Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-02-03

hold of it and dug it's grave trench
through the north and it's grave trench
through the south. Hardly was our
American manhood recovered from
that when the Spanish war came, with
its malaria and crowded hospitals.
Thank God that now four of the great
est nations are allied in good under
standing-the United States, England,
Germany and RuSsia-and if they will
do the right thing they can forever
stop national and international strife
and put an end to wholesale amputa-
ton. There are enough accidents in
time Of peace to keep the race mutilat-
ed more than it ever ought to be, and
the human family needs all it's arms
and hands and feet to do the work
that God calls it to do.
Further, celebrate on the instrument
of ten strings our illumined nights
They spread their "ents over u.s. and
some of us hardly go out to look at
them. During he nights other worlds
come in sight. The author Of my ttat
chimed the silver bells in the tower of
the midnight heavens, saying, "When
I consider the heavens, the work Of
thy fingers: the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained, what is man
that thou art mindful of him?'' We
thank God for the day; we ought also
to thank him for the night. Worlds
on worlds in sight of the naked eye.
but more worlds revealed by telescope.
At least one night in his lifetime every
man ought to go into astronomical OBJ
servatory and see what has been done
by the great World Builder. Thank
God for lunar and stellar illumina-
ton.
Further, on the instrument of ten
strings celebrate the possession of our
reason. A severe stroke upon the head
or a sudden calamity or any one Of
fifty kinds of accident might dethrone
our reason and leave us worse off than
the brute, for the brute has q substi-
tute for reason in what is called in
stinct, but a mans brain shattered
and he has neither mind nor instinct.
The asylums for the insane, though
all the time multiplying, are not enough
to shelter the demented. Through the
the schools of this country there are
tens of thousands of children having
their brain depleted. Philosophers at
ten years of age. astronomers at elev-
Ell years of age, biologists at twelve
years of age. They will be first on eX-
animation day. but last in all matters
of useful and successful life. 1t would
be amusing to see how much children
are expected to learn and know if it
were not connected with the tragedies
of damaged intellectS which follow
Amid the increasing dementia of the
world let Us appreciate the goodness of
God to us if our mental faculties are in
equipOise Voyaging from New Zea
land to Australia, storm SwOOped
Isaon us, and we saw all around us
fragments of ships that had been
caught in the same tempest. And how
thankful we were, sailing into Sydney
harbOr, that we had escaped! SO that
man and that woman whose intellect
! goes safely through the storms of this
! life, in which so many have fOundereG,
ought every day and every night en-
! plOy one of the ten strings in gratitude
| for that particular mercy.
The Blessing of Friendship.
! Another string Of this instrument
now friendships, deep and abid-
! ing, by which | refer to those people
| who, when good or bad motive may be
! ascribed to you, ascribe the good; those
! concerning whom you do not wonder
which side they will take when you are
under discussions; those who would
more gladly serve you than serve them
! selves; those to whom you can tell ev-
erything without reserve; those who
! are first in your home by person or by
! telegram when you have trouble. Oh,
! what a blessing to have plenty of
: friends! Aye, if you have only one
good friend, you are blessed in that
glad possession. With one such friend
you can defy the world. But he must
be tried friend. You cannot tell who
are your real friends till disasters come.
AS long as you collect vast dividends
and have health jocund and popularity
unbounded you will have crowds of
seeming friends, but lot bankruptcy
and invalidism and defamation come,
and the number of your friends will
be 90 per cent off. If you have been
through some great crisis and you have
one friend left, thank God and cele-
brate it or the sweetest harpstring.
"While all this is so,'' says some one,
"there are so many things that others
have which 1 have not" l reply, it is
not what we get, but what we are, that
decides our happiness. With the bare
necessities Of life many are unspeaka-
bly, happy, while others with all the
luxuries are representations of misery
In the Roman empire there was nc
man more wretched than the Nero who
ruled it. The porticoes of his palace
were a mile long. A statue Of him in
silver and gold 100 feet high stood in
the vestibule. The walls of his palace
were mother of pearl and ivory. The
ceiling was arranged to shower flowers