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HumOrsOme Waits.

ARTICHoKEs are good for rheumatism,
and hearty jokes for dyspepsia.
A LOWELL man, who lost his good charac-
ter some time ago, was severely hauled over
by some of his former friends. al know
it, boys. / know my characters gone lost
entirely. And" he added, rather pointedly,
"it's too bad, for it was the only one in the
place worth saving"
WHEN you find man who claws over all
the papers on the desk, looks through all the
drawers, searches through all the pockets in
his clothes and explores the regions above
his ears in search of his lead pencil, and
finally finds it between his teeth, don't lend
him any money-he is absent-minded.
A COUPLE of young men were out fishing
the other day, and on returning were going
past farmhouse, and felt hungry. They
yelled TO the farmers daughter: "Girls,
have you any buttermilk 7" The reply was
gently waited back to their ears Yes;
but we keep it for our own calves" The
boys calculated they had business away
and they went.
A MINNEAPoLIs boy was sent by his
teacher, woman, to the superintendent
to be whipped. The lad suspected the con-
tents of the note, and hired a boy he met on
the street to deliver it, giving him ten cents.
The superintendent didn't discover till after
the castigation was over that the boy he
had flogged had not seen the inside of a
school-house for a month.
AN Irish gentleman writes to Truth 10 say
that he has never found Frenchman who
can pronounce this "Thimblerig Thristle
thwaite thievishly thought TO thrive through
thick and thin by throwing his thimbles
about, but he was thwarted and thwacked
and thumped and thrashed with thirty-three
Thousand thistles and thorns for thievishly
thinking to thrive through thick and through
thin by throwing the thimbles about"
Ii cat doth meet cat upon the garden
wall, and if a cat doth greet cat, o need
they both to squall Every Tommy has his
Tabby waiting on the wall, and yet he well
comes her approach with hideous yawl.
And II kitten wish TO court upon garden
wall, why don't he sit and sweetly smile, and
not stand up and bawl lift his precious
back up high, and show his teeth and moan,
as if 'twere collie more than love that made
that fellow groan
AN erring husband, who had exhausted
all explanations for late hours, and had no
apology ready, recently slipped into the
house, about one O'Clock, very softly, de-
nuded himself gently, and began rocking the
cradle by the bedside, as Il he had been
awaked out OF sound sleep by infantile
cries. He had rocked away for five minutes,
when Mary Jane, who had silently observed
the whole man@uvre, said, Come to bed,
you fool, the baby amt there ll
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MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, JULY TO- 1873. 4
A strange and solemn sensation stole owe

A strange and solemn sensation stole over
me- A few minutes before l had left DIR.
Brooks sick unto death so weak, so OPP
pressed, so distressed laboring for breath (;
talking in disjointed utterances; but re-
Gently reused, as / had been told, from a
sipking spell which it was feared would
have been his last. And now in tones as
clear as distinct, as well enunciated as |
ever heard from him in the pulpit when in
health, and yet mirimized by that strange,
weird, thrilling, telephone modification
preserving all that is characteristic in
the speech of an individual, and at the
same time giving the impression Of almost in
finite distance--came the triumphant excla-
nation; " Thanks be to God who giveth us
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ"
could but fancy that, during my absence
from his bedside, the silver cord had been
loosed, the golden bowl broken, and that the
exultant "Thanks be TO God p' was the out
burst of the freed spirit. And when | re-
turned to his room and found him still in
the flesh, felt like one who unexpectedly
meets him whom he had thought dead.
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A Touching Incident.

