Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-04-23
The Time to Hate.

| And, as they went, cloud above
| Sent downward tears of spring and love.
The Time to Hate.
| have friend-I mean, a foe
Whom cordially 1 ought to hate;
But somehow L can never seem
| To lay the feud between straight.
When apple boughs full of bloom,
And nature loves her fellow-men
| With all the witchery of spring,
How can you hate fellow then?
And when the summer comes with days
Full of long and languid charm,
When even water lilies sleep
On waves without a thought of harm,
When underneath the shadest tree
My hammock hangs in idlest state,
were an idiot to get up
Out of that hammock just to hate.
The harvests come. If mine is big,
am too happy with my store;
If small, Pm too much occupied
With grubbing round to make 1t
In dim recesses of my mind
have no idle hour to spend
In hunting up the bitter foe
Who simply ought to be my friend.
Who would add hate to winds that freeze?
All love and warmth that L can get
want in such dull days these.
No, no, dear foe; it is no use;
The struggling year is at an end,
I can not hate you if 1 would
And you must turn and be my friend.
A show spoken of as a 'srare entertain
To hn ,1f
well done.
'Holy smoke!" exclaimed deacon
when his wife told him the Pilgrim church
was on fire.
Annie's little joke: ''Now, Marie, see if
you can get the table all set by the time 1
am ready to help you"
1t was before Washington went into
politics that he ''could not tell a lie.'' The
record is silent after that.
Judging from effects, the kind of oil
most exclusively used for pouring on
troubled waters is turmoil
Freddy soon dow the boys and girls
will pud cd their rubbers add go oud to
the hills afder sprig flowers.
Stranger (to Washington hotel clerk) :
Will you direct me to the barroom? Clerk
Yes, sir; follow the procession.
A weather prophet who predicted that
the winter would be warm and open, was
frozen to death last week up insNew York
state.
When a Boston girl reads one of How
ellis love stories, she is generally affected
to tears, and little icicles form on her
cheeks.
"Oscar Wilde expects to be buried in
Westminster Abbey" says floating item.
Well, we. are willing. Is there any rea-
son for delay?
He is a model husband who will pre-
tend to praise his ability as cook and
then use her doughnuts as sinkers for his
fishing lines.
The calendar spring begins on March
1st, the astronomical spring begins sever
al weeks later, the real spring begins
when it gets ready.
The rivalry for the distinction of being
the first to get peas into the ground is
not very intense among the neighboring
farmers thus far this week.
Chicago man who had grown rich
selling hams built country seat, but had
difficulty in finding name to suit.
friend suggested that he call it the ALL
ham bra.
II say, mamma" said a youngster who
had been laboring over a very tough
wing of old chicken, Il think that this
fowl must have been Matched from
hard-boiled egg"
There are three kinds of people in the
world, the wills, the wont's and the cants.
The first accomplishes everything, the
second opposes everything, and the third
fails in everything.
Smith-Teeth remind me of women.
Jones-In what respect? Smth-Well.
you see, in the first place we suffer like
the mischief getting them, and we feel
bad when we lose them.
Fond wife-The Smiths must be awful
ly poor, they never give anything to char
tiles. He-Well, but we don't either.
Fond wife-Oh, but it isn't because we
haven't got plenty.
My DEAR" said dying man to his
wife, very fashionable woman, ''when
l am gone will you erect monument in
my honor?" 'tIf you wish it," sobbed the
lady; 'but John, monuments are getting
to be so common
Richmond, Va, sister says: l am
tired of so much talk about the woman
question. We have had our way in the
past and intend to have it in the future
And that is about the size of it.
81 detest him; I never could marry
him. said young girl. ''Why, do you
know what / call him? l call him the lit
tie tin mOgul.' Oh, dear, no, not to his
face, but in my diary. That's where 1
take all my revenges and have everything
out with everybody-in my diary find