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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
Like as a Father.

Fatherhood implies distinctive love for
the individual child, and thus of necessity
personal interest in the child's well or ILL.,
doing, right or wrong conduct, good or bad
character. Have we not been over-ready to
eliminate this personal element from the
divine fatherhood We speak of the AL
mighty as emotionless. How do we know
this If emotion be the result of weak
ness the thought, as applied to the Supreme
Being, would be blasphemy. But is not the
sea-swell type and token of the oceans
might and majesty? And may not the
pulse-beat of an affection, intense and tender
beyond our thought, be even more devout
and reverent conception of the Deity than
,t' ~ -ar"sa 90 sHnerallv associated with
feels for us. As nearer kindred
of spirit with God only makes good man
more keenly sensitive to the moral qualities
of those around him-as no one was ever
more keenly susceptible than Christ, of Joy
or grief from good or evil mems conduct or
character-I cannot but believe that there
is what can best term emotional recogni.
ton, on the part of the Eternal Father, of
good or evil in his children that, if there
be Joy in heaven over the penitent sinner.
He, chief of all, feels that joy; that you and
give to or withhold from the Supreme Be
ing conscious satisfaction aud gladness by
our purity aud sanctity of spirit and con-
duct, or by false, impure and unworthy
lives. Oh, did we thus feel our sonship and
bear about in our hearts our birth-bonds,
could there be more potent motive in the
pursuit of good and avoidance of evil p
dndre,c =. Peabody.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
Misquotations from Scripture.

"Thc merciful man is merciful TO his
beast" The Scripture form, A righteous
man regardeth the life of his beast. ."-Pr0U-
erbs In 10.
A nation shall be born in day." In
Isaiah il reads, Shall nation be born at
once 2"-isddc irUi: 8.
"As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth a man
the countenance of his friend" Z" Iron
sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the
countenance of his friend" d."--Prouerbs
rrpi: II.
"That he who runs may read" "That
he may run that readeth. ."-HdJdkktL Il: 2.
"Owe no man anything but love-" "Owe
no man anything, but to love one another"
Romans Tii: s.
"Cleanliness akin to godliness." Not in
the Bible.
"Prone to sin as the sparks fly upward. "
"Born into trouble as the sparks fly upward
| job u: 7.
exalted to heaven in the point of privi-
lege" Not in the Bible
Eve was not Adams hepmate, but merely
helpmeet for him; nor was Absalomls
long hair, of which he was so proud, the
instrument of his destruction his head,
not the hair upon it, having been caught in
the boughs of a tree. g Samuel zviG: 81
"Money is the root of all evil" st. Paul
said, | Timothy, vi 10, "The love of
money is the root of all evil"
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread" d."-Genesis Ill: 10. Commonly quoted
brow.
"God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb" From Sterne's Sentimental Journey
to Italy. Compare Isaiah xvii s.
In the midst of life we are in death.
From the burial service and this, origin
ally, from hymn of Luther
"Not to be wise above what is written
Not in Scripture.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
No Strife Between Brethren.

There are two thoughts suggested by the
experience recorded of Abram and his
brother-in-law nephew at Bethel, which are
not without application to frequent expe-
riences in the state of society and phase of
Christianity which now obtain. One is,
that little goodnatured yielding of strict
right in favor of peace, and of some AMIGA
BILE arrangement of difficulty which is in
danger Of growing serious, will usually be
effectual If Abram had said, as he would
have had perfect right to say, as he
almost certainly would have said if his
name had been Smith, Brown, Jones or
Robinson, "Now you see, Brother Lot, the
Lord gave all this land hereabouts to me
and my seed and not TO you and your'n I;
and it isn't reason that ! should contemplate
for moment such contingency as parting
with any of it. There appears to be good
deal of land elsewhere, and my advice TO
you is to look up some fertile territory over
the river or somewhere, and make settle
ment of your own" If, we say, Abram had
delivered himself in that style, there would
have been fight. But, as it was, he dis
armed hostile criticism and unamiable feel.
ing in advance by his clear willingness To
make sacrifices TO accommodate his kinsman
aud prevent disturbance. lie put the whole
thing into Lots hands "Go you 10 the
right, will go To the left; choose you the
left, | will be content with the right" Suit
yourself and will be suited. How could
Lot quarrel with Abram on any such basis
az that And, as it would seem, Abrau
won from his kinsman the very advantag,
which he no doubt desired 60 stay wher,
God had placed him) by mutely appealing
to Lots generosity to think of that. AnC
so by risking something he lost nothing
aud by good feeling and a courteous and
concliatory spirit he settled what nigh
easily have grown into a little civil war
The other suggestion is of how much to b.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01

