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How to Treat Children.

"Pity and love the little children,
Tolerate their pets. Comfort Nellie
over her dead bird, and don't call Mol
lies little white kitty cat. 1t is
enough to break a juvenile heart to
have ones darling snubbed. How
would you like to hear your own Fred
ericlS Augustus called dirty young
one? 2 The little ones have their trag-
edies and comedies, and laugh end
weep more sincerely than you do al
Falstaff or Lear. They love, marry,
keep house, have children, have we'd
dings and funerals, and dig little
graves for dead mice in the garden,
and mourn in small white handker-
chiefs, and get brother Jim to write
an appropriate inscription for its tiny
headboard. Is not this human nature
in little, and in its small way, as de-
serving of "A certain respect? You do
not despise your own reflections in a
concave mirror, you know.
Cherish the children; mend the
frocks; don't scold ifthey break their
toys for man is not moro inevitable
mortal than playthings. Don't strip
their fat shoulders in winter, nor
roast them in fannels in deg days, be-
cause somebody told you to. Don't
drug them; don't yarb them; don't
stuff them with pastry, or starve them
on chippy bread; don't send them to
infant schools at three, or fancy balls
at ten, nor teach them the command
ments earlier than they can remember
Mother Goose. Let them have Christ
mas and Fairy stories; grandpa's
horse-cane rather than Mr.. Birch's
ferule; Little Bo-peep, not English
reader; Mary Hewitt, not Jamieson's
Rhetoric. Give them Wilson's Read
er's when they want them, not before" "
Monthtq.
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Tricks or Rascals.

Swindlers are sometimes wonder
fully Ingenious; but III covering up
their tracks they generally leave n
footprint somewhere that brings them
in the end to grief. Thus, in the
south of France not long 60, convict
from the galleys, who had for some
time passed himself off as q Greek
prince, spoiled his chances of brill
liant marriage by forging Turkish bills
of Exchange under the very nose of a
Turkish Consul He was arrested
and re-consigned to his former doom.
The neatest specimen of the art Of
swindling we remember to have heard
of, is little transaction which recent
ly occurred in London. The facts are
thus related: A man of gentlemanly
appearance opened TN account with
one of the city banks, paying in some
thousands of pounds every night and
drawing the amount out every morn
ing. He was afraid, he said, to leave
so much money in his Office over night
This sort of thing went on for weeks
though it was contrary to bank prac-
tiee-as assnattek of accommodation.
One morning the depositor's check Was
presented and cashed, as usual, but
on looking for the money which
should have been paid in on the pre-
yious evening, the cashier discovered
that it had not been received. The
drawer had trusted to the influence of
habit and to the credit which he sup
posed would attach to him rs care
full, punctual man, and his Judgment of
human nature proved to be correct.
But the artistic beauty of the swindlo-
consisted mainly in its safety If the
check had been refused, it would have
been in the ordinary way, with mem
orandum of "no funds" Now that it
has been paid, the swindler has merely
overdrawn," and is not amenable to
the criminal law.
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The Bright Side Of Africa.

