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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
Then and Now.

Some years ago DIR. Holland, then editor
of Scribner's Monthly, wrote the following
paragraph ave heard defined, few
Sundays since, from pulpit as generous
as it is able, the distinction between
profession and a vocation. There are men
who choose to be preachers. Having care
fully weighed all other professions in the
balance, they adopt the ministerial profess
sion yet great multitude of them have
no vocation. They are not called to
preach. 1t is not woe to them if they
do not preach. They do not preach be-
cause they must preach. We can imagine
a set of simple, profe ssional men who will
be willing to take their creed and stay
with it, and stand by it, and prosecute
their betters, who, with the vocation to
preach, take their license from the highest
source, and the liberty that always goes
with it. When such men as Swing and
Eggleston and Murray, with their crowded
churches, find themselves happier outside
of the great sectarian organizations than
within them-more attractive, more use
full, more infuentisl--the people ought to
learn something of the vivifying effect of
Christian liberty, and the necessity of
either casting aside, or, if that be not
practicable, of greatly modifying the old
enough of essential Christian truth to be
thorough Christian himself, in character
and in life, is good enough to teach, if he
has divine vocation to teach and the
machine that cuts off his head is wretched
machine which, in our opinion, ought to
be smashed" DR.. Holland is no longer
here to revise his judgments, but the
judgments remain, and may be considered
in the light of present facts, and the re-
Violations of the intervening time. Three
names are mentioned by DR.. Holland as
men "more attractive, more useful, more
influential outside of the great church
organizations and so it looked to the OBJ
server of the current opinions ten years
ago. How seems it now Professor Swing
has large congregation which gathers
once day in theater in Chicago. Mr..
Eggleston preached and wrote novels OF
western life in vein which pleased for a
time, but his star seems to have declined,
and we are now unable to say where he is
and what he is doing. He does not seem to
have been one of those who "took their Ii
cense to preach from the highest source
And Murray-alas and alas The Music
Hall closed the crowds dispersed; the
garlands dead the eloquent preacher 8
wanderer, or essaying with fruitless words
to prove 10 small groups that the truths
he once preached were false. How much
of precious truth must the church of Goo
surrender to keep for these cratic soul,
the wide liberty they claim ?-Presby
| teridn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
The Old Stump.

"Young gentlemen" once said DR..
Beecher, pausing in the midst of lee
ture on the Divine DEGREES, and raising
his spectacles over his forehead in way
he had when some extemporaneous
thought struck him, theology is a
mighty deep. 1t has its Gains and its
storms, its joys and its dangers. And
many weak souls and some strong ones
are wrecked because they venture too far
without taking the proper bearings. l go
out myself, sometimes, but | try to be
careful. walk along the shore and pick
out some sturdy old stump of doctrine,
which has stood there firmly for thou
sands of years and never pulled out. |
make fast to that, and so, when [ miss
my footing, haul on the line. l don't
know where am, but know where the
stump is. settled that point before ]
started"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
Newly Married Peoples Home.

The Rev. DR.. John Hall, in the beaut;-
full book of his Just published by the
American Sunday school Union, after dis
cussing with great good sense the prelim-
mary proceedings, comes to the question
of home after getting married, and this
is what he says on that point: cit is
good for the newly married, as rule, to
begin by themselves, together, without
the officious direction of others, however
well meaning, and it is good, if possible,
to be in home, not clearinghouse nor
hotel. 1t may be love in a cottage
and the cottage may be humble but it is
commonly better adapted to the growth
of true, pure, simple life than rooms
in one of those non-military barracks
which the needs of our great cities are
supposed to demand. A 'mess.table' is
doubtless proper for the officers of a regi-
ment, or group of monks. The passen-
gers of train or an ocean steamer of
course can properly dine together; but
for young married people, it is best that
they should live together, their door clos
ing out the world that they should be
all in all, under God, to each other; that
the young wife should not be pursued by
calculations as to how she looks to hun
dred spectators that he and she should
plan together, wisely adapt their modes
and habits of life to means and prospects,
always remembering that it is compare
lively easy to 60 up, but exceedingly diff
ficult to descend gracefully. We do not
overrate the poetry of the lowly cottage (;
we are distinctly sensible of the difficulty
of reading the register or the 'stove
into the versifcation of the fireside,' or
of the heroic watchword pro aris ct focis,
for affairs and hearths. We have read, of
course, of Homemade pop tina. will
not foam, and homemade dishes that
drive one from home,' but we adhere
to the conviction that a modest, self.
contained dwelling is morally more
healthy, more conducive to permanent
happiness, more likely to have its
'grace before meat, its family altar, and
its practical prudence in management
than the incest apartments in the most
attractive hotel. How hard it has been
in many cases, to make the transition
from the dishes of French cook, at q
salary of five thousand year, to the more
modest table of wife's own arranging
Better to begin at the beginning, and to
conquer the prosaic difficulties of life
while the poetry of early love is still real
and while the later cares and anxieties OF
life are not yet pressing, than to be forced
to the task when other and inevitable bur
dens have to be carried"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
Ihe 6nesidf.
REMEMBER, BOYS.

