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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14
WHITTIER AT HOME.

Mr.. Whittier has never married,
and with the single exception of the
exquisite lines entitled 'sBenedicite,
he has given the public no clew to the
romance of his youth. His sister
Elizabeth, sympathizing with him
completely, of a rare poetic nature
and fastidious taste, and of delicate
dark-eyed beauty, was long the COM
panion that must have made the want
of any other less keenly felt than by
lonely men in general. The bond
between the sister and brother was
more perfect than any of which we
have known, except that between
Charles and Mary Lamb, and in this
instance the conditions were of per-
feet moral and mental health. To
the preciousness of the relationship
the pages Of the poet bear constant
witness, and Amesbury village is full
of traditions of their affection, and
of the gentle loveliness and brilliant
wit of Elizabeth, whom the people
admired and reverenced almost as
much as they do the poet himself.
For his old neighbors have the clos
est affection,for Mr.. Whittier except
very occasionally, what was his
thought has been theirs; and now
that he is not with them daily, they
miss him sadly, and among those who
miss him most and make the most
complaint about it are the children
on the street. This is not remarkable
when one remembers that Mr.. Whit
tier does not stand on his dignity, but
joins in the game played in his pres
ence, writes his nonsense verses on
demand, has the keenest sense. of the
ludicrous, and loves all sorts of inno-
cent fun. We have heard him say
that he was known among the children
as the man with the parrot-the par
rot being a remarkable bird that used
to stop the doctors gig with his
"Whoa 7" and when the school bell
rang would call from his lofty perch,
s'Run in boys! run in !''-the fact
being that the children felt the parrot
to be bond between them, and he
was less of a demigod and more of
a man to their imagination on account
of s'Charlie.'' Mr.. Whittier is of
course very fond of children, and has
been known to risk the loss of an i'm
portant train with equanimity when
the easy-going, good-natured hack
man had been overtaken by an up
roarlous school of children, and had
gone with them for little drive, ap-
pearing at the door at length, the
carriage overflowing with the rosy
faces of the laughing little people,
who cared nothing about time, tide,
and the train.-Hd7riet Prescott
Spoford, IN Haaper's Magazine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14
WHAT OF THE LONG EVEN
INGS?

After the spent summer and the
gathered harvests, what of winter
and the long evening? How shall they
be spent? The tides of vegetable
and animal life are ebbing. They
retire into their mysterious ocean of
darkness and silence only to gather
force for the spring fiood-tide. Ma
ture rests during these long nights
and cold winters And man may
we'll take lessons from such teach
er.
But mans rest will not be wholly
found in sleep or idleness; change is
rest to him. All work and no play
makes Jack not only dull but a tir-
ed boy. Confinement to any one oc-
cupation is likely also to make one
narrow. Man is many-sided and
complex; and exercise alone of his
many powers and tastes will develop
and strengthen them.
Winter evenings, therefore, are pc
culiarly adapted and welcome to the
laborers wearied with summer day
tolls. The body mas long been over
worked; the mind, not perhaps un-
used, has not been led out into wide
or distant circles of thought nor
stimulated and fed by good litera-
ture. The long evenings will now
invite and permit reading, study and
discussion. The literary club, the
lecture, the concert music and other
arts can receive attention. And
those powers and tastes dormant or
subordinated to duty all summer,
should now assert themselves and de-
velop new life. The fit place for
these avocations of busy people is
home. Every true home has room
and time for the culture of mind and
heart. Wise heads of households
will lead in this culture. Not only
will they provide books, periodicals,
and other means of growth and rec
reation, but they will properly subor-
dinate work and other duties to their
use. The evenings will not be de-
voted to late meals, extra work, or
mere social dissipation. Let no one
suppose that the city has monopoly
of social folly and sins. The best
remedy and check for social excesses
is love of reading, love of home and
its social and literary charms.
Let us then organize home literary
work and recreation at once. No
room in the house is too good for it.
In the absence of study or library
available, the dining-room with its
large central table is usually the best
room. Have it we'll warmed and
lighted, guard it from intrusion, re-
ceive callers in another room. If
reading aloud is the order, knitting
and other automatic finger work may
go on at the same time. If the little
ones join the circle, as the Older
children will, read something they
can enjoy. If lessons and school
tasks must have study, reading, writ
ing and work can go On quietly
around the table, and common inter
ests and sympathy will Tighten and
sweeten each task and increase the
profit to all. The proof of this is
| just doing it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14
Drew, WheeIock & Go.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

