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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
Sins Of Omission,

suppose it is true of every child of God
that he falls more easily into sins of omis-
sion," as they are called, than into sins of
commission" 1t would require great bold
ness, daring and presumption to go into the
face of direct, unequivocal divine prohibi-
ton, if such prohibition were known and
understood. 1t would be a strange thing if
a Christian should be found who would con-
sent, even under strong temptation, TO vio-
late some sanctity guarded by explicit law
And yet, if you will consider it carefully,
obedience TO prohibition is no very de-
cisive test of loyalty. 1t may indeed carry
with it the cost of a strenuous self.denial.
But it imposes no positive work. 1t exacts
no doing. 1t lays upon us no executive
task, 1t does not send us forth on some
difficult errand, on which we are to run with
failing breath and trembling limbs till we
reach the distant goal. 1t is not a strain
upon our muscles to strike, to lift, to achieve.
What it requires is not-doing; refraining
from action Withholding our foot from "a
certain specific way; Withholding our hand
from something which we are not TO touch.
Now, sin of omission is the exact opposite.
OF all this. And yet we are apt TO put a
very much lighter estimate on this kind OF
failing. Our sense of guilt under such a
shortcoming is by no means so keen and
poignant. A sin of omission scarce seems TO
carry with it, am afraid, with some OF us,
any stain at all of crimson. Weneed TO ex-
anime into this matter little more closely.
We may find that there is far more of char.
acter and of positlveness in what we have
supposed TO be simply negative in quality
than we are in the habit of admitting. A
sin of omission is the leaving "undone .
something which God has commanded. Is
Gods idea OF the Christian life merely this
that we shall refrain from things evil I
Does it satisfy him that we withhold oul
hand from that which is wrong? Does thi,
process of abstinence round and fill out the
conception of that service which as renewed
men we are TO render to God and our neigh
Dor Are we to stand up, in the mids
OF the strenuous enterprises harnesseo
and commissioned to uplift and bless tn,
race, as so many silent and motionlesi
images OF self-abnegation Who, then, is t,
roll forward the car of human progress
Who is to put his shoulder to the wheel
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13

lGNoRANCE,-Simple and unpretending
ignorance is always respectable, and some
times charming but there is little that
more deserves contempt than the pretence
OF ignorance to knowledge, The curse and
the peril OF language in this day, and par
ticulary in this country is that it is at the
mercy of men who instead of being content
to use it well according to their honest
ignorance, use it i'll according to their af-
fected knowledge; who, being vulgar, would
seem elegant; who, being empty, would
seem full; who make up in pretence what
they lack in reality; and whose little
thoughts, let off in enormous phrases, sound
like fire-crackers in an empty barrel.-Rich-
ard Grant White
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
Cheap Things.

What fascination dwells in that one
little word, cheap and how it lures on tht
most wary and frugal housewife into buy
ing Such bargans says your enthu-
SiaStc friend who has just been purchasing
and straightway you are touched with her
enthusiasm. Haven't we seen it dozens OF
times, and tried it, too. You want to make
one dollar do the work of two; you read
eagerly the flaming advertisements of goods
almost given away, and you start hopefully
on your pilgrimage to distant parts of the
city, and bring back what In nine cases
out of ten, nothing but experience. Still,
the word does not lose its charm, even after
many disappointments. We Would like to
see the woman who could pass a shop win
dow unconcernedly where Selling off Be
low Cost appears in staring capitals, or
who could hasten past a shop door without
investigation when stacks of dress goods are
labeled with the tempting announcement,
" Reduced to Half Price " If such woman
exists we confess that she is thus far un-
known to us, and we have lively curiosity
to gaze upon the anomaly. Men laugh at
this feminine weakness" as they grandly
call it, but the truth is that they are quite as
much given to buying bargains as their
mothers, or sisters, or wives. Quite as much.
did say? Why, they are ten times worse
Take man into an auction store, and he
will commit extravagances enough to appal
any woman of ordinary prudence, for he will
buy things not only useless, but positively
in the way and yet be sublimely uncon-
Scious all the time that he has done the very
thing he ridicues so often. Now this whole
subject of cheapness hinges upon two time
honored sayings, as true as they are ancient,
thus: Nothing is cheap that you do not
want, and a poor article is always dear
These two rules will suffice for our guidance
in this matter of cheapness, and if it be said
that they are well-known already, why, so
much the better. All that is necessary is to
apply them to action, good friends, nerer
buying what you do not want and making
up your minds that no shop-keeper can afford
to sell first-class goods at fourth-rate prices.
BE as economical as your circumstances de-
nand, buy as few things as possible, if youi
purse is slender; but let those few thing
be worth having. Better, far better, a fint
merino than cheap, poor Christian
Inieiiqencer.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13

