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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
THE GLACIERS OF MT. HOOD.

A trip to the mountains is worth
decade of college study of geology.
Here before ones eyes the forces of
nature are at work, tearing down
aud building up. Mount Hood, gi-
ait still, is but remnant of his for
mer self, and the rattle of rolling
rocks and the roar of water testify
that the work of denudation still goes
on continually. No glaciers exist in
the United States but those of the
Pacific coast, as only here the atmos-
pheric conditions are favorable; and
the ice streams of Mount Hood are
the only ones on this coast easily
reached. Down far below the snow
line great seas of ice push their way
through valleys they have cut for
themselves. Their downward mo-
ton, varying in speed with the slope
of the channel and the weight of
snow above, is constant-a few inch
es day. The lower part is ice !;
higher, icy snow, and where there is
little thaw, pure snow. The fields
of ice are strewn with unassOrted de-
bris, from boulders weighing tons to
the finest sand, which falls from the
walls of the glacier valley. Near
the foot of the glacier the rubbish is
twelve inches or more thick, while in
other places one can walk over near
ly bare ice-aye, can travel for miles
and study moraines, crevasses, ice
we'll, caves, ice tables, and all the
appurtenances of frst-class glacier,
without guide or alpenstock, ropes
or spiked shoes. The Ice moves as
only ice can, moulding itself to vari-
ations in the channel, and splitting
across to form crevasses only when
meeting some great descent IN tne
bed. Melting extends up over the
surface as well as at the base; the
traveller steps across streamlets flow-
ing upon the ice-surface toward the
base, perhaps to lose themselves in
crevasses further down; and from
the wedge-shaped snout of the ice
giant pours deluge of water, while
down it's face rains a shower of sand
and rocks. The water asserts the
debris, soon dropping the boulders,
carrying course sand further, and
carrying to the Columbia much of
the ashy sand that is filed off by the
bottom of the glacier.-IHe Portland
OregOnian.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
A KIND VOICE.

There is no power Of love so hard
to get and keep, says Elihu Burritt,
as a kind voice. A kind hand is
deaf and dumb. 1t may be rough in
flesh and blood, yet do the work of a
soft heart and do 1t with soft touch.
But there is no one thing that love
so much needs as sweet voice to
tell what it means and feels; and it
Is hard to get and keep it in the
right tone. One must start in youth
and be on the watch night and day,
at work and play, to get and keep a
voice that shall speak at all times the
thoughts of kind heart. But this
is the time when sharp voice is apt
to be got. You often hear boys and
girls say words at play with a sharp,
quick tone, as if it were the snap of
a whip. When one of them gets
vexed you hear a voice that sounds
as if it were made up snarl, whine
and bark. 1t is often in mirth that
one gets voice OF tone that is
sharp, and sticks to him through life,
and stirs up ill-will and grief, and
falls like drop of gall on the sweet
joys of home. Watch it day by day,
as pearl of great price, for it will
be worth more to you in days to
come than the best pearl hid in the
sea. A kind voice is to the heart
what light is to the eye. 1t is light
that sings as well as shines. Train
keep in tone through life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
BOYS. LISTEN TO THIS.

True as the Gospel is the follow
ing, said by Robert Collyer of Chica
GO:
''It is true that the working, sue
cessful men of to-day were once poor,
industrious, self-reliant boys. And
the same thing will be repeated-for
from the ranks of the working,
economical, temperate and persever-
ing boys of to-day will emanate the
progressive, prominent men of the
future.
every man doing any sort of
work in Chicago to-day was raised a
poor mans son and had to fight his
way to his place. Not one of them,
as | can ascertain, was rich mans
son, and had good time when he
was boy. All boys should grow
strong as steel bar, fighting their
way Ou W al cQuCdttOu, duu llleu, :,
when they were ready, plunge into
life with the traditional half dollar,
and little bundle tied up in a red
handkerchief, as all great men start.
I tell you that in five and twenty
years, when most of us that are in
our middle ages have gone to our ret
ribution, the men of mark in this
country will not be the sons of those
whose fathers can give them all they
wish for, and ten times more than
they ought to have, but will be those
who are brought up in farm houses
or cottages, cutting their way thro'
the thlckest hindrances of every sort ;
and all the brown stone houses of
this metropolis will be as nothing to
bring out the noble man"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
Looking at Both Sides.

