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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
COOKING AT SEA.

The first thing that naturally at
tracts attention of landsman is. what
a fearful state of confusion there
must be in the galley during rolling
sea! Imagine an ordinary kitchen
CRATE covered with saucepans etc.,
were it suddenly to begin to swing
backward and forward like a see-saw.
The difficulty, however is easily
overcome. Every galley fire Is fitted
with number of iron bars fastened
to rod at the back, and which fit in :
to little grooves in front. Conse-
quently, when the sea is rough these
bars are fixed, and each cooking uten-
sill is held tightly in its place between
the bars just the same as saucepan
could be held over an ordinary fire.
place with strong pair Of pineers.
Another difficulty is when the
saucepans on the fire are all full
when the ship rolls they run over.
The remedy for this is simple as DIR.
Abernethey' s one for the old lady who
complained of having such dreadful
pain in her arm when she went $50. "
He pocketed his guinea and said,
"Don't 60 so.'' So with the sauce
pans. The ample re medy is. ''Don't
fill the saucepans." No saucepan on
board should ever be more than
three quarters full when the ship is
rolling.
My first impression in watching
the cooking on board ship was-how
many practical lessons might be
learned from it by cooks on the
shore How often do coQks eom
plain .'there is 40 doing anything ii
! this poky kltchep,'' the poky kitch
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
The Devil.

(At recent meeting of certain organization, the
wise men who there met made the statement that
there was no such person thing the Devil,
whereupon Rev. A. j. Hough of the Vt. NJ E. con-
ference penned the following)
Men don't believe in devil now, as their fathers
used to do.
They've forced the door of the broadest creed to let
his majesty through.
There isn't print of his cloven foot fiery dart
from his bow
To be found in earth of air to-day for the world has
voted so.
But who is mixing the fatal draught that palses
heart and brain,
And loads the bier of each passing year with ten
hundred thousand slain?
Who blights the bloom of the land to-day with the
fiery breath of hell
If the devil isn't and never was, won't somebody
rise and tell?
Who dogs the steps of the toiing saint and digs the
pit for his feet?
Who sows the tares in the fields of time, wherever
God sows his wheat?
The devil is voted not to be and of course the thing
But who is doing the kind of work the devil alone
should do?
We are told he does not go about like as roaring
lion now;
But who shall we hold responsible for the everlast
ing row
To be heard in home, in church and state, to the
earh's remotest bound
If the devil, by unanimous vote, is nowhere to bt
found?
| Won't somebody step to the front forthwith ant
| make their bow, and show
| How the frauds and crimes of single day spring
/ up? We want to know.
| The devil was fairly voted out, and OF course thu
| DEVILS gone,
But simple people would like to know who carrie
| his business on?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
PROFANITY.
FOR THE MoNIToRi

Profaneness is a low groveling
vice. He who INDUCES it is no gentle
man. 1t makes no difference what
his stamp may be in society, what
clothes he wears, what culture he
boasts, despite all his refinement, the
light and habitual taking of Gods
name in vain, betrays coarse nature
and brutal will. Profanity is an
unmanly and silly vice. 1t certainly
Is not a grace in conversation and it
adds no strength to it. The bias
phemy which holsters an opinion does
not make it any more correct. The
use of profane oaths argues limited
range of ideas, and a consciousness of
being on the wrong side; and if we
can find no other phrases through
which to vent our choking passion,
we had better fepfess that passion.
He who Is constantly useing profanity
is not respected, even by those who
are no better than himself. Those who
belong to the better class will look on
a fellow with contempt who appears
unmanly, and who uses curses, pro-
fame language. He is certainly stair
to society. Every individual has q
| place to fill in this world, and is i'm
portant in respect, whether he chooses
to be so or not. According to gen
eral estimation, ho who repays kind
ness with contumely he who abus,
his friend and benefactor is deemed
pitlful and wretched. And yet, {
profane one, whose name Is it yol
handle SO lightly? 1t is that of you
best Benefactor? That holy name o
God. He who set examples for u
to follow, and who is without spot O
blemish. You whose blood woult
boil to hear your earthly parents hurle
about in SCOTS and jests, abuse with
out compunction and without though
the name of your Heavenly Father
Profane boy! though the habit b
ever so forcibly bound, when th
word of mockery and of blasphem
is about to leap from your lips. thin
of these considerations, think of Go
and instead of that wicked oath CT
out in reverent prayer. ''Hallowed b
thy name! !"
L L @
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
SAGE ADVICE TO A MICHIGAN
WINDMILLMAN.