Little friends, when you at play on the street,
Half frantic with frolic, laughter and noise,
Don't ever forget to bow when you meet
When you meet an old man with gray hairs, my boys.
Is the aged man feeble, decrept and lame?
Does he lean on his staff with unsteady poise7
Never mock at his sorrow, but stop your game.
And bow to the with gray hairs, my boys.
II he sometimes halts in his tottering pace
To witness the flow of your innocent joys
Don't ioste the old man out of his place,
But greet his gray locks with a bow, my boys.
Remember, the years are only a few
Since he on the street, with his games and toys,
Was healthy and happy and active, like YOU
And bright as the sun were his curls my boys.
But age has furrowed the cheek that was fair;
While sorrows have broken his once mellow voice
And now there is many silvery hair
on the head where the curs were so bright my boys.
The spring day of youth is a gem; II is gold
But time all its glorious luster destroys;
And, gay little friends II you live to be old,
Your steps will be slow, your locks gray, my boys.
So, when you are blithely at play on the street,
Half frantic with frolic and laughter and noise,
Remember to pleasantly bow when you meet
When you meet an old man with gray hairs, my boys
-IndepeRdeRt
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

lines over which the train runs traverse
multitude of cities and towns, most OF
them having the streets crossing the track
on the level, and great many other rail.
roads are crossed at grade. Therefore,
although the actual stops between Jersey
City and Chicago are only seven, run
exceeding ten miles without meeting the
necessity of checking the speed is rare"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
ReIiaions sMisrelIany.
HOW TO GROW OLD


Far from the storms that are lashing the ocean,
Nearer each day to the pleasant home-light
Far from the waves that are big with commotlon,
Under full sail, and the barber in sight:
Growing old cheerfuly, cheerful and bright.
Past all the winds that are adverse and chilling,
Past all the islands that lured thee to rest,
Past all the currents that lured thee, unwilling,
Far from thy course TO the land of the blesti
Growing old peacefully, peaceful and blest.
Never feeling Of envy sorrow
When the bright faces Of children are seen
Never year from the young wouldst thou borrow
Thou dost remember what lieth between:
Growing old willingly, thankful, serene.
Hearts at the sound Of thy coming are lightened,
Ready and willing thy hand to relieve;
Many face at thy kind word has frightened
1t is more blessed to give than receiver"
Growing old happily, ceaslng to grieve.
Eyes that grow dim to the earth and Its glory
Have sweet recsmpense youth cannot know;
Ears that grow dull to the world and its story
Drink in the songs that from paradise flow;
Growing old graclously- 0hristian-like grow.
-Christidn at Work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

How MAKE BREAD.-I take a pack
age of Horsford's Bread Preparation, sift
it in twenty-five pounds of -four, set it
away, and have it handy for use. When
l mix batch of bread, take sweet milk,
stir in -four until it is very thick batter,
pour it into CREASED pans, and put them in
q hot oven. have my oven and pans
hot, before commencing to mix, and put
the loaves into the oven just as quick as
| can. That is all / have 10 do. Result (:
bread that is sweet, moist and light.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
Greatest on Earth!

CuTIcuRA REMEDIES are the greatest medicines on
earth Had the worst Salt Rheum in this county.
My mother had twenty years, and In fact died from
It, believe CUTIcURA would have saved her life. Ny
arms breast and head were covered for three years.
which nothing relieved cured until used the Curl
cURA RRsoLvRNT internally, and CuTICURA and Curl
cURA SOAP externally. j. W. ADAMS, Newark, o.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

The virtue which the world wants is a
healthful virtue, not valetudinarian vii
tue; virtue which can expose itself to
the risks inseparable from all spirited ex-
ertion, not a virtue which keeps out of
common air for fear of infection, and es-
chews the common food as too stimulat-
ing.-Macdulay.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
Climbing th9 Spiral Stairs.
Architecture in a New
England Parsonage.

