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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

AFrLIouoNs are Gods most eilectual
means to keep us from losing our way to our
heavenly rest. Without this hedge OF thorns
on the right and left, we should hardly keep
the way to heaven. If there be but one gap
open, how ready are we to find 1t, and turn
out at it When we grow wanton or
worldly or proud, how doth sickness or other
afllction reduce us l--Bdrier.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

Dull PRAYER-MEETINGs.- fact, the
whole secret of making the prayer-meeting
a delight, instead of the WEAKNESS to flesh
and spirit il so often proves, is for each one.
before going, TO make special preparation OF
heart aud mind to engage in its various ex-
ercises. Every one may not be able to speak
or pray in public, but the humblest and the
most timid can, before going to the place Of
prayer, ask the divine blessing upon the
meeting. Suppose that such were the uni
versal practice can it be doubted that the
tone OF the meetings would be far higher
and sweeter than they generally are Would
they not begin with greater warmth and
spirit? 1t not unfrequently takes full
third, or, under a formal aud unnspiring
lead, half of the time, to get the meeting
started in earnest. How much better is the
meeting that moves smoothly and briskly
from the start We have heard Of a good
old minister who used to say that when
preaching it took him about an hour to get
warmed up to his subject 1t is often just
so with the prayer er-meeting, and seldom fails
to be so under an msuggestive and dull
opening that the wearisome waiting comes,
and the stale platitudes with which prayer
meeting exercises abound-the pinchbeck
substitutes for genuine thought and feeling
-Erdminer and Chroaicle.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

GLOW are you getting on in your new
place ?" asked lady of girl whom she had
recommended for situation. Very well,
thank you" answered the girl. 81 am glad
TO hear it," said the lady. Your employer
is very nice lady, and you cannot do too
much for her." :" don't mean to, ma'am,"
was the innocent reply
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

CHRISTIAN Mas ANp The PREss.-N Moth.
ing Is more certain than that unsound pa
pers gradually corrupt their readers. Evil
communications corrupt good manners" and
this is especially true Of the action Of the
press. And to him that knoweth TO do
good and docth il not, TO him it is sin"
Some may be ready to ask what we would
have them do in such circumstances. II the
press is without doubt great power for
good or evil we wonld have them to dis
countenance the evil and encourage the good.
Every Christian man and minister has with
out doubt much in his power in these re-
spects and if all would exert their infu-
cnce on the side of a sound and Christian
press, we should soon see a vast and blessed
difference in the state Of matters in our land.
Why should not every true Christian man
determine at once to take a sound news
paper Why should they not persuade
their friends 10 do the same Why should
not educated Christian men write for the
public press, especially in their own neigh
borhoods \ great leeway is TO be made
up amongst us in all these respects and we
implore those who value the cause of Christ,
the best interests Of the country and the
salvation Of immortal souls, to aim at once
at turning the mighty agency Of the public
press towards the promotion Of the highest
aud most vital objects. If, in addition to
discouraging ayitiated press, every Christian
man who reads sound newspaper would
only persuade another to follow his example,
very much might soon, by the divine bless
ing, be accomplished; nay, more, if men
were only faithful and earnest, vastly more
even than this might speedily be done
The Rock.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

II is related Of Sydney Smith, that once
on entering a drawing-room in West-end
mansion, he found il lined with mirrors ON
all sides Finding himself reflected in every
direction, he said he supposed he was at a
meeting Of the clergy, and there seemed to
be a very respectable attendance.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

IL Don't miss my church so much as you
suppose" said lady TO her minister, who
had called upon her during her illness; "for
make Betsy sit ut the window rs soon as
the bells begin To chime, and tell me who
are going to church, and whether they have
got anything new on"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

\ Scorcm minister, who was famed for
his dryness in the pulpit, called on one of
his aged hearers, aud as usual partook Of a
cup OF tea. lie remarked TO the guid wife
that her teapot ran very slowly. "Deed,
ay,' quo the guild wife, "it's like yersep; it
has an unco bad delivery" The Scotch
have a charming frankness of speech.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

