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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
One Step at a Time,

George Manning had almost decided to
become Christian. One doubt held him
back. Chow can know" he said to him
self, " that even if do begin religious life,
| shall continue faithful, and finally reach
heaven ?" He wanted to see the whole way
there before taking the first step. While in
one evening sought the house Of his favorite
professor-for he was college student at
the time-and they talked for several hours
upon the all-absorbing topic. But the con-
versation ended without dispelling his fears
- L-:-s;n1 LIZ; snu naern~ A. -. &c il
cision. When he was about to go home the
professor accompanied him to the door, and
observing how dark the night was, prepared
lantern, and handing it to his friend said,
" George, this little light will not show you
the whole way to your room, but only one
step at time but take that step, and you
will reach your home in safety" 1t proved
the word in season. As George walked Sc.
curely along the path, frightened by the
little lantern, the truth flashed through his
mind, dispelling the last shadow of doubt.
"Why can l not trust my Heavenly Father, y
he said to himself, "even if | can't see my
way clear to the end, if he gives me light to
him." He could hardly wait till he reached
his room to fall on his knees and thank God
for the peace and joy that filed his soul
Early next morning the professor was sum
moned to the door. There he found George
Manning. With beaming face he looked up
to his teacher, and as he handed him the Ian
tern, said significantly doctor, your little
lamp lighted me all the way home last night
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02

to make it clear to them, by question and
answer, inst what it is TO be Christian,
and TO find out whether or not they are walk.
ing in their new life2 Have you sat by
their side alone and told them how to con-
secrate themselves fully TO the service of
God and to trust in the goodness of God and
the grace of Jesus Christ alone for forgive
ness and help2 Have you prayed with
them, and have you listened to their prayer,
as they knelt by your side and in broken ac-
cents repeated their conservation to God and
begged his pardon and help2 Have you
very clearly and plainly told them that do
ing this, they have already found forgive
ness that having sought, they have already
found; that having knocked, they have also
entered in at the door? Have you then fol.
lowed up their Christian hope with the
speedy assurance that their proper places is
with Christian believers at the feast of the
Saviour's love 2 If this personal work is
not done, then the easiest, the most natural
way of bringing souls into the kingdom is
neglected their Christian life is ieoparded ;
and the church is reduced, even for the de-
veopment of her own children, to the neces-
sity of waiting for revival, which should
never be sought except as means of arous-
ing outsiders. Ordinary religious culture
will be enough to save the children but
each plant must be separately wateaed md
separately trained.-Independent
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
Reminiscence Of Horace Greeley.

The farm on which Horace Greeley spent
his boyhood, near Titusville, Pa, and where
his father and mother died, is now occupied
by his brother, Barnes Greeley. Not long
ago a correspondent of the Cincinnati In
quirer made visit to the place. and in con-
yersation with this brother he related this
incident: When Lincoln was elected |
took notion that would like to have the
appointment of mail agent on one of our To-
cal roads, The salary was $1,000 year,
which was big thing for me. l knew Hor-
ace could get me the appointment. spent
some money travelling around and getting
recommendations, and | succeeded in get
ting what thought was sufficient | had
letters from number of leading business
men along the route, as well as from the
party men, and these forwarded to Horace,
with letter asking him to help me. What
returning my recommendations with the in
formation, penned in his own hand, that he
could get the appointment for me without
the slightest trouble, but that he didn't want
to do it. He wanted me to stick to the
farm. He said was the only boy at home,
and he thought it best that should stay
there. l wrote back and explained to him
that could be at home quite frequently;
that at that time the salary of 81 900 year
would help me out very considerably; that
another party had offered to take the posi-
tion for $500 year. | wound up by urging
him to help me to the appointment. His
reply was this: If another man offers to do
this service for $500, and you expect $1,000,
that is an excellent reason why you should
not have it. If you had it the government
would be losing $500 year. In the same
letter he made me this proposition Stay
on the old farm, and if l do not raise more
corn this year on two acres than you do on
ten acres, will give you $780, Not being
in a position to better myself, stayed on the
farm and accepted his proposition. l picked
out ten acres Of as good ground as had and
beaten him just twenty-five bushels of ears,
and he sent me his check for Sl00.-Se-
lpcfe1
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
MONTPELIER VT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1881.

