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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03
TIE HINT or .ITTR.rrEO.C

Don't let your minds get into ruts, boys.
lfyou have ever travelled over country
roads in the spring you know how hard it
is to get the wheels out of tho deep tracks,
when once you have turned into them.
just so it is with your minds. You need
to give them freer range. Have always
on hand some really valuable book quite
outside your ordinary pursuits, and read a
little in it every day. Read ten pages at
tentively, rather than twenty carelessly.
Learn to pick up knowledge everywhere.
a good newspaper will give you many
valuable thoughts, which you may as well
save as not IT, you will but turn them over
time or two in your mind. 1t is reflec-
tion that makes an idea our own.
You are accustomed to think of Charles
Dickens as a wonderful genius. Yet he
says of himself "Myo invention, or i'm
agination would never have served me as
it has, but for the habit of common place,
humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging
attention." If Dickens career would not
have been a success without this habit, YOU
may be quite sure that yours will not. The
principle applies TO every other pursuit as
well as to authorship.
Which will you decide to do,-Go about
with eyes open, or eyes shut? The wide
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03
THE LOST SHEEP.

There inety-and-nino that safely lay
In the shelter of the fold,
And one was out on the hills away,
Far Off from the gates of gold;
Away on the mountains wild and bare
Away from the tender Shepherds care.
"Lord thou hast the nnety-nnd-nine-
Are they not enough for thee7"
But the Shepherd made answer "This of mine
Has wandered away from me;
And, although the roads be rough and steep,
l go to the desert to find my sheep"
But none of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed,
Nor how dark the night that the Lord passed throug
Ere he found His sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert He heard 1t cry,
Sick, and helpless, and ready to die
"Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way
That mark out the mountains track!"
''They were shed for one who had gono asray
Ere the Shepherd could bring him back"
Lord whence are thy hands so rent and torn?"
"They were pierced tonight by many thorn"
And all through the mountains, thunder riveu,
And up from the rocky steep,
There rose a cry to the gates of heaven,
''Rejoice, have found my sheep!"
And the angels echoed around the throne,
"Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

The greatest indignity eyer heaped up
on lone, lorn woman is that of the Detroit
Free Press calling Susan B. Miss Single
Bed Anthony.
1t is now definitely settled that the tel
egraph wires in Germany are no longer to
be affixed to poles in the open air, but are
to be buried in underground tubes.
"A countryman who came into Branford,
one day last week, attempted 20 set his
watch by steam gauge, indicating sixty
pounds of steam.
"A New York baker owns a Spanish
poodle that will not eat bread even when
reduced TO the verge of starvation. The
sagacious creature sees how bread is made.
"A Woonsocket lady has sued for di-
vorce on the ground that her husbands
legs are so long she can't keep step with
him when they walk together.
"A Chicago man, who went off, the 9TH
er day, with all his family, excepting his
mother-in-aw and the house cat, found up
on his return that the animal had been
talked to death, for being out late at night.
A French physician has discovered
that the peculiar odor of Russia leather has
and advises consumptive patients to re-
pose upon pillows covered with that ma
terial.
An Indiana woman, whose suit for di-
vorce had fingered along until she was en-
tirely out of patience, burst into her
lawyers office, her face radient with joy,
and exclaimed, esquire, the old mans
dead"
The Burlington and Southwestern rail-
road company of Iowa has prohibited tho
use of intoxicating liquors by its employees.
The order is occasioned by the aarmingly
increasing number of railroad accidents
caused by the drunkenness of officials.
Hero is a verdict said to have been
rendered by an Arizona jury: 1--WE rath-
er think the prisoner is guilty, and if he
is he ought TO be hung but as we are not
quite sure Oft, we recommend that he be
sentenced to Imprisonment for lile."
Our experience in journalism teaches
us that there is nothing in this world that
will so disgust and sicken the general read
er as to learn, after wading through the
particulars of an awful accident, that there
is probability of the victims recovery.
-lIoosac Tunnel has ghost, and if one
of the miners should oversleep or get be-
lated, nothing will induce him to enter tho
tunnel (Which is always dark alone TO
overtake his companions who have gone
ahead. lie will forfeit his days wages and
wait for the next day, when he will be sure
to join his gang. The ghost does not reveal
himself TO crowd, which goes to show that
he does not differ from other ghosts.
Secretary Belknap has engaged James
Parton, the historian, 70 arrange for tho
publication of the original manuscript pa
pers of Washington, which recently came
into the possession of the war department.
Among the papers is the original order
book used by Gen. Washington when he
was in command of The army in the field.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03

