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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
How TO Make Shirts.

Care should be used in the selection of
muslin there is considerable in the mar
ket called shirting that is scarcely worth
making up. The amount of labor that
necessarily has to be expended upon a shirt
renders it economy to buy the best brand
of muslin.
The surest method to secure a well-itting
garment is to get measure taken, and a
pattern of a reliable shirt manufacturer,
aud at the same time the bosoms may be
selected The pattern should include a
piece of the shape of the bosom, to be cut
out when the fronts of the shirt are being
cut In cutting the fronts it must be re
membered that the muslin must be folded
only sufficiently wide, thereby leaving enough
for half of back alongside of the front
The same follower that is allowed for the
front will cut the sleeves, Now lay the
front and sleeves aside, and turn the strip
that is left along the right side over sufi
ciently in length TO cut the back. Thus II
will be seen that there is selvedge seam
down the back. This may seem au objec
tion, but when it is considered that the
opening in the back (taking for granted
that the shirt opens behind) extends nearly
half way down. and that the seam is made
by two selvedge edges, one laid on the Other
and neatly stitched down by the machine
the objection, il any, appears groundless
And especially so, when it is taken into ac
count that by this manner of cutting one
can get four shirts out of nine yards OF
muslin two and quarter yards will make
one shirt for man OF ordinary size. This
is the least possible quantity required in the
manufacture of a well-proportioned shirt
and il is simply sufficient without any piec
ing except the selvedge seam.
After the back is cut there will be a little
material left, which, with the piece that
comes out where the bosom is set in will
furnish the yokes; they are cut lengthwise Of
the material; the left always overlaps the
! right yoke, In cutting the sleeves, arrange
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
High Christian Character.

High Christian character impresses wicked
men with supersttious fear. Fear is a
disagreeable sensation, aud the character
that produces it in high degree becomes
not only disagreeable, but hateful. High
moral purity unconsciously reminds selfish,
sensual man of the eternal purity that is
pledged to consume sin from the earth, aud
he hates such man for the same reason
that he hates his Master The flame of
Christlike love is TO him the flame of hell
Thus have the saintlest men of all ages
been hated, for, Shall the servant be above
his Lord 2" Secular literature is saturated
with this hate. Some of the greatest souls
that the world has ever seen have been pill
loried in poetry for ages. Scott made polite
society believe that the Puritans were a
generation of canting snivelers. The licen
tious Gibbon smrched the purest women OF
the ancient Christian church with the filthy
innuendoes of his turgid rhetoric, and gen
eratons OF youth have laughed with him al
the agonies of Christians virgins flung u
human beasts, in comparison with whom
| lions would have been gentle and chaste
| Boston's best society "has been well trained
TO think of Jonathan Edwards, the first Of
| American philosophers, and at the sam,
/ time one of the sweetest souls that evel
sung, as dyspeptic Orthodox bigot Eng
lish history Just begins to reveal TO the secu
lar world that john Wesley was something
else than an ascetic fanatic. Luther is ye
"A disagreeable man to Papists and tn,
classic Roman historians hated Paul anC
John with hatred SO intense that, although
they were refined and humane men for thei
age, they yet thought Nero perhaps excusa
BILE for dressing such men as the twelve
apostles in coats of burning pitch ant
plunging them in caldrons of boiling oil
Christ himself was more than disagreeabl,
TO the Pharisees who spat in his face ant
nailed him To the cross,-Rep. Dr. hdies II
] NeuhdH.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
MONTPELIER, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1878

