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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
WOman's Mission.

Woman's mission is not to seek
pleasure, but to make herself pleasing
that is, beautiful as possible-pleasing
in person, pleasing in thought, pleas
ing in manner, pleasing in spirit. This
truth is foreshadowed in the physical
nature. In man you look for dignity,
honesty, strength. No matter how plain
though plain as Lincoln-the manly
thing is dignity, strength, honesty. But
in woman you look for firmness, love,
sweetness. A man with womanly face
is unmanly, and woman with manly
face is unwomanly. What the noun
tains, oceans, great rivers and tall oaks
are in nature, that man is in the world
of mental and moral life. What the
green valleys, the singing brooks, the
blooming flowers and the fruitful fields
are in nature, that woman is in life.
The mountains and the valleys each
have their glory, and each adds to the
glory OF the other; but when you seek
to make them alike you destroy the
glory of both. Man is to represent the
power of Gods truth, woman the beauty
of Gods truth. Whom is woman to
seek to please? First, Christ. This is
the bottom motive of her life, this her
rule of action, this the basis of her
plans. Will it please Christ? This gives
foundation to all questions and elevates
the life out of cold morality or legality
into service of both the reason and
the heart; this lifts her out of slavery
to the rules of society. This is uni
versal standard for all-youngest and
oldest, richest, poorest-will it please
Christ? The Master paints this pic
ture when he calls the Church his bride.
This is the one universal basis of a
beautiful character. There can be
nothing deeper, broader, higher, purer,
safer or more joyful. Then she repre-
sents her half of the divine nature, and
the Son of God and the Son of Mary
brings out in her. life his own image and
that of the sweetest of women, and she
has character firm, patient, honest,
pure, faithful and gentle. There was
poor English servant girl who lived
in wealthy family, and the work was
dirty and hard and the master not
agreeable. She tried to be Christian
and live to please her Savior, but the
thought came, How can do all this
hard work for this unkind man in a
|
brought to her his shoes to clean, al
covered with mud, and her heart re.
belled; but as she was brushing them
the thought flashed across her mind
If these were Jesus Christ's shoes
how l would make them shine!'
Thus new conception of life dawned
upon her soul, giving it dignity, great
ness as never before. Thistle high.
est thought which can enter the mind
living to please Christ, makes life safe
from sin, brave in trials, glad in lone
someness and eternal in its love. This
is the science of living. The art of life
is to please others-pleasing Christ the
foundation, pleasing others the decora
ton of the building. Pleasing Chris
forms the roots of life, which makes
it strong; pleasing others forms thu
branches and leaves of the living tree
founded in Christ.-Rev. s. Baker, II
Morning Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09

the good mans patience left him. He
fretted and scolded, and said undigni-
fed and unkind things, until the tired
wife burst into tears and escaped to
her room. The hours of the afternoon
wore away, during which the parson
called upon old Brother Jones, who was
all bowed down with rheumatism, and
found him patient and even cheerful;
upon young Brother Hall, wasting away
with the consumption, and found him
anxious to go and be with Christ; upon
good old Grandmother Smith, in her
poor, miserable hovel of home, and
found her singing one of the good old
hymns as happily as a bird; upon young
Mrs. Brown, who had few weeks be-
fore buried her only child, and found
her trustful and serene in the view of
Gods love which had come to her
through her affection. The minister
went home filled with what he had
seen, and when evening came, and
he was seated in his easy-chair, his
good wife near him busy with her
needles, he could not help saying,
q" What a wonderful thing grace isl
How much it will dol There is moth
ing beyond its power! Wonderful
wonderful 1t can do all things" Then
the little wife said, Yes, it is wonder
full, indeed; but there is one thing the
grace of God does not seem to have the
power to do" " All, what can that
be?" said the husband. "Why, it does
not seem to have power to control a
minister's temper when shirt-button is
gone" This was new version of the
doctrine of grace to the parson, but was
such version as many another religious
man needs to remember. There is many
man who can stand up before multi
tude and I" confess Christi" who can
be most meek when insulted in some
public place; who can rub his hands
and bless God for the power of religion,
but who is too weak to keep his temper
at home. The value of art is in the
fineness of the work; the perfection of
music is in the little accuracies. So
the beauty and power of our religion
are seen when we manifest grace in
little things. AS it takes greater skill
to engrave the Lords Prayer upon a
five-cent piece than upon broad steel
plate, so it takes more grace to live a
good Christian at home than in public.
Golden Rule.
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Macanlay's Great Faculty.

