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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-10
THE EVERLASTING ARMS.

What are they? The arms of our
God. The world is school: here,
we learn lessons for the world to
come: sometimes the tasks are hard
to do; sometimes the eyes are so
blinded by bitter tears that we can
not see sometimes the sky above US
is so overcast that all seems dark
around us; sometimes if the letters
on the page were not raised so that
we could feel the way we could not
walk in it and sometimes the lessons
seem to be so trying, so terribly try
ing that in our anguish we cry for
mercy.
But sometimes all is bright above
US, around and in us the sun shines,
the flowers bloom, and the birds that
are singing so sweetly that almost
without our lips send forth glad
psalms of praise.
But these are the everlasting
arms, they never fail US in the sorest
times of need. They are not only
above us, around us, but underneath
US. If they were only above we
might have to climb up to them, to
raise our weary arms to their grasp.
If they were only around us our tired
feet would not be helped as they
would need to be; but, thank God
they are also underneath us, just as a
mother (whose love is the highest
human type of that of our Heavenly
Father folds her arms underneath
the baby so that it may enjoy per-
feet rest. Do you know the feeling
of the everlasting arms? Have YOU
ever known the utter loss of weari
ness in resting upon them! Hav
you ever had burden so heavy t.
carry that you were glad to drop i
into those arms? Have you ever beer
conscious that they were lovingl
held above, around, underneath you
Have you ever trusted those arms t
carry you in sickness and in health
in sorrow or joy, for life or for death
Why not? Gods love never fails
His arms are never shortened, the
are always stretched out, they are eN
erlasting. And as He holds the
out to you a sweet voice whispers
your ear, ssCome come to me =?
"The eternal God is thy refuge, ar
underneath are the everlasting arms
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-10
ALL SORTS.
SCOTT,S EMULSION OF PURE
Il i'll, l,sf oS


Possesses the remedial power of these two valua-
BILE specifics in their fullest degree Is prepared in
palatable form, easily tolerated by the stomach,
and for delicate, sicky children, Emacation, Con-
sumption and all impoverished conditions of the
blood is unequalled by any other remedy.
The man who has half an hour to spare generally
drops in and occupies half hour that belongs to
other men.
Chapped hands. few drops of Johnson's Ano-
DIVINE Liniment rubbed into the hands occasionally
will keep them soft and free from soreness. Sol
diers, sailors and fishermen should remember this
1t is the best Lnment in the world for any purpose
A neighbor of ours lost a valuable mare recently
it is supposed from bots. If he had used IS cents
worth of She1ida Cavalry Condition Powders he
would have been driving his pretty Chestnut to-day
Sorry for you, Doctor. These powders are i'm
mensely valuable.
A chasm that often separates friends: Sarcasm
A bank cashier seldom goes off until he is loaded
and then he makes report.
The most obstinate cases of Catarrh cured b.
the use of Ely's Cream Balm, the only agreeable
| remedy 1t is not liquid or snuff and is easi
| applied. For cold in the head it is magical. ]
| gives relief at once. Price SO cents.
cold of unusual severity which / took las
autumn developed into a difficulty decidedly CT
tarrha in all its characteristics, threatening re
turn of my old chronic malady, catarrh. One bottl
of Ely's Cream Balm completely eradicated ever
symptom of that painful and prevailing disorder
| Z. w. Warner, los Hudson ST., Rochester, N. Y.
A last farewell-A shoemaker giving up h
business.
BANKERS,
Doctors, Lawyers, Carpenters, Druggists, f
giners, Mechanics, in fact we have recommend
tons from people in all stations in life, testifyil
to the wonderful cures that Sulphur Bitters ha
effected. Send for testimonials. See another couI
"God bless our boarding-h house, has never be
work ed in worsted
Know Thyself, by reading the s'Science of Lif
he best medical work ever published, tor you
and middle-aged men,
Bangor Maine calls his wife Crystal, becau
3 she is always on the watch.
l. For Rhematism, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Cramp a
IS Collie there is no remedy superior to the genuine
Thomas Eeectrc OIL
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-10
&eligioas department.
WHAT is THE WORTH
OF A SOUL?

