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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

Bethel.-Last Sunday evening Rev. T. S.
Hubbard gave very interesting and instruc-
tive lecture on " The Morning STAR" the first
missionary ship fitted out expressly to carry
the Bible and missionaries to the Sandwich
Islands, which are Just four thousand miles
from San Francisco, and the far-off islands in
the Pacific Ocean. The lecture was especially
interesting from the fact that IL gave very
minute account Of the present condition and
religious interest felt by the inhabitants of
those islands, who but few years since were
canibals, but who now have colleges, semi
naries, churches and thousands Of church MEM
bers. THE ladies of the Congregational
society will hold a festival in Wilson'S hall
next Friday evening. Refreshments will be
furnished at low prices. general invitation
is extended to all TO be present. New Year s
day was as beautiful as day in June, the
sleighing was fine and the mercury ranged at
tbirty-two degrees above zero Quiet reigned
in the village till evening, when large party
gathered at the skating-rink in Wilson's hall
and spent two and one-haf hours of innocent
amusement, large number of ladies being
in the party. Mr.. and Mrs James McCul-
Tough were surprised on the forty-third ami
versary Of their welded life, December 31st,
by relatives and friends, with presents too
numerous and useful to enumerate. :. We'd
nesday last We had a fall of eight inches of
snow, and the following night there was the
most terrific wind from the west and south.
west ever KNOWN mere. IL began TO grow colo
Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning at
eight clock the thermometer registered thirty
one degrees below zero. During the day it was
ten above, and Monday morning it was twenty
five below. Men who have lived in town forty
years say they have never known 80 many cold
days at one time as there have been since
Thursday morning. The "powers that be -
decided that Will Reed must either marry a
certain young lady or pay $500. But he per.
sistantly refused to do either, whereupon an
officer from Gayesville (where the lady re-
sdes) carried Win to Jail at Woodstock Mon
day morning. Later in the day bail was fur.
nished, and parties at once started for Wood
stock to bring the boy home, and thus save his
first nights experience in Jail
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

Randolph. Principal A. w. Edison de-
livered lecture in Bristol last week. Mrs
Thomas WEIGH is very sick with lung fever. E.
George +. Nutting went to Chicopee Falls,
Mass, last week to show to the manufacturers
of a corn planter sold by him an improvement
that he has invented. e. w. Granger has
gone to Florida to spend the winter. There
was leap year party at the Students home
last Friday evening
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

Danville. services were held
at the Congregational church last Sunday.
William Havilsnd of West Dsnville was brought
before Justice Cook last Monday, and fined
$40 and costs for selling liquor. . Mrs. Rock
we'll and Miss Severance, who have been stop
ping at Rev. I. W. Darling's for some months,
returned to their home in Middlebury this
week Monday
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

GENTLEMEN:-Your Hop Bitters have been
of great value to me. | was laid up with ty-
phod fever for over two months and could get
no relief until ] tried your Hop Bitters. To
those suffering with debility or any one in
feeble health, cordially recommend them. ].
c. Stoetzel, 6S3 Fulton street, Chicago. III.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

Waitsfeld.-The thermometer indicated
thirty-fve degrees below zero last Sunday
morning. AS will be seen by our Current
Mention columns A. W, Bigelow has not vet
found the toam stolen from him December 28th.
80. Mrs ]. II. Hastings is visiting with her
mother and sister In Waterbury, and Dea,
Murray is visiting with David Gleason of this
town.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

DB" THE VOICE OF THE PEoPLE.-No family
Dyes were ever SO popular as the Diamond
Dyes. They never fail. The Black is far SUI
perior to logwood The colors are brilliant.
Wells, Richardson e. Co., Burlington, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

East Calais. Mrs. George Freeman placed
a can OF syrup on the stove to warm, in order
TO loosen the cover. II remained there little
too long and the can burst, throwing the con-
tents in every direction, covering one side OF
Mr.. Freeman. Fortunately, none went into his
mouth. -. The hanging of the telephone wire
is completed from North Montpelier to this
place.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

III you have failed to receive benefit from
other preparations, try Hoods Sarsararilla; it
is the strongest, the purest, the best, the
cheapest.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

Ely.-Dr. A. M. Simpson is to locate In
West Fairlee, DR., Henry of that place having
moved to Winchendon, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

