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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-12-15

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FOR SALK.-25 pairs Of fine Ply
mouth Rock PulletR. Also few choice
pedigreed Birds of same variety
dec8t# Geo. A. Gasho,
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FOR RENT.-The Store Room,
next door to Washington HOule.
Apply to
Tee,9-tf. JAMES A. WILSON
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NOTICE.

Newark, Del, Dec. 10th, 1888.
S. B. Wright having purchased half
interest in my stock of Hardware and etc.
The business will henceforth be con-
Quoted In the name of II. h, Wright s. Co.,
at the new building, S. W, Corner Main
and Chapel Streets.
Dec. 18th, St. II. b. WRIGHT.
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ELECTION NOTICE.
National Bank of Newark,
Newark, Delaware.
The annual meeting of the Stock Hold
ers for the election of seven Directors to
serve this Bank Tor the ensuing year will
be held in the banking house, on Tues
day, the 9Th, day of January, 1884,
between the hours of 10 NJ, and =. M.
GEO w. LINDSEY, Cashier.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21
" For or Against Me :"

He was an old man when / met him in
in 1870. very soon learned to know him
after he came to our clearinghouse, and
he gave me, as en- illustration of the words
of Israel, uttered on an ever memorable oc-
casion, some of the most important particu-
lars of his own life. He said "Those
things which l thought at the time were
most against me have been the best for me.
It's just as true now as in old Jacobs time.
Look over the history Of mems lives and
You'll find it So" Among other events he
told me how, when young man, his half
brother had wronged him out of his inher-
itance from their father. This left him
without any patrimony, but it helped to make
him self-reliant, and he had long looked upon
1t as having hell Q rather Il an hindered,
his progress in life. Again, in early life he
had bought a tract of timber land and built
a saw-mill on it. He worked hard with
men and teams for year, during which he
had built mill, dam, boom, ETC., and had
five thousand logs in the boom ready for
saving. For nearly all this he had gone in
debt, which he expected to pay after the
logs were sawed. Just at this time heavy
rain and rise in the stream carried away his
MILL dam, boom and logs, and lodged the
latter about forty miles down the stream
not far from thriving city. Soon word
came from friend, who had money and
whom he had before importuned to go in
partnership with him, " If you still wish it
I'll join you and build a mill where your
logs are now. It's the place for the
mill. 1t would never do to cart lumber
that forty miles" The offer was gladly ac-
cepted, and his friend furnished him five
thousand dollars in cash. This sum he
paid on his debts, and from that time his
prosperity was assured. "Now," said the
old man, "when the product of that
years work all went down the stream in
two or three days, thought it was all
against me; but nothing ever happened so
much for me. And in general review of
my life l can see many things which, at the
time, | was ready to say was against me,
but now see they were for me Just as truly
as in the case of Israel" l have related
these actual occurrences, First, for the en-.
coursgement of the respondent and those
who meet trials and difficulties in their bust
ness pursuits. Second, to show that the
same Providence now rules in the affairs of
men as in the time of ancient Israel and
that we do well to trust him, knowing that
he will bring to pass his own WILL and that
those who put their trust in him shall never
be confounded.' "-HenryP p. Thompson.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21

my trials. | cannot mediate upon any
thing, except, indeed, it be something quite
the opposite of what wish to occupy my
mind. You know that some Christians are
able in their solitary walks and rides 10 hold
all the time, communion with God. / can
very seldom do this. Yesterday / was
obliged TO take walk alone, and it was
made very delightful in this way 80 that !
quite forgot that was alone"
ONE Of the great comforts of the Chris.
tian is that God understands him fully,
whether he can explain his troubles or not.
Sometimes | think all of a sudden that
do not love the Saviour at all, and am ready
TO believe that my pretended anxiety to
serve him has been matter of feeling and
not Of principle but of late | have been
less disturbed by this imagination as find
it extends to earthly friends who are dear
to me as my own soul. thought once yester.
day that didn't love anybody in the world,
and was perfectly wretched in consequence"
"Tms only know, that earnestly wish
all the tendencies of my heart to be heaven.
ward, and / believe that the sincere in
quirer after truth will be guided by the In.
finite Mind. And so, on that faith, [ ven
ture myself, and feel safe as a child may
feel who holds his fathers hand"
ar seems to me that God is my Father,
my own Father, and it is so natural to turn
right To him, every minute almost, with
either thankofferings or petitions, that !
never stop to ask if such and such matter
is sufficiently great for his notice."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21
Preachers.

