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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-18
Farming Favorable to Mental Culture.

The Interior has an article upon this sub
ject, very much more intelligent than is
often seen. 1t points out the fact that rural
life is naturally favorable to sound thinking,
and that the improvements in agricultural
machinery (and it might have added the
greater certainty of paying crops from a
rational system of fertilization and tillage)
give to the farmer such an increase of means
and leisure as to enable him to improve him
self greatly by study aud reflection.
It notes truly the fact that there never
was time when rural occupations were not
more favorable to original and elevated
thought than city pursuits witness the
fact that poets and philosophers, from
were largely dwellers in the quiet country,
But the difficulty has been that the vital
forces have been Withdrawn from the brain
and expended upon the muscles in severe
aud continuous toll. The necessity for this
now no longer exists thanks to the aid of ma
chinery and the light of science upon the
labors of the farm.
The very fact that the farmer has brief
time for reading, yet abundant time for re-
Fiction, in the now less tolsome duties OF
his daily work, is really great advantage
to him. 1t compels him to be an origina
thinker. If, preparatory to this, he can
have the proper mental discipline in the
schools, the correct logic of the natural sci
ences, with the habits of observation which
they require the farmer is better equipped
and better placed to make man of himself
than any other. Heretofore it has beer
thought necessary to take the healthy brain
raised upon the farm and train them for EN-
inent position in the towns. 1t has been
considered necessary to take country brain
TO the city for a market. But, says the In
terror, we shall have less of this hereafter
For the fresh, vigorous and mature article
ready for immediate use, the state, science
philosophy and literature, will go NOR
largely to the original sources, the farms
and less to the middemen of the profession,
from whom the public are now PURCHASING
an inferior article-inferior, because warpe
by one-sided culture, and made crooked b,
decidedly oblque moral influences.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-18
In the Child's Behalf.

If we could write but one more sentence
in the world, that sentence should be, :" Give
the children happy childhood" Not
pampered, nor a finely-dressed childhood
nor childhood consisting merely of endeav-
ors TO "put the best foot forward" but a
hearty, loving, honest, joyous time. They
never forget it, They sit down and refresh
themselves with the memory OF it when the
dark days come A woman said to me
Z" My mother would never let me have little
party, She didn't like the childrens noise.
1nd, oh, I rant that hAie party yeti" And
Just here there comes TO mind the picture OF
little Paul Dombey who with an aching
void in his young heart, and all outside so
cold and bare and strange, sat as if he had
taken life unfinished, and the upholsterers
were never coming. A picture this 7 Yes
But look around you, and see il you cannot
fluid the living reality. All that child can
be found almost anywhere. Go furnish that
little bare life without delay. What are
your big chairs, great sofas, high tables,
grown-up enjoyments to him Nothing :
Furnish that little life with things adapted
TO it. Give him the little chairs, the bless
ings which his heart can appreciate, Put
plenty of low, easy sofas in that liie-llttle
comforts that he can climb up on and take
his rest. Don't forget to set little table
for him many, many times day, full OF all
sorts of joys and delights for little children (;
and never, never be afraid you snail do too
much to make the little one happy. Oh, TO
think of child taking life unfinished, and
waiting waiting in vain for the uphosterers
TO come. Go to work Go 10 rork! But
listen Don't, in your enthusiasm, rush
ahead and endeavor TO furnish all the little
rooms alike Study the life of the child,
aud then fit it up to order, and the God OF
little children, looking down upon your
efforts, will bless you; aud, bending low,
will whisper aye have done 1t unto me-"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-18