A Michigan man who has a pa
tent windmill went down to Tennes-
see last fall to see what he could do
among the farmers of that state.
Reaching town in the central part
agricultural Implements --~
his desire to erect his machine and
call attention to it.
"Well, it can be done, l guess"
was the reply.
"But how had / best proceed?'
swell you kin put her over on the
hill thar. l don't know who owns
the ground, but il you treat the
crowd I guess no one will object
every WE'LL"
"Next Tuesday, is market day,
and there'll be heaps of folks in
| town. You want to be around early
and treat the crowd.
"Yes."
''Set the old thing going and ask
the boys over to drink something" :"
"Just so.''
"You want to stand on bar'l and
make some explanations Of course,
for it will be new to most of 'em.
But don't talk too long. Make il
about ten minutes and then treat the
crowd"
Eyes"
"If you have to talk any more,
tell 'em there's another drink ahead.
81 see."
''If the old man Jones comes in
with his boys there'll be a row il
the crowd. They shoot on sight
Keep your eye peeled, and if yol
see any signs of row, ask the whole
crowd out to drink"
eyes, but"
"Look out for dog fights. If ont
takes place yon can't hold the boy:
minute.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
NO ROOM FOR OLD MOTHER

"Going home, madame"'
"No, ma am"
"Going South, then?'
Il don't know, ma'am.'
"Why, there are only two ways to
CO.
81 dida't know. | was never on
the cars. I'm waiting for the train
to go to john"
s'Johu? There is no town called
John. Where is it?'
s'Oh, Johns my son. He's out in
Kansas, on a claim
"I'm going right to Kansas N.Y.
self. You intend to visit?'
"No, ma'am."
She said it with sigh so heart
burdened the stranger was touched.
"John sick?''
mo"
The evasive tone, the look of pain
on the furrowed face were noticed by
the stylish lady as the gray head
bowed upon the toll-marked hand.
She wanted to hear her story to help
her.
ssExcuse me. John is in trouble ?"
ssNo, no; I'm in trouble. Trouble
my old heart never thought to see"
ssThe train does not come for some
time, Here, rest your head on my
cloak"
''You are very kind. If my own
were so / shouldn be In trouble to-
night"
'.What is your trouble? Maybe |
can help you.''
.sIt's hard to tell it to strangers,
but my old heart is too full to keep
it back. When / was left widow
with three children, l thought it was
more than l could bean but it was
not ae bad as this
The stranger waited till she recov-
cred her voice to 60 on.
, i had only the cottage and my
willing hands. / toiled early and
) late all the years till John could help
, me. Then we kept the giIls at school.
I j Ohm and me. They were married
4 not long ago. Married rich, as the
' world goes. John sold the cottage
r sent me to the city to live with them
e and he went West to begin for him
= self. He said we had provided fol
t the girls. and they would provide fo
d me now"
I Her voice choked with emotion
: The stranger waited in silence.
/! 81 went 10 them in the city.
u went to Mary's first. She lived in {
d great house with servants to wait OF
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20

en- being probably quite four times
the size of the galley in which l am
standing, in which breakfast, lunch
and dinner have to be prepared for
over 200 persons. The requisite
qualities required for success are
early rising, an entire absence of
fussiness, and by no means the least
important, the power of looking
ahead and seeing that each person
minds his own business without in
terfering with another's.-CassePs s
Family Mdqdzine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
THE POOR MANS CHANCE.

