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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-24
Filling the House.

A certain church, which occupied very
spacious place OF worship, greatly desired to
see the vacant seats in their temple occu-
pied, and the burden of their prayer used to
be that the Lord would send some one VINO
would Jill The house. Their thoughts and
petitions and efforts seemed TO tend mainly
in this direction. At last their prayer was
answered. A preacher came, young, eloquent
and popular. 1t did not take him long to
fill the house. His reputation did not i'm
prove with close acquaintance, but he filled
the house. lie not only filed the church on
Sundays, but he filled the courthouse to
perfect jam when his name was called in
connection with scandal suit. lie filled
the house with people who were rarely seen
in place of worship, and who were appar-
emily attracted by things which would repel
the deyout worshiper. lie filled the house
with rabble he filled the community with
scandals he filled the newspapers with
reading unfit for any family circle and 30
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An AroOstOOk Farmer.

When we were in Aroostook county,
Maine, last year, we had the pleasure OF
meeting Mr.. Columbus lIayford Of Mays
vile. He showed evidence of being live
farmer, and we take pleasure in copying
brief notice of his farming from recent
issue of the Home Farm, as follows "Mr.
Hayford resides in Maysvile, four miles from
Presque Isle village. He has one hundred
seventysx acres of land under improve
ment, of which seventy are in grass or now
ing, forty-six under cultivation this year,
and sixty in pasturage. He has fourteen
acres in wheat, eleven in oats, eight in rye
and peas, six in potatoes, three in buck
wheat two in turnips, one in beans and one
in corn. lie will harvest this year at least
seventy tons of hay, probably ten or fifteen
tons more than that. All his cultivated
crops are wonderfully promising. His wheat
is headed out many of the heads being six
or seven inches in length. He says there
will be thirty bushels to the acre and on
some acres forty bushels. His oats are very
rank, his rye and peas will be an abundant
harvest and his potatoes, which are planted
after the former method in hills and not in
drills, promise large yield. Nearly all of
Mr. Hayford's moving land is laid down as
smooth as floor, so that he harvests his
hay when the weather is fair at an expense
of not over one dollar per ton. Mr.. Hay
fords farm buildings are two-story house
and ell, stable thirty by forty feet, and
barn forty-two by one hundred feet, sixteen
feet post, and high basement under the
whole, where are his cattle rooms. He sells
no hay from his farm, but keeps stock sufli-
cient to consume all his fodder. He has
ten cows and other stock in abundance of
the best kind. He is one of the men who,
while paying literally for labor, knows how
TO make it available and profitable. ! give
a specimen: Fourteen acres Of his growing
wheat and oats are upon new land, cleared
last year. The trees were cut in 1870, and
in the summer of 1880 he proposed to let
out the clearing by the job, and $l2 per
acre was asked to do the clearing. This he
declined to pay, but offered IS per acre,
which was not accepted. Taking dry
time he put crew into it by the day, and
bossing it himself, he cleared it all off
ready for the seed for 81 per acre. He is
now cutting ten acres more of trees which
will be cleared in due time and added to
his productive acres. There is room in
Aroostook for thousands of farmers like
Mr.. Hayford. God has provided the acres !;
all we need are the men,"
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Fathers OF the Early Church.

Ireneus was acquainted with individuals
who had been taught by John and by other
Apostles. lls had known, in his childhood,
Polycarp whose recollections of the Apostle
John were fresh. He had conferred with
"elders !" that is, venerated leaders in the
church of an earlier day, who had been
pupils of men whom the Apostles had in
structed, and some of whom had sat at the
feet of the apostles themselves. One of these
L" elders in particular he makes repeated
mention, whose name is not given, but whom
in one place he styles apostolorum disci-
pulus." Pothinus whom Ireneus succeeded
at Lyons, was thrown into prison in the per-
secution under Marcus Aurelius, A. d. III,
and died two days after, being past ninety
years old. Pothinus was probably from
Asia Minor, whence the church at Lyons
was planted. His memory ran back beyond
the beginning of the century. He is one of
many who had numbered among their &C.
quaintances younger contemporaries of apos-
tles Clement of Alexandria was pupil Of
Pantenus, who had founded the catechetical
school there shortly after the middle of the
second century. In all of the Oldest churches
there were persons who were separated by
only one link from apostles. es.-Princeton Re.
l,iolr
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The Extrayagance OF Sin,