Yet we desire no false or merely titular
dignity attached to farming. n agriculture
has no claim to be called a science IL II be
but trade, or at best an art If farmers are
and must ever be, mere tradesmen or arti.
sans let us understand it so, and let 1t go at
that.
For oursef, we have thought over the
matter long and carefully, and can see no
slightes treason why entomology, geology,
minerology, physiology, zoology or chem
istry may rank unquestioned as sciences,
and agriculture be excluded. On the CON
trary, as the greater includes the less, and
all these branches of learning are auxiliary
to agriculture, we hold that the latter is the
greater science. To say that agriculture is
also an art-that it may be and is followed
mechanically as trade-is to say no more
than can be said of all sciences having
practical side to them.
Neither is it an argument against our
right TO rank agriculture with the Sciences
that, as a science, it is yet in its infancy
Every one of the modern sciences, the nat
ural sciences, is in the same condition. Their
nomenclatures and classifcations are even
yet all provisional and tentative, and con-
stantly being remodeled. As agricultural
science is, in a sense the sum of all these
sciences, its progress must wait upon their
progress, and, consequently, like all grand
syntheses and CONGRATULATIONS, it must fol-
low, since il cannot lead.
| 1t is not to be expected that in the pres
ent condition of popular education the or
binary farmer will be scientist, a " Master
of agriculture" He will for he must,
bring his problems to the scientist for solu
ton, and be content with their aid and his
own experience to become in time a master
of the art. But men like our friend Sturte-
want, of the Scientific Farmer are on their
way to become true agricultural scientists,
masters of all science relative to the produce
ton of food. And as man is no less a
chemical scientist because he skilfully ap-
plies his science to make the purest medi-
cines the most brilliant dyes, the most pow
erful explosives, so neither will DIR. Sturte-
want be less on agricultural scientist when
he shows us practically how TO grow every
year his two hundred bushels of corn on
an acre.
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eGor Me Nonna.
THE ROBINS RED BREAST.


AN IRISH LEoESD.
OF all the merry little birds that live up in the tree
And carol from the sycamore and chestnut,
The prettes little gentleman that dearest is to me
IL the one In coat Of brown and scarlet wast-coat
It's cockit little Robn
And his head he keeps a-bobbn'.
OF all the other pretty fowls I'd choose him.
For he sings sweetly still,
Through his tiny, slender bill,
with his little patch Of red upon his bosom.
when the frost the and the upon the ground,
TO other little brides "a bewilderin',
Picking up the crumbs the window he Is found,
Singing Christmas stories TO the chndreni
OF how two slender babes
Were left in woodland gades
By q cruel man who took en there TO lose 'emi
But Bobby the crime
Tile was watching all the tine),
And he bushed pei feet crimson on his bosom.
When the changing leaves Of around thcky fall
Aud everything sorrowing and saddening,
Robin may be heard on the corner Of q wall
Singing what Is solacing and gladdenlng.
And sure, from what I've heard,
He's Gods own little bird,
And slnis to those In grief just TO amuse 'em.
But once he sat fororn
On n cruel Crown " Thorn.
And the blood It stained his pretty little bosom.
-Harpers Heeiiu
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-18
agricultural department.
+. II. HosKINs. Editor.


A farmer furrowed his swardea field,
And faltered not for the day.
lie felt from the north frost-wind blow,
And the path Of the sun gray,
And the wheat-birds whistle he heard from the bough,
Aud he knew that the weevil oft followed the plow
He bent his lowly form to the task,
Believing his labor a prayer;
so he podded the pace of a cheerful man,
Preparing his ground with care
whistled and plodded; then cast amain
For the harvest hour the seeding grain.
farmer sat at his cottage door
Nodding noontide nap.
And the whitened wheat across the way
Waved on the meadows lap;
with heavy heads, In sumberng haze,
The stalks bent down In the August days.
Az the farmer ,lozed he dreamed and smiled,
For his acres waved on his eye,
And then the cnk Of the reapers he heard
And his stacks and his mows sweed Hight
And over his cheek soft tear crept.
For the Joy he felt as he nodded and slept.
lie woke, In the haze Of the hot afternoon,
In health was he bent to the snath
And over the fields the gavels stretched
In many winding PATH
rhp vision he saw had lightened his task,
And he learned that pray we In labor should ask
--gsJerIed
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-18
Deep Setting.

