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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-09-05
Home Conversational Training.

There is no nation more fluent in CONVEX
'ation than the American. The French are
more voluble, perhaps, their language per-
mitting greater rapidity of pronunciation
than the English. Our best conversational
lists are not rapid takers. One trouble with
us is, each one likes to do all the talking,
therefore Americans are not good listeners.
But mere talking is not conversation. In
almost all home circles there is much talk
ing done during the day, but we fear there
are few who do not reserve their most bril-
liant conversational powers for other assem-
blies than the home group Many father
comes home tired; he has talked great
deal, told amusing anecdotes, and displayed
much wit He has come home to rest. He
takes out his paper, and is soon oblivious to
everything around him. Wife would like
to tell him of many of the harassing afllic-
tions of the day, and would like to hear
some of his many interesting experiences,
but if he were deaf mute he could not
have been more silent, only an occasional
yrunt answering her many efforts at conver-
'ation; and the children, except by the good
light kiss, and often not even that are not
noticed Such home, whether the abode
II wealth or otherwise, cannot be a happy
one. As a parallel, draw around the even
ing lamp of another home circle. The father
tells the anecdotes from the papers as he
eads them mother laughs her sweet, low
laugh and the children burst into merry ha |
ia's To watch them as they ask questions
md listen to the patient exclamatons, the
sonderment, interest and thought imprinted
IN their young faces, is a picture for an art
ist, This home education is heritage more
valuable than money and one beautiful re-
;ompense in life is, that in making others
lappy we bring happiness to ourselves. Par
'nts who practice self-denial, and endeavor.
~ cheerful conversation and playful wit, to
'nliven home life will reap rich reward in
he better thoughts and nobler actions OF
their children, and will experience the truest
ind best contentment hemselves.-Ssiecied.
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Raihoad !Gime gable.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINEl
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
Commencing OH Monday, July 10th, 1877.

Trains Going south and East.
Leave MONTPELIER ut 800 A. NJ, L45 +. NJ, 735 +.
NJ, and 81 +. NJ.
MaIILeayes st. Albans at 100 NJ Montpelier g. goe A
NJ, for BOSTON New London Springfield New fork ana
intermediate points
Day Express Leaves Rouses Point at 10 a. NJ, Mon.
iaisF ~. Montpelier at rs p NJ, Tor Boston via Lowell
White Mountain Express Leaves samoga Springs
Mslo A. ", Rutland a l2lo y ~, burlington at 2i'r'
Mixed Train-feves ST. Alhans at $40 P. arriving al
Montpelier at 1.b5 =, NJ.
Night Express From ,ogdensSerg Montreal, s. A.
for Boston via Lowell or fchburg, Springfield New
York and intermediate points.
Trains Going North and West.
Leave Montpelier at 32O A. NJ, 61O A. Nj, 11.20 A.
NJ, 3.3 p. NJ, and BIZ P. NJ
Express MailLeaves Boston via Fllchburg a! go An
Springfield et sV A. NJ M9ntneeT a. SSs r s Tor
Accommodation Train-Leaves Northneld at 800 a.
Montpelier at $40 4. NJ, for Burlington. 81; Albans'
Mixed-Leaves W. r. junction at $50 A. NJ. Norhhed at
HOO NJ. Arrive at Montpelier Mt 1900 NJ.
Saratoga Expression the white Mountains, leaves
at69bP.M THIS train connects at Essex Junction,
irving in 81. Albans at 2.OOr.N
Accommodation Train Leaves White River June June
ton and 81. Albans.
Night Express Leaves Boston via Lowell at $50 p NJ,
Springfield at 500 u Montpelier a. s2o A. " t for & Bur
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 692A M and l2S
and355P. NJ Returning, leave Barre at IlO A. MandlOO
PM, and AS 5r.M
Trains leave St Aibans for Sheldon and Rchord at 800
Sleeping cars are attached to Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston and Montreal and Spring
Drawing Room cars on bay Express between Mon
Through Chicago the West for sale at the
principal stations. - "a,
ST. Aibans. w. July a. ISL.
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The Visible Church.
ny REV. JOSEPH COOK.

