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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
No Time to Read.

The woman who "has no time to read "
has no inclination to do so. The
true book-lover will make time once knew
one of these women who never took book
into her hands because they are too busy.
She spent days in rufling, tucking and EN-
broidering, and had no spare moments in
which to inform herself Of the most ordin-
airy topics OF the day. doubt if she knew
how some of the most common words were
spelled, judging from her pronunciation of
them. In speaking of her lace curtains
she invariably called them "curtings;" and
once we asked her if she intended to remain
in the city through the summer and she re-
piled, Certainly not; we shall go to the
mountings in August" She had very fine
taste in the matters of dress, and was called
every stylish !" but if she had spent part of
the time in reading and study which she had
devoted to dress, what a different inf fence
she might have exertsd upon her children,
as we'll as upon the society in which she
moved. But the mistaken woman thought
it of more Importance to adorn the person
than to improve the mind. Cultivate habit
of reading if you have it not. We all need
little mental food daily. We need it as
we need air, sunshine, sleep and food. How
refreshing to be able to lose ourselves, even
for short time, in the page before us. Let
a volume lay beside your work-basket, aud
if you have five minute IS to spare improve
them by peep at its contents.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Testimonial to Mrs. Hayes.

The autograph testimonial album to Mrs.
R. b. Hayes by the women of Illinois is fin
ished, and consists of six large volumes of
six hundred fifty pages each, bound in full
Turkey morocco. The inscription is as fol-
lows "From the ladies of Illinois, who
have admired the courage Mrs. Hayes has
displayed in the administration of the hos
pitalties of the Executive Mansion. God
grant that the influence of this signal aud
benign example may be felt more aud more
as age follows age in the life of this great
republic" They contain dedicatory poem
by Mr.. Benjamin of Chicago, followed by
the autographs Of members of the cabinet,
governors of nearly all the
states, congressman, city and county officials
of Illinois, authors, poets, painters, sculp-
tors, scientific and professional men of all
classes, together with representative tenn
perance men and women in all parts OF the
land. 1t makes an elegant testimonial to
most deserving woman.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Getting Rid OF. the Bones.

The Religious Herald quotes lady as say
ing that when she was a school girl she heard
an old minister, who was fond of making
homely, practical illustrations, say that read
ing the Bible was like eating fish. When
he came to hard place he left it and called
it bone. When he read the Bible in that
way, he found plenty of good, nourishing
meat, and never had occasion to choke over
the bones; that the older he grew, the fewer
bones he found, until, when he came to be
an old man with silvery hair, the book that
he used to find as full OF bones as Connec-
ticut river shad was like a halibut with only
the one big bone in it of Gods incompre.
feasibility, and that was in such plain sight
that no one could stumble over it, and
grandly served its purpose as strong frame
work to keep the sweet, white, nutritious
meat in its place.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Quality versus Quantity.

When DR.. Robert Finley took into his
home at Basking Ridge four lads as pupils
in private school, it was apparently an
Insignificant undertaking. For a man of
his consummate intellectual and moral
power to be spending his time in teaching
four boys provoked his friends to interpose
remonstrance. His answer was sublime.
" 1t will prove no waste of time or strength if
these boys shall make the sort OF men that,
by Gods grace, mean they shall" So he
plodded on, laboriously laying the founda-
tions not of culture only, but of character.
Like Arnold at Rugby and Mary Lyon at
South Hadley, he taught, first of all, that
conscience and the Bible must find in the
heart and life shrine and throne. lie
gave these boys thorough moral training,
as well as thorough intellectual discipline.
Who did those four boys afterward become ?
They were Chancellor Green, Governor
Vroom, Judge Dayton and Samuel l., South
ard. Here is lesson for Sunday.school
teachers.-Reu. DR.. A. r. Pierson.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Prevailing Prayer.

We never get beyond prayer-never where
we can risk step-without in some way
holding on to this little battery that flashes
its messages TO the mercy seat DIR. Bonar
has expressed the truth none too forcibly !;
prayer must be unwearied. 1t is a con-
tinual service that we are called TO. 1t is a
continual burnt-oifering 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,
continuing instant in prayer, prayer with
out ceasing. Many a saint has given us
pattern OF perseverance, in prayer, as If their
knees were always bent, and their censers
always burning. These are surely examples
for our imitation, instances recorded TO stir
US up from our languor and sloth. Look
into one Of the closets of these holy men, or
listen even at their closet doors go and re-
turn again, and look and listen-do you not
see, do you not hear something that at once
solemnizes and rebukes2 What are our
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
How to Cure RenDets.