desired IL is that the Christian people OF
this 10th century, who know so much more
Tin theory about the true ideal Christian
spirit than could be possible to those semi
savage chieftans in the dawn of holy his
tory three thousand eight hundred years
ago, should have the grace to apply their
knowledge TO the degree that they may at
least make as creditable an appearance
before the world as those patriarchs did.
"Let there be no strife" cried Abraham,
for we are brethren ~ There, in the early
wilderness of those Syrian hills and wales,
with no human beings other than them
happened, except the wild Kenaanite and
the barbarian Perizzite; with no daily or
weekly newspapers to report the circum-
stances, and no endless wires pulsating the
news in throbbing circuits round the world
these two Hebrew nomads shrank from the
disgrace apd the wrong involved in a sense.
less quarrel between those who were kins-
men not merely, but brothers in common
faith in the same God 0 Christian people,
who disagree and wrangle, and meanly sus-
pect each other and encroach upon each
other, or who try sharp practices against
each other in the stock exchange or at the
brokers' board and who being once enraged
refuse to settle it and stir up the churches
and make ecclesiastical confusion worse
confounded why cannot ye hear out of the
far past this great good voice of Abram,
and live at least up to his light? "Let
there be no strife, for we be brethren."-
COn0re1dfiOndlisf,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
Young Folks on the Farm.

In comparison between the people from
the village aud the people from the farms,
the latter came off as second class matter.
Even the boys and girls seemed sad and half
asleep. Well, half asleep they were, for one
of the causes of this absence of flesh from
cheek and arm and hand, is the fact that
children and young folks Of the rural regions
do not have sleep enough. For perhaps six
months of the year these growing bodies are
busy either out in the field or around the
house and barn at least sixteen hours day.
By some hocus pocus of the reasoning pow.
ers the head man of the farm does not call
building the fires, and splitting wood for the
day, and feeding the stock, by the name of
work That is all form of ante-breakfast
amusement. To go after the cows or horses
at about five o'clock in the morning, when
the dew lies like a rain on the grass, and
when the hollows are full of damp malarial
air, is thought to be mere nothing for the
barefooted boy or girl but an appetizer for
breakfast. The truth is, this boy or girl
should at that time be in bed, finding under
a warm blanket the sleep prayed for by ev
cry fiber of the body, and by all the attri
butes of the soul. The evening was too hot
wbsn % the the t9kS t2 sSsap Ts and
fields and woods had made the air chilly
how blessed a time for morning sleep fol
all those under the age of twenty-one The
Oldest one of the house should feed the wort
horse sat six, but the young folks should all
breakfast at seven and do nothing before
breakfast. With such a send off in the
morning happy and profitable days work
is possible.-PrOfeSSor !Stoing
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
A BOy on n Farm.

