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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
AstrOnOny.

At late meeting of the Lime Kiln Club
Mrs. johnson spoke as follows; "What am
de comet2 Who is she? Which is it =?
What am he heah fur? How many of you
kin answer desc queshun ? My frens, de
study OF astronomy am full of interes' an
pleasure. But fur astronomy how could we
hev known dat de moon am peopled by a
race of one eyed giants, an dat de distance
to de sun am so great dat if we was TO sot
out an trabble on boss kyar it would take
us TO- weeks to git dar ? Astronomy teaches
us dat de atmosphere in the planet Jupiter
am 80 clar an transparent dat you can see
boss fly six miles away. In de planet
Mars de air is SO cool dat dead dog kin be
left in front of a firstclass hotel for nine
weeks. In planet Venus it am allus good
weather fur goin fishin, an de air am so
bracin' dat de women allus split DER own
wood. De planet Saturn furnishes its
inhabitants Strawberries an cream de hull
year round, an de very bes' kind O. lager
beer kin be had fur sixty-eight cents keg.
| Way back in de dark ages nobody knew
wheder de sun was ten miles or ten millyon
miles off. De sight of clipse skeered
chilPen into fits an made strong men crawl
under de bed fur safety. DE stars war sup
posed to be pieces of tin nailed to de moon
light air, an men would no mo- believe dat
de airth turned round dan you now believe
dat de day will soon come when men will go
saiin' frew de air at de rate of two miles a
minute. But doan' wish to take up de
valuable time of dis meetin', an | will close
by deservin' dat all occashuns seem supple.
mentary to de gneral debility of de furlong
Oar am no mo- reasons why all of you
shouldn't agitate generosity of de sincerity
dan dar am fur de elocution to operate dis
astrusly against de terribleness of de octave"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
A SaloOn.Keeper's Revenge.

Three years ago Mr. Vanosdale of Akron,
Ohio, then drinking man, signed the pledge
and became an active worker in the cause
OF temperance; and in trying to enforce the
laws of Ohio, as is the duty of every good
citizen of the state, he incurred the wrath
and displeasure Of the saloon-keepers, whom
he reported and had punished for violation
OF the statute. They swore revenge, aud
declared they would make drunkard of
him or his boys; they told it to Vanosdale
himself, but he kept fearlessly in the path
OF duty, not regarding their threats, winning
the respect of all with whom he came in
contact, save and except the fends bent
upon the destruction Of his family and hap
piness. After time the matter eliminated.
One of bis boys went down before the wies
and allurements of these minions of satan,
broke his pledge and got drunk, and while
in this condition was taken by those in
league with the saloon-keepers to the noto-
rious Blue-bird nest" They were there
but short time when row occurred; a
beerglass was thrown, striking young Van
osdale on the side of the head, cutting the
ear nearly off and horribly decorating the
head. In drunken and insensible condi-
ton he was carried to an old barn, where
he lay for two days. A few days later 1--WE
know not where he was in the interim), in
the absence of his parents, he was delivered
to their home, struggling with that horror
of horrors, the delirium ren,ens, his wounds
unwashed, undressed, uncared for. Phys-
clans were called, and did what was posi-
bic. Men were required to hold him by
night and by day. He could not lie down,
he could not sleep until Sunday, when the
physicians after hours OF labor, got him I'M
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
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THE ACADEMY BELL


The rich air ia sweet with the breath Of September,
The sumach Ia staining the hedges with red;
Soft rests the hl-sopes the light remember,
The glory OF days which 30 long ago fed.
when brown-cheeked and ruddy,
Blhe-hearted and free,
The summons to study
We answered with glee.
Listen, o listen once more to the swell
OF the masterful, merry academy bell
II sounds not in vain mountain and valley,
That tocsin which gathers the far-scattered clans
From playtme and leisure leet-footed they rally,
Brave lads and bright lasses, o'eriowng with plans
From croquet and cricket
To blackboard and map,
Ia but shooting wicket;
No fear of mishap.
o bark how II echoes through dlngle and dell.
The locund, the earnest academy bell
Then fly, at lis call, from soft mother-caresses;
The boy will not tarry, the girl cannot watt
round head close clipped and the loose flowing
Together fash out from the vine trellsed gate.
And the house that holden
By revel supreme,
Is wrapped In the golden
Fair peace Of dream.
To sisters and mothers how silvern the swell
OF the rest-bringing, easeful academy bell,
The path by the river where willows dropping
Ia radiant with children. The long city street,
All busy with tranc, makes room for their irooping,
And rings to the rush Of their beautiful feet.
For the poet and preacher,
The man OF affairs
And the gentle home-teacher
O'erburdened with cares,
Alike spare a moment to wishing them well,
Who speed when they hear the academy bell.
God bless them, our darngs God give them full
OF Joy at the fountains of wisdom and truth;
We tendery view the enchantment of pleasure
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

