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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
Death OF a Tyrant.

As Robespierre was taken TO the guillo-
tine, throngs crowded about the cart TO see
the fallen tyrant, and the gendarmes pointed
him out with their swords. He was pursued
by the bowling mob, who had formerly yell
led as fercely at his victims, and now
charged him with the blood Of them all.
Troops Of women who had danced at the
death Of those that he had sent TO the scat
fold, now danced the Carmagnole round the
cart as it paused before the house Of Du-
plaiz, where he had lived. A woman, break
ing from the crowd, rushed close TO him, ex-
claiming, "Murderer of all my kindred,
your agony fills me with transport Descend
to perdtion, pursued by the curses Of every
mother in France When they reached
the place of execution, Robespierre was first
shown to the people, and then laid down on
the scaffold with the bloody and nearly dead
bodies Of his brother and Henriot The
batch consisted of twenty-one, and Robe
spierre was executed last OF all. When he
was raised up to be led to the guillotine he
presented a most ghastly figure, his sky-blue
coat covered with blood and dirt, his stock
ings slipped down about his heels, his face
livid as death, and tied up in bandage.
The executioner plucked the bandage away,
and let the Jaw fall. He gave dreadful
| yell, which struck every heart with horror,
and the next moment was put under the
axe. Samson held up the hideous head to
the people, who shouted with delight and
then went away singing. One poor man, as
he gazed on that head, said, Robespierre,
you said true-there is a God "-Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
WafrLnran & ,ynnrnaL
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II, 1881.
Tunis.

Occupying the central position of North
Africa is small country bearing the above
name. For upwards of three centuries Tunis
has been subject to the Turkish sultan and
governed by an officer styled the Bey. Ad-
joining it on the west is the French Pro-
vince of Algeria. For several years past pri-
vate companies of Frenchmen under grants
obtained from the bey of Tunis have been
gaining foothold on Tunisian territory.
Railroads have been built and certain ex
elusive commercial privileges granted to
these French citizens. A spur Of the Atlas
mountains separates Algeria from Tunis.
The Tunisan side of this mountain range
is inhabited by tribe of herdsmen and
farmers called the Kroumirs. Between this
tribe and the French colonists disputes cul-
minating in deadly border forays have
occurred. Under pretext of chastising the
Kroumirs, French soldiers crossed the from
tier and invaded Tunisian territory. The
bey is said to have expressed not only
readiness to punish this tribe himself, but
to have sent an army against it which in
fiicted summary chastisement for its depre-
dations upon the Algeriaus-depredations
into which it is alleged they were artfully
decoyed by quarrels purposely fomented by
the French. But France, under pretext OF
protecting French interests in Tunis, pro-
ceeded early in the present year to take pos
session of Tunisian ports and to occupy the
country with large military force. Not
withstanding the protests of the hey OF
Tunis and his appeals to European powers
for their interference, the French troops
continued their advance during the early
spring months toward the capital of Tunis
itself aud on the 10Th of May compelled the
bey to sign treaty with France, under the
terms of which Tunis becomes TO all intents
and purposes French colony. The ad-
vance of the French and the surrender Of
the hey was the signal for revolt among the
Arab tribes and communities, and the Euro
pean settlers in inland localities have either
fled to the protection of the guns of the Eu-
ropean powers or have been massacred.
The disaffection extends TO the tribes Of
Algeria and also to the neighboring pro-
vince of Tripoli-lying between Tunis and
Egypt. The distance from Tunis TO Italy
seems but step. The latter power is i'm
mensely disgruntled by the action of France,
who has evidently entered Tunis to stay.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
About CONSUMPTION.