In the last volume of Greville's
Memoirs" just published, occurs this
reference to Macaulay's marvellous
powers of mental abstraction: III asked
Stephen by what mental process Mac
aulay had contrived to accumulate
such boundless stores of information,
and how it was all so sorted and arranged
in his head that it was always product
BILE at will. He said that he had, first
of all, the power of abstraction, of CIV
ing his undivided attention to the book
and the subject on which he was oc-
cupied; then, as other men read by
syllables or by words, he had the fac
ulty, acquired by use, of reading by
whole sentences, of swallowing, as it
were, whole paragraphs at once, and
thus he infinitely abbreviated the mere
mechanical part of study; that as an
educated man would read any number
of pages much more quickly than an
uneducated man, so much more quickly
would Macaulay read than any ordinary
man. "Therefore it is, first and fore.
most, the power of abstraction, that fac
ulty of attention and of rendering up
his mind to the matter before him
which makes all his reading profitable
and leaves nothing to be wasted and
frittered away. Then the acquired
habit of devouring at glance a vast
surface of print, so that like the dragon
of Wantley, to whom
Houses and churches
We're like geese and turkeys.
he can discuss Greek folio while ar
ordinary man is dawdliug or BICYCLING
over pamphlet or newspaper"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Hammer Signals.

The following may be as interesting
and instructive to blacksmiths as it is
likely to be to the rest of the world:
"There are few persons, either in the
city or country, who have not at times
watched blacksmith at work in his
shop with his assistant or striker. They
have noticed that the smith keeps up a
constant succession of motions and taps
with small hand-hammer, while with
his left hand he turns and moves the
hot iron which the assistant is striking
with a sledge. The taps are not pur-
pOseless, but given entirely for the di-
rection of the striker. According to a
writer in the Hard,oar1 Reporter, the
signals, as given by the blacksmith and
wheelwright, are as follows: When the
blacksmith gives the anvil quick, light
blows it is signal to the helper to use
the sledge or to strike quicker. The
force of the blows given by the black
smiths hammer indicates the force of
blow it is required to give the sledge.
The blacksmith's helper is supposed to
strike the work in the middle of the
width of the anvil, and when this re-
quires to be varied the blacksmith indi-
Gates where the sledge blows are to fall
by touching the required spot with the
hand-hammer. If the sledge is required
to have lateral motion while descend
ing, the blacksmith indicates the same
to the helper by delivering hand-ham-
mer blows in which the hand-hammer
moves in the direction required fol
the sledge to move. If the blacksmith
delivers a heavy blow upon the work
and an intermediate light blow on the
anvil, it denotes that heavy sledge blows
are required. If there are two or more
helpers, the blacksmith takes a blow be.
tween each helpers sledge-hammel
blow, the object being to merely denote
where the sledge blows are to fall. Wher
the blacksmith desires the sledge blows
to cease, he lets the hand-hammer heat
fall upon the anvil and continue its re
bound upon the same until it ceases
Thus the movements of the hand
hammer constitute signals to the helper
and what appear desultory blows to thu
common observer constitute the method
of communication between the black
smith and his helper"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Selett' yflistellanp.
Broken Ties.

