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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10

Take twenty boys Of sixteen, in our or
any town in the State, and let them go to
work, three or four in dry goods store,
boot and shoe establishments, and printing
offices. In ten years they will have be-
com men of twenty six, and the majority
of them will then be about as far along in
the business as they ever will be. One or
two only in each of the above branches,
will be established in business for them
selves or connected with some firm doing
good business, and the rest will be barely
getting a living and growing about their
poor luck. Now We assert that there is
good reason for their poor success, and that
''luck" has but little if anything at all to do
with it.
If we take the trouble to ascertain the
real facts in their several cases, we shall
find that those young men who became
masters in their trades, or leading men in
their pursuits were not afraid to work,
and were determined to succeed. They
looked beyond the day and week. They
made themselves useful and valuable to
their employers by being always faithful,
reliable and willing TO do what they could
for the interest of those for whom they
worked. When press of business came,
they were ready and willing to work extra
hours, and without sulking or grumbling,
well knowing that business must be at
tended to when it came, and that there
were plenty of duh times during the year,
which would more than counterbalance
any extra briskness of the busy season.
To sum it all up, these young men identi-
fed themselves with the establishments
where they were employed-became useful
to their employers, in fact, fixtures, who
could be i'll spared, and in due course Of
time, having gained experience, were in
vited to take a hand with the already estab-
lished house, or else boldly struck out for
themselves. Here, then, is the lesson,
which is, if you wish to become successful
masters, learn first to become faithful SER
wants
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10
,,.u.5 HE'D THB GR.sSs B.T.vxt

on spring engaged an intelli-
sert X prepare my vegetable patch
FOR 70 'c bean seeds and tomato plants.
There vl, 50 a little fixing to be done
about ,ia house. The brick walk needed
mendi-. though my boys and little Nellie
turned Hl 'ct the bricks without much
assistan lrau the old gardener. Half of
the grotul ois higher than the rest, and
green Wan .rass. On Mondays it was
white asa fresh-madc bed, for we spread
the clothc, there to whiten in the sun.
This grass plot ended in steep bank,
three or four feet high, and the ground be-
low was devoted to the few vegetables we
cared to raise
What trouble we had with that bank 1t
never looked smooth and solid; there were
holes in it; in some places the turf was
torn Off altogether it had miserable i'll
kept look What was the matter? The
grass didn't seem to like to grow there, and
we were utterly defeated in our attempts to
keep it in good order.
I'll tell you the trouble it was no secret
-evcrybod lnew it who came to our
90 ~ ''"-iP0I .,;as
oiic' "n h'' "l summer IL was "i'o
place to jun from. TO go down to the
gardeu by way of steps on either side of
inc io' was '' course 100 iliucn .rouOie
petler 10 m'A' rush rom the Dack piazza
ana leap ir'm lhe cage oi the Dahk' Iha'
was what started the soil and made holes
III H. bu' i' m"'er' +" was inc Jo,!les'
way To get ''er me ground our niue
iolks cIlihptl upon inc pahk' p'heu SUCKS
INTO IT, ana III ways Nhieh oniy suc'
troop cou'u ueVise' ,hey succeeueo III i,''N
ing II " CON ie'e I"ilure' ana an uhpieas-
ant spot 10 Unoiu' ..
Figaro, '''u 10 the olu negro, can
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10

AN ANEcDoTE OF JEFFREY AND Cock
BURN.-In a case in which Jeffrey and
Cockburn were engaged as barristers, a
question arose as to the sanity of one of the
parties concerned. "Is the witness, in your
opinion, perfectly sane?" said Jeffrey, in
terrogating one of the witnesses, a plain,
stupid looking countryman. The witness
gazed in bcwildermcnt at the questioner,
but gave no answer. 1t was clear he did
not understand the question. Jeffrey re-
peated it, uttering the words, "Do you think
the defendant capable of managing his own
atfairSS'' Still in vain; the witness only
stared the harder. ~ ask you again." said
Jeffrey. still with his clear English enun-
citation, "do you consider the man perfectly
rationale No answer yet, the witness on
ly staring vacantly at the little figure OF his
in uterrogator, and exclaiming, "Eh?" "Let
me take him. said Cockburn. Then as
suming the broadest Scotch tone, and turn
ing to the obtuse witness, lilac We your
null wi YEP" COW, ay," said the man,
stretc hing out his snufi-box. "Noo, hoo
lang have We kent Jam Sampson?" said
Cockburn, taking a pinch. Ever since he
was babby." "And dye think moo,
atween YOU and me, that there's anything
Until the cratur?" 81 would ma lippen (trust)
him wi bull calf" was the instant and
brilliant reioinder. Cockburn could GER
tainly use the tools needed in Scotch jury
trial better than Lord jeffrey, though infe-
rior to him MS lawyer or advocate.-Ljp-
piacotts llaga=ine.
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THRILLS or - COU.rTRI dLER-
s.I'.N.E.N. 4.


