Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-10-09

them with a hilarious "Good morning"
and they come buzzing at you with
some depressing information. 1.-THE
Lord sent the hornet"
1t is astonishing how some people
prefer to write and to say disagreeable
things. That was the ease when Hen
ry NJ. Stanley returned after his mag
nificent exploit of finding David Liv-
ingstone. When Mr.. Stanley stood be-
fore the savants Of Europe and many
of the small critics of the day, under
pretense of getting geographical in
formation, put to him most insoleat
questions, he folded his arms and re-
fused to answer. At the very time
when you would suppose all decent
men would have applauded the hero
ism Of the man there were those to
hiss. 1.-THE Lord sent the hornet" And
when afterward that man sat down on
the western coast of Africa, sick and
worn out, with perhaps the grandest
achievement Of the age in the way OF
geographical discovery, there were
small critics all over the world to buzz
and buzz and caricature and deride
him, and when after awhile he got the
London papers, as he opened them
out flew the hornet. When l see that
there are SO many people in the world
who like to say disagreeable things
and write d1sagreeable things, 1 come
almost in my weaker moments to be-
lieye what a man said to me in Phila-
delphia one Monday morning. I went
to get the horse at the livery stable,
and the hostler, a plain man, said to
me, Mr.. Talmage, [ saw that you
preached to the young men yesterday"
I said, Eyes" He said: mo use, no
use Mans a failure"
Domestic Disturbances.
The small insect annoyances of life
sometimes come in the shape of local
physical trouble which does not
amount to a positive prOstration, but
which bothers you when you want to
feel the best. Perhaps it is a sick
headache which has been the plague of
your life, and you appoint some Occa-
sion Of mirth or sociality or usefulness,
and when the clock strikes the hour
you cannot make your appearance.
Perhaps the trouble is between the
a neuralgia twinge. Nobody can see it
or sympathize with it, but just at the
time when you want your intellect
clearest and your disposition brightest
you feel a sharp, keen, disconcerting
thrust. 1.-THE Lord sent the hornet"
Perhaps these small insect annoy
ances will come in the shape of a do
nestle irritation. The parlor and the
kitchen do not always harmonic. To
get good service and to keep it is one Of
the great questions of the country.
Sometimes it may be the arrogance
and inconsiderateness of employers;
but, whatever be the fact, we all admit
there are these insect annOyances
winging their way out from the Gull
nary department. If the grace Of God
be not in the heart of the hOusekeeper,
she cannot maintain her equilibrium.
The men come home at night and hear
the story of these annOyances and say,
ooh, these home troubles are very lit
tie thingsH' They are small, small as
wasps, but they sting. Martha's nerves
were all unstrung when she rushed in
asking Christ to scold Mary, and there
are tens of thousands of women who
are dying, stung to death by these pes
tiferous domestic annoyances. 1.-THE
Lord sent the hornet"
These small insect disturbances may
also come in the shape Of business ir-
ritations. There are men here who
went through the Oath of September,
1869, and the panics of 1873 and of
1898 without losing their balance who
are every day endorsed by little an
noyances-a clerks ill manners, or a
blot Of ink on a bill of lading, or the
extravaganza of a partner who over
draws his account, or the underselling
by a business rival, or the whispering
of store condolences in the street, or the
making of some little bad debt which
was against your judgment, but you
wanted to please somebody else.
1t is not the panicS that kill the mer-
chants. Panics come only once in 10 or
20 years. 1t is the constant din of these
everyday annoyances which is sending
so many of our best merchants into
nervous dyspepsia and paralysis and
the grave. When our national COM
merce fen fiat on it's face, these men
stood up and felt almost defiant, but
their life is going away now under the
swarm Of these pestiferOus annoy
ances, 1.-THE Lord sent the hornet"
Keep on Moving.
I have noticed in the history Of some
Of my congregation that their annoy
ances are multiplying and that they
have a hundred where they used to
have ten. The naturalist tells us that
a wasp sometimes has a family of 90,
900 wasps, and it does seem as if ev
cry annoyance of your life brooded a
million By the help Of God, today I
want to show you the other side. The
hornet is Of no use? Oh, yes! The nat
uralist tells us they are very important