No. 76S Broad,vay, corner Of LoaoeH ST.,
Laurence, Mass.
Receivers OF Butter, Cheese Eggs. Beans, Potatoes
Hay. etc. Our facilities for the disposal of Country
Produce Is unsurpassed. Our motto will be in all
cases to make prompt returns.
AS to our financial standing we refer you 30 the
following well known gentlemen T. W Drew, Esq
Barton. Vt; H. K. Dewey, Esq. cashier Barton Ma.
tonal Bank, Barton, VT; W. II Jaquith Esq, cashier
Pacific National Bank, Lawrence, Mass; M. Burnham
Esq Woburn Center. Mas
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14

Did you give Johnnie the medicine,
Mrs. Brown? asked the doctor. Oh,
yes, doctor, replied the loving mother !;
then she added, innocently, and it
don't seem to have done him the least
harm.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14
THE LAW OF THE ROAD.

The great leading rule is, that no
one has right to be in the middle of
the road, except when no other per-
son is present to claim his right to
the use of one-half of the highway;
which claim he has precisely the
same right to assert, when travelling
in the same direction, that he has
when he meets another. This is the
law of every state in the Union, and:
so far as we are informed, of every
civilized country; and all persons
violating it are liable for all damages
resulting from their conduct.
When teams meet the American
law is that each, turning to the right,
shall give half the road. The custom
and the law of England require teams
to turn to the lett-as expressed in
an old doggerel:
The rule of the road is paradox quite;
When riding driving along,
If you keep to the ieft you to go right.
Ifyou keep to the right, you go sorong.
In passing, the party in front is
required to turn to the left, so as to
allow the person in the rear, who is
travelling at more rapid rate, to
pass by on his right.
When teams approach at right an
giles, or intersecting roads, it is the
duty of the party who, by turning to
the right can pass to the rear of the
other team, to pull up and allow the
other to pass.
A person with a light vehicle,
meeting or desiring to pass heavy
laden team, especially if the latter is
going up hill, will generally turn
out, without requiring the man with
the loaded wagon to give half the
road; but the law imposes no such
obligation in any case, and under all
circumstances requires each party to
give half the road, unless by acci-
dent or some obstruction it is found
impossible to do so.
If party happens to be in the
wrong place On the road or street, a
party coming into collision with him
is not entitled to damages, if. by the
use of ordinary and reasonable dill
gence, he could have avoided the ac.
cident.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14
THE HAND OF LINCOLN.

Look on this cast, and know the hand
That bore a nation in its hold;
From this mute tness understand
What Lincoln was,-how large of mold.
The man who sped the woodman's team,
And deepest sunk the plowman's share.
And pushed the laden raft astream,
OF fate before him unaware.
This was the hand that knew to swing
The ax-snce thus would Freedom train
Her son-and made the forest ring.
And drove the wedge, and toiled amain.
Firm hand, that loftier Office took,
A conscious leaders viii obeyed,
AnG, when men sought his word and look,
With steadfast might the gathering swayed.
No courtiers, toying with a sword,
Nor minsuel's, laid across a lutte;
A chiefs, uplifted to the Lord,
When all the kings of earth were mute!
The hand of Anak, sinewed strong,
The fingers that on greatness clutch,
Yet, 10! the marks their lines along
OF one who strove and suffered much
For here in knotted cord and vein
trace the varying chart of years;
know the troubled heard, the strain,
The weight of Atlas-and the tears.
Again see the patient brow
That palm erewhie was wont to press;
And now it's furrowed deep, and now
Made smooth with hope and tenderness.
For something of formless grace
This nodded outline plays about;
A pitying flame, beyond our trace,
Breathes like spirit, in and OUT
The love that cast an aureOle
Round one who, longer to endure,
Called mirth to ease his ceaseless dole,
Yet kept his nobler purpose sure.
Lo, as l gaze, the statured man,
Built up from yon large hand, appears
A type that Nature wills to plan
But once in all peoples years.
What better than this voiceess cast
To tell of such one as he,
Since through its living semblance passed,
The thought that bade rece be free!
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14

eyes" said the Idaho man.
"It's'' dreadful unfortunate that
my gal got hugged by that ar bar.
She's sort o'held me in contemp ever
since,'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14

In the far West man advertises
for a woman to wash, iron, and milk
one or two cows. What does he want
his cows washed and ironed for?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14

That poor bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother
daughter, can be made the picture of health by
few bottles of Hop Bitters. viii you let them suf
fer when 40 easily cured!
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14

FIRE HIM OUT." This is common remark
when roughs and rowdys insult public decency by
their unseemly ways. Dyspepsia is horrid bore.
Fire it ont with Burdock Blood Bitters. You can
do it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14

colds yield to onions ike magic but DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup is still better and by far agree
able means of curing Cold Cough. You can
buy bottle for 25 cents at any drug store, and we
are sure it will do the work every time
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14

The Presidential bee, like charity,
'.begins to hum"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14
Drleans County @onitor,
PUBLISHED wEEKLYBY
GEO. H. BL a h H.
BARTON VT.

