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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-01-11
NEWPORT.

Mrs. o. c. Miller is gaining.
Mr.. Whitefield Tuck OF Boston Is IN
town.
MIR. G. H. Prouty returned Saturday
from business trip in Canada.
Mr.. E. B. Holt of Boston visited his
brother. p. o. Holt, over Sunday
Col. z, NJ. Mansur has sold his share IN
the overall business to his partner, b. F.
NJ pore.
Mrs. Sarah Humphrey, who has been
confined TO her oed for many weeks, ha'
been gaining and is much stronger.
On Tuesday evening the Junior {. E
Society will hold social Every Ooo!
invited. Sandwiches and coffee DC.
Among those on the sick list to on
knowledge are Col. Z. NJ. Msnsur, Mr.. AM
Mrs. E. A. Spooner, F. P. Davis, Fran
Wheeler and Mrs. Archibald Wells.
Gilman & Company are holding sole c
silks and dress trim ings as well as man
other articles. Many seem to be takin
advantage OF the bargains.
Mrs. Edward Collins of Montreal Vllte
some of her friends in town Tuesday an
Wednesday. calling on the schools sls'
Miss Ruth Richmond gave party In hons
of Mrs. Collins.
The most office department in this villas
has peen somewhat crippled this past we'
since Mr.. Blanchard, Miss Chandler, al
Mr.. Wright have all been out sick III
Chandler is still confined to the house D
is improving.
The MARKS" Dramatic Co., who IA
been playing in town the past week, Ia
seemed 10 call a good house each mig
This goes to explain why our lectures
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-01-11
EAST HARDWICK.
SHEFFIELD.

Mrs. Laura Smith has an America
Wonder Lemon" plant twelve inches hlg
with twenty buds and blossoms on 1t.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-01-11

A little SON of Fred Smith Is very SICK.
Mrs. Florence Crow is on the sick list.
little girl baby arrived at Lewis La
roque's Jan. S.
A little son came TO gladden. the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. L. Smith, Dec. "a.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman STett are home
from their visit at Knowlton P. q.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-05-28

