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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
A Farmer who Robbed His Boy.

The following sensible article lately ap-
peared in the Manchester New Hampshire)
Mirror "Last spring a farmer found in
his flock lamb which the mother would
not own. He gave it to his son, boy
fifteen years old, who saved it and raised it.
The boy called it his all summer, all the
family called it his, and it was his. But
this fall, when his father sold his other lambs,
he let this one go with them, and taking
the pay for it, tucked it into his big wallet
and carried it off to pay taxes or put it in
the bank Now this farmer did not intend
to do anything wrong. Least of all did he
intend to wrong his boy. Probably he did
not give the matter much thought anyway !;
and if he did he considered the boys owner
ship of the lamb sort of pleasant fiction,
or reasoned that the boy, having all his
needs supplied out of the family purse, did
not need the pay for the lamb, and it was
better to put it into the common fund. But
for all that, taking the lamb and selling it
in that way, and pocketing the proceeds.
was stealing. No, it was robbery; and as
between this boy and his father, one of the
meanest robberies that could be perpetrated.
Not only this, but by robbing the boy of
that two dollars the farmer did more to make
the boy disconnected and drive him away
from home than he can undo with ten times
that amount. A boy is little man, and if
he has got any of the gather and grip to him
when he grows up, he begins at an early age
to feel that desire to OVID something and to
add to the property subject to his ownership,
which is at once the incentive TO effective work
and the motive which reconciles men to their
condition. No matter how well the boys
wants are provided for from fund which is
common to the whole family, he takes no par
ticular interest in adding to that fund be-
cause he does not feel that it is his, and he
tires of labor and thought, the proceeds of
which he must share with several Others
but give him piece of property of his own,
to manage as he pleases, to keep or sell or
change and let him feel that his ownership
is secure, and that his loss or gain depends
upon his own endeavors, and he will work
cheerfuly and contentedly."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11

ter bears higher price in winter; and this
induces dairymen to have their calves
dropped in fall. Let us examine the ex-
pense account. Some think the cold weather
will add much to the cost Of keeping the
calves but this is probably a mistake, as
the following considerations will show The
milk, after making butterin winter, is in bet
ter condition than in summer, as 1t is seldom
sour, and may always be fed sweet. Calves
kept in warm quarters will make more
growth upon the same quantity of milk in
winter than iD summer, on account OF its
better quality, and because, being fed on
hay, they seldom scour or have any trouble
of stomach. We have tested the compare
tive gain on the same quantity Of milk fed
to calves in winter and summer. Six calves,
fed through January, February and March,
on an average of twenty five pounds of skim
milk each per day, starting with an average
weight of eighty pounds, made an average
weight, on the LIST day Of August, OF 300
pounds, or gain Of two and half pounds
per day. They had, besides the milk, what
rowen hay they would eat. In feeding ten
calves for four months, beginning May lst
starting with an average weight Of 100
pounds and feeding twenty-five pounds of
skim.milk with pasture, they reached an av-
erage weight, September LIST, Of 3i6 pounds
in 1913 days, or an average gain of two
pounds per day. II is almost impossible, on
sour milk and grass, to keep calves from
securing to some extent. We have made
better weight in summer by allowing them
to run in a yard and feeding good hay in
racks. The hay seems to counterfeit the
acidty Of the milk. We have no hesita
ton in saying that calves, well cared for,
will make better growth on sweet skim
milk and hay in winter, than on sour milk
and grass in summer. Then it must be
profitable to raise winter calves for beef
for, as we have seen, they will be heavier,
and cost no more. And if heifers are raised
for the dairy, and come in at two years old,
they will cost less raised from fall calves
than spring calves for, in the former case,
as we have seen, the first winter costs no
more than summer keep, and so there is
only the extra cost of one winter before the
heifer drops her calf and becomes produ-
cling COW. Most dairymen who believe in
full feeding, and, therefore raise heifers of
good growth, also believe in early maternity,
that the milking habit may be developed
early. The general opinion of the best
dairymeu is, that a COW, at four years old,
will give more milk if she comes in at two
than at three years old. There can, there
fore, be no valid objection to raising winter
calves where it is found profitable to make
winter butter"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11

