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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21

A father once came TO prominent pastor
in one of our large cities, and said TO him, as
soon as they were alone, am in great dis
tress on account Of the course my son is pur-
suing have done for him all that | can
do by counsel, eutreaty. aud reproof but all
my efforts have proved futile. have come
to you IN my sorrow, feeling that you PCS
haps, may succeed where have failed."''
shall be glad to do for you all that lies
in my power" was answered, "but when
fathers loving plea produces no Impression,
! fear that my words, too will fall powerless.
But must know what is the fault in your
son which has awakened so much solicitude."
DO you not know" answered the father,
IN surprise that my son INDUCES freely in
the wine-cup-tha he is, indeed, on the high
road TO common drunkenness, and that uD-
less he speedily reforms, he will become
wretched sot % Then, as if overcome by
the thought, he pleaded, Save, O save my
son will give you thousand dollars if
You win save my SON"
The minister sat few moments as if lost
in thought, then raising his head, and look
ing fully in the face of his afflicted friend,
he said very solemuly aud tenderly, My
dear friend You must allow me to speak
plainly to You. | fear for your your sons
condition you are responsible
" / responsible !" exclaimed the astonished
father. " Have not told you that since
first became aware Of his incorporate habits
have used the force of entreaty and re-
proof but both have proved unavailing
What do you mean You certainly do not
think that would encourage my son in
course that will bring not only ruin upon
himself, but disgrace upon his family"
Pardon me-" said his friend, but per-
nit me to ask where your son first acquired
taste for the intoxicating cup?"
The father did not answer, and the minis
ter continued Was it not at his own IA
Tiers table 2"
But he did not learn TO drink to intoxi-
cation there quickly pleaded the father.
No, myfriend, but he has learned to take
the social glass, and for him il has been but
short stage from social drinking to drink
ing to excess. The taste, once acquired,
has been strengthened by the daily glass at
his fathers table Your example, too, has
encouraged him. If you really desire to
save your son, from this hour resolve that
you will Danish wine from your table"
But ! do not agree with you that this is
necessary" answered the father. There is
certainly vast difference between glass
Of wine at dinner, and that undue excess
that produces intemperance."
True, my friend but the first is fre-
quently, as has been the case with your son,
but a stepping-stome to the latter. Unless
YOU are willing to make this sacrifice, have
little hope for your som"
The father did not Danish wine from his
table, and his son now fills drunkard's
grave, At whose hands win his blood be
required ?-NaiioHdi Temperance AdrocGie
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
Going 10 the Country.

When go TO the country to visit my rela-
tions, the spare-bed rises up before my imag-
ination days before | start, and shiyer as
remember how cold and grayelike the
sheets are. put off the visits as long as
possible, solely on account of the spare bed.
don't like to tell them | had rather sleep
on picket fence than to enter the spare
room and creep into that spare-bed, and so
they know nothing of my suherings. The
spare-bed is as near a mile and q half from
the rest of the beds as il can be located It's
either upstairs at the head of the hall, or
off in the parlor The parlor curtains have
not been raised for weeks everything is as
prim as an old maids bonnet, and the bed
is as square and as true as If it had been
made up to carpenters rule. No matter
whether 1t be summer or winter, the bed is
like iee aud sinks down in way TO make
one shiver. Tho sheets are slippery clean
the pillow slips rustic like shrouds, ani one
dare not stretch his leg down for fear of
kicking against tombstone. One sinks
down until he Is lost in the hollow, and foot
by foot the prim bed-posts vanish from sight.
lie is worn out and sleepy, but he knows that
the rest of the family are so far away that
no one could hear him if he should shout
Tor an hour and this makes him nervous.
lie wonders IL any one ever died in that
room, and straightway he sees faces of dead
persons, hears strange noises, and presently
feels chill galloping up and down bis back
Did any one ever pass comfortable night
in spare-bed No matter how many quilts
and spreads covered him, he could not get
warm, and il he accidently fell asleep it was
to awake under the impression that a dead
man was pulling his nose. 1t will be days
and weeks before he RECEIVERS from the i'm
preston, and yet he must suffer in silence,
because the spare-bed was assigned him in
token of esteem and affection.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
The Living Room.

