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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11

Corinth.-The grange officers were in
stalled at Cooksville on the evening of
January Goth. A farmers supper of baked
beans was served ON that occasion About
seventy We're present, The grange is well
Differed and an interest manifested in its
prosperity. John Henry Robe is pre-
pairing to leave for California. His brother
in-law, George M. Dearborn of Vershire, is
to take his farm. John II. Mead of Corinth
Corners expects to accompany Mr.. ROBBIE,
and is disposing of his property in this town
as fast AZ possible. == The cold weather
is trying to the old people Mrs. Leavett
who lived with her son-in-law, c. e. Han
son, was buried Sunday, February LIST, at
West Corinth. Ralph Mum was buried
February Sd. He lived with his son, near
Bradford line. Mrs. Alvin Little is very
low, and Mrs. Walter Brown is very sick.
- Cooksville school closed February
9Th Mr.. and Miss Piper have given good
satisfaction. 80 William Orr, who started
for California via Minnesota, is still at Min
nesota. Reports say he is quite lame and is
not likely TO go any farther. He was very
unfortunate in exchanging cash for worth
less paper on his way out.
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Braintree.-The members of Snowsville
Grange made Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. r. Flint a
visit, a few days ago, they being members of
the same grange. Mrs. Flint's health has
been poorly, but she is improving now.
Justus Smith of Dickinson Center,
n. Y, has been visiting his aunt, Mrs.
Samuel Ruggles. l.. l.. Udall and son,
Willie, were here last week. They are look
ing for place to open store - Mrs. l.
ID. Williams died very suddenly, February
3D. being sick only twenty-three hours. She
was thirty-seven years of age. c. B.
Cummings of South Royalton was in town
last week, visiting friends. - Albert
Pearl, while chopping wood, recently, was
struck on the head by limb and his scalp
nearly torn from his head. He managed to
reach the school-house, near by, but when
found was very weak from loss of blood
and the extreme cold. A variation of the
blow an inch either way would have re-
suited in instant death. Mr.. Pearl is now
as comfortable as could be expected under
the circumstances. - Mrs. Cynthia Hub
bard is stopping in town for a few days.
- Walter Bannister is quite low with
scrofua disease - Mrs Eleazer Bass is
confined to the house with sciatic rheu-
matSm.
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Newbury.-Rev. S. l.. Bates of the Con-
gregational church and Rev. j. III. Winslow
of the Methodist church exchanged pulpits
last Sunday. L. c.. Reyes remains
about the same Charles III. George
from Dakota is engaging help to take West
with him in the spring, He and his partner
have eight hundred acres of land that they
wish to put under cultivation. - Eliza
Howe is still quite sick. A council of doc
tors was holden last week to consider her
case. The physicians were not agreed, and
the result of her disease, whatever it may
be, is doubtful. The town system of
schools is being agitated in the different
districts. The prospect is that the system
will be adopted. - The closing exer-
cses of the winter term of school at the
seminary took place last week. Thursday
and Friday We're devoted to the examine
ton of classes. The students had an inter-
view Thursday evening. The spring term
opens February 23d. - Thos. l.. Tucker
is very sick with erysipelas. -- Rev. j.
Richardson has moved to Gaysville, to be-
come pastor of the Congregational church.
He leaves many friends here, who wish him
the greatest success. - Edna Bliss of
Groton has been engaged to play the organ
at the seminary during the spring term.
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advertisements.
CONSTIPATION!

There is no medium through which
disease so often attacks the system
as by Constipation, and there is no
other i'll flesh Is heir to more ant to
be neglected, from the fact material
Inconvenience may not be Immediate.
ly felt from irregular action Of the
bowels. When there Is not regular
action the retention of decayed and
effete matter, with its poisonous
gases, soon poisons the whole system
by being absorbed into it, causing
piles, fstula, headache, impure blood
and many other serious affections.
BURD0CK BLOOD BITTERS will
Immediately relieve, and one bottle
positively cure or relieve any case
of Constipation.
WAS troubled for a year with
torpid liver and indigestion, and after
trying everything Imaginable used
BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS. The
first bottle revived me and the second
cured me entirely."-J.S. Williamson.
Rochester. N. Y.
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Learning and Piety.