4" Pax writes in the Religious Herald !:
Poor preachers / often pity them They
are common property, ordered hither and
thither like hired hacks and cabs, but not
allowed to make their charges and fix a
price for services rendered. They are often
sent on long and weary mission-a war.
fare against the powers of darkness-at
their own charges. Some persons have an
idea that clergymen have good, easy time
but put yourself in the preachers place, and
you will soon learn what it is to endure
hardness as a good soldier-thst is, if you
will do your duty and answer all of the re-
quirements and demands made upon the
profession or the calling. On one occasion
in nameless town in Virginia saw a
pastor start off early on cold winter
morning to ride fifteen miles TO preach
a funeral sermon of person who was en-
tirely unknown to him. He was not the pas.
tor of the family; but on this occasion he
was called and had to go. He returned home
at night weary, cold and sick, and was
confined 10 his bed the balance of the
week. A whole day from his study when
time was so. precious and so much needed
for pulpit preparation drive of thirty
miles in an open buggy; cold, freezing
weather; no refreshments during the
whole day; and weeks sickness as the
result of such exposure. This is the pub
lished experience Of one preacher; but
many, very many, could tell the same tale.
Their name is legion. OF all this they do
not complain nor do they make charge
for such services. 1t is true that the Ia
borer is worthy of his hire, but the clergy.
men do not ply their work with hire from
men as their main object. They are Christ's
servants, and their real reward comes from
him. But Christian society is often heart
less and cruel when it demands from clergy.
men so much extra expenditure of time and
labor, physical and mental, and is satisfied
TO pay them off in formal expressions OF
gratitude. Preachers are required to come
aud go, aud go and come, In extra services
through all weather, and meekly submit, OF
suffer the imputation of sordid motives il
they even hint at the application of New
Testament rule. Since the minister's sal
ary is usually adjusted to the lowest current
cost of living, should not the pastor, when
called upon to perform extra service at the
altar the tomb, on the platform, public ad
dresses and special sermons, requiring time
expense, exposure and labor, be remem
bered by those Immediately benefited ant
interested, by kind, hearty and generou;
consideration 2"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21
English Turnips.

c. W. D., Weston, W., writes In your
seed list you claim to raise one thousand
bushels of turnips to the acre with super
phosphate. Please give us your method in
the WATCHMAN; also how early-cut hay
can be trod into tight bay and not hurt.
Is not early-cut hay and roots the best ensi-
lage2"
To raise English turnips successfully the
grower wants piece of rich light soil put
into perfect tilth some time in June, orearly
in July, and the seed carefully and evenly
sown and very lightly Cf at alD brushed
in. If it can be sown just before rain
there is no need of brushing at all. Most
people fail in sowing the seed too thickly
and not evenly. An old Kentucky farmer
once said to us that tablespoonful of tur-
nip seed was enough for an acre if evenly
sown. Those who are skillful at it can
SOW the seed evenly and cover all the ground
by taking it between the thumb and finger.
But very few, however, can do this with
out getting on ten times too much seed,
For those accustomed only to sowing grain,
the best way is to mix the seed thoroughly
with wet sawdust, using say three or four
ounces of seed with two bushels of sawdust,
and mixing and stirring until the seed can
be seen evenly mixed in any handful that
is taken up. This is enough for an acre.
If more seed is used, there will be work
wasted in thinning, When just enough is
used and the ground evenly covered, no
thinning will be required. Before the last
narrowing of the ground, previous to SOW
ing the seed, two barrels OF good superphos-
phate should be sown TO the acre. Then,
with favorable season, there will be no
d ffculty IN growing one thousand bushels
of turnips ON that amount of land.
We have no experience in ensilaging
grass, but have no doubt that if early-cul
grass is handled in the same way as corn
for ensilaging, it will keep equally well and
and be at least twice as good for feeding
to cows. We regard earycut hay and
roots as the very best sort of feed for horned
stock, but whether it is as cheap as ensi
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21

