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Troubles.

All trouble is not borrowed neither is it
the result of depressed condition of mind.
How, then, shall we meet this real trouble,
that is the heritage of life across which sin
and death is evermore casting its shadows ?
There are those who have sought to battle
alone with trouble but out OF every such
trial, however bravely borne, there comes
only the sense of loneliness and loss, which
is cheerless and without comfort, like a
stately palace with the lights gone out of lis
chambers that once echoed the sound OF
happy voices, now silent as the grave. There
are others who try to forget their troubles
after the manner of certain tribe of saw
ages in Africa, who bury their dead in the
silence of the night and then driving cattle
over the newly-stirred earth, seek to obliter-
ate every sign of the burial, and go away
never more to mention the name of the de
parted. Alas when men try to overcome
troubles in these ways, how futile are all
their efforts. In contrast, how blessed is
the hope and comfort which, in the day of
trial, is revealed in the heart that trusts God
and flies to divine sources of refuge and
help Our Heavenly Father does not keep
his children from troubles They often fall
with overwhelming severity upon them, but
he is always near to them, and i'll his own
good time transmutes them into blessings
Every page, almost, of the Bible has word
of cheer and comfort for those in trouble
Happy is that man whose life has verified
as so many have done, the words of the
apostle "Tribulation worketh patience !; and
patience, experience and experience, hope.
! This is to have the soul, taking root in the
midst of earthly trial and trouble, blossom
| forth in the beauty and strength of an i'm
mortal hope Working Church.
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An Inyalid's Life.

Few are they who, in the activities of ro-
bust life, pause to think of the loneliness of
the helpless invalid-of the isolated bondage
of weakness. To young woman who is
cut off from all youthful amusements and
pursuits, who is restrained from love, who,
within four walls is bound to her couch by
chains as cruel as if they were made of steel,
whose hands are forbidden any response to
the busy motions of her mind, there come
hours when even sympathy weares of its
ministry, and merceuary attendance must
seek relief from its burdens. She must be
left alone, her hands folded in patient wait
ing. Renaissance, idle dreaming, aspira-
tion, regrets, tears-these come III pathetic
routine to fill the heavy hours when society
departs. Great. silent heroisms are wrought
out in intervals like these, more wonderful
than the common imagination can conceive
or great moral disasters are suffered, from
which there is no recovery. In one direc
ton or the other-toward cheerful, self-for
getful, ever-buoyant fortitude; or toward
fretfulness, Impotence, discomfort and weak
complaining-the invalid always gravitates
Wine, long shut from the sunlight, ripen'
into nectar or vinegar. The alternative il
mainly fixed by the amount OF sunlight i
had the privilege of absorbing when il
hung in clusters upon the vine.-Scribner fo
June
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Let Your NeighbOrs Alone.

No people are such thorough nuisances as
those who are perpetually meddling with
the business of their neighbors-who are
always on the alert for anything suspicious
always ready to believe the worst OF every
body. Reader If you belong to that un-
fortunate class, we pity you. As it is i'm
possible that you can find out anything that
is going on in your vicinity, you must be in
a state of continual torture. A prying mind
needs food, and without it suffers. Then
try to conquer the unhappy popularity.
What is it to you if your neighbor does
bring home brown paper package and a
covered basket You will live just as long
if YOU never know what they contain. 1t is
none of your business And if your highty
neighbor, Mrs. Lightfoot, INDUCES herself
in new bonnet while her devoted husband
wears patched boots you need not fret about
it-he is the only sufferer, not you. Nc
need of making hue and a cry over her
supposed extravagance The money did NOT
come out of your pocket, and consequently
it is none of your business. What II the
minister does call on Ann Smith twice q
week Why exercise your brain about IT
Suppose she has an awful temper-and pow
ders her face, as you say she does-her tenn
per will not trouble you. Mind your owl
concerns. What difference does it make
YOU if bold Maria cuts out modest Mary
You need not torture Mary by long stories
of what you have heard concerning the mat
ter. al thought would tell you, my dear
speak for your good, Somebody shoulC
put you on your guard against that treacher
Gus girl" AS ia natural consequence modes
Mary, her womanly pride aroused, shrink
into the background, leaving the field opeI
to her victorious rival So you crush goo'
girls heart because you will not mind you
own business. What if they have three
pairs of stockings over at Squire Hills
Haven't they got right to As long a
you don't do the washing it need not troubl
you at all What right have you to watcl
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Thorough busting.

