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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04
Daughter and Wife.

A bad daughter seldom makes good wife,
If girl is il-tempered at home, snarls at
her parents, snaps at brothers and sisters,
and shirks" " her ordinary duties, the
chances are ten to one that when she gets a
home Of her own she will make it wretched
There are girls who fancy themselves so far
superior to their parents that the mere priv
iege of enjoying their society in the house
ought to be all the old people should have
the assurance TO ask. While their mothers
are busy with domestic duties they sit in
the easiest chairs, or lie on the softest sofas,
feeding on cheap and trashy novels, and
cherish the notion that they are very literary
individuals. The household drudgery is too
coarse for such fine ladies as they. The
business of their parents is to provide them
with nice clothes and be content with ad-
miring their handsome appearance in the in.
tervals OF labor. Girls of this.sort are very
anxious to be married, that they may escape
the disagreeables of home where they are
held, more or less, under subjection there
fore they are smiling enough to eligible
bachelors, quickly smoothing down the
frowns which alone they give to the mem
bers of their own families. A caller who
doesn't have "A chance to see how they be-
have as daughters, may be excused for
fancying them loving and lovable beings /;
but one who does see it is foolish if he com
mits himself by offering marriage to girl
of this sort. She is not fit to be the wife of
a worthy man. If she will not assist her
mother in the domestic labors, and badgers
the servants, is she not likely TO be equally
slothful and ill-tempered when she marries
If she now thinks herself too fine to work,
is it safe to expect that her views as to that
matter will radically change if she becomes
a wife
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MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER f. 1878.

For 1t is often Gods way to wait till the
fourth watch before he brings his children
deiverance from their trouble. During
what weary years of loneliness and famine
! he kept Jacob waiting for tdings of the be.
loved Joseph. In the fourth watch of old
age the lost son was restored to him. Through
what long and bitter experience of slavery
calumny, and trouble, Joseph himself was
led TO his great honors The body of
Lazarus had lain in the grave four days be-
fore Jesus manifested his lifegiving power
to the heart-broken Mary and Martha Go
ing to the house of the anxious Jairus,
Christ fingers so long by the way to heal
and teach that the rulers daughter dies be-
fore he reaches her
How long, o Lord, how long" are words
that often go up TO heaven from hearts
weary with waiting for the deiverence that
tarries till the fourth watch of the night
But no darkness ever settles down so thickly
about us that God does not see us, toilinr
and rowing. Especially is il safe for us to
rest confident that he will deliver us from
all perils into which we come by going the
way in which he has sent us. He has not
forgotten the wayward boy for whom your
prayers have gone up these many wears in
the sleepless hours of the night It is not
because he has overlooked you that loss after
loss and calamity after calamity have be-
fallen you. He has kept close watch of the
mean calumny that has chased you so venge-
fully He knows all about the widows
heartaches the invald's WEAKNESS, the Young
converts temptations. His help will come
in his good time. And to have him come to
us in the fourth watch of the night, hushing
the stormy wind and stilling the wrathful
waters, and bringing us straightway to land,
is better blessing than to be with him
when he feeds the five thousand.-Seiecied.
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Wife and Child.

One man described to me his night of
peril-twelve hours in the water clinging to
the masts, after a day of great labor, beat
about by winds and waves. One of their
number was washed away, "We threw
him rope and would have lashed him to
the mast, but he was too weak TO hold on"
" How did you feel wheny you saw him going
down 2" some one asked. 80, | did not
mind much for thought we must all 60,
soon; did not believe we could hold out long
for every time the waves rolled up we had
TO duck our heads under water so as not to
be swept off" lie stopped talking for a
minute as ii it were more than he cared to
think about, and then he said But that
man was the only single man among us.
lie had no wife and no children, and that,
believe, is the reason that he could not
hold out. think it was my wife and my
home which kept me alive that night. II |
had not remembered them should have let
go many times. ."-BOsion Transcript
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Prescription for Fits.