Two hundred and nine lives were lost from
the Gloucester fishing fleet during the past
year.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
On examining the old materials of the

On examining the old materials of the,
building it appeared that almost tho!
whole Of the large beams and other
woodwork, though they looked per-
fectly sound outside, had been followed
out by those unseen but most per-
severing under-cover laborers, the white
ants. In Europe there is but n termos,
or white ant, whose ravages ever at
tract notice. The archives of the pre-
lectures and arsenal of La Rochelle
we're nearly destroyed by them, while
the woodwork of the rooms vas re-
duced to powder.
The celebrity with which these ma
RAIDERS work is marvellous. A mud
bench will be pierced and drilled by
an army of them in a single night, and
heaps of reeds, placed under bedding,
are in a few hours converted into a mass
of mud"
''It is, of course, known" said the
ant man in conclusion, ''that these in
sects have their social grades-kings,
queens, soldiers, laborers, all differing
in appearance-just as we have, and, in
fact, the more you look into the matter
the more you see how closely they come
to u.s."
''How about their immortality?"
queried the reporter.
THAT l leave to the clergy" replied
the other, "but you know Agassiz said
that he thought jelly-fshes were immor-
tai. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
Faith the Life OF Prayer.

When the air seems empty of q
Heavenly Father and when the universe
seems only an assemblage OF materials
and chemical forces, no service is more
wearisome in mind and heart than
PRAYER. Its words sound like those
spoken in Observation-Disclosures to ones
self, and the praying m feels ashamed
that words have thus been offered to
ones w ear; but the instant faith
enters the scene all is changed from
barrenness to beauty; for to what being
could one speak with SO much blessed,
ness as to God! The audience of kings,
of all the mighty of the earth is Of little
worth.. Fin comparison with this pleading
with God. He is the Creator and Faith
er and Savior of the world. and Wien
the soul of man can 90 to His presence
and pour out its sorrows or its gratitude
it has reached the sublimest form OF
speech and an audience the wisest and
most loving.
Thus faith is not so much a doctrine
as the Utmost soul of all the ideas and
practices which are assembled around
the name of Christ or the Creator. Re-
ligion is an imitation, a solemn play
upon a stage, uatil faith comes upon the
scene and transforms the drama into
life. AT its coming the Christ again
walks upon the grass and flowers and
also the thorns Of our earth: His words
are audible in the silent night: His out
line is seen in the Garden of Olives; His
tears fall: He approaches the judgment
seat of..Pilate; He moves slowly up Cal
vary: He is dashed to the cross: the
heavens grow black: He dies: He is
borne to a tomb: He rises from the
dead: He is crowned King of the soul.
Belief is that grand moment when a
dream OF glory begins to be fulfilled.
the whole world of religion as being u
blessed reality! A quality of this mortal
life lies in its being conceived of as a
sweet reality. We know the reality of
the ocean and the hills and the fields.
We are not afraid to speak Of their
greatness or charm, for WE know they
will remain in the realm of reality and
will not on the morrow turn into a
chimera Of the brain. So the friends we
see and love are realities. They will
take us by the hand. The mother can
take up in her arms her child and
shower her words and kisses upon it as
:. beloved reality. With its lights and
shadow, its birds and blossoms. its fields
and houses, its ornaments :.and homes
and friends and pursuits and happiness,
how real is this rolling world. The tri-
umph OF humanity will come when it
shall have made the Kingdom of God as
real as the kingdom of time; for if the
reality Of our little planet is so rich in
comfort and absolute joy what will
be the blessedness of that soul or age
which shall rest as peacefully in the
reality Of God!--Prot. Dari0 Swing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
What is the SOudan.

