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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
A Harn,s Tenderness.

An anecdote is told of Garibaldi, the Ital-
ian patriot, which shows his kindness of
heart. One evening in 1861 as the general
was returning home he met Sandman
shepherd lamenting the loss of lamb out of
his flock. Garibaldi at once turned to his
staff and announced his intention of scour-
ing the mountain in search of the lamb. A
grand expedition was Immediately organ
lied. Lanterns were brought, and old of.
ficers of many a campaign started of, full of
zeal, to hunt the fugitive. But no lamb was
found and the soldiers were ordered to their
beds. The next morning Garibaldis at
tendant found him in bed fast asleep. lie
was surprised at this, for the general was
always up before anybody else. The attend
ant went off softly, and returned in half an
hour. Garibaldi still slept. After another
delay the attendant walked him. The gen.
eral rubbed his eyes, and so did his attend
ant when he saw the old warrior take from
under the covering the lost lamb and bade
him convey it to the shepherd. The general
had kept up the search until successful.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Prosperity.

| saw picture once OF a woman, or angel,
or something O. that sort, and she had a
great horn in her hand filled with all kinds
o. flowers an fruits, that she was flingin' out
as she went along. The road behind her
was all crowded with hungry folks bein'
fed, an ragged folks clothed an children
bein' learned, and missionaries preachin'.
Aud ON before her all sorts O. horrible
things were hurryin' out OF her road as fast
as ever they could Underneath the picture
there was the young woman's name, an it
was called Prosperity. Well, she may be
like that sometimes, an don't see why she
shouldn't be like that always. But she
isnt-she isn't. I've a-seen her like an old
hag of witch-with a dreadful evil eye,
ill-wishin' everybody-goin' about a'mumb-
lin an a-mutterin all sorts O. things her
hooked fingers tryin' to claw hold O. every
thing they come across. That's more like
Miss Prosperity very often. Coin about
partin' friends an sowin' strife an misery,
an a-grppin' an grindin' everything for
to bake a bigger cake for her own self
Maxim folks so grand that you don't hardly
know 'em, an maxim them so high an
mighty that they don't know you eithe
Daniel QuOrm.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
The SANITY PaysOu,

When the sanity Payson was dying he
exclaimed, al long TO hand full cup of
happiness to every human being" This
was the language of heart thoroughly
purged of all selfish affection, and filed
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 filled with such long
ing for human happiness, what marvellous
changes would soon be wrought in human
society The selfish element would be
eliminated from the dealings of the Chris
tian business man. Not justice merely, but
benevolence would enter into his everyday
trade. The same spirit would rule his home
and church life lie would become an in
carnation of good will toward all, and would
so preach the gospel by his deeds that men
would see his good works and glorify his
heavenly Father. The spirit of Payson is
worthy of every mans imitation. Happy
he who can truthfuly say, " l long to hand
a cup OF happiness to every human being."
-Zi0n's Herald
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
What Young Men Have Done.

Before he was thirty the great Napoleon
had conducted one of the most brilliant
campaigns the world ever saw. Cassaubon,
the famous scholar OF the sixteenth century,
was appointed professor of Greek at twenty
two, and Hensius of Leyden, at eighteen.
At the age of twentyeight, Linne Is, the
botanist, wrote his great work. At twenty
six, Culver was appointed professor at Paris.
Kent the commentator on the American
law, was lecturer in Columbian college at
thirty-one. Professor Dana of Yale college,
published his book on mineralogy at twenty
five, only four years after graduation. Ed
ward Everett, at twenty, was ordained pas
tor of a church in Boston, and within two
years attained distinguished fame as an ora
tor; at twenty-one, he was appointed pro-
fessor of Greek at Harvard. The late Ben
jamin Pierce, one of the profoundest mathe-
maticians of America, was chosen professor
of mathematics at Cambridge at the age of
twenty-four. Three of the well known po-
cts of this century-Byron, Shelley and Keats
died before the age of forty; Byron at
thirty-six, Shelley as he was completing his
thirtieth year, Keats at twenty-five. ethan
atopsis," the most widely known of all the
poems Of William Cullen Bryant, was writ
ten in his nineteenth year.-Golden Days.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
!" Bible First, Papa.N

