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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-08-24

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Fraternity of the United States and
Canada The MasOns of Louisiana
have sent an unexpected and unsol-
icited contribution of $500 to their
distressed brelhern in Mississippi.
We shall be glad to receive and dis
burse other contributions from the
craft. The distress and destitutiOn
at Vicksburg, Grenada and Canton
is appalling. We are in hourly ex-
pectation of the pestilence in jack
SON." Signed, j. L. Power, Grand
Secretary.
A telegram received today re-
ports that fifty cases of yellow fever
had occurred at Port Gibson, Miss,
aud two deaths.
Refugees arriving from Ocean
Springs report that of nine cases OF
yellow fever there, seven had prove
fatal.
PORT EADs, August 2l.-Five new
cases since yesterday. No deaths.
Memphis, August 21.-Last night
and this morning there was an in
crease in the number of new cases,
rs reported from twO-p..m yesterday
to noon to>day. There Is also an
increase I'm the death rate. No part
of the city enjoys immunity from
the plague.
GRENADA. August 20.-The NOR
taiity IL terrible. The SCENE cannot
be described. Dr. Manderville. an
experienced yellow fever physician,
says he uever saw anything that
wOnld begin to compare with 1t I;
that it IL fearful beyond description
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Here and There.

From mothers lips had heard frequent
lamentations over beloved son. Brave had
he been in his countrys service and faithful
to her cause. But the temptations of the
camp had been stronger than his powers of
resistance. and he had fallen apparently a
prey to the destroyer. Now from the same
lips. quivering and tremulous with grateful
Joy, have heard recently that her son had
renounced his evil habits had signed the
temperance pledge" and had become an
attentive worshipper with her, at her church.
Scarcely could she express in words the
gratitude that beamed upon her face and
the strong conviction on her mind that this
result was an answer to prayer, and to the
instunentality of "a good woman An
active worker in her church--who had ex-
erted all her influence to this end. This
mother has since told me that her reformed
son met, in state of intoxication, a young
man who had been one Of his former com
panions. "Oh, Will Armstrong !" exclaimed
the poor inebriate in tears. "When saw
you going to church with your mother, |
prayed to God that | might be the next"
His friend could scarcely restrain his own
emotion, as he replied, Come on then, and
God helping me, will do all can for YOU"
" God helpinq me ~ In these words lies all
his power to keep his pledge, or to aid his
companion to join him in the path he is
treading: "God help Inc !" LIT this be his
frequent and fervent ejaculation. especially
at the moment of temptation, when the sight
of the Intoxicating cup or the voice OF IA
companion would lead him to break his
resolution. Says one whose experience OF
life has given him a deep knowledge OF our
human nature, its foibles and its weak
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
A Timely Suggestion.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your
love and tenderness sealed up until your
friends are dead. Fill their lives with
sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words
while their ears can hear them, and while
their hearts can be thrilled by them The
things you mean to say when they are gone,
say before they go. The flowers you mean
to send for their cofins, send to brighten
aud sweeten their homes before they leave
them If my friends have alabaster boxes
laid away, full of perfumes of sympathy
aud affection, which they intend to break
over my dead body, | would rather they
would bring them out in my weary hours,
and open them, that | may be refreshed and
cheered by them while need them. | would
rather have a bare coffin without flower
and funeral without an eulogy, than life
without the sweetness of love and sympathy
Let us learn to anoint our friends before
hand, for their burial Post-mortem kind
ness does not cheer the burdened spirit
Flowers on the coffin cast no fragrance back
ward over the weary days.-New lorI
Evangelist.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
The Bright Side.

Look on the bright side. II is the right
'ide. The times may be hard, but it will
nake them no easier to wear a gloomy and
'ad vpuntenance 1t is the sunshine and
not the cloud that gives beauty to the
ilowef, There is always before or around us
hat Which should cheer aud fill the heart
with warmth and gladness. The sky is blue
ten times where it is black once. You have
troubles, II may be. So have others. None
are free from them; aud perhaps it is as
well that none should be. they give snew
md the TO life, iortitude and courage to
man, That would be dull sea, and the
sailor would never acquire skill, where there
is nothing TO disturb its surface 1t is the
iuty Of every one to extract all the happi-
ness aild enjoyment he can within and with
out him; aud above all, he should look on
the bright side. What though things do
look little dark : The lane will turn, and
the night will end in broad day. In the
long run the great balance rights itself
What appears i'll becomes well-that which
tppears wrong right. Men are not able to
nang down their heads or lips, and those
SboSioOniy show that they are departing
from the paths of true common sense and
right There is more virtue in one sun
beam than whole hemisphere of clouds
aud gloom, Therefore, we repeat, look on
The bright side. Cultivate all that is warm
Ind genlal-not the cold and repulsive, the
lark aud morose.--Interior.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Flowers at Funerals.

