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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25
The Hawk Lit Out.

A tame hen hawkwhich had been allow ed to fly about the owners premises in was pitted against game cock few days ago. The cock attacked but the hawk made but little show of fight. It soon woke up however and grasping the game-cock in his tai ons the hawk slowly rose from the earth a hundred feet or so, when it darted swiftly off and was soon out of sight.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25
2 NUTMEG CARVINGS,

John Gilby, brakeman on the New York and New England railroad, was instantly killed near Hartford last night by falling down between tue cars. lIe is said to have friends in Montreal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic can be used with perfect safety as it contains nc deleterious matter.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25

Miss Bretherton" will make the ac- quaintance of the readers of the DEMO- GRAF in few days.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25

Another charming serial will be com menced in the DEMOCRAT shortly. Be sure and read it.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25

Watch for the opening chapters of Miss Bretherton."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25

Miss Bretherton" is charmer. Be sure and cultivate her acquaintance.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25
See Miss Bretherton' in the DEMO

See Miss Bretherton' in the DEMO- GRAF.
 Figs, nuts, bananas, lemons, and fine Florida fruit at Ladd's.
 Waterbury Medical Institute, 52 Bank street, electric and magnetic treatments
 Lake, Strobel & Go, successors to D. C. Calender, have this day received fifty silver watches. Give us a call and wt will show you what we can give yor rom S10 to SIS. and 3 Exchange place
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25
SOCIETY AND CLUB MEETINGS.

sE Secretaries are requested to send in the dates of meetings of societies, lodges and clubs ing nights.
 Meetings This Evening. Hawthorn lodge. Sons St George. Speedwell lodge, K. of P.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-25

DR. c. W. s. FRos1, 1s7 Bank street
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
The Siesta.

The word siesta is Spanish, and
means the short sleep after dinner in
which most people indulge who live
ia hot climates. The need of a short
nap after dinner is not less here than
in the torrid zone. Its effect is to
furnish a new supply of nervous
force to do on a smaller scale what
the nights sleep does On larger
one. Both the climate of the coun-
try and our national habits tend to
keep the brain and nervous system at
a high tension. From youth to old
age we are in the race for wealth or
position, for pleasure or fashion, for
reform or religion.
We need something more than the
midday nap. We need to see that,
without a radical change, there is
danger ahead for us. Indeed, much
of it is already upon us, in the rapid
multiplying of apoplexy, paralysis,
softening of the brain, heart COM
plant, nervous prostration, and neF-
vous ailments generally. We need
to force ourselves to take things more
quietly; to think more of the rest
and solace and duties of home, and
less Of the shop and club and the
parties of pleasure. We need to
preach up the virtues of contentment
and seIf-eontrol, and preach down
the vice of ali-cossuming greed.
But, meanwhile, the midday nap
is of vast help. 1t is wonderful how
much recuperatiye power there is in
nap of few minutes. No one who
has ever acquired the habit of a brief
siesta has failed to experience it, and
perhaps there is no way in which
quarter of an hour of our time, every
day, can be invested with a prospect
of better dividend in health and
length of days than in an after-din-
per nap,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
A more singular courtship, surely,

A more singular courtship, surely,
never took place than that thus de-
scribed by writer in the June
number of the Overland Monthly
"And yet, as we drove through the
mouth of Echo, my memory was
keenly alive to some of my past ex-
periences there. 1t was only year
before that welded couple Nor
mans) took me for drive, and for
two hours [ sat between the two, each
of them holding a hand, and both
earnestly counting me for wife num-
Der two. The lady excused her part
in the wooing by saying she could
not prevent the coming of second
into the family, and as both were
pleased with me the drive had been
planned with a view to getting my
consent to the union. They were
people of intelligence and education,
yet my very good reason for declin-
ing their offer was easily disposed
of in their minds, nay husband being
a Gentle. and my marriage with him
not necessarily binding by Mormon
law. took no offense, therefore, at
the peculiar situation in which the
kindly couple placed me, knowing
that no offense was intended
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
The "Frederick Billings. 4"

It is sometimes said that the Yam
kee clipper ship, a type of marine
construction which was once the glo-
~ of the seas, has completely van
ished, but the statement is not a lit
orally true one. Besides the famous
vessels North American and South
American. Yhich were built and own
ed by Commodore Hastings, there is
still a number of remarkably speedy
American sailing crafts afoat which
handsomely maintain our old reputa-
ton. Conspicuous among them is
the Frederick Billings, a four masted
ship of $500 tons measurement, which
has just sailed from New York for
San Francisco with a general cargo
aggregating $500 tons. This large
and handsome vessel is of the medi-
um clipper type and was built at
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
Gems of Thought.

