Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-10-16

was disliked by his own classmates.
You learned that from your older broth
er, who graduated the year before you
entered the university. But though
that young tutor was just out of col
lege himself and ought to have had
sympathy with the boys, yet he spent
most of his time spying upon them. He
Conditioned as many as he could at
examinations. He asked the most I'M
fair kind Of questions in the class
room. He had a perfect genius for
saying bitter things. He seemed to
feel that the chief end Of every college
tutor was to make the lives Of the stu
dents Just as miserable as possible.
Not only that, but outside Of the class
room he was always roaming around
the halls and the grounds and the town
to find some delinquent and to report
some breaking Of the college rules.
The chief butler of Pbaraoh's court In
college life forgets the Josephs whom
| he has left behind In prison
The Worst Taskmss4e~.
What is true In reference to school
factory and the department store. The
head of the department who Is most
cruel and hard hearted and remorse-
less to those under him is the man who,
only a few years ago, groaned and suf-
fered and prayed to God for deliver
ance under like treatment. What is
true about overseers Is true about capt.
talists. The rich man who Is the most
cruel in collecting the last dollar, the
last cent, owing him and who will
strike the hardest bargain is invariably
the man who was once so poor that he
knew all the pangs of hunger, all the
benumbments Of cold, all the horrors
that come from facing a finty eyed
creditor My friend, where Is the chief
butler Of Pharaoh's court who has for
gotten the trials and agonies of the
past struggles of life in his dealings
with others?
Oh, that we would be more like Jo-
seph and less like the chief butler in
our dealings with our fellow men! If
you are a man you have without doubt
read that book which is so dear to near
ly all boys hearts, called tom Brown
at Rugby" There the English author,
Thomas Hughes, writes an autobiogra-
ply Of his early life. He gives an ac-
count Of the flag system" Of the great
public school of England, the school in
which DR.. Arnold made his name as a
teacher bonored for all time. The lit
tie boys in Hughes day were not only
allowed to be "hazed'' by the big boys,
! but they had to be their servants. They
! had to carry the water and black the
! shoes and run the errands of the older
| students. On bitterly cold nights, with
their little shivering bodies, they had
to crawl in between the sheets Of the
! big boys beds and warm them before
they could go to their own beds. They
had to do everything the big boys or
dered them to do. There we find the
law of Rugby was the same as is the
/ universal law Of life. AS a rule, the
boy who had the hardest time as a lit
I tie boy was the hardest upon his flag"
when he became a big boy. What
American boy has not had the big
! lump come into his throat when he
read of the struggles Of little Tom
Brown? And, oh, the prayer OF CRATE
Z fitness we uttered when the big boy"
of that book, that good big boy" came
! to the rescue of little Tom! My friends,
/ cannot we be the good big boys" Of
life? All of us have served our ap-
prenticeships as flags" We have had
/ our hard times Shall we not try to
make the burdens Of the little flags"
about us lighter, as Joseph tried to do,
or are we going to be hard upon our
fellow men, as was the chief butler
who forgot about the troubles of Jo-
seph, who was once his fellow pris-
oner?
In the Buffers Place.
There is q centripetal as well as a
centrifugal lesson resulting from this
butler of my text ignoring his past mis-
fortunes. The one forgetfulness blinds
his eyes and hardens his heart to the
sufferings Of others. The second for
getfulness blinds his eyes and hardens
his heart to the threatening misfo
tunes which are ahead. Because this
chief butler had safely weathePed one
hurricane on the sea of life he is very
apt to forget to look to the seaworthi-
ness of his craft and to feel that from
now on there will be nothing but
, a smooth passage and no threatening
storms ahead. Because he has lain
down upon the operating table and had
, the surgeons knife cut near his vitals
and successfully remove the dangerous
. tumor he foohshly supposes that be
, will never have another tumor anC
. never have to undergo another similar
. physical and mental ordeal. TheI
what is the result? As he foFgets hi.
, past troubles he also forgets to guard
against the sins and evil habits which
might have brought him into his late
difficulties. Let us for a moment pu
ourselves into that buffers place.
Three days after the Interpretation
of the chief buffers and the chief bak
er's dreams is past Joseph had said Il
the baker. You must die" to the but
Ter, You shall be restored as the cup