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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
VOL. 76.-3SSO. NO. 20.

tanning the name Of the lady 10 whom he is
assigned for dinner partner but the lady
receives no intimation of her fate. The
president and Mrs Hayes meet the company
in the blue parlor and after the gentleman
visitor has paid his respects to the host and
hostess he Is expected at once TO seek out
the lady assigned him. The dinner-hour is
seven and at that time a procession is
formed in two lines, which at once proceeds
TO pass from the blue to the red paror, and
from thence to the dining-room. To this
room, decorated handsomely with flowers,
there are two doors and one procession TO
be seated on the same side Of The table with
the president, follows him and the lady he
takes with him through one door the other
line, to be seated on Mrs. Hayes side of the
table, follows her and her escort through the
other. AT the table, each guests name,
written in large hand on card, stamped in
gilt with the seal of the United States,
shows the place he is expected 10 occupy.
Under this card and on each gentleman's
plate, is small card, having diagram Of
the table, with the name and place of each
guest. Each visitor can therefore see at
glance who his fellow-diners are. The
dishes--meaning the food--are Of course
the best the market supplies the other
dishes--meaning the table-furniture-th
most beautiful in the country. Before the
present administration many-colored wine
glasses shed their varied hues around each
plate; but for four years there has been no
use for them around this table. After din
ner there is promenading in the various par
lors, and between nine and ten O'Clock the
guests depart.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
Sunset on Lake Champlain.

Sunsets are beautiful everywhere-in the
pine levels of the South Atlantic coast and
the prairies and the sea, as well as amid the
everlasting hills, in every latitude OF every
land. Those on Lake Champlain are some
times most magnificent. In summer when
the god of day, before sinking to his rest,
pauses above the high-rolling wilderness of
the Adirondacks to take his last lingering
look across the lake upon Mount Mansfield
towering behind the hills of the Winooski,
the whole heavens aud the earth are radiant
with his glory. A rosy mist, uprising from
the portals of the glowing west, mantles all
the Adirondack range, and spreads far pur-
pling up the azure steep; light, fleecy clouds
float slowly across the surface; great golden
bars of light, like solid beams, radiating
from fiery orb, strike through the misty
veil, and, reaching upward, pale gradually
toward the zenith; the slanting rays glance
tenderly along the mellow waters, and melt
into their silent depths; the woods are kim
died with a strange, unearthly light; the
south wind softly sings its vesper hymn /;
mountain, lake and woods as softly catch
the strain, and amid the changing splendor
of the summer eve the gates of day are shut,
and the stars begin their watch.-Colonel A.
NJ WdddeH.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
WOman's Work.

There are two things in which women are
interested which are badly needed in this
country. One is the enlargement of the
number of avocations in which they can en-
gage; and the other is complete extirpation
OF the idea that woman who earns her
bread with her labor in degree lowers her
self. This idea Imagined AeatnIy eraIe8se
sH,. sS-; ST., IT. aTe reduced IL :;: H.
ing, because they apprehend that they will
experience loss of caste. There are women
who are engaged in certain kinds of in
dustrial art work in the city, who secrete
the fact from their friends because of this
fear. Graduates of the School of Design,
for example, try to keep it from leaking out
that they are paid for constructing patterns
for manufacturers. 1t is easy to say that
this is foolish; but it is attributable more to
public sentiment than to the folly of the in
dividuals. The society which regards it as
almost dishonorable for a man not to sup
port himself by his labor looks down upon
the woman who puts her l@bor into the
market. The harm that this lotion has
done in keeping the wages of woman down,
and in other directions, is incalculabe. The
subsection of women to such an idea is
slavery far more iniquitous and senseless
than that which excludes them from the
privilege of citizenship.-Sslecied.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23

