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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
AN IDEAL OLD MAN.

Man never attains his ideal. He
comes nearest to it when he leaves
school; all that year he hovers
around it in pleasant proximity.
Sometimes l think he quite attains it
on commencement day. But a year
away from school, he and his idea
part company. He sees it drifting
farther away from his eager hands.
have, in my own brilliant and ag-
gressive career, pursued several fleet
ing and more or less perfect ideals.
From where / now stand, at the dis
tance pole, can see the majority of
them scooting under the wire, and
| can feel that | am shut out One
can see is yet in sight, and I am
very 10th to see it get away from me.
have my idea of physical perfec-
ton in the aged. This is the man
ner of an old man | want to be. |
am not tall man now. | do not real
| ly have to stand up to look over the
back of car seat. l stand up be-
cause | can see farther. But as /
grow older want to fat up, | want
to develop a capacious bay window,
so that when my summer vest is
hanging on the line it will look like a
schooner coming down swing and
wing Then I can wear my watch
in my fob, with great big seal dan
CLING from it like a bell clapper. ]
want to be short in the breath and
wheeze when | climb up stairs, and
puff and pant when l walk up hill,
and have to take two steps to cross
the gutter, and l would wear a claw
hammer coat with wide lapels all the
time, and carry my handkerchief in
my hat. I would like my hair to turn
snow white, or else fall off, / am not
particular which. / would like my
moustache to bleach out until it looks
like a streak of flour across my lip.
| / believe that is all. | think this is
a photograph of the kind of man ]
want to be. This is my ideal old
man. Cane, and wheezy laugh, of
| course.
And / am just as confident as that
/ will die rich, that, as | grow old,
| will shrivel up and dry out until /
look like shoe string with clothes
| On.-BOb Burdette.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
THE MOTHERS CUT.

You can always tell boy whose
mother cuts his hair by the way he
stops in the streets and wriggles his
shoulders. When fond mother has
to cut her boys hair she draws the
front hair over his eyes, and leaves
it there while she cuts that which is
at the back. The hair which lies
over his eyes appears to be surcharg-
ed with electric needles, and that
which is silently dropping down un-
der his collar band appears to be on
fire. She has unconsciously pushed
his head forward until his nose
presses his breast. In the meantime
he is seized with an irresistible desire
to blow his nose, but he recollects
that his handkerchief is in the other
room. Then fly lights on his nose,
and does it so unexpectedly that ne
involuntarily lodges, and catches the
point of the shears in his left ear.
At this he commences to cry and
wish he was a man. But his mother
doesn't notice him. When she is
through she holds his jacket collar
back from his neck, and, with her
mouth, blows the short bits of hair
from the top of his head down his
back. He calls her attention to the
fact, but she looks for new place in
his head and hits HIM there, and asks
him why he didn't use his handker-
chief. Then he goes out and wrig-
giles to get the hairs out of his neck,
and wonders what the other boys
will say to him. Philadelphia Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
THE GUEST OF A CYCLONE.

Good Farmer Thistlepod sat in his
farmhouse on the prairie wide. The
shadows of the evening were falling
silently over the shingled roof. There
was a crashing sound like burst of
sarcastic laughter in Congress. A
persona stranger to farmer Thistle
pod and his family-came through the
door without the formality of intro
duction, disturbing the ceiling on his
way through and falling upon the dog,
killing it instantly.
"Where from, stranger?'
The stranger rose to his feet, and,
apologizing for his disheveled condi-
ton and the plastering on his coat,
said he was from Sac county.
''Expect any more of your folks
along pretty soon?'
The stranger reckoned not; good
many started when he did, but they
mostly went in different directions.
Did bring part of his wagon along
with him, but dropped it out in the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
The Rain Prayer.

