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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-10
New England Ideas.

In the development of this government
and the establishment of universal freedom
New England ideas, though for time over
powered, have at last been triumphant.
Was it AN accident that within three months
after that Dutch man-of. war had landed
twenty negroes on the coast of Virginia, and
they had been sold AS slaves, the Maytlower
appeared off the coast of Massachusetts,
bearing one hundred and two pilgrims |
see i'll the coming years the chains carried
from Virginia to Texas, new links constantly
forged and new victims manacled, until
they are numbered by millions. But | see
the institutions and principles of the Pill
grims taking possession of New England,
OF the great Middle States, of the mighty
Northwest, on to the shores of the Pacific
carried everywhere by the sturdy settlers
who fell the forests and plant civilization
proclaimed and advocated from ten thou
sand pulpits, not OF their faith only, but OF
every Christian faith, As | watch these two
forces, slavery and barbarism at the South,
freedom and civilization in the North,
moving along resistlessly in parallel lines
across the continent, | see that one of these
is the agent in Gods hands for the destruc
ton of the other. And when the irrepressi-
BILE conflict came, as come it must, i'll that
supreme moment of mortal agony, when a
great nation plunged into sea OF blood fol-
its own publication from a national crime
God, the God of our New England fathers
gave the victory to New England ideas, aud
secured in name at least, to every man
woman, and child in the country without
regard to race, color or previous condition
of servitude, the same freedom and tn,
same rights which we, the children OF New
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MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL TO- 1878.

This will do | will pull down my barns,
and build greater; and there will | bestow
all my fruits and my goods. And | will say
to my SOUL Soul, thou hast much goods laid
up for many years take thine ease, eat,
drink and be merry. But God said unto
him, Thou fool this night thy soul shall be
required of thee; then whose shall those
things be which thou hast provided ?"
This is the sum of the whole matter. If
we live in the full consciousness that we are
but shadows here, and pursue only shadows
upon earth--that we are but children who
await a glorious inheritance, and that moth
ing is of any real value which does not fit
and prepare us for our future destiny-there
will be no irony in our lives as regards our
aims and our employments, for We shall sub
ordinate everything to the thought of the
hereafter. We shall know how to proper
tion our interest, and avoid all extravagance,
either of sorrow or joy, thankfully making
use of the blessings which the favor of the
Almighty may bestow upon us, but always
in our life voyage keeping steadily in view
the haven for which we are bound.-Bidck-
,Co0d'S Mdgdsine.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-10
A Word for the Little Ones.

| hate to see children forced to do things
that are disagreeable to them, merely for the
purpose of making them obey. Where any
good end is to be answered, it is different.
Little ones often object to what is best for
them, and when firmness is necessary, people
should of course, be firm But if a little
powerless creature has strong fancy, or a
great repugnance, a parent or guardian
abuses his power in ignoring it. Why
should your little boy be made to eat the fat
Of his meat if he loathes it, or anything, no
matter what, that is repulsive to him2 1t
may be necessary to refuse some things at
table to children, but seldom, if ever, to
force anything upon them. Why make a
child, either girl or boy, miserable by forcing
it TO wear articles OF clothing which its taste
does not approve, or at which other children
laugh think little girls suffer more from
this than from any other one thing. Almost
all of us have some such memory. | knew
a lady whose childish life was made wretched
for a year by an obsolete old bag in which
she was forced to carry her books to school
and another whose mother forced her to wear
some old lace, which, though costly, was
laughed at by the ignorant children who
made her world, who declares that she ac-
tually wished herself dead until that lace
was banished from her wardrobe. If you
can afford it, it is wiser to give your boy the
particular top or kite he wants, and your
girl the very doll she covets or the blue rib
bon she admires. And, at any rate, you
need not useessly force them 10 anything
from which they shrink, or which makes
them unhappy,-Seiected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-10

A burglar, not long ago, entered and rihed
the contents of an occupied dwelling. He
ransacked the rooms from attic to cellar,
and heaped his plunder together in the par
lor, There were evidences that there he had
sat down to rest, perhaps to think, On Il
bracket in the corner stood marble bust
of Guido's Ecce Homo " Christ crowned
with thorns. The guilty man had taken it
in his hands and examined it, 1t bore the
marks of his fingers But he had replaced
it, and turned the face 10 he waH as if he
would not have even the cold, sightless eyes
of the marble Saviour look upon his deed
of infamy. BE it so or not, there is in every
human soul an instinct of concealment of
sin, of which that act is a truthful emblem.
The instinct of hiding clutches at every act
of wrong-doing, and would bury it forever
from the vision Of pure eyes. Human ma
ture thus anticipates, all through this life,
the last prayer of sin in the day of judg,
ment, Rocks and mountains, hide us from
the face of him that sitteth on the throne. >
Selected
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Discomfort.

