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CUKBsToNE ELoQUENcE.-We have
never heard anything to equal the
forensic efforts of the man who sells
patent medicines on the sidewalk,
in front of Colman's block. We
listened to him about half an hour
last night, during which time he re-
ferred to the expulsion of our first
parents from Paradise; then he made
dive at the decline and fall of the
Roman Empire; next he delivered
an exordium on the Kentucky Reso-
lutions Of 1898; then he gave the
Darwinlan theory blizzard; next
he moralized upon the peculations
of Warren Hastings and Boss Tweed !;
he had got as far as the Electoral
Commission, when we started back
to the Office. Talk about your sledge-
BANNER orators. if we had had
such forcible orator here last Oc-
tober, we would have elected Jud-
son by five hundred majority. He
can talk blister right into the curl
of bulls forehead. There is no
discount on his earnest style of de-
livery. Sargent S. Prentiss couldn't
hold a candle to him.
SEIZURE OF Op1JM.-Last night
about 8 o'clock, Inspector D. W.
HYDE made raid upon o Chinese
house on Washington street where
he captured sixteen cans of opium
which had arrived from Tacoma on
one of the small passenger steamers.
It is supposed to have been SNUG
gled to that place By some of the
Chinese walters on the San Fran
cisco steamer.
OFFICE SALooN.--Billy Lawrence
has taken in anew assistant in the
person of Tom Whiting, well known
to all Olympians as good fisherman
and crack shot. He is also prof.
cient in the billiard business.
RATTLE. AN elegant worsted bo-
quet, neatly framed Will be raffled
at the Fashion Saloon on Wednes-
day evening. Tickets, one dollar
each.
STAGING.-A line of stages has
been put in operation in the Puyal-
lup Valley, during the construction
of the new railroad.
MEETING.-Trinity Church Guild
will meet this Tuesday evening at
the residence of Mr.. A. Slorah.
, 1877-03-03
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

For vIcroRIA-Steamer North Pacific. Cian-
cey. Master, every Monday and Thursday ut
) A. NJ.
For OLYMPIA. Steamer Znphyr, Wrisht.
Mister, every Monday, "Wednesday and Fridiy.
steamer Messenger, Parker, Master, every
Tuesday, Thursday and saturday, at A. NJ.
For sNOHoMIsH City y ste mer Nellie, u.
Hill, Master. every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. at A. NJ,
For >KAGIr AND LA CoNNER-Steamer Fanny
Lake, ]. $. Hill. Master, every Tuesday snd
Friday, att A. NJ.
, 1877-03-03

THE Centennial" and the Nationa
Gold Medal were awarded to Bradley d
Rulofson for the best Photographs in
the United States, and the Vienna me dla
for the best in the world. 4Z3 Montl
gomery street, San Francisco.
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Don't Overlook the Children.

Many Christians have an idea that chill
dren do not understand divine things, at
least are not concerned about them and
therefore their conversion is not looked for
then it is expected to take place in maturer
years. This is grave mistake Many have
been converted at an early age, and it may
be said that the happest Christian life is
that of those who have been early led to
Christ; who have received the gospel when
little children, with the questioning simple
ity of such. How precious and favorable to
holy impressions is the season of childhood
before the heart is drawn away by the al
lurements of this present evil world, before
its warmth has been chilled and blighted by
doubts or questonings. What safeguard
against temptation all through life, to have
been early brought into the Redeemer's fold.
Oh that the buds of grace in children were
more carefully watched, tenderly cherished,
expected to develop Oh that those who
SOW the good seed of the world would ex-
pect it to bring forth fruit, and watch for
the first appearance, first the blade, then the
ear. after that the full corn in the ear. Min
isters, teachers, Christians, initiate the Mas
ter, and don't overlook the children.-Er-
cID
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Forgiveness.

