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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
Making Friends with the Birds.

Doubly attractive, at this mating time of
the year, are country homes that are mnch
loved of the birds. The robin and the blue
bird come earliest there. The orioles have
not failed for many year to hang their
graceful nest on the low-drooping branches
Of the ancestral elm. The gray old barn has
always furnished safe home for the twit
tering swallows, and the wrens have shared
the chipmunk's strong castle in the vener-
able stone wall, time out of mind. Beneath
the sheltering caves of the wood-shed the
phHbe bird and her mate,--most modest
and shy of all the tuneful train,-build or
renew their nest, always solitary pair and
always apparently the same. There is a
reason for this partiality of the birds, and it
is not far to seek They know their friends
as well as does baby, or dog, or a cat
BETTER even, for the instinct OF self-protec
ton is finer in them. A dog will try to win
over a churlish fellow to bestowing upon
him friendly pat or welcoming word, but
blue bird will not Let the boys stone
down his nest one year, or the cats rob it,
and in the next early spring-time you shall
listen in vain for his familiar greeting,-a
flute note that has been called "the violet
of sound" and is as welcome to the ear as
its flower-type is TO the eye. The homes that
the birds come back to are those where
they are protected and welcomed to their
share in the natural rights of ownership. Kill
the cats if they murder the birds. Teach
the children to know and love and protect
them. We distrust this recent extenuation
of nestrobbing, which permits the boys to
take "just one egg" under the fact or the
pretext that they are " making collection" ."
There will be eggs enough left for study
when the Matching season is over at all
events these predatory excursions tend to
blunt the boys moral sense, and wipe out
distinctions that should be carefully cul.
tured and preserved, and they should, there.
fore, be rigidly supervised or altogether for
hidden. We have noticed that our young
friends are not apt to collect specimens "
alone, and that three eggs in nest give but
one apiece to amateur ornithologists who
hunt in threes Make friends with the birds,
therefore, if you love their bright and happy
companionship. Scatter food for the early
corners, or the belated ones in the autumn.
If you haven't cherries enough for the MEM
bers Of your feathered choir,-who ask no
other pay, and earn their living besides by
the war they wage on worm and insect en-
emies,-plant more trees, or divide fairly,
but don't trap or kill the singers. Remem-
Der who made them and what eye notes
their fall.-Goiden Rule.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
Drinking Ice Water.

There is no more doubt that drinking ic,
water arrests digestion than there is that i
refrigerator would arrest perspiration. II
drives from the stomach its natural heat
suspends the flow of gastric juice, and shock.
and weakens the delicate organs with which
it comes in contact. An able writer ON hu
man diseases says: "Habitual ice watel
drinkers are usually very fabby about the
region of the stomach. They complain thai
their food lies heavy on that patient organ
They taste their dinner for hours after it Ii
bolted. They cultivate the use of stimu
lants to aid digestion. II they are intelli
gent they read upon food and what the phys
iologists has TO say about it-how long il
takes cabbage and pork and beef and pota-
toes, and other meats and esculents, to 20
through the process Of assimilation. They
roar at new bread, hot cakes, fried meat, i'm,
agining these TO have been the cause of their
msladies. But the ice water goes down all
the same, and finally friends are called in to
take farewell look at one whom mysteri-
Gus Providence has called to cline where,
as far as Is known, ice water is not used.
The number of immortal beings who 60
hence, TO return no more, on account of an
injudicious use OF ice water, can hardly be
estimated. ."-Baitimore Sun.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 49, $780,

the omission or not, the slight was beyond
endurance. Everyone was talking about
the forthcoming grand event, and the proud
dame smothered her pride and aversion, and
asked for an invitation, which was sent her,
and when she appeared at the ball, the
young son of the host turned TO friend who
had overheard the lady's remark, and said,
al told you she should smell shoemaker's
wax" Mr.. Corcoran's house on Lafayette
Square, which was built by Governor
Swann's father, was occupied once by Dan
iel Webster, who entertained there in lordly
style before it came into Mr.. Corcoran's
possession. In 1862 it was seized by the
secretary Of war as hospital for soldiers
The French minister, occupying it at the
time, was absent in New York, and he i'm
mediately telegraphed that the house was
his. Afterward, at the state department,
Mr.. Seward asked the minister II the French
flag was broad enough to cover Mr.. Corcor-
ans house. "1f it is not" was the reply,
eve will make it SOC Cleveland Leader.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19