"There" said a recently returned
missionary from India, exhibiting the
photograph of a group of native
Christian helpers, 6 is one who is
wellnigh irresistible in soul saving.
He concentrates his thoughts and
prayers upon some one of his friends,
and with a steady, unfaltering pur-
pose, works straightforward to the
desired result"
There was no special beauty DIS
coverable IN that fact; yet one could
not fail to detect a depth of sincerity,
a profound seriousness, an unyleld-
ing will, that would defy all obstacles.
We considered what some of those
obstacles must be-the natural pei
versity of the human heart, the power
of deeply seated class prejudices, the
loss of standing in Hindu circles, and
the constant reproach, oftentimes Bit
ter, for Christ's sake. In that face
were revealed the elements of sue
cessful soul-saving.
Here was indiUidudI contact. Pow
erful sermons must be supplemented
by personal effort, if we would save
men. Without this, the good seed
will very likely be caught up before
it takes root, or the cares of this
world will quickly suppress its germi-
nation. o for a more general realiz-
alton of this in the Church Spe-
cifc labor is the supreme need of the
hour. No organized methods can
supersede this without injury. Here
was genuine sin cerity. The Holy
Spirit will not honor our efforts with
anything less. Personal work, how
ever Jealous in appearance, will prove
as "wood, hay, and stubble," unless
there is in this deep, underlying
purity of principle. Nothing can be
more despicable in the eyes of God,
than lack of sincerity. Here was
unaffected SeriOuSneSSr A flippant.
thoughtless manner often neutralizes
Christian service. The converted
"helper' would 60 forth saying, 81
will save this SOUL" So ought we to
90 forth. There is an increase oil
power that comes only by the exer
else of our volitions. This is true ir
all things, good or evil.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Some Strange PuniShments-
A MAN COMPELLED TO EAT HIS OWN
WORDS, WITCHES DROWNED.

A Boston paper of 1919 describes the
| execution of sentence pronounced by
| the Russian courts against an author
who had published some book on the
! liberties of the people. a scatfold was
erected in the public square; the Gar
and great magistrates attended. Inc
| leaves of the condemned book were then
rolled up in separate pieces and the
| prisoner forced to swallow them, or liter
! ally to eat his own words. The attend
! inc physicians agreeing when he had
| enough for Que meal, he was led back to
prison. Three unpleasant meals finished
the last remnant of the book
In Salem the wearing of long HAIR was
sometime n criminal offence, but always
an omnation for men. When Endi-
colt was magistrate there he caused this
order to be passed: John Gatshcll is
fyened ten shillings for building upon
the town ground without leave, and in
case shall cut of his long hair of his
head in to seyill frame fewell flame 2? in
he meane time shall have abated five
shilings his fine, to be paid in to the
Towne meeting with n two months from
this time, and have leave to go in his.
building in the mean time
In Boston, 16SS-for kissing a woman
in the street, though bat in the way OF
civil salute, whipping or a fine. Scolds
they gag and set them at their own
doors for certain hours together for all
comers and goer3 to gaze at. When an
unfortunate woman was accused of
witchclaft she was tied neck and heels
and thrown into pond of water. If
She drowned it was agreed that she was
no witch; if she swan she was immcli
acly tied to u stake and burned alive.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
A Modern Financial Venture.
[From the Chicago Rambler.l


