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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-09-09

amused.
Il am tired to death!' exclaimed Anne
thyst finally, and at the same time she
! pressed the spring in her ring. Sapphire,
already at her side, read with her this in
scription:
"Work to be useful. Be useful to be
loved. Be loved to be happy"
"That is not ALL" observed Sapphire.
1--WE must carry out Immediately what the
oracle says. Lee us try. Work cannot be
more tiresome than idleness."
Lei us try it, as you say" replied the
girl. IAN unpleasant day will soon end"
The day had nothing agreeable in it, as
Amethyst had expected. Their instructors,
SO often dismissed, were summoned, and
seemed to speak a harsh and unusual Ian
guage. Twenty times during each lesson
the spring was pressed, and twenty times
the obstinate inscription appeared without
the change OF a word. 1t was the same
thing for a long week, and for a second long
week. At the end of the fortnight they be-
gan to be less discontinued, for their self
love was becoming excited in the pursuit OF
their studies.
At the end of a month they were scarce
ly unhappy at all, for they had sowed
enough to begin to reap a little. They
began to read for recreation and found
many entertaining as well as instructive
books in Italian, German and English. They
were beginning to think, and that life of the
spirit which idleness destroys seemed to
them sweeter than the other life, for they
had great natural gifts. And then their
grandmother was SO delighted to see them
study.
The spring was used less and less during
the year and at the end of the twelfth
month it was quite rusty. It was then that
the genius returned to the castle. In those
days geniuses were very punctual in keep
ing their promises. He was tenderly en-
braced by his young friends, although they
had not yet a distinct idea of this happi-
ness they owed him. True gratitude is
like kindness-it keeps no accounts.
"Ah, children" said he gaily, knowledge
also is a WEAKNESS, as 1 have often heard
men say. I have reserved to myself the
pleasure OF telling you that you are richer
than ever: The lake has retired. having in
creased the fertility of your land tenfold.
The ruins of the palace have been cleared
away and a treasure Of tsnfold value dis
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THE SCHOOL MARlrs DRBtf
err9xEfs1 srFFYfvW
BIZ GEORGE r. DORIE.

III n1 essooII 3rrTS
b .shsrwAs iussr9oyears'old rather comely,
and Of a pretty wen moulded figure, with .
tH4 mQulded face, plump chesksy tinted With
fhe fipeh et wcmanhoods end piercing gray
eyese, -Four long ysarsir Of patient and
successful a4d. creditahle graduation at the
Normal School, and though she felt proud
Of her triumph, yet-she tremkled from head
to loot a. abe thouEht OF the grave respon-
slRlities that would necessarily devolve
upon her, il theproiession perhaps her LIES
work, which she hads ostudiously prepared
herself for that. Of q school teacher. The
doubts and, uncertainties a. to her ability
to teach young ideas how ia shoot" were
no less p~erplexing to her inexperienced mind
than were those OF her success OF failure in
in obteiains a situation. ~ She we'll knew
that all the learned. professions were over
crowded and that misunderstanding was not
excepted, because 90, many Of thu class who
had graduated the year preyiOuslyw were still
out Of employment, and were diligently
seeking engagements. Henceitcould not be
said in her profession that :s'the harvest Is
great and the laborers are few" This
caused many q deep sigh to well, up from
her pafpitating heart, and many q silent
tear to steal out Of the corners of her pretty.
gray eyes and trickle down her crimson
CueekSs' one iedt, however, tne necessary Oh
securing . situation in; order not only to
her womanly ambition but that she
might enjoy that spirit of independence
which can only be experienced by those who
BY their talents and labor are self-sustain-
ing. But she was a woman; young and in-
experienced in the world. What shall lido? |
The exclaimed. when she realised for the
iret time that she would be compelled to
'eek, interviews with the cold hearted
oeal politicians who are generally elected
'chool directors. She was q stranger to
hem, and besides that she knew that they
we're already pestered for places by young
allies whose families were supposed to
AVE influence with the directors or school
While she was thus musing and
.ogitating, her father, who was politician
some note, came into the room where
he was sitting and announced to her that
e had secured her q position to teach the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06