When the noble Russell was executed as
martyr to freedom, be handed his watch
to friend who stood beside him on the
scaffold. "Take this watch" said he, for
| have no more TO do with time My thoughts
now are only about eternity" That utter
ance of the dying martyr is word in season
for us all. We pastors who are setting about
the Masters work anew may well take note
OF the fact that we are preaching for eter-
nifty Let every parent who reads this par
agraph inquire Of conscience, "Am train
ing up my children not only for this world,
but for the world TO Gomez" Let every
man of business ask himself whether he is
only aiming to fill bag that is full of holes,
or as Gods steward is laying up treasures
in heaven2 Young friend, are you training
yourself for self-indulgence, or for the i'm
mortal crown
Upon the walls Of a Catholic institution
IN Montreal | saw, this summer, this brief
line" Nothing is long except eternity"
That was motto for every pastors study,
and for the walls of every dwelling. Let
us all write il up before us as on the arch of
the heavens. Nothing is worth living for
but eternity:
e Let the changing bells Of time
With their changes rise and fall
But in undertones sublime
Sounding deep beyond them all
Is a voice that must beard,
As our moments onward flee,
And It speaketh but this word
ETERNITY ErERNrrYl
Rev. r. l.. Cuyier.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
Painting for Eternity.

When Apelles, the Greek painter was
asked why he bestowed so much labor upon
his pictures, he replied Because | am
painting for eternity" He used the word
as bold figure of speech; but we may use
the word liberally when we say that we are
painting the picture of our lives for eternity.
We use fast coors. Whatever pure and
holy word or deed be wrought into that
picture will stand there, imperishable and
immortal. Whatever selfish or sinful thing
be painted on that life-canvas can never be
washed out except by the application of the
blood of Jesus here in this present life Now
or never that precious blood availeth. When
death comes, the process of painting stops
No strokes of penitence or of faith can be
added to it then. No guilty spots can be
washed out then. The painting is finished
and finished forever
Death frames the picture, and sends it OF
to the judgment-day for exhibition. Not 4
"private view" before select company
but public exhibition before an assembled
multitude whom no man can number. Fo
God will bring every word aud every worl
into Judgment, whether it be good, or whethe
il be evil. The picture OF our lives which il
presented before the great white throne
will be forever Interchangeable. If the canva
is adorned with deeds, however humble, TO
the glory of God, then the liie-work will
stand as an everlasting memorial of divin
grace II life was only spent for the graft
fcation OF sinful self then the wretche,
picture OF it will only be held up to "sham
and everlasting contempt"
We may desire most intensely TO alter tn
portraiture then, and to improve it, but tn
pencil and the colors We're left behind us
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
When to Paint.

Paint applied to the exterior of buildings
in autumn or winter will endure twice as
long as when applied in early summer or in
hot weather. In the former it dries slowly,
and becomes hard like glazed surface, not
easily affected afterward by the weather. or
worn off by the beating of storms. But in
very hot weather the oil in the paint soaks
into the wood at once, as if into sponge
leaving the lead nearly dry and ready to
crumble off. This last difficulty, however
might in measure be guarded against,
though at an increased expense, by first
going over the surface with raw oil. Fur
thermore by painting in cold weather the
annoyance of small flies, which invariably
collect during the warm season on fresh
paint, is avoided. As an offset to this, there
is trouble with slow-drying paint-it is
the dust, which always will collect upon ex-
posed surfaces, will keep collecting as long
as the paint is not dry, and stick to it,
so that to obtain a smooth surface free from
adhering dust it is necessary to secure quick
drying. This is especially the case when
vanishing; we have often been disap-
pointed, and no doubt so have many others,
that the varnish used dried so slowly that
dust had time to settle on it before it be-
came hard
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
WOmen's Ways.

The curious ways that women have of
hiding their money are shown by the Cincin-
natl Commercial That paper says Mrs.
Hansen put fifty dollars in the oven of her
stove one night to keep it safe. Next morn
ing, after breakfast, the national debt had
been diminished exactly that much. A
student of the curious would find it interest
ing to note the places in which women hide
their money. One excellent and frugal dame
used to tuck her little savings away under
the corner Of her carpet. The tiny roll of
greenbacks grew fatter and fatter in the
course Of year or two, when the day after
it counted two hundred and fifty dollars the
house took fire, burned to the ground, and
again the national debt was diminished by a
little roll of womans pin-money. There was
that other careful lady, too, who used some
times to hide her diamond rings between
two teacups in the kitchen cupboard, some
times behind a certain brick in the cellar,
and again under the lining of an old hat.
She had divers other places of safety for
her jewlery also, the only trouble being that
she had so many hidding-paces she oc-
casionally forgot where she last put her pre-
cious things, and about every three months
would fancy that she had been robbed and
the house would be turned inside out and
all therein be made uncomfortable until the
missing gem would be found carefully tucked
away in the folds of the bottom towel of the
pile in the left-hand corner of the lower
drawer in the clothes-press at the east end OF
| the drawing .room."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
Home Religion.