The name bears different meanings,
according as it is used by the Arabs or
by the Egyptians. The former apply it
to designate the interior of Africa gen.
orally, and, following them, the geog-
raphers of Europe have given this
name to all the countries along the
southern edge of the great Sahara, from
Senegambia and Sierra Leone on the
west. to Darfur on the east, Etymolog-
ically, Soudan means simply "the
Blacks" and is a corruption of the
Arabic name Balad-us-Sudan, ''the
country of the Blacks"
AS employed, however, by the Egyp-
tians, 'the Soudan'' means not the i'm
mense tract of Africa just described,
but a tract to the east of it. which COM
prises the countries, except Abyssinia,
on both sides of the Nile, south of the
second cataract, which have during the
last sixty years been formed into an
Egyptian province bearing that name.
The dependent province or e~mpire--for,
be it understood, the Soudan is not
Egypt, any more than Algeria is France
Comprises much of Nubia, all Sen
naar, all Kordofan, and all Darfur.
A report recently made to the
British Foreign Office gave its length
from north to south, or from Assouan to
the Equator, at about one thousand six
hundred and fifty miles, but this makes
it begin at the first and not the
second cataract of the Nile; its width,
on the same authority, from Mas
sowah, on the Red Sea, to the west
ern limit of the Darfur Province,
is from twelve to fourteen hundred
miles. 1t probably, therefore, does not
fall far short, if at all, of the dimensions
of India. 1t is inhabited by wv totally
distinct races. The northern half by
almost pure Arabs, most of them nomad
tribes. protesting some form Of Moham-
mechanism, and the southern half by ne
groes, who, though officially classed
among Musselmans, are really Pagans,
and are, roughly speaking, all %sedentary
and agricultural. Up to 1919 the
Soudan was divided into a number OF
petty Kingdoms and chieftaincies; but in
that year Muhammad Ali, the then
khedive. sent his o Ismail to conquer
the country. From that time to the
present the Egyptians have gone on ex-
tending the borders of their nominal
e~oNeielSuty, DuG nave never yeI HILL
aged to obtain an undisturbed footing in
any of the vast territory they claim.
The seat of the provincial government
is at Khartoum, at the confluence of the
Blue and White Nile.
Khartoum can be reached from Cairo,
from which it is some fifteen hundred
miles distant, by the Nile-the railway
stopping short at Assiout, less than
three hundred miles fom Cairo-but the
quickest route is by the Red Sea from
Suez to Souakim, which may be re.
garded as the seaport of the Soudan,
and thence by a caravan route of about
two hundred and eighty miles to Berber,
where the Nile is touched, and from
that point southwark for about the same
distance to Khartoum.-N. Y. Observer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
Religious.
Fl OLD WEAVER.

The Weaver sat in the dying light;
..At last" he said, II have hn1shed m.
'piece;'
The clickity-clackity loom may cease;
For l am weary in every limb.
NV hands are cold and my eyes are dlm.
sLone have / sat in the sun and gloom,
Weaving the wonderful wep or n1c;
Long nave l trcadled the restless oom,
In ioy and sorrow, in peace ana strife,
Throwing the shuttle from day to day,
Weaving my life in my piece Away.
"Iknow not how it will stand the test,
For the Masters eye is very clear;
The warp was not OF the kind that's best,
The weft was tangled and rough, tear;
It ia married, no doubt, with many q knot,
With many a break that I've forgot.
but the Master also is very Just;
He knows / have done the best / could;
That the weaver's hand was only dust,
The yarn that ne worked with not all good
He knows l have toiled from youth to age
And I'm sure He will pay me my full wage
"Some only work with a cotton thread,
And sit all day in the weaving-rocm;.
Some work with the tieccy wool instead,
And some have the richest silk in looms;
Wool. cotton, or silk, none need to care,
IT only the work be good and fair.
$50 7 sit to.night in the waning light,
And my life sinks low with the setting sun
My weary hands and my failing sight
Tell me the web of my life is done.
Give me, O Master so good and true!-
My wage-and some better work to do"
-Amelia Il. Barr, in Christian Union.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
Choice Selections.