We have to thank Mr.. j. B. Harris of
Antwerp, New York, for the following i'm
portant article, on the curing of rennets.
Mr. Harris is the instructor selected and
employed by the Eastern Ontario Dairy
mems Association, in the making and cur
ing of cheese, and his opinions carry much
weight First, rennet that is taken from
calf that has never been suckled or fed is
rank poison, and should never be saved.
The calf should be at least three days old
before killing. O They are usually in
their best condition when the calves are
from five to ten days old, but they do not
vary much in strength SO long as the calves
live entirely on milk. As soon as they be-
gin to live upon solid food, the strength of
their stomachs, as rennets, begins to abate.
The stomachs of calves five days old are
generally preferred by cheese-makers to
those of older or younger. To obtain the
best runnets, the calf should be allowed to
suck or be fed a moderate meal twelve
hours before killing. 1t is good way to
give the last meal at night, and kill the next
morning. Fifteen hours is not too long, but
in going too long without being fed, the
stomach becomes inflamed and congested
with blood, giving them dark reddish ap-
pearance, and the disturbed condition thus
occasioned is carried with the steepings of
the rennet into the cheese and affects it
very unfavorably. The calves should live
till the curd from their last meal is nearly
dissolved, and no longer As the curd dis
appears the coagulating agent accumulates,
not in the juices of the stomach, as might
be supposed, but is deposited on the inside
of the stomach, forming delicate coating,
family flesh color and very tender, which
breaks off in thin hocculent scales upon
slight friction. As this coating contains
the concentrated strength of the rennet, it
is desirable to preserve as much of it as
possible. To this end, the sack, when taken
from the calf, should be handled with great
care. The contents should be emptied out
carefully, sack turned inside out and any
specks of dirt or hairs that may appear on
1t, picked off. If further cleaning is neces-
sary, it may be carefully wiped with moist
cloth oater should never be used in clean
ing. When sufficiently dried and lightly
salted, it is ready for drying, which may be
done in any convenient way, 50 that it shall
not waste by dripping or injure by tainting
1t may be stretched on crutched limb, its
ends may be tied and inflated, or it may be
cut open, and laid on dry board, which
will aid in drying by absorbing its moisture.
These modes of preserving are very much
better than sailing in pickle, or filling with
salt. If exposed TO too much heat, rennets
lose strength quickly; one hundred twenty
degrees Fahrenheit will kill the strength en-
tirely; therefore they should never be dried
on plates or tins round the stove"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
MONTPELIER w. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1881.

fowls Of the air and they shall tell thee; or
speak to the earth and it shall teach thee
Milton well says, To know those things
which lie about us in daily life is the prime
wisdom and commend to farmer boys the
advice of Hugh Miller, Learn to make
right use of your eyes, The most distin-
guished men of all ages have been close stu
dents of nature and observers Of common
things" Yet in what common school is OBJ
servation taught or even suggested to the
pupils We must defer further extracts
from Professor Northrops and other papers
in this report to future issues.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Stop.

Railway signals are positive At certain
points are seen sign-posts on which appears
this word stop" 1t is unattended by ad-
jective or adverb. 1t is as condensed as a
rife-ball. The approach to railway cross.
ing or drawbridge is guarded by the per-
emptory signal. We were riding on swift
train at high speed when with sudden
jerk the Westinghouse " slowed our train
to stand-still. A look at the "block sig
ma" ahead explained. The red signal was
silent, yet "its voice was heard above the
roar of many wheels. 1t said stop as plainly
as the sign-board with large word in black
at the drawbridge. To human being this
little word is as positive as TO railway
train. j recall case. More than eighty
years ago boy went to Newark to learn a
trade. His brave father was an invalid,
but earned his own bread. The mother was
dead, but not forgotten. When she died
she told this son to fear God. The very
morning he started the father had repeated
to him that message. And yet one Sabbath
he had spent in reckless and bad company.
That night he did not sleep. lie thought
of the mothers words-her dying words.
The words of the invalid father were re-
called. lie was in good company that Sab
bath night and the fruit was unto life. AS
he tossed and thought and wept the boy
said 1t is time to stop, and | will stop"
And he did stop. A long life of honorable
usefulness followed. Aud was his the only
good mother that has son on the road to
ruin 1t is possible that some such son in
the place of sin, if he would but listen,
would hear her voice saying to him with
such pathos in it, stopl Or, as he has
hurried along the "broad road" he has
heard within his own heart, as distinctly as
if human lips has spoken-his own con-
science-the word stop l-Congregationat,st.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
The Best Husbands,

The best husbands | ever met came out of
family where the mother, a most heroic
and sef-denying woman, laid down the alb
solute law, Girls first" Not in any au-
thority, but first to be thought OF as to pro-
lection and tenderness. Consequently the
chivalrous care which these lads were taught
to show TO their own sisters naturally ex-
tended itself to all women. They grew up
true gentlemen-generous unexacting, court
eous of speech and kind of heart. In them
was the protecting strength OF manhood,
which scorns to use its strength except for
protection the proud honesty OF manhood,
which infinitely prefers being lovingly and
openly resisted to being twisted round ones
finger as mean men are twisted, and mean
women will always be found ready to do it,
but which think, all honest men and brave
women would not merely dislike, but ut
terly despise.-Mrs. Muloch Craik
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
VOL. 76.-3S9S. NO. 3S.