no look Just like what am, little girl.
What made them call me an angel Do
you know, father2 Do you know, mother2"
But they only clasped her in their arms and
said "Little angel, little angel"
In the parlor of Mr. W. there hangs an
exquisite paintng-a little girl kneeling on
the turf, her eyes raised to heaven, and her
hands clasped in PRAYER.
ais it a portrait ?" asked a friend, after
gazing long and earnestly upon it. For
none can look without emotion on that
pictured face.
at is"
"May ask OF whom p and he turned to
his host-but was surprised 10 see the great
tears rolling down his cheeks.
"That is the little angel said bright
eyed boy, who stood beside him. "Father
always calls it So"
"And / call 1t so rightly" said the
father, solemny. "She was little angel
the angel that made me a man again. That
made your mother happy wife; and you,
little, puny, sickly babe, the bright, glad
boy you are"
Yes, thou vert an angel, sweet Isabel. In
heaven thou art the little angel still. --Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11

varies so greatly from year to year, and is 30
uncertain at all times, IL is doubtful whether
any farmer who has steadily raised tobacco
for series of fifteen or twenty years has
ever wound up without loss-both in the
deterioration Of his soil and in his pocket.
or all the principal dealers in tobacco in
southeastern Ohio we do not know Of one
who has come out ahead after fight OF
twenty or twenty-five years. Specializing in
tobacco breaks about all Of them at some
time in life--and frequently two or three
times"
DURING the last twenty years tho agri-
culture Of Massachusetts has declined at a
rapid rate. It is not difficult to prove that
better crops can be raised now than formerly I;
it is easy TO demonstrate that the soil is
simply abandoned not exhausted. Yet the
fact exists that there are less acres under
cultivation, less men employed in agricul-
ture to-day, than was the case in 1866.
creasing in population, the rural districts
are becoming depopulated yet it is evident
that this state of society cannot long con-
tinue without danger to the commonwealth,
suffering among the masses, and great in
crease Of poverty and crime.
SENATOR BAYARD, in his recent speech
on the legal tender notes, says: al do not
shut my eyes, Mr.. President, to the fact that
the equal and wholesome distribution of
property, which it was hoped by the found
ers of our government would be attained by
the abolition of the rules of primogeniture,
of entailments. of perpetuities and the di-
vision of intestate estates among daughters
and sons alike, have been greatly defeated.
| am inclined to believe the system of in
corporation, which we have introduced into
all branches of industrial pursuits, will be
found nearly equal to the effects of primo
geniture and mortmain combined in its in.
fluence upon the aggregation of wealth.
Ben. Butler said substantially the same
thing to an assemblage of Massachusetts
farmers few years ago, and was called a
demagogue for saying it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
Temperance In the Home.

The condemnation Of all true temperance
people rests upon the rumseller, and it
should be so but how few are led astray by
him, who had not inherited or previously i'm
bibed the pernicious appetite. The foun-
dation of the ruin is often, often laid in the
home of the young man. The cider placed
yearly in the cellar and used for drink, TO-
gether with the taste which so many receive
with their life, lies back of anything the
dealer of intoxicants can do for the destruc-
ton of youth. Many an anxious mother,
fearing for the safety of her boys, expostu.
lates with her husband. He laughs at her
fears, or becomes vexed at her importantly,
aud weakly yields and suffers the ruin to 90
on, sometimes even sips with the rest and
tries to make herself believe there is no
harm. When her darling haunts the bar
room and comes home with Keeling step and
thickened utterance, or brawls upon the
street, she denounces the seller, and all the
neighbors do the same But the first sin
was not then. The taste uncontrolled in
the parent may be, even at an early age,
almost uncomfortable in the child; and
when there is added to this the encourage
ment of the present, both by precept and
example, it is no wonder the sharpened ap-
petite soon demands something stronger
than cider. The pig washed and trained
went to the mire not because of any special
outside temptations, but because it was his
nature to do so; and the young man is led
to the saloon less because of the gittering
sign or various enticements than because he
is saturated with the desire for strong drink.
Those who deal out the poison have guilt
enough, but the sin of deepest dye is COM
mitted long before their allurements reach
the victims. The next forward step in the
temperance cause, in Vermont, should be to
make temperance homes What temptation
has the bar.room for one who has grown to
manhood without craving for intoxicating
drinks When the heart-broken parents
mourn over the wreck of what might have
been noble manhood let them remember
that they cannot wash their hands in inno-
cency and cast the blame on the saloon
keeper, for he has only carried forward the
work they had begun. He has only admin
istered to the desire which they gave and
| early cultivated. No excuse can be made for
him what, then, can we say of them -?
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
Timely TODics.