LOST TME.--Lord Chesterfield says that
the Duke of Newcastle lost half an hour in
the morning, and spent the whole day in
running after it. This is true expression
of the career of a busy but inefficient man.
He who is always driven, always in hurry,
always late, and always with deficiencies to
be made up, is very likely to be always u
failure. 1t is well known that the RESPONSE
bilities OF society are best and most easily
discharged 10y those who estimate the val,t.
of small portions of time, who do things
strictly in their proper sense and place, who
provide against contingencies, and distrib-
ute their day in reference to what is, as well
as to what may be required OF them.-Jdcob
BigeiOD.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
The Donrc GnrIe.
THE SILENT LIFE.

We lead two lives, the outward seeming fair,
And full OF smiles that on the surface lie
The other spent in many silent prayer,
with thoughts and feelings hidden from the eye.
The weary, weary hours Of mental pain,
unspokcn yearnings for the dear ones gomez
The wishes half defined yet crushed again,
Make up the silent life we lead alone
And happy visions may never show,
Gild all this silent life with sweet romance
That they will fade like sunsets clouds we know,
Yet life seems brighter for each stolen glance.
This silent life we little reck iis power
To strengthen rs for either good or ill
Whether we train our thoughts like birds to soar
or let them wander wheresocer they will
This silent ife not those we love may share,
Though day by day we strive to draw them close;
our secret chambef-none may enter there,
Save that one Eye that never seeks rcpose.
And II beneath that Eye we do not quail,
Though all the world may turn from us aside,
We own secret power that shall prevail
When every motive OF our life Is tried. Selected
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sMuraI and Reliainns.
GRANT US THY PEACE.

The fair spring moon DER many fields is smiling;
Orion fingered til the rising queen
His glories dimmed, then DER the western woodland
His pathway took, nor more again was seen
The winds at war all day, like giants roaring,
Have sought their unknown caves. the night Ia STILL
No sound, save where from you white cherry blossoms
Outside my window, sings whip-poor-will;
Thus. as thou biddest natures Earrings cease,
Lord, to our restless hearts grant us thy peace.
Not peace from human passions dull or safe
Not such rs theirs who know the end Is nigh
OF strlfes and longings and can see the river
Upon whose banks all earh-necds are laidby;
But to walk calmly on the angry billows
When heart-waves rising oft would lash Us sore,
To meet with lions In llfes wildering highway,
And sure OF safety, pass amid their roar
And satisfied ~ years and cares increase.
To toll. murmur Lord, grant thy peace.
"Thy peace, that passeth all our understanding"
Is the one cry our hungry hearts would raise.
We ask not wealth or fame earthly WISDOM
Or power OF friends or even length Of days,
Or happiness, sweet boon that all are seeking
Afiiction marks thy saintliest chlldren's years
And thou, thyself whilst tarrying amidst us,
Knew hidings Of thy Fathers face and tears.
But till thou givest us from sin release,
safe in thy kingdom. Lord, grant us thy peace Sslecte
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
Mothers and Sons.

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or vicious. the bad leaven of his example
works toward the corruption of the manners
and morals of the smaller boys, in way to
which parents and preceptors are sometimes
strangely blind Most bows 90 through a
period when they have great need of patient
love at home They are awkward and
clumsy, sometimes strangely wilful and per-
verse, and they are desperately conscious of
themselves, and very sensitive to the least
word of censure or effort at restraint. Au-
thority frets them. They are leaving child
hood, but they have not yet reached the
sober, good sense of manhood. They are an
easv prey to the tempter and the sophist
Perhaps they adopt skeptical views, from
sheer desire to prove that they are indie.
pendeut. and can do their own thinking
Now is the mothers hour. Her boy needs
her now more than when he Law in his era
die Her finer INSIGHT and serener faith
NAV hold him fast, and prevent his drifting
into dangerous courses At all events. there
is very much that only mother can do for
her son. and that son can receive only from
his mother. in the critical period of which
we are thinking. 1t is well for him, if she
have kept the freshness and brightness of
her vouth. so that she can now be his COM
panion and friend. as well as mentor. 1t is
a good thing for a boy to be proud of his
mother; to feel compacent when he intro
duces her to his companions, knowing that
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13