Policy says Thomas Fuller,
consists in serving God in such y man
ner as not to offend the devil"
The Congrcgutionalist thinks that a
revival of practical Righteousness III
business should be prayed for and la
bored for.
The serene, silent beauty of q holy
life is the most powerful influence in
the world, next to the might of the
Spirit OF God.--Spurgeon.
To think we are able is almost to
be so; to determine upon attainment is
frequently attainment itself. Thus
earnest resolution has often seemed to
have about it almost Il SAVIOR of omnip-
otencc.--SomucL Smiles.
The Observer thinks it not an ex-
travaggant demand that the churches
should have more money. Those of
New York cost but So, 600. 700 a wear.
" mmile ohe places OF amusement cost ST.
Voo' ooo' and the city government 3d..
sometimes the heaviest wheat of
al may spring up from seeds droppcd
IN an incidental way. What q motive
TO 'he maintenance OF a personal holi-
ness! The incidental is a shadow of fine
Intentional. Influence is the exhalation
OF cIaracter.--W N. Taylor.
You may tame the wild beast; the
connagratlon OF the American forest
Will cease when all the timber and the
ofy o is consumed; but YOU can not
aiIest the progress of that cruel word
"" mn tSi you uttered carelessly yesterday
Mere complaint and expression of
iear n apprehension do but little. 1t
~ action that tells. Theye are good
causes IN The world about which excel
ienI people are uttering the devoutest
m "e out they do nothing, and bence
1otnihs comes of their earnestpsss,-
| United Presbyterian.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
The Old Salt who Didn't Go.

II tell you what said the Captain Of
a Rockland coaster, ''there's something
strange in the way things turn out.
There was the case of the sailor Chaples,
who persisted in the Almond Bird affair.
Chaples shipped with Captain Hezekiah
Hix, and for some foolish reason refused
to go with him, but went in the Almond
Bird instend and was frozen to death.
And then again about twenty-five years
ago, l IA aboard the schooner Flor
ence, Captain Smith, anchored in the
Vineyard. 1t was just before the great
gale of that time, when so many vessels
toundered and hundreds of lives were
lost. The schooner Leo, owned by Cap
tain Oliver Jameson and others, and
commanded by young Burgess, was an
chored near us. Captain Burgess was
somewhat inexperienced, and wanted me
to 60 with him, Il of his men taking
my place aboard the Florence. He
wanted ME to go so bad that I at last
consented, and packed my traps to 20
aboard the Leo. After 1 was all packed,
however, somehow or other l kinder fel
as if l ought not to go, and at last l got
into the boat, rowed ashore. and told
Captain Burgess that l couldf t 60 with
him. Well, we sailed from there, and
the big gale came on. We got through
all right, but the Leo was found ashore,
with her foresail up, and the bodies OF
the Captain and crew were discovered
about six miles down the coast. They
were probably swept overheard while
wearing ship. And that isn't the only
instance, either. A few years ago Cap,
tain Bill Fountain wanted me to 90 with
him in the Callista, and l agreed to.
When the time came, however, l was
not able to 60, and he sailed without me
and was never heard from again. ]
tell you it's strange how things work
around. l believe that men are DIES.
tined to such and such a fate, and tina,
it's no use to try and avoid it. We've
got II part to do and when our time
comes we've got to go."-Rock4aae
(Me.) Courier Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
THE WIFE.

At the recent banquet of the Press Club of
Chicago, Mr.. Eugene Field, of the Daily Nens.
was asked to respond for 1.-The Editors Wife"
which he cleverly did in verse, as follows;
No eloquent thought and no flowing word
That the most of o list'ning enraptured'
Could allure me from viands so temptingly
That I've missed the cxtempore speeches
But MY heart beats responsive to one theme
divine
The women we drink to in bumpers of wine;
So throw down my Napkin, my FORK ana my
To speak to the toast of the editors wife.
And of course you'll a%gree-since our wives
To brighten the scene and partake of our
cheer
That tie best of all angel kind Heaven has
sent
Tobring a mar sympathy. peace and content
To add to his JOYS and lessen his woes
And to smooth out the kinks and wrinkles OF
Is the idol we worship-the editors wife.
When the editor comes from his Office at night,
At a very late hour. in a dubious plight,
The impression prevails and the story is told
That an editors wife can be always caioled
With a fb about bridges and broken down
But We who have been there are free to
confess
That when husbands are late and supicions are
rife
1t is best to own up to the editors wife.
All such fables are cruel. and men are unkind
To libel a sex of such generous mind
A sex who economic all through the year,
That we may afford to exhibit them here;
The women who scrimpingly. patiently wait
For the annual feast at three dollars per
plate
For of all the wild Joys in the circus of life
A banquet seems best to the EDITORS wife.
But all jesting %aside-since ! dimly surmise
That the ladies regard me with sinister eyes
Who more than the wife of our bosom de-
serves
The sweet generation her beauty preserves?
And the years may go by. and our heads may
Her beauty glows ever as pure and as bright
AS when she faced poverty, sorrow and strife.
And blessed our estate as an editors wife.
And some of us. glancing back overthe years.
Can call up sweet visions all hallowed by
tears
A dress. or toy. or a hood that is torn,
Or a quaint little shoe that a baby has worn,
Or st white little face living under a pail,
And a moss-ccverao grave over Wonder
that's all:
But we know the great grief that has cloudcd
the life
And broken the heart of an editors wife.
You may drink to Your trade and your crea-
lures of fame
J raise not my glass till hear a sweet name:
Ills to her who alone uncomplainingly bears
The all of her sorrows and most of our cares
Whom the wealth of sweet influence subtlyi ill.,
spires
Our srandest achievements and noblcst de-
Ills to her I would drink-our companion in
life
Gods best inspiration-the EDITORS wife.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15