We do not quite understand why it is that
forgiveness, received or bestowed, is never so
complete as to leave no sting. Memory re-
tains little griefs or unkindnesses long after
pur hearts have forgiven and would gladly
forget. There are people who willingly pass
,ver differences, but they rarely know the
meaning of friendship in its highest and
purest sense, and are too often in need OF
forgiveness. Acquaintance havepower only
% disturb our outer lives; friends have power
70 wound our spirits. Friendships should
oe chosen with care and guarded from every
shade of mistrust. We cannot be too much
o our friends, aud if we are all that we can
he, doubtless there are times when we fail
TO meet their fullest expectations; but for
like failures on their part we greve sadly.
We cannot afford to be exacting or untrue
neither have we moment in which to
cherish resentments or to doubt. One doubt
attracts whole armies, aud before we are fully
aware of any change the friendship that was
precious and should have been lifelong be-
comes sad regret. New friends never fill the
places from which old ones have gone out
they may be good deal to us, but between
Did friends and our vanished years there is a
sacredness in which new ones can have nc
part. As, one by one our friends and deal
ones go over to the silent land, the thought
that we shall 60 there, too, some day, ano
shall know them, takes from the separation
It's bitterness But will we know there 81
much of earth's life as the memory of ou
differences Will the forgiveness for which
our hearts ache, or which we would bestow
but cannot, be forgotten mid the glad song
Ind reunions OF that eternal home Goo
knows Christian al Work.
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habit lies our special peril. 1t makes us too
willing to be influenced by men of command
ing intellect, without regard to the moral
principles they teach, and, it may be, also
practice. This habit shuts our eyes to the
higher and uobler part of mans nature. IL
prepares us to accept doctrines which may
poison our character, simply because they
are held, and urged upon our attention, by
some imperial thinker. | would not dis
credit mental activity. Let it continue to
distinguish the English.speaking races, and
especially the people of America. In the
future, more than in the past let ours be
the land of teachers, lecturers, authors,
scholars. But let us not worship intellect
ual eminence. Let us now insist on some
other and diviner quality in the man whom
we accept as truly great Let us demand
of every leader, and of every volume that
asks our favorable verdict, fidelity to CON
science, moral purity in tendency as well as
tone. Let us bid the newcomer stand afar
off, as an infected and deadly thing, II it
only stimulates the thinking faculty. and
does not lift the soul nearer to God II 1t
would escape this quarantine, and sail into
the harbor of our faith and love, let it bring,
besides and above everything else, an intln.
ence which shall cleanse and exalt the nat
ural affection which shall guard the sane
tuary of the heart which shall build broader
and higher, instead of steathily undermin-
ing that wall of instructive delicacy which
keeps the honor and happiness of our fresldes
--Mdnning's Half Truths and The Truth.
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MONTPELIER VT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1877.

passed over the uneven surface of the ground.
grandfather's farm comprised many acres
of land, extending through the valley and
over the HILL making long distance for the
horses TO travel before reaching the store
houses. 1t was charming TO sit so high, and
catch hold of the leaves of the trees as the
load passed under the arched pathway of the
woods to see the brooks, with flowercov-
cred banks, winding in and out through the
valley, aud TO hear the CHEEKY song of the
hay-makers as they rode home to supper.
Then | was lifted from my throne, upon
which ! had sat like queen, Just as the
men began to toss the hay through the wide
open, hungry-looking doors Of a large barn.
Those rides on the hay with the afternoon
sunshine streaming over and lighting up
everything, were the best ever had. And
10 the old wagon do | return manifold
thanks for the blessings bestowed by it.
Occasionally a company of children from
the village, ready for picnic, would pile,
first provisions, afterward themselves, into
the wagon, and start off in great glee, shout
ing, singing and waving their caps. Did
the girls wave their caps o. no but they
clapped their hands, and entered into the
hubbub almost as much as the boys. On
the return of the wagon, with more quiet
but perfectly happy load, it was carefully
put away for the night. What a funny his
tory it has | remember one time it brought
triumphantly from the depot an immense
box which greatly excited my curiosity. /
soon found that the box contained beauti-
ful new bonnet that had journeyed all the
way from Boston. Travelling was slow and
difficult in those days, and to procure any
thing from Boston was a circumstance as
oil Er,n Darts
or India. o, the bonnet was beautiful 1t
had rim about foot wide, trimmed all
around the inside with flowers of exquisite
shades. The very boards of the old farm
wagon seemed to spread into "A grin of de-
light each time that hat made its appear.
ance with my mother walking beneath But
the grin of satisfaction turned into a gravity
beftting the OCCASION when, il the fall of
the year, it conveyed to the woods guam
tity of empty bags and baskets, and brought
them home filled with nuts enough to serve
for many an evenings entertainment. For
the winter season the wheels were removed,
ind the wagon was converted into a sleigh.
Many night, when the round, jolly moon
oeamed brightly upon the silver-robed earth,
lid sweet music ring out upon the frosty
air from those who were slowed i'll the bot
tom of the sleigh. This was their song
cover the ice-bound lake we glide,
Swift as the wind, aud free;
While the old woods ring as we pass them by,
With shout and song ol glee.
When at last | babe farewell to all the
pleasant things, my saddest parting was
from the old farm wagon. And now, after
the lapse of years, | look back with real
jhankfulness for having known it, and
shared for so long time its friendship
Cbtrchmun,
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The Inner Witness.

