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JAMES 5. WRIGHT, Clerk.

Upon Audover North surplus. for the purpose
OF repairing 90 much OF the County Road leading
from Andover Corner 10 Upton. as IL within said
North surplus, the sum of Seventy Six Dollar
and forty cents Is assessed as follows:
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-01-28

And y. ". Bennett Of said Township No. 8. RaLge
J, d, appointed agen. as aforesaid and is required
20 give bond s. Aforesaid.
Attest JAMES ), WRIGHT, Clerk.
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iron Township No. >, Range !, ior purposes Of
repairing the County Road 10 said Township, the
sum OF one hundred and eight dollars and sixty
.gnts L. n,-e-srl A. follows.
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Upon Fryeburg Academy Grsnt, for the purpose
OF repairing he only County Road IN said Grant.
he sum OF Fortv.two dollars and thirtysiX cents
as.f-..1 foltoWg.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-01-28

Upon &c" surplus, for the purpose OF repairing
80 much OF the County Road leading nom Anao-
yer Corner to Upton, rs IL In the SAID surplus inc
sum of Fily DolArs,is assessed a. follows: upon
The en- tire tract, supposed to contain 300 acres
snd supposed 10 be owned 10y Mark T. Emery go I,
and Charles Abbott OF Upton, Is appointed agent
as aforesaid and is required 10 give bond as aiorc
said.
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Upon the remainder OF said Township
atCr dCducting me farms and lots above
described and the lsnds IN said Town
shin reserved lot public uses, estimated
70 n TOO acres, valued az s6,0JU. and sup
posed 70 be owned by Cross Emery, e
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And Henry ". Dunn Of Andover North Surplus
Is appointed agent and Is required 70 give bond as
aforesaid.
Attest: - JAMES :. WRIGHT, Clerk.
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Aat >lillmAn Ltulebalc OF Riley Plantation i-
appointed agent ~ Aforesaid, and is required "a
give bond a. aforesaid.
Attest JAMES ;. WRIGHT, ClcrA.
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STATE or MAINE.

HENRY A. CROSS.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
Learn Christ,

Religion is like learning in that it cannot
be made easy, albeit many languid disciples
think they would like to be very spiritually
minded if they could be so without agonizing
prayer and painful sef-denial. In this they
resemble fashionable lady, who, when en-.
gaging teacherof languages, stipulated that
"he should not plague her with verbs and
participates" She wished to speak French,
but was not earnest enough to put forth the
effort necessary for its acquisition. So these
disciples, lacking genuine, deep-rooted aspi
rations after spirituality, decline the only
conditions on which it can be gained
Hence their hearts remain like those pieces
of land on which the indolent farmer has
left unsightly stumps aud innumerable
stones. Unbeautified by the graces Of the
Spirit, unproductive of the fruits of holi
ness, uncomfortable in their consciences
they neither enjoy God nor the world
They are puzzle to their human friends
and perplexity to the Head of the Church
who gazes upon them with pitiful eyes, and
asks, 40 Ephraim, what shall l do unto
thee 2" Having such character, how car
these lovers of sweet religious Incidence ex
pect admission TO that earnest throng whose
members have "washed their robes and
made them white in the blood of th,
Lamb ?"-Zion's Herald.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
Health and Wilderness.

In working for the health of the soul, we
must regard many things. All the healers
in the world are co-workers and to keep a
man in perfect health, no good influence of
any kind can be spared. To be healthy in
any particular, and remain so, it becomes
necessary to be healthy on all sides. If a
man says, /" | will not lie, nor swear, nor
steal, but mean to get something for moth
ing every time find man foolish enough
to stake his money on slow horse" that
man is like an apple with a rotten speck in
it-he will before long be diseased to the
core. And if man says, mean to edu-
cate my children in art and science, and
literature; but as for the spiritual educa-
ton they talk so much about nowadays,
that's all nonsense" he will probably live to
see his mistake His children will grow up
undeveloped on what ought to be their strong
side, and disease will creep in there, and its
balefulinhuence will show on all sides of their
character. On the other hand. the monk,
who, despising bodily health, and throwing
away his social nature, attempts to attain
perfect health of soul by going out into the
desert alone to mediate on spiritual and di-
vine things, makes the same mistake on the
opposite extreme, and his very spirit itself
will become diseased and dwarfed, because
he neglects all his other facuties.-D. ~.
Utter,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
Silent Forces.