Let US begin with the frank Abandonment
OF any formal parlor, hut, taking the largest
and pleasantest and most accessible room in
the house, let Us give it up to the wife and
children i'll the daytime, and to the meeting
OF the whole family when the evening comes.
There is not much need at the present time
to emphasize this suggestion, for it is one
which experience aud necessity have already
made to a good many people and now that
the problem, How TO get a dwelling at
rent within moderate means" is being solved
by the increase of flats and apartment
houses, the "parlor must be given IN.
there being no provision made for it in the
common plans. But it is by no means nv
notion that the living room should be a
homely, matter-of-fact apartment, consecra-
ted to the utilities, while the MUSES. and the
Graces are left to kick their heels in the
hall On the contrary, we want in the liv-
ing room, for a foundation, that the furni-
ture shall be the best designed and best
matle that we can afford, and all Of it in
tended TO be used aud necessary TO our com
tort; not an article to be allowed that does
lot earn its living, and cannot prove its right
70 be there These wants being provided
for first, then we will admit the ornaments
OF life, casts, pictures, engravings bronzes,
books, chief nourishers in life's feast but in
the beginning these are 70 be new and Of the
choicest, and the greatest care is to be taken
in admitting a newcomer. The room, from
the very first, ought to represent the culture
of the family-what is their taste, what feel.
ing they have for art it should represent
themselves, and not other people and the
Troublesome fact is that it will represent
these, whether its owners would let it or no,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
The Ruins.

In the city of New York, on Fulton street
near Broadway, stands, or did stand, as oul
eyes can testify grog shop, having over the
door the significant sign The Ruins the
truest description we have ever seen ovei
such doorway to death as the liquor shop
is. We would that such label was hung
over every one of the multitudes that curse
the land.
One has but TO stand where we have stood
in front of the grog shop to learn the truth
fulness of that inscription. See that bloated
red-eyed creature, as he comes reeling forth
having stamped on his every feature and his
whole person the fearful word RUIZ. His
clothes are in ruins, his pocket is ruined
his health is ruined, and with ruined soul
he goes TO meet ruined family, in ruined
home and yet, with such ruins staring them
in the face, and meeting them at the door
we have seen other young men laughingly
enter that man-tiap, to be themselves in turn
driven out ruined men. Oh, the madness of
RUNS victims
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21

One morning, not long since, we entered
one of those elegant coaches to be found on
all the great railway lines, in these DAYS
when travelling is reduced to fine art, and
took a seat for a long days ride Presently
three gentlemen came in, and seated them
selves near by.
One was man Of about fifty, low voiced
and calm in manner and evidently accus-
toned to ease. The second was gay and io-
vial, with little evidence of culture, save in
his fine broadcloth and spotless linen. The
third, a tall, slender young man, of quiet an
pearance, might have passed for a bank clerk
or q professional man.
As the train moved on, however they be-
gan TO talk of business matters and to my
establishment found they were all in the IL
qnor trade. The first a distiller, the second a
wholesale dealer, the last an agent.
Any one not familiar with the traffic would
have been struck with ihe free and easy way
in which they discuss ed their terrible bust
ness, with no fear, no shame, aud no con
science. They talked of whisky as if it had
been bread, and after a time the dealer closed
a bargain for one hundred and fifty barrels,
and we began think what that meant--one
hundred and fifty barrels of whisky What
characters, what hopes, what happiness could
be drowned in that what home love, and all
sweet things in life, could be swept away
what crime, and disaster and death lay in
those barrels of whisky, bought and sold
with such nonehalant air.
The agent told of his disappointment in
finding that one of his old customers had
purchased fifty barrels Of what he termed
"poor stuff from another man.
The distiller replied, with a smile, "what
&c that ,,orr whisky lil1s off yctr
up there ?"
Very WE'LL" said the dealer, 81 would
like to have some Of them killed of so can
get a new lot"
Then they all laughed at the horrible wit.
"A new lot, meant boys pure yet
in the homes of village, somewhere /;
meant young men, with life all before them
and full of noble promises meant strong
men, playing with appetite, till they lost
self control and manhood in the wreck Of
madness.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
The Alpine Horn.