Learning is inclined to despise piety
and piety pities the arrogance of scho
arshlp. In the symbolic vestment
the Jewish priest both learning an
piety were united. Ever and every
where learning and piety should b
welded. Learning, divorced from pietv|
chlsels with curious design and nobilit{
of execution the character of individual
or national greatness, but the characte|
thus formed is its own tomb. Pietv|
divorced from learning, hacks and
striks at the beautiful marble of mani
hood, cutting it into forms ill-proporI
toned and grotesque. The culture OF
the intellect, without the culture of thd
heart, creates the individual learned
brilliant, polished, but the temple OF
whose intellectual magnifcence is id
peril OF standing on the bog of moral
weakness and viciousness-a temple orr
dalned to sink and crumble, hopeless
ruin. The culture of the heart without
the culture of the brain, tends to form
character in which the false and the
true, the good and the evil, the wise
and unwise, are interviewer in despair
ing confusion. 1t is one glory of the
present age that the demand and the
endeavor are to combine culture moral
and culture intellectual. Education is
Christian, finding its motive, impulse
and ideal in Christ. Christianity is
buttressed with learning, finding sup
port in the achievements of the scholar
and the thinker. The Oldest American
college, writing "Veritas" on its shield
also writes, Christie ct Ecclesie. y
The imprecation of old President With
erspoon of Princeton, " Cursed be all
that learning that is contrary to the
cross of Christ, cursed be all that learn
ing that is not coincident with the cross
OF Christ, cursed be all that learning
that is not subservient to the cross Of
Christ" is still worthy of utterance.
Learning and religion, scholarship and
the highest moral culture, should be
Joined in purpose, endeavor and achieve
ment.-ReU. Charles r. Thuing.
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DO Not Wait for Feeling.

Whilst you cannot feel too keenly,
do not wait for feeling. No sorrow for
the past can be too poignant; but do
not wait for that sorrow. If the prodi-
gal had not arisen till he was satisfied
with his own repentance, he would
have died in the far country. The tears
which do not flow from the gaunt ewes
of famine will come unbidden at the
feast of fat things; and the fountains
OF the great deep, which freeze in the
winter of remoteness and arrangement,
will break up and brm over in the sun
shine of mercy. The word which you
take, be it what it may" Father, have
sinned, and am no more worthy to be
called thy son -; "take away mine
iniquity, and receive me graciouslv -
whatever the word may be, let it be a
true one, and swifter than your return
Will be the footsteps of forthcoming
pardon; and great as may be your own
Joy in rescuing and restoring grace, no
less will be the joy in heaven over your
repentance.
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Bismarck's Faith.

If were not Christian, would not
serve the king another hour. If did
not obey my God and put my trust in
him, my respect for earthly rulers would
be but small. / have enough to live
upon, and as private man should en-
Joy as much consideration as / desire.
Why, then, should l exhaust myself
with unwearying labor in this world |?
Why expose myself to difficulties. I'M
pleasantness and ill-treatment, if | had
not the feeling that must do nv duty
before God and for his sake? If l did
not believe in a divine government
of the world which had predestined the
German nation to something great and
good, l would abandon the trade of
diplomacy at once-or, rather, should
never have undertaken it. | do not
know whence my sense of duty should
come except from God. Titles and dec
oratlons have no charm for me. The
confident belief in life after death
that is it, that is why l am loyalist;
without it l should by nature be a re-
publican. All the steadfastness with
which, for these ten years, have re-
sisted every conceivable absurditv, has
been derived only from my resolute
faith. Take this faith from me, and
you take my country too. How will
ingly l would leave it all! am fond
OF country life, of the fields and the
woods. Take away from me my belief
In my personal relation to God, and I
am the man to pack up my things to-
morrow, to escape to Varzin and look
after my crops.-Bismarck, in a Speech
at Ferriers.
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lights of the world. Such homes A
buttressed in loving self-sacrihce, d
spirit of his life. Mutual help al
sympathy akin to his in its ministeri|
power pervade all hearts. Goved
ment by love and obedience with rd
erence from love are kindled by q
spirit of Christ. The dignity of maj
the respect for woman, the affecti|
for children mark the trail of Christi!
light. Heathenism has no home
Women, with rare exceptions, are he
as slaves or toys of men. Childre
especially girls, are unwelcome i
truders. How can society be anythir
but degraded where there are no HON
of purity and peace ? Christ has give
Christendom the home. Woe unto s
ciety when selfish love of ease or fas
ion pollutes that ideal, and seducti,
voices of sensual sin, clamoring fl
license under the garb of liberty, w
the soul from the pure teachings
Christ.-Rer. j. W. Gow, IN Christie
ut Work.
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The Family.

