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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22
Sunset Prayer.

A concert of prayer for the continuance
and increase of the blessing of God upon
special meetings was proposed, and the hour
OF sunset was mentioned as suitable time,
when all should unite in supplicating the
Throne of Grace, especially in behalf of in-
quiring souls and the impenitent. A deep
solemnity had fallen upon the whole com
munity. Many who were not even church
frequenters began to affected. Men talked
no longer of markets and prices, but re
ligion was the subject wherever they met
A stiffness that could be felt fell upon all
the assemblies. All hearts seemed to be per
vaded by awe at the near and powerful pres
ence of the Almighty One. As this was an
agricultural district, where much labor was
TO be performed in the evening, it was not
proposed that every one should retire to the
closet for prayer, but as the sun went down
each should lift the heart to God for a few
moments for his blessing upon his waiting
people. "Sunset among the mountains -
how beautiful, and especially beautiful in
this lovely, secluded valley. As the sun
nears the mountain on the one side the soft
gray shadow steals slowly down the western
slope, across the fields, then glistening with
the pure, white snow Lower and lower the
sun sun sinks; further and further the soft
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22

shadow steals. It reaches the eastern noun
tain and glides gently up its slope. The sun
disappears, but a brightness fingers lovingly
along the eastern mountain-like the mem
ory of Joy that is past--and then the still,
gray twilight settles over all. 1t was at this
hour, in the midst of such beauty, ours from
the hand of loving Father, that we were
called to concert of prayer. The farm
boy, as he shook down the hay to the wait
ing herd, knelt on the fragrant, yielding
mass, and sobbed out his prayer for mercy,
and the Lord hearkened and heard, and an
swered. The mik-maid paused on her way
to her evening task, and lifted her heart in
uuspoken requests for herself or those dear
to her. A farmers son said he had knelt
on the hay for hours and had found peace
in believing there. The busy housewife, as
she went in and out preparing the evening
meal, when she saw the sun decline and his
last rays fall across the floor, stole silently
to closet to fall upon her knees before God
in prayer. And the little ones in more than
one household ceased their play and we're
STILL they knew not why, as they heard the
soft footstep of the mother seeking her
wonted place of prayer. Hard hearts, from
which the cry for mercy had never gone up,
melted like ice before the SUMS powerful
rays. In answer to the united prayers of his
people whole households were brought to
Christ-joy over the repenting, returning
one filled many hearts and homes.-The
Presbyterian.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22
Window Curtains.

"The taste for color" says Harper's Bazdr Of
a recent date, "has almost done away with plain
white curtains Those who can afford to buy ar
tistic embroidery, or who are skillful needle wo-
men, have embroidery on all kinds Of curtains,
from those Of simplest cotton cloths done in out
line stitches, or scrm wrought with field flowers,
up to the most elaborate decorations on plush or
satin; even inland shades are no longer merely
white, but are often of Turkey red, green, drab
or ecru, and are trimmed with fringe, or with
snowy white Irish point lace Very full draperies
are now used at windows and in many instances
there are first the narrow sash draperies Of scrm
or OF canvas grenadine or perhaps Madras mus
lin arranged close against the pane, and tied back
in diamond shape with gimp bands or ribbon; in
side this is the Holland shade, and next this,
showing in the room rather than outside, is the
flowing curtain with full drapery of two breadths,
either of lace, Madras muslin, or made up cur
tain of canvas grenadine, or of fine scrim with a
wide border Of modern guipure in antique de-
signs, or Of Cluny or the heavy Russian lace, or
else in imitation OF Irish point At the top OF the
curtain inside the room is the straight valance,
which may be the end of the curtain turned
over, or it may be of raw silk, of plush put
StidiBhl aSiobsi vi olHo DOA-pcdtou VI sdtnoiou
slightly to make 1t drape well. The curtain is
then caught on rings that pass over poles, and
there are no heavy cornices. The rods are about
two inches thick, with pointed ends, and are OF
walnut, ebony, whitewood, or Of brass with rings
to match. 1t is usual to place the rod above the
window facing to make the window look long
Curtains ready made in the shops are four yards
long, and it is possible to buy these of scrim, with
antique insertion and narrow lace, as low as ~
the window; the walnut rods and rings are from
~ 20 window upward The novelty in scrim ii
the introduction OF stripes of color woven in, but
the colored embroidery done rs a border is fal
more effective than this. For drawing room win
dows fine qualities of scrim and Of lace are used
also the square-meshed canvas grenadne cur
tains; with lace and insertion, the latter begin a.
low as S22 a window, while those at $50 win
dow very handsome. Scrim curtains with ap
plique muslin trimming in scroll designs on ne
are very effective, and cost $50 a window"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22

AN everyday religion-one that loves the
duties of our common walk one that makes
an honest man one that accomplishes an
intellectual and moral growth in the sub
jsct one that works in all weather, and i'm
proves all opportunities--will best ond most
healthily promote the growth of church and
the power of the gospel.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22

ONE OF Worths new polonaises has the front
cut away like a waistcoat, and the sides faced and
folded back with cascades OF lace down each one
and about the lower end OF the waistcoat. The
back is cut into a point few inches below the
waist, and the drapery il sewed upon 1t in two
full plaits
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22

YOUNG woman Of Tennessee lost 81 800 dia
mond ring from her finger while out riding three
years ago blacksmith picked the ring out OF a
horses hoof which he was cleaning preparatory
to shoeing the animal few days since and re-
stored 1t to the owner.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22

INSIDE.