That practical religionist, Dr. Liv-
ingstone, is again iii Africa, pushing
his explorations northward from the
region reached by Grant and Speke
and exerting himself in judicious
way to civilize and Christianize the
natives His description of the coun-
try which surrounds the cradle of the
Nile is.so much at variance with the
popular ideas of Africa, that one
would hesitate TO believe The picture
veritable, We're it drawn by less
trustworthy hand. A region profuse-
ly watered with brooks, springs, riv-
ers, and lakes, and magnificently
wooded, exists in the very core of AT
RIGA. The climate, though warm, is
healthy, and the people are intelligent,
industrious, gentle, and punctillously
polite. The only drawback to their
moral character is,they will get little
tipsy now and then; but they are not
quarrelsome in their cups, as is too of
ten the case with civilized humanity
Their idea Of future state is simple,
and, for untutored pagans, rational
1--WE live only few days here, they
say, "but we live again after death !;
we do not know where, or in what
condition, or with what companions,
for the dead never return to tell us
where they have gone or how they
fare. They call themselves "infants
in the night infants crying for the
day" Dir. Livingstone and his party
visited the great falls of the Zambesi,
the Niagara of Africa. At this sub
lime cataract, deep river, a mile in
breadth, is suddenly compressed into
a cleft eighty yards wide, and then
hurled over the edge of an enormous
mass of rock, into chasm three hun
bred feet below. Such is Moni-oa-
tunya, which signifies. we believe, the
Sounding Water. OF course it has
received new title from egotistical
John Bull Victoria Falls What a
bclittlement
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A PRACTICAL TEMPERANCE LECTURE
An incident occurred in Jacksonville,
few days ago, which might not be
considered exactly in keeping with
modern refinement, but was nevertae-
less both amusing and instructive.
An unfortunate lady, whose husband
seems more attached to rum shop
than to wife and children, after n
hard days toll TO feed her suffering
children, started late in the evening
for the tavern where her other half
had been lounging about, drinking
"rotgut, and playing euchre during
the day. Without much ceremonial
introduction, she entered the room
where her beastlikc husband, with
three or four Of his cronios was costly
seated at the table playing for the
drinks.
She unceremoniously seized the
cards and gave them shuttle, to
which they were not at all used, cut
the lacks" in promiscuous disorder to
all parts of the room, regardless of
the heads of the players. She then
NOi!iIicuCtu lttAlltilS Tue btiIOl -Sll uJA
! listeners, in n manAer that would have
done honor to the most renowned
modern reformer, upon the beastly
degradation of their course and the
shamefully brutalizing effect of alco-
hol. Her pathetic words came down
with scathing force upon her guilty
husband as she portrayed the suffer-
ing condition Of her children and the
priyation to which herself was subject
ell by the cruel neglect and dissipated
habits Of a once loving companion,
She next turned to the keeper of the
tavern, and gave him lesson of truth,
mingled with bitter tears and sorrow,
that would have reached any heart
not dead to all feelings of humanity,
and plainly pointed out his more than
robbery of her and her husbands
earnings for liquid poison, while their
children we're suffering for bread.
Having finished her lecture, her be-
sotted husband was marched straight
for home, It's hoped a better and q
wiser man. Greenfield Mass Gazette.
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ST. AIBANs, VII. FRIDAY, April. 6, 1866.

house and an immense fortune.
have never forgotten you, having acct
dentally learned that my timely aid
came from you. / resolved, if fortune
ever put it in my power, | would be-
friend YOU as you befriendod me.
That time has come l have paid the
first instalment of my debt. Helen
Eustace remembers the obligations of
Helen Morris.
John Wilbur advanced and respect
fully took her hand "You have no.
bly, repaid me-" he said "Wnl You
also award me the privilege Of occa-
sionally calling upon your
81 shall be most happy" said Mrs.
Eustace, cordially.
John took hurried leave, and re-
turned to his store as the clock strucl,
one. He showed his delighted part
ncr the check, which he had Just re-
ceiyed II hlven't time to explain, he
said; "this must at once be cashed."
Two o'clock came and the firm was
saved saved from their last peril
Henceforth they met with nothing but
prosperous gales. -
What more?
Helen Eustace has again changed
her name. She is now Helen Wilbur
and her husband now lives at No
Fifth Avenue.
And all this came OF Valentine.
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The Largest City In The World.