The tribute Of a name
then look at the last page, and find
" Last and least, your friend Lulie." Now,
do not hesitate to state that cannot write
poetry, and a pretty compliment in prose
was never known to glide off me- pen so, Of
course, must depend on quotations. de
liberately turn over leaf after leaf and, to
my utter dismay, find that my pet sentiments
are the pets Of other people; that great
many " buds have been twined in
" memorys wreath !" that other people have
pale ink, poor pens, and unfailing love and
that Forget-me-nots are scattered over
the book.
am not capable of using other Ian
guages, so cannot follow the example Of
the French teacher who has traced, Plus on
est de tous, Plus on rd :" or that of the hand
some leader Of the Latin class, who writes,
CGicbs gud dgdm +" neither can | hide
trite saying in labyrinth Of fourishes, or
behind nicely printed German text; so |
frantically snatch a pen and hurriedly sub
scribe myself Your friend, X. X H."
which may mean ku klux klan, OF Kathleen
kerenhappuch koutowzof, as you like it,
do not deny that an album filled with the
names Of celebrated people would be a curl
osity worth possessing, but obtaining the
names would be fun for us, but death TO
them. win also acknowledge that names
and sentiments written by dear friends might
prove pleasant keepsake under some cir
cumstances, but usually the handwriting is
cramped, and the sentiment no credit to the
writer's good taste, and so we parade our
friends at their worst instead of their best,
which is great injustice. 1t is greater in-
justice TO include among the names of
friends autographs Of entire strangers of
whose life and character we know nothing.
| once questioned the owner of collection
Of autographs concerning several persons
whose names found. Really" said he,
" | don't know; sent it into the boarding
house with the request that everybody should
write in it," Perhaps ought to add that
he was already sorry, for he said, :" intend
to have another one, and have written only
the names of friends"
1t is funny when we find that some one
has one ided, and has aired it in every album
presented. A young gentleman at noted
mountain house inscribed a pretty stanza
beginning
when the sounding horn Of Echo Lake
No longer shall an echo wake"
in a number of albums Each lady prided
herself upon having secured gem, until she
found she was not sole possessOr. Then
doubt if that sounding horn could have
reused friendly feeling for the one who
II
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

IL we stand right with heaven, every cross
is blessing, and every blessing pledge Of
future happiness; if we be in Gods disfayor
every one Of His benefits is a judgment, and
every judgment makes way for perdition.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12
NJEMPnRrMAGoG srrr FARM
Specialties A.
Choice Garden Seeds.

HOME GROWN, FRESH AND GENUINE
Liberal Discounts ON Large orders f'''e h''
ffee 10 all applicants. Address
DIR, y. II. HOsKINs.
i9-sH SIwroRT, VERMONT
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

A SMART Child" Jack" screamed a
bright eyed, golden haired, fair faced little
girl of not more than six summers, to her
younger brother, who had dumped himself
under the wall, where he was digging sand
with a strip of shingle, "Jack, you good
for-nothing little scamp, you are the torment
of my life Come right into the house,
this minute, or III take the very hide ofi'm
you Come in, | say why, Totty," ex-
claimed her father, who CHANGED 10 come up
at that moment, "what in the world are you
saying? Is that the way you talk TO your
little brother 2" "Oh, no, papa" answered
the child, promptly, and with an innocent
smile. We were playing keeping house,
and | am Jacks mamma, and was talking
TO him Just as mamma talked TO me this
morning. never really spank him. as
mamma does me sometimes"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

PURCHASERS WANTED For uc Dyer lo0mis
Farm stuniei alnut one uf ffuiu the Court HOUSE.
m Montpelier aud containing atuut ssYeu}-hyr acis- of
Land r0 state ~ rultt ail0u. we'll shfHf with
,enent budlngs and some three hundred sugar trees Also
one hundred and seventy five Of goud wuHl and tim
lrr land, tn Mdiieset, ahou ufre miles from MuntrArr
,.ge Also fnr sale twenty tons Of gol hay hundred
Iud ury a bushels nf ntis fufif bushels ui
lofse ttascfs7 s.ul and luuef wagon, hauc-.e cart
unNs. barrow chains. lN-FNkHa huulnd aud ninety
htr tn saIiu- nud Dot of wooden aud 1te afti-
pi,s tgr farming VIrlNss. -
Iu.W a. !. CHASE. Administrator.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

