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The Power of MOhammedanism.

1t gives one some idea of the tremen-
dous power of Northumberland to look
in upon the famous missionary school
of the prophets" held in the great
mosque, Ell Azhar, Cairo. In an i'm
mense hall or court the students are
gathered, not by tens or hundreds, but
by thousands There, under one roof,
you will find ten thousand scholars
One of the most interesting sights
we ever saw was that "two acres of
turbans;" and one of the most thrilling
sounds we ever heard was the perpetual
murmuring of those ten thousand voices,
all studying and reciting aloud. Each
one of the three or four hundred "pro-
fessors " sits at the foot of one of the
marble or porphyry columns of the
"splendid mosque, surrounded by a
group of scholars, of all ages, all sitting
in Turkish style on the pavement. The
students gather from many lands. They
come from thousands of miles up the
Nile-from beyond the great deserts OF
Africa; from the holy cities of Mecca
Medina, Jerusalem and Damascus
from Turkey, Persia, India and China
In this university there are no endow'
ments and no scholarships. The pro-
fessors do not receive farthing of sal
airy, and the scholars do not pay q
piastre for tuition. All are supported
by the pittance they can earn else
where and the charities of the faithful
The students live on the coarsest Of
food, wear the poorest of clothing, ant
at night sleep on the pavement of the
mosque. Thus they eat and study, re
cite and sleep on the same floor. Wher
the course of study is complete they &C
out as missionaries, Koran in hand
preaching the Moslem faith to the utter
most parts of the Mohammedan world
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SCHOOLGIRLS and Dress.

A lady who had taught for over thirty
years gave the following as result of her
experience: " When new scholar was
introduced" she said, 81 always looked
first at her dress. If that was plain,
neat and tidy, was pretty confident
that had good material to work with.
For the first two or three years of my
teaching was in the habit of scrutiniz-
ing the features and the formation of
the heads, but these came at last to be
quite secondary considerations. Our
school was so expensive that none but
daughters of the wealthy could possibly
enter it; so when young lady came to
the classroom in plain dress / was
sure that it was on account of her idea
of the fitness of things. This argued
common sense. Common sense is al
ways in direct antagonism to vanity, and
where there is no vanity there is seldom
elf-consciousness. So you see plain
dress came to mean great deal to me.
l learned never to expect anything from
girl whose school dress was silk OF
velvet. -BraHleboro Household.
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An Alabaster Cave.

One of the greatest wonders of the
world, yet but little known, is an ala
baster cave situated in the town of Au-
burn, pretty little place of one thou
sand inhabitants not far from the
American river, California. A party,
in quarrying rock a few years since,
made an opening TO this beautiful cave,
the honor of finding it being given to
Mr.. Gwinn. All who have seen this
magnificent wonder speak of it in the
most rapturous terms. A gradual de-
scent of about fifteen feet brings one to
the center of the first room, which is
thirty by one hundred feet AT the
north end there is the most magnificent
pulpit, of the Episcopal church style,
that man ever beheld. 1t seems that it
should be called the :" Holy of Holes -
1t is completed with the most beautiful
drapery of alabaster stalactites of all
colors, varying from white to pink red
overhanging the beholders. Immedi-
ately under the pulpit there is beauti-
full lake of water, extending to an un.
known distance. To the great admira.
ton of the tourist, on arriving at the
center of the first room he sees an en-
trance to an inner chamber still more
splendid, one hundred by two hundred
feet, with most beautiful alabaster over
hangings in every possible shape Of
drapery. There stands magnitude
giving the instant impression of q
Power above man-grandeur that defies
decay, antiquity that tells of ages un
numbered, beauty which the touch OF
time makes more beautiful, use ex
haustless for the service of man
strength imperishable as the globe
the monument of eternity, the trues
emblem of the everlasting, unchange
able, irresistible Majesty by whom, an(
for whom, all things were made.
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Religious Ilistellamp.
Thirsting.