The good wife hustled about the house,
Her face still bright with pleasant smile,
As broken snatches of happy song
Strengthened her heart and her hands the
while;
The good man sat in the chimney nook
His little clay pipe within his lips,
And all he had made and all he had lost,
Ready and clear on his finger tips.
"Good wife, I've just been thinking bit;
Nothing has done very good this year,
Money is bound to be hard to get.
How the cattle are going to feed
How we are to keep the boys at school,
Is kind of debit and credit sum
1 can't make balance by any rule
She turned her around from the baking board,
Andishe. faced him there with cheerful laugh
Why, husband dear, one would really think
That the good rich wheat only chaf,
And what if the wheat is only chaff,
So long as we both are well and strong?
I'm not woman to worry bit
But some how other we get along.
For thirty years we have loved each other,
Stood by each other whatever befell
Six boys have called us father and mother
And all of them living and doing well.
We owe no man penny, my dear;
And both of us loving and well and strong.
Good man, 1 wish you would smoke again,
And think how well we have got along."
He filed his pipe with pleasant laugh,
He kissed his wife with tender pride;
lie SAID, 81 will do rs you tell me, love;
I'll just count up on the other side"
She left him then with his better thought,
And lifted her work with low, sweet song,
A song that followed me many year
''Some how or other we get along'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

w hCH d gus JlSuG Ou WulSk6J lie
has to take the consequence.
What the inebriate sees may very often
be described as circular saw.
The road to wealth is crowded with
the men who are turning back.
We often sympathize with dog when
we think of the man who owns him.
''She's not of my set," said the old hen
as she chased strange chicken out of
the yard.
This would be better world if the
people in it who lose their tempers would
never find them again.
1t seems little strange that mans
face is generally the longest where he
himself is the Shortest
1t is very sad when an absent minded
young man is asked at a church festival
what he'll have, and he says "beer.''
The Current says human oeings love
ceremony. Certainly they do, the kind
that takes two young people and preach
er.
eyes" remarked landlady, sit costs
money to get knives sharpened every
week but it's much cheaper than buying
tender meat
Some say that man who would ''beat
an egg" would be so cruel as to s'whip
cream" thrash wheat" or even click a
postage stamp"
"Waiter, can you bring me nice young
chicken smothered in onions?" ''No, sab.
We doesn't kill 'em dat way, sab. We
cuts off der heads.''
A cynical bachelor says woman is a
good deal like an ACCORDION. You can
draw her out, but she makes music if you
attempt to shut her up.
A sewing machine agent, who was very
| i'll, being told that he must pay the debt
of nature, wanted to know if he couldn't
do it on the installment plan.
A gentleman said to minister: Whel
| do you expect to see Deacon Smith again
Never, said the reverend gentleman sol
emply, the deacon is in heaven.
Some crusty specimen of a man propos
ed the following toast at celebration
s'Our fire engines-may they be like oul
old maids-ever ready, but never want
| ed"
reformed burglar delivered lectur,
to large and sympathetic audience in
Oregon, and a confederate picked ur
eleven wallets while the crowd was filing
in and out.
SuccotaSh was new dish at Charles
house, but one that pleased him immense
lyle passed his plate to his mamm;
earnestly asking for "a little more of tn,
sacred hash.''
Wilson, the celebrated vocalist, was
upset one day in his carriage, near Edin
burgb. A Scotch paper after recording
the accident, said, s'We are happy t.
state he was able to appear the following
evening in three pieces"
This is slanderous old story told on {
Wood county lawy er who was having hi:
measure taken for pair Of pants in To
ledo tailoring establishment. .'Will yor
have two hip pockets or one?" 'sTwo.
"Pint or quart size?" Quart
Teacher-Now, Johnny, if l take tel
cents from ten cents, how much remains
Stupid boy-I donno. Teacher-Well
suppose you had dime in your pocke
and lost it, what would be in your pock
ct! Stupid hoy-Rlamed if I don't thinl
there would be hole.
gentleman whose family consists O.
a wife and twin girl babies came in yer,
late one night and went to bed. His sleer
was broken and he tossed and muttereC
something about ''two of kind" and .
''small pair" s'Poor john" murmuret
his wife; she is tired and is dreaming O
the children
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
and had she not been given her hap
piness after trial as if by fire?
THE WASTE OF BULLETS.

