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Coal We'll, boys, what are you look
ing at so eagerly? Only piece of coal,
do you say Charlie? | shouldn't suppose
you could find anything worth looking at
in smutty piece Of coal All, we'll |
am glad my boys have found thar only a
piece of coal, as Charlie calls il. is worth
looking at.
think l can tell you something about
it that will make you open your eyes wild.
er still. You know how astonished and puz
zled you were the other night at the tricks
of the "magic.man," who turned beans
into sugar.plums, and did all sorts of won-
derful things before your very eyes. Now
this piece Of coal is the most wonderful
piece Of magic in the world. Suppose l
tell you that this hard black lump once
had life Yes, boys am in earnest.
That black lump is really ono of the most
wonderful things in the world. It was
once a delicate little plant, turning ever
tn the sun, and bending and noddipg with
every oreeza. 1t is almost beyond belief
and don't wonder that you shake your
heads. Many people older than you
would do the ssue if told that the coal
to viii ch they owe SO much, and which
they use quite as matter Of course. once
made up great forests which covered vast
areas. They know it comes somehow Out
OF the earth aud as long as it continues tc
come aud doesn't cost more than 90 much
q ton, they don't bother themselves with
questions as to what it is. l have nc
doubt many regard it as peculiar kinG
Of rock, | want my boys to know better
and SO let US see if We can't explain th'
mystery about il.
Well then. in the first place, plants ar
composed principally Of two gases and I
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OF may perhaps be more properly called
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ST. BEKNARD.--The most significant
historical work Of Neander is his sketch
of St. Bernard, the ideal monk, as Luther
calls him, whose very phySiognomy is Il
portrait of the Middle Ages Who prefers
the democratic theocracy to the feudal
monarchy who restrains in Abelard the
first impatience of human reason to eman-
cipate itself prematurely; who reorgani-
zes the mcnastic orders to give them a
more spiritual character ; who awakes
the letbargic peoples, petrifed with pen.
ance. to launch them in the Crusades, and
by this means 10 reveal, as if by miracle,
the existence o. ofliberty. Rich, powerful,
possessed of wide domaips, born in the
fertile land Of Brittany, he despised dig.
mites, property, wealth, for the rude gown
of the monk, for the wandering life of the
apostle. for intellectual and religious con-
verse with the poor aud oppressed, for the
pleasure Of combating the pride Of the
strong and the powerful. Pale as dea'h a,
cmacisted as skeleton, without any life
but that which sbobe in his sparkling
eyes; ecstatic to such point that he
sometimes lost the power of taking fool,
as if he only fed upon ideas and drank in.
spiration; SO ahsent.minded that he
would for entire days know nothing of the
places he passed through or the persons he
talked with The people hung upon his
speech, and kings Upon his writings; the
pope he protected was aaored, the war; n
he cured was defeated the town he pat
ronized Vas saluted by the world ire
war be condemned was suspended, the
peace he disspproved was disturbed lae
man who listened to him followed him 70
the desert, to the valley Of bitterness, to
bury himself alive in the clois'cr, or 70
rush recklessly into battle. II he wish i
| it, the armies Of France wcnt out Of Chain-
payne; King Louis reren,ed his policy; TIC
Emperor Conrad abandoned the affairs Oi
his empire to 90 to the defense Of the
church ; two huudred thousand men
shepards who left their Hocks and came
down from the mountains, peasants aud
serfs, who arose as II resnyI ected from
their fields, great and rich men. who aban.
doned their palaccs--sli ~ II impeled by
certain madness OF beroi-in and Of m IT.
tyrdoIu, leaving behind them wives, and
children aud homes, went they knew not
where nor why, not obeyiug the will o'
God, hut the word of ST. Bernard
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Lives there a man with nose SO red.
who never to himself hath said, an pay
before | go to bed, the debt l owe the
printer Brandon Republican.
Yes, there are some know full well,
but they, | fear, will 60 to-well-the
place where there's no winter. - Pamela
Star.
You're blind, Star. you're reason s
dim, or you'd not argue such whim
cen Satan bad would not have him who
fails to pay the printer '-[Tupelo Jour.
nal.
