflie have no
u.c ~ them - 7He T,0reler
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01
ELECTRIC LAMPS.

If we examine one of the electric
lamps in the streets, we shall find it
consists of two rods, one pointing up
ward from the bottom of the lamp,
the other hanging downward. The
rods seem to touch, and the brilliant
flame is exactly where they seem to
meet. Once a day man comes
around with bag of the rods. He
takes out the rods that were burned
the night before, and places a new
set in each lamp. After he has gone
about, as if he were putting new
wicks into the lamps, and each is
ready for its nights work, all the
lamps are lighted in broad day, to
see that every one is iu proper trim.
They are allowed to burn until the
men have walked about in the streets
and looked at each lamp. If all are
burning well, they are put out till it
begins to grow dark. If one fails to
burn properly, a man goes to see
what is the matter. The rods are
made of a curious black substance,
like charcoal, that is called carbon.
When the lamp is out' the two rods
touch each other. In order to light
the lamp, they are pulled apart; and
if YOU look at the fame through a
smoked glass, you will see that the
rods do not quite touch. There is a
small space between their points, and
this space is filled with fire. Look
at the other parts of the rods, or the
copper wires that extend along the
streets. They have no light, no heat,
no sound. The wires are cold, dark.
and silent. If we were to push the
two rods in the lamp close together.
the light and heat would dis
appear. and the curious kissing
sound would stop. Why is this
Let US go to the woods near some
brook, and it may be that we can un
derstand this matter.
Here is the brook, flowing quietl,
along. smooth, deep, and without |
ripple. We walk beside the stream
and come to place where there ar
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01
LETTER TO THE MONITOR.

Mr.. Editor: To some of your
readers brief letter, relative to my
trip from Vermont to Massachusetts
and of matters in Lowell may be of in
terest. | left Island Pond on the
18th inst, and came to this city via.
Groveton Junction, Wells River, Ply
mouth, Concord, Manchester and
Nashua. The snow which has been
light the past winter in all sections
in New England, had pretty much
melted away except in the mountain
regions, and the indications along
the banks of the rivers were that the
spring floods had passed. Business
in all localities appears to be BOOM
ing and everybody is cheerful.
Lowell, the ''City of Spindles, as
every one understands, is the second
city in size in Massachusetts, and
the greatest cotton manufacturing
center in America. Business here is
good, and though there is labor
strike in the neighboring city of Law
renee, nothing serious has occurred
here to disturb the general prosperi-
ty. Manufacturing being good, 9th
er business is correspondingly good.
The merchants are displaying spring
goods, and the windows are aglow
with beautiful and useful goods of
all kinds at low prices. The tenn
perance question is being agitated,
and great efforts are being made to
do away with the evil intemperance.
Up to the 18th there had been 8S
applications for liquor licenses in
this city, and there will be many
more. 1t is hoped the mayor will
not grant them. A large audience
greeted Genevieve Ward and hel
company in the play, Forget Me
Not" at Music hall, Thursday even
ing. The acting was excellent, the
scenery elaborate and altogether i
was a success. At the close of th'
play, Miss Ward was called befor,
the curtain and received with heart,
cheers. Should she visit Lowell
again, she will be heartily welcomed
B. Ii. A.
LoaceH, Mass. ApYl IS.
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came, both mother and daughter re-
ceived him cordially.
His father came too, as he had
promised, and we found him a genial,
courteous gentleman, who seemed
well pleased with his sons choice.
When Arthur renewed his offer of
marriage with candor and affection,
do not think Carrie hesitated longer
in her reply.
Perhaps | felt justly proud of what
I had been the means of consummt-
ing, for in my heart 1 knew it was
good match.
To the surprise of her neighbors
Mrs. @. sold her small place, and
with her daughter left very suddenly.
Accompanying their new formed
friends to Albany they found them
among the first families.
AS Arthur lacked only one year of
finishing his law course, it was decid-
ed that he and Carrie should be mar
ried at once, and had the pleasure
of acting as groomsman.
After theirmarriage Carrie received
instructions in music from a high ac-
complished teacher, until she grad
uated with high honors.
Employed soon after by the city to
defend an important case, he was
successful, and his name has ranked
ever since as one of the ablest and
most highly rewarded practitioners in
the country.
While his son had found a happy
home, Mr.. H., who had been a wild
over for several years, began to feel
that he needed helpmeet at his
country residence, and that of all
| persons Mrs. @. was the one whom
he desired.
Telling her as much, she gladly ac-
cepted, and the four, whose lives had
been so strangely brought together,
began new existance full of happi-
ness, with future as bright as a
summer sky.
Elder C.'s daughter, dear chum
Will and myself having been instru-
mental in producing SO much real
happiness for others, have remained
in single blessedness.
1t was some time before Carrie
could summon courage enough to tell
her husband the deception she had
| given him, but like a dutiful wife,
when he placed his first earning in
her hands and said it was her we'd
ding present, she confessed all, and
craved his forgiveness.
Taking her gently to his arms he
said: II have no more to forgive
than you, dear wife, for | am guilty
of the same course. 1t was my chum
who wrote all the letters, but after
he promised to meet his correspond
ent at L., his courage failed him,
and he hired me to go in his place.
If gave favorable report of her,
he was to go the second time. But
/ liked your appearance so well that
l resolved to win you for myself.
There, darling, in our great happi-
ness we cannot have wished it other
wise, can we?'
In answer she nestled her head
closely upon his bosom.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01
Charles Barnard, IN st. Nicholas.

