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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-31

New YORK TRIBUNE: "The letters
addressed to US in reference to our ex-
posure of the abuses of divorce are piling
up proofs of what we said long ago, that
the root of the evil and the most formid-
able obstacle to reform is the widespread
Generalization of public opinion. The
most significant indication of the loss of
any popular standard of right and wrong
in the matter is the behavior of the clergy.
Nearly all the churches have declared
themselves, more or less strongly, in sup
port of the sanctity of marriage; and yet
there is never divorce case so scandal
GUS that the guilty party cannot find a
clergyman to remarry him or her as soon
as the trial is over. Some of the worst of
these remarriages have been performed
lately by clergymen of the two churches
the Roman Catholic and the Protestant
Episcopal-whose laws with respect to
divorce are the most strict. The excuse
offered by the offending ministers in these
instances is ignorance of the fact-which
is only another way of saying that they
took no pains to inquire. Perhaps the
New England association which is max.
ing such good fight against the mon
strous evil may as well begin by attacking
the laxity of the clergy. You can hardly
expect society to treat union as biga
nous when it has been blessed by the
church"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-31
THE State Teachers Association has

THE State Teachers Association has
been highly gratifed with the success
which has attended the policy of giving
that body fixed habitation. By this
sensible arrangement the society has ex-
changed the characteristics of tramp for
those of well.to.do citizen. The asso-
citation has voted to hold its next annual
meeting at Montpelier, the third which
will have been successively-and we have
no doubt successfully -held at the capital
of the state, the proper point for the
meeting of state organization. The
time at which the meeting shall be called
is left in the discretion of the executive
committee. On all accounts it would seem
that the time should be during the session
of the legislature, and during the second
week of the session. That will be period
before the legislative machinery has be-
come preoccupied with its work, and before
the accommodations of the town have been
fully monopolized by the accessories of a
legislative assembly. Educational matters
concerning which it should be thought
desirable to ask for Legislation could thus
be brought directly to the attention of the
general assembly by the body which repre-
sents the educational interests and through
the men who are familiar by constant
and personal contact with the educational
condition of the state. Prominent state
officials and members of the legislature
interested in the public and the higher
schools and institutions of learning would
lend their presence and their assistance to
make the meetings interesting and bene-
cial. The time would favor very large
attendance. In ways which need not
be enumerated but which will suggest
themselves to any one devoting a mo.
ments reflection to the matter, the &C.
casion could be seized to bring about
not only one of the most useful and at
tractive gatherings for the teachers but
one also which can be made to have a
great and far-reaching influence for good
upon the common schools of the state.
Medical and other societies meet at Mont
pelier during the legislative session and it
would seem that the educational society,
without citing presidents, should have
ample and decisive reasons for meeting at
that time. In this connection it is further
suggested that the meeting be called one
day earlier in the week so that final ad.
journment may be reached Friday even
ing instead of Saturday noon. The clos
ing exercises will not by this arrangement
be held before an audience decimated and
demoralized by departures Saturday morn
ing in order to get home before Sunday.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-31
Vermont State Teachers Association.
The thirty-fourth annual meeting Of the
Vermont State Teachers Association was
opened at the Pavilion parlors
WEDNESDAY EVENING

