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How Every Man can Help the Tenn
perance Cause.
From an address by Canon Farrar. |

l urge you the duty of self-denial for
the sake of others. If you are fond of
drink, abandon it before it be too late
for your own sake if you are not fond
of it, it will cost you nothing to give it
up. We are all face to face with hid
oooe, aoSrauIng,a Il COLOSSAL evil. The
legislature either cannot or will not
help us. Warning, preaching, moral
influence, even extended education,
fails to help us; increased wages, di-
minished hours of work, only deepen
our peril and our loss. There is one
way, and one way only; but that is a
certain and an easy way by which not
merely to check, but even to annihilate,
the cause. 1t is that every one of us
should cease to contribute to this mon
ster evil the penny of a contribution ol
the shadow of an example. The use Of
that deadly, peculiar, and wholly un-
necessary substance is so far insepera-
BILE from the abuse, that where sthe in
dividual use is, there the nationa
abuse will be. Unrestricted LIQUOR
traffic will, to the end of time, mean fol
myriads intense temptation; tempta
tion means drunkenness drunkenness,
means degradation, horror, ruin, crime
You are Christian. Will you give III
a needless luxury to help in saving
others from blasting curse You ar,
patriot. Will you give up poo
tickling of the palate, an unwholesom
tingling of the brain, to rescue your ma
ton from blighting degradation /
you do not help, at least be ashamed t.
hinder. Call not those fanatics VIII
would clear their conscience from ever
faint of so dangerous leaven. Do no
gild self-indulgence with the Ophi
gold of Holy Scripture, or hide the fore
head of a luxury under the phylacter
of scribe.
Not long ago there was in a certai
colliery an explosion by which for
hundred miners were suddenly hurle
amid shattered ruins into horribl
death. 1t was caused by single min;
twho had opened his safety lamp to ligl
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text: "Woe unto him by whom the
offense cometh." The coming of the
Brooklyn regiment under Mr.. Beecher's
spiritual" oversight, must have been
looked upon by large portion of our
people as fair representation of Pro-
testantism in its highest development.
And what have they learnedq They
have seen high honors paid to man of
whom they have heard strange things.
There may have been those among them
ready to disbelieve those strange things
so diligently told them, had they seen
in his bearing the evidences ofholiness,
modesty and conscientiousness. Instead
of that there has been a bOisterous in
difference to those things which Puri-
tanism is reputed to hold most sacred.
Montreal has, on the whole, quiet
Sunday, and we hope it will be long
before it prefers to it's present Sabbath
of rest, either the Partisan or the
Beecher Sunday. We are glad to find
the Roman Catholic clergy joining
heartily in the defense of the holy day,
and we hope their influence will be ex-
erted until it prevails over the circuses,
merry -go-rOunds and other unseemly
things which in this city prevail chiefly
among the members of their own flock
Montreal Daily Witness.
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VOLUME 42---NUMBER 2189.

his pipe. To that pipe of tobacco were
sacrificed four hundred precious lives
of fathers, of husbands, and of sons
and, alas on the bodies of not few of
those perished in that fiery blast were
found duplicate keys by which, hitherto
with impunity, they had done the same.
Alas my brethren, England and Scot
land are such mine; they are full of
the explosive fre-damp of intemper-
ance. In all societies it hangs dense
around lis in the perilous and pestilen-
tial air. Do not say that there is none
of this flaming peril around you; that
you may open your safety-lamp and no
harm come of it. 1t may be so it may
not be so. You could not, you would
not, do it if you were sure that there
was danger for that-as you see at
once-would be deadly selfishness and
an atrocious crime. But you cannot be
sure that there is not danger. Is the
gain worth the risk ? Is the transient
and animal indulgence worth the per-
manent and eternal peril ? No harm
may come to you but if harm comes
to others who are reassured by your
example, you, even you, will have
helped to perpetuate frightful curse,
whose effects, in shattering blast after
shattering blast, shall be tapped in
echoes of ruin and of misery, too late
for penitence, amid generations yet un-
born. The fatal and the fatally COM
mon key of that safety lamp is what is
called moderate drinking" If in this
particular struggle you would be patri-
OTIS, if in this matter you would show
your true love for your brother men,
fling it away. Like the Nazarites of
old, like the children of Jonadab the
son of Rechab, drink neither wine nor
strong drink, so long as by it you make
weak or cause to stumble, or tempt into
ruin and misery, the soul-the priceless
soul-of brother the soul of your
brother for whom Christ died.
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OF grateful recognition. Some of the
passages will readily recur to the read