The most extravagant thing in the world
is sin. Men think of sin as to its conse-
quence upon the individual who commits it,
but the most expensive thing in society will
be found to be sin, in whatever form it may
appear; and grand thing it will be when
men reach this conviction. Some men
think it is very we'll for men in the pulpit
and on platforms to talk about it in trying
to induce conviction and persuasion on this
moral question, but when they find that the
cost Of sin touches them in the shape of tax
alton, they begin to feel a new interest in
reforms. 1t will be found in the long run
that the pocket is always on the side of vir.
tue. Men have always formulated some
what out of their own experience, and when
they see that honesty is the best policy
well, it will be found to be so with regard
to everything that affects personal habits,
eating, drinking, dressing, aud the mode of
conducting life. The most extravagant
is ssin-anything that is wrong and that vio-
lates any great law of morals.-Dr William
Adams
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Laugh and Grow Eat.


There is not the remotest corner or little
inlet of the minute blood vessels of the hu-
man body that does not feel some wavelet
from the convulsion occasioned by good
hearty laughter. The life principle, or the
central man is shaken to the innermost
depth, sending new tides Of life and strength
to the surface, thus materially tending to
insure good health TO the persons who in.
dulge therein. The blood moves more rap
idly and conveys a different impression to
all the organs of the body, as ii visits them
on that particular mystic journey when the
man is laughing, from what it does at other
times. For this reason every good, hearty
laugh in which person INDUCES prolongs
his life, conveying as it does new and dis
tinct stimulus to the vital forces. Doubtless
the time will come when physicians, conced-
ing more importance than they now do to
the influence of the mind upon the vital
forces of the body, will make up their pre-
scriptions more with reference to the mind
and less to drugs for them, and will, in so
doing, find the best and most effective
method Of producing the required effect
upon the patient.
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he went on changing his location, but not
his character, dividing his time between law,
gospel, politics and scandal, till he had won
a name which few could covet-but he filled
the house, When people pray for some one
to fill the house it may be well to specify
the material with which they desire to have
it filed. 1t is not very difficult TO fill houses,
nor to build vast heaps of wood, hay and
stubble, which are destined to perish in the
devouring flames; it is far more difficult TO
build up in the most holy faith congrega-
tion of true believers who love and serve the
Lord their God. The fact that a man can
fill a house is not always to his credit nor TO
the church's profit. The material used for
filling, and the means by which il is OBJ
tanned, are matters to be considered in con-
nection with filling the house. Christian.
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The MOckIng.Bird.

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VOL. 76.-39O6. NO. 46.

stronger than usual, as the melting ice will
dilute it. Fill goblet full-not half or
two-thirds, but full Of broken ice. Put on
Jumps OF sugar If you like IL, and add cream
II you fancy that-as we do,-and then pour
on the fresh hot tea, stir until cold, and you
have iced tea, most refreshing beverage
1t is hard to say anything new about sum
mer diet especially to those who have not
learned the difference between August and
December. But it is always safe to remind
people that Nature knows, and to advise
them to heed her admoniton both in the
selection Of food and in abstaining from it..
Golden Rule
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Mrs. Garfield Making Bread.