Our readers have seen or heard the
statement that it takes soldiers
weight of lead to kill him in battle,
and they may have considered it to
be merely rhetorical hyperbole,
suggested by the obvious fact that
comparatively few out of the whole
number of shots in war take effect.
1t seems, however, that the assertion,
which originated with the famous
Marshal SAKE, was proved by Cass-
endi, after careful mathematical cal
culation, to be no exaggeration, and,
with all the improvements that have
been made in muskets and in the art
of using them effectively, it is still
not far from the truth. At the bat
tie of Solferino a comparison of the
number of shots fired on the Austri-
an side with the number killed and
wounded on the part of the enemy
shows that seven hundred bullets
were expended for each man wound
ed, and forty-two hundred for each
one killed. Now, as the average
weight of the ball used was thirty
grams, it must have required at
least one hundred twenty-six kilo-
grams, or about two hundred seventy
seven lbs. of lead, to kill man. In
the Franco-Prussian war the slaught-
er caused by one needle gun among
the French shows how much superior
that firearm was to the Austrian car
| bine; but about thirteen hundred
shots were required then to accom-
plish the destruction of single sci
dier. 1t is found in practice that a
great majority of the wasted bullets
90 over the heads of the enemy ;
hence resort is sometimes had to the
expedient of pressing down, by
means of a staff, the muskets of a
platoon of men about to fire, SER
geant being detached for the service.
When the shots are aimed at an iso-
la ted soldier the chances against
him are, Of course, greater; but even
then the waste of lead is something
enormous. In the Franco Prussian
war, according to an officer who wit
messed the performance, French
company of chasseurs fired for a
quarter of an hour at German
mounted sentry posted on a hillock
abont three hundred yards off. Full
four hundred shots were fired before
either man or horse was hit. A le-
ally expert marksman would proba-
bly, have picked off the man at the
very first attempt, or certainly al
the second.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
THEY EADNT CAUGHT ON.

We first came upon a young farm
er afoot and in somewhat of hurry.
Two or three fingers of his right hand
were badly shattered, and he had not
stopped long enough to envelope
them in rag. He said something
about three miles and the doctor as
he passed us.
Driving along for about half mile
we came upon a dead mule in har-
ness with a great splinter driven
clear through him. There was boy
about twelve years of age seated on
pile of rails near by, but he was
wiping blood off his heel and didn't
seem to hear our questions. Half
mile beyond this was log cabin.
One side was ulged in, the windows
shattered and the door in kindling
wood. There was a dead dog and
four or five dead chickens between
the door and the gate.
Hulloo! the house! called the Col
onel, as we halted at the gate.
After long minute woman came
out. She had several loose teeth,
which were bleeding freely, and she
had the frightened look of a school
ma 'am treed by bear.
Been a cyclone here? asked the
Colonel.
No.
Somebody shooting?
No.
Can't be no political meeting?
No.
Well. what in Halifax is the row
then?
Nuthin' 'cept the old man and the
boys has got some dynamite to blow
up stumps with, and they're sort O.
green at the bizness.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

A NEEDED REsT.-There is one
patient worker who does not expect
and is not expected to stake vaca-
tion." The house-mother's needs
are forgotten. 1t has been often
pointed outflow to the man comes
a change of scene in going out to
business; how they get at least an
hour OF more of fresh air every day,
and lubricate the machinery of life
by contact with friends and acquaint-
ances while the women suffer from
the very quiet of their home lives,
not to mention it's nerve-wearing anx-
ieties, cares and labors. The wife
and mother should be gently forced
out of the home ruts. Because she
thinks she doesn't want to go, is no
sign tha. she does not need to go. A
treadmill is one of the hardest things
to get out of gear, and the patient
plodder therein at last comes to think
that there is no other round for her
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

WANTED-PERMANE AND PROFIT
w ABLE POSITIONS-By an old and prominent
Life Company few energetic and responsible men
who will devote their entire time to the business
act as General gents. To such men rare induce
ments will be offered, combining guaratee. All
policies non-forfeiting and contestahe by their
own conditions after three payments. Endowment
policies at life rates, new and popular plans Ex-
ful men who desire to change will find il greatly to
their interest to correspond with us before making
any arrangements. Address, Draws 653, Albany,
New York. 3s-4I
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

To test your musical talent whistle
all the time. Sing the rest of the
time. Hum bar of every new opera
necessarily. Drum on the table with
your fingers, pat the floor with your
foot. If your friends do not place
you in lunatic asylum after this,
you will be warranted in buying COR
net, flute, violin, ACCORDION, or hiring
a piano.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

You know the strain the heart must be i'm
mense to perform its functions and its liability TO
disease is in proportion; for any heart trouble use
DIR. Graves Heart Regulator 81 60 per bottle.
For free pamphlet send to +. Il. Ingalls, Cambridge
Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
"Are ALI the Children IMP"

The darkness falls, the wind is high,
Dense black clouds fill the western sky;
The storm will soon begin;
The thunders roar, the lightnings flash,
hear the great round raindrops dash
Are all the children in?
They're coming softly to my side;
Their forms within my arms 1 hide
No other arms are sure;
The storm may rage with fury wild,
With trusting faith each little child
With mother feels secure.
But future days are drawing near
They'll go from this warm shelter here,
Out in the worlds wild din;
The rain will fall, the cold winds blow,
I'll sit alone and long to know
Are all the children in?
Will they have shelter then secure,
Where hearts are waiting strong and sure,
And love is true when tried?
Or will they find broken reed,
When strength of heart they so much need
To help them brave the tide?
God knows it all; His will is best;
I'll shield them now and yield the rest
In His most righteous hand;
Sometimes the souls He loves are riven
By tempests wild, and thus are driven
Nearer the better land.
If He should call us home before
The children go on that blessed shore,
Afar from care and sin,
know that shall watch and wait,
Till He, the keeper of the gate,
Lets all the children in.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