There il one touching incident of the life
of William Writ. In his younger days he
was a victim TO that passion for Intoxicating
drinks which seems peculiarly the bane Of
our profession. Afianced to beautiful aud
accomplished young woman, he had broken
repeated pledges and amendments, and she,
after patiently and kindly enduring his dis.
graceful habit, had at length dismissed him,
deeming him incorrigible, Their next meet
ing, after the dismissal, was in the public
street in the city of Richmond. William
Writ lay drunk and asleep on the sidewalk,
on hot summer day, the rays of the sun
pouring down on his uncovered head, and
the flies crawling over his swollen features.
As the young lady approached in her walk
her attention was attracted by the spectacle,
strange to her eyes, but alas so common to
Others who knew the victim as TO attract
little remark. She did not at first recognize
the sleeper, and was about to hasten on,
when she was led by one of those impulses
which form the turning points in human
lives to scrutinize his features. What was
her emotion when she recognized in him her
discarded lover She drew forth her hand
kerchief and carefully spread it over his face
and hurried away. When Writ came to
himself he found the handkerchief, and on
one corner the initials of the beloved name.
With heart almost breaking with grief
and remorse he made new vow of reforma-
ton. He kept that vow, and married the
owner of that handkerchief Well might
he preserve the handkerchief, as he did, all
his life, guarding it with the jealous care
with which Othello kept the Egyptian charm
er's gift, and making it darling like his
precious eye.'-Selected.
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Not Understanding IL.

That the doctrine of the Trinity must be
comprehended in order to be received ia a
thorough fallacy. Men every day and al
way receive that which passes their compre-
hension. Why two gases unitedin certain
proportion form air, why two others form
water is incomprehensible. The fact is
known, the reason is yelled. The fact of
life is received, not comprehended. All
moral truth is above the reason. Men live
by its facts, but cannot explain them. The
error of the Unitarian is that he mistakes
that which is above the reason for that
which contradcts reason. This because he
applies his test to an arithmetical formula
and not to spiritual truth. The claim of
the modern deist is to comprehend God. 1t
is the old craving for the fruit of the forbid
den tree. The man who can comprehend
the conditions of the Deity can dispense
with Deity and therefore he only who can
do without Deity, who is self-centred, self
existent, can understand the facts OF Gods
existence. But reason was given that reve-
lation might be received. 1t is adequate TO
knowing what revealed aruth is, not ade-
quate TO knowing why it is. 1t can surely
and safely follow the steps by which the
message is shown, and understand the terms
and see the proofs that the message is true
Then it must stop and rest in acceptance
This is because man is man, and not God
And the desire to have it otherwise is only
the fallacy and sin of old time, which would
build tower whose top may reach the
heavens.-Churchman
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Cure for Hard Times,

want to say a word about hard times"
No matter what the financial policy is, no
matter what party has the power, there is
only one remedy for hard times and that is
to restore the proportion between the tillers
of the soil and the trades and professions
which existed thirty years ago. When we
accomplish this we can revive the times.
Our American people, born and bred on
farms, have felt that they could not pursue
the occupation of tilling the soil; that they
There is hardly merchant in this city who
has not been overwhelmed with solicitations
for positions for boys in counting-rooms or
stores. The tilling of the soil is the only
remedy for hard times and it is the remedy
that must come before we can find relief
Our young men should take Horace Greeley''
advice and q Go West" or back TO the old
farms.-C. Beard.
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Raihoad Time GABLE.
CENrRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINEl
Commencing on Monday July lSt lO1O.

Trdtns Going South aud East.
Leave Montpelier at 900 A. NJ, LAT r. NJ, 0.25 r.
NJ, and 1880 p. NJ.
MaiI-Leayes st. Albans at 100 NJ, Menpeer at 800 A
~, for Boston, New London sprmgneld new fork ana
intermediate points
Day Express Leaves Rouses Point at 1890 A. NJ Mon.
treai at 800 A. NJ st. Adams at 1870 Burlington a.
l220P. NJ, Montpelier at la p NJ, for ON via Lowell
white Mountain Express from Sara ka Springs ar
rives at Montpelier at l35 pm.
Mixed Train LEAVES 81 Albans at $40 NJ Burlington
Night Express-from ogdensbnrg, Montreal, st. Al
bans and Burlington, leaves Montpelier at 1850 p
for Boston via Lowell Fitchburg Springfield, New
York and intermediate points
Trains Going North aud West.
Leave Montpelier at 325 A. NJ, $40 A. NJ, IL. 90 A.
M, $40 p. NJ, and o. 90 p. NJ.
Express Mai-Leavea Boston via Fltchburg at 80 A. M
springfield az 500 A. NJ, Montpelier al $40 p NJ fol
Burlington. st. Albans, Montreal and 0gdensburg
Accommodation Train-leayes Northneld at 500 A
ST. Johns and Montreal.
Mixed-Leaves W. r. Junction at $50 A. NJ Northneld at
1910 A. NJ. Arrive at Montpelier at ll.35 A. NJ.
Saratoga Express from white Mountains, leaves Mont
peer at ll20 for Burlington, Rutland, Saratoga
Springs, st. Albans, Rouses Point and Richfond
Accommodation Train-Leaves white River juno
ton at - 7; ~, Montpelier at b55 p NJ for Burling-
Night Erpress-Leayes Boston via Lowell at $50 P. NJ
via fitchbnrg At 500 P; NJ, New York at 500 p NJ
ingion, ST. Albans Montreal and ogdbg and the West
Trains leave Montpelier Barre at $50 NJ. and 1918
andA25P. Returning leave Barre at IlOA "A. Mand LOO
Pm, and $40 M
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and Spring
ned. and New York via Troy and parcr cars TO Day Ex
press between Boston and Montrea also between White
Mountains and Saratoga Springs.
Through tickets for Chago and the West for sale At the
principal stations HpsAkF RpsAEy eeRs5 ss SapSser sSP
1t. Aibans. VI, June 20. 1873
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The Telephone at n Death-bed.

