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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-24
Putting Children TO Bed.

Ten years ago an old friend told me that
her babies had cried more over going to sleep
at night or taking their daily maps than
about all their other troubles put together.
She said this after expressing surprise at the
cheerful way in which my year-and-a-half-
old boy went upstairs for nap, and the
quickness with which returned to the par
lor. Possibly she followed too strictly ad-
vice often given in print to mothers, some
thing like this 4" Have regular hour for
the chid's nap, or for its bedtime, and
when that hour comes, put it in its little
crib and leave it there to go to sleep with
out further attention" Bad advice, think
Being of a tender heart, my friend more
likely rocked or soothed it to sleep her
self, but the attempt to establish regularity
may have been very trying to both mother
and child. | came very near carrying this
thing too far myself. Regular habits, for
children of all growths, are an excellent
thing IN most respects, but their formation
should be coaxed rather than forced and
many times the play is not worth the
candle" | thought must train my first
baby to good and regular habits. 1t would
be convenient for me, and wholesome for
him, if he would go to bed for the night as
early as six o'clock, and several times la
bored with him two or three hours, in the
vain endeavor to make a wideawake baby
go to sleep. A more experienced neighbor
taught me better. She remarked, Per-
haps you never can teach that child to 90 to
sleep alone in his crib. | would not try too
hard" "But," said, " Mrs. Browns baby
goes to sleep in that way, and always has
done So All babies are not alike" she
said, smilingly, Gas have good reason to
b Ill e l..
own experience. She supposed that babies
must be rocked to sleep, unless they went to
sleep while nursing. until she happened
once to lay her first child, six weeks old
upon the bed, just as she had put on its
nightgown, being suddenly called away to
wait upon a neighbor at the door. When
she came back to the baby, to her astonish-
ment and admiration, the little thing was
fast asleep. Next night she put it in bed
awake, and it fell asleep without resistance,
and always thereafter did the same, never
disturbed unless there was loud talking in
the room. This was so charming, the
mother thought she would have her next
little daughter behave in the same way.
But no amount of coaxing or perseverance
could reconcile daughter number two to be-
ing put to bed awake. Night after night
the poor baby screamed and sobbed itself
to sleep, almost breaking the heart of its
loving and conscientious mother at the end
OF week of such agony being no more in
clined to yield than at first. Then the
mother concluded that she had mistaken
the path of duty, and gave up the contest,
fearing lasting injury to the darling
health from such an excessive excitement.
Did she conquer you 7" | asked. IL
feared so at the time" replied the mother,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-24
Perils Of the Telephone.

The telephone may prove dangerous
matter for some folks. One of our leading
merchants, whose home is not thousand
miles from Brooklyn, and who occasionally
luxuriates in his leisure hours in mechanical
and philosophical experiments, put up the
other day an excellent telephone at his
residence, connecting the parlor with the
rear of the house. On certain evening,
while he was at work at one end Of the in
strument, there We're a couple of young
bucks being entertained in the parlor by the
young ladies of the family, and one of them,
whose wish may have been father to the
thought, spoke-just for the fun of the
thing, of course-at the instrument. The
quiet old gentleman received at his end Of
the wire this complimentary message sod
Mr. Watkins, isn't it most time you went tS
bed ?" The young sauce-box in the parlol
nearly jumped from the floor at the reply
that came back Yes, SIR and quite tint
you rent home, young man "-HGrPar'S Mag
asine for August,
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Respectful Under Difficulties.