therefore must not be given in too great
quantities The amount Of albuminous or
milk and muscle forming substance (pro-
tein) in decorticated (hulled) cotton-seed
meal is equal to five times that Of clover
hay, nearly eight times that Of timothy
(herdsgrass), four times that Of corn meal,
and three and three-fourths that of oats.
Hence 1t will be seen that the ration Of
cotton-seed meal must be comparatively
small or the animal is over-fed and loss Of
appetite is the result. The average per cent
of protein in hay from the more common
grasses, is as follows Clover, 6.7 timo-
thy, A; fodder corn (green), IL. In corn
meal it is s4 oats, 90, and in cotton-seed
meal 38.7.
Three pounds of cotton-seed meal (cost at
retail 1-2 cents,) and twenty-four pounds
Of good straw (cost at $500 per ton, 0 3-5
cents,) would be better ration than twenty
seven pounds of good herdsgrass hay, which
at sixteen dollars per ton would be worth 81
3.5 cents. In other words, ton of straw
worth eight dollars, and two hundred and
fifty pounds of cotton-seed meal worth three
dollars and seventy-fve cents, would have a
greater feeding value than one and one-eighth
tons Of prime herdsgrass hay, which would
be worth sixteen dollars per ton, or eighteen
dollars; a saving OF six dollars and twenty
five cents by feeding the straw and cotton
seed meal In fading the straw and meal
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
UnWOrldliuesS.

The whole Bible puts the most weghty
emphasis upon an unworldly life. Yet in
the churches we find but few decided lovers
of God, while there are thousands of decided
lovers of the world, and thousands more who
vainly seek to serve both God and mammon,
to compromise between two principles and
courses of life as utterly at war as light and
darkness. The bulk Of protesting Chris
tians are not thoroughly consecrated; they
belong to the " worldly holy" or the "wholly
worldly" Out of the sixty millions of so
called Protestants what vast army of mere
rofessors-having the form without the
power. Out of all nominal Christians to-day
there may be ten millions who give clear ev-
idence of actual regeneration. Millions are
vainly depending on dead works instead OF
the righteousness of Christ wrought in them
by the Holy Ghost. A worldly church hin.
ders the conversion of sinners. We thunder
the terrible truths of God in the ears of the
deaf and the dead, and the church itself SC
grieves and quencbes the Spirit by fellow
ship with evil that there is no power in the
Lords people to give hearing to the deaf
and life to the dead God meant to impress
men by the contrast of the unworldliness OF
his people; but on the whole the witness OF
a separate and sanctifed life is gone, and the
witness of the tongue Of fire gone with it
The worldliness of the church is fact to
which we cannot with impunity shut oul
yes.-,Selecfed
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
Out and Out Religion.

Mr.. Carlyle's advice is thoroughly sound,
and his adjuration is none too strong. "Be
virtuous and have done with it !" speak the
truth and stand to it, profess the faith which
is revealed in the Scripture, and neither by
word of mouth, nor by act nor by associa-
tion, nor even in thought, contradict the
eternal verities of God. We have had too
much of concession in order to win hollow
peace from philosophic Rationalists on the
one hand, and superstitious Romanizers on
the other. The thing will not work, and if
it would it is wrong, and ought not to be
attempted. Who gave us the right to yield
an atom of truth : Are the doctrines OF
Gods Word yours or mine to do as we like
with, to give up this and modify that ? Nay
verify we are put in trust with the gospel
and It is at our peril that we dream OF com
promising the least of its teachings. A
straightforward, decided line of testimony
is the best, is most consistent with true
charity, and in the end will most promote
peace.-SpurgeOn.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
All In Christ.