stock has thriven and is gaining both In
weight and general condition. The main
points in the successful preservation OF en-
silage, according to the general, is fine cut
ting, even and hard packing in the silo, and
heavy weightng Of the plank covering,
which shouldnot bear less than three hundred
pounds to the square foot. lie filed his silo
full, and had little fodder left, from his
twelve acres. When the plank and the
stones were on, the top of the stones (Which
were two feet deep on the planks) was just
level with the top of the slo. When settling
had ceased (Which was in about twelve days.
the surface of the ensilage was about five
feet from the top of the silo, leaving the
solid ensilage full ten feet deep. About a
foot of the ensilage from one wall of the silo
is frozen, but he thinks this can be protected
next year. There is not, probably, going to
be as much trouble from freezing as was
feared, for the slight fermentation going on
all the time in the ensilage tends to keep it
from getting very cold. Still, 1t does freeze
to some extent in all Vermont silos we have
heard from, and care must be exercised in
this respect. From what we have seen we
are encouraged to hope that, when II is well
tramped in and heavily weighted, cnsilage
will not ferment enough 10 hurt it as feed
for dairy COWS. aarAr
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
COrns in Horses, Feet.

An old horse-shoer writes Nine persons
out of ten will say that corns in horses feet
are caused by bad shoeing. My experience
will justify me in saying that nine-tenths of
the corns are caused by the owners of horses
neglecting to get them shod az often as they
ought We are nearly all agreed that horses
should be shod as often as once in every four
TO seven weeks, according to circumstances.
Now, great many horse owners, particularly
farmers, will get team shod and, unless the
horse becomes lame, will permit the shoes TO
remain on until they groiO or If the horse
has a round foot, and the shoe was fitted
close all around, in four or five weeks the
shoe will have been carried forward by the
growth of hoof so that one or both of the
heels are off the wall, and in a short time
corns will be produced. Now, If the owner
would take his horse to the shop on some
fixed day every month, instead Of leaving
the shoes on from seven to twenty weeks,
horses would have fewer corns."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
Thy Will be Done.

1t is only in secondary sense that suf-
ering can ever be said to be the will of God.
His wish is expressed in his laws obedi-
ence to his laws brings health and happi-
ness and peace; disobedence brings suffer
ing. His will is that men should obey his
laws but that if they do not obey they shall
suffer. The suffering is a warning against
disobedience, and dissuasive from it. 1t
is true that men are so linked together by
ties of hereditary and of social organization
that suffering may come upon me as re-
suit OF the disobedience OF my ancestors or
of my neighbors. Sometimes by diligence
and patience | can reach the cause of this
suffering and remove them; when | can,
that is my duty when | cannot, then right
reason and filial trust call on me to submit
Suppose | come into the world with an her
editary tendency to consumption or paralysis,
the result of the disobedience of some of
my ancestors TO the laws of health. Now,
it may be possible for me, by prudence and
temperance, to counteract these tendencies,
and to preserve and confirm my health.
There are remedial and restorative forces in
my physical system that may repair the
damages that may have been entailed upon
me, if those damages are not too serious. 1t
is my business to give these remedial forces
a chance to do their proper work. They are
the highest and most perfect expression in
my nature of the will of God and it is this
part of the will of God that must be most
careful to have done. But it is possible
that the injuries which have inherited are
so serious that the natural remedial forces
will not repair them, no matter how great
care | may exercise; when this is So | must
submit. Shall say that the suffering
which | endure as the consequence of these
inherited injuries, by which my days are
burdened and my life is shortened, comes
upon me by the will of God2 Yes; there
is no other way of explaining it. 1t is in
the nature of things that disobedience should
bring suffering, not only TO him who destroys,
but often to his children, and children S
children for many generations and the ma
ture of things, as Mr.. Joseph Cook says, sis
the outcome of Gods choice" The universe
is so made that sin not only inflcts but en-
tails suffering; and God made the universe
The suffering that is inherited is not, how
ever, penalty it is no sign that God is dis
pleased with me; it may be a means OF
grace to me, if will rightly use it. And
this is where the duty of submission comes
in the patient endurance OF ills that can
not be mended is part of the divine disci'
pline in which we must all be exercised
There are plenty of pains and in6rmities
that we are not to blame for, and that we
cannot help; we may not always understand
the reason of them, but we do not know that
the God under whose wise laws they are Wis
tied upon us in infinite love, and that In
some way, if we rightly use them, they will
work together for good to US and therefore
in the midst of such suffering, we are ready
to say to him A" Thy will be done."-IVa
ngton GLADDEN..
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
ga Pleasant Girl"

