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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Parents Relations to Schools. No. IA.

In considering the relation of our public
schools to a free state, l may further re.
mark, we can realize the Importance of that
generous discipline Of manhood and woman.
hood which alone can fit our children for
American citizenship, by considering the ex.
clusiveness Of family-life. the clannish ten.
dency Of all business connections, the violent
prejudices that influence individual members
Of homes, churches, and professional cliques.
The public school emily can instruct the
masses Of American people in what pertains
to public character aud public virtue. 1t
stands next to the family and is the FIRST
step out Of that divine institution into
that other divine organization, the state.
And, if we eau determine what is the most
essential element Of our national prosperity,
we shall understand what is the most impor-
tant lesson to be taught in our public schools.
And can any doubt that it is public virtue (?
There was no question among our wise prac-
tical, and devout ancestors who established
the American public school, about its right
and imperative duty to teach morality, and
so much Of religious truth rs is e~ssential to it.
Indeed, the original common school Of our
free states was a seminary Of earnest moral
patriotism. Moral instruction bore q large
proportion TO the entire work of the school.
The bible was the reading. book. The mas
ter who failed to maintain q high standard
Of character and who could not preserve or.
der was turned out. This emphasis on NOR
al and patriotic culture in the old school,
house was one Of the most powerful elements
Of our national success.
The common school of our day has made
great progress in the line Of outward accom-
modations, and methods Of scientific and lit
erary instruction but we may fear that it
is losing Its original power as the national
teacher Of public character. As a scientific
agency, it has been p~rodigiously enlarged /;
bat it is in danger Of losing that which once
made it our national ~sheet.anchor, as the
natural teacher Of public virtue, aud the
training.school Of American citizenship. In.
tellectual brilliancy is too often, under the
name of culture allowed to override ev
erything. Instruction in morals and patriot
ism are too much neglected.
The peoples school should be cherished
as a national birthright it should be locat.
ed on every hilltop and in every valley
throughout the length aud breadth of this
vast country ; it should receive the fostering
care of our state and central governments
it should bring within its enclosure, for cul,
ture and instruction, all children Of schoo
age, and Of every sect and condition in life
for all are to become citizens, to share thu
responsibility aud to enjoy the blessings o
our free institutions.
If we would cherish and sustain our FIRE
government, we must turn back to the com
uon school as the guardian of public morals
and pure patriotism. PARENs.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Pen Spatters.

Onions are recommend ed as an antidote
for sleeplessness.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any
market.-CharIeS La mJ.
A "cullud chap" was hugging a salmon
colored maid one night, when she whispered
sweetly in his ear, ~ don't mind yer hug
gin me, Jim, but, TO- de Lords sake don't
touch dat bile on do back O. my neck"
When a conductor on a Boston car shout
ed, "Ruggles street !" the other night, a fell
low who had been doing in the corner start.
ed up and said "Ruggles' treat Where's
Ruggles Show me Ruggles."
The captain of one of the ferry boats yes
terday found a negro aboard who hadn't the
nickel to pay his fare, and he shouted at
him, Didn't [ tell you before we started
that you couldn't cross if you hadn't my
money!" 81 guess it was YOU" replied the
darkey' "but dere was so many men around
de dock spittin' frew dere front teeth and
b%olleriu' at de deck hands dat l couldn't
make out woddcr you belonged on de boat
or not ."-DetrOit Free Press.
When a Detroit boy gets a bloody nose,
he goes home fully prepared for what he
knows will follow. "Fighting again, Ell p
inquiries the father. "Well, Iii see you in
the woodshed after dinner" Father" re-
plies the boy, tears in his eyes, sit was that
johnson boy. He came along and called
me the son Of cross-eyed sheep thief, and,
father, l couldn't stand by and hear you
spoken of in hat manner !" The father
feels in his vest pocket for a nickel, and
nothing further is said about the woodshed
business"
A Fulton young man who was visiting
abroad came home Saturday, and in the
morning at breakfast remarked, as he reach
ed his plate over, Father, a little Of the
mixture in the brown dish, if you please, aud
a small piece of the prepared meat" The
old gentleman, who is a plain, matter.of.f fact
man, replied, as he loaded up the outstretch.
ed plate, 1--WE like to have you COM a-visit'
in us, John, but just remember that, while
you're eatin' here, if you want hash, say SO /;
and if you want sassage, call for sassage,
and not 60 to ~spreadin' on any Brooklyl
misery at nv table"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Lynch Law in Maryland.

