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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
The After-Dinner Nap.

There is much difference of opinion
concerning the desirability of an after
dinner nap. Those who advocate cite
the example of animals, but these gorge
themselves with food whenever oppor-
tunity offers, and are heavy and drowsy
in consequence. A short rest is, how
ever, different from lethargic sleep, and
often appears to do good. Brain work
should certainly be forbidden after din
ner. The interval between it and bed
time should be devoted to recreation and
amusement. In the case of elderly peo-
pie short nap after late dinner often
aids digestion, but, as general rule, it
is better for such persons to make their
principal meal at two p. NJ. The diges-
tive powers of most elderly people are
at low ebb in the evening. When
sleeplessness is troublesome relief
should be sought for in the discovery
and removal of the cause whenever
possible. The condition is often due
to Indigestion, and when this is the
case the ordinary remedies for inducing
sleep are worse than useless. The nerv-
Gus relations between the brain and
the stomach are so intimate that dis
order of the one organ is almost certain
to affect the other. Excitement, worry
and anxiety, which have their seat in
the brain, interfere with the functions
of the stomach, and in like manner any
thing that unduly taxes the power of, or
irritates the stomach, disorders the cir
culation and nutrition of the brain.
The sleeplessness often complained of
by equity persons is due to the poison
off IF ha ,,,n,h;I r;o1
the nervous system. Excessive smok-
ing, too much alcohol, tea and coffee,
often resorted to by overworked per-
sons, are frequent causes of sleepless-
ness. In all these cases the cause is
removable, while the effect may be
counteracted by appropriate treatment.
Nothing is more mischievous, however,
than to continue the habits, and to have
recourse to drugs to combat the effects.
A due amount of exercise tends to in
duce normal sleep, and such exercise
need not be of violent character. A
walk of two or three miles daily is suffi-
cient, and is, perhaps, as much as a
busy man can find time for. A ride on
horseback, the Palmerstonian cure for
govt, is probably the best form of exer-
else for those whose minds are con-
stantly al work. 1t has been we'll said
that man must come out of himself
when in the saddle; he is forced to
attend to his horse and to notice the
objects he meets. Walking may be
merely automatic process, and afford
little, if any, relief to the mind, and
carriage exercise may be practically
valueless, if the mind is not diverted
from what had previously occupied it.
F0rtniqhtN ReuieW.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

would give ticket, carefully written or
illuminated with his own hand. This
read: Industrious--one penny" This
showed that the scholar was now really
received into school. There were no
clocks or watches; the children came
to school one after another, taking their
places near the master, who sat writ
ing. They spent their time reading
out of the Testament until all were
there. But every one who succeeded
in reading his verse without mistake
stopped reading, and came and sat at
the writing-table to write. The poor
fellow who remained last on the bench
was called lazy scholar. The fun
niest of Docks rewards was that which
he gave to those who made no mistake
in their lessons. He marked a large o
with chalk on the hand of the perfect
scholar. Fancy what time the boys
and girls must have had trying to go
home without rubbing out this O!-Ed-
'card Eggleston, IN 81. Nicholas.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
How to Destroy the Bible.

First, get rid of all the copies in all
the languages-there are 160,000,000
copies, say, of the Old and New Tesla
ments in one book and portions of the
book-you must have all these piled to-
gether into pyramidal mass and re-
duced to ashes before you can say you
the libraries of the world, and when
you have selected there every book that
contains a reference to the Old and
New Testaments you must eliminate
from every book all such passages; and
until you have so treated every book of
poetry and prose, exercising all ideas of
grandeur and purity and tenderness
and beauty for the knowledge and
power of which the poets and prose
writers were indebted to the Bible--un-
til you have taken all these from be-
tween the bindings and turned them
into ashes, leaving the emasculated
fragments behind--not until then have
you destroyed the Bible. Have you
done it, then? Once more Go to the
courts of law, and having sought out
the pandects and codes, you must mas
ter every principle of law, and study
what it may have derived from the
Old and New Testaments, and have
all such passages removed from the
code of jurisprudence. You must then
60 through the galleries of art through
out the world, and you must slash and
daub over and obliterate the achieve
ments that the genius of the artist has
produced-not until then have you de-
stroyed the Bible. Have you done it
then? What next? You must visit
every conservatory of music, and not
until the world shall stand voiceless as
to its masters, not until then have you
destroyed the Bible. Then you must
visit the baptistries of the churches,
and from the baptismal roll you must
erase all Christian names-the name of
John and Mary-for they suggest the
Scriptures, and the register is stamped
with the Bible. Have you done it,
then? No, there is one copy of the
Bible still living. 1t is the cemetery of
the Christian. The cemeteries, while
they exist, are Bibles, and to suppress
the book, to let not trace of it be dis
covered, you must pass from grave
stone to gravestone, and with mallet
and chisel cut out every name that is
biblical, and every inspiring passage of
Scripture craven thereon. To destroy
the Bible you must blot from the men,
DRY of every Christian its promises and
comforts. Not until you have done all
this can you destroy the Bible.-Dr.
! Guard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
About Newspapers.

