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Heaven within.


More sweet than smiles are tears which rise nnhtilon
when some iair srtue INST ddWns UPON oul ,lVs,
A git OF Joy. by nature tong kept hidden.
That thrills rs With the rapture oi surprise
nut dearer set and deeper Is our feeling
When Soiuc fair decd ht one wc love il wrought,
Some IN, pcctrd grace ui soul revealing.
tbs lovely blossom ui some secret thought
Oh In those moments Of divine emotion
The darktnln. vel of doubt Is rent apart;
More near rs seems the ti0l ni our devotion,
ine heaven We hVlS .0r dwehs within our heart
LADY CHARLOTTE ELLIor
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the people. The Independent and Prohibition
vote, however, wns over 10000. giving the Re-
publicans plurality OF "a .805
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Al the opening OF tho campaign, In a letter 70
A W. Seey ESD OF Rawlings, Wyoming, Gov.
Dulmnr nlndn the following nnnlYala.
Xxx.

The Liberal and Democratic parties in Hi
nois were fused in 1874 Gov. Palmer became
a leader in the Democratic organization. On
July 81 he wrote letter to the Chairman OF the
Democratic Central Committee urging the
adoption Of hard money platform at tho COM
ing State Convention. He said:
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24
Real Homes.

1t is discouraging reflection, even to
those who habitualy look at the bright side
of things that have any shine TO them, to
think how much less home means, in this
country, than it did fifty years ago. As a
people we love to do things by Wholesale"
and "on contract" Churches let out re-
vivals to peripatetic professionals. Parents
"farm out the religious training of their
children to Sunday-school teachers whose
very names, oftentimes, they do not know.
Education has become matter for the
schools schools, too, where only the
mind is considered, and wherein that is more
crammed than trained Our scanty recrea-
tions and amusements are "enjoyed " en-
mdsSe, and paid for at 50 much per head.
There was time when the home stood for
all these things, and for many more Espe-
cially in character-buildng, which should
be the chief concern in life, the home-infiu-
ence was paramount. Industry, frugality,
independence, virtue and religion had their
source and center in the home. There was
sense of personal responsibility on the
parents, and a need of personal effort and
direction, that are not now so commonly
felt. AS the time of the year approaches
when the fire on the hearth is to be re-kin-
ded-we hope you have a hearth, or at
least an open CRATE, the family life in
the home is to be more close again, will it
not be well for parents to reconsider thought
fully the question of home-making Do
your children love their home DO you
prize it ? Is it the "dearest spot on earth" )"
or mere boarding-house II there is a
fault, whose is it ? If lack, who is to
blame Home-making, be it remembered,
is a work in which all have part. Fathers
may not shirk their duty by saying that it
is woman's business" Neither can it be
done without forethought, direction, aud ef-
fort. Oftentimes it involves the sacrifice OF
selfish comforts and pleasures. The happy
tumult of the youngsters play may disturb
your after-dinner doze. A A" chidrens hour
in the early evening, given up to games and
entertainment, in which you are their com.
panions and leaders, may not be SO agree
able as to spend the time at the play, the
club, or in neighborhood gossip But you
are under bonds, morally, to give yourselves
to your family as the need requires. If you
do no more than TO "raise your children
you have, before God, no right to have any
Make your house real home,--cheerful
bright, beautiful in spirit, happy in all it
expressions you will be good dea
better fitted to begin enjoying heaven al
once, when you get there.-Golden Rule
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Growing Old.

