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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
Fashion Hints.

A NOVELTY for brides consists of fan of
flowers, carried instead Of a bouquet, and at
recent wedding the ceremony took place
under Swiss chalet made of flowers, in
stead Of under the usual marriage bell.
OUR fashionables have taken so much of
lesson from the e 3thetes that they are be-
ginning to differentiate special occasions
from ordinary events, and permit innova-
tions of costume. At a recent lovely-at-
home wedding the bridesmaids were little
girls dressed in Kate Greenway costumes of
white null, with wide pink sashes, mob
caps with band of pink satin ribbon, and
carried satche baskets of pink roses. At
another wedding, the bride wore conven-
tional white satin and orange blossoms, with
train; but the bridesmaids were charming
in " L .rly English dresses of terra-cotta
red silk, with red silk bonnets trimmed with
roses, and great punches of white roses at
their belts.
WE shall this coming summer find Lon
don repeating itself in New York, and the
young girls especially wearing prints and
and muslius and cambrics, with shirred
waists gathered into wide belts, pulled or
modified leg-of-mutton sleeves, and straight
skirts trimmed with one or more founces.
The large straw hat, the gypsy and poke or
cottage straw bonnet, and the muslin fichu
will all be represented, and the Nile lily
and pond lily, the daisy and daffadowndilly
will flourish in milliners' windows in loving
proximity. The aesthetics have taught US
also the beauties of the daisies, and many
wild fiowers-the common heath and vine
the golden rod for decorative effect and the
scarlet flower of the homely kitchen bean
The arrangement OF flowers is much more
natural aud beautiful now than formerly
Instead of being crucified or impaled OF
sticks and wires, the stems are dipped in I
preparation that preserves them, and pu
naturally together-the flowers being loose
the stems when dry tied and enclosed il
silver foil, and ribbons and white kid
The latter is the more recherche.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
SpurgeOn on Communion.

Mr.. Spurgeon, the noted English Baptist
preacher, says "There is not Christian n
beneath the scope of Gods heaven from
whom | am separated. At the Lords table
| always invite all Christians to come and
and sit down with us. II any man were to
tell me that | am separated from the Episco-
palian, the Presbyterian, or the Methodist,
| would tell him he did not know me, for
love them with pure heart, fervently, and
| am not separated from them. The pulse
of Christ is communion aud woe to the
church that seeks to cure the ills of Christ's
church by stopping its pulse. | think it
is a sin to refuse to commune with any one
who is member of the church of our Lord
Jesus Christ. should think myself grossly
in fault, if at the foot of these stairs should
meet truly converted child of God, who
called himself primitive Methodist, or a
Wesleyan, or Churchman or an Indepen.
dent, and should say, No, sir; you dc
not agree with me on certain points; | be-
lievs you are child of God but will have
nothing to do with you should then
think the text would bear very hard on me
These are they who separate themselves
sensual, not having the spirit
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
The Straight Way.

Once union meeting for prayer was held
in an interior city of the state of New York
we may as well say it was Schenectady
and the chapel was crowded. Finally, in
response TO a call for ive-miuute addresses
a good brother srose-such brothers some
how always are excessively good-and
"went for orthodox doctrine on everlast-
ing punishment There was future pun
shment-he admitted that-and would even
call it by the old name, hell. But there was
door to it that could be opened; there was
time and no opportunity, for repentance /;
there was restoration TO happiness for all
the citizens of Inferno. Then he cited chap
ter aud verse, and wound up by challenge
to any other to disprove what he had said,
or to prove the correctness of the orthodox
position. Then followed period of silence.
Finally, old DIR. Mott, then past four-score,
bent with age, and his hair az white as the
snow, rose and slowly and deliberately said
" The brother who last spoke told us of a
way TO heaven that leads through hell
Those that want TO try the road to heaven
via hell may take 1t If they choose but as
for me, | am going to heaven by the direct
road, and advise others to take that road
too. Let us pray."-Christidn al Work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15

We heard recently a wise and experienced
pastor say that in his judgment the great
evil in our churches, the explanation of the
spiritual dearth over which we mourn, is the
decline of household piety. The family altar
is neglected, no blessing is asked upon food,
the religious education of the children is
relegated to other than parental hands-this
is no unfair characteriz ltion of many nom
inally Christian families. We fear that this
portraiture is true one. But without
troubling ourselves to decide whether it is
true or not as concerns the community in
general, we certainly can say how it is as
regards our own family. ais mine pious
household ?" Each one can ask himself
that question. If we must sadly confess
that it is not, then let us see to it at once
that the right change be made. If we can
honestly say that it is, nevertheless there is
much that may be done to increase its holi.
ness. 0, that vastly increased number OF
homes among us were households of piety
But the matter, under God, lies in the hands
of the individual members of these families.
illustrated Christian Weekly.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
Children In Church.

