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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-21
Missouri News.

Surveyors are locating new Union
Depot at Hannibal.
The Normal Music School at Gamer
on is progressing finely.
A new bank will soon be opened at
Norborne, Carroll county.
The Joplin and Galena branch of the
st. Francisco road is open to Galena.
Princeton is trying to get the Des
Moines, Osceola and Southern rail-
road.
The Missouri Trust Company, of
Sedalia. has raised their capital stock
to $4,000.
James Story let the contract for an
Sill 900 business block at Sedalia-to be
q fine affair.
The colored people of Pierce City are
arranging for an emancipation celebra-
ton August 4th.
A pair of baby antelopes was born in
Harvey Butts deer park, Carroll coun-
ty, the other week.
There is movement in Kansas City
to establish q home for aged persons
and for young children.
There are more trees in Breckenridge
than in any other town OH the Hanni-
bal and st. Joe railroad.
A gang of men three hundred strong
are grading on the Laclede and Fort
. Scott road between Lebanon and Buff
falo.
Mrs. John d. Hughes. of Moberly,
had twins week before last. She has
had fourteen children, six of whom are
twins.
Rev. t. Hutchins, the blind lectur-
er, has been employed by the State
Prohibition Alliance to travel and or
ganize.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-21
Entertainments.

For rent, for public purposes, such as En-
tertainments, Festivals, etc, the second story
OF the new Hotson building. Apply at the
premises.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-21
HARRIS REMEDY co. MFG xtmlSIS
Market and 9th SITS. ST. LOUIS. Mo.

ttcca week IN your own town. s5Outm free.
AOtDNo risk. Reader, 10 you want business
" at which p-rronr OF either sex can make
great pay all the time they work. write for psrticu-
lars TO u. UALLETT h Co., Portland. Maine.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
The Conntryman and the Lawyer.

One day, farmer, named Bernard, hay
ing finished his business AZ Rennes market,
and finding that he had still au hour or two
TO spare, presented himself at the office of
NJ. Potter dc la Germondaie, in George
street. This gentleman was a lawyer, aud
such was his reputation that the side which
engaged him in lawsuit was thought TO be
sure of winning.
The waiting.room was full of clients, and
Bernard had TO wait some time. At length,
however, his turn came, and he was intro
duced. The lawyer signed to him to sit
down, took off his spectacles, looked at Ber-
nard, and asked him his business.
"Why, you see, sir, said the farmer, turn
ing his hat round and round in his hand, al
have heard so much of you that finding my
self at Rennes, | came to consult you, wish
ing to profit by your opinion"
"Much obliged to you for your confidence,
my friend" said NJ. de la Germondaie. al
suppose you have some lawsuit on hand 7"
"Iswsuitl | hate and detest them
"Then you have family property to di-
vide :"
"Beg pardon, sir, but we have no need to
divide we all dip our hands into the same
money-bag."
"Well, then, what do you want of me 2"
asked the legal adviser in surprise.
"Why, | told you, sir" answered Ber-
nard. al want lawyers opinion,-Im
ready to pay for it, of course,--because, you
see, was here at Rennes, and did not like
TO lose the chance"
The lawyer smiled, took pen and paper,
and asked the countryman his name.
"Peter Bernard, at your service" an
swered the latter, delighted 10 have made
himself understood at last.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
ONLY Relieving.