We're glsd that now the means are
found to bring the back subscribers round
so when you've run your course Of
years, pay then at last your full arrears
bu;-no arrears to have to pay is better
far, we think and say.-[Land Owner.
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Mrs, L. j. MARTIN, Fashionable
VA Dress and Cloak maker, has constantly on
hand all the latest and most approved patterns.
Work executed with satisfaction and despatch.
Also sole Agent for the Grover and Baker Elastic
and Lock stitch Sewing Machine,
Mddlebury, Vt, IL ;6m
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substance called carbon The gases are
oxygen and hydrogen. You can easily
remember the word carbon Now when
plaut begins to decay, these two gases
escape into the air, while the carbon stays
and forms coal. So remember that coal
is chiefly carbon, and it gets the carbon
from plants,
Since it has been proved that coal does
come from plants, and that our vegetation
nowadays makes little or DO Goa, we know
that when the great beds of coal were
formed everything must have been spec
ialy arranged fo- it. The world wasn't
then as i. is now. 1t was just sky and
water, with here and there patches Of
land. There we're great marshes every.
where. Sometimes they would dry up and
become dry land. Then again tho sea
would come rushing in over the land, and
form new marshes. There were no birds
in the air /; no people upon the land. On.
ly reptiles and marsh loving beasts roam.
ed around in the soft clay. All was quiz
ct and desolate, yet it was not dresry
time. In the marshes and on the land
grew beautiful trees. Plants ran wild
everywhere. 1t was world of living
green. Now, it was simply on account
Of the marshy land that this vegetation
made coal, while our own does not.
| told you that time was specially
planned for coal making AS the plants
and leaves decayed. they fell into the wa
ter. The gases could still escape, but the
carbon, being covered from the action of
the air was left. This is the simple ez.
PLANTATION. Silently and with no human
eye to see, the work went on year after
year, century after century.
A few OF the plants in those DAYS Of
gigantic forests we're like what we have
beautiful ferns as large as many trees.
Such now grow only in the tropics
"Horse- tails" as you call them, which
are now seldom over two feet high, grew
then as high as twenty feet. Conifers,
like our frs and pines and cedars, were
very abundant. Bat the two most in-
portant trees in coal. making have entire.
ly disappeared from our forests. One Of
these had no branches, but was covered
with leaves and crowned with cluster at
the top Sometimes they were sixty feet
high.
But you don't see how We know that
trees did make coal ? There are several
reasons. If you should put piece Of
coal under a microscope, and examine it
carefully, you would see the vegetable &.
bsrs in it. 1t is the best proof we could
have. Then, besides in many places stems
and leaves are found in the COAL and
sometimes trunks Of trees are standing in
the beds. Again, wood contains silica OF
sand, and this is found also in coal. You
don't understand it as we'll ss hope you
will when you are older; but you can be.
lieve it now, and some day prove it for
yourselves.
| want you to look at this bright beau.
tiful diamond. Put that black, smutty
piece of coal by the side of it, Wouldn't
you think they had about as little in coTn
mon as any two things in the world Yet
they are made Of the same substance
carbon And although diamonds are tho
most valuable of gems, and eagerly sought
after, the world could get along without
them much better than without theil
black and often despised relation.
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\ lady made complaint to Frederick
the Great, King of Prussia.
Your majesty" says she, my hus-
band treats me badly"
That's none Of my business" said the
king.
But he speaks i'll of you,' said the
lady.
That" said the king, is none oi
your business"
Which is the butt end of a goat
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The SUBLIME AND THE RIDIcULoUs.-
In his myths of the Rhine" Saintine
makes light of grand Odin himself, and
all the gods. You have to consider we'll
now and then, in order to find out wheth.
ar or not he is joking. 1t is not unlike
Warmers trick you hardly know wheth.
er or not this is the place to smile; wheth.
er you are smiling at some one else or at
yourself. After SaiDtine lin the book
lately published here) comes Dore and
makes a screaming farce of it all.
1t is so easy to make the sublime rid
icnlous, that one Of the wonders of art is
the keeping all tant of the ridiculous from
the sublime, In the subimest Of all
written Comedies, how near the poet
walks, at times, By the perious edge of
the ludicrous, as well as by the equally
perilous edge of the apparently common
place and trivial, and yet without shad-
ow of derogation The grand and state
ly flow Of Dante's story carries along
with it all human incident, the little aud
the light as well as the imposing. Instead
OF the great suffering from contact with
the small, the. latter takes on dignity from
the august companionship.