Ho every one that thlrsteth,"
hear my Savior say,
Come, come we to the waters"
How can stay away
Nor gold, nor silver needed,
Nor any worth of mine,
o, precious invitation,
The message comes divinel
drank at broken cisterns,
bathed my fevered brow
At sparkling earthly fountains,
They cannot soothe me now.
My weary spirit fainteth,
My thirsty soul must go
To where those living fountains
In peace and beauty flow.
A tender earthly parent
Iknow would ever find
Some help, were ] in trouble,
And Christ Is not less kind.
know I'm all unworthy,
But need is all my plea;
What men denied to Jesus
He'll not deny to me.
" Ho, every one that thirsteth,"
Again hear him say.
o, gentle, loving Savior,
I'll come to thee to-day.
will not wander weary
Along life's dreary shore,
III take my cup and fill 1t,
Nor thirst for evermorel
Mrs. " X. bradford, in Neu FORK Observer
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Four LIVES SAVED. - DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup relieved four of my children
Of most alarming attack of whooping-
cough, from which their Threats and
necks became so swollen as to prevent
them from swallowing. Nothing would
give them even temporary relief until
This Syrup was tried. One bottle in
one night saved their lives, / verify
believe.-George w. Earhort, Captain
Police, Baltimore, Md.
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SMALL brother: "Where did you
get that cake, Annie?" Small sister:
Mother gave it to me-" Small
brother All, she always gives you
more than me-" Small sister: "Never
mind; she's going to put mustard plas-
tiers on us both tonight, and I'll ask
her to let you have the biggest"
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HUNTS KIDNEY AND LIvER] REM
EDY is excellent in all the diseases of
females. For delicate females, no
medicine equals it.
A CELEBRATED doctor says that
" Hunts Remedy is cure for heart
disease, and there is no substitute
for it,"
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A GENTLEMAN generous in his con-
tributions for church purposes but not
regular in his attendance upon public
worship was wittily described by a
clergyman as being not exactly pill
lar of the church, but kind of flying
buttress, supporting it from the outside"
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Hoops SARsAPARILLA has cured
thousands of cases of rheumatism.
This is abundant reason for belief that
it will cure you. Try it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-23

THE lazy and the industrious can
never live happily together; the lazy
despise the Industrious too much.
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THE MISSES BRIDGMAN, graduates of the Mon
roe School of Oratory and Dramatic Art, are pre-
pared to give instruction In voice-culture, express
sion, gesture and rendition. They Will respond "a
church societies. 7. o. address, Hardwick, VI.
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7 PER CENT INVESTMENTS !

Iowa Mortgages Improved Farms, not exceed
ing one-third of the cash value Of property bearing
interest at six per cent and seven per cent semi.
owner Also six per cent Iowa school Bonds on
call on or address, J. W. BROCK OF A. W. FERRlN,
Montpelier, Vermont.
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NOTICE..

The members of the National Life Insurance Com;
the COMPANY for the election OF Directors, will be
on Monday the ith day of January, A. ID, 1856.
GEO. w. REED, Secretary.
Montpelier, December |. 1885.
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advertisements.
One Experience of Many.

Having experienced great deal of
"Trouble! " from indigestion, so much so
that | came near losing my
LUe!
My trouble always came after eating any
food
However light
And digestible,
For two or three hours at a time / had to
go through the most
Excruciating pains,
And the only way ever got
"Relief!"
Was by throwing up all my stomach con-
tainedl No one can conceive the pains that
l had to go through, until
:" At last 3"
was taken $50 that for three weeks I
lay in bed and
Could eat nothing.!
My sufferings were so that | called two
doctors to give me something that would
stop the pain.
Their efforts were no good to me.
At last heard good deal
About your Hop Bitters!
And determined to try them"
Got bottle-in four hours took the con-
tents of
One!!!!
Next day 1 was out of bed, and have not
seen
Sick"
Hour, from the same cause, since
| have recommended it to hundreds of
others. You have no such
Advocate as | am
GEO. KENDALL, Allston, Boston, Mass.
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Little Brown jug.
IT'S you that makes me wear old clothes,
IT'S you that turns my friends to foes,
IT'S you that gives me ruby nose
Tin her nm and down she goes


