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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-29
=, into the niles, and a slight break might

Il into the piles, and slight break might
.uuse the loss of much property. Eternal vigil
lance Is tho price which the Dutch have topay
for Holland. Their great dykes cost them
over g., OK, 600 a year 10 keep In order, and
the sea is watched night and day. Through
out the country and the city the same con-
slant watchfulness Is kept up, Everything IL
kept clean and well cared for. Nothing, as
far az can see, is wanted, and dirt seems to
Ike the whole nations greatest enemy
Saturday is scruhbng day in the Dutch
cities, and on this day the towns so mad over
soap and water. Carpets are shaken in the
streets by women SO that the noise sounds like
that of so many fourth of July cannon, the
doorsteps are secured and the windows
washed until they shine like crystal. note
especially the cleanliness Of the gas street
lamp here, and that Of the windows OF the
various houses. Not spot is to be seen
upon them, and were it not for sort of
movable screen which is put inside OF the
window to keep out the eyes OF the passer by,
one might see all that was going on inside rs
easily as il there were no windows whatever.
Speaking of windows, these Dutch like to
see though they do not sometimes care about
being seen. They like to watch unobserved
the people who go along the streets upon
which they live, and see who knocks at their
front doors before they decide to let the per,
son in or not. For this purpose they have
little mirrors, some not larger than cabinet
photograph and others about eight by ten
inches in size fastened to the wall outside OF
the windows at such an angle as to reflect all
that is going OH in the street. One OF these
mirrors is fixed at each side of the window ut
an angle of about forty-fve degrees, and the
lady in the room can easily see whether her
caller standing at the front door is her dress
maker with bill or her dear friend Miss
Van Derhoof, who is coming to tell her the
latest bit of scandal.
The Dutch houses are tall and narrow. The
material used in making them is usually red
brick and white cement. Their roofs are of
red tiles, and they have the quaint finish at
the front seen in the old Dutch paintings.
Even the farm houses are picturesque, and
many of them reminded me of the Queen
Anne bastard architecture which is now so
much employed in the building of small Amer
lean houses. Some of the roofs of the farm
house are very tall and sharp and now and
then you find an octagonal house among them.
They have the stables close to the houses, and
a clump of trees generally surround them.
windmill forms part of the farm machinery
in many cases, and the great arms of these,
tossing about make the vast green plains of
Holland, inhabited by ten of thousands of
fat speckled white and black cows, appear to
be guarded over by these windmill giants,
who are waving their arms in continual
warning.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-29
HE RUSHED INTO THE WATER.

He nUohED lNTO The WATER.
I made quite a collection of quantity
gnarled canes birds nests and curious shells
for the decoration of my city rooms, and had
accumulated pile of stuff to take home with
me that filed Jones with contempt. One day
as was wandering near the creek saw a
queer looking, pear shaped paper nest hang
ing from n low limb. l recognized it as a
hornets nest
"Ah" l thought, "I'll just shake out the
bees and take it home with me-" proceeded
TO shake: the bees CINE out, too readily l
thought They poured out of that nest like
moasses out of a Jug and I made for the
creek they following in hot pursuit. I
rushed into the water and threw myself into
it, staying under as long as | could When
came to the surface to breathe l had the salts
faction of seeing the cry insects flying across
the creek in wedge shaped body toward an
opposite hillside. where there were dozen
or more fishermen engaged in mending their
nets. | never saw II dozen Long Islanders
move so rapidly before, but the hornets had
the advantage of them. This little episode
tended to make me unpopular; the natives
argued that if | did not do it on purpose
which they strongly suspected. That ! was not
a safe person to he allowed around loose, so l
returned to the city and my toll While do
not yet weigh pa pounds, my stay at Jones'
farm did me good. As he promised, he filled
me with fresh vegetables and soft crabs;
the ozone and health managed to accumu
late in some mysterious way for myself, and
as for the "thngs"-wel, it was the things
-woodticks. hornets and mosquitoes in
c.u.cd-which remember with the most de-
light, and as rub some still tender Lruse,
or note lingering black and blue spot on
my anatomy, my soul is filed with laughter
over the haps and mishaps which befell me
while on Jones' farm. ALLAN FORMAN.
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Interesting to Cigar Dealers.

