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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-02-04

Every action done to be seen has
lost its freshness in The eyes of God.
1t is a flower already withered by
having passed through several hands,
and has become scarcely presentable.
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1t is well-known fact that most of the
Horse and Cattle Powder sold in this eoun-
try is worthless; that Sheridan's Condition
Powders absolGtelypure and veryvaluable.
Nothing on Earth will make hens
der Dose. one teaspoonful to each Mint of
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nTKEIaREATU
IN|E|R|VIEI C|O|N'Q|UE|R|O|Rl

It quiets and composes the patient-not by the
introduction of opiates and drastic cathartcs, but
by the restoration of activity to the stomach and
nervous system, whereby the brain is relieved
of morbid fancies, which are created by the
causes above referred to.
To Clergymen, Lawyers, Literary men, Mer-
chants, Bankers, Ladies and all those whose sed-
Irregularities of the blood, stomach bowels or
kidneys orwho require nerve tonic, appetizer or
stimulant, SAMARITAN NERvINE is invaluable
Thousands proclaim it the most wonderful invig-
GRANT that ever sustained the sinking system
81. so. Sold by all Druggists. The DIR. S. A. RICH
MOND MED. CO., Propretors, st. Joseph, Mo.
chas. n. csittentcn, Agent. New York City. (D
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NOTICE.

Parties using the Luke Buzzen ssGiant'' whee
can hear something to their advantage by cores
pouding with C. J. ROBINSON, Barton, VT.
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R MwAe NEly's sREAS BALM

CHAPTER II.
s'Malden, Mass, Feb. l, 1850. Gentlemen
l suffered with attacks of sick headache
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in the most
terrible and excrueiating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give me reliefor cure
until 1 used Hop Bitters.
''The first bottle
Nearly cured me;'
The second made me as well and strong as when
child,
''And have been to this day
My husband an invalid for twenty years with
a serious
''Kidney, liver and urinary complaint,
Pronounced by Bostons best physicians
sIncurabe!''
Seven bottles of your bitters cured him and
know of the
Olives of eight persons
In my neighborhood that have been saved by
your bitters,
And many more are using them with great bene-
fit.
''They almost
Do miracles?" Mrs. E. d. Slack.
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London May Meetings.

Correspondence Central Christian Advocate.
The great religious festivals called in London
May Meetings, are now in full swing. Day by
day, two, three or more are held in the various
large halls of the metropolis, chiefly Exeter Hall,
which was erected half a century ago for the
purpose of accommodating such meetings. There
are several lists published containing bare rec
ord of these meetings, giving date, time, name
of society, kind of meeting, place, and chairman
or preacher l have before me four of these
lists they include from 220 to $50 separate serv-
ices. To provide for them all, they have to be-
gin early in April, aud continue through that
month every day in May, and nearly all of June.
As usual, the venerable Earl of Shaftesbury has
the place of honor as chairman; he is entered to
preside on over score of occasions.
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No. 1928
Original Puzzles.
NO. ll45-ENIGMA.