II the following account is true,
London is 10 longer the metropolis of
our planet That distinction belongs
to the japanese city of Jeddo, which
a correspondent of the Boston Irdc-
eler thus describes
But what shall ] say Of this great
est md most singular Of all cities? /
cannot give You an idea Of it, it is SO
unique, SO unlike everything except it.
self, and so impossible, ms you will think
1T is situated on tho western shore
Of this charming gulf, twenty miles
wide by twentyfour long IL stretch
es for twenty miles or more along n
beach of somi- circular form, with its
horns turned outward, and along
which a street extends, crowded with
blocks of stores and houses, and tenn
ing with moving crowds, while shop
keepers, artisans, women and children
seem equally numerous within doors
and at the doors. Indeed dozen or
fifteen miles might be added to the
s city in this direction, since there is
nothing but an Unbroken succession
OF towns and villages for this distance,
which are rs populous and well built
as the city itself
In crossing the city from the shore
I to the western outskirts / have walked
two miles and half, and then pro-
ceedod on horseback for ten miles far
Their, making twelve miles and half,
while in other places it may be wider
According to the lowest estimate, the
city covers an area equal to seven OF
the New England farming towns,
which are usually six miles square
And all is traversed by streets, usual
ly wide, well constructed, perfectly
neat, and crossing each other at right
angles; streets lined with houses and
stores as compactly as they can be
built, and crowded with moving ano
stationary masses, as thick as IL
Washington street, or New Yorh
Broadway, at least. for n considerable
distance. The population is estimat-
ed generally at three millions, which
Mr. Harris, our Minister, thinks is nc
exaggeration. For my part, judging
from what l have seen wher
1 have gone into the heart o.
the city, and crossed the city from
side to side, | should be willing to ado
as many more; for the living, moving
masses, seen from sunrise to sunset
and everywhere the same, fairly
seemed beyond computation.
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BE Kind TO Her.

Kind words and cheerful smiles cost
us nothing Why should we withhold
them from those that are starving for
one cheerfully spoken word Did You
ever go into a strange place where only
strange, cold faces meet your gaze
everywhere? And nothing but n
freezing stare returned your searching
look, for one, only one true, and sym
pathizing spirit to respond to your
own. You feel like crying out in an
guish, is there no one l may look upon
as a friend
Are we not each and every one of us
bound by high and holy ties of one
common Parentage? Then why
should we be so selfish thinking only
of our own comfort, caring little or
nothing for the stranger in our midst,
unless riches and honors are his re-
commentators
The daughter leaves her home to
seek employment in a shop or factory,
as the case may be, She leaves behind
her childhood's happy home, and seeks
home among strangers. Necessity
compels her to do it, and how soon
she is made to feel she is only stran-
ger.
f IN her lonely room after work hours
how she signs for the happy face, and
CHEEKY words that ever fall upon her
ear III sweet music.
But she works for living, says lily
fingers, Of course Il cannot associate
with her and she ought not TO expect
it.
Life is changeful. A word, thought,
or look can change us. We cannot
count with certainty upon the ENJOY
ment Of single hour. Life is sun
shine, darkness, Joy or misery, alter
nately. The rich of to-day may be the
poor OF tomorrow, for man with all his
boosted faculties of mind, his pride of
rank in the creation, can only hope;
and thank God that hope is for all
alike, the rich and the poor the high
and the low, bond and free.
Our Heavenly Father will not over
look one of his children. Christ died
1 that all might 1--we. beheVe bright
er day will dawn on earth when equal
ity and love shall form the grand fea-
lures of the social plan. There shall
then be no aristocracy of rank, birth,
wealth, or labor but all shall unite to
do the will of Him who commanded
us to do as we would be done by.
Deal gently with the strangers
heart, though her garb be unfashiona-
bic, and manners awkward, take her
to your heart and call her sister. Who
is it that maketh us to differ ? When
the hour Of trouble comes, that comes
to mind and body; and when the hour
OF death comes, that comes to high
and low; then it is not what we have
done for ourselves--bu what we have
done for others that we think of most
pleasantly.
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Bay Messrs. Harper & Brothers
nave ordered whole ship-load of
gnlte paper from Belgium. Ticknor
q Fields, Boston, have ordered 5000
ieams IN London. At present prices,
good book and news paper can be de
n'ered IN New York from Europe, all
uu'ies and expenses included, at three
quarters the price of American paper
- Ihe same grade. Another estimate
makes the difference in favor of for
siSn paper ten per cent. instead of
twenty-five per cent. 1t is certainly
ueinonstrated that paper can be i'm
ported at cheaper rates than our pa
per makers are demanding Mr.. Ben
netI, OF the New York Herald, is i'm
poruhg good news paper at fifteen
i ;os per pound, whereas the Amer
,n In paper makers are charging TWEEN
y cents for the same quality.
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A Word TO Boys.