Odd you know that cigar dealer violates
the law nearly every time you buT ciSar!'
asked an Off .c, Of II reporter the other day.
"Wcll. 10. [ dill not know it, was the
scribe's raGDon.c. How docs he do itl'
Just thi, way" pursued the officer. you
call for II cigar, tho dealer ta,ics II handful
from thc box, spreads them out before you,
and after YOU have selected what you want
he returns the remainder to the box. This Is
a violation OF tie law. The dealer has no
right to return thoa cigars to the box, and
he could be punished for it. "-Elmira Gazette.
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'erimcntal MOVIES, was severely commented
U on, n,ld was put down as II "hard case," a
y nix rohber, a bunko stcerer, or something ct
lat SORT noticed, however, when slyly
mixed some old Jamaica rum and lttla
u.,ar with the milk Jones sent out 70 tho
rraaing field, that old Deacon Seakins, who
had beei loudest in denouncing my trick upon
tie hens, sweetly remarked Tint he ''nllus did
LI,o tho milk them Alderny keows give; it
he'd flavor that the common critters couldn't
tctch." And later in the day, when he fin.
ishcd the second pailfull, to which had i'm
parted an extra "Alderny" flavor, he conflded
to me that when he sold the "collyfiowers" in
tho fall, lie was goin' deown to York, and he
reekonel he'd take look at them Black
Croo.:els himself. l promised him tickets,
and he was happy, averring that "Joneses
Yorker" was n mighty good Teller, for all he
dk.n't know much about farmin'
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-29
THE OLD AND THE NEW.

The old.styie pills! Who does not know
What agony they caused-what woe?
You walked the floor. you groaneu 4 sighed
And felt such awful pain inside,
And the next day you felt so weak
You didn't want to move or speak.
Now Pierce's "Pelets' are sO mild
They are not dreaded by child.
They do their work N painless way,
And leave no weakness for next day..
Thus PROVING what Is oft contest
That gentle means are always best.
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lined with people, Tho beach at Scheven'
ingen Is much like that Of Cape May. 1t con.
sists Of several miles Of gently sloping white
sand, and it Is very wide. Along its outer
edge back from the sea Is sfne paved prom
enade upon which are seats at intervals OF
very few feet; and below this is q grand
driveway filled during the day with livcricd
coachmen driving fine carriages. The beach
OF continental watering place presents
far different sight than TINT of an American
one Tho men and the women do not as.
rule battle together and their bath houses are
not ut all like ours. The American sea bath
house is n stationary cabin on the shore and
at our large resorts there are hundreds OF
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Scheveningen has, however, a far different
class outside of its peasants. The sea shore
is lined with great hotels, equal in size to
those of Long Branch and habited by
throng fully as gay and well dressed. AT
night thousands of people from the Hague
come to the shore and listen to the music in
the concert halls and on the verandas of their
hotels, and the promenade along the sea is
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-29
A DAKOTA BLIZZARD.
How 1t Comes On and How Kemorseless
IL La.
Especial Correspondence