Said Deacon Jones to his wife, sMy dear,
There's goin tcw be drouth, fear;
Eff Providence doesn't send us rain
There'n be small chance of harvest gain;
Eff you'll set time of speshul prayer,
I'll stay outside and watch the air.
Mebbe twill rain this very day;
You was always master hand few pray
Into the house the good woman went
Down on her willing knees she bent,
Without doubt she bowed her head
And reverently her petition spread;
''Good Lord, if all the same to thee,
We would be glad to have shower" prayed she,
'The corn is rustng, my fower-bed dry,
Oh, send us, Lord, swift supply"
A cloud that all day long had lain
Black in the west, now burst in twain
Thunder and rain and lightning flew,
And Il hurricane of tempest blew.
They saved the windows and doors-the roof
Went off its base, and scared aloof,
And the rain that followed laid the dust
BY drenching the unjust and the Just.
Then the good woman prayed amid the clatter'
'Lord, thou hast overdone the matter.
only wanted the clouds tie sizzle
The flower beds with gentle drzzie.
Now, wilt Thou, please, call off the rain
And put the roof on the house again,
And if we're to have this kind of weather.
I'd like it new shingled altogether,'
While the puzzled deacon could only say
''Well, wife is a master hand tew pray
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
SOAP EATING IN THE SENATE.

Not long ago Garland hit Butler
pretty hard. That is to say, he got
very good one on him, and Butler
laid for the Senator from Arkansas.
Knowing Garland's fondness for
candy, he procured some carmels and
also some cubes of brown soap,
which, when wrapped in their tissue
paper, precisely resembled to the eye
the carmels. Butler knew that if he
tried to put the cubes of soap off on
Garland he would fail, as the latter
was, of course, on the alert so far as
he was concerned. So Voorhees, of
Indlania, who sits next to Garland,
was chosen for the confederate. Said
Butler to Voorhees, ssHere are two
genuine carmels. These others are
cubes of soap. Go to your seat, lay
the soap cubes on your desk, eat the
genuine carmels, put your trust in
Providence, and say nothing Voor-
hees did as he was told. Garland
observed the cubes on the desk, and
saw that Voorhees, was eating some
thing with an evident relish.
s.Hello," said Garland. ''What
are you eating
"I've got cold and Pm eating
some candy" replied Voorhees,, very
much absorbed in some papers in mis-
| hands.
Garland looked at the counterfeits
wistfully for moment. ''Hum, y
he said finally, as he picked one up,
''Ive got something of a cold my
self" and he popped the piece of
soap into his mouth. There was a
crunching of his jaws and he saw he
was caught. Voorhees, watched him
ont of the tail of his eye, as did a
dozen others of the old boys sitting
around. Garland knew he was un-
der fire, but he was determined not
to finch. After chewing his soap
for moment he looked up at Voor-
hees with the inimitable air of limo.
cent earnestness that is characteristic
of him, and softly asked; ''Do you
eat many of these things when yor
have a cold?' AS Garland kept or
chewing an almost imperceptible STRIP
of lather formed on his lips. Voor
hees became alarmed and went tc
Butler. ''The fellow is actually eat
ing that stuff. Why, it will kill him
won't it," ''No-o-o-o," drawlet
Butler. 81 don't reckon anything
will kill that man.
Garland was game. He finished
his soap, and no man could say tha
he looked as though he didn't enjo,
it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
Reckoned he could stay

barnyard. Reckoned he could stay
all night?
Farmer Thlstlepod allowed he
could. They want very much crowded
this time of the year. Couple of fell
lows from Missouri came down the
chimney last Sunday night, and
horse and wagon slid into the smoke
house middle of the week, but cy-
clone travel was mostly over for the
season. Bring much of your farm
with you?
The stranger reckoned he only
started with twenty acres of timber
land and the barn. The barn drop
ped into the creek. but the timber
land he scattered over Hardin and
Miller townships.
Farmer Thistlepod, suddenly be-
thinking himself of the rites of hos
pitality, asked If his guest had been
to supper.
The guest said no, he had not, and
they started for the dining room,
farmer Thistlepod remarking that he
wouldn't charge him anything for
supper and lodging, and they could
settle for damages in the morning
BROOKLYN Edole.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
HEINE'S FOLKLORE.

