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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-07
Gems OF Thought.

| HARDLY know so true mark of little
mind as the servile imitation of others
Greuile,
The highest reach of human science is
the scientific recognition of human igno-
rance.-Sir w. Hamilton.
MAN carries under his hat private thea
tire, wherein greater drama is acted than
is ever performed on the mimic stage, be-
ginning and ending in eternity. Carlyle,
FEATURES alone do not run in the blood !;
vices and virtues, genius and folly, cheerful
and melancholy tempers are transmitted
through the same sure but unseen channel.
HdzlM
IF the mind, which rules the body, ever SO
far forgets itself as to trample uponi its slave,
the slave never forgets or forgives the injury,
but at some time will rise and smite its op-
pressor.-LonQfelloo
Our passions act as the winds which pro-
pei the vessel; our reason is the pilot that
steers her, Without the winds she would
not move; without the pilot she would be
lost.-French Proverb.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-07

standing collars, was particularly trying TO
a man who felt a good deal of pride in the
dressing of his neck, as it spoiled the effect
of his cravat, and often left gap for the
display of either the collar band of the shirt
or a haf-inch of bare skin. While talking
with n practical shirtmaker, one day. he
mentioned his annoyance, and inquired if
there was any means of relieving it. Yes
answered the man, the fault lies with your
laundress. While doing up your collars she
stretches them the wrong way. Damp linen
is very pliable, and good pull will alter a
fourteen-inch into fifteen-inch collar in the
twinklng of an eye. She ought to stretch
them crosswise, and not lengthwise. Then in
Strengthening out your shirt bosom she makes
another mistake of the same sort. They,
also, ought to be pulled crosswise instead Of
lengthwise, particularly in the neighborhood
of the neck. A lengthwise pull draws the
front of the neckband up somewhere di-
rectly under your chin, where it was never
meant to go, and of course that spoils the
set of your collar. With the front of your
neckband an inch too high, and your collar
an inch too long, you have a most undesira-
ble combination "The speaker was right.
As soon as my husband ordered the neces-
sary changes to be made in the methods of
our laundry, wonderful difference man
ifested itself in the appearance of that most
important part of his clad anatomy, the
neck. Let me commend the shirtmaker's
hint to other distressed women"
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Turning-POint of a Life Battle.

There is such thing. | was reminded of
it years ago while passing through Charles
street. Boston, in company with friend, a
thriving merchant, who, though young, was
famous for his success and liberality. At a
certain point near the church, where DR..
Sharp was then the preacher, he paused sud
denly, and exclaimed: Stop minute
just here once fought for my souls life,
and by the grace of God got it." Pray tell
me about it," | replied. at happened in
the time of my clerkship," said he, "soon
after coming from my country home to the
city. 81 left my room one Friday evening
for a stroll by this Back Bay. While stand
ing here moment was hailed by young
clerk, whom had often met in Kilby street.
He was two years older than myself, smart,
clever, with an air and manners that were
to me very attractive. Looking toward
the Hill over there-then notorious for its
haunts of illicit pleasure-he said, I'm so
so lucky to have met you. Now come up
the hill with me we'll have such nice
time " Young and social myself, it seemed
impossible to resist. How could ? Having
taken a few steps toward : the Hill' all at
once the sight of the chapel in the rear of
the church reminded me of an indefinite
promise | had made to an old friend, that |
would JON him some time on Friday
evening at the weekly meeting there. But
| was moving the other way 1t seemed
now as if heard his voice of warning. If
you go yonder tonight, you will never again
feel ike going to the chapel. Which party
will you join Answer 1t was the crisis
of my life Here | stood where two ways
met. The debate was torture. prayed in.
wardly. Power came. | stopped short
mentioned the pledge given to my Older
friend, bowed off, and hastened to the chapel
"What welcome | had therel | soon felt
myself at home, and am at home there yet
in companionship with band OF young
men, true fellow-workers, who are trying
under the leadership of Christ, to maxi
the world better for being in it," The epi
taph of this "soldier" may be found a
Forest Hill cemetery TO Nathaniel Rip
ley Cobb: died May %, 1884, aged thirty
six, and during mercantile career of twelv
years dispensed upward of forty thousan'
dollara "
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Too Lightly Esteemed.