vermont Ntate leacnerS AssoclatlOn WAS
opened at the Pavilion parlors
WEDNESDAY EVENING
at eight o'clock. President Leavenworth not
being present, the meeting was called to order
by Principal Hardy Of the executive committee.
Principal W. III. Sanderson of Woodstock was
elected secretary pro tenn, and Principal L. V.
Haskell of Windsor treasurer pro tenn. Pro-
lessor j. X. Lord OF Dartmouth college began
the meeting by reading paper entitled, "What
Preparation do the Colleges Expect from the
High Schools and Academies?' Professor Lord
said: The objects of Latin study, briefly
stated, are: td) discipline; (b) knowledge of
Latin literature, including that OF antiquities
and social life (c) an acquaintance with a
type Of mind unlike any that exists to-day
The last, though often overlooked, is Of great
importance. Personality is one OF the strong
est forces in the development of character, and
the personality Of the Romans impressed upon
their language makes itself felt by those who
study it, and differing so greatly from that OF
modern languages exerts specially strong
and stimulating influence upon those who
study the language. The speaker main
tanned that present methods of instruction do
not secure the advantages proposed. Disci-
pline is gained, but not to the extent that Is
possible or desirable. knowledge Of Latin lit
erature, as such, is not gained Its history, its
authors and their works are known by the
study of English histories and criticisms Until
original, for pleasure or profit, as he does
modern languages, he cannot know the ltera-
ture as collection of literary compositions.
To remedy this defect Latin should be taught
as a living language. Like the child in mas
tering his own tongue, the Latin pupil must
learn the vocabulary while obtaining the mas.
terry of the paradigms of declension and conju-
CATION The lack of a vocabulary is the
greatest difficulty with which students to-day
have to contend; they are familiar with con
structions, and they can repeat rules of syntax
does not light up with suggestions because
the words are unfamiliar. The preparation o.
lesson consists In thumbiDg the leaves OF {
lexicon to find the meaning of words tina
ought to be perfectly known. Words ar,
| the signs of ideas, the symbols OF thought, ant
| II, from the outset, attention Is direCted L
| these In their relations. 1t will be the though
and not the form that will attract chief atten
ion. II thousand words, at the most liberal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-31
The Associated Teachers.

The friends and supporters of the State
Teachers Association looked forward to
the meeting held here last week with
some anxiety. The association had be-
come decrepit in the years of its early
manhood. Fresh vigor seemed to have
been nursed into the organization at the
extra session in December. Was the life
then displayed merely galvanic energy, or
would it prove to be a resuscitation by
natural agencies At that time there
were not wanting signs that the almost
really attributable to an infusion of new
blood and would be enduring. The prom
Use upheld by that midwinter session has
been redeemed. The state educational
society has shaken off its unnatural
drowsiness. In has become living and
animated body, and is bestirring itself in
the interest of the languishing cause it
was organized to foster. 1t has found
new leaders and new weapons for the ef-
fective warfare it waged under the BAN
ners of men like j. S. Adams and James
K. Colby, the chevalier Bayard and the
Mentor of the youth of Vermont less than
ageneration ago. The association has DEM
onstrated its right to an existence. The
recent meeting was conspicuous especially
for the number and the representative
character of the attendance. All ranks,
from the girlish school mistress of the re-
mote hillside district, to the college pro-
lessor and the college president were
represented. School officials, committees,
town and city superintendent and the
general public remembered the occasion
and were either interested spectators OF
active participants in the exercises. Not
the least gratifying and profitable feature
of the meeting was the part taken and the
valuable services rendered by the distin
guished educational workers from other
states. For their disinterested service,
they have the grateful and appreciative
recognition, not of an educational associa
ton only, but of community, of the en-
tire state.
The meeting of the association was sue
cessful. This is not saying that it was a
successful as it might have been, or wa
reasonably expected to be. In some i'm
portant particulars it was disappointing
The reason appears to lie in the fact tina
too much was attempted. 1t was the oil,
complaint. Formerly the programme o
the association had been loaded down wit
subjects for essays and discussions. N
one of the topics, not even those of pract
cal value, received, or could receive, tn
attention in matter or manner which il
Importance demanded. The programm
for the December meeting presented lei
than half the usual number of subject
The immense improvement in the intere'
and in the benefits derived from pr
longed and sitting discussion was il
stantly apparent. This was the subje'
of frequent and commendatory remar
and the opinion was frequently espresso
as the result of the experience on that o
casion, that the programme could profit
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-26
DROBATE ORDER.