Workmen In the stone quarries sometimes
find very hard kind of rock. They pick
little grooves for the iron wedges, and then,
with great sledge-hammers, drive and drive
the wedges into the flinty rock And yet,
once in while, they fail to divide the solid
mass. The iron wedges and the sledges
prove useless, and the workmen wonder at
the stubborn rock. But there is yet another
way. The iron wedges are removed from
the narrow grooves. Then little wooden
wedges of a very hard fibre are selected
The sharp, well-made wooden wedges are
first put into water. They are then inserted
in the grooves tightly while wet, and water
is kept in the grooves, and no sledge is
needed to drive them. They would break
under the severe blows of the ponderous
hammer. But the workmen just let the wet
wedges alone They will do what the driven
iron failed to do. How so? The damp
wood swells. The particles must have room
to enlarge. And the granite hearts of the
rocks cannot withstand this silent influence
In a little while the solid rock parts from
top to bottom, and the workmen's will is &C.
complished. 1t is SO, often, in other things
What noise and visible effort fail to do,
some quiet power, when applied, will surely
achieve. Teachers may remember this fact
in mechanics, and manage some very stub
born natures by the application of the silent
forces. The iron and the sledge-hammers
often fail. But tears, prayers and patient
example never fail.--Rev 4. Clark.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
Love Is Life.

The Sunday Afternoon for April says
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart and with all thy soul and with all
thy mind" This is the first and great COM
mandment. Love is life. 1t is the fulfilling
of the law of our being. Only as we worth
lily love do we truly live; only when we love
with perfect affection that which is per-
fectly worthy of our affection do we attain
unto the supreme good of life Concerning
these truths there has been no dispute; all
that is deepest in man has affirmed them
with most unhesitating faith. And there
fore the first great commandment of the law
has almost the force of first truth of rea-
son. Men have always been ready to join in
this confession al need to love some one
with heart and soul and mind; ought to
love God, the Infinitely Good, with all my
heart and soul and mind" But when you
have denied to God conscious personality,
what have you done with these deepest sen-
timents of human nature out of which our
highest morality springs? You have cut
them up by the roots, or trampled them un-
der your feet. You cannot if you try love
with all your heart and soul and mind any
Being that cannot love you with heart and
soul and mind. Personality in God is the
correlate of morality in man. The word
personality is one over which men bubble,
but the thing is precious. A God that can
not love us is God that we cannot love.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
The Teachers Function.

l protest against the superficial and in
sulting opinion that in the education of
children there is no room for the loftiest in
tellectual enterprise, and no contact with
divine and inexpressible wonders. Any
teacher that so judges his vocation by its
details belittles it, The school-room, no less
than the laboratory, the studio, or the church
ITSELF opens upward into Gods boundless
heaven. Each Of the sciences has moral re-
lations, and terminates in spiritual mystery
And when you awaken a feeling of that
great truth in your pupil by the veneration
the earnestness, and the magnetic devo
tion of your own mind, you have done
him service no less essential to the
completeness of his education than when
you have informed his understanding OF
certain scientific facts. And
the government of your pupils-what il
it but the faint aud erring endeavor tc
transfer into that little kingdom you ad
minister the justice aud the living which
are the everlasting attributes of the AL
mighty himself, applying them even here tc
immortal souls Let us not wrong the
dignity Of such an employment by denying
its connection with things unspeakable.-
Bishop Huntington.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
Good Advice.

Mr.. Spurgeon says "Make the bridge
from the cradle to manhood just as long as
you can. Let your child be a child, and
not little ape of a man running about
the town." Good advice. A book could be
written of people who never had child.
hood, from Milton to Ruskn. Indeed we
but recently had Ruskin's confession that
he really never enjoyed childhood, and Mil.
ton has put it in the mouth of his divine
speaker in " Paradise Regained to say:
When | was yet child no childish play
To me was pleasing; all my mind was set
Serious to learn and know and thence to do
What might be public good.
Boswell reports of johnson that he never
joined with the other boys at Lichfeld school
in their ordinary diversions. Perhaps had
he done so, he would not have been the cho
eric, irascible old man he was. The sickly
boy of Scott's Rokeby was one of whom il
was said:
No touch OF childhoods frolic mood
Showed the elastic spring of blood.
And Southey stigmatizes a demi-million
aire in his "Alderman's Funeral" as one who
When he was a boy and should have breathed
The open air and sunshine OF the fields,
10 give his blood the natural spring and play,
He in close and dusky countingshouse
Smoke dried and scared and shriveled up.
Heaven lies about the infancy of those wht
| have childhood. Alas for these prema
turely old men and women-children o
later years indeed-who never know tn
spontaneity, the playfulness, the freshness
the beautiful ideality, and the ideal beaut,
of the world in childhood Thank God 70
children if you have them, and see to it tina
they have at least childhood Chrisiiai
at Work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09