For some time there has been great in
crease of the custom of using flowers pro-
fusely, and often at large cost, at funerals.
Families in the higher walks OF life did it,
and those in humber spheres felt constrained
to follow them, or run the risk of being
charged with lack of proper interest in
their departed friends. While there is some
thing tender aud pleasant in a single flower,
but too early plucked, or modest bouquet
or an expressive sheaf of grain, tastefully
arranged for the occasion, there is something
repugnant to the better feelings OF many il
seeing everything loaded down with gath
erings from the conservatory. The expense
of all this is often large, and the tendencies
are not good. The press in many instances
has urged reform in it, In New York a
cotemporary of last week says "Flower'
are now nearly discarded at fashionable
funerals. The floral mania has been carried
so far that much display is now considered
vulgar" From this there is hope. If thu
idea becomes general that the custom i
uuigar, there will be REFORM whether ther
is any regard to principle or not.-Seiected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Bad Effects Of Good Examples.


The brilliant success of any man in any
walk of life tempts many to initiate him,
aud the imitation is generally a miserable
failure. Great poets, painters, orators,
preachers, writers, actors, fire by their ex.
amples the ambition of many poor creatures,
who can no longer bear the thought of re-
naming at the plough or the anvil, and to
whom the counting house is equally distaste-
full; they are determined to shine in some
higher sphere, and thus good carpenter j.
converted into very indifferent poet, fair
stone.mason becomes a bungling sculptor,
and a fellow who would have done well as "a
butcher makes an intolerable parson; and
all this is to the great injury of the men
themselves, and TO the considerable loss OF
society, which wants what these soaring
youth, might be, and does not at all want
the sort OF things they make themselves
Generally, also, while the imitation of the
original is very imperfect, it is so far au i'm
itation that whatever might be natural u
these mimics is suppressed, perhaps de
,troyed, and John Jones, instead of being
as everyone ought to be-himself, is a laugh
ible caricature of Mr.. Spurgeon. or poo
burlesque of Thomas Carlyle. Lives of grea
men all remind us we can make our lives
very ridiculous.-Pidin Talk.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
True Living.

No conflict is so severe as his who labors
to subdue himself; but in this we must be
continually engaged, if we would be strength
ened in the inner man, and make real pro-
gress towards perfection. Indeed, the highest
perfection we can attain in the present state
is alloyed with much imperfection, and our
best knowledge is obscured by the shades
of ignorance; ave see through glass
darkly;" an humble knowledge of thyself,
therefore, is a more certain way of leading
thee to God than the most profound investi-
cations of science. Science, however, or a
proper knowledge of the things that belong
to the present life, is so far from being
blamable, considered in itself, that it is
good aud ordained of God but purity OF
conscience and holiness of life must ever be
preferred before it; and because men are
more solicitous to learn much than to live
well, they fall into error and receive little
or no benefit from their studies. As
suredly in the approaching day of universal
judgment it will not he inquired what we
have read, but what we have done not how
eloquently we have spoken. but how holly
we have lived Thomas Kempis.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Rainy Sabbaths.

Rainy Sabbaths test the mental and spir-
itual resources of those who remain at home
because of the storm. How do they spend
the time which, in other circumstances, they
would have given to the house OF God
We have often laughed at the story of the
Scotch housewife who, on looking forth at
the clear sky on a beautiful Sabbath, eX-
claimed, Pity me, anither dry Sabbath ;
III no get my drawer cleaned out yeti" and
We would be far from supposng that any OF
our readers employed themselves on "a wet
Sunday in any such way; but how do they
engage themselves The answer 10 that
question will determine very much the meas
ure and strength of their piety. DO they
relish quiet hour of personal communion
with God DO they gather the members OF
the household together aud spend awhile in
the study of the Scriptures Have they
any books upon the closet shelf which they
reserve for such opportunities as a wet Sab
bath affords Or is the hour wasted in
sleepy idleness or gossipy conversation
/ DO they content themselves with the peru
/ sal OF some so-called religious novelette,
which is myde up OF three parts sentiment
aud one part unrealityY Or entering fully
into the meaning of the grand old Scripture
word meditate,' do they take subjrc
out of the Bible aud hold their attention Il
it for time, turning it round and round
and shaking it rs one shakes a heavy ladel
bOugh until the fruit falls into their laps
These are important questions. A Chris
tian is really what he is when he is alon,
aud so rainy Sunday may be heaven sen
test TO lead us to the discovery of ourselves
Christian at Work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Private Worship.