About forty years ago Christian man sat
at his fireside in Philadelphia. Near by
him, playing on the flor, was his only child,
beautiful little boy. 1t was early in the
morning. The days work had not yet be-
gun and waiting for his breakfast, it may
be, the father took up the daily paper to
read. The boy at once, climbing up into
his lap, snatched away the paper, excaim-
ing, "No, no, papa Bible first, papa I"
That lesson, taught by little child, was
probably turning-point in the life of that
man. Death soon came and rudely tore
away the sweet little preacher; but his
morning sermon was never forgotten. The
business man, in his loneliness and sorrow,
went forth to do his work for Christ "Bble
first, papa" was ever ringing in his ears.
1t became the motto of his life. He was
exceedingly prospered in his business.
Wealth accumulated business increased E;
friends multiplied. But uppermost in the
mans heart was the precious word of God.
lie read and studied it. As teacher and
superintendent in the Sunday-school he
taught it. He did more than this--he prac-
ticed its precepts. The gentleman referred
to was the well-known locomotive engine
builder, Matthias w. Baldwin of Philadel-
phia. Would not the child's cry, Bible
first !" be an excellent motto for every Sun
day-school teacher in the land ?-Dr. Peter
Striker,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
How She Cured Him.


The husband OF certain Nashville lady
was, before his marriage, furious swearer.
Through his wife's influence he left off this
bad habit except one favorite Gus word,
which clung to him under all circumstances,
and which to the great annoyance of his
good wife, he would uuconsciously use every
where-the word "damn." Several months
since he arose one cold morning, before the
servant came in TO make the wood fire, and
after long effort and fruitless burning of
many matches, turned and said, Salie,
this damn fire won't burn" To this, the
good wife earnestly said, eyes, the damn
wood is too green, and the damn servant
has forgotten to bring up any damn kindling
wood to start the damn fire with" He
looked at his wife in absolute dismay, but
at once saw the point and said nothing A
longer period than usual passed without the
favorite expletive being used but later on
he wanted a basket and said, after looking
for it, "Ssllie, where has the damn basket
got to ?" The wife quietly, as if putting a
child to sleep, said: Ask the damn cook
to get the damn basket-damn her, she
keeps it," As before, he said nothing, but
months have passed, and if he damns any
thing it is not where she is. She says it
was like taking quinine, and she always
went and washed out her mouth afterward,
but he is cured
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Choose the Right Path.

II we are to walk with God, we must go
nowhere that Christ will not go. O, how
many venture beyond the territory in which
they ought to walk, and they wonder why
they have not the enjoyments of religion :
They go where Jesus will not go. "Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsel
of the ungody." Christ is not there. "Nor
standeth in the way of sinners" Christ is
not there. Nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful." Christ is not there. If you
would walk with Christ, keep out of all evil
company, of all evil associations keep from
all evil places-from every place where you
ii upon earth, you might not expect to meet
him there. Ii you go out of the territory
where he would not 50, you need not expect
to find him.-Bishop Simpson.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Caught in the Storm.

