The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-06
WilliamstOwn.

find themselves In the jaws Of bankruptcy.
THE relative value to man OF steam and
electricity was the theme Of discussion In the
South Hill lyceum this week Miss Lucia Har-
rman conducted the paper.
THE Edison Martin farm has been decreed to
the Methodist society, and John Farnham Is
the chairman OF the committee for renting It,
The man who takes 1t will get most excellent
farm.
DISTRICT No. 10 is getting to be altogether
too foxy" As to the times and seasons of
fox-huntiDg, we are not posted, but the num-
Der and boldness OF foxes to be seen In that
section these days would delight fox hunter,
we should suppose.
THE Methodists had an excellent quarterly
meeting last Sunday, Presiding Elder Spencer
declaiming the best sermon he has ever
preached here. SO saws Rev Mr.. Wells.
Mr.. Hutton OF Delaware, brother-in-law of
Presiding Elder Spencer. was here with him.
1t was his first visit to the North, and he was
very favorably impressed with this section
ARE not our thanks due Messrs. Wilbur
Adams and Russell Jeffords for Professor Roch-
eleau's instructive lecture, since they stood
sponsors for the professors payP They were
more fortunate than two young men we knew
OF here, years ago, who hired a lecturer from
Boston in the same way, and had part of the
bill to foot out OF their own pockets How
much youthful and laudable enthusiasm gets
killed In this way.
THE principal matter Of interest to the town
that we hear discussed, nowadays, Is the
town system Of schools. which some OF our cit
liens are DESTROYS Of adopting. The great
want Just now is to get facts concerning the
working OF the system where it has been thor
oughly tried. Are there not men in towns
where 1t has been thus tested that will give to
THE WATCHMAN all that needs to be said on
both sides Of the question, and that at once?
A RECENT letter from an important manufac-
turing point In the West tells of dullness of
times that makes it hard for all to find work,
while right here in Williamstown as high as
$40 month and board is paid for farm help
this winter. A first-class hand, in a few cases,
could perhaps contract for twelve months to
come for quite an advance on this price per
month. Lively Hoosiers, Suckers and Badgers,
and "sich," better come East and "grow up
with the country"
THE circular conference will meet at the
Congregational church In this place on Tuesday,
February IL. The exercises will be as follows
Tuesday morning, at half-past ten o'clock, So
cial meeting; eleven sermon by Rev. Peter
Mcmillan of Barre; forty minutes past eleven,
reports from the churches; twelve o'clock, ad.
| journment for dinner. In the afternoon, at
fifteen minutes past one O'clock service Of
song; forty five minutes past one, discussion
| U) The duties OF pastor as seen by the men,
beers Of the church-d, in the way of conducting
meetings; b. visiting his parish, and especially
the sick (2) The duties Of the members of
|
to attendance on the Sabbath service and help
in the social meetings; b, with regard to the
pecuniary support Of the pastor.
IT is because human nature Is always and
everywhere so much alike, and men of brains,
breeding and bullion" are in danger of lord
ing it over their fellows (instead Of feeling as
they ought, that superior gifts should make
them the servants Of their felows), it is be-
cause OF all this that an extract from a letter
written lordly old genius is worth reading.
OF course it was written by lady. Genius
will render you great" she says; may vir-
tue render you beloved. Remove the awful
distance between you and ordinary men by
kind and gentle manners; deal gently with
their inferiority, and be convinced they will
respect you as much, and like you more. Let
not unworthy the trouble. This exercise will
prove its own reward. 1t must be pleasing
thing to live in the affections of others" This
advice seems to have been lost on the man,
though, and his life was shorn Of its best pos.
sibilities.
WHILE rummaging, the other day, we CAME
upon an old magazine called The Aduiser, Oh
Vermont Evangelical Magazine, and published
in Middebury in 1915. 1t was conducted by
one of the professors in Mddlebury college
We have been much interested in reading thi:
old periodical. To be sure it Is not so very old
in one view of it. But if, as one of our promi.
nent American clergymen is reported recently
to have said, history covers six Thousand
years, and the useful acts only two hundred,
the old book has seen good many of thu
worlds best days To the writer of the " In
troductory Address " 1t had looked as il "tht
bottom " was to drop out OF everything goot
in the world, such were the five and twenty
ears preceding Of turmoil revolution, war
and havoc" But now it did look brighter
and there was some hope for the world. W.
find a sharp article on " Alteration in Preach
ers that would indicate that all the vanity OF
tho World had haan ornUdad into aaa lot
ter days In the Foreign Religious department
is q long article on explorations in Africa tina
must have read in those days somewhat as d.
SANKEY'S travels now. Another interesting
article is missionary tour through Ohio, Indi
ana and Illinois. Cincinnati is described as g
fourishing town of five thousand inhabitant
supported by a rich back country" mot les
than thirteen thousand Bibles were wanted il
Ohio" Then there was the lamentable fac
that in Illinois there was not Presbyterian
preacher, and only one or two in Indiana, ant
80 on Altogether this magazine contain
much wheat and precious little chaff. Verify
"the fathers did have healthy diet.
HAwLEY GALE was severely hurt last week
while leading a colt. AS we hear it, he fell
I while going through narrow passage-way
jury to a shoulder which had before been hurt
80. Carrie Waterman, granddaughter OF tn
late Calvin Ainsworth, Is about completing
course in the kindergarten department of tn
Oswego IN. ~ normal school,. :. John PER-
is again seen on our streets He has warn
praise for DR.. Bailey's care Of him in his sick
ness. Norman G. Davis, who farms success
fully, says that year or two's trial of cotton
seed meal fed to cows convinces him of il
J value to such an extent that he proposes
continue feeding it,. The man that told us
while ago there was to be "drop in tn
= prices of common horses" must be " a blood
t relation" to Vennor and Virgins. =. Ot
: Smiths trade with Joel Jersey, for rentin
thu lattar's farm fell through and Mr. Smit