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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16
Temperance.
i-ilaisiilli-islssllllii'|i
Reform.

All essential reform is slow. The
birth of great things requires a long
travail. The Immaculate Concep-
ton exhausted four thousand years.
The Magma Charta represents long
line of Sovereigns from Alfred to
John. The American Constitution
was from 1920 to 1877 in writing.
Ninety years was Liberty lowering
over the south. Progress has It's
legend IN the words of Isaiah: "Who
hath heard such things? Who hath
seen such things? Shall the earth
be made to bring forth in one day!
Shall a nation be born at once Z!
The task of suppressing the saloon
is the greatest social undertaking
ever grappled with by any nation.
Before such a reform, the failures
of one, or ten, or fifty years are
valueless, and without emphatic sig
nificance. The hour is not yet, but
it comes. And what is the evil to
be cured? What is the power to he
assailed? The one is Invaluable and
inconceivable by the human mind !;
the other can only be suggested by
figures which leave much to the
healthy Imagination. There are more
than 5000 manufactures of malt
and distilled liquors in the United
States. These have directly a CAPT
tai invested of over 1882, 100000.
They employ more than 10000
hands. Directly and indirectly con-
nected with the liquor traffic-em-
ployees in distilleries and breweries,
persons employed in collecting the
liquor tax-is an army of nearly
100000 persons. The number OF
retail dealers is more than 160,OOO
men. The entire capital of this mon
ster is probably 81, 900, 100000. The
amount annually expended for drink
is undoubtedly as high as s6OO,0OO,-
900. And these facts are made
quate. 1t is necessary to multiply
what each individual knows, In or
der to enter the door Of this cave of
death. 1t is not strange, therefore,
that without the auxiliaries of Her
cules in cleansing the Augean sta
bles, the rivers of Alpheus and Pene-
us, this vast accumulation of corrup-
ton and wickedness, should be
swept away in day that even al
ter lifetime there should still be
failures of the kind which the enc
mics of the law disort and magnify
For the evil is not stationary. 1t II
aggressive, and grows rapidly. Right
eousness has not only to fight, bu
to fight running, with a forge in ont
hand and a two-edged sword in thu
other
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16
The Religious State of the
World.

The CONSPICUOUS feature of heath
enism is poverty. You have never
seen poverty. Think of it as uni
versal, continent wide, or so extern
sive that its victims, millions of them,
subsist on roots and herbs only.
Those of them living under forms
of government and standardization
are so robbed by their tyrants, their
earnings do not average for them
selves and families three cents day.
Multitudes of them are not half
fed, not half clothed, and for homes
have only pens and styes not fit for
swine. Till Africa and Asia with
it, crowd the vision with a population
twenty for every one in all your
states and territories-the picture
then fails to reach the reality.
Put now, into the picture the
moral shading of no God and no
hope these miserable millions living
like beasts in this world and expect
ing nothing better for the world to
to come. Paint starless sky, drap-
ed with long, far reaching vistas of
darkness, let the future be draped
in yet deeper night, then fill the aw-
full gloom with hungry, sad-faced
men and sorrow-driven women and
helpless children-it is the heather
world. | have seen them in their
sad homes and diabolieal orgies,
from the Bosphorus to the Gauges.
crouching and bowling before their
grim idols and stone images and
monkey gods, seen their rayless,
helpless faces, and never can the
image be effaced from the memory.
The pon-Christian world has nothing
to give US. 1t hangs as a ponder
GUS weight about the neck OF the
race, sinking it deeper into night
and death. Its very breath is con-
tagious: Its presence appals Us as
some gigantic spectre, towering
through the ages and darkening all
time-Bishop Foster
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

