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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-01-25
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ButtcrhieS-NO. 3.


The AplrodHe is found in August aud
later. 1t is fond Of thistle.blows and is
most frequently found along road sides and in
pastures, duttering from one bunch Of thistlcs
to another the silver spots on its wings
shining brightly in the sunshine lis wings
are of a fanny color, with a black line aud a
row Of round black spots near the hind mar
gins. The rest Of the upper surface is spot
ted irregularly with black, while on the un-
der side Of the wings there are about thirty
silyery white spots which gIisten conspicuous
ly during Fight. If more than one specimen
is procured, it is well to preserve one with
the wings upright
The Aniiopa first appears in midsummer,
and a second brood comes later, in autumn
1t is a beautiful butterfly and very hardy
some Of this last brood can be found flying, or
concealed in sheltered places throughout the
winter The wings are rich, purplish
brown with broad buff margins. near the
inner edge Of which is row Of blue spots.
The edges are slightly scoloped.
MilJerts Butterfly is black, with broad,
orange border to the wings behind which, on
the hind wings, there is row Of blue cres-
cents, and on the fore wings a white spot
near the tips, aud two orange spots near the
middle of the front margin. 1t measures
over two inches, sometimes though the size
varies, as in most kinds Of butterflies. The
late autumn Archippui, for instance, is not
half as large as the early ones.
A curious family of butterflies is the SKIP.
per. The body is small and short, the wings
of dark, brown color with half indistinct
yellow marks. The knob on the anetnn@ is
curved to the side like shepherds crook.
The skippers fly with so quick and jerking
motion they are difficult to capture
The Chrysopharns americana has a name
an inch longer than itself 1t is copper
coored, spotted with black 1t flies faster
than the skippers even, and, if captured, re-
quires the greatest care lest in putting it tc
press the very delicate wings are badly in
jured.
1t is surprising over what distances an'
dangers butterflies will trust their fragil,
wings to carry them. Early in September
saw an Asterias that must have flown acros,
the Lake from Thompsou's Point, a mile ant
half away. 1t flew slowly, but seemed tt
have no intention Of stopping for rest. An
other passed over the boat, so near and 81
slowly it might have been taken with tn,
hand, but thinking it would certainly light
for very WEAKNESS, no attempt was made
and in little, it was gone. Skimming clos
to the water, it seemed to have no fear 0
any big fish on the lookout for his supper.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-01-25

The man who marries the prettiest girl Of
the place is said to be lucky fellow ard
so of him who draws the highest prize in q
lottery, or, by some "fortunate" turn in af-
fairs clears the gulf between want and wealth
in an hour. Aud yet the histories Of all
times tell us that with a terrible uniformity
and uncertainty the men who become suddenly
possessed of unearned millions die in misery.
Within five years a well-to-do farmer drew
quarter Of million of dollars in a prize in
lottery. The whole country enviel him his
luck but he has since died from a style Of
living induced by his good fortunate, and his
only sou has turned out drunkard.
The man whose first bet on the race-course,
whose first deal at the card-table, whose first
risk at faro, whose maiden lottery ticket,
brings money largely into his pocket, is a
ruined man at the very instant the world
pronounces him lucky Any man, es-
peoially any young man, who starts out in
life with the conviction that money can be
better made than by earning it, is a lost man,
lost already to society, lost to his family,
lost 20 himself.
An alarmingly large number Of the sons Of
ment helpless drunkards. Young men are
they, many of them of education, Of manly
qualities, Of generous natures, honorable and
hgh-minded but the demon of drink has
taken such possession of them that break
ing fathers heart, mothers tears and sis
ter's agony avail not to draw them from their
deep damnation. Elegant leisure was their
ruin.
The best way to save a child from ruin is
to bring bin up TO "help father Make
children feel that they must do something tc
support the family to help along then tive
feelings arise which are their salvation, -
those of affection and pride; for we natu
rally love those whom we help, or thos,
whom we struggle together with for a desirel
object, aud nothing so improves child as t(
make him feel that he is of some consequence
that he can do something, and that what h
does is appreciated - Halls journal ot
Health.
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Woman Suffrage in Congress.