He was wise youth, although not
very old. One day his father brought
him home little bank to keep his saw
ings in.
7'Now, Willie" he said, "we'u start
bank"
81 choose to be cashier" interrupted
the boy.
Every well, you can be the cashier,
and | will be the board of directors.
Then you and your two sisters and your
mother and | will be the depositors.
Now, I'll put these tive new rickels i'll
to start with. What will you doF'
IN put in my seven pennies and a
two-cent piece, " he responded.
His mother dropped in a couple of
dimes, and each OF his sisters a nickel.
During the next two weeks numerous
deposits were made, and all ran smooth
ly. Then one morning Pater ,JdmjljaS
found himself short of change, and alb
stracted a dime from the bank for car
fare But the eagle eye of the young
cashier detected the shortage, and he
promptly took what was let.
The next morning the young finan-
cier's father, wishing to instill little
more business knowledge into his head,
said:
"Now, Willie, suppose one of the de-
positors wished to draw out some
money; what would you do2"
The boy simply pointed to the bank
on which was the following placard:
PAYMENT SUSPENDED.
"Why, Willie what does this mean2"
inquired the father.
'.Directors overdrew their accounts,
so the cashier skipped out with the
rest" was the IaconiC response.
"You don't mean that you have taken
the money that was IN there, do you"
in a tone of painful surprise.
eyes"
.But don't YOU know that that is not
honestP
"Huhp' exclaimed the boy, scorn-
fully; did you ever hear of cashier
letting the directors get ahead of him!
Well, | guess not. You bet | know a
little business When the directors be
GIN fooiing with the finances, the cash
ier CUTS the bank every time.o
''My boy" said the father, admir-
ingly, 'some day you will be great
tnancier; but first you have few
things to learn. Never wait for the de
positors to prosecute. Now come with
me to the wood shed
Father" replied the youth, persua-
sively, "can't we compromise this mat
ter in some way3 If you won't prose
cute, I'll see that the bank resumes pay
ment, and won't say anything about the
directors drawing out money ON the
sly"
1t was compromised on that basis.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
DJmeS Ic Views.

A saloon keeper up Gratiot street sat
at his door the other afternoon wonder
ING why it was that so many men in De
troit preferred buttermilI to beer, when
two strangers came along. One of them
placed a penny on the sidewalk, placed
his right heel on the penny, and then
bent over to see how far he could reach
and mark the fiagstone with a nail. AS
he reached out he lifted his heel off the
penny, and the other man picked up
the coin, slipped it into his pocket and
winked at the saloonist.
That's long reach" " said No. I, as
he Strengthened up.
eyes, bat you lifted your heel of the
cent"
''No, / didn't"
'.Bet you dollar ~
FI'll take it ~,
''Hold on, shentlemens," said the
beer seller, as he rose up; II like to
make some bets myself.
ON bet you 81 my heel is on q
penny" said No. 1.
81 take dot bet awful quick, " replied
tn saloOnist, and a couple of 81 bills
were handed to No. Q.
No. sat down on the walk, pulled
off his shoe and held it up that the
saloonkeeper might see penny screwed
fast to the heel. He replaced his shoe
after moment, rose up and bowed
courteOusly, and the ! ar walked off.
They were at least half block away
before the victim recovered sufficiently
to say:
'Yhelll Vhell! pays taxes in two
wards und goes twice to Chicago, but
yet | vhas some Iunatics who ought to
e led around nit ropem -Uetro1
free fress.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Sharing the Prof 8.

The New England manufacturers who
have tried profit sharing with their en-
| ployees as a means of preventing dissat-
| isfaction and strikes have already found
out that the schemes of distribution
adopted are faulty in various respects.
The chief defect was pointed out by q
Connecticut manufacturer who was
among the first TO adopt profit sharing.
He said: 'Cnder our agreement with
the employees, any man who worked
for us even for week, if he had severed
his connection wi h he firm honorably,
was entitled to his proportionate share
in the years profits. We find that
this provision Is going to make great
deal of trouble. Men work with US for
a week or two and then drift away, no
one knows where. The small dividend
belonging TO them at the end of the
year must be put away to await their
return. There is no way of disposing
of it. We have found that we must
modify our arrangements so that the
dividends go only men who work for
US for six months or a year. Another
feature which it is thought it will be
necessary to adopt is to increase the per
centage of dividends to men who remain
steadily in our employ for five or ten
years. that is, we want to make an ad-
ditional reward for steady service.
With these two features it seems prob
able that profit sharing will stand and
become generally accepted as business
method throughout the manufacturing
Statau y
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Advertising Rates.
STORY OF TWO Old PEOPLE

Once he was twenty and she only ten,
She was a child, he scarcely in his prime;
Youth seemed so long and age so distant then,
And noon came not, as now, ere morning
time.
But later on, they CHANGED again to meet,
And he was thirty and she twenty now;
'SWhy, he is Old" exclaimed the maiden sweet,
And passed with careless heart and cloudless
brow.
Ten years "a weary round) roll on again.
Whose days and weeks, SO like each other
pass,
That, when they meet, It's he, with sudden
pain,
Who cries, in turn, ''Why, she is old, alas ~
But often on those tender April eyes,
When hearts beat time to hidden melodies,
''Why was 1 never loved?" lie asks-and
grieves;
Why did never love - she asls-and sighs
And now, opprest with vain regret, they say,
As years wear on in ever-deepening gloom;
''Children, enjoy the sunshine while you may,
And pluck the flower in its morning bloom.
ALEX. HAYES.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Indian Gamble s.