For fit of passion---Walk out in the open
air, You may speak to the winds without
hurting any one, or proclaiming yourself to
be a simpleton. For fit OF ideness-
Count the ticking of the clock. DO this
for one hour, and you will be glad to pull
off your coat and work like man. For a
fit of extravagance-Go to the workhouse,
or speak with the ragged inmates of o Jail
and you will be convinced. For fit of
ambition-Go TO the church-yard and read
the gravestones They will tell you the end
of man is at his best estate. For fit of
repining about for the halt, the blind,
and visit the bed-ridden, and afflicted and
the deranged; and they will make you
ashamed'of complaining OF your light aillic-
tions. For fit of envy--Go and see how
many who keep their carriages are afflicted
with rheumatism, gout aud dropsy; how
many walk abroad on crutches or stay at
home wrapped in flannel and how many
are subject to epilepsy and apoplexy.-
Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04
Gems OF Thought.

The plain aud wholesome things of lie
are its greatest blessings. We are taught to
pray, not for luxuries or danties, but for
daily bread.
THERE is in Christianity light enough for
those who sincerely wish to see it, and dark
ness enough to confound those of an OPP
posite disposition.-Pdscdl.
NoNE shall be saved by Christ but those
only who work out their own salvation. while
God is working in them by his truth and
his Holy Spirit. We cannot do without
God, and God will not do without us.
BE at work Do what you can. Weep
with them that weep, if you cannot relieve
them. If you cannot give gold, give per-
sonal service. Teach children, il you can
not instruct men. BE support to the
household, if not able to be pillar of state.
BE a lamp in the chamber, if you cannot be
a star in the sky. GLADDEN. the circle of
home, if you cannot illumine a city. Talk
to the few, if you cannot preach to the
many. If you cannot save world, try to
lead at least some one soul to Christ.-Coley.
Now, JUST as the gates were opened to let
in the men, | looked after them, aud be-
hold, the city shone like the sun the streets
also were paved with gold and in them
walked many men with crowns on their
heads palms in their hands, and golden
harps to sing praises withal. There were
them that had wings, and they answered
one another without intermission, saying,
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord" And after
that they shut up the gates which when |
had seen | wished myself among them.-
Bmyan,
THERE are impetuous good people; tickle
good people unwise good people; let us
say it out, foolish good people, who lack
wisdom and do not know that they lack it..
A certain sober judgment ought to mark
Christians. They should be like the needle
in the mariners compass, not like the pen
dlum which within its limited range is al
ways going from one extreme TO another.
They should not startle people with para
doxes, nor Danish all confience in them by
the wilduess with which they unfold their
ideas to minds quite unprepared.-D John
Hall.
A NEW way of reading the Bible has been
invented in these highly enlightened days,
| used to get on exceedingly well with the
book years ago, for it seemed clear and plain
enough but mordern interpreters would
puzzle us out of our wits and out of our
souls, if they could, by their vile habit of
giving new meanings to plain words. Thank
God, keep in the old simple way; but |
am informed that the inventors of the new
minimizing glasses manage to read the big
words small, and they have even read down
the word everlasting " into a little space
of time. Everlasting may be six weeks OF
six months, according to them. use nc
such glasses; my eyes remain the same
and everlasting" is everlasting" to me
whether | read of everlasting life or ever
lasting punishment,-Spurge0n.
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HumOrsOme Waits.