State of Michigan county of Aipona-ss
AT a session of the Probate Court for the count y
of Alpena, holden at the Probate Office, in the cit,
of Alpena, on Friday, the 23rd day Of November
in the year thousand eight hundred and eighty
three.
Presentation. Geo. S. Lester, Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Henry NJ. Robin
son, of establishing his will during his lifetime.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified,
of said Henry NJ. Robinson, praying that certain
instrument annexed TO said petition, and now on
file in this Court purportng TO be the last will and
testament of said Robinson, may be admitted TO
Probate and admitted and established as his last
will and testament.
Thereupon IL Is ordered, that Monday, the 3lst
noon, be assigned for the hearing of said petition,
and that the wife and heirs az law of said Robinson
and all other persons interested in said estate and
matter, are required to appear at session OF said
Court then to be holden at the ProbateOtce, in the
city of Apena and show cause If any there be, why
the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted
And il is further ordered that said petitioner give
notice TO the persons interested in said estate of the
tendency of said petition, and the hearing thereof
by causing copy of this order to be published IN
the Alpena Weekly ANGUS, newspaper printed
and circulated IN said county OF Alpena three sue
cessive weeks, and also by causing the same to be
personally served at least ten days previous TO said
day of hearing, upon Harriet Robinson, Emma
j. Robbins. Henry S. Robinson, James l. Robinson,
and George J. Robinson, IL they be found in said
county or said state of Michigan
"a true copy.) GEO S. LESTER,
6i3w4 Judge of Probate.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-26
How TO FertiIizc Fruit Trees.