In buying articles of furnitureit is as well
to choose those which can be easily kept in
order The intricate carvings and artistic
designs which please us when a sofa or chair
is new will become traps for dust unless
they are always carefully wiped off every
day. In busting it is well to have at hand
a feather brush and clean cloth. Old silk
handkerchiefs answer the purpose very we'll
Soft Turkish crash is very good aud salts
factory, The neat matron will see that all
her dusting cloths are washed every week
and she should also shake them thoroughly
after each time Of using. 1t is good plan
occasionally to wash vanished surfaces with
warm water, Cleanliness is really at
tractive feature in house, and a very plain
home which is thoroughly nice and spotles'
in its appointments is more inviting than q
costly one which is ll-kept.--Seieeted,
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Blue Checks.


In Ohio, few days ago, saw a girl in a
span-clean checked apron that went around
her wrist with a string the old-fashioned
sort, made of numberless and undivided
checker-boards, with the little blue and
white squares alternating with mathemat-
cal precision. The sight of that apron
would have taken you back to an older
wearer of similar garment, who brought
apples from the orchard in it, and white
maple chips from the wood pile, and picked
peas in it upon pinch, and gathered eggs
in it from the hay-mow, and spread it
smoothly and decorousy over her lap when
she sat, and her knitting-work reposed in it /;
and sometimes a cat, marked like her best
Sunday comb, would assay slunber upon
its checkered existence, and be whisked off
in second. You have seen that apron flung
over its owners head like " the knitted
cloud" of modern times, when she went to
the next neighbor's That apron has wiped
away the tears of your childish sorrow, when
they ran down your face, and your clamor-
Gus tongue ran out at each corner of your
mouth between the sylables of lamentation,
aud licked them in You saw where she
laid it when its work was done. You saw
where they laid her when her work was done.
There is a whole system OF mnemonics in
those blue and white checks.-B. F. Taylor
in Examiner and Chronicle
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l VIII Try 1t.

Many a physician has gained his prac-
tice by one patient telling others OF his cure.
Tell your neighbors that you have been t.
the hospital of Jesus, and been restored,
although you hated all manner of meat and
drew near to the gates OF death and maybe,
a poor soul just in the same condition as
yourself will say This is a message from
God to me-" Above all, publish abroad the
Lords goodness for Jesus sake. He de-
serves your honor. Win you receive his
blessing, and then, like the nine lepers, give
him no praise2 Will you be like the woman
in the crowd who was healed by touching
the hem of his garment, and then would
have slipped away ? Ii so, pray that the
Master may say Somebody hath touched
me" and may you be compelled to tell the
truth, and say, 81 was sore sick in my soul
but touched thee o my blessed Lord, and
am saved, and to the praise of the glory
or thy grace will tell it, though devils
should hear it; will tell it and make the
world ring with it, according to my ability
to the praise and glory of thy saving grace
-Spurge0H.
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Humorous Waits.

A BALTIMORE paper speaks of a man who
'was three times shot dead, and says she
cannot recover"
WHEN man attempts to pull the wool
over a Blly-goat's eyes, he should wear
breast-plate of boiler iron well down on his
stomach.
FoR seven years, now, the Baltimore peo-
pie who admired Wilkes Booth have gone
out every month to sequestered spot and
laid wreaths of flowers on the grave OF a man
who kept a peanut stand and was killed by
being run over by a swill-cart.
AN exchange says that the champion
scholar has turned up. Being asked to sign
his initials to a document, he wanted to
know what nishuls We're" "Why, your
name being George Gould, you want two
G's," "Oh, | see" he said, and he wrote
- Geeze,"
AN agent, soliciting subscription for a
book, showed the prospectus to man, who,
after reading, One dollar in boards, and
one dollar and twenty-five cents in sheep"
declined subscribing as he might not have
boards or sheep on hand when called upon
for payment
IN a discussion in the board of aldermen
of neighboring city, while they were de-
batting proposition to supply the place with
a new style OF lamppos.s, one member got
up and innocently remarked that he, for one,
had always found the old ones "good enough
to stand by"
If man buys new buggy or If his cow
can bawl three times without winking, the
4" local" is expected to proclaim it with a
grand flourish. If he starts two-penny
business, his first thought is to bribe the
"local" with five cent cigar to write out a
five dollar puff.
A PATRON of certain newspaper once
said to the publisher 4" Mr.. Printer, how is
it you never call on me for pay for your pa
per 2" "Oh !" said the man of types, "wt
never ask gentleman for money" "ln
Decd" replied the patron. "How do you
manage to get along when they don't pay p
why" said the editor, after certain
time we conclude he is not gentleman-and
we ask him"
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Young Men In the Churches.

