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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-25

TO THE FIRST ROBIN.


Welcome again, from the land Of the summer.
Bird in the maple, with jubant sungi
Nodding and singing thy rapturous greeting
Where hast thou stayed from our garden 40 iong2
Often the little ones looked from the window
When the soft snownakes fell neecy and dumb,
Saying, See, mother, the white bees are swarming;
When will they go and the red robbins Gomez"
Rocked ON the bough Of the sllver-leafed maple,
Hast thou one sigh for the orange and palm2
Could the magnollh's sweet-scented blossoms
Watt Ger thy sleep more exquisite balm2
Bird Of the North thou hast winged thy way homeward
Led by love that constant and strong;
On the same bough that In other days rocked thee
Build new nest but oh. sing the old song.
Herald art thou Of the pageant approaching
The noral procession Of summer, our queenj
Let the winds listen and hasten the sunbeams
To spread for her chariot q carpet Of green.
Bid the trees hang out their banners Of welcome,
Red and white banners Of beautiful blooml
Sing, happy bird, till thy comrades, advancing.
Shall rout the last spectre OF winter and gloom.
-COff0ge Hearth.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-25
Ghe Domr GrrIs.
GRANDFATuER's PET.

This ls the room where she slept.
Only year ago.
Quiet, and carefully swept,
Blinds and curtains like snow.
There by the bed in the dusky gloom
SHE would kneel with her tiny clasped hands, and pray
Here is the little white Of q room
with the fragrance fled awayl
Nelly grandfather's pet,
with her wise little face
seem to hear her yet
Singing about the place;
But the crowd roll on, and the streets are drear,
And the world seems hard with bitter doom,
And Nelly Is singing elsewhere, and here
Is the little white rose of a room.
Why. II she estood Just there,
As she used 10 do,
with her long, light, yellow hair
And her eyes Of blue
II she stood, say, at the edge Of the bed,
And ran to my side with living touch.
Though know she is quiet, and buried, and dead,
should not wonder much;
For she young, you know
Only years old,
And she loved me, loved me so,
Though was gray aud old;
And her face wise and sweet to see,
And 1t still looked living when she lay dead;
And she used to plead for mother and me
BY the side Of that very bed
wonder, now, u she
Knows am standing here,
Feeling wherever she be-
We hold the place dear9
1t cannot be that she sleeps too sound
still in herlittle nlghtgown drcst,
Not to hear my footsteps sound
In the where she used to rest.
have felt hard fortunes stings,
And battled In doubt and strife,
And never thought much OF things
Beyond this human life;
But cannot think that my darling died
Like great strong men, with their prayers untrue
Nay rather. she sits at Gods own side,
And sings as she used to dot -Chdmbers' Journal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-25
MoraI and ReHgions.
ENTERING INTO THE CLOSET.

need not leave the iostllng world,
Or wait TIL daily tasks are Ger,
To fold my hands in secret prayer
within the cose-shnt closet door.
There Ia viewless cloistered room,
As high as heaven, as fair as day
Where, though my feet may Join the throng,
My soul can enter in and pray.
when have banlshed wayward thoughts,
OF sinful works hefrutful seed;
when folly wins my ear no more,
The closet door Is shut indeed
Nohuman step approaching breaks
The hlissful silence Of the place,
No shadow steals across the light
That fails from my Redeemer's face.
And never through those crystal walls
The clash Of life can pierce It's way,
Nor ever can human ear
Drink in the spirit words | say.
one hearkening even cannot know
When have crossed the threshold Ger,
For he alone who hears my prayer
Has heard the shutting Of the door. Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-25

RESPECT Dug TO WvEs.-Do not Jest
with your wife upon subject in which there
is danger of wounding her feelings. Re
member that she treasures every word you
utter. DO not speak of great virtues in
another mans wife to remind your own of a
fault. DO not reproach your wife with per-
sonal defects, for if she has sensbilty you
infliot a wound difficult to heal. DO not treat
your wife with inattention in company it
touches her PRIDE aud she will not respect
you more or love you better for it. DO not
upbraid your wife in the presence of a third
party the sense of your disregard for her
feelings will prevent her from acknowledg-
ing her fault. Do not entertain your wife
by praising the beauty and accomplishments
OF other women. II you would have pleas
ant home and cheerful wife, pass your
evenings under your own roof. Do not be
stern and silent in your own house, aud re
markable for sociabiity elsewhere.
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CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINE
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
on Monday, Nov. 27th, 1915.