No fathers house is full,
Zen though there seem restlng-place for more;
Forglving arms and doors do open wide,
II one repentant child mplore
Outside.
No mothers heart Ia full,
Unless II be with longing, burning wild
iIeart-throbbngs that no cheerful face can hide
The wish TO clasp her shining child
Outside.
Gods flock Ia never full;
Fear not TO enter boldly at his door,
None ever were refused who there applied
He hath abiding place for more
Inside. Home Journal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22

THERE was an earthquake on Chios island Sat
urday 1t overthrew mnaret and several houses,
Two men were injured
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
THE DAIRY.

Facts and experiments 60 to prove
that a cow high in flesh will yield more
butter in proportion to the yield of milk
than one in low flesh.
-Churning Mixed Milk.-When the
milk of farrow cows and that of fresh
COWS are churned together and the lat
ter produces butter first, the butter
globules of the first coalesce with those
of the latter, and form butter much
sooner than they would otherwise do.
A farrow cows milk that would not
churn in less than an hour has made
butter in twenty minutes when mixed
with fresh cows milk. 1t has been sup
posed that the cream of the farrow
cows milk is lost in part, and goes out
of the churn with the buttermilk, but
this is not justified by facts. 1t is easily
tested by setting aside some of the but
termilk. After several years expert
ence in churning the mixed milk of sew
eral COWS and the milk separately, the
writer has not been able to trace any
loss whatever in this way
Thomas Bacon, of Wauconda, Ili-
nois, who took first premium for best
dairy butter made in Illinois, writes
that at the time of manufacturing it his
COWS were in poor pasture; food supple
mented with pumpkins and corn stalks.
Always milk in the barn, feeding some
thing at the time of milking. Milk
strained Immediately through wire
strainers into cans. Milking done, cans
are carried to milk room and again
strained through two thicknesses OF
cloth strainer into large pans, each pan
holding one milking of all the cows.
Use q water-tight cover (ventilated) and
keep cold water over and around the
milk. Skim at twenty-four to thirty-siS
hours. Churn when cream is slightly
acid. Use revolving churn; stop the
churn when butter has gathered in small
pebbles about the size of buckshot.
Wash with brine until the buttermilk
is out of the butter. Drain and salt
with three-quarter ounces of salt to the
pound of butter. Let stand ten tC
twelve hours. Remove and pack.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
WIFE TO RUsBAND.


When am dust, and thou art quick and glad
had,
What happy days, beside the shining seas,
Or by the twilight nre. In careless ease,
Heading the rhymes of some old poet-lover,
UT whispering our own love-story over.
When thou hast mourned for me q seemly
space,
And set another in my vacant place,
Charmed with her brightness, trusting In her
truth,
Warmed to new life by her beguilfng youth,
Be happy, dearest one, and surely know,
1 would not have thee thy life's joys forego.
Yet think OF me sometimes, where cold and
still
lie, who once was swift to do thy win,
Whose lips so often answered to thy kiss,
Who. dying. blessed thee for that by-gone
Ipray thee do not bar my presence quite
From thy new life, 50 fun or new delight
would not vex thee, whiting by thy side;
MY presence should not chill thy fair young
Only bethink thee how alone lie:
To die and be forgotten were to die
A double death; and deserve of thee
Some grace of memory, fair howe'er she be.
Louise Chandler Moukon, IN Lipptnoott's Mag
dzfne.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
A Good Pasture.