Eyes," she said, children married and gone,
and my husband and ait by winter fire much as
did before the little to widen the circle.
Life ia something like spiral staircase all the
time coming around over the spot started from, only
one degree further up the stairs"
"That is pretty Illustration remarked her friend.
musngly gazing into the glowing Goals which radated
pleasant heat from the many windowed stove You
know cannot stop toing up the hill, though"
surely cannot, and for myself don't find fault
with that necessity provided the advance in life not
attended with calamity suffering, for have had my
share of that Not long since my health utterly broke
down. My system full of malaria. My digestion
became thoroughly disordered and my were in
wreched state. langud, ate little and that with
out enjoying it, and had strength ambition to
form my light household duties. Medical treat
ment failed to reach the seat of the trouble. The dis
ease-which seemed to be weakness of all the vital
gans-progressed until had several attacks which my
physicians pronounced to be acute congestion Of the
stomach. The last of these desperate struggle,
and given up to die. As the crisis had partially
passed, my husband heard of the merits OF PAR
KER'S TONIC nvigorant in just such cases
mine. took and felt its good effects at once 1t
appeared pervade my body though the blessing of
new life had come to Taking other medicine 1
continued to improve, and In better health than
have been for a long time"
Extract from interview with the wife of Rev. p.
Perry, Pastor of Baptist Church, Coldbrook, Mass
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

EDPDEcoRATIvE ART.-Explicit direc.
tions for every use are given with the Dia.
mond Dyes. For dyeing MOSES, grasses,
eggs, ivory, hair, etc. Ten cents. Druggists
keep them. Wells, Richardson & Co.,
Burlington, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

LET your actions follow the guidance
of your judgment, and if between them
both you go down the Falls of Niagara,
go 1t is the only course worthy of a
man.-Horace Bushnell.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

IT is not what young man or young
woman earns, but what one saves, that
tells in the race for the prize of material
success in life.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
1t is a Fact!

Hundreds Of letters in possession (copes OF which
may be had by return mail authority for the
assertion that Skim Scalp and Blood Humors, whether
Scrufulous Inherited or Contagious, may NOW be per-
manently cured by CUTICURA RRsoLvENT the new
Blood Purifier, Dnretic and Aperent, internally, and
CUTICURA and CUTIcURA SOAP, the great Skin Cures
and Beauters externally in half the time and at
one-half the expense of any other
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
For Sale!

The well-k known David Gould farm so-called situated
tanning IFS acres of excellent grass land suitably d.
vided into tillage and pasture. On the farm Is an
extra early sugar orchard of 500 trees with large
supply, Of wood and timber also a good apple
orchard The buildings consist of thoroughly built
one story and half house with ELL cattle and horse
barns and granary all Of which are supplied with rum
desirable place, and will be sold at bargain 10 close
estate. A. o. CUMMINS, Administrator.
Montpelier, February q, 1884. 34-tf
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
Great Blood Medicines

The half has not been told to the great curative
powers of the CuTIcuRA REMEDIES. have paid hum
dreds of dollars for medicines to discs of the
blood and skim and found anything yet to equal
the CUTICURA REMEDIES. CHAS. A. WILLIAMS.
Providence, X. I.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
John .. wilkins,
General Ag't for Ve1m ont.
Montpelier, VT.
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-10-03
Small CHANGE.