GIRL STOLEN BY GYPsIEs.-The Bur-
lington Free Press learns through private
letter from A. A. Butterfield of Jackson
vile, VT, that party of gypsies, now en-
camped in Pennsylvania, have among them
girl who slys she is II years old, that
her name is Caroline Green, and that she
was stolen from Vermont by them six
years ago. This statement came through
an Irish woman that lives near the gypsy
camp, with whom this girl managed to get
moments talk. The woman thinks the
name Of the town from which the girl says
she was taken, was something like Whit
ington. The girl is said to be seen daily
among the gypsies, and ii is believed there
must be something in her story. The girl
said that she tried twice to get away, but
that they had punished her and thre2tened
her life if she attempted it again.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03

awake boy is known and appreciated, and
so is the boy of small attainments and few
ideas, but the difference is far moro mark
ed when they become men.
Who does not know plenty of dull, dozy-
looking men, who will come in and sit by
your fire half an evening and never ad-
vance three ideas. They have none outside
of very limited range of daily drudgery.
They are like snals in their shells, and all
because they have gone through life with
their brows bent down to the ground seeing
nothing above or beyond this little furrow.
Heads up, boys, and eyes open. Learn
something worth knowing every day of
your life, and think it over at night, that
you may imprint it deeply on your MEM
ory.- Working Farmer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03
Poetyy.
n HOME TO RBST I.v
DY HENRY MoRFonD

BI HENIlH MONFOHD
The world dear John, as the old folks told us,
Isa world Of trouble and care;
Many cloud Of grief will enfold us,
And the sunshine Of Joy is but rare.
But there's something yet to be bright and blessed
In,
No matter how humble the lot;
The world still gives us home to rest in
Its holiest, happiest spot.
Sweet home dear homel on the northern heather,
On the sunniest southern plain;
The Lapand hut in its wiptry weather;
The tent Of the Indian main
Be 1t gorgeous wealth that temple is dressed in
Be it poor and of little worth
o home! our home-a home to rest in
Is the dearest thing on earth.
But timc dear John, is using us badly;
Our homes crumble day by day;
And we're laying our dear ones, swiftly and sadly,
In the dust of the valley away.
Taere's q dcath-robc soon for both to be dressed
in
place for us under the sod
BE heaven at last the home we shall rest in
The rest of the people of God.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03

That which is called in general way the
"great advarce in prices" is really an ad-
vance in the style of living. When people
say that it costs more TO live now than it
did hundred years ago, the same is true
in tho sense that people have more wants
to bo supplied now than they did then. 1t
is not true in any other sense. People can
live as cheaply, to-day, as they did in
Washington's time, If they were content TO
live in the Same way.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03
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VOL. XII.
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The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20
THE CONVENTION.

The Republican State Convention
met at Harrisburg yesterday, with
full representation of every county.
The proceedings were animated, but
orderly, and at the close there was
entire harmony and good feeling be-
tween the partisans of the successful
and defeated candidates. As had
been anticipated for months previous
ly, Mr.. r. w. Mackey was nominal
ed for the State Treasurership, an
office he has held four terms by Leg
islative election. The Supreme Judge
ship was the only place for which
there was a struggle. The rival as
pirants were trio of distinguished
and able iurists, the selection of any
one of whom would have been accep-
table to the party at large. The
nomination fell upon the Hon. Isaac
Gordon, of Jefferson, formerly the
presiding Judge Of the Yenango dis
trict. and a gentleman Of rare legal
attainments and Of the purest char
acter. His competitors, Judges Pax
son, Of Philadelphia, and Butler, of
Chester, are men Of equal ability
and integrity, but the western part
Of the State was permitted to carry
off the prize. He will have no firm
er supporters than these two gentle
men and their loyal adherents in the
convention.
The loyal platform adopted will
meet with the unqualified approval
OF every Republican in the State.
We give it our entire sanction. The
resolutions, while dignilied and mod
crate, are fully abreast Of the times,
and meet every new issue promptly
and candidly. This part of the work
of the convention could not have
been better done. 1t is seldom that
such a body is 50 outspoken in its
utterances, and at the same time so
judicious in its language. The reso-
lutions embody a progressive and re-
form policy worthy of a great party,
/ proud of its mission, and able to
prove its claims to popular confidence
by its record. Differences about men
are natural, but harmony in principle
/ is the evidence Of wholesome and
successful administration.-PhtiadeL-
/ Phja Press.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20
PrSrrn1D, cleardeld Co. Pa, Avq. Q, IS