Nina's father was also surgeon
(now at the 'front.', and she had been
taught by him how to make herself
useful In emergencies. This days
work proved her efficiency, and was
the beginning of a long and arduous
service In hospital wards. Young.
pretty, and endowed with a nameless
attraction which Is more ponent than
youth or beauty, and continues to exert
its force when these are gone, Nina
soon found her way to "the 'front.'
the sad, terrible, magnificent front"
where all the virtues and all the vices
fought side by side In the same great
cause, and SO learned lessons from
each other; for even vices-so long as
they are not inhuman-have aspects
which arc NOT all bad, and can some
times support the virtues with an un-
expected strength.
At the front" was much evil, but
also much good. Weakness was made
strong. and harshness was sOftened.
Death and hardship are stern masters,
but good metal is welded under their
blows. Maidenly and sweet young
woman tended in hospitals where the
rough and the gentle of those who
nau -wvru the uiue or the gray lay
side by side, and never by word, deed,
or look were harmed by any. Hun
dreds are still living who will willingly
testify to this.
There had been terrible day in the
hospital at Fortress Monroe. 1t was
after fatal Fredericksburg, and the
wounded had been almost piled in the
wards, filling the floors so closely that
passing between the lines of pros
trate men was difficult matter.
There were not nearly enough mat
tresses and cots to provide for all, for
by one Of these blunders which are
always being made by no one knows
whom, big shipment of these essen
tials which had been forwarded to
Fortress Monroe by the ever-to-be-
blessed Sanitary Commission, had been
sent back to Baltimore. lie who had
a mattress had not cot, and he who
had a cot had not a mattress, and yet,
even so divided, the supply was so far
short of the need that bare floors were
thankfully accepted. If in any place
where the wounded could be under
shelter.
Overworked surgeons, hurrying Or
derlies, deft-handed colOred assistants,
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house on st. Marks Place, a quarter
of New York City which had long
held its own among the most fashion
able, but into which the blight Of the
boarding-hous was just beginning to
make insdious inroads. The time was
early perhaps in January; l do not
quite remember, but | know that 1t
was shortly after the meeting of the
futile so called Peace Commission,
whereby well-meaning men of both
sides had thought plant olive trees,
and only succeeded in sowing heavier
crops of thstles. At least two of the
men present had been members Of that
Commission, and had returned from
Washington oppressed by the con-
sciousness that matters We're In
much more serious condition than the
others We're willing to admit.
The li,tle assembly Of tine.looking
men and women before the speaker
was just now very grave. There were
friends from north and south Of Mason
and Dixon's line.-honest. whole -souled
persons, all of them, though their SEN
timents differed as widely as their
faces. Some We're young, and some
there were that we, the youthful ones,
thought were very old indeed. | be-
lieye that one Of them must have been
almost sixty years old, and was treated
with reverence by all save Uncle
James, who boasted nearly as many
years and had far more venerable
appearance, by dint Of wearing his
own beautiful white hair, while the
elder man felt himself compelled to
disport a shiny, dark brown wig.
This gentleman, Uncle Carruthers'
ha6 just risen to make some reply to
his tall brother-in-law's remarks, when
the persistent and shrill calling of
"Extray! Extray." penetrated the
closed doors and windows. Extras
at that time commanded an attention
which they seldom receive today.
For an instant all maintained the
attitudes in which they had been
caught by the newsman's cry. Then
there was break, dash for doors
and windows.
Alas! there was no mistake. The
words We're plain and each syllable was
like bullet: The flag is fed upon
at Fort Sumter"
The next morning proved this u
have been false alarm, but the ehec
on the peaceful little group OF OLD ane
young was the same that II mish'
have been later when the SAD tiolhg'
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lightning and thunders flashed and
rOared, and the rains dashed with un.
needed fury; but the heavy air grew
lighter and sweeter beneath them all,
and quickening pulse of life ran
from man to man, and from ward to
ward
In the bright dawn of the morning
1t was a radiant face that bowed above
the battered soldier who had worn the
gray. The surgeon was just going to
snatch an hour or two Of the heavy
slumber which comes only to those
who are tired almost to DEATH" He
paused moment to look down at the
two. "Yes, my brave girl" he said,
in response to her joyful eyes, "yes,
he will live now" AS the weary sur
geon went on, the girl bent over her
lover, and kissed almost the only un-
bandaged spot, an eyelid closed in saw
ing sleep.-Woman's Home Compan-
ion.
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home. So far there had not been many
women engaged in hospital work. al
though in the labor of preparing hospi-
tai supplies they had been incessant
and tireless.
Among the first in New York City
to ask admittance to the hospital as n
nurse was Nina Suydam. She was
"too young and pretty" said gruff old
Surgeon Daily. good man and kind
But in spite of the old surgeons OBJ
jections Nina obtained pass, N"for
one day only, to walk about, cry. and
get sick of it," said the good-hearted
old chustnut burr, as he signed the
paper.
That very day Nina happened to be
passing the door of the operating room
just as a fainting attendant was being
carried forth, and the old surgeon,
without raising his eyes from his work,
was crying out
"S.mebody come and take this
sponge, and he quick about It."
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Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Mine eyes hath seen the glory of the com.
ing of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the
grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning Of His
terrible swift sword;
His truth is ma. ching on.
/ have seen Him in the watch-hres OF q
hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the
evening dews and damps;
| have read His righteous sentence by the
dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
have read a fiery gospel writ in FURNISHED
rows of steel:
Gas We deal with My contemners SO with
you My grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the
serpent 18th His heel.
Since God is marching on"
He has sounded forth the trumpet that
shall never call retreat:
He is sitting out the hearts of men before
His Judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him, be
jublant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born
across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transig.
ures you and me. =.
As He died to make men holy, let us die
to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-05-28

