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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
A Christ-Like Deed.

The following touching incident,
which drew tears from my eyes, was re-
lated to me short time since by dear
friend, who had it from an eyewitness
of the same. 1t occurred in the great
city of New York, on one of the coolest
days in February last. A little boy,
about ten years old, was standing be-
fore a shoe-store in Broadway, bare
footed, peering through the window
and shivering with cold. A lady rid
ing up the street in beautiful carriage,
drawn by horses finely caparisoned, OBJ
condition, and Immediately ordered the
driver to draw up and stop in front of
the store. The lady, richly dressed in
silks, alighted from the carriage and
went quietly to the boy and said: my
little fellow, why are you looking so
earnestly in that Window" 81 was
Just asking God to give me pair of
Shoes was the reply. The lady took
him by the hand and went into the
store and asked the proprietor if he
would allow one of his clerks to 90 and
buy her half a dozen pairs of stockings
for the boy He readily assented. She
then asked him if he would give her
basin of water and towel, and he re-
piled, Certainly" and quickly brought
them to her. She took the little fellow
to the back part of the store, and, re-
moving her gloves, knelt down and
washed those little feet and dried them
with the towel. BY this time the young
man had returned with the stockings.
Placing a pair upon his feet, she pur-
chased and gave him pair of shoes,
and, tying up the remaining pairs of
stockings, gave them to him, and, pat
ting him on the head, said: :. l hope,
my little fellow, that you now feel more
comfortable" As she turned to 90,
the astonished lad took her hand, and
looking up in her face, with tears in
his eyes, answered her question with
these words: . Are you Gods wife?"-
Parish ReqiSter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Miracles Of Healing.

In the London Lancet of June 81,
1885, DR.. Buchanan, professor of clint
cal surgery in Glasgow University,
writes thus: 81 have no doubt that
some of the persons who went Ito the
grotto of Lourdes) lame and crippled,
were restored to the use of their limbs,
and were relieved of pains and aches"
He thinks that such cases can be ac-
counted for by sudden change of the
nerve condition, and gives an account
of two cases in his own experience, in
one of which he said to the patient, who
had been confined to her bed for
heightened period, "Get out of bed at
once" She declared she could not
move (and for months she had not even
altered her position in bed without
help) He said, " You can move quite
well, come out of bedv' When, to the
surprise of her husband and sister, who
looked perfectly thunderstruck, she
came out of bed, with almost no help,
and stood alone. He then said, Walk
across the floor" and without demur
she walked without assistance, and
said, " l can walk quite well, l knew
you could cure me. My pains are gone"
This was in October, 1875. The lady
was, IN FEBRUARY, 1900, IN 1alr health.
DR.. Buchanan, like wise man, says
that he does not pretend to explain the
case, but that it was just as miraculous
as any of the cures alleged to have been
performed at Lourdes or elsewhere. He
gives another equally remarkable case,
which | cannot now quote, and with
perfect frankness says that there are
other reported cures" the official re-
ports of which he has not seen, and
which, therefore, he can neither affirm
nor deny, to which the explanation as
above is not applicable. They are"
he adds, beyond my understanding"
Exactly so-as was said in former dis
course, We are surrounded by mystic
ries." Nay, l go further. l do not
contend that God always acts according
to well-known laws or that he binds
himself by Them
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Reasons of Failure in Well Doing.