NEW YORK, Oct. 25-The Dakota dusk
was closing in as l sat in the sleigh and tried
to rouse the driver from the stupor into which
he had fallen-a stupor produced in part by
the intense cold, and in part by the internal
whisky he got at the last groggery we had
passed.
Jake, wake up!"
"Yaa- aa-aas."
"Wake up, tell you'll"
"Yaa- uh."
Far as the eye could see there was nothing
but snow-snow piled in drifts-snow falling
in remorseless whirls and eddies and circles
through the tingling air. Not a house in
6ght-nor a tree.
Heavens, how coldr'
l beat my hands, ground my teeth-I
fought the sleep that felt was coming on
the sleep of death, whatever that dumb, blind
thing may be.
The horses plunged aimlessly through the
drifts-now to the right-now to the left
then stopped, painting, neighing low, broken,
pitiful neighs.
"Jake!"
-aa-aas-zoon-puhty zoonT
mo! now!" l yelled, shifting him fright
full blow in the face. Then tried to tear the
reins from his hand, but my numb fingers
Knocked at my will One of the horses fell
quivering. Its companion tried to push on
tottered and lay prone.
And the snow fell merrily: and the stars
visible in the rift of cloud overhead seemed
to laugh down at me; and the windi An!
How blithely it danced over the white drii'
just before usl
l crouched down-down-downi In une ooA
Of the sleigh.
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NOTES ABOUT HOLLAND.
HOW NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE LEFT
HIS MARK UPON EUROPE.
CuriOsities Of Dutch Cities. The Pile
Foundations of Amsterdam and ROtter-
dam - Street Mirrors "A Look ut the
Especial correspondence


THE HAGUE, Oct S.-Holland and the
Dutch are among the greatest wonders OF the
world. With territory so much below the
level of the sea that in many parts OF it the
bottoms of the ocean steamers float higher
than the chimneys of the houses, 1t has
fought back the sea by almost superhuman
work, and for many hundred years has been
one of the most prosperous nations OF Europe.
Il Is only one-third as large as Ohio, but it
has about 5OO, 900 more Of population. Its
cities are among the commercial centers OF
the globe Amsterdam, with its $4,000 in
habitants, sends its merchant vessels to every
port, and Rotterdam, which is nearly as large
q Washington, has forest of masts within
it, haIbors The Hague, where l am now
writing, has over 100, 900 inhabitants. Leyden
has ~, 900; Utrecht has $1,000; HARLEM has
5000; Arnkeim, 10000, and there are mum,
bers of Dutch towns Of 10000 people and
upward.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16
His Spot Of Sunshine.

They tell in Europe the story of a
poor man who was confined for many
years in cold, dark dungeon. There
was but one aperture in the wall, and
through that the sunbeams came for
but a few minutes daily, making a
bright spot on the opposite side of the
CELL Often and often the lonely man
looked upon that little patch of sun
shine, and at length purpose to i'm
prove it grew within his soul. Crop
ing on the floor of his cell, he found a
nail and a stone, and with these rude
implements he set to work on the white
portion of the wall for the few minutes of
every day during which it was illum-
mated, until at length he succeeded in
bringing out upon it rude sculpture
of Christ upon the cross. Let me imi-
tate that prisoner. Circumscribed NAV
be our lot, yet if we love the Lord, and
pray to him, and look for his direction,
we shall soon discover some tiny chink
through which the sunshine of his
guiding providence shall come. On the
spot where its directing light shall fall
let us, with such means as we can COM
mand, hew out, not in cold stone, but
in living love, the likeness of the sacri-
flee of Christ. So shall we find our
special sphere and fill it to the COM
mendation of the Master Christian
! Standard,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16
Rebuking a King.

The timidity which hesitates to re-
buke profanity was once shamed by a
king who had been himself rebuked for
profanity. Riding along the highway
in disguise, and seeing soldier at an
inn, he stopped and asked him to drink
ale with him. On an oath which the
king uttered while they were drinking,
the soldier remarked, 81 am sorry to
hear young gentlemen swear" His
majesty took no notice of it, but swore
again. The soldier Immediately said,
"PL pay part of the ale, if you
please, and go; for so hate swearing
that if you were the king himself l
should tell you of it," "Should you
indeed?" asked the king. 1 should,''
was the emphatic reply of his subject
Not long after the king gave him an
opportunity to be Gas good as his
word" Having invited some lords to
dine with him, he sent for the soldier
and babe him TO stand near him, in order
to serve him if he was needed. Pres
emily the king, not now in disguise
uttered an oath. And deferentially the
soldier Immediately said, Should not
my lord and king fear an oath?" Look
ing at the heroic soldier and then at his
company of obsequious noblemen, the
king severely remarked: "There, my
lords, is an honest man. He can re-
specially remind me of the great sin of
swearing; but you can sit here and let
me stain my soul by swearing and not
so much as tell me of it"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16
Evidences Of Christianity.