y young "rsoh thus ieellngly describes
his bachelor experience III the hrst village
III Which ne settle" 'i'er entering the NM
lStry;-
Old ladies' gave me tracts and tormented
me in every possible way. One gave me
cough lozengcs because fly got down my
throat in church, another sent me her late
husbands golosheN to wear when l went
out ON wet evenings the late husband 5 feet
were about five inches long,. third sent
wonderful kind Of India rubber bag,
which she said could be applied whenever
chill was felt. Not till my sister came TO
stay with me did | know that hot water
ought to be put into the creature before us
ing; l had thought it sort of mat to lay
over my feet, and very useless of its kind.
A Miss Thompsou wasthe most disagrecabo
of the old maids. She actually ran her fin
gers underneath my collar, to see if wore
flannel. During the year was at Little
back, had thirteen pair slippers, twenty
five sermon cases and three smoking cans
worked for me. One young lady embroid-
cred my initials on shiny-looking black
thread. Ny sister saws that it was done in
hairs and perhaps that accounts for Miss
Rudge being so offended when I said
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10

THE WoMAN's MOVEMENT IN AMERICA.
There is an eminent propriety in this wo-
mans movement originating in America
not only because we are less bound than
other nations by usages which have no
merit except that of antiquity, nor because
freedom and equality have always been
our watchwords, and are now our practice,
but because womens rights were recog-
nized here when the country was first dis
covered. The American Indian has al
ways acknowledged woman's right to la
Dor. Every career which in her narrow
circle could be obtained for her was open
ed. No species of labor, however arduous,
was denied her. The warrior, in fact, rare
ly entrenched upon her privileges. While
she labored he slept; when he had killed
the game she bore it home on her shoul-
ders; so that life then presented happy
picture of the most advanced theories Of
woman's rights. Let us no longer, then,
live under the reproach Of being worse
than the savages, hut let us yield graceful
ly to what is so ,videntlyour manifest des-
tiny Lippincohs Magazine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10
NO. 23.
LITTLE S.rv.I.vGs HAWKS.

"There is no use in keeping pig this
year." said Mr.. Positive to his wife. az
haven't n doubt but that the pair we fatted
last year cost us thirty cents pound. 1t is
a great deal better to buy one ready dressed
in the fall and put it up"
"But think what convenience that pork
barrel and tub Of lard have been to us all
this winter don't know how we could
have got on without it, with all other pro-
visions 50 dear. I am afraid you will think
pig costs so much ready moneyin the fall
that you cant afford to buy one. We don't
feel its cost when we pay out a little at
time"
"That is just woman's way Of looking
at the NATTER" said Mr.. Positive with
sneer "They never can be made to see
that money in a lump is just the same as
money broken into dimes and quarters.
You know it will be just the same in the
end. SO what is the use in discussing the
matter"
Mrs. p. sighed to herself, whats the
use to be sure" She had learned by expe-
ronce that there was very little use in try
ing to set her husband right, no matter how
crooked his notions were. Her only con-
ISOLATION was, in the present matter, that ex-
pcrenco is a sure, if 1t is dear school.
We'll, the season rolled round. There was
much refuse from the kitchen that must be
wasted, because there was nothing to eat it,
which would have gone u long way towards
keeping pig. The time for packing down
the pork had come, and as is quite common,
| it had suddenly taken rise" That is, 1t
was two cents pound higher than was ex-
pected, and Mr.. Positive was indignant.
"Catch him paying such an exorbitant price
for pork No, indeed; he could go without
rather than submit to such eXtortion. For
ty dollars, good pig would cost him. He
should like to know where the money was
to come from. He hadn't half that sum
ahead.
Mrs. p. did not say, 81 told you So" but
am afraid she looked it little, and 1 am
quite confident she thought it. Mr.. Posi-
tive was convinced, if he did not own it.
He missed his delicate doughnuts, and de-
licious, fakey pie-crust that winter; and he
was obliged to depend on very indifferent
market for his supply of meat and sausages.
And the sum paid seemed greater than the
cost of all the corn he bought for his last
year pigs.
The fact was that he learned what many
others are slow to learn, that such things as
pigs and poultry are the householder's
small savings banks. The money they
spend on them would be flirted away on
trifes, and not saved up so as to constitute
a fund for making such purchases all at
once. They help also to form habits of fru-
- L
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10

