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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27
Birds Nests.

The best way to find nests is to watch
bird while building in that way, moreover,
you are sure to see them in their best con-
dition, and to know when the eggs are fresh.
1t requires patience; but see the workers
return again and again to the same spot, and
a little closer inspection usually completes
your knowledge, though You may sometimes
be deceived or nonplussed by the caution
and cunning of the architects. You will
facilitate your work by scattering cotton
wool, horse-hairs, straws, string, worsted
and cloth where they will attract the atten.
tion of the birds about you. Put them on
your lawn or on the piazza vines, and watch
them. A robin comes to carry off the string,
and having used up what YOU have provided,
and liking the material, attacks a long
piece wound round a stake, and support
ing a gladiolus. BY persistent effort he
frees part of it, but the harder he pulls
at the rest, the tighter he ties the knot
around the stake, and the string is be-
coming entangled with his legs; he fights
twenty minutes, and then gives it up Spar
rows pick up hairs and straws from the
lawn, and warblers come to the vines for
cottonwood, passing fearlessly within three
feet of your chair; then they come back to
break off little twigs and to peel off shreds
of dry bark from the honeysuckle. A pair
of golden robins, the male with black aud
orange, the female with yellow and duller
black, come for string, worsted and thread !;
but beware of them, for they are thieves,
Leave your knitting under the tree there for
five minutes, and it is gone; you will find
it a week later a part irrevocably woven
into the hanging nest, and part dangling
with the needle III it. The weaving is so
cleverly done that you wonder whether the
orioles haven't used your needles. Not at
all, madam; | defy you to produce with
your implements such piece of work a.
these birds have produced with their bills.
Wilson says that an old lady to whom he
showed an orioles nest in which piece OF
dry grass, thirteen inches long, was ps ssed
through thirty-four times, asked him, hall
in earnest, if the birds couldn't be taught to
darn stockings.-Harper's. for June.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27
Oatmeal.

In Great Britain children of all ranks are
raised on oatmeal diet alone, because it
causes them to grow strong and beautiful,
and no better food can be found for them.
It is also quite as desirable for the laborer,
aud for the delicate lady and her hard work
ing sister; indeed, all classes would be
greatly benefited by its use, aud dyspepsia,
with its manifold annoyances, can be kept
at distance. Oatmeal is more substantial
food, it is said, than veal, pork, or lamb
while its great desderatum consists iu ones
not becoming weary of it, for 1t is as vel
come for breakfast or tea as is wheat OF
Graham bread 1t eau be eaten with syrup
or butter, as hasty-pudding, or with cream
and sugar like rice, 1t is especially good
for young mothers, upon whose nervous
forces too great demand has been made, and
they lose the equilibrium OF system and he
come depressed aud dispiIited. Oatmeal re
quires TO be cooked slowly, aud the water
should be boiling hot when it is stirred in
Selected,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27
A Bank for LOsings.

On the chief thoroughfare of this city |
often pass a stately savings bank, built OF
freestone, and see groups of working peo-
pie going to deposit their hard-earned money
some are mechanics some are Irish do
mestics; some are poor widows laying by
a few dollars for their fatherless children.
But on the same street the tempter has
opened more than one bank for iosings.
In some parts of the city there is one ON
nearly every corner. In almost every rural
hamlet too, is there a similar institution.
New York city contains six thousand OF
them.
In each of these banks for losings is
counter on which young men and old, and
even some wretched women, lay down their
deposits in either paper or coin. The only
interest that is paid on these deposits is in
redness of eyes, and foulness of breath, and
remorse of conscience. Every one who makes
deposit gains loss. One man goes into
the bank with full pocket and comes out
empty. Another goes in with good charac-
ter, and comes out with the word drunk writ
ten on his boated countenance. have even
seen a mechanic enter in a bran new coat,
and come away again as if the mice had
been nibling at his elbows.
have known a young clerk to leave his
"situation " " behind him in one of the devils
banks Of iosings. Several prosperous trades
men have lost all their business there. What
is worst of all, thousands of people go in
there aud lose their immortal souls.
If the cashiers of these institutions were
honest, they would post on the door some
such notice as this;
Bank for losings. Open at all hours.
Nothing taken in but good money. Nothing
paid out but disgrace and disease, and deg
radiation and death. An extra dividend of
deiirium tremens will be given to old deposit
tors. A free pass to perdtion given to those
who pay well at the counter: also tickets to
Greenwood and other cemeteries, emitting
the holder to drmkdrd's grave! All the
children of depositors sent without charge
to the orphan asylum or the alms-house.
Young men beware of the bank for los
ings. Some bait their depositors with cham
payne some with ale or Bourbon some
with pack of cards and others with
billiard table. If you wish to keep char
acter-keep out
Young ladies never touch the hand that
touches the wine-g lass Never wear the
name of man who is enrolled on the de-
posit list of the devils bank. Never lean
on the arm that leans on the bar-room coun-
ter. 1t will be rotten support.
The best savings bank for young mans
money is a total abstinence pledge. The best
savings bank for his time is honest industry
and good book. The best savings bank
for his soul is faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ.
But if you do not want your greenbacks
turned into black eyes and red noses; ii you
don't want your pockets emptied. and your
soul drugged with the poisons OF the pit
then keep outside OF the " National Brandy
Bank for Losings."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27