In an earnest, progressive church, young
men are and must from the nature of things,
be prominent The church, in her aspira-
tions, in liberality of opinion, in charity OF
judgment, in soul and body saving activity,
must be kept in the van of the age. The
more orthodox a church is, the more wide
awake and progressive it should be; the
more ballast, the more sail. The more
staunchly it adheres to essentials, the more
liberal it should be to nonessentials. A
church need not fear any amount of lateral
swinging or swaying so long as the anchor
of its faith is stuck deep into the rock
Christ Jesus. Heterodoxy has won nearly
all triumphs on side issues, and by that great
est blunder of orthodoxy-its stand-still-
and-donothngisrn Now the value of this
young element in the church is that it will
prevent this blunder from being repeated.
The man who stumbles twice at the same
stone, says Spanish proverb, is fool. The
future will do more than repeat the past.
Orthodoxy, strong as white oak, and plant
as mountain ash, shall be so interpreted as
to be understood, and therefore loved by the
masses. No longer dogmatic, no longer un-
couth, tolerant hereafter toward everything
but sin, no longer repellant she shall adorn
herself with the choicest culture, attracting
the mutitudes by her honesty on the one
hand, and the grace of her appearance on
the other. No longer behind the age, filled
with the spirit of progress, she shall light
the race down the ages, with the two orbs
of her faith both luminous and at full glow
love toward God, and equal love toward
all men. And the realization of that high
hope to the orthodox church, founded in
this country, through the agency of our
fathers, by God himself, is to come more
than from any other source, through the ac.
ton of the young men to-day in the church,
Golden Rule.
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BE Careful.

Marriage, to any true woman, is no mere
business partnership. 1t is everything. Her
nature Graves for sympathy, affection, con-
idence. She gives all and believes she is
receiving all. And she cannot strike out.
and select, and originate, and divert herself
with hundred sources of active interest
open to men. After honeymoon, more or
less protracted and joyous, the husband set
ties into normal life. His main concerns are
again out of doors in business or pleasures
more or less legitimate. The nice atten-
tions and the gentle considerations needed
to win his wife he sees no need for, now that
she is his. What more is needed? She
cannot be his any more than she is and
what would she want? Is she not Mrs.
Dives? That ought to satisfy most women.
Has she not establishment carriage, and
credit at the best dry-goods' houses ? All !
Mr.. Dives. you are poor, silly, shallow
fool, wise as you are deemed in business
circles, if you really believe that stuff. That
"girl" whom you married has heart /;
really, she meant it, poor thing when
she said she was giving her heart to
you. And she longs for-she really does,
Mr.. Dives, though you do not take it in
something more than your table-head and
unlimited quantities of dry goods. They
may call her worldly, snowy, perhaps heart
less by-and-by, and you will make her
so, Mr. Dives, if you persevere in your
policy; but there is in her that which cries
out in pain for the dear old tender
ness, for affection, for the playful, gentle
word for caresses, for confidence. She ex.
pected to be wife, and you make her a
kind of composite of clerk and head cook
Her poor heart-for really she has heart
under all that mass OF silk mercery and con-
ventionalism-is hungry, starving, asking
for its appropriate bread, and you give her
a stone. If she is woman of self-respect
she will accept the situation, do her duty i'll
a mechanic way, mind her children, if God
so blesses her, and vaguely wonder if all
other women are in their deepest lives SO
lonely as she is. This is one kind of ship
wreck The vessel, indeed, is not broken
up but the cargo is damaged and as good
as lost, and you, Mr.. Dives with all your con.
sequence as a successful man, have lost the
best treasure that ever was within youI
reach Oh the earth-a true woman's abiding
satisfied, lifelong love.-Selected.
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The most perilous hour OF persons life
is when he is tempted to despond. The
man who loses his courage loses all there is
no more hope for him than of a dead man
but it matters not how poor he may be, how
much pushed by circumstances, how much
deserted by friends, how much lost to the
world if he only keeps his courage, holds
up his head, works ON with his hands, and
in his unconquerable will determines to be
and TO do what becomes a man, all will be
well. 1t is nothing outside of him that
kills; but what is within, that makes or un-
Religious Herald,
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their clothes-ine ? Employ your time bet
ter. 1t may be perfectly true that dashing
Mrs. Gray signals to young DIR. Wilde from
her back windows. But who gave you the
privilege of watching lady in her own
home. where, if in any place, her privacy
should be sacred Her disgrace is nothing
to you; it is none of your business. If we
had our way, meddlers should be punished
like any other offenders against the rights
of others Selected.
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Seleff MisreHanp.
For the Vermont watchman.
IT'S JUNE AGAIN.