From an article by Emma Lazarus,
entitled, "The Poet Heine,'' in the
December Century, we quote the fol-
lowing: s'Heine made peculiarly his
own the rich and lovely relm of Ger
man tradition and folk lore; he was
undisputed master over the elves,
kobolds, undines and fairies, the will
lis, wizards, enchantresses, and
dwarfs that people the woods and
springs of his fatherland. He Gre
ated anew the Lorelei of the Rhine
and the Venus of the Wartburg; he
was the lover and beloved of all
the exquisite creatures that inhabit
the groves and waterways, and in
many poem he has described how
the nymphs or the mermaids come
forth at twilight from their secret
haunts to caress and entice the mel
ancholy poet. Even in his own day
he was accepted as folk-singer,
and his rhymes found their way to
the heart of the people and the lips
of the peasantry, side by side with
the bird-like refrains of the medieval
minstrels. No surer proof than this
could be offered of bis thorough iden-
tification with the Teutonic spirit
and genius. But it was the graft of
a foreign tree that gave him his rich
and spicy aroma, his glowing color,
his flavor of the Orient. His was a
seed sprung from the golden branch
| that flourished in Hebrew-Spain be-
tween the years 1000 and 1,200.
Whoever looks into the poetry of the
medieval Spanish Jews will see that
Heine, the modern, cynical German
Partisan, owns place among these
devout and ardent mystics who pre-
ceded him by fully eight centuries. .
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
CHARACTER OF A TRUE
FRIEND.

Concerning the man you call your
friend, tell me, will he weep with you
in the hour of distress? Will he faith
fully reprove you to your face for the
faults for which others are ridiculing
and censuring you behind you back?
will he voluntarily come TO your res
cue when you are suffering wrong,
cruelty and oppression from others?
When detraction and slander are Sc
cretly aiming their deadly weapons
upon you, will he dare stand forth in
your defense? Will he religiously
counsel you and assist you to abstain
from secret sins and errors, which if
discovered will ruin your reputation,
and persisted in will destroy your
soul? If misfortune or loss shall
drive you into poverty and from
the society which you once enjoyed,
will he still stand by you, happy to
be the friend who will not desert you
in the hour of your calamity? When
sickness and infirmities shall drive
you from the busy haunts of life to
the gloomy retreat, will he still be
attentive to the tale of your dis
tresses, and administer the balm of
consolation to your fainting spirit?
And lastly, when death shall bring
the perpetual separation, will he be
present at the burial place and let
fall parting tear over the remains
of one whose mutual friendship only
the grave can sunder? Such one,
really, is the true friend. Here and
there he may be found, but earth has
too few of the always noble and true.
G.. S. G..
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09

Running Locomotive While DeathIy Sick
Something the Passengers Did Not Know
Physician Saves an Engineer.
Taunton Mass.-Dr David X Kennedy ,Rondout N Y,
Dear Sir | am an engineer the Old Colony
Railroad, and run the Fall River boat train between
Fall River and Lowell, residing at Taunton. For
ten years suffered everything but death from dys-
pepsia. Often had such binding sick headaches
that could scarcely see. l think this was due
partly to irregular habits of eating, and partly to
the jar of the engine. Sometimes my head would
snap like neuralgia, and again the pain would settle
in my eyes, which would settle in my eyes, which
would feel as big as a mans fists. Nv breath was
very offensive and my food soured as soon as it en-
tered my stomach. In fact my stomach felt as
though it were great raw and surface, and
what agony it gave perhaps you can imagine.
In the summer and fall of 1876 when we had the
heavy centennial travel the constant jar brought on
acute attacks nearly every week and 1 thought
should have to leave the road. But l kept at work
until the next spring, when grew so much worse
that could virtually eat nothing, and concluded
that my labor, and my life too, were about over
Remember that L had tried every medicine
heard OF, and had been treated by of the best
physicians in Taunton and Lowell. At this critical
time DIR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE
REMEDY was recommended to 1t was new
to me, and with my experience of medicines YOU
can easily forgive me for saying that had not
particle of faith in it.
had taken it but few days when began to get
better. The raw and sore feeling left my stomach,
and the swapping pains left my head, and soon
was all right, and have been since. 1t is the
only thing that ever did me the least good, and it
drove every ache, pain and discomfort completely
out OF my body. Now keep KENNEDY'S FA-
VORITE REMEDY with me my engine, and it
goes wherever go.
Why, believe FAVORITE REMEDY will cure
anything. One night, while ago, John Layton,
an engineer who runs the main line boat train from
Boston, came my engine sick as DEATH He was
worn out with work, had high fever, and was so
nervous that lie almost broke down CRYING "Non-
sense, John," sad 'tchecr up, I've got Something
on my engine that will set you up in ffy." took
out my bottle of T FAVORITE REMEDY, lifted his
head and gave him a good dose. He went to bed.
Two days after saw him looking healthy as a
butcher. ''Dan he said, ''what was that stuff you
gave me the other night?' SIT was DIR. DAVID
kENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY, Rondout,
n. w. said l. ''Well. don't care whose Remedy
| it is it's the thing for man the railroad.' So
say all. Yours, ETC., DANIEL, FTTTS
| This preparation goes to the root of disease by
| purifying the blood and rousing every organ into
healthy action. 1t is useful at home, shops, in of
| fce-everywhere.
| DR.. David Kenndy, Rondout, n Y
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Orleans County @cnitnr,
PUBLIsHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. H. BLAkE,
BARTON, VT.