A debt is a load which you should be
slow to take upon you Debts bring trouble
and sorrow. Interest will gnaw at your
earnings without ceasing. 1t will never
rest at night. 1t will not observe the Sab
bath, 1t will not stop for sickness, nor for
funerals. In rainy weather or in dry, in
summer and in winter, it will keep ON noise
lessly adding to the load under which you
groan. 1t is a sin to run in debt without "a
probability of paying. You should never
run in debt for anything that will not stand
good for the debt incurred, or will not cou-
tribute towards its payment. You had bet
ter wear the poorest clothes and eat the
plainest food than buy food and clothes
with other peoples money. 1t is alwa' 5
safe 10 wait for these things until you have
the money to pay for them. BY so doing
you will not only be saved from trouble, but
also from pride and extravaganza. Give no
occasion TO any TO reproach the cause OF
Christ because of your dishonesty, ore
no man anything, but 10 iove one dnoiher,-
Exchange,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27
The Highland Soldier.

A chaplain of a Glasgow infirInary once
related an account of a young man who had
so seriously injured his arm through a ma
chine that he had to have it amputated.
few weeks after the operation, one of the
arteries suddenly broke open, and by the
time he was brought into the hospital he
was nearly dead through loss of blood, and
the doctors thought the only possible chance
of saving the young mans life was to inject
into his arm the warm life-blood of another
But the question arose, Who would volun
teer to be bled In the next ward was a
young Highland soldier suffering from some
light matter in the leg but otherwise in
good health and strength. So the doctor
went and asked him if he had. any objec-
tions to being bled. Most decidedly,
have" replied the soldier. But would you
be bled to save life 2" "Well, if it is for
that, I'm your man. Who wants my
blood ?" Aud jumping up, he went into the
next ward where the young man was lying,
sinking fast. The soldier barred his arm,
saying, Bleed away" Then the doctor i'll
serted one end of the tube into the arm OF
the strong man, and the other end into the
arm of the weak one transferring the warm
life-blood into the dying man until the flush
Of life came into the pallid cheek of the
Youth. But the brave soldier grew weaker
and weaker and at last tainted away; but
as soon as he recovered he said, Take more
blood as much as you want" "The life
of the flesh is the blood" 1t is the blood
that maketh atonement for the soul Once
we were "without strength" condemned
dying, doomed. Aud then there came one
who, seeing our need gave, not the mere
surplus of his strength and vigor, but his
own lfe's blood, his very life for lost
world. He not only saved us from dying,
but he died for us, for our sins, The just
for the unjust, that he might bring us to
God" And have we no gratitude, no love,
no thanks, no praise, no service for him
Do we make friends with his enemies, and
do the things which grieve his heart p? Do
we spurn his true and noble love that we
may win the smiles of hypocrites and the
batteries of fools Are the pleasures, the
sins, the joys, and the follies of earth to be
compared with the love Of him who laid
down his life for us, aud who lives that we
may live forever?
"When survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died.
Ny richest gain count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27
MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 81 1877

the little fingers can easily mend the rents
themselves. Before tea-tme they may make
their toilets in something fresh, and then it
will be no hardship to keep quiet until bed
time. What do you think of my deter
mination 2"
81 suppose IL is wise one, Lucy" said
Mrs. Layard, "but confess that | like TO
see little folks look nice at least they ought
to do so on Sundays"
"Well, on Sunday agree with you that
the fine, white dresses and the ribbons may
be assumed in honor of the best day of the
week. However, what you and must diff.
fer in is not the way our children appear
on occasions, but the good times they have
or don't have every day."
DR. Bonset does insist that | keep my
children too dainty" said Mrs. Layard. I" lie
told their father so, and since then William
thinks that Herbert and Lulu are pale and
slender because they take too many baths
and don't romp enough. That is why he
urges me to send them up to Uncle Schuy-
ler's by themselves this summer. But can
not consent, for want them to be with me"
Let us all go to Uncle Schuyler's," said
her friend "at least all who can. must
content myself with mere glimpse of the
BIttH hlIis WIS year. lOi NY HuSodnu IN tl'u
fast to his downtown Office all day, and !
don't like TO have him come home to an
empty house. Still, fyou will go to the noun
tain farm where we had such good times
years ago, I'll let my little ones go, too and
when Robert has his vacation, we'll join you
there. | don't think you will enjoy Long
Branch or Saratoga half so well as you will
a few weeks of rural pleasure, where you
need not care for display or fashion"
1T is perfectly wonderful" Mrs. Layard
remarked to her husband, how young and
fresh Lucy Raymond keeps. She looks like
a girl, and she is almost as old as am. She
has the same merry laugh and the same en-
thusiasm that she had twenty years ago, and
her children are pictures of health | wish
mine were so strong and hearty"
81 think you aud she decided very sensi.
bly to-day" Mr.. Layard replied. al haven't
the least doubt that you will come home
with roses blooming in your cheeks, too, il
yon will sew less, and play more, and worry
not at all. Christian al Work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27