A DEAD hen is better than live one she
will lay wherever you put her
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

allow like its father ii is" exclaimed the
nurse, on the occasion OF the christening Of
baby whose father was over seventy and
had married young wife. "very likely"
replied satirical lady "bald, and not a
tooth in its head"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12
DnAL rsrArE rnn sALr. mn. .nn..rln
ssrArE NoRMAL school, Randolph. Vt.
New Features for Fail, 1875.

ALBERT 2. LEAyENwoRrn, \. NJ, rnncrAL,
VIII ful board % trsi and competent teachers The
fa tcfm ~ twenty weeks hegus thf fourth fuelay Oi
August the sprg Fem. the second iuesdl Of February
A.. I.......... L.. In ~.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12
tNl Wv
Autograph Albums.

] wonder If everybody is as glad as | am
that, at last, those troublesome autograph
albums are on the wane. Not that | have
any especial liking for the wonderful mar
BILE, snowflake, scroll and glass cards, so ex-
tensiyely advertised by Mr. So-and- So, or
This, That 4 Co., but they cannot be a
greater bore and if we must have evils,
choose the least. | often congratulate my
self that | am no celebrity, to be beset by
strangers, children and spinsters for auto
graphs, to be sold at church fairs and like
benevolent entertainments though, often
times, they are expected to inscribe only
their autograph in an album, while ordinary
mortals like myself are importuned to write
something else. " A line Of poetry, or some
thing pretty, you know" That's a dear 2"
And so | take up the elegantly bound vol
ume, and glance at the first page It is EN-.
bellished 10y birds head, arising, Phoenix.
like, from cloud Of fourishes in colors !;
and underneath read the usual, Yes this
is my album" etc, etc; or
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

We oof .r sale ue finn belonging tl te s-iaie OF Allen
Smith ~ Barre situated once half ine fral Barre vl lale
containing Nuc huudlel and sixty ACRES uf Land il hsh
stlr nf cultivation Iherc running water 90 ue house
nul barns A mice sugar Orchard of one thousand tr and
uuty young apple nHhaId Goa ODE u0lnH-. -ld farm
s we'll atiai4el flf mills a4ifs ttun. Also
l20 Acres of Land.
10 the town ~ Orange. iertoflr. known D. me orange
futr fAru." p. kILtuN. Administrator.
hast Monirclef. VI, oetYocr4s. lsi Oltf
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12
r9lew elherfisemenfs.

esIOATS FOR SALE, Tho undersigned has re-
- ceiel two hundred and hiiy shQat- ffum Michigan.
which he would lie tu sell lui high possible
i e nee'iy ones draw near
g5G W BAILEY.
DROBATE COURTS s.-Vuii further notice, the Pro-
bate Courts fof Washington District viii be- held 1T the
office ia Montpelier on rauAr UF EACu All let
husho-s connected with the once should be- adj
dressed tu thc undersigned. W Montpelier.
HARVEY riLDEN, Judge.
DeccmtFr 1870. f7-n
DEAL FsTATE FOR sAIT.-The subscriber
onefs flr sale twenty hVc r tllfut land stu-
atl within mile ~ Monireier Village nfsn ahieh
@ hidnas n excellent repair Tho place witt BE- sold
lua pute aud term. of ynlent easy.
rHfNoN % HAfLEY.
Montreier W. February it ISIS 6s-r
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12

in a number of albums. Each lady prided
herself upon having secured a gem, until she
found she was not sole poSsessOr. Then
doubt if that sounding horn could have
reused a friendly feeling for the one who
said the same sweet words to all.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20
The Way Janin Wrote.