lame Dick Bodley's cart and horse. She
sent another dollar to Mrs. Graham for tho
poor little O'fIaras, and promised to donate
a barrel of russets, bushel of potatoes, and
some of her husbands cast-off clothes to cut
over for the children. And she sent for
| Helen Hurst to come and see her.
al can't lend you ten dollars, my dear, !"
said she, "because haven't got it. But I'll
tell you what | ,cM do. III let you make
your home here as long as you please. There's
nice spare room, and it's an eighth of a
mile nearer than Mrs. Swipcs' TO the dis
trict school.
"Oh, how very, very good you arel" said
Helen, with her eyes swimming with CRATE
full tears.
"Goodl" cried Mrs Dean. "I'm just be-
ginning to see what a selfish, greedy crea-
ture I've been all my life. But you're well
come, my dear, and your board shall not
cost you a cent"
She opened her parlor, shook out the cur
tains, and built fire in the alright wood
stove.
"Dean likes the parlor," said She be.
cause it has such nice south windows, and
| don't see why we shouldn't enjoy it.
She baked a fresh batch of gingerbread,
and sent loaf to old Mrs. Nudge; she
lOOh Ouu u DuShtJ VI lOOi
little Harry Jones, who was trying to crack
dried-up pig-nuts on the stone by the road
side; she renewed her subscription to the
church charities.
al can't be very LIBERAL" she said but
am determined to do what can"
"That's right, my dear-that's right "
said her husband. ave shall be prosper
Gus, never fear. I'm awfully sorry about
burning up your fifty-dollar bill !; but, If it's
going to open your heart like this, it's the
best thing that could have happened to u.s."
Mrs. Dean was sweeping out the kitchen.
She looked around with smile as she
moved the wideleaved table which always
stood under the wsll-pocket, and took down
the pocket itself, rude structure Of splints,
lined with red cambria, and tied with cords
and tassels of red worsted to dust it out.
"Yes," she said, I" ! am afraid | ,caS get
ting TO be little misery and-Why, what's
this 2"
Mr.. Dean stopped and picked up slip of
crumpled dark-green paper, which had fallen
out from the wall-pocket as his wife turned
it upside down aud tapped her finger against
it to remove all possible dust.
"It's the fifty-dolar bill ~ said he, with
mouth and eyes opening in unison. at
must have slipped down from the folds of
the newspaper, and lodged here"
"The Lord has sent it back to us" said
Mrs. Dean, reverently; sand he has sent
lesson, wise and merciful, with it."
"Well," said Mr. Dean, after a moment
or two of silence, "there's lesson in almost
everything he does, if we did but know it."
And all the theologians in the world could
not have improved upon the faith of this
simple, unlettered old farmer.-Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Driven to the Last Ditch.