am composed of 10l letters, my whole being
quotation from Shakespeares Macbeth
My 80, So, IL, SO, 80, %, n, sc, n, 80, &c. 81,
l0l means by inheritance.
My A, 81, 6, 81, 81, so, %, a. 10, 81, sc, Al is
q Mexican plant.
Ny AZ, IS, 81. 3, 6s, %, SO, "a, 60, 15 &c. 90 is
the state of being blameless
My %, s. 26, &C. is, 49, 62. SO, Al, IS, rs, 81, 49,
93 means separated intoefour parts.
My IS, 40, 81 g. 40, g. %. II, 81, 80, % Sc, A,
%. 70 means provided with windows at opposite
sides.
My 3d. 81, 2, 95, 100, 49, "a, 8, 46. 81, 81, 81 is
a plant sometimes used to give cheese its color
and flavor
My so, 20. 80, "a, IS, So, 10, So, 16 means used
with two hands
My 70, SO, go, /, 50. rs means debilitated.
Ny &C. IA, g. az, 81 81, 81, Ga, As is an engine
for raising guns into their carriages.
My 100, 9, TO- 43, SIS, "a, 81, 66, 80 is any plant
of a sweet taste
My Z, &c. 70, 49, l, 7, rs is to fertilize
haywood, Ill SEE U. q.
NO 1146-cHARADE.
Of my first the fond poets love to dream,
And of their soft nonsense it oft is the theme.
They tell US in the sweetest rhyme
When blue birds seek northern cline;
When the swallow turns and northward flies,
Then my first comes back with sunny skies,
And gentle winds, and gentle showers,
To deck the earth with beauteous flowers.
My second is where men plow and SOW,
And where they cradle reap and NOW.
From my second they garner their winters store,
Then pillow and sow and reap for more.
Upon its richness the cattle Craze,
And on its beauty men love to gaze.
If you will search your map from east to west,
You'll find my whole among the rest
For it is Il city moderately great,
The capital of wealthy State
HoBBIEvILLE, Ind. ERMINA.
NO 1147-CRoss-woR
In rose, but not in lily;
In Harry, but not in Willie
In girl, but not in boy;
In ball, but not in toy;
In mat but not in rug
In haul, but not in tug;
In OWE, but not IN lost;
In trade, but not in cost;
In week, but not in day;
In grass, but not in hay.
Read Alright and you will find
A reptile of the lizard kind.
LOUISVILLE, KY. MARA t. GIBSON.
NO. 1148-ENIGMA
Ny whole, composed of l3 letters, is fossil
tree of the carboniferous age in geology
l, 2 3, 4, 10, g. L. Z, is one Of the family Of eX-
tinct fossil ganoid fishes
8, 4, IL, Z, 6, g. is the globe-6sh
IL, s, is prefix, inseparable particle in tn G
composition of words, denoting return, repeti
ton, etc.
ID, is letter E.J S.
BLooMINGToN Ind.
NO. 1149-sQUARE.
]. Way. Q. digitigrade, carnivorous NAM
nal of the cat kind. 3. The summit. A. Act.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind BILLY MONROE.
ANSWERS in three weeks
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MARRIAGE IN CHINA.
Comparison of the Family Institution
with European Customs.

"A
with European Customs.
Col Tcheng in Revue DIES Deux Mondes.
Marriages in well-ordered States should be ar
ranged by the parents. They are emphatcally
affairs of the family and should be settled by the
heads of the families concerned. The idea that
two young people are qualified to decide upon
their future deStnes on the strength of q brief
acquaintance formed in their green and April
days seems to the good Oriental unspeakably
absurd They manage these things better in
China than in France. AS for England and long
engagements and free opportunities for acquant-
ance before marriage Colonel Tcheng does not
speak Of them, but his principles would
probably lead him to condemn them
unsparingly. He has at least one point in
his favor. In China, where the parents choose
the bride, every one marries; ceibacy is regarded
as an anti social vice, and old bachelors and old
maids are rare phenomena. All good Cinnamon
marry young. Bridegrooms of sixteen marry
ladies two years younger than themselves, and a
Chinese grandmother at the age of thirty is a
more familiar sight than spinster.
There are no marriages for money in China.
The great institution of dot is unknown. Mar
rage for money exclaims Colonel Tcheng is the
greatest injury which you can inhict upon
women. In social system based
upon the virtual purchase of spouse,
the good Chinaman is not surprised that
men should fear that the Introduction
of divorce may prove like the discharge of artil-
lery at house of cards. In China it is other
wise; InefC, IN dCelJlOn TO bHe CAUSES Oh ulNOfCo
recognized in Europe, marriage may be dis
solved for sterlity or for contumelious conduct
toward mothers and fathers-in-law. Yet di-
vorce is comparatively rare Everybody whom
l have met" says Colonel Tcheng, land who has
asked me about our morals, has addressed the
question to me, DO divorces often occur in
ChinaP The first time | was astonished at this
demand, but rejecting | found out that in
deed this is the only question which is i'm
portant for them to know When for the FIRST
time you are obliged by pain to go to the
dentist, you ask friend whether it hurts
muchr" The fact of the matter is that divorces
are only rare exceptions, and the strong family
ties which are the outcome of the patriarchal
system forbid divorce Among aristoerats
divorces seldom occur from the very fact that
they arc such; among the working classes be-
cause they have no time for vain discussions,
and if they quarrel they do not end by being
divorced but by being receneiled."
Women in China are deeply interested in
avoiding a divorce, as the divorce hoses
the honorable position OF a wife, The Chinese
lady, not having the conscientiousness of
personality strongly developed. avoids both
scandals and intrigues- The magistrate often
composes quarrels instead of pronopncing a
decree of divorce, and the wife has an unfailing
source of consolation in the upbringing of her
children. ''She is ever a creature of hope,
says the Colonel land she enduses patiently the
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injuries inflicted on her by her husband in the
thought of her children If husband sur
prises his wife lagrante delictu, he may kill her
on the spot; but Colonel Ieherg makes fun of A.
Dumas for his assertion that adulteresses in
China are lifted up by an elephant and them
thrown down to be crushed on the stones.
There are fewer elephants in China than in
France. There are hardly twoor three at Pekin,
which one goes to see out of CURIOSITY like ami.
mails OF menagere."
Colonel Tcheng vehemently combats a popular
deluslon that Chinese woman is crippled wad-i
ding creature who lives imprisoned amid her
servants, her husband, and his concubines. AS
far as the crippled feet are concerned we read:s
The Chinese woman walks as well as Won and
l; sne runs even with her small feet" and as to
being imprisoned, she goes out, takes walks in
her sedan chair and has not even veil to pro-
tect her from indscreet glances. From higher
education the Chinese would gladly save their
wives and daughters; they are not trained in
colleges where they might acquire the knowledge
OF art and science, but family life forms the
world of the Chinese woman. She aspires solely
to be learned in the art of governing her family.
III Is she who directs the education of her chill
dren; She IS content to live for the good Of her
relations, and If heaven has granted her good
husoand she certainly is the most fortunate of
women. Colonel Tcheng has many severe things
to say about the position of the women Of
France. In China the wife's legal position
IN disposing of her goods and her children, he's
asserts, is far more privileged than that of her
french sister He concludes his interesting
essay by some remarkable words about concu-}
blnage In France" says he, ''you have mis-
tresses; in China we have concubines The
former IS a clandestine connection and the
children are bastardS; the latter has a recognized
position, she is tolerated by the wife and her
children bearno social brand. The Chinese re-.
gard concubnage as the safeguard Of the lndis-
solubllity of marriage, and, accepting human
n:t1re as 1t Isl the! prefer to recognize an adj
nitted evil to sacrifice the innocent offspring Of
a guilty passion"
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why Ministers Are Not Heard.