A mob composed principally of citizens of
Anne Arundel county, in which the recent
outrage upon Miss Jackson was committed
by the negro Simms, went to Baltimore,
searched the jailor for the keys, found them
and dragged the convict away without ~releas.
ing him from the irons, and taking him a short
distance from the city, near the railroad track,
hung him to a tree. The mob were well armed
with pickaxes, orowbars and other instru-
ments for gaining admission to the Jail had
they met with forcible resistance. The negro
did not say a word when he was taken away.
Some Of the ynchers proposed taking another
negro who is in Jail awaiting trial for rape on
a colored woman, but others demurred, and
the mob were satisfied with taking Simms.
Many of the lynchers were painted black
and som were masked.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
True Love.

OF all the myths of the fairy age, of its
many legends and entertainments true love
seems to be the one great charm which has
come down TO us unchanged by time, un-
touched by steam.eugines, and unexplained
by science. Revenge may still exist with
its daggers and flashes, and melodramatic
boots and teeth, but we feel little sympathy
for it, and are glad to see it looking mole
and more clumsy aud out of place, except in
a police court or on the boards of a Surrey
theater. Mystery is also somewhat old
fashioned, and its poor wells ara sadly torn
about and darned, and its wonders and ter
rors exploded. High.Aown romance seems
out Of tune with our modern ideas, but true
love is true love by whatever signs and Ian
guage it is spoken-as long as hearts beat,
as long as life exists, in whatever age, iron
or golden. we may seek it.-Miss Thacke-
ran.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
A New Trick.

A stranger with 30 guile in his face and
no overcoat on his shoulders, wandered into
a clothing store in Newport, r. l.. tho other
day, and asked if he could be fitted with a
spring Overcoat. The proprietor promptly
answered in the affirmative. you speak
very positively" replied the stranger. 81
am bigger than you take me for" The
storekeeper was still confident hat he had
coats that would answer. 81 am a pretty
heavy man." said the stranger. al will bet
you 50 that you can't guess my weight into
100 lbs" Tue man was not particularly
large, aud this astounding challenge entirely
diverted the seller of clothing from the Ordi-
nary course of his business. He took the
wager, named his guess-AbOut 100 lbs.-
the money was put up in the hands Of a third
party, aud all started of for q pair Of scales,
and the stranger balanced 900 lbs. Of
weights. The store man looked sad and
puzzled. With a smile that was ohildlike
and bland the stranger took his money and
walked off without saying anything more
about the oVercoat. Ii has since been learn
cd that this man wears a lead jacket, and
has been making his honest living BY play
ing his scurvy trick on unsusPecting dealers
in clothing. He came from Conneotieat.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
An Ideal Kitchen.

1t is a cheerful room, sunny in winter,
shaded in summer 1t has pictures on the
walls, white curtains at the windows, q few
blooming house. plants at the southern ex-
posure. II has a commodious polished range
or cooking stove, a large kitchen table, a
pantry, a sink with pump leading into it, and
wastepipe leading from it, a small case of
shelves for books, a hanging lamp, a good
rag carpet, hooks for hats and coats, shelves
for tins, the scales and the dish pan. The
pantry has a window in it, shelves on two
sides Of it, the lower one being broad enough
to cover the -four and meal barrels. Here
the housewife finds everything required for
meals save such articles as need to be kept
in the cellar. There is a spice box in this
pantry, a chopper, a sieve, a colander-all
the cOnveniences required in plain cookery,
each in its appropriate place.l
A shelf behind the stove is a capital place
TO set bread to rise, or to hold the batter dish
when one is frying cakes, or to iron on in
cold weather. The table in the corner by the
sink may be taken away and the cradle set
there when the thermometer is below 32 deg.
There should be a lounge in the kitchen Of
every woman who does her own work, that
she may drop down on it and rest while wait.
ing for the tea-kettle to boil or the bread ia
take on a brown crust, or the men to come
to dinner. One can rest a great deal faster
lying down than sitting up.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Vermont as q Home.