proof cloak and shoes in wet weather. Keep
ing herself in good health by careful, yet
not selfish and over-anxious attention TO the
laws OF hygiene. she Is usually In good spir-
its, abhorring "the blues not only for
their own misery's sake, but from deep re-
ligious conviction that they belle the color
Of healthy, Godfearing soul. She goes
out to her work with cheerful heart and will
ing hand, and face so bright with the full
gladness of life that she seems daily morn
ing CLEAN to the people who have learned to
set their rundown clocks by her punctual
passing by. The young girls with whom
she comes in daily contact look to her rs to
an ideal-nor are they ever disappointed in
getting just the love and sympathy they
need-a look, a book, a caress, word fitly
spoken. And the boys--they worship her.
She is to them the very woman--a strange
commingling of mother, sister, friend, to
whom they give their confidence on the
noblest thoughts aud ambitions of their
dawning manhood. And many boys have
been known, under her gracious influence,
to declare boldly for the Master and the
right, TO "cease TO do evil and learn TO do
we'll" By-and-by cher boys and girls as
she calls them, bring their husbands and
wives to see the dear friend of their youth,
and call their daughters by her dear name,
and pray God the little ones may grow
into her sweet likeness. If she has had a
sorrow, God only knows III you and can
only suspect 1t from dreamy, far-away
look in her eyes, coming sometimes when in
the midst Of very happy people. Her heart
is open to every human cry, her hand ready
for every good work, her mind alive to every
step of progress, and her soul on the alefO
for every revelation of Gods word and will.
She deserves to be canonized above St.
Theresa, and doubtless would have been in
an earlier day in the Roman church. But
she founds no orders, builds no converts,
does not shut herself in narrow cell, vibrat-
ing between states of exalted ecstasy and
ascetic humility. She lives strong health
full, beautiful life in the midst of the work
ing-day world.-Presbyteridn
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
Trial Fires.

st. Peter tells us that fiery trials are not
strange things, but rather divine processes
of proof and purgation. By these we are
made sharers of Christ's sufferings, and be-.
yond them lie his glory and our Joy. Nature
is full of fire-marks. Igneous causes have
shaped the worlds for habitation. Our
globe is half-quenched mass, whose GEN.
trail fires are constantly at work. Molten
volumes of granite have pushed them
selves up from the fiery depths, and have
overlaid the earth's surface, anchoring the
everlasting hills. Lava streams have swept
over wooded slopes, gardens and vineyards,
blighting and crisping everything. And a
later generation has come upon that scene
to find new and richer soil, and to gather
the most delicious grapes from the lava dust.
Gods spiritual garden bears similar fire.
marks. Quencbed fire underlies the richest
growths of faith and usefulness. The way
of Providence right through the generations
of men is to bring good out of evil, wrench
ing the spoil from the spoiler, and manifest
ing divine glory from out the burning bush.
Trial fires have revealing power. Great
flames once broke out in Pyrennees Noun
tains. The glorious old forests were con-
sumed. The terrible heat split off huge
masses of rock, and converted the crags and
slopes into half.melted surfaces, which
heaved and blazed like furnace. And
now appeared new thing. The intense
heat melted the gold and silver which were
secreted there, and the molten ore ran down
the old water-courses in streams Of wealth.
Out of this catastrophe came the discovery
of those mines which so enriched the Span
iards. There are hidden stores of moral
wealth in the nature of every man. There
are possibilities of usefulness in us all,
which we will never discover except under
trial fires. How many good man has been
mute as to Christian confession and coun.
sci. He has been hiding the salvation of
God in his heart. His talents were lying
buried as in hidden mines, which never felt
the pick, the bar, or the blast. The world
has been waiting for the richness of his life.
God has been waiting for the use and i'm
provement of those talents. The church
has longed for bolder testimony and a
more positive service from that good man.
But the silver still slept in his bosom and the
gold remained undiscovered and unmined in
the depths of his nature. But now God
comes to search out this hidden wealth. He
kindles glowing heat on this mans life.
Property slips away. Bereavement comes.
Reputation is spoiled. The world seems 10
become a Wilderness and over its fairest
promises and hopes the lava.fres of trial
spread themselves, piping hot, in rolling
waves. Time explains it all. Out of that
life the molten gold begins to flow. The
church is enriched The world is bettered
Religion has proved its transcendant value
That mans life has widened out into many
a form of benefcence, and sometimes men
hear his heartfelt testimony, " 1t is good fol
me that have been afflicted. DIR. r.
q, Clark,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
Why Women Need Faith.