Yes, we are all growing old, though un-
consciously, and the foot of time falls as
softly as ever, and the current of life flows
on as smoothly as ever-indeed, the fuller
the current, the more noiseless its flow. And
months aud years are, after all, so very much
alike that they pass away without special
observation, and we begin TO get old before
we think Of it. And when we sit down to
a simple sum in arithmetic-the subtrac-
tiou of the year of our birth from the cur
rent year-we are astonished at the answer
and are so doubtful of its correctness that
we go over it second time, but always
with the same result Children grow up
around us, but we get used to that, and are
10 busy that we seldom stop IN compute
their ages and realize the swift flight of the
years. In fact, our children never get old
to us. The wife who has stood lovingly
and faithfully at our side so long never
changes, and is always the fair young bride
of the old and happy days. Though his
hair may have grown gray in some way
which we do not exactly understand, and
his step may seem little less elastic and
firm than it was, the husband does not seem
to have changed much, after all. He is, to
us, the same stroag, manly one whom we
loved so much and TO whom we contided so
much Just little while ago. To be sure,
the few friends of our youth that remain
are all gray-headed, but we do not think
much of that, for we all seem to be using
the same fashionable hair-dye. There is
nothing in that to attract special attention.
Some one-he may have been philosopher
has said that if we doubt whether we are
really growing old, we should look in the
face of friend whom we have not seen for
twenty years. The preacher tried that a
few days ago. He did more he looked in
the face of friend whom he had not seen
for nearly forty years. What his friend
thought of him he does not know. We
were both too polite to express our thoughts
He knows that he kept wondering, and won
ders yet, what had happened to his frient
that he should look so very old.-Seiected.
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more needed to the rural villages and farms.
How pleasant IL is, after spending summer
day at that pretty and primitive island
Conanicut, opposite Newport, to stroll down
to the return ferry boat at sunset, and see
the captain and the engineer of the boat
playing croquet in their respective " door
yards with wife aud children, and flinginq
down the mallet when the boats bell calls
them on board In more fashionable circles,
however, this game has been well replaced
by lawn-tennis, which gives more exercise
and demands more active skill. Rowing,
too, once very rare accomplishment for
women, Is now so common that boats crew
Of young girls attracts no remark in any
harbor. Outdoor tastes and habits are long
since recognized as fitting for young women,
and it is not likely that the ground thus
gained will ever be lost. Our public schools
in many places now work the brain less
severely and with more variety of employ
ment; vacations are often longer, hours Of
study less. Our most prosperous private
schools make a great point Of attending to
physical health. There is little doubt that
the generation of girls now growing up will
be healthier than their immediate predeces-
sors and this improvement, like most i'm
provements in living, begins in cities. As
1t stands to-day, the offspring of our city
lawyers and merchants are on the whole
healthier than farmers daughters.
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The Coming Woman.

Colonel T. W. Higginson has faith in
women, and does not believe they are grow
ing weaker mentally or physically. In an
article in the Woman's Journal he says ;
With the freer outdoor life, there has come
to women a far greater share Of outdoor
exercise than formerly. | can remember
when the spectacle of a woman swimming
in summer or skating in winter was some
thing so extraordinary that a group was
sure to collect TO observe the strange phe-
nomenon; whereas these things now attract
not the slightest attention. A woman wear
ing thick boots was amazing that a woman
should take pedestrian excursion was
scarcely to be thought Of. Sometimes young
girls played battledore and shuttlecock or
the pretty but monotonous "graces !" here
and there family practiced archery; and
these were all the outdoor games, properly
so called. The vast aud al-embracing pop
ularity OF croquet has come and gone since
thon gone, that is, from the cities and their
suburbs, being banished where it is really
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ship really did drift. How could I tell |
found that by going forward, aud placing
my hand on the chain I could tell by the
feeling of IL whether the anchor was drag
ging or not and how often that night |
went forward and placed my hand on that
chain Aud very often since then have
wondered whether am drifting away from
God, and then go away and pray, and as
often as | am in doubt pray. In prayer
keep anchor watch. Sometimes during that
long stormy night would be startled by
rumbling sound, and | would think surely
we are drifting; and would put my hand
on the chain, and find that it was not the
anchor dragging, but only the chain grating
against the rocks on the bottom. The an
chor was still firm. Aud now sometimes in
temptation and trial become afraid, and
then praying, find that away down deep
in my heart do love God. And | want to
to testify that have in my heart tonight a
love which | would not part with for all the
world. And want to say just a word to
you boys. Boys, keep an anchor watch, lest
before you are aware you may be upon the
rocks"
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81 am Strong In HIM.

