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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-02-13

None Of the appropriation bills have been passed
as yet The army bill is waiting the action of the
military committee upon the several schemes of
reorganization now before it. The Indian bill
will depend largely upon the action of Congress
upon the question of transferring the control of
Indian affairs to the War Department.
The silver bill still hangs fire in the Senate and
a vote will not be reached until the last of next
week, while the repeal 81 the resumption act will
lead to prolonged debate in that body, A bill
substituting greenbacks for national bank notes
is likely to be reportedb by the House committee
banking and currency, and will be fiercey fought
Colonel Joyce yesterday introduced a resolu-
ton nstructng the judiciary committee to inquire
into the expediency of authorizing by law the pub
LEGATION in the Congressional Record, or in certain
designated newspapers, for the benefit and in
structon of people, OF brief synopsis of cases
decided by the Supreme Court the committee To
report by bill or otherwise He also introduced
bill providing that soldiers and sailors having lost
one hand and one foot shall be allowed n pension
OF thiry-six dollars per month for each disability
Senator Herman has introduced hill in the
Senate providing for the appointment OF two as
sistant circuit judges in the second circuit-Ver-
mont Connecticut and New York,
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Murphy, the temperance lecturer, called at the
White House the other day, and, while talking
with the President, servant brought in some
orang and placed them before the guest, MIR
Murphy acknowledged the kindness by a bow
but declined the fruit, saying that he "neyer
took rum punch in any form
A rumor was In circulation last night to the
effect that Secretary sherman had ntimated Ia
the President that II the nendng silver bill became
a law, he should feel constrained To tender his
resignation
A son and daughter of John g. SAKE, the poet
have been In the city during the past week, and
have received much attention in social circles
Mr.. Dodge, the statistican OF the Department
OF Agriculture, has not resigned, stated in some
papers, but retains his position rs Of old.
1t is expected that Senator Conkling will go
back on his bosom friend Senator Jones, o;
Nevada, the coming week, and speak against the
silver bill,
DR. John Lord has commenced course Of twelve
historical lectures In this city,
Delightful spring weather reigns in Washing
ton. Sol.
In Japan the law requires fish to be sold alive.
They are peddled in tanks
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-02-13

In Japan the law requires fish to be sold alive.
They are peddled in tanks
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els Ii Well with Thee %

These simple words Of Elisha's message
to the Shunamite in her sorrow may excite
no special interest or notice of themselves.
But many hearer with tender conscience,
receiving them from God through the mouth
of his servant, has known how searching
and how broad a meaning they can bear A
remarkable episode in public religious
service once occurred while minister was
preaching from that brief text, at a little
church in Yorkshire, England, in the year
of 1881. The minister was a good man,
with no little gospel power in his heart and
manner, and he made it solemnly plain to
the auditory that the Saviour was present,
looking into their thoughts with kind in
qury, and testing the spirit of every one.
Is it well with thee Is it well with thee ?"
Suddenly an exclamation was heard from
one of the pews, and a boy twelve years old,
who had been intently listening, fell on his
knees and began to weep and pray. A
strange thrill ran through the congregation,
aud many rose to their feet The minister
paused in his Sermon and all attention was
riveted on the kneeling boy. Everybody
knew little Tommy for he belonged to one
of the Oldest Yorkshire families, and his an
cestors of Barnsley had worn the arms of a
barouet. He was bright, gifted boy, now
six years motherless, but carrying in his
heart the indelible impression of his moth
er's early religious teachings. The honest
Yorkshire people felt too deeply themselves
the effect of the sermon to misunderstood
Tommy's emotion. They did not think he
was crazy. The minister did not " Let US
pray he said, for he saw more need of
prayer than preaching at a moment when
before men and angels young soul first
spoke its want. The whole congregation at
once assumed the attitude of devotion.
Many strong and loving petitions went up
to God for the little boy whom, like Samuel,
he had called in his own tabernacle. The
scene was strange one-that sudden prayer
meeting in the middle of sermon-time. The
prayers were answered, too. Tommy rose
| from his knees with a radiant face. Thence
| forth the seal of divine amounting was Oh
him. For the next eight years he continued
| to give increasing proofs OF Christian
spirit and Christian zeal, and rare and happy
fitness for winning souls. When very young
he was licensed to preach. At the age OF
twenty he left his native land and came to
the United States. Since then he has not
neglected the gift that is in him. The
voice that so long ago said to him, on the
other side of the sea, Is it well with thee y
has ever been gladly recognized and he has
followed Jesus all the way" 1t led him
to Long Island it led him to Albany it
led him down the Hudson again--and very
many whom his words first taught the
heavenly lesson now know "it is well
with them. To-day few stand higher among
the American ministry or more honored OF
the Great Master, than Tommy, the York
shire boy-now DIR. Thomas Armitage, oi
New York.-1he Wdtchmdn
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Christ Hid in God.