Commencing on Monday, Nov. 27th, 1876.
Trains Going South and East
Leave Montpelier at 9.15 A. NJ, 2, l5 and 93O r. NJ
MaiI-Leaves ST. Abans ut 100 A. NJ Montpelier Ct sl5
for Boston, New London Springfield, new ioIh anu
intermediate points.
Day Express-Leaves Rouses Point at $50 a. NJ, Mon
treal atgOO A. st. Abans at l2lO y M burlington ~
l2l5P. Montpelier at2l5 p. NJ Tor Boston VIA Lowell
Mixed Train-Leaves st. Abans at 35O p NJ, arriving al
Montpelier at S.l0P.M.
bahs and Burlington, leaves Montpelier a agg X NJ
fnr Boston via Lowell Fitchburp, Springfield, New
York and intermediate points.
Trains Gotng North and West.
Leave Montpelier at g 80 A. NJ, 6.10 A. NJ, 400
p. M and 6,10 p NJ.
Express Mail-Leaves Boston via Fitchbug at 73O NJ
via Lowell at 500 A. NJ, New London ~ 5W A. ~,
Springfield at 500 A. Montpelier at 400 ?. NJ, fot
Burlington, st. Albans, Montreal and Ogdensburg'
Accommodation Train-Leaves Northheld at $50 A.
Montpelier at $40 A. for Burlington, ~. Albans'
Richfori, st. Johns Rouses Point and Montreal
Accommodation Train-Leaves white River June
t0n at lO r. NJ, Montpelier at 6O r. NJ, for Butling-
ton and st. Albans.
Night Express Leaves Boston via Lowell at $50 NJ
via Fitchbufg ut $50 Y. NJ, New YORK at JOV r. NJ,
Springfield at r. Montpelier at 335 for Bur
Trains Montpelier for Barre $40 and l225
andt25P. NJ Returning leave Barre at T4O NJ. and lN
p. NJ and $40 Pm
Sleeping ears are attached to Night Express trains
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and Spring
hela and st. Abans and Troy.
Drawing Room Day Express trains between Mon
tr,al and Boston.
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for sale at the
J.w. HOBART, General sup't.
st. Albans, VI, November 25, 1876.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-25

Do the work Of your life we'll and whether
shoe-baok or prime minister, you will stand
on the same plane at the judgment day
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-25
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and prices meet the various tastes and demands of the
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absorb the green from trees become mosgreen but to
retain their beauty for ages samples he seen, and
full particulars given by calling at our residence, Berlin St
AARON BANCROFT, ! 49,.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-25
IN THE DAYS OF JACOB,