The broken ties of happier days,
How often do they seem
To come before our mental gaze,
Like a remembered dreaml
Around us each discovered chain
In sparkling ruin lies;
And earthly hand can ne'er again
Unite those broken ties.
The parents of our youthful home,
The kindred that we loved,
Far from our arms, perchance, may roam,
To desert seas removed.
Or we have watched their parting breath,
And closed their weary eyes,
And sighed to think how sadly death
Can sever human ties.
The friends, the loved ones of our youth,
They, too, are gone, or changed,
Or, worse than all, their love and truth
Are darkened or estranged.
They meet us in the glittering throng,
with cold, averted eyes,
And wonder that we weep their wrong,
And moan our broken ties.
Owho, in such world as this,
Could bear their lot of pain
Did not one radiant hope of bliss
Unclouded yet remain?
That hope the sovereign Lord has given,
Who reigns above the skies
Hope that unites our souls to heaven
By faiths enduring ties.
Each care, each Ill of mortal birth,
Is sent, in plying love,
To lift the lingering heart from earth
And speed Its flight above.
And every pang that wrings the breast,
And every Joy that dies,
Tells us to seek purer rest
And trust to holier ties.
James Montgomery.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Mind Your Business.

Nine-tenths of all that goes wrong in
this world is because some one doesn't
mind his business. When a terrible
accident occurs the first cry is that the
means of prevention were not sufficient.
Everybody declares we must have a
new patent fire-escape, an automatic
engine switch, or high-proof non
combustible sort of lamp oil. But a
little investigation will usually show
that all the cOntrivances were on hand
and in good order; the real trouble was
that somebody didn't mind his bus
iness-he didn't obey orders; he
thought he knew better way than the
way he was told; he said, HJust this
once I'll take the risk" and in doing
so he made other people take the risk
too, and the risk was too great. At
Toronto, Canada, not long ago, a con-
ductor, against orders, ran his train on
a certain siding, which resulted in the
death of thirty or forty people. The
engineer of mill at Rochester, n. Y,
thought the engine would stand a
higher pressure than the safety-valve
indicated, so he tied few bricks to
the valve to hold it down; result: four
workmen killed, number wounded and
the mill blown to pieces. The City of
Columbus, an iron vessel fitted out
with all the means of preservation and
escape in use on shipboard, was wrecked
on the best known portion of the Allan
tic coast, on moonlit night, at the cost
of one hundred lives, because the officer
in command took it into his head to
save few ship-lengths in distance by
hugging the shore, in direct disobedi-
ence Of the captains parting orders.
The best ventilated mine in Colorado
was turned into death-trap for half a
hundred miners because one of the
number entered with lighted lamp
the gallery he had been warned against.
Nobody survives to explain the eXplo-
sion of the dynamite cartridge factory
in Pennsylvania, but as that type of
disaster is almost always due to heed
lessness, it is probable that this in
stance is not an exception to the rule.
What is most wanted in this world is
people that will mind their business;
all the devices, inventions, contriv-
ances you can shake a stick at will not
insure safety; the real need is auto
matte obedience, patent honesty, non
combustible brains, high-prOof charac-
ter. Men that can furnish these are in
demand. Be sure, whatever your dis
advantages, however humble your
present position, your services will not
long 60 a'begging if you have that one
faculty of minding your business
Treasure IrOue.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Ashamed Of Her.