The American matron in Westminster
Abbey moves along corridors and over the
bones of the departed in state of badly
suppressed dismay. Used to walking rev
erently around the grave of even the hum
blest mortality, to see herself and brood ac-
tually treading upon the most majestic of
tombs is more to her than paganism. On a
second tour of the abbey was in the train
of such a dame-a fairly read intelligent
lady, brim-full of reverence, one who at
home worships her minister and pays regu-
lar respectful Sunday evening visits to the
local cemetery. She will never forget her
jaunt through Westminster. Her running
fire of horror came out in undertones in this
wise Anna, dear, you are standing right
on Ben Johnson" "James, my son, don't
straddle over Macaulay in that heather
fashion" "Mr. Jones, you ought to be
ashamed of yourself to step on poor Charles
Dickens" "Mercy on me, here am walk
ing across Dryden" and the miserable
woman sat square down on a bench above
the bones of the first archbishop of Canter
bury, and gave up trying to be halfway re
spectful in minister whose every passing
stone is slab covering somebody who onct
made the world wonder or tremble.-LOndor
Letter 10 Chicago Tribune.
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Drinking Ice Water.

There is no more doubt that drinking ice
water arrests digestion, than there is that a
refrigerator arrests perspiration. 1t drives
from the stomach its natural heat, suspends
the flow of gastric juice, and shocks and
weakens the delicate organs with which it
comes in contact. An able writer on human
diseases says "Habitual ice water drinkers
are usually very flabby about the region of
the stomach. They complain that their food
lies heavy on that patient organ. They
taste their dinner for hours after it is boted.
They cultivate the use of stimulants to aid
digestion. If they are intelligent, they read
upon food and what the Psychologist has to
say about it--how long it takes the cabbage
and pork, and beef and potatoes, and other
meats and esculents, to go through the pro
cess of assimilation. They roar at new
bread, hot cakes, fried meat, imagining
these to have been the cause of their mala-
dies. But the ice water goes down all the
same, and finally friends are called in to
take farewell look at one whom mysteri-
GUS providence has called to cline where
as far as is known, ice water is not used
The number of immortal beings who &C
hence to return no more, on account Of an
injudicious use of ice water, can hardly be
estimated "-BdLimOre Sun.
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Spiritual -Mindedness.

Spiritual-mindednes means the very sat
uration, so to speak, of the whole nature
with the life of the divine Spirit, the trans
figuration of the whole life. For one gori-
Gus hour on the mountain top, the divinity
of our Lord shows through his garments of
flesh, irradiating them, and putting lustrous
splendor all about him. When Stephen
stood before the council the rulers saw his
face as it had been the face of an angel,
glowing with celestial brightness. When
Moses came down from the mount, his face
shone with the lingering radiance of the
divine glory still flashing there. These were
supernatural manifestations. But do human
faces never shine now ? Do we never see
beauty that seems transfgured, as if there
were an inner splendor that was almost
bursting through ? Do we never see faces
that look at times like porcelain with a
glowing light behind it ? Do you never see
men and women whose very bodies seem
transparent, whose countenances shine as
with the very lustre of the divinity indwell
lngf Such faces may be very rare in this
world of dull earthliness. And yet even the
few demonstrate the possibility of a spirit
ual culture that shall lift every child of God
up, even in this mundane sphere, into trans
figured beauty. 1t can only come through
the ndwellng of the Holy Spirit, cleansing
the whole interior life, and possessing every
chamber of the soul. 1t can only come
after years of closest living in the Spirit A
piece of cold iron thrust into furnace of
glowing Goals, is in the fire; leave it there a
little while and the fire is in The iron. So
one may move in the atmosphere of the
Spirit, and yet not have the Spirit in him.
But when one abides long in the Spirit. the
divine life peuetrates his soul and fills his
whole being with the spiritual fire. And
that is the ideal of Christian life at which
every one should aim. That is the mean
ing of spiritual-mindedness in its higher
sense; a life thoroughly imbued with the
life of God; soul almost transparent,
radiant with divine beauty, celestial in its
aspect, glowing with supernatural brightness
in this dark and wintry world. And this
| sublime, this heavenly spiritual character can
be attained. 1t lies within the reach of every
lowly believer. Its attainment may be
easier for some than for others, but the path
is blocked for none, and yet it is not easy
for any. 1t requires self-denial suffering
patience, long persistence to reach it. 1t is
an education, and all education is slow. 1t
is culture, and all culture requires toll and
| time, the quiet, unconscious absorption, day
after day, year after year, of the graces ano
beauties and refnements of other lives into
our own. In like manner spirtual-minded
ness cannot be put on as one puts on new
coat. 1t must come into our lives by slow
degrees, as we imbibe the life of God intC
our souls, as we feed upon the fruits o.
heaven, as we hold converse with God anC
with spiritual things.-Evangelist.
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The Old Paths.