Here is Burdette's little sermon
on the comparative chances of the
poor man and the rich: my son,
the poor man takes about all the
chances without waiting to have one
given him. If you give him any more
chances than he takes, he will own
everything and run the Ohio man
out of the country. The fact is, we
must curtail the poor mans chances
little. We must sit on him and
hold him down, and give the rich
man a chance. The poor man has
had things his way too long.-He
has crowded the rich man out. But
for the poor man this world would
have cast anchor 5000 years ago,
and be covered with moss and bar
nacles to-day like United States
man of-war. George Peabody was
a boy in grocery; Edgar Allen Poe
was son of strolling players John
Adams was the son of farmer !;
Benjamin Franklin, the printer, was
the son of a tallowohandler; Grit
ford, the first editor of the Quarterly
| ReUieaU, was a common sailor Ben
Johnson was brick-layer; the faith
er of Shakespeare couldn't spell and
couldn't write his own name-neith-
er can you; even his illustrious son
couldn't spell it twice alike; Robert
Burns was child of poverty. the
eldest of seven children, the family
of bankrupt; John Milton was the
son of scrivener Andrew jackson
was a tailor Garfield was a boy of
all work, too poor even to have a
regular trade; Grant was tanner,
Lincoln keel boatman and common
farm hand, and the Prince of Wales
is the son of queen. 1t is his mis-.
fortune, not his fault; he couldn'1
help it, and he can't help it now.
But you see, my boy, that's all there
is of him; he's just the Prince OF
Wales, and he's only that because
be can't help lt.-Be thankful, my
son, that you weren't born a prince
be glad that you didn't strike twelve
that first time. If there is patel
on yonr knee and your elbows are
CLOSED there Is some hope for you
say that the poor man has no chance
True poor lawyer, a poor printer
poor workman of any kind, ha
no chance he deserves to have none
but the poor man monopOlizes abou
all the chances there are. Put Labo
and Jacob in business together any
where and in about fourteen year
Jacob will not only own about four
fifths of the cattle, but he will hav
married about one-half of his part
ner's family. Go too, my SOP, lie
us give the rich man chance.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
SCULPTOR'S STORIES.

Sculptors who execute busts often
hear droll things said. Here are two
anecdotes taken from French news
paper. A sculptor had produced
the likeness of celebrated parsonage
in whose biography it was mentioned
that he regarded architecture as
very secondary art. The son of this
parsonage visited the artists studio
for the purpose of examining the
bust, when, after considering it with
the air of connoisseur, he said:
''Could you not express more clearly
his contempt for architecture ?"
Another time it was the husband
of beloved diseased wife who came
to see her bust. s'Pray study it
WE'LL" said the artist sit is only
in the clay, and can alter it,
The widower looked al it with the
most tender interest. ''It is her
very self!' he exclaimed "her large
nose-the sign of goodness !'' Then
bursting into tears he exclaimed:
'sShe was so good! Make the nose
a little largerp'
The above seems capped by the
personal recollection of correspon-
dent, who writes as follows: ssQuite
fifty years ago-for it was at the
time that the exhibition of the Roy
al Academy was held in Somerset
House-I was paying visit to the
room devoted to sculpture. There
was but three or four persons in the
room, and the silence was complete,
until it was broken by the exclama-
tion of girl of fourteen, who was
evidently under the care of a mother
ly sort of woman of about fifty
years of age. 'Oh there's Lord B.!
cried the young girl, how like y
pointing to the bust, which was in
truth an excellent representation of
a we'll known statesman. Like? re
torted the elder parsonage in tone
of ineffable scorn. Like Why,
don't l know his face as we'll as /
know yours, and isn't his nose al
ways twitching?" Chambers jour
DnT
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20

Perhaps the most expensive, and
at the same time the most delightful
of all the millionaire's luxuries is his
yacht. 1t costs more than a large
household on shore, and every year
more than million of dollars are
spent in this way on the Atlantic
coast.
A member of the New York Yacht
club says that the most costly yacht
afioat is James Gordon Benefits
Namouna, which eats up about $780,
900 in II months. The Alva, now
being built by w. K. Vanderbilt,
will cost an equal sum. Jay Gould
spends $40, 900 year on his speedy
Atlanta, and William B. Astor $780,
900 on the Nourmahal.
The Galatea's s trip across the ocean
cost her owner about $4,000 for
racing equipment, wages and fees,
and personal expenses. Lieut.. HEM
doubtless enjoyed the VISIT but it
has not been very cheap or success
full one.
Of course great deal of pleasure
may be obtained from less preten-
tious craft at vastly lower expense.
A steam launch can be maintained
for two or three thousand dollars a
year, and small sloop for few
hundred. And great many people
get '.lots of fun from little sailing
boat which costs them practically
nothing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
FAMILY FEUDS OF ALASKA
INDIANS.