In recent number of little paper pub
lished by the pupils of Hiram College, Ohio,
(of which General Garfield was once the
very efficient presidenD, called The Student,
appeared an extract from a letter written by
Mrs. Garfield TO her husband over ten years
ago, and intended for no eyes but his. 1t
fell into the hands of President Hiusdale,
who made use of it in lecture to the stu
dents, and as it showed the qualities OF Mrs.
Garfield's mind, and her opinions upon the
subject of womans work, he gave it to The
Student. The extract is as follows: al am
glad TO tell that out of all the toll and dis
appointments of the summer Just ended |
have risen up to a victory; that silence of
thought since you have been away has won
for my spirit triumph. | read something
like this the other day There is no healthy
thought without labor, and thought makes
the laborer happy Perhaps this is the
way have been able to climb up higher.
1t came to me one morning when | was
making bread. / said to myself, Here |
am compelled by an inevitable necessity to
make our bread this summer. Why not
consider it a pleasant occupation, and make
it so by trying to see what perfect bread |
can make2' 1t seemed like au inspiration,
and the whole of life grew brighter. The
very sunshine seemed flowing down through
my spirit into the white loaves, and now
believe my table is furnished with better
bread than ever before and the truth, old
as creation, seems just now to have become
fully mine-.hat | need not be the shrink.
ing slave Of toll, but its regal master, max
ing whatever | do yield me its best fruits.
You have been king of your work so long
that may be you will laugh at me for having
lived so long without my crown, but am
too glad to have found it at all to be entirely
disconnected even by your merriment Now,
| wonder if right here does not lie the ter
rible wrong or at least some of it, of which
the woman suffragists complain. The
wrongly educated woman thinks her duties
a disgrace, and frets under them and shrks
them if she can. She sees man triumph
antly pursuing his vocation, and thinks it is
the kind of work he does which makes him
grand and regnant; whereas it is not the
kind of work at all, but the way in which
and the spirit with which he does it."
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new runners are forming, filing them with
earth and placing the runner on the surface
Of the pot with a small stone on 1t to keep
it in place till il strikes root, which 1t will
do in few days II watered, or in moist
weather. As soon as they become well
rooted, cut the running string and trans
plant them into rich bed about August
1st. II the pots are well soaked before the
plants are taken out, the plants will not
wilt, and can be moved in dry, hot weather,
though of course there is some risk Of losing
a few, and a dull day after rain is better.
Potted runners, set in this way, eighteen
inches apart, make very rapid growth, and
if the runners are carefully clipped, will
form very large, vigorous stool in autumn
such plants, well watered in fruiting time,
will produce enormous berries, and such
clusters of them as would astonish any one
who is not familiar with this method of
growing. The blossom stems rise foot
high or more, and the fruit is so abundant
that it will need thinning out if the largest
size is wanted. 1t is nothing uncommon for
single plant to produce in this way
quart of show berries and whole beds will
often produce an average of quart to the
plant. Some growers think this is profit
able method to be used for growing large
quantities, but | think il adapted only to
very rich soil, and the growing of extra
fruit, in small quantities for exhibition, or
for sale to customers who are willing to pay
a fancy price. The labor and expense of
growing the potted runners and enriching
and preparing the land for this method, are
very considerable, and essential to success.
1t is true that this method saves good
deal of labor in wedding and hoeing re-
quired by the common method of spring
planting; the ground to be planted may be
occupied by some early vegetables till
August 1st and the wedding after this date,
together with the clipping of runners, would
not be so large an item as the ordinar y
wedding of matted bed. 1t is certainly a
method that will commend itself to the ia
vorable attention of the amateur garden Ell
who has neglected to plant supply Of
Strawberries for next season, and does not
mind the expense of ordering few hun
dred potted runners from the nurseryman
for the sake of having good bed of large
fruit for his own table next June"
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Mora1 and Rsligiuns.