Barton, Nov. q
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

The civilization in which the old
dram shop existed that our fathers
dealt with, was a very different civ
ilization from ours. 1t was before
we began to trample on the sancti-
ties of the Sabbath. 1t was set in
the midst of men that were saturated
with the spirit of our institutions.
men who were doing their best to
build up to the high ideals that our
forefathers had. There were no
dudes, there were no anarchists,
there were no communists then. What
have we got to-day? We have in
vited everybody to come to our
shores, opening the gateways of the
oceans east and west until Europe
and Asia and Africa and the isles
of the sea have poured their tides of
population in on us. When you go
over to these lands and take the
wine-shop of France, the beer-gar-
den of Germany and the gin-palace
of England, and bring them to this
country, what do you do with them?
You put them all together and boil
them down into very strong extract
and run them down behind these
screened windows and closed doors.
And then what have you got, where
every heartbeat is heard at the bal
lot box and every hand, black and
white, is potent where laws are
made? You get the pivot on which
swings our political destenies and
the workshop of American politics.
Mrs. Mary T. Ldthrop.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16
Alcoholic Heredity.

The passion for alcoholic stimu-
lants, if not reproduced in the i'm
mediate descendants, may show it
self in the successive generations,
and in all cases is the most promi-
nent factor in insanity, epilepsy:
idiocy, hypochondria, hysteria, neu-
ralgia, nervous degeneration and its
kindred ailments-often manifesting
these maladies in viscious circle
with the effect of exhibiting insanity
in one, epilepsy in another, intern
perance in third, idiocy in fourth,
hypochondria in a fifth, hysteria in
q sixth, and so on until the circle is
completed, each generation increas-
ing in numbers, and contributing in
a direct ratio to the filling of our
jails, penetentaries, inebriate asyl-
ums, insane retreats and poor houses.
This is not a conjectural statement
the following facts will abundantly
prove: In a Swedish asylum it was
found that so per cent. of the pa
tents had been addicted to the use
of alcoholic beverages. After the
removal of the heavy tax on alcohol
ic drinks in Norway, the per centage
of increase during eleven years was
in mania, Al per cent. melancholia,
60 per cent. ; dementia, % per cent,
and idiocy, $50 per cent. Of the
last, 60 per cent. were the children
of drunken fathers and mothers. In
the insane hospital at Vienna Aus
tria, probably one of the largest in
the world, the superintendent in
formed me personally, that from 90
to 60 per cent. of the insanity was
due to spirituous liquors. This pei
centage in a country where it is claim
ed alcoholic drinks do no harm, is
well worth noticing. In one of oul
own prominent lunatic asylums 631
cases were traced to intemperance
as the assignable cause of their in
sanity.-Journol of Heredity-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16
Dissoluteness is inconsistent with

Dissoluteness is inconsistent with
self-government. Abolish the Sab
bath and YOU have the commune In
America. Abolish the Sabbath and
you have the sun of posterlty gong
down in darkness and IN blood.
Nav the Lord God of Lexington and
Bunker Hill and Gettysburg avert
the catastrophe y men and women
who believe in Christian things, .
men and women in favor of popular
liberty. stand up in solid phalanx IN
this Thermopyl@ of our natlotal
history for the triumph or overthrow
of republican institutions IN THIS
country will certainly be decided IN
this Sabbath contest.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

The prohibition question is doing
more to give the negro his rights of
citizenship than all others that have
arisen in the South since the war.
The old Bourbon political party is
split in twain over prohibition, and
the negro holds the balance of power.
Both sides court him and volunteer
to stand guard over him at the polls.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

No social arrangement which man
can make can benefit people who get
drunk. No matter what wages you
pay drinking man, neither his con-
dition nor that of his family can be
improved thereby. There is no use
in providing extra holidays for men
who get drunk. There is no use in
cutting down the days labor from
ten to eight hours, if the two hours
gained are spent in a rum-hole.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

The true hero is the great, wise man
of duty,-he whose soul is armed by
truth and supported by the smile of
God,-he who meets life's perils with
a cautious but tranquil spirit, gathers
strength by facing its storms, and
dies, if he is called to die, as Chris
tan victor at the post of duty.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

Every purpose TO lift up society
must gain strength from the decis-
ion of the supreme court of the Unit
ed States in the case of the Kansas
laws prohibiting the liquor traffic.
In closing the breweries the state
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