The Esquimau, the Aleut, and to a
certain extent the Thlinket, carries
the individual responsibility of feuds,
personal or family, to the same ex-
tent with outsiders that they have
within their own tribal relations, and
unless war-as in contradistlnctlon
to a feud-be forced upon them, by
the opposing side acting in concert,
one will seldom occur. | have said
with the Indian proper ''even far
less" is needed to oppose an intruder
than would stir up internal tronble,
which is not so with the northern
tribes. For instance, an accident
caused by member of the tribe is
overlooked, as with us, or at least 1t
is left as a family affair 10 settle, but
let the accident occur from some one
on the outside, and as far as clamor
and excitement are concerned the
deed might nearly as well have been
premeditated. To use frontier ex-
preston, a .'stampede" is created,
equivalent to Il raid of an enemy
on the camp. The one creating the
cause would have 10 indemnify the
one injured or his heirs or assigns the
same as if it had been murder, and
it is not an improbable thing that he
would pay with his life in the excite
ment attendant upon the first receipt
of the news by the tribe. Some of
the most serious difficulties of the
west have happened in this way by
some foolish accident or misunder-
standing, followed by each party
standing rigidly on its own ideas of
Justice in the case.-ESchange.
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her-a house many times larger than
the little cottage; but / soon found
there was not room enough for me"
The tears stood in the lines on her
cheeks. The ticket agent came out
softly stirred the fire, and went back.
After panse she continued:
81 went to Martha s-went with
pain in my heart 1 never felt before.
was willing to do anything so as
not to be burden. But that wasn't
it. [ found they were ashamed of
my rough, wrinklsd hands, made so
toiling for them
The tears came thick and fast.
The strangers hand rested caresslng-
ly on the gray head.
"At last they told me must live
at boarding-house and they'd keep
me there. l couldn't say anything
back; my heart was too full of pain.
I wrote to John what they were go
ing to do. He wrote right back,
long, kind letter for me to come right
to him. always had home while
he had a roof, he said. To come
right there and stay as long as l liv-
ed; that his mother should never 90
out to strangers. So I'm going to
John. He's got only his rough hands
and his great, warm heart, but there 5
room for his old mother, God bless
him"
The stranger brushed a tear from
her fair cheek, and waited the con-
clusion.
"Some day when I am gone
where l shall never trouble
them again, Mary and Martha will
think of it all. Some day when the
hands that toiled for them are folded
and still; when the eyes that watch
ed over them through many a weary
night are closed forever; when the
little old body, bent with the burdens
it bore for them is put away where il
can never shame them"
The agent drew his hand quickly
before his eyes, and went out as if te
look for the train. The strangers
jewelled fingers stroked the gray
locks, while the tears of sorrow ant
the tears of sympathy fell together
The weary heart was unburdened
Soothed by touch of sympathy, th'
| troubled soul yielded to longing TO
) rest and fell asleep The agent wen
noiselessly about his duties that h
might not wake her. AS the fai
4 stranger watched, she saw smile OF
the care-worn face. The lips moved
She bent down to hear.
"I'm doing it for Mary and Martha
L They'll take care of me sometime.
the little cottage, of the fond hope
that inspired her long before sh
t learned, with a broken heart, tha
s some day she would turn, homeless
IN the world, to go to John.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
i e. DWINEL-
ESTATE OF DANIEL o. BROWN.
CTATEOF VERM ONT.

In Probate Court held at Barton Landing, within
and for said District, on the I'd day of ofDecember,
A. d. 1886.
II. F. Black, Executor of the will of Daniel o.
Brown, late of Irasburgh, in said District deceased,
makes annicaton for license to sell the real estate
of said deceased described follows, to wit About
l2O acres of Lot No. So, and acres of Lot No SO,
in Brownington, in said District, representing that
a sale thereof is necessary to pay the debts que
from said estate, and the charges of administration
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court that
said application be referred to a session
thereofto be held at the Probate Office in Barton
Landing, 23d day of Dec, A. d. 1886, for hearing
and decision thereon And it is further ordered that
notice hereof be given to all persons interested by
publication of the same three weeks successfully 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 have, why SAID
said license should not be granted.
Blythe Court-Attest
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
you saved my life F!