Why do we fail so often in our en-
deavors to do good? Is it not from
neglecting to distinguish things that
differ" quite as much as not approx
ing things that are excellent" We
laugh at the idolater who affixed his
prayer to a water-wheel that it might be
presented before his God more fire.
quently than in any other way. But
we, too, are prone to mere material
conceptions of God, and of the service
due to him. 1t is right to read the BIZ
BILE and pray in public and in private,
and so we fall into routine of Bible
reading and formal utterance of petit
tons, and expect to receive blessings
as the result of the bodily exercised"
We write, and preach, and listen to SER
mons as an intellectual exercise. We
90 to church, avowedly, as we 60 to
literary entertainment, " to hear SER
mon," instead of going to worship God
and receive of the Christ-life which
his Spirit waits to bestow on the use of
the appointed means of grace. Yet we
wonder that we are not benefited! If
little more thoughtful of the great
problems of life, perhaps we perform
our religious duties with the desire of
getting clearer views of our moral OBJ
legations and of the means of discharg-
ing them. We regard the church and
the prayer meeting, and the Sunday
school as schools for ethical Gull
ture," chiefly, and get what we go for.
Verify, l say unto you, they have
their reward" 1t is true that Chris
tianity is designed to make men better,
physically, intellectually and morally
But it is also true that no one of these
nor all of them together-can constitute
Christianity. Christianity is new
principle, introduced into humanity in
Jesus of Nazareth. 1t is something
essentially different from anything that
was in the world before. Those who
receive it "must be born again. Those
who do receive it are. in the strong
language of the Apostle Peter, ''par-
takers of the divine nature" BY the
invoking of this alone can any escape
the corruption by which the world and
the men of the world are degenerating
to destruction. Only by the power
thereof can any effectually resist and
overcome the evil propensities within.
This principle is called by various
names. 1t is ''the divine nature;''
"the Christ-life;" g Christ Within -
etc. 1t is communicated to every one
that has it from Christ and Christ
alone. "According to your faith be il
unto you " is the principle on which
Christ always deals with his people.
We derive from him, by faith, the sup
plies of divine grace, divine life, di-
vine nature-(call it what you wilD-
necessary to live holy life. Nor can
this treasure be laid up in store. 1t is
like mama in two senses: it comes
from heaven, and, if kept over night,
it spoils. We receive it from Christ
moment by moment. 1t is grace for
grace, grace instead of grace, one de-
gree of grace is substitute for
another-and each and all by faith
alone. If our faith were perfect, we
should be perfectly filled with the full
ness of God, and our lives would show
it, as they shall in heaven. But here or
there, then or now, always " according
to your faith be it unto you."--Occi-
dent
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

and benefit mankind, he must get to
positive convictions. and seek courage
ously to act them out. Such a one will
be man for the times and in his own
sphere and place will be another Elijah
for the doing of whatever reformation
work God may require at his hand. But
the hesitator between two opinions will
never be or do anything remarkable
until he takes stand on something;
and the great thing for him is that he
take his stand upon the right, the true,
the good, as these are incarnated in
Christ. William NJ. Taylor, ID. d., in
S,mddy-School Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

don't know what said, but every
body knows that l never could see any
fault in Mr.. Slade, and l don't to this
day. He fills his professors chair, and
l have ever so many comfortable ones
at home. Charley is splendid mathe-
matician, but there is little fellow
just creeping into fractions, and he
came to me the other day, his dear lit
tie brains sore and puzzling over that
self-same sum.
"And please, mamma" he begged,
a man sold his farm for $3.50 and
fourteen-ffteenths of this is -
Go to papa, darling" l said; " he
found out the cost of it long ago; but
as for me, dear, Pm glad to say that l
never could make it out-never. "-Se-
lected
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Evils of IndecisiOn.