Next to the individual comes the
family. So important is this factor in
society that many regard it as the basis,
the unit. God has set the solitary in
families. The theocracy of the Old
Testament has surely family basis of
government. Whatever its relative DO
sition in social order, its manifest power
is acknowledged by all. Christ's leach
ings concerning the family are clear
and concise. Social life depends upon
well-regulated family relations. The
basis of these relations is marriage.
The perpetuation and permanence of
the race depends upon this bond of
union. Christ declares the danger and
doom of all loose systems of marriage
in his teaching concerning divorce.
" What God hath joined together let no
man put asunder." 1t is ever a timely
utterance. One of the evil tendencies
of our national life is the shameless
notification of marital VOWS. The
claims of modern advocates of divorce
are based upon marriage simply as a
civil contract or provisional agreement.
A thousand fiimsy complaints are made
the basis of separation. Each state
makes its own laws to satisfy the matri-
monial inclinations of its own citizens.
A convenient ferry-boat or limited ex-
press laughs at lawmakers. Alarming
statistics have caused thoughtful social
reformers to consider the question of a
national divorce law. The truth of
Christ should be the foundation of such
law. Marriage is divine institution,
higher than civil enactment. Unlim-
tied divorce is unnatural as well as I'M
scriptural. Christ interprets the law in
clear tones. Divorce for aught save
adultery is contrary to divine law and
social order, and marriage after such
divorce is adultery. History warns men
to heed his teachings. Rome's bright
est annals were written when her homes
were pure, her women mothers, her
husbands faithful and divorces un-
known. The Church should stand with
Christ upon this subject. Christ's in
fluence in the home is an important
factor in social progress. He who
loved the vine-covered cottage of Beth
any while upon earth has multiplied
such homes by his spiritual presence
since he assembled to heaven. The
homes of Christendom are the beacon
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23
She thrust the paper into his hand
and he read.

anu he Tedus
s1,000.-Th ONCE file of our paper having been
destroyed by fire on the evening of the 18th inst we
offer the above price for complete and perfect set
Of the Inteiitgencer from its first number, March L.
1880, to present date. Any person able to supply a
set as stated will please communicate with the pub
A thousand dollarsl Oh, Suel oh H.,
John! what piece of good fortune |
Dear aunt-think of her file turning out
such treasured 1t is too wonderful to
be true. / feel as though it were a
DREAM" and l danced up and down
the kitchen floor.
John and Sue were equally excited.
Only" promised the former, 4" we
mustn't forget that some one else may
have file of the Intelhgencer, and get
ahead of u.s."
This wet blanket of suggestion kept
me awake all night. Ny thoughts kept
flying to New York, anticipating the
letter which we had written and John
posted that night for the early stage.
Ii 1t should be lost in the mails When
morning came l was too weary and
too fidgety to employ myself in any
way. But about noon John walked in,
comfort in his eyes.
Why, John, how funny to see YOU
here at this hourl Why do you look
so? You haven't heard yet; you can't.
for the letter is only half way there.n
" But / have heardl / got ahead of
the letter-drove over to the Junction.
ttelegraphed, paid for the answer, and
here it is.
Blessed Johnl This was the telegram:
Send file at once. Check ready to your
order. p. HALiJFAxU
How we cried and laughed and kissed
each otherl How much that MESSAGE
meant! To John and Sue the satisfac-
ton of their love, life spent together.
the fruition of deferred hopes: to me
the lifting of heavy weight, home Sc
curity, the shelter of my sisters wing.
the added riches of brother who was
brotherly in every deed. And all this
for thousand dollarsl Oh, how much
money can do sometimes, and at other
times how little! We had grown some
what calmer, though Sue still kept her
sweet wet face hidden on Johns Shout
der, and quivered and sobbed now and
then, when turned emotion into new
channel by Selling a tumbler of water
and proposing this toast: Ito the
memory of the late Samuel F. Morse.u
John seized another and added.
" The Intellgencer-may it rise like a
phoenix from its ashes"
leave you to guess if we did not
drink this heartily.-Selected.
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Religious M(istellanp.
The Seen and The Unseen.