In the Durham books, tfansieteo xV, the
"Faderuren thu arth in hoefnum, sic sehal.
thin s,I,ris in heofnc s. in earthe," etc.
In thn Ormulum, translated about l2s5, John
l., 81, reads:
"Thnraffterr onn an otherrd agg [day1
Stod SAINT Johan Bapptisste.
Tweppen itwol stodenn thnr Within Hmm
OF his Learninngcnihhtess" (Disciplesl, etc.
Richard Rolla, about 1895. translated the
twentv.third Psalm after the following style:
shall wante; stede of pasture thar ne me settle.
In the water of the hetyng forth he me
brought: my soulc he turnyde." etc.
Wycliffe, 1880, translated Aat'he~ VIZ IT, 40
mo man may serue to two lords: forsothe
outher he schal hate the toon ana loue the
tother, outher he schal susteyne the toon and
dispisc the tother.. Ye mowne not serve to
'G On ~ Bible. 1850, Genesis Kilt, II,
Va. "Than their father Israel sayde unto the, VI
If must nedes be so now: than do thus, take
of the best frutes of the lande IN your YES
hawlne, and a curtesie of hony spyces and
myrre, dates and almondes:
thus nn p nGne.siaieS n'0'e' i'''' MAiA
IAN after two dayes was Easter, and the
daies of swete bred. And ye. hyc p,restes y
scrybes sought how they might take MN with
S s'osf ia the g Feast Rat e, day 70 G lest there s1 be am, an up proue;
in the people"
The same passage was printed in the Great
"Aftertw dayes was Easter and the dayes
of swetc breed. And the hye prestos ana the
scribes sought how they myghte take Him by
cratic s. put Him to death. But they savde,
Not in the feast daye, leest any busynes aryse
amoge the people,"
In the Douay Bible, 1909, Genesis KILL, L. 10
rendered as follows:
"Duhle money also carrie with you, and re-
carrie that you tounde in your sackes, lest per.
haps it was done by an errour...
Thc publication Of the New Revision of the
Old Testament will be looked forward to with
interest by many. That it will show many al
terations from the authorized version is Ger.
striking as were many of those in the New Re
vision OF the New Testament.-Ctncinndt En-
nnIiler
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15

"A cyclone in the West makes the
inhabitants feel dreahully blew.-N. r.
Jox77pok
Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-07
THE SOUTH.
Georgia,

Saving Her HonOr-A Brave Woman
 Kills a Man Who Would Rob Her of
 Her Virtue.
 MONROE, Jan. 6.-Three sharp reports of 8 rifs accompanied by the shriek of a woman aroused the quiet citizens of Centreville The reports came from the residence of Mrs. Whitley. People rushed there and were hor- rified to find the dead body of . man lying across the threshold, the top of his head blown of. The blood was flowing in great streams around his shoulders. At some dis tance of lay the upper part of the dead wild and frantic, just lsveling her gun for another shot, when one of her neighbors jumped to her side and knocked She weapon down in time to send the bullet through the viuced her that she was in the hands of friends, when she told the story of the traq- edy The dead man was John W.Dsall, @ young man of high character, whose standing in the community was of the best. While Mrs. Whitly was engaged in her duties Deall came in and placed his arm around her waist. She repulssd him with 8 slap in the face. He srasped her again, when by vigorous effort she loosed herself from him and ran out and around the building pursued by her assailant. She then ran into the house and seized rifle that had been left bear and fired as her pursuer had reached the door. The community is loud in it's praises of the brave woman's defense of her honor