We have our temperance societies, aud /
presume they are needed We have our So
cieties for the suppression of vice, and |
suppose they are needed. And we have So
cieties for the better observance of the Sab
bath, and suppose they are needed. We,
for the present distress, divide up the whole
of goodness into sections, aud fight the
battle of evil in "pieces," so to speak. But
when God comes to deal with us he takes
purity and goodness and holiness as whole,
and by putting the inspiration of childhood
to God and the hope OF eternal life into our
lives he sets us to purify ourselves even as
Christ is pure. That includes every thing.
When you are intent upon being as Christ
was you will be temperate, you will be
and suppress it, first OF all in yourself You
will be pure in life because pure in heart,
and pure in heart because you expect to see
God.-Dr. John Hal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
Utilizing Straw as COw.Feed.

That funny Alexis Smith who is such an
exhilarator at our agricultural meetings,
once said he had tried feeding straw to his
COWS in various ways, but with no success
until he began to bed them up to their
bellies with it, "and now," said he, "my
cows do well on straw" But the agricul-
tural chemists, by analyzing straw, and find
ing out both what it contains and what it
lacks as a feeding material, have been able
to suggest mixtures of other materials with
fne-cut straw which answer an excellent
purpose as at least partial feed for dairy
COWS. The following is the average percen-
tage of protein (milk and muscle forming
matter) in the various kinds of straw :
Wheat straw, 81; rye, so; barley, 3.4 oat,
2.3; stover (dry corn fodder, TO pea
straw, 73; bean, 90; buckwheat, so. 1t
has been the practice with some to supple
ment the feeding of straw with turnips and
other roots, but analysis of roots shows that
the combination is not good one. The
following is the average per cent of protein
III oSFciai Naiiotico VI loOtS
most commonly fed to stock: Potatoes, 90 !;
mangolds, IL sugar beets, 10 rpta bagas,
Lii carrots, l.3 English turnips, To- par
snips, l.0. 1t will thus be seen that roots at
best contain but very small amount Of
milk and flesh producing matter, and when
added TO straw as a ration in whatever pro-
portion, the amount of protein is too small to
warrant satisfactory yield or growth of the
animal.
General Grout, in giving the particulars
Of his "ensilage campaign" at the recent
Barton Landing meeting of the Board of
Agriculture, said that he was feeding his
cows (mostly dry, however) with ration of
twenty-five to thirty pounds OF ensilage, and
another ration of fine-cut and moistened
straw upon which two pounds of shorts were
sprinkled. The two together made the feed
of COW for one day, and they were doing
well on it. The general said he had already
purchased a quantity Of cotton-seed meal
which he proposed to use in place of the
shorts when the cows came in. Cotton-seed
meal is highly concentrated food and
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
HumOrsOme Waits.

A MINISTER not long since preached from
the text, Z" Be We therefore steadfast," but
the printer made him expound from Be ye
there for breakfast"
"YoU do not appear to be very busy at
your store" remarked salesman to friend.
T" No, thank heaven, the boss has stopped
advertising, and we are having lovely time
of it."
A GALVESTON man who has mule for
sale, hearing that friend in Houston
wanted to buy a mule, telegraphed him;
Dear friend If you are looking for No.
l mule don't forget me.-Galvesten Netos.
A GALVESTON widow is about to marry
her fifth husband. Her pastor rebuked her
for contemplating matrimony so soon again.
We'll, Just want you to understand, il
the Lord keeps on taking them | will too"
was the spirited reply
A PIKE county editor wrote that he pro-
posed to cook the finest turkey in the coun-
try for his Christmas dinner. The printer
set it up hook and the poor scribe was
under the police surveillance every time he
wandered into the outskirts of the town.
The young milkman and his girl stood
before the justice Of the peace. "You take
this milk-ahem this man for butter or for
worse 2" the mighty man of the law inquired.
This girl said it never a-curd to her before,
but she supposed she would if that was the
only whey.-Rockldnd Courier
An American millionaire not long since
visited Europe. A travelled friend asked
him what he had seen, mentioning all the
noted sights; among other places, he in
quired if he had seen the Dardanelles "Oh
yes," replied old money-bags They dined
with us the last night we were in Paris !"
The slowness of the walters at a Calves
ton hotel is getting to be proverbial. After
waiting until he was tired out, gentleman
called the waiter and asked when his turn
was to come. "Can't tell, sir. I've got to
wait on that other gentleman first. lie
leaves on the train tomorrow morning.
Gapleston Neios.
ONE downtown preacher is blessed with
two sons. bright little fellows they are, too.
Now il is the custom in that preachers fam
ilv for these two lads to recite every morn
inc a verse of Scripture. The boys were in
great haste to get out on the hill a couple
Of mornings ago, when the father said,
"Now, boys, recite your verses; then you
can coast I'd rather be door-keeper in
the house of the Lord than dwell in the tents
OF the wicked" repeated the elder lad.
.So'd l." calculated the junior youth, and
away he flew after his sled, and the father
did not demonstrate.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
A Friend OF Industrial Education.