BY ELLEN o. PECK.
And Ia this June9
From prison walls Of grief and gloom,
The baTeuness Of a sick-room,
To fields Of light, and health, and bloom,
OF flowers all fresh and birds at tune,
turn my weary eyes.
The freshness Of the newborn leaves,
The carpet that the summer weaves,
The sunshine which the earth receives,
FIN me with strange surprise.
'Tls June again.
Locked in with weary, heart-worn care,
And sometimes hearing dark despair
KNOCK loudly for an entrance there,
My heert but little needed when
Began the change Of soenei
But opening my eyes to-day.
The winter mists have passed away.
And nature, with departing May,
Is decked In choicest green.
o lovely June,
Since, meath thy blossom giving skies.
My darlinl closed her sunny eyes,
A holy influence in thee lies
Beyond thy flowers, and light, and tune,
never fail to find.
And so from shade, and doubt, and gloom,
That settles o'er this saddened room,
To natures outward light and bloom
Is drawn my weary mind.
Meath Junes soft skies
catch perfume-laden breath.
That something Of the spirit hath
a.. n,,1 a "A. 4.
And makes my heart more heavenly wise,
And gives 1t strength to bear;
As when away the Saviour went,
The blessed Comforter he sent
To make the apostles hearts content
Amid life's toll and care.
SO, tho In June
My darling took her upward flight,
There fingers ever pure and bright
A something Of her spirit light,
Where early summer flowers are strewn,
That helps my heart sustain,
And gives a meaning rare and sweet
With faith, and tender love replete,
TO June's incoming fairy feet,
With all her fiowery train.
o month of flowers,
My yearning soul is upward drawn
Along the way my love has gomez
A holy imnulse lures me on
From all the radiant summer bowers
Thy hands about me spread;
As II the Saviour, heavenly friend,
with all our woes doth blessings blend,
Aud a sweet Comforter doth send
I'll
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PARTING.

II thou dost bid thy friend farewell,
But for one night though that farewell may be,
Press thou his hand In thine.
How canst thou tell how far from thee
caprice may lead his steps tomorrow comes
Men have known to lightly turn the corner OF street
And days have grown to months,
And months to tagging years. they have looked in lovn
eyes again.
Parting, at best Is underlad
with tears and pain
Therefore, lest sudden death ahoud come between,
Or time distance, clasp with pressure nrm the hand
OF him who goeth orth
Unseen fate goeth too
Yea, find thou always time 10 say some earnest word
Between the idle talk, lest with thee henceforth'
Night and day, regret should walk Selected
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Nenirfranrf.
TEMPERANCE SONG.