When Rev. Dr. Il. G. Brooks, a late dis
tinguished clergyman of Philadelphia, was
lying near death, his doctor, j. w. White,
obtained telephone to divert him in his
constant agony On taking the telephone to
his house DIR. Brooks was found SO weak
and so distressed in his breathing that
the physician was reluctant to try it, but
the sick man insisted on the attempt.
The wires were arranged between the sick
man and the dining-room downstairs. DIR.
White proceeds: When all was arranged,
however, to the best of my ability, placed
one of the mouth-pieces in his hand, and
told him | would go down and test it, and
if the necessary conditions had been met he
could hear my voice, but that he would have
to ask some one else TO reply, as he was too
weak to attempt it, Taking the mouth
piece at the other end of the line / repeated
The Lord reigneth let the earth rejoice;
| let the multitude of the isles be glad thereof"
| To my utter astonishment instantly came
the response "Clouds and darkness are
round about him righteousness and judg-
ment are the habitation of his throne"
1t was the voice of DIR. Brooks, the tones
clear and distinct, the intonation and en-
phasis perfect. | was amazed. But mo-
ment before had left him apparently too
weak and too much oppressed to speak above
a whisper. | was fairly startled. / could
not be mistaken, but could hardly believe
the testimony of my ear. / repeated 40
come, let us worship and bow down; let us
kueel before the Lord our Maker"
Once more, and as promptly as in church
service, the doctors voice responded For
he is our God, and we are the people OF his
pasture, and the sheep of his hand.'
| then repeated verse from that grand
old hymn of Pierpont:
"Not now on Zion's height alone,
Thy favored worshipper may dwell;
Nor where at sultry noon thy Son
Sat weary by the patriarch's well
And Just as though it had been arranged
beforehand, as promptly as though sci
form were being followed, the voice from
that bed of sickness took up the strain;
From every place below the skies
The grateful song, the feryent prayer,
The incense OF the heart may rise
To heaven, and find acceptance there"
: next quoted the first verse OF the familiar
! hymn;
30 for a faith that will not shrink
Though pressed by every foe
That Will not trenlble on the brink
OF any earthly woel'
And the doctor responded, quoting tn
last verse Of the same hymn;
Lord, give us such a faith as this,
e And then, whate er may come,
= Well taste o en- here the hallowed bliss
ii OF an eternal homel"
= was anxious that the Doctors strength
q, which was but weakness, should not be TO
, far taxed, and suggested that he had bette
allow some one else TO speak for him, but h
responded "One thing more !" and theI
| l.. ls.ts ,.te "A.
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but the returning tide shall, in a few hours
wash out and efface all that you have
written. Not 80 the lines and characters of
truth and error which your conduct i'm.
prints on the mind Of your child. There
you write impressions for the everlasting
good or i'll of your child, which neither the
floods nor the storms of earth can wash out,
nor deaths cold fingers erase, nor the slow
moving ages OF eternity oblterate. How
careful, then, should each mother be in her
treatment of her child How prayerfuI and
how serious, and how earnest to write the
eternal truths which shall be his guide and
teacher when her voice shall be silent in
death, and her lips no longer move in prayer
in his behalf, in commanding her dear child
to her covenant chronological Journal
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Letter from Major C. C. Emery, ex-Captain
of the National Lancers.