The consequences of laying court to
the cup that insists on inebriating as it
cheers are very clearly defined in the
quoted rhyme, and are generally ac-
copied as inevitable results of a con-
frmed attachment There is no argu-
ment required to establish the declara-
tons of the first two lines, since it is
obvious that an investment of capital
in rye or bourbon leaves a very small
chance of the tailor being much encour-
aged; and many who have enjoyed
reputable associations, been favored of
a large circle of friends, and known the
grace of hearty pressure of the hand
fully appreciate the ease with which
a chronic irregularity of gait, peren-
NAL seediness of attire and per-
petual fetor of eXhaled whiskey will
drive the closest friends to a defensive
distance, transforming respect into pity,
pity into contempt, contempt into posi-
tive disgust by successive and rapid
stages. These fruits of inebriety are
patent to the least thoughtful. But
there has been some speculation re-
specting the deductions of the third
line. 1t is well understood, of course,
that the color of the nose is the best
evidence that the tippler may be reck-
oned past graduate in the art of
learning how to drink, the redder the
beak the higher being the degree of
distinction achieved as drunkard,
though it is singular fact that as the
topper improves in capacity for drink he
degenerates in quality of manhood.
The wonder is, however, that the nasal
organ should become the spirituous ba-
rometer, and why it is that the magenta
tint that settles so plentifully there that
it in time deepens to maroon. 1t has
been suggested that, inasmuch as the
nose of the drinker hovers fondly over
the glass, or intrudes, the fumes of al
cohol tend to paint the organ red as a
special token of favor. Again, it has
been intimated that the nose ceases to
have an acute sensitiveness for the
odors of rum, whiskey and strongly
spiced drinks, and that its ecstatic long
ing for the fragrant smell causes the
color, which is really the sign of de-
sire. But science has come to frown
upon these cheerful theories, these
consolatory explanations with which
the drunkard excuses his blemishes.
Nothing so poetic will answer the pur-
pose of science. That stern destroyer
of mock sentiment and demolisher of
shams throws quite a new light on the
dull glare of the liquor-inflamed pro-
boscis. A learned physician has re-
Gently avowed that the heart of the
devotee of the little brown jug has a
greatly accelerated motion in proper
ton as the habit of drink grows apace,
and that the cardia of the accomplished
drunkard beats about thirteen times
oftener than heart in normal state
of health. This enables the arteries to
carry the blood to the nose much faster
than the veins of the peculiarly con-
structed organ can return it, Accord
ingly, not only does the nose become
enlarged gradually, but the blood in it
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Seletteo Storm.
Origin of a Familiar Line.

Though lost to sight to memory dear y
originated with Ruthven jenkins and was
first published in the Greenwich MogdziR'
for Marines in 1902. AS a literary gem W,
quote the whole poem:
Sweetheart, good-byel yon futterng sail
Is spread to wait me far from thee,
And soon before the favoring gale
My ship shall bound upon the sea.
Perchance, all desolate and forlorn,
These eyes shall miss thee many year,
But unforgotten every charm
Though lost to sight to memory dear.
Sweetheart, goodbye! one last embraced
oh. cruel fate, true souls to sever!
Yet in this hearts most sacred place
Thou. thou alone shalt dwell forever
And still shall recollectons trace
In fancy's mirror, ever near,
Each smile, each tear, that form, that face,
Though lost to sight to memory dear.
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becomes congested in the overcharged
vestals, hence that purpling color known
as toper's red. 1t is disease, then, not
iollity, that bedecks the dominant facial
feature like the wattles of a turkey
cock, fact many more have suspected
than have been able to define. AS the
nose CLEANS red and redder the dram
drinker may be warned of his fate, for
it is not alone the nose that is congested
when that condition obtains. The liver
and other portions of the internal anat-
omy have the nose for their flag of dis
tress, and in its color paints their own
unhealth. Chicago Inter-O Ocean.
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"Father's Old Boots are There.v