After taking into account all the influence
of heredity, which is made much of in treat
ing the causes of phthisic, insufficient nour-
ishment is responsible alike, in most in
stances, for the deposit of tubercle and the
inflammation to which it naturally gives
rise. There are many men who, by change
of living, render the tubercles already de-
posted in the lungs harmless. Vitality be-
comes 80 high in its power that it dominates
these evil influences; and they live out a
fairly long life with enemies in their lungs
that are rendered powerless by the strength
of the fluid that fights them. We have seen
consumption cured again and again by the
simple process of building up the forces OF
vitality through passive exercise in the open
air and the supply of an abundance of nu-
tritious food; and we have no doubt that it
can be prevented in some Instances by the
same means. No human body can long en-
dure the draught made upon it by cold eli
mate and constant labor, unless it is well
fed, well-clothed and well-housed. Some
where deterioration will show itself and in
New Epgand-nay, all over the kingdom OF
Great Britain it is the same, where the peo-
pie are worse fed than here-the poverty OF
blood shows itself in the deposit of tuber-
culous matter in the lungs. There should
be by this time some improvement in New
England, in consequence OF the increased
intelligence of the people; but so long as so
many of them are running westward, and
their places are taken by foreigners, it is not
likely that the statistics will show much i'm
provement for great many years to come.
If our physicians could only be paid for pre-
venting disease, and could be permitted to
prescribe for each family its way of living,
there would be but little difficulty in rout.
ing from its stronghold that most fatal and
persistent enemy OF human life, which we
call nsumption.-Scribner' Magazine.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
Jerusalem and the Dead Sea.

New ideas are working into Palestine. A
new city was going up on the west side Of
Jerusalem, outside the gates. Along the
turnpike to Jaffa run the telegraph wires,
and on the plain of Sharon stands the large
"Jewish Agricultural College" surrounded
by model farm and thrifty nurseries.
Bethlehem is thriving town-largely it is
nominally Christian-and it carries on ex-
tensive manufactures in mother-of-pearl.
The Bethlehemites brought back from our
centennial exhibition at Philadelphia about
seventy thousand dollars as net profit Of the
sale of their beautiful wares. If Palestine
were only delivered from the tyranny Of the
Sultan, or were ruled by such a man as the
Pasha Roulff (the governor Of Jerusalem)
it would rise rapidly into new era Of eco
nomic progress. The Sultans touch and
tread are death. The much maligned Dead
Sea has a weird and wonderful beauty. We
took bath in its cool, clear waters, and de-
tected no difference from bath at Coney
Island except that the water has such a
density that we floated on it like pine shin
giles. No fish from the salt ocean can live
in it !; but it is very attractive to the eye on
a hot MONDAY. A scorching ride we had
across the barren plain to the sacred Jordan,
which disappointed me sadly. At the places
where the Israelites crossed and our Lord
was baptized, it is about one hundred
twenty feet wide; it flows rapidly, and in a
turbid current of light stone color. In size
and appearance it is the perfect counterpart
of the Muskingum few miles above Zanes
vile. Its useless waters ought to be turned
off to irrigate its barren valley, which might
be changed into garden. For beauty the
Jordan will not compare with Elijah's Brook
Cherith, whose bright, sparkling stream
went flowing past our lodging-place at Jeri
cho. We lodged over night in a Greek con
vent Every smalD, and rode next morning tS
see the ruins of the town made famous by
Joshua, Elijah, Ziccheus and the restoration
of Bartimeus to sight. Squalid Arabs haun
the sacred spot.-Dr. Cuyler, in Evangelist
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
Shall We Meet Again :

The late George d. Prentice, the famous
editor of the Louisville (Kentucky) Jour
nal, was known throughout the country as
one of the keenest and sharpest writers on
the press. But sometimes he fell into a
more subdued and pensive mood. In such
a mood he wrote the following; "The fiat
of death is inexorable. There is no appeal
for relief from the great law which dooms
us to dust. We flourish and fade as leaves
of the forest, and the flowers that bloom,
wither and fade in day, have no Trailer
hold upon life than the mightiest monarch
that ever shook the earth with his footsteps.
Generations of men will appear and disap-
pear as the grass, and the multitudes that
tbrong the world to-day will disappear as
footsteps on the shore. Men seldom think
of the great event Of death until the shadow
falls across their own pathway, hiding from
their eyes the faces of loved ones whose liv-
ing smile was the sunlight of their exist
ence. Death is the antagonist of life, and
the thought of the tomb is the skeleton OF
all feasts. We do not want to so through
the dark valley, although the dark passage
may lead TO paradise. We do not want to
go down into damp graves, even with princes
for bedfellows. In the beautiful drama OF
Ion, the hope OF Immortality 80 eloqaently
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
The Eyes OF Other People.