Much has been said recently in the secu-
lar journals of New York as to the treat
ment which strangers receive at the doors of
prominent city churches. There is gen
eral clamor over the fact that persons who
do not own pews, and so do not contribute
towards the carrying on OF the services, are
compelled to wait in the vestibule until
certain point in the services before seats are
given them. 1t is asserted that they have
a right to enter the church and seat them
selves or be seated at once. We believe
this idea entirely wrong, and will endeavor
here to show it to be so. We think that no
one will deny the positions we shall take.
Any gentleman has right to gather his
family for worship in his own house without
the intrusion OF any uninvited person. He
has right to employ chaplain, and to Ell
Joy the performance OF the most elaborate
quartette choir in the same way. He has
right to club together with as many of his
nrighbors as may be convenient for the pur-
poses of such worship and the defraying of
its expenses. Such club has a perfect
right thus to worship, without the intrusion
of others, in the parlors of its members or
in building erected specially for that pur
pose. However large the club may become
and however great the expenses OF its services,
it still has right to exclude everybody but
its own members, so long as it occupies
property owned or hired by itself The
right of privacy clings to it through all its
changes. If it shall become Incorporated
by the Legislature, and call itself parish it
does not forfeit its right to privacy. Such
club may build house that shall rival the
most magnificent of cathedrals, for the wor-
ship by its members of Almighty God, but
that clubhouse is still its own, aud subject
to its own rules and regulations. Such a
club has right to do anything il pleases
with its clubhouse except one thing. 1t
has no right to call it "a church. For
"church means the Lords house" II
these things be true, and we think they are
then no one who does not belong to such q
club has right to complain if he is not ad
mitted within its house, or if, being ad
mitted, he is subject to certain conditions
lie might as well complain OF not being
freely admitted to the very attractive re
ceptions OF the Century" club or th'
Union League" But for the church
sake they are bound to have it clearly under
stood that their clubhouses are, at the most
not churches, but only proprietary chapels
Aud if the houses have the appearance o
churches, they will save themselves fron
being misunderstood, and avoid much al
noyance, by posting over the door some sucl
notice as " No Adnittance," or "No Tres
passing Allowed. ."-ChWchmdn.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Hanging Up Pictures.

We are hanging up pictures every day
about the chamber walls of our hearts that
we shall have to look at when we sit in the
shadows. Then, summing all up, only
Christ can make any life young or old, truly
beautiful, or truly happy. Only he can cure
the hearts restless fever and give calmhess
and quietness. Only he can purify that sim
full fountain within us, our corrupt nature,
and make us holy. Would you have a
beautiful and happy old age ? Would you
look back from amid the shadows with
sweet satisfaction, and forward with glori-
ous hope you must begin your walk with
Christ in the golden days of youth. Then
the decay, and wasting, aud infrmities of
old age will be, as dear Dr. Guthrie calls
these symptoms of his own approaching
death, only " the land birds lighting on the
shrouds, telling the weary mariner that he
/ is nearing the desired heaven. York
Etun1eiiSf.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Teach Them a Trade.