New York Mail and Express.
DO you know why ministers do not make
more convertsp asked an observant church
goer. 1T is because one-half of the congrega
ton do not hear them, and the other half are not
impressed by what they do hear There is not
one minister of fifty who speaks clearly or dis
tinctly enough to be understood. They speak
loud enough but the articulation being indstinct
the meaning is lost in the sound. In
order to persuade or convince any one,
the speaker must be clearly understood and
must give force to the meaning as well as en-
phasis to the words Aside from the prevalent
habit of ranting. consequent upon emotion. a
great many ministers chop Off their words in
their haste to utter, rather squirt out the next.
In thus 'teescoping' their words they are heard
but not understood. 1t seems impossible to cor
rect the ministerial habit of talking through the
nose and saying 'Gawd,' for example They
mistake this whining veTnacular for gravity.
Their idea is to the deep, sweet,
grand orotund voice, which would impart
solemnity also to their words. Many ministers
might learn valuable lessons from their choirs.
The lowest note of the soloist can be heard to
the farthest corner of the church, every syllable
is articulated, every word and note distinctly
heard Yet, the ministers loudesU anathema
against our forkedtailed enemy below is not I'M
derstood often by the nearest listeners. 1t is no
wonder the people sleep in church. They lose
the thread Of the sermon. Nothing has more
sopolifc effect than discordant sounds, and
that is Just what ndstinct enunciation is" con
Guided the sermoniZer.
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The following which we clip from LIE Bi-
iou, Rodney, Miss, contains ''more truth than
poetry" and should be borne in mind by our
young friends who work so hard in composing
and solving puzzles week after week: ''Puzzling
is not the easiest thing in the world at all, for
an idea Of something intricate, queer and mysfe
rious. Puzzling depends on the use of words
just as well as the composition of stories, essays
and poems. But while puzzling depends upon
the words, it also positively requires knowl-
edge of their meanings and synonyms. The conse-
quence is that while one may devote his time to
writing miserable compositions, filed with un-
balanced sentences and weighted with high
sounding words, meaningless and inappropriate,
the puzzler is storing his mind with words and
their definitions, by means Of which his Ian
guage becomes pure and his writings finished
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Growth of Christianity.