The friends of humanity in their struggle
with intemperauce are driven to the last ex.
treme-which is prohibition. No less radi.
cal measure, in our Judgment, will reach the
case as it now stands. The heart grows faint
in the struggle of moral suasion through
more than half century. The diseased
humanity that seeks qualification or imag-
ined strength or solace in drink is paralytic
1t must be lifted up and put upon legal
crutches until its enfeebled will and callous
conscience are able to resist. The ordinary
methods will be still effective, but there
must be radical measure, or humanity will
ever be crippled in life and doomed in death.
The necessity of the case warrants such
measures and presidents in both law and
morals are sufficient to fortify in the effort.
Here all can meet. If the chu. Oh, with its
various phases of her sense of obligation,
could jim hands with all in this final effort,
it would see the curse removed; and here
the poor drunkard can help himself by Civ
ing his vote to put it beyond his reach. This
is our best grip on the monster-only hold
on. The contest will be no longer, or worse,
than with slavery. We may see it sooner
ended, for the cry is more urgent and bitter
for vengeance, and the voice of prayer is as
saulting the heavens for help. Nor are the
apparent failures any cause of hopelessness,
however much of regret. All moral move
ments for time seem to have as much re-
action as action but action is constant if
the cause is good, and reaction is intermit-
tent 1t is no occasion of dependency that
twenty or thirty thousand negroes in North
Carolina voted against prohibition, for if
emancipation ayear after the war began had
been submitted to their vote, under such
white dominance as now rules in North Car
olina, they would have rejected it by half
million. Neither ought we to be discouraged
if its efficiency is hindered in Kansas. Such
a law, so radical and far-reaching with such
elements of wealth and wickedness against
it, must gain its place by the resistance of
years. 1t is about a quarter of a century
since Maine set her face on the side of free
dom and humanity, and it has stood the
strain only in constant vigilance and virtue
Revolutions do not go backward. Hope on,
work on. and look to the God of the OPP
pressed for victory.-PresJyterian.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

Twas sultry and muggy day, but the
agent wiped the perspiration from his low
but somewhat manly brow and throwing
his linen buster back, began Madame, is
your husband about 2" ayes, he's about
but tend to all agents that show them,
selves round here. What is it :" "I'm
introducing threshing machine in this
| neghborhood, and" "Not in this neigh.
borhood you amt, if | know it, I'm com.
petent to do all the thrashing that's needed
on this farm. You ask my boys, Bill aud
Sam, and if you don't believe them ask my
man just over in the lot there" and slight
advance she made in his direction suggested
to him that he had better move on before
she tried her power on him.-New Haven
| Re0isfer
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

A TRAMP with his arm in a sling called
on Gilhooley for quarter, alleging that his
arm had been injured in the recent railroad
accident near St. Antonio. "But yesterday
you had the other arm in sling" replied
Gilhooley. "Well, supposin' had Don't
you think feller's arm gets tired of being
tied up all day 2 Beside, have got con
cussion of the brain and can't remember
half the time which arm was broken"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

A BIG, fat colored woman went to tn,
Galveston chief of police and told him thai
her step-son had run away, and she wanted
to know where he was. I" 1t bodders me u
know why he left. He had everything h,
needed to make him cumfable. done al
| could for him." she observed. "Has h,
any marks by which he may be recog
nized 2" DWELL, | don't reckon all d.
marks ! made on him with bed-slat Will
de old man was holdin' him has faded GU
yet."-Ierds SylingS.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

AIN not very proud of your progress in
school," remarked New Haven mother to
her son who was struggling along in grade
five "There's Charley Smart is way ahead
OF you, and he isn't as old" 81 know it.
Teacher said he'd learned all there was to
learn in my room, and that left me without
anything to learn" Guess the boy will
keep.-New Hauen Register.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

The Somerville Journal says Astrono-
mers are 30 mad at the comet getting within
the range OF naked vision before they saw
1t that they are singing: "Refrain, auda-
cious star y Sang Pinafore at II, eh That
explains why it has been getting away at
the rate of seven hundred thousand miles a
day.-Bosion Post.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
6or Ms Noana.


little housewife bee,
Pussy and gray was she.
Hummed at the clover-tops continually.
The summer day was fair,
Aud through the sunny air
The birds on breath Of song SCARED everywhere.
She had no colored coat,
No gold band on her throat,
Nor painted wings to nutter with or float;
SORT Of grzzlcd fur
Wrapped and encOmpassed her.
Except her wings Of faded gossamer.
Her voice was low and fine;
| heard her drone and whine;
i saw her needless Of the song and shine
And yet II seemed that none
Under that Summer sun
Was any happier than this busy one.
The idle and The gay
Went on their careless way.
Nor noted the little housewife clad In gray;
And yet, thought, how sweet
The honey she could eat
How cool the clover must be 10 her feet
The wholesome element
OF Labor's true content
Was through her humble, podding presence lent
To day otherwise
Given 10 butterflies,
That nutter but to vanish from the eyes
That little tolllng bee
This lesson gave to me;
To labor, u must, conientedly.
Thus would the summer tide
Flow for me rich and wide,
And harvest honey-sweet, be mine beside.
Mrs. clara Dofy bates.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

