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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
The Arrow that Hits.

1t was not the splendid argument
which the skeptic had just heard from
the pulpit which broke through into his
heart, but it was a loving, personal word
for Jesus, uttered by the crippled woman
he helped down the church door-steps.
The minister's argument was met step by
step as it fell upon the skeptic's ear. 1t
was answered in his mind, and he left the
church as firm in impenitency as ever.
But the arrow that went between the
joints of the harness was what the poor
woman said. She never dreamed she was
breaking through the rock-crust of an in
fidel heart. She only said word out of
heart all full of Christ, and the proud
sinner became Christian. 1t was not
the sermons of a city pastor that moved
gospelhardened hearer to turn to Christ
But it was the pains he took one night
when he went through snow knee-deep to
express his pastoral anxiety and love.
The parishioner was not at home, but
that made no difference. When he re-
turned and heard that his pastor had
been there on such a night, he at once
concluded, as he afterwards stated, that if
anybody would do that for his soul, it was
time he set about caring for it himself.
1t was not, again, the able and tender
preaching of Vermont minister which
broke the pride of very wicked man.
But one day the profane teamster broke
wheel of his wagon. The minister was
passing. He stopped and helped the man
to tie up his wheel and start his wagon.
That was the arrow that hit, though nei-
ther minister nor teamster knew it at the
off III brio
Christian child was dying near the team
ster's home. The rough man went into
his neighbours house on the instinct of
humanity. He found himself in front of
the dying child. go Mr.. -! said she,
"won't you meet me in heaven? am
going there" $50 am l." the man re-
piled, " ever since the minister helped me
to start my wagon" A young man once
went to bed full of anxiety for the saliva
ton of friend. He could not sleep. He
rose and dressed and went half mile to
the door of that friend to warn him and
invite him to Christ. He did not get en-
trance to the house. But the errand was
known. 1t held an ardent longing for the
soul of friend, and God wrote it down
as burning prayer for the salvation of
that soul. 1t was after fifty years of per-
sistent ungodliness that the friend so
loved and longed for, and ever prayed for,
told first of all to this friend of his youth
that he had opened his broken heart to
the love of Jesus. Arrows like these are
ones that hit. And the best of all is this,
that every consecrated life carries culver
full of them. Remember those golden
woods of James w. Alexander, In the
matter of converting human soul to
God all human power is reduced to zero"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
How to Save Boys.

Women who have sons to rear. and
dread the demoralizing influences of bad
associates, ought to understand the nature
of young manhood. IT is excessively rest.
less. 1t is disturbed by vague ambitions,
by thirst for action, by longings for ex-
citement, by irrepressible desires to touch
life in manifold ways. If YOU, mothers,
rear yonr sons 80 that their homes are as.
ISOLATED with the repression of natural
instincts, you will be sure to throw them
in the society that in some measure can
supply the need of their hearts. They
will not go to the public houses at first
for love of liquor-very few like the taste
of liquor they go for the animated and
hilarious companionship they find there,
which they discover does 80 much to re-
press the disturbing restlessness in their
breasts. See to it. then, that their homes
compete with public places in attractive
ness. Open your blinds hv day, and light
bright fires by night. illuminate your
rooms. Hang pictures upon the wall.
Put books and newspapers upon your Ia
bles. Have music and entertaining games.
Danish demons of dullness and apathy
that have so long ruled in your household,
and bring in mirth and good cheer. In
vent occupations for your sons. Stimu-
late their ambitions in worthy directions.
While you make home their delight, fill
them with higher purposes than mere
pleasure. Whether they shall pass boy
hood, and enter upon manhood with re-
fined tastes and noble ambitions, depends
on you. Believe it POSSIBLE that, with ex-
ertion and right means, mother may
have more control over the destiny of her
boys than any other influence whatever
Applet0n'S Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
Eggs as Food.

The Journal of Chemistry says that eggs,
at average prices, are among the cheapest
and most nutritious articles of diet. Like
milk, an egg is a complete food in itself,
containing everything necessary for the
development of perfect animal, as is
manifest from the fact that chick is
formed from it. 1t seems mystery how
muscles, bones, feathers, and everything
that a chicken requires for its perfect de-
velopmeut are made from the yolk and
white of an egg but such is the fact, and
it shows how complete food an egg is.
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This Proposal

will remain open until July 18th. and will be
subject to changes in the market price of
flour, guaranteeing the buyer always the
same relative advantage.
Flour is staple article of household use. II
the barrel is not empty to-day, it may be soon;
and the wise man, although not in immediate
want, will take advantage of this offer. Deal
ers mite in warning consumers that the price
of -four WILL without doubt soon advance
Subscribe early and save another penny.
Many acknowledge the great superiority of
the WATCHNiAN, who nevertheless are induced
by low prices to take papers which are mani
testify inferior to it in all that constitutes good
local and family journal. The Publishers lib
eral offer disarms all such objections. 1t
brings the enlarged eight-page WATERMAN,
with its select, political, family and religious
reading, its good supply of local news, and its
unrivaled agricultural department within the
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To know the WATERMAN we'll is to take 1t
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To give strangers an opportunity to become
acquainted with its merits, is in large part the
motive in making the above proposal. SHOW
THIS OFFER To YOUR FRIENDS.
w. w. PRESCOTT, Publisher.
Montpelier, Vt, June 49, 1888.
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The gireside.
LEFT ALONE AT EIGHTY.