"These old paths shall give us rest Can
the new ways, or aught that is called the
new faith Ask Heine or Voltaire or Hume
or Strauss. They speak of restless striving,
they do not speak of rest. Take up the au-
photography of Stuart Mill, the saddest book
of the century There is an undertone in it
like the sadness of the sea. Ones eyes grow
moist as he reads, and he would that the
restless man could have become restful at
the feet of Jesus. "There remaineM there
fore rest" says the inspired Word, but
there is rest now for those who will trust in
him. Stand we there in old paths and seek
the good way, and so shall we remain firm
The shifting currents of opinion shall moi
disturb us. The chilling atmosphere OF
doubt shall not enfold us. Yea, we need
not fear, though the mountains be removed
and be cast into the midst of the sea. Tn,
old truth will not betray us the old path
way, the old way of the trustful generation
will furnish firm foothold for our feet
And thus firm, we may aid others. To th'
questioning of faltering ones, " Do you be
lieve ?" we may answer, " do believe. BE
yond the drifting clouds | see the shining
stars. Above the restlessness of man | Sc
the restfulness of God" And standing thu
on the rock ourselves, we may draw other
thither, and they too may be at peace.--Ret
u. /. Jones, PHILADELPHIA.
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mend, his grandmother did il with darning-
needle; when he went to a fire, he stood in
line and passed buckets; when he looked at
a clam, he never dreamed that it was any
relation of his; when he went to concert,
he heard a cracked fiddle and an insane
clarionet; when he had a tooth pulled, he
sat down and never left off yelling when
he got out of teeth, he gummed victuals
when he wanted an international show, he
sent for Lafayette and ordered his friends
up from old Virginia with the specimen
carefully labelled in bottles when he once
got hold of a nugget of gold from an Indian
chief, he felt rich; when he wanted to know
anything about the weather, he consulted
the ground hog or goose bone but why 60
on What did such man know? Who
was he, anyway 7-Selected.
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The Church and Society.

Many man owes all the social position
that he has to his church membership. For
Christ's sake he has been received into
friendly terms by people who would never
have looked at him for his own sake. How
many a young man, coming a stranger to a
city church, has been welcomed and given
the freedom of their homes by those who
were his brethren in Christ. How many
men owe their success in business, the for.
tunes they have accumulated or the position
they have achieved in their professions, to
the warm sympathy and the kindly aid OF
Christian brethren in some critical hour OF
their history. A few who have been born
to wealth aud high social position have, per
haps, given more than they have received
But OF the vast majority of church members
it may with strict truth be said that the
church has given them more standing in th,
community than they have given the church
--E1dmner and Chronicle.
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eMuraI and ReliaioaS.
RETURNING.

Lord, where thy many mansions he
Hast thou little room for me,
whose restless feet these many days
by and forbidden paths have trod,
And wandering in uncertain ways
Have missed the way that leads to God ?
Lord, is there any room for me
who, sorrowing, would return TO thee 2
Far have strayed, tn tossed about
On foara that would not be cast out
For all the subtle theories
That men have framed, wherein TO find
For troubled hearts doubtful ease,
And freedom for q wilful mind
Thy word, once hidden In my breast,
Forever robbed the night Of rest.
| heard It's still, small voice above
All other voices-not In love,
Az in the old, sweet days Of peace,
But In a tone of sad complaint -
"why art thou swift to seek release
From easy yoke and safe restraint
why hast thou taken for thy guide
False lights that lure thee from my sde2"
Lord, II heard, and in despite
OF warning chose the fair, false Hight
II, needless, I thy spirit grieved,
And slighted as an idle tale
Love such as no man hath conceived,-
What late repentance can avail
How shall dare TO lift my face
Once more within thy holy placer
| know not, verify and yet
with doubts perplexed and fears beset,
And the sad heart unsatlsned,
Lord | remember what sweet rest
| did discover at thy side
with yearnlngs not to be expressed
I long to walk once more with thee;
Lord, hast thou any room for me
Sunday afternoon for Jgil
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Ghe Nome GrrIe.
MAKE CHILDHOOD SWEET.