Our grand business is not to see
what lies dimly at a distance, but to
do what lies clearly at hand.
That action is best which procures
the greatest happiness for the great
est number.
Incivility is not vice of the soul,
but the effect of several vices-of
vanity, ignorance of duty, laziness,
stupidity, distraction, contempt of
others and jealousy.
Life is not so short but that there
is always time enough for courtesy.
OF all the evil spirits abroad at
this hour in the world, insincerity is
the most dangerous.
Only the refined and delicate pleas
pres that spring from research and
education can build barriers between
different ranks.
He who comes up to his own idea
of greatness must always have had
very low standard of it in his own
mind.
Those who live on vanity must, not
unreasonably, expect to die of NOR
LITIGATION.
Of Ill the actions of mans life,
his marriage does least concern other
people, yet of all actions of our life,
tits most meddled with other people.
/ think it must somewhere be writ
ten, that the virtues of mothers shall,
occasionally, be visited on their chill
dren, as we'll as the sins of fathers.
BAD HABIrs.-Habltual constipation gives rise
to piles and to other dangerous and painful affec
tons, all of which may be cured by the of Ham,
burg Figs fruit laxative which children like.
Is cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., n. Y.
Sold by druggists.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
How to get along in the world-wal

How to get along in the world-Walk.
He-May 1 see you home? Shells
your eyesight good?
One tax that we hope will not be re
moved in a revised tariff, -syntax.
Authority is like dried apples. A few
cents worth will puff man up astonish-
ingly.
'None but the brave deserve the fair"
And even the brave can't live with some
of 'em.
What this country needs is maple SUI
gar that will pass a thorough civil service
examination.
You can always please a woman by
telling her she is pretty, even if she does
not believe you.
The Weather Bureaus works on Tor
nadoes will doubtless be entitled the Gov
eminent Blew Book.
Men proposes, God disposes, woman
discomposes, the divorce court interpos-
es and the press exposes.
Smith-Jones, what did you get for
pumping the water out of Green's cellar?
Jones-The rheumatism.
Paris paper devOtes a corner to"tirst-
class deaths" VIII there be any first
class resurrections, we wonder.
Why is it that fellows who are about to
take bachelors's degrees always invite the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
A Year of Terrible Disasters.

tt is only a few days since, COM
menting on the general floods which
accompanied the Johnstown disaster,
we took occasion to remark that trOu-
bles rarely come singly-disasters al
most never alone. 1t is so with in
dividuals. 1t is so with nations.
1t is sometimes so in a much
broader scale. Sometimes one is
tempted to think that what might be
called cataclysmic periods come to
the individual, to the nation, and also
to the world at large.
One would naturally have thought
that Johnstown was enough for the
United States for long series of
years. A calamity which fills the ma
ton with horror and calls forth re-
sponsive echoes from every communi-
ty on both sides of the Atlantic-ech-
oes which prove the essential unity
of humanity-is followed within a
week by another, which is only less
disastrous because it has been more
sparing of human life. 1t is no small
affair which suggests to US the prob
able wiping out of thirty millions
property. Such is the news, however,
that comes to us from Seattle, the
principal city of Washington Terri
tory. The details Of the fire, which,
leaping from building to building,
from street to street, and wiping out
block after block, brick yielding like
timber to the merciless flames, recall
the memory of the great fire in Chi
cage, and the Boston fire of later
date. Factories, foundries, saw-mills,
ship-yards, warehouses, banking
houses, the homes of the rich and the
homes of the poor-all have shared
common fate; and a fresh call IS
made upon us for the exercise of
Christian beneyolenoe and charity.
The call will be responded to. Our
people will prove themselves equal to
the occasion, as they have done on
even more trying occasions in the
past. Seattle will have all she needs,
and, phenix-like, she will emerge
from her ashes as great and as full
of promise as ever. These rapidly
repeated catastrophes are trying and
full of vexation; but they only tend
to reveal the inherent vitality of the
young but mighty republic of the
western world.-MaI d Egpress.
Words cannot express the gratitude which peo-
pie feel for the benefit done them by the of
Ayers SarsaparilIa Long standing cases of rheu-
matis yield to this remedy, when all others fail to
give relief. This medicine thoroughly expels the
poison from the blood.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
Brains and Business.