Miss Conn has just married Mr.. Webb in
Baltimore. He probably fell in love when
he first spied her
THEoLoGIAN of the New Orleans Pic
ayune. "The prodgal mule now saith, Il
will arise and go unto my fodder.
AN Irish shoemaker lately advised
customer when he complained of his new
boots being tight not to put them on until
he had worn them for day or two.
For this home mission work" says the
Christian Standard, ave want the best Of
women" Good brother Standard, you are
too late we married her nine years ago.
A DuTcHMAN was about to make a jour
ney to his fatherland, and wishing to say
" Goodbye to friend, extended his hand
and said Veil, off | do'd come back,
hullo."
"SANDY, what is the state of religion in
your town ?" " Bad sir very bad There
are no Christians except Davie and myself,
and have my doubts about Davie."-
YonkerS Statesman.
SOME crusty, rusty, fusty, musty, dusty,
gusty curmudgeon of man gave the fol-
lowing toast at a celebration d" Our fire en-
gines-may they be like our old maids
ever ready, but never wanted"
A GIRL who had been very obseryant of
her parents mode of exhibiting their char
ity, being asked what generosity was, an
swered f" It's giving to the poor all the old
stuff you don't want yourself"
TmE latest sentimental agony in song is
a tender ballad, beginning; "Who will come
above me, signing, when the grass grows
over me-" We can't say positively who, but
if the cemetery fence is in the usual repair,
it will probably be the cow
THE Emperor William and Prince Bis
marck are fairly overwhelmed with threat
eniug letters. Never mind 'em, William,
never mind 'em. We get them too, lots of
them but they hardly ever sue. Stand 'em
off, Just as you've always done, till times are
easier.-Harkeye.
An Irishman, on being asked why there
was no record or trace of any of his race
being found in Noah's Ark, replied that all
his countrymen at that time were very rich,
and had boats OF their own. :. Aud besides"
he added, they would not sail with beasts,
anyhow, as old Noah did"
A MAN may sneer at woman all he will
because she can't sharpen lead pencil, but
she has the smile ON him when he stands
holding an unoccupied suspender button in
his hand, and wondering whether it will
hurt less to pull the needle out OF his thumb
the same way il went in, or push 1t on
through.
THREE Irishmen, who dug ditch for
four dollars, were quite at loss to know
how to divide the pay "aiqually." But one
of the number had been to school aud
reached division in the arithmetic, so it was
left to him. He did it at once saying, sits
aisy enough, sure; there are two for you two,
and two for me too" The two received
their portion with greatly increased re-
spect for the advantages which learning
gives TO man.
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He's Been a Soldier by his WaIk.N

These words attracted my attention, as,
waiting the arrival of my own train,
watched third-class carriage and its pas
sengers just ready to start for London. The
above remark, He's been soldier by his
walk" was in reference to an erect fine
treadng man who had alighted from the
train, and had evidently been an object of
interest to his fellow-passengers. Gay, and
he's been a soldier by the way he carries
his pack" says another. "Ay, and by his
politeness," observed a third. "Did you see
how he touched his cap, only because you
gentlemen looked at him? Most of us
would have said, what are you staring
at p" The train snorted off, the man left
the station, and followed "Did you hear
the remarks of your fellow-travellers, my
friend ?" lie smiled as | repeated them,
and said, just as it should be, sir--iust as
it should be A soldier in plain clothes
should be the same as a soldier in uniform.
A true soldier ought to walk so as TO be
known as such wherever he is" He gave
me military salute, and we separated. He
left me full of serious thoughts, that came
to me in the form of the following questions
' Is my walk such as to elicit from all with
whom | associate the remark, He is a
soldier by his walk ? have a burden in
the form of n daily cross to carry. DO so
bear it as to leave no doubt where learned
to carry it Do bear it soldier-like ? As
soldier of the Lord Jesus have a charae-
ter to sustain. Do | sustain it even in the
small kindnesses and courtesies of life, so as
to make the remark of me true, He must
also be soldier, by the way he behaves
towards all-taking affront at nothing, but
supposing the best of our actions 2"
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In the Fourth Watch.

1t was proud day for Chrst's disciples
when he fed the five thousand on the shore
of the sea of Galilee. But the spirit of that
multitude is not the preparation they need
for their future work. So Christ separates
them from the excited crowd who would
fain take him by force and make him king,
and bids them take boat and cross the lake
TO Capernaum. Then he sends the multi
tude to their homes and betakes himself
to the hilltop for prayer.
Meanwhile the darkness settles down
around them on the sea. A great wind
comes up, lashing the waters into foam,
They toll hour after hour at the oars to no
purpose, They are face TO face with death
on the angry waters. What gloomy close
to day of glorious promise Does the
Master know what peril they are in ? Why
did he send them out into this pitiless galeY
The second and the third watch wear
slowly away, and the fourth watch-three
o'clock in the morning-fnds them still
buifeted by the waves in the midst of the
sea-" But he has not forgotten them. lie
had made no mistake in sending them. The
darkness which hid him from them could
not hide them from him all through the
night she saw them toiling in rowing
Aud in his own good time-in the fourth
watch-he comes to them. The winds
cease and straightway they are at land
The lesson would not have been worth SO
much TO them, nor worth SO much to his
people IN all time afterward, il he had
hastened his coming,
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" why Stand Ye Here all the Day Idle ~

