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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

there was the object of his search, lying as
If sweetly sleeping in his own little chamber
at home. In his hand was firmly clasped
the Testament the leaf turned down to the
l4th chapter of John, that chapter whose
precious promises have helped many dear
soul over the dark river, while upon the hy-
leaf was pencilled in trembling hand, the
name of Neddie Hamln from Maurice L.
His face was unmarried and full of peace,
but the death-wound in his breast told the
sad story, and as his kind friend placed
hand on the cold, white forehead, while the
tears fell fast, he whispered, " II is well with
the child" Captain II. obtained leave Of
absence and returned home, bearing with
him the dear young hero whose life had
given to all who knew him so many pleasant
memories.
doubt if we can imagine just how gladly
Ned and Katie welcomed their father, and
the little book was sacred treasure not
only to Ned but to them ALL The day was
one of June's sweetest, when from the old
church on the hill they carried their sleep
ing soldier to his last resting place, vending
| their way thither to the sad measure of the
| funeral march. And there they left him,
wrapped in the starry folds of the flag whose
honor he had died to protect, while on his
still breast was laid floral anchor, emblem
of that hope which is cast firmly ,oithh the
golden gates, where is "no more death
| This offering of love was placed there by
| the Sabbath-school class of young men, from
! whose number the first link had been broken.
The sad event was not without its lesson
for good. Many of the young people in the
school enlisted under the banner of Christ
and as his earnest followers event about
about doing good"
Dear young friends, we all have rebellion
in our hearts to quell, and unless we give
them into the keeping of the Captain of oul
salvation and become His soldiers, we never
can hope for victory at last. God grant t.
His call you may now respond, so that wher
the books are all opened your names ma.
not be on the list of missing"
| Missing from heaven? Oh no.
Let waiting angels rejoice once more,
| Engraving y0tr names on the pure white stones,
As dear young souls "entered in by the door. "
-ChriStidn Mirror.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Behind the Times.

In our recent article upon hardy fruits,
we remarked that little in regard to those
varieties suitable for the colder sections
could be found IN the standard books on the
subject and that the pomologists OF the
Middle States indeed knew but little about
the really hardy or " iron-clad, apples-the
only Kinds that can be planted with any
nope oil success IN northern vermont New
Hampshire and Maine, Quebec, Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
In proof OF this comes the record OF re-
cent meeting OF the Western New York
HORTICULTURAL society, IN which we ma the
following me suoJect Oh crao apples was
quickly disposed OF, as no new varieties had
been discovered 10 supplant the old ana best
known Varieties' iiysiop ana lrahscehdaht'
NOW we were very well aware, as we stated
above, tnat httle was known among inc
New YORK nurserymen ana orchardists about
the "lroh-ciau' apples' out we are really
asuohlsneu tha' III sucn convention asVate-
ment IKE the one quoted could pass with
out challenge From our own orchard we
could lay before tnat society not less thah a
uozen varieties Oh crao appies' superior III
| every respect 10 'ne iiysiop ana the Iran
scendant'
Inc lrahscehdaht craD Is very nice va
rle'y lor preserving or canning here ltS
usefulness ehus' Inc hysiop Is one Oh inc
most oeautllul OF ali CRAPS, upon the tree
ana mere US usefulness ends IL Is uhht 70
eau Like 'he rrehchnhei WIN t'e crow
we nave ".rled MN ooiieu ana we nave
tried MN stewed' we nave tried MN irled
ana we nave urea MN raw out he is NJ
gooo any way
Now among the crabs we can show the
Queens Choice' equal to the lranscen
dant 10 look at ana 10 can besides being
pretty lalr eating apple II taken wheh JUS
right' we can snow the montreal Beauty
Mackies beauty, nose Oh barVoh' ana ba'
ION scarlet every one Oh which Is large
thah the hyslop' quite as handsome ah'
every one OF them good PIE apple excelleh
Tor cider, ana some OF them toieraoie eating
apples we can snow P1ngles sweet
beadles sweet van Wyck sweet, ant
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Lost Nation Wheat.