BosToN Globe: Notwithstanding all the
modern improvements of husbandry, the
matrimonial harvest is still gathered with
the cradle and thrashed by hand
DURING the thirty-six years of its eIis
tence the income tax has brought into the
Golfers of Great Britain and Ireland the
sum of s265,000,00O, or sl,325,0O0,00O in
gold.
SAYS Norman Mcleod, d. d.. All true
politics should be in the line of making all
the good possessed by the nation or in the
nation as much as possible common good.
No institution can be righteously defended
unless it can be proved to benefit the coun-
try more than its destruction could do"
PROFESSOR ROBERTS of Germ III; GAS the
years passed by and many of the industries
and professions, through education, rose to
prominence and power far exceeding their
former conditions, it was readily seen by a
few active and thoughtful minds that unless
something was done for agriculture it would
fall into disrepute and decline; that the
bread raisers would be unable to cope with
the better educated in other callings, and
that the time was not far distant when the
educated would own the land and the uned.
ucated farmers till it."
A FEATURE of recent changes in business
is the visible shrinkage of the exchanging
class. We had TO 60 through two or three
years of bankruptcy before men could be
kept from rushing into exchanging, botf
those who had failed in it before and those
utterly inexperienced. The teaching o.
daily experiences however, is now begin
ming to be understood, and the retirement
of merchants and closing of old stands o
trade indicates that the exchange class ar,
shrinking in accordance with the reduce,
demand The traders who survive will
stand better chance of sufficient trade Il
sustain life.
SINCE the government was formed it ha
made nine hundred and twenty-nine treatie
with the Indians, and has never failed b
break any of them when it was for our apps
rent interest TO do so. While the Indians wer
powerful and we were weak, there was a
+ excuse, If mean one, for this Punic faitf
But now that only few poor and scattere
tribes remain, cannot we at least save on
, selves from the needless sin of hypocris.
\ by just taking their territory as we want i
and killing any Indian who objects Fc
it is plain that we shall always act on tn
a principle that the Lord has given the cart
!. to his saints, and that we are the saints.
!. WHEELING WEST virginia. Register, &c.
? succession of crops of tobacco on the san
ground finally renders the soil lifelsss al
: barren. Again, the price Of leaf tobac'
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
Temperance.
THE FATHERS HOUSE
SAVED ny a MOTHERS PRAYER.


Was IT dream-only dream9 Once more was at home.
Where watching eyes were growing DIM waiting for me to
comet
SO far away my feet had sped long had ceased to hear
The old familiar household name above all Others dear
20 far my fathers trembling hand could reach my
head;
They mourned for me "a for one lost they wept for me a.
dead.
AT might In dreams, stood more close the relit
hearth,
sang as in the oden time my sougs of JOY aud mrth
Twas but dream why did wake How dark the room.
and chill;
wonder II in that dear home am remembered stint
what H. nishtfa, should seek la .helterng roof
more,
Oh, would they shut me from la WARMTH or turn me from
the door,
II at my fathers feet fall and cry Forgive thy child
Though he has wandered far away shining undone
lie Is 40 weary Of his slns-heavy the burden seems
Twas like message from home In his dreams
Like to the voice the angels hear hia mothers voice
STAYED
Ills poor bruised feet seemed to hear as orce fof him
she prayed
And he remembered that dear time when after her, lie said
The Now lay me down to sleep her hand upon his
II should die what Il should this wretched dreary
night
who'll keep my son9 III seek my home before the dawn
Of light
IN say my f,ther. have snned, forgive me- implore
Not worthy at Thy feet to lie. stand outside Thy door.
But OH forgive me- love s-pray for me- father pray
That may he forgiven sins, the fouest washed away
Nslfa1 again safe safe at home loved sheltered and
forgiven;
An oca the gates Of hell brought in sight of
heaven.
Oh life. love- and peace and res-oh blessed be God.
name
The whosoever will. may come" brought even me home
again Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
Winter Calves.