CUSTOM HousE, Boston, Feb. 6, 1871.
]. T. REID 4 Co.;
Gentlemen -one week ago to-day was at your office
for the FIRST time 10 you about the East India Remedies
have had what called muscular" rheumatism for
last four months that could only my high
enough for locomoton, suffering terribly carried home
with me two bottles Of your medicines Nos and @ and In
twenty four hours after began taking II could my
limbs to dress myself, and to-day here in my Of
nce attending TO business have been unable 10 write
letter for four weeks until now and write this my one,
TO you.
Please send me bottle Of No. rheumatism, and one
Of Aperient.
c. e. EMERY.
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FOR S4LE.

The very desirable residence belonging TO the estate OF
the late Susan NJ Cree situated In one of the best locations
In Montpelier village will be sold at low price Terms
made application to ~ r. Brooks, Montpelier or
the subscriber, at Waterbury. L. ii. HAlNf.s.
Montpelier July |, 1875. R-u
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BOSTON.

which Is entire new compound and the most efectua
remedy for Rheumatism in all s forms and stages
yet dscovered the treatment Is and successful The
medicine Is put up in l6ounce bottles, which numbered
as T. etc, and taken after the other in their
erer till the number Is reached which completes the
NO MERCURY other injurious drugs used.
The system Is cleansed Of all Objectionable drugs pro-
viously taken, and left in free and natural state.
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eMeiv advertisements.

EO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.-The undersigned
~ have this day formed partnership under the firm
and title of PARK Il ROBINSON" for the pur
pose carrying the grocery flour and provision
business at the old stand of Bailey Park Reeds Block
Main Street. W. W. PARK.
c. A. ROBINSON
Montpelier VT. July l, 1873. 42-A
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Elmore and Worcester.

Notice hereby given that application will be made TO
the next General Assembly Of this state 10 establish the
town line and county line between Emore and Worcester
and between Lanolle and Washington counties
~ ABEL CAMP.
Elmore Vt, July 3. 1878. 42-4i
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REFERENCES
c. c. EMERY,

Daniel farwood Esq, exPresdent of the Penny Savings
Bank Of Boston chronic Of Iniamnatory Rheuma-
tism confirming him months in the year
for ten years past-compeiey cured.
John Il. Ellis 50 South Market street. formerly of David
Ellis Co.. sufferer from Rheumatism Is years-cured.
Thomas Dorm, at Western Union Telegraph Company,
State street. Boston, cured from Dyspepsia and Eheuma-
tsm.
Rev. W. S. Mckenzie, Missionary Rooms, fremont Tenn
pie Suffered for years with rheumatism expendng large
amount OF money-cured.
Daniel b. Curtis, Health Office, City Hail.
Daniel W. Child Lieutenant of Police, Station No, 2.
Alvah V. Kent, 4 Alloston street. Revere House.
George II. Morrill,, 30 Hawley street, manufacturer Of
Printers Ink.
Caleb D. Smith, Lothrop place Musician.
s. W. Jewett, with Cobb Bates Yerxa, $50 Washington
street.
b. Il. Russell, 55 Cornhil Publisher.
j.. j. Newcomb l2i South Market street. Flour Commits
sion Merchant.
Albert Gay, of T. Gay Co.. IS India street. Wholesale
Grocers.
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For Sale!

ONE FIVE HORSE POWER PORTABLE
ENGINE, with capacity Of eight horse power manuao-
tued by Shepley Wells Bnghapton, n. v Said engine
is in perfect running order will be sold cheap. Parties
wishing TO purchase will do well TO call and examine.
32-tf FISHER Il COTTON,
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CANCER!