One great secret of success in bus
iness-the secret, in fact, of success
on a large scale-is to conceive of it
as matter of principles, not merely
as series of transactions. There
are great merchants as there are
great statesmen, and there are small
merchants as there are small poll
ticians, and the difference between
the great and small men is very much
the same in both professions. The
small politician works by the day and
sees only the small opportunity be-
fore him; the small merchant does
the same thing-he is looking for the
next dollar. The statesman, on the
other hand, is master of the situation
because he understands the general
principles which control events this
knowledge enables him to deal with
large questions and to shape the fu-
ture. The great merchant does the
same thing his business is not a
mere money-getting affair, not mere
matter of barter, but science and
an art He studies the general laws
of trade, watches the general condi-
ton of the country. investigates pres
ent needs, foresees future wants, and
adapts his business to the broad con-
ditions of his time and place. He
puts as much brains into his work as
does the statesman, and he ends by
being not money getter, but large
minded and capable man. An emf
nently successful business man of the
statesmanlike quality, said the other
day that the more he understood of
life, the more clearly he saw that it
was done on business principles. By
universe staaanet fdf the F ofi hft the
that the universe is governed by I'M
varying laws, that promptness, ex-
actness, thoroughness and honor are
wrought into its very fiber. On these
business principles all life is conduct
ed-if not by men, at least by that
Power which is behind man. 1t ought
to be the ambition of every young
man to treat his business from the
point of view of the statesman, and
not from that of the politician.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
How Polly and Peter Keep House.

NY uncle is threshing with Freddy;
My mother has gone to the fair;
I've vowed to be steady as steady,
And baby, she's tied in her chair:
must brush up the hearth to look heater,
And put all the tea-cups away
There's no one to help me but Peter,
And Peter,-why, Peters at play.
just hear how the turkeys are crying,
And the calf is as hungry as twoi
I'll see if the cherries are drying,
And then there's the churning to do:
In summer we churn in the cellar,
So baby can come there to stay
1 must think of story to tell her
While Peter,-but Peters at play.
1t is time that my chicken was over,
And my mending is scarcely begun
Here's Peter come up from the clover,
And we never have dinner till one
I'll just make this sauce bit sweeter
And bring out some cake on a tray
He must be well treated, poor Peter,
He does work hard at his play
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15

covered nv own head, did I know
truly how much love and sympathy
this class has right to demand of
their fellow-creatures Now | feel it.
ssOur mother 'he added most tender
ly, stwho now lies in death before us,
was stranger to me, as are all of
these her descendants. All / know
of her is what her son has told me
to-dav-that she was brought to this
town from afar sixty-nine years ago,
happy bride-that here she has
passed most of her life, toiling as
only mothers ever have strength to
toll, until she reared large family
of sons and daughters-that she left
her home here, clad in the weeds of
widowhood, to dwell among her chill
dren; and that till health and strength
left her. God forbid that conscience
should accuse any of you of ingrati-
tude of murmuring on account of the
care she has been to you of late.
When you go back to your homes, be
careful of your example before your
own children; for the fruit of your
own doing you will surely reap from
them when you yourselves totter on
the brink of the grave. | entreat you
as a friend, as one who has himself
entered the evening of life, that you
may never say in the presence of
your families nor of heaven: sOur
mother had outlived her usefulness
she was a burden to u.s. Never
a mother cannot live as long as that
No; when she can no longer labor
for her children, nor yet care for her
self, she can fall like a precious
weight on their bosoms, and call
forth by her helplessness all the no.
BILE, generous feelings of their ma
lures.
Adieu, then, poor toil-worn mother
there are no more days of pain for
thee. Undying vigor and everlasting
usefulness are part of the Inheritance
of the redeemed
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
Encouragement.