A highly important invention af-
fecting optical science in general, and
the further development of the eye
specialists profession in treating eye
diseases and faulty vision in particu-
lar, was recently made in Berlin. Ac-
cording to a German exchange. the as
sistant of the university clinic OF the
Royal Charity hospital, DR.. Walther
Thorner, has succeeded in solving a
problem which had received much at
tention from many others before him,
managed to photograph the back
ground of the eye and obtain good pic
lures Of it, too. His invention repre-
sents a material improvement on the
ophthalmoscope invented by Helm
holtx In 1850. The latter, however,
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The Spread of Russia

prietor In Russia pleasant in the sum.
mer, On the other hand, the attend.
ant duties and trials are severe, with
crops to be planted and reaped by
methods more or less old.fashioned.
although American harvesting ma.
chinery is now being introduced very
extensively.
Northward, southward, eastward,
westward, have grown the dominions
of the great white "Tsar' Not more
than $50 miles to the southwark Of
the ancient capital of the grand dukes
OF Muscovy are yet to be seen re.
mains of beacon mounds where warn.
ing fires against the raids Of the Tar
tars were burned not 800 years ago,
and the Tartars are the faithful Goa
sacks OF the empire to-day.
Ten decades and more II took, but
the southern boundary of Russia to-
day is marked only by the hoary head
of Mt. Ararat, 700 verst to the south
of Vladikavkaz as flies the gray.
winged crow.-Outing.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-05-28

were true. Among those present were
North and South Carolinians. citizens
of Connecticut and New York, Virgin
ians and people from Massachusetts
one from Louisiana and one from
Ohio; and with the exception Of two
or three who We're in feeble health, ]
believe there was not one who did not,
in the sad days to come, take credit
able part on the one side or the other
in differing but active ways.
In one corner stood Bessie Calvert
from Charleston and Philip Schuyler
from Albany. The high back of the
Old-fashiOned sofa had shielded the
hands while sitting which they had
forgotten to unclasp as they uncon-
sciOusly rose and gazed at each other
Waansss GfSGhafn" fn"Af Of bBsaSGGfoarff" bBSG n &C., G.
who had involuntarily flung his arm
around Nina Suydam, as If he would
defy and rending of the betrOthal ties
which had so lately united them. The
old men stared at each other, Wnlte
to the lips with unspOken grief, while
unnOticed tears stole down their strong
faces: the young glared at each
other with fierce amaze, and the
women, whether old or young. sobbed
with n grief that could not be uttered
For few moments this smOthered
sobbing was the only sound In the
lately so animated room; but soon
there was commotion enough for
revolutionary assembly, during which
every one talks and no one hearkenS
| hardly remember how the party
broke up, but know that it proved
to be the last meeting on earth for
some who had loved each other well.
and the last for many months or years
of others.
The next morning beheld parting
that was stormy on the one side and
fearful on the other between Wallace
Graham and Nina Suydam In the same
old parlor. Wallace was hot-headed. Il
furious States Rights partisan. and
Nina was loyal daughter of the
Union, looking upon war only as
last resort. True, it had not yet been
declared, but all felt that 1t soon would
be, and Wallace Graham left New
York that night to "go with his State"
whatever action she might take. Be
fore that week was out not one of the
evenings group of friends who was
born south of Washington City was to
| be found in New York.
New Workers of thirty-five years ago
will remember the fine but sadly un'
sanitary old City Hospital set tift!
feet or more back from Broadway on
the west side. opposite the head OF
Pearl Street A day or two after the
news Of the first terrible Seven Days
before Richmond" it was rumored
that this old hospital was to receive
some Of the wounded who had been
deemed able to travel SO far from The
field where they We're stricken.
This was work for women. and at
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-05-28
SPORTING EREVlTIES.