A writer in an educational journal,
the title of which we have unfortu-
nately lost, has the following pertinent
and truthful remarks: Boys, listen !
The first thing you want to learn, to
develop what force there is in you, is
self reliance; that is, as regards your
relations to man. II were going to
give a formula for developing the
most forcible set of men, | should say:
Turn them upon their own resources,
with their minds well stored with
moral and religious truth when they
are boys, and teach them to depend
on sell, and not on father" If a boy
is thrown upon his own resources at
fifteen, with the world all before him
where to choose, and he fights the
battle of life single-handed up to man
hood, and don't develop more than an
average share of executive ability, there
is no stuff in him worth talking about
He may learn ito plough, and SOW,
and reap, and NOW, but this can all
be done with machines and horses, and
man wants to be something better than
either of these, Wipe out of your vo-
cabulary every such word as fail, give
up wishing for improbable results, put
your hand to the plough, or whatever
tool you take to, and then drive on
and never look back. Don't even sight
your person to see if it is straight;
don't be consistent, but be simply
true" If you go out "to see a reed
shaken by the wiud, it is pretty likely
you will never see any thing of more
consequence.
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THE CoBBLER's SECRET.

waggish cobber, once in Rome,
Put forth proclamation,
That he'd be willing TO disclose,
For due consideration,
secret which the cobbling world
Could i'll afford TO lose
The way to make in one short day
hundred pair of shoes.
FROM every quarter to the sight
- There ran thousand fellows,
tanners. cObblers, boot-men, shoe-mcn,
Jolly leather sellers,
All rodolent of beer and smoke,
And cobbler's wax and hides;
Each fellow pays his thirty pence,
And calls it cheap besides.
silence the cobbler enters,
And casts around his eyes;
linen curles his lip-the rogue then frOwns
and then looks wondrous wise.
Ny friends he says, "'tis simple quite,
ihe plan that propose;
And every one of YOU think,
Might learn il II you chose.
good sharp knife is all you need,
O. IN carrying out my plan;
30 easy Is IT, none can fail
n, Let him be child or man,
10 make hundred pair Of shoes,
Just 90 back 10 your shops.
ana take hundred pair of boots,
Ana cut off all the topsl"
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The Best He CoULD Do.-An army
chaplain relates the following funny
story. Seeing dirty-faced, butternut
urchin at the fence in front of house,
the preacher stopped and said:
"Is your father at home ?"
"No; he's gone to church"
''Is your mother in p
"No; she's gone, too"
"Then you are all by yourself ?"
"No; Sans in thar, huggin the mig
gar gal.
That's bad y
Eyes, it's bad, but it's the best he can,
do ~
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FAcTs FOR THE CURIOUS If o tallow
candle be placed in gun and shot at
door, it will go through without sus-
tanning any injury; and if a musket
ball be fred into water, it will not on
ly rebound but be fattened as if fred
against solid substance.
A musket ball may be fred through
a pane of glass, making the hole the
size of the ball, without cracking the
glass; if glass be suspended by
thread, it will make no difference, and
the thread will not even vibrate. Cork,
if sunk two hundred feet in the ocean,
will not rise on account OF the, pres
sure of the water.
In the arctic regions, when the Their
mometer is below zero, persons can
converse more than mile distant.
A mother has been distinctly heard
talking to her child, ON still day..
across water mile wide.
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BEAUrruL SENTIMENTS. The beauti-
ful extract below is from the pen of
Hon George $. Hillard;
II confess that increasing years
bring with them an increasing respect
for iAen who do not succeed in life, as
those words are commonly used
Heaven is said to be place for those
who have not succeeded on earth; and
it is sure that celestial grace does not
thrive and Lloom in the hot blaze Of
worldly prosperity, I'll success some
times arises from superabundance Of
qualities in themselves good-from
conscience too sensitive, taste too
fastidious, IL self-forgetfullness too ro-
mantle, and modesty too retiring. /
will not 60 30 far as to say, with u liy-
ing poet, that The world knows moth
ing Of its men, but there are forms Of
greatness, or at least excellence, which
die and make no sign there are
martyrs that miss the palm but not
the stake; heroes without the laurel,
and conquerors without the triumph. y
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A GENTLEMAN.-In the true defni-
ton OF gentleman it is not meant to
draw O line that would be invidious
between high and low, rank and sub
ordination, riches and poverty. The
distinction is in the mind. Whoever
is open, generous and true; whoever is
of humane and affable demeanor; who
ever is honorable in himself, and can
did in his judgment of others, and re-
quires no law but his word to make
him fulfil any engagement; such
man is gentleman, and such man
may be found among tho tillers of thu
earth.
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A MISTAKE IN GEoGRAPHY CORRECTED.
"A Raleigh IN. c.. letter in the Gin
cinnati Gazeiie records the following:
"The teacher of one of the freed
mems schools was examining the class
in geography the other day. Pointing
to Africa on the map, he said, What
country is that, children ? They re-
sponded, Africa, That, said the
teacher, is where your ancestors came
from-your fathers aud mothers. AT
this remark bright looking little
colon ed chap jumped up and said: oh,
no, mGssr teacher, dat Amt sony pa
is white man, and lives in Raleigh p
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The RED SEA.-The name Red Sea
is derived from large portions being
covered with patches, from few yards
to some miles square, composed of
microscopic vegetable, or animalculfe.
particularly abundant in spring, and
which dye the water an intensely blood
red. When not affected by those or
ganic beings, the deep waters are in
tensely blue, and the shoal waters
shades of green.
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CONTRAsT BETWEEN THE CAREER OF
MAN AND WoMAN.--Man lives in the
contentious crowd; he struggles for
the palm that thousands may award,
and speeding renown may rend
the air with the loud huzza of praise.
His is the strife Of the theater where
the world are spectators multi
tudes shall glorify his success, or la
ment his fall, or cheer him in the.
pangs of death. But woman--gentle,
silent, sequestered--thy triumphs are
only for the heart that loves thee thy
deepest griefs have no comforter but
the secret communion of thine own
pillow!
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Dag One of the editors of New.
Orleans paper, soon after beginning
to learn the printing business, went to
court q preachers daughter. The
next time he attended the meeting he
was taken down at hearing the minis
ter announce as his text. "My daugh-
ter is grievously tormented with
devil"
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A DEyiLIsH ASPIRATION Mamma.
II | am good, shall go to heaven.
shan't | p
Eyes. love"
"And who will be there, besides %
"Angels-dear, beautiful, good am,
gels"
"Ah,' hositated the boy, ''all angela
--all good, beautiful bows Mamma.
dear, do you think if l am very good.
they will let me have Just Que little
devil TO play with q
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say- A printers apprentice says that
at the Office they charge him with all
the pi they do lind. and at the house
they charge him with all they don't
ind He does not understand that
kind OF logic
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sfsy- What is the difference between
honeycomb and a honeymoon "A
honeycomb consists of number of
Small cells, and honeymoon con-
sists Of one great sell
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RATES or ADVERTISING
81. Adams Business Directory.