The agricultural implements sold at
Madison, Wisconsin, the past year amount
ed to 81, ,46S, 600.
The Ohio Annual Conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal church has
lust closed its session in Xenia, Ohio, after
one Of the largest and most interesting
meetings they have ever had. The Fif-
teenth Amendment begins to tell already
in greater activity in the temporal work Of
the church.
The first church bell ever made in Bos-
ton, being the one cast by Paul Revere Of
revolutionary fame, and bearing the date
of 1909, is to be removed from the belfry
of the old "Cockerel" Church in Hanover
street, where it has hung nearly three
quarters of century,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10

hon r,oo he went West, followed her
'or, Of honesty and industry, made
i..sd, home, married, grew rich, and
,,.. r,.ry elected representative from his
r'.l STATE. that as soon rs his duties
:. rr.u..m he had hurried on from Wash
t.o,,. . ,i. her, as he would have hast
anal ' au 1ari indeed he could realize
49,. .li...a-.. 0ctween the .ovo and rover-
cn,,. ... j- r and that which he might
t.,,s.l 6r own mother.
,.fH.. not an isolated case; for al
.t,,u.. neither representatives nor sena-
.,.. ... us- oro some half dozen other
,..., .. high social and official po-
sit.... vo their safe transit through
.olI I,. abyhood and boyhood to her
o,re d. 81, and other interesting facts
rer,o.,... Loo this wonderful mother, the
rop.I. ...n & this sketch VIII troat
MRs. $. l. NORTON.
pi....Ia.t n journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10
COU.vTRr' CHELDRF.V'.

Little fresh violets,
Born in the wildwood;
sweetly illustrating
Innocent childhood;
Shy ne the antelope
Brown as berry
Free as the mountain air, -
Romping and merry.
Blue eyes aud hazel eyes
Peep from under the hedges,
Shaded by sunbonnets
Frayod at the edges;
Up in the apple trees,
Hcedless Of danger,
Manhood in embryo
Stsros at the stranger.
out in the hilly patch,
Seeking the berries
Under the orchard tree,
Feasting on cherries
Tramping the clover blooms
Down 'mong the grasses,
No voice to hinder them,
Dear lads and lnsscs!
No grim propriety-
No interdiction;
Free as the birdlings
From city restrictions
Coining the purest blood,
Strengthening each muscle,
Donning health hrmor
'Gainst life's coming hustle!
Dear little innoccnts.
Born In the wildwood;
o, that all little ones
Had snch a childhood.
Gods blue spread over them,
Code green beneath them,
No sweeter heritage
Could we bequeath them!
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10
ABOUT Hop CuIruRE.-A. Parsons saws

ABOUT HoP CULTURE.-A. Parsons says,
"the great mistake throughout the country
in hop culture Is neglect. While young
the plants are very tender, and on a COM
pact soil, weeds will check their growth.
The labor of cultivation will be very great
if weeds are on the land and when such is
the case, it is best TO summer fallow, or
plant and hoe thoroughly the year previ-
vious to setting to hops. With the uncer-
tain ty of profits from hops, of the past few
years, it is best for those who cultivate
them to do it well, taking great pains to
pick well and have them well cured
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Poetry.
DELL GE.vTAI' ITTH THE LIT
TIE OWES,

He who checks child with terror,
Stops It's play and stills it's song,
Not alone commits on error,
But grievous moral wrong
Give It play and never fear Il,
Active life is no defect;
Never, never break Its spirit;
Curb IL only TO direct.
Would you stop the flowing river,
Thinking it would cease to flow?
Onward must II flow forever;
Better teach Il where to 20.
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New York has 10000 vagrant children
ald $3.50 liquor saloons.
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June. 4 towns on West VT RR. 400 Gals
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fit of French wounded are increasing,
and letters containing. checks are re-
ceiyed from Ohio, New England and
elsewhere. NE
Tho Siege OF Reme.'
FI.oREScE, Sept. 2O.-Projects for a
stay Of lhostilities, recently made by a
Prussian representative, have failed.
The Italians are about to force the
Roman gates, Only a feeble resistance
is anticipated. 1
The official journal publishes the fol
lowing details OF the Roman question
The North German ambassador to the
Pontitical States has written a letter
to General Cardova, commanding the
Italian troops, informing him OF the
complete failure of his attempts to pre-
vent resistance to the Italian occupa'
ton of Rome.
The foreign l~egionnries defy the
Pope's wishes in that regard, and the
Italians must now take by force wha'
it Is impossible to do by diplomacy.
The Italians are in force OIL all sidei
Of the city except to the eastward.
In the city preparations to receive
the assault are being made. These
preparations provide as far as possible
for the security Of property, venerable
monuments, and the lives Of non-com
hatants.
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T EFFECTS.