Patsy McCuc has signed to ride
f. Smathcrs.
Harry Vardon is playing golf once
more in his old time form.
Syracuse University has a new
eight-oared shell for the Poughkeepsie
regatta.
The hour Of Sunday church service
In an English parish has been changed
to suit golf players.
The French team defeated the Amer.
lean team in the revolver and rife
match by 439 points.
As the number Of fast racing cars in.
Creases in number the makers find
cycle riders of experience and reputa-
ton more and more scarce.
On the Stamford Bridge grounds.
England. Arthur Shrubb broke the five.
mile amateur running record. His
time was "a minutes 33 2-5 seconds.
Miss Lottie bod. of Moreton, Eng
land, has won the title of champion
woman golfer Of Great Britain. defeat.
ing Miss May Hazlett, former cham.
piOn.
Jimmy" Michael is said to he i'm.
proving under the foreign physicians
care. and 1t is expected that within n
short time he will again be seen on the
tracks Of Paris.
Emperor William has recognized the
occasion Of the international cup race
by directing that the day shall be
observed as n legal holiday in the dis
,rict surrOunf Ms WieSbaden.
After seven months soiourn in
Australia. where he 10. more than
$4,000 in cycle racing. Ivor Lawson
now training at Vailsburg. with Il
View View Of supplanting Kramer as the
champion.
Trout fishing in Northern New Jer-
W. and Southern New York is very
Su SiI In Pennsylvania, Munroe and
~. Counties, and in the Big Fishing
orei .TA IN Columbia County large ones
"'e Veing landed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-05-28

To the unknown south, across the
mighty steppes to Vladilavkaz, nes-
ting below the snow.cloaked noun.
tains Of the Caucasus, a world of his.
tory and romance. lies our route
and within two days We are in real
Russia--the Russia untouched by for.
eign influence.
Unexpectedly one finds here in the
wilds Of Russia coterie Of refined,
charming people. The women intelli,
gent, well educated, some of them
speaking four or five languages; and
many Of them excellent musicians;
the men, mostly officers or titled dig.
nitaries of one branch of the govern
ment or another, for nearly every man
of position In Russia is connected
with the government. The bureauc-
racy and the army constitute the no.
bility. House parties, merry informal
dances and musical matinees, are
some Of the features which tend to
vac" of n great land pro.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-05-28
On Muleback in Bolivia

G. J. Post, who is travelling through
unknown South America" for Har-
9er's Magazine, writes in the March
number Of dangerous ride through
the mountains of Bolivia:
I'VE kept on ascending between
winding walls" he says, lat length
emerging on a narrow table land-the
top of the cliffs we had seen from the
decks of the Limari. A short distance
over the level ground, and then from
the farther edge we looked down on
the fiat, stony bottom of the Vitor Val
ley-a ragged gorge that wound a tor
tuous course through the desert. A
narrow trail with short. sharp angles
zigzagged down steep gully to the
bottom. The mules carefully picked
their way down among the loose
stones, halting inquiringly at times to
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EMANCIPATION MONUMENT.
Lincoln Park.

and ht-stepping women In short, cool
gowns of linen or gingham which
might have been clean in the msrning
but were anything else by now were
getting about between the prallel
rows of suffering or Inconsistencies
men as best they might. Words were
few, but voices were not hushed. Ihe
grievously wounded have not lcenly
sensitive nerves to anything eXernal
to themselves; 1t Is only convale'cents
who possess these membranes. one
poor fellow who had been removed
from his comfortable cot to make roori
for another in worse plight than
himself, raised his voice in complaint
against the racket"
A CHEEKY voice exclaimed. us thal
you, Johnny Glider? I'm glad to hear
that grumble! It's a sign you're get
ting better"
The speaker passed lightly onward.
carrying big pitcher OF beer te, II
one hand, and 4 small tin cup In ll'
other, administering the pitchers con
tents impartially to those who seemed
most In need OF It. for those days were
too hurried to make out the usual hos
pital lists and keep records. The Deef
tea went around to all alike, every
hour II possible. and every two hours
II possible" according to the custom
ayy and lucid, If somewhat Hiberian
phraseJlogy of the wards.
At the sound of the nurses CHEEKY
voice, u sorely wounded man opened
his one unbandnged eye, and gaze a
faint cry of, Nina! o Nina"
She stopped and turned. The
woman. trained by months of service
to meet and minister to all forms or
suffering without tremor, swayed
and almost lost her precious burden;
for beef tea was precious In thoie ILL
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too many men of brains and sense
Uncle James Linlith, thus standing
with his back to the fire, his six feet
fgEG above s8Bches te io@S i%SnlH nlHate stecAh hits Yehe
olent and powerful face surmounted
by its halo of thick and wavy silver
hair, dominated all others in the room,
as cathedrals dominate the cottages at
their feet, yet there We're several per-
sons present whose future deeds were
to show them to be men and women
of far more than usual strength in the
times that tried mems souls to prove
what manner of men they were"
The little gathering on this special
evening occupied the large back parlor
of broad red brick and white marble
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-05-28
The Unknown Grave,
BY lhos. Bail.