certain contingencies, for a retreat
from Richmond and Petersburg,
Grant thereupon set in motion these
operations which struck mortally the
confederate forces. April saw the
end, in the surrender at Appomattox.
He is dull reader indeed whose
blood is not stirred after following
the magnificent movements which, in
late March and early April, crushed,
strangled or swept away, as with
whirlwind, the body of men who had
fought superbly in bad cause. An
English journal recently declared,
with supercilious and superficial judg-
ment, that no events in Grants war
experience were enough to call out
supreme qualities. Not such the
judgment of his countrymen. From
the pain and silent fortitude of his
sick chamber, tie memory of the
great commander can turn to events
elementally grand, in which he was
a leader, directing the storm and un-
bending before the fercest blasts.
March, 1865, and March, 1885,
in both periods Grant stands out as
the composed commander, then of a
mighty army, now of faculties which
disease assaults with terrible vigor.
-EUeninQ Record.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06
HAPPINESS A HABIT AND A
DUTY.

Every permanent state of mind is
largely the effect of habit. Just as
we can perform an action so contin-
ually that it comes to be habitual, so
we can encourage conditions of
mind till they, too, come to be habits
of thinking and even of feeling.
Every thoughtful parent OF teacher
recognizes this in the training of
youth. The child constantly thwart-
ed or scolded or ridiculed has con-
stantly aroused within him feelings
of resentment or encouragement or
misery, and these grow to be habit
ual, and character for ill temper or
moroseness OF dependency is form
ed. On the other hand, the child
who is wisely treated, whose facul-
ties are brought into action, who is
encouraged to do well, who is sur
rounded with cheerful faces and Or
derby arrangements, becomes accus-
toned to corresponding habits of
thought and feeling. The exercise
of self-control, of truthfulness, of
honesty, and other essential qualities,
not only result in habltual actions of
the same nature, but in habitual
feelings or states of mind that induce
those actions. So the condition
which we call happiness is likewise
acquired to considerable degree.
1t involves within it many things,
but they are not impossible to secure;
and, when we have discovered them,
it rests with us to encourage or to
discourage them. Happiness is not
only privilege, but duty, not
mere outward good that may perhaps
come to us, but an inward posses
sion which we are bound to attain.
When we remember the contagious
character of happiness, the strength,
courage, and hope it excites by its
very presence and the power for
good it exerts in every direction, we
cannot doubt our obligation to attain
as much of it as possible.-Philddel-
phia Ledger.
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MAKE A BEGINNING.-We some
times dream of certain things we
would like to do; we even 60 so far
as to plan some things out. But we
never begin the execution of them.
Once begun, we should be reasona-
bly, sure of carrying them on to COM
pletion. The real hindrance is the
fact that we never begin. Of course
for anything of Importance there is
need that there be wise planning. But
planning may be so elaborate as to
absorb all the energies, and the exc
cution never be undertaken. The
men who achieve are those who go
ahead, plan or no plan, and do some
thing. The great works of the
world have been accomplished be-
cause those concerned have started
them, made beginning, and carried
them through. This is equally true
in proportion on smaller scale in
the private sphere. Many of US can
accomplish much more than we do by
simply going ahead and doing the
things that present themselves to be
done. This applies, of course, more
especially to work aside from but
collateral to our ordinary avocation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06
GRANTS ANNIVERSARY
WEEK.