In the deepest experiences of remorse
there is a sense in the soul of a disapproval
not only by somewhat, but also by a some
one. 1t is a fact OF human nature that total
submission of the will to conscience brings
into the soul Immediately a strange SENSE of
the divine approval and presence AS personal.
Pardon me if | ask you to use the scientific
method, gentlemen, in the veriication OF the
most sublime fact of human nature. You
turn upon the sky your unarranged telescope
at random and you see nothing. Direct it
properly, but fail to arrange its lenses, and
everything visible through the tube is blurred.
But arrange the lenses, and bring the tele-
scope exactly upon the star, or upon the ris-
ing sun, and the instant there is perfect ac-
cord between the line of the ray from the
axis of the tube and the line from the
star or the orb of day, that instant, but
never before, the image of the star or sun
starts up in the chamber of the instrument
just so claim to be the fact of experience
If you doubt will you try the scientific
method of experience on this subject that
whenever we submit utterly, affectionately,
irreversibly to the best we know, that is, to
the innermost holiest of conscience, at that
instant, and never before, there flashes
through us, with quick, splendid, interior,
unexpected illumination, power not our
selves. The image of the star, or repre-
sentation of the sun, is fonnd within the
chambers of the poor, feeble human instru'
ment You can not have that inner witness
until you have that exterior and interior
conformity to conscience; but whoever has
these will know by the inner light that God
is with him in a sense utterly unknown be
fore. The axis of the tube must be turned
exactly upon the light before you can have
the image. An utterly holy choice bring
with it presence we dare not name. Tun
conscience in total self-surrender gladly anC
exactly upon the Sun behind the sun, all'
it is fact of science that there will newt
ably spring into existence sun behind tn
lenses, hot enough to burn up your gree
and fraud, hot enough to burn up you
doubts and those winged creatures of night
skeptcism and unrest, which fly throug
the twilight and not through the noon.-
Joseph Cook.
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COntrarieties.

The discipline of life is found in its con-
trarieties. If all the moral and spiritual
elements were in harmony, our existence
would flow like a smooth stream we should
know little of what we call trial. But our
state is far different We look everywhere
upon world of disharmony. The flesh is
set over against the spirit, the evil against
the good, the light against darkness. To
live in perfect world would be easy. The
problem is, how to live in this world and
not be of it; how to participate in its labors
and cares and not contract its taint of moral
wrong. The problem can be solved only in
the light of Christianity, which shows us
how to live in and yet above the world how
to be citizens of heaven and yet sojourners
on earth how to retain devout temper OF
mind amid the pressures of worldly duty aud
difficulties. The Christian restores harmony
by bringing heaven down to earth.-Seiected
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4 Mothers Kiss.