The disciples were in the ship on Gene
sareth with their Lord. AS the storm ragged
about them Jesus reposed quietly in one
part of that little vessel as though unmiud-
full of their need of succor. They, in deep.
est bewilderment, appealed for help. lie
arose, and looking out upon the deep COM
manded the winds and waves to silence.
Now sweet repose was everywhere visible,
gladness filled every heart, timidity gave
place to courage, while fayoring breezes
waited them nearer to the coast of Gadara.
This lifelike picture is but faithful por.
trayal of much in human life. How often
we are caught suddenly in the storm of ad-
versity. Affairs do not seem in any re-
spect prosperous. Financial distresses come
and frequently without any fault of the
good man; the sky is quickly overcast, i'm
penetrable mists thcken on every side the
prospect of unpaid obligations fills the up
right heart with restlessness and dismay
Toling amid the tumutuous elements, every
effort seemingly abortive, every rope and
spar broken by the storm no human aid
proifered; no inviting harbor near; the
yawning gulf opening TO embrace the help
less victim--such has been the experience
of tens OF thousands upon life's tempestu-
GUS seas. Here is one from whose home has
gone son, tenderly guarded from his in
fancy. Mysterious, indeed-his feet turn
from the ways of virtue as he crosses the
threshold of home and passes out into life.
Who can fathom the grief of the parental
heart as this ungrateful child descends
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Coming Home.

1t has been truly said that one of the best
uses of going away from home in the sum
mer is the coming back again at the begin
ming of autumn. And already the advanced
detachments of our country and seaside
wanderers have begun to arrive. Every
train and steamer brings a company of
bronzed and dust-covered pilgrims TO take
up the dropped thread of life and resume
the customary round Of occupations. Now
that the schools are about to begin, the
churches to open, aud the general activities
of the city to take their autumnal start,
people begin to be impatient to get back
again, and are only too glad to cross the old
threshold. They are not sorry they went
away, but were never so glad to get back.
They gained something by the change, but
their own homecooked food never tasted so
sweet, their own clean beds never seemed so
comfortable, their own bathrooms never APP
peared so luxurious and refreshing, and
their servants, with all their faults, never
were so obliging and faithful as after a two
months absence in the country. Perhaps
one great benefit of the summer change is
in the contrast it enables us to put behind
our ordinary lot aud life. 1t gives back
ground for the home picture that enhances
It's beauty and enjoyment. 1t makes home
seem precious as a recovered treasure, whose
worth was not recognized until it was lost.
1t is to return in such a mood, and still bet
ter, to keep the feeling fresh and vivid ever
after. Those coming home now find sum-
mer still lingering in our skies, and drop
ping its heats into the streets They will
need to practice constant caution and judg-
ment until they become acclimated anew.
They would do well, in coming, to set out
with more definite purpose than ever to
make their home the brightest, the loveliest,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
High Rates OF Interest.

Citizens who have been loaning their
money at high rate of interest upon west.
ern securities and mortgages begin learn
that extra interest, in all cases, means extra
risk. The late discovery of heavy land
frauds, invalidating real-estate titles and
consequently rendering certain supposed Sc
curities perfectly worthless, will tend to
teach people that home investments are best
and though they may not seem to afford SC
large an income, they will yield more in the
end and involve no loss. A good real-estate
mortgage in the east is well enough-noth
ing, perhaps, safer, but at the west one must
take the chances, and they are many, in
spite of all interested representations to the
contrary, made by paid agents.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Sweet Home.

When two young people love each other
and marry, they restore the picture of the
apostolic church. They are of one heart
and of one soul. Neither do they say that
anything they possess is their own, but they
have all things in common. Their mutual
trust in each other, their entire confidence
in each other, draws out all that is best in
both. Love is the angel who rolls away the
stone from the grave in which we bury oul
better nature, and it comes forth. Love
makes all things new makes new heaven
and a new earth; makes all cares light, all
pain easy. 1t is the one enchantment Of
human life which realizes Fortunios purse
and Aladdin's palace, and turns the cara
bian Nights into mere prose by comparison
Before real society can come, true homes
must come. As in a sheltered nook in the
midst of the great sea of ice which rolls
down the summit of Mont Blanc, is found a
little green spot full of tender flowers, so in
the shelter of home, in the warm atmosphere
of household love, spring up the pure affsc-
tions of parent and child; father, mother,
son, daughter of brothers and sisters.
Whatever makes this insecure, and divorce
frequent, makes of marriage not union for
life, but an experiment which may be tried
as often as we choose, and abandoned when
we like. And this cuts up by the roots all
the dear affections of home; leaves children
orphaned, destroys fatherly and motherly
love, and is a virtual dissolution of society.
know the great difficulties of this question,
and how much wisdom is required to solve
them. But whatever weakens the perma-
nence of marriage tends to dissolve society
for permanent homes are to the social state
what the little cells are to the body. They
are the commencement of organic life, the
centers from which all organization pro
ceeds.-,Jdmes Freeman Clarke.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
eIqrirnlfnral leparfmenf.