Here and there on all farms and in
most fruit gardens will be seen an oc.
cashional tree or grapevine which
seems to lack vigor-does not grow
well, and yet seems TO have no particu
lar disease. The probabilities are thai
the tree is dying of starvation and needs
a liberal supply of food. When you
give it this ration, do not pile load OF
manure around the trunk of the tree OF
the body of a grapevine. That is just
the place where it will do the least
good. Nearest the trunk of the tree,
the roots are all large. The fibrous
roots 1.-The feeders, are further off neal
the ends of the roots. These only can
take up the nutriment. 1t is always
safe tn assume that the roots extend ~
far from the trunk in every direction as
do the limbs of the tree, and to properly
fertilize, spread the manure all over
that area. Then fork it in and you
have done good work and done II
we'll II some disease has begun It's
work on the tree, you will put the tree
In healthy, vigorous condition, the
better enabling II TO successfully con.
tend against its enemies. We have
seen numerous old pear and apple
trees, bearing poor and gnarled fruit.
which the owners consider of no valuo,
but which such treatment rs we have
outlined above would restore to their
original usefulness. - Orange County
E'orn1crs
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-26
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Chicago girls never ''stand on GER
emony." This is considered a fortu
nate thing for ceremony. Philadelphia
Call.
YES" she said, IL always obey
my husband, but / reckon l have some
thing to say about what his commands
shall be. - Boston Post.
Some San Francisco people are
talking about the desirability of hold.
ing another worlds fair. Won't il be
time enough to decide upon that after
they get therep-InlianapotiS Journal.
"A twelve-year-old boy of Franklin
Penn, burst blood-vessel while blow.
ing tin horn, and died in few hours.
If this item is of no use to you cut il
out and hand it to your neighbour
Lo,ocH Citizen.
-"When does n man become q
seamstress?' "When he hens and
haws." mo" when he threads
his way" "When he rips and tears"
mo" "Give 1t up "Never, if he
can help it"
"A Stratford Comm woman
dreamed that she saw her husband kiss
ing a neighbours wife, and she awoke
and struck him across his face and
broke his nose. The next night he ate
mince pie, Welsh rarebit, dried apples
and wedding cake to have dream and
get square with her.-LouisUitle Courier
Journal.
There is not dude in Finland.
Finnish dudes" says the historian,
"never live long enough to be COM
Il t.I &C.. l. l.. "a
before their buttons be disclosed, and
are thus scnsibly utilized in the liquid
morn and dew of youth, before con-
tagious ailments become imminent"
Philadelphia boasts of young lady
who plays the piano with her feet The
society for the prevention of cruelty to
neighbors should suppress this young
woman before her example becomes
contagious. One timid girl with her
feet on the piano, a banjo in her hands,
and the last rose of summer on her lips
can dcpopulate a whole block in an
evening .-Rhiladclphia Press.
Almost hint-"How's yer comm
on in your new place. asked Uncle
Nose of Gabe Snodgrass, who had re-
Gently accepted a position as porter in
an Austin hardware store. Use not
comm on very fas', Uncle Nose. De
boss tole me someiing dis mornin', and
eff he don't take it back he gwinter lose
me, shuah yer born" "What did he
tole yer?" ale tole me ter consider
myself discharged. - Teras Sjtings.
"A grocer insultcd Mrs. Nose
Schaumbcrg the other day without in
tending it.. She is an immensely stout
woman, and, stepping upon the scales,
playfully requested the grocer to weigh
her. AS he adjusted the weights he re-
marked that she weighed 100 pounds,
which proved to be her exact weight.
GLOW did you come to guess it?' she
asked. 81 am used to guessing at
weights. weighed hogs for five years
in Cincinnati. ".-Erchange.
Its no use,' wrote Yankee edi-
tor. ''for yertas to send us more no
tees of Marrow Escapes until he can
beat this: Last night, as the express
train was nearing Nashville, stranger
accidentally got on the rails; but, see
ing the engine and cars coming, man.
aged to fix himself bolt upright against
bank, and .'drew i'm until he was as
Hat as board. The train shaved him
SO close that il cut the knobs of the
bone studs off his shirt, but otherwise
did him no damage. London Society
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Lincoln. Neb.. is building a $40, 900
Methodist Church.
Alabama has over 200, 900 children
that are not enrolled at tho public
s. Chicago Times
The Roman Catholic Bishop Of
Michigan has prohibited the raising Of
money for church purposes by fairs,
excursions, etc.-DetroH Post.
The man who painted the spire of
the Roman Catholic Church in Omaha
was photographed standing on tina
cross, 2l0 feet above the pavement
Because of the growth of Catholi-
cism, the diocese of Portland, compris-
ing the States of New Hampshire and
Maine, will be divided. New Hamp-
shire will be known as the Diocese of
Manchester. Y. Times.
jay Cookies palace, ''Ogontz, "
near Philadelphia, has become semi
nary for young ladies. At the. opening
Bishop Stevens said that Mr. Cooke
christened the place in honor of the
Indian chief Ogontz, friend of his
boyhood.- philadelphia Record.
Calvary Baptist Church, in New
York, pays DR.. Macarthur $4,000, and
gives 800, 900 a year to benevolent OBJ
jects. Its new Fifty-seventh Street
structure, soon to be dedicated, repre-
sents an outlay of $500, 000.--M Y. En-
aminer.
Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith.
of Kentucky, who is the oldest prclatc
OF the Episcopal Church of this country
aged ninety-two-was present in the
General Convention Of that denomina-
ton at Philadelphia recently, and re-
ceived with much generation by his
younger brethren of the church.-Phii-
adelphia Press.
The Boston Young Mems Christian
Union, which for ten summers past has
given rides to invalids, during the past
summer has. furnished l,402 persons,
inmates OF hospitals and homes, with
carriage drives in the suburbs. In adj
dition 4,160 steamboat and horse car
tickets were distributed to the same
class of persons. -BoSton Herald.
Rev. DIR Thayer tells good story
of the neat way in which a wealthy
parishioner once silenced his COM
plants. The old gentleman, whenever
he had fairly settled himself in his fam
lily pew, used to drop off into a refresh
ing nap. But DR.. Thayer noticed one
peculiarity-if any other preacher than
himself occupied the pulpit the pillar
of the church "was wide awake and on
the alert during the entire service. 4"
Accordingly, the doctor went frankly to
his old friend and questioned him as to
tho WIN and ubarafora nf fbis 1ouhlo
dealing, so to speak. "Well, doctor,
you ses, when you are preaching
know everything you say is all right,
but as to these other men, l have to
keep my eye on them. ~. Y. Post.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-26
ALPENA WEEKLYAR GUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THRoUGH TIE WOOD.