What the final effects Of the present
gigantic German emigration Into
France will be. remains to be seen
for indeed it does seem more like sud-
den emigration OVERLOOKING from n
country into another, than it does like
an equally matched contest between
two great nations. Since they first
started out, the victorious lesions Of
King William have marched right
straight along toward their grand OBJ
jective point, Paris, almost without
impediment. Like an army Of Lo-
Gusts, ants, or Salt Lake grisshoppers,
they have swarmed onward, the bat
ties they We're constantly fighting
seeming to be only so many tempo
rary implements in the way Of their
onward progres,-while behind them
come fiocking myraids more. We
hear TO grevious complaint about Ger
many being depopulated, yet sadly do
the French people cringe and shudder
at the sight of this overwhelming cru
SADIE OF devastators swarming into their
fair land.
The Prusslans, or Germans, started
out in the first place to fight the SOL
diers Of the French Emperor who had
declared war upon them. yet no one
dreamed that in so extremely short n
period Of time they would be knocking
for admission at the gates Of Paris,
Napoleon q prisoner. his empire over
thrown, and a republic proclaimed.
Yet the end IL not there, by any
means. Rome falls into the hands OF
uprising Italy, and the Pope himself
Is deprived of all further temporal
power. Italy, too, shows inclinations
toward becominga republic, and there
are perceivable in the present popular
demonstrations among the middle and
working classes of England strong i'll
d~lcations Of \ Republican tendency,
which do not pass unheeded by the
Queen and her aristocratic supporters.
What prophetic, far seeing eye among
men, may look into the dim future and
see England and other nations unre-
sistingly drawn into the helligerent
complication, and comprehend the pos
sible results. May not the numerous
sons Of the Green Isle take courage,
and look forward with increased hope
for the consummation Of their darling,
long cherished desire-thc free Repub'
lie Of Ireland. Yet greatest and most
powerful Of all the nations Of Europe
may be the union of the German
States - the German Republic-only
second among nations to the great free
Republic Of America.
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UNION REPUBLICAN STATE CON-
.VENrIoN.
TO BIZ uzI.p At ELKo, srrrEMpER e1,r.

TO Be uzIp At ELKo, srrrrNpEs al,r.
Tho following isa list OF the de-
gates to the Union Republican State
Convention. rs far rs they have been
appointed to this date. The names of
all new delegates from the different
counties will be added to this list as
soon as appointed and heard from:
E,merilds County-J. G. McClinton, NJ. A.
Murphy, Hubert Gillctt and T. ". Aorshams-4.
Lyon Counly-D. l.. Hastings, j. I. Roney, j.
NJ, McG,nn.s, Geo ". Shaw, Is II. Carrick and
r. A. Young-6. Second Set OF Delccatcs-wal
ter Buneher. B.. +. Leete, q c. Langtry, Theo'
do.e vinson, ]. r. Shaw and Z. Scribner g.
Storey C~ounty-Thomas Adnms, II. II. Day,
wm. Z. Beidlemsn, Henry Piper, $. I. Gage, j.
W. 0rndosf, ]. 7. Goodman, = Ruhling, -
eypous, - Daley. - Geaihart, l. L. Requa,
T. II. Hart. ]. II. Mcknight. John Lambert,
John II. Mills. W. y. Hall, G. b. ZabrisSie, Hi
ram Crandail. John =. Jones. Thomas q. Tsy'
Tor. Levi Ii. Fink, A. LAWSON and Ira Parker
81.
White Piue.-D. II. Jackson. Frank Drake,
Stephen Miller, W. j. Forbes, X. Barney, X. NJ.
Rowland, VI. J. Smith. Thomas Wren, T. L. K.
Dimock and ". Atwood-l0.
0msby-S. c. Wright, AID. Treadway, j. Q.
A. Moore AID ]. n. Benton, John Hanson and
D. Il. Lyman-6.
washoe-H. II. Beck. Dan. Boyd. Theodore
LOWS, George Robinson, y. L. Bunker. Henry
Henke. T. X. Hymer, d. J. Rogers, NJ. J. Smith
and G.. r. Holeonb-lO.
Lsnder-J. Il. Williamson, E. s. Davis, X. L.
Horton. l.. c. Mckinney. j.. A. Blossom, j. NJ.
araham. o. L. c. Fairchild. !. C. Ba;eman, W.
B. Dau:hsrty, +. J. Ely and J. Z. Bo.hin-li.
Sye-W. l.. FlaSier. j. X. Evans, Charles
Garrett, II. Stratton and j. NJ. Groves-5.