The life of the late Jules Janin, the
famous French dramatic critic. is
sketched by Gamma" of the New
Orleans Picayune, in Scribner for April.
We quote as follows:
Janin wrote very rapidly, and appar-
emily never re-read to polish or otherwise
improve what he had already written.
He was always delighted with what he
had written, and did not conceive it
possible that it could be improved.
Years ago it was justly said Of him:
"Janin is host who is guilty of cooking
in his guests sight. He writes one SEN
tence, and then second, then q third
none of them clearly expresses his idea.
He writes four, five, Ska dozen. He has
not hit it yet! At last he does find the
expression desired, and he serves it up
with a triumphant air to his readers;
namely, to blot all preceding lines"
His weekly dramatic criticism in Journal
des Debats filled twelve columns of thirty
five lines, each line containing thirty
three letters. He would fill these twelve
columns in three hours. Writing so
rapidly, never reading over what he had
written, never pausing 10 think, you may
easily conceive that he should have writ
ten prefaces to over one hundred works,
should have been an active contributor
to fifteen newspapers or magazines, and
to all the encyclopedias and diction-
aries published since 1880, besides being
the author of numberless works, the
names of some of which are given in the
article
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20
A PrOtectorate.

The batch of news from Mexico con
tains for the first time, perhaps, a plain
admission of what are the real wishes not
only of the foreign residents there, but of
the quiet and law-abiding natives. 1t is
not surprising at all, amidst the turmoil
of troubles which have just broken out
again all over Mexico, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande
to Yucatan, that people there should
look anxiously in the direction of some
strong power capable of protecting"
them against constant recurrence of
yearly, if not of monthly, revolutions.
For the last two months the Central
Government of Mexico has not succeeded
in putting down the rebellion of Porfrio
Diaz and of other ambitious Generals.
The Government troops of Jalapa had
revolted, at the latest dates, and retained
the Governor as prisoner; considerable
fighting is going on in many districts the
army levy was becoming obnoxious, the
people resisting and killing soldiers
while attempting to enforce the con-
scription, and railroad communications
between Mexico and Vera Cruz were
interfered with by the revolutionists.
This awful state of things has led the
foreigners to favor the revolution, not
because they hoped, say the dispatches,
for change for the better, but because
they expected to bring the United
States to establish a protectorate. This
is the great word, expressive of the
situation, but what compensation could
be offered to the United States, if ever
they were compelled to include Mexicans
or Europeans established in Mexico in
the protection they would have to extend
to Americans settled in our sister Re-
public IN. Y. Commercial advertiser.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20
How TO Pet the Canaries.

Says a writer on canaries: In this
way answer the question "How had
such luck with the birds ?" Simply by
allowing the birds to attend to their
affairs, and by letting them understand
that their mistress would never harm
them. Also by accustoming them to
plenty of light, air and company, rather
than is advertised in books, keeping the
cage in dark room for fear of frighten-
ing the birds. Make just half the fuss
directed in bird books over the matter,
and you will have, doubtless, better sue.
cess in raising birds. Never give them
sugar, but all the red pepper they will
eat; it is the by far best thing for
them. And if your bird feels hoarse at
any time put piece of fat salt pork in
the cage and see how the little fellow
will enjoy it. Give him faxseed once in
while, and if he appears dumpy oc-
casionally give diet of bread and
water, with red pepper sprinkled in.
Open the cage door and give your pets
the freedom of the room; soon they will
come at your call and fly to meet you
whenever your voice is heard. / had
one who came regularly to my desk as l
sat writing each day, and disputed with
futtering wing and open beak my hum
BILE right to the inkstand. lie would
take his bath as | held the cup In my
hand, and coolly dry himself on my
head. Another would fly down or up
stair to me whenever / called him, and
many time when l have been out he
has welcomed my return by flying down
tse stairs and singing at the top Of his
voice all the while, until at last pcrched
on my shoulders, he would accompany
me to my room.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20
British and American Society.