DIR. B. SHEPARD, Newbury, VT, would inform
the afflicted that he treats sClRRHUs CANCER of the
mamniary and axilliary gland arm-p successfully.
After tyour years close attention TO the subject he
has discovered remedy which removing this phase Of
scirrhus and OF treatment to the patient cannot be
eqnaled In Europe America. 324i
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Weiv e7drerfisementS.
FIRE AND LIFE INsURA ANOEi
A. C. BROWN g. Co.'s
INSURANCE AGENCY,
MONTPELIER, VT.
Capital represented, ,$|5O,OO0,OOO

In these days of doubt and uncer-
tainty in business, especially in the
Standing and Solvency of Fire and
Life Insurance Companies, the at
tention of Insurers is respectfully
called to the following list of RE-
LIABLE and SUBSTANTIAL Com
panies represented at this Agency:
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Ayers Hair VigOr
FOR RESTORING GRAY HAIR

Advancing years. sickness care, disappointment, and
hereditary predposon all turn the hair gray and either
Of them incline 1t TO shed prematurely.
AYER's HAIR vIGoR, by long and extensive use, has
proven that stops the falling of the hair immediately
often the growth; and always surely restores ts
color when faded gray. 1t stimulates the nuritve
gans healthy activity and preserves both the hair and
its beauty. Thus brishy, weak sekly hair becomes
glossy pabe and strengthened; lost hair regrows with
lively expression; falling hair checked and Established
thin hair thckens and faded OF hairs resume their
original color Its operation is and harmless ltcures
dandru heals all humos and keeps the scalp cool clean,
and sof-under which conditions diseases OF the scalp
impossible.
dressing for ladies' hair the YIooR praised for ts
grateful and agreeable perfume and valued for the soft
lustre and richness OF tone 1t mparts.
PREPARED BY
DIR. j. @. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass,
Practical and Analytical Chemists.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS
| (2s) IN MEDICINES. (79l)
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For sale by FRANK II. BASCOM, Montpelier,
Vt, and by dealers generally 3l-5-9-43N
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educational.

TWO TEACHERS WANTED for Southern New
Il Jersey. Address, with stamp, \. j. CoIliss, High
School, Orange, Vt. Can be at Fabyan N H. July
l0h at other times, In Orange, Vt. 4l43
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CONSULTATION, personal or by letter, FREE.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-07

REpoRT1NG made easy had an illustration
during the past week in our city cotempo-
raries. George Wiley, who was run over by
the cars, died at 1 A. NJ. Thursday. The
GLOBE on the next morning, it being the
tiwt opportunity, announced the event in it's
local columns. The Dispatch of Thursday
afternoon, sixteen hours after the man was
dead, announced that he was sslying in a
precarious conditions statement which
perhaps should be accepted as correct, as he
was lying in his coffin. The Pioneer Press
of Friday morning in one column said
Wiley "still ives,'' and in the adj
joining colum published his funer-
al notice as an advertisement. On Sat-
urday morning the Pioneer Press announced
that he died on Friday morning t A. NJ.
while the death actually occurred at A. NJ.
on Thursday. AS the burial cannot add to
the affliction of the friends of the deceased,
it gives us pleasure to state that the funeral
took place yesterday afternoon, and the man
being underground, is no longer in peril
from the laundering papers named. It is
understood that the Pioneer Press has put
on another new man to "beat the GnoBE''
the next time an unfortunate individual
'stin lives'' sin precarious condition. after
he is dead.
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COMMITTALS OF INSANE AGAIN.

COMMITTALS OF INSANE AGAIN.
Yesterday, we expressed some doubt as to
the power of Probate Judges to imprison in
sane people. The constitution of Mime
sofa gives to Probate Judges jurisdiction
over persons "under guardianship The
language is almost meaningless, but in
terpreted according to common sense rules,
it means and can mean nothing else
but minors, under guardianship to their nat
saral guardians. either father or mother.
The law creating, endowing and giving
hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Hos
pital for Insane, in the very same act, at
tempted to confer the power to imprison be-
You'd even che reach of the habeas
corpus. 1t is a fraud upon
its face, because, leaving out of
consideration the doubtful phraseology of
the constitution, and admitting that the
Judge of Probate has the power to appoint a
guardian over an insane person, the question
then is, whether either the judge or the
guardian has the right, or the power, or the
authority to commit the insane ward to
the Hospital for Insane. Is it
possible to believe that the Legislature of
Minnesota intended to commit such a solemn
trust into such irresponsible heads? If so