you saved my life!
My husband had not left me in
poverty; l had no need to work, and
lspent my whole life in watching
over you. made no friends, for I
cared for none. l forgot the miser-
les of my fathers house; 1 forgot
my quarrels with my husband 1 for
got even my love for Andrew, and
was scarcely moved when l heard
that death had visited his home as
it had mine, and that he was indeed
desolate, for his wife had died and
left him no children. Three happy
years passed away almost without
cloud. You grew and throve. Ev-
cry day seemed to my delighted eyes
TO give a new charm, new beauty
to my treasure and then in the midst
of my joy you fell ill. Day and night,
night and day, | watched by your
bed-nay, Janet, give me no thanks /;
it was selfish love 1t was all in vain
that doctor and nurse argued with
me. would not leave you. 1t was
fever, and must run its course, they
said. If you should recover, my
trength would be needed when yous
could know and cali for me; but 1
would not listen, and one night as |
sat beside you, all the room grew
dark, and | knew no more. When l
recovered l could not rise from the
bed, but / implored with passionate
tears to be taken to you. Then some
one came forward and sat down be-
side me and took my hand, and [
saw it was Andrew. 1t gave me nc
surprise to see him there. dimly re.
membered that / seemed to see him
before when | was ill, and for the
moment his presence calmed me.
Mary he said, in his old, quie
tone, if you do not do as / tell you
you will die; and, what is more, th'
child will die too.
l sprang up with scream anc
struggled to 60 to you. My child
my child!' cried.
She is not your child-she is mine,
he said, in that calm tone of trutl
that had never failed TO convince me
and which now pierced like swor(
of ice into my heart. Yes, she i
mine Listen His quiet eyes con
trolled me, his quiet words subdue,
me. When you were very ill, dying
they thought, my name was often Of
your lips, and they discovered an
sent for me. On the same day
child was born to both of us, and m
wife and your child died. "W
might have hoped for her if her bab
had lived" said the doctor; and
cave my child to you Can Enr n@
"Oh, Janet, my child, his word
were healing, and the sorrow ths
from that hour l tried to bear wa
taken from me p
At first when mother ceased speal
ing. the world, and love, and lii
I seemed to me to be blank and hollow
but in few minutes | rose from m
seat and kneeled at her knees.
s'Oh, mother, dear-my father
e ''He died long ago. Janet, {
!, you love me y
Then, as we kissed each other
= knew that in all our lives of hapI
: love dear mother and / had nev
been so near together.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
THESE ARE spLID FACTS,

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placed within the reach of suffering humanity, truly
is Electric Bitters. Inactivity of the Liver Bill
iousness, Jaundice, onstipation, Weak Kidneys,
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tain cure known. They act surely and quickly, ev-
cry bottle guaranteed to give satisfaction or money
refunded. Sold at fifty cents bottle by II. G
Pierce,
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Orleans District, IS.

In Probate Court, held at Barton Landing IN
said Ditrict, on the 9th day of Dee, A: d, 1856.
N W Scott, late of Glover, in said dis
trict deceased present their administration account
for examination and allowance, and make apph,
cation for decree of distribution and partition OF
the estate of said deceased
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court, that salo
account and said application be referred to sess
ion thereof be held at the Probate once IN sll
Barton Landing, on the 30th day of December
A. d. 1856, for Tearing and decision thereon: And
il is further ordered that notice hereof be given t.
all persons interested, by publication OF the sam
three weeks successively in the Monitor, news
naner published at Barton, previous to said TIM
appointed for hearing that they may appear at sal'
time and place, and show cause If any they ma.
have, why said account should not be auoweu' ant
such decree made.
BY the Court-Attest ,o>-rc
5O-52 G. C.H.JONES ,Reglster
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20
A CAPTAINS FORTUNATE DISCOVERY.

Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth, plying between
Atlantic City and n. Y, had been troubled with a
cough that he unable to sleep, and was in
duced to try DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption. 1t only gave him instant relief, but
allayed the extreme soreness in his breast His
children were similarly affected and single dose
had the same happy effect. DR.. Kings New Dis
covery is now the standard remedy in the Coleman
household and Oh board the schooner.
Free trial bottles of this Standard Remedy at H
G. Pierces Drug Store.