her plants. She lays out her last years
dresses TO see il her old silks cannot be
turned, or her poplin be made over for
Jenny. The good mans old coats and
trousers are transformed into door mats, and
If she is proud woman she collects and
burns all the old hats he has thrown aside,
lest he should wear them. A man clings
with fondness to his old hats, while woman
cannot be induced to wear hers after she gets
a new one, which is something yet to be ac-
counted for. All this takes place because
it is Spring.
Now is the time to examine the house
plants. Cuttings will root very easily at
this season, in a shallow dish of sand, and
make the best of plants for blooming next
Winter. All the meat bones should be
burned and powdered fine, to be stirred into
the earth in the pots. 1t will brighten the
colors wonderfully, and make of the Zonale
geraniums a real bouquet.
It is the practice of many families to sleep
upon feather beds, Summer and Winter,
without any renovating or cleansing, and I
wish to say few words on the subject.
They receive the exhalatons from the body
and not the outside only, but the inside
should be thoroughly exposed TO the action
of sun and air, else they become in time
breeder of disease. Let any one who doubts
it rip an opening in one end of feather bed
which has been used for several years, and
apply the organ OF smell to the opening. II
he is not convinced, | am mistaken. The
odor will be foul and sickening and can but
be very unhealthy for children and weak
persons to sleep on. They can be purified
in this way, which have practiced. Rip
open one end of the bed and turn out the
feathers into large, clean box or cask
which should set where the sun will shine
directly into it. Let them remain there for
several days, and once or twice day stir
thoroughly with a long stick or common
hay rake. In the mean time wash the tick
in moderately hot water and rinse in clear
cold water, starch quite stiff with -four starch,
dry and iron. When you put back the
feathers you will be surprised to find you
have so many. The air will tighten them
up and increase the bulk wonderfully, and
you will have bed which will be luxury
to repose on. The pillows can be treated in
the same way. There will be but very little
waste if handled with care, and few sticks
laid acrcss the top of the box while the
feathers are in it will keep the wind from
blowing them out.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
For the Vermont watchman,
Kind Words.

In all the multiform duties of life we are
constantly meeting many things that vex
and annoy. Perplexities gather thick and
fast around us, and we are overwhelmed
nearly, by the rapid accumulation of diff
culties that hedge our pathway. Then it
is that kind words fall upon the distracted
heart like balm, flood the whole man with
light, peace and comfort, and re-assure the
spirit. They are like physician to the
diseased body, like the crystal stream in a
thirsty land, or the shadow of great rock
in weary land. How many there are tread
ing the same streets with us daily, who are
weighed down with trials, staggering under
difficulties the world knows not of, and who
would be greatly refreshed, comforted and
encouraged by even few kind words-they
would be as cordial to the down-trodden
spirit. The lifted clouds would let the sun
light fall upon the dark shadows, shutting out
the light and joy of life, often enshrouding
some of the noblest spirits of earth. In all
the duties of life there are necessarily many
ioi uo ouc 10 W
blame. Troubles that arise from unexpected
quarters, sorrows that come to the poor
fiuttering heart, and often nearly prostrate
the most noble spirits of the earth. When
thus in sad despondent perplexity few
kind sympathizing words are most truly
like apples of gold in pictures of silver" "
They act like magic upon the almost hope
less, distracted spirit. Streams of CHEEKY
light flow into the dark and dreary heart.
Peace, joy and comfort fall upon the
wounded, troubled spirit as the refreshing
showers upon the tender herb. The bow OF
promise spans the Frightening heavens, the
earth seems more beautiful, the duties OF
life now appear light, the heavy weight OF
sorrow disappears, and there is many a
stricken one who rises up and stands erect
before the world with fresher hopes. All
nature rejoices with newer and brighter light
If kind words can do so much to help oul
brother or sister, shall we, CAN we, with
hold them They cost us nothing but the
breath uttering them, and may cheer and com
fort many troubled spirits, and make many
cheerful and happy. Then let us speai
kindly to all.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09