Give US for a home, a quiet farmhouse
among the green hills, the fertile meadows,
the dashing streams which invite the manu-
features to their utilization as power, and the
sterling, whole.souled, honest people Of Yer
mont for ~neighbors, and we ask not for the
broad prairies Of the West, nor the WORKOUT
barren fields Of Massachusetts,, nor yet for
the "sunny South" with its mixture Of vaga-
bonds and brigands for population. 1t may
be a weakness, but we confess we are proud
Of our native state-proud Of her noble re-
cord among her sister states as a home Of
truth, integrity aud patriotism, proud Of her
talent as represented all over the land in the
great men who own Vermont as the place Of
their nativity, as well as Of her native talent,
her Edmunds, her farmer-senator, Morrill,,
her Willard, known as "the honest congress-
man." her Poland with his majestic powers
over his audience which saved Arkansas
from anarchy and possible blood-shed.
The record of Vermont, both past and
present, has shown her to merit the title,
"mother of men, "-statesmen, men Of mighty
intellect, men, too, of sterling moral worth.
Her moral and intellectual advantages as
a home are unsurpassed, but her resources
and facilities for affording a fair reward to
honest toll are no less worthy of considera-
tion. Perhaps the same amount Of labor in
the West will produce more bushels of corn
or wheat, but there is no market for them,
while the great manufacturing aud consum'
ing centre Of New England lies almost al
our door. The same may be said Of the
South, with the added Disadvantages Of her
semi-barbarous population and her enormou
burden Of taxation caused by carpet-bag
misrule. But we are accustomed to think
Of Massachusetts, at least, as ahead Of us il
agricultural methods and results. A brie
look at Hampshire county dispels this feel
ing from the writer's mind. The land il
lighter and poorer than ours, the home fer
t~ilizers are not even as well saved as here
the average production is far below oul
standard, and this after the purchase o
larger quantities of commercial fertilizer
than we ever use. One hundred bushels 0
potatoes to the acre is a good crop, instead o
the average of about two hundred, as wit
US. Oats are little raised, "because it don
pay" Rye yields perhaps fifteen busheI
per acre, and grass, as compared with tn
green mountain state, is nowhere.
There is room for much improvement o
our farms, for a large increase Of the aver
age prOductiveness, but we wish all Vermont
ers, and especially all young men who pun
pose leaving the state, to remember that the
will travel a long way before they will fin
a country which will surpass old Vermont j
its capacity to produce the necessaries Q
life and furnish all the essentials for a happ.
peaceful, contented home. Yes, think twiC
before you leave the farm, and three time
before leaving grand old Vermont.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Retaliation.

To be ever ready to take ofFensc at every
little thing in life does not show an even or a
happy mind in a person. Dealing with those
who are naturally suspicious and jealous is
a delicate and disagreeable business. 1t is
a sad spectacle TO see ono who feels called
upon to resent everything. When in the
society Of such persons we know not whether
we are giving them pleasure or pain, nor do
we know whether they are our friends or
foes.
The spirit Of combativeuess is ever on the
alert, and If a good cause cannot be found, q
poor one will answer the purpose. For one,
wedon't want persons always digging after our
faults and fr%ailties, and be always constituting
our acts to bad motives, so as to give them a
good chance at retaliation. It would be
much better for us all, if VIC would practice
a little more Of that charity which thinketh
no evil.
What is true Of individuals, is also true
Of corporations, communities, states, and ma
tioHs. 1t takes but a trile, sometimes, TO set
one section against another, or for one nation
to declare war against another. This retail
atory attitude would sometimes be ludicrous,
if it we're not humiliating. Undoubtedly,
the various sovereigns of Europe are to day
watching each other with a jealous eye, and
almost any slim pretext might be occasion
enough for showing their war teeth. Poli-
ticians take pleasure, seemingly, in circum.
venting one another's plans, through jealousy
and a desire for revenge. The same may be
said of officers of the army, and also Of
dignitaries of the church. Those who seek
revenge, or desire to retaliate for either real
or supposed grievances are sure, in the very
nature Of things, to injure themselves in the
long run. Mental science teaches why this
is so. The inordinate exercise of the com.
bative and jealous faculties, when not govern
ed by intellect, brings us all an infinite
amount of trouble. We are liable very
often to magnify "mole-hills into mountains, >
and then to assume it a duty to.act with de-
iance. We believe the sentiment to be as
true to-day as of old, that if one desires to
heap Goals Of fire upon the head Of another,
instead of acting with the spirit Of r%etalia'
ton, it would be much wiser to do him deeds
oil kindness.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Too Little Thinking.