OF grateful recognition. Some of the
passages will readily recur to the read
er:
When thou passest through the waters I will be
with theei and through the rivers they shall not
overnow thee. Is. xGii:2
Iner soul is melted because of trouble. Then they
cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth
them out of their distresses Ps. evil: 1928.
At length God lifted his frown from
the sea and visited us with his smile.
HE maketh the storm a calm. So that
the waves thereof are STILL" On the
Sabbath that followed, praise and graf
ltude to God rose in the worship like
incense. There were no dry eyes or
indifferent hearts. Many who had been
the most reckless in their excesses and
profanity, said: "Our prayers and our
trust in Christ, commenced in storm,
shall never cease in calm.n
The experience was of great value.
know now how it will seem to die. 1t
is going home in the light and peace OF
Christ. know the keeping power OF
our Lord in the hour of mortal terror
and fear. l know the might of His arm
to uplift and cheer the soul in its ex-
tIemities. | know the wondrous sweet
pess of His grace and love when human
strength fails. 1 know that the neal
approaches to Him are like sunrise te
the soul, and that the entrance ways
to His presence chamber, through one
of which glanced, are filed with the
brightness of the Kings countenanct
and the gleam of angelic hosts. Whel
the gates of light swing before us, ant
we enter into the joy of our Lord,
will be moment of supreme inspira
ton and gladness. Since that da!
when God hid me in his pavilion ant
taught me, have been, trust, a bet
ter guide to souls in need, in the hous'
of prayer, and in the chambers of pail
and suffering. asked for the redemp
tion of hundred souls that year.
record it to the praise of God that Fl
gave that number and more.
There is a cleft in the rock for refug
from the frenzy of the storm, and hid
den mamma for the soul. We can sa,
with Christ, 81 have meat to eat tha
ye know not CongregatiOnalist.
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Squibs.

Tom Mast is spoken of as "the man
who makes up faces for Harper's
Weekly"
A San Francisco woman calls her
husband her Darkest Hour, because he
generally comes just before the dawn.
No matter how great the affection be-
tween the kitchen girl and the ice-man,
GOODNESS often springs up between
them.
The London Lancet prescribes an
ounce or two of pure West India lime
juice, with sugar, as the best drink for
hot weather.
will soon become the spinning strikers.
Lowell Courier.
The sting of a bee is recommendeda
cure for gout. The New Orleans Pic
ayune declares that the discovery was
made by the same genius who found
bent pin good for rheumatism.
"What is love or lore to the small
boy who looks upon the cherry tree
when it is ripe 2" asks the New York
Commercial Advertiser. Very little,
probably, but higher or lower is every
thing to him.
Some railroads are ran on narrow
gauge, some on broad gauge; but all
on mortgage.
"You follow the legal profession,
believe, sir ?" Lawyer Pompous "No,
sir; lead it."
1t is always the young man at the
picnic whose rear suspender buttons
are endowed with the weaknst-~giua1
column who is selected by the young
ladies to climb tree and put up a
swing-provided a young man with
white trousers is not on the ground.--
Norristown Herald.
A Cleveland lady who has lately pas
sed few weeks in Paris always refers
to her kitchen girl as her ''fille de eau
sine" Her son will insist on referring
to the worthy domestic as "our pot
rassler," much to his mothers horror
but he hasn't had the benefit of a fort
night in ''Paree."-[ Cleveland Voice.
Short dresses are now all the rage in
Paris. This is glorious news to the
American women who have grown left
handed in the back from STOPPING ovel
to pick up their trails.
Judging from the large number O
young physicians being ground out by
our medical colleges, we can no longe
sing, "This world is but an M. D., void. [.
-IYonkers Statesman.
ga freshman" whispers the Vassa
Miscellany, "rejoices in a new dress
with one hundred and fifty-fve buttons
on the waist" Education is a grea
thing, great thing.
1t is little singular, although no les
true, that one small but well construct
ed fly will do more toward breaking u
mans afternoon nap, than the on
door racket of full brass band.-TWa
terlOo Advertiser.
Down in Georgia, says the LouisvilI
Courier-Journal, they are in favor ,
removing the tax on quinine and pu
ting it on dogs. In other words, the
+ want to take from quinine and put
| on canine. Or, to add another idei
they would take the tax off Peruvia
T bark and put it on dogs bark.-TLoV
t ell Courier. 80 I ~
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A Farmers Substitute for a Lightning
Rod.