A traveller in Norway, last summer, came
to village early one morning, and was
struck by the air of gloom which pervaded
the streets. Unable to speak word Of the
language, he could not ask the cause of this,
and concluded that some sickness or financial
trouble had fallen upon the community. As
the day wore on toward noon, however, the
houses were closed, shop windows were COW
cred, all trade and business ceased. 1t was
death, then. Presently he saw the people
gathering for the funeral. There were the
village official, the nobleman from the neigh
boring chateau, and apparently, every man,
woman and child in the village. 1t must be
some dignitary of the church who is dead,
or some other county official. As he stood
watching the crowds passing down the lit
tie, rocky street, he caught sight of the face
of a German known TO him. He beckoned
to him. "The town has lost some great
magnate, apparently ?" "Ah, no. 1t is
only young maiden who is dead. No.
She is not beautiful nor rich. But, oh, such
pleasant girl, monsieur. All the world
seems darker now that she is dead" 1t is
singular fact that when we reach middle life
and look back, it is not the beautiful, nor
the brilliant, nor the famous people whom
we have known, that we remember with the
keenest regret, but some simple, sincere,
pheasant soul, whom we treated as an
everyday matter while she was with US.
Go into family or social circle, or even
into ballroom, and the woman who has
the most friends there, as a rule, is not the
belle, nor the wit, nor the heiress, nor the
beauty; but some homely, charming little
body, whose fine tact and warm heart never
allow her to say the wrong word in the
wrong place. The pleasant woman" are
the attraction that everywhere holds society
and homes together. Any woman, however
poor and ugly, may be one of them; but she
must first be candid, honorable, unselfsh and
loving. If she is these, the world will be
happier and better for every day of her life,
as in the case of this poor Norwegian, it
will seem darker when she is dead.-Ez.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
The Cold River.

An Alpine hunter on Mont Blanc, passing
the Mer de Glace, lost his hold and slipped
into one of those frightful crevasses by which
the sea Of ice is cleft to its foundations. BY
catching in his swift descent against the
points of rocks and projections Of ice, he
broke his fall, so that he reached the bottom
alive, but only to face death in more ter
rible form. On either hand the icy walls
rose, above which he saw only strip of blue
sky. At his feet trickled little brook,
formed from the slowly melting glacier.
There was but one possible chance Of escape
to follow this rivulet which might lead to
some passage. In silence and fear he picked
his way, down, down, till his further advance
was stopped by cliff that rose up before
him, while the stream rolled darkly below.
He heard the roaring of the waters which
seemed to wait for him. What should he
do2 Death was beside him and behind him.
There was no time for delay. He paused
but an instant, and plunged into the stream.
One moment of breathless suspense-a sense
of darkness and coldness, and yet of swift
motion, as if he were gliding through the
shades below-and then light began To
glimmer family in the waters, and the next
instant he was amid the green fields and the
flowers and the summer sunshine of the vale
of Chamouny. So it is when believers die
They come to the bank of the river, and il
is cold and dark. Nature shrinks from the
fatal plunge. Yet one chilling moment, anC
all fear is left behind, and the Christian i,
amid the fields of the paradise of God.-Th,
Bethel Fiag.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
Wasted Opportunities.

If we but saw how the gates of opportu
nifty open and close, how the possibilities oil
to-day neglected, become tomorrow the
things which never can be done; how un-
used strength wastes away and brings up
behind it no other strengths; how the grace
that lies about all our occasions, ready to
flow upon them at the touches of our intelli
gence, sighted, lifts itself up into the heav,
ems and leaves us in hardness and death
how, on the other hand, when used it drops
upon us like the rain and distills like the
dew how work done makes work easier
how the voluntary use of "all that is within
us" and without us, too, of soul and sinew, of
love and thought, OF time and strength, and
hours of prayers, will bring upon us the gen
tie pressures of Gods newest, freshest grace.
If we but saw such things as these what
girdings there would be among us.-Se-
Lected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
General GrOut,s SilOs.