Certainly one of the essentials for
making the finest quality of butter or
cheese is to have milk of the purest
quality. To accomplish this, the first
requisite is pure and uncontaminated
food for the COW. 1t must be borne in
mind that not only man but ma
ture sometimes adulterates or mixes
feeds. We find this particularly the case
with pastures, and especially with new
pastures or old ones in wet seasons,
when everything takes on a rank
growth.
That not only weeds but other plants
can destroy the fine aroma and taste of
milk, and ultimately the dairy products,
may be observed easily by pasturing
the cows say for one week on rye and
the next week on clover. The breath
of the COW detects the difference so with
the smell or taste of the milk. Even
the color of the cream or butter from
such milk will point out the difference.
One has a rank, the other sweet smell
and taste. OF course these character
istics find their way into the butter and
cheese. For this reason the farmer
should be very careful to select the best
pastures for his cows and let the other
stock on the farm feed upon the most
Objectionable grasses. Often he has q
fine pasture with a very objection
able swamp corner to it, which should
be fenced off from the butter COWS and
used for calves and other stock. Thus
grass that is exposed to the sun on hills OF
high uplands is far better for dairy uses
than wood pastures or grass that grows
long and rank in the shade. This fact
may be noted by seeing the cows reject
the rank grass and crop the hillsides
that are exposed to the sun, and otter
too much cropped already. Horses
sheep, calves, steers and other stock
that only make flesh out of the grass,
may with impunity be put upon past
ures that contain rank growth, shaded
| grass, or even leeks and wild onions
without doing the least harm, as there
is never enough of these Objectionable
features to faint the flesh; but milk il
too near a product of the feed to bs
trifed with, and only the purest fooC
can retain its virgin purity. So far a
practical, the dairyman should fenc'
his pasture land off into lots of varying
grazing quality and pasture them on
to the stock according to the various re
| quirements from them, giving to thos'
yielding the most delicate product th'
choice of lots.
He should also do all in his power t.
remove weeds, shade trees and othe
Objectionable features from his pasture
early in the season, so as to give hi
COWS the best possible chance to do thei
best toward producing perfect qualit,
of milk.-AnaerIcdn DdirynldR.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
Orchards, Pigs and Clover.

Corn is perhaps as well suited to our
apple orchards. until the trees are of
good fruiting size, as any crop we could
plant. The cultivation required for
corn is such as also suits the growing
trees, and it ceases at time when they
should not be pressed for further
growth for the season, allowing them to
rest and ripen for winter. The corn
also gives the necessary shade which
the trunks, while young. require. Arti-
chokes are also good to be planted in
the tree row-not nearer to each tree
than four feet.
Pigs are the best stock to have ac-
cess to the orchard. They will do the
most good and the least harm. They
may be given free access to the orchard
as soon in autumn as the corn is
cribbed. They will CLEAN the corn
field, harvest the artichokes and give
the land pretty thorough fall plowing.
They will also spread much valuable
manure and destroy millions of hurtful
vermin in the larval state. The arti-
chokes promote the health and rapid
growth of the pigs, which, without
other food, will be half fattened by the
time the frost stops their roofing. Then
liberal corning" soon fits them for
| the butcher.
When the orchard is older, the trees
we'll grown and required to fruit, the
crop may be changed from corn to
clover. This does not promote the
| growth of the trees, but it increases
| the fruit, and is very beneficial to the
soil and young roots of the trees, pro-
tecting also the whole surface from the
scorching sun in summer and severe
frosts in winter. At the same time il
affords real paradise for the pigs
which may now occupy the orchard
through the spring, summer and au
tumn. A large number will find ample
nutritious food in the succulent, grow
ing clover, upon which they will thrive
and grow rapidly. doing no hurt to the
trees, but much good by catching bug
and worms thousand boys or mer
would never find. The apples which
drop prematurely contain worms, whicl
caused their fall. The pigs pick NJ
this worthless fruit and with it eat tn,
worms. and thus prevent an increase I.
millions more. On this fine pasturag,
the pigs are so well grown as to b,
ready for sale in September, as feeders
and all the growth Is profit. .-REra
N6D Yorker,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
Butter Facts.

DR.. E. L. Sturtevant delivered an ad-
dress on butter and butter-making, at
the Franklin County, Mass, Farmers
Institute. which contains some facts of
interest to dairymen: One parcel of
milk, he said would make butter while
another would not, showing great differ
ence in its characteristics. The quality
of milk may be influenced by the feed
given to the cows. He would treat of
these animals as butter cattle, stock
cattle and store cattle, confining his re-
marks at present to the former. He
raised four tons of corn stover to the
acre, equal in nfeeding value to six-tenths
the weight of good hay. Good butter
can not be made from the milk of
COWS fed entirely on corn stover;
in fact milk is deteriorated to the ex-
tent of stover thus fed. Corn meal does
not increase the flow of milk, only so
far as its nutritive value extends: Cot
ton-seed meal increases the flow of
milk. Give a cow all the good hay she
will eat, and the addition of corn meal
will not increase the flow of milk.
A milk yielding eight per cent. of
cream will often give more butter than
one yielding sixty per cent. The con-
stituents of milk can best be illustrated
by the use of the microscope, in compar-
ing the clusters of butter globules there
in contained. Through this test-the
Jerseys were proved emphatically
to be the butter cows, the largest
butter globules always producing
the most and best butter. Where cream
rises rapidly, leaving blue skim-milk,
then the cream is best. When skim
milk looks of a whitish color, smallness
of globules is indicated and an imper-
feet separation from the milk. The
length of time consumed in churning is
determined largely by the size of the
butter globules, the largest specimens
giving the quickest results in the churn.
ANY food that is acid is bad for but
ter-making. Feeding corn stover re-
duces the size of the, butter globules,
while corn-meal tends to increase their
| size, and hence is best for butter.
Shorts are the poorest feed known in
butter-making, reducing the size oi
the globules. Cotton-seed meal con-
veys u bad taste to butter, reducing the
market value of the product. Linseed
meal occasions no injury, while cotton
seed does when fed to excess. Cot
meal from Eastern corn is as valuable
for feeding cows as Western corn meal,
pound for pound. One characteristic
of linseed meal was to avert disease.
The admixture of different parcels oi
milk reduces the butter product, as the
size of the butter globules is changed, ,ol
rather different sizes are combined, the
largest coming first, while the smaller,
remaining unbroken, simply serve tc
enrich the butter milk. Two quarts o.
cotton-seed, or of linseed, daily, is {
large feed for a cow, three pints being {
safer quantity to feed.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
Iport Huron commeroial.l

