The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-23
Wil,iamstown.

THERE will be service at the Congregational
house next Sunday.
THE life Of the late N P. Simons was insured
for ten thousand dollars.
CHARLES G. BARNES has gone TO Canada on
canvassing tour. He finds 1t good field, we
conclude.
In large town, recently visited, we learned
that the sale OF Hdrper's Weekly there had
fallen OIL about seventy per cent since its anti
Blaine course. This was the statement OF
news-dealer's own experience there.
MRS. MARTHA BENEDICT FARNHAM Of North
field, formerly OF this town, has long been a
great invalid Some months ago she was at
the Mary Fletcher Hospital Burlington, for
treatment. She has recently been visiting
friends here, for the first time in many years
PERSONS who took part in or attended the
amateur reading, last spring, are informed
that there is hope that professional reader
can be gotten, as soon rs everything is favor
able for a public reading, with what funds
were obtained then and what more may be
gotten, after the promised free admission of all
who were present at that reading.
How many would ever think OF tree-toad
as desirable for household pet? An ac-
quantance on the west side OF the state has
kept one in his bookstore for several years
The "fellow " is by no means the ugly.looking
toad that lives on the ground. The color Ia n
handsome drab, set off by stripes Of darker
color. His favorite place is the glass Of a show
window over which he crawls as would fly.
He Is very easily kept. In the fall our friend
puts him in jar of water with some pebbles in
the bottom, and there he stays, without any
feeding, till the next summer Ia summer
when he would give him drink, he soaks few
thicknesses OF blotting paper with water, and
sir toad spreads himself upon it and absorbs his
drink. Once year he pulls off his covering
(hide), as a man would take off shirt He is
curious, but rather interesting, pet.
In a recent conversation with an old gentle
man in another state, we were not surprised at
his saying to us that on the whole, life had
been disappointment to him" However it
might, and ought to, be otherwise. Probably
the majority of men at the close will saw
"Few and evil have the days of the years Of
my life been" Our aged friend had spent
many years in Vermont. Before he was thirty
years old he had accumulated, in q little manu-
featuring business, more than many of our
farmers get in a lifetime. This was all swept
away from him in day by the failure of
another party. For many years after he con-
tinued work as mechanic, and then left YER
mont for neighboring state where he has lived
successfully since. "And what would YOU do
differently" we asked, "if you were to live
your life over again?' His answer WAS, "I
would be a farmer
BOYS, keep your eyes and ears open " at
the proper time. We have lately been told
something of the history of a man who has
achieved success in manufacturing, in fine
town in the West, that we are acquaint ed with.
This man formerly lived in Buffalo, N Y,
and was hired to run stationary engine in a
starch mandatory there. He was steady,
wide-awake man, learning all he could about
the business. One day the proprietor remarked
to him that he wished he could get good
foreman to take the place of the one he had
been employing, and who was then off on a
drinking spree. 81 think | could fill the
place" said the engineer, to the surprise of his
employer. "He had had his eyes and ears
open about the works and got the run Of
things pretty well, said our informant The
chance was given the engineer and the old
foreman, on his return, was discharged He
proved competent foreman, saved his money
and after some years service went West with a
good knowledge of his business, where he
organized company for manufacturing starch
and has been very successful since.