The recent meeting of the Board of Agri-
culture at Barton Landing was quite well
attended Gor Orleans county, and very
profitable. Practical topics were kept in
the foreground, and the discussions follow
ing the papers were quite animated. Dr.
Cutting has the making of good secretary
in him, and shows business tact, as well as
scientific ability, in his proceedings. The
board is going to be fought, as usual, by the
ruck of fools and the ring of egotists who
have always fought it. The campaign to
cripple it is already begun, the ground being
the construction of the act establishing the
board. But we look to see such evidently
good work and such shrewd avoidance of
past mistakes in the new board, as shall foil
the Vaccinations of the rogues and silence
the talk of fools.
Perhaps the most interesting address
given was that of General Grout, in which
he gave report of his "ensilage campaign"
The general last fall built and filled a silo
twelve by forty.five feet, fifteen feet deep.
The filling was done after the fodder had
been badly frosted nevertheless it kept very
well, and is now being greedily eaten by the
cattle aud sheep of the farm, and both are
thriving upon it. Twelve acres of corn.
fodder yielded about two hundred tons
Of ensilage, at a cost of about two dol
lars per ton. The silo used aud another
of less size cost together Si0O, The gen
eral thinks he planted his corn too late
and too thickly to get the best results, and
believes next year he can fill both silos from
ten acres, at considerably less cost. There Is
tendency with the general, as with othel
experimenters, to overestimate the feeding
value of ensilage. lie, with most of them
reckons two tons of ensilage equal to one tor
of hay. When things settle to their tru,
basis in this matter we believe the real valu,
will be found somewhere between three anC
four tons of enslage TO one ton of good hay
The general is now feeding from twenty
five to thirty pounds of ensilage daily to hil
COWS (mostly dry), and makes up the ratior
with feed of moistened fine cut straw upor
which two pounds of shorts is sprinked fol
each animal. This is a cheap ration, yet tn,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
The BOy-Man.

There is one sore evil which have seen
under the sun, and that is the boy-man, the
boy who is only fifteen or sixteen years OF
age, but has attained to mans stature our
big boy, of whom father and mother are
proud. He must now, forsooth, talk as men,
go with men, and have the liberty of men,
night-key and all. Aud father and mother,
looking fondly at the big fellow, seem only
to see the stature and forget the age. Too
big to be kept in leading-strings now Aud
so the mans stature with the child's judg-
ment, ignorance, and weakness, comes and
goes at will, and is answerable to no one. Is
this right Is it best for the parents to do
so? Is it kindness to the boyp The won
der is that any, from whom restraint is thus
entirely thrown off, should grow up without
becoming disgrace to the family In this
way parents are often responsible, if not
pariiceps criminis, in the ruin of their sons.
1t is fearful thought, and fearful load to
carry.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
Weather Prediction.