Wait no, till the little hands are at rest
Ere you NIL them full Of flowers;
Walt not for the browning tuberose
To make sweet the last sad hours;
But while in the busy household band
Your darlings still need your guiding hand,
oh. MI their lives with sweetness.
Wait not til the little hearts are still
For the loving look and phrase;
But while You gently chide fault,
The good deed kindly praise.
The word You would speak beside the bier
Falls swceter far on the living earl
Oh, oil young lives with sweetnessl
Ali what are kisses on clay-cod lips
To the rosy mouth we press,
When our wee one flies to her mothers arms
For loves tenderest caressl
Let never a worldly bauble keep
Your heart from the JOY each day should reap,
Circling young lives with sweetness.
Give thanks, each morn, for the sturdy boys,
Give thanks for the fairy girs
with dover OF wealth like this at home
Would you rifle the earth for pearls2
Walt not for Death to gem Loves crown,
But daily shower life's blessings down.
And fill young hearts with sweetness.
Remember the homes where the light has fed,
Where the rose has faded away;
And the love that glows in youthful hearts,
oh, cherish 1t while you may
And make your home garden Of flowers,
Where JOY shall bloom through childhood's hours,
And hll young lives with sweetness. -iSelecte
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The Way Of the World.


How far that little candle throws his beams;
So shines good deed in naughty world
Five weeping children were left orphans
the other day by the death of their mother,
a widow who lived in Detroit. The father
was killed at one of the depots about two
years ago, and since then the mother had
kept the family together by hard days work.
Lack of food, exposure aud worry, brought
on an illness which terminated fatally, and
the children huddlsd together in corner of
the room, feeling awed and frightened, but
vet unable to realize that death had made
them waits. When the remains had been
sent away to potters field dozen women
gathered and held whispered conversation,
"Ill take one of the poor things, though
I've four children of my own" said one OF
the women.
"And I'll take another"
"And I'll take one."
And so will l."
Then there was the baby--a toddling boy,
who had been rocked TO sleep every night of
his life, and whose big blue eyes were full of
tears, as he shrank behind his sister to escape
observation. As none of the poor women
seemed prepared to take so young a child, a
girl not over ten years old, dressed little
better than other children there, crept into
the group, reached out for the babe, patted
his white head, kissed him and said
al will take this one have no brother
and ma and pa will let me keep him. He
can sleep in my trundle bed, play with m,
doll, and they may put all the Christina
presents into his stockings |" and the girl raj
around the corner and returned with he
mother, who sanctioned all she had said
I" Come, bubby-youre mine now !" calle'
the girl and he laughed as she put her arm
around him and tried to lift him up.
Byand.by woman said "Chi ldren, yo'
have neither father, mother nor home Yo
must be divided up or go to the poorhoust
Kiss each other, poor orphans, and all kis
the baby /" They put their arms aroun
him, and hugged and kissed him, and the
went out from the old house to so in differen
directions and perhaps never to meet all tC
gether
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SOCIAL LIFE IN THE CHuRCH-The
church that has no social life is always apt
to have no true life of any kind and the
church whose social life is so like in spirit
that of the world at large that one can only
tell church sociable from an ordinary party
by a label is apt TO develop life which is
worldly and Christless. The social gather
ings of the church may be truly means of
grace" as the prayer.meetings, and it should
be the business of pastor and people to make
them Chrisiidn Union.
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The Rich and their Opportunities.