There is no place in which religion should
be so little thing of form and so wholly a
thing of spirit,-and a peaceful, happy
spirit, too,-as at home Prayer.meeting
piety answers good purpose; and Sunday
church-going piety has its uses and that
piety which is better than either, that makes
a man deal justly and honestly with his fel-
low-men, is of priceless value to the commu.
nifty. But better than prayer-meeting piety,
or church-going piety, or business piety, is
that piety which lightens and blesses a
home. Home religion is thing of the
heart which is the same as saying it is a
thing OF love. 1t may exist in connection
with forms; and it may exist in its sweet
est unfolding independent of forms. 1t
may say grace at the table and it may not
say grace at the table. 1t may be gifted to
sustain family altar and it may not have
the gift requisite. But if the heart be right,
there shall be grace and prayerfulness albeit
forms be lacking in the family. There is a
way of eating your food which thanks God
better than any formal grace saying that
can be devised. There is a way of kissing
the wife after the meal when the husband is
leaving for his office, which covers the whole
ground between husband and wife intended
to be covered by the influence of the family
dlJdT' We nave KNOWN q man ask q DleSS-
ing on food which he himself condemned in
the very next breath. To thank God for food,
and scold your wife or the cook in the same
breath because the steak is over-done, or the
cakes not Drowned TO your suiting, or the
tea too strong, is something more, friend,
than impiety; it is indecency. Home relig-
ion should be loving first of all, and last of
all it should Believing 1t should be very
patient too,-especially on those days when
it is hard to be patient. 1t should be cheer
ful, especially when it takes wit to invent
occasions Of mirthfuness. 1t should be
brave, not to face the troubles that are
without, but the troubles that are within.
A kindly word, pleasant speech. cheerful
or sympathetic look, touch of the hand in
the old tender fashion of the courting days,
stroking of the cheek and the soft move
ment of the palm over the hair,-" foolish
tricks 2" You are fool if you say it,
friend. You didn't think that they were
foolish tricks once, and you were wiser then
than you are now that you have dropped
them. A little more courting in married
life would keep married life what court.
ship Is. The foolishness of love is wiser
than the wisdom of hate and the more
foolish you are in these directions, the hap
pier will your homes be and the sweeter will
be your home religion.
"'Tis sweet to hear the watch dogs honest bark
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home;
lis sweet TO know there Is an eye to mark
our coming, and grow brighter when we come"
-GoiieH Ruie.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
An Aggressive Church.

Ye churches that would be true churches
of the Christ who came to seek and to save
that which was lost, be not satisfied TO make
your houses of worship beautiful, your
services acceptable to those that come to
them but go out into the highways and
hedges, and compel them to come in. The
woman sweeps the house diligently for the
lost piece of money. Have you done it, or
have you sat in your easy chair, and thought
it enough to hold in your hand magnet
that will never draw the metal The shep-
herd left his ninety and nine in the fold.
Have you left yours lie went over the
mountains and through the wilderness, till
he could snatch the lost one out of the very
laws of the wolf, aud bear it gladly home
on his shoulder to the fold. Have you, too,
gone to the haunts of idleness and dissipa-
ton, that YOU might pluck the lost from the
very mouth OF hell 7 An aggressive church
will do Christie work, not an attractive one.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
3lafrl,nan & gunrnaL.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER i8, 1878.
Legislature Of Vermont.