The day Ia done beyond the distant mountains,
The sunset light dies slowly In the sky
Only the pine trees break the deep night-sllenc
Aud whisper softly as the wind goes by.
No human voice breaks on the solemn Stiffness
Yet long llnger on the sanded beach,
Watching the deep dark ocean rolling onward
To lands which thought alone, not sight, can reach.
| have no fear Of the blue waves before me,
That strive TO touch and clasp me a. stand;
DO not know that he whose care is DER me
Holdeth the waters in his mighty hand2
But to my spirit comes a calm, deep rapture,
The while watch the wide, unresting sea;
The senseo of something pure and full and changeess,
OF something unfulnllei and yet to be.
think, perhaps that when my feet turn slowly
Forth from the mortal ways of ain and strife
When shall leave behind earth's pain and pleasure,
To stand and wait upon the shores Of life;
That shall stand with this uameless rapture
And wait bis bidding from the land above,
Content, until he come, to gaze in silence,
Out Ger the ocean Of his boundess lovel
n AIbquU .T0urUai.
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not have even this privilege. They must
take their chance in the common school,
the peoples college, Well says farmer
Jones, isn't that good enough2 1t has done
for me and | think IL will do for my son
John, or my daughter Sally No, Mr.. Jones'
With all due respect to your common sense
and shrewdness, which has stood you in
such good stead, it is not enough. The
times are changed greatly since you took up
that farm Of yours. When was last at the
farm you told me your two eldest sons had
left you and gone, one to the city and one to
the village and your last and youngest was
saying that he should go as soon as he was
twentyone. You told me that your three
daughters had all left home to find places in
the factory. You lamented the fact.
good farm, abundant in resources, and need
ing the labor of two of the sons and two
daughters, and capable Of giving them an
ample return for their labor, and a pleasant
home was to be left empty to yourself and
wife, in your old are. You asked, why
do they leave p could not tell you what
was easily ascertained from the son who
was in the field that day, but the fact is
they were mind-starved,' perhaps it should
be put 'soul-starved.' They had been at
school eight weeks in the summer and ten
weeks in the winter in childhood. In later
years ten weeks in the winter only. The
school, a type of too many, with an unqual-
ified teacher half the time with no system,
no intelligent supervisor, had failed to give
them any taste for good reading. 1t had
given them no general intelligence. They
had learned nothing in any way connected
with their labor. Their work was toll of
the body without the least interest of mind.
Such labor is always drudgery. life Of
such toll is life of slavery. So anything
seemed better than this. They therefore
sought employment where they could have
others around them. Society could supply
in part the void left in the soul by lack Of
knowledge. So a life of labor in the city,
the village shop, the factory, with the pleas
ure of companionship, becomes vastly more
endurable than the lonely toll, with no knowl-
edge to fill the longing of the SOUL"
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TEACHING BOYS THE TRADE.-A me-
chanic writing in the Chicago Tribune on
the desirability of teaching the boys trades;
"a boy should be as handy with some me-
chanic tool as with a pencil. Farmers
boys, from using the tools around the barn
on rainy days, have grown to be the best of
mechanics. Besides, education is becoming
so general that man must possess very
superior education indeed to make his living
by that means. But the market for skilled
labor is in no immediate danger of being
glutted, because men are continually striv-
ing to get above it. If European nation
can demand of all its male citizens that they
give so many years to learning the art Of
war, why may not this mechanical and in
ventive nation insist that her sons be in.
structed in some useful art If the English
are nation of shopkeepers, we are pre-emi.
nently nation of haudicraftsmen, and that
there is more demand for skilled labor and
better remuneration here than anywhere else
is attested by the thousands of strangers
who flock to our shores"
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Sabbath Rest,

wish all tired people did but know the
rest there is in fencing off the six days from
the seventh. In anchoring the business ships
of your daily life as the Saturday draws to
its close, leaving them to ride peacefully
upon the flow Of the ebb until Monday
morning comes again. o, the delight, the
lull of feeling: No need to settle this ques-
tion, no need to think of this piece of work
for whole long, sweet thirty-six hours"
Why do you take Sunday papers, to keep
your nerves astir with business on the Lords
own day of rest ? Why do you add up and
consult and consider in the pauses of the
sermon, or make opportunity for business
whisper in the porch, and on the way homer
Why do you let the perplexities of servants,
of means, of plans rufis your spirits on the
one great day of freedom ? Do you not
know that even debtor may walk abroad
on Sunday with no fear of prison, and
house doors may stand open and no sheriff
can enter? Shall it be worse with your
mind than with your body ?-Selected.
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agricultural Deparf,rem
t. n. posKrNs. Agricultural Editor.
THE FARMERs SEVENTY YEARS.

All, there he is, lad. at the plowi
He beats the boys for work,
And whatsoe'er the task might be
None ever saw him shirk,
And he can laugh, too, till his eyes
Run o'er with mlrthful tears,
And sing full many an old-tlme song
In spite OF seventy years.
GOOD NOR ming, friends, tia twelve O'Clock;
Time for half-hour's rest"
And farmer John took out his lunch
And ate Il with zest.
"a harder task II is," he said,
"Than following up these steers.
Or mendlng fences, far. for me
To feel my seventy years.
You ask me why feel so young;
1n sure, friends, can't tell,
But think 1t ia my good wife's fault
who's kept me up so well;
FOR women such a. she are scarce
In this poor vale of tears;
She's given me love, and hope, and strength
For more than forty years.
And then. my boys have all done well,
As far IA they have gone,
And that thing warns an old mAn'e blood
And helps him up and on.
My girls have never caused pang,
Or raised up anxious fears;
Then wonder not that feel young
And hale at seventy years.
Why don't my good boys do my work
And let me alt and rest?
n 4 .lufi "A. g..e
like my own way best.
They have their duty; have mine;
And, TIL the end appears,
mean to smell the soil my friends,'
Said the man Of seventy years.