Every true church is a contract, not be-
tween two parties only, but three. It is not
only an agreement of men with men, but OF
men with God. In disbanding a church.
men alone cannot annul the contract. This
is the scholarl, idea of the bond of Chris
tians in fellowship with each other and with
an invisible Head. Thus the Christians of
the world are really and confessedly mem
mers of Theocracy. You think Crom-
wells and Millions dream of Theocracy
failed. Many an arch-angel pities you; and
all the deep students of sciepoe among men
smile, if you say this seriously. God gov
erns, and his kingship is no pretence. Our
best hope for America is that it is Theoc-
racy. A true church is the outward form
among men of Gods kingdom in human
history, and it illustrates his kingdom in all
worlds We must look on every true church
as really divine institution, for it is a con-
tract with the unseen Power that is filling
the world just as the magnetic currents of
the globe fill all the needles on it, Our
Lord was, and is, and is to come and in all
true believers he is as much present as the
magnetic currents of the globe are in the
balancing needles, that point out the north
pole rightly, If they are true to the currents
that are in them, but not of them. The
church is our Lords body; the church is
our Lords temple the church brings every
true believer into contact with the deep
est inmost of our Lords present life in the
world and this is the supreme season for
uniting with it, n painfully evidem here, !
hope, that am speaking Of a true church, and
not Of Sunday ciubi Experience has shown
that most men who do not unite with the
church drop away from their early religious
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Won ans Sphere.

Home is woman's true sphere. There is
nothing in this wide world that will confer
greater honor upon her, than TO make that
home type of what society should be, and
what heaven is in the graces of exalted char
acter. All that is dear and holy, noble and
divine, in society or nation, centers back to
home where woman presides as the angel of
love. Her seat is not in the halls of rude
debate and legislation, nor in scenes of weak
display and vanity, with its show of pride
and sefishness, but in the quiet precincts OF
her home, where the blessed affections meet,
aud strife and hatred are not allowed TO en-
ter. &" Home is the throne of empire on
which woman sits, the sceptre with which
she wields the destiny of nations" Home,
the shrine of her earliest hopes, around
which all her heartstrings cling; there, loved
aud loving, lies woman's noblest sphere, as
mother, daughter, sister, wife. Sweet and
holy are the ties that bind the loving moth
er's heart TO her infant gems; her lessons
are the first precepts ever given; she is first
known, best loved in infancy, and her un-
changing duty is TO form for earth and fit
for heaven. How pure and unsefsh is her
love as she constantly seeks our interest, not
her own; and thus, through the changing
scenes of life, mothers love eStends aud
only ends with death, As daughter, It's
laid upon her, ever as a duty, to be the aid
of her aged mother, and repay her in thou
sand gentle, aifectionate ways the love that
crowned her childhood, and TO relieve age
from many cares and smooth lifes pathway
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to the grave. On such daughter, heavens
brightest gifts are shed. As sister, those
who have not proved her kindness know
nothing of her worth she is always gen
tie, sympathizing friend, and how oft she is
instrumental in saving brother from ruin
to lead his wandering steps to heaven.
But more than all. as wife, It's her duty to
be guardian angel to her husband Let
her not, from any social interest or cause,
neglect the hallowed duties of home, but
watch over them with jealous trust, with un-
rufiled vigilance, to keep that home the nur-
sery of all the virtues, the sanctuary of the
hearts deepest loves, the holy of holies,"
where the divine presence may shine forth
in her looks, and be manifested in her ac-
tions.-Journal Of A qriculiure.
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A THouGHT on DEATH.-ln itself, and
merely for itself, death need not be terrible,
and often is not. But it is the light OF the
higher life in Christ which alone glorifies it,.
Aud unless this light has sunk into our
hearts, know not whence hope can reach
us. We may be resigned or peaceful We
may accept the inevitable with calm front.
We may be even glad to be done with the
struggle OF existence, aud leave our name to
be forgotten and our work to be done by
others, We may be able to say TO ourselves,
if not in the sense Of ST. Paul, II have
fought good fight, | have finished my
COURSE" am ready to lie down and die and
cease To be, if this is my fate. But in such
Il mood of mind there is no cheerfulness, no
spring of hope. With such thought st.
Paul could neither comfort himself nor con-
tent Thessalonians. Nay for himself he
felt that he would be intensely miserable if
he had only such a thought. Ii in this life
oLly we have hope in Christ, we are of all
most miserable. Principal Tuiioch.
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HATE NoT.-It is not worth your while.
Your life is not long enough to make it pay
to cherish ill-will for hard thoughts. What
if this man has cheated you, or that man
has played you false What if your friend
has forsaken YOU in time of need, or that one,
having won your utmost confidence, your
warmest love, has concluded that he prefers
to consider and treat yon as stranger. Let
it all pass. What difference will it make TO
you in few years, when you 90 to the un-
discovered country ? A few more smiles, a
few more pleasures, much pain, a little
longer hurying aud worrying through the
world, some hasty greetings, abrupt fare
wells, and our play will be ended, the injury
will be laid away, and ere long forgotten,
Is it worthy to hate each other?
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-09-05

EVERY MAN TO HIS CALLING" Stick to
your trade" or rather, confine your energies
to the occupation you have learned in early
life, and to which you are fitted, and you
will be successful-is an old maxim, and
true one, in the general rule of life. 1t is
difficult to help feeling this when We see men
ambitious and capable in line OF life to
which they have been educated leave that
and attempt some other, of which in prin-
ciple or theory they know nothing. We
often see men, good judges of shoes and
their manufacture, men whose knowledge OF
leather is undeniable, attempt to guide the
formation OF public parks and private
grounds. We see men who, having had
good success and made money in II method
zeal line of selling sugars and teas, think
they know how to manage "A railroad, and,
while they swim for time with the tide,
they soon founder.
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He Left IL.