Say what you will about the general use
fulness of boys, it is my impression that
farm without boy would very soon come
TO grief. What boy does Is the life of the
farm. lie is the factotum, always in de
mand, always expected to do the thousand
and one things that nobody else will do.
Upon him falls the odds and ends, the most
difficult things After everybody else is
through, he is to finish up. His work is like
a oman's-perpetually waiting on others.
Everybody knows how much easier it is TO
cook a good dinner than to wash the dishes
afterwards. Consider what boy on farm
is required to do-things that must be done,
or life would actually stop. 1t is understood,
in the first place, that he is 10 do all the er-
rands, to go to the store, TO the post-oiice,
and to carry all sorts of messages. If he
had as many legs as the centipede, they
would tire before night His two short
limbs seem to him entirely inadequate to
the task. lie would like to have as many
legs as wheel has spokes, and rotate about
the people who have seen him "turniug
cart-wheels along the side of the road
supposed that he was amusing himself, and
idling his time he was only trying to invent
a new mode of locomotion, so that he could
economize his legs, and do his eTrands with
greater dispatch. He practices standing on
his head, in order TO accustom himself to
any position. Leap-frog is one of his methods
of getting over the ground quickly. He
would willingly go on an errand any dis
tance, il he could leap.frog it with a few
boys. He has natural genius for combin-
ing pleasure with business this is the rea-
son why, when he is sent to the spring for a
pitcher OF water, he is absent so long for
he stops to poke the frog that sits on the
stone, or il there is pen-spout, TO put his
hand over the spout and squirt the water a
little while. He is the one who spreads the
grass when the men cut 1t he mows II away
IN the barn he rides the horse to cultivate
the corn, up aud down the hot, weary rows
he picks up the potatoes when they are dug
he brings wood and water, and splits kind
ling he gets up ths horse aud turns out the
horse Whether he is in the house or out
of the house, there is always something to
do Just before school in the winter, he
shovels paths; in the summer he turns the
grindstone. lie knows where there are lots
Of wintergreens and sweetilags, but instead
OF going for them, he is TO stay indoors. and
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
"Managing" The Young.

The repression system is not yet all aban-
doned in household or college. But it was
never sagacious, never having been framed
to fit the more powerful facts. The story of
the acorn dropped in the milestone hole,
which afterwards grew and raised the stone
in air, illustrates how growth may be inhu.
enced but may not be Kindred. Possibly,
the prodigal son, who left abundance and
came to husks, fled from too rigid and
monotonous discipline, but husks could
hardly have drawn him back, The Sunday.
school that is winning with flowers aud a
fountain, and an anniversary, is wiser than
the old time one which offered only husks in
a shorter " catechism, long-syllabled and
standing for the severity that made the day
tedious, and then defined heaven as an eter.
nifty of it. The wiser government of youth
makes fewest rules commits itself to no u
and "shall not with most sowness, thus
having cases for discipline the least often
knows, and sometimes strikes, the happy
medium between the severity that kills in
fluence and the familiarity that kills respect
The best paternity is that which can be al
once mentor, counselor, sympathizer and
friend that fits neatly the older-brother re-
lationship without making display of it
General observation testifies that the most
perfect government is most infrequently
most quietly, and most gently exercised il
lacks deeds, and it positively lacks threats
nor is it an after-hindrance. To infiuenc,
the young, to their being governed without
Ptheir knowing it-by being at once of them
with them, and still above them-is the idea
| type of successful management.-NeoY YorI
Times
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
Learning 10 Work.

When parents look back over their past
lives many of them form the resolution that
their children shall never have to work as
hard as they have. In this they often make
the mistake of bringing their children up
in idleness, which is greater evil than that
of hard work. There is a medium road
here. The daughter who hears her parents
say she is not to work, may be in the end
able TO look in her exhausted mothers face,
and know how much there is to be done
and never willingly put forth hand to help
her. Nay, she is going out to tea this even
ing, will come to her mother to have her
dress adjusted for the great occasion, She
casts much of the burden of her existence
upon the too generous heart that she does
not appreciate, and never once feels the i'm
pulse to give the aid of her youthful strength.
A steady employment the whole time, not
drudgery, is the surest road to happiness,
and no child should be allowed to grow up
with idea that there is nothing to do. II
needs instilling more clearly that the profits
TO be looked for are not so much in the way
of dollars as in health and happiness.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
1t Makes No Drunkards,
Breaks No Hearts,
Excuses No Crimes