Reading Of Scriptures and prayer by Rev. Henry
A. Rogers Of Montpelier. Journal OF saturday
was read and approved
Bills, ETC., introduced and rcfeTTod-By Senator
DEANE Of Windsor county, au act to regulate
the taking of fish In Lake Champain and other
public waters in this state; to com. on game and
fisheries
By Senator DILLINGHAM; of Washington
county, in amendment of chap. ~ of the general
statutes relating to trustee process; to com. on
By Senator BALLARD Of Chttenden county,
by request, to pay Peter Lauder Jr., the sum
therein named; TO com. on claims.
Read third hne-H 237, In addition to sec. 30
chap 30, & g., relating TO the supreme and county
courts; passed In concurrence.
II. lO2, to amend an act relating to the fees Of
justices; passed in concurrence.
H. Al, to amend sec. is, chap 125, e. s., relating
to costs before justices OF the peace passed in
concurrence.
II. 22O, relating to proceedings by railroad bond
holders after foreclosure; passed in concurrence.
Reports-FrOm com. on judiciary, in favorof ) 4,
relating TO liens on real estate; with proposal OF
amendment, substituting a new section for first
section. On motion of Senator Dyer, the bill was
ordered to lie.
viding for an inquest on the burning of buildings
and other property; third reading ordered to-mor-
row morning.
From committee on game and fisheries, in favor
of H. lO5 in amendment of an act for the further
protection Of fish and game, approved November
%, 1876; read the third time and passed in con-
currence.
From committee on education, in favor of s.
SO, to amend an act relating to the duties of town
superntendents, approved November -, 1870;
third reading ordered tomorrow morning
From conference committee on the disagreeing
votes of the two Houses on H. g. providing for the
revision Of the public laws of this state; propos-
ing modification of the proposed amendment OF
the Senate, which was agreed to, and the House
was asked to concur in the modified amendment.
On motion of Senator BALLARD, adjourned.
House-Afternoon.
Reading of Scriptures and prayer by the chap
lain. The journal of Saturday was read and ap-
proved.
Petition introduced and referred-By Mr. RED
INGTON of Rutland, a petition from sundry citi-
zens of Rutland asking that additional articles
may be added to the list exempt from attachment;
to general committee.
on motion of Mr. POLAND, adjourned.
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Gf yume Gnrlf.


Mid autumn'e glowing frutage, does the tree
Mourn for the vanished days Of spring time bloom2
Regret the tossing, white and rosy sea
OF tender color, delicate perfume2
Say, does the river bearing on Ia breast
The stately vessels to the busy mart,
Long for the shadows Of its mossy nest
Amid the ferns, far in the forests heart2
Does 1t bewan those merry, chattering hours,
Wherein 1t mirrorcd only sky and trees,
Until It left the simple meadow flowers
To seek the distant bosom OF the seas2
Neither may upon lifes harvest field
Mourn for youths scenes OF mingled pride and bliss
Farer they surely were, yet could not yield
The deeper sense Of peace that hallows this
onward still onward, with constant mind
And hands more powerful TO bless and cheer;
onward press, nor grieye TO leave behind
The shifting pageants Of my human year.
Not weakly can mourn my vanished May,
or dread the coming Of the dark December;
While still In loving eyes look, and say,
Friend Of my youth oh, dost thou not remember? p
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
ORE PROGRESS.