Lamartine, in his Life of Columbus,
describes his approach to America:
" One day at sunrise some rushes re-
Gently torn up were seen near the ves-
sci; plank evidently hewn by an ak;
stick skilfully carved by some cutting
instrument; bough of hawthorn in
blossom; and lastly, birds nest on a
branch which the wind had broken, and
full of eggs, on which the parent bird
was sitting amid the gently-rolling
waves, were seen floating past upon the
waters. They were voices from the
shore, confirming the assurance of Co.
lumbus. Delicious and unknown per-
fumes reached the vessels from the
dim outlines of the shore, with the
roar of the waves upon the reefs and
the soft land-breeze. In a few hours
his feet trod the sands of new world"
A friend of ours, watching by the side
of his sick wife, spoke of evidences of
Christ anity. He wanted nothing more
to show its truth than her patience and
Christian meekness. Her life to him
was like the breeze to Columbus, point
ing out not nearing land, but near
ing heaven. The sorrows and the joys,
the sickness and death, of our beloved
all tell us we draw near that new world
where God shall wipe away all tears,
and where there shall be no more
death.-Southern Chuchmdn.
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Giving.

The great and good Martin Luther
loved to give. The fact that he was
himself poor did not hinder his giving.
" God is rich; he will provide for our
wants." he would say, when reproached
for giving away what seemed to be
needed for his own comfort. Once a
poor student came to him who was
about to leave Wittenberg. He had no
money and was in great need. Luther
longed to help him, and in real distress
looked about to see if there was any
thing he could give. His eyes fell upon
silver cup which had been presented
to him by his king, the Elector of Sax
ony. His wife was present and looked
her disapproval but Luther seized it, and,
crushing the sides together, pressed it
upon the young man, saying, " have
no need of silver cup" God always
gives to those who give to his poor. If
we will trust him he will never let us
suffer on account of gifts made in a
spirit of love. The little child can give
love and kind words and helpful deeds,
and by-and-by, as God sees the willing
ness to give, he will trust his child
with other, though no larger, gifts to
distribute.-Smday-School Advocate.
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" Let Co."

1t requires grit to take hold; it re-
quires grace to let go. Take hold is a
common virtue in America let 90 is a
rare grace in America. We are all ex-
horting one another to ego ahead"
we sometimes need the eXhOrtation to
stop. 1t requires as much wisdom to
know when to let go as to know when
to take hold; it requires as much cour-
age to let go as to take hold, and even
more self-denial. 1t is a mistake to
suppose that Americans are a nation of
mere money-makers. They work for
works sake; money constitutes only
kind of counter which shows who has
won in the game of life. We do not
play for the counters, but for the game.
He is wise who knows how and when
to stop the play. The business man
finds himself entangled in business; he
eXhorts himself to hold on and go
ahead; if he can but tide over this
week, this month, this year, he will
come into clear water. He invests all
that he has laid up; he borrows from
his wife, from his friends; he exhausts
first his capital and then his credit;
and when at last he goes down, he in
wolves wife, family and friends in his
ruin. If he had only been wise enough
to let go earlier, he and his would have
suffered less. The wife and mother
carries on her heart the burden of her
home, her husband, her children. She
wakes every morning weary, and ex-
horts herself to take hold; she spurs a
laggard brain to reluctant work far into
the night, and compels herself to hold
on. In vain her husband urges her to
slack little" His kindly urging
only adds to her burden. She says to
herself, if not to him: "Men cannot
understand women's work; he can stop,
but cannot. My home must be cared
for, my children nurtured and watched
over" At last she breaks down en-
tirely. The overweight nerves give
way, and she becomes chronic in
valid or she goes to an early grave;
and the husband and children are left
to live on without the care which she
mistakenly thought Indispensable. If
she had only had the grace to let go
as well as the grit to hold on, it would
have been far better for those she
loved, and whom, by the unwisdom of
her love, she burdened. The Scripture
is wiser in this respect than American
instinct and conscience, for it contains
many eXhortations to us to wait"
For an active man or woman to let 90
of life, stop activity, leave others to
bear the burdens and do the toll, and
stand one side, a mere onlooker-this
is, perhaps, the hardest experience that
ever comes to the lot of Gods children
but it is often very valuable one.
Moses let go when he was herdsman
in the wilderness, and David when he
was an outlaw in the limestone caves
of Southern Judea, and Paul when he
was in retirement in Arabia, and Lu-
Their when he was in Wartburg. We
commend to all overburdened souls the
grace of let ."-Christian Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16
A Happy Home.