Il
The saying that What the fathers accn-
mulate the sons VIII spend, Is not whlt
less true now than 1t was when' 10 ald IN a
more moral and Just Distribution OF wealth,
our foretathers did away with the laws OF
entail and primogeniture. Men accumulate
great fortunes, aud brlng thelr chlldren up
in luxury, and without any haoits oi tnriit
or industry which We're tne cause Oh 'ntir
own prosperity. Inc children spehd the
money the parents nave earneus thu ehe
tnird generation comes on the stage poverty
stricken ana frequently deVoia Oh .he moral
stamina ana inteliecouai caPaolilU'es which
maze the,r grandparents prosperous: Aga!'i,
III cheSe uayS Oh specuIa1lon anu h'ia''oia'
vicissitudes, the millohalre Oh @uay Is
lkely 10 pe bankrupt to-horroW' puo HOW
seldom Is TINS contingency taKe,i ihoo CON
slderatloh IN the enucatloi ol the cniiu'tn
Oh the wealthy OF oil even the mercy well
to-do' we appear 10 consider idieneSs one
Oh Che privileges Oh the rlch-a 1h'hS 10 oe
coveted' industry is regarded as poPu'ar
.hing Tor tnose whom necessity conPels 10
oread'Wihnihg'yeesca scarcely resPecIao'e never
,nt'.'Slca,,y no monpraole U! .lo'a,y .nouil,
oe.o on an me poy o. g,rl WIZ nas W earn
hVing is generaiy Pleieu' as IL i. were iess
'onoraole 10 pe seil-sussaihi's .'ia.i W ue-
penu OH some QUE eise lor support .;;, o,.el
Ohey are aeSPiseu' here Is no oiNh,~eu
country wnere Soor Is 80 iiVuie nono'eu aS
Ill ohe thi.eu o1ates' we "oISn,P iiia,i ~.
ho"' anu PiCy or ueaPlSe 'iones. iaool' ,.. 10
/ se. ilvlng 70 accui'iulaVe wealth. Wi'hou. i
souut mug ~ '',e ~oii'
ior II, 's tne s'rlle VI ne WI" Iie siva'
i'a''eo Vi oul Poop'e ~ ii''t IN
Vuis' "neie P'ppeiy 10 'u'e w w .i'o' p'1i pa.eI
VI 10 cnange na'oS az ieasV eeeiy seoonu
geheratlon' Vnele ~ 'ne slea,esV neJessi.s
io' e'e,S Pe'HOn W "o I"P"olo u oe.i-out
po's nli pe''on' o"o"n' 'VI," M M "'''iu
o,"l'' 1"ue' AZ y, pio'oa'ion p,s ". 'un ou."
ilc9s v,a' .neS may '"'1y ny Von'PIoo
Wl'h oe''erS III tie IKE caii,nS' ne lounua
,'o'i VI suc' Vrainlhg shou'u oe iaio III o'iiIu-
noou' our Puplic scIoois siouiu glve Veon-
n'ca' ,nStruc.'oh' AZ noihe par.iouiai re
gaiu g' sho"'u oe Iiau u 'lie emu auap,a- va
oiii'les' Ai'los. eSeil 1nilu iiiel9.iuny
"nu "iseiN e"uoweu oy itoN'uenos "'V,i an
"P'i,uue ioi sorie Par,ivu'a' nai'uioia ai'
'ou"oVi,e inuus''y' ,iV'ie oose' "V'o,, VI
Vno peoui'"'i'ie9 VI ,r'iu,en wiz s.o~ In'e,
"nu % II ParenS Wouiu s.uuy '"e oel.e VI .''e'i
oniiuIen ,a'enIs anu anu" opportunity ioi
ouituie III u"ei, u''ec.ion' 'huc" vi 'he ,nise,s
0"ao Is ehgenuereu ny ineaPaG,,y anu iuie-
ness "ou'i oo a'o'ueu' i""usanus Vi
o'ish'' capao'e poys are PuI every year a.
'"nue's iii'o n'oAei' oinVo'' ia"!e'' o,ioe''
newspaper oliices; "no snouiu pe o'i iai'hs
VI ao tne artisan oenc,i iearnihg ,raues'
"'ris are iuie' vi occuPieu "i'h lr,Voi'ies
scarceiy Iess uishonoraoie thaii ioiehess'
hanging around the paterhai hreside waiting
ior sel'ieiiienV' "ho shouiu pe employing
every hour III e'ie serious preparation ior ne m
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Work and Prayer.

People sometimes say, " To work is to
pray" This is true, and it is not true. To
work in the highest way is to pray to pray
in the highest way is to work. Jesus
prayed when he was working FOR he kept
his soul open toward God to receive inspir.
alton, while he stretched out his hand
toward man to do good. Work that is full
of heavenly inspiration is mode of prayer,
just as heat is a mode of motion. But to
90 through routine of outward duties me-
chanically is neither praying nor working.
Aud prayer, to be true prayer, must be
prayer looking at work for its end prayer
that holds its soft embrace all the human
hearts we are to meet in our days task and
toll. To say ones prayer as a duty, to pray
for selfish good, TO go through the routine
of prayer as priest reads his breviary in
the railroad car, so many hours a day-that
is neither prayer nor work. Inspired prayer
is work; inspired work is prayer; but
routine prayer and routine work are neither
one nor the other.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
VOL. 73.-371S. NO. IA.