In the United States Senate, on the 18th
inst, the following proceedings we're had
Mr.. Edmunds. Mr.. President, | have re-
ceiyed and present the remonstrance of Mrs.
Gen. Sherman and one thousand other women
of the United States against female suffrage,
giving their views upon that subject very
briefly and as the rules require me to state
the substance Of the contents of a memorial
or petition presented by me, and as it can in
this case be given as quickly and be better
stated by having the brief statement of the
mcmorialists themselves read, | ask that the
Secretary read it.
To the Congress Of the United States, protesting
against an extension Of teomaR suffrage
We, the undersigned do hereby appeal to your
honorable body, and desire respectfully to enter
our protest against an extension Of suffrage u
women, and in the firm belief that our petition
represents the sober convictions of the majority
OF the women of the country
Although we shrink from the notoriety of the
public eye, yet we are too deeply and painfully
impressed by the grave perils which threaten our
peace and happiness in these proposed changes IN
our civil and political rights, longer to remain
silent
Because holy Scripture lnculcates different
and Tor US higher sphere apart from public life
Because, as women, we find full measure OF
duties, cares, and responsibilities deyolying upon
us, and we are therefore unwilling 10 bear other
and heavier burdens, and those unsnited TO our
physical organization
Because We hold that an extension of suffrage
would be adverse to the interests of the working
women OF the country, with whom we heartily
sympathize;
Because these changes must introduce fruitful
element Of discord in the existing marriage rea.
ton, which would tend 10 the infinite detrment
Of children, and increase the already alarming
prevalence Of divorce throughout the land
Because no general law affecting the condition
OF all women should be framed to meet exceptional
discOntent
For these and many more reasons do we beg OIL
your wisdom that no law extending suffrage tC
women may be passed, as the passage OF such q
law would be iraught with danger so grave TO the
general order Of the country,
Mr.. Edmunds. This petition is signed by
about one thousand ladies from various part:
OF the country, many of whose names are ia.
Hillar to the public, not as the attenders upor
political conventions or operations of that
character, but as connected with wosts o
charity, humanity, and benevolcncc, think
1t sale to say that they represent very larg,
element Of opinion among American women
and, as | know, from my knowledge of m,
own State, and from its official action in thi,
respect, they represent probably nineteenth,
Of the women of Vermont in their objection,
to suffrage. move that the memorial be re-
ferred to the Committee on the judiciary.
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An Anchor of Safety.

This little sister will be an anchor Of
safety to her brothers, said a friend, on be-
ing shown a newborn baby girl
She did not seem as her little round, ex-
pressioness face looked out from the blanket
in which she was wrapped, as if She could
anchor anything but fond mother, whose
wondrous love would maintain seepless
watch over the tiny helpless form, and whose
car would understand each cry. How could
anything so small and feeble, so ignorant so
unnteresting to strangers, be au anchor Of
safety to family of rompng, whistling
whiting uproarous boys?"
A birch rod, shaking, a dismissal from
school, being sent before the mast, is the
anchor they need" some would say who know
not the soft, sweet kernel in the boy heart
God who made the dear boys and gave them
their yigor and manly energies, so trouble
some in childhood, so useful in after life,
knew better than any one what kind Of an
anchor they needed, aud so sent a helpless
baby whose tiny touch would disarm Satau's
power.
From the day that the boys admitted
their schoolmates one by one to the priv
ilegc of " seeing our baby and laughed and
sported over her staring eyes and tiny fists
and squirming ways, to their dying day that
sister is a power for evil or good 1t is a
sweet, honorcd place in the family Her
winning smiles, her cheerful ways, help make
the home an inyifing spot to tempted boys
A boy who loves aud is loved by patient
kind, Christian sister is far harder TO ruin
and if he sins is more apt to repent and re-
forul, than one who is denied that sweet re-
latioDship.
Dear reader, are you an anchor Of safety
to your brothers? Do you keep them al
home when bad boys and worse men are
tempting them to sin2 Are you patient with
their rough ways and bosterous games2 o.
do you feel relieved when the boys are out"
and say, how quiet and pleasant hous'
without boys? Do you dread their vaca
tions and holidays? Then you are no ancho,
of safety. You are not doing the sacred
holy work for which God placed sisters ii
! families
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Falling Apples.