1t seems that Mr.. Bliss is not only soundly
converted to deep setting, but recommends
tank system, only so much different from
that of Mr.. Douglas as is demanded by the
light so recently thrown upon the subject
through what has been learned regarding
the so.called "Swedsh system" This,
which was met by an almost universal
pooh pooh when Mr.. Willard first called
attention to it, has really become the fashion,
almost the rage, among experimental dairy
mothers knew it all.
Mr.. Bliss contributes the following letter
to the Country Gentleman, written to himself
by Mr.. George Crane, of Williamstown, VT,
which we reprint, not only as showing what
our greatest dairy authority now regards as
the best way of setting milk, but for the
value of the test given, and as a confrma-
| ton of our own view, that simple modif.
cation of Mr. Douglas unpatented arrange
ment Covering the cans, and using colder
water or more ice,) answers every practical
purpose. Farmers should spend as little
money in patent rights as possible, and here
we see no reason to spend dollar Mr.
Crane writes:
| 81 have succeeded in getting IA tank in opera
ton, upon the plan which you furnished me. Il
is double, twenty-five by sixty-one inches inside
will hold ten cans nine inches in diameter at tn,
bottom, ten inches at the top and sixteen inche,
deep they will hold to work forty pounds of mill
each. The cans are cooled by a stream of wate
forced on the cover of each from pipe fastened
to the lid OF the tank and connected with wate
pipe by piece of hose, the holes from each being
one-eighth of an inch. We have allowed the mill
to stand twenty-four hours; temperature, forty
eight to fifty degrees We have made one trial a
to quantity, with the following results: Set sever
hundred and lightweight pounds of milk in smal
pans, when the weather was all that could be de
sired for that mode OF setting, and made thirty
four and one-haf pounds of butter Set sever
hundred and sixty-six pounds Of milk in cans, a
above, and made thirty-six and one-fourth pound
| Of butter"
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AU- White Hickory

for spOkes and Rims and ROCK ELM for Hubs The
wheels being, call them, the foundation OF Carriage.
parties should give them thorough inspection My wheels
are constructed by Mr. CHARLES WADE, Jr. who makes
the that any wishes to beat him making
wheels he Is nj their service AT any time for trial"
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This Book also contains MORE
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A BoY having been told that a reptile
was an animal that creeps," on being asked
10 name one, on examination day, promptly
replied, "a baby"
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A YOUNG man from Auburn, N. Y, who
went to the Black Hills this spring, has
telegraphed TO his father, " Fatted calf for
one"
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SaIesroom, in Sabin's Block,

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wheels. | use none Of them buy my wheel stock OF
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use none bat the best, selected
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Just published by the PEABODY MEDICAL 1Ssrl-
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The Best assortment OF
Fine Light Buggies

Top Wagons Phaetons ETC.. offered for sale In Yer
do offer for sale cheap work at low prices but
offer work that will sustain the reputation gained by my
EXHIBIT AT PHILADELPHIA In 1876 / employ no
salesman to add to the expense OF Carriage but people
Waiting my
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BLACK CASHMERES

splendid quality, and AZ inches wide at only 10 cts
per yard. Also magnificent line Of COLORED and
BLACK CAsHMEREs, 40 inches WIDE at the
astonishngly low price of only 40 cents per yard.
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BARGAINS IN DRESS GOODS !

offer large assortment Of Plain Plaid and Striped
Knickerbockers, AMI other Suitings. at only eight
cents per yard former price, from fifteen to twenty
Ave cents per yard We also offer Atwood
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Prices are Lower

than the prices OF other builders of the same class OF work
Parties wishing their best Interests will give
call before looking elsewhere WOOL MATS In stock.
Al low rates. Also full line OF Carriage Lssihers and
Trimmings
F. O. GILMAN.
Montpeler. May LIST, 1871. II
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WORM, not wealth, is a nations safety.
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The budings consist OF one-story house and basement.
good barn. house hoghouae gfanary and hen-house,
the three being Good running at house aud
barn Terms suit the farm must he sold For further
Information INQUIRE OF Hon. ~ ELTON, montpelier, Vi.
7S-tf MRS. LUCY A. COOKE.
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SHAWLS!!

large and magnificent assortment OF White and Col
ored SHETLAND SHAwLS, in all the new and
fashionable styles, at prices from 80 cents upwards.
A large and we-assorted stock of Parasols and Sun
Umbrellas, at extremely low prices. We have fine
assortment OF
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UDOARDERS.-The attention OF any In want OF nice
- rooms nrs-class table and good accommodations, IL
invited to the Holmes Block opposite the Post-onlce re.
Gently known as the Central House. which will be opened
by the undersigned May lat, "a boarding House Very
pleasant and desirable suite and single furnished
and unfurnlshed The house having been thoroughly
vated repapered, painted etc. we offer pleasant aud
clean Boarding House, where boarders enjoy the COM
soft MRS TRUE.
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An ExoELLENr CHANo
TiIIage, Pasturage and Wood Land.