Through tho woodlands when tho day
Drives the dusky night away,
And the hill-top's poarly height
Catches first the creeping light
And above the valley pale,
Slow the night-mists lift their veil
Thep,with whistle clear and low.
Down the woodland path 1 go.
Dim the dew upon the grass
Prints my footsteps as pass,
Andltho cowslip's carpet sweet
brushes meath my springing feot
And the daisy-blossom's eye
Closes aapmy step draws nigh,
Lest bruise her tiny cup,
Ere her lord. the sun, Is upI
First 1 chirrup to the bird.
Fro from rest he scarce hath stirred;
Whistle shrill with laughing lip
Just 10 see the rabbit slip
Through the fern or budding clover
That his swift form closes over;
Aid with merry heart ring out
Now a carol, now II shoutl
Thus wander ere the sun
Half Its midday course hath run,
Listning to the forest noises
Call of partridge, wild things voices,
Yet with tenderest heart of all,
Where the cool damp shadows fall,
MISUNDERSTANDING go
To hear the brooklet's water flow.
Notwithstanding song,
Glad I'd list to all day long;
For IL tells me, soft and clear,
or a woodland cottage near;
And beneath that woodland shade
Lingering waits a brown-eyed maid,
Hasten, brooklctl whisper low
All thy tell-tale wave doth knowi
-Wfufdm NJ. Briggs, fn Century Magazine.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-26
MORTGAGE SALE.


Default having been made in the terms and con.
ditions of q certain ndenture of mortgage, bearing
date the 9th day of May, A. ID. 1881, aud executed
by and between WIN. w. Hicksand Cathrine Hicks
his WIFE of the first Fart, and Henry r. Morse and
Franklin s. Dewey Of the second part, and duly re-
corded in the Office of Register of Deeds for tho
county of Aipena, on the 18th day of May, A. ID.
which said default the power of sale in said mort
gage contained has become operative, and IL being
claimed that there IL now due and unpaid, ut the
date hereof, said mortgage, the sum of one hun
dred and cighty-one dollars and ninety-six cents
$1S1.96l for principal and interest, together with
attorney fec of twenty dollars s2j,00,l pro-
yided for in said mortgage, and no suit proceed
cd to recover the amount secured by said mortgage
or any part thereof now, thercfore Notice here
by given, that on
The 24th day OF January, A. ID. 1854
at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the
front door Of the Court House, in the city of Ape-
ma, county of Alpcna, and State of Michigan, that
being the building in which the Circuit Court for
said county in which said mortgagcd premises are
situated is held there will be sold at public auction
TO the highest bidder, the premises described IN said
mortgage, OF so much thereof rs may be necessary
TO satisfy the said debt the interest thereon and
said attorney fec and all costs and charges allowed
by law. Said mortgaged premises are situated In
the township of Long Rapids, county Of Alpenal
State of Michigan, and described ms follows; All
that piece or parcel Of land described in said mort
gage as follows, to wit. the southwest quarter OF
the northwest quarter of section twonty-one, town
thirtytwo north, range six east, containing forty
acres, more or less.
HENRY II. MORSE,
FRANKLIN $. DEWEY,
Mortgages.
Dated Alpena, Oct 20, 1888. 6SSw15
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-26
CHICAGO
WEEKLY NEWS
AND THE
ALPENA ARGUS,
So a Year.

The CHICAGO WEEKLY NEWS lie rccog.
nized as a paper unsurpassed in all the re-
quiremcnts OF American journalism. IL
stands conspicuous among the motropol
itan journals OF the country as complete
Newspaper In the matter OF Geographic
service, having the advantage OF connection
with the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, 1t has
at it's command all the dispatches OF the
Western Associated Press, besides very ex'
tensivc service OF Special kilograms from all
important points. AS Newspaper II has
no superior. 1t is INDEPENDENT in pol
itics, presenting all political news free from
partisan bias or coloring, and absolutely
without fear or favor as to parties. 1t is, In
the fullest sense, n FAMILY PAPER. Each
Issue contains several COMPLETED STO-
RIES, q SERIAL STORY OF absorbing in
terest, and rich variety Of condensed notes
on Fashions, Art, Industries, Literature,
Science, etc, ETC. Its Market Quotations
are complete and to be relied upon. II is I'M
surpassed as an onterprising, pure, and trust
worthy GENERAL FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
We republish here from the columns Of the
WEEKLY NEWS a few OF the voluntary
concentrations II has received: