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CHEERFULNESS.

Cheerfulness freshens the heart
and makes it healthy and vigorous.
The gloom and shadows that pass
over the mind make us wretched, but
the influence of cheerfulness passes
over it like pleasant summer breezes,
making creation glad. Cheerfulness,
like most other talents, is to large
extent the subject of culture, and the
preservation and development of it is
a duty we owe alike to ourselves and
to society. Cheerfulness blunts ar
rows, rounds the edges of sharp
swords, secures pure breathing in
foul air, easy digestion and refresh
ing slumbers.
Cheerfulness is spring of power
and of pleasure, alike to our physic-
al, our mental and our moral natures.
How sweetly does it retain its seren-
ity amid the storms of life, when
shadowed by sorrows or peril
How it cheers the infirmities of old
age, in the sweet remembrance and
anticipation of meeting those dear
ones, whom we loved on earth, where
we shall be separated no more for
ever.
Cheerfulness smooths our path and
sweetens our cup, rendering duty and
affiiction light. Nature smiles with
us if we are cheerful and contented.
The birds sing more sweetly, the
trees have richer foliage. the sky
more clear, the sun, moon and stars
appear more beautiful. 1t banishes
care and discomfort.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
The Little Arm Chair.

TWAS carefully slowed in the attic away,
Where the grandchildren often resorted to play;
1t afforded them Joy, and twas pleasant to know
Other boys and girls played with it long ago.
And best of all treasures they looked upon there,
They knew that grandma priced this the little arm
chair.
Though quaint and old fashioned, to her it dear,
And often upon it she let fall tear.
And the little ones oft would ask grandma to tell
Some tale of the past she remembered so well,
OF her own little children cunning and fair,
Who sat by her side in the little chair.
In fancy she sees them, the girls and the boys,
And hears the old homestead resound with their
noise;
And babyhood plays have charm ever sweet,
As she listens again to the dear little feet,
And the sweet childish laughter in which she must
share,
As they take their first step by the little chair.
With their book they sat in while learning to rea
And watching their progress pleasant, indeed !;
Or the girls with their dolls would play 'come
and see,''
Then for short nap lay them down on her knee,
While she taught them to on their first patch
work square,
As they sat by her ,ide in the little arm chair.
She taught them to love and to honor the truth,
And sowed the good seed in their hearts while in
youth,
And had in her soul an abundant reward,
When she it bear fruit to the glory of God:
And their baby lips uttered their first infant prayer
As they knelt by her side at the little arm chair.
But why comes that shadow 'er grandmamma's face,
And why steal those tears slowly out from their
place?
IT'S not for the living she's weeping to-day,
But the little one Jesus called early away;
And she prays that heavens glory at last she may
share,
With hnr1 darling who in her LITTLE chair.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
AN AMIcABLE ARRANGEMENT

AN AMIcABLE ARRANGEMENT
s'How is it, Uncle Rastus," said
gentleman to an old darkey, "that
you never married?" Aren't you an
admirer of the softer sex!"
81 fo't a duel wunce bout er gal,
sab !" replied Uncle Rastus.
'sA duel?'
eyes, sab; yeahs an yeahs ago.
Sam jackson an myself we bout
dubbed de same gal we were bout
boun' ter git her, an the business
climaxted IN er duel. We bout wah
a trife nahvus, an 'sted OBJ me hit
tin Sam or Sam hittin' me, we bro't
down a vallyble mule dat wah stand
in neah de fence"
"And did you fire again. asked
the gentleman, very much interested.
ssNo, sab; dat was very vally-
BILE mule, boss, an we bout got kind
er skeart like. So we entered into
an americable prearrangement.
s.How did you settle it?'
"Sam tux de gal an agreed to
pay fo' de mule, an hain't never
dubbed scence."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

All day, all night, can hear the jar
OF the loom of life, and near and far
1t thrills with its deep and muffled sound,
As the tireless wheels always go round.
Busily, carelcssly goes the loom,
In the light of day and the midnght's gloom
The wheels are turning early and late,
And the wool is wound in Il warp of fate.
Click, clack! there's thread of love woye in !;
Click, clack! another ofwrong and sin,
What checkercd thing win this life be,
When we see it unrolled III eternity!
Time with face like mystery,
And hands as busy as hands can be,
Sits at the loom with its arms outspread,
To catch in its mcshcs each glancing thread.
When shall this wonderful web be done?
In thousand years, perhaps, or one;
Or tomorrow. Who knoweth? Not you or L,
But the wheels turn and the shuttles fly.
Are we spinncrs OF wool for this life web-say
Do we furnish the weaver thread each day?
1t were better then, o my friend, to spin
A beautiful thead than thread of sin.
All, sad-eyed weaver, the years are slow.
But each one is nearer the end l know;
Some day the last thread shall be woven in,
God grant it be love instead of sin.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
HOW MENDLESSOHN MADE
MUSIC.