Charles Nelson, Esq, Proprietor Nelson
House, speaking to US recently, observed; i
suffered SO much with Rheum atism that my
arm withered, and physicians could not help
me. was in despair of my life, when some
one advised me to try st. Jacobs Oh did
so, and as II by magic, 1 was instantly re-
iieved, and, by the continued use Of the on,
entirely cured. i thank heaven for having
used this wonderful remedy, for I sdvsd my
lJe It also cured my wife. .aA
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09

Best location in the city, corner Michigan
avenue and jackson street; fronting on the
beautiful lake and park two blocks from the
Custom House and Postoffice. 49,
Newly furnished and reconstructed.
American plan. Popular prices, So and
$3.50 per day. WARREN F. LELAND. Proprie
tor. Late of Delavan House, Albany. ,s.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09

1t is no vile drugged stuff, pretending to
be made of wonderful foreign roots, barks,
&c, and pulled up by long bogus certificates
of pretended miraculous cures, but simple,
valuable remedies, that furnishes its own
certificates by its cures. We refer to Hop
Bltters, the purest and best Of medicineA
Sac another column.-Repti6lcdn- t
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09

The good old lady kept private bottle
from which she refreshed herself from time
to time, as she felt the need, though none OF
the family knew 1t. One evening her daugh-
ter, in rummaging through the pantry for
doughnuts for ner beau, spied the bottle and
had the curiosity to draw the cork and apply
her nose to the aperture, at which moment
the o,d lady hove in sight and angrily de-
werei What do you suppose 1t isl,' I don't
know what II is, mamma" answered the
shrinking maiden, "but 1t smells just like
Char les mustache-"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09

"A man in Los Angeles, Cal, was
put on trial before a jury for larceny.
The county furnished him with an at
torney and a stenographer free OF
charge. He testified in his own behalf
and was convicted. Then he insisted
that his counsel should procure for him
his legal fee as witness, and he imme-
diateiy rose in the estimation of his
fellow-townsmen to tho distinction of
being the most "eheeky" man on the
Pacific coast.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
rEort WAYNE nnd 4 sentinel.1

When about twelve years old, said Mr..
Geisman, of the Globe Chop House to our
representative, 1 met with an accident with
a horse, by which my skull was fractured, and
ever since have suffered with the most ex-
.cruciating rheumatic pains. OF late 1 ap-
Piled St Jacobs OIL which has given me al
most total relief. t1
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
The Literary
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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
Eaectual and Cheap,

Dyspepsia, bilious attacks, headache, and
many other flls can only be cured by remov-
ing their cause. KidneyWort has been
proved to be the most effectual remedy foI
these and for habitual costiveness which SO
affiicts millions of the American people
Form and FireSide.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09

READER, you had best check that cough be
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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09

"PAPA-"T That picture shows the story of
Prometheus and the vulture that fed on his
liver. Every day the vulture devoured it,
and every night it grew for him to eat it
again" Sympathetic Child-"Poor, dear
old vulturei How sick he must have been Of
liver every dayr' tt ft .5IA lh--
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09

"wuEN is spring like young ladyT asked
it is a little forward" said Henry. Sand
suppose it is like a young gentleman because
it is the vernal season." replied Lucy. Tab
lean.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
WOMAN's TRIUMPH!

REDDING's RUSSIA SALvE. Best family salv
in the world, and excellent for stable use.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
Flies and Mosquitoes.

- Good Watches MT Low Prices.
Write for illustrated catalogue to Stand
ard American Watch Co., Pittsburgh, Pa
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LeIand Hot.I. Ch,caxo, IN.

CIncus MEN turn everything to their own
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