For tho past two weeks, says a Col
orado paper, ever since the hop picking
season commenced, a lot of sharp, good
looking Indians have been lounging
about the town. They own race horses,
wear good clothes and the showiest of
blankets, and carry plenty OF silver.
Old settlers know them we'll They are
the gamblers of the Moses tribe, and
yearly make their pilgrimages to this
point at the time when the Yakima and
Klickitat Indians are well provided
with money earned by laboring in the
hop fields. They are expert card players
up to all the tricks and are not
afraid to try their skill and nerve with
the sportive frontiersmcn to the north,
with whom they frequently have long
sieoes of draw, and oftentimes to their
material profit. To these experienced
gamblers the local siwashes are as chill
dren, and lose their earnings and ponies
in a rrodigai manner. This season is
lust Il presentation of the last and many
rrcviou ones, and Moscs's men will 90
home well fattcd with wealth, while
the home Indian and money Garner will
pass q lean and hungry winter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25

A CHIEAMAN, on his way from Lewis
ton to China, carrying the bones Of his
brother carefully packed in a valise,
stopped at Portland, Ore, for a day or
two to visit friends. On his way to the
steamer the valise was stolen, and the
grief and indignation OF the pious
Chinaman were intense. He was about
to offer a reward of 800 for the re-
cOvery Of the bones, but his wiser friend
said that it was not worth while, for the
thief would certainly drop the valise as
soon as its contents were known. This
was good advice, for the valise was
found, greatly to its owners delight.
The thief had evidently broken it open,
pulled out the skull of the dead Celes-
tial, and then dropped it and departed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25

81 feel depressed tonight. remarked
| a large, down town trunk manufacturer
to his wife. 81 think | have a touch OF
malaria"
81 fancy it will soon pass away" re
piled the lady, without much concern.
'Why don't you 90 around to the Grand
Central station and watch them handle
| trunks for sn hour. That will brighten
you up.-N. 7. san.
A hard-headcd business man Of De
troit was among the guests at q recent
| fashionable gathering, where also was a
very loud and very obtrusive newrich
woman,
''Humph," " growled Hard Head as the
very loud and so forth swept past him
the grand procession "Too much
money, and hasn't had it long enough. "
DE r01 freo Press.
NEW VENTURE.
Minister lin grocery store) = am
| pleased to see, Mr.. Sugarsand, that
| motto on the wall, Honesty is the best
policy" 1t will pay you from bust,
ness point of view, to SAP nothing Of
anything else
Mr.. Sugarsand (hopefully)-I hope 80,
sir, but haven't tried it long enough
yet to make it fair test.
A COMING PLEASURE.
''Mr. Featherly," said Bobby, ignor-
ing his mothers signal to keep still,
did you ever hear pa whistler
"No, Bobby" laughed Featherly, Il
never have had that pleasure"
"WeI, you WILL" went OH Bobby.
''He told me that he lent you 80 last
night and that he expected to whistle
for it..
PROPHETIC.
Stage struck Lady (anxiously)-Isnt
the expression a little sadi
Lithographic Artist-You vos going
to daig dot Migado on der road, amt
it!
Stage struck Lady-Yes,
Lithographic Artist Veil, dot por-
draid Will pc yust like you in apoud
dree weeks.-Iid Bits.
PAssABLE.
''Don't you think Jenny is homely
girl 2" asked Maude of Laura.
"Oh, don't know. think she is
passable." "
Eyes, notice the young men gener-
ally pass her."
ODDS AND ENDS.
A subscriber asks us the question:
Chow can | prevent my boy from being
fast2" Let him join the district telegraph
corps.
A CORRESPONDENT asks: "Is it wrong
to cheat a Iawyer?" First cheat the
lawyer, and then we will answer the
conumdrum.
The queen of her sex lives in New
aygo County, Wis. She made some
money recently out blackberries, and IN
stead of treating herself to a new hat
she bought her husband fiddle.
A PITTsBURGuER has taken out a
patent for machine to crimp flour bags.
hats all right. Why shouldn't the
flour bag wear crimps so long as the
-four barrel has hoopsf
NEVER was there a time when things
could be sweCtened at so cheap a rate
as now. The very whitest and bri ht-
est refined sugar can be had Of the re-
liners at cents pound. Even sour
dispositions may be made sweet at that
rate.
MILITARY discipline at West Point is
so strict that beetle may crawl down a
private's back when he is in the ranks,
and he must not indulge in the slightest
evidence of perturbation. He must
simply hope that the beetle will crawl
up again.
A sHooLBoY surprised his teacher by
asking her how far procession of the
Presidents of the United States would
reach if they were placed in a row. On
her expressing her ignorance, he calmly
announced: "From Washington to
Cleveland"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25