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14

IOHARLES GRAVES, Agent for Connection
~ General Life Insurance Co., Barton, VT
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-14
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

b ARTON NATIONAL BANK. BUSINESS
1Hours from 9, a. M, to u, IN. From to 4, p.
ID. HIRAM MCCLELLAN, Pres't, III. X. DEWEY,
Cashier.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29
T,cetfth Legislative District.
lspecial COrrespondence Of tbe Globe. !


GRAFTON, Oak, Nov. 26.-Now that the
legislative canvassing board for the Twelfth
legislative district have finished their labor
and settled all existing difficulties and issued
certificates Of election to P. j. Mclaughlin,
of Walsh, and Judson La Moure, of Penn bina
county, for the council, and H. II. Ruger. of
Ramsey; P McHugh, of Cavalier; II. Strong,
of Pembina, and Donald Stewart, of Walsh,
for the assembly, it may not be amiss to in
form your readers of the proceedings which
led TO this result.
The canvassing board of Pembna county,
consisting of the auditor and its five county
commissioners, met pursuant to call by the
auditor, for the purpose of canvassng the
votes of Pembina county
The returns from the townships of CRYSTAL
and Joliet were incomplete, iuasmuch as the
judges of election of these precincts had
failed to sign their names to the returns,
and they were therefore illegal and could not
be counted.
To this three Of the board, namely, Auditor
Bird and two Of the commissioners objected,
while the chairman and the two other com
missiouers insisted upon throwing out the two
named precincts, which caused a deadlock
III inc board lor Two days, as neither parties
would yield to their stated opinions.
Meanwhile the legislative canvassing board
had been waiting patiently for two days, in
order to give the county board ample time to
complete their labors, and, finding that no
agreement could be reached, they began the
canvassing of the votes of Walsh, Cavalier
and Ramsey counties, which gave majorities
for the whole straight ticket as above stated
Pembina county was not counted az the
returns submitted of the votes of said county
were not signed by majority of the county
board, as prescribed in the Territorial Code,
clause As, chapter "a, page 9S which pro-
vides that majority of the county canvass
ing board shall decide all matters of disa-
greement, etc.
The result is in few words that Jud La
Moure and Mclaughlin for the council have
got their certificates, as likewise their COM
peers on the ticket for the assembly. Yours
respectfully. P. w. WMDT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29

In the recent interviews delegate Raymond
expresses his purpose TO labor firstly and
chiefly for division of the territory at Wash
ington this winter, aud expresses fear that
the people are weakening on that point, and
will consent to come in as a whole for the
sake of admission. He says there never will
be any chance for division after once ad-
mitted. In his view the people should
choose to stay out rather than come in as a
single state. 1t is, be says, matter of ma
tlonal importance. He looks down the vista
Of time and sees that the population may be-
come millions, perhaps as great as that of
New York, and still have no more senators
than the smallest states Of the east. Inas-
mucL as the small states have the majority In
the senate the efforts of the gentleman based
on that argument, are not likely To be pro-
ductive of visible results. He might as well
remain away from Washington. Some sup
pose he has an eye TO being senator or rep
resentative from the north, and feels more
confident of success If the south is cut off
He will leave for Washington in few DAYS,
and office holders who have opposed him will
do well TO have an eye out.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29
Timely Discovery.

The jamestown Capital says: A Demo
cratic precinct has been discovered in Da-
kota. 1t is in Charles Mix county, and will
apply to the Democratic congress for admis-
sion to the Union. Action must be taken al
once or the township will be depopulated by
the drain on the inhabitants to fill the various
territorial Offices" As a matter of fact there
are several score of voting districts in the
territory that gave d. mocratic majoriles,
and the fine county of Brule gave Clifford
but nineteen votes more than Wilson. II is
believed the next election will show fully
one-fourth of the counties of the territory
Democratic. II is not the most iudcious
policy just now to boast of the stupidity over
whelming Republican maiorities in Dakota
as the doorkeepers TO the Union in the future
will not be of that complexion. There will
be various things wanted of a Democratic
congress.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29