Among the lofty mountains and elevated
valleys of Switzerland the Alpine horn has
another use beside that Of sounding the far
famed RAM des Vaches, or COW song, and
this is Of very solemn and impressive ma
ture. When the sun has set in the valley,
and only the snowy submits of the noun
tains gleam with golden light, the herdsman,
who dwells upon the highest habitabls spot,
takes his horn and pronounces audibly. and
loudly through ii, as through q speaking
trumpet, Praise the Lord God"
As soon as the sound is heard by the nelgn-
boring huntsmen, they issue from their huts,
take their Alpine horns, and repeat the same
words. This frequently lasts quarter of
an hour, and the name OF the Creator re-
sounds from all the mountains and rocky
cliffs around. Silence at length settles over
the scene. All the huntsmen kneel and pray
with uncovered heads. In the meantime It
has grown quite dark
Good-nightl" |" calls the highest herds
man again through his horn. Goodnight !"
again resounds from all the mountains, the
horns Of the huntsmen, and the rocky cliffs.
The mountaineers then retire TO their dwell
ings, and TO rest.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
4 food EXAmnle.

In a note of tho death Of John Harper
one of the Harper Brothers-it was said !:
After Mr.. Harper had left his office for the
day and retired to his home on Fifth Avenue,
he would give up all thoughts of business
matters, and would refuse TO converse on
business affairs This fact should be painted
in white letters on a black background,
and framed in gilt and hung over the desk
of every business man in the land And
over the portals of every business mans
home should be the warning to those who
would thrust business into that house: NO
business transacted here" You cannot throw
a stone into the crowded street that you will
not hit man broken in body, if not in mind.
early in life, through the wear and tear of
business, which has been permitted to follow
his every step from morning till night, and
even the hours that should be devoted to
sleep This very day, stopping at the post
Office, one gentleman could not wait the
getting out of the post-ofice corridor before
he must begin TO open his mail, while another
gentleman was passing from the office, and
in the street was breaking the envelopes and
reading the Enclosures. Not even the short
walk to their place of business, of pleas
ant morning, was permitted free from bust
ness cogitations. Two-thirds of our business
men reserve until evening the most taxing
part of their days work. and pass their even
ings, even TO the small hours, in deyising
plans for the next days operation. OF
course, they break down before they have
reached the meridian Of their lives, while
Harper, who drives business care from him
as he turns from his Office, devoting the time
not necessary for sleep to recreation, and
Vanderbilt, who in the evening calls for his
social game, reach good old ages, sound
in body and mind.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
An italian Legend.


Three robbers were walking by the road
side, one evening, after day of proftles.
anxiety.
" It's pity" said one OF them, I" that We
can do no better than this. am unwilling
to let day pass without some gain"
" Here's a chance" said another, and a,
they looked up they saw on the brow of the
hill before them, man riding on a donkey
and, by a string, leading a sheep with bel
attached to its neck.
al win steal that Sheep lsaid the irst Of
the robbers.
"You cannot" said the second "do you
not perceive the cord and the bell? ?"
s. | see Them" said the first; +" but they
present no obstacle TO me. I'll steal that
sheep"
:" Ii you do" said the second, III steal
the donkey"
"What :" said the third, "steal mans
donkey from under him You cannot"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
Ghoifr sMisfelLany.
UNGATHERED LOVE.


When the autumn winds 60 waliing
Through branches yellow and brown,
when the grey, sad light Ia falling.
And the day |, going down.
hear the desolate evening sing
ora Love that bloomed in the sarly spring.
And which no heart had for gathering.
and my lover we dwell apart.
We twain may never be one
We shall never stand heart to heart.
Then what can he said or done.
when winds, and waters, and song birds sing
Ofa Love that bioouicd In the early spring,
Aud which no heart had for sathering2
when day Is over and night dosceBds,
And dank msts circle and rise.
I fan asleep, and slumber hcfriends,
for dream u April skies.
But wake To hear the silence sisg
ora Love that bloomed In the early spring,
Aud which no heart had for gathering.
When tho dawn comes IN with wind and rain
And birds awake IN The caves,
And nin-drops snite the Windows pane,
And dfench the eidyng leavss-
hear the voice of The daybreak sing
OF a Love that bloomed In the early spring,
And which no heart had for gathering.
NaemIidU's Mo11rfhs.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21