AMAsA ScoTT of Craftsbury, VT, is
known as the man who cuts his hay foui
times in season, and makes five hundred
pounds year, and upwards, of butter from
common cows fed thereon. But perhaps
this will seem less wonderful when a last
and important element in the work is under
stood, namely, that he loves his cows, and
will lose money rather than allow them tc
suffer. The following extract from the
Barton Monitor will explain to our readers
what we mean.
"Amasa Scott, whose reputation for big
cattle has been so wildly known, last week
sold Stratton, the butcher, four-years-olo
COW whose live weight was 500 pounds
This COW has been MIXED since two years
old, but being inclined to fat, he fatted her
She dressed 1,095 pounds, shrinking only
about twenty-seven per cent. The hide
and tallow weighed two hundred pounds
He received five cents live weight. He was of
fered seven cents a pound to ship to Boston
but he would not consent to have the anima
transported by cars to market. Such wa!
was his regard for this pet animal and hi
humanity that the extra offer of $50 was NJ
temptation"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21

CONGRESS is working hard on bills to re-
duce taxation, seemingly under the impress
sion that the people do not desire to have
the national debt paid as fast as is now be-
ing done. We believe that this is an en-
tire mistake. The people do not feel the
national taxes to be burdensome, and they
are glad at the news of every payment made
on account of the public debt. The outcry
for reduction of taxes comes, not from the
people, but from that very small class of
the public which has good personal reasons
for believing that the national debt is ma
tional blessing,-we mean the bondholders,
and especially the national banks But as
an exchange puts it, " If we had fewer gov.
ernment bonds in which capitalists could in
vest, would there not be some of the mil
lions now merely drawing interest from the
government that would be put into manu-
featuring, commercial or agricultural enter
prises, that would benefit the country to a
great degree 2"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21
What is Wanted.

The Holy Spirit is able to make the
Word as successful now as in the days of
the apostles. He can bring in by hundreds
and thousands as well as ones or twos. The
reason why we are not more prosperous is
that we have not the Holy Spirit with us in
might and power, as in early times If we
had the Spirit sealing our ministry with
power, it would signify very little about our
talent. Men might be poor and uneducated ;
their words might be broken and ingram
matical there might be none of the polished
periods of Hall or glorious thunders of
Chalmers but if the might of the Spirit
attended them. the humblest evangelist
would be more successful than the most
learned OF divines, or the most eloquent of
preachers. 1t is extraordinary grace, not
talent, that wins the day. 1t is extraor-
dinary spiritual power, not extraordinary
mental power, that we need. Mental power
may fl | chapel, but spiritual power fills
the church. Mental power may gather a
congregation; spiritual power will save
souls. We want spiritual power. oh we
know some before whom we shrink into
nothing as TO talent, but have no spiritual
power but when they speak, they have not
the Holy Spirit with them but we know
others, simplehearted, worthy men, who
speak their country dialect, aud who stand
up TO preach in their country-place, and the
Spirit of God clothes every word with
power. Hearts are broken, souls are saved,
and sinners are born again. o Spirit of the
living God we want thee. Thou art the
life, the soul, the source of thy peoples sue
cess. Without thee they can do nothing,
with thee they can do eyerything,-C. II,
SpurqeOn.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21

| thought that prattling boys and girls
Would fill this empty room;
That my rich heart would gather flowers
From childhood's opening bloom.