Aunt Bell glanced across at me with
| wistful eyes. ! tried to smile, but made
rather a failure of IL.
AT length the parlor maid came in.
Mrs. Dorrillon." said she to me, in low
and agitated voice, " Mr.. Dorrillon is took
very bad, maam, and they're a-carryin of
him up stairs. And please, ma'am, the
waiter says he's drunk ~
"Drunk ?"
sprang to my feet, feeling as If every
drop of blood in my body was turned to ice.
And please ma'am, the gentlemen is go.
ing, and Major Clissold's compliments, and
he'll do himself the honor to call tomorrow
and"
That will do, Delval'' | said, abruptly.
Aunt Bell came up to me and put her
arms around me, as the girl fluttered out of
the room again, and we could hear the hall
loor closing behind our departing guests
"Oh, Aunt Bell, Aunt Bell !" walled
out, dropping my head upon her shoulder
"what shall do ?"
Let us proceed at once to the dining
room," said Aunt Bell "The waiter can
tell us if"
And she led my almost fainting footsteps
across the hall into the room had so Joy.
Dusly assisted in decorating but brief
DpripI aUp
n was desert.d ,o,v rho eo,,or. las.
faded M ths TIL ,ha haif ala r,ios"as 10y
tooJ ,'r,.,,,,J a,'i .q.-'. t.tr s'''soe9 ''s.'
he snotless dswasL hore ,anto ,.;t"o,s PA -"
the unsteady hands os tbo ouas,o "'' W
Tba ,rre.r IosIbsr choisO 'so,o n,shoa
hack in Sarious a,iitn1 AMI r'I',ing pH s;,b
me elbow on the mantle. his face turned
lway, stood my husband
" Nav oh Nav -,
He turned 10 me. with look shall povor
lorpet. 81 hone Won are satisfieJ now isaheI +"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Here and There a Gem.

HAPPINESS is neither within us nor with
out us it is the union of ourselves with
God. Pascal
KNOWLEDGE is proud that he has learned
so much Wisdom is humble that he knows
no inore.-CoWper.
Duty is the voice of God, aud a man is
neither worthy of a good home, or heaven,
that is not willing to be in peril for good
cause.-JoLn BroWn.
A WORKSHOP is not bad place for preach
ing in, Ii the heart of one workman is
filled with the love of Christ, all the hands
will hear Of it.-Arn0id
Be not ashamed before God of thy trade
every honest calling is acceptable in his
| eyes but with thy trade be not ashamed OF
thy God aud thy Christanity.-Gerot.
II is better that joy should be spread over
all the day in the form of strength, than that
it should be concentrated into ecstasies,
full OF danger and followed by reactions
Emerson.
The happiness of your life depends upon
the quality of your thoughts therefore guard
accordingly, aud take care that you entertain
no notions unsuitable to virtue and reason
able 10 nature.-Mdrcus AntOnius.
TmE Bible tells us of the streams, that it
may allure us 10 the fountain it tells of the
past acts of Gods faithful love, that we may
be led TO set our hope on God, and to feel as
sured that he who hath helped will help,
and that he who hath loved will love unto
the end.-7homdS Erskme.
USED to observe that what was called
, " natural fruit in my grandfather's orchard
was poor stuff, fit only for the swine. The
valuable fruit was from grated limbs. ST
the natural fruut al The human heart is sin
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Some Darling In Every Home.

Longfellow never wrote more truthful or
touching poetry than that inspired poem en-
titled 4" Resignation"
"Theres no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb is there;
There is no fireside, howsoe' er defended,
But has one vacant chair
The air is full of farewels to the dying
Aud MORNINGS for the dead;
The heart Of Rachel for her children crying,
win not be comforted.
What family is there which does not find
its complement in one or more who dwell on
the hither side of the river amid the glory
ineffable ? What family is there that holds
not a broken harp, the string of which was
once swept by little fingers, now cold and
pulseless, but whose hearts now make music
and melody in the heavenly chor2 We
know that lit is well with the child" But
that does not fill the void. We know that
the Father does all things WELL but there is
river that separates the pet and idol and
Joy of the household from us, and we know
that it " i'll never be crossed from the hither
side. The silver cord has been snapped, and
it will never be reunited on this side. Put
away sacredly the little remembrances ; they
will nevermore be called for. Tears are the
| gift which love bestows upon the memory OF
the absent, and they avail to keep the heart
from suffocation. How Pierpont must have
suffered before he gave voice to that sad re
| frain
." cannot make him dead
His fair, suushiny head
Il ever bounding round my study chair;
Yet when my eyes now dim
With tears, turn to him,
The vision yanishes-he Is not there.
81 walk my paror floor,
And through the open door
hear a football on the chamber stair
I'm stepping toward the hall
To give the boy Il call,
And then bethink me that-heis not therel'
Well, well 1t is for some good purpos
that the little human angels of the house
hold come and go. God knows all about it
we do not.