One Of the many evils that exist at the
present day is that Of too little thiDking-an
evil much further reaching and more de-
s%tructive in its influence than most persons
suspect. 1t is said that Turner, the celebra-
ted English artist, was seen to spend a whole
day sitting upon a rock, aud throwing peb-
bles into the lake, and when at evening his
fellow painters showed their days sketches
and rallied him on having done nothing, he
answered IL have learned how a lake
looks when pebbles are thrown into it," He
was th;pking as he seemed to be idle, like
another famous painter, who on being asked
what he mixed with his c%olors, replied ::
ABRAMS" He put thought into his wonder
full sea paintings.-This is what we need in
daily liie-the mixing brains with our work,
the putting tho't into what our hands find to
do. How many mistakes would have been
prevented, if we had always thought before
we spoke, and reflected before we acted. 1t
is a child's oft-repeated excuse, IL didn't
think" But we, unlike the Apostle who,
when he became a man put away childish
things, still cling to childhood's lack of think
ing. Let US then strive to be thinkers, not
profound students, not great scholars, but
quiet, earnest, practical every day workers,
who have good substantial reasons for works
and deeds.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

the house went TO see who was there and
what was wanting. She found one Of those
tramps, who presented two square cakes Of
stove blacking, aud requested her to bay.
Upon informing him that she bad a plenty,his
reply was, 81 am happy to know there is
peace and love in the Saviour, bless the Lord
Jesus Good afternoon, marm," and left on
a turned heel.
RHODE ISLAND.
Robert Casey, a resident OF Portsmouth,
killed his wife last Friday and then commit
ted suicide.
CONNECTICUT.
DR.. @. II. Pinney Of Birmingham has a
rare Macedonian coin, coined 800 b. O.,
aud supposed to DO the only one Of the kind
in this country. 1t is Of silver, about the
size Of a ~half.dollar, bears on its face the
head of Alexander the Great, and on the
reverse some Greek characters, with Zeus
seated in state with his eagle, and is in
perfect preservation.
NEW YORK.
A large printing firm of New York city
has completed arrangements to employ 100
or more boys in the house Of Correction at
type setting. The rate paid the commission.
ers is about 20 to 30 cents per day per boy
This contract causes great disapprobation
on the part of the printers union.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
New Motive Power.


The papers are giving accounts Of a new
motive power that according to description
is far more powerful than steam and much
cheaper. But we wouldn't advise putting
any great dependence upon it, until some
thing a little more definite is known regard
ing this supposed new power. Here is one
account Of it
John w. Keely, Of Philadelphia, claims
to have discovered a vapor produced from
water and air without the Intervention Of
chemicals, galvanism, electricity or heat,
which gives a force equal to a pressure of
from 10000 to 10000 pounds to the square
inch. The principle difficulty in its manage
ment is said to be the construction of ap-
paratus to secure sufficiently small force for
practical use. He claims to have succeeded,
though, and to have made a generator-three
feet high, two feet long and a foot dcep-a
receiver of wrought iron-with a capacity
Of 20 gallons-and a feed pipe which con-
veys the vapor to an ordinary steam engine,
in which it eau be used without any mate
rial alterations. All this appears to border
on the marvelous-if not to make a decided
foray theroin-but perhaps it is not more
strange than the first application Of steam
power. In those cases, however, the agent
had always been before the world, and even
IN such humble guise as the vapor issuing
from the tea-kettle's nose had given some
symptoms Of its power but of Mr.. Keely's
vapor we know nothing. 1t is said that a
number of skillful mechanics, who have ex.
amined his machine as far as he will allow,
believe it will accomplish what he claims,
and capitalists in several Of our cities, In
Guiding Worcester, have agreed to purchase
the invention, if its practicability is estab-
lished. Time will soon testify as to that.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
AT WATERFOWL.