Peter Cooper of New York was ninety
years old on the 18th of February. The
Springfield Republican says of him; "Mr.
Cooper is one of the rare rich men who re-
gard wealth as trust to be administered
for their fellows and he is worth dozen
Astors, Stewards and Vanderbilts. The
Cooper Union is one of the most noteworthy
institutions in New York Here in great
building have been carried ON for twenty
three years, during eight months every year,
free day and evening schools of science and
art, at cost Of over sS50,0O0, the present
outlay being $4,000 year. Here free
reading room and library are used day and
evening by thousands Of people, and the
founder has just added special endowment
of Sl50,0O0 to support and increase them.
Free lectures are given in the class-rooms to
students and in the large hall to the public.
Another story has been newly built on the
Union TO extend its advantages to more
night classes and TO add select library and
art museum. The free school of telegraphy
for women and the womsn's art school are
notable specialties Of the Union. These
schools and other means of instruction are
all for workers, not for people to amuse
themselves in, and they are enabling thou
sands of young men and women TO do good
work in the world. Peter Cooper has his
foibles, and is not over strong in matters of
| theory but when ID comes To practical SER
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
Moral and Reliaions.
THE STIRRING OF THE NEST.

As aa eagle H,rreth up her n0f.-DRuT. sxxiii II
Quiet and peaceful was Our nest,
Made soft by hands OF love,
And guarded ever by prayers to God,
For blessings from above;
And never discordant note was heard
Within the peaceful nest.
Where heart to heart beat warm and true,
In every loving breast.
Around about II cnging vines
Their grace and beauty threw,
And Of where II was safely hidden
Only the truest knew;
But there came a day when Gods own hand
Stirred up the peaceful nest.
And we shrank away from the change he made,
Although the change was best.
Some lessons, indeed, are hard to learn.
Our nest was sweet and fair,
And we murmured long that any thing
Should mar IL beauty rarei
But we have learned TO look above,
And mount at Gods command,
And since the stirring Of the nest
To trust his guiding hand. Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02

For sprains, womds, scalds, Rhsumaiizm. and
any palm upon Man or Beast.
Music Books
FOR SCHOOLS!

SOno Bells 80 cents cents The .sS,t ,apst book o
l.. o. EMERSON Has great variety OF cheerful genial
musical songs such as the girls and boys must like and
also good Elementary Course.
that stiH JdrOrtfes and in constant demand
lion Whip.poor-wIll $50 cents, Mocking Bird $50
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PERKINS.
welcome Chorus sqlf SUne PY'c The
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w g. IILDEN. Il of the heat character, and we htted
10 follow those most successful books the High school
Choir (s0Ol ard the Hour of Singing tsi O0 both by
EMERSON and TILDRN; and the Laurel Wreath lsl0oj,
by W. U. PERKINS. We also mention Emerson's Quar-
tets and Choruses for Male Voices (6O cents) jnst
and Colleges
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
A Farm in Depot Village,
ALL NECESSARY FARMING TOOLS,
FOR SALE!