As we look over his career how can we
describe its serenity and composure except
in these words: God hid him in the Sc
cret of his presence from the pride of man,
and kept him secretly in a pavilion from the
strife of tongues How the strife of tongues
ragged about him all his life From the
time when Herod and the scribes debated
where he was TO be born, that they might
murder him, down to the day when the peo-
pie cried, Cruelty him. and Knocked him
as he hung upon the cross in the days
when the crowded synagogue at Nazareth
rose up and clamored for his blood; in the
day when the Pharisees gathered around
him i'll the temple and poured their subtle
questions fast upon him TO try to drive him
to foolish word in the day when the dis
cipes came to quarrel in his very sight
about their poor ambition to be greatest
in these, and countless DAYS like them. he
lived right in the midst of the strife of
tongues. But, close to his Father always,
clear in his own duty always. and always
trying to help men so earnestly that he was
not capable of being provoked by them, he
was completely apart from all the strife, he
was hid in the secret of his Fathers pres
ence. We cannot but be struck with awe
when we think what that phrase, whose
DedHlN anu SlgHlHCdHCe we nave partly uu-
derstood as it applied to us, must have
meant to Jesus. Our closest communion
with God is so distant compared with the
perfect oneness between him and his Father.
We run into the shelter of the divine life,
just creep across the threshold where no
trouble can pursue, and stand thankful and
trembling there. We hide ourself behind
the robes of eternal mercy, and thence look
out in an assurance, that is fearful still,
upon the danger which cannot touch us
there. But he, from the very heart of the
Eternal Being, looks out on sin and sees its
weakness, looks out on goodness and sees its
strength. We cannot know his peace. 1t
must have been so absolute. There must
have been such pity in his heart when
they tormented him, when they tied him to
column and scourged him, when they
nailed him to the cross at least, aud all the
while were looking to see him give way and
tremble, and all the while the soul which
they thought they were reaching and tortur-
ing was far off, beyond their reach, hid in
the secret of Gods presence, hid in God. 1t
was as if men flung water at the stars and
tried to put them out, and the stars shone
on calmly and safely and took no notice
of their prosecutors. ."-Phaiips Brooks.
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What Shall Girls Do!

When Mrs Orr says, " Let women recon.
quer their own sphere" and implies that
they should devote themselves to housekeep-
ing, and let doctoring and other masculine
occupations alone, | think she does not suf-
ticiently consider the individual cases of the
women who want remuneratiye work. Take,
as an example, the case of a family consist
ing of father and half a dozen daughters.
The father is professional man, two-thirds
of whose income will cease at his death the
mother is an active woman and at the time
when the youngest of her daughters reaches
the age of eighteen still vigorous house
keeper. Three of the daughters marry one
remains at home to help her mother in the
management of the household. What are
the others to do How does Mrs. Orr's sug-
gestion of reconquering their own sphere
help them2 Their own home is orderly and
well governed. 1t is true that they may
have neighbors and acquaintance whose
homes are quite the reverse; but it is in
their own home, or in none at all, that this
reconquering of their own sphere must
take place. They cannot say to friend,
nor even to an enemy MY dear Mrs. Jel-
laby, | am quite distressed at the disorder
of your household; | will come and put
your whole establishment on totally diff
ferent footing" What generally happens in
real life is that all those three unmarried
daughters stay at home with practically no
real or sufficient occupation; they spend
their time making their dresses, and endeav-
oring, by shipping and altering and turning,
always to be in the latest fashion, and to
make the thirty pounds year or so which
they have for dress and pocket money, go as
far as thirty-five or forty pounds. This, it
| appears To me, is an unhealthy and unnat-
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-02
Benefits of n Birthplace.