Give up many things before you give
up your religious newspaper. If any
one that ought to take such paper
does not, hope some one to whom the
circumstance is known will volunteer
the lone of this to him, directing his at
tention particularly to this article. Who
is he? A professor of religion and not
taking a religious newspaper A MEM
Der of the visible Church and voluntarily
without the means of information as to
what is going on in the Church! A fol-
lower of Christ, praying daily, as his
Master, Thy kingdom come" and vet
not knowing or careing to know what
progress that kingdom is making. But
L must not fail to ask if this person
takes secular paper. Oh, certainly
he does. He must know what is going
on in the world, and how else is he to
know it? 1t is pretty clear, then, that
he takes deeper interest in the world
than he does in the Church, and this
being the case, it is not difficult to say
where his heart is. How can pro-
lessor. of religion answer for discrimin-
alton in favor of the world; how de-
fend himself against the charges it in
wolves? He cannot do it, and he better
not try, but go Immediately for some
good religious newspaper; and to be
certain of paying for it, let him pay in
advance. There is a satisfaction when
one is reading an interesting paper to
reflect that it is paid for. But perhaps
you take paper and are in arrears for
it.. Now suppose you were the pub
Usher, and he was in arrears to you, what
would you think he ought to do in that
case? l just ask the question. 1 don't
care about an answered.. Nevins.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
The Candle of the Lord.

Fred was taking off his shoes and
stockings, getting ready to go to bed.
His shoe was wet, and five little water
soaked toes with seams and wrinkles all
over their pink faces looked at him ac-
cusingly. If they could have spoken
they would have said, You got us wet,
you did. You told lie; you said you did
not step into the brook" Oh! that beau
tiful brook, so near the school-house,
with such lovely stepping-stones, such
pretty little lucky bugs skipping about
over the water, such charming mud in
which to paddle! Why could it not
run in some other part of the town, so
little school-boys would not be tempted?
Fred threw his shoes and stockings
under the bed, said his prayers, with
out mentioning the lie, and went to
bed. 81 know l told lie about the
brook, but l don't believe | will think
of it," he said to himself, and, while he
was trying to give his whole mind to
some other subject, he fell asleep. He
dreamed that beautiful angel stood by
his bed, with bright candle. He
said, "This is the candle of the Lord.
| have come to search out all the sins
that little boys hid away in their hearts,
and do not confess. This candle shines
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
An Old-time SchOOlmaster.

A hundred fifty years ago, among
the German settlers of PENNSYLVANIA,
there was remarkable old schoolmas-
ter whose name was Christopher Dock.
For three days he taught school at a
little place called Skippack, and then
for the next three days he taught at
Stafford. Whenever one of his younger
scholars succeeded in learning his A
B c the good Christopher Dock re-
quired the father of his pupil to give
his son penny, and asked his mother
to cook two eggs for him as treat in
honor of his diligence. To poor chill
dren in a new country these were fine
rewards. At various other points in
his progress an industrious child in
one of Docks schools received penny
from his father and two eggs cooked
by his mother. All this time he was
not counted member of the school,
but only as on probation. The day on
which a boy or girl began to read was
the great day. If the pupil had been
diligent in spelling the master, on the
morning after the first reading day,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Glass Houses.

The old proverb says: People who
live in glass houses should not throw
stones;" but among the marvels of
modern mechanical invention is glass
House in which you can throw stones,
if you have penchant for that kind of
exercise. 1t seems the cost of making
glass has been very greatly reduced of
late years, so that it is possible to fur
nish huge blocks of white or colored
glass for about the same price as or
binary granite. Nor would the blocks
be in the rough, but would be furnished
in pillars, in highly ornamented and
beautiful designs. A glass house would
be more durable than one of stone,
while it could be made as resplendent
as the dream of Kubla Khan, whose
marvellous mansion is described in
Coleridge's poem, where Alph, the
sacred river, ran down to the sunless
sea-" Glass, it is found, can be made
four times stronger than granite, and
can be supplied in immense blocks,
highly ornamented and in different
colors, for about the same COST There
is no difficulty in cementing the blocks
together, as sand can be fused so as to
make the Jennings as durable as any
part of the structure. Glass can be
made ductile, and even elastic, for balls
are made of it which will rebound from
the floor. Its uses are extending. 1t
is employed in a hundred ways not
thought of century ago. 1t is replac-
ing wood as ties for railroads. Scientists
predict the time will come when the
wealthy will live in glass houses, sit on
glass chairs, recline on glass couches,
and array themselves in glass garments
Who will be the first New Yorker to
build great palace of glass? 1t would
be cheap, strong, and far more durable
than any brick or stone now in use.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Select Mistellamp.
Play and Work.