The other day l was requested by a
brother minister, who was unwell, to go and
visit dying child. He told me some re-
markable things of this boy, eleven years of
age, who, during three years of Sickness
had manifested the most patient submission
to the will of God, with singular enlight-
eminent of the Spirit. went to visit hiin.
The child had suffered excruciating pain !;
for years he had not known one day OF rest.
gazed with wonder at the boy. After
drawing near to him, and speaking some
words of sympathy, he looked at me with
his blue eyes-he could not move-it was
the night before he died-and breathed into
my ear these few words | am strong in
him" The words were few, and uttered
feebly. They were the words of feeble
child, in a poor home, where the only orna-
ment was that of meek, and quiet, and
aifectionate mother; and these words seemed
to lift the burden from the very heart they
seemed to make the world more beautiful
than ever it was before they brought home
to my heart great and blessed truth. May
you and | and every one else be " strong in
him."-Dr. Mcleod.
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Our Friends Beyond.

What are they2 What are we to them ?
What are they to us 7 Shall we know them
when we get there There are no questions
that so deeply interest us as these. At the
same time there are none on which we are
so ignorant. Most people think OF death as
something radical in its effects, something
that will remove all former trace of our
selves, leaving nothing of our personality.
To be Christian is TO have the life, spirit,
and character of Christ and TO be saint
is the same in greater completeness. The
only difference between Christian on earth
and saint in heaven is one of degree. That
which makes you worthy of the love, con.
fdence aud companionship of friends will
remain the same. What there was which
made that friend gone before dear to you,
and which you still cherish in memory, is
what makes the friend glorfied saint she
is to you, save in bodily presence, all that
she ever was. To illustrate A member of
your family has some disease which makes
it necessary for him to seek a change of
climate. He goes to the sunny land of Italy.
There he regains his heath; but, fearing to
return to this rugged climate, remains there.
What is that friend to you-save for an oc-
casional letter-more than if he were in the
Beyond, and lived only in your memory
You will never see his face, nor hear his
voice, and he thinks of you as friend left
behind. So we should think of departed
ones. Their appearance is changed they
have "tbe celestial body" Their speech is
changed they use spiritual language. There
is great change, but is it not like the
change of diseased man restored to per-
feet health ? The change is in the perfect
restoration of the soul to state Of inno-
and boIinags Of -, 81
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Kissed, and Blessed, and Given TO God.

An aged Christian father, on the eve Of
his departure to the deathless land, requested
to have his little boy placed upon the bed
beside him, that he might " kiss him, and
bless him, and give him to God" The re-
quest was complied with, and the little boy
was kissed, and blessed, and given to God
by loving father, who then said, "Now
take him away he is no longer mine !" and
soon afterward passed over the dark river.
The little boy was spared to grow up to
manhood, and by-and-by became the hus-
band of pious and intelligent wife and the
father of two or three little children. But
in the trying vicissitudes of this world and
the wear and tear and perplexities of life,
his mind gave way; and fiually even those
who loved him best were constrained to
place him within the closed doors of an in
sane asylum, where, at this writing, he still
remains. But during lucid intervals, when
reason seems for the moment to gain the
ascendancy, he will say, and even oc-
casionally write to his little daughter, "
have no one now to sing Jesus, lover of my
SOUL No one now to sing Now lay me
down to sleep But still ! am the little boy
that was kissed, and blessed, aud sivon to
God" So here is an impression made by
the words and acts of dying father that
one of lifes blackest calamities cannot blot
out. 1t still bursts forth like streaks of sun
shine through the riven clouds of life's
darkest sky. Have you been kissed, and
blessed, and given to God ?-Presbyte ridn.
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Moderation and Long Life.