Do not the parents of our congregation
leave the matter Of their children's attend
ance upon church too much to the children
themselves I A great deal of ridicule is
cast upon the strictness of some rigid dis
ciplinarians; but is it not true that much of
the robust and manly nature OF practical
religion is due to this very strictness in re-
ligious discipline That moral character
that gives backbone to many men in places
of public trust and power is attributable to
the training which compelled their attend.
ance upon the services of Gods house, and
the general observance of the Sabbath. To
permit children to go to church when and
where they please is a sure evidence of
weak parental government. And such strict
ness, while it may be regarded as irksome
at first, will after awhile become the habit
of your child's life, and rebound to his or
her eternal good. Parents cannot expect
these good results TO appear unless they
themselves set the example by being as
regular as clock-work themselves. Your
pastor is always glad to see the young
people in the church. Please see that they
come regularly and sit with you. II you
are divided on these great matters on earth,
how can you expect to be united in another
world Exercise your parental control in
bringing about this most important end
1t may be that upon this work, well per
formed on your part, will depend the saliva
ton of your child.-Rev. W. w. Herberton.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
ApOlOgy.Making.

DR.. Franklin, we are told, once had a SER
want who was never in the wrong. AT last,
the devices to which the servant resorted to
cover up his deficiencies became too much
for the philosopher. "My good FRIEND"
was his final reply, "you and must part.
| never knew man who was good at an
excuse who was good at anything else"
There is great danger lest the servants of
the Most High should resort to a similar
system of evasion in the discharge of their
duties to him. We confess with our lips, it
is true, penitently enough; but when our
hearts move forward to follow our tongue,
it is under the cover Of some dextrous apol-
ogy. Our good acts as we call them,
are often mere shields to cover our bad.
We may have some darling lust to crafty
We ponder over it, but before we invite it
into our hearts, we cover it up with an act
of spiritual obedience. The lust may be
avarice. We may have short but question
able way of making large sum of money
The way we excuse ourselves for yielding
is by calculation of the degree in which
we will be able to do good with the money
when obtained. Then, when the act is con
summated, comes the excuse--"I had at least
| the good of the church in view"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
"My Lips Shall Praise Thee, 0 God "

There are schools in which deaf mutes are
taught articulation and lip-reading In the
one at Mystic River, Connecticut, an affect
ing incident occurred in connection with this
mastery of vocal speech by young lady who
had graduated from one of the deaf mute
institutions conducted upon the usual plan.
One day, greatly agitatel, she came to her
teacher with something written upon her
slate which she asked him to correct. 1t
proved to he the Lords Prayer put into the
language of articulation. Perceiving her
emotion the teacher could scarcely restrain
his own tears as he corrected some unim-
portant errors of pronunciation and returned
it. The next morning she came exultingly
to him, exclaiming, 81 prayed last night for
the first time in my lie with my voice
Neither she nor her teacher could restrain
their feelings at this triumphant announce
ment. He ventnred to ask her if she had
ever prayed before, and she replied, 90
yes, have thought my prayers, but ! never
spoke them before. ."-Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
The Great Salvation,

The greatness of the salvation offered in
the gospel is of that very sort that the
neglect of it logically necessitates damna-
ton. For if God has, as it were, exhausted
all his infinite resources, and infinitely sur
passed all our own conceptions if in the
way of argument he has given every con
ceivable exposition If in the way of per
suasion he has used every conceivable ap
peal of tenderness and love; II in the way
OF alarm and warning he has arrayed before
US every conceivable terror, then what more
is there TO wait for-what more for which tc
hope2 How can we escape II we neglect sc
great salvation 2-Sfiidrt Robinson.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
All In Christ.

We have our temperance societies, and |
presume they are needed. We have our So
cieties for the suppression of vice, and !
suppose they are needed. And we have So
cie,ies 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, and fight the bat
tie 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 everything
When you are intent upon being as Christ
was you will be temperate, you will be
manly. You will love God and hate evil and
suppress it, first of all in yourself. Yor
will be pure in life because pure in heart
and pure in heart because you expect to see
God.-Dr. John Hall.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15

that, as historical fact, no church repudi-
ating those ideas had developed either
strength or permanence Where was the
Rationalistic church to be found that was
either historic, powerful or missionary :
just in proportion as evangelical ideas had
struck deep roots in human nature they
had inspired pitiful, self-saoriioing, ag-
gressive zeal. AS soon as any church rid
itself of the mythology Of the Christ u
rejected, that is, the great theological be-
liefs of his incarnation, his atonement, his
resurrection from the dead--it was emascu.
lated as a moral force. The church of liv-
ing, assimilating, aggressive, religious men
degeoerated into coterie Of men learnedly
holding theological opinions which were
for the most part, negations.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
Ghe None GirrIf.
For the Vermont Waterman.
THOSE SILVER LOCKS.