The strength of women lies in their heart.
1t shows itself in their strong love and in
stinctive perception of right and wrong. In
tellectual courage is rarely one of their vir-
tues. As a rule, they are inclined to be rest
less and excitable, allowing their judgments
and actions to be swayed by quick emotions
of all kinds, but, above all, it is in their
hopefulness and their endurance that they
find their chief power Who is the last per-
son to give up hope in the case of member
of the family who has apparently gone al
together to the bad ? What mother or sis
ter with deep and ardent love for such will
ever cease to cherish hope or endure suffer
ing on their account The patience of wo
men is proverbial, and their whole lives are
bound up in their affections. Few people
will deny that love in one form or another
makes up the beauty of life to woman. 1t
enters into all she does. Any work outside
her immediate circle is undertaken most Of
ten from pure desire to help some one else to
know something of the mysterious happi-
ness of love. Unlike men, women chiefly
look for personal intercourse with those for
whom they are working If their interest
lies among the poor, they are desirous of
sympathetic personal acquaintance with
them and very little good of a lasting kind
has been done by women without their own
influence of love being brought to bear on
the individual case. Without dwelling on
the greatest physical weakness of women in
general, it is a fact that their brains are
more easily deranged, and, unless they chang
greatly, they are apt to deteriorate in essen
tial womanly qualities If thrown much or
prominently before the world, They are
seldom fitted to rule, emulation and jealousy
being generally strong in their character,
while their feelings and judgments are often
rapid in the extreme. 1t is in the heart,
therefore, that woman will more especially
feel the effects of Agnosticism, whether
those effects be for good or for evil. Her
head may gain in grasp of logic and in clear
ness of view; but if her heart, with all its
powers for good, is weakened and discour-
aged, she will gain little ultimately by the
spread of the new views. When the heart
is dispirited, or thrown back upon itself, the
action that springs from it tends inevitably
to fall lifeless to the ground.-Nineteenh
(snf,irU
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
The Donte Gnrlq.
For the Vermont watchman.
SATURDAY NIGHT.


Br MARY a. WARD.
The kitten sleeps on its rug by the ire,
The baby sleeps in its bed;
The good man watches the flames leap higher
And thinks Of the wife who Is dead.
Yes, thnka that the room seems dark and cold,
Though warm It is and bright,
Because presence loved Of old
gone this Saturday night.
The room is the same, yet not the same,
For never another hand
Can give the charm one may not name
Yet all may understand
with aching heart has the husband tried
To train her growing vine
Round pictures and down the window side
In the way she made II twine.
And sitting tonight and looking around,
All things Of hers seem there,
Her baby sleeping soft and sound
Beside her vacant chair.
Her basket. holding thimble and thread
And half-made frock for the boy,
A book-the last the dear eyes read
And part of a broken toy.
II Ia Saturday night; he must put that by.
For such was ever her way,
To leave no trace TO vex the eye
On the morn Of the sacred day.
No trace Of the toilIng. weary week
Or the cares which made II sad;
She made her home help each spirit seek
For home than this more glad
Perhaps sometimes he thought It strange
She took such rigid care,
But now she Is gone he would not change
rule Of hers one hair,
Nor fail to read from the sacred book,
And pray from his inmost SOUL
And kiss the babe II II give one look
Like her whose life It stole
And think meanwhile. "'Tis Saturday night,
A time OF mystic power,
Like one to come when stand In the light
OF my last, my dying hour.
Behind the week Of mine earthly life,
The sabbath life before;
II 1t give me back thy love dear wife,
scarce need ask for more"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
HumOrsOme Wallis.