And why, may we not ask, does God per-
init the socialists and infidels of Europe to
invade our land as locusts and hornets, de-
stroying all that we deem sacred ? The
answer is easy. All these things have been
too lightly esteemed by us, and now we who
have been sowing to the wind must get
ready for the reaping of the whirlwind. God
allows the evils to grow and mature which
Christians have disregarded. What ade-
quate influence have we been exercising to
educate the ignorant and reform the vicious,
the dangerous classes of our cities and vii
lagos And can we then wonder that bad
has steadily been growing worse when we
were doing nothing to make it better Z
There is power in the gospel to meet and
master every device of bad men, if only Gods
people have faith to take hold of Gods
strength, which abides in the gospel always
ready for action when prayer and faith call
it into exercise. No husbandry like spir-
itual husbandry for the certainty and large
ness of its products And no field becomes
so soon and so hopelessly bad as the spirit
ual field when neglected and given up to the
tares which the enemy sows when men sleep.
If we neglect the bad at home, they will be-
come the instruments whereby God will
punish our sin. If we neglect the heather,
they too will be made Gods avengers.
Hordes from the East may come down ere
long upon Europe not only, but landing on
our Western coast may sweep over our land
as the Northern hordes in former ages swept
over Christian Europe The neglected classes
at home and abroad are TO be the scourges
of God, by whom our unbelief, apathy, and
seishness will be severely punished.-Chris
tan InteUiqencer
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Hum0rsOme Waits.

"DEBT," says Josh Billings, "iz trap
which q man sets and bats himself aud
then deliberately gets into"
FouR things are grievously empty--A
head without brains, wit without judgment,
a heart without honesty, purse without
money.
DRUNKEN man lately tried to get po.
lceman to arrest his own shadow. His
complaint was that an Unlocking scoundrel
kept following him.
GALL flesh is grass" said an uninterest-
ing preacher, in the midst of a dry discourse.
I" Then you must be hay murmured one OF
his wearied listeners.
EDMUND YATES says that some one sent
him mourning card recently with this in
scripton on it "Epitaph for Beaconsfield
Give the devil his jew"
"SEE," said sorrowing wife, show
peaceful that cat and dog are" "Yes,'
said the petulant husband, but Just tie
them together, and see how the fur will fly I"
How came you to have such short
nose ?" asked city dandy of country
boy. $50 that would not be poking it
into other peoples business" was the reply.
LIFE-pREsERvING rules First-Never
disturb dog when he is eating. Second
Never interrupt an editor when he is reading
proof Third-Never call upon house
wife when she is up to her elbows in
wash-tub.
WHEN Mr.. Alexander Gum was dismissed
from the Customs at Leith, in consequence
of his having sent in wrong return, the
entry made in the books against him stood
thus, "a Gum discharged for making a
false report"
COLLEGE Professor TO Junior who has
been taking advantage of his absent-mind-
edness)- Young man, find on looking
time in two years that you have been granted
leave of absence to attend your grandmoth-
er's funeral"
my freens," said old Mr., Flockhart, the
well known and eccentric street preacher, in
Edinburgh, one night, while relating the
circumstances of his conversion to his sparse
congregation, " My heart was as black as
sweeps face; but moo it's whittier than a
washer-wifes thoom |"
"Do you know what bulldozing is ?" asked
a man of an old farmer. al thought did,
said the granger, " but the bull wasn't doz-
ing; he was only making believe; and, be-
ing in the middle of forty-acre lot,
naturally had to make pretty quick time TO
reach the fence ahead of him."
TnE Burlington Haokeye says OF the re-
cent warm weather there "The iron statue
of Mercury was sunstruck. You could light
a match on the under side of the RATS down
at the evee. The rails in the Chicago, Bur
ington and Quincy yards were blistering.
You could sit down and warm yourself with
! block Of ice"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-07
Little Ears Hear.

