Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-20


cannot fail to be of immense service
to them in whatever criminal career
they may adopt.
There are a few old-fashioned peo-
pie who denounee the new juvenile
literature in unsparing terms; but
that nearly all fathers approve of it
is self-evident. They know their
boys are reading novels illustrative
of the excellence of crime, but they
make no effort to suppress such lit
erature, as they certainly would do
did they disapprove of it. Nothing
would be simpler than to drive those
novels out of existence. All that it
would be necessary to do would be to
Boycott the newsdealers who keep
them for sale. The truth evidently
is that fathers either do not care
what their boys read, or that they
have no fault to find with slack
Harkaway" and "The Boy Burg
lars" 1t cannot be that respecta-
BILE gentlemen who dislike crime, pro-
family and vulgarity, willfully refuse
TO know what their boys are reading,
or weakly hope that by some happy
chance their reading will do them no
harm ". L. Alden, an Hdrper's.
AN EDTTOR'S New PANTS. ed
itor, a short time ago, ordered a pair
of pants from his tailor. On taking
them home they proved to be two or
three inches too long. 1t being late
on Saturday night, the tailor shop
being closed, and the editor took the
pants to his wife and asked her to
cut them off and hem them over.
The good lady having a racking head
ache, brusquely refused. The same
results followed on application to his
wife's sister and eldest daughter.
Bnt before bedtime, the wife, repent
ing, took the pants, and cutting off
six inches from the legs, hemmed
them nicely, and restored them to the
closet. Half an hour later, the
daughter, taken with compunction for
her unflial conduct, took the pants,
and cutting off six inches, hemmed
and replaced them. Finally the sis
ter-in-law felt the pangs of conscience
and she too performed an additional
surgical operation on the garment.
When the editor appeared at break
fast on Sunday, the family thought
a Highland chief had arrived, for the
pants only reached the middle of his
thigh. The knight of the quill and
paste pot benignly endured the storms
of laughter which greeted him.
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WHERE THE DRUMS CONE FRoM.-
Granville Corners is siturted about
two miles north of the Connecticut
line. A large mill stream runs through
the place Ca branch of the Westfeld
river) and furnishes a number of
privileges, most of which are utilized.
Messrs. Noble & Cooley are by far
the largest manufacturers in the place.
They say that in December, 1858,
they first made drum in Mr.. No
ble's kitchen, from a board found in
a barn; steamed it with a tea-kettle,
and used two hogs bladders for the
heads. Next day they made dozen
drums and sent them away in boot
box. They now have factory 110
by 40 feet, with five floors, and use
steam and water. They have made
and sold $4,000 drums. These were
made of wood, tin, brass and nickel.
They used for the heads of all these
drums 10000 sheep skins, which
came from Liverpool, of the kind
known as salted fieshes. Let none
of your readers wonder where all the
toy drums are made hereafter. This
firm also made 400 gross of toy pis-
tolls, $4,000 boxes tenpins, 700 gross
rolling hoops, and AZ 900 boxes wood
en- toothplcks.- Hartford Times.
MAKING MONEY.-Why some men
are so eager to make money is
problem; they certainly do not spend
it freely.-They care nothing for the
good things of life. They seem to
t value money for its own sake. Most
men start in life with a bright object
before them the means for attaining
which is money, and so they resolve
y to make money. But the means push
; the end out of sight. A new fasci-
nation springs mp, which banishes
the younger dream. The real pushes
tht ideal from its seat. Money ac-
|, auires, or seems to acquire, value
of its own: it becomes both means
o and end, and making it grows into a
habit seldom lost. The proverb says
that s'use is second nature" and it
! is fully proved when the natural de-
sire of men for happiness is obliter-
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