The words spoken by Mr.. Bryant con-
cerning his lifes work, and on the very day
of the exposure that proved fatal to him,
command our attention and respect. There
is lifetime of sound common sense in them,
and they explain most satisfactorily his grace
full old age. They also offer simple solution
of the problem of human longevity. " 1t is
all summed up in the one word, moderation.
| am moderate eater aud drinker, moder-
ate in my work as well as in my pleasures,
and believe the best way to preserve the
mental and physical faculties is to keep
them employed. Don't allow them to rust. !"
He who had so nearly reached the goal
could best tell how the race had been won.
What the multitude call genius is gener-
ally the result of persistent, well-directed
effort. "Genius is patience" says Button.
Constant activity during long life, temp
cred with good judgment, will always result
in a large measure of success, and will tend
directly to the preservation of life itself.
Rest and work are two great factors of life,
evidently intended to follow each other like
the succession OF day and night. He who
neglects either disregards the Creators
laws, and the delicate machinery of nature
soon runs out. There is, perhaps, no better
reproof to the sluggard than in these lines
"Do something, do 1t now, with all thy might.
An angels wing would stoop II long at rest,
And God himself inactive were no longer blest .
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24
The Bible COrrObOrated,

Heinrich Brugsch, who unquestionaby is
the best Egyptologst of the times, has pub
lished "a History of Egypt under the Pha-
raohs," in which he embodieS the results of
his Investigations among the Egyptian in-
scriptions. In the tomb of one Baba, who
lived in the time of the shepherd kings, he
has found remarkable ratification Of the
Bible story of Joseph and the famine. The
inscription in that tomb recites the praises
of Baba after this fashion; al gathered
grain as were | friend of the gods of the
harvests | was careful at the period Of
seed-time And when now famine arose
that lasted many years, then | distributed
grain to the city in its distress" From
other data Brugsch has no doubt that this
refers to the seven years famine OF the
Mosaic record. From the same source, also,
we learn that the first high dignity con.
ferred upon Joseph was that of cultiyator
of the land,' an expression which appears
in the old Egytian script. When he rose to
the position of the highest power behind the
throne, he bore the name of Adon, title
that indicates ruler of high degree, and
which is now found upon the monuments.
And so from the tombs come voices that
proclaim the truth of the sacred records
National s. s. Teacher.
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HumOrsOme Waits.

"THAT's capital ale" said beer-drinker
to teetotaler; see how long it keeps its
head" "Ay," was the reply, "but consider
how soon it takes away yours"
PIous old lady "Just think, Rose, only
five missionaries to twenty thousand canni-
balls |" Kind hearted niece; Goodness the
the poor cannibals will starve to death at
that rate
INVESTIGATOR wants to know what Is
good for cabbage worms. Bless your soul,
man, cabbages, of course. A good plump
cabbage will last several worms week.
Boston journal.
ELEVATOR boy Ito woman who had rid
den three times from the bottom to the top
of the buildings "Well, where do You
quite sure, but lave me as near the Grand
Central Depot as ye can.'
A GENTLEMAN in a draper's shop had the
misfortune to tread on lady's skirt. She
turned round, her face flushed with anger
but, seeing the gentleman was a stranger,
she smiled complacently, saying :" beg
pardon, sir, was going to be in dreadful
passion. | thought it was my husband"
The game laws should be amended some
more 1t is all right to impose fine for
5nOOIluR bdiut OuI vi ocaSOh, puS MhN 10
wanted now is clause inserted to enable
man to shoot game and catch fish in season.
We have found it easy enough not to shoot
game out of season. To kill 1t in season is
what bothers us.-NorristolCn Herald.
THE grandma of little four-year-old had
been telling her one day not to say people
lied, but rather that they were mistaken.
Her grandmother, TO amuse her, told her
bear story, which was tough one to be-
ieve. After she had finished the little girl
looked up into her face and exclaimed,
Grandma, that is the biggest mistaken
have ever heard
CHARLES SUMNER was no musician, and
a lady friend once told him that If he was
to buy music box set to sod Hundred,
he could not make it play "more than sew
enty-fve." 1t was doubtless something in
the same vein that prompted old Mrs. koths-
child, when ninety-3eyen, TO say To her phy-
sician Doctor, you must keep me up for
three years more at least 1t would be dis
creditable for Rothschild to go OF under
par."-Harper's Dndwer'
"Do YOU know anybody that's buried up
in that cemetery :" said an elderly lady pas
senger 20 a railroad conductor, pointing to
resting,place for the dead that the cars
were whistling past. mo, ma am, don't"
How long have you been conductering on
| this road 7" "About four years, maam."
"Wel if I'd been four years on this road
I'd found out suthin or other. l shd hate
to be so ignorant" and an expression oil ex-
, treme disgust stole over her face as she put
down her parasol with thud.-Nee HdDen
Register.
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Notes ON CaIyinisin.