The wife of New England emigrant to
Kansas writing home says If people would
live in Vermont as we have to live, they
could save money faster there than it can be
made here" There is a powerful lesson in
this remark of homesick woman. Dr..
Franklin's proverb, A." 1t is the eyes of other
people that ruin u.s." contains mine of
that sort of wisdom which goes by the name
of "common sense" We would that it
were more common than it is. A young
couple with few thousands begin by buying
farm costing many thousands. When fairly
started they are in debt on land, on stock
and implements, on family supplies, and Of
ten for hired labor. They have in posses
sion say $4,000 worth of property, but their
interest in it may not exceed $4,000.
Whether they are really worth cent depends
upon the question whether the property in
their hands will sell for what they agreed to
pay for it, and can be kept at that value. A
shrinkage of thirty-three per cent cleans
them out Any way, they have twenty
years job ahead to pay their debts. How do
they meet, at least how do they generally
meet, that grave responsibility
They have good farm and probably good
buildings in their possession. To outside
appearance they are well off, though in truth
they are in slight place." Yet the tempt
alton is to live in accordance with their sur
roundings. The eyes OF other people are upon
them, and to young, proud, ambitious begin
ners in life there is terror in those eyes
past the power of words to express. Good
furniture, good living, a good team for driv
ing, liberal contributions to churches and
societies, generous entertainments to visit
ors,-all these are enforced by those awful
eyes of other people. The end of it all, aftel
more or less years of struggle too painful and
soul-withering for description, is commonly
to be found In Kansas dug-out," or Da
cotah "shanty." Young men and women
Just starting for yourselves upon the farm
between the terror of those eyes" and thu
equal terror of poverty-stricken refuge ii
the far west, you have but one alternative
! expressed in two other "old saws -" Gu
your coat according to your cloth -" ou
of debt, out of danger"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
Where the Heavenly Father Lives.

school teacher was instructing his
boys one day on Scripture subjects, and in
the course of the lesson he said "Now,
boys, yesterday explained to you some of
the different qualities belonging to the Gre
ator William, can you name thrp 2"
William was at that moment deeply ELL
gagged in drawing the head OF an ass on his
desk at the teachers question he looked
foolish, and stuck his iinger in his mouth.
William, go foot Henry, can you name
the different qualities or attributes of the
creator p "God is eternal, omniscient,
and all-powerful." "Yes but there is still
one quality which you have forgotten omni
=, omni-. Come, then, who knows it 2"
The whole school remained dumb. No one
knew it. Now, boys, where does the Heav-
emily Father livef Can no one tell me
that ?" From the last bench very small
boy held up both his little hands al know,
teacher !" "Well, Hans, that's brave good
boy come forward and tell me where the
Heavenly Father lives" "The Heavenly
Father-the Heavenly Father, sir-lives-
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
Goodnight.

How tenderly and sweetly falls the gentle
goodnight" 4" into loving hearts, as men,
bers of family separate and retire for the
night. What myriads of hasty words and
thoughtless acts, engendered in the hurry
and business of the day, are forever blotted
out by its benign influence. Small tokens,
indeed, but it is the little courtesies that
make up the sum of happy home. 1t is
only the little courtesies that can so beauti-
fully round off the square corners in the
homes of laboring men and women. The
:" thank you," for favor received, will fill
with happiness the heart Of the giver. True
wealth is not estimated by dollars and cents,
but by the gratitude and affection of the
heart If home be happy, it is of heaven
the truest symbol. If home be happy,
whether the owner possesses patch OF
ground or thousand acres, they who live
there are indeed wealthy beyond mathe-
matical calculation. Then how much more
lovingly are the sable folds of night gath
cred around the happy home. How much
more confdentially do its members repose
their weary body in the care of divine good
ness, smoothing their over-taxed minds to
the living realities of beautiful dreamland.
SsLscte1
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
The Folly Of the Day.

