Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-07-08
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men shall live In the national heart. |
But some OF them at least were as
bright as they were brave, as the fol-
lowing trustworthy anecdote bears
witness:
One fine morning after peace had
been concluded between France and
Russia the two emperors, Napoleon
and Alexander, were taking short
walk, arm in arm, around the palace
park at Erfurt. AS they approached
the sentinel who stood at the foot of
the grand staircase the man. who was
Z grenadier of the guard. presented
arms. The emperor of France turned
and, pointing with pride to a great
scar dividing the grenadier's face. said.
What do You think, my brother, of
soldiers who can survive such wounds
as that?"
And YOU" answered Alexander,
what do you think of soldiers who can
inflct them?"
Without stirring an inch from his
position or changing the expression of
his face In the least the stern old gren-
| adler himself replied gravely:
THE man who did 1t Is dead"
Why Rhodes Never Married.
Frederick Villiers met Cecil Rhodes
| In South Africa and was invited to
| Groote Schurr. which circumstance
| gives the following: "In the hall In
each room was hat, either on a chair
or. table-old hats of soft felt and ex-)
actly the same pattern and color. This,
found out later, was Cecil Rhodes
one popularity. Whenever he left the
house from the main entrance or
through the numerous windows lead
ing out on the balconies or to the We
randa there was always a hat at hand,
and there was no necessity for him to
go to the hall for his headgear or to
ring the servants to fetch it,
Was Rhodes a woman hater? Mr..
Villiers asked his secretary and got
the answer: "No; nonsense! He likes
'em well enough, but l think he never
intends to marry because he has so
many schemes on hand that If known
before they were quite ripe might al
together fail. He knows that so many
big ventures have come to grief by the
indiscretion of the fair sex; therefore
he would rather not risk matrimony,
for the relations of man and wife
would be too close for him."-Pear-
sons Weekly.
ironing His Handkerchiefs.
One Of the young men about town
whose means are not millions and who
must practice rigid economy to make
ends meet, while at the same time
holding his own with the high rollers,
is not ashamed to acknowledge that he
does his own washing and ironing ex-
cept as to shirts, cuffs and collars. He
uses silk handkefchiefs altogether. 81
wash them in scalding water,' he says,
''to which little ammonia homemade
10 cents a gallOn and some soda are
added. Iron them? Never! ..Mangle,
them? Never! When they are perfect
ly dry l fold them to the proper size
lay them in the palm of my left hand
and beat them with the palm of my
right slightly cupped, making a sort
of air cushion. You have by this meth
cd beautiful finish without that hor-
rid sticking which an iron gives."-
New York Press.
; Buying by Moonlight.
81 made a queer trip one night not
long ago." said the agent of a Gene
I terry company. 81 went out to the GEN.
, etery after dark with a prospective
customer so she could see how the
burial lot under consideration looked
by moonlight. The lady was of ro-
mantle turn of mind. She had taken
a fancy to plot on little knoll over
looking a lake, but before closing the
deal she insisted upon seeing the eff
feet of the moonbeams on the water
Z. and surrounding landscape. 1 had
sold many lots under peculiar circum-
y stances, but that poetic phase Of our
business was something new. The
lady seemed to derive considerable sat
isfaction from it. Anyway, she bought
the lot''-New York Press.
He Got His Ribbon.
A good story is told of a French con-
} sui who had rendered important serv-
| Ices to his country and had to wait a
long time for a reward in the shape of
O decoration. He determined to give
the minister's memory jog and to
this end went to pay his respects to
him every day with bouquet nearly
as big as a dinner plate in his coat.
After many repetitions of this delicate
hint his excellency exclaimed, my
word, you do love flowers, it seems,
: my friendr' staring at the floral tro-
ply. "Ah, l wear them because l am
SO tired Of answering the people who
keep on asking why L am not decorev'
s coolly replied the consul. The minister
9 understood, and the next month
i brought monsieur his ribbon
When the Heart Rests.
The heart, like every other working
part of the body, has its periods Of
l. rest or it could not long perform it
2 functions. The periods of rest arr
. shorter and occur more frequently il