They told Lord Erskine that certain
man was dead, and that he had left two hun
lred thousand pounds. His lordship re-
piled, "That's a poor capital to begin the
next world with" What failure was that
mans life He got no good of his two hun.
dred thousand pounds in this world, and did
not get himself ready for the next What
did he do? What is the grand result of his
life, of his toll of his anxious days and sleep
less nights He raked together two hun
dred thousand pounds. What did he do
with it ? Kept it as long as he could. Why
did he not keep it forever lie died What
became of it r He left it. To whom To
those who came after, and to the squabbles
Of courts. If any good to the world ever
come out of this two hundred thousand
pounds no thanks are due to him. He kept
it as long as he could, and left it only be-
cause he could not carry it with him.
There was not room enough in old Charon S
boat for him and his two hundred thousand
pounds, If he had only " converted it, as
the bankers say Aud it was convertible
into the blessings of the poor, into the sweet
consciousness of having done some good
while he lived, into the good hope of per
petuating his influences when he was dead
and gone But he did none Of these things
lie raked it together, kept it, died, left it,
and it made his last bed no softer.--Chris-
fiau A dp0cdfe
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T0ning Down Onr lives.

Is there word in all the dictionary more
full of meaning than the word harmony In
this world we hardly know its full meaning
At an artists reception one day | saw Il
picture of mountain sunrise, and ] Won
dered at its marvellous depth, richness and
splendor Of shade and color, till the artist
told me how he had toned the picture and
Soitened its coloring into its subdued har-
mony of tint; and | thought how often our
life was growing to be like that picture of "a
mountain sunrise. Gods unseen hand Is
before the easel sketching here and shading
there. The life-picture looks to us untin-
ished, fragmentary, and imperfect now, but
each new ioy-light, each sorrow-shade, is
tonng it down through all its gloom and
glory into harmony with Gods great ideal.
He will frame it at last in such setting OF
events as he chooses, and we will find, up
in that great gallery above, that the light
has been in the right place, and the shadow
too. We might never see the beautiful sun
rise gliding the hills of our eternal future,
were it not for the crooked, winding path
aud the misty streaks along the valley Of
tears up through which we have climbed,
as hue after hue brighter cleaned through
the very dusky ground of sorrow. Our
life's picture looks often too dark, its troubles
too glaring, its griefs too sharp and rough
we fear it will never be finished right, but
behind all is a master hand touching it cum
ningly and toning it down into celestial har-
mony. Each soul left fully in the hands OF
the Divine Artist will open into everlasting
unfolding glory; so, while we wait, let his
beautiful will be done.-PresJyteridn.
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The RIGnTs OF OTnERs.-l submit TO
all you who have formed or are forming
drinking habits, whether you have a right
10 go on imperiling the happiness OF so many
people as your downfall would destroy. 1t
is not question of your own condition, but
Of the condition of others AS affected by
yours. Your home is now peaceful. Keep
it so. Your wife is now happy. Let not
that happiness be Interrupted, Your chill
dren are growing up with an auspicious
future. Let no act OF yours darken the sun
shine OF their days. You are now a support
to many. Stand as such until the high pur-
pose of associate life as expressed in you is
fulfilled, and you in the solemn course OF
nature are released from mortal responsible
tiles. o man, whenever you are about 10
lift the glass think of those at home Let
the face of mother of father, of wife, OF
child, of loved one, come between your eyes
and the rising cup.-Seiecied.
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Early Death of Teachers.

My attention has been recently called to
o he fact that so many of the teachers in the
public schools of Philadelphia die young, and
| am asked if there is anything in the pro-
ession of teaching calculated to induce this
mortality. | think there is. The amount of
arithmetic the teachers have first to cram
nto themselves, and then into a succession
)f pupils, is enough to sap their nervous en-
rgies. 1t must be an awful thing TO spend
lays in driving such barren facts into va
cant minds, and to waken up each morning
knowing the same dreary routine lies before
me. | do not think the community knows
low really good and self-sacrfcing the ma
ority of our public school teachers are ;
low, in winter, they gather clothing and
shoes for many of the poorer pupils how
ften they feed and help them, and visit
them, in sickness, at their homes. Often
but poorly paid themselves, they share the
little that they have with those so much
worse off. After all, how touchingly sad
ire the struggles of the poor for education !
What sacrifices destitute widow will make
20 send her little ones to school One day
b, woman who worked for Inc came without
her shoes. asked her where they were,
She told me that "Johnny had none to 90
to school in, and as she did not like to have
MIN go barefooted, she gave him hers" o
boys, will you ever realize what women have
done for you? How, at every step you have
been nourished on their tears, on their life
How, from the cradle to the grave, woman
has been you best dependence, your most
faithful friend Think of it, and uncover
your heads with reverence, even when the
Oldest the poorest, and ugliest of the sex
pass Philadelphia Times.
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Ghe Dome GnrIe.
For the Vermont watchman.
sEPTEM BER.