1t is often thought that wine, and
beer, and spirits give strength to a
man; that they make the muscles
contract with more force, and sustain
the action. 1 have put this matter to
the test by means of experiments,
and l have found that the idea of
alcohol giving force and activity to
the muscles is entirely false. | found
that alcohol weakens the muscular
contraction, and lessons the time dur
ing which the contraction can contln-
he active.-Dr. B. W. Richardson.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

In my thoughts | always liken the
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion to Joan of Arc, whom God raised
up for France, and who, in spite of
their muscle and their military PROV
ess, beat the English and crowned
her king But evermore she heard
and needed heavenly voices, and
God grant that we may hear and
heed them evermore To the mar
tvrdom of the public rebuke and
criticism they will surely lead us, a
sacrifice not easy for gentle hearts
to bear; doubtless, also, with some
of us. to the actual martyrdom by
which a national history grows sa-
cred and heroic; but. following
where they lead, we shall steadily
pass onward from the depths OF
the worlds pain to the heights of
eternity's peace; and best of all, we
shall help to lift humanity, SO weak
and so bewildered, near to the law,
the life, the freedom of God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16


did not take away the property of
their owners, it simply abated null
sance by prohibiting the property
from being for a specific purpose
which the Legislature had declared
and which it had right to declare
injurious to the community. 1t is
great step gained to know that when
ever the majority of the votes of
state rise up in their majesty and
declare the making and selling of
intoxicants to be a nuisance which
they can no longer tolerate, they
have the right SO to declare, and to
act accordingly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

Watch this column for ''Scraps from the Current
History of the Mutual Life Insurance Company OF
New York"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30
A Child Held for Its Board Bill.

A singular condition Of affairs re-
garding the custody of child was
brought To hight in the supreme iu-
dicial court recently nthe hearing
by Judge Allen on a petition for q
writ o habeas corpus. The petition
er was Daniel Lucy, a resident Of
Lynn, who sought to regain posses
sion of his daughter, Nellie Lucy,
aged 3h years. The little girl has
been In the custodyo of Michael WEIGH,
who resided at rs Harvard street,
since the death of her mother some
time during the latter part Of last
December. WEIGH was in court, to.
gether with the child, to show calis8
why the writ should hot be granted
He had no counsel, and amazed the
court by the statement that, al
though no relative of the child, he
proposes to keep it in charge until
her father liquidated an alleged debt
to him of $50, due for the mainten-
ance of the little girl since the death.
OF her mother. Judge Allen lost no
time in granting the writ. This is
probably the first time slavery was
abolished in Massachusetts that a
human being has been held as collat-
eral security in this commonwealth.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30
"Progress and Poverty.o
Contemporary Review.

contemporary review.
The hazy idea that one mans
wealth involves another mans pow
erty still induces a good deal of
preaching against ssculpable luxury,
without any clear idea of what the.
culpablbeness consists in. This un-
guarded condemnation Of LUXURIOUS
expenditure is a heritage of simpler
times and of simpler morals. When
the world was poor, wealth had the
form of a store Of goods. From this
store apman was always subtracting
something for his subsistence; to it
he was bound to add, on the whole,
more than he Withdrew. There was
littlecommahd over nature; manhad
to do the hard work, with only his
strong arms for tools; and, as no one
had fright to waste much, Luxury
was culpable. But our wealth,
and otrmannero Of getting wealth, are
entirely changed. The hand 81 d
manis now known to be q very weak
tool, although d very cunning one
10 we hand over the artistic work
Of the world to be- done BY III, but
the work we get done for us BIZ the
forceso nature We have pressed into
our service,
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30
In Ancient Egypt.