Parents and other persons though having
at heart the good of children, are very apt to
be needless of what they say in the presence
Of the young ones, whose minds and hearts
catch the hue of every sentiment expressed.
They talk on, and the child is seemingly en-
gagged in its play, but words and statements
then made come up days after, when, per-
haps, they had forgotten the conversation,
wonderfully fresh from the child's lips. Its
mind has been revolving what it heard, for
good or evil Boys grow old too fast by
hearing men at their talk among themselves.
Says a writer; q" If we stopped to think how
every word spoken in the presence of lit
tie child affects its future for good or evil,
we would be far more considerate in our
speech. 1t is astonishing how, for days,
children will ponder over careless word or
sentence which no one supposed they had
even heard, and at some critical moment use
it themselves, with startling and horrifying
effect. How an inpatient, petulant word
shocks us, coming second hand from those
innocent lips Then, alas we see and de-
plore its real deformity and realize how po-
tent is our influence over these observant in
nocents, not only at all times, but at every
moment of time in which they are in our
presence. - Calendar,
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The New Birth.

In few instances, equally rare and beauti-
full, the development of our nature is SO
healthy that the soul, almost from the first,
asserts its rightful supremacy This is
sometimes the result of pure Christian in
fuences, the wise training of parents, the ex-
ample of good and pious teachers, which
may be called the human agency by which
the Divine Spirit is working. Sometimes,
even when surrounded by the worst inhu-
ences of sin, in the dens of iniquity, or in
the high places of worldliness the child is
seen TO grow up with almost stainless purity,
through some mysterious guiding of which
it is not conscious, but which leads heaven
ward, as by an angels hand. In such cases
there seems never to be a struggle between
the flesh and the spirit. The soul grows up
to the heavenly life, almost as the seed grows
up to its appointed beauty, Yet believe
that, even in such cases. if we could under
stand the full working of the soul, we should
find here, as elsewhere, what is called the
new birth, which is passing from the earthly
or natural state to the spiritual or heavenly
1t may take place very early and very grad
ually, but think that it is not the less real
The life of the spirit is not that TO which we
are first born, but the life of the flesh The
second man, and not the first, is the Lord
from heaven. When Christ is formed in the
soul 1t is the redemption of the soul from
the natural, earthly influence If it is eff
fected before that influence has brought
degradation, the thanksgiving to God may
be greater, but it is not less redemption
| William q. Eliot
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Why Help God Z

God does not need our help. Why, then,
does he ask for it n Why put us to the
trouble of working for him, why put us to
the strain of giving for him, why put us to
the long endurance Of patiently planning
and waiting that we may accomplish his
design : Because thus he develops us. This
is his spiritual university in the world. Thus
he applies not tests merely, but Indictment,
stimulants, means Of instruction to whatever
is best in u.s. The man who has given him
self to his country loves it better, the man
who has fought for his friend honors him
more, the man who has labored for his com.
munity values more highly the interest he
has sought to conserve. The man who has
wrought and planned and endured for the
accomplishment of Gods plan in the world
sees the greatness of it, the divinity and
glory of it, and is himself more perfectly as
simulated TO it.-Dr, StOrrs.
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Two Theories of the Future.

Should we be wrong in our views-should
it be contrary TO the design of our Lord to
convert all our race by the preaching of his
word, and the outpouring of his Spirit
should it be his purpose to leave the earth
much as it is until he concludes its mourn
full story in thunder claps of Judgment
should that consummation be nigh, and the
last trumpet be already beginning to fill with
the breath of the archangel, yet surely, if
we, under the illusion of our belief, are
found painting, praying, laboring, if by any
means we might save some, that blast might
cause us a pang for the multitudes whom it
found unwarned but no pang because we
had been busy in warning, exhorting, en-
treating; no pang because we had done so
in faith that our Lord willed all men to come
to the knowledge of the truth Suppose,
on the other hand, that there is even a pos
sibiity of our being right; that the grace of
God which has appeared to us really is
good tidings for every creature; that
the truth so precious to our nation and to
our own souls is not decreed away from any
part of the human family by the great Saw
iour above us that he does mean that liter
ally every creature should hear it from the
lips of his servants; that literally the whole
earth should be filled with the knowledge
of the Lord, that literally " the ages to come"
should take the early conversions as the type
of their expectations, and should embrace
all men in their supplications and their la
bors should all this be true, and we spend
our strength in observing the clouds, and
the judgments, and the trumpets, telling
those who are calling the nations that they
may call, but they will accomplish little
thereby-as far as in us lies stealing the
nerve from their arm and the fire from their
voice. should we in the midst of this die,
and find "ages to come" yet advancing,
then, perhaps, we might feel as if the Scrip
ture had been neglected by us, which says
" He that observeth the wind shall not SOW,
and he that regardeth the clouds shall not
reap" Futurity, judgments, and providen-
tial designs, lie within the unshared prov
ince of God and none need make it his
chief concern to settle or to ascertain them
A world of SHINING and suffering men, each
one of them my own brother, calls on me
for work, work, work. may trust the fu-
ture, and the time Of restoring Israel, to bet
ter hands than mine.--Reu. William Arthur.
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Thinking.