A happy home is the brightest spot
on earth the eye of God looks down on.
Love and peace in his home sends sun
shine round man wherever he goes;
disorder and trouble there is misery
everywhere. There are few worries of
life which man cannot now and then
shake off, but who can shake himself
free from the skeleton in the closet,
from the worry in the household, the
blister on the heart? A day will tell
how many man carried that with him
without wincing down to the grave.
When husband and wife are helpmeets
to each other in the best sense, when
order and love and goodness prevail in
the house, then the man who has a
hard battle in life to fight can leave his
struggles behind him when he enters
there. With all our faults, we are the
most home-loving of people, and that is
the reason why we are the greatest of
people. Whatever helps home-life is a
national blessing; whatever hurts home
life is national curse, and the greatest
curse that can touch these blessings is
what would tamper with the peace and
blessedness of our homes.-JumeS Mac
Gregor, DID,.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16
A FATAL DELUSI0N.
The Fancied Security and Appalling
Perils of People Revealed.

The eminent scientist and author,
DIR. Joseph f. Edwards of Philadelphia,
relates the following wonderful ex-
periences:
"During my term as resident physi-
clan in the medical wards of the Phila-
delphia Hospital, it was common oc-
currence for an ambulance call to be
received from one of the down town
station-houses. Upon reaching the
place designated, we would be shown
man or woman who had been found I'M
conscious on the street, and supposed
to be intoxicated. He would be re-
moved to the hospital, where he would
linger unconscious for twenty-four or
thirty-six hours and then die. In the
majority of these cases post norton
examination would reveal most horri-
BILE state of affairs, which / will explain
hereafter"
GA lady in apparently good health,
who rarely complained, and then only
occasionally, of some slight and tran
sient ill-feeling, as nearly every one
does at some time or other, took
long walk with her husband and,
upon returning home Feeling particu-
larly welD, went TO her room to remove
her bonnet, and while standing in
front of the mirror fell to the floor in a
CONFUSION, followed by twenty-four
hours of unconsciOusness, and death
without return to consciousness. A
post norton examination revealed the
true cause in most horrible form"
A young married man for years
suffered from dyspepsia, for which he
consulted many physicians. After suf-
fering in this way, and having no other
symptoms of disease, he awoke one
morning to find very slight swelling,
scarcely more than a puffiness, under
one eye. In less than a month he was
dead"
Now the real and terrible cause of
all these deaths was Bright's disease of
the kidneys, and they might all have
been avoided had the unfortunate vic
tins known what horrible malady was
fastened upon them. But Bright's dis
ease has no symptoms of its own. 1t
steals into the system like a thief, and
deceives its victim by showing the
symptoms of nearly every other disease.
But what can be done?
Take it in time.
If you feel unaccountably tired; if
you have peculiar passing pains; if
your appetite is uncertain; if your head
aches occasionally; if your sleep is ir-
regular; if the fluids passed are profuse
or scanty, do not delay, but use the best
known means for escaping agony and
death before it is too late. For the
purpose there is remedy, and the only
one that has ever proven absolutely
certain. Hunts Remedy has never been
equaled and it is the only absolute
one known to the medical profession.
There are thousands of men and
women to-day who enjoy perfect health
who would be in their graves had it
not been for this wonderful remedy,
and there are thousands of others who
require it without an hours delay.
This is no idle statement, but truth
drawn from cases which are beyond
question.