order that your felicity should be complete,
you require but one thing but that is a
very important item" And what thing is
that ?" demanded the Knight, opening wide
his eyes. zone of your doors must be
walled up" replied his guest. AT this
strange rejoinder, several of the guests began
TO laugh, and Gerard himself looked as much
as to say, This man has gone mad" Wish
ing, however, to have the clue to this
enigma, he continued, But which door do
you mean?" he demanded. al mean that
through which you will one day be carried
to your grave" replied the other. These
words struck both guests and host, and
made the latter reflect most seriously. The
proud man remembered the vanity OF all
things earthly, and from thenceforth he no
longer thought only of the perishable treas
ures he had once glorified in. Completely
altered, he began in good works too to make
better use of bis riches, looking for better
inheritance Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27
Immensity Of Space.

In recent lecture delivered in Edin-
burgh on "The Stars" Professor Grant CAV,
graphic idea of the immensity of space.
He said railway train, travelling night and
day at the rate of fifty miles an hour, would
reach the moon in six months, the sun IN
two hundred years, and Alpha Centauri, the
nearest of the fixed stars, in forty-two mil
lions of years A ball from gun, travelling
at the rate of nine hundred miles an hour,
would reach Alpha Centauri in two million
seven hundred thousand years. while light,
travelling as it did at the rate of one hun
dred and eighty-fve thousand miles in sec
ond, would not reach it in less than three
years. Light from some of the telescope
stars would take five thousand seven hundred
and sixty yeai to reach the earth; and from
some of these clusters the distance was 50
great, that light would take half million
of years to pass to the earth, so that we saw
objects not as they really are, but as they
were half a million of years ago. These
stars might have become extinct thousands
of years ago, aud yet their light might pre-
sent itself to us. As to the magnitude OF
the stars, he noticed that it was computed
that Al pha Lyra was one hundred billions
of miles distant from the EARTH and its mag
nitude aud splendor were as twenty to one
when compared with our sun. Similar in
vestigations brought out the fact that ouI
sun was neither vastly greater nor vastly les
than great majority of the estars.--Erchdnge
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smoraI and ReliainnS.
THE CHILD ON THE JuDeMEST-sEAT.

where hast been toling all day, sweet heart,
That thy brow Is burdened and sad
The Masters work may make weary rect
But IT leaves the spirit glad.
Was thy garden nipped with the midnight frost,
or scorched with the midday glare9
Were thy vines laid low, or thy lilies crushed,
That thy face Ia so full Of care7
"No pleasant garden tolls were mine
have sat on the judgment-seat,
Where the Master sis at eve, and calls
The children around his feet"
How camest thou on the Judgment seat,
Sweet hearth who set thee there9
'Ts lonely and lofty seat for thee
And well might All thee with care.
al climbed on the judgmeat-seat myself
have sat there alone all day,
For It grieved me TO see the children around
Idllng their life away.
"They wasted the Masters precious seed.
They wasted the precious hours;
They trained not the vines gathered the fruits,
And they trampled the sweet, meek flowers"
And what hast thou done on he judgment-seat,
Sweet hearth What didst thou there?
Would the idlers heed thy childish voice7
Did the garden mend by thy care9
"Say, that grieved me more called and cried,
But they left me there fororn;
Nv voca ,yas ,ye,k and tbev hooded mot
Or they laughed my words to scorn."
All the iudgment. seat ,ros not for theel
The servants were not thlnel
And the eyes which adudge the praise and the blame
''' ''''''e' ''''" '''"' VI '"'
The voice that shall sound there at eve sweet heart
win not raise It's tones to be heard;
II will hush the earth, and hush the hearts.
' ''"' "'
"should see the Masters treasures lost,
The stores that should feed his poor,
And not lift my voice. be II weak as II may
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27
A THRILLING INCIDENT