Said Freeman Hunt, many years ago
" The other day stood by a cooper who was
playing merry tune with his adze around
a cask. 'Ah,' said he, mine is a hard lot
forever trotting round like dog, driving
away at a hoop Ieighol sighed our
neighbor, the blacksmith, in one OF the hot
days as he wiped the drops of perspiration
from his brow, while his red-hot iron glowed
on the anvil this is life with vengeance
melting and frying ones self over the
fire i 'Oh, that | We're a carpenter ejac-
ulated shoemaker, as he bent over his lap
stone here | am, day after day, working
my soul away in making soles Tor Others,
cooped up in this little seven-by-nine room,
| am sick OF this outdoor work exclaims
the carpenter, broiling and sweating under
the sun, or exposed to the inclemency of the
weather-if were only a tailor This is
too bad perpetually cries the tailor, to be
compelled TO sit perched up here, plying my
needle-would that mine were a more active
life Last day of grace, the banks won't
discount, customers won't pay, what shall
do 2 grumbes the merchant; = | had rather
be a dray horse, a dog, anything Happy
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Prayer.Meeting Profanity.

Can such thing be possibleY And are
men profane in the house of prayer? And
are they unrebuked undisciplined A Ger.
take the name of the Lord thy God in vain -
aud another says, when We pray use not
vain repetitions as the heather do The
conclusion then, from these and few simi-
lar passages, forces itself upon us that when
we call upon God unnecessarily, or too Of
ten, we take Z" his name in vain" Christ
said once only his prayer-our pattern
sour Father who art in heaven" Do we
not pray somewhat as the unthinking
horse rushes into battle" and after we get
in, are we not in sore straits to get out
again .? We founder and thrash. We say
90 God, -" Dear Lord" Heavenly Father"
and then, by way of variety, we 80 Heav-
enly Father" possibly putting =" dear -
before it in a very "u unthinking" way, to
say the least. Some irreverent mortal might
fancy that, either short of ideas, we put in
exclamations like the above I" to fill up" or
that quite at our wits end, we called upon
God, as did the prophets of Baal, to gain
time to think, What next 2" If we thought
more, prayed briefly, and " for the things
we have need of" possibly we should not so
flagrantly offend Scripture and good taste,
and in all probability hippancy would give
way to earnestneSs and while men would
not so sharply critcise, God would much of
tener hear and answer. Beware of com
mon tendency of which too much cannot
be said by way of condemnation.-Puip
and peU
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Sacredness of Home.

Rev Dr. Taylor, of New York, preached
"a sermon, on II recent Sunday, upon the Sc
dition OF Miriam aud Aaron because of
Moses wife, in which he made some practi-
cal remarks which wives generally, and
especially clergymen's wives, will appre-
ciate. He said " Miriam and Aaron must
needs expostuate with Moses about his
wife But they had nothing whatever to
do with his domestic matters. The privacy
of his tent ought to have been sacred even
in their eyes, and all such intrusiyeness is an
abomination in my eyes Iipporah was
Moses wife she was his as wife and not
theirs. They might have their own views
about her as their sister but Moses did not
marry to please them, but to secure an help
meet for himself. She was not the public
property of the camp, that they might talk
of her wherever they went. Ii Moses was
satisfied that was enough. Even if there
had been ground for accusation against her,
that was no business of theirs, aud regard
for Moses ought TO have kept them silent
A mans house is his castle. No personal
malice should enter it with its attack and
no mean report should be received from the
eavesdroppers who have first misunderstood
and then misrepresented. If mans public
life has been blameable, then let him be ar
raigned but let no Paul Pry cross hi.
threshold to get hold OF family secrets, ol
descend into the area to hear some hireling'.
moralizings ii a minister is unfathful il
his duty, let him be put upon his defence
but let no whisper say His wife hii
wife At least until such times and con
gregations are prepared to'pay separate
salary to the pastors partner as femal,
missionary among them, let them keep thei
tongues off her, insist upon it that il
business, in politics, in religion, domesti
privacy shall be respected. Even the bee
when put into glass hive, go to work a
the very first TO make the Opaque, for the
will not have their secrets made common
property; and surely we busy human being
may sometimes be allowed to be by oul
selves, The man who goes into house +
use what he sees there as an enyious weapo
against the inmates of it is spy, an
should be treated as "a common outlaw"
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The Irony of Life.