A THRILLING INCIDENT

In the mission life Of Mrs Ingalls, in Burmah is well told
in the baptist Messenger, relating how she sent for To
visit of 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 for him the
sacred vessels which but the high priest dare touch
and to and ait of their gods to rest
all through magic influence Pain Killer, called
by them the God incidence successfully had she used
1t in curing their many Diseases of them considered
heretofore fatal in that climate, among which
cholera liver complaint dyspepsia, the bites of
reptiles etc. This speaks volumes for the Pain Killer.
London Times.
Rev J. E. Cough, Missionary at Ongole Southern India,
writes We esteem your Pain Killer very highly for
pion stings cholera etc. and very well get along
without it."
Rev. l. d. Colburn Missionary Tavoy, Burnah writes
e shall be happy in extending knowledge OF 4
remedy speedy and efectual."
Perry Davis a. SON., Propnetors, Providence, n. L.
June 6. 1877,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13

RIDIcULE.-The fatal fondness for indllg-
ing in a spirit of ridicule, and the injurious
aud irrrparable consequences which some
tunes attend the too severe reply, can never
be condemned with more asperity than it de-
serves, Not 10 offend is the first step toward
pleasing, To give pain is as much All oil
tense against humanity as against good breed
ing, aud surely it is as well to abstain llom
an action because it is sinful as because it is
impolite.- Blair
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13

BE it ours to fasten our thought not on
the passions and parties OF the brief to-day,
but on the hopes of the long tomorrow.
The day, the year, may perchance belong To
the destructives, the cynics, and the parti-
sans but tomorrow, the coming century,
belongs to the comprehensive, discriminat-
ing, all-embracing Christianity which has
the promise, not OF this present time, out OF
the times which are TO be.--Ded Stanley.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
Seleff MisfeHanp.
PEACE.

ny II. W. LogoPELLow.
Down the dark future, through long generations,
The sounds OF war grow fainter and then cease,
And. like a bell with solemn sweet vibrations,
hear again the voice Of Christ say, Peacel
Peace-and no longer from s brazen portals
The blast Of wars great engine rends the slsiesi
But beautiful as songs Of the mmortas
The holy melodies Of love arise.
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HabituaI CoStivenesS

and its results Piles. Indigestion Headache, Dizziness,
Languor Oppression of Food Heartburn, Flatnence Bad
Taste in the Mouth, Torpid Liver, etc., etc.
Females who cannot endure strong purgaves hnd these
Lozenges admirably suited to the many complaints incident
their by restoring nature and preventing periodical
pains and distractions hey also just the thing for
children suffering with being sure cure, and as
agreeable to take as the most pleasant confection.
Travellers find the Lozenges Just what they need they
compact and nodorous that they be carried In
the pocket and aperivnt laxative they I'M
euualed
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13

GOLD age" says one whose words have
survived his name, is blessed time when,
looking back over the follies, sins and mis-
takes of past life-too late, indeed to repent
we may put off earthly garments one by
one, and dress ourselves for heaven. Griefs
that are heavy TO the young are to the old
calm and almost joyful, rs tokens of the
uear and ever-nearlng time when there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor cry
ing, neither any more pain Even though
walking in darkness for u while, the aged
have the sure promise, AT eventide it shall
be light"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13

The thoughts destroy. The imagination
puts the marring touch upon the whiteness
OF your souls. You cannot reform drunk
ard until you first reform his mind. What
needs to be done is to have the craving for
stimulants taken out of him. Over against
his inordinate desire you must raise up
stronger repulson which shall be more than
a match for his appetite for liquor. This is
the true philosophy in every branch of
morals. You must change his habits There
is no life so hard as religious life to man
without eligion.-MuTay.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINE
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
Commencing on Monday, May 2stb, 1877.