thought that prattling boys and girls
Would fill this empty room,
That my rich heart would gather flowers
From childhood's opening bloom.
One child and two green graves are mine,
This is Gods gft-to me-
bleeding, fainting, broken heart
This Is my gift to thee.
"No PROCESS of reasoning can soothe a
mothers empty aching heart, or bring Christ
into it to fill up all that great waste room.
But faith can. And faith is his gift; a
gift to be won by prayer--prayer persist,
ent, patient, determined; prayer that will
take no denial; prayer that, If it goes away
one day unsatisfied, keeps on saying, Well,
there's tomorrow, aud tomorrow, and to-
morrow God may wait to be gracious, and
and will' This is what the Bible means
when it says, The kingdom of heaven
suifereth violence and the violent take it by
force 1t does not say the eager, the i'm
patient, take it by force, but the violent
they who declare, | will not let thee go ex.
cept thou bless me- This is all heart not
head work. Do know what am talking
about Z Yes, do. But my intellect is OF
no use to me when my heart is breaking.
must 60 down on my knees end own that
am less than nothing seek God, not Joy
consent to suffer, not cry for relief. And
how transcendently good he is when he
brings me down to that low place and there
shows me that that self-renouncing, self
despsiring spot is just the one where he will
stoop to meet me !"
"MY dear friend, don't let this great trag
edy OF sorrow fail to do everything for you
1t is dreadful thing for you to lose chill
| Ara., hut Loot il iha most faarf fn
experience that life can bring. feel thi'
so strongly that | could go on writing all
day, 1t has been said that the intent OF
sorrow is to toss us on to Gods promises.
Alas, these waves too often toss us away
out to sea, where neither stars nor sun ap
pear for many days. pray, earnestly, that
| it may not be 30 with YOU"
I "YoU ask il | find it easy to engage in
religious meditation, referring in particular
! TO that of our final rest. This is another Of
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21

A MOVEMENT is on foot in Texas to &C.
complish what far-seeing men have long
urged as an agricultural necessity of the fu-
ture. 1t is to put an end to the absorption
of small farms into large ones. Smaller
farms within the working ability of the
average farmer and more of them is the
reform desired. The farmers Of Harrison
county, Texas, propose to divide their large
plantations into small farms, and to offer
them to actual settlers on the installment
plan, believn such action will soon convert
idle lands into profitable farms and fill up
the country with thrifty taxpayers.
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These figures are certainly important if
true. Will our bright boys who are cipher
ing in interest this winter go over Mr..
Groom's calculations and see if they are cor
rect, and if so, lay the lesson to heart, and
resolve never to borrow money at more than
three per cent, which statistics show to be
about the annual increase of the wealth of this
great and industrious nation, and therefore
should be the highest legal rate of interest.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21
How Interest GnaMs.

We present the following extracts from
recent address delivered by Wallace p.
Groom in New York city. Many carelessly
infer that the increase of money at six per
cent is just twice as rapid as at three per
cent; but in reality the increase is vastly
more rapid than this. In one hundred
years at six per cent, the increase on any
given sum is about eighteen times as much
as at three per cent. If 81 be invested, and
the interest added to the principal annually,
at the rates named, we shall have the fol-
lowing result as the accumulation of one
hundred years:
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Select MisfeHanp.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES POEM

At the recent dinner Of the Suffolk Bar AssC
,iaton, DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes read the 70
lowing poem in response to toast in honor {
The late appointment Of his son to the bench {
the supreme court OF Massachusetts,:
"His honor's" father yet remains
His proud patcrnal posture arm in;
But while his right he still maintains,
To WELD the household rod and reins
He bows before the flial ermne.
What curious tales has life in store,
wrh all its mus,-bes and ts may-bes
The sage Of eighty year, and more
once crept nursling the floor
Klngs, conquerors judges, oil were babies
The fearless soldier who has faced
The serried bayonets' gleam appalling,
For nothing save pin misplaced
The peaceful nursery has dsgraced
with hours Of unheroc bawllng.
The mighty monarch, whose renown
Fills up the stately page hlstoric
Has howled to wsken half the town,
And finished N by gulpins down
His castor oil or paregorc.
The justice no, in gown and cap,
Condemns n wretch to strangdlation,
Has scratched his nurse and spilled bis pap,
And sprawled across his mothers lap
For wholesome laws administration.
All life has many reef to shun,
Before in port we drop anchor,
But when lts course ia nobly run,
Look att for there the work was done,
Life owes s headway to the spanker
Yon seat Of Justice well might awe
The falrest manhoods half-blown summer
There Parsons scourged the aggard law,
There reigned and ruled majestic shaw
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21