Last evening the reporter for the
Advertiser made one Of party who
meet emi-occasionally in the office of
one of our legal lights. Story telling
was the order of the evening, and some
tough yarns had been narrated when IL
solemn faced individual from one of the
back towns of the state, who had been
an attentive listener, was urged to take
his turn and interest the company by
relating some noticeable incident in his
experience.
"Gentlemen," said he, 81 Don't know
as l can entertain you, am plain old
farmer, unused to the ways of the
world, and am in the habit, which in
all honesty can say that fear that
some of you are not, of confning my
self strictly to the truth, and have no
gift of enlargement so to speak, but
gentlemen, there did rather uncom-
thing happen at my place last summer,
that L don't mind telling in my plain
way, though 1 wish some of you knew
the story, so as to tell it, as it ought to
be told. l own an old ram that has got
the hardest kind of head, and is
mighty fond of butting. When bought
him my pasture was full of rocks, that
I'd been thinking of digging out, but
may l not be chosen deacon OF our
church this fall, if that ram didn't in six
weeks butt every rock out of the ground
except one, and he shook that SO that il
came up easy. Well, thunder shower
came on one night, and it rained pref
ty fast. l set in my back door looking
over to neighbOr Smiths place,-he'l
an awful sinner, is Smith, and ther,
isn't any reliance to be put in what h,
says,-and was thinking how the rain
fell alike on the fields of the Just, ant
the unjust, on mine and Smiths abou
the same, when l looked up and saw :
flash of lightning running along prett,
near the ground, and making right fo
the ram, who saw it about the time
did. l expected the critter'd dodge, bu
he didn't, he put down his head, an,
went for it. They met, and couldp'
see either for moment, the dirt fiey
so, but by and by saw the flash turn
and go in three distinct streamers, for
ledge over in Smiths field, and the wa
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st. Johnsbury Post Office.
ARRIVAL. AND nEPARTIIRE OLE MAILS

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston and intermediate offices. Arrive 500 D
m. Close $50
Boston through mail Arrive lao a m. Close
500 pm
New York and the West. Arrive 2.25 and IL .25
m, SIS p m. Close S.45 m and 500 m.
Newport and the north. Arrive $40 m. Close
4.30 pm.
11.00 I'M.
Swanton and intermediate offices. Arrive ZOO p
m. Close 1.30 p IN.
Waterford. Arrive $40 m. Close 4.45pm.
North Danville Arrive $50 M. Close $50 a
m.
West Concord and East st. Johnsbury. Arrive
$40 m. Close 4.30 m.
CHAS. P. CARPENTER, I'd, P. NJ.
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u The full accounts of the prince
imperial's death make bad showing
for the morale and discipline of the
British troops in Zululand. Summing
up the affair, the London Times cor.
respondent says: "The quartermaster.
general disobeyed Lord Chelmsford'l
orders by sending the prince on dan
gerous expedition, the escort of whicl
deserted its duty. In the whole affair
there is not one redeeming feature"
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Passumpsic Railroad.---June 80. 1879.
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

ADvENT-Paddock Village. Elder L. c. & Mrs.
McKinstry, Pastors. Sabbath Services at lO:3O a.
m. las and $50 p. m. Sabbath School IL m:
PRAYER Meetings at 1880 p. m. Sunday, Tuesday and
Friday evenings.
BArTIsT-Railroad Street. Corner Maple. Rev.
E. L. Sanford, Pastor. Preaching 1890 A. M. S.
School 12 M, prayer meeting 6:3O. Prayer meet
ings Wednesday evening at 1890
FREE BAPTIsT-Main Street, Corner Prospect,
Rev. g. S. Frost Pastor. Residence at c. T. Brig
and $3.50 P. NJ. Sabbath School at 1900 M. We'd
nesday evening prayer meeting at 1870
CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH (Universalst). East
ern avenue, corner Cherry street. Rev. B. NJ. Til
otsOn, Pastor. sabbath services at Ids and $3.50
P. M. Sabbath SCnoOl at IL M. Wednesday even
ing prayer meeting at 1880.
METHoDIsT-Central, street. Rev. E. S. Locke,
Pastor. Residence head of Summer Street
Sabbath services at 1890 A. M. and $3.50 P. M
Sabbath School at 1900 M. Wednesday evening
meeting at 1870.
NORTH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES street. corner
Church. Rev Henry W. Jones Pastor. Sabbath
services at 1890 A. NJ. and $50 p. NJ. Sabbath
School at las P. M Wednesday evening meeting
| at 1880.
SOUTH CoNGREGATIoNAL-Main street. Rev
Edward T. Fairbanks Pastor. Sabbath services
at 1890 A NJ. and $3.50 p. M. Sabbath School a,
1900 NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
ST. ANDREw's-(EpiscopalI Main street. Rev
1890 a. m, and p. Holy days and Fridays al
| a. m. Wednesdays at 1880 p. m. Sunday School
at $3.50 p. m.
ROMAN CATHOLIC Cherry Street. Rev. j. A
| BOssOnnault Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. m
| Vespers and BenedictiOn at p. m. On tn
second Sunday of the month, service at $50 a. m.
and p. m At Lyndonville same day at 1890 a. m
| REFORMED observation-disclosures Hail. Rail
road street. W. R. Laird, supply. Preaching a
| 1880 a. M and 300 p. m. Sunday School at 300
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An anxious correspondent writes to
inquire (which is the butt end of a
goat 2" In view of the disastrous expe-
rience of debating societies throughout
the land we shall decline to answer, as
a discussion on the subject can butt end
to produce discOrd.-BOStOn Post.
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Drowned But Not Dead.