There is great benefit in having birth
place The world is very large to a man,
and much of it strange and unattractive. He
cannot know it all but it helps him to feel
kindly to it all to have known well and
loved this little bit of it. The race is very
umerous-thrteen hundred millions, more
or less-and most of them are distractions
to us but it helps us to sympathy with
them to have been close to one set of
them from ones infancy onward, and to
have narrowly watched their struggles and
trials. And the God that is over all, alas
often seems remote and unreal, especially as
we look at seething, shifting masses of men
in the waves and pillows of our great cities
but he is more real to us as we mark the
separate individual and family histories of
our fellows, known all their lives in their
work, in their trials, in their worship, where
the quiet, simple lives began with Mans
chief end is to glorify God" and ended here
with " Into thy hands commend my spirit"
Blessings on the hills and wales OF the birth
place of many a man and woman now fight
ing their separate battles east or west, and
far away from its once familiar features
Duty or necessity, hope or fear, may have
turned their steps and fixed their lot else
where, but they will always carry with them
the memorials of the land OF their childhood.
And what is true of them is true in its de-
gree all round Sunny France, bonnie !"
Scotland, sturdy England, fair, free, wide
America-all tell upon the lives they nour-
ish at the beginning; all send stream OF
memories and influences with them till
they close The place which any man Of
healthy nature owns as that of his birth is
something to him that no other place can
be, and happy is he if a part of his life can,
now and then at least, be submitted to its best
and purest iniluences.--Dr. John Hail.
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The Bible in the Public Schools.

But even were we to adopt the Douay Bible,
to the exclusion of our own, it would not
meet the wishes of our Roman Catholic cit
izens, but would only smooth the way for
new demands. They do not want neutrality,
nor even religious books of their own choos-
ing, in our public schools. They do not
want that we should concede their claims
in the form in which they are now made.
They are unwilling to have their children
educated in our public Schools yet they
want us to pay for their education. They
are intensely unwilling to have their chill
dren under the tuition Of any but Roman
lists. They desire none but religious teach
ers for their children, and will not be CON
tented with secular schools. Their aim is
the division of school funds throughout the
country, and the appropriation, not of the
small percentage which they contribute, but
OF the large percentage represented by their
number, to the support of their own sec
tartan schools. Should this demand be
granted other sects stand ready to proffer
similar claims, with equal show of right,
and our whole common school system will
be broken up.
The question virtually before us is not that
of the use of the Bible in schools, but that
of the permanence of our public schools as
an institution. Several years ago took the
lead in the establishment of an evening
| school for ignorant adults, from which all
| religious instruction was carefully excluded.
| The Roman Catholics, for whose benefit the
school was established, very early Withdrew
| from it at the dictation of the priest, who
said to me when | demonstrated with him I:
Education is so great boon that we are
unwilling that our people should be indebted
| for it to heretics. We would rather have them
utterly ignorant than that their gratitude to
| Protestant teachers should make them look
with favor ON the religion of their teachers" :"
Traces of the feeling thus candidly ex-
pressed may be found everywhere in the at
| titude of Romanists towards our schools.
| In Cincinnati it is notorious fact that the
infde leaders and the free-religionists on
the one hand. and the Romanists on the
other, have acted together under the agree
ment that if the latter would render their
aid in excluding the Bible from the schools,
the former would give their votes and innu-
ence in behalf of special appropriations
| for sectarian schools. A similar purpose
has betrayed itself in every community in
which Romanism is strong enough to give
promise of success. But it may be asked,
In free state will you compel children to
pass through educational processes which
their parents disapprove ? Yes, answer,
unless their parents will give us ample in
demnity against their becoming chargeable
to the state as paupers or criminals, and will
renounce in advance for them all claims to
the rights of citizens.-ReU. Dr. PeaJody,
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All, girls, help your mother A time
may come when you will have no mother.
If YOU have never known how to appreciate
her before, you will know then; and when
you miss her pleasant, smiling face from the
table, and her gentle presence from the fire
side; when you miss the soft touch of her
lips upon your cheek, or her cool hand upon
your forehead, in the house of sickness and
pain, and when you miss the hand that
smooths the pillow that is so hard, and
that none could render so comfortable and
easy as mother--when you have thought of
all these and numberless other acts of her
kindness, you will ask yourself, "What
have | done to repay her for this lifelong
devotion to me 2 Have | beeu kind and
obedient, doing all in my power to lessen
the cares and anxieties Of my devoted
mother ?" If you have, how much will
your great sorrow be softened; but if not,
how many tears of bitter regret will be shed
upon your poor mothers grave. Girls, think
OF this, and remember that in all the wide
wide world no love can be found like a
mothers.
You may sound the depth Of yonder sea
And count the sand that under II be;
You may measure the heights of heaven above,
But thou mayst not fathom a mothers love-
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" Don't BE Pit ASide.v