One of these lies in the self-decep-
ton which it fosters. 1t is apparently
holding itself in suspense, while really
it is already on one side. An English
authoress has said Men often sin, not
so much because they choose as be-
cause they don't choose. The actions
which, on looking back upon our lives,
we see most reason to deplore are
those in which, instead of manfully
facing the conflicting claims of duty and
inclination or interest, we have suffered
ourselves to pause in indecision, think
ing that we were standing still,
while, in point of fact, the current of
evil, so much stronger always than that
of good, was bearing us to point from
which there was no retreat" Thus it
is, also, alas! too often with the unde-
cided man and his salvation. He i'm
AGNES that no harm can come of mere
indecision, while, in fact, the force of
fashion, or interest, or inclination is
bearing him away all the while, and
when he awakes to the danger he may
be too late to secure his deliverance.
Another of the evils is the misery at
tendant on this state of mind. We
Ollcu say tlidt any lHluS 10 Dcltcl IMAM
suspense" and if doubter on religious
matters is honest, he must be the most
unhappy of men, because of the i'm
mense importance to him of the mat
tiers in question. But just in proportion
to the anguish of his doubt will be the
JOY that springs out of his decision,
provided he decides rightly. When the
happy discoverer found the treasure in
the field, he did not whimper over the
price, but for very joy went and sold
all that he had and bought it, So when
the doubter comes to faith in Jesus
Christ his happiness outweighs all
sense or thought of self-denial in the
giving up of everything for his Lord.
Remember, too, that indecision puts an
arrest on activity. Those who have
done the most good in the world have
always possessed positive convictions
on which they earnestly acted. But
without decision man is destitute of
backbone. His character is molluscous
and invertebrate. Contrast Moses with
Balaam; Paul with Judas; Luther with
Erasmus. Indecision is the paralysis
of usefulness. 1t may make good critics,
but it makes poor builders. What
drunkard has it reformed? what thief
has it transformed? what Five Points
Mission has it carried out? If, therefore,
man wishes to help on those move
ments which are doing most to bless
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
The Indian.

The whole duty of the nation toward
the red man is covered by one word
justice. Charity cannot take its place;
policy cannot serve as substitute. So
long as we do less than justice, and try
to make up for it by doing something
other or more than Justice for him, so
long shall we have an Indian question
on our hands. We have tried every
method but the method which has
proved successful with every other
race; why not try that? Take down
the fences; give to the Indian the free
dom which we deny to no other man;
put him under the protection of the
laws which deny their protection to no
one else; make him amenable to the
laws to which every one else is amen
able: obliterate with his consent if it
can be obtained, without his consent if
it cannot be, treaties made with him as
a member of foreign nation; regard
him, and require him to regard himself,
as a citizen of the American common
wealth; give him food and blankets
when he earns them by his honest in
dustry, give him hunger and cold when
he does not. This is the demand which
justice, philanthropy and the public
welfare unite in enforcing. Against it
there is the self-interest of the specula-
tors and the Indian ring, the inertia of
the public, and the spurious benevo-
lence, the soft-hearted and equally soft
headed sentimentalism, which, endeav
oring to guard the Indian from the APP
parently hard but memorable law of the
universe, keeps him a barbarian in
order to civilize him, and makes him
pauper in order to protect him. " JUS
tice! justice, in the name OF heaven;
give us justice, and we live; give us
only counterfeits of it or succedanea
for it and we die. 1.-The Christian
TInjO),
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Relisious Mistellamp.
A Builders Lesson.

" How shall a habit breakY'
As you did that habit make.
As you gathered, you must lose
As you yielded, now refuse.
Thread by thread the strands we twist
Till they bind us, neck and wrists
Thread by thread the patient hand
Must entwine, ere free we stand,
As we builded, stone by stone,
We must toll, unhelped, alone,
Till the wall is overthrown.
But remember, as we try,
Lighter every test goes by;
Wading in, the stream goes deep
Toward the center's downward sweep;
Backward turn, each step ashore
Shallower is than before.
All, the precious years we waste
Leveling what we raised in haste;
Doing what must be undone
Ere content or love be wont
First, across the gulf we cast
Kite-born threads, till lines are passed,
And habit builds the bridge at last
John Boyle O'Reiiey, in Wide Quake.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

OUR faith is the center of the target
at which God doth shoot when he tries;
and if any other grace shall escape
untried, certainly faith shall not
Spurgeon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Cholera,
Cramps and ChilIs.

An ounce of prevention" that is, dose of SAN
FoRD's GINGER lis worth pound of cure" which,
of course the doctor 1t is absolutely certain
that Cholera may be prevented, and, in the majority
of cases, successfully treated, with SANFoRD's
GINGER, powerful stimulant, composed of I'm
ported Ginger, choice Anomalies, and the best
French Brandy; convenient, speedy and safe; sure
to check summer complaint, prevent indigestion,
destroy disease germs in water drunk, restore the
circulation when suspended by chill, and ward off
maaral, contagious, and epidemic influences. Ask
for
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

PURIFY your blood, tone up the sys-
tenn and regulate the digestive organs
by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla. Sold by
all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

DE AIITIFY the Complexion and Skin by using
0EAO the CUTICURA SOAP.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

Sold by all druggists. Price: CUTIoURA, so cents;
REsoLVENT, 81; SOAP, 25 cents. Prepared by the
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
SANFORD'S GINGER.