Trains GOtng South and East.
Leave Montpelier at 905 A. NJ, 2. 10 and go p N.
Mail-Leayes st. Albans at 100 A. NJ Montpelier at 9O5 A;
~, for Boston New London, Springfield New iork Ann
intermediate points.
Day Express Leaves Rouses Point at lua0 NJ. Mon
treal 500 A. ", It Ahans a 1910 y NJ. Burlington a.
l2iOP. Moncer at2l0 p NJ, for Boston via Lowell
Mixed Train-esves ST. Albans at $40 p. M arriving al
Montpelier at so p ".
Night Express. From ogdenshurg, Montreal, 81. Al
bans and Burlington, leaves Montpelier at $50 ?. NJ
for Boston via Lowell or Fitchburg Springfield, New
York and intermediate points
Trains Going North aud West.
Leave Montpelier at 315 A. NJ, 6.10 A. NJ, 3.45
p. NJ and 100 p. NJ.
Express MaiI-Ieaves Boston via Fchburg at 7SO NJ,
via Lowell at 500 A. NJ, New London ~ DIV A. NJ
Springfield at suO A. NJ, Montpelier az Jto p Me- lot
Burlington, st. Alhans Montreal and Ogdensburg'
Accommodation Train-Leaves Northheld at 5.55 A.
NJ, Montpelier at 6lN A. Me- for Burlington, 81; Albans
Richford, st. Johns. Rouses Point and Montreal.
Accommodation Train-Leaves White River june
ton at Lao ?. NJ, Montpelier at 500 p NJ, Tor Burng
ton and ST. Albans
Mixed-Leaves W r. junction at $50 A. NJ. Northheld at
il0O A. NJ. Arrive at Montpelier at 1900 NJ.
Night Expressions Boston via Lowell at $50 p NJ,
Fitchbug at $50 p. NJ, New YORK at 900 Z. NJ,
Springfield 500 p. Montpelier at 3l5 NJ for Bur
lngton, ST. Albans, Montreal and Ogd'bg and the West
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at $50 and 1928
and4l0P. NJ. Returning leave Barre at525 4, NJ and LEO
M, and $40 pm.
Sleeping cars are attached Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and Spring
field, and st. Albans and Troy
Drawing Room ON Day Express trains between Mon
real and Boston, -
Through tickets for Chicago West for sale at the
principal stations. - -.. =,
st. Albans, VT, May %, ls77.
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ENTs WA ANTED FOR TIL.
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Saving Seed Corn.


The suggestions that there is "sex''
IN the ear OF corn is merely moonshine.
The tassel or raceme is one sex and the
silk is another.
The best ear is uniform in its size
throughoutifs entire length; the rows
are straight with uniformly shaped
grains the entire length, and incline to
extend over the silk end.
10 have seed that will certainly grow,
no matter what the weather or how
long 1t may be in the ground, it must be
gathered before there is any freezing
weather, and Immediately be thorough
ly dried, so that the cob is as dry as it
can be made; ifso dried, after treat
ment is ofsecondary importance. Seed
corn treated in this manper, picked any
time after it has passed the milky state
will grow and the produce willnot de-
teriorate.
No season in the northern belt of
States sufficiently dries or cures the cob
of larger varieties of corn enough to
warrant'reliance on its termination, if
not subject to artificial drying in ad-
dition to the natural forces. The in
evitable tendency In all varieties Of
maize in cold season, or IN ATTITUDES
higher than the belt where peaches can
be successfully grown, away from large
bodies of water, is to rapidly shorten
the ear and to keep up productiveness
long ears should be first sought, for they
are otherwise the nearest perfect as
previously stated.
No doubt it Is wise to refuse the
grains at each end il they are diminutive
and irregular in shape, but if the ear is
perfect little or no rejection is needed.
We are willing to stake our credl-
bility on the single statement that if
seed corn is thoroughly dried, cob in
cluded, as set forth above, it is certain
to sprout as it comes in contact with
sufficient moisture and warmth.
For ten years have had no degree
of failure with seed corn treated as here
in directed. Sweet corn thus managed
is just as sure to grow as the hardest
varieties.-German Telegraph.
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A FINE HEAD OF HAIR is suchle

A FINE HEAD OF HAIR is suchled
Indispensable adjunct to beauty, til b w
one who prizes good looks sheald neg
lect to use London Hair Color Re
storer," the most delightful article eve
introduced t. the American people 70,
increasing its growth, restoring it;
natural color, and at the same time 8
lovely hau dressing and beautifer. Il
is totally different from all others not
sticky and eummy, and free from all
impure ingredients that render many
other articles obnoxious in fact, it is
exquisitely perfumed and so perfectly
and elegantly prepared as to make it a
lasting hair dressing and toilet luxury.
Sold by all dealers in fine toilet articles,
at IS cents bottle, or six bottles for
81. Address letters and orders to DR..
Swayne & Son, Philada. Ask your
druggist for it. Sold in Woodstock at
the Drug Store of DR.. D. D. CARTEa.
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ITCHING PILEs''-Is very preva-
lent and distressing complaint, the
symptoms Of which are moisture, like
perspiration, intense itching, particular
: ly at night, when undressing, or after
getting warm in bed, might think PIN
worm were crawling in and about the
rectum, the private parts are sometimes
affected. Do not suffer an other hour,
and allow them to become aggravated
while you have pleaseuta and sure cure
in ''Swayne's Ointment" Also cures
letter and all skin diseases. Mailed to
any address on receipt of price, so cents
a box, or three boxes s1.25. Address
letters to DR.. Swayne s. Son, Philade,
phis, Richmond agents, Bodeker Bro
ers, l444 Main street. Sold by az lie;
ing druggists. Sold by DIED.. D. c.
TER, Woodstock. :?