But after all, the irony of life is best
shown when we consider time with refer
ence TO eternity. 1t must seem almost in,
conceivable TO celestial beings, ii they have
any consciousness OF what takes place on
earth, that we the insects OF the hour, who
profess to believe in immortality and a future
state, should live as if our existence on
earth were our all in all. The dispropor
tion between the interests at stake is SO in
finite, that comparison is impossible, And
yet practically the great majority OF Chris
tan men do live as if this world were every
thing, and throw themselves with as much
eagerness into the tritles of the present rs il
they were to last forever.
What tremendous irony there is ia the
parable of our Saviour; " The ground OF a
certain rich man brought forth plentifuly
and be thought within himself, saying
What shall | do, because ! have no room
where 10 bestow my fruits And he said
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Make YOur Work Easy.

Many woman who cannot afford plent,
OF help wears herself out, when she need moi
do so, by adding unnecessary work. lik,
pretty things tucks ruflles and embroider,
are great additions to garments; and so are
pies, puddlngs and preserves to the table
but If the day is fully occupied in making
plain garments and preparing plain meals
the hours that are needed for rest should not
be encroached upon by the useless trimmings
OF the dress, and often unwholesome extras
of the repast. Work is good for every
healthy person, but rest is good also and
we have minds as well as bodies. We NAV
make slaves of ourselves, and that is no more
right than to make slaves of others. To be
clean and whole is a duty; to be wholesomely
Ted is also duty; but ! should like to
preach to some women have known until
they really felt that the body is more than
ralment; that to keep strong eyes and a
straight back, and sweet temper, is better
Tor one who is a mother than to have her
children clad in elaborate garments which
1t takes hours to iron and flute. Good ma
terial, perfect cleanliness, and plain hens,
or straight fiat trimming of some kind, will
make any children look well-dressed; and
III their season a dessert of fruit tastes bet
ter and does more good than all the pies
and puddings that can be manufactured.
Make your work as easy as is consistent with
utter cleanliness and tidiness, and save some
hours for walking with your children. for
reading, for talking with your husband, and
even for sitting utterly idle in the twilight
OF summers day. or before the fire of
winters evening.
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Seleff MisfeHaw.
LONG AGO.

He gave me his promise Of changeless truth,
Down In the wood where the Ivy olings.
And the air breathed rapture and love and youth,
And yon tree was in bud where the throstle sings.
He said he was going across the sea,
Far from the wood where the ivy clings.
And would bring back riches and Jewels for me;
But brown leaves shake where the throste sings.
Hope made life like a summer morn
Sweet was the wood where the Ivy clings;
Now my heart is cold and withcred and worn,
And the bough is bare where the throste sings.
Days are dreary and life is long;
Yet down in the wood the ivy clings,
And the winds they moan desoate song
And there's snow the bow where no throstle sing,
spring will come with Ia buds and leaves
Back 10 the wood where the ivy clings.
But 'us winter cold for the heart that grievcs,
And hearnot the song that the throstle sings.
-CLqubers' TgHrDqf
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Thr Domr Gnrlr.
MY BABY.