D,,I,EY & DAVIS. ATTORNEYS A&D
X COUNSEL LORS AT LAW and Solicitors in
pbanrerv. Office in the rooms formerly occu-
Mid by White 4 SoHlos Gadcomb's Building,
H. Adams, Vt. W-ly
q, % p,rrry PARK DAVIS.
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- pUcK, ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL
NJ. IOR AT LAW. Also, Agent for first
las Insurance Companies, and tor obtaining
soldiers pay, &c.
O0ice over Weeks store. l-tf
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~ GORGE r. nOUGHToN. Attorney and

GEORGE y. HOUGHToN. Attorney and
lT Counsellor at Law and Solicitor IN Chan
,@rv St. Adams, Vermont Oficc near She Post
oaieo and residence on Congress street.
Also. United States Commissioner, Commits
,ioner of Deeds for the States OF New York,
Massachusetts,, and other States. He will give
prompt attention to all professional business
With Which he may be entrusted.
~ Adams NOV. 4, 1854. II
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,vo va Mr.. Noggs, speaking of blind
s "oo'ou,sawyer, says: "While none ever
sa' MN see, hundreds have seen him
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WIN. II. WALKER, dealer in Stoves and
w Tin Ware Eayo rroughs manufactured
and put up to order, and the setting of Wood
aud Coal Furnaces promptly attended To-. l02
Opposite fremont House, st. Adams, Vt.