public illustrative of the progress and present
condition of Christianity. According to the
most trusted authorities, the Christian popula-
ton of the world in the year 1000 of our era, was
about 90 000,0 In the next 500 years the num-
bers doubled. In the year 1900 there 200, 000,
000 and in the year 1880 TAI 000 600 of the human
race were under Christian government. Accord
ing to recent returns there are 303, 000. 900
of nominal Christians in the British dominions
alone. The population of Europe in the year
1900 was 100, 600, 600. AS yet Western Chrsten-
dom was undivided. The Roman Catholics in
the year just named, representing the entire
Christianity of the West, numbered so, 600, 600.
sumans and jews In 1850 the POPULATION Of
Europe had increased to 327, 500 900 OF these
there were Roman Catholics, 159315 l55; Greek
and Eastern, 81 l4s O62; Protestant 76, GSS, 1872
Mohammedans, 5,309, $50; Jews, 4,5l5, 425; not
classified 524, 467,
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Lewls's Penny Readings.
"And he measured the city with a reed,
twelve thousand furlongs. The length and
breadth and the height of it are equal Rev. xxi,
16 Twelve thousand furlongs equal 7, 920, 600
feet, which, being cubed, is 1876 1913 0SS, 000 000
0OO' 900 cubic feet. Reservng half of this space
for the throne and court of heaven, and half the
balance for streets, we have the remainder Of
124, l98, 272. 900 000 900, 900 cubic feet Divide
this by 4,006, the cubical feet in room sixteen
feet square, and there will be 80, 32l, S43, 750 000
600 rooms We will now suppose the world
always did and always will contain 800, 900, 600
years making in all 400 0Oo. 600 GOO every cen,
fury, and that the world viii stand 100 600, 900
years or 1000 centuries making in all >, O70 000
600, 900 inhabitants Then suppose there We're
100 worlds equal to this in the number of inhab-
itants and duration of years, making total of
2,97O 000 000 0O0 900 persons; and there would be
more than a hundred rooms sixteen feet square
for each person
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JUNE IA, 1884

told that Bill Breckenridge was to make poit-
ical speech. OF course l went 10 hear that, and
there, to my amazement, was the dignihed
courtly lawyer suddenly transformed into a
bowling stump demagogue, convulsing the
crowd with his telling stories, and pouring out
the walls of Kentucky wrath Oh the enemy just
like any other fierce and cheap sky-rocket cam
paigner. 1t was in striking constrast with the
courtroom grafton. Then, as evening drew ON,
after the politicians had beer loaded up to the
muzzle by Bills harangue, / noticed a crowd
vending its way to the Baptist Church. Bill,
they told me, was to address a Sunday-school
convention. AS / had seen William in his Sc
cular roles, thought I'd finish up the day by
witnessing his performance. Well sir, another
transformation scene; tho demagogue, ehame
leon-hke, had undergone another surprising
change Here were all the logic and polish of
the lawyer when engaged in bench argument,
combining with the jury appeal the fervor of a
religious zealot. The way Bill hammered it into
the devil and all his works was one of the rough
est experiences the old devil has ever passed
through. I'm not a man of very deep religious
convictions myself, like several other citizens of
Kentucky, but | felt very heavy and peculiar
about the diaphragm before Bill stopped At
the end of that day had seen Bill as lawyer,
demagogue and pietist, and he was equally
great in each. 1t makes no difference what sub
ect he takes hold of, you can't leave till he gets
through. Blood will tell
Tom Marshall never made more thrilling
temperance address than when he was the
tail end of a spree. Bills full name, William
Cabell Preston Breckenridge contains the
boiled-down essence of Kentucky oratory at the
bar in politics and in the pulpit He gets the
religious twist in his mind from his father, and
his other traits come from the Marshall side.
ED Marshall is also possessed of Tich inherited
gifts. He ran against Joe Blackburn once for
Congress and, though defeated, he gave Joe
bigger contract than he ever had before or since.
During one of their joint debates Joe had full
minated lot of blood-curdling figures on
finance, and he said, among other monstrosities,
than ali New ENGLAND combined When he cot
through, Marshall, after tribute to the splendor
of Joes imagination in financial doctrines, re-
marked that his gifted friend reminded him of a
stately swan, floating placidly along in mid
ocean, drawing about two inches of water, and
sublimely. proudly unconscious of the fathom
less depths below. Every Kentuckian.' con-
tinued Wharton, knows that sentence by heart
Marshall is getting famous in California and
Bill Breckenridge will be heard from in Congress
You can't down that good old Kentucky stock. ="
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Simple Styles for Wash-Dresses.

