Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-25

giving service at the NJ. E. church, and
Wednesday evening there will be a union
service in the Congregational church
which will take the place of the usual
Thursday evening meetings.
There came near being a serious fire at
Douglass Testers last Monday. 1t seems
the fire caught about the chimney and pipe
and it burned nearly across the carpet in
the chamber, also burned the floor some
what. but was discovered in season TO pre-
vent its doing much damage.
Clarence Stannard, who works for Geo.
H.. Davis, was taken sick last week and was
carried to his home in Lowell. He was
quite seriously I'll for a time, apparently
threatened with typhoid fever, but he is
now SAID to be better and will escape the
fever.
Mr.. E. W. Cobb of st. Johnsbury was in
town last week and placed some steel head
trout in Crystal Lake. These trout were
obtained through ]. w. Titcomb, who
sent to W~ilIoughby lake last spring and
caught five trout of this kind; only one of
these proved to contain spawn, but this
one produced 1899 trout, which were the
ones placed in Crystal Lake.
H. g. Orcutt and Miss Edna Uford were
married last Monday at the home of the
brides mother. Miss Ufford has always
lived in town and is a very popular young
lady. Mr.. Orcutt has been the freight
agent in this village for several years and
is well and favorably known here. After
short wedding trip they will reside in Bar
ton. Their many friends will extend con-
gratuIations.
Anyone enjoying good band music should
not miss the grand concert to be given at
Seaver's opera house Tuesday evening,
Nov. 26th, at 8 o'clock, by the ~Lyndonville
Military Band-3O men, Bowen R. Church,
cornet soloist and director. This is an
excellent concert band and you are sure of
hearing good music. The solos by Mr.. B.
K. Church are alone worth the price of
admission, as he is considered to be one of
the greatest cornet s~oloists in this country.
Admission, 25 cents, reserved seats 50 cents;
on sale at Pierce's drug store. Music will
be furnished for dancing after the concert
at 80 cents per couple. All come and have
a good time.
The lecture given here last Wednesday
evening by General z. T. Sweeney will
rank among the best ever given in Parton.
His subject, "a Whack at the Universe"
was a little misleading, and some consid-
cred it a little irreverent and objected to it
and stayed at home. But here was where
they made their mistake. The lecture
itself was unobjectionable, and highly
moral. He started out with the idea that
man was the climax of Gods creating work
III
object of all teaching. Man is greater
than any work he has WrOught-mOre
valuable than his achievements. When
God created man he commanded him "to
have dominion over the earth" It is his to
lay hold of natures forces and use them
to take hold of natures wealth and enjoy
it. A civilized individual is an eternal
interrogation point. Man was never
meant for slavery. He was made for do
minion-to gOvern-tO rule-to be king1y
and noble. He is to live for what he can
do for humanity-for men. He is valua BILE
only for the good he has accomplished in
helping men up to a higher condition of
intelligence, a nobler moral standard, a
happier social condition. Kepler said
that man was the only creature that could
think Gods thoughts after Him. Men
should be like God. He compared our
nation with some of the nations of Europe, !
arc showed the superiority of their navies
to our navy, their great armies to our little
army, the extent of Russia's dominion and
population to that of the United States. /
We boast that we are the greatest nation
in the world, but other nations excel US in
many respects. We arethe greatest nation
in the world because We eXalt the individ-
uaI, we care for the individual, we expand
the Individual. Our work is making the
highest type of man. Europeans are
astonished at the momentous fact that we
always have a man for any emergency; but
we are all tho time training men for emer-
g~encies. We develope by our system every
individual, and SO provide for any crisis
which may arise. If we want a Washing
ton we open a Washington drawer and
one down. If we want a Lincoln we
reach up to the Lincoln shelf and take one
down. If we want to cripple Spain we
have a Dewey on the spot to take Manila.
If we want to interview AguinaIdo we send
General Funston and he brings him in.
We stimulate freedom to think. This is
one source Of our greatness. The ballot
box is another source. The red school
house Is the greatest house in America or
any other nation. He spoke of some of
the dangers that beset our republic. There
those who are trying to overthrow our
schoolhouse. We must be vigilant. One
of the sources of our greatness is the
printing press and the numerous weekly
journals, d~ailies, magazines ETC., but there
are those who are organizing to take the
life out of our journalism. The red light
of vicious literature is e~ndangering the
nation. Attempts are made to destroy the
purity of the ballot. He spoke of the great