So asked the householder " in the para
BILE of the men standing idle in the market
place" So asks Jesus himself of his pro
fessing servants. Let us notice the reply of
the men in the parable, and compare it with
the replies too often given among ourselves
Frst-The reply of the laborers was, " Be
cause no mau hath hired u.s." There was
no want of will on their part. There they
had stood, very likely all day, waiting to be
hired. They had seen with envy others en-
gagged, and drafted off to their several tasks.
The day was almost gone, and they had
earned nothing. When, at last, the offer
Of work came to them, they seized it at
once, not wasting moment in bargaining
for wages, but gratefully accepting the mas.
ter's assurance, that "whatever was right
they should receive"
What did the master do He took the
will for the deed he recognized the princi-
pie so beautifully expressed in the line,
They also serve who only stand aud wait !"
and he generously made them present of
the whole days wages.
!Second-What can they reply who are not
working for Christ now ?
First-The laborer's reply will not serve.
What Christian will dare say that the great
Master has never called him to work ?
Second-Nor can any plead that the work
to be done can be done by others ? For the
harvest truly is great, and the laborers
are few
ThId-Nor can it be said that the field is
too far off. 1t is worldwide indeed but
Tor that very reason, parts of it are "very
nigh u.s.
Fourh-Nor can we plead want of strength
and skill. Supposing we have not strength
to tread the grapes, or skill to use the sickle,
can we not make ourselves useful by "carry-
ing their dinners to them ?" or, to drop the
figure, by seeing that those who have strength
aud skill want nothing?
FWh--The true answer is, in too many
cases, Because prefer idleness; cannot
face the burden and heat of the day and
really know nothing and care less about
the harvest it is nothing to me whether it
is gathered in or not
But we may observe that very few intend
always to be idle. They take encourage
ment from this very parable, and think the
eleventh hour will be quite time enough, and
" the pay" will be all tlio All, no
If the laborers in the parable had been all
day refusing to work when invited, would
the master have paid them as he did Nay,
would he have taken them at all
Let us be sure of this that God can con-
vert the world to himself without us. But
to be workers together with him" is a
privilege and a blessing to which he gra.
ciously admits us Who will not seize it
eagerly ?-Ihe Church Missionary Cleaner.
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SeIeff MisqeHanv.


The course Of the weariest river
Ends In the great gray sea-
The acorn, for ever and ever,
Strives upward to the tree.
The rainbow, the sky adorning,
Shines promise through the Storm
The glimmer Of coming morning
Through midnight gloom will form.
by time all knots flyen,
Complex although theybe,
And peace Will at last be given.
Dear, bo4 to you and me.
Then, though the path may be dreary,
Look onward to the goal;
Though the heart and head be weary,
Let faith inspire the soul
Seek the right, though the wrong be temptingl
Speak truth at any cost
Vain IA all weak exemptng
When once the gem "a lost
Let strong hand and keen eye be ready
For plain and ambushed foes;
Thought earnest and fancy steady
Bear best unto the close.
The heavy clouds may be raining,
But with evening comes the lght
Through the dark are low winds complaining,
Yet the sunshine gilds the heights
And love has It's hidden treasure
For the patient and the poor;
And time gives his fullest measure
To the workers who endure;
And the Word that no law has shaken
Has the future pledge supplied
For we know that when we awaken"
We shall be q" satisfied"
-TfHsisyS Nrgd sf1e
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Raihnad !Time Gabh.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD IaNEl
Commencing on Monday September Both, 1873