Many picture of moving pathos APP
pears in the dark gallery of drunken
ness. We have seen but few more
touching ones than this, from the pen
of Mrs. NJ. A. Kinder. She describes
little Benny, the son of a drunken
father, sitting in a room with his
mother and little sister. By looking at
this sad and thoughtful face one would
have taken him to be ten years of age,
yet he was but six. No wonder. For
four years this almost baby had been
used to seeing a drunken father 90 in
and out of the cottage. He scarcely re-
members anything from him but cruelty
and abuse, especially toward his kind
and loving mother. But now he was
deadl The green sod had lain on his
grave week or so, but the terrible eff
fects of his conduct were not buried
with him. The poor children would
start with shudder at every uncertain
step on the walk outside and at every
hesitating hand upon the latch On
the day mentioned above, Benny's
mother was getting dinner. Will my
little son go to the wood-shed and get
mother few sticks to finish boiling
the kettle?' 81 don't like to 90 to the
wood shed, mamma" said Benny, look
ing down. " Why, my son?" &C. Be-
cause there is a pair of fathers old
boots on the beam out there, and 1
don't like to see them" " Why do
you mind the old boots, Benny, any
more than you do your fathers old coat
and hat upstairs?'' " Because" said
Benny, the tears filling his blue eyes,
"they look as if they wanted to kick
me-" O the dreadful after-nfuence of
a drunken father to innocent children!
what an awful memory to bear through
life!-RicbmOnd Christian AdrOcate.
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RHEUMATISM is the most painful and
most troublesome disease that afllicts
humanity. 1t comes when we least eX-
pect il and when we have no time to be
interviewed by it. The only reliable
remedy that we ever found is JOhnsOn'S
Anodyne Liniment.
NEARLY all diseases that afllict hui
mainly originate in the stomach, liver
or bowels, and might be prevented if
people would use little common sense !;
but they will not. They rather take
Parsons Purgdtire Pills, because one
is dose.
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"See there, Rob- said my uncle,
pointing to the pieces laying in the
pool. Jenny has just whisked that
iachrymatory off the table with her
brush. / shall never have the heart to
try to fill another"
" Are you quite sure, Uncle Eve
rard 20
" Very sure, Rob; / have neither the
spirit nor the courage to attempt it,"
was the mournful reply.
" Courage" " spirit" Odd terms, l
thought, to apply to such task, but |
let them pass without comment.
Uncle Everard sat for long time in
a silence / would not break, but at last
he laughed as he used to do before the
lachrymatory came into his possession.
" Do you know, Rob, | have been
the biggest kind of an old fool ?''
l hurriedly disclaimed any such
knowledge.
It's fact, though, all the same,
and have done with the Romans and
their lachrymatories from this time on.
Jenny" he called, going to the door.
Yes, sir" and the housemaid APP
peared, somewhat less fearful than
before.
"Never mind, Jenny, about the
vase,' said my uncle, kindly, but just
brush up the pieces and carry them
away; and here is little something for
your trouble" And the astonished
Jenny left the room the richer by a
iive-dollar gold piece.
When left the room also, a half
hour later, my uncle was busily feeding
the fire in the CRATE with the literature
of woe that had Uttered his room for
the past six months.-OScar Fdy
adams, IN Good Cheer.
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H. s. whitney, assistant postmaster, Putnam.
Conn, writes " have suffered untold agony with
kidney and liver complaints; my water was very bad
at times | actually passed blood. HUNTS lKidney
and Liver REMEDY has benefited me more than all
other medicines used"
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Downright Cruelty.

To permit yourself and family to
Suffer!
With sickness when it can be prevented
and cured so easily
With Hop Bitters!!,
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WHY don't you try Carriers Little
Liver Pills? They are positive cure
for sick-headache and all the ills pro-
duced by disordered liver. Only one
pill dose.
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"a willing heart Iightens work.