The diary of Bishop Harrington, who
was put to death by order of King
| Mwanga of uganda, Africa, has been
| published. Giving the details of the
last week of his life, he describes the
arrival of his party at Lubwas, where
the chief, at the head of a thousand
troops, demanded ten guns and three
barrels of powder. he chief asked
Bishop Harrington to remain with him
for a day and the latter complied.
While taking walk the Bishop was
attacked by about twenty natives. He
struggled with his assailants, but be-
! came weak and faint, and was dragged
violently long distance by the legs.
When his prosecutors halted they
stripped and robbed him, and impris-
oned him in a nOisOme hut full of YER
min and decaying bananas. While he
was lying there, ill and helpless, the
chief and his hundred wives came, out
of curiosity, to feast their eyes on him.
On the next day ne was allowed TO re-
turn to his tent, where, though still i'll,
he felt more comfortable. He was still
guarded, however, by natives. He re-
mained in bed during the following
days, parties of the chiefs wives, out of
idle curiosity, coming daily to see him.
He was allowed to send messages 10
friends, but he believed they were in
terceptcd. On the seventh day he
writes that the fever continued, that at
night the place swarmed with vermin,
that the guards were drunk and noisy,
and that he was unable to sleep. At
last he became delirious. On the eighth
day, October % he was unconscious.
Ills entries on this day are brief. mo
news. hyena howled all night, smell
ling a sick man. Hope he will not have
me yet" This is the final entry. 1t is
believed that shortly after writing this
he was taken out and put to death.
: throughout the week there are frequent
entries referring to the comfort he de-
rived from reading the Psalms.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Crock Of Ages, cleft for me,

THOSE T.ARs.-A French Journalist
takes his oath that he found the follow
ing in an English newspaper: Notice
to Heirs. - Samuel s Us Extract OF
Onions, without smell and not causing
any irritation, is the best extract in the
market for producing the most plentiful
supply of tears. Two shiIlings large
bottle, one shilling hali-bottle lie
sure and see that the signature is on the
bottle. Slightly moisten the under
part Of the eye-lid with the liquid"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
A BATCH OF STRAY JOKES
GATHERED IN FROM ALL QUAR-
TIERS FOR ONE To SMILE OVER.
"A Coming Pl"Hsure-She Loved Nature
Wanted to be n Butcher-HadL Go Us-
d~P-We"Id Dine ToseIher-TOo Maay
IRqG" "sts-Odds and Ends, Etc,
HOW SHE DID IT.


The plumber came home deiooted.
Quoth lie:
81 am ruined! I know not how it
happened, but find myself penniless
We shall have to leave this ralatial
mansion, my dear, with its comfort and
its luxury, and seek some humber
| abode.
despair not!' cried his noble wife
Il have $d76,O00 deposited in the
bank!"
Whatw exclaimed the plumber.
GLOW did you manage to save that sum
in the three short years of our married
life?'
~ do not like to confess it," sobbed
his faithful spouse, "but-but l went
through your pocket several times just
after you had collected your monthly
hills y