lark a breeze stirs the curtain Of my
window and as it sways to and fro hear the
thud of falling apples. There is music and
gloom in the sound There is music in it,
because we know now that the hot days of
August are over and the golden ones of au.
tumn are at hand We think of the cherry
checked fruit and the purple grapes that are
waiting to be gathered; of the yellow corn
to be husked Of the ripened seeds to be har-
vested ; aud Of the brilliant crimson and sun
tinted leaves that are lending glory to the
forests--those beautiful leaves, that, as they
drop so softly to the brown earth make us
think of good men dying, their earthly work
all done aud themselves going to rest The
leaves will live again, and SC will the gorifed
souls, for nothing in Gods creation is ever
lost.
There is gloom in the sound of falling APP
pies, because, looking from the window, we see
the flowers and grass slowly but surely with
ering away, and we know that before long the
cold and stormy winter will come down from
its hiding-place in the north, come to-freeze
fingers and toes, and sweep mercilessly thro'
every broken window and dilapidated roof
Not for ourselves DO we dread its coming, for
we have good houses, bright fires soft beds,
and warm clothing. But, oh we do dread
it for the widows and orphans How can
they get wood or coal then, when they can
barely get money enough now for food ? How
will they be clothed and warmed and fed ?
Who will provide them with Thanksgiving
feast, or a Christmas tree, or New Years
present? All the sound of falling apples
awakens many gloomy as well as bright
thoughts in our mind. May the thoughts all
work out deeds that shall be good in Gods
sight.
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Of Moses, her husband, or even listened to
Agatha's innocent pleadings
"Oh, my poor girl " she walled, rushing
down stairs, when at last the familiar click Of
the front gate-aich sounded, announcing the
worse than Jacob and Rcbccca I've
throwod away your brthright We sold
it for four cents a pound v miserable,
cheating ragman
What do you mean, Clarissy?' demand
ed her husband, staring at her 10 OPEN
mouthcd astonishmcnt.
She wrung her hands hysterically together
as she related the sad story.
q" | could tear my hair out by the roots
when think Of my mad selfish folly - she
cried
Moses Jefferson looked gravey at his
daughter, who had stood listening in perfect
silence
Take your mother into the house, my
dear" he said. 4" I'll 20 over and see Hugh
Darwin about this business
Half an hour later, az Mrs. jefferson sat
by the kitchen fire, still wruging her hands
and bemoaning herself Moses walked in, es.
corting a figure in long.skirted coat, with a
NANCY fur cap tilted over lis eyes, and its
mouth ticd up with a red cotton pocket hand.
kcrchief
why, It's the ragman,7 she calculated,
springing to her feet with little cry.
And all Of a sudden the disguise dropped
of, and Hugh Darwin stood laughing before
her.
40, fit amt the ragman AIRS Jefferson,
its me he cried iovially. Agatha and
l. we thought it was shame TO sell the old
mans boarded papers, and he dying by
inches, so | turned ragman, with Squire
Jones barrow aud the sleigh bells aud bought
EN- myself and they're all safe in the garrett
chamber over home"
"Ani the money Z" gaspod Mrs Jefar-
son.
" The moneys all there, seven hundred
/ dollars" chimld in honest Moses, who stood
/ by, boamng with satisfaction.
Aud our little Agge can get married now
whenever She likes. Hey, mother we out.
witted you arter all, didn't we ?"
never was so thankful for anything in
all my born days!" calculated Mrs Jefferson
clasping her hands aud sinking back into the
cushioned rocker.
Uncle Philemon died very peacefully that
same night in fact he never entirely wax
ened from the sleep into which he had fallen
when Mrs Jefferson sat by his side and con-
sequenty he never knew that his beloved
treasures with their precious enclosure Of
bank bills had been bought and sold
A plain white head-stone CLEANS above his
last resting place now, Hugh and Agatha
Darwin are keeping house, as happily as any
crowned king and queen, albeit their palace
is nothing but little brown cottage under
tho hill, and their royal robes are but Of cal.
leo aud holden grey. And Mrs. Jefferson,
the domestic autocrat, is forced to admit
that just once in her life she was wrong
: HarPcr's Bdedar.
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The Kind Of Women for wives.

Let the true nature and object of marriage
be better understood in accordance with the
natural laws, in the physical qualifications
and adaptations Of parties entering it-in a
proper knowledge Of the duties and response
bilities growing out of this relation. Let the
qualities most sought for in marriage b9
changed instead OF the slender form, the
able education, the choicest decorations of the
person, let wel-deyeloped body, good health,
sound constitution. a. practical knowledge
Of domestic duties, be the qualities most pre-
fcrred-the indispensable prerequisites We
should then have an increase Of healthy of.
spring, less disconten. in the family, a far less
number of divorces, and a more perfect inion
between tho husband and the wife, in all their
interests, comforts and happiness in life.
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Self Reliance.

There is nothing more likely to result in
the successful career of a young man than
confident sef-reliance. 1t is astonishing how
much more youth will accomplish who relies
upon himself, than one who depends upon
others for assistance. Having first ascertain
ed the direction in and the means by which
his object is to be reached, let him put his
whole energies to work, aud with unfagging
industry press forward. The young man who,
instead of rising at five, sleeps till seven or
eight, and who spends his evenings on the
corners, or in the compauionship Of those who
are wanting in laudable ambition, rarely ever
wins position of honor or achieves a reputa-
tion above that enjoyed by the common masses.
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The Home Circle.



