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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-11
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MARKETS 6Y TELEGRAPH
WALL STREET.
New York, July IL.
Money-3@3} per cent.
Governments stocks-Weak.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New York. July II.
WHEAr-Unsettled; 4c@1lc lower; No.
2, red, for August, 81. .14@$l.14A.
RYE-Quiet but firm. For July. Cleo
cons-Quiet, ac@1c lower; westsrn
mixed, 42c@454c.
OArs-ste.dy, 4oc@4l4c.
BARLEY-Duli, none.
PoRK-Dull, 5000.
LARD-Firmer. $685..
WH1sKY-$l.N@.
CHICAGO.
Chicago. July II.
WHEAr-Fairly active, shade lower
No, 2. 9S4c bid; 99c asked for July; CSC
bid for August; 97c asked for September.
CoRx-Lower, No. 2, 37c for July 37sc
l lOI AUSubtS UAu 0SVSSS0oOss
OArs-Quiet, 32ac for July; 2Ssc for
August; 274c bid for September.
RY1-Fair demand, SIC cash. for July
and August. ea3&
| BARLEY-None.
| PoRK-$s2oa for August; $40 fol
LARD-s5.s5 bid for August; $6,o23 fo'
September.
l WHIsKY-$l, ,06
Il MILWAUKEE,.
Milwaukee, July IL.
Il WHEAr-Declined4c 4c92ac. Hard, $l.O7
No. 2, $l,00; for July, 994c; for August
98sc; for September SIC.
CoRN-Firm. No. 2, SIC.
OArs-Dull. No. 2, &c.
RYE-53c.
BARLEY-67c.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
A Chinese Parable.

Fohi, in the course of his wanderings,
coming to a village, knocked at the door of
rich woman and begged permission to
enter. "What !" said she, edo you think
receive into my house every rowing vaga-
bond No, indeed it would be unbefitting
a respectable woman Go your way" Then
he went TO the cottage of poor woman, who
at once kindly begged him to enter. She set
before him the only food she had, a little
goats milk, broke piece of bread into it,
and said, May Fohi bless it, that we may
both have enough" She then prepared for
him couch Of straw; and when he fell
asleep, perceiving that he had no shirt, she
sat up all night and made him one out of
some linen she had made by her own hard
labor. In the morning she brought it to him,
begging he would not despise her poor gift.
After breakfast, she accompanied him a lit
tie way, and at parting Fohi said, "May the
first work you undertake last until evening !"
When she got home, she began TO measure
her linen, to see how much was left and
she went on measuring, and did not come to
the end of it until the evening, when her
house and yard were full of linen; in short,
she did not know what to do with her wealth.
Her rich neighbor, seeing this, was sorely
vexed, and resolved that such good fortune
snould not escape ner again. Alter some
months the traveller came once more to the
village the rich woman went to meet him,
pressed him to go to her house, treated him
with the best food she had and in the morn
ing brought him shirt of fine linen, which
she had made some time before but all
night she had kept candle burning in her
room, that the stranger, if he awoke, might
suppose she was making his shirt. After
breakfast she accompanied him out of the
village, and when they parted he said, MAY
the first work you undertake last till even
ing 4" She went her way home, thinking the
whole time of her linen, and anticipating its
wonderful increase; but Just then her cows
began to low. "Before / measure my
lnen," she said, Z" 1 will quickly fetch the
cows some water" But when she poured
the water into the trough, her pail never
emptied; she went on pouring, the stream
increased, and soon her house and yard were
all under water; the neighbors complained
that everything was ruined the cattle were
drowned, and with difficulty she saved her
own life, for the water never ceased flowing
until the setting of the sun.-Seiected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Happiness OF Old Age.