Most people who read the comments
of the LoHdon Times and other leading
British journals on Belknap and cor
ruption at Washington, are led to believe
that the public men of England were ex-
amples of honesty, uprightness and
honor. The British press seem to forget
the administrations of Walpole and Pei
ham, during which, according to Ma
caulay, "Honors and public trusts, peer.
ages, baronetcies, regiments, frigates,
embassies, governments, commissioners
ships, leases Of crown lands, contracts
for clothing, provisions and ammunition,
pardons for murder, for robbery, for
arson, were s1ld at Whitehall scarcely
less openly than asparagus at Covent
Garden or herrings at Billingsgate."
Our English dcfamers are silent in re-
gard to the corruptions and outrageous
indecencies under the Georges, and the
rotten and demoralized condition OF
British society at present. There is
hardly anything more revolving than
the Mordaunt divorce case, and the dis
graceful revelations in regard to the
Marquis of Blanford and Lord AylesfOrd
are bad enough. 1t is not ten years
since Lord Chancellor Westbury, a mem
Der of the Cabinet, Privy Councillor
the presiding officer of the House ol
Lords, and the head of the Department
Of Justice ombined-wh0se crime,
were as disgraceful as Belknap's, shocked
the civilized world. The least on
friends over the sea say about venality
and crime the better. Crime, like tn,
measles, excepts no nationality or condi
ton in life.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20
Heather Metamorphosis of Cloths.

How the heathen of India manipulate
English cloths for market is shown by
the following extract from the Madras
Mail:
An unusual practice is common among
the cloth sellers of Jubbulpore.. Bales
of English piece goods are carried to the
Oomtee rivulet and washed and the
object of this is to thicken the texture
of the cloth, and so to get much higher
price than that current for them as they
arrive from Manchester. The pieces are
one by one opened out at the rivers
bank and washed in the running water.
This takes off the English sizing; they
are next rerolled and beaten with wooden
clubs, dipped and beaten again and
again, and so on for hours; the threads
then begin 10 swell and thicken the
cloth, so that the weaving appears close
and tough. They are then reopened and
partly dried, dipped into a tub of well
boiled rice water (such as is used by
dhobies for starching), and carefully
hung out to dry. When dry, the cloth
is carefully refolded, pressed and placed
in the shop for sale. The change the
cloths undergo by this process is aston
ishing. A coarse, long cloth, worth say
four annas yard, is transformed to !,
close textured fabric, rivaling one OF
Horrock's best The cloths SO improved
are chiefly sent to the villages, where
they are readily sold as Manchester
goods of the stoutest and best quaiity.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20
He cast a timid glance toward
The Duke fastened to it and

earnest. He cast timid glance toward
the door. The Duke hastened to it and
locked it.
Will you write the letter. ask
your Majesty for the last time |" roared
the Duke.
The Emperor humbled himself by com.
plying with the Dukes demand. The
letter was written, and Leopold pocketed
it with profound bow. Then he un.
locked the door and hurriedly left the
Imperial Palace. The Emperor was over
come with shame and rage.
But what was he to do? The best
policy for him to adopt was that of
silence. So Leopold of Anhalt was per-
mitted to leave Vienna without let or
hindrance.
Upon his return to Dessau, Anna Liza
was solemnly proclaimed Princess of
the German Empire. She lived happily
with her eccentric husband, to whom
she bore large family of children.
The peculiar manner in which he had
obtained the Emperor's consent to her
elevation to the ducal dignity, did not
become known until after Leopold's
death. The Emperor had died already in
1905, and there is some reason TO believe
that the shock he had received at that
memorable interview, was the first nail
to his coffin.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20
John Singleton COpley.

Copley's American career closed with
the beginning of the Revolution. He
was born in Boston on the Sd of July,
1877, and died in London on the 25th of
Ser tember, 1916. He was the only ma
tive painter of real genius and culture
of whom the New World could boast
prior to the Declaration of Independence;
and the skill and assiduity with which
he pursued his profession are attested by
the number of portraits from his pencil,
which still exist in the possession OF
old families in New England, and occa-
sioDally in the Southern States. 1t has
been said that the possession of one of
these ancestral portraits is an Ameri-
cans best title of nobility. Chiefly Gel
ebrated for his portraits, Copley also
attempted historical compositions, a
department of art in which he received
but little encouragement, although the
"Death of Chatham" and "The Death
of Major Person." the latter being re-
garded as his greatest work, evinced
considerable power of composition and
color.-Harpers Magazine for april.