! PESFIELD, Clearfeld Co. Pa, AuG. Q, 1873
Ed. JOURNAL: Your paper is very
welcome in its weekly visits, for We
look with interest to the local news
from the County where over seven
teen years Of my life were spent
Ny beloved mother lies buried IL
the cemetery below Coudersport
Many very dear personal friends
still live in your County, many have
died before and since / left, and 9th.
ers have gone to other places. Ny
/ pleasant labors in the Coudersport
Sunday School in 1876 are never
to be forgotten, with their bright
and friendly associations.
The delightful christian fellowship
formed at Raymond's Corners is
treasured rs among the dearest OF
my life. How many of these dear
ones have gone to their reward-I
need not mention them-most OF
your Potter County readers know
the Preshos, Bentons and good Col
Whipple.
We are permitted to be instrumen,
tai in building up Presbyterian So.
ciety and Church in this wilderness
region. At our Fair last Christmas
we received material aid through q
friend in Coudersport and we would
be very glad to receive some articles
for our coming Fair, Jan. l, 1914
Have we not friends in different parts
of the County who can send us q
few articles that we can sell. A
lamp mat, a pair Of socks, good
shirt, pair of pulse-warmers, a pair
Of woolen leggins-any useful or fan
cy article. Should there be any who
will aid Us in this way, Or by cash
gift, they may be sent to Miss c. A.
Metzger, Of Coudersport. Every
dollar We raise goes to pay for a
church bell or for furnishing the
church inside. Dried blackberries
would find a ready sale. A little
from good many persons would ag-
gregate a good deal for US.
Our r. R. is in running order,
with daily train twenty miles from
Driftwood, and from the west it is
four miles past Reynoldsville and
will be to the tunnel in two weeks.
An engine will be run through, and
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20
INVALID.

In the bright summer days when
the world is all alive with growth
and work and enjoyment, comes the
true burden of sickness. In the
autumn when Nature herself seems
sick, when leaves fade and flowers
are cut off by icy winds, when storms
rage and the beauty Of the summer
time has passed away, it seems q
filter time to be i'll, to cover in close
rooms away from the air and the
sunlight. Pain is just as bad then,
perhaps generally worse; but it
. seems so in keeping with everything
else that we almost expect TO be i'll
and to see others so. Then in the
early spring when everything is but
just trying to grow; when the soft
airs often change to fine gusts, and
even the fair sunshine looks delicate
and fragile, one can hardly look for
robust, bounding health. We can
only hope it may come with the TO,
bust weather.
But when that comes and fever
seizes US. and we burn and rave and
groan through the heats Of the day
with a heat greater than the days
or when a chronic aiiment gets nc
better, and we are held prisoners
alike at noon tide or night time; OF
wasting debility rests upon US
I EI0osening our hands from all the
worlds activities, our minds from its
companionship, our heart and hope
from its sympathies, there IS then 9
feeling Of incongruity as well as
pain; a sense Of being more than
usually aiar, that increases all Our
suffering. Philip Slingsby said ''It
is perhaps too much to ask that any
heart should 90 scatheless to the
grave, but in my unworthy petitions
l always suppIicate that my heart
may be broken about Christmas. /
know an anodyne of that season.
SO, we, if permitted to choose wher
our trouble should come, our helpless
trouble, would hope it might not be
| in the summer.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20

We have been looking through the
first volume of the debates OF the
Convention, and the number and
character Of the documents to which
we have referred make it more anus
ING reading than a book of Mark
Twain's. Everything that could be
a subject Of legislation is brought to
their notice and they are earnestly
prayed to fix them all up in the new
Constitution. On the l4th day of
the Convention, the woman suffra-
gists ale in with their paper. Short
ly after. we find the Citizens, NUM-
ciple Reform Association of Philadel-
phia presenting long memorial in
Guiding six clauses Of Constitution
ready prepared, which cover three
closely printed pages of the vol
ume of debates. and so it goes on
day after day. One man got excited
by the doings Of some enterprising
reporter of the press, and in few
curt words asks the Convention to
pass a lar prohibiting papers from
publishing the private bequests OF
wills, unless by the consent Of the
parties interested. Further along on
the 23d Of January some association
of mechanics petition to have the
trades unions prevented from inter
fering about the number of appren,
tees in any art, trade or mystery
They are going to have so much Of
the labor difficulty forever put at
rest.
The right Of petition is a sacred
privilege Of American citizenship
but its exercise sometimes makes Us
think the theory of Darwin is correct
what the members of the Convention
thought on this subject does not ap-
pear. Their work as it is published
we think might be somewhat con
densed and trimmed Of considerable
detail, and we hope to see something
of the kind done, but after reading
the debates we find ourselves admir-
ing the Convention for producing SC
brief and concise an instrument as il
now appears.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20
Republican State Convention.