In the nine months ending March
81, 1882 the exports of breadstuffs
from this country have fallen off
about sixty millions of dollars. New
York declined thirty millions, Phila-
delphia ten millions, New Orleans
seveu millions, Boston three millions.
The city of Baltimore a few years
ago lost its entire sugar and molasses
trade, which, in 1871, was larger
than that of Boston, but obtained in
its place its enormous grain trade,
which brought to its port scores of
vessels, while Boston had hardly any
for grain freight. Now that trade
has fallen one-half to two-thirds, de-
clining from forty millions to nine
teen millions in nine months, fifty
three per cent.-while Boston's loss
was but twenty-five per cent. This
decline also comes with especial Sc
verify on Baltimore, as its grain trade
is its main business, while at Boston
it is only a portion of the business
transacted as an exporting city, as it
sends produce and manufactures to
almost every port on the habitable
globe. The cause of this great re-
duction is largely the effect of the
speculation. Grain has been bought
by spectators and held at such prices
as to prevent expectation while bread
stuff has been made high for the con-
sumer. The profits have chiefly gone
to the spectators.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01

AN HONEST BOY.-In a country
school large class were standing to
spell. In the lesson there was very
hard word. put the word to the
scholar at the head, and he missed
it; | passsd it to the next, and so on
through the whole class, till it came
to the last scholar-the smallest of
the class-and he spelled it right; at
least, | understood HIM so, and he
went to the head, above seventeen
boys and girls, all older than himself.
| then turned round and wrote the
word on the blackboard, so that
they might all see how it was spelled,
and learn it better. But no sooner
had | written it than the little boy at
the head cried out, '.Oh, didn't say
it so. Miss W: | said instead
of l." and he went back to the foot,
of his own accord, quicker than he
had gone to the head. Was not he
an honest boy? | should always
have thought he spelled it right if he
had not told me but he was too hon
est to take any credit that did not be-
long to him.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01

GREAT BLESSING MOTHERS AND NURSES
"Swayne's Teething Cure for infants. This
theory and nfallible remedy has saved the lives of
thousands of children. When the child is in pain.
restless with its teeth shooting in its gums simply
rub the gums for two three minutes with the
Cure" What little itmay swallow will relieve the
collie. pain and aatnence. prevent fever and avoid
that painful operation Of lancng tie gums. which
always makes the next tooth harder come through
and sometimes causes DEATH Depend upon it. moth
ers it win give rest to yourselves and immediate relief
aud health to your infants. very able medical
writer who enjoys large aud lucrative practice says
rubbing the gums with soothing lotion, is the only
true method sor children teethine poisonous drugs
should never be introduced into their delicate stom-
achs. "swaynes Tcething Cure" is prepared only by
Dr. swayne Son, Philadelphia. and sold by all lead
ing apothecares at 25 cents bottle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01