DR.. David Kennedy's FAVORIrE REMEDY is
not disguised enemy of the human race; where
it cannot help it does not harm. FAVORlTE
REMEDY il combination of vegetable altara-
tives. 1t does not heat or inilame the blood, but
cools and purifes it, In all cases of Kidney
troubles Liver complaints, Constipation of the
Bowels, and the delicate arrangements which
afilict women, the action of FAVORITE REMEDY
is beyond praise. Thousands of grateful people
voluntarily testify to this, in letters to Dr. Ken
nedy; and with warmth and funess Of words
which mere business documents and certificates
can never possess. 1t makes no drinkards-ex-
cuses no crimes-breaks no hearts. In its coming
there is hope and in its wings there is healing.
We challenge a trial and are confident Of the re-
suit, Dr. Kennedy would have it understood
that, while he is engaged in the introduction Of
his medicine, " "Favorte Remedy" he still con-
tnues the practice of his profession, hut confines
himself exclusively to Office practice. He treats
all diseases of chronic character, and performs
all the minor and capital operations of surgery.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
A Startling Tragedy,

The particulars of Mrs. Wetmore's sui
eide in Paris makes a sad tale and throws
light upon the heartless immortality of many
of the British nobility, heaven save the
mark Mrs. Wetmore was plain Annie
Dougherty when a girl, and married Wet
more, the agent who looks up the lost cars
on the Wabash road. But Wetmore was a
goody sort of a man, not smart enough to
satisfy his wife's fashionable ambition, and
she went abroad, becoming acquainted with
Lord Henry Paget, while in France. The
titled Britisher was then living with his
second wife, besides having disposed of at
least one mistress by settling an annuity on
her. and when Lady Paget died four years
ago, the lovely American took his lordship's
fancy. She gave up husband and friends
for him, Lord Henry promising to make her
his wife as soon as she could be divorced from
Wetmore. Mrs. Wetmore was established
in adjoining apartments, and within a year
her paramour's jealousy forced her to give
mp her old acquaintauces, but, though a di-
vorce had been secured, no marriage fol-
lowed. In the meantime Lord Paget had
become marquis of Anglesey by his fathers
death, and made preparations to marry
another American widow, Mrs. Wodehouse,
daughter of the late postmaster-genera
Preston King of Georgia. The marquis left
his mistress one fine day in June, ostensibly
for a short trip to London, but few days
later he was married to Mrs. Wodehouse at
the British embassy in Paris, Lord Lyons
himself giving away the bride. So fearful
was the false-hearted marquis that Mrs.
Wetmore would break in upon the ceremo-
MES that he had detectives stalking before
the ambassadorial palace, each having in
| his possession the photograph of the woman
to be kept out of the place at all hazards
But the forsaken mistress knew nothing OF
the marriage until note from the marquis
sent her into dead faint. She who had
given up husband and honor was now aban
doned in turn, and was taken home by Lady
Clinton, an intimate friend, who pitied hel
penniless, stricken condition. Mrs. Wet
more refused the bridegroom's proffered set
tement and tried to drown her grief il
liquor, drinking up even Lady Clinton
cologne and other scents to get it, The
poor woman moaned and cried continually
aud finally took poison and died in dread
| ful auonv
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
The Dnme Girrle.


Nothing is own we hold our pleasures
just little while ere they are fed;
One by one life robs us Of our treasures;
Nothing Il our own except our dead.
They are ours and hold in faithful keeping,
Safe forever, all they took away
Cruel life ran never stir their sleeping
Cruel time can never seize that prey.
Justice pales; truth fades; stars fall from heaven;
Human are the great whom we revere;
No truecrown OF honor can be given,
Till the wreath lies on funeral bier
How the children leave us; and no traces
LInger of that smiling angel band;
Gone forever gomez and in their places
Weary men andanxous women stand
Yet we have some little ones, still ours,
They have kept the baby smile, we know,
Which we kissed one day, and hid with flowers,
On their dead white faces, long ago.
when our joy isiost-and life will take it.
Then memory OF the past remains.
Save with some strange, cruel stlngs that make II
Bitterness beyond all present palms
Death, more tender-hcarted, leaves sorrow.
still the radiant shadow-fond regret;
We shall find in some far. bright morrow
JOY that once taken, living yet.
Il love ours, and do we dream we know II,
Bound with all our heart-strlngs, all our own
Any cold and cruel dawn may show It
Shattered, desecraed, oyerthrown.
Only the dead hearts forsake never;
Love that to deaths loyal care has fed,
Is thus consecrated ours forever,
And no change can rob Ms Of our dead.
SO when fate comes to beslege our city,
Dim gold or make flowers fall,
Death, the angel. comes in love and pity,
And to save our treasures, claims them all.
-Ideidide Anne Proctor
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01