The subscriber offers sale easy terms her Farm, To-
Gated In East Montpelier, and suita-
lIulhel nj
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ROOFING SLATE, FLAGGING, ETC.,

NOW READY NOW READY
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CORSETS at a Great Bargain !

Also DIR. Warmers Celebrated Health Corset;
reduced price from $500 to SLAB splendid line OF
Ladies' Children's and Gents Hosiery, Gauze
Undervests, etc. large stock Of SILK and WOrsted
Fringes. very cheap.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-17
A GYmnasIic PIG.

A Kentucky pig has suddenly devel-
oped genius for gymnastics and engin-
eering which eclipses the proudest pre-
vious achievements of his race. The
eminent pig was recently placed by his
owner in pasture surrounded bya high
wall, and ornamented by elm trees fes-
tooned with wild grape-vines. The
walls, however, could not confne his
bold and vagrant spirit. Selecting a
tree standing near the western wall of
the pasture, he carefully bit loose the
lower end of the stout grapevine, which
was attached by it's tendrils to limb
on tree, and taking this improvised
rope in his mouth, swung himself in
the air until he gathered an impetus
which sent him entirely over the wall,
and landed him in the next field.
Though often recaptured he has con-
stantly repeated this extraordinary feat,
and his intelligent owner, instead of
cutting down his elm trees to restrain
his pigs wandering propensities, has de-
cided to educate him for the trapeZe
buSinaSS
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-17
The Daily Leader.
sS-Oficial paper OF the City, County, Ter
ritory and United States.
Paving Army Officers.


Although our government has little
army and large income it is unable to
pay its military officers. These citizens,
who devote their lives to the public
service, who are depended upon in war
for its defence, are, in time Of peace,
almost forgotten. Either because of
the ignorance or folly of congress last
winter an insufficient appropriation for
the payment of the salaries of army Off
GERS was made, and now there is no
money in the national treasury to meet
their legal claims. Tho is discredita-
BILE to the government, but the mistake
has been honorably redeemed. The
action of the leading bankers of New
York and Philadelphia in Offering to
pay the salaries of officers for the
months of July, August and September
deserves to be highly commended. They
make the proposition upon business
principles charging fair percentage and
requiring certain securities, but this
makes it all the more worthy. The OBJ
ject of these gentlemen is not to profit
by the necessities of the army officers,
but, on the contrary, to protect them
from the plundering of spectators. 1t
is an act of thoughtfulness and patrio-
tism, and the only regret is that it
should have been compelled by the
neglect of the government.
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Quick Time Around the World.

The Omaha (Neb.) Republican prints
letter from DIR. +. S. DeHass, Ameri-
can Consul at Jerusalem, in which he
gives an account of tour he has lately
made around the world in siXty-eight
days of actual travelling time. The
letter is dated at Jerusalem, May 10,
1877. The outline of the journey we
quote, greatly condensed in the fol-
lowing:
"Having safely returned to my post,
take pleasure in furnishing your
readers agreeably to promise, with a
brief notice of my quick and successful
tour around the world. Not counting
the time lay over at different points,
as these breaks in the journey could all
have been avoided, 1 made the entire
circle of the globe in sixty-eight days,
and but for heavy weather on the Pacific
would have made it in siXty-two days.
The journey from Alexandria, Egypt,
via Brindisi and Paris to London, and
from thence to New York and San
Francisco, was accomplished in twenty
days, and we were just the same num-
ber of days going from San Francisco
to Y Yokohama, Japan. Crossing over from
there to Canton, in China, took six days.
A sail of ten days over the China Sea
and through the Strait of Malacca,
touching at several points we have not
time to notice, brought us to Ceylon,
off the southern coast of Hindostan,
and one of the East India islands.
Thence we sailed directly to Suez, in
Egypt, which took twelve days, and
from thence, in few hours, by rail to
Alexandria, our starting point. making
the entire distance of $4,000 miles
or detention of any kind"