Away, away with the flowing bowl,
The wine cups fascination,
That kills the body and sinks the soul
To lowest degradation.
Away with the ribald Jest and roar
OF Bachanallan laughter,
Where pleasure seems to go before,
But death comes following after.
Away, away with the glitterng glass
That foams and CLEANS and bubbles
Within lis roseate depths, alas,
There lies world Of troubles.
Forsake the cup with purpose strong,
And aspirations holy,
And have no hand In the fearful wrong
But that which lifts the lowly.
oh stand like the hills against the Ills
OF the wine cups wiles and graces
Be found with those who are honest foes
OF all that thus debases
Up, up in the path Of the demons wrath,
Fight on, and give no quarter
And shout for the rlls of the green clad hills
And springs of sparkling water.
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VEGETINE
HAS ENTIRELY CURED ME |

BOSTON, October 1870.
Mr.. H. X. STEVENS
Dear SrMy daughter, after having severe attack of
Whoopng Cough, left in feeble state of health Be
ing advised by friend she tried the vEGtTINE, and
after using few bottles fully restored to health
have been great sufferer from rheumatism, | have
aiken several bottles of the VEGETNE for this complaint
and happy say has entirely cured me- have rec
commended the YEGETINE to Others with the good
results II Ia great cleanser and purifier of the blood 1t
pleasant TO take and can cheerfuy recommend II.
JAMES MORSE, 1854 Athens street.
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Sperial Nuffe.
A THRILLING INCIDENT

In the mission life of Mrs. Ingalls, in Burmah, is well told
In the Baptist Messenger relating how she was sent for to
visit the Buddhist high priests who had been nearly
killed and how, while in the most holy place in their
temple where but priests had before been ad
mitted. she permitted unrebuked to use for him the
sacred vessels which but the high priest dare touch
aud to overurn and sit of their gods TO rest
all through the magic influence of the Pain Killer, called
by them the God medclne successfully had she used
II in curing their many Diseases of them considered
heretofore fatal in that climate, among which were
cholera liver complaint dyspepsia the bites of venonous
reptiles This speaks volumes for the Pain Killer
London Times.
Rev. j. E. Clough Missionary Ongoe, Southern India
wres We esteem your Pain Killer very highly for scor-
pon sngs, cholera, etc. and cannot very well get along
without It,"
Rev l. D. Coburn Missionary Tavoy, Burmah, writes
shall be happy assist in extending knowledge OF
remedy so speedy and enectua"
Perry Davis a. Son., Propretors, Providence, X.
Jnna 6, 1871. $3.50
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Mosr of us have had troubles all our lives
aud each day has brought all the evils that
we wished to endure. But if we were asked
to recount the sorrows of our lives, how
many could we remember How many that
are six months old should we think worthy
to be remembered or mentioned Today
troubles look large, but week hence they
will be forgotten and buried out of sight
Selected
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Rheumatism is Disease Of the Blood.

The blood In this disease k found to contain excess Of
HbrH. VEGETlNE acts by converting the blood from Its
diseased condition to a healthy circulation. VEGETlNE
regulates the bowels which very important in this com
plant. One bottle Of the vEGETNE will give relief, but
to effect permanent 1t regularly and
may take several bottles specially of long stand
Ing YEGETINE Is sold by all druggists Try IT, and your
diet will be the that OF thousands before You
who say, found much relief from the OF
yEGETINE," which Is composed exclusively of Bdrks
Roots and Herbs.
"yEGETINE," says a Boston physician, Z" has equa
as blood purifier Hearing of many wonderful cures
after all remedies had failed visited the laboratory
and convinced myself OF It's genuine merit 1t is prepared
from barks roots and herbs each OF which Is highly ef
fecve and they compounded in such manner as u
produce astonishing results"
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As SOME persons in natural sleep are so
soundly unconscious that you must shake
and shake them before they are aroused, so
there are many now wide awake in the
Christian life, whose slumbers would never
have been broken had not some giant trou-
BILE given them harsh arousing. Ii needs
storms as well us sunshine TO mature the
graces OF tho Spirit.
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REMEMBER this, then-there is higher
work for man to do than to growl and bite
and when you fasten on a foe, be sure he is
a foe, not to you, merely, but to truth aud
do not harm one who, it may be, is far bet
ter than yourself