Cramps, Pains, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhea, and
Dysentery whether produced by unripe fruit inn
pure water, unwholesome food change of eli
mate food or water, any little ills of home
travel, such Colds, Chills Simple Fevers, Dys-
pepsia Indigestion, Sea-sickness Exhau stiou, Ner
vousress, Loss of Sleep, Debility and Dissipation,
instantly relieved by SANFoRD's GINGER, the
safest, surest, and best summer medicine and trav
cling companion.
AS healthful summer drink with water milk
iced water lemonade, effervescent draughts and
mineral waters 1t is the best.
Beware of worthless "gngers said to be "as
good" or the same,' or "as large" cheaper -
than SANFoRDs GINGER. Ask for
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

Mr.. John Thiel, Wilkesbarre. PENN writes
81 have suffered from Salt Rheum for eight
years. at times bad that could not attend to my
business for weeks at a time. Three boxes of CUT1-
CURA and four bottles of REsOLvENT have entirely
cured me of this dreadful disease"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
7 PER CENT INVESTMENTS

Iowa Mortgages on Improved Farms, not exceed.
ing onethird OF the cash value Of property bearing
annually, principal and interest payable at address Of
owner Also six per cent Iowa school bonds ON
call on or address, J. W. BROCK or A. W. FERRIN,
Montpeler, Vermont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
ECZ E WI A
And Every Species of Itch
ing and Burning Diseases
Cured by Cuticura.

Chas. HOughtOn, Esq, lawyer % State street,
Boston, reports of Eczema under his observa-
ton for ten years which covered the patients body
and limbs and to which all known methods of treat
ment had been applied without benefit, which was
completely cured solely by the CUTIcURA RENE
DIES, leaving clean and healthy skin.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27
THED STRICT e0V kT OF
The e.OnI judicial - strIt
OF THE
STATE OF NEVADA.
IN AND FOX iHt.-
COUNTY OF ORMSBY.

VI WAU TONG Action broue ht in
\the D!st yet Cou
Plaintiff lnf the ecOnd Jul
Id cial DiStr CT of he
vs. Estate of Nevada, in
mi TO- the County
All KEE lfOrmSb> land The
jc mpl lit ii ed in
Defendant Jsa Il Count OF
Ormsny, in he Office III tn Clerk ~ said
District court. Tie state Il Ne ada
sends gree ing to All k-e defendant,
you are hereby required to appear in
an action brought against you 10y the
above named plaintiff in the Disurict
Court OF the Second Judicial District OF
the State of Nevada, in and for the
County OF Gym Shy. and to .nswer the
complaint flied the Elm "a copy of which
accom- panies this SUNNI ms wit hin ten
days (eA clus We of The day of service.
after the service on you Of this SUM
mons-if served within this county; or,
if served out OF this county. but in this
district, within twenty days, otherwise
within forty days-or judgment by de-
fault will be taken against YOU the
said action is brought to recover from
YOU the sum of fifteen hundred dollars
alleged to be due from yon upon a Ger
tain promissory note, of date April
Dist, 1879, together with in:e'est on said
sum of fifteen hundred dollars, vi O0O)
at the rate of two per cent per month
from date OF said note until paid and for
costs of suit.
And YOU are hereby notified that II
vo,, foil tn apnoar nd a nSxC. the haid
complaint as above required, the said
plaintiff will take Judgment agains
you by default as prayed in said COM
plant.
Given under our hands this 30th day
of April, in the year o, our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty
five. THOS. H. WELLS,
JAMES d. TORREYSON,
Attorneys for Plaintiff. May q, 6w.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27
Ar. Dents Removal.