Put up the old pipe, my dear,
couldn't smoke to-day;
I'm sort of dazed and frightened,
And don't know what to say.
It's lonesome in the house here,
And lonesome out of door;
never knew what lonesome meant
In all my life before.
The bees go humming the whole day long,
And the first June rose has blown;
And am eighty am to day
Too old to be left alone.
o Heart Of Love, so still and cold
o precious lips, 30 white!
For the frat sad hours In sixty years,
You were out of my reach last night.
can'tre now-I cannot rest;
Let the old man have his will,
And wander from porch to garden-post,
The house Ia 20 deathly still
Wander and long for a sight OF the gate
She has left ajar for me.
We had got used to each other, dear
So used to each other you see.
Sixty years, and so wise and good
She made me better man
From the moment kissed her fair, young face,
And our lovers life began.
And held her hand-was 1t yesterday
That we stood up to be wed2
And-no, remembers Pm eighty to-day;
And my dear, loving wife is dead. Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04

ALBERT G. MANN, of Cottage Home, ILL.,, says
81 have been Frustrated for three or more years
with Kidney disease at times | was not able to
put ON my boots; my wife has often pulled them
on for me. / was not so bad that all the time,
but never knew what it was to be without pain
in my back until l commenced using Hunts
Remedy. Since began to take Hunts Remedy
have been free from all pain, and take pleasure
in saying that it is the best medicine that | ever
knew for Kidney and Liver Diseases"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04

ROBERT HALL once acutely and truly
said, "When man is opposed to Chris
tianity, it is because Christianity is OPP
posed to him." There may be exceptions,
bat they are exceedingly rare. Your inf
del is usually person who resents the
opposition of Christianity to that in his
nature and life which Jesus came to re-
buke aud destroy. 1t is better to submit
and surrender the evil, and make of
Christ our Saviour. 81 should have
been a DEVIL" said Mr.. Hall, "without
Christianity"
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Reliainns sMisreAanp.
THE LILY.

A lily Of the valley
In outline frail and dim,
Leans from the water over
A goblet's fragile rim
Pure as the prayer Of childhood,
Sweet as an evening hymn.
The slender stalk ia swinging
Its seven tiny bells,
Like fairy chorus singing;
And from the crystal cells
We fancy--faint and tender
Aerial music swells.
Amid the vexlng problems
And codes of men abroad,
The tiresome creeds and systems
Through which we toll and plod,
How sweet and simple blossoms
A perfect thought of God. The Interior
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How truly has it been said that he who
has slight thoughts of sin has, also, no
great thoughts of God. Whose loves God
must hate sin. The two emotions are vi
tally, inseparably connected. Radically
they are the same.
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SAID dapper young college student to
Secretary Cobb, at the late meeting of the
Michigan General Association, "Will they
allow man out West TO wear silk hatP"
Yes, sir; but they will want to know
what he's got under it,"
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Nor great faith. or intelligent faith,
but faith saves the soul for touch con-
meets us with Christ as well as a grasp.
The fullness is in him, not in our manner
Of seeking him.
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Of the WATCHMAN,-thus advancing at the
same time the interest of the subscriber, the
merchants and the publisher,
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A Penny Saved
Is Two Pence Cleari

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MAN u STATE JOURNAL offers to subscribers,
new or old, chance by practicing Poor
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-26

: AMONG the superstitions connected
with Christmas eve are the following:
The bees sing in their hives; the oxen
may be found on their knees in adora-
ton of the newborn Savior; baked
bread on Christmas eve never grows
moldy. They are all from English folk
lore. Farmers in the north OF England
firmly believe that the oxen in the stalls
kneel down on the eve of Christmas, old
style. 1t seems to be a general popular
tradition that an OK and an ass were in
the stable at Bethlehem when Christ
was born, and that they warmed Him
with their breath.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-26
Old Christmas Fare.