follow. careless, where 1t leads
The idle brook, so pearly fair,
BY messy banks, through swaying reeds,
Still murmuring, wandering here and there.
II chafes along its pebbly ways,
And where the fern the gray rock crowns
1t darkens, Swallowed as 1t plays,
Then breaks in little ripping frowns.
And still complaining all along
The measure of its idle days,
Till in the rivers breast its song
Sinks to low-breathed psalm of praise.
And singing softly, broad and deep,
Through busy days of golden light
1t flows, till whispering dreams of sleep
Bless all its stargemmed peaceful night.
Robert j. Burdette.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
The Science of Silence.

He who has learned the science of
silence may hide ignorance and even
acquire reputation for knowledge and
wisdom. A story is told of the painter
Zeuxis, how he reproved certain high
priest of Great Diana of the Ephesians,
who discoursed of pictures in the
artists studio with so reckless an au-
dacity of ignorance that the very lads
who were grinding colors could not re-
frain from giggling, whereupon Zeuxis
said to his too eloquent friend: GAS
long as you kept from talking you were
the admiration of these boys, who were
all wonder at your rich attire and the
number of your servants; but now that
you have ventured to expatiate upon
the arts of which you know nothing
they are laughing at you outright"
Denouncing the vapid verbiage of shall
low praters, Carlyle exclaims: Given
triviality and imbecility, that can sit
silent, how respectable they are in COM
parison!" 1t was said of one who was
taken for great man, so long as he held
his peace: "This man might have been
a councillor of state till he spoke; but
having spoken, not the beadle of a
ward" Lord Lytton tells the story of
groom married to rich lady, and in
constant trepidation of being ridi-
culed by the guests in his new home.
An Oxford clergyman gave him this ad-
vice: Wear black coat, and hold
your tongue" The groom was consid-
cred the most gentlemanly person in
the country. Silence is an excellent
foil for conversation. A clever person
makes his talk far more delightful by
interposing occasional flashes of silence,
as Sydney Smith said Macaulay did on
his return from India.-Quirer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

right upon them" Then Fred's heart
was all Zig hted up, and there was found
the lie, unforgiven, unconfessed. "This
is very sad,'' said the angel. The good
Lord loves him, and is ready to forgive
that sin if he will confess it. 1t grieves
him so much to have little Fred cover
it up" and the candle shone very
bright, and the sin looked very black.
" / hope" continued the angel, "that
now this little boy knows he cannot
hide the lie any longer, he will ask the
Lord to forgive him." Fred woke with
a start, and knelt down and confessed
his sin. He went in his night-gown to
his mothers room, and, as he clasped
his arms around her neck, and told her
all about it, he promised, with Gods
help, never to tell another lie.-The
PunSU
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
HENM,AANs g GA ySf ESJI ESTATE r.;,

In Probate Court held at Montpelier in and for said
District on the sth day of June, A. ID. 1856;
Betsey l., Carpenter and Joel Foster Admnistra-
Carpenter late of Mortified, In said District, de-
ceased, make application to said Court for license
sell the real estate that has to the estate of
said deceased on the foreclosure of mortgage TO
wit: Being the Hogan Farm" so called, situated in
Moretown in said District except the widows right
of dover therein but including the Teyerson of said
sary for the payment of the debts of said de-
ceased and the expenses of administration Of
Court that said application be referred to "A session
thereof, to be held at the Probate ONCE, in said
hearing and decision thereon and, it is further
dered that all persons interested be notified hereof
thereon three weeks successfully in the Vermont
Montpeiier and which circulates IN the neghbor-
hood OF those interested, before said time Of hear
ing that they may appear at said time and place,
and II they see cause, object thereto.
BY the Court-Attest
1858 A. G. AVERlLL, Register
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
ge9al Motites.
HANNAH 9: PITKIN,s ESTATE.