What the reporters grimly call a
death watch, is being kept by them
over General Grant, as in years past
over Vanderbilt, Charles O'Conor
and others. The last week in March,
90 years ago, however, Grant himself
was keeping a death watch over
Lees army. The silent soldier must
look backward as we'll as forward in
these days which try his soul, and
that memorable week in March,
1865, cannot fail to pass in review
before. him; for the army operations
in those closing days of March made
it possible to say on April of that
year that the fate of Richmond was
settled.
Grants line was then thirty miles
long, reaching from Fort Harrison,
north of the James river, to the bank
of Hatcher's Run. AS last resort,
Lee tried to break the line by an as
sault on Fort Steadman and adjoin-
ing batteries on the line from Apo
mattox to Hatcher's Run. On
March %, at daybreak, the confed-
crate assault was made, the rest of
Lees forces being ready to follow up
the anticipated success. The as
sault, at first victorious, ultimately
failed, and ended in an advance of
Grants line. The confederates lost
not only prestige but position. The
next day General Meade issued a
congratulatory order to the army of
the Potomac. which had in it a
prophecy of the coming overwhelm-
ing triumph. Interpreting right this
/ movement of Lees as a cover, in
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06
Andrew Jackson, then a senator

Andrew Jackson, then a senator
from Tennessee, spoke for two long
days in opposition to secession. His
manner of speaking was peculiar to
himself, and not very agreeable. He
had two distinct tones of voice, and
they were as opposite to each other
as possible, and alternated so con-
stantly that an author who should
have heard without seeing him would
almost have thought his speech was
made by two different persons. His
manner was deliberate, and he spoke
extempore and often IN converse
tional tone, raising his voice to a loud
pitch whenever he was particularly
reused or in earnest. He had all the
southern peculiarities of pronuncia-
ton. His speeches were rambling
and loose in construction and he re-
peated himself endlessly, and yet,
with all these disadvantages, he made
so many strong points and brought
to bear such a mass and variety of
authority that he was very affective.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06
"Take Care

When a shadow is DER your heart,
And YOU know not the reason why,
When the tear unbidden will start
And unbidden viii come the sigh,
Take care
Watch, for there's cause for fear;
Watch, for an enemy's near;
Watch as the little bird watches
When the sparrow hawks in the air.
When the hope in your life turns pale,
And your courage dies vainly out,
When you feel that the stag may fail
You have trusted without doubt;
Take care!
The shadow of sorrow is long;
Watch there is something wrong;
Watch as the pilot watches
When storm is in the air.
There's feeling you know not whence,
A whisper You know not where,
That says to some innermost sense,
Ofwhich you are dimly aware,
Take care!
f. overt, fly,
AM ,..lngeI may pass you by;
Fly as the hart to the mountain
When the hounds are seenting the air.
When the love that was strong tulns weak,
The love you have trusted long.
And you feel that you need not speak,
That whatever you say is wrong,
Take care!
And hide you little while
From the smile that is only guile,
And watch as the little bird watches
When the sparrow hawks in the air.
A foe that is fair and open
You may fight and keep your place,
Then why should false word be spoken,
But never will show its face?
Take care
When you fear and know not why,
When you fall though you bravely try,
Then watch as a little bird watches
When the sparrow hawks in the air.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06

Rev. Mr.. Prosey had written to
the presiding elder that he had lost
his voice and could not 90 to confer
ence, as it would be no satisfaction to
be whispering about among the breth-
rem, but he added, 'sthe parsonage
will be vacated and ready for the new
minister as soon as he pleases to
come"
AS the presiding elder returned
from conference, he came to brother
Prosey's at the parsonage, and told
him the conference voted him S25 as
present help, and suggested that it
would pay house rent for one quarter.
Brother Prosey expressed his sin
cere thanks to his ministerial breth-
rem and hoped that God would re-
ward them abundantly.
"Have you decided where to go?"
asked the elder.
eyes," whispered brother Prosey,
81 am going to move on to my farm,
where have lately put up house. :
''But, my dear BROTHER" responded
the elder, "we all supposed you had
no property, except the bare neces-
sites of Methodist preacher p
"Will you go with me and see my
house?" asked Mr.. Prosey, it is not
mile away"
The elders team took them through
the village and up the hill road, and
all the way the story of changing q
horse for a house, and the planning
and scheming for home of his own
was unfolded to the elder.
After inspection, he pronounced
the house a marvel of cheapness ano
beauty and a worthy example to mer
of limited means.
"What further plans have you?'
asked the elder.
''First, to live as happily as posi-
BILE and free from anxious care
avoiding expense, except so far a
abundant food is necessary, and sec
ondly, to subdue this land and caus,
it to produce food. My life as bo,
was passed among gardens and fruit
and my faith sees them here
'Let peace rest upon this house,
solemnly said the elder, land you
success as a gardener equal you
success as q builder"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06
The Girdle of Friendship.