True to their Saxon origin, our Eng
llsh ancestors saw in every holiday an
occasion for feasting. Plenty to eat and
to drink was their idea of a festival, no
matter how sacred might be it's associa-
tons. The fast-days of the English
were few; their feast-days were many.
The best day Of all, and the jolliest was
Christmas. They then not only lined
their stomachs with good capon, as did
Shakespeare's justice, but stuffed them
selves with all sorts Of ROB. nourishing
food and strangely compounded pud-
diDgs and pies. The week before
Christmas was occupied in filling the
larder with capons, hens, turkeys,
geese, ducks, venisop, beef, mutton,
pork pies, mince pies, buildings, nuts,
plums, sugar and honey, The wine
casks and the ale and the cider barrels
were put on top and the beverages were
mixed that would puzzle a modern bar
tender. An italian proverb, existing
300 years ego, says, He has more bust.
nees than English ovens at Christmas. "
Noblemen and squires kept open
house. All corners were welcomed. and
the lord and subject were that day put
on level by the grace of hospitality,
Even titled ladies were SO sprinkled by
the days spirit that all the starch was
taken out of their manners though their
rufaes might be as stiff as ever.
The first of the Christmas dishes
served up at the manor-house dinner
was the bears head. On dish Of gold
or silver, It was borne into the banquet
ing hall, amid the flourish Of the trump.
cts and the songs Of knights and ladies',
who followed in stately procession.
Spread around it were rosemary and
bays. An apple or an orange graoed it's
mouth, and mustard WAS its sauce.
81 The fancy cooks IN Boston and New
York Astter themselves that they are
artistic and original whom they put
roasted ducks and grouse on the table
arrayed in their natural feathers. But
800years ago Christmas dinners ii Eng
Land wore ezna1nented with ! roasted.
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i; TIE GREAT CONNECTING LIN

Is The HkEAI CONNECIlNG LINN
Its main line runs from Chicago to ConnSti
Mn,n Hach sne WIS.,
Liberty. Iowa City. MareHgo; Brooklyn, GrinneIl,
Des Meines (the capital Of Iowa.. Stuart, Allan.
tic and Avoca; with branches from bureau
tine ,>S Washington. fairfield. Eldon ,Belknap.
Centrcvile, Princeton. Trenton Gallatln. came
ron, Leavcuworth. AtchisOn: and Kansas City;
Washington to S:gourney- Oskaioosa. and Knox
tonsport. Independent. Eldor;, Ottumwa, Eddy
vile. t~kaloosa. Pella. Monroe. and Des MONIES;
Newton to Monroe: Def Mo!nes to indano'a ana
x1oee &c Sram lis IS only
Railroad which owns, and operates . through
line from Chicago into the State Of Kansas.
Through Express PASSENGER Trains, with Full
between CHICAGO and PEORIA. KANSAS CITY,
COUNCIL. BLUFFS, LEAvENWoRTH and ATCHt-
SON. Through cars nre a so run between Milwau:
Rock Island Short Line
'rhe Great Rock island" Is maRnihcently
equipped. Its road bed is simply perfect. and Its
WHAT viii viii please you most will be the pleasure
of enjoying Your meals. while passing over the
beautiful praires of Illinois and Iowa, in ono Of
our magnificent Dining Cars that accompany al
1hrOug!. Express Trains. You get an entire
meal as good as is served in any frst-class hotel,
for seventy cents.
Aprrec;;.lny the fact that a majority OF che
purposes (und the immense passenger business
of this line warrantlng it,, we are pleased " an
no,lnce that this Company runs Pullman Pa1oct
Sleeping Cars for sleeping purposes, ana A'dtdcS
PULLMAN PALACE CARS are r
Tickets via thia Ll"e, known 20 the
all Ticket Agents in the United states
For infor.s,.iion not obtainable at y
A. KIMB Al LII.
Genl Superintendent
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4 PAPER FOR .THE TIMES.

The CHICAGO DAILY NEWS journalism the West
founded Dec 20 1875 with editions at
Of American Journalism presenting o1 the neosod on the street any
Nickel innovation journal
s and like all enterprises ceap paper had contend with long
established custom and prejudice before sought
and deserved end the 1876 had achieved daily sale
ranging from 5000 900 Vom this forward
beyond
33 1879 49, 1914 copies; $780,
copies morning MORNING NEWS
appearance following si month of its pub
49, s46
copca circulation before attained by daily in the United
States within corresponding time
known respectively the MORNING NEWS
Noon News and News The combined circulation the
exceptional extent OF this circulation only state
circulation Chicago
or TIE vest while Its circulation :" the GUY C'coso GREATER an ALL
other Chicago daily Being
is the universally read Chicago The
subscription price the DAILY News either EVENING ISSUE
$500 81 90 for four months postage included
Juy2 purchased CHICAGO EVENING Posi-
continued its weekly
News The WEEKLY News
twentieth The
CHICAGO WEEKLY corresponding field weekly newspapers
world Its Chicago market quotations are e.
pec WEEKLY News has oeen
weekly best evidenced by the extent its
Immediately preceding this writing 2 o's copies or
weekly of 51s The subscription price OF the
News but postage Included
phenomenal both its DAILY ana
achieved observing that fundamental pnpe u
offering the lowest cost the pu
The character OF It's news
Western Associated Press and IN
addition tn the new. service furnished
special tphic from chicago 70
Washington the East Milwaukee and ~
Giving poroal and elegrapc fat un
Chicago commend Itself al
community alike in that offers an
plete of the of the day in concise FORM without M
WEAKNESS to within the reach all classes
It is paper for the times
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THE FIDDLER.
BIZ DORA READ 0ooDALE.


