Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-26
feels that in some way the more fort
unate mothers have robbed her chill
dren of their rights. But

uTeu OF Jnelr rlSHtS. but
"Pity and need
Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood
Which runneth of one hue. nor caste in tears,
Which trckle salt with all;''
and while the women of Cincinnati
out of their abundance are giving
relief, they may learn that one of the
purest sources of joy on earth is help
ing the helpless and strengthening
the weak. In this overwhelming
crisis they will be brought face to
face with the wants of the poor as
they have never been before, and
personal contact with those who need
help and sympathy is most power
ful leveler of false notions and more
false sentiment.
For some of these ladies their first
lesson in sewing will be learned while
working for these poor. / have a
friend in that city who is the mother
of four children, and sewing of any
kind is never done in her home.
"She ought to be ashamed of it you
say" l thought SO for a brief mo-
ment, when she told me it, but pur-
pursuing the subject further she said :
Il mean to have my daughters
taught to sew for they may have it
to do; but there is no occasion for
my dong it, and the work is given to
those who need the money. 1t is the
best kind of charity, to give out all
my work and pay for having it
done.''
She was right. And there are
many more like her who pay hun
dreds of dollars every year to needy
people for work they might do at
home were they more selfish. When
a man counts his fortune near or in
the millions there is no special need
for the careful oversight of expendi-
lures. Not every ones generosity
grows with his bank account, but
Cincinnati has fewer stingy rich men
than any city with which am ac-
quainted. She has some though,
that Abou Ben Adhem will never
write down as those that ''loved their
fellowmen," but they are in the mi
nority.
Coming back from the floods and
snowdrifts to this little mountain city
where | have been staying for a few
days, Knoxville, Tennessee. The
sun has been playing hide-and-seek
all the afternoon, coquetting with
great piles of purple-tinted clouds
which surely belong to some semi
tropic sky. l am writing by an open
window, and the warm breezes come
chasing across my desk every now
and then, tumbling my papers about,
and lifting every stray leaf as if hunt
ing for the cold weather which ought
to be some where about these days.
Over on the slope betwixt the
mountains and the town the wheat
looks fresh and green, and down
among the graves which cluster about
a church, not far distant from my
window, the blades of grass have
been busy for days getting into their
new spring dress. In the yards the
violets and crocusses, the hyacinths
with their stately blossoms, and the
swinging daffodils. are already chal-
leging our itching fingers.
Perhaps they may be like the flock
of wild geese which your paper says
flew north last week-mistaken in
in coming so early, but if they are
the swelling buds on the trees will
have to keep them company when the
cold pinches.
So the Boston Post says, mo
State in the South of the same popu-
lation as Vermont can show a blacker
record of crime"
The freedom of the press may be
all very well, so long as the press
does not become the means of dis
seminating slanderous vile and treach-
erous falsehood to kill the author, if
that class can be killed. 1t is a pity
the editor of the Post cannot abide in
Vermont long enough to permit some
of her indignant citizens to show him
there is some punishment for men
who persistently spit out their poison
Gus spleen. | have met that asser-
ton in several southern papers, float
ing about without being accredited
to Its parent, who is evidently snake
of the copper head specie. l can
contradict him with facts and figures,
but what good will come of it. The
men who are at the head of the pa
pers in the South as a rule belong to
that class which is perfectly willing
to be convinced that he is wrong, but
! would just like to have you show him
the man who thinks he can do it,
For example: One of the items il
the long-drawn Tariff debate in Con
gress is ''cotton ties," so called
meaning the iron bands hoop iron,
which is used around bales of cotton
The cry went up from the South fo
| relief from this burdensome tax, thi
drain upon their industry; debate de
veloped the fact that cotton men pa,
four and half cents per pound fo
the hoop iron, and when the bale i
sold to the consumer at the North b
pays from ten to twelve cents pc
pound, gross weight, which of cours
includes, baling cloth, iron bands an
cotton Two weeks later the MObit