From Dr. q. n. Brlghnm's " Harvest Moon."l
THE Snow BIRDS.
All day the winds have sighed without,
Ana swayod the beech trees naked top,
In iitul gusts have Whlrled about
The scattered leavcsi a frozen crop
or bail anon O'crcasts the ground,
And In the hollows heaps
Now through the haKe-fiit peeps
The suu-the snow-hIrds iiock around
The cottage yard, a crowd
Of songsters nom the cloud.
They twittor In their gaity.
Among the snOw-iltkcs, starred and cold
AZ " they were In orstncy
To see the Icy field and wod
And Winter bearded DER with age.
As II the New Years gilt
Of sparkling, diamond drit
or q iul sun, aud bufeal rage,
To them had more OF love
Than all the summer grove.
When hides the sun and shout the winds,
Their white-tippud wing are spread again
Aud while the sitting snow rlect blinds,
High OF ls heard their twittcring strain.
TIL lost within the blue cold airs
A. II IN sporting CLEO
They held revclry
Among the snow Cakes forming there.
Soon back they come, ns -ay
Ia song az 10 their way
We're only one Wild secuc uf mlrthi
a. % ihe white and purple clouds
Were made the places Of their BIRTH
From whence thcy shower in crowds
holiday for you. sweet birds
Bright mnstrels Of the snow
More dear, others go,
For you 20 sing your warDling words
To tell the Oid Years praise
And cheer these winter days.
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At Grst it surprises one that love should
be made the principal staple of all the best
kinds of fiction, and perhaps it is to be re-
GREETED that it is only one kind of love that
is chiefly depicted in works of fiction, But
that love itself is the most remarkable thing
in human life there cannot be the slightest
doubt. For, see what it will conquer 1t
is not only that it prevails over selfshness
but it has the victory over weariness, tire
someness, and familiarity. When you are
with the person loved, you have no sense of
being bored. This humble and trivial cir
cumstance is the great test, the only sure aud
abiding test Of love. With the persons you
do not love- you are never supremely at your
ease. You have some of the sensation of
walking upon stills. In conversation with
them, however much you admire them and are
interested in them, the horrid idea will cross
your mind of, What shall say next 2"
Converse with them is not perfect association
But with those you love the satisfaction in
their presence is not unlike that Of the rela-
tions of the heavenly b dies to one another,
which, in their silent revolutions, lose none Of
their attractive power. The sun does not
talk to the world but it attracts it.--Arthur
Helps,
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DABY's PARTY.


Our baby must have a party
He's Just year old TO day
Under the leafy apple tree
Well crown him with blossoms gay
Tho robin, who sits In the branches
And sings by his dear ones most,
We will greet as the chief musician.
And selfinvited gust.
Go, Frankie, and tell Mrs. Biddy
To coho with her little brood
And call on your way for the lammie
And the kittens under the wood
Tie Bruce 10 the little wagon
Wen play he's hlg black horse
To draw the family dOllies;
They'll want a carriage, Of course.
Here's basin Of water for duckies--
Oh see, how they dive and swim
Aud Oh, look at the darling baby
lle knows they are all Tor him
lie Is emacking his iips to kiss them,
lie is reaching his hands to hold,
And his heart Is filled th glndness
And Joy that may never be told.
Oh, baby, with hair so golden
Oh baby, with eyes 20 blue
What are the angels weaving
In the Futures loom Tor YOU
II u be sorrow and sadness,
Iflt be pleasure aud Joy,
A true heart, patient aud loving,
God give 10 my baby boy.
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nltsGella
PRIMROSE TIME.

This world was formed for maid and man,
So each must hud E How
II hath been s0 since The world began,
And marigolds we're yellow.
fnr she who wastes her summer prime
And coldly doth cschcw IL.
Shall ln The winter 0f hor timo
With vain repentance rue it
Thcn prI' thee, my not my. hut yea,
Whilst primruses are blooming
Fnf spring tine will not always stay
The winter that u coming.
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4 lIttlr dowOr TO lonely grew
So lonely was 10 len,
That heaven looked like an eye Of blue
Down ln iis rocky clott.
What could The little flower do,
ln such a darksomo place,
Eut trs o. roach That eve ut blue
Aud climb to Hiss heaven. face
And thrrc's no '5c so lonc and low
But strength mag stili be- gwen,
ffnm ntrrnwcst l1t on earth 20 grow
The stfa.s shtef up tu heaven.
One step aud then another.
And the long 20 walk Is ended
One stitch, and then another,
And the largest rent De- mendcd
One brick upon another,
And Che highest wall u made
uuo flake upou another,
And the deepest snow b. laid.
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