She gathered at her slender waist
The beauteous robe she wore,
rs folds golden belt embraced,
One -hued gem it bore.
The girdle shrank; its lessening round
Still kept the shining gem,
But now her flowing locks it bound,
A lustrous diadem.
And narrower still the circlet grew;
Behold glittering band,
Its roseate diamond set anew,
Her neck's white column spanned.
Suns rise and set; the straining clasp
The shortened links resist,
Yet flashes in bracelets grasp
The diamond on her wrist,
At length, the round of changes past,
The thieving years could bring,
The jewel, glittering to the last,
Still sparkles in ring.
So, link by link, our friendships part.
So loosen, break and fall,
A narrowing zone; the loving heart
Lives changeless through them all.
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LOWLY STATIONS.

Hidden from the gaze of the world
at large, all unnoticed by those who
seek place and positions are stations
we falsely rate as lowly. Never per-
haps upon the scroll of fame will be
seen the names of those who stand on
duty at these posts, yet the all seeing
eye, beholds their work and makes
record more enduring of their obscure,
kindly deeds that brighten and bless
the earth. Willing hands are never
idle and much of noble work is
wrought by them so void of ostenta-
tion that those who receive their fa-
vors scarcely think of them or esteem
them; but valued by Him who re-
wardeth with equity, as the price of
Jewels for a crown eternal. Ready
feet, although broad avenues may not
open to them, with by-ways where
they may run on errands of love and
mercy; and following their course
find in them the path to a happy
home with him who has marked them
out.
Sermons, dropped from lips afar
from the sacred desk, unheard by the
world, written up only by the pen of
the infinite, find lodgment and yield
| rich fruit in some heart. Sin retires
abashed before the silent but eloquent
voice of pure, chaste life. Gentle,
persuasive tones too feeble to reach
the multitude, dreaming smiles that
radiate only in the home circle help
to make our earth an Eden, nor fail
of reward by Him who scorned not
even a cup of cold water, rightly
proffered. Not many may sway the
multitude, not many secure the
worlds applause, but there is room
and work for all in earth's lowly
places. Not many are wise, not
many are mighty, but all may deal
kindly, all may WELD rightly the pow
er they possess. Not every man may
subdue empires, not many wear a
monarch's crown, but all may con-
quer self, and secure the crown that
awaits the striving soul.
What matters it whether our place
be high or fowly, or how darkly veil
ed in obscurity, if it be Gods work
we are doing. To be counted among
HIS Jewels will be richer reward than
the possession of earth's kingdoms,
the voice of his appreciation sweeter
than fame's loudest trumpet blast !;
and surely amid the brightness and
glory over there we will not regret
fully think of the humble work which
was ours on earth.
"What are you buying now" ask
ed Ned Stevenson of Andrew Powell,
on meeting the latter in Bells jewel
ry store.
81 am looking for some present to
give my wife on her birthday. 1 tell
you, making presents costs heap of
money"
"Why don't you do as do? I
have never failed to make my wife a
present on her birthday every year
for twenty-five years, and 7 am not
out cent thus far?'
"How do you manage it2'i
"It is very simple. After We were
married, when her birthday came
around 1 gave her twenty-dollar
gold piece. When my birthday came
around she gave me the twenty-dol-
lar gold piece back, and we have
kept that up ever since, and neither
of us are out a cent. - Iegds Sift-
ings.
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Rayworth's Condition Powders remove obstruc-
tions, purify the BLOOD enliven, strengthen, give
appetite, improve digestion; the food assmilates
and the animal gets fat. 1t is quite probable your
horse requires it now. Try it. See how he viii
feel; how sleek his coat. and how much better he
will do his work. In pound papers, % cents,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06
EXZBMA OR SALT RHEUM
Another Clear and Positive RecOvery-A
Elderlx I.adY,S I.atfer