ny MARY v. WARD.
September, month Of the hearts best love,
As thy steps draw nigh again
We feel a qulckening pleasure
That has yet a thought Of pain.
Der earth's perfected beauty
Cieeps the semblnnce of decay,
And we hear the flower spirits calling
Our garden bloom away.
Yet the last flowers are the sweetest
OF all The passing years,
As cherished forms seem dearest
When seen through parting tears.
We love thy skies so dreamy,
Thy woodland trees SO bright,
The hush DER nature resting,
The calm Of Thy evening light.
Thy rich, bright flowers have stolen
The warmth Of each summer breeze.
While sweeter song than song Of birds
Is heard mid thy whispering leaves.
This weird song tells, In low refrain,
To the spirits listening ear,
OF a land where flowers will bloom again
which frosts have blighted here
OF a land where september's golden light
Would pale In the amber air,
And september's hills-to us 40 bright
Were bllghted landscape there.
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DORIS PRAYER.--Dot was usually re-
lnarkably good child, but one day She be-
haved SO badly that both papa and mamma
had to reproye her. Thoroughly ashamed,
but in no way penitent, Dot brooded over
the aifront till bedtime, and was still full
OF indignation when she knelt to say her
prayer. Even "Now | lay me " was said
with pouting lips, and when it came to the
little addendum, Bless my dear father aud
mother," she stopped short "Go on, dar-
ling" said mamma. 80 Lord, please bless "
there was another pause" Just bless me
my own self, Amen" Poor little Dot !
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QuENcn NOT THE SPIRIT.--Observe and
obey his motions. When he exoites get
thee on when he checks, get thee back I;
know the Holy from the Evil Spirit by its
according or differing with the Scriptures
Reject that spirit in the heart that is not the
same with the Spirit in the Word. Try
the mind, what aud whence it is, 10y the
compass To the law and TO the testimony |
Aud when thou perceivest it is from above,
hoist thy sails and get thee on Quench
not the Spirit l--AHeine.
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Superior to Marble or Granite

For cemetery purposes moulded from refined zine
equal In thickness aud strength o bronze stauary In styles
prices To meet the demands of the
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AARON BANCROFT, I ,,.u,s
CHARLES |. MAksll,J Aso"''
Montpelier August q, 1871. as-2i
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Seleff MisreHanp.
WHERE ~ GOD?

" Oh, where IL the sea 2" the fishes cried,
As they swan the crystal cearness through,
We've heard from Of old Of the oceans tide,
Aud we iong to look on the waters blue.
The wise ones speak Of the infinite sea
oh. who can tell us II such there be7"
The lark few mp In the morning bright,
And sang and balanced on sunny wings;
And this was IL song &" see the light.
look DER world Of beautiful things;
But flying and singing everywhere,
nvain have searched To nnd the air." Scifbnei's
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The dove, recolect did not return to
Noah with the olive branch till the second
time of her going forth why, then, should
you despond at the first failuref
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New advertisements,

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Montpelier, August 90 1871. sI-99
DROBATE COURTS.-untl further notice, the Pro-
bate Courts for Washington District will be held at the
office In Montpelier TUESDAY WEEK. All let
business connected with the office should be ad
dressed to the undersigned. at Montpelier.
HARVEY TIDEN, Judge.
December 1870. 47-u
nAIRYMEN TAKE NOTICE.. NJ. slayton,
lsnccessor TO H. X. Slaytonl Manchester New Hamp-
shire. wholesale dealer In butter cheese and all kinds OF
country produce. Consignmens solicited Advances made
me, will have II well sold and prompt returns.
bl-f T.. NJ. SLAYTON, Manchester. \. II.
DOAKDERS.- attention of any In want of nice
hb rooms hrs-class table and good accommodate Is
invited to the Holmes Block opposite the Posl-ofice, re-
Gently known the Central House." which Will he opened
pleasant and desirable suite and single furnished
and unfurnished The house having been thoroughly
waited re-papere1, painted etc. offer pleasant and
clean Boafng House, where hOarders may ENJOY the com
forts Of home, and at prices to correspond with the lines
s0f MRS. TRUE.
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II the storm of adversely whistles around
you, whistle us bravely yourself perhaps
the two whistles may make melody.