Ii is an astonishing: fact hat IT,, south
adopted baked hc,,ii, and cudii h balls
before she took TIE i,ln'ilc prnnt into
her good grtc,'> he latter sill re
mains under the ban, and is not likely
TO he regarded with favor for >oin. time
to come. New Orleans is making an eff
fort 10 get the penny started in circula-
ton III time Tor the exposition While
the south continues to resist
the introduction of II smaller r,.n
than the nickc, there is an incrta> In.
demand al the north for til. coli
age OF half cents. Nearly every c";ntry
but ours las Il smaller coina-r. The
French c,niimc j., only one iii;h Of |
cent, the Portuguese rel only onc-irnth,
and the Chinese cash, or sen. even of
less vauc Many small article, in this
country are :olda the rate of tWourmore
for c ut, but when Inc cu>tomcrttucS 10;
want a. much as cent 5 worth he feels
the Inconvenience and injustice of h;ins
compelled Ia buy more than he wants
simply h,caliSc the government has
failed 10 provide lis with small coins.
There is Room lor reform in Til, dircc-
ton.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-10-03
COULD NOT HAVE LIVED MANY DAYS"

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Carey, Topeka, Kansas, is of so direct and
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10 convince the most skeptical that in
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velous healing and restoring power:
TO"EK a, KANSAS. June Nth. ieS2.
"DRS. SrARkEY x PALEN: Gentlemen:
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If You will refer to my description of her
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These attacks first came once in two or
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-10-03
detroit Free Press

There was streak Of shade about six
inches wide and nine feet long at the
corner Of Congress and Griswold streets
at noon the other day, and Il great big
hulk of man, coat off, hat in han and
rivulcts of preparation pouring down
his face, crowded boy out of it and
stood there and groancd and painted
like sick horse.
"Boy!' he said, as he began to feel a
little better, I'm the biggest fool in
America!'
YES, sir," was the respectful reply
Last winter ravcd and took on
about the cold. sworc that this was
no countrv to live in. wanted to shoot
coal dealers and stovcmakers, and
whooped around because the street ears
weren't warmed Boy, see me now"
Eyes, sir; you are melting right
away!'
Correct 1t wasn't three weeks ago
that | wanted to knock man down for
predicting that we'd have any summer,
and now just think of 90 degrees in the
shader'
Regular creek pouring down the back
of your neck, sir"
Il know it know it! There are
creeks and rivers running lengthways
and crossways of me until | want to
swim, and yet in May went blowing
around here that any man who'd live in
such a cold country ought to be sent to a
fool asylum. Boy!'
"Ies, sir"
81 crowded You out of your shade.
1t was mean trick. Here's a quarter
to sootho your feelings. I'm going to
take that Car for home. When | gel
there Pm going to have piece of frozen
oilcloth 81 read over the cellar floor, and
I'm going to lay down on it and have
ice heaped around me until I'm frozen
as solid as bone. Boyv'
"Yes, sir"
''Let this country alone. She's all
right. Let this weather alone She
knows her business. Please empty I'll.
water out of my coat pockets, mop the
back OF my neck like good boy, and III
move on"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-10-03
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Youths Communion. |


DIR. Holmes does not save his bright
thoughts.for print and the public, but is
often as witty while chatting with one or
two friends as was ever the Auto,.rat or
Professor of the Breakfast Table. A
young physician once asked him for IA
suitable motto. Small fevers CRATE
fully received was the witty response.
lie was complaining IA Il comical way to
a lady of the minute portion Of honey
that was given to him at q hotel At
tea. "A mere trifie; the wo. of IL yer,
young bee in an idle half hour" Die
they give you no comb, Doctor.' she
laughingly inquired. Possibly one
tooth, madam"
Several of the now famous writers
and lecturers of Boston were speaking
of their lecture experiences, when the
subject of pay was brought up. Each
man of the company was certain that he
had received the smallest sum. But DR..
Holmes made climax by saying:
Listen, gentlemen, | had engaged to
give lecture for S.. After IL was over
a grave-looking deacon came to me and
said: 'Mr. Holmes, we agreed to give
you s., but your task wasn't just what
we expected, and guess that tew fifty
will dow"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-10-03
OyIf of Epsi D!OyOlcnt.

David Swing in Weekly Magazine
There cannot be in the world OF IN
erring race, city in which there shall
be none out of money and out of work
The facts of bad judgement, bad habits,
poor ability, uncertainty of demand,
new inventions, panics and many other
disturbing causes make it impossible that
many successive years should come with
out bringing the unpleasant spectacle of
men out Of work.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-10-03

John Kuhn. of Lafayette, Ind. had very mar
row escape from death. This is his own story
"One year ago was in the last stages of Con
sumption. Our best physicians gave my case
up. l finally got so low that our doctor said
could not live twenty-four hours. My friend
then purchased bottle of DIR. WIN. HALLS
BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS which benefited me-
| continued until am now in perfect health
having used no other medicine"