Thinking is not dreaming. The world is
full of dreamers. A few men do most of its
thinking. Thinking is manufacturing. 1t
is taking mental tools and hammering, and
filing, and moulding, and shaping, until ideas
have grownintof fully ydeveloped realities of the
brain, with dimensions and clearly marked
outlines. The reason there are not more
thinkers is because thinking is work it
wears away tissue and muscle IL is tire.
some. 1t requires time and purpose. Men
can dream while they sleep; to work they
must be awake. Dreaming is tearing away
the iiood-gates and allowing the flood to pour
through. If anything remains it is only
driftwood, that may chance to hang on the
way. Minds fill with driftwood because
they are not thinking. Thinking is measur-
ing chances, weighing principles, watching
The operation of law. 1t is process of creep
ing upon things and taking them by surprise
before they have time to get away. A
thinker is hunter. He must live alone.
lie must be satisfied with small daily fare,
and often see his game fly before he has time
to shoot. lie must have courage to face
chasms and dark places and climb steep
mountains. He must love solitude on an
outpost hidden in the rocks And here is
the reason this age is not profitable for good
thinkers. 1t is an age of company, of travel
OF theatre-going, of corporations and specula-
tions. Men live in crowds. Communion with
nature is shut out There are no sparks, be-
cause the flint and steel are not in contact
Men are following the college drones, pony
ing" through life. Everybody wants to
ride. Going to the spring for water is ont
of the fashion. The spring must come up
the hill. We want to turn the faucet aud
nave things run out to our hands.-.Selected
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Ghf Dome Gnrle.


A mother sang beside her little child,
who knowing not the meaning of the strain,
still gazed on her with eyes wide OPEN mild,
And listened pleased with cadence and refrain.
Only the pure in heart see God"
Those were the words the singing mother said
As in the irelight Laughing baby played.
From day TO day ;his was her household hymn,
As shadows Of the evening gathered there,
As through the twilight showed the homestead dim
Her song wing-lIke hid seem to cleave the air
only the pure In heart see God"
It noated up to some altar place,
Where spirits gaze for aye upon Gods face.
The mothers spirit passed into the boy,
Chatting upon hts soul her cradle words
As old birds teach their offspring to employ
Their tuneful throats to initiate the birds
Only the pure in heart see God"
As thrushes teach their young the thrush's lays,
She taught her deathless one a hymn of praise.
II bore its peaceful harvest to the child;
In all the thoughtful after years Of lfei
1t often stilled the raging unrest wild,
That frets the spirit in our worldly strife
Only the pure in heart see God"
II sometimes gave the wounded spirit rest
when heavily with many cares oppressed.
II ran for aye a cool life-giving rlll,
Sparkling and sweet and hidden in the heart,
And sometimes seemed TO overflow and an
His life; sometimes It seemed to roll
Only the pure in heart see God"
A stream of brightness from high, far throne,
Whose beauty was for him alone.
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Raihoad Gime gable.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINEi
Commencing on Monday, July lSt, 1878.