Bull-fghting was one of the amuse,
ments ofthe ancient Memphians.
Type-writers are amodern luxury,
but sixteen or seventeen centuries
ago young women were employed in
the Alexandrian library copying;
books for sale.
When an ancient Egyptian found
himself in need of money he could al
ways negotiate loans upon the mum
mics of his ancestors. Mummies
were considered gilt-edged securities.
The Alexandrians were passionate
ly fond of cock-fighting. Eros, a
tax-gatherer, having committed the
objectionable crime of roasting and
eating the champion cock, was cruel
fed by order ofthe EmperorAugustus
The Egyptians were among the
first, people to discourage yagrancy.
They had a law making it the duty
of magistrates to cause every man
to give an account of how he earned
his livelihood. Scion, after visiting
Egypt, gave q similar law to the
Athenians.
Cleopatra, in addition to her other
charms, was somewhat OF a practical
joker. One day she accompanied
Antony on q fishing expedition. An
tony's luck was poor, SO he surrepti-
tiously ordered one Of his men te
dive into the water and put upon his
hook q fish that he had previously
caught, Cleopatra saw the trick,
but said nothing. The next day she
brought q large party Of friends to
see the fishing, and when Antony let
down his line she sent one Of her own
divers to attach the fish. When the
line was drawn up Antony was much
embarrassed and his friends greatly
amused TO find on the hook q salted
herring.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

A Belfast, Me-, woman has found q
way to- dispose ofmoney with holes
punched in it. She recently offered
one to q merchant there, not with
the shame-faced or hurried manner
III which such coins r often offered,
but reluctantly, assertinggtha q it was
y keepsake, md she would not part
with it for any money, but would
leave hpirovriideed the merchant would
promise to keepSit until she should
caII for il, which she promised TO do
within d week. The merchant tool.
the keepsakeg delivered her goods,
n gave back the necessary Change
and the customer departed
init been seen since. The
out 10 cents out.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

banker's clelkresiding in Rudolfs-
heinz subs,rb Of Vienna had the mis-
forS6a1e to loaeshis third wife amonth
ago. Each Of his three N Ives left him
a child and also a mother-inlaw,
with all Of whom he was Oh good
ternls. Somehow, however, they did
not manage to get on with one an
other. They used to meet sometimes
at his house, where they came to see
him and his children. Recently the
three mothers-in-laW quarreled as
usual, and q pitch battleensued. All
three intend, it is said, to take legal
proceedings, and subpoena their SON.
in-IaW as a witness.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30
A speaker at a meeting OF the old

A speaker at a meeting OF the old
settlers ofClayton county, Iowa, gave
a fair sample of the situation
generally: .'Not a point on the pres
emit continent was SO isolated as was
Clayton county forty or fifty years
ago. The speaker said he could re-
call when there was but one top bug
gy in Cass' township. Now every
young man had a top buggy if it was
all covered with a chattle mortgage,
and every house had piano or organ
seyenifthere was no one in it that
could play Yankee Doodle"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

The scent of bloodhounds is dull
compared with that of certain male
moths. Mr.. C. II. Plesse, in a late
work, states that if a newly-emersed
female Saturnia carpini is placed in a
closed box the males will come from
nearly a mile away, though hills and
buildings Intervene, and have even
found their way down a chimney to
the object oftheir search.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

While workmen were digging q
trench across the Boston common
their spades struck against some
hard substance, and upon excavating
further a human bone was brought
to light. Work was then continued
more carefully until an entire skele-
ton of a man was seen. 1t was in a
fairly good state representation, and
was not badly disjointed. The bones
are supposed to be those ofan Indian.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

1t is stated that the cost ofmaking
converts to Christianity in Chicago
averages 1894, 235 per convert. In
addition to this there is the expense
for the constant and necessary re-
pairs. So when you come in contact
with a Chicago Christian you want to
handle him as you would a peach
blow vase.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

A Biddeford, Me-, family had beef
steak for supper the other night, and
while saving away on q piece that
seemed tougher than usual, one of
the family found an army and navy
cent firmly imbedded in the meat. It
is supposed the cent was shot into
the OK and that the wound had af-
terward healed.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

For the past ten years the owner
OF a -four mill at Dubuque has had q
sign on his fire proof safe reading:
"No money in here. Please call at
the house." 1t was intended for bur-
glars, and the other night one called
at the house and secured $1,S7O.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