BIZ DORA READ aooDALr.
A hating man in rusty coat,
By sixty winters scanned and bent,
stll drawing thin and wiry note
From out battered instrument.
Beside the kitchen chimney-plaoe.
Whose generous Yule log dickers wide,
A link with lost and lavished days,
lie tastes the cheer of Chrlstmas.tide.
The mug of cider emptled thrice,
He lights his pipe and tips his chair,
And once again, with narrowed eyes,
He plays the swift, fantastic air.
It guides the boy without. who flings
To left and right the clotted snow,
Or snatches at the tune, and sings,
And, hand on latch, forbears to 60.
It serves the masters jest, perchance,
The gir]ish laughter in the hall,
Or leads the light and scattered dance,
rythmic measures rise and fall.
And through the cracking hemlock boughs,
The Kissing of the lighted tree,
It rounds the hummin9 of the house
To fuller mirth and gayety.
To him, the cashing strains repeat
The hollow music OF the past;
He pipes to greet the rushing sleet
And whistles to the empty blast.
Acr SO the worn aud creaking strings
He feels gilded passion GLOW,
As young IS yOnder boy who brings
The Christmas message through the snow.
christian Union.
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An Enolish psvcboiooicai society

An English psychological society is.
racking is brains over che conundrum:
!" Are angels ever sleepy Not very
often, but when You hear bootjack
rolling down the front stairs, you can
make up your mind that the angels t..
ther i . sleepy, which practically
amounts "a the Same thing. RhiIadel-;
E12hia lnN, q '5ss 3
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CENTRAL CENTRAL
l>MMEA7 suRe\cAl
successors TO OFFICE = ROOMS.
DR.. BUTTS DISPEhSARY, No. 900 lncUST IT
cHAs L. LspARaI. Nd. prea't 4 pbv,ie,.s IN ch,,,s
NELSON GRESHAM. Treas. Business Manager,

This Institute has ample facilities and an ex.
perienced Faculty. While 1t succeeds to large
Ssin .s which ss been established years. il
tice. giving skillful and scientific Treatment 10
CHRONIC. DISEASES 1 95 the Head .hS Spine,
sfsm LIVER Stomach
BLOOD IMPURITIES. Inherited III Or caused
ION seTes: Fever e%pe ete. .ss0e'a-
DEF0Rml1lES Of Oft. the limbs, o Spinal Gurya-
eth Of the Joints: Piles, Fistala. k9pture, etc.
the eenito-urinary organs.
ESuhIe Irregularities and weaknesses, caus-
MnAI ing pain in the back or side, etc.
Personal interviews with patients are always
p pr Those unable to vist the Institute VIII
AID them in making fnil statement Of their cases
ana not requiring surgical operation they can
De successfully treated by correspondence, ana
~ sa6d sent By mail Of enable
give "a brief statement Of their trouble.
Inc Treasurer OF the corporation ID of Nelson,
Chesman { Co, Advertising Agents, and refers to-
re pu6isher OF this or any other nswspaperi tho
United States or Canadas regarding respOnstbility
Consultation q Once Or BY msil free end invited.
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Household Hints.

Household Hints.
OATMEAL cookies combine many good
qualities and will be relished by child
rem. Make them just like an ordinary
sugar cooky, using two-thirds oatmeal
and one-third wheat flour.
AN extremely simple way of ornament
ing the square of flannel which you put
over baby in his carriage is to crochet a
row of open work and small scallop on
the edge and run q bright ribbon
through the open spaces.
CRANBERR1Es make delicious filling
for q roly-poly pudding. Stew them,
using as little water as possible, so that
the juice will be thick and jellNike;
sweeten and let the sauce boil for min
ute or two, but no longer, after the sug-
ar is put in.
CREAM fritters, as an entree with
roast beef and vegetables, are made just
the same as if they were to be eaten
with syrup. The cream is gravy made
of butter and -four, with boiling water
poured over. A little sugar should be
added, and few drops of vanilla.
If the family is very small and large
loaves of bread are likely to become
stale before they can be eaten, it is a
good plan to make two little loaves for
one tin. They will keep their shape all
right, and will not run together or ad-
here any more than rolls of biscuits do.