Leave Montpelier at 800 A. NJ, La p. Nj, 025 +.
NJ, and 10. 20 r. NJ
Mail-Leayes st. Albans At 100 A. Montpelier at 300 A.
NJ, for BOSTON New London, Springfield New York and
intermediate points
Day Express Leaves Rouses Point at 1880 A. NJ Mon
treal 800 A. NJ ST. Albana at 1870 Me- Burlington al
l220P. NJ, Montpelier at l47P M, for Boston via Lowell
White Mountain Express from Saratoga Springs ar
rives at Montpelier at i35 =. NJ.
Mixed Traine,ves ST. Albans at $40 p. NJ Burlington
at 7O5 p N, Montpelier at s25 P. NJ, for Northneld.
Night Express From ogdensbug Montreal, ST. Al
bans and Burlington, leaves Montpelier at 1850 p NJ
York and intermediate points.
Trains Going North and Wesg.
Leave Montpelier at 1926 A. NJ, g. 10 A. NJ, Ii 20 A.
NJ, $40 +. M, and 5.55 =. NJ.
Express Mail-Leaves Boston via Fitchburg at $50 A. NJ
via Lowell at 500 A. NJ, New London at SEQ A. NJ,
Springfield at 500 A. M Montpelier at $40 P. NJ, for
Accommodation Train-Leaves Northneld at 500 A.
NJ Montpelier at $40 A. NJ, for Burlington, st. Albans,
It, Johns and Montreal.
Mixed-Leaves W. H. junction at $50 A. NJ Northned at
1910 a. NJ. Arrive at Montpelier at II i.35 A. NJ.
Saratoga Express from white Mountains, leaves Mont
reler at ll20 A. for Burlington, Rutland, Saratoga
Springs, st. Albans, Rouses Point and Richford
Accommodated Train-Leayes White River June
tion at Las NJ, Montpelier at b55 p. NJ for Burling-
ton and st. Abans.
Night Express-Leayes Boston via Lowell at $50 M,
via fchbuig at 500 p. NJ, New York at 800 p, NJ
lngton, St. Abans Montreal and Ogdbg and the West.
Trains Montpelier for Barre at 6s2 A. and l25
andi25P. NJ Returning, leave Barre at "a Nand LOO
P. NJ, and $40 Nj
Sleeping cars are attached Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and Spring.
HELD and New York via Troy and paror cars TO Day Ex-
Mountains and Saratoga Springs.
Through tickets for Chicago the West for sale the
pncp" stations H2sAEE hpsAEy eRsHl sn MsS1Se SSR
st. Albans, Vt. June 90, 1873.
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Doing up Mems Linen.

Many a husband easy to please in all other
" the way this collar sets, or show this
bosom bulges out !" Aud many housewife
has tried again and again to remedy these
faults. A lady writing to the New York
Epening Post, explains the difficulty in the
following language Some time ago my
husband used TO complain that his linen
collars did not set nicely in front. There
was always fulness which, in the case OF
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A SUMMER DAY.

Deep down beside the tangled se1ge
The meedow-lark sings all the day,
And bursts at times from out the hedge
The mimic chatter Of the Jay;
And here and there a wandering note.
A cricket's chirp, comes sweet and clear
Where dreamy mists of summer float
Al noon upon the grassy mere.
Afar away below the hill
see the noisy mill-wheel 20,
The smooth broad lake above the mill,
The fash Of foam that roars below;
And on the even slopes that rise
So gently toward the mountains brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes
The lazy ploughboy at the plough.
My soul Ia sleeping, and IL dreams
All sad and sweet that dreaming thrills
For there are other wales and streams.
And other hocks on other hills
The hills whereon climbed to pull
The golden-rods and weeds Of May.
When all the world was beautiful.
And all my life a summer day.
--Harper's Magazine for August.
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MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST T. 1873

turning to righteousness which will usher in
the glorious eras in the history of the chufch,
which we all anticipate, will be preceded by
such revival Of the work of God in the
hearts of his people as will stimulate them to
the highest activity in his SERVICE United
PRESBYTERIAN.
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Books are but white paper unless men
spend in action the wisdom they get from
thought.-Buii0er.
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Barre Ac0dellay.

Classical and English School for both The
of study arranged to thorough preparation for
New England Colleges and scientific schools. Board, in
cludng room, washing and ironing from S2.2b to 400 per
week The Fail Term will begin on
Thursday, August ~, 1878.
For board, rooms Catalogue, apply to
43-4si j, $. SPAULDlNG, Barre, Vt.
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eWew advertisements.
FOR SALE.

The very desirable residence belonging to the estate of
the late Susan Nj Cree situated IN one OF the best locations
Montpelier village, will be sold at low price Terms
made known application to y. r. Brooks, Montpelier, or
the subscriber, at Waterbury. l.. H. HAlNES.
Montpelier, July l. 1875 Att