The subscriber Offers for his Saw MIL with cirou-
lar cutting OF edgng hatcher and shinge
machine The slabs, shnge and blocks when fall
which ruus to the lower water power where the
shingles are sawed Also Grst Mill with one run Of
stone, Eureka an-m, scales etc. The grlst mill building
Is sufficiently large for manufacturing business All
In good repair and doing good custom business. Also
good Dwelling house, with Barn and Garden, all
pleasantly situated In BTookheld village miles from
West Randolph with daily stage from Reason for
selling The subscriber wishes TO give his whole
address
14-tf Is, II, BUXTON, Brook field, Vt
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
OperettaS and Cantatas for School Exhibitions

Coronation C6G cents. Culprt Fay ts0ol FAIRY Bridal
Ss centsl fiOrer Queen new rs censl Guardian dHOei
o cents Hourn Fairy Land $50 cents rdcis 81 Roses
go cents Lie BoPee $50 cens) Maud Irr,np 50 cents)
N'w Tears Ere t6 cents Three Ltie kittens $50 censl
quarrel Among Flouers (35 cents Spring Holiday $50
cents and Cinderella 80 cents) all lively and pretty
Cantatas.
OLIVER DITSON Il CO., Boston.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-02
Mew egdrerfisrments.
AsH-1oNIC

Tho sreHtrsmedy for Dyppepsis. Bniow DE
eases and Functional Dsranscments Attendant
upon Debility. In 1-2 Ib. bottles, IS cents. Six
bottlessl Accredited Physicians md Clorgmrn
uuppiled with not exceeding six bottles at onehaf
theretail price, ITO accompany order. Sold
by Druggists and by' D.. B. pHwEv Il Co...@
Dcy St, New York.
Tovm,-AIhersddr1 ne stepoD, ooridtfn1 uts
fsets Of de5flity and rssfci1S bsaillv JtHefions"
-WxnsrEn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-07
HORSE THIEVES ABOUT.
Orse, buggy and ssarnoss stOlsD-Ltbe
Reward offered.

Orse, buggy and ssarness stOlsD-LiberAl Il
Reward offered.
Last night after II o'clock thieves en-
tered the stable aud carriage house on the
farm OF John L. Steinman. near the Buck
tavern, in DrumOre township, and stole
therefrom stylish high spirited light bay
horse, of solid CO.Or without marks, eleven
years old and about fifteen hands high.
Also, Brewster spring piano-box buggy
made by Norbeck & Miley, Lancaster,
changed from Whitney spring, and the
fastening marks Of the old spring will be
seen on the bottom of the buggy. Also a
set OF silver mounted harness and two ad-
ditiOnal brides, one of which was without
blinds and had Kimbie lein. The horse
belonged to Mr. Steinman and the buggy
to Philip Hes, his farmer. The thief
must have been acquainted with the prem
ises and their contents, or else been a
pretty good judge OF harness, as lie took
good breast strap from Mr.. SteiEmans S
harness and attached it tn another set be-
longing to Mr.. Hess. Although Mr.. Stein
mans coachman slept in an adj jacent build
ing he did not hear anything of the thief
nor miss the stolei, property until this
morning. The thief was tracked towards
Liberty Square, and then cost sight of. A
reward OF 500 is offered for the re-
turn of the property ard tho arrest of the
thief.
The buggy stolen was tho same one
taken by young Mclaughlin from the fcs
tival at Bethel church some months ago
and recovered in this city.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-07

residence. No. Middle street, on Saturday
afternoon at 81 O'Clock. std*
KxEEzEL-ln this city. on the 9th of october,
1881. John Kneezel. in the list year OF his age.
The relatives and friends of the family are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral
from his late residence. No 42 East Vine street.
on Sunday afternoon ut ~ O'Clock. Inter
ment at Woodward Hill cemetery. 2td
REIsr-On the 9th inst. Mt Mannheim. Leah.
wife of Ezra Reist. aged IS years, & months and
. days.
Funeral next Sunday morning at O'Clock,
from the residence of her husband, at Man
helm. Interment at Pennville. 2td*
HERH-In Lancaster township. on Thursday
October G. 1881. John e.. son OF John L. and
Fannie L. Herr. aged Is years and month.
Friends and relatives of the deceased are re-
spectfully invi' cd to attend the funeral, ut the
residence of his parents, near Whcatland. on
Monday morning at s15 O'Clock. and at ca
O'Clock at Dcnlinger's meeting hodse, near
Rohrarstown 2td<