TERMS.-TWO DOLLARS PER HEAh
Strictly in Advance SI.5O. Subscribers living out
side of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra Tor
postage. For convenience in remittng' we VIII
give credit for one year and four months for $780, to
subscribers in the county, and one year and three
for 80 90 to subscribers without the county, when
sent strictly in adrdnce.
Rates of Advert sing made known on apphca-
ton Ali cuts must have metal body
Remit by p. O. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
Draft Watch the label on your paper and notice
,ohe your subscription expires and that your pay
,nents are kept in odudnce. When money is sent as
zoe shall give uou the credit the label at once II tn
label is not advanced ,oitin tVo .oesks notify us By
postal card.
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The Children.

| wonder if he remembers,
That good sold man" in heaven,
The elias in the old red school-house,
Known as the ''Noisy Seven?"
wonde, if he remembers
How restless we used to be?
Or thinks we forgot the lesson
OfChrist and Gethsemane?
I wish I could tell that story
AS he used to tell it then;
am sure that with heavens blessing
could reach the hearts of men.
That voice so touchingly tender
Comes down to me through the years
A pathos which seemed to mingle
His own with the Saviour's tears.
I often wish l could tell him,
Though we caused him so much pain
By our boyish, thoughtless frolic,
His lessons were not in vain.
I'd like to tell him how Harry,
The merriest one of all
From the bloody field of Shiloh,
Went home at the Masters call.
I'd like to tell him how Stephen,
So brlmming With mirth and fun,
Now tells the heather of China
The tale of the Crucifsd One.
I'd like to tell him how Joseph
And Jack and Davy and Phil
Are honored among the churches,
All of them living still.
I'd like, yes, I'd like to tell him,
What his lessons did for me,
And how l am trying to follow
That Christ of Gethsemane.
How many beside, know not,
VIII gather at las in heaven,
The fruit of that faithful sowing,
But the sheaves are surely seven.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
AYERS
Cherry Pectoral.

No other complaints are'so insidious in their
attack as those affecting the throat and lungs:
none SO trifled with by the majority of suffer-
ers. The ordinary cough or cold, resulting
perhaps from trifing or unconscious ex-
posure, is often but the beginning of fatal
sickness. AYERS CHERRY PECToRAL has
well proven its efficacy in a forty years fight
with throat and lung diseases, and should be
taken in all cases without delay.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09

''Is land high in Vermont?" asked
a speculator of an old Green Noun
tain farmer. "Indeed it isl" was
the reply. s'If the trees warn't so
stunted the clouds couldn't get by at
ALL"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09

A boy digging for skunk in Lam
caster county, Penn, found a lump
of mineral which old miners aver to
be gold. That's just boys luck.
Any older person would have found
the skunk.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
A Terrible Cough Cured.