You want to be saved from vain and
worldly life, of which all persons at your
age and with your ardent temperament are
in great danger. You feel that you will find
a help in my friendship in proportion as it
serves to defend you against those tides Of
secularizing care and excitement which are
drifting you away from the end of your
highest aspirations. You are sick of the
hollowness of worldly or natural life, and
you are charmed with the idea of purity in
which your affections will find Just what
they were made for. The greatest obstruc-
tion to your progress (supposing real earn
estness) will arise from the tendency of your
mind-not peculiar to you-to be forever
looking within to see what has been gained.
wish you could see that this in Christians
can proceed from nothing but distrust of the
Saviour. This is unbelief, and will prove
the source of all your encouragement and
perplexity. On the contrary, If you can
only get the habit of constantly meditating
on or referring to the perfection of Christ as
a Saviour, thinking of those scriptures
which relate to this point, and using them
in prayer with application to yourself If
you can get the habit of making all your
barrenness and backwardness but a stronger
reason for trusting him Qor which the
Scriptures give you most abundant warranty,
you will find the greatest advantage in it.
Learn to feel that your salvation in all its
parts is already secured by his love, and you
have nothing to do but always simply and
entirely to trust him, no matter what objec-
tions an evil conscience may raise. You
have heard much of union with Christ from
which every good thing flows. 1t is by the
exercise of this habit of trusting alone that
this union becomes after while, matter Of
consciousness. William James.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
Prevailing Prayer.

We never get beyond prayer-never where
we can risk a step-without in some way
holding on to this little battery that flashes
its messages to the meroy-seat. DIR. Bonar
has expressed the truth none too forcibly
" Prayer must be unwearied. 1t is con-
tinual service that we are called TO. II is
continual burnt-offering that is to be laid
upon the altar, and continual incense that is
to ascend up from our censers. Both be-
cause of the very nature of the SERVICE and
because of the blessings to be obtained,
there must be a holding on, persevering, a
continuing instant in prayer, prayer with
out ceasing. Many saint has given us a
pattern Of perseverance in prayer, as If
their knees were always burning. These
are surely examples for our, imitation, in
stances recorded to stir us up from our Ian
guor and sloth. Look intosns of the closets
Of these holy men, or listen even at their
closet doors go and return again, and look
and listen-do you not see, do you not hear
something that at once solemnizes and re
Dukes What are our closets nowp How
little frequented, and even when used, how
different the sounds that echo round theii
walls 2 Where are the days of fasting and
supplication Where are the groaning'
which cannot be uttered, the strong crying
aud tears, the continual pleading with God
the ordering of our cause before him, the
heaping up of arguments, the speaking with
him as friend with friend, the refusing tc
let him 60 until the blessing comes ?"-
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
"If 1 Had Known"

Not long since we met lady whose sad
face told the story of great mental suffering.
Entering into conversation with her we
found her bowed down beneath the weight
of sorrow from which there seemed to be
no relief. She said "The Lord has laid
his hand very heavy upon me. He has taken
from me the light of my eyes and the staff
of my old age" And then, in few words,
she told of the death of son, promising
lad, after an illness of only a few hours, and
concluded by saying: 80, il | had only
known he might die, how differently would
have trained him He received no re-
ligious education. have been so absorbed
in gaining the meat that perisheth that
have neglected the more important eternal
things. o, if had only known" This
experience speaks for itself. We need add
but word of warning to all who have in
their hands the training and welfare OF
young immortal souls. o, see to it, dear
friends, that your children are early taught
the way of life through Jesus, the only
Saviour. Seek first the riches Of the king
dom above for yourself and them, and God
will provide for the meaner things of this
earthly life. But if you neglect to secure
these true riches, what have you in store for
time to come but self-condemnation and the
bitter cry, 80, if had knownl
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
The Strong Men Govern Us.

James Parton, in the North american Re-
pietc, says: "One fact of all the life on our
planet is, that the strong govern and this
is fact to which the whole progress of our
race is due. In every thousand human be-
ings there are certain fifty or so who are
much abler than the rest. This is equally
the case with the apples on tree, the straw
berries on vine, the ants in hill, and buff
faloes in herd, as with men in commu-
nifty. This small fifty or so of the strong
will always rule the rest. Let us arrange
our government as we will call it despot-
ism or a commune; from this fact we can
never escape. The world is often blessed
by the weak but it is always governed and
owned by the strong. All that the nine
hundred and fifty can ever do is to limit the
power of the strong little, and compel
them to use it with moderation, and in ac.
cordance with public law. But the great
fact remains forever beyond our altering"
This is all true. A while ago it was one in
hundred that was strong man. Then it
was two or three in hundred. Now, ac-
cording to Mr.. Parton, it is five in hun
dred. What has given this increase Is
it not the spread of knowledge and of the
sense of duty, obligation, religion Then
should we tax and repress evil things, cur
tail the pleasures of sense, and replace them
with the higher pleasures of the intellect
and the heart. So we and our children may
see the strong men increase until ten
twenty, fifty, even ninety in a hundred, may
be strong enough to take each his share in
the work of government. Then we shall
have a true democracy. Till then we car
have only oligarchy under democratic forms
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
Leading Daily Journals on Agricultural
Education.