There are only two people who have a
right TO put you aside-your doctor and your
sexton. No one else. 1t is ignomiuous to
see men sitting down in Incidence simply be-
cause they are growing old; don't seek easy
ways easy ways lead to rust don't talk
about yourself don't talk about your age !;
and at all events for decency's sake, don't
talk about your diseases. If you know you
have the rheumatism that is enough. Don't
be prematurely old don't be older in your
feelings than you are in fact don't with
draw from your interest in life read what
is going on in the world don't leave to
Younger men the tasks of life and get out of
their way, Mingle with the young; enjoy
their pleasures it is well for you to be
warmed by the sympathy and companion.
ship of the young, Keep young to the last ;
blessed be the man that goes through life
like boy.-Selected.
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Bishop Hall describes one of his Sundays A;
Such are my common days but Gods
day calls for another respect. The same sun
arises on this day, aud enlightens it yet be-
cause the sun OF righteousness arose upon
it, and gave a new life to the world in it,
and drew the strength of Gods moral pre-
cepts upon it, therefore justly do we sing
with the psalmist This is the day which
the Lord hath made = Now forget the
world, and, in a sort, myself, and deal with
my wonted thoughts as great men do who,
at some times of their privacy, forbid the
access of all suitors. Prayer, meditation,
reading hearing, preaching, singing, good
conferences, are the business of this day,
which | dare not bestow on any work or
pleasure but heavenly. | hate superstition
on the one side, and looseness on the other
but find it hard to offend in too much de
votion, easy in profaneness. The whole
week is sanctifed by this day and accord
ing to my care of this day is blessing on
the rest "
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ANOTHER TRorrER. - There's another new
horse wonder On the Milwaukee track the
other day, a three-year-od Kentucky filly as
tonished the judges and a large crowd, first, by
her awkwardness; then, by her inability to get IA
start, and finally, by making quarter in thirty
three and one-half seconds, The judges an
nounced 1t as thirty-four seconds, because they
"desired to make every allowance possible against
the astounding performance" As soon as the
event occurred Colonel Broadhead purchased the
fastest three-y year-old in the world She made the
quarter without a skip indeed, as the Chicago
Times says, "she showed perfect work az a trot-
ter" She WAS bred by Cynthiane Ky, gentle
man. who sold her TO W, IL. Wilson for twelve
hundred dollars, about three weeks ago, lie
tracked her but very little before taking her to
Milwaukee She rode four days ON the cars, and
in less than twelve hours FROM the time she had
been pounding along in box ear she stepped on
to the course OF the Milwaukee Driving Park As
sociation, and trotted full quarter of a mile in
the wonderful time above given, and that, too,
without skip, She is u medlum-sized bay.
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The weather on Thursday was favorable, with
the exception of two or three smart showers soon
after noon The attendance was not quite as
large rs on Wednesday, yet there was a good
number out
The first thing the programme was the
cavacade of all horses There were about twenty
three teams on the track, double and single, be-
sides good array of stations, gedngs, and brood
mares with their colts This feature brought out
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9amik Reading.