If you have The Poeticai Works OF
j John Milton" printed for Thomas Tegg,
73 Cheapside, MDCCCXLI, you will be
kind enough to turn to page 449, and
cast your eye upon the picture opposite.
Didst ever behold such impossible vstas,
waves. lightnings, clouds? Look at that
strange creature tossing its limbs in the
hollow jutt under the wrecked ship. aud
at that curious manikin standing with
outstretched arms in circle of light
on top of the tower on the Gin Then
tell me why it is that with all its absurd
Details the picture itself is not absurd
that Turner's design is, indeed, not IN.
worthy of its association with the poet 3
lament ?
''Where were We. nymphs, when the remorseies
deep
Closed Ger the head Of your loved Lycidas -
There was 20 storm, by the way for,
as Milton expressly says
The air was calm, and on the level brine
Sleek Panope with all her sisters playd
/ II was that fatal and perfdious bark.
Euit in the eclipse, aud rugged with curses DARK
That sunk so low that sacred head of thine"
Young Edward King (the Lycidas Of
the Monodyl, in fact, went to sea lin a
very crazy vessel" which struck on @
sunken rock, not tar from the English
coast
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Chattanooga convention. reciprocity with
Canada, foreign intercourse, railway pos.
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AFFECTING AND True STORY "A little
girl 10 family Of my aquaintance--a
lovely and precious child--lost her moth.
er at an age too early 10 fix the loved
features in her remembrance. She was
beautiful aud as the bud of her heart un.
folded, it seemed as if won by that moth.
er's prayers to turn instioctively heaven.
ward.
The sweet, conscientious and prayer.
loving child was the idol Of the bereaved
family. But she faded away early. She
would lie upon the lap of friend who
took a mothers kind care of bor, aud,
winding one wasted arm about her neck,
would soy,"Now tell me about mamma ~
And when the oit-told tale had been re-
peated, she would ask softly, "Take me
into the parlor | want to see mamma"
The request was never refused and the
affectionate sick child would lie for hours
gazing on her mothers portrait. But
"Pale and wan she grew, and weakly
Bearing all her pains 80 mockly
That to them she still grow dearer
As the trial hour grew nearer
That hour came at last, and the weep
ing neighbors assembled to sec the little
child die. The dew of death was already
on the flower as its life-sun was going
down. The little chest heaved family,
spasmodically,
"Do you know me, dar!ing?" sobbed
close in her car the voice that was dear.
est but it swoke no answer. All al
once brightness as from the upper world
burst over the child's colorless counter.
ancc. The eyelids flashed open and the
lips parted the wan, curding hands flew
up in the little ones last, impulsive efcrt
as she looked piercipgy into the far above
"Mother :" sho cried with surprise and
transport in her tone-and passed with
that breath to her mothers bosom,
Said distinguished divine, who stood
by that bed of joyous death, ''lf | had
never believed in the miDistration Of de
parted ones before could not doubt il
now. ."-Iiearenlg Recognjt'on.
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II s. PUTNAM would inform the
I .people of Middleburv and Addison County
shat the old Cotton Mill is in full operation, and
that he is prepared 20 furnish carpet warp and
batting Of a superior quality, at the lowest cash
price,
Middlebury, Dec. l3, 1872. 89,tf
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T X. SAYRE, Dealer in Household
Ls Provisions, q general assortment Of Gro
3ories, Flour, Cheese, Lard, Teas, CoGeos, Sugars
oil, Tobaccos, &c Cash paid for Prime Butter
At my store any day in the week.
iOtf MIDDLEBURY. Vt.