III I'd nothing to do" said Farmer John,
ITO fret or TO bother me
Were but rid Of this mountain OF work,
What good man could bel
=" The pigs get ont. and the cows get in,
Where they have no right to he;
And the weeds in the garden and the corn
why, they fairly frighten me.
at worries me ont Of temper quite,
And well-ngh out Of my head.
What curse II is that a man must toll
Like this for his daily breadr'
But Farmer John he broke his leg,
And was kept for many week
A helpless man and an idle man
Was he therefore mild and meek2
Nay; what with the paiu. and what with the fret
or sitting with nothing to do
And the farm work botched by shiftless hand
lie got very cross and blue.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

the fatal steps of inebriety and frequents
the haunts of vice ? No plaintive appeal is
sufficient to recall him from that certain
doom, the final overthrow of perdition. o
who can measure the wildness of the storm
that bursts upon the family circle tossed
upon such seat Language is wholly in
adequate; no one can possibly conceive the
woe of such an ordeal, prolonged as il some
times is into years of almost unrelieved
agony. But is there no relief for all these
Go, listen TO the story Of Jesus "Then =" he
arose and rebuked the wind and the raging
of the waters; and there was calm" He
is that blessed one still, whose voice can
hush the widest hurricane in human souls
There is no storm cloud so thick that he
cannot lift it. lie holdeth these waters as
in the hollow Of his hand. Speak, then, o
troubled soul, to him These tempests,
subsiding at his word, may become as gem
tie zephyrs to bear thee onward into thy
promised haven.-PresJperidn
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Sc0ffers Under Trial.

In giving account of the recent accident
TO the Britdnnic, on which ne was a passenger,
DIR. Tiffany places in deserved light class
of persons who amused themselves with
sneers at the parsons on board, by remark
ing that when the steamer grounded, they
were the worst frightened people around,
rushing around the decks scared out of their
wits, and demanding TO be put ashore in the
very first boats, a request which the rest of
the passengers were glad to see granted.
The contrast between their behavior in a
smooth sea and in the hour of danger is thus
pictured, after stating that for seven days
the run was excellent, with light winds.
There was more than the usual amount OF
petty gambling in the smoking-room, driving
those of us who did not enter " pools on the
run or take hands at draw-poker into other
and less pleasant quarters for our quiet
whiffs; and some of the players were not
content without their Jokes about parsons,
etc. When the vessel grounded immediate
orders were given for tightening the bow by
throwing cargo over board, and soon the sea
all around us was covered with floating
cheeseboxes. 1t was not long before boats
from the shore came out and saving the
cheese began. We were so STILL there being
no sea running, that there was no panic OF
alarm, except among the men who had beer
loudest in their sneers at the "parsons u
| (there were but four of us on board) anC
| the hymn-singers who had sung at the
evening hour on deck. Some of these
frightened out of all propriety, rushed tc
the deck, embarrassed by the life-preservers
they had tied around them, demanding to be
saved on the first boats, and when reasoned
with could not be persuaded into propriety
one man, especially, crying out " must be
saved. My God, can't shwim !" Tney
were allowed to go off on the first boat.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

There was once a man and woman who
planned TO 60 and spend day at a friends
house, which was some miles distant from
their own. So one pleasant morning they
started out to make the visit but they had
not gone far before the woman remembered
bridge she had to cross which was very
old and was said not to be safe, aud she
Immediately began to worry about it.
"What 3" shall we do about that bridge 2" she
asked her husband 81 shall never dare to
go over it, and we can't get across the river
in any other way "Oh," said the man, al
forgot that bridge 1t is bad place; sup
pose it should fall into the water and be
drowned ?" "Or even," said his wife,
"suppose you should step on a rotten plank
and break your leg, what would become of
me and of the baby 2" 81 don't know"
said the man, what would become of any
of us, for couldn't work, and We should all
starve to death" So they went on worry
ing till they got to the bridge; when, 10 and
behold, they saw that since they had been
there last new bridge had been built, and
they crossed over it in safety, and found
that they might have saved themselves all
their anxiety.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
MY EucIlSia.