Mr.. Isaiah Cook. sheriff of Skowhegan Maine,
writes: have been afflicted for over twenty years
with weakness of the kidneys and liver. The first
bottle of HUNTS Kidney and Liver REMEDY re-
lieved all pains in the back and sides"
Price Sl.25. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet to
HUNTS REMEDY CO., Providence. r. /.
Sold by all Druggists
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Mr.. Othniel eager, town clerk Norwich, Conn.
eghty-nine years old, writes For years have suf
fered with disease of the kidneys and bladder, and
have no hesitancy In recommending HUNTS Kidney
and Liver REMEDY specific for these com
plants"
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HUNTS Kidney and Liver REMEDY is wonderful
medicine. I cordially recommend its to those
suffering from dropsy kidney troubles George
b. RoJeUsoR DEPUTY Sherit, Bangor, Maine.
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W." None genuine without bunch of
green Hops on the white label Shun all
the vile poisonous stuff with "Hop" or
" Hops " in their name.
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PATIENTS I!
r. n. EDDY,

X. RI. EDDY,
No. 70 State Street, opposite Kiiby, Boston,
Secures Patents in the United States; also in Great
Britain, France and other foreign countries Copies
of the claims of any Patent furnished by RENTING
one dollar. Assignments recorded at Washington No
Agency in the United States possesses superior faculties
for obtaining Patents dscertdRiRg the pdteRtGbihty
r.. EDDY, Solicitor of Patents.
TESTIMONIALS.
81 regard Mr.. Eddy as of the most capable and
successful practitioners with whom have had official
intercourse. .
"CHAS. MASON, Commissioner of Patents"
" Inventors cannot employ person more trust
worthy capable of securing for them an early
and favorable consideration at the Patent ONCE.
edmund BURKE, late Commissioner of Patents"
Boston, October 49, 1870.
or. H. Eddy, Esq: Dear Str-lou procured for me,
In 1910, my first patent. Since then you have acted
for and advised me in hundreds of cases and pro-
cured many patents, reissues and extensions. have
occasionally employed the best agencies in New
York Philadelphia and Washington but l still give
you almost the whole of my business In your line,
and advise others to employ you
Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER"
Boston, January |. 1855. $3.50
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Shallow brooks are often noisy"

HUNTS kidney and Liver REMEDY
Is purely vegetable and meets a want never before
furnished to the public, and the utmost reliance
may be placed in 1t.
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GENTs:-I have been subject to Sick
Headache for years, and have tried, in
vain, many advertised remedies and sew
eral physicians, but all to no purpose. At
last / tried your B. b. Bitters-without
much faith, admit-but to-day | can
truly say, that after taking the third both,
have not suffered from it. | recommend
it to all my friends; several have been
cured by it, My little grandson was per
manently cured of Biliousness and Sick
Headache, which were so severe as to
cause convulsions. They haveal ceased
since he commenced the use of BE. B.
MRS. B. G. BODLE,
Orange, Luzerne County, Pa.
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HUNTS kidney and
Liver REMEDY cures
Pain in the Side. Back or
Loins, General Debility. Fe-
male Diseases, Disturb c d
Sleep, Loss of Appetite and
Bright's Disease,
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OFFICIAL TESTIMONY.

"Disease is soon shaken, by Hunts Remedy taken
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BLOOD PURIFIER AND TONIC
To the General System.

Cures Malarial dis
eases, and to all suf-
caused by malaria it
g a healthy action of
It's forms.
Is a Nerve Tonic
which never fails. 1t
us system, and pro-
Is the best medicine
for Kidney Com
all of the best RENE
.ails to cure.
Immediately relieves
and permanently
, piles, sick headache,
| bowels, with none Of
IF powerful cathartics.
Strengthens the
stomach, and is a
organs, making it one
,sia, indigestion, etc.
Is never known to
fail to relieve and
In severe and obsti-
one-fourth ounce of
then use the medicine
and it will cure you.
Is the safest and
best remedy in exist
to females, as thous-
Is prepared by an
apothecary who has
pounding medicines.
lie, consisting of roots,
.e names OF which are
1t is the best medi-
quoting, bracing and
Is sold at s1.OO per
bottle; six bottles
every wholesale and
5 or OF the proprietor,
INE, Windsor, VT.
Try Compound in
II IN stock, ! will, on
bottles to any address
and express charges
Western Agent, 81
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"Punctuality begets confidence"
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Every cloud has a silver
lining"