THOSE SILVER LOCKS.
Over by the window sitting,
DO ace my mother dear,
Always busy, knitting. knitting,
In the sunlight, warm and clear.
How the busy hands are flying
Hands 80 wlthered pale and thini
As II TO pause for cen moment
Would surely be deadly sin.
Just above the hands so restless
Bends the face so pure and pale,
with look Of patient sadness
Overdrawn It, like veil,
And above the forehead wrinkled
Is the crown Of sllvery hair
Drawn In bands all smooth and silky
Just above the brow so fair.
oh those locks, all satin, silvery,
How love their sken sheen;
How they CLEAN and how they glsten
When the sun comes in between.
Her hair was auburn once, she tells me,
b Like my sisters, far away.
What was mothers like, wonder,
In her distant glrlhoods day2
Nlit Mh0 hbA lhAA AlNt SURF
For am my fathers girl.
Where mine Ia blonde. her hair was darker,
without friz or crimp or curl.
And she was country maiden,
While village girl am !,
But who knows where I may wander
In the far-off by-and-by2
Did she ever think I wonder,
Ofwhen her hair would silver grow7
Did she ever dream and ponder
OF times when 1t would be like snow2
Did she aught imagine ever
OF the trials, the deep, stern test,
That her auburn head should silver
Ere she lay down, at last, to rest2
Mother dear, o mother dearest,
When my hair shall "a silver be,
May II crown head "a noble,
And face from sin as free,
Az thy hair, 80 silvery, silken,
After long years, crowns to-dayi
And that may live as nobly
Is the prayer ever pray.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
A WOman's Wit.

A woman's advice is generally worth hay
ing; so, if you are in trouble, tell your
mother, or your wife, or your sister, all about
it. Be assured that light will flash upon
your darkness. Women are too commonly
Judged verdant in all but purely womanish
affairs. No philosophical students of the
sex thus Judge them. Their intuitions or
insight are the most subtle, and If they can
not see a cat in the meal there is no cat
there. | advise man to keep none OF his
affairs from his wife. Many home has
been saved and many fortune retrieved by
mans confidence in his wife. Woman is
far more seer aud prophet than man if
she be given a fair chance. As general
thing the wives confde the minutest of
their plans and faults TO their husbands.
Why not reciprocate, if but for the pleas
ure OF meeting confidence with confidence ?
The men that succeed best in life are those
who make confdants of their wives,-Inde-
pendent.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
Religious Life.

AT the late Congregational Union DIR.
Allen said that the future would be with
the church which had in it the greatest
moral forces, and the greatest moral forces
were those that most powerfully affected the
conscience and the religious heart of man,
variety of religious experience warranted
the affirmation that no theological ideas
were comparable in fitness and power TO
those significantly termed evangelical; and
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
agricultural Deparfirenf.
Il. II. nosKINs. Agricultural Editor.
NATURES VOICES

1'phN y hOtCff'f
The harp at natures advent strung
Has never ceased to play;
The song the stars Of morning sung
Has never died away.
And prayer IL made, and praise IL given
by all things near and far;
The ocean looketh up TO heaven
And mirrors every star.
Its waves are kneeling on the strand,
A kneels the human knee;
Their white locks bowling to the strand,
The priesthood Of the sea.
They pour their glttering treasures forth,
Their glfts OF pearl they brIngj
And all the listening hills Of earth
Take up the song they sing.
The green earth sends her incense up
From many mountain shrine,
From folded leaf and dewy cup
She pours her sacred wine
The mlsts above the mountain rill
Rise white as wings of prayer;
The altar curtains Of the hills
Are sunsets purple air.
The wind with hymns of praise is loud
Or low with sobs Of pain;
The thunder organ of the cloud,
The dropping tears of rain.
with dropping head and branches crossed
The twilight forest grieves,
Or speaks with tones Of Pentecost
From all its sunlt leaves.
The blue sky isthe temples arch,
Its transept earth ard airi
The music of Its starry march.
The chorus Of prayer.
SIGNATURE keeps the reverent frame
with which her years began,
And all her signs and voices shame
The prayerless heart Of man. Hhhue
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15

| SHOULD as soon think of swimming
across Charles River when | wish TO go TO
Boston as of reading all my books in orig
iuals when | have them rendered for me
in my mother tongue.-Emerson.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
Vegetine!