Cattle-Cattle are moving with consider.
able activity. We find less Western cattle
ut this market and rather more from the
North on sale. The range of prices is about
ic higher on Western as sold by live weight,
and tc on Northern rs sold dressed weight.
William Leavitt offered three car loads of
good steers, selling at various prices, from 7
to 7Ac per Id; A. Kimball sold two steers, to
dress 1000 lbs, Mt 9lc per Id, D. two steers,
to dress 1850 lbs at l0sc per Id, ID. w b. Dow
sold six oxen, to dress 900 lbs each, at lOc; 9
oxen, average live, 1900 lbs, ut u live W..
Kicker sold 2 oxen, dress HOO lbs each, ut
l04o; Hathaway Il Swift sold 2 car loads of
steers, average HOO lbs, at 7sc; l car load
at 10.
Sheep-We find more sheep and lambs,
but the market is inclined to be dull. Lambs
are selling lower, and only the very best old
sheep Mt full prices. G.. W. Jones sold 81
old sheep, average 100 lbs, at sic; b. Long
sold l02 head of all yearlIngs to Good
enough Il Thomas at &c, average 70 lbs, mt
home, very superior flock; 100 head of old
and young sheep ut 6Ac.
Poultry-A good complement OF poultry
was offered, and prices remain full l6c for
best iocks; l53c ordinary lots.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Business Revolution in Newspapers.

The present is a transition period in the
history Of the press, and numerous changes may
reasonably be expected to occur in the next
five years. And the transition moves upon
a complex reason. In the first place, the
party organ is going out. 1t has had its
day, and exercised an important influence,
but 1t no longer meets the requirement Of
the age. In its place appears the indopend-
emit newspaper, the advocate Of certain fun
damental principles, but not attached to any
party and not under bonds to color reports
or make special pleas for this or that party.
That change has already been very impor-
tant, causing the decadenoe, of once wealthy
widely circulated and influential newspapers,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Burial Grounds.

Lonely indeed were the spots chosen by
the early inhabitants for the burial of the
dead. Upon bleak sand-hills, nurturing only
wild wire grass and briers, and in old worn
out pastures remote from the homes Of the
living, they laid away the forms Of the de-
parted, aud shuddered with mortal dread as
they passed there, lest they too should en-
counter the wrath Of a being thus thrust into
lonely and %forbidding tombs. No wonder
that the dreaded ghost did now and then APP
pear, and that only the strongest nerved dared
pass a graveyard in the night. But a won.
derful change has been wrought in public
sentiment by the refining influence Of sduca-
tiOn, and in no direction has culture, refine
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
50. .JohmsBUrv Market.

THURSDAY, June H.
Prices Paid by Dealers.
Butter, new, tubs or balls. choice 20 to 22c.
Eggs, fresh, per dozen, l7c.
Beans, common white $2.OOi hand picked
g.. go.
Oats, 75c.
Maple Sugar, stirred, extra, l0ci tub &C..
Potatoes, per bushel, 40c.
Beef, dressed weight, 81 to 94o.
Veal, live weight, DC.
Prices Asked by Dealers.
Dried Apple, sliced l5c; strung lac.
Molasses, per gallon, zoe.
Sirup, silver drip, 800.
Sugar, refined, G lloi extraC l2o; granu-
lac.
Berualada Onions. per pound, Sc,
Kerosene, zoe.
Corn, per bushel, $95.
India Wheat, 80.