you find him mourning. How many fathers
aud mothers are waliug over boys that might
have been their comfort and their joy, that
are bringing them down, and are their cross
instead of their blessing, and are killing
them as they are going down certainly to a
drunkards grave. All, fathers aud mothers,
you have a refuge. Sin has taken your chill
dren away God can bring them back. II
we cry to God he will answer our cries. For
six thousand years have broken hearts been
crying for help, aud yet how few of these
evils have been sent up to God for help,
Now, If had broken my arm or leg, should
not think of going to blacksmith with it
to have it set. ! should 60 10 doctor, II a
man has broken heart he wants TO take il
10 Christ. lie came 10 heal the broken-
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up the completed Estey Organ are intensely
interesting. Naturally, the reeds assume
prominent Importance in the manufacture,
since the intrinsic value of the instrument
depends primarily on them. They consist
of plate of brass, pierced by AT oblong
aperture, to which is fitted a flexible
tongue of the same metal, that vibrates as
the air passes through aud emits a rude
sound, which, by skilful manipulation, is
to be modified and Subdued until it becomes
true music. The reeds are cut out aud put
together wholly by machinery of the most
costly and intricate kind. The brass is of
peculiar texture, and made expressly for
Messrs Estey 4 Co. Each reed, in sin
gle set of forty-eight, must differ from every
other to produce the different notes of the
scale. When it is remembered that this
single set OF reeds is put into the smallest
organ made, it Will be easy to imagine
what an almost infinite variety in shape
and size must be required to produce the
various aud widely differing tones CON
trolled by the stops in the larger inStru-
meuts. The graduation is from a tongue of
delicate thinness, aud only onc-quarter of
an inch in length in the high soprano notes,
to one s. inches long, aud of considerable
weight and Stiffness III the lowest bass, the
body of the reed corresponding in size.
The reeds go from the work shop to the
tuners, who occupy sixty separate apart
ments, and only acquire proficiency III their
vocation by long training and experience.
Indispensable requisites are quick cor
rect ear. and a touch of great deilcacy for
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upon the timers depends the tone of the
organ. 1t takes six weeks to perfect a sin
gle reed.
The reed board, which holds the reeds.
also acts as a sounding board, and forms
the top of the air chamber. 1t must there
fore be made of the most carefully selected
material, without the slightest imperfec
ton. The opening for the reeds exactly
correspond with them in size, and cut
by machinery. Above them are placed the
valves that admit the air which sets the
silent tongue in motion. These valves are
strips of wood, covered with felting and
leather, held at one end by hinge or pivot.
and at the other by spring, and are de
pressed by single pin directly underneath
the keys. The air chamber is an air-tight
compartment, made of pine, extending the
entire length of the organ. Beneath it the
bellows stands. The blow pedals, operated
by the feet of the player, connect with two
small bellows that exhaust the air in the
large one, which in turn emptes the air
chamber, a safety valve being Supplied to
prevent any undue strain. Now, When
the keys are pressed upon. the valves are
opened, fresh all is sucked through the
reeds to fill the vacuum, and the voice of the
instrument is heard. This voice is beauti-
fled and enriched by various stops, GOV
erning independent sets of reeds, differing
materially in pitch, power any modul lat ion.
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in an ordinary small church would readily
believe it to be a pipe-organ if it was con
cealed from view. An instrument, well
adapted to tie requirements and capacity
of any home circle. may be obtained for
from $50 to 200. and neat little "Col-
tage Gem, OF fonr octaves compass, with
one set of reeds, and a single stop, is cata-
logued at so. There is, OF course, as
great variety of prices as there is of
Styles and "ptInnally the buyer may add
as much expense as he pl2aseS to outward
characterization. The highest price reached
in the regular list is $l,050. This covers
very imposing pipe-top organ, with two
mammals, pedal bass and sixteen stops-an
instrument Infinitely superior for any use
to cheap pipe organ. The same organ
without the pipe-tcp is 5000. There is
also one manual pedal organ, grand
instrument. tri-reed, with ten stops, for
S400 There are styles. too, for special
uses, like the Chapel Organ, SO designed
that the player can face the audience and
see and be seen by them, and Acclimatzed
Organ, with case that may lie almost her
medically closed. made 10 resist the trying
extremes of tropical climates. That taste
must be eXactinG. indeed. that could not
find something here to satisfy. Every CON
ceivable need is anticipated, and new varie
ties are being pat forth all the time.
The multiform processes that 20 to make
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1t is the candid opinion of the Detroit
Free Press that "any boy can have just as
much fun around bon fire made of an old
straw bed as any man can have in seeing a
| hotel burn down"
1.-Two attempts have been made to burn
a colored school house in Hollidaysburg,
says Pennsylvania paper. Seeing that it
| isn't human it might be painted white if q
color is so offensive.
Prof. Wise says he intends making a
"Trip in a balloon with dyspeptics We
didn't suppose balloon was ever troubled
with dyspepsia gastric fever would be
more likely ailment.
The cows Of Worcester, Massachusetts,
have formed an association for mutual ben
eft. We judge so, at least, from the state
ment in the local press that there has re
Gently been an organization of the milk
| producers.
When talented young Shakespearlan
reader came into the sanctum last evening
and dismally remarked that "rumthing
was soften in the Den of statemark," we
were half inclined to believe there really
was
The following epitaph appears on a
tomb stone in Connecticut: &" Here lies the
body of Jonathan, who never sacrificed his
reason at the altar of superstition's god
and who never believed that Jonah swal-
lowed a whale
-" Mr.. JONES' don't you think women
are more sensible than men?' asked Miss
Smith. And Jones, after scratching his
favolite bump for moment or two, said
Why, certainly they are-they marry
men, and men only marry women" Miss
Smith beat hasty retreat.
A butcher of some emnence was lately
in company with several ladies at a game
of whist, when, having lost two or three
rubbers, one of the ladies, addressing him,
asked: Pray, sir, what are the stakes
nows" Madam, the best rump cannot
sell lower than twenty cents a pound
They sat in the parlor and he squeezed
her hand. "Oh, would that this hand were
nine" he sighed. Why9' she simpered.
because, if it were, could knock bull
locks down with it bettern with sledge
hammer The last seen of that young
man he was trying to climb on the top of
the house by means of the water-spout.
A lady gave to her little boy three gold
fish as present. Full of curiosity, the
little fellow fed them aud worried them SO
much that two Of them died A few days
after his mother was shocked to see t
other one lynn. in the water. cut in halves;
and, on asking an explanation, was limo
Gently informed Oh, ma he was so lone.
ly all by himself, and tried to make two of
him,
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GLEANINGS,