This is specially true in times like these
when great numbers of worthy and indus
trious men and women feel the need for the
first time in their adult lives, of strong
and helpful friend. These people are not
paupers. They do not want bread alone
that they could get at the almshouse, per-
haps. Their appeal, often the more elo-
quent for being mute, is that they may be
saved from pauperism by having their capa-
bilities for work and service directed in pro-
ductive channels. They ask not for aims,
but for opportunities for self-support. They
need not common charity, but guidance,
leadership, wise and kind counsel issuing in
helpful action. They are out of their place.
There is work in the world to be done but
they, the workers, are not where the work is.
Many lack intelligence, many lack courage,
and all lack that outlook upon the world
and its opportunities which culture aud
travel give. 1t is not thought to be the
province of government, local or general, to
save thousands of worthy people from sink
ing down into abject penury and chronic
dependence by preventive measures of any
sort. Private and corporate charities find
their hands full with the work of relieving
the immediate and pressing necessities of
those in actual suffering. This leaves the
largest and most promising field for human
labor unoccupied. 1t is field which those
who have wealth, with consequent leisure,
best can fill. There will be no excuse for
ideness or ennui among the wealthy during
the next twelve months-no need for saun-
terings in Europe to kill time. There is
abundant work within stones throw of
each mans door--the work of inspiring
courage in the hearts of the despairing, the
work of opening and making avenues of use
funess for the willing but unemployed, the
work of seeing to it, in any and all ways,
that honest laborers and honest labor are
brought together. The return for service
such as this will add to wealth its highest
warrant and reward to the gratitude of the
pOor.-Selected.
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Dress -MakinG,!

Please remember that MISS HELEN NJ HOWARD may
be found her residence in Twngvlle arrel, V where
she will happy receive the friends who have 80 lber-
ally patronized her in the past together with any others
who may desire garments fitted made TERMS
LIBERAL. Orders from abroad will receive prompt
attention s3-45
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FOR SALE.

The very desirable residence belonging TO the estate of
the NJ Cree situated in of the best locations
in MONTPELIER village, will be sold at low price. Terms
made known application to n +. Brooks Monlneer or
the subscriber, at Waterbury. Il. II. HAlNtH.
MONTPELIER July |, 1873. i2-u
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Educational
Barre 4cNdenlU.

Classical and English School for both The
OF suly are arranged thorough preparation
New England Colleges and scientific schools Board In
cludng room, washing and ironing, from s22b 10 400 per
week The Fall Term will begin on
Thursday, August %, 1878.
For board, rooms Catalogue. apply to
43-4si j. s. sPAULDING, Barre, Vt.
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1926 MUSIC LESSONS for $15
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY,

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For Sale!

ONE FIVE HORSE POWER PORTABLE
ENGINE, with capacity of eight horse power, manufae
tnred by shepley Il Wells Binghampon ~ y Sald engine
IL perfect running order, and will he sold cheap Parties
wishing purchase will do well to call and examine
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HASTE trips up his own heels, fetters and
stops itself.-Senecd,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-06-07
Emperor William.

The conclusion to be drawn from another
murderous attack upon the life of the En-
psror following only three weeks after that
of Hodel, is that there is an organized con-
spiracy against the life of this sovereign.
This last attempt at assassination seems TO
have been arranged with more intelligence
than the previous one as was shown by the
degree of success that attended it. Wounds
to the number of 80, were inflicted about
the head and shoulders, and the arms, by
the luck shot which constituted the charge.
These wounds, happily, were not serious
enough to endanger life. Most of the shot
were extracted, but the fear Of inflammation
prevented the entire removal. As in the
other case the Emperor was fired at while
out on an airing upon the streets Of the
capital city. The shot was fired from a
window Of the apartment of DR.. Modelling
the assassin, who had not been in the
city but a short time. Naturally enough
the would-bs assassin was tinctured with
socialistie notions. He had accomplicheS,
and had been in communication on the plot
for some SIX months. After the attempt
upon the Emperor's life, the assassin made
another upon his own, so wounding himself,
that it was matter Of some doubt whether
he would survive.