A LITTLE miss has grandfather who has
taught her to open and shut his crush hat
The other day, however, he came with an
ordinary silk one. Suddenly he sees the
child coming with the new stove-pipe
wrinkled like an accordion. "Oh, grand.
father" she says, ." this one is very hard
I've had to sit on it, but ] can't get it more
than half shut"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

1t is equally true that if half the time
wealth and energy expended in trying to
remedy the evils caused by alcohol were
spent in getting rid of the alcohol which
causes the evil, in moral suasion and legal
prohibition, there would be little need of our
gigantic charitable institutions, and much
less employment for the medical profession
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

An American traveller in Galway saw a
pig in peasants house, and he said, Why
do you have this pig iu there :" Shure,"
said he of Galway, "the house has all the
conveyance that raysonable pig re-
quoires."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

"If Jones undertakes to pull my ears"
said a loud-spoken young man, she'll Just
have his hands full" Those who heard
him looked at his ears and smiled.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

liz who is false to the present duty breaks
a thread in the loom, and will see the effect
when the wearing of lifetime is unrayeled
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
c2IFW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
AT GLEASON'S!
look OUT for tlG NEW GOODS
NEXT WEEIx!
Bring good long memorandum with you to the State
Fair and make your selections from new stock of Bar
gains, just received from New York and Boston.
BALANCE OF SUMMER STOCK AT COST!
The balance of Summer Dress Goods-Shawls Garments
and Parasos-wi be sold al COST and less to make room
L. p. GLEASON,
STATE STREET, MONTPELIER. VT
BALANCE OF SUMMER STOCK AT COST
L. p. GLEASON,
MONTPELIER, VT.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINE
Commencing on Monday, IDLY Is, 1881.

Commencing on Monday, IDLY Is, 1881.
Trains Going South and East.
Leave Montpelier at q o. and 4. 20 A. NJ, 7.O0P
M, and HOO P. NJ.
Mal-from Ogdensburg st. Adams and Burlington, leaves
Montpelier al 9.05 A. NJ, for Boston, via Concord
Express-From Montreal, st. Albans Burlington, Rut-
and New York
Mixed TrainIeaves St. Adams at 800 p. NJ Burlington
at 40 p. NJ Montpelier at 100 P. NJ, for Northneld.
Night Express-From ogdensburg, Montreal ct. AL
for Boston via Lowell or Fitchburg Springfield, New
YORK and Intermediate points.
Trains Gotng North and West.
Leave Montpelier at 800 A. NJ, Q 05 A. M, 10 30 A.
M, 300 p M. and 3. 20 p. NJ.
Day Express-Teaves Boston via Fltchburg al 800 A. NJ
via Lowell at s45 A. NJ, New London at 500 A. NJ,
Springfield at 500 A. NJ. Montpelier at 3.55 p NJ, for
Burlington, Rutland, IT. Adams Montreal 0gdensburg
and the west.
Accommodation Train-Ieaves Mortified at $50 A..
W, Montpelier at g05 A. NJ, for Burlington Rutland
81. Adams, st. Johns, Rouses Point and ogdensburg
MIxed-Leaves w r; Junction at 5l5 NJ Norhneld at
1920 A. NJ Montpelier at 1880 A. for Burlington, 81
Adams and Rchford.
Accommodation Train-Leaves white River June
ton Al 30 m, Montpelier at $50 p. NJ for Burlington,
81. Albans and Montreal.
via Fitchburg at 500 p. M, New York al 400 P. NJ
Springfield at 800 Montpelier at 800 NJ Bur
lngon, 81. Adams, Montreal and Ogd'bg and the
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 72j NJ, and 1850
Pm and i2l P. ". Returning, leave Barre at SOS A.
M, l.50 r. NJ. and 500. Pm.
Sleeping attached Night Express trans running
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and Spring
Montreal.
,sEss for Chicago end s sale at
W. +. SMITH, General Passenger Agent.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
DIR. Ridges Opinion.