Not satisfied, however, with this great progress, Mr..
Ign determined possible to ObYiate the objection which
had been truthfuly urged against all English salt WIZ at
less pan-sce, and that the grain OF the
also that IL required to be crushed and
obviite these defects before using II for diryng
purposes. Pan-scale Is ltey sediment contained, TO II
greater degree In all the Cheshire brnes and which
forms the bottom OF the evapoatng and with
expansion will occasionally break and become
corpOrated with the salt In breaking the nouds OF dried
salt with malet, usually done of the malet
would frequently strike piece panscale and break
into small particles, which II Is impossible TO entirely pick
by hand and In order 10 obviate this defect Mr. Hgg
invented and patented machine by which This clumsy and
defective hand process Is entirely dispensed with. Each
grain disinteraed separately leaving soft and entirely
without ump and by carefully sitting also by machinery
atom pan-sce removed and the salt Is left soft
Ter, cheese or table Unlike any other salt Higgins salt
viii form In hard Jumps, and II by long keeping II
should set" slightly In the bag light blow jar vii
readily dsnegate the PARTICLES, and lump which may
This is a salt which has been ground, viii
then cake very hard and THIS has always been great OBJ
using finely ground salt. The natural fne grain
of the ggn Eureka salt and lis entire freedom oin pan
and the persons who did not appreciate the superiority
Of his" Prize Medal Brand" which equal In all respects
and superior Ashtons acknowledge that th
Eureka superior anything they have In tn
salt line. Notwithstanding the cost of the manufacture
the Eureka Salt u fully onehalf than that of am
other brand in the market It's price higher than Ash
TONS As remarked by salt deaernot long since Every
thing about the Eureka Is of rst-class quality" the sac
even being pure white Irish linen, while those OF the Ash
ton brand, unlike their former good quality, now have
brown warp lining, which for towelllng and othe
household purposes viii not last 9nealf as long as u
Hggin Unless the quality both Of the salt and sack Is lin
proved the old standard all the money which Messrs M0u
ton Co. putting into Will not avail Of the people OF III
United States too Intelligent not TO mark the great fall
ing It's Standard and they Will not buy ora
nary Liverpool salt and pay twice much II Is wort
simply because the bag stenciled with the Ashton brant
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
WOman's Work.

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VICTORIOUS Ar PARIS.

The following extract from article in the French
Journal OF tile Paris Exhibition. pErposittoa UHipersee
de ISIS Hustree, states very clearly the reason why 50
much American butter reaches Europe in bad condition.
In the butter and cheese producing districts OF Europe
has long been known that great difference exists in the d
feren kinds of salt produced from the various sources from
The dairyman es In the Of the puTest aud best only
But the most striking examples Of the peculiar effect Of dt
World from the New where cheese and butter manu-
gigantic scale not only for the Inhabitants OF
where. The extraordinarily rapid growth Of the trade IN
these articles has shown that an unlimited market exist
England and Europe generally for cheese and butter OF
good make and sound condition Aud the attention therefore
OF producers has OF late been specially dterd 70 lhy eA
animation by tests and experiments OF The various kinds OF
deetsroS and to hs using only Of hat on which reliance
can be placed. American dairy produce arriving ont OF
has been subjected the searching analysis, and in
lie nae OF ali eonianin@ deietens matter il H. how
rather remarkable that the analysis Of salt has not OF
iperhaps the dineuy obtaining really represent
e tan a s he to M s ss9 asf op " s%s guide ma ma
ter and cheese under the same oonditons with various
pie In different districts aud countries have given the
place TO- Hggs sat ana Is used ga eSSeIy~aere by those
I'VE eohd pfocnre hnndfeds of Testimonials OF farmers in
this vicinity who have used IT, rs TO ia rood points, but II l.
unnecessary Call At our store see ~ test In every way
beside other salts take sack on trial II you are sun ske
teal aud II It satisfactory In every respect may bs
sand and we W. make 70 aHss 'Sg Sa TSs ss a s2a OF &
nniil we were thoroughly satisfied upon lha point some
account OF It's somewhat higher price II Is well to practc
economy but be sure you are right then 80 ahead Don
be penny wise aud pound foolish" II, Ia consequence
using impure salt your butter should not keep well ant
your buer-buyer should offer two less tina
account you will the economy buying the best what
ever the cost. In nothing the saying the best is tn
cheapest" more trse than in dairy salt. But there moi
much difference In the cost would at think lie
us make little calculation. Allowing OF salt 10
pound of butter tub of butter of thirty pounds woul
require two pounds OF salt, which. at and one-hal
cents pound would cost three cents the quantit
ordinary dairy salt would cost two and one-half
difference small not worthy to he reckoned. he
sides IA the only sat put up in pure linen sacks, which
for domestic worth than the difference in
between this and other brands.