pare apples and stone raisins and pound
something in a mortar. And yet, with his
mind full of schemes of what he would like
to do, and his hands full of occupations, he
is an idle boy who has nothing to busy him.
self with but school and chores. He would
gladly do all the work If somebody else
would do the chores, he thinks; and yet
doubt if any boy ever amounted to anything
in the world, or was of much use as man,
who did not enjoy the advantages of lib.
eral education in the way of chores.-Chas.
Diidley Warner
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
sMnra1 and Reliaions.
DROPPING A SEED.

The land still the skies gray with weepingi
Into the soft brown earth the seed she cast
oh soon, she cried will come the time Of reapng,
The golden time when clouds and tears are pastl
There came whisper through the autumn haze,
Yea, thou shalt nnd II after many days"
Hour after hour she marks the ntful cleaning
OF sunlight stealing through the cloudy lifti
Hour after hour she fingers, idly dreaming,
To the rain fall and the dead leaves drift, drift;
Oh for some small green sign Of life, she prays,
Have not watched and waited many days ?"
AT early morning, chilled and sad, she hearfcns
To stormy winds that through the poplars blow;
Far over hill and plain the heaven darkens,
Her field s covered with shroud Of snowi
All, Lord abe signs, are those thy loving ways
He answers" spake I not OF many days r.
The snowdrop blooms the purple violet glistens
On banks OF moss that take the sparkling showers;
Half-cheered alf-doubtng yet she strays and listen
To lnches singing to the shy young nowersi
A little longer still his love delays
The promised blessing" after many days"
Oh, happy world she cries, the sun Is shining
Above the soil | see the springng green;
could not trust his word without repning,
could not wait in peace for things unseen;
Forgive me, Lord, my soul is full Of prasei
My doubling heart prolonged thy "many daya."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
Selerf MisqeHanv.


Tbcte,s ina, ona ,h,ng a man can have
In naii mis- world NJ 900 and s,r,se
That makes the bnslnesa no, too had
And that one thlng's an easv wife.
Dost fancy Una, loVe my grl
for lo'y oneeNS ., raNen nhr
one NOUS my neait oeohuse sue ia"shS-
neo'u'e Hno i'"s'i'' Nh" uo''' o"ie'
nut NV boots ina, ,ybere IL suits.
And and them whore mt them. too,
That a Thing vou must allow.
A chan caS verv seitom do.
leave my papers on my desk
she never dustS them IN heap'
or takes TO light the Kitchen stove
Ihe very one wantto Keep
On winter nio,,ta r,v cozv dame
WIN warm nor too hefore tho are,
sbe never scoids about Tho iamn.
or wanta tho vyiclt triae hiober.
on s,,;,,.,. ,,s j.. 90, 40 c,o
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01

4 CENSUS enumerator ran across law
yer, and the following colloquy occurred ;
Are you married, sir ?" he asked. "That
is matter of record about which have no
right to give oral evidence" wisely remarked
the technical gentleman. Well, where were
you born 2" T" If | should answer that ques-
ton, my testimony would be purely hearsay
and Incompetent When We're you born,
or how old are you, please :" My evidence
upon that point would also be merely hear
say; have no personal recollection of the
affair. You cannot prove these things by
me, and the law cannot force me to answer"
The enumerator left in disgust.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
New Iherfisements.
FARM FOR SALE!

The known as the John C. Tabor farm, situated in
East MONTPELIER the middle road, called from East
Village said town to Montpelier and Ouehaf miles
from the and -four from Montpelier. The farm
hundred and thirtyseyen OF land suitably
divided for fam purposes, with buildings In good condition
running At house and barn, and excellent
place. said emss well located with respect to
mills post office. mechanic shops, ETC. and will be sold at
reasonable price together with the stock farm tools, II
desired. A part OF the purchase money can remain on
mortgage. TRUMAN e. kELIOS, Administrator.
East Montpelier August Ii, lSs0. 50