In mission life Of Mrs Ingalls, In Burmah is well told
In the Baptist Messenger, relating how she sent for to
the Buddhist high priests who had been nearly
killed and how, while in the most holy place in their
temple where hut priests had ever before been adj
mltte she permitted unrebuked to for him the
vessels which but the high priest dare touch,
aud and sit of their gods to rest
all through the magic influence of the Pain Killer called
by them the medicine" successfully had she used
1t curing their Diseases some of them considered
heretofore fatal In that climate, among which were
cholera liver complaint dyspepsia, the bites of venoinous
reptiles, This speaks volumes for the Pain Killer
London Times.
Rev j. E. Cough Missionary at ongole. Southern India
wrtes We esteem your Pain Killer very highly for seor
pion sting-, cholera and cannot very well get along
without It,"
Rev l. ID. Colburn Missionary Tayoy, Bunnah, writes
" shall be happy to assist in extending knowledge ct
remedy speedy and effecual."
Perry Davis n SON., Proprietor, Providence, X. l
June g. 1871, eo-ss
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A Low Voice in Woman.

Yes, we agree with that old poet who said
that low, soft voice was an excellent
thing in woman" Indeed, we feel inclined
to go much further than he has on the sub
iect, and call it one of her crowning charms.
No matter what other attractions she may
have; she may be as fair as the Troja
Helen aud as learned as the famous Hypatia
of ancient times she may have all the ac-
complshments considered requisite at the
present day, and every advantage that wealth
can procure, and yet If she lacks low,
sweet voice, she can never be really fascin-
atng. How often the spell of beauty is
rudely broken by coarse, loud talking. How
often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain,
unassuming woman, whose soft, silvery tones
render her positively attractive. Besides,
we fancy we can judge of the character by
the voice; the bland, smooth, fawning tones
seem to betoken deceit and hypocrisy as in
variably~as the musical, subdued voice indi.
Gates genuine refinement. In the social
circle how pleasant it is to hear a woman
talk in that low key which always charac-
terizes the true lady. In the sanctuary at
home how such a voice soothes the fretful
child aud cheers the weary husband. How
sweetly its cadence floats through the sick
chamber and around the dying bed With
what solemn melody do they breath prayer
for the departing soul All, yes, low, soft
voice is certainly "an excellent thing i'll
an."-Seiected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27
A ThOusand.FOld.

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rhiheas stowe, boston nome missionary
OF blessed memory, ueVoIea M 'o al !L Oh ms en-,
ergles 70 rehgious woik among Ihe poor ana
neglected. me mus ensage1 ne seeined s
70 oe favored Will WIN cieai ahu mohaeriui .,
views Oh 'he ioveilnesS % ana oeau'y vi ,he
character Oh onIis.' ne nau uaugn.er
named heieh' her co,hpailiohshlP was 'he
dearest ehins on earIh; ohe Perisneu d.
sea- ne news Oh hel uea.I came "ilen he
was absent from tlle cry, ABSORBED IN 'his,
SION WORK III another neiu' anu AZ a .''he
wheh ms preaching was eSpec,any oiesse1
IN turning sous 70 onrlS., ii's Miie aua
irlehdS wished 10 convey 10 nun tie ureau-
lui news WIS III liie 'nos' geh'ie possible i'lan,
her' ihey Sent ior nun. Ol eiterins h's
houie lie seeiheu leii oi spiritual ierSor' anu
holding up one OF MqiieL DOCKS on ehe
power Oh iaith' wni9h ne nau peen reaaine
on the cars, ne SalI my uear wile, ! am
gong 10 hihg hyseii ou, oI you more 'nan
ever nave done; wen, answered ms
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27

The Chevalier Gerand de Kamps was
very proud man. Soon after the completion
of his magnificent castle, he wished TO have
house-warming and accordingly all his
great neighbors were invited to a grand
feast AT the conclusion of the sumptuous
repast, his guests made speech after speech,
in which the host was Landed TO the skies,
aud told that he was the most fortunate man
alive, As the Chevalier loved fiattery, we
can imagine how proud aud delighted he
was. One amongst the guests, however,
said nothing for time When each man
had made his speech, he uttered the follow
ing singular observation upon the happiness
Of the host" Sir knight" he said, " in
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-27

The chief value of sermon is its power
to make an audience think. 1t should serve
as kind of mental spur to quicken the lag
ging faculties, and start the dormant affec-
tions A good many discourses are nothing
but sort Of holy lullaby; and all the good
they do is to soothe the mind by their mel
lihuous sounds into state of delicious
spiritual somnolence. They please a certain
misty, sentimental east OF minds who think
there is something exceedingly beautiful in
pictures OF heaven, aud narrations of dying
scenes, aud stories of pious little boys aud
young ladies who die just as they are about
TO embark for some distant mission. But
men who are in sloughs and currents, strug
Cling for life, care nothing for such pious
platltudes. Murray.