high rocks, and steep, stony banks.
Here the channel is very narrow, and
the water is no longer smooth and 81
lent. 1t boils and foams between
the rocks. There are eddies and
whirlpools, and at last we come to
the narrowest part of all. Here, the
once dark and silent water roars and
foams in white. stormy rapids. There
are sounds and furious leaping and
rushing water and clouds of spray.
What is the matter? Why is the
smooth, dark water so white with
rage, so impetuous, so full of sounds
and turmoil? The rocks are the
cause. The way is narrow and steep.
The waters are hemmed in, and there
is grand display of flashing white
foam and roaring waterfalls, as the
waters struggle together to get past
the narrow place.
1t is the same with the electricity
flowing through the large copper
wires 1t passes. down one wire into
the other, through the lamp, in 81
lence and darkness, so long as the
rods touch and the path is clear.
When the rods in the lamp are pulled
apart, there is space to be got over,
an obstruction, like rocks in the bed
of the brook. The electricity, like
the water, struggles to get over the
hindrance in its path, and it grows
white-hot with anger, and flames and
Kisses as it leaps across the narrow
space between the rods.
There is another kind of electric
lamp, used in houses it has small
er and softer light, steady, white, and
very beautiful.
In these lamps, also, we have
something like the narrow place in
the brook. They are made with
slender loops of carbon, inclosed in
glass globes. The electricity, flow
ing silently through a dark wire, en-
ters the lamp, and finds only a mar
row thread on which it can travel to
reach the the homegoing wire, and,
in its struggle to get past, it heats
the tiny thread of carbon to white
ness. Like live coal, this slender
thread gives us mild, soft light, as
long as the current flows. 1t seems
calm and still, but it is enduring the
same fury of the electricity that is
shown in the larger lamps.
This is the main idea on which
these lamps are made: A stream of
electricity is set flowing from a dy-
namo-electric machine through wire
until it meets narrow place or a
break in the wire. Then it seeks to
get past the obstruction, and there is
grand putting forth of energy, and
in this way the electric force, al
though itself invisible, is made known
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01
CATCHING SUNBEAMS.

The grandmother sat by the cottage door,
The grandchild played at her feet on the floor.
From the western sky the bright sunshine sped,
And rested in glory either head.
Then in long, gold arrows it seemed to fall,
And, quivering, break on the cottage WALL
And the child reached up with her baby hands,
Loud laughing. to prison the shining bands
And twas sweet On the baby face to see
The look of surprise at the mystery.
Swift escaped from the tiny fingers hold
Again on the wall the dancing gold
In the grandmother's lap her knitting lay
And her eyes we've bent on the child at play.
But against the tide of her lfe's long stream,
Had her thoughts swung back in 4 waking dream,
Till they reached the source. and she was child
That caught at the sunbeams with laughter wild.
And through all the paths life's dusty way.
1t had been with her as the child at play.
She had caught at the sunbeams that barred the air.
She had opened her hands, lo naught was there
Less wise than the child she had often wept,
AS faith from her soul her empty hand swept
She reached no hands now. But now the streame
In golden food as she sat and dreamed.
And backward so far the bright shadows lie,
With glory they fill the east and west sky.
"Prisoned at lastl" So she thought and she smiled
At the dancing gold and the laughing child.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01
For the Monitor.
JOHN HURST.
BY DAVID HILL.

Know John Hurst? Yes Well, but for talkin,
"a thing seldom do.)
That chap 'twixt me an you,
Would ekal any drunkard thet ever disgraced town.
But I'll not say it on any account.
Why? Because, who wants to run whiskey puncheon
down.
Still, to think of his ever reformin',
Made me laugh as one laughs at a clown.
But chap, full of gimp an mettle,
One night won great applause
On the temperance
BY shown to each drunkard the mire in which he
stood.
Well, I'd no ldee Hurst world attend.
Did he Yesl an listened like sober thinker should
Still, never fancied that speaker
Would do Hurst the leastest might O. good.
But when he commenced to unravel
The evils of strong drink.
An how man can sink,
John hid his face in his hands completely out o. sight
Moved? Yes; or, at least, all supposed.
AS for me, sort o. fancied the feller tight.
Not that knew it-but. mind you,
I him drink five times that same night.
So when that ar stranger had finished,
chap by his design
Passed paper to sign;
sort o. pledge, you know. for drinkin' man to
keep.
Well sir! I'd no idee Hurst would sign.
But when they stood beside him. an told him not to
weep,
An raised his head, an then Did he sign? Sign
Why! the burned ertter fast asleep.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01

Could Nor HAVE LIVED A YEAR LONG
ERA clergyman in Mississippi says in a
recent letter: II feel so much improved
in health that / think it my duty to inform
you of the great benefit your Compound
| Oxygen has been to me. | was very low
and suffering greatly. | could not have
| lived a year longer without receiving relief
in some quarter. | am now going about
my ministerial duties, and last sabbath,
while officiating at funeral, a storm over
took me. and | was dreanched in rain !;
but no serious consequences followed, as
/ had reason to expect from past exper-
! ience" Our treaties on Compound OXy-
gen, containing large reports of cases and
full information. sent free. Drs. Starkey
| & Palen, 1109 and III Girard street.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01