Lord Bolingbroke the celebrated skeptc
was one day reading in Calvin's Institutes,
when clergyman OF his lordship's acquaiut-
ance came on visit to him. Lord Boiling
broke said, " You have just caught me read.
ing John Calvin; he was indeed man Of
great parts, profound sense and vast learn
ing. He handles the doctrines of grace in
a most mastery manner" Doctrines of
grace" replied the clergyman a the doc
trines of grace have set all mankind by the
ears" 81 am surprised to hear you say SO,
said Lord Bolingbroke "you who profess TO
believe and to preach the doctrines of Chris
tianity. These doctrines are certainly the
doctrines of the Bible, aud if believe the
Bible must believe them; and let me tell
you seriously, that the greatest miracle in the
world is the subsistence of Christianity, and
its continued preservation as a religion
when the preaching of il is committed to the
care of such unchristian wretches as you"
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9,ew eadrerfisemenfs.
ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR THE
FALL TRADE
OF
1879
1879

}. q. EMERY would say to
his friends and patrons that
with his new and varied stock
of seasonable goods, in each
department, he is fully pre-
pared to meet the wants of
the trade, and solicits an ex-
animation of goods and prices.
CARPET DEPARTMENT.-In
this department the styles are
unique and beautiful, and the
prices so low that very few
need deprive themselves the
comfort or luxury of a new
Carpet; and for the amount
that it will cost, there is no
item that so beauties or rem
ders comfortable a Vermont
home.
Room PAPERS AND WINDOW
SHADES As to these goods,
no better or more extensive
stock can be found in the
ST tie, and the prices are such
thai with a few dollars the
walls may be covered with
beauty, and to the chilling
wind may be said: " Thus far,
and no farther."
The DINING RooM.- And
for the Dining Room may be
found an unusually fine stock
of Crockery, Glassware and
Table Cutlery, embracing a
new and especially handsome
shape of Crockery, in finish
almost equalling the French
China goods.
FANCY GoODs.-In the Fan
cy Goods department may be
found "Majolica" and Pa
lissey" ware, from the En-
glish, German and French
potteries, japanese novelties,
and Porcelains from "Limo-
ges," in France.
For wedding and all pres
ents these goods are largely
taking the place Of plated
ware, in consequence of their
artistic merit and beauty.
To be understood and ap-
preciated the stock needs to
be seen, therefore "COME
and .SEE."
II. r.. EMERV-
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OUR LOST.

They quite leave us, friends who have passed
Through the shadows Of death the sunlight above.
A thousand sweet memories holding them fast
To the places they blessed with their presence and love-
Speak mutely, though still with eoquence rare.
And the songs that they sung and dear words that they said
Yet llnger and sigh the desolate air.
And oft when Alone and as oft in the throng,
or when evil allures us sin draweth NIGH
whisper comes gently, Nay. do not the wrong"
And we feel that our weakness s pitied on high.
We toll at our tasks in the burden and heat
OF lfe's passionate noon. They folded in peace.
1t Is we'll We rejoice that their heaven is sweet.
And day for us all the bitter will cease.
Untl then bound by our love and our faith
To the saints who are walking in Paradise fair;
They have passed beyond sight at the touching Of DEATH
But they live like ourselves. In Gods infinite