In travelling chance words and incl
dents sometimes open to us VIII ole vol
umes of tragedy. For example, take
the following fragments noted some
years ago by passenger on railway
train in the West on which fatal ac-
cident occurred. A little blonde woman,
very much overdressed, was languidly
nibbling cake and slipping champagne
at her lunch in the palace-car, when
her husband entered. Daisy" he
said, "your mother is getting on the
train" sob, good gracious, where?"
she exclaimed, angrily. He pointed to
a tall, ungainly woman, in shabby
clothes, going into a second-class car.
Had l not better bring her into this
fellows in that one" "Does she
know we are on the train?" " No."
"Then never mind. can't introduce
mamma to the Schallers," glancing at
some of her companions. The train
rushed on, and the woman who had
married out of poverty into fashion
able set, while she laughed and TESTED
with her new friends, wore an uneasy
face that showed her terror lest her
mother should disgrace her. Her hus-
band said, presently: "Your mother
will want lunch, Daisy. Suppose -
"Oh, let her alone! She always takes
brown-paper parcel with chunks of
bread and Bologna sausage. She likes
that sort of thing" An hour or two
later Earring crash resounded through
the Pullman cars. Women shrieked
and men rushed to the door as the train
stopped. A brakeman met them
Keep your seats, gentlemen. Broken
rail only" Anybody hurt?" " -Four
or five people. One old lady's a-dyin'.
heard her calm for her daughter
that's on the train: Maggy! Maggyr
just now. Take keer, ma'am" as a
little woman rushed past him. The
old woman lay on a clay-bank. Some
men were holding her tenderly enough.
A physician who happened to be on
the train kneeled beside her. Her
daughter threw herself down and
dragged her head upon her breast.
The woman's lips were opened, and
her eyes stared, as if searching for
some one. But she did not call for
" Maggy" any more. "Do some
thing!" cried her daughter, wildly.
" Make her speak to me! Mother!
motherl it is Maggy!" Madam" said
the doctor, "you are too latel'-
Youths Companion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Evolution Not Proved.

Yesterday was in the natural history
department of the British Museum. I
had business touching some fossils
which found in the Lattakia Miocene
and Pliocene clay-beds, and about which
1 wrote an article that appeared in
Nature last year. Mr.. Etheridge, F. R.
S., kindly examined and named them.
1 was anxious to hear what first-rate
working scientist, with perhaps the
largest opportunity for induction in the
world, would say on Darwinian evolu-
ton. So, after he had shown me all
the wonders of the establishment, I
asked him whether, after all, this was
not the working out Of mind and Provi-
dence. He turned to me with clear,
honest look in his eyes, and replied:
" In all this great museum there is not a
particle of evidence of transmutatiOn of
species. Nine-tenths of the talk of
evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not
founded on observation, and wholly un-
supported by fact. Men adopt a theory
and then strain their facts to support it.
l read all their books, but they make
no impression on my belief in the sta
bility of species. Moreover, the talk of
the great antiquity of man is of the
same value. There is no such thing as
fossil man. Men are ready to regard
you as fool if you do not 60 with them
in all their vagaries. But this museum
is full of proofs of the utter falsity of
their views" l have condensed very
much, but you may spread this out
over twenty minutes, and imagine
what a comfort it was to hear it. / do
not propose to surrender yet even to
theistic evolution, which seems to me,
at best, bad name for Gods creation.
g. E. Post, IN Ne,c York Evangelist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
The Sun Never Sets in Our Country.

Webster's eloquent description of
the British Empire is very readable,
but we doubt whether it is generally
realized that we, too, have dominion
on which the sun never sets. 1t will
hardly be believed, perhaps, without
an examination of the maps, that San
Francisco, instead of being the west
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09

In the treatment of rheumatism, govt,
neuralgia, tic douloureux, semi-crania,
sciatica, etc., Salvation Oil should be
applied to the parts affected, and thor
oughly rubbed in, so as to reach the
seat of the disease. 1t kills pain. Price
twenty-five cents q bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Rsligious Mlistellamp.
A Last Prayer.

The following lines, published in the
Century Magazine for December, were writ
ten by Helen Jackson (' II. H.') four days
before her death.
Father, scarcely dare to pray,
SO clear see, now 1t is done,
That I have wasted half my day
And left my work but Just begun;
SO clear see that things thought
We're right or harmless were sin;
SO clear see that have sought,
Unconscious, selfish aims to win;
SO clear see that have hurt
The souls might have helped to save,
That have slothful been, inert,
Deaf to the calls thy leaders gave.
In outskirts of thy Kingdoms vast
Father, the humblest spot give me;
Set me the lowliest task thou hast,
Let me repentant work for thee!
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Grace In Little Things.

