Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

admonltion, and help mother off. En-
ter into an amicable conspiracy to
convince her that she can 90. Per-
suade her that home is not the best
place to travel in, nor the best place
for some kinds of rest. And don't
wait too long, nor mistake fesigna-
ton for contentment. Minister to
her while you have the chance.
1t is grave mistake to suppose
that economy is abstaining from the
useful and proper expenditure of
money. While we should avoid ex-
travagance on the one hand we
should not suffer ourselves to run
into the opposite extreme and be-
come parsimonious and deny our
selves all pleasures and enjoyments.
True economy consists in a wise APP
plication of the means at our dispos-
al. The grange that refuses to
beautify its hall OF place of meeting
when abundantly- able to do is not
practicing economy, but exhibiting a
parsimonious spirit that should not
be cultivated. 1t is not true econo-
my to shorten the school term
and employ low salaried teach
ers, thus depriving the youth of the
community of the best intellectual
advantages. 1t is not true economy
to feed the body and starve the
mind. Many parsimonious spirit
| conceals its deformity under the
guise of economy. AS wisdom is
defined to be the right use of knowl-
edge, so economy may be defined to be
the right use of money. 1t is not econ
omy for man to starve and impov-
erish his land in order to save
the expense OF purchasing fertilizers.
Such economy, instead of enriching,
ultimately beggars those who prac-
tice it. Remember economy is not
parsimony, though often mistaken
for it.
ANCIENT ARMIEs.-Mr. Pember,
in his ''Great Prophecies states
that when Darius Hystaspes invaded
Sythia he took with him 100000
men, and in addition, naval force
of 600 ships, manned by 100000
sailors and mariners. Xerxes eX-
pedition against Greece was under
taken with 100000 fighting men,
gathered from Sc nations. Adding
the camp followers, tie whole body
made up some 100000 souls,
vast multitude, which, as Justin re-
marks, were able to drink up rivers
on their march, but could not ex-
haust the royal treasury. Artaxer-
xes Longimanus used 100000 men
to subdue the one province of Egypt,
and raised 100000 to crush the
rebellion of his brother Cyrus. Even
in the last throes of the empire Da-
rius Codomanus opposed nearly
100000 troops to Alexander at the
battle of Issus. And after his de-
feat he made another supreme effort
and appeared in the plain of Gauga-
mela with well equipped army of
100000 infantry, 10000 cavalry
and 200 scythed chariots.
The Importance of writing distinct
ly when writing for publication was
recently illustrated in magazine in
London. In a clergyman letter
from Asia he meant to write s'the
people of Judea," but the printer
made il. "the people of India" The
manuscript was submitted to an ex-
pert chirogaphist, who decided that
the printer was entirely justified.
The clergyman's ".Iudea" as written,
had an l instead of a j, an 70 instead
of u, and it was impossible to de-
eide whether the next to the last let
ter was intended for an or an 4, it
being as much like one as the other.
People who write carelessly and in
distinctly when writing for publica-
ton, have nobody but themselves to
blame when mistakes are made in
printing names of persons or places.
The printer is usually wonderfully
expert in deciphering bad writing,
but he cannot perform miracles. AS
an experiment, let the readers hastily
write down the words Judea and In
dia, without dottlng the of the latter,
and then submit it to company of
friends to decide (which is which
and which is 'tother.''
J TOUGH.-W it comes to tough
ness, Texas is entitled to the blue
ribbon. The average Texas landlord
t usually manages to secure the tough
est beef in the market.
SIS there carpet beating estab-
} lishment next door?" asked newly
} arrived guest at an Austin hotel.
t s.Not that I ever heard of"
t "Well, then, you must have a
blacksmith's shop in the cellar. Do
you shoe horses down in the cellarP"
"Why, no, stranger. What makes
you think so?''
"What's all that pounding, as if
there was a boiler factory in full
blast, or some coopers were driving
down the hoops of wooden cistern ?"
"Oh, tina! ! Why, that's the cook
pounding the beefsteak for break
fast. ."-Ieras SJtings.
An Irishman, who had lately arrived
: in America, and who had never seen