We continue to hear the most favorable
reports from those who have tried this wheat
and several correspondents wish to know
its origin. According to the Maine Farmer,
the following is all that is known about ii
in Maine, where it was first made exten.
sively known, and where now it is almost
the only spring wheat sown in three-quarter,
of the state:
"Nine years ago +. p. Burrill, Esq, OF
Corinna, (Ale) received one-half bushel from
a friend residing in a region not far from
Lancaster n. H., called Lost Nation Valley
His remarkable success with this wheat in
duced him to name it, and he called it aftel
the name of the section of country from
which it was received. 1t is supposed that
double as many acres have been raised il
Maine the past season as ever before. Thi'
variety of spring wheat has gained very rap
idly in public estimation since its introduc
ton by Mr.. Burrill. He always succeed.
in raising good crops, even when sown a.
late as June 18TH"
ihis cnaraclerisuc Vi tne Lost Natloi
Wheat (that it may be sown late with sue
cess makes it particularly valuable for SOW
ing on land that cannot be made ready very
early, or where for some other reason sowing
has been delayed. A very nice crop wa
grown last year, by Mr.. Holmes, on the Car
los Pierce farm in Stanstead, which wa!
sowed June 10th. The seed we have sen
out was grown from a quart sent us severa
years ago by the Rev. NJ. r. Keep, Congre
gational minister in Dalton, (Aroostool
county, Me.) and is unquestionably genu
inc. We have heard of other kinds, anC
especially the Dodge wheat, being solo
for the Lost Nation.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

They "don't believe in book-farming."
Their business is to keep down the average
Of crops in the census reports, and they at
tend to it faithfully. What percentage Of
our farmers have, to-day, an agricultural
book of any description in their houses ?
This is dairy state how many of our
dairymen possess, or have ever read Mr..
Wizards important work on American
Dairy HusbandryP" Our readers can an
swer these questions better than we can
One thing we may be all assured of-that
the occupation which neglects knowledge
and refuses to avail itself of the teachings of
science, must lag behind in the race for both
honor and profit.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

OLD HENS AS LAYERs.-A writer in the
Massachusetts, Ploughman is advocating the
merits of old hens as layers. He says
"The first hen | owned that lived to be nine
years old and laid one thousand three hun
bred eggs, was an accident, like the Concord
grape the Wilson's strawberry, and many
other good things. But the hens that
have now, sir to ten years old, are not acct
dents, but were bred from the accident, ant
! expect to live long enough to have her
lay three thousand eggs. 1t is but very
few years since our greatest naturalist
claimed that no hen could lay more thai
FIVE hundred eggs in lifetime Agassi.
thought so until he dssected one of my oil,
hens that had laid twice that number, ant
found that she might have layed as man,
more"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Misspent Evenings.

The boy who spends an hour of each even
ing lounging idly on the street corners,
wastes in the course of a year three hundred
and sixty-fve precious hours, which, if APP.
piled to study, would familiarize him with
the rudiments of almost any of the familiar
sciences. If in addition to wasting an hour
each evening, he spends ten cents for CT.
gar, which is usually the case, the amount
thus worse than wasted would pay for ten
of the leading periodicals of the country.
Boys, think of these things. Think of how
much time and money you are wasting, and
for what The qualification afforded by
the lounge on the corner or the cigar is not
only temporary, but positively hurtful. You
cannot indulge in them without seriously
injurng yourself. You acquire idle and
wasteful habits, which will cling to you
with each succeeding year. You may in
after life shake them off, but the probabili-
ties are that the habits thus formed in early
life will remain with you TO your dying day,
BE warned then in time, and resolve that as
the hour spent in ideness is gone forever,
you will improve each passing one, and
thereby fit yourself for usefulness and hap
piness-Rurdi New Yorker
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
a6or the Nonna.


FROM THE FRENCH.
Carrie, looking from the windows
over fields all white with snow,
Thinks how warm her pleasant home is,
While she hears the north winds blow.
No green grass, no blooming roses,
Everything looks cold and white,
Icioles hang from the lattice,
Grey and wintry in the light
From the bark Of yonder cherry,
Chafnnches, with stifened wing.
Pick a slow and scanty breakfast,
But they have no songs to sing.
"May be hunger makes you suffer
More than cold, poor little thingsi
| will share with you the bounty
That to me our Maker brings"
Now the brown-bread crumbs she scatters,
Calling brides to the feast;
One. two. three-see all are coming,
Each hungry, happy guest
Carrie. from the clear, bright window,
Watches for them every days
Ah they're learning now to know her,
See, they do not fly away.
As she comes out close among them.
Scattering her bits Of bread,
Wen they know her, little Carrie
What have they to fear or dread7
Carries pets, how much she loves them,
Now they re eating from her handi
Happy child how sweet the moments
While they on her fingers stand.
Could the winter stay forever
But the primrose, indiscreet,
Smiles to-day in warm, spring sunshine,
And-here blooms the violet.
No more cold, no hungry chahinch,
Happy plnnderers of the fields,
In the shadow Of the gooseberry,
All they want rich nature yields.
Now good-by, dear. merry brides,
When to heaven your songs you send
Don't forget that Carrie fed you
Don't forget yourli little friend
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

The Detroit Free Press tells the following
story about "good boy !" He was stand
ing at the corner of Champan aud jefferson
avenues when policeman came along, and
pointing to a box at his feet, this good boy
said, The farmer who lost that off his sleigh
will feel awful bad. ! s'pose you'll take il
to the station, won't you q" You are an
honest boy, replied the officer. Some boys
would have lugged the box off home. Yes
III take it to the station. 1t was stout
box, weighing over eighty pounds, and
when the officer set 1t down in the station
house all his bones ached, Some said il
was butter, and some cheese, and so il
was opened. The contents were oobblt
stones The officer ran all the way back
and he spent hours looking for the good
boy, but without any luck. The good boy
knew his business
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
agricultural Department.
THE FARMERS DAUGHTER.

s,, ,,,.o. ,,,,,,r n ouiet home.
Na,o,o, q, ,ho sraces
,,,,,.,..,,,, a., ,,,i,,ro,s h,gher wo,ks
Or fashions giddy places
thoughtful girl so sweet so wise'
with earnest face ana loving eyes
The farmers genue daughter
rro,o ,,or, III, ava tho ,,,,ie maid
Ia husv a, nor iahor
s,,, 49,. "a A.. a., 81, -,o,sa
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

SOME forty years ago an act known as
The Beer Act" was carried through the
English Parliament with great eclat 1t
was the pet scheme of the Duke of yelling,
ton and Lord Brougham to supplant distilled
liquors by the use of fermented, In four
years forty thousand beer shops were estab
lished but they were in addition TO the
whiskey shops. Many of these beer shops
became The worst dens Of drunkenness and IL
centiousness, and the evils were declared 10
be greater than those from any other act
said that the use of beer has increased in
this country fve-fold the last ten years, but
that whiskey drinking has increased also,
The weaker intoxicants are but stepping
stones to the stronger, aud both lead down
to the pit.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Temperance.
THE LITTLE suoEs--TuEy DID
1T ALL"

TT AII,T
ma Mich, or tho ,er,,a n, r,,,
AsIhnrrted from tho tan
s,..,.'.s ' .',,,,.
''''e ." ''
nIoot here dear father - said the ,nother.
Holding forth the little feet
Ms, ,,,, ,,,,r, re-, ,,,o IA ,aa, o.,
You may ludge tho thing was s,mpie
Dlsbelleve ma ~ Won choose
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

A GEORGIA paper comments approvingly
upon the p IAN pursued by the planters, the
depending exclusively on cotton Instead of
sending good share of their ready money
North and West for food, the planters are
more independent, with plenty of corn in
their barns and wheat at hand ready TO be
ground into -four. Georgia and South Caro-
lima made nearly enough corn, last year, to
carry them through until the next crop.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

LAST summer, when the dealers would
not purchase medium wool except on theil
own terms, they were anxious TO buy good
combing wool. The truth is, that medium
fine wool can be raised on cheap land, but
ccmbing wool cannot be produced to ad
vantage except where there Is a demand fol
mutton. This gives the farmers of New
England and the older settled portions of the
country chance to keep sheep and enricl
Ihnir lnnl
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

The Manchester On. H. Mirror and Far
mer says the great element of success for the
dairy farmer is to "get a reputation and
keep it," Weknow quite anumber of dairy
farmers who seem TO have tried that plan,
and yet they are not happy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
AYERS CHERRY ELECTORAL,
Jon
Diseases Of the Throat and Lungs,
sUCH AS COUGHS COLDS, wHooPING COUGH
BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA AND
CONSUMPTION.