Nor are advancing years marked always
with unpleasing qualities The eye that is
growing gradually dim may yet beam with
the soft light of JOY as well as become
heavy with the tear of afiliction. Age often
displays gentle and holy affections, deep as
the foundations of the soul, that diffuse
benignant sunshine throughout the circle Of
their influence; radiant, celestial hope some
times cheers the declining path, and creates
a delightful composure of the heart, alto
gether unlike "comfortess despair" de-
served honors crown a useful life, and at
tract veneration and love, for not always is
transcendent merit, though retiring from
high stations in the world made the sport
of "bitter scorn and grinning infamy."
Manhood has magnanimous virtues, as well
as degrading vices victories nobler than
wars grandest triumphs, as well as tempest
uous temptation; worthy, as well as ignoble,
ambition. What sight is more sublimely
beautiful than friendship, whose corner
stone was laid by the hand of youth, grow
ing up in majestic simplicity, as every year
adds materials to the enduring fabric, until
at last the sunset of age gilds the structure
with grace like that of Paradise Yes, it
is true that age may meet the smile of faith
full regard, as well as the "altered eye Of
hard unkindness." Amid severest woe a
hopeful, quiet, accomplishing temper, alive
to the keenness of sorrow, yet wearing the
look of heavenly patience, is sometimes seen,
as well as moody madness laughing wild"
Aud finally, age, though "slow consuming, 2"
very often reaps the earnest of immortal
life, and spiritually ripens for the skies.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Squeamishness.

Squeamish people at the table are the
dread of housewives, and the bane of board
ing-house mistresses. In every mixed COM
pany of dozen you will commonly find the
individual who "never eats vegetables, thank
you "-unless it be some variety that is out
of season, or that is not generally cooked
In the matter of meats he is equally mine
ing. Roast beef he kindly patronizes, if he
can have particular slice ont of very
particular cut-as he usually can, if he is
carvingl But mutton, pork, domestic fowls
and the common run of wholesome meats he
firmly declines, with a mingled air of con-
scious martyrdom to his own superior tastes
and OF wondering pity at your all-embracing
likes. How far this disagreeable trait is the
result of want of early training, and how
far it may be due to peculiar constitutional
conditions, does not always appear A man
who thinks it mark of superiority to boast
that he never knows what he has eaten after
a meal-which is no more rational cause
for felicitation than for one TO confess that
he is color blind, or to say that he cannot
tell what he has heard after attending a con-
cert-may not be to blame for his lack of
taste; but the fact remains that he is de-
ficient in one of his senses. There are of
course cases of pure affectation, where the
person-it is, we fear, usually woman
goes home from slighted dinner with her
ethereal pecularities left as memory at
the feast, and regales herself with cold nut
ton pie or roast spare-rib, behind the pantry
door. But whether real or simulated, such
peculiarities are misfortune; and parents
will do their children, aud the public with
whom they must mingle in after-life, last
ing service if they can shape their tastes
into more general and agreeable lines. A
child should rarely il ever be compelled to
eat food that is positively distasteful to it
never food that actually disagrees with it
But the number of such articles will be
found to be very small, if they are properly
cooked, and served in a rational manner
Golden Rule
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Whittier than Snow.

When a fippant unbeliever accosted an
earnest evangelical preacher with an objec-
ton to his sermon, and said, al Sir, don't
like your theology. It is all blood, blood,
BLOOD 1t savors of the shambles. like
pleasanter gospel the ambassador of
Christ replied; "True, my theology is
bloody. 1t recognizes as its foundation the
death of Christ, with thorn.pierced brow,
bleeding hands, and open side. | am quite
content that it should be bloody; for God
has said, without shedding of blood, there
is no remission of sins and The blood of
Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth MS from all
sins >" Scarlet sins become "white as
snow" How ? "Not by works of righteous
ness which we have done" All the dyers on
earth cannot dye red into white. Aud
no human merit can avail to cleanse ore
crimson spot of guilt away. by the wash
ing of regeneration aud renewing Of the
Holy Ghost are we justified and sanctified,
" through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a
Precipitation through faith in his blood" Of
the redeemed in glory we read, They have
washed their robes, and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb" The livery of
heaven is white. Fine linen, clean and
white" white robes" white horses !" "a
white cloud" as the seat of the Son of Man /;
"a great white throne for the Judge; "a
white stone " for the accepted saints, who
"walk in white with him who has made them
worthy" Verify, we must wear our "white
raiment" here, if we would enter there.
"They are without fault before the throne
of God" And " Christ also loved the church
and gave himself for it, that he might sane
tify and cleanse it-that he might present
it TO himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing" To
the Fountain opened for sin and unclean-
ness let us daily draw near, and take with
us the words of "the snow-prayer." As said
a happy little girl who came in one morning
to her Christian mothers knee, after a
bright race in the crisp, freshly-fallen snow,
Mamma, could not help pausing while ]
was at play, to pray the snow-prayer."
"What did you pray, my dear ?" asked the
interested mother. The dear child replied,
" Mamma, | said to Jesus, Wash me, and
shall be whittier than snow p"
Helpless and foul as the trampled snow,
Sinner, despair not Christ stoopeth low
To rescue the soul that is lost in its sn
And raise it to life and enjoyment again;
GroaniDg, bleeding, dying for thee,
The Crucifed hung on the accursed tree;
His accents of mercy fell soft on thine ear
Is there mercy for me will he heed my prayer?
o God, in the stream that for sinners doth flow,
WASH ME, AND SHALL BE wHTTER THAN sNOwV'
-Christidn .Siqndl.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Do IL Now.