Oh, tired, and baffied and weary
So heartsick and full of fear!
Finding life gloomy and drearY,
Battling with sigh, or with tear;
What is the use? is the query
Ever that beats in the year.
What is the use to be cheerful?
What is the use to be sad?
What is the use to be fearful?
What is the use to be glad?
What is the use to be fearful?
Why not give up and go mad?
Nought seems to come of the striving;
Two things are sure, death and PAIN
Sin is the only thing thriving,
Effort finds these in her train:
Busy bees hoard their sweet living,
Greedy men swallow their gain.
We go to the play to see acting;
There's many farce in the street,
And tragedies daily enacting
In each common walk for our feet;
Masks worn for the public's exacting,
BY almost each man that we meet.
So put on a mask and go smiling,
For many are weary as one!
A bright face is always beguiling;
Though weary, ones work can be done
AS smiles answer back any smiling,
Pain hidden is guessed at by none.
A mask is more useful than dreary
When ones in the street in a RAIN
If it makes one so tired more weary
To see any other in pain,
Suggestion this is to the query)
To hide is iota of gain.
So tired, and baffled, and weary,
Oh, heartsick and full offear!
Finding life gloomy, and dreary,
Battling with sigh, or with tear,
Work on in spite of the query,
Act well while life is yet here.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
Is CONSUMPTION IncurabIe E

Read the following Mr.. c. Fl. Morris, Newark,
Ark. says: 'tWas down with abcess of lungs and
friends and physicians pronounced me an incurable
comsumptive. Began taking DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, on my third bottle
and able to oversee the work my farm. 1t is the
finest medicine ever nlade.''
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says: "Had it
not been for DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption would have died of lung troubles. Was
given up by doctors. Am in best of health"
Fry it. Sample bottles free at H. c.. Pierce's drug
STORE.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15

| Mamma, said little five-year old, as
his mother was giving him bath, "be
sure and wipe me dry, so l won't rust"
That dog of mine, said Chatterly,
proudly, knows as much as 1 dol And
Baker muttered: What a blessing he is
muZzled,
Noah might have built the ark of iron
had he not been specially directed to go
pher wood. He didn't have to go far for
it, either.
Miss Flyte, do you think Miss Giggle
is laughing at me?" 81 can't say, Mr.,
Softleigh. She often laughs at almost
nothing"
Landlady-Be careful how you whip
that carpet It's very fine piece of
goods. Tramp (working for his dinner)
-Yes'm. It's hard to beat.
When woman steps out on the back
porch with her arms rolled up in her
apron, it is a sign to her neiehbor that
she has something to tell her.
Timid Youth have a poem, and L
want to see the editor. Office boy-The
editor is busy. I'll do just as well. I'm
on my way to the waste basket now.
81 wish 1 could sell as 1 write" re-
marked a certain author to a lady. 'sThere
are those, replied his companion sweetly,
''who say you can't write as you SELL"
poet sent to an editor a contribution
entitled, ''Why do 1 liver" The editor
answered, Because you sentyour contri
button by mail instead of bringing it,
Bride-George, dear, when we reach
the town let us try to avoid leaving the
impression we are newly married. All
right, Maude; you can lug this yalise.
Sunday-school teacher : We are told
here that the prophet rent his clothes.
Why did he do that? Tommy-P'raps he
he couldn't afford to buy EN-"
1t is estimated that some women carry
forty or fifty miles of hair about on their
heads. Forty or fifty miles without
switch is a good long distance for an air
line.
cit must be awful nice to own a yacht"
said Mrs. Knowlittle. You can go to
Europe then without having to pay the
enormous prices these transatlantic lines
ask
Blind mani am looking for something
for a suit. Tailor-Yes, sir. What col
or would you prefer? Well, should say
blind-mans buff would be as appropriate
as anything.
Have you any cash tonight, Ned3 Let
me see. Yes, 1 have dollar and some
cents. All some sense. Well, that will
keep you from spending the dollar for
whiskey.
An Iowa farmer, who believed in hav-
ing two strings to his bow, put up in his
garden this signi s'RoYs, don't touch
these melons, for they are green and God
sees you"
Mrs. Blonde (wildly)-Where did this
black hair come from? Mr.. Blonde-I
was riding behind black horse, and he
switched his tail. This is fine hair. Yes,
it was fine horse.
81 love the old piano still, sings poet.
So Go the rest of us, only we shouldn't |
limit our affection to an old pj9Lo, Any !
es our enthusiastic love.
Mrs. Rubinstein Ito little Moses, who
has been presented with quarter)-What /
DO you do, Moses, when the gentleman
gives you the quarter? Little Moses
Ring it to see if it is good.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15
The mineral resources of this coun.