DR.. T. S. Lambert gives, in the New
York Weekly Post, the following
'.simple directions for restoring the
drowned and those otherwise suffocat-
ed" and we regret our space does not
permit us to present his views in detail,
for the subject is one, more or less,
closely related to every traveller. He
cites a number of instances where heat
alone applied to the body sufficed to re-
store respiration, though it bad been
suspended, in some of the cases, fol
hours. Once dead, he says, life is gone
forever, but so long as the internal or
gans are warm there is hope, and ex-
ternal heat should be promptly applied,
either by cloths wrung out of water as
hot as the hands can bear, or by blank
cts, or any other means by which heat
can be applied directly and strongly tc
the whole surface of the body. He ar,
CUES that animals, like flies, can be re-
suscitated from the stupOr Of drowning
if subjected to the hot rays of the sun
though strong artificial heat is surer il
its effects.
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it tore the rocks, and hove 'em around
was awful.n
''And the ram 2" enquired the re-
porter.
"Stood shaking his head and looking
little confused. ."-POrtlGnd ADDER
fieeY.
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TrareIrrs' 6nids.
Portland & Ogdensburg r. R-June 30, '79.
TRAINS MOVING EAST.

MAIL-Leaves Swanton 900 a. m, Cambridge
Junction 1875 Hardwick S.46, East Hardwlck sos,
Greensboro 9.O7, Walden 9.32, Danville 954 St
Johnsbury arrive 1925 leave AS, East St Johns
bury 1859 West Concord lilo, Miles Pond 113O
East Concord 11.4O, arrives at Lunenburg 11.5O
Portland at 5.57 p m.
MIXED-Leave Swanton 700 a. m, Cambridge
Junction 1904. Hyde Park Ills, Hardwick II 30 p
m East Hardwick 90. Greensboro i42 walden
2.34 Danville 316, arrives at St JohnsDury 4.z9
leave 500 East st. Johnsbury 522, West Concord
5.42, Miles Pond 20, East Concord 6.37, arrive at
Lunenburg 100.
TRAINS MOVING WEST.
MAII-Leaves Portland 500 a. m. Lunenburg
Il n m. East Concord 2.04, Miles Pond 2,l3,
West Concord 232, East st. JOhnsbury 2 AZ, arrive
St Johnsbury 2.55, leaves 4.3O, Danvile 500, Wal
den 52a Greensboro $50, East Hardwick 500
| Hardwick 6.12, Cambridge Junction 7.35, arrives
| at Swanton at 900 p. III.
MIXED.-Leaves Lunenburg 900 a. M, East
Concord o. Miles Pond 6.3S, West Concord ia
East ST. Johnsbury 736 arrives st. JOhnsbury s.O
| leaves S52 Danville 9.55, Walden 1924, Greens
boro IL. IA East Hardwick 11.2S, Hardwick IL A
| HYDE Park 1 "a p. m, Cambridge Junction $50
| arrives at SWantOn 600,
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DIRECTIONS.