Mendelssohn delighted in the open
air and beautiful scenery When he
was twenty, he stayed for some time
at Chester, where he was entertained
by Mr.. Taylor.
He loved afterward to tell of the
charm which the meadow and brook.
the trees and grass had for him there.
He spent much time in sketching and
painting; but his head was full of
music, and everything suggested a
musical idea to him. He was very
fond of carnations. and he set a
bunch of them to music in the album
of daughter of his host, with a
drawing of flowers over the notes !;
not forgetting to set some delicate
arpeggios in the music for the scent
of the flowers. On seeing the young
Ell sister with some bell shaped fow-
ers in her hair. he said that the fair
les might dance on the trumpets,
and he set them to capriccio. He
never tired of merry-making, and
one afternoon toward dusk, he, with
a number of young people, was one
of happy young company that was
picnicking in thicket. Some one
gayly proposed fire; and all began
10 drag the boughs and twigs into
place, so that soon they had fine
bonfire. While still lingering around
it Mendelssohn began to ask for
music, but nothing could be found
save a worn-out fiddle of the garden
er's. Mendelsoohn, all undismayed,
began to play, shooting with laugh
ter at his performance; but soon
there was hush in the chat and
sport, and the whole party sat spell
bound at the lovely music which he
drew from even that ddspised fiddle
He would sit for hours, improvisine
dance tunes, and he liked nothing
| better than to entertain his friends
with his music. He always looked
back on his visit to Chester as one
of the brightest spots IN bright life
st. Nicholas.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
HOW LADIES SHOULD RIDE
HORSE BACK

The horsewoman should sit SO that
the weight of the body falls exactly
in the centre Of the saddle, without
bearing on the stirup, able to grasp
the upright pommel with the right
knee, and press against the hunting
horn with her left knee, yet not ex-
erting any muscular action for that
purpose. For this end the stirrup
leather must be neither too long nor
short. The ideal of a fine horsewo-
man is to be erect without being rig
id, square to the front, and, until
quite at home in the saddle, looking
religiously between her horse's ears.
The shoulders must, therefore, be
square, but thrown back little so
as to expand the chest and make
hollow waist, such as is observed in
waltzing, but always flexible. On
fiexibility of the person above the
waist and on the frmness below, all
the grace of equestrianism, all the
safety, depend. Nervousness makes
both men and women poke their
their heads forward--a stupid trick
in man, objectionable in woman.
A lady should bend like willow in
a storm, always returning to an
easy yet nearly upright position.
This seat should be acquired while
the lady's horse is led, first by hand
then with leading stick and finally
a lunging rein, which will give room
for cantering in circles. But where
the pupil is encumbered with reins,
whip and directions for guiding
her horse, she may be excused for
forgetting all about her seat or her
position. The arms down to the
elbows should hang loosely near but
not fixed to the sides. and the hands,
in the absence of reins, may rest in
front of the waist.-PhIadelphia
| Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Friendship is not to be bought at
a fair.
Willows are weak. yet they bind
other wood.
Never was sincere word utterly
lost, never magnanimity fell to the
ground there is some heart always
to greet and accept it unexpectedly.
The vain abhor the vain, but the
gentle and unassuming love one an
other. 1t is the effect of sympathy
in the latter, the want of it by the
former.
Do you think of one falsity as
harmless, and another as slight, and
another as unintended? Cast them
all aside; they may be slight and ac-
cidental, but they are ugly SCOT from
the smoke of the pit for all that.
Remember if thou marry for beau
ty, thou bindest thyself all thy life
for that which perchance will neither
last nor please thee one year; and
when thou hast it, it will be to thee
of no price at all.
To avenge ones self is to confess
that one has heen wounded, but it is
not the part of noble mind to be
wounded by an injury; great mind,
and one which is conscious of its own
true worth, does not avenge an inju-
ry, because it does not feel it.
The sphere of out affections is one
in which we are very apt to expect
too much from others, and thus to
cause bitterness and often estrange-
ment. Where we love we naturally
crave to be loved; but this craving,
if not regulated by reason, is very
likely to blossom into selfish op-
preston.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