What can be more beautiful and more
holy than a mothers love-what more thrill
ing and more impressive than a mothers
kiss How pure aud how unsefish is her
lifection, with what ecstacy does she clasp
her first darling babe to her bosom, with
what pride does she gaze Oh its dreaming
beauty, with what passionate eagerness does
she all but smother her little one with her low
ing kisses But when, from her fond arms,
sier cherished one is torn, yet warm with her
last embrace, her last kiss, and placed beneath
the cold sod, which hides it forever from her
sight, then does it not seem as If her very
ite would go with it B.? Mothers :" last kiss
las been the charm which has kept many a
'choolboy in the right path, when he had
got over all other home influences. Tom
Brown, en- route for Rugby. made a bargain
With his father before starting that he should
not be subjected to the indignity of pater-
Ial kiss not so, however, with his mother,
whose last kiss all the racket of public school
life could never efface from his memory and
heart " Mothers last kiss " has proved the
salvation of many man, although its infu-
ence has slunbered and not made itself felt
until years after it had been imprinted on
his lips-lips which had often since then
i,een sulled and defiled with blasphemy and
ibscenity. But it makes itself felt now and
rs it burns on his guilty mouth, he forms
good resolutions, goes back to good habits,
.ong ago abandoned, and becomes by Gods
ielp, a man once more. " a mothers kiss y
-ay, though friends forsake and shame
brands thy brow, mother will cling to you
her arms are ever ready to receive you. The
memory of mothers love and kindness, hel
asst fond kiss, will warm and thrill with
pure enjoyment, as some incident of the
past awakes within us the soft tones OF hei
lear voice, long since, perhaps, stilled forever
the memory of that kiss will continue witt
rs till lfe's pilgrimage is done.-APpteton'
| Journal
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Visit the Pastor.

The ends to be accomplished by pastoral
visiting in many cases can be more effectu-
ally gained bv the people coming to the pas
tor than by his going to them. There will be
something in the simple act of their seeking
him that will do them good. The Christian
who, of his own choice, courts an interview
with his pastor will talk much more freely
and honestly than If the pastor goes after
him. We have paid hundreds of visits to
unconverted persons--some known to be in
terested about their souls-without ever any
assurance that our visit did good but we
can recall but few cases in which persons
came to us as inquirers after the way of life
who did not find the Saviour. We believe
heartily in visiting the pastor. 1t is an in
spiration to him. 1t saves his time II af
forGs better opportunity for a calm and pray
erful interview than can usually be had at
ones house or place of business. 1t always
pays the pastor to teach the people to come
to him. They may be slow at first but
once worked up to it, they will see its ad
vantages and enjoy it, Besides its other de-
sirable features, this plan will remove all
excuse for complaining of the pastor, if he
does not visit. If his people really wish to
see him and are well, they know where and
when to find him. Every pastor should have
it understood that he has place and time
when he can be seen by those who desire to
confer with him on spiritual questions. As
IL rule, we believe it best, in the city, for the
place to be at the house of God, as many
will meet him there that could never pluck
up courage to enter his private house. While
pastor should always be accessible to any
who need his spiritual counsels, it is best to
name his hours for seeing visitors This
will encourage the timid to come, prevent
disappointments and keep off intruders.
Let the pastor remember that, in training
his flock to look to him in the moment OF
need, he does better deed than if he should
teach them to expect him to be perpetually
looking after them. He is wise shepherd
that can so teach his sheep that, whenever
the wolf or tempest comes, they will run
to him for shelter. 1t is rarely pastors
duty to pay an official call to one who can
be induced to call ON him. m.-Richmond Re
Lgious Herald.
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MuraI and Reiaions.
For the Vermont watchman.
STOR MS.

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The Elder Sister.