First. Know that person recently
drowned is not dead, and will not be
for long time. If not lively he is yet
lifeful. Be not then alarmed nor unduly
excited, but let faith hope and chari-
ty" inspire confidence and a cool judg-
ment to aid, with deliberate haste in
taking the drowned person out of the
water and in restoring him.
Secondly. When he is taken out of
the water, turn his face down for a mo-
ment only, to allow any water in his
nose or throat to run out; then place
him, out of currents of air, upon his
back, with his head very slightly raised.
Do not roll him upon barrel, nor do
anything else to "get the water out of
his lungs" since there is none in them ;
nor out of his stomach, since what he
has swallowed will not do any harm.
Thirdly. Quickly determine whether
he must be carried to where heat is, OF
if it can better be brought to or pro-
duced near him. If the former, take him
gently, quickly and as nearly as possi-
bic in the above said posture, to the
place.
Fourthly. If there must be delay in
applying heat, and dry protectives can
be had, take off his wet clothes and
wrap the dry articles about him to pre-
vent loss of heat, covering the head
particularly. The warm underclothing
of bystanders can be contributed. Sew
eral thicknesses of almost anything at
tainable is better than one.
Filthy. AS soon as heat is at hand
apply it as ingenuity and circumstances
suggest to be most likely to quickly and
thoroughly warm the body. When that
is accomplished theory and fact agree
in assuring us that, if life yet exists,
the heart will begin to beat, happily
soon followed by breathing, both feebly
and unfrequently at first, but more
strongly and faster until they become
natural, when conciousness will return
If the heart gives one beat, or the lungs
one gasp, no more need be done; keeI
the person warm, and he will soon bt
'all right"
Sixthly. Suffocation in any othel
manner should be treated in the samf
way, except that in choking and il
strangling the substances causing thest
conditions should be first removed anC
in case of breathing poisonous gas, o
smoke, artificial respiration should frs
be tried until the gas or smoke has beel
changed for good air in the lungs.
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The Poultry World,

And AMERICAN POULTRY YARD,
(Weekly)
Both Publications are devoted exclusively to
Poultry.
Published by H. III. H.STODDAND, Hartford, Conn.
The POULTRY WORLD is sent postpaid for 81 25
per year, the AMERICAN POULTRY YARD for S1.50.
Both papers for $500.
A series of twelve magnificent Chromos, each
representing standard breed of fowls sent for rs
cents extra to all subscribers of either publication
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telegraph Office.

Western Union and VT. InteInational-in Post
Office, Main St. Open from a M, to p Sun
days, to 10 a. m, to p. m. Night messages at
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LIBRARY AND READING RooM,-Free to ALL Open
from A. M to - M; from . to G. P. M, and from
to 1-2 Saturday evenings.
ART GALLERY-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
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business 9irsftorp' g
Na,ne, Business and Location of the lead
ina business Houses IN st. JOhnSbury.

NdIne, Business and Location OF the tedd-
;t1 Business Houses in st. JOhnS6ury.
Agricultural Tools and Hardware.
HASKELL g. SONS, Hoyt's Block, r. H. 81
Apothecaries.
q, r. BINGHAM No. ) Bank Blook, Main ST.
Attorneys at Law.
ii. noNTGO OMERY, Jewett's Building, r. r. ST.
ELISHA MAY over Hall s. Fletchers Store.
EELDEN e. IDE, No ? Caledonian Blk, up stairs
Books and Stationery.
HOWARD & ROWELL, Caledonian Blk. Main St
Book Binders.
&. NJ. STONE & CO., Agt's Monument Square.
BIanIs--Legal and Business.
G.. NJ. STONE g. CO., Monument Square.
Bakers and COnfectioners.
CROSS & BRADLEY, Main Street.
Clothing for Men and Boys.
f.. e. T. FAIRBANKS & CO., Fairbanks Village.
Crockery, Glass and Stone Ware.
Il. & T. FAIRBANKS & CO., Fairbanks Village.
Carpeting, er-Hangings, Window-shades
e. & T. FAIRBANKS & CO., Fairbanks Village
Dentists.
J. L. PERKINS, Caledonian Block, Main Street.
Dry Goods, and Ladies' Fancy Goods.
D. H. HALE, Avenue Block, R. r. Street.
f. 81 L. FAIRBANKS s. CO., Fairbanks Village.
Furniture and Caskets.
HALL & SWITSER, Main Street.
G. ACALDERwOOD, A. 1. o. o. f. Block,
File Manufacturer.
ST. Iohnsbury File Works, opp. Passenger Depot
Groceries and Housekeeping Goods.
L. " +. FAIRBANKS &; CO., Fairbanks Village.
Insurance, Life.)
E. E. SARGENT, (Etna) Railroad Street.
Photographs.
u. \. CLIFFORD, CaledOnian Block, Main Street
Printers and Publishers.
G. M STONE & CO., Caledonian Block Main st.
Paddock Iron Works.
DAN'L THOMPSON, Proprietor Paddock Village
Stoves and Tin Ware.
IL. f. g. d. @. WOODRUFF Railroad Street.
H. COWDERY Eastern Avenue.
! ------.,, uo~ohry anu AUJ7'
HOWARD & ROWELL, Caledonian Blk, Main S
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LELAND A. whitney

Would inform those wishing to take lessons OIL
in that direction after Oct IS 1873 Terms mad
known on application. For any further informa
tiOn call on or address, ---''
ROBERTS & WHITNEY
Wards Block, r. R. St
st. Johnsbury, vt, Oct. Z, 1873. Soft