A Limberger cheese man at Watertown,
N. Y, has failed. His assets are strong.
The coachman's business is more agree
able than that of the hostler, but the lat
ter is more stable.
ga duck of girl" must be closely
watched, or ten to one she will go off
and marry some quack.
Sam, how do you expect to get the
mule along with spur only on one side?"
"Well, boss, if l gifts that side to go, amt
de udder one bound to keep up?"
Says an exchange-"With money comes
poor relations" But poor relations never
come with money. This is one Of the
rules that won't work both ways.
''Johnny, do you know the 10th COM
mandment?' 'sYes'm." "Say it," ~ can
not" 'But you just said you knew it,
Johnny" eyes, know it when I see it. .
| An exchange has an article headed
boy can't catch isn't worth catching, only
he doesn't always catch what he de-
serves.
A Georgia darkey prays with discre-
tion He said: eff ask the Lord to
send me turkey 1 won't get it, but if ]
ask Him to send me after a turkey I al
ways get one before daybreak."
The fellow who swallowed trade dol
lar the other day is probably the only man
in the country who is heartily and sin.
cerely glad that the government didn't
put in the other fifteen cents.
Mrs. Quilter: 'sYou may cut me off s
sample and I'll see my dresSmaker, anC
send for what l need" Infant terror
"Why, mamma, that's just what you
said in all the other stores
Going security for a relative is gOOC
deal like licking red-hot poker with the
tongue. There is nothing to be gained
and only about one man in a million car
do it without getting scoIched.
As drug clerk the female is not ;
brilliant success. When you wink at he
across a soda fountain she doesn't know
whether to put little ssBalm OF Gilead'
in your soda or hang her head and blush
An eight-year-old Brooklyn boy, tn
other day, after few moments spent il
deep study, turned to his mother ant
asked: MA, don't you think we'd bette
send word that we don't want any NOR
| chiidren?''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
Orleans County @uuitor,
PUBLIsHRD WEEKLY BY
GEO. II. LA TX Il.
BARTON, VT.

TEHTS.-TsVO DOLLARS PER YEAR
Strictly in ddconce Si.5o. Subscribers living out
side of Orleans County must remit TO cents
postage. For convenience in renting, we viii
give credit for year and four months for 90, to
subscribers in the county, and one year and three
or $500 to subscribers without the county, when
sent strictly in adrance
Rates of Advert sing made known on applica-
tion. Ali cuts must have metal body.
Remit By r. o. Money Order, Registered letter, or
Draft. Watch the label on yoar paper and notice
'ohen yor subscription e1pires and see that yor pay
meRts are kept in adraacc. When money IS sent as
eoe shall give the credit the label al once, If til
label is not ddUnnced oitin tDo aoeeks, notify By
postal card.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
Which Shall go First?

Which of us, darling, shall know some day
The pain of the parting hour,
When one shall go and the other stay,
Compelled by deaths dread power?
We know not to which the summons will come
Nor which will be left alone,
Longing for loving hands to clasp
And lips to meet our own.
How could 1 linger if you should go?
How the days would lengthen and wait,
And the time pass weary, and dreary and sloN
With its burden early and late.
Could ever forget? Would some moments brin
Lethean draught to me?
To tighten or deaden the terrible sting
Of my loss and misery?
How I'd long for the gentle, caressing touch
Ofyour fingers over my hair;
Of the loving tone and tenderness
That help me all trials to bear.
Oh, I'd pray for the terror of parting to pass
And for death to first call upon me,
But 1 cannot wish, darling, that L should go
And leave all the sorrows for thee.
But when one gaes, if the other knows
That the gates have shut them in,
Safe from the sorrow that waits for those
Who die in the tolls of sin,
And the other is treading the narrow path
That leads to the blessed gate,
They can toll, and struggle, and love on still
And safely hope and wait.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
CONSUMPT ION CURED.