Vivid descriptions of natural scenery, ex-
citing stories, frequently recurring appeals
to the natural affections of the human heart,
may hold congregation breathless, brighten
thousand eyes with delight, or make them
dim with tears, while the truth around which
all these telling passages are grouped is
neither illustrated nor enforced. The SER
mon seems powerful, for the hearts of the
people were filled with agitation and emo
ton but examined mere closely it will be
pronounced powerless, for it was not the
glory of the Divine character which hushed
and awed the listening crowd, but the
preachers representation of an appalling
thunderstorm it was not an apostolic ap-
peal to their Christian zeal that flushed
their cheeks with enthusiasm, but splen'
did panegyric on the patriotism and daring
of some popular hero; it was not the com
passions of the Lord Jesus Christ which "fai
not his mercy which "endureth forever
that brought tears, but the story of some
fair girl with bleeding lungs and hacking
cough, wasting away through the dreary
Winter, and longing for the tardy Summer
-R. w. Dale
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09

him we may learn from his own words.
Read them 1T cannot be doubted that
theistic belief is comfort and solace TO
those who hold IL, and the loss of it is very
painful loss. Il cannot be doubted, at least
by many Of us in this generation, who either
profess II now or received il in our child
hood, and have parted from it since with
such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths
can cause. We have seen the Spring sun
shine out Of an empty heaven to light up a
soulless earth we have felt with utter lone.
illness that the Great Companion was dead"
These are among the saddest words ever
written. Can anything be more utterly for
lorn than creed which has nothing to be-
lieve but an "empty heaven and I" soul
less earth 2" Is this the "beatifc vision -
to which modern scepticism has opened his
eyes 2 Well, then, may every man say, " o
my SOUL come not thou into their secret
Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
Sadness and Scepticism.

One of the most defiant Of the present
race of English sceptics has gone into the
world where all doubts are solved and all
truths fully ascertained. Professor Clifford,
Of University College, London, was among
the foremost mathematicians of his time,
and in many other departments of learning
had shown himself capable man. But he
was better known in the literature of the
day as an ardent, determined, and some
times virulent opponent of the Christian
faith. lie died in the Island of Madeira
during the last month"; and at the early age
Of thirty-four years. His early days gave
promise of much, but he achieved little,
even in his chosen studies, and his life was
comparatively a failure. What his aban-
donment of the faith of Christendom brought
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
The Queen Of All.

Honor the dear old mother. Time has
scattered the snowy flakes on her brow,
plowed deep burrows in her cheeks, but is
she not sweet and beautiful now The lips
are thin and sunken, but those are the lips
which have kissed many hot tear from the
childish cheeks, aud they are the sweetest
lips in all the world. The eye is dim, yet il
glows with the soft radiance of holy love,
which can never fade. All, yes, she is dear
old mother. The sands OF life are nearly
run out, but feeble as she is, she will go
further and reach down lower for you than
any other upon earth. You cannot walk
into midnight where she cannot see you I;
you cannot enter prison whose bars will
keep her out you can never mount a scat
fold too high for her to reach that she may
kiss and bless you in evidence of her death
less love- When the world shall despise
and forsake you, when it leaves you by the
wayside to die unnoticed, the dear old
mother will gather you in her feeble arms
and carry you home and tell you of all your
virtues until you almost forget that your
soul is disfigured by vices. Love her ten
derly aud cheer her declining years with
holy devotion.-Seiecfed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
OF TIlf'
Spring.
BY A. N. q.

The bright consultations Of Winter are
seen no longer at evening, and the sweet in
fuences of the peades are abroad in the
land. The air is full Of expectation and
promise, and we are glad that Spring has
come The poetic schoolgirl always de-
scribes Spring as the pleasantest season of
the year" In New England it is shy and
treacherous nymph, alluring us abroad with
shining sun, to pinch us with cold north
wind Before the snow has wholly left us
the blue-bird pipes his low whistle by
the brook, and the cattle look longingly
fieldward.
Now the busy housewife begins 10 be
restless. She fits from room to room, pick
ing up the books and papers which have
amused the winter evenings, and disappears
in the depths of unseen closets. She looks
ov n the garden seeds, and snips and re-pots