lage is doubtful. Yet as all the best feeders
declare that some hay and grain must be
fed with ensilage, perhaps when things come
to their natural level there won't be as much
difference as is now believed. Neverthe-
less, we think the silo has come to stay,
and that ensilage will in large degree
supersede roots in New England for dairy
fading
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21
Vegetine in England.

HALiYAx. n. s., December 10, 1881
IN. r. Stepens Esq, Boston, Ndss.: Dear Sfr-l take
pleasure informing that have had occasion to use
your wel-known yEGErINE For some time felt run
down from too close application to business had only
used three bottles OF popular medicine when
felt greatly nvigoraed and 1T for almost kind of work
in connection with our large dry goods business.
"My sister In England has been ang from Nervous
PyoStrdton, Want Of appetite and General Debility
took her bottle of vEGErNE my last visit and sent
her half since. At last accounts she writes she
has greatly improved and feels though she would soon be
.~-- vFGETiNF would have -
large sale In England II introduced into that country.
" Believe me, yours very truly ETC.,
"E. T. MAH0N,
"of Mahon Bros, Dry Goods Merchants"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21

The sun comes up and the sun goes down;
The night mist shroudeth the sleeping town;
But u II be dark or n II he day,
II the tempeats beat or the breezes play,
still here on this upland slope lie
Looking up to the changeful sky.
Naught am but falow heldi
Never a crop my acres yield.
over the wall at my right hand
Stately and green the corn blades stand,
And hear at my left the hying feet
OF the winds that rustic the bending wheat.
Often when yet the morn is red
lift for our masters eager tread.
He smiles at the young corn's towering height,
He knows the wheat Ia goodly sight,
but he glances not at the fallow field
Whose idle acres no wealth may yield
Sometimes the shout Of the harvesters
The sleeping pulse Of my being strs.
And as one In dream I seem to feel
The sweep and the rush Of the swinging steel,
or I catch the sound Of the gay refrain
As they heap their wains with the golden grain.
Yet, o my neighbors be not too proud,
Though on every tongue your praise ls loud,
Our mother Nature ia kind TO me,
And am beloved by bird and bee
And never a child that passes by
But turns upon me grateful eye.
Over my head the skies are blue;
have my share Of the rain and dew;
bask like you in the summer sun
When the long bright days pass one by one,
And calm as yours is my sweet repose
Wrapped In the warmth Of the winter SHOWS
For little our loving mother cares
which the corn or the daisy bears,
Which IL rich with the rpening wheat,
which with the vlolets breath is sweet
Which is red with the clover bloom,
or which for the wild sweet-fern makes room.
Useless under the summer sky
Year after year men ray lie.
Little they know what strength Of mine
| give 10 the trailing blackberry vine;
Little they know how the wild grape grows,
Or how my life-blood flushes the rose.
Little they think Of the cups nl
For the moses creeping under the hill
Little they think Of the feast spread
For The wild wee creatures that must be fed
Squirrel and butterfly, bird and bee,
And the creeping thngs that no eye may see.
Lord Of the harvest, thou dost know
How the summers and winters 60
Never ship sails east or west
Laden with treasures at my bchest,
Yet nv being thrills to the voice Of God
when give my gold to the goden-rod.
Julia c., r, DOrr,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-21

1T is reckoned TO be high when the freight
on barrel of apples from Boston to Liver.
pool is eighty-seven cents. 1t is thought
cheap enough (by the railroad companies)
when the freight on barrel of apples from
a farmer in northern Vermont TO Boston is
dollar and quarter.