FIsHwoRMs are beginning to chin the sur
face of the earth and look around for boys
with spades and an old oyster-can.
AFARMER whose pigs escape from the stye
and get into the yard about once day, says
he can't persuade the animals that the q pen
is mightier than the sward."
The poor old negro preacher was more
than half right when he said, "Bredderin,
if we could all see into our own hearts as
God does, it would mos skeer us to DEATH"
IT must have been tremendously embar-
rassing to that nice young man in Bowling
Green, Kentucky, who escorted the preach
er's daughter to meeting and arrived late,
the Bible as the couple marched up the
aisle, any daughter is grievously tormented
with a devil" which verse occurred in a
New Testament miracle, of which the
preacher was reading. The whole congrega-
tion snickered, and it would be hard to tell
which felt the worse, the preacher, his
daughter or her escort.
A CLEVELAND lawyer, defending hand
some young lady charged with larceny,
closed his appeal to the jury thus Cen
tlemen you may hang the ocean on a grape
vine to dry, lasso an avalanche, pin a napkin
TO the mouth of volcano, skim the clouds
from the sky with teaspoon, throw salt on
the tail of our noble American eagle, whose
sleepless eye watches over the welfare of our
nation, paste For rent on the moon and stars
but never for a moment delude yourself
with the idea that this charming girl is
guilty OF the charge preferred against her."
The jury acquitted her without leaving their
seats.
Or the late Bishop Ames the following
anecdote is related While presiding over a
certain conference in the west a member be-
gan TRADE against universities, education,
ETC., thanking God that he had never been
corrupted by contact with a college. After
proceeding thus for a few minutes, the bishop
interrupted him with the question, +" Do /
understand that the brother thanks God for
his ignorance :" "Well, yes," was the
answer; "you can put it that way, if you
want to-" swell, all l have to say" said
the bishop, in his sweet, musical tones, ais
that the brother has a great deal to thank
God for"
THE peril Of employing highly-educated
young men as clerks was again illustrated
recently. A woman stopped at green gro
GERS and asked "ls them lettuce fresh 2"
"You mean that lettuce" suggested the
clerk, Z" and it is fresh" "Then you'd better
eat il r. she snapped, as she walked on. The
grocer rushed out and asked the clerk what
on earth had happened to anger her, and
the young man replied "Why nothing,
only / corrected her grammar" "You have
turned away one of my best customers
Only yesterday she came in aud asked me
how / sold those white sugar, and got an
order for whole barrel Hang you, sir
but if them customers want grammar they
don't expect to fiud her in a grocery No,
sir And If you see she again, you want TO
apologize in the most humblerst manner"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
Seieqf eMisreHanp.
For the Vermont watchman.
FOR A SION.

For the Vermont watchman
FOR A SIGN.
BY MAUD MEREDITH.
II were to die tonight,
And to-morrow's sun, M II rose,
Would shine on dead face,
Smiling In still repose,
What would wish some friend might bring
To lie by me in my slumberlng7
Would they think 10 make sign
or my life a. Ia days had been,
To fll my hands with roses
And peonies red as ain,
To show where the heart had left its stain,
The outward token Of inward pain2
Oh, mo- rather let sorrow
Go down beneath the sod
ask for no mans pity
II pass under the rod.
And know ye this, shall sweetly rest,
Like tired child on the green earth's breast.
But n you come where ! lie,
Put only into my hand
A cluster Of waxen lilies,
And let the meaning stand,
That within the shadows Of deaths release
gathered, at last, the flowers Of peace.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
The New Type.