Harper BaZar.
Tucked waists belted and a round skirt with
tuckS and no overskirt are in favor for simple
Wash dresses of white Victoria lawn, linen lawn,
plain colored Chamberys Bingham, etc. The
wide belt is covered by a sash of the material,
which has a large bow and tucked ends in the
back to serve as the only drapery For the skirt
of such o dress of Victoria lawn three breadths
are used, two of which are straight, while that
in front is shaped towards the top, and these are
gathered to a belt with the fullness massed quite
far back. Ten or twelve tucks, each two and
half or three inches wide, straight around
yard below the waist almost to the foot where
a single frill of embroidery or a tucked and
gathered hounce of the lawn gives neat
finish. The gathered belted vast is cut long
enough to extend over the hips, and all that
part below the belt is concealed by the
skirt which is put on after the waist is adjust
ed; the belt is stitched on outside the gathers,
and this belt is concealed by stiffly-lined belt
of the plain lawn or of insertion, which supports
the soft muslin sash, that may be passed around
the entire waist, or else only attached to the
sides and tied across the back. When tucks are
preferred in these waists there are usually six
or eight halfinch tucks placed lengthwise in the
front and in the back, half of them being turned
each way to meet in the middle. A Byron col
lar and single frill of embroidery finish the
neck and sleeves; long-looped bow of rose,
blue or ivory white ribbon is at the throat, and
smaller bow catches up the embroidery on
each sleeve. These dresses are easily done
up and the fashion of making them is excel
lent for the simple prints, percales and lawns
that are pretty by reason of their freshness. and
must therefore be frequently washed and ironed.
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TWO KENTUCKY FAMILIES.
Personal "Reminiscences of the Marsllalls and
Breckinridges.

New York Letter.
l asked the genial Gabe Wharton, of Ken
lucky, the other day, whether any of the famed
Marshall stock had any living representatives of
its genius in his State!
Yes he replied. there are two, Ed Mar
shall, q son of Humphrey, who is now Attorney
general of California, and VIM. G. p. Breckn-
ridge Just nominated for Joe BlackbuTns seat
in the House These Marshalls and Breckin-
ridges are all connected directly by intermar-
riages, and while | can't tell to certainty just
how much of the Marshall blood is in Will
Jams veins, he possesses combination of in
herited talent which you will find it hard to
beat His presence in Congress after next
March, when Blackburn goes to the Senate
will preserve the rhetorical reputation of the Ash
land district in unbroken links The old Burnt
district, which has gloried in the name of Clay
Marshall and John c. Breckenridge, loses moth
ing of its old time renown in William. He is a
son of the eloquent pulpit orator, DIR. Robert j.
Breckenridge, and lawyer by profession. He
is in the prime of forty two years, tall and com
manding in presence. full Of the Breckenridge
fire. and the most feliciCous versatile orator
have heard for years.
Now, let me illustrate. We had rather a
spirited time not long since in Frankfort, when
a certain prominent member of the bar was com
mitted for contempt by n local judge The ques-
ton involved certain rights on motion, and the
attorney took position that was almost unan-
mously sustained by his brethren, but combatea
by the bench. 'Rill Breckenridge was to defend
him. AS usual, whenever it was known that
Bill intended to make speech, crowd was
present. He spoke for just an hour and a
half The citations covered q marvelously wide
range of English presidents, and were
grouped together in mastery style 1t
was throughout cogent and polished legal
effort. He won the case. Well about 2 o'clock
in the afternoon 1 noticed people struggling
along toward the courthouse yard, and was
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G. II. W.-We thank you for the neatly
penned square. twill he used next week. Please
call again.
SEE U. U. has handed us good budget of
puzzles, one of which is good enigma, which
we make use of tins week He is sincerely
thanked
MARA E. GIBSON. omitted the answer to
your cross word, but we solved it. Please send
answer with puzzle without fail. Your square
will be used
BILLY MONROE. We use one of your squares
this week. The other two can not be easily de-
fined. Form puzzles should be plainly defined
when sent for publication.
E. J. S., writes: please tell See U. U. that I
am not boy, only little girl, eleven years old.
If he thinks he is ahead, all right | neither
patterned after him Tor herr nor Ermina. My
means of composing and solving puzzles is very
limited, having but few books except my school
books and the American popular dictionary"