Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-12-04
PROFANITY.

Valent vices winch Is growing &c
alarming proportions, and which, in
our opinion, is the duty of every jour
nalist to help suppress, is profanity
meaningless, vulgar profanity. Its
use is confined to no age, sex or posi-
ton. 1t polutes alike the converse
ton of youthful strength and decrep-
it age. In the highways and byways,
the counting room and workshop, and
too often in the social circles the ear
is dinned by conversation interlarded
with profanity which neither digni-
fies, emphasizes nor embellishes. The
STRIPPING vies with the man of bust
ness in the intersection of his oaths,
and long before he reaches mans es-
tate has acquired a detestable habit
which becomes second nature, and
has secured his proficiency
as professional sWearer for
the term of his natural life, so that go
where he may his foul mouth carries
the contagion, and becomes verlta-
BILE cesspool of slime, a standing men
ace to the welfare of society.
I Leaving moral or religious consid-
erations entirely out of the question,
is it not time that this abominable,
ungentlemanly practice was abandon
ed; and can the press fulfill nobler
mission than make it's influence felt
in aid of it's suppression The YER
nacular of the black-guard, under all
circumstances reprehensible, is espec-
tally out of place in the family circle,
business or social conversation or
friendly greeting; and yet the prac-
tice referred to prevails to a greater
or less extent in all of them. 1t is
high time to call a halt, to put the
penalty of social ostracism on the in
dividual who INDUCES in it. Peculiar
ly apropose in this connection are the
lines of Cowper:
Maintain your rank, ity desplse;
EaTo swear is neither brave, polite nor wise.
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There is, perhaps, no trait of char
acter which commands our admira
ton more than self control. 1t is an
essential element in courage, quail
ty which boys usually rank highest in
the list of virtues. A fine illustration
of self control was given at one time
by Prof Moses G. Farmer, the emin-
ent electrician who invented the fire
alarm system, and who died recently
in Chicago.
Many years ago it was impossible
to get in this country fine copper wire
covered with silk, which he needed in
making some important scientific ex-
periments. So he sent to London for
the article, and it came to the Boston
custom-house, put up in tin case.
None of the officials, on it's arrival,
could imagine what the case contain
ed, and so they decided to open it.
One of their number, therefore, took
Ratchet and chopped into it in such
manner as to ruin utterly the fine
wire 1t was a most exasperating
deed, the more SO as Prof. Farmer was
obliged to pay the duty just the same;
but not an impatient word escaped
his lips.
This was characteristic of the man,
and no less noteworthy than the Incl
dent which is told of Carlyle, who,
when a maid servant threw into the
fire his manuscript of the French Rev
olution, representing twenty years
labor, uttered not word or reproach.
Solomon was about right in saying
that he who ruleth his spirit is great
er than he that taketh city.
Prof. Barrett of ST. Lawrence county, N. Y,
speaking of pulmonary diseases, says: not
one death occurs now where twenty died be-
fore Downs Elixir was known. Over fifty
! years of constant success places Downs Elk
ir at the head of the long list of cough reme-
! dies.
Expedition Island is no more. Your
map shows it lying on the northwest
! coast Of Australia, about tWenty-tW
miles from the mainland. When it
fourished in all its glory, as it has
since time out of memory, it was a
beautiful tract Of land, thirteen miles
long and one and half to two miles
broad. The Swedish trader Laem
strom visited it early in the spring of
1892; and the Dutch naturalists of the
''Thignig'' gathered rare botanical
specimens and collected many hum
dred sets of eggs, to say nothing of
the many other objects of natural his