%
PUBLISHED ny REQUEST.
Such little break in the sod
SO tiny TO be gravel
OF how can render 80 soon to God
The beautiful gift he gave
Must put you away my pet
My tender bud unblown-
with the dew OF the morning upon you yet,
And your blossoms all unshown?
My heart Is near to break
For the voice shall not hear
For the clinglng arms around my neck,
And the footsteps drawing near.
The tiny, tottering feet.
Striving for mothers knee,
For the llsping tones so sweet,
And the baby's kiss to me.
For the precious Mother-name,
And the touch of the little hand.
o. am / so very much to blame
II shrink from the sore demand2
How shall know her voice,
Or the greeting Of her eyes,
Mid the countless cherubs that rejoice
In the gardens Of Paradise2
How shall know my own,
Where the air is white with wings
My babe, 50 soon from my bosom flown,
To the angels ministerings2
And this is the end OF 1t all
Ofmy waiting and my pain
Only a little funeral pail,
And empty arms again.
o baby my heart Il sore
For the love that was to be,
For the untried dream Of love, now Ger
'TwiNt thee, my child, and me.
Yet over this little head,
Lying 50 still on my knee,
thank my God for the bliss Of the dead,
For the JOY OF the soul set free
'Tis weary world, NJ best,
This world that she will not know;
Would I waken her out Of such perfect rest,
For its sorrow and strife? All, moi
Escaped are its thorns and harms;
The only path she has trod
Il that which leads from the mothers arms
Into the arms Of God.
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fellows groans the lawyer as he scratches
his head over some perplexing case, or pores
over some dry record, happy fellows had
rather hammer stone than cudgel my brain
on this tedious, vexatious question And
through all the ramifcations of society all
are complaining of their condition-fnding
iault with their particular calling. IF /
were only this, or that, or the other, should
be content is the universal cry anything
but what am SO wags the world, so it
has wagged, and so it will wag.
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s2HoraI and ReLiaionS.
JrDE, VERSE "a.


JuDE' VERSE a.
"fauiiless In his glorious presence
All the soul Nh'hlh NE Sur,eu
All my heart re- 'cheu up 10 ne'''o"
Atthe wonder OF that "o'u'
" Able to present me fanltlessY
Lord, forgive IN doupt' ereui
Thou didst once. to loving doubt snow
Hands, and feet' ana ilNeh sue
40, for me, build up some ladder
Bright with golden round ana round
That my hope this word may compass
Reaching faiths high vantage gIonhd'
Praying thus behold my lhdder'
Reaching unto perfect dhy'
Grew from ont simply story
Dropped by some one mine way
once queen so ran the story
Seeking iar Tor something new
Found II IN a MILL where' s'ranseiy
Nanght but rags repaid her view
Rags from ont the very cutters
Rags Of every shape ana nue.,
Whhe ihe sluAlld ohnureii, muNlns'
Seemed ou' rags from mar 10 Snoe'
hat'heh' rang neI eager l'''Seo"'
'"n y"" II" WIZ" 'i''ns' 10 WV
NOUN ''ie'n 'n'' pei'''' "i''''"''
'''" ''e i''''''' WIN '''''''
" But these reldest, crimson dyes
Surely naught can ever whlten
These to fitness in your eyes2'
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Hardest to remove Of ALL
su have the power to make them
Like the snowflake In lis iall.'
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II SIAIE OF NtIMONI, Dl'FlcI 0I IlMIoIpNi n y
trict the 2stl day OF March, A. u. lo1S;
Olive Moore, Administrator Of the estate of Lyman
pctiOn 10 said Court for license To sell all OF the real es
tate said deceased, to wit; About bundled acres
land lying in Corinh, In the County Of orange repre-
sentlng that the sale would be beneficial To all inter
esed Whefeupon, is ordered by said Court, that SAID
application be referred To session thereof to be held at ~,
rrbate Ofce, in said orange tile 18th day Of April
A. d. ISIS, for hearing and decision thereon; and It T.
further ordered, that all persons Interested be notified
hereof by publication of notice OF said Application ana
der there0 three successfully in the Vermont Watch
AZ state Journal new spaner published at Montpelier
and which citeulates In the ueghborhOod OF those Interested
before hearing, that they appear at sal,
time and place, and II they cause object thereto
by the Court Attest
2a-9l CmkSrEE DICkEY, Register
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IT is sweet and pleasant thought that
when all these days of pain and sorrow and
work are ended-these days of contending
and unrest-there will come the folding OF
hands. 1t is sweet, when sorrow and weari.
ness are our only companions, TO remember
that the hour is not far away when the
Father will hold the tired hands of his child
in his, will seal the aching eyes with sleep,
and breathe under its trembling lid the
sweet dream OF heaven. Weary not, nor
faint the father sees you, and, though you
know it not, his hand leads you. A little
pain and a little labor he metes you for your
good be patient, and when night comes he
will give you rest.
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0enipfrdnrr.
THE LITTLE BOW OF BLUE.