Queen Victoria is very fond ofstraw
hats. She recently had aphotograph
taken of herself as she sat at break
fast surrounded by her family. On
her head was a most remarkable straw
hat, the most striking object in the
picture. .
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

Acrazy farmer named Ladd was
kicked on the head by a horse the
other day and knocked senseless.
When he came to he was as sane as
anybody, but could remember moth
S.&S%4s% sEE@%E- s s. So =
ing OF the last fifteen years.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

A French writer classes all women
by the size of their thumbs. Those
with large thumbs are said to be
more likely to possess native intelli-
gence, while the small thumbs in,
dictate feeling.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

jar inc to pieces. That was d 8
Harityofthestuf. Isuffered fromthat
experimenting afterwards, and 1T ar
pears wen at this day, when Think
itover that I have that feeling COM
ing on, 90 powerful was the impress
sion made on me at that time.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

An Indiana lawyer who has been
looking up the matter a little finds
that there are 500 dead laws on the
statute books of that state.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30
"Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the pillows near me roll, =
While the ~tempeststill ID high"

The heart right to God and man, we are
happy. The heart wrong toward God and
man, we are unhappy. X
Another reason why weshould come to this
spirit inculeated in the text is the fact that all
the differences of earthly condition are tram
STORY. Tho houses you build, the land you
culture, the places In which you barter, are
soon to go into other hands. However hard
you may have it now, If you are a Christian
the scene will soon end. Pain, trial, persecu-
ton never knock at the door Of the grave.
"A coffin made out of pine boards is just as
good q resting place as I'M made ii Of
silver mounted mahogany or rosewood. Go
down among the resting places of the dead
and You will find that though people there
had a great difference Of worldly circumstan-
.ces, now they are all alike unconscious.
The hand that greeted the senator, and the
president, md the king is still as the hand
that hardened on the mechanics hammer or
the mannfacturer's wheel. Itdoes not make
my difference now whether there il q plain
stone above them from which the traveller
pulls aside the weeds to read the name, or q
tall shaft springing into the heavens as
though to- tell their virtues to the skies.
III that silent land there nre no titles for
great men, and there sars no rumbliIgs OF
ehariCt xheels, and there = neYer heard The
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30
James Russell Lowell resists all eH-
forts Of the physicians to cure him Of
The govt. He evidently likes the dis
ease-it's 30 English, you knowl

The largest railroad system in the
world il the Atchison, Topeka and
Sante Re, Whichoperates about s 900
miles Of road.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30

syon will be a8~happy man-you will be a
happy woman. @
Yet, my friends, Notwithstanding all these
inducements to a spirit of contentment, ]
have to tell you this morning the human race
is divided into two classes-those who scold
and those who get scolded. The carpenter
wants to be anything but a carpenter, and
the mason anything but a mason, and the
banker anything but q banker, and the law.
yer anything but q lawyer, and the minister
anything but q minister, and everybody
would be happy if he were only somebody else.
The m wants to be o sunf1ower, and
the apple orchards throw down their bios
SONS because they are not tall cedars, and
the scow wants to be a schooner, and the
sloop wants to be a H-pounder, and parents
have the worst children that ever were, and
everybody has the greatest misfortune, and
everything is upside down, or going to be-
All, my friends, you never make any advance
through such a spirit as that. You cannot
fret yourself up; you may fret yourself down
string of the gospel harp: Goodness with
commitment is great gain. We brought
nothing into the world, and it is very certain
we can carry nothing out; having food and
raiment let us Herewith be content" =
Let us all remember, if we are christians
that we, are going after q while, whatever
our circumstances now, to have q glorious
vacation. As in summer we put OF our gar
ments and go down into the cool sea te
battle, 80 we will put off these garments o.
flesh and step into the cool Jordon. We viii
look for some place to lay down our weari
ness; and the trees will say, G me and rest
under our shadow" and the earth will say
Come and sleep nmy BOSOM" and the wind
will say, tsHush, while / sing thee "a cradle
out to our last resting place, and ashes com.
TO a6heS and dust to dust, we will see two