try show advancing development not
withstanding the exhaustion of many
mines. The total value of the min
erals produced ip the United States
last year was s59f, 900, 900, an in
crease of $50, 200 over the prod
uet of 1887. Iron takes second place,
the total value of iron and steel be-
ing s145, 100000. The gold product
was $50 100000 and silver s43, O0O,-
900. When coined silver is worth
SIG, 100000 more. Coal takes first
place in value, the total product be-
ing 143, 100000 tons, valued 1884,
600, 900.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15

Gen. n. a. NJ. Dudley for the past thirty years
among the Indians in Mexico and the frontier of our
country for the past five years in command at Fort
Custer, Montana, spent a vacation of several weeks
among his friends in Boston recently, and became
much interested in the New Cyclorama now eX-
hibiton at 541 fremont S., which he very COM
petent to criticize from his intimate knowledge of
the country which it represents. He writes to the
manager:
SCI most cheerfully place record my high APP
probation of the exhi' ition, both work of art,
and also for the truthfulness with which the artists
have reproduced the country in which this histori-
cal tragedy, unparalleled in the history of all cavalry
actions, occurred. The topography of the country,
as shown on your canvas, is perfect. The action
and attitude of the cavalry horses and riders espec=
tally, is wonderfully to life, showing that the
artists must have given much study and careful
thought. To catch so accurately the willy, treach-
erous nature of the Indians in battle, depicting
ceverly their hideous expressions and Internal pas
sions, requires more than an ordinary PENCIL
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15

rangements with DR.. B. j. Kendall Co., publishers
of ga Treaties the Horse and his Diseases
which will enable all subscribers to obtain
copy of that valuable work free by sending their
address enclosing two-cent stamp for mailing
same) to DIR. B. j. Kendall Co., Enosburgh Falls,
Vt. This book is now recognized standard
thority upon all diseases of the horse, as its phe
nomenal sale attests, over four million copies having
been sold in the past ten years, sale before
reached by any publication in the period of
time. We feel confident that our patrons will APP
preciate the work, and be glad to avail themselves
of this opportunity of obtaining valuable book.
1t is necessary that you mention this paper in
sending for the "Treaties." This offer will remain
open for only a short time. 27-29
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15

Weak and weary" describes the condition of
many people debilitated by the weather, by
disease overwork. Hoods Sarsaparilla is just
the medicine needed to build up and strengthen the
body, purify and quicken the sluggish blood, and
restore the lost appetite
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15

Rockport, Me-, four years ago. She
is square rugged on three of her four
masts, carrying double gallant
yards and three sky sails,and spread
ing 1900 square yards of canvas.
Her lofty main-mast towers 100 feet
above the big Brooklyn bridge. I'm
der two-thirds canvas the Billings
has many a time run 800 knots from
sun to sun, and she has logged as
high as 10 knots an hour while haul
ing her wind. And il should be re-
membered that this ship is not built
for speed primarily; her cargo car
rying capacity is enormous. The
achievements of this great Yam
kee racer and of her sister YES
sells are tolerably strong arguments
against the efforts of democratic con-
oressmen from such states as Missou-
ri and Arkansas, who would have US
close the shipyards where these splen-
did crafts were built and transfer
what remains of the industry to Eng
land. -BOstOn Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-15

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung TO Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,