A gun factory has new brand Of re-
volvers-the mother-ln-law. So named
because it won't go off.
''What must I do,' asked a mean
and conceited man of friend who knew
him well, "to get picture of the one I
love most?" ''Sit for your own picture"
was the reply.
''My advice to de Hoosier brudder am
not to lie or deceive in tradin' mules, but
to answer as few queshuns as he kin, an
seem sort O. keerful whedder his offer am
'cepted or not"
A little fellow, ON going for the first
time to church where the pews were very
high, was asked on coming out, what he
did in the church, when he replied. ''I
on a shelf"
Why don't you go to work? Would
you have me imperil my life, sir? No,
sir; you can't have seen the statistics.
Reads :: ''It is estimated that 10000
persons are annually killed in England
from causes directly resulting from in
dustrial occupation"
A ST. GATHERINGS, Canada, jury of twelve
enlightened and thinking men, who were
called to judge the facts of a case where
in a murder had probably been done-its
victim a woman-came to the fore with
the conclusion, ''Died by the visitation
of God under suspicious circumstances"
How quickly we forget the rules OF
arithmetic as learned in school is shown
in the fact that prominent dry goods
merchant in Boston worked half an hoal
on the following proposition, and failed
| to give an answer. IF four men build {
| wall five feet high in four days how long
will it take six men to build wall eigh1
feet high in seven days.
Said the pastor: eve never used tt
| get money in the contribution box, bu
| lately I have arranged to have two o.
| three of our most prominent men an(
pretty girls stand in the vestibule Will,
the people come in, SO they can see whc
| puts money in, and the box is doing quit
| WE'LL 1t takes a business man to run
church as well as circus.
Little boy had been swearing, and mann
ma, to punish him, washed Thoroughly th
| inside of his mouth with soapsuds, s'to
as she explains to him, "clean away th
naughty words" A few days later, Will
passing the bathroom, she sees the young
ster with his face one mass of suds an
his mouth so full that she barely under
stood his spluttering exclamations ''Get
ting them all out, mamma! Swore iv
times yesterdayn
'sWhy did you send me that almana
Augustus?" asked Angelina. ssBecaust
darling" answered Augustus, as he val1
ly strove to twist the few downy sprout
upon his upper lip into curl, 'becaus,
darling, wished to select date for ou
the, aw-ceremony. "Oh, I sect" ST
said then, smiling bewitching smil
she murmered: ''Call it the first ofApril
Augustus Will some uay succeed IN raj
ing a moustache, but he goes to see Al
gelina no more.
There is story-true of course-of
Western desperate who met an irregul
death in little horse-stealing unpleasan
ness. The minister of religion was call'
upon to say few words by way of eul
gium upon the deceased, and being co
scientious, could think of no praise tn
was merited, but at last he said, s'Frien6
there is no use in saying that the depal
ed was good man. He was not. B
this thing will say of him, that he W
sometimes useful at fires
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81 q Great chance to make money. Those
-AIa who always take advantage of the good
VI ULA chances for making money that of
fered, generally become wealthy, while
those who do not improve such chances remain in
poverty. We want many men, women, boys and girls
to work for US right in their localities Any one
can do the work properly from the first start The
business will pay than ten times ordinary wages.
Expensive outfit furnished free. No who engages
fails to make money rapidly. You devote your
whole time to the work. or only your spare moments
Full information and all that is needed sent free
Address STINsoN Co., Portland, Maine.
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to the spectators.

RHEUMATIC DISEASES These ailments follow from
torpid liver and costlve bowels; the skin, bowels and
kidneys falling in their proper work, an acrid poison
is formed in the blood which is the occasion of these
acute diseases. KidneyWoit produces healiy action
of all secretve organs and throws off the rheumatic
poison. Equally efficient in liquid or dry FORM
Infer Ocenn
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-01

A REMARKABLE CoINcIDENcF.-It is matter Of
journalistic record, that some years since, schooner
Sc, sail from Baltimore. having board crew of
thirteen men. By most singular freak Of nature,
the entire force attacked by skin disease which
manifested itself in large liberated the
aud hands. wholly incapacating the men from duty.
The result was that the vessel towed back to the
city where the men were placed in the hospital
Morali Had swayne's Ointment for skin diseases
been used in the first place. the crew would have re-
covered 10 from IL to "a hours.