No character in the home circle is more
useful and beautiful than devoted elder
sister, who stands side by side with the
toiling mother, tightening all her cares and
burdens How beautifully the household
machinery moves on with such efficient
help Now she presides at the table in
mothers absence, always so neatly attred
that it is with pride and pleasure the father
Introduces her to his guest as "our oldest
laughter" Now she takes a little troop
with her into the garden, and amuses them,
so mother may not be disturbed in her work
or her rest Now she helps the boys over
their hard lessons, or reads fathers paper
aloud 10 rest his tired eyes. If mother can
run away for few days recreation, she
leaves home without anxiety for Mary will
guide the house wisely and happily in her
absence. But in the sick-room her presence
is an especial blessing Her hand is next
to mothers own in gentleness and skill. Her
sweet music can charm away pain and
brighten the weariest hours.--Seiected.
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CHE Come Girrlf.


The day had gone as fades dreami
The night had come and rain fell fast;
While DER the black and sluggish stream
Cold blew the wailng blast.
In pensive mood idly raised
The curtain from the rain-splashed glass,
And as into the street ga1ed
saw two women pass.
one shivering with the bitter cold
Her garments heavy with the rain,
Limped by with features wan and old,
Deep furrowed by sharp pain.
child in form, q child In years;
But from her piteous. paild face
The WEAKNESS of life with tears
Had washed all childlike grace.
And as she passed me, faint and weak,
heard her slowly say. as though
with throbbing heart about to break.
"Move onp Where shall go?"
The other, who on furs recned,
In brougham was driven to the play;
No thought within her vacant mind
OF those in rags that day.
with unmoved heart and idle stare,
Passed by the beggar in the street,
who lifted up her hands in prayer
Some charity to meet
Both vanished In the murky night
The outcast on step to die
The lady to q scene OF light;
Where joy alone did sigh,
But angels saw amid her hair
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VITALITY OF CoRRuPrIoNs,-The yew
tree appears to renew itself out OF its own
decay the decayed wood at the center of an
old yew is gradually formed into rich yegeta-
BILE mould, and fresh verdure springs from
it, How like is this to our inward corrup-
lions, which have marvellous vitality, SO
that one sin feeds upon the death OF another.
Ii we are cured of some one fault, we grow
proud of the amendment; or il we perceive
ourselves 10 be in the wrong and strive
against the evil, we are too apt to despond
aud become unbelieying. So pride and un
belief, two master evils, grow out OF the de
cav of other sins..-Spurgeon.
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The Worship Of Intellect.

The race of which we come is largely leu
tonic. Its dispersed members, like those of
the fatherland, are too much inclined TO ex-
alt sheer mental power. The honor they
yield it is sometimes homage not due the
creature, but only to the Creator That
which we idolize, 10 which we burn incense,
. Is not simple moral worth. but natural ge
mus, refined by scholarly culture In this
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Walking with God.

So, then, God bids you come often from
the noise and strife and tumut of life, bids
you to come even from the grandeur and cir
cumstance of its public religious worship
aud shut the door that you may pray to your
Father in secret 1t is there your truest
life is lived 1t is there strength comes for
the toll and weariness of life. 1t needs not
long for this; not long to gather round you
that sweet sense of Fatherhood which shall
make the whole day sacred and your work
"A service to God. You know how, before
you start away in the morning to your toll,
you have only time, perhaps, for loving
word or two to your wife, and hasty kiss
for the little ones. But how much love you
may put into those few words, and what
sweet memory those little kisses leave all
the dav long. And so a moment or two of
solemn speech with God, before the great
tide of busy life flows in upon the soul, one
short clasp OF the Fathers hand, one quick
glance into his holy, loving eyes will make
the whole day sacred. We need no long
prayers to bring us the sweet sense of Gods
Fatherhood, the hidden secret communion
of him who is ever with us. | walk with
my friend through bustling, crowded
street, and though speak no word to him,
the close pressure of his hand upon my arm,
from time to time, tells me all | want to
know. The little child, too, holding my
hand through long summer walk he looks
up into my face now and then. Look down
into his. and in that look how much is said !;
what compact of trust and love, what bright
assurance that all is fair and calm and pleas
ant between us. So a good man walks with
God.-ReU. George Ddcson.