There is an old story of n certain
minister who, in arranging his toilet for
his parochial calls, found a button gone
from his shirt-collar, and all at once
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09

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 kidney
and Lver] REMEDY has benefited me more than all
other medicines used"
Home love Is the hest lnYe.n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
"a willing heart lightens work."


Mr., Isaiah Cook, sheriff of Skowhegan, Maine.
writes have been afflicted for twenty years
with weakness of the kidneys and liver. The first
bottle of HUNTS Kidney and Liver REMEDY re-
leved all pains In the back and sides"
Price sl,25. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet to
HUNTS REMEDY CO. Providence r. L.
Sold by all Druggists.
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" Home love is the best love"


Mr.. othniel eager, town clerk, Norwich, Conn,
eighty 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 Liyerl REMEDY as specific for these COM
plants"
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"Punctuslity begets confidence"
Deputy Sheriff.

HUNTS kidney and Liverl REMEDY is a wonderful
medicine. 1 cordially recommend its to those
suffering from dropsy or kidney troubles George
b. Robertson Deputy SHERIFF, Bangor, Maine.
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OFFICIAL TESTIMONY.

Disease is soon shaken, by Hunts Remedy taken"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-05
Ex.GovERy0R FLETcHEFs EXPLANATION.

ST, LOUIS, Mo-, April 4.-The Globe Demo-
crars Laredo. Texas correspondent says: Ex-Gov-
Thomas C. Fletcher whose unaccouRtable absence
from weeks has been the talk Of the town,
found in that place yesterday having just arrived
from MatamOras Mexico. The Ex-Governor greatly
surprised to find that he had been written up IL the
newspapers a mysterious disappearance, and made a
statement 10 the effect when he left Louis,
weeks ago. he went TO Pennington. Mo-, about eighty
miles south OF ST. LOUIS, the Iron Mountain Railroad,
on business. He there received telegram calling him
20 Matamoras urgent business. He hastily wrote
dispatch his wife informing her OF this,
railroad conductor be teegraphsd, aud Immediately
started for Matamoras where he has since been. He Is
now on his way home totally unconscious OF having done
anything justify the newspaper comments. The dis
patch ne speaks Of was not received by his wife"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-05
THROUGH NEW YORK STATE.

THE GOVERNOR AND CENSUS ENtNERATORS
rYRoM The REGULAR coRREs oSDENr or THE TRIBUNE.
ALBANY, April 4.-General Carr received "a
youmnous letter to-day from John jay president OF the
Board OF Civil Commissioners, in which he eN-
plains how u happened that the commissioners submit
ted to the dctation OF Governor Hin respecting the
method Of examining the census enumerators The prin-
cipai part OF the letter as follows:
IneIpressng 10 your regret that the con mission did
not see t To consult with the state Officers charged ny
the law with the responsibility for the decenna census
In the making the reinaking OF the rules 10 govern
the appointment OF enumerators, you seem "a assume
that In the making aud remaking of the rules the re-
spousbiity rests with this commission. BY the act the
rssponsiul,y OF making and changing the rules rests
with the Governor aud the commission holds itSelf re-
spnusbls only for it, advice and its own acts
While the commission does not control the rules,
IL does control the examinations: subject
10 the rules made BY the Goyernor" iCiVi
service statutes section p. For the regua-
ton OF the examination OF enumerators In manner CON
ducye TO the public Interests II sought and obtained IN
formation from your Department aud when advised by
YOU OF the litte and insufficient means fr proper
examinations lnsD the commission recommended 70 MS
EKccleucy transfer OF the enumerators 10 not from
belief that examinations In ID competitive exam,
inatons In were unsnitcd to the appointments OF cchI
ss euumerators but from the conviction tnat pasheX-
amlaatious and, still more proper, competitive exam
Inatinns were impracticabe under the circumstances
our letter To the Governor this subject WILL as tue
Commissioners believe. show that their views ana ther
action have been Judlcious.