If bank cannot stand loan it must
eventually go down.
"A man is thought to be successful
when he succeeds himself in office
-" He swore like savings bank de.
positor," says Chicago newspaper.
Sometimes man serves his country
best by making his best time out of it.
1t was little three year old who re-
marked that she didn't want to kiss papa
because he had "fringe on his MOUTH
-" My opinion is, said philosophical
old lady of much experience and observa-
ton, THAT any man as dies on washing
day does it out of spite"
A Madsonville Ky. imam says that one
reason why there are SO many poor horses
around there is that people swap so often
they do not have time to eat
Russia has one hundred and thirtv-nine
holidays in every year, and the Russian
who doesn't get drunk on these is SUPPOSED
to be in sympathy with the Turks.
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story of harmony" to use his o.,
words, q" is the simplest Imaginable
Six sounds comprise its utmost theore.
cal limit In this book. of less tn
4 hundred pages, he treats so lucid
oi the relations of these six sounds. of ii
construction of that foundation of all ha
mony, the triad, with its diversions, trar
positions, u>prnsionS, and additions, til.
he who runs may read. The chords OF Il
dominant seventh, the major and mine
ninth, the extreme sharp sixth, and II
diminished seventh, are 50 lncidly explai
ed, and accompanied with such apt exam
pies, that the student who will gil
few hours to their examination will fin
that the grand plan upon which all muss
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and by "A number OF ex
ceedingly ingenious con
trivarces. The swell is
operated with ease by the
knee and opens IA little
shutter, like the Stat of a
blind, thus allowing the
full volume of sound to
come out in such degree
as may be desired. Then
there is the patent Har-
monte Attachment, an
octave coupler that adds
greatly to the power of
tone, without necesSita-
ting and increase in the
size or number of reeds.
Another important at
tachment is the patent
Manual Sub Bass, consist
ing of a set of reeds that
enables the player to get
the effect of pedal bass
with the keys. Nearly all
the different styles OF
organs, excepting. per
hars. two or three of the
lower priced ones, have
these invaluable attach
ments. The large instru-
ments have still more
complex and elaborate ap
pliances, including pedal
bass, and a blow-lever at
the the side, which may
be used in connection
with the pedals or indie
Iendenlly. \ descril ton
-. l...l g H. I.....,
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manufacture of this justly celebrated in
strument. 1t is sincere pleasure to
dwell upon theme which is SO well calcu-
lated to inspire the pen with eloquence.
The manner of conducting the business is
so straightforward that the most cordial
relations are established between the
manufacturers and the public There is
none of that deception which is so lament
ably common in all directions no attempt
to caiole purchasers with glittering pro-
misses which cannot be fulfilled. We
give you the finest and best reed organ
ever made, at the lowest possible price con-
sistent with reasonable profit is the
unvarying statement. and many a feeble
church and struggling seminary reioices in
the possession of beautiful Estey which
they could never have afforded to buy 1t
has occasioned remark that the Estey
Organ received no award at the Centennial
International Exhibition. Mcssrs. Estey &
Co., for cogent reasons, declined to enter
their organs for competition, although they
had a handsome exhibit of their leading
styles which attracted tlattering attention
on every hand. The result proved the wis,
dom of their determination. Where every
body, apparently, had a first medal or
award for asking. the public mind must
necessarily be left in sad state of confu-
sion as to the reliable test of merit Better
10y far than any such device is the unsolc-
tied testimony of those most competent -
judge in the Old World and New, viii
uniformly places the Estey Organ at
head of all other Instruments of its ella.
And here is another fact that is more tell
than the handsomest decoration everdavis
During the first eight months of 1876 t
total value of reed organs exported
Europe was $216 492. Of these, Mess
Estey X Co. shipped $10G 1872, leavl
sos SOP to he divided between all
other manufactors i'll this country
must be conceded that such statistics
more reliable than the awards of Intern
tional ,Juries.
The Estey Organ is, in truth, its 0,
best and surest encomium So often
SO long as it can be improved in any1
spect, however thrilling, it will be so il.
proved. Its sales at home aud abroad d -,
constantly and rapidly increasing. and it
confidently presented to the public as
veritahle triumph of mechanical perfect
and ingenuity. 1t aSpireS to the noble
useS-to Increase the delights of home
enhance the enjoyments of social gatht
ings. The product of the work shop,
belongs to Art. 1t covets the honor viii =
is the rightful due of established wort
expects the patronage which belongs to re
ogniZsd superiority, and invites intellige
criticism every where.
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minor matters are neglected. The best
quality of ivory is used in the keys, which
have ivory fronts, are pushed to prevent
rhttling, and always preserve an even and
delicate touch. The complete instrument
is remarkable happy combination of
power and purity of tone, beauty and
durability.
The Estey Mandatory gives employ
ment to about five hundred persons, and
has a capacity of one thousand organs a
month, which represent az annual business
of upwards of a million dollars. The
magnitude of the enterprise is realized in
these brief statistics. From the most
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modest beginning, it has grown into one of
the largest manufacturing interests in New
England. Strict aud digniiied business
principles have governed its advancement
and in regard to its wares, the statements
which have been put before the public are
but simple, uuembslished statements Of
fact. The inevitable result Gi these pm
cipics consistently adhered TO in the me
chanical and commercial departments is
that The Estey Organ has honestly attained
the distinction always aimed at. and nov
claimed by its makers, without fear of
contradiction. that it "tedds tie T0r(d''
This is ii comprehensive claim, indeed, but
1t Is emphatically and unanimously en-
don sed by the best iuGCeS, most cOmpetent
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ORDER NISI.