A rich man lately died in New York, leav-
ing large fortune as fortunes 60 in these
days, and generous part Of it for the fur
therance of religious and educational work.
But his last days were embittered by the
fact that these benefactions were so much
smaller than he had intended, and might
have made them. The shrinkage on the se-
curities in which he had invested property
set apart in his will for these uses was reck-
oned at more than 81 ,0000O if not more
than S2,000,000, before he died. He was a
really good and generous man, and the
thought was intensely painful, that in his
prosperous years he might have given away
from one to two millions of dollars without
injury to any soul dependent on him, and
have seen the good that money was doing in
his lifetime; while by trying to hold it till
death he had seen it vanish, profittng no.
body. There is lesson here if the Lords
stewards care to learn it.-.Seiected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Walking with God.

The difficulty which most people have in
religion is to bring the thought of God into
their daily lives. His very greatness makes
it hard to connect him with homely, every
day matters. We get some sense of him in
the church, or in the prayer-meeting, or in
rare hours of exalted feeling. But when we
go into the busy world, where most of our
life is spent, God fades away into a heaven
that is farther off than the blue sky above
our heads. This is great loss to us. 1t is
neglect on our part of our highest opportu.
nifty. God walks with us in closest nearness,
at every moment. There is in him, if we
could learn to take it, provision of hope
fulness, of sympathy, of sufficiency, for every
step in the whole round of our life The
very things that seem insignificant and with
out spiritual meaning, are set around us by
God as part of our education; and if we
habtually recognize his presence in them
all, the incidents of business, and our house
hold care and daily walk will become threads
of gold, holding us in the sweetest, noblest
friendship with our Heavenly Father
Earnest Worker
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Suggestions about Serving Dinner.


We take the following from Mrs. S. w.
Oakey's Hints to Young Housekeepers," in
the Midwinter Scribner' The table should
be carefully laid-folds OF the table-cloth IN
line, two large napkins placed at the head
and foot of the table with corners to the
centre, every plate being wiped before be-
ing set upon the table, the glass clear, the
silver polished, the salt-cellars filled with
fresh salt. "a little stamp upon the salt
improves the appearance) When the plates
are laid, two forks should be put on the
left hand, knife and soup-spoon on the
right, large spoons crossed at each saltcel-
lar, and tablespoons on the top; tumblers
and wine-gasses on the right hand at each
plate, and napkin folded with piece of
stale bread within its folds, the soup-plates
placed in the plate at the head OF the table,
and the napkin in the upper one. Soup
ladle, gravy-spoon, and carving knife and
fork go before the mistress tish-trowel III
there is fish for dinne) gravy-spoon and
carving knife and fork before the master; If
there is no soup, no ladle; II no fish, no
trowel; if but one dish of meat, but one
carving-knfe and fork. If you have neither
fruit nor flowers, bowl with bits of ice
makes pretty centre. The side-table
should be laid with white cloth, the silver,
plates, fnger-bowls, that will be needed dur
ing dinner, arranged tastefully upon it; the
castors, pat of butter with an ice upon it,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Words OF Wisdom.