There is dreadful ambition abroad for
being genteel." We keep up appearances
too often at the expense of honesty; and
though we may not be rich, yet we must
seem TO be respectable" though only in the
meanest sense-in mere vulgar show. We
have not the courage to go patiently onward
in the condition of life in which it has
pleased God to call US but must needs live
in some fashionable state, to which we ridic-
ulously please to call ourselves, and all to
crafty the vanity of that unsubstantial,
genteel world, of which we form part.
There is constant struggle and pressure
for front seats in the social amphitheater /;
in the midst of which all noble, self-denying
resolve is trodden down, and many fine ma
lures are invariably crushed to death. What
waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come
from all this ambition TO dazzle Others with
the glare of apparent worldly success, we
need not describe The mischievous results
show themselves in a thousand ways-in the
rank frauds committed by men who dare to
be dishonest, but do not dare to seem poor
aud in the desperate dashes at fortune, in
which the pity is not so much for those who
fail, as for the hundreds of innocent fami
lies who are so often involved in their ruin
Home Journal,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
Prohibition In Maine.

Ex-Governor Dingley gives some fact 8
and figures in response to some random shots
at the Pine Tree state as to the working of
the Maine liquor law. He does not claim
that the millennium has dawned on the
state, or that criminals are not found there,
but he does claim that prohibition has
closed every brewery and distillery in Maine,
and such is known to be the fact. In the
second place, the same authority says, pro-
hibition has closed the open dram-shops in
Maine. This is great gain, since it re-
moves the open Haunting temptation. Driven
under ground, Maine has a third less grog.
the states of the Union. That average is
one dram-shop to every 236 inhabitants. In
1888 Maine had one dram-shop to every 22I
inhabitants. The average in Maine to-day
at the outside, is one secret dram-shop u
700 inhabitants. There are only 750 Ii
censes issued in the state, and Of these 20(
are druggists. More than half the towns o.
the state have not secret groggery. Ii
Lewiston and Auburn, where the law is en-
forced, there is only one secret groggery II
| 1000 inhabitants. In license cities tn
average is one grog-shop to 200 inhabitants
Then, as to crime, Maine has l99 convicts il
state prison, which is one to 5000 inhabit
ants; Alabama, one l,400; California, on
to 600; Connecticut, one to 2,l00; Masss
chusetts, one to 1900; New Hampshire, on
to 1900; New York, one to 400; Vermont
one TO 800 The law, wherever fairly ad
ministered, supplementing moral agence
has, the governor concludes, greatly aide
in mitigating the evils OF the dram shops.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
The Moral OF Guiteau's Crime.

The Christian Register says: Had Gui-
teau shot the president of the Boston Life
Insurance Company who refused to employ
him as agent, or the chairman of lecture
bureau who declined his services as a lee
turer, would not cry that the systems Of
life insurance and lecturing, aud the meth
ods of engaging agents and lecturers were
thereby shown to be very bad and needing
thorough reform have been regarded as fool
ish and childish in the extreme Were the
ideal civil-service rules in operation, and
had Guiteau undergone competitive
examination for the Office he desired, and,
failing, then shot the chief of the exam
lining board, or, as now, the president
himself, would that have pointed a moral
against such examination and reformed
civil service? If not then, why now
Can the irresponsible act of an insane
man" be fairly brought forward as an ar
gument against any system 1t does not
appear from the published account that he
had rendered any services that would en-
title him to office on any political grounds
He seems to have had an insane desire fol
notoriety, and to be one of those intellectual
and moral monstrosities who sometimes
come to light, the cause of whose production
only Infinite wisdom knows. The civil ser
vice and modes Of appointment may be az
bad as its severest critics declare; his act
proves nothing, and the attempt to hold
them responsible shows lack of well-con
sidered reasons for their hostility in th'
minds of those who make it. 1t is eithel
thoughtless or dishonest, and clear case o.
trying to make capital out of the sad even
that has shocked the nation is grave of
fence against any high code of morals, ane
is calculated to destroy the respect of think
ing men for the intellectual clearness ant
fairness of those who make it, while it can
not permanently help any good cause. 1t i
striking manifestation of the strange in
tellectual and moral obtuseness and confu
sion which seems to have seized upon man.
OF our cultured men during the last fev
years, notably in their comments upon publ
affairs (some of our Unitarian clergy ar
striking examples), which is at least as de
moralizing in its general influence as offic
| seeking"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
Lazy Christians.