IN THE ORPHANS COURT FOR CECIL COUNTY
ORDERED, This 10th day of December,
VA d eighteen hundred and enty that the
sale of the real estate of Sarah j. Brickry deceased
made and reported by the executor named in her las,
will and testament, James A. Coulson. be ratified and
confirmed unless 10 the contrary thereof be
shown or pefore the l4th day of February, 1875
provided, COPY of this Order be Inserted in some
newspaper pri ted in Cecil county week for one
month before the lith day Of January, 1873
The Report states the amount of sales to be 5000.
D. LAMAR.
Register of Wills OF Cecil County.
True copy, test: L. D. LAMAR,
Dec l5-lm Register o Wills Cecil County
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euts. " the Il
Charles Edwa
Horsley has rend,
ed PLAN and ca
of C o m pre- h e
sion what IN,
writers o b 5 C IL
with many wore
1t is the man W
has the most p
found knowledge
a subject that c
best render it int
ligible, and \
Horsley was sucl
man. He lived
an atmosphere
N uSical erudlli
from his Garlic
years. Galcott, |
maternal gran
father, was one ,
the most famous
English composeI
and William Ho!
ley, his father, "
scarcely less eit
nent. He had a,
the advantage /,
the instruction /
Spohr, MendelSsol
and HauprmaH
was an apt schols
and. as his wor
show, a ripe a.
thoroughly dis
piined musical
He did not rega
the study Of III
mony IS the ft
midable affair I'll
it appears to mo
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position and sometimes in
another. The composer must
push his researches further.
but for the amateur this lit
ii" book OF Hnrsley's is an
all sufficient guide to the
elements Of musical struc
ture, the open sesame to the
fundamental laws of har-
mony.-N. y. Sun.