Another Clear and Positive Rec0very-An
Elderly Lady's Letter.
Among the numerous letters received by DIR.
Kennedy testfying to notable Salt Rheum cures,
the following will be found of interest to readers
who may accept of its perfect authen-
ticty and truthfulness:
Worcester, Mass, March %, 1855.
DR.. D. Kennedy, Rondout, N. Y.-Dear Sir
Until recently have been for three years sufferer
from Salt Rheum. 1t followed upon attack
Erysipelas, for which l was for a long time under
medical treatment. 1 placed myself again in the
hands of the physicians who did, have no doubt,
all that could be done. One thing is sure, however,
was none the better for all the medicine they gave
me. The painful and unsightly disease made con-
tinual progress until began to fear / should never
get rid of it.
By means of one of those accidents that often
suit in so much blessing had my attention called
to your FAVORITE REMEDY, which 1 was told
would surely do me good. l used it, and within a
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is and how places your wonderful medicine in my
opinion, you may guess at, but never know. keep
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Yours truly, MRS. DINAH PHA1R.
Mrs. Phair sometime since, when on a visit to
Kansas, found case of Salt Rheum, could not get
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ExPERIENCE TAUGnT ME.

And my money paid for it. After having Liver
Complaint four years, and spending money on nos
trums and doctors who didn't help me, tried Sui
phur Bitters. Six bottles cured me. shall always
use them.-G. n. Butler, Cohoes, n. Y.
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TrT Dfor working people. Send 10cts postage,
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way of making more money isl few days than you
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Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain,
may be relied on to effect cure wherever an ex-
ternal application can be used Price only twenty
five cents bottle.
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0rleans County Wonitnr,
PUBLIsHED WEEKLY by
GEO. H. BLAK KE,
BARTON, VT.

TERNIS.-TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR
Strictly in advance SI.5O. Subscribers living out
side of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra for
postage. For convenience in remitting, we VIII
give credit for year and four months for TO
subscribers in the county, and one year and three
for 81 90 to subscribers without the county, when
sent strictly in Advance.
Rates of Advert sing made known on apphca'
ton. Ali cuts must have metal body.
Remit By p. o. Money Order, Registered Letter. OF
Draft Watch the label on your paper and notic'
,Ohe your subscription expires and see that your pay
ments are kept in adudnce. When money IS sent ~
aoe shall give uou the credit the label at once,
label is not advdnced sUithin oo soeeks, notify us 6S
postal card.
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Having bought j. S. Sweeney's hay press, l am
prepared TO press hay in a good workmanlike man
ner, at reasonable price. For particulars call on
or address. &. c. MOORE.
West Charleston, Feb. 16. 7-l9
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CHARLES F. BRANCH.
DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, COVENTRY,
VT. Office at residence.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
w. G. HANSCOM
MRS. C. C. STEVEN

OHARLES GRAVES, Agent for Connecticut
Z General Life Insurance Co., Barton, VT.
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L B. FREEMAN

j. E. DWINELL.
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN FUR
NI niture, coffins, caskets, carpets, room paper,
etc., Glover, VT. lo-l
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A FEW HINTS
FOR THE USE OF

DOSE. To moue the bo1c-
els gently, 2 to 4 Pills;
thoroughly, 4 to 6 Pills.
Experience ariU decide the
proper dose in each case.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06

We know Heart Disease can be cured, wtys he
cause thousands say ihey have used DR.. Graves
Heart Regulator and know it does the cure
Plympton News. $1.Oo per bottle at druggists
Free pamphlet of F. f. Ingalls,