Science and experience both testify that
total abstinence is perfectly safe, and that
moderate drinking is injurious to body and
mind; that, other things being equal, the
abstainer will be able to do more bodily and
mental work, will have less sickness, and
will live longer than the moderate drinker.
Therefore, the sooner every one abandons
the use OF all alcoholic drinks the better for
themselves, the better for their neighbors,
and the better for their country and the
world. DR.. Maudsley has put the whole
matter very clearly when he says; "If men
took careful thought of the best use which
they could make of their bodies, they would
probably never take alcohol except to serve
some special purpose. 1t is idle to say that
there is any real necessity for persons who
are in good health to indulge in any kind of
alcoholic liquor. At the best, it is an in
diligence which is unnecessary at the worst,
it is vice which occasions infinite misery,
sin, crime, madness and disease. Short of
the patent and undeniable ills which il is
admitted on all hands to produce, it is at
the bottom of manifold mischiefs that are
never brought directly home to it. How
much i'll work would be undone, how much
good work would be better done, but for its
baneful inspiration Each act of crime,
each suicide, each outbreak of madness,
each disease occasioned by it, means an
infinite amount of suffering endured and
inflicted before matters have reached that
climax" This is a most moderate view of
the whole subject from scientific point of
view. We take enormous trouble and spend
vast sums of money in alleviating the
misery and pain which results from the use
of alcohol; would it not be better for the
future to act on the principle that "preven-
ton is better than cure 7" Longfellow says,
in reference TO war
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Boarding Stable /!

Horses taken board at the bishop Hotel stable viii
receive the beat OF care at s2.5O per week
May 4, lssl. II. fALEs.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-03-23

aztec, Monroe anu DSde
Mrs. Julia Atzeroth, ..of Fogarty
VILE, Manatpe county, has just sent
to Commissioner w. G. LeDuc,
Washiugton, four pounds of Coffee
raised from her trees. The trees are
now full of berries and blooms
Tampa Tribune
Transportation lines are now car
rying numbers of visitors North.
ward Are not they returning too
early I? The cold, damp weather ex.
Lerienced in March in the North is
not very nducive TO the health of
invalids. Mirror.
J.C. Greedy, Esq, President OF
the Florida Savings Bank, Jackson
vile, is rapidly improving his place
at Fruitland, west side of Lake Al
len, adjoining his sulphur springs.
Seven acres are now being cleared
aud 900 trees are To be set out at
once; 300 are seedlings, tour-years.
old, 100 buddtd trees, two ear-old
buds, and 100 sour stumps.-PntdtkG
Journal.
The summer prospect for Leesburg
is bright indeed. One large hotel,
and probably Two, will be Quilt. The
ST. johns and Lake Eustis Railroad
extended. No less Than halt dozen
dwelling houses are 10 be erected
and some OF th, m cry handsome.
A number of new business houses
will be opened. Every branch OF
business is looking up and the pros
pect OF Leesbure becoming town
OF some note was never brIghter,-
Sumter County Ad00,ace.
fernando county produces some
OF the largest and sweetest oranges
we have ever seen. Mrs. r. j.
Mickler sent US the other day a
waiter OF unusually large specimens
Tor which she will please accept our
grateful acknowledgements. We
weighed a half dozen OF them and
they weighed six pounds and lhir.
teen ounces. One weighed one
pound and six and half ounces and
measured sixteen inches in circum>
ference Crescent.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-03-23
FLORIDIANA.
Geogranbical Divisions of Florida.

EASTERN FLoRIDA-Is composed OF the
counties of Suwannee, Columbia Alaehua'
Claw. St. Johns, Putnam and Marion.
WEST FLoRIDA-Is composed OF the coun-
t,es Of Escambia. Santa Rosa, Washington.
Walton, Holm es, jackson and Calhoun.
MIDDLE FLoEIDA--Is composed OF the
counties of Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin,
Leon. Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor
Lafayette and Hamilton.
SouTH FIoRIDA-Is composed of the
COMMITTEES of Hernaudo. Sumter. Orange,
Volnsia ,Brevard, Polk, HiIlsbOrough, Man
atee, Monroe anu DSde