Secondly, the shoes not worth patching up
are cut into pieces, the good bits are used
for patching other shoes, and the worthless
bits, the soles and cracked "uppers," are
converted into Jamaica rum by process
only known to the manufacturers. II is
said that they are boiled in pure spirits, and
allowed TO stand for few weeks, the pro-
duct far surprising the Jamaica rum made
with essence, burnt sugar and spirits. A
gentleman who doubted the truth Of this
statement stopped recently at low grog
shop in the neighborhood Of the factory
spoken of, and enquired il they had any
rum from old shoes. "No," replied the
barkeeper, tive don't keep it much now ;
the druggists who want a pure article, all
sell it, and the price has gone up. But we
have had it, and we can get you some il you
want it," How many old shoes go 10 the
gallon of rum could not be ascertained.-
New York Post.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
RejOIceth Not In Iniquity.

Among our most cherished memories is
that of a Christian lady who would not
listen to an evil report; who would say at
once to the gossip that brought it. you
may be mistaken; there may be some expla-
nation of the matter; we had better not
talk about such things even if we know that
they are true. Hasn't that person any noble
or amiabe traits Of character ? Hasn't he
done some good that we can talk about 1t
is great deal better for us to converse about
pure things than about vile things. If there
is really any carrion in our community taint-
ing the air we had better bury it as soon as
possible. The sight and smell of it will do
no good. 1t may do us and our children a
great deal of harm. / don't want anybody
to talk about the faults of others before my
little ones. don't want them to be com
forted in their naughtiness by hearing how
naughty other people are. And now sup
pose, instead Of talking about these folks
and getting our hearts set against them, we
go into our closets and pray for them" The
spirit of that lady would Danish gossip, with
all its blighting influence, from society.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
An Incident.

Phillips Brooks, in his memorial sermon
of DIR. Vinton, gives an account OF the lat
ter's conversion. He was driving about the
Pomphret hills, young, raw-boned, big
limbed, skeptical physician, when a judi
cious physician persuaded him to read
"Butler's Analogy" This book satisfied
his reason. Intellectually he was no longer
a skeptic. He was called to attend little
girl dying of consumption. SheNwhispered
she had something to say to him, but was
afraid. When encouraged to say it she con-
fessed that it related to his being at peace
with God, and added, Tomorrow morning,
when am stronger, will tell YOU" To
morrow morning she was dead. The inter.
est he felt in knowing what the little girl
would have said to him led him to that
thinking that resulted in experimental piety.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
The yomf Girrlf.
AFTER THE FEAST.

The bells chime softly in the gloom;
The guests are gone; the ERE Ia low;
| wait within the echoing room
To greet mine own before go.
Mine own for whom, beside the board,
To-day no empty chair was set;
For whom the silent pledge was poured
While trembling tears the eyelids wet.
No football echoes on the stair,
No shadow falls across the light,
No whisper nlls the happy air
with the lost music Of delight;
Yet all my restless thoughts are stilled,
And, waiting by the hearth alone,
My longing heart is warmed and filed
with the dear presence Of its own.
Beloved faces, family set
In halos Of my tenderest thought,
Immortal eyes, whose radiance yet
with yearnlng human love Ia fraught;
Dear lips, whose kisses sweet and slow,
Drop like a balm, on mortal pain,
Dear hands whose srtry touch know,
Yet may not hope to clasp again.
| know not to what clearer height,
In that sweet heaven, their thought has grown,
or what new fountains Of delight,
Untasted here, their souls have known;
But since through changing years keep
Their precious memory green and fair,
I cannot deem that love can sleep
Or cease lis tender vigls there.
o unforgetting souls, that swell
The swift, exultng hosts above,
Where face TO face with him ye dwell
Whose endless years are endless love,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29

closets now2 How little frequented and
even when used, how different the sounds
that echo round their walls Where are
the days of fasting and duplication Where
are the groanings which cannot be uttered,
the strong crying and 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 to let him go until the blessing
comes 2"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Home Friendships.