An old physician, retired from practice, having
had placed in his hands by an East India mission
airy the formula of simple vegetable remedy
for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption
Bronchitis, Catarrh Asthma and all throat and Lung
Affections, also positive and radical cure for Ner
vous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative powers in thou
sands of eases, has felt it his duty to make it known
to hi- suffering fellows. Actuated by this native
and 4 iesrs Ia relieve human suffering. viii send
free of charge, to ali whu desire IT, this r,..c in
t;crin French English, with full directions for
pr,,ari ( and using. Sent by mail ty aa,ircssiup
with stamp naming this paper, W. a. .,oYEs. l49
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
CAPTAIN COURTNEY

SAYS While on the coast of Africa had three men
sick with malarial fever. / cured them with Sui
phur Bitters. 1t is the greatest blood purifier
ever saw. I always keep them in my medicine
ehest.-Ship Nautilaus, Baltimore.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

Gout has various names, according to the parts
affected, as podagra, when in the feet; chiragra,
when in the hands, &C.; but whether the attack is
first felt in the feet the hands, rub with Salvation
Oil at once. 1t annihilates pain. Price 25c
Popular trial shows the worth of every article.
and 43 years constant has proven the great eff
caey of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup; it has no superior.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

A Lady in Hayerhill, Mass, says, was SO af-
ficted with Heart Disease 1 was sick constantly,
but after using few bottles of DR.. Graves Heart
Regulator I well I commenced taking
boarders and now have eight. Price $1.0O per bot
tie. Free pamphlet of F. E. ingalls,, Cambridge,
Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

Having been for years great sufferer from rheu-
matism and neuralgia, tried bottle of Athlopho.
and have taken nearly all oft. l must have
more of it and some for my husband and mother.
Mrs. j. Nelson Jordan, Ellsworth, Me-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23

NEALER IN BUTTER AND EGGS. Will
lEbe at the market in Robinson's Block every
Saturday, and will take in goods every week day at
Barton, VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
J. B. FREEMAN.

j. A. PEARSON.
nENTIST, BARTON, VT. OFFICE IN
4 ITRobnsons Block. :
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23


THIRE, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE
ID Agent None but sound, reliable companies
represented. Correspondence by mail promptly an
swered. Barton, April IA,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-23
COTTAGE HOUSE

4 C. AUSTIN, NEWPORT, VI, PROPRIE
IL tor. This house is located on Main Street
near Fields Block. Teams to meet trains
Good livery in connection with house. l3-49
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p. SHIELDS.

TARPENTER AND JOINER, BARTON, V
dissatisfaction guaranteed in every respect IA 3
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BARTON NATIONAL BANK. BUSINESS
ItHours from 0, a. M. to 12 From 2 to 4, p.
IN. AMoRY DAWSON, Prest, II. X. DEWEY,
Cashier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-16


Mr.. Arthur while President, felt the need of
one week day fer himself. and Monday he set
apart as a day upon which he received no call.
ers except upon the most urgent business. That
day was known as dies among the W bite
House employees, and quiet reigned supreme
rom morning till night. Under the new admin
1stration Monday is like all other week days,
during the day, from the beginning of office
hours this morning until late this afternoon,
were even in excess of those oflast week.
dents earliest visitors, and Vice President
Hendricks also called early. and after him came
senator Voorhees,, with ex-senator Mcdonald;
maker, editor of the indianapolis Sentinel; r. J.
Bright, Jno. Faepzel, r. MCGEE, Jesse b. Cald-
well, and Mr.. Bailey. Among other callers
strong, Mr.. A. NJ. Clapp, Representatives. Muir
ray, Geddes, Pusey, Curtin. Hurd, Holman,
Lowry, Wilkins, Barbour, Manzanares, Burnes,
Representative Adams, of New York, headed
a large delegation from Tammany Hail, which
waited upon the President about noon. shortly
before one O'clock o delegation consisting OF
composed OF members of the Womens Temper
ance Union and the Temperance Alliance, ar.
rived at the White House. Miss Cleveland
received them in the blue parfor. They did not
come Tor the purpose of making any requests
OF temperance nature, but Miss LaFetra, on
behalf of the visitors, stated that they came to
pay their respects and to express their entire
confidence in Miss Cleveland as a conscienti-
Gus Christian woman, and as mistress of the
White House that she would be actuated
the workers were inscribed In little plush
aloum, which was presented Miss Cleveland,
IN reply, expressed her appreciation OF the deli
cate manner in which the visit was made, and
per pleasure at meeting the delegation. The
SUBJECT of wine on the White House tables was
not mentioned The visitors then passed into
the east room, where they were received by the
President, and the usual hands shaking followed
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HyHE GREAT