| Republican state convention.
The duly chosen delegates of the
Republican party Of Pennsylvania
assembled in State Convention at
Harrisburg on Wednesday the 18th
inst.
This County had the honor Of fur
nishing the permanent President, in
the person of one of our ablest men,
the Hon. A. G. OLMsTED.
We take from the Philadelphia
Press the following account Of his
introduction into the position Of pre-
siding officer;
Gen. Campbell and Russell Errett, by
appointment, conducted to the chair the
| president-elect, who was cordially vel
coined, and addressed the Convention.
His brief remarks were enthusiastically
applauded. He said:
Gentlemen Of the Convention: I thank
you for the honor you have conferred
upon me in making me your presiding
officer on this occasion. Perhaps estab-
liShed custom requires that III entering
upon its duties I should discuss at some
length the issues involved in the coming
contest. If so, then we will depart from
common usage for once. l will simply
remark, then, that | trust the action of
this Convention viii be harmonious. a
full, free and uninterrupted opportuni-
ty will be accorded to every delegate
to present whatever views he may enter
tain Of candidates or public policy.
When all has been said and all has been
done, the majority must govern, and as
earnest Republicans, as Republicans be-
cause we believe in the policy and mea-
sures of the Republican party, let us ac-
quiesce in the yerdict-Whatever it may
be.
L need not reiterate the history of the
Republican party. 1t has saved the
country from its deepest disgrace and
from all its foes. 1t has written its prir-
ciples upon the Constitution and the
laws of the country. 1t has stamped
them in the hearts of the American
peOple-yea, in the very soil Of the con-
tinent-and it will continue to govern
the country it has saved, although some
wearied by the march may have fallen
by the wayside.
On the first ballot for State Treas
urer the vote stood for
Il. W. Mackey, ll5 votes
Samuel Henry, Is
Mackey's nomination was bolster
ously applauded.
Mae has made good officer and
nearly everybody is in favor of his
reelection.
On the first ballot for a candidate
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20

home.
Perhaps it is well to be prevented
by wise friends from trying any OF
these schemes. There are many of
them whose delusiye brightness is
set before us, but many are in such
earnest need of occupation by which
a living can be obtained, in spite OF
feeble health or care of children or
invalids, that every mean must be
tried; meanwhile if any one does
succeed, his example is a beacon
light that should be made to shine
so that all can see.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20
THE way to break up rings, and

THE way to break up rings, and
take the complete control Of the Sc
lection Of candidates, is for the peo-
pie to attend the primary meetings,
and select for delegates such men as
they would confde in to attend to
other important business.
Attend faithfully to the primary
meetings., and all the others viii be
well taken care ofYnegIect them, and
you have no right to expect the ac-
ton Of the County Convention will
suit you.
1T is the faithful performance of
little duties, that marks the useful
ness Of men and carries the world
forward.
The do-nothings arc usually grum-
blers -grumbIing being the only
thing they think it worth while to
do.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20
Means to Ends.

Much Of our time has run to waste,
much determined, faithful effort has
been frui5Iess from the days of Simple
Simon unto these present, for lack
Of finding tie proper means to the
ends we desire; we were listening
to-day to a discussion of the difficult
ties encountered by those who pro-
duce the necessaries of life, in win
ming the substantial rewards that
ought to belong to them and Of the
Oranges and other combinations to
resist the injurious requirements Of
those who live and work and act be
tween the two kindred classes Of pro
ducers and consumers. Every one
admitted that there was great wrong
somewhere, and every one doubted
whether any means yet known could
set things right, and the only con-
clusion was that every kind of busi-
ness should be carried on together
so that they could consume each
others products and there need be no
carrying away. But this seems hard
" in accordance with nature, for one
part Of the county has adaptation for
one branch of industry and one for
another and there seems to beneed of
wise, well-arranged, cheap currents of
transfer. Does it not seem plain that
government should see that the ways
Of communication should be open
and cheap.
These things remind US Of the
many little CLEANS of brightness that
are heeting about in the papers
things which for moment give com
fort and encouragement to feeble
ones looking for straws to keep
themselves afoat with on the current
Of life. One tells Of the profit of
accruing from keeping bees, & good,
easy and valuable business for q
woman or a feeble man and very re-
munerative. Yes, but is there sale
for the wax and the honey? If smart
enterprising farmers within thirty
miles of city can get but twenty
five cents per pound for butter which
brings in the city forty cents, how can
people in the far interior hope to sell
effectually what they produce. There
are 50 many who buy and sell, 50
many who live only by transferring
and who must get rich. Then there
is a story of a widow who made
good business of making raspberry
jam which she sold in a neighboring
city. Yet we are told by people who
are familiar with business that it is
cheaper to buy jams and jellies made
in great establishments in those same
cities than it is to make them at
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20
Dark Days.

Is that "local' subject? Ifso, SO
much the worse for the locality, for
really last week seemed like a length
ened eclipse. Out Of doors, away
from buildings and trees, one could
see to read or work, but anywhere
chat the least shadow fell all was
dim, dull, obscure-is there any
other word belonging to it? And
Monday Of this week is like unto it.