Nothing better illustrates the need of
science-teaching in our schools, the superb
ciality and incompleteness of the prevailing
classico-literary methods of all our educa-
tional institutions, than the frequent ludi-
crous blunders made by newspaper writers in
regard to scientific matters. Take, for in
stance, the following 4" Imagination and in
vention are more akin than is generally sup
posed. Daniel DE Foe, in his imaginary de
scription of the books contained in the IL
brary of Tonquin, speaks of philosophers
who can tell us how many storms shall hap
pen to any period of time, and where. Is
not this the prescience of the signal service
of our day? Can we not predict storms with
certainty? But in De Foe it was only a
lively freak of the imagination"
Now the truth is that the signal service
neither possesses nor lays any claim to pres
cience The farmers boy, looking up to
the mountains, sees the storm gathering and
then sweeping down toward the field where
he is at work, and he runs to the house and
tells his mother to shut up the windows for
there is a storm coming This is exactly
what, and all that, the signal service is do
ing. The only difference is that the tele-
graph gives longer sweep of vision, so that
it can tell the people in New York or New
England that storm has gathered, say in
the Rocky Mountains, and is sweeping over
Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio on its way
eastward. No one to-day has any power of
foretelling that storm ,cN gather anywhere,
before the indications Of the barometer and
the news by telegraph have shown that it is
already gathering. Prediction" in any
true sense, is just as impossible now as it
was in the time of DE Foe.
There are number of cheeky frauds like
Vennor, and of misguided enthusiasts like
Capen, who think, and make some of their
friends think, that they can predict the
course OF the weather months in advance.
But when it comes to actual tests they do
not rise to the dignity of toerably good
guessers. The old women hit it as oftsn
as they 40, and an Old Sailor oIJeler. 5aIs
! is Just what the signal service observers .say
of the weather prophets, and what ANYBODY
can know for himself if he will keep record
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23

the while at his irresolute will, and begging
for another indulgence. "a man must have
some enjoyment" he says, by way of ex-
crise. To which l reply, "Indeed he must"
And if Christian cannot find enjoyment in
the service of God in the holy delight of
prayer and praise and labor for Christ If
he cannot get pleasure in the companionsbip
of Christian brethren, in the study and feed
ing on the Word Of God, what wonder that
he should find his pleasure in the glitter and
gaiety of the theater, or in the charm and
intoxication OF the novel2 Preach against
play-going to such an one As well exhort
the stone not TO fall to the earth when de-
tached from the rnountain-side. Argument
cannot stand against the laws of gravitation.
If the love of Christ is not strong enough to
hold Christian in communion with Christ,
my preaching, though | were to speak with
the tongues of men and of angels, can never
be strong enough to hold him away from the
theater.-ReU. 4. J. Gordon, u. d.
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Being and Doing.

Being good is quite as important as doing
good; aud it is more apt to be forgotten or
undervalued in Christian exhortation and
experience. There is no reason for separat
ing the two things; they belong together.
If man is good, he will want to do good I;
he can't help doing it. But man may
many a man does-think that there is such
a thing as doing good, being active in good
works OF one sort and another without re-
gard to his personal life and character. This
is a great mistake. No man has a right to
feel that he is worth much as Sunday
school superintendent or a prayer-meeting
leader if he is not an honored example of
the sweetness and power of Christianity in
his family circle. Unless he breaches Christ
all the week at home, he cannot preach
Christ once week away from homes, S.
Times
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T. II. HosKINs. Agricultural Editor.



Oh, hog, I'm fond Of thee As seen Just now,
Thou art not handsome looking, allow;
For 'tis thy dinner hour and thou dost nll
Thysslf, ma full as thou canst hold, Of swill.
The statement, that thou ov'st not, makes me wrotb
For even now | see thee plight thy trough.
oh, hog, three times to-day, thou, from thy pen.
Dd'st break, and had to be returned again.
The last time thou got caught beneath gaiei
Then thou lamented al q fearful rate,
SO that the nelghbors came upon the ran,
Thinking some murder foul was being DONE
lift the gate; thou runst with nl thy might,
And pursue thee, till exhausted, quite.
And then different course with theo take,
man stands by the pen with club 10 shake,
As II he did not mean TO let thee In
Thou lookest on that nan as very thn
So for the pen thou rushest, like shot,
Woe to the man who in thy way has got
Thon dodgest 'twixt his legs, and with thud,
lie goeth down head foremost in the mud.
He riseth and doth vigorously swear,
While clearing out the mud from mouth and hair.
While with the gate behind thee closed once more,
Thou calmly lest down and soon dost snore.
o hog thou causest men such things to say
As will disturb them on the judgment day
Yet hog, rm fond Of theel And like thee most
As chops, though well like thee a roast.
leave thee hog, to slumber In thy pen,-
Ten minutes later Hog Is out again. boston Post