From the National Live Stock Journal We
take the following "A Wisconsin dairy.
man asks, il there can be any profit in rails
ing calves in winter, or late fall calves 2
This question is now very pertinent, since
winter dairying is becoming common. But
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11

YOUNG man cannot recover the loss he
'uffers here in the practice of bad habits,
hough by penitence and cody sorrow he
may regain the celestial companionship OF
his mother in heaven.-Goldea Rule.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
PATE MIS-!
Law and Collection Office

Law ana COLLECTION Utf1Ce
OF TRUMAN r. GORDON, South Main Street Montpe-
ner VI, Attorney and Counsellor at Law and solicitor Of
Claims and Pensions. All legal business transacted in
satisfactory manner and at reasonable rates.
Notes, mus and Claims Collected,
matter for what no expense incurred except commits
sion for collecting and charge made unless successful
Bills and Demands collected in every part Of the United
States Divorces obtained Mortgages forecosed and Wills
and Dis drawn in The latest nd most approved forms. Is
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
NOTICEy

have about twenty OF hay that wish 10 dis
pose OF by feeding ont and will sell 1T cheap 10
who VIII buy and let have stock To keep while they eat
IT, as have good yard, stable and water plenty Tor
keeping all kinds OF stock preferred. Will Keep stock
by the week Residence one mile sonth Of flanneld
Springs. JACOB Z. LADD
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-25

Itspp cars that the German Govern.
ment has taken the matter Of smoking
seriously athand. the practice being CIR.
s.eh 70 20 great an excess by The youth
cffhat nation that II has been considered
~ ave damaged their constitutions and
incapacitated them for the defen Sc or heir
country. 10 certain towns Of Germany.
therefore. the police have had orders 10
forbid All lads under rs years OF age 20
smoke in The streets. and to punish the
offender by fine aud imprisonment
Also. = Belgian physician has ascertain.
ed, dnring journey OF observation and
excessive use Of tobacco Il the main
inquiry made ri The request If the Bclgi-
az Government hat the very general and
csnse Of color-bllndness, an affection
wbic has occasioned very, considerable
anxiety. both In Belgium and Germany,
rom ~ Influence upon railway Aud
other accidents. and also from the mill.
fary point OF view.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-25

sroLES'-On last Thursday night Mr
John hudson had two fine llorsus Sfo-
len from his farm. near this place
2 BLACK and the other hav. Mr.. Hud.
l-son otfcrs a reward Of $50 for the
'hiet and the horses. Paoli Advocate
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-25
Ar The BANK.
THE BEST TOWN LOTs IN
JASPER
ut Pirate Sale !!

The undersigned has subdivided his
beautiful lots near the Union Flour Mill.
and now offers them at private sale'
There arc eighteen beautiful building
lots, by I53 feet, fronting on Jackson
and Mill streets, with broad alley IN
the rear Of each lot. This IL a rare Or
portunity 70 secure good building lots in
4 healthy part ofiown.
FIRMS. Easy. 10 suit purchasers. as M
i more the object to improve that parl
Of town. than to make money.
Aug. 22. Tiff JOSEPH EGG.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-25
SLAVE AND SHINGLE
FACTORY.
Beck, Bauer 6 Co,
roof ~ slAs -rKnrr.
JA~PER. INDIANA.