:" In 1851 took a severe cold, which affected
my lungs. had terrible cough, and passed
night after night without sleep. The doctors
gave me up. l tried AYERS CHERRY Pee
ToRAL, which relieved my lungs, induced
sleep, and afforded me the rest necessary
for the recovery of my strength. By the
nent cure was effected. 1 am now 62 years
old, hale and hearty, and am satisfied your
CHERRY PICTORIAL saved me.
HORACE FAIRBROTHER"
ROckinoham VI I,,ly TX 1890
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
CTATE OF VERMONT,

In Probate Court held at Barton Landing, in said
District on the 23d day of January, A. ID. 1885.
e. j. Ufford, Administrator of the estate of Chauncy
G.. Drown late of Barton, in said District, deceased,
pres his administration account for examination
and allowance, and makes application for decree
Of distribution and partition Of the estate of said
deceased.
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court that said
account and said application be referred TO session
thereOfto be held at the Probate Office in Barton
Landing on the l4th day ofFeb. "A ID. 1855 for hearing
and decision thereon And is further ordered that
notice hereof be given to all persons interested by
publication Of the same three weeks successyely in
the Orleans County Monitor, newspaper published
at Barton, previous TO said time appointed for hear.
ing that they may appear at said time and place
and show cause, If any they may havc why said
made.
BY the Court-Attest,
40 c. II. JONES, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09

A leading New York physicians says that three
fourhs of the deaths during this trying weather are
due to diseases of the lungs. Take warning and
secure at once bottle of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup,
a sure cure for all lung troubles.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09

Death-like sensations frequently accompany
Heart Disease, reliable specific for it in ali forms
DIR. Graves Heart Regulator, thirty years proves
it. Free pamphlet of F. E. ingalls,, Cambridge,
Mass. $1.00 per bottle.
John Brown, Westmore, VT. says got
lieffro my cough until used Hatchs Mixture. /
recommend it for all lung diseases.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
Group. Mothers Tr;bute.

group. "A M others Tribute.
"While in the country last winter my little
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or AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL a bottle OF
which was always kept in the house. IlIis
was tried in small and frequent doses. and
TO our delight i'll less than half an hour the
little patient was breathing easily. The doe
tor said that the CHERRY PECToRAI. had
saved my darlings life. Can you wonder at
our gratitude? Sincerely yours,
Mrs. EMMA GEDNEY."
l59 West 12Sth St., New York, May 16, 1882
81 have used AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL
IN my family for several years, and do not
hesitate to pronounce it the most etfectual
remedy for coughs and colds we have ever
tried. A. j. CRANE
Lake Crystal, 1rinn., March 10, 1882.
81 suffered for eight years from Bronchitis,
and after trying many RENE <ies with no sue
cess, l was cured by the use of AYERS CHER
RY PEcToRAL. JOSEPH WALDEN"
Byhalia, Miss, April 5, 1882.
.'I cannot say enough in praise of AYERS
CHERRY PICTORIAL, believing as / do that
but for its use should long since have died
from lung troubles. E. BRAGDoN."
Palestine, Texas, April %, 1852.
No case of an affection of the throat or
lungs exists which cannot be greatly relieved
by the use of AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL,
and it will dl,rays cure when the disease Is
PREPARED by
Dr.. G. Aver & Co. Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09

OUARLES GRAVES, Agent for Connecticut
I General Life Insurance Co., Barton, VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
COTTAGE HOUSE.

c. AUSTIN, NEWPORT, VT, PROPRlE-
~ tor This house is located on Main Street
near Fields Block. Teams run to meet trains.
Good livery in connection with house, i5-49
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p. SHIELDS.

ARTON NATIONAL BANK. BUSINESS
EOHours from 9, a. M, to II, m. From to 4, p
m. HIRAM MCCLELLAN, Pres't, Ii. H. DEWEY
Cashier.
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A. C. PARKER.

T. W. BALDWIN.
A TTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLlClIOK In
N Chancery, Barton, Vt.
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w. G. HANSCOM.

A z.
TPOST.O OFFICE, BARTON LANDING, VT.
N Fire and Accident Insurance Agent.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09

As the dew yapishes before the rising sun, so
does Indigestion, constipation hilausnfss, heart.
burn, and kindred complaints disappear before the
renovating potency of Hatch's Mandrake Pills