If we cultivate home friendships with the
same assiduity that we give to those out
side, they will yield us even richer and fairer
returns. There is no friendship 80 pure
and beautiful in its nature, 80 rich and full
in its power of blessing or so singularly rare
in its occurrence, as that between parents
and their grown-up sons and daughters.
Where the parental and filial instincts are
supplemented by that higher and more
spiritual affection that binds together minds
in intellectual communion and souls in heart.
felt sympathy, few deeper or more delight
full friendships can be imagined. The guar
dian and dependent gradually lose them
selves in the dear companion and true friend
of later life and youth becomes wiser and
age brighter, and both nobler and happier
in this loving and abiding union.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29

TuE practical life of the Christian COM
prehends three distinct elements. We have
to do the will of God in our business this is
working. We have to oppose our sin, and
resist temptations this is fighting. We
have 10 endure with cheerfulness and sub
mission whatever cross the Lord Jesus lays
upon us this is suffering
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29

No Christian need be ashamed of trying
to rise into the sphere OF those motives, and
submit to the government of those inhu-
ences which have produced all that is best
in Christsndom. But the truth is that no
one, Christian or non-Christian, can become
serious and think of what he himself lives
by and for, without appealing to considera-
tions which may incur the taunt of being
personal and mystical.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29

SHADOWS begin TO fall. Heavy weather"
experience threatens changes in circum-
stances. Losses, sickness, are ahead. Well,
now is the time for a simple faith. 1t is
best, strongest, sweetest by far, and goes
farthest. The simpler is faith, the less there
is of self and the more of God.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29

ls testing eggs, the fresher the egg the
smaller the air-chamber This can be seen
at the broad end of the egg if it be held up
against strong light in dark room. Stale
eggs have a mottled, grsyish look about
them. a new-laid egg will always give a
feeling OF warmth If the tongue is pressed TO
the large end.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29

HUMILITY and repentance are the result
of large acquaintance with God. Humil-
ity is produced by the sight of his greatness,
repentance by knowledge of his purity. 1t
is the union OF these facts that forms the
idea Of God.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29

No man will ever get first.rate, even, or
profitable flock of sheep, who does not make
practice of yearly culling.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
V egetine
will CURE
SCROFULA
Scrofulous Humor.

Scrofulous Humor.
vEGErINE will eradicate from the system every faint
of scrofua and scroulous Huor. II has permanently
thousands Boston vicinity who had long
and painful sufferers.
Cancer, Cancerous Humor.
The marvellous effect of vEGErINE in of Cancer
and Canceous Iumor challenges the most profound aten
ton OF the medical faculty, many whom prescribing
vEGErlNE to their patients.
Canker.
BILE case Of Canker.
Mercurial Diseases.
The vEGErINE meets with wonderful success in the
Of this class OF diseases.
Salt Rheum.
letter, Salt Rheum sc,ld Head. etc. will certainly
yield to the great Alternative effects of VEG ETiNE.
Erysipelas.
vEGEriNE has failed to cure the nveter-
ate of Erysipelas
Pimples and Humors on
the Face.
Reason should teach us that blotchy, rough pm-
Piled skin depends entirely upon Internal cause, and
outward application the defect. vEGE-
TINE is the great blood purifier.
Tumors, Ulcers or Old Sores
Are caused by an impure state Of the blood Cleanse
the blood thoroughly with vEGErINE, and these COM
plants will disappear.
Catarrh.
For this complaint the only substantial benefit be
obtained through the blood. vEGErINE ia the great
blood purifier
Constipation.
vEGErINE does not act cathartic to deblitate
the bowels but ceanses all the org enabling each TO
perform the functions devolvng upon them.
Piles.
vEGETiNE has restored thousands health who have
been long and painful sufferers.
Faintness at the Stom ach.
vEGErINE ia not a stimulating bitters which creates
fictitious appetite, but gentle tonic, which assists
TO restore the stom ,ch to u healthy action.
Female Weakness.
vEonrrsE ~o.. diroo,ly apon these com
plants. 1t nvigorates and strengthen. whole system
upon secretive organs and alays ind mmaton.
General Debility.
In this complaint tile good eff 'ct' OF the vEGErINE
realized Immediately after .ncing 10 take t-as
debility denotes deficiency of the blood, and vEGErINE
acts directly upon the blood
vEGETINE!
PREPARED by
H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass
Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Pimples and Humors on
the Face.

Reason should teach us that blotchy, rough PIN
pied skin depends entirely upon internal cause. and
outward application the defect. vEGE-
TINE is the great blood purifier.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Faintness at the Stom ach.

vEGEriNE has restored thousands to health who hav
been long and painful sufferers.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Tumors, Ulcers or Old Sores

Are caused by an impure state OF the blood. Cleanse
the blood thoroughly with vEGErISE and these com
plants will disappear