FUNHE GREAT
TO THE S5nfH 49, As IS Bs9tEHwEsr
SELL EAl h HRin ssEEaHn
Trains ,sdSa h Was61nva ar rom lss CORNER q,
9Th AND Streets as ooWs no" s'A0n corner Oh
For Piltsburg and the West. chicago Limited Express
$40 am daily % ciRcinns;l and S: LOUIS, with
Chicago. with Sleeping Car Altoona to Chicago
e Pistsburs Also connects daiiy for Shisaso, Win
ssp a G. Ga for IS s Ma"
fasf fssPRf css BiseRssfa e chf1sS
1000 pm. daily, except saturday, with Palace Cars
For WilIsInspcTt. TocE Haven and Elmira at $40
For am Hs daily Except pd sunday ,bS u, $40 an,
nas 20 a9 9 1000 pm and i1 n;S nIh; on
Express OF Pullman Parlor Cars. $40 Am daily,
except SUNDAY.
For Boston without change, 200 pm every week
For Brooklyn =. H. ali through trains connect a.
ing drect transfer Fulton street, avoiding dou-
Se 5sTEass se5oss New YSrk city
400, 600 loco pm. and rs night On sunday,
Sfe So sd JAM dal s s1eep, s lS sIsh' Limited
For BALTIMORE. 6:s5, us, $50. $40. HOO am.
md 0 On Sunday day $40 $40 ITO aS aG m 4d @
500 $40, 1000 m. and 1 rs n.shl
For Annapofis. 6:sS am 1905 and 42o pm daily,
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL
WAY. AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHING
TON RAILROAD.
For Alexandria, 500, 700. s:25 llO1 and Il35 a
M, 2O5- 4:26 AS. 6-Ol. 500 and lib, pm ON
r sunday p at 500 PIP ll:0l am. sos Pm;
daily, and 4:45 pm daily except Sunday
Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, sos, 500
1OOO. 1910 In; loo, 3Oo. 3:2:S, $40 -:OJ and
H. pm, and 1910 midnight except Monday J
On SUNDAY at 500 and lO:lU am: .:05 and l 80
Pun. and lilo night
Tickets and Information at the Office. northeast cor
ner OF 18th street and Pennsylvania avenue and al
the station. where orders left for the CHECKING
of baggage 70 destination from hotels and residences
CHAs- L PlGH, j. r. WOOD.
General Manager General Passenger Agent
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AND OHIO RAILROAD

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Leave Washington from station, corner of New Jer-
sey avenue and G street
500 am IS fast Lsed Express IN f nsg The The
e,Gas9; arriving IN Pistseurg al go m Chicago
For Cincinnati, Louisville and ST Louis daily at 2ao
Palace sleeping cars to above points Wi,h sIa
slsnss s train IS tas, teh Train q
morning al 80. 81 Louis $50 pm No extra fare
For Piltsbars at 300 am, with Parior Car and g. 10
pm. DAILY 70 Plttsourg. Cleveland and Detroit, with
For Bal .inore on week days. s. 6:1o 6:4O 80 $50
Al .99 M i ~ IL! 5lS - minute train
For Baltimore on sundays o;iO $50 S:s5 and I0:Oo
ara: LIS. $780, 4:4o. $40. 40. us. s25. l0:3V
For points on the Shenandoah Valley railroad nd
For Annapolis: $50 m 1 AND 1910 and 40 pm On
ST. SUNDAY o:S5 a M. 4:io pm
more S;Y9 $40 $50 am, 12;lO pm, $3.50. 4:aO,
iS 46 IS and 10 iS SUMS p s $40 Siam. and
Metrop0litan Branch sZ5 am. daily except Sundav
for as On asE ssfs s
ann v day sssePf sunday for heSington stanton
for Frederick soo am. 4:40 pm daily, except
For Hsge-stown. pos An daily except Sunday, and
Trains arrive nom the IVES. daily. 600, 100 am.
From na. ANNAPOLIS: $40 am and l.5o a:25 pm
From From .asIea s ssg
Trains sass sal1iIa9re for s.hinStsn at sac $50
go. $50 shS anu i5 10 1Slo on isso p ~
and am lsO 1885, AGO 5. $50 7:sO. and 1870
All trains from Washington stop at Relay Station ex
further inisrnaiion sppiy a. the Baltimore and
Ohio rcke; Of1ee-washfngton Station, $40 and
orders viii be taken for baggage to Be Checked Sns
fses'Isd Il sHE p1lpt , 10 The e w. p.,,,
oZZ T. h LORD. General Passenger Agent