LABOR to keep alive in your heart that
little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
lF our religion is not true, we are bound
to change it; If it is true, we are bound to
propagate it, IVhateiy.
II the way TO heaven is narrow, it is not
long; and ii the gate be straight, it opens
into endless life.-Beueridge
Do you not know that a wise aud good
man does nothing for appearance but every
thing for the sake of having acted well
GRIEF knits two hearts in closer bonds
than happiness ever can; and common suf-
ferings are far stronger links than COM
mon joys.
CIVILIZATION depends on morality. Every
thing good III man depends on what is higher.
This rule holds in small as well as great
Emerson.
No MAN has come to true greatness who
has not felt in some degree that his life be.
longs to his race, and what God gives him
he gives him for mankind.-PhWps Brooks.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always
like itself. II is equal and pure, without
violent demonstrations. 1t is seen with
white hairs, but is always young in the heart
MAKE no man your idol, for the best man
must have faults; and his faults will in
sensibly become yours, in addition to your
own. This Is as true in art as in MORALS
w. AHstOn.
FAITH evermore overlooks the difficulties
of the way, and bends her eyes only to the
end. She looks back to the cross and is at
peace aud forward TO the crown, aud pants
Tor its possession.-B Bishop Hal.
WHERE the peace is that Christ gives, all
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Education and Crime.

A singular case occurred recently at Wood
stock Maine, where man was undergoing
trial for burglary. He defended his own
case, aud with surprising skill He took
exceptions to the rulings of the judge, and
succeeded in getting new trial. lie was
an educated lawyer, but had dropped into
criminal ways, until he had become noted
offender with an alias. Cases like this are
of rare occurrence. But there have been so
many instances of late years in which edu-
Gated men have committed crimes that many
people have come to doubt whether, after
all, education has much moral value. Prison
statistics, however, settle that point. From
seventy to ninety-five per cent. OF the Grim
inals in the different prisons are ignorant.
Still, as a matter of fact mere ability to
read and write is not enough TO deter man
from criminal acts. There is no moral
value in mathematics. Novel-reading does
not keep the hands clean nor the heart pure,
and there is no necessary connection be-
tween logic and the love of ones neighbor
as himself. The public school education
of this and of other countries is not directed
TO moral training. Children are not taught
religion, and their best sentiments are not
quickened and called into life by the school
discipline. And unfortunately, in too many
instances, there is no home training to sup
ply the defects of school instruction. In
thousands of homes no religious instruction
is given, nor moral training worthy the
name is imposed, the voice of prayer is
never heard, and nothing whatever is done
to impress on the child's mind the solemn
truth that he is responsible being and
will be held accountable for his acts. If
educated men sometimes falf and become
criminals, it is not on account of their edu.
cation, but in spite of it, and for want of
that moral and religious education, which
teaches respect for truth and honor, for the
rights of men and fear of God. Something
should be done to supply this all-important
defect, or the merely intellectual education
we are giving will prove to be quite as much
of peril as it is OF a blessing.-Evangelist.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
A Gem from DIR. Guthrie.

"The word of the Lord is tried word !"
fail us who and what may hat cannot.
There are, indeed, times when the believer
is ready to faint. Faith staggers beneath
the burden, and hope all but expires. My
sins are SO many, my guilt SO great, my bur
den so heavy thus and thus they speak
now with Jacob complaining, "All these
things are against me" and now, on finding
Satan SO often conquering them when they
should have conquered him, crying with
David, al shall one day fall by the hand of
Saul" Well, let your burdens, sins, cares,
be such as you describe. Let me ask you a
question Is it not as easy for yonder
great sea to carry the bulkiest ship that ever
rode her waves, as the seaweed or foam she
filings upon the shore 2 Is it not as easy for
this mighty earth TO carry on its back an
Alp as grain of sand-to nourish a cedar
OF Lebanon as the hyssop on the wall Just
so, believer, it is as easy for God to supply
thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even a.
it was as much within his power to form q
system as an atom, TO create blazing sur
as TO kindle the firefly's lamp.
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The Sabbath.