The Springfield Republican, promising
that the farmers are not alone in being
skeptical as to the value of special educa-
tion, but that both the doctors and the law
yers of preceding generations pooh-poohed
the idea that any good could come from
medical schools or law schools, goes on to
say
The Republican believes that agriculture can be
taught that 1t will pay TO teach IT, that II will pay
10 endow institutions to teach II and TO guide and
quicken researches In 1t, and that the farmers Of
Massachusetts should wake up to the reality Of
this source Of power and profit and build up their
colleges just as earnestly as they would enter any
other promising enterprise. The professional
classes do not endow colleges for professional
training upon sentimental motives; they do 1t out
OF the consciousness that they owe 10 them their
livelihood and their power in thecommunity, and
their stake In life, aud that their sons and daugh-
ters will need the same stimulus Hence the
literary " colleges, so-called, have become vast
financial agencies for the collection Of endow-
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
Influence Of the Life OF Christ.

Francis Peck, in the Contemporary Re.
viec, forcibly presents this influence as that
which alone preserves all society from cor
ruption, and is not less needed by the states
man amidst slippery paths of politics, the
professional man amidst the CONVENTIONAL
ties of his profession, the merchant amidst
the manifold temptations to injustice, than
by the laborer or peasant to whom it is the
only influence capable of rendering his con-
dition tolerable, as it points him to the
noble, unselfish life of One who was content
to take upon him the lowly form of a car
penter's son in order to exalt earth's toilers
aud earth's sufferers, and holds out to him
the hope of eternal peace when the painful
conflict and discipline of life is past. The
life of Jesus is in very truth that mighty
"power which appeals to our noblest affec-
tions and sympathies, on which we can
look with veneration, attachment and graft
tude, so that our devotional instincts grow
to be the dominant motive of our lives"
1t is the sole illumination OF the dark mys-
terry of existence, without which human life
is an unmeaning comedy or mysterious trag-
edy, death horrible catastrophe, eternity q
blank.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
Three-WOrd Prayers.

"One day." says lady, "when | was
a little girl / did something particularly
naughty, and my governess sent me to a
back room, quite alone, and gave me les
son to learn, headed "A Child's Prayer
nearly two pages long. When / had by-and-
by repeated my task she bade me remember
to say it over every morning, as | needed
very much to pray to be good child. ] am
afraid never did it." The Lord does not
set any such task as this before his children.
When he taught his disciples to pray the
form was very brief, and when persons came
to him to pray the prayers which reached
his ear were very short and very definite
The prayer of the woman of Canaan was,
"Lord, help me-" the prayer of Simon
Peter was, Lord, save me;" the prayer of
the penitent malefactor was, "Lord, remem-
ber me !" the prayer of the broken-hearted
publican was, "God be merciful to me-"
Such are the prayers which the Lord has
been pleased to hear and answer. Prayers
that can be learned in moment, and which
will never be forgotten; prayers that do not
need to be learned at all, but which spring
spontaneously from the depths of the soul ;
prayers which can be offered in an instant
and which the Lord makes haste to answer.
A prayer in three words is much better for
ordinary purposes than a prayer stretching
over three pages. Let us learn to pray short
prayers, and let us use them often.-The
Christian.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
Our Pleasant Surprises.