The Grand Forks Herald has been one Of
The most urgent advocates of division in the
north, but now seems inclined 70 accept the
inevitable, whatever IT may be. 1t says: A
few of the south Dakota papers are already
urging upon the attention OF the next legis-
lature the question of calling south Dakota
constitutional convention and declaring for
division, ETC., with the dire alternative that
in case congress does not grant admission
into the Union. then south Dakota will have
statehood on an independent basis. This is
all the idlest sort Of vacuity and If followed
up TO any considerable extent, can only re-
suit in disgusting congress and defeating the
very object we all desire. II may be ex-
tremely hazardous now to say that Demo-
cratic congress will divide Dakota and make
two overwhelming Republican states, when
it can hardly have the assurance 10 refuse US
statehood as q whole. If il should so deter
mine, it may be easily seen what a lsmenta-
bic dissipation the air castles of south Dakota
statesmen will sustain, and TO that extent
they will merit our mmiseration for their
past and threatened follies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29

.HOyt ; AuulllOu 70 s. TAuI.
Supposed owner and
description. Lot Block
Peabody, y of....... ...-..-.i&s 10
Supposed owner and
description.
CPeaOody. That miscellaneous piece Of land boun-
ded by Spruce street, Z by Canada street. ;
by block 10, Hoyt's Addition 10 81. Paul, and
W by Wakouta street, being in 81. Paul, Min
nesota.
Markley s. Walkers Addition to st. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29
The Congressional Tote.

Returns from all the counties in north
Dakota but the new one of Cavalier, which
has but 100 or SC, votes, gives a total of
81, 172 for delegate to congress, all but 8, $50
cast for the Republican Notwithstanding
eight Republicans to one Democrat. To ex-
pect the north to give Democratic majority
soon would not look reasonable in face of
such voting. In the south, with three coun-
ties estimated the total vote was not far from
$4,000, with some 81, 900 majority for Gift
ford Out of SO, 600 votes in the territory,
the Republican majority will fall little short
of 10000, perhaps 2 900 OF 5000. The
figures are too lalge to count close. At the
usual estimate of five people to voter, this
will give total of Ais, 900. This is no doubt
high enough in view of the fact that the
county seat contests drew out more than
full vote in many counties But the numbers
are large enough for at least one state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29
GH,s Tinfdity.

There is good deal of criticism in the
territory over the apparent timidity of Gov.
Pierce, in his interviews with the newspapers
in st. Paul and Chicago, in expressing doubt
as TO the location of the capital, and falling
to state in bis Thanksgiving proclamation
He even seems in some doubt whether the
legislature will convene there. AS news
paperman and resident of the territory
several months, he should by this time have
learned that the capital is now at Bismarck
The legislature can move it If it sees 1t. but
Gov, Pierce is the only man in the territory
who does not seem to know that ii is there
now. There are members of the legislature
who do not know when that body meets, but
not one of them has any question that Bis
marck is the place to meet. Official delicacy
does not require ignorance of evident and
undisputed facts.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29
.JoUU Dem crafts.

The Democrats in Dakota are quite as good
citizens as the Republicans, and must be con-
ceded TO he as honest and to have as intelli-
gent an appreciation of what is needed for
the interests of the territory as any class Of
citizens. They evidently do not see anything
to the prejudice of the territory in the result
of the national election or the policies Of the
Democratic party. Although only about
$4,000 of them stood up TO be counted as
Democrats, they have done more jubilating
over the party victory than have the $4,000
Democrats in Minnesota. SO far as there is
any expression from them on the subject
they are generally in favor of the admission
Of the territory as one state rather than stay
out and ask for division. They regard Da-
kota as bopelessly Republican, but think il
could easily be brought in with Montana,
the latter as a Democratic state. This is the
most they are hop, ful Of.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-29
Helena Notes.

The Helena Herald has these local items:
David Godfrey, young man of probably
twenty-four years of age, just arrived from
the Judith Basin on the train from the east
on Friday night last, was ''held up'' near the
depot by three desperadoes and robbed of all
his money-about S50-a watch, and re-
volyer. dreadful accident occurred on
Saturday morning last at the Gregory Con-
solidated Mining company's works, by which
two men were killed and another had his leg
broken. The accident occurred by the part
ing of the chain which carries the ore bucket.
It appears that when the chain parted it was
Carrying bucket loaded with ore, which was
raised nearly to the top of the shaft, when it
broke lose and fell about 800 feet upon John
Thomas and William Wilcox, miners, who