From philosophy, from poetry, and from
art is heard the Wledgement that
there is no response for the rational spirit
but in moral truth. The testimony that
the whole creation groaneth and trayaieth
in pain together, is as loud and convincing
from the domain of letters, as it is from the
cursed and thistle-bearing ground. From
the immortal longing and dissatisfaction of
Plato, down to the wild and passionate rest
lessness of Byron and Shelley, the evidence
is decisive that spiritual and religious ele-
ment must enter into the education of man
in order to insure harmony and rest.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
Raihoad 1mrs.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINE.
Summer Arrangement,


Leave Montpelier at sb5 A. w. IS =. NJ, and as0r.N
MAIL TRAIN leaves st. AihauH al 620 ~ connecting at
White River Junction and Bellows Fails with trains for
Bostun, Worcester, etc. NJ white River junction. with
trains the fassuiiee railroad, south Vernon Tor
sprngned aud New YORK. at New London with
n,f Exrarss leaves Montreal at aos A. u st. Johns a,
lOl1 A. N. oslensbufg NJ 500 A.. NJ St. Adams At 1900
~, arriving IN Boston via Lowell at 9.l5r
MONT LStRlss Leaves Ogdensburg at l240 ", Mon
treal at $50 NJ st. Johns at $40 NJ st. Ahans ut Ts
connecting at White River Junction aud BeiloWs FAN,
WIN trains Tor boston and Worcester etc. arriving Bos-
ton ntsln NJ south Vernon with trains for spring
hcld ana Sew York arriving In New York at l2.50r.
rRAfNg oOtNG NORTH AND WEST.
leave Montpelier at 92s A. st.. 500 A. aiS and $50 NJ
DAY Exrufss leaves nnsnn via Lowell al n O0 A n lar
burlington 81 lhans Montreal. cic arriving In Montreal
~ g.o y " end ogcn'hig nj 100 NJ, milking
MAIL IRAN for darlington and st. ,ibans leaves Roston
VIA Lowell nt 100 A, n Via Lawrrnce and fehburg
A. ~, Springfield at 500 A. 81, New London "a soc A.. N
SOUTH Vernon at 1900 A. ~, bcows Pals at iifs D. NJ
White hlFef Junginn Ai 30 w. arriving in - Alhaus At
h1 y, w. connecting with trains Montreal Oriens-
hutF. Trains leaving Boston via fnchburg at ESQ A.
~ ana Springfield o. s0V A. NJ connect at white River
. .AccoNNopAtloN TRAM leaves N0rihaed at 40 A. NJ,
Rutland ~ $40 NJ burlington AZ 923 A. st. Alhans al
1888 D. Ne tor st. Juns, and at 1900 for Ogdensburg
NiehT tNrhEas leaves south Vernon NJ 1905 2. NJ,
receiving PASSENGER from Connecticut River railroad,
D., bellows Fails nc II 20 n ~ connecting with train
uF at White River Junction with tain leaving Boston at
SOC r w. for Huntington, S. Alhans Montreal etc, ArIv
Ink n Montreal AZ 800 A. and in Ogden-bufg Al 1910
~, connecting with Grand Trunk railway fuf the West
sleeping cars attached To- Might Express trains running
between Montreal and BOSTON, and Montreal and sling
drawing on bay Fsprc.s trains between Mon
ttpnl and Boston
lhfoagh sh, or Chicago ana the West sale at the
j. ". HOBART Ccuefal superintendent.
50. Alhans MAY ~ is45
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21

Now, when they had all eaten, there came
the clearing away. There must be clear
ing up after every banquet. They went
around aud gathered up the fragments that
This, as has often been remarked, teaches us
economy in everything that we do for God
not economy as to giving to Him, but as To
the use of the Lords money Break youI
alabaster boxes and pour out the sacred
nard with blessed wastefulness, for that
very wastefulness is the sweetness of the
gift; but when God entrusts you with any
means TO use for Him, use those means with
discretion. But think the beauty of it was
this, that after they had all been fed, there
was something left.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21