She is the outgrowth of our latest and
best civilization, the direct offspring of the
strength aud tenderness of Protestant Chris.
tianity. She is working woman and an
old maid. She is usually teacher, but
may be found in the other walks of life
Her eyes are bright, her complexion rosy,
not a gray thread is In her hair, nor a
wrinkle ia her calm forehead. Her step is
firm as it should be, must be, in shoe with
a broad sole and low heel, and she shakes
hands with warm grasp. She avoids
every extreme in dress, for she feels that no
true woman will call attention to herself by
her costume, but is an ardent lover of water
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19

nj rHr LATE MRS. RLIzABErH PpssrIss.
Dear Lord, do remember thou hast said
That may cast my every on thee
But see, this deep oppression will not go
But with its leaden hands holds fast to mo-
Holds fast, and drag me down, and shuts my mouth,
Stranges the cry that fain would pierce the skesi
Helpless lie before thee, with no words
Upon my lips, with sad yet fearless eyes.
SO be It, Lord; my joyous soul has need
or it's dark days, and in this dreary night,
Roots shall strike downward, that anon shall shoot
In rich and living branches to the light
Oh may these branches bear some fruit for thee,
In grateful memory OF the loving hand
That cast me In this gloomy, cherries spot.
And all its dreariness and darkness planned
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19

IL you can stop drinking without incon-
venience, do it for the benefit of others; II
you find it difficult to stop, then do it for
your own benefit.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
NEWS IT .lsG.

Mrs. Hazard Of Monticello, ILL.,, gave
birth to five babies Sunday. Two lived.
French capitalists talk of constructing a
tunnel undo the st. Lawrence, at Montreal.
A new treaty has been agreed upon be-
tween Russia and China, so there will be
peace.
There were 50 deaths from yellow fever
and small-p oX in Havana during the week
ending Saturday.
Gen. Weaver says that the ~greenbackers
will nominate a straight electoral ticket in
Maine and support it at the polls.
The New York press is showing up the
fraudulent pretentlons of different mining
companies and their Legitimate practices.
1t is stated that the 0. R. & n. Co. will
soon construct two steamers larger than the
new steamer Columbia, on the same plan and
style.
General Miles, the we'll known Indian
fighter, will receive the appointment of chief
signal officer in recognition of his services on
the plains.
The Burlington, Vermont Free Press gives
the complete vote for governor of Vermont,
showing the republican majority to be g.
6l2, being a net gain in two years of 1899
republican votes.
The amendment to the state constitution
of Arkansas which provides for reputation
of the state debt is adopted by several thou
sand majority. The majorities for demo-
cratic candidates for state officers range from
0 1000 upwards.
1t is stated on reliable authority in Ber-
lin hat the conferences between Bismarck
and Baron Haymerle resulted in the %conclu-
sion OF an offensive anddefensive alliance be-
tween Austria and Germany. 1t is stated
in Rome that Bismarck and Haymerle dis
GUESSED the possibility of an alliance with
Italy.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

Tie grade of the Northern Pacific
railroad from Ainsworth to Spokau
Falls is completed, except the Coulter,
Mclean & Co.. contract of sixteen
miles, which will be finished within
thirty days. The long trestle twenty
five miles Il from Ainsworth was
finished last week. Iron sufficient for
thirty-ive miles of road has reached
Ainsworth, and track-laying began
this week. The entire force OF graders
is at work between Spokan Falls and
Lake Pen d'Oreill, and that portion
80 miles-will be Under way before
cold weather. The contracting force
on the extension of the Northern Pa
cific railroad west of the Missouri will
complete the grading to Yellowstone
early in October. The President of
the road has directed the Chief Engi-
neer to transfer the working force di-
rectly across the located line Of the
Yellowstone division, with intent to
reach and pass Miles City and Fort
keogh next July.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

It IS an open secret in the East that
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road Company, now pushing their
road to the Black Hills, and Wyom-
ing Territory, will continue it to the
Pacific coast. y prominent officer of
that corporation recently said: at is
folly to suppose that we are building
this magnificent road-bed and laying
it with steel only for the few thousand
people at the Black Hills. 1t is to b.
a great trans-continental route, and
viii bo pushed with all the mercy
which this company is capable of'ex-
ercising.n
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

Materials for the Northern Pacific
railroad have arrived rapidly of late.
There are now six large vessels I'M
loading rails, engines, ear wheels, etc,
in the Columbia and Willamette, the
cargoes including 5000 tons of steel
rails. Four more ships are about due.
The materials will be forwarded to the
front by the O. r. & \. Co. as fast as
possible, and as the grading to Spokan
Falls is about completed from Aims
worth the road will be finished that
far in "a few weeks from this time.