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trical current nies like a tangent through
the heavens, we're thrilling and interest,
ing During the appearance of the late
comet, when at its greatest parallax, the
Professor made al ascension for the pur-
pose of aoting, or observing any atmos-
pheric changes that might be perceptible
to the vision or senses, The ascension
was made from an open lot or square at
And street and Powelton Avenue, West
Philadelphia started to witness the
ascension, but before getting over half of
the distance, | espied the Professors air
ship, perhaps mile above the earth,
slowly floating over the central part of
the city, and apparently heading for
Jersey" In giving description Of the
voyage, he said when about over the cen.
trail part of the city, at an altitude Of
about 1000 feet, there being scarcely a
ripple Of air. his ballon was awhile near
ly motionless in looking down, he dis.
covered dark shade from northeast to
southeast, covering the entire length Of
the city, and in width, covering about
two thirds of the central part dropping
few sand bags, he then assembled another
thousand feet directly up. he then took
another observation, five thousand feet
from terra frma," he said from that
point, that belt Of shade was as black as
midnight, while on either side of it. the
buildings were clearly and distinctly Wis.,
bic. AT this height it Was intensely hot,
80 much 30, that lady-the Professors
neice-who accompanied him, came near
fsnt;og, and he could scarcely respire. the
atmosphere was so sultry and close be
then sprung the valve, and eliminated
gas sufficient to descend into cooler
strata of air The Professor said he had
never befor found it hot in that upper
country, but always the reverse. The
phenomena of shade and heat he thought
could be accounted for on no other theory,
than that of some kind Of atmospheric
disturbance. caused by the flying comet.
There has been some tall railroad rid,
ing lately, between this city and Gotham.
A number Of the principal railroad Of.
ficials of the Pennsylvania railway, for
the purpose Of testing the capacity of the
road for speed, and supposed safety, took
a special train at the station in West
Philadelphia, and made the run to Jersey
city in one hour and fifty minutes. dis.
tance ninety.two miles; from here to
Trenton, thirty miles-time thirty. mine
minutes. Shortly afterwards Commodore
Vanderbilt thought he would try his hand
at speed, and with other railway officials
oame over here from New York, and
made good time, but az usual, the Phila.
delphians beat them. Z. &c.
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TASON DAVENPORT, Fire lnsur-
j snoe Agent, will write policies in the Farm
crs' Mutual and other companies represented by
VI. ]. Francisco in Rutland
Also the Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of New
York Office at ]. L. Puttolph's Store. 40
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For Sale.

BRICK H0U, E. Two stories high with l.
attached, Wood Shed, Barn, Sc, on ono Of the
best streets in Brandon Village near the business
center, on a large lot, we'll stocked with Apples,
Pears, Grapes, and shrub Trees. Good Well and
tistern. Building' all in good repair Wll be
.oid at a bargain if applied for soon.
43 0ZRO MEACIIAM. Lrg-don, Vt
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w ANTED-A PARTNER WITH
w $4,000 young, active business man,
having had experience in the mercantile trade,
can hear of chance to 90 in partner in
su old established bouse in this village None
nsei apply without the above requirements.
Address JOHN JOHNSON,
sstf Middlehury, VI
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II II MARDIN

II p. Russell, NJ. D., Physician
ILs and Surgeon. Office at the residence Of
the late DR.. W. ?. Russell. Office hours A. NJ.
till 4 p. NJ. 6P. NJ. till p. NJ, unless profession
ally engaged. al
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,,wO TENEMENTS TO LET,

Stu ated on Court Street, Midllebury Village
0. P. MEAD.
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y T. SUTTON, NJ. d., Physician
Ds and Surgeon. Office next door eoat of the
Addison House. Office hours, from to 10, a. N
IL to p. m, and to p. ~.
l5;ly MDDLEDURy, Vt.
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Others in Negotiation !
HANDSOME LoTs OFFERED on
EASY TERMS !
The Superiority OF
Il u ILDING lots

Yea, It is Christian duty,
10 secure pleasant home
when the days so dark aud rainy,
of a stormy life shall come.
Yea, to feel ones self protected
From the LASTS that winter seuds
Is a step of first Importance
Ia all parents and thcir friend
NORAL.
Yea, build thyself nice ueS house
Exempt from rat OF hug, monss,
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Which is the butt end Of a goat ?
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ORANGE, LEMON, ENGLISH
" Walnuts, Chestnut, Olive Trees, Vines
and Cuttings, of the best variety, for sale on
'ameda street, half mile from the depot.
n9-3m l. M. VIGNE