am more and more sure by experience
that the reason for the observance of the
Sabbath lies deep in the everlasting necessi-
ties of human nature, and that as long as
man is man the blessedness of keeping it,
not as a day of rest only but as day of
spiritual rest, will never be annulled.
certainly do feel by experience the eternal
obligation, because of the eternal necessity
of the Sabbath. The soul withers without
it. 1t thrives in proportion to its observance.
The Sabbath was made for man. God made
it for men in certain spiritual state because
they needed it. Theneed, therefore, is deeply
hidden in human nature. He who can dis
pense with it must be holy and spiritual in
deed. He who, still unholy and unspiritual,
would yet dispense with it, is man that
would fain be wiser than his Maker. We,
Christians as we are, still need the law, both
in its restraints and its aid to our weakness.
F w RObertson
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MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 90, 1879.

though had never killed any creature, /
had seen other boys do so, and felt dis
position to follow their example. But all at
once something checked my little arm, and
voice within me said clear and loud: 1t
is wrong held my uplifted stick in won.
der at the new emotion, till the tortoise and
the rhodora both vanished from my sight.
fastened home, told the tale to my mother,
and asked what il was that told me it was
wrong. She took me in her arms and said !:
Some men call it conscience, but prefer
to call il the voice of God in the soul of man.
If you listen and obey it, it will speak clearer
and clearer, and always guide you right;
but If you turn deaf ear or disobey, it will
fade out little by little, and leave you in the
dark, and without guide. Your life de-
pends on needing that little voice. She
went her way, and went off to wonder and
think it over in my childish fashion. But
am sure no event in my life has made so
deep and lasting an impression on me-
Rev. A. T.. Dunning.
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The Blessed Dead.


We know that our beloved ones are among
the jewels of Paradise. They live on ; for
death is not the passing of the spirit into a
long sleep in an unknown abode it. is its
blissful passage into the land of light and
rest where is the fellowship Of the angels
and the saints of God. We have fellowship
with them; they are ours still, and we give
God thanks for the "good examples !" and
even amidst the joys OF Paradise our beloved
ones cling to us IN love, and their hearts are
beating high with that love for us where
with they beat on earth. The ties of earth
live on in the eternal world, for these ties are
the creation OF God. They are one with us
in the fellowship of Christ; one with us in
the fellowship Of his sutferings one with us
in the communion of saints
Angels and living saints and dead
But one communion make
And so we cheer our hearts with that
wonderful hymn, which Cyprian sung to
animate his flock to face with courage the
pestilence that desoated Carthage aud North
Africa, and join with angels and all the
powers of heaven, the cherubim and sera-
phim, the glorious company OF the apostles,
the goodly fellowship OF the prophets, and
the noble army Ct martyrs, in the worship
of the Triune God, who gives blessed hope
of everlasting life.--Bishop Quintdrd.
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Above the World.

II you will go to the banks of little
stream, and watch the flies that come TO
bathe in it, you will notice that while they
plunge their bodies in the water, they keep
their wings high out of the water; and
after swimming about a little while, they
fly away with their wings unwet through
the sunny air. Now that is lesson for u.s.
Here we are immersed in the cares and busi-
ness of the world but let us keep the wings
of our soul, our faith, and our love out of
the world, that, with these unclogged, we
may be ready to take our flight to heaven
Rev. James fn0lis.
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saltcellars. The table having been cleared,
the crumbs should be taken off with crumb.
knife or with napkin upon a plate then
the spread napkins should be taken off
by the four corners. Place upon the table
the desert-plates, and spoons, and forks, If
for pudding or sweets of any kind; il for
fruit, plate with a colored dolly, finger
bowl, and a silver knife and fork. If cof-
fee is served, it should be placed on tray,
with coffee-cups and sugar at the head Of
the table. The old fashion Of a polished
bare table for fruit has gone out, except
where an elaborate table and men-servants
are kent