WASHINGTON, juno 26.-It is
now denied at the White House
that the President has written .
letter to Mr.. Dent, the brother in
law Of Gen. Grant, informing him
Of his suspension as Appraiser OF
the Custom House at San Fran
cisco. Thos. Beck WAS appointed
on the recommendation of the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury. No charges
were made against Mr.. Dent, MOI
was any cause assigned for his re-
moval.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

The papers are discussing the
ease of boy who blew his fathers
brains out because the latter was
beating the boys mother. Tech
nically a murder was committed
but none will deny the fact that
the fate of the wife beater was
merited. The boy did about as
near the correct thing as he could,
and there is one less miserable
wife beater in the world.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

Buddensieck, the builder of cheap
death trap houses in New York,
has been sent to Jail. A more ap
prooriate r',r" of confinement
vou|A be in one of his own tene-
ments.- Exchange
That would suit Buddensieck, he
would simply kick a hole through
bis iail and walk out.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

Now comes the story from the
Soudan that Gordon is alive, and
in custody of the Mahdi. It is not
impossible that this tale is true. 1t
is IN line with the character Of the
Arabs and Soudanese races, and
gets strength from the fact that
the Mahdi had much more to gain
bv sparing Gordon than by killing
him.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

The medical qualities of whlskey
have been discovered in Topeka,
Kansas. where the druggists have
filed 1900 prescriptions since
r,nhjbition went into effect. The
rage in each case is pint flask
I the ooseS are believed to be
x..;,iler than that.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

A woman IN Oakland who lost
pet roodle had swell funeral, with
an $50 casket, flowers. ETC., and
after the cur was planted wore
mourning. The dog was the only
thing that ever loved her, and per-
haps after all, she wasn't SO much
70 blame.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

A man in Virginia City has been
convicted of cattle stealing, and II
he stays in the penetentiary spell
he viii doubtless come out with the
idea that it is cheaper to raise his
>vn stock.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

There may be trouble over the
published chapters Of Grants book.
The chapters, which appeared in
the New York papers, formed part
of the manuscript which the Cen
tury had bought exclusively before
the contract was made by the Gen.
with Mark Twain's firm to publish
the book. The latter are said to
have embodied three chapters in an
agents book, and a reporter got
hold Of one Of these and rushed
them into his paper. The Century
publishers have demanded relm-
bursement Of the money already
paid for the contribution. If they
do not get it there will be lawsuit
for damages. The suit will be
against Mark Twain, who is to pub
lish Grants book.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

Work on the State Printing build
ing has been Temporarily suspended.
The State Prison force Of stone
cutters are unable to furnish stone
sufficient to keep the stone masons
at work steadily.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

The Post thinks that if Daggett
has COME on an annexation mission
to tack the Sandwich Islands onto
the United States it will be a fail
pre How does the Post know
what Daggett's mission is ?
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27
WHO THEY PUT ON GUARD.

The Chronicle commends the
Democratic party for removing Re
publican Union soldiers who are
Office holders. and putting in Demo
cratic Union soldiers in their
places.
No ono can object to such .
course as this, so long As the Demo
cratic powers that be, con6ne their
appointments to men who fought
for the defense of the American
Union. But this is not exactly the
view that is taken of the matter by
the other side.
The Washington authorities
seem to consider that Confederate
Democrats are the men to reward.
The peculiar state of affairs which
permits Union soldier to be ousted
out of a place and another man
installed, who fought under the
Rebel flag in the Rebellion, is ex-
actly what was predicted by Re-
publican journals during the cam
paign. 1t is only few months
since Cleveland took the oath Of
Office and the powers behind his
throne have already forced him into
a cheek and jowl position with the
men who are now more than anx-
ious to draw pay from a Govern
ment they once sought to destroy
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-06-27

Dancing every afternoon and evening.
Ra,t of m usic and refreshments. Genoa
will be prepared to furnish the best of
hotell and livery accommodations, and
the management will spare no pains to
make it pheasant for all.