Trains Going South and Fast.
Leave Montpelier at gO6 A. NJ, 200 T.. NJ, 025 r..
NJ, and 1850 P. NJ.
Maii-Leaves st Albans 100 A. NJ, Montpelier nj 800
M for Boston, New London, Springfield, New YORK and
intermediate points.
iea at 900 \. NJ st. Alhans at l2l5 NJ Burlington at
l23bP.M Montpelier at 200 NJ, for Boston via Lowell.
Mixed Train lcvee ~. Adams t5l0P. NJ. Burlington
ut I.O5 p N, Montpelier at a25 p. NJ, for Norihneld.
Night Express From ogdensbug, Montreal, 81. Al
for Boston via Lowell Fitchbufg Springfield, New
York aud intermediate points.
Trains Going North and West.
Leave Montpelier at 1926 A. NJ, g. 10 A. NJ, II. 90 A.
NJ, $40 p. NJ, and 5.55 =. NJ.
Day Express Leaves Boston via Fitchburg at 30 A. M
via Lowell At 800 A.. NJ, New London at SEQ A. NJ,
Nnfinghed ~ 500 A. NJ, Montpelier at $40 NJ. for
Burlington, st. Albans Montreal and Ogdensburg.
Accommodation Train-Leaves white River June
tion a LIS p NJ, Montpelier Mt SIS for Buring
ton, Rutland and st. Albans.
Accommodation Train--Leaves Northaed at 800 A.
NJ Montpeiier az $40 a; ", for Burlington, Rutland
Mixed-Leaves W Il. Junction Mt $40 A. M NorthAeid at
1910 A. NJ. Arrive at Montpelier at ll.3O AZ
Accommodation Train-Teaves Montpelier at 100
An, for Burlington, Rutland, ST. Albans. Rouses Point
and Rchford.
Night Express-te,ves Boston via Lowell at $50 P. NJ,
via fhchbutg at 600 =. NJ, New York at 800 p NJ,
Springfield at 500 4. NJ Montpelier at 325 NJ for Bur
lngon, st. Albans, Montreal and Osdbg and the West
Trains leave Montpelier Barre at 6g2 A. Me- and l2l5
andi25P N, Returning, leave Barre at 7l0 A. M,and 100
=. Nj, and $40 =, NJ.
Sleeping attached Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and Spring
field and New York via Troy, paror cars Day Ex
press between Boston and AOntIeal.
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for sale at the
principal stations. ~ H3BART; BA General % p Sup't
St. Abans, VI. September 2s 1878.
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Moral and Reliaions.
THE WONDERFUL GIFT.

Because In day OF my days TO come
There waiteth grief to be-
Shall my heart grow faint, and my lips be dumb
In this day that Ia bright for nle2
Because Of q subtle sense Of pain,
Like pulsc-beat, threaded through
The bliss Of my thought. shall dare refrain
From delight In the pure and true2
In the harvest-held shall cease 10 CLEAN,
Since the bloom of the spring has ned2
Shall veil mine eyes to the MONDAY sheen,
Since the dew Of the morn hath sped2
Nay. phantom ILL., with the warning hand
Nay, ghosts of the weary past
Serene, as In arnor Of faith, | stand
We may not hold me fast.
Your shadows across my sun may fan,
But as bright the sun shalt shine;
For walk In n light ye cannot pail,
The light Of the King divine.
And whatever he send from day TO day,
am sure that his name is Love;
And he mover will let me lose my way
To my rest In his home above.
-guul4U ugoo -,u o
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ONE man beareth hatred against another;
and doth he seek pardon from the Lord 7
lie showeth no mercy TO a man who is like
himself and doth he ask forgiveness of his
own sins 2-,Sirach.
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!@f Dnme Grrle.
THE BURDEN OF THE DAY.

Fatherl take not away
The burden OF the day,
But help me that bear II
As Christ his burden bore,
When cross and thorn he wore
And none with him could share It.
In his name, help pray.
only ask for grace
To see that patient face,
And my impatient one;
Ask that mine grow like his
Sign Of an inward peace
From trust In thee alone,
Unchanged by time or place. -lSeiecfed.
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CEYIoN, the land Of spices and coffee, has now
proved itself wonderful place for growing fine
teas samples OF which find great favor In London
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Jrw e7hrtisen,ents.

NOTICE.-The stockholders of the Montpelier a White
v River Railroad hereby notified To their
passenger house In Barre, on THURSDAY, DECEMBER
1873, NJ two O'Clock =. for the purpose electing
seven Directors for the ensuing year, and for doing any
other business which may come before hem
L. +. ALDRICH, Clerk.
Barre, November Is, ls7s.
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Ray OF Sunshine.

ELM GROVE, March 4, 1873
Dear Uncle Anos Aunt Orpha Is going to be
married next week to widower with several
grown up sons; so our coy little home will be
broken up. The gentleman is well off and is very
kind to his intended nece-even having extended
an invitation TO me to make my home with them;
but don't think I'd feel quite at ease among so
many tall young men So il you'll let me come
and spend few months with you, I'd great deal
rather do so than with Auntie much as | love her
Love TO Aunt Phebe and the girls.
Your affectionate niece