BY EDWARD cARswELL.
My heart was very heavy,
For my children cried for bread
wept to see my little ones
60 supperlcss to bed.
listened for a footsicp,
As I'd often done before,
Waiting for a staggering man
To stumble through the door.
But his step came firm and steady.
And his eyes were clear and true,
And on his ragged coat he wore
little bow Of blue.
chorus.
A bit OF ribbon blue
May seem little, perhaps, to you;
But oh how much 1t meart TO me,
That little bow Of blue.
lie came aud stood beside me,
And stopped and kissed my face.
Where tears but lately wiped away
Had left u burning trace.
Then, as my arm embraced his neck.
Sweet hope come back anew;
For on his ragged coat saw
A little bow Of blue.
And his step came firm and steady,
And hisc was clear and true;
And on his ragged coat | saw
4 little bow OF bluc.-Chorus.
We knelt down by the beside,
Where the children lay asleep,
And prayed the Lord to give him strength
His new-made vow to keep.
Then to my lifted eyes a bow
q la. tft.tt
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Farms for Sale!

slioO for 100 farm. good buildings. stone wall
fences barrels apples In SEASON., cut Is tons hay 20
acres wood and timber, sugar orchard, u miles VII
lage, Plymouth ~ H. 500 down. balance 10 suit.
s22OO-Fo Fortyseve acres miles from Lowell, cuts Is
tons hay 100 apple trees, 50 vines u heavy
wood some timber rather extra buildings fine shade
very pleasant pace. $500 cash; balance to suit
SI5OO.-One hundred and seventy acres'6 miles from
Nashua near depot some choice inervnle land, cuts 81
ions hay line apple orchard plenty Of pears and peaches
20 bushels strawberries last season, 100 grape vines lagt
pasture, 80 acres wood aud timber good buildings mlli
Rold al door EIfrd bnFpdin; terms easy.
For full description of $50 farms, send for LoNe Red
Est0te Journal Thomas H. Elliott, proprietor is Ceniia
street. Lowell, Mass. H-dl
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ROYAL G. GALLE'S ;ISlS ESTATE.

~ :
In Probate Court, held Montpelier In said District
the 16th day OF March, \. u. ls1s;
Augustus Clafn, Administrator of the estate of Royal
Gale, late of Barre IN said District dece tsed PIE
his administration account for examination and al
l0wance and makes application fora decree Of distribution
partition the of said deceased WheeupOn IL is
ordered l said Court that said account ana said Application
be referred a session thereof 10 he held at the Probate
ONCE, In said Montpelier the 18th day OF April 4. D.
1873 for hearing and decision theleun And, Is further or
dered notice hereof ha To all persons Interested
by publication the weeks ,uCcessiyely IN the
Vermont Watclnntt * state Journal newspaper pub
Ished Montpelier previous to said time appointed for
hearing that they may appear at said time and place and
shov If any they may have, why said account should
.lot bs allowed, and -uch decree made.
by the CouTt,-Atest.
2s-30 \. A, CHASE, REGISTER.
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4 j. BRALEY's ESTATE.

The subscribers having been appointed by the Honorable
Probate Court for the District ot Washington, Commission
receive examine and adjust all claims and demands
of all persons against the estate Of A. j. Bey, late
Montpelier, in said District deceased represented insul-
vent and the term Of six months from the 2jl day Of
February, ISIS being allowed by said Court 10 the cted-
deceased exhibit and prove their respective
claims before Give notice. that VIII attend 10 the du-
Of appointment the store OF Lyon Daley, in
Montpelier IN said District The 26th day OF April and
23d day of August next at two o'clock In the afternoon
each Of said days.
GGpWi;x 9 W; PhhkRANiENrER' hRAi Commissioners.
Montpelier, February %, A. d. ISIS. 2s-3O