There were watchers by the bedside
And silence In the room;
There was morning light and shadow
From night Of troubled gloom;
There were hearts akin to breaking,
There were souls bowed down in grief;
There were drinkings deep from sorrows Gun
In moments all too brief.
There were farewells sad and tender
In whispers soft and low
There were waitings for the messenger
OF measured step and slow;
There were earthly warfares ending.
There was cease from worldly strife;
There were mortals made immortal,
There was death an endless life.
There were watchers by the bedside,
Whose forms we might not see;
There were spirit-voices chanting
In sweetest melody
There was morning light Undertaking
Into everlasting day,
When the watchers and our darling
Went up the heavenly way. Selected.
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Selected Storp.
Pine and Palm.

lonely tree, the rowan grew
Among the powders long and lone.
The wild moor heaved beneath the blue
In heathery swells of turf and stone.
They'd wandered east, they'd wandered west,
with dance and music, song and mirth,
That sunburnt group who paused to rest
On that one spot of shadowy earth.
With heat and travel overcome,
The bandsman slumbered. ON the grass
Lay leathern pines and cymbaled drum
And brightpeaked hat with bells of brass.
with low, soft laughs and whispered fun,
Blitbe eyes and lips of loving red,
Two girls sat stringing In the sun
The rowan berries on thread.
Against a bowlder NOISY grown
saw the singing woman lean
Her dark proud head. Upon the stone
She had placed her gilded tambourine
Though not asleep, she did but seem
Half conscious, for the hot sun kissed
Her cheek and wrapped her heart In dream,
Like some glad garden wrapped in mist
Into the tambourine dropped
My modest tribute unto art
The children threading berries stopped
The woman wakened with start.
She rose and thanked me, bright and free,
Then added; " God is good today
One hour am in Napoli-
And this is Scotland-far away"
And remembered, as turned
How, lone in Norland SHOWS, the pine
Dreamed of that lonely palm which yearned
On burning crags beneath the line
-WiHidni Canton, in Good Words.
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ONE hundred doses one dollar is in
separately connected with Hoods Sar-
saparilla, and is true of no other medi-
cine. 1t is an unanswerable argument
as to strength and economy, while thou
sands testify to its superior blood
purifying and Strengthening qualities.
"A bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla con-
tains one hundred doses and will last
a month, while others will average to
last not over week. Hence, for econ
omy, buy Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23

GOOD men have tried the Bible in
youth and in old age, in sickness and
in health, in business and at home. in
life and death. Lawyers have tried it,
statesmen have tried it, society has
tried tin its charities, its education
and its laws. But it is not worn out,
it is not affected; it is ever young and
never old; it is the Lords Book; we
need no others. The longer it is tried
the more satisfactorily it is proved the
Word of the Lord, which abideth for
ever.-Dr. Hall.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23

A MAN attacked with Bright's dis
ease, or any kidney disease don't want
fine words-but it's conqueror, Hunts
kidney and Liver Remedy.
WE must tell of the great specific
Hunts Kidney and Liver] Remedy.
1t never fails to cure diabetes, dropsy,
Bright's disease, etc.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23

DID you read my book ?" cob,
yes, l read it," GLOW do you like
itY' "My dear sir, assure you that
l laid it aside with great deal of pleas
IRE -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23

SEARCH the Scriptures. Most people
merely read the Bible, and do even
that in a lazy way. Search, dig, hunger
and thirst; thus only can you be truly
satisfied.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23

IFyou can't " bear a cough, "bull -
it with DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23

He who seems not to himself more
than he is, is more than he seems.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23
CHAPTER /.