BY EDWARD p. MORSE

THE BIRDS.
ri EDWARD ?. MORSE.
Bird Of the wildwood,
SO joyous and free,
Sweet be thy matin
Der moorlaDd and lea.
Floating through oloudland.
Or skimming the waves,
Tell us thy mission
And whence Is thy way,
That thus thou tliest
O'er mountain and stream,
Singing thy carols
TIL evenings soft dream.
Early thy wakings-
The morn scarce begun;
Long be thy pilgrimage
Fer set Of sun.
Az from sea 10 sea.
And from pole to pole,
Naught thou dost weary,
But e'er thou dost roam,
Slipping the sweets
or the honeyed clover
or flying widely
The mountains over
Dear little wanderers
From homes afar,
Tell us forsooth
Are heavens gates ajar2
And is II from hence
Ye tune your notes divine?
Eager mine ear would be
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Auction Sale of Bankrupt Estate.
TIME OLE sAIE CuANGEn

There will be sold at public auction at the residence of
A. NJ. Slocum in Bcrlin VI. on Friday, the ith day
of October 1878. commencing at ten O'Clock Me- the
following described property, to Wit; The Slucn Farm
of hundred and twenty of land
and the buildings thereon in said erln uantity of Hay
Grain and other Crups Cows, four -year-Od
eifer five Yeirngs twelve sheppard Lambs, Horse
ten Hogs and rgs set at MIX Pans. and Cheese Presses
one Farm Wagon, Lumber Wagon, Open Buggy
one Top Buggy sled sleigh; three Harnesses two
Sleigh Robes; Moving Machine Horse Rake, Tedder
Plows IIanows, Cuvator Roller, Shovels Hoes, Forks
Chains, and other farming utensils.
+. p. PITKIN, Assignee.
Montpelier September a. 1873. 53-55
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FOR SALE.

The very desirable residence belonging to the estate of
the late Susan NJ Cree situated in of the best locations
In Montpelier village, viii be sold low price. Terms
made known application 10 y. J.. Brooks Monlpeler,
the subscriber. at Waterbury. j.. II. HAlNES.
Montpelier, July L. lS1s. 42-u
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| am told that girls are not to be found for
love nor money" | often think, and here
take occasion to say, that you need not try
the ioUe--a liberal amount of money will
aufIicp
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FOR SALE.

ONE FIVE HORSE POWER PORTABLE
ENGINE. with capacity of eight horse power, mnnufac-
tured by Shepey 4 Wells Bmghanpton, y. I. Said engine
IL in perfect running order and will be sold cheap Parties
wishing to purchase will do well TO call and examine.
32-tf FISHER Il COTTON,
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Auction Sale!

VIII be sold at public auction on Thursday, October
10th. 1878, the farm known as The
CRISMON HANCOCK FARM,
in Worcester, Vt, occupied by A. r. Hancock. Said farm
situated about three-fourhs of mile from Worcester
Corner up the Brauch and we'll divided into wool pas
ture and tilage, and contains some
ITO ACRES OF LAND!
The buildings in good orier-a barn 32 by 81 feet
newly repaired and hOtehdn q by ~ feet with cellar
under both having been lately built Good running wafer
at both house and barn. said tarn T. situated one-half
mile from school and one-touh mile from the Methodist
meeting g-housc.
There will also be sold at the time, the hay. straw
and fodder raised the promises; also pair of
work horses, thirteen cows, -four yerngs, two sows and
several pigs also farming and dairy tools the premises
Sale the premises and to commence at ten O'Clock A. NJ
5a-hh Z. N 4. 4. Han COOK.