1t is well, when the day is at its close and
the household gathers in the sitting-room for
an hour of evening converse, to think of the
pleasant surprises the day has brought.
There are very few days which have not
brought bright gifts, and thrown them into
our laps. Perhaps it was the dear young
friend who came laughing into your room in
the bloom of her light-hearted youth and
left you the lovely bunch of spring flowers.
They are shedding their fiue, clean fra
GRANGE around you now, and you feel with
Wordsworth, that every flower enjoys the
air it breathes." Perhaps it was letter or
book which came to you unexpectedly, or
call from dear friend, or sweet thought
dropped from child's lips. Great pieces
of good fortune, like great calamities, come
into our lives at long intervals only but the
pleasant surprises, how many they are, II
one would but keep them in view l--Chris-
fiQn Infelli0encer
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
Unsuccessful Workers.

Desponding Christians do not make sue
cessful workers or valiant soldiers. 4" Feeble
hearts," and 4" Ready .to-halts," and Little
faiths" win no battles and wear no crowns.
They are so occupied with themselves, with
their own experiences, their own evidences,
their changing moods and feelings, that
they have no time for manly, noble service.
They are 80 busy in trying TO perform acts
of faith" and having performed them, they
are so intent on analyzing them, in order TO
ascertain whether they be all of the exact
quality and quantity which will recommend
them to God, that they have no space for
"joy in believing" and no room for the
free, large-hearted labor which such joy
cannot fail to lead TO. Tossed up and down
ON the waves of unbelief, like Paul's ship
in Adria, they are in fear Of perpetual ship
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
The Bible 4" by Heart"

We know dear Christian woman, for
many years an invalid and great sufferer, TO
whom many sleepless nights are appointed,
who many years ago "got by heart " the
Book of Psalms aud so she can say with
the Psalmist, " In the night his song shall be
with me;" any soul shall be satisfied as
with marrow and fatness, and my mouth
shall praise thee with joyful lips, when
remember thee upon my bed, and mediate
on thee in the night-watches Mine eyes
mediate on thy word" How would she
spend her dark vigils without this midnight
lamp And was it not well for that boy of
Romish parents, but taught in Protestant
Sunday-school, whose New Testament the
priest subjected to inquisitorial fires, that
he was able to say, Thank God, have
seen seven chapters of st. Matthew that he
could not burn."-1Re Cooerant.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
A Full Cup.

When the sainly Payson was dying he ex-
claimed, "l long to hand full cup of hap
piness to every human being" This was
the language of heart thoroughly purged
of all selfish affection, and filled with the
spirit of that love which led our adorable
Jesus to give his life for human redemption.
If every Christian would go out daily among
men filed with such longing for human
happiness, what marvellous changes would
soon be wrought in human society The
selfish element would be eliminated from
the dealings of the Christian business man.
Not justice merely, but benevolenc would
enter into his everyday trade. The same
spirit would rule his home and church life.
lie would become an incarnation of good
will toward all, and would so preach the
gospel by his deeds that man would see his
good works and glorify his Heavenly Father.
The spirit of Payson is worthy of every
mans imitation. Happy he who can truth
fully say, 4" long to hand cup of happi-
ness to every human being. ."-Zion's Herald.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27

bring their children up taught that to thrive
one must labor and that they and their
children do labor and are not half so sensi-
tive regarding the smell of the barn-yard
aud machine shop, the smell of the cook
room, kitchen, or the suds Of washing
day as many, very many, of the over-proud
and enormously taught sons and daughters
of farmers. | know Of towns in Maine,
now quite fourishing farming towns, the
roads OF which would have been covered
with growing pulp-poplars now, and the
farms the retreats of wild beasts, had 1T not
been for the labors and the influence Of the
example of the old country merchant, made
most gloriously manifest by the good works
of the sons he begat and into whose bones
and marrow he instilled the idea that honest
labor is commendable that zone must hold
the plow or drive" to insure success, and
that the most certain, the surest road TO
competency, to true enjoyment of life's
blessings, could be found by tilling the SOIL
| know of agricultural societies that would
have been dead long ago-yes, that would
never have had birth-had they been com
PEELED TO depend on those known to the
world only as farmers. At their exhibitions
the best show of farm products, hops, wheat,
garden produce, corn, fruit, even cows and
oxen; the best trained steers, and largest
pumpkins shown by this class, denominated
"one-horse country merchants and their
children. The country merchant is ofttimes
an experimental farmer takes worn lands,
poor lands, and makes them fertile and
good; tries experiments and gives the ben
eft to those around him-who would never
make them. lie is generally one willing to
work himself, and one desiring that all his
should work, and usually not prone to es-
TEEN himself better than those around him
many times the worse-dressed and hardest
worked man in the community"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
Even Your Sanctiilcation.