300 cords ~ shingle hio.ks. fer which
"" will ra, fr"m II . 10 50 90. Nc !
c"riins ~ a,nl's,.
300 corls ~ slave 'm',er. far which
"" will pay rom 81 so 10 81 70 nf
cord.
The highest price p.sd 70.
slaves suitable for whisL>
barrcss = ssd heading. deliver :
ed ~ thr Factory. pcr>anN
socs'-ipr -oufracs> ~-r -,s,s y
inflammation will please cali
at the Factory.
BECK. BAUER n co.
Feb. % ls~u-l,.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-25

UmsosSctfed feeftnso nw 70 the E6scseu ef
kr0I Mnrrfe' SepsstsNf PUsftifes. f0keps
Hross Lesfers recedred /roDs Pasrsssss

s1sna Afri ilA. issI he REMEDY y ~eskar psrfsetly
had epilepsy iron weaknsss. inr elxIt years IasL
Chicago Auf a. an fhofoufiy rur.B ana feel IN
"p re yosns n.n y y. county /. S....nl better.
Missouri Sept. ~ h9l tsrsft from M
~ % ycur remedies that usnt them case
Ihns % iont rsndns add ~ n-ef thing very strong
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-25

smith American Company Organ
with eight stops. knee swell, and bcautj.
nj tone. Tor sale atthc COURIER Orrycr
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-25

Advertise N The Jasper Courier.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-11

tival Chorus, as mentioned yesterday, has
resigned his position as President of the
May Musical Festival Association. Mr..
Edmund II. Pendleton, the present Vice
President will probably be elected to fill
the place made vacant by this resignation.
, The Freie Presse says: We recommend
to the Volksfreund the following extract
from the Democratic Anzeiger des Western
on the weakness of the candidacy of the
sage of Gramercy Park. Perhaps 1t may
serve to cool its Tilden enthusiasm some-
what, although we must admit that the
prospects for this are rather weak: "We
believe that Tilden's' nomination means
the same as defeat, and in fact, judging
from the experience during the last three
years, we'll deserved defeat, and that 1t
would be one of the worst nominations
that the Democratic party could make"
Yesterdays Abend Post says: We fear
that Tom Young's fences in the Second
District have been seriously damaged by
the last Kessler inundation.-We must say
that there is method in Tilden's transac-
tions. After levying on the hotels here for
his supporters, he is one by one buying up
the Democratic papers of the State. Ac-
cordng to dispatches he has already pur.
chased the Columbus Democrat and the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, with indications OF
further acquisitions in the newspaper ter
ritory in view. AS it appears, Ex-Governor
Bishop is the man who is attending to
these things for Tilden and who at the
same time is counting on his own nomina-
ton for Vice President.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-11

former and ought to be immortalized.
We have duly weighed the reasons for
such conclusion, have considered the alb
surdity that some affect to feel at the
sight of brilliant editors sitting absorbed
over their little box of numerals, while
the devil stands like goose alternately
balancing on one foot and the other as
he asks in vain for copy; of learned
divines, neglecting to add the foreible
and convincing sixteenthly to their ser
mons, of lawyers forgetting their briefs
of controv ersionalists their phillippics,
of teachers their examinations, of pupils
their conjugations, of husbands to kiss
the cook, and of wives to lecture their
spouses; of boot-blacks to solicit shines,
and newsboys their customers, while
their minds, that divine and mysterious
attribute that links them with the in
finite, are all torn up with the eluding
Siren of the puzzle that lures them
with the .delusions of hope in
mastering the vexing thing per-
petually. What is an editors time in
comparison with being kept from doing
mischief If he writes no extensive and
brilliant editorials he is in no danger of
getting the publisher involved in libel
suits. If preacher forgets to add his
sixteenthly and consequently does not
preach his sermon, he can not be accused
of carrying heresy into the pulpit. If
the lawyer neglects his brief the client is
saved his costs, and frequently his case as
well; if the physician neglects to pre-
scribe, his patient can not accuse him of
being quack, and if the sinner does not
polish any boots he is in no danger of
bankrupting his stock in trade. If,
therefore, the intoxicating pleasures of
the puzzle do no more than to keep peo-
pies minds and hands employed, it pre-
vents them necessarily for the time from
interfering with their neighbors' bust
ness, and, consequently, keeps them out
of mischief. The axiom is, therefore,
demonstrated that its inventor is unmis-
takably Saint and ought forthwith to
be canonized-with a Krupp gun or a
mitrailleuse.