There is a good deal of religious laziness
in this world. Once in while we hear Of a
Christian worker who is overweight, one
who dies too soon, or is laid aside, through
excessive devotion. But the occurrence is
so rare that small volume would probably
contain the records of all such lives in
generation. There are more churches dying
for want of working pastors than there are
pastors dying through excessive work for
their churches. There are Sabbath-schools
that are languishing because of want of
energy in those who conduct them. There
are classes that make no progress because
lazy teachers sit before them, and yawn
through lesson which they have not pre-
pared, and which they have not earnestness
enough TO teach if they were prepared.
There are Christian men that let their
church run down because they are too lazy
to keep it up Yet these same men make
their own secular business succeed. 1t is
only as Christians that they are lazy. 1t is
shame to do the worlds work well, and
then Christ's work shabbily. What is
wanted is a revival of Christian energy and
zeal. God never blesses laziness. 1t is a
farce for you to ask him to bless your par
ish work, your preaching, your teaching
your superintendency, if you put no life
into your work. Conservation is mockery
unless it be made real by the utmost we
can do. The curse of the church to-day is
laZiness.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
A WOman's Wit.

A womau's advice is generally worth hav-
ing; so, if you are in any trouble, tell your
mother or your wife or your sister all about
it. Be assured that light will flash upon
your darkness. Women are too commonly
Judged verdant in all but purely womanish
affairs. No philosophical students OF the
sex thus Judge them. Their intuitions or
insight are the most subtle, aud if they can
not see cat in the meal there is no cat
there. | advise a man to keep none Of his
affairs from his wife. Many home has
been saved and many fortune retrieved by
a mans confidence in his wife. Woman Is
far more a seer aud prophet than man, If
she be given a fair chance. As general
rule the wives confide the minutest OF their
plans and thoughts to their husbands. Why
not reciprocate, if but for the pleasure OF
meeting confidence with confidence The
men who succeed best in life are those who
make confidants of their wives.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II, 1881.

proceeds on the principle that corporate emolu-
ment Is subordinate to the public welfare; they
have far more to fear from demagogues than from
statesmen. IL IL error to suppose that the mill
lions invested in these works were 80 invested
upon the untenabe and mschlevous hypothesis
that foolish contract has subjected all the vast
industries Of this great country to the unre-
strained and uncomfortable cupidity Of irrespon-
sible monopoly On the contrary, capital, in this
as in other cases, Is trusted to the discretion OF
the sovereign; and unless that discretion Is de-
bauched, unless integrity and intelligence are ex-
cluded from the public SERVICE the confidence
will not be deceived. Hence, railroads should
discontinue their efforts to mislead the public
mind and to corrupt the ballot-box. The politi-
clans whom they are now using do not deserve and
will never obtain public confidence, because such
men are not actuated by principle, or stimulated
by the courage OF conviction. But, acting on the
theory that the public welfare is the first consd
Grafton, they should publish in good faith full and
reliable information as to their earnings and ex-
penses, to the end that the people may come to a
right understanding Of what tolls are reasonable
and what are not. There Is In this country an un-
der current OF conservative reason which Is brim-
full OF honesty and good faith, and railroad men
must learn to trust IL.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-17
VOL. 76.-39O5. NO. 45.

uttered by the devoted Greek, finds deep re-
sponse in every thoughtful soul. When
about TO yield his life a sacrifice TO fate, his
Clemanthe asks il they should meet again,
TO which he responds Il have asked that
dreadful question Of the hills that look eter-
nal, Of the clear streams that flow forever,
Of stars among whose fields of azure my
raised spirits have walked in glory. All are
dumb. But as gaze upon thy living face,
feel that there is something in love that
mantles through its beauty that cannot
wholly perish. We shall meet again, Glen.
anthe'D