The more sound our experience, the more
quiet our piety, the more shall we under
stand that Z" this is the will of God, even our
sanctifcation." This is the heaven we de
sire. We shall love it and exult in it, in
proportion as we love God and exult in God
Herein "the children of God have a su-
preme taste for likeness to God this is their
chosen blessedness. The children of the
devil have no such taste. They desire the
incidental benefit of religion-such as es-
cape from hell, and the dread of it-also
supports and consultations under sorrows OF
life; but they must own that the renovation
of nature and the restored image of God
awaken none of their sensibilities. The
soul that is born again is filled with expec-
tations which, however underlined, are at
once spiritual and glorious. "Beloved, now
we are the sons OF God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be; but we know
that when we shall appear we shall be like
him for we shall see him as he is."-Dr j.
w. Alexander.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
MONTPELIER, WEDNESDAY, JULY o. 1881

wreck, and have no heart to work. Shutting
their eyes against the light they grope their
way uncertainty, and cannot run the race
Afraid to believe, but not afraid 10 doubt /;
afraid to trust, but not afraid to distrust !;
doubling themselves, and making that a
reason for doubling God; putting away
peace, but giving full scope to gloom re.
fusing light, but letting darkness reign
within them they are not in condition to
do hard work nay, to do any work. Strength
comes from joy, and of that joy they have
none. They refuse both food and medicine,
and they become lean and sckly. They
are filter for the hospital than the battle
field. They seem, too, to get more and
more emacated, though the food provided
is abundant. Laboring under what ply
sicians call atrophy, the more they eat the
less they seem to be fed.-Dr. II. Bondr.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27
The Game Girrlf.
FOR LOVES SAKE.

Sometimes am tempted 10 murmur
That life Is fitting away,
with only a round Of trnes
Filling each busy day
busting the nooks and corners,
Making the house look fair,
And patiently taking on me
The burden Of woman's care
Comforting childish sorrows,
And charming the childish heart
with the simple song and story,
Told with mothers art;
Setting the dear home table,
And clearing the meal away,
And going on little errands
In the twilight Of the day.
One day is Just like another
Sewing and piecng well
Little jackets and trousers,
so neatly that none can tell
Where are the seams and lolnlngs-
Ali the seamy side Of life
Is Kept out Of sight by the magic
OF many mother and wifel
And oft, when I'm ready to murmur
That time Ia fitting away
with the self-same round Of duties
Filling each busy day,
II comes to my spirit sweetly,
with the grace Of thought divine:
"You are living and toIling for loves sake,
And the loving should never replne.
"You are guiding the little footsteps
In the way that they ought to walk,
You are dropping word for Jesus
In the midst OF your household talk;
Living your life for loves sake.
TIL the homely cares grow sweet
And sacred the self-denial
That is laid at the Masters feet" Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-27

The Fruit Growers Associations Of Shef-
ford and Abbottsford, Quebec, will hold a
joint exhibition at CRANKY in September, to
be open two days A liberal premium list
is offered TO all exhibitors of the Province.
1t will be show worth seeing by all who are
interested in fruit growing, and especially
to the fruit growers of northern Vermont.
The exact date of this exhibition will be an
nounced hereafter.