A correspondent of the Fruit Recorder
writes In reply to Mrs. A. c. H.: How
| treated my Fuchsia,' would say that it
is my practice in the spring, about the mid
die of May, to cut the plant entirely down
to about six or eight inches, re-pot in a
larger one, filled with rich, black garden
soil, then put in a sunny situation until the
leaves have well formed out; remove to the
shade on the north side of the house to re.
main during the summer; last of September
return to the house to be headed in il
needed. The same root often keep for
several years. Use carbonate ammonia, one
ounce to gallon of water. In the coolest
weather pour boiling water into the saucer
once or twice week also use barnyard
tea once week. About April, have a
splendid plant loaded with flowers"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Orcharding. Compared with Other
Farm Crops.

w. p Atherton, of IIallowell, Maine, an
experienced orchardist, gives, in the Home
Farm, the following statement of orchard
profits. They are not, we believe, above an
average with careful and skilled fruit
growers; yet no careless man, or unexperi-
enced novice, can make money rapidly by
orcharding, any more than by any other
kind of farming Fruit growing may not
demand more brains and knowledge than
stock-breeding, dairying, or grain farming,
but it certainly requires some skill and
experience to achieve satisfactory results
" In order to present the profits of orchard
ing, l will give the products for 1879 of five
acres of bearing trees, young and old, some
very old. And you will bear in mind that
these five acres comprise some of the best
land on the farm, worth at least 500 per
acre:
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
True Happiness.

Happiness indeed What business have
we yet with happiness We must win it
before we wear it. Only toll can give us the
power of enjoying. And God knows this,
and he puts us through this long and painful
process. He saves us but we must work
out our own salvation. lie gives us light ;
but we must conquer darkness And If we
want the lazy sweets of life, the ease uudig-
nifed by any thought, the life untroubled by
any any disturbing doubt, why we may
have it by throwing ourselves out of the
sphere of Gods training, aud sinking down
into our native mud. The happiness of
Circe's sty, the happiness of being uncon-
scious of our own degradation, and loving it
=" Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life that
is not the glorious end a child of God de-
sires. God will not permit that we have
happiness at the expense of spiritual great
ness. But if we will have something better
far-a grave nobility of spirit, life thrilled
through and through with august ideas
bravely won a vast and practical love for
man, in which self will be forgotten an as
piration toward truth untiring as an eagles
fight, and with his sun-fxed eye the en-
thusiasm of one who loves with passion God
and man; the temperate reasonableness
WHICH TultS entnuSlaSln, 80 as 10 ulrect IL 10
its work with wisdom-then there is some
thing higher than our miserable happiness.
1t is the awful blessedness of life with God,
the knowledge that we are growing up into
better things, the certain hope of life of
eternal righteousness and love and joy, the
stern delight of duty done.
Stern lawgiver Yet thou dost wear
The Godhead's most benignant grace;
Nor know we anything more fair
Than is the smile upon thy face.
Flowers laugh before thee on thy beds,
And fragrance in thy footing treads
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong,
And the immortal heavens, through thee, are
fresh and strong.
They are lines whose very sound rings with
the triumphant strength of the life which
we shall possess at last, the strength of con-
quest over all darkness, sin and death-the
life which never fails in energy and Joy, for
it never fails in love. To win it and to wear
it well, there is but one prayer; it is the
prayer of the disciples Lord, increase our
faith"