The few compositions, which have the confidence OF
mankind and become household wor among not only
but many nations have extraordinary virtues. Per
haps no one ever widea reputation maintained
1t 80 long, as AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL. II has bten
the public about forty by long continued
series OF marvellous that have for II confidence
In virtues equalled by any other medicine II still
makes the efecual cures Of Corons, CoLps Cox
SUMPTION, that can be made by medical skill Indeed the
CHERRY PICTORIAL has really robbed these dangerous
OF their ero to great extent, and given feel
ing Of immunity from their fatal effects mat is well founded
II the remedy be- taken In Every family should
In their closet for the ready and pomri relief OF It's
members. Sickness. suffering and life is saved, by
this timely protection The prudent should not neglect H.
and the wise viii not. Keepi by you for the protection
affords by its timely use In sudden attacks.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

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TuE drunkard's path is wide open before
the boy who drinks cider or beer
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-20
Death of a Venerable Man.

The death OF GEORGE MAYsE, OF Bath
county, took place few days since. He
had lived to the advanced age OF ninety
seven years-within three years OF the age
OF. the republic. DIR. MATsE's name had
been long connected with public matters in
his native county, and he was for several
sessions, at intervals from his early man
hood to late date, member Of the House
Of Delegates Of Virginia. Mr.. MAYsE
had been witness to number OF wonderful
events, and few indeed live so long as he
did. Born amidstreyolution, he dies in the
midst OF political excitement. he was born
in Bath, and grew upwhen society there
was peculiarly favored by the annual assem-
bling at the Warm Springs OF a number OF
the best people Of the southern and middle
States. The Warm Springs was. then the
most popular of the three only springs in
the State well known at that day-the
Warm, the Sweet, and the Berkeley Springs,
the last in what IS now Morgan county, in
West Virginia, on the northern border. MIR.
MAYsE's "reminiscences OF those times were
interesting. He was a lawyer. represent
ative OF consistent politics, useful magis-
tra.e, and a good citizen. The visitor to
the Warm now will miss. him, for we sup
pose no visitor to that watering.place in
the last eighty years has failed there to meet
Mr.. MAYSE. ... -r.....,.. ...t.,,.r, -. e..
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-20
The Governorship.

We could not find room for all the COM
mnnications that would be sent, to MS 3. were
we to commence publishing articles iauda.
tory OF the several aspirants to the office OF
Governor. we have; received this week
articles recommending RANDOLPH HARRl'
SON, DR.. CURRY, and General JOSEPH b.
JOHNSTON for that Office. We publish news
items stating that one paper Is for JONES NJ
and another Tor SMITH, Or that this man nan IS IS
for BROWN, and that one for ROBERTSON OF
anything else. concerning fthe.. aspirants
which we consider OF general interest. But
we print no eulogies or argumentatiye ,arti.
ticles exceptas advertisements. u
To our Patrick correspondent We would
saw that the Constitution in so many words
provides that no person shalt'be Governor
unless he Shall have been " resident mot
citizenl of this State for three years mex
preceding his election"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-20
The Walks in the Square.


The walks In the Capitol Square ought by
all means to he improved. Near JAoKsoN's
statue thereis q specimen OF matchmaking
that might well be initiated in all the walks
5 save upon steep grades, where, washing
from heavy rains may be apprehended. Az
such places brick paYements will be neces-
sary. If all the remaining walks had Just
such a surface as that upon the walk around
the statue Of JACKSON itwould be well. The
walks would be then both beautiful and
comfortable. %st +. 1, u
And now we see that tie Committee on
the. Square ortedsyesterdays that the pow
eEty OF Virginia is such that thesexpendi-t
ture to improve the walks is not expedient.
Has 1t come TO shat We hope not. We.
hope Colonel ARMSTRONG VIII mend his
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