The Unknown Grave.
The nameless grave! The rest is just as
sweet
As ii 'twere pillowed on an honorea
name.
A citizen lies there, although to fame
Unknown. perhaps, like many you may
Upon the highways or the public street.
A soldier dead, with dumb, unceasing
prayer,
Pleaded little dirt to hide the bare,
Cold limbs. All, more, indeed; one called
to meet
The death-tide as it welled from Lattle-
field,
And valiantly in the line of duty fell.
Still more, if the truth must fully tell:
He looks the hero which he was, and
sealed
His claim by his l:fe's blood. The un
known grave
Is known to be a brothers that was
brave.
l.. O. Little.
Rushvile, Ill.
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choose perhaps a shorter cut II II
seemed to their instinct feasible, they
gathered their hind legs under them.
their front hoofs sticking stiffiy out In
front, and slid down on their bellies.
in cloud Of dust. and carrying with
them a small avalanche of loose shale
as they landed in section of the trail
below. You sit back in your saddle
all saddles in these parts have crup.
pers and breastplates to prevent your
sliding over the animals ears as you
go down or slipping off behind as you
go up mountain path-and as you
watch the tossing line Of packs below.
the speculation forces itself as the
consequences Of mules misstep.
That 1t is not all idle speculation Is
shown by the scattered skeletons be-
low in the valley, bleached 10 varying
degrees of dull White."-
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Memorial Day.

The highways teen with wanton bloom;
The gardens, wrapped in rich perfume,
Dream out the latest days of May
Lo, it's the lands Memorial Day;
And where the pines, intoning, stand
Beside low graves, or where the bland,
Soft Southern breezes stir the leaves
VI the palIIiellU--.u,.i. ----:-as
Sleeper in Blue, or Gray, his crown.
Over the dark and the terrible road,
Where wars dread rivers once ceaselesly
flowed,
Elnttered the gentle. immaculate dove.
Olt of the martyrs GHrk, battle-hewn
graves,
Springeth the Hearts ease in glorifed
waves
And through the land, for the Blue and
the Gray.
Shrined in the hearts of the people for
Tears fall alike, this Memorial Day.
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See Interior of Eye

only admitted of viewing the back
ground of the eye.
The fact that all attempts to pho
tograph the interior or the back
g.ound of the eye had remained fruit
less so far, was due to the peculiar
construction of the eye. 1t is difficult
to light up the interior to such an ex-
tent as to enable ons to take a pho
tograph Of it, and even in the use Of
strong sources of light the exposure
would REQUIRE SO much time thai. the
would mean great Inconvenience to
the patient. Now DR.. Thorner has con-
structed an apparatus with which he
first succeeded in photographing the
eyes of animals, especially cats
jewelers. Ch ular-Weekly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-05-28
Songs of the Soldiers.

Comrades known in marches many,
Comrades tried in dangers many,
Comrades bound by memories many,
Brothers ever let us be-
Wounds or sickness may divide US,
Marching orders may divide us,
But whatever fate betide us,
Brothers of the heart are we.
Comrades known by faith the clearest,
Tried when death was near and nearest,
Bound we are by ties the dearest,
Brothers evermore to be.
And if spared, and growing older.
Shoulder still in line with shoulder,
And with hearts no thrill the colder,
Brothers ever we shall be.
BY communion of the banner,
Battle Scared but victor banner,
BY the baptism of the banner,
Brothers Of one church are wei
Greed nor faction can divide us,
Race nor language can divide us,
Still, whatever fate betide us,
Children of the flag ar we!
Miles O'Reily.