SHORTLY after the battle of Princeton, a
witty Scotch farmer amused himself by
writing humorous ballad upon it, which SO
stung one of the officers who had behaved
very badly on that occasion, that he sent the
poet challenge to meet him at IL, for
mortal combat. The second found the far
mer busy with his pitchfork, TO whom he
delivered the challenge of the redoubtable
hero The good-humored farmer turning
toward him, with his agricultural implement
in his hand, coolly said Gang ava back
to Master Smith, and tell him | hae nae
time to come to IL TO gle him satisfac-
ton but that ii he likes 10 come here, III
just do as he did--l'll run away"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
Ghe Domf GnrIr.
THE CALLING or THE cniLpRrN

- sahfAtNt WI y NJ
ny MRS. wnfrNn
~ slid suffer Tho little children 10 come unto d
'fnh ihem not Tor of such IN the Kingdom Of hea,ei
They are going only going;
Jesus called them long ago,
Al the wintty time they're pa..lng.
softly q, The falllng snow
when the vlocts In the .pringtim,
Catch 'he azure of the shy.
They aro carried out to slumbcr
swecily where the violeis uc.
They are going only going
When the summer earth Is dfr.i,
in their cold hands holding roses.
Folded to each silent breast,
When the autumn hang. red banners
Out above the harvest shenyos,
They are going, ever going.
1hieA and fast. like falling leaves
an alons the mighty ages,
An adown the solemn time.
ihei have taken up thnlf homewaM
March Go that scfenef CLINE.
Where me watching, waiting angels
Lead them from the shadow dim.
10 The brightness u HIS presence
Who has called them unto HIM
The are going only going
out Of pain and into biissi
Out n sad and sinful eskne.s
Into perfect holiness.
snowy brows, no care shall shade uhriui
Bright eye, ,--iears shall never dlui
Rosy hps,no time shall fade them
Jesus called uiom unto HIM.
Little hearts forever stainless;
Little hands a. pure as thry.
Lltiie Rect hy angel. guided
Never % Forbidden way.
They are going. ever going
Leaving many a lonely spot;
But usJesu- who has called them.
Suffer- and forbid them not
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21
Temperance.
THE rEMPIERs.

uY CIV. pEsSisuN.
o mother sister daughter Nifei
our guardians NJ the gntes of lifei
why yield to gniit your strong couird
Ovcr The passions Of the s0ul .
o l1upters is u youf delight
70 forgr the bonds Of appetite,
And WELD The stlii Of tastes refined
To manaclc the doaihlca nind2
Mother think what Thy son may bc
An'outcast Tor v'clniyi
Behold him, Oh 20 near, No dear,
Crossing me Threshold of the year.
say, shall bis step be- hrm and true,
A sobcf future fun in vieNY
or shall 10 be aii dark 10 hlm,
Win clouds of sin, and horror dhu3
Hold back Che slas-i Oiinahe thou noi
rercimncc fcnd ~ nuulofou- soi'
80 hY the warnings OF The pastl
Noi by theprssenil ulund us cast d
Nuihy tie fatnre. 90 our dourl
Oflly. or woe, fof c,efmurc'
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21

NOTICES. wife, Mary A. Moore has cfi my bed
~ and hqa witoutauy just cause progoraun leaving
six and seven days out " week week after week She
has loft fifteen days al tmethe last four nights and
says Win Two small children, and she has not Teen a home
Ia get me three meals OF vca day Tor three months
unless In Of visitors, which seldom. She i
debt about sixty dollars at store in Watsned by de-
ceNtng me last do not think she has worked Tor
wages fourth the time she has been from n think
neghburs although good kind ueghb0s, have noi done
ight ln harboriug hel, they must have known that
eecl ef more tan they hereby forbid All persons hAr-
borns or trusting her uu account Will pay no debts
OF her contracting after this date, publish these lines
Fnyston, June 10th ISIS. DANIEL MOORE.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-21

A man may beat down the bitter fruit
from an evil tree until he is weary; whilst
the root abides in strength and vigor, the
beating down of the present fruit will not
hinder il from bringing forth more. This
is the folly of some men; they set them
selves with all earnestness and diligence
against the appearing eruption Of lust, but
leaving the principle and root untouched,
perhaps unsearched ont, they make but lit
tie or no progress in this work of mortifca-
ton.