An Irishman, who had lately arrived
in America, and who had never seen
a cross-cut saw, was passing along
country road one day when he OBJ
served man and boy saving log
with one Of these saws. Paddy could
not understand it, and gazed upon
the two for long time, and was
impressed with the idea that the man
was trying to take the saw away from
the former, so he ran up behind the
man and struck him in the back of
the head knocking him down, at the
same time shouting to the boy: Now
take it and run, yc little devil :
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

The pain and misery suffered by those who are
afflicted with dyspepsia are indescribable. The
relief which is given by Hoods Sarsaparila has
caused thousands to be thankful tor this great med
cine. 1t dspes the causes of dyspepsia, and tones
up the digestive organs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
1 WISHED I WAS DEAD.

After suffering several years with the Lencorrhea.
and no doubt would have been, only lady indpc-
ed me to try Sulphur Bitters. Now ] am well.
Three bottles cured me.-Mrs. .copps, Newport. RI.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

G. w. ORNE.
CUCCESSOR TO A. F. BROCKWAY. DEAL
Der in clocks, watches, jewelry and silver ware.
Fine watch repairing specially
Barton Landing, Vt. 14-S5
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

Instruments Tuned and Repaired.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
You Can

Save time by calling on us for CLOTH
ING, you will
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05

in the great world. Therefore, hus-
bands, sons and daughters, take our
admonition, and help mother off. En-
ter into an amicable conspiracy to
convince her that she can go. Per-
suade her that home is not the best
place to travel in, nor the best place
for some kinds of rest. And dom
wait too long, nor mistake resigna-
ton for contentment. Minister to
her while YOU have the chance.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-12
A DRUNK NN FAruER
Murders His Son "n. Intsrfered in Doha
of Ills Mother.

mufders HIS son Nhs InLertered In 1iGhalf
of His Mother.
READING, Pa, Jan. 10.-Zeidersyille,
Licking county, at midnightwas the scene
Of a brutal butchery, Lewis Carl, aged
forty, taking the life of his son, Charles
Carl, aged twenty-one, in cold blood. The
murderer had been drinking all OF yester-
day and came home and abused his wife
in brutal manner. Hc shortly after.
wards retired TO a down stairs room, and
his wife, eager to escape his cruel treat.
ment, went upstairs and laid down on the
floor.
Here the son found his mother when be
camehome, shortly afterward. lie learned
her story, and then went down stairs to
remonstrate with his father. The latter
Immediately arose, whipped out q knife,
grappled with the young man, and stabbed
his son in the groin in tho left side again
and again. The boy fell on the floor In a
pool Of blood. He afterward arose, stag
gered and died shortly thereafter.
Vixen told that he had killed his son
the murderer came to a realization OF his
situation and burst into tears. He imme-
diately left the house and has not been
heard OF since. II isbelieved that he fled
to the mountains near by and hung him
self. He has four other children. Carl
was cooper by trade.
The officers and neighbors searched the
hills for the murderer, but he has not yet
been caught, II still alive. Carl and his
family lived in the greatest squalor, and he
has always been known us o brute. The
instrument with which the deed was com.
mitted is large pocketknife, and the
blade Is over three inches long and half
an inch wide.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-12

INTERNAL RRvENuE CoLLEcrolls arc not
appointed for u term OF years, as some
other officers are. They hold their COM
missions during the pleasure of the Presi-
dent, who in any case may appoint a sue
cessor with the advice and consent ofthe
Senate" II the Senate does not approve
removal it will not confirm the nomina-
ton Of successor.
But Il one President may remove Mt will,
30 may another. II the Senate confirms
the nomination OF Mr.. Mccormick, Prcsi-
dent Cleveland may take occasion early
in March to ask confirmation Of Mr.. Nc
Cormick's successor. In that event the
narrow Republican margin in the Senate
could not be relied on to save Mr.. McCor-
micG's neck from the same civil service
reform halter rs President Arthur now has
about General Duyal's neck.
Itis not to be expected that the Demo-
Gratis are going to submit tamely to a Re
publican being slipt into so good thing
as the bell is tolling the knell of tho de-
parting Republican administration. There
are not enough Of these good things to 60
around. This consideration may CON
siderably diminish Mr.. McCormick's ton
ure Of the Office; indeed it might operate
80 strongly that he would not get into the
office ut all. It's hard to tell what Is go
ing to happen. re r. .--