Says Boston physician. has equal as blood purifier
had failed visited the laboratory and convinced myself
Serb eae Of % is highly eetve and they are
pounded such as oproduce astonishing results"
Vegetine
Is the great Blood Purifier.
Vegetine
VIII cure the worst case of scrofu,a.
Vegetine
Is recommended by physicians and apothecaries
Vegetine
Has effected some marvellous in of Cancer
Vegetine
Cures the worst of canker
Vegetine
Meets with wonderful success in Mercuriai Diseases
Vegetine
VIII eradicate Salt Rheum from the system.
Vegetine
| Removes Pinples and IIumors from the face
Vegetine
Cures Constipation and regulates the Bowels
Vegetine
Isa valuable remedy for Headache.
Vegetine
VIII cure Dyspepsia
Vegetine
Restores the entire system to a healthy condition
Vegetine
Removes tile cause Of dizziness.
Vegetine
Relieves Faintness at the stomach
Vegetine
a Cures Pains in the Back.
Vegetine
EnectuAlly cures Kidney Complaint
/; !; Vegetine
i Is effective in Its cure Of Female Weakness.
Vegetine
Is the great remedy for General Debil
Vegetine
Is Acknowledged by all classes of people be ihe best al
D. amost reliable blood purifier In the world.
T. VeGetine
PREPARED ny
+. H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass
Y. vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15

Why is the letter 40" like the equatorH
Because it is circle dividing the globe
into equal parts.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
AUCTION.

will sell at public auction on the FIRST DAY OF MARCH
the farm Known the Joseph A. Curtis iaT situated
In East Warren church. school and posotoe contain
ing hundred OF land and will keep twenty
COWS good buildings In repair with fruit and
sugar orchards well wooded and watered, il In good
state OF cultivation and very desirable location for
Warren, VI &. l.. HEWITT
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15

7.ib p. NJ.
Trains Ieare Wells Riper as foilo,rs.
Mixed at $40 A. NJ, Accommodation at II 90 NJ, Mai
at 400 p. NJ; arrive at Montpelier at 9lO A. NJ, 1915
W.. 545 ?. NJ.
Trains leaving Montpelier al s. 80 A. NJ and 20 r. "
make close connections at Wells River for points In the
white Mountains; also for Boston and all intermediate
polna. W. A. STOWELL, SHperiHtendenf.
=. W MORSE, General Passenger Agenf
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
Gime Gables.
Montpelier & Wells r. r. R
Taking Effect Monday December 9Th 1881.

Trains ieaue Montpelier as Joiotcss
Mail at $50 A. NJ, Express at 80 r. M Miied at 81
Pm; arrive at Wells River at O2O A. NJ, 3.2O p. NJ.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-15
Farm for Sale.

offer for my farm situated in Orange Of about two
hundred fifty and known the fiheld farm
II has good buildings two good sugar places with plenty o
other wood well wateed and IA In good state OF cult
vaton plenty of apples II peasanty situated near
school, store pos-ofce and church. and desirable
location. u. Y. BARNEss
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-24

ooh, most noble prince, let it not be
put against thy record that innocence
and virtue received no respect at thy
hands. Go, entreat you! Should my
father return and find thee here, he
would surely first kill me, and then kill
himself in shame and despair. Oh, go!'
81 mean thee no harm, Rika / love
thee; and when one loves he hurts not
the object of that love. To win thee /
will give up my hership to the crown
to my brother John, and while he wears
the diadcm upon his brow, will con-
tent myself with love and happiness
with thee"
"Not so, noble Eric" cried Rika firm
ly; "if thou wouldst make such q sacri-
flee, |, for one, will not be party to it.
After such II marriage entailing, as it
would, so much loss-love would prove
but transient guest within our home,
Reproaches would drive the tickle god
away"
"Tell me the truth, Rika," interrupt
ed Eric with passionate earnestness; "do
You love meen
$50 well that | would rather die than
know that harm would come to one so
noble through any influence Of mine"
"And yet you refuse to make me hap
py?'
81 refuse to work your ruin, noble
prince. The present is not all of life.
But see, the sunlight has already reach
ed the middle point Of our dial. In ten
minutes more my father will be here
If thou wouldst shield me from harm,
60"
twill obey now; but will not prom
Use TO give up the hope which invited
me hitber, Farewell for time, most
obdurate maiden"
Then with long, lingering, regret
full look, the prince turned and de-
parted.
Days and weeks passed on. AT last
came a time which was TO plunge the
nation in mourning. The good and
great Gustayus was stricken with a
mortal illness. He died, and was laid
beside his kingly progenitors, and Eric
was the reigning sovereign in Sweden.
Young, impulsive, and his own master,
with his heart filed with but one image,
is it to be wondered at that he suffered
no obstacle to delay his union with the
maiden of his love after the days Of his
mourning were fully accomplished, and
that the pretty nut girl of Sweden be-
came its crowned queen?
Search the annals of history, and you
will find the romantic story of the mar
riage on record, adding still another
folk-tale to those the country maidens
tell over TO each other at that witching
time between daylight and starlight,
when all nature is going to rest, and
young hearts are attuned to sympathy
with all true lovers.