PatlentS "
almost dead or nearly dying"
For years, and given up by physicians, of
Brights and other kidney diseases, liver
complaints, severe coughs, called consump-
ton, have been cured
Women gone nearly crdzy!llil
From agony of neuralgia, nervousness
wakefulness, and various diseases peculiar
to women.
People drawn out of shape from excruciat-
ing pangs OF rheumatism, infiammatory and
chronic or suffering from scrofula.
Erysipelas!
Salt rheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia,
indigestion, and, in fact, almost ali diseases
frail
Nature is heir to
Have been cured by Hop Bitters-proof of
which can be found in every neighborhood
in the known world.
EY" None genuine without bunch of
green Hops on the white label. Shun all
the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or
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advertisements.
Questions Answered!!!!

Ask the most eminent physician
OF any school, what is the best thing in
the world for allaying all irritation of the
nerves, and curing all forms of nervous
complaints, giving natural child-like re.
freshing sleep always?
And they will tell you unhestatingly
Some form Of HopS!l!"
CHAPTER l.
Ask any or all of the most eminent phv-
sicians: f'
What is the only remedy that can be re-
lied on to cure all diseases of the kidneys
and urinary organs; Brights disease dia-
Detes, retention, or inability to retain urine.
and all the diseases and ailments peculiar
to women -
"And they will tell you explicitly and
emphatically Buchu! m"
Ask the same physicians
What is the most reliable and surest
cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia. con-
stipation, indigestion, biliousness, malaria,
fever, ague, ETC." and they will tell you
Mandrake or Ddndelionll!!
Hence, when these remedies are combined
with others equally valuable,
And compounded into Hop Bitters, such
a wonderful and mysterious curative power
is developed, which is so varied in its opera
tons that no disease or ill-health can possi-
bly, exist or resist its power, and vet it is
Harmless for the most frail woman, weak
est invalid or smallest child to use.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-08-08
RIEL TO BE HANGED.

A Winnipeg dispatch, dated the 1st,
says: The jury in the Rel trial, after
being absent about thirty minutes, re-
turned a verdict Of guilty. It was
2:16p. N. when the jury retired. An
oath was administered to the guard
to keep the jury without meat or
drink, fire n lodging. At 3:15 o'clock
there was a murmur in court and it
was whispered that the jury had
agreed. All was hustle and excite
ment. Hiel prayed fervently, kneel-
ing in his box, and looked unmoyed
as the jury entered a verdict Of guilty.
Francis Cosgroye, foreman, while cry
like a child, announced that he
was asked by his fellow jurors to re-
commend the prisoner to the mercy
Of the Grown, and the Judge said the
recommendation would be considered.
Rel was sentenced to hang. on the
18th of September, at Regina. Judge
Richardson said he could hold out no
prospect Of a reprieye or interference
by Her Majesty. Riel took the result
cooliy.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-08-08
DIVISION SCHEME.

In seems q new scheme has been
! sprung fer tie division and adlnis-
sion OF both Montana and Dakota. It
is u COW scheme. The following is
the text as telegraphel to the Pioneer
Press from Helena: "A partyof cap
i%ta'iats ! about to depart for Wash
ington with q new division scheme.
They propose to divide Dakota on the
Missouri river, and Montana north
and south at the east END Of the
Bozeman tunnel, that portion Of Da-
ko.a east Of The Missouri river to be
one state, while that west ot the rive
and the eastern part Of lIoetana to be
another. THIS being the great cattle
grazing country and the western part
Of Montana is lett 10 look after its
mining interests. Tt is thought this
will classify the industries O. the va
rious sections and prevent the clash
ing which would otherwise arise.
The state Of Dakota would then be an
entirely agricultural community,
while the new state from the Missouri
river west would be the cattlemen's
paradise. It is true that they need
special laws which could be make APP
plicable to that state alone. It is
ptobablAif This is done that the Black
Hills would be set off with Wyoming,
as it has easy communication with
that Territory. The capitalists have
any amount Of money to push This
scheme to q successful termination.
1t Will, though, undoubtedly be kick
ed against in many quarters, and they
may have over-estimated their power.