II II STATE OF VERNON T, WashIngtOn IIlstrlct, IS.
In Probate Court held at Montpelier, In and for
said District, on the 18th day of June A. ID. lss6:
An instrument purporting to be the last Win and
Testament of Hannah c. Pitkin, late of Marshfeld,
in said District, deceased, being presented to
therein, for Probate 1t Is ordered by said Court
that all persons concerned therein be notified to
appear at a session of said Court to be held at
the Probate Office in Montpelier ON the 10th day of
July, A. ID. 1885, and show cause, II any they may
have, against the Probate of said will: for which
purpose 1t Is further ordered, that notice of this
order be published three weeks successfully in the
Vermont WdfchmdR a. State Journal printed at
Montpelier, previous TO said time appointed for
hearing, By the Court.-Attest,
$50 A., G, ANERIII. Register,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Beli9ious MlisteIlamp.
An Answer.

Why am sad when the sky is blue,
You ask, friend and answer you
Hove the sun and the balmy air,
The flowers and glad things everywhere.
But II life be merry, tits earnest. too.
And the earnest hour, II hope be true
Must be solemn or sad; for the work we do
Is little and weak. Ask the world so fair
Why am sad.
For me glad hours are nowise few,
But life is so serious-ship and crew
Bound such voyage to deaths dark lair,
My work is my happy song; but care
Still steals on the quiet hour anew,
And makes 1t sad
-L0Rgmdns' Mdgasine
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

If any of the readers of this paper
are growing deaf, let them get at once
bottle of JohnSon's Anodyne Liniment.
Rub well behind the ears and put a
little into the ear with feather.
IT would seem that the commonest
kind of common sense ought to prevent
a man from buying trash, simply be-
cause he can get big pack for twenty
five cents. Sheridan'S Caralry Condi-
ton Po,oders are strictly pure, and are
worth barrel of such stuff.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

OUR PROGRESS. - AS stages are
quickly abandoned with the completion
of railroads, so the huge, drastic, ca
thartic pills, composed of crude and
bulky medicines, are quickly abandoned
with the introduction of DIR. Pierce's
" Pleasant Purgative Pellets" which
are sugar-coated and little larger than
mustard-seeds, but composed of highly
concentrated vegetable extracts. By
druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

A DAVID buried quick in cave, a
Daniel in the lions den, find that
prayer can win its way up to God and
find audience. For the high and lofty
One-who hath the heaven for his
throne, and the earth for his footstool-
hath an eye to them also who are of a
poor and contrite spirit, and, therefore,
no desperate case of the people of God
renders prayer useless.-HutcheSon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

FENNEL TEA is a simple remedy to
quiet the baby, and this innocent article
is embodied in DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup,
which puts the baby to sleep without
the evil use of opiates. Price twenty
five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

OUR faith is the center of the target
at which God doth shoot when he tries
us; and if any other grace shall escape
untried, certainly faith shall ot.-Sp,ir-
aeon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

PAIN from indigestion, dyspepsia and
too hearty eating is relieved at once by
taking one of Carter's Little Liver Pills
Immediately after dinner. Don't for
get this
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

How much better is it to get wisdom
than gold, and to get understanding,
rather to be chosen than silver.-Prov-
cribs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

THE warm weather often has de-
pressing and facilitating effect. Hoods
Sarsaparilla overcomes all languor and
lassitude.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

IT is the struggle, not the attainment,
that measures character.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-05
THE LEWIS ACADEMY.

The Lewis Academy opens its doors To pu-
Pill for the first time tomorrow morning,
Monday, September 6. ls>6. That it viii
prove a success from the start there can be
no doubt That it viii attain high stand
ing among the educational institutions Of the
state we are fully persuaded. Cities no more
than individuals are tie arbiters of their own
fortunes Wichita never dreamed OF t,elng
ANYTHING else than commercial city, almost
spurnfny everything that did not tend 70 spuT
on TO that goal But it uow seems that ich-
i.a i. Z, be the educational center Of the
state. There is no longer any doubt OF II
4 CITY here and there boasts University or a
College or an Academy or fine system of pub
lie schools, bu. within short time W iciilta
viii b- roastins Of all thess- The chancellor
of tha state university says our puSlic
schools are unsxce,lei; our aclieny orens
tomorrow: the walls Of tho university are
now going up. AMI the grounds for the cob
I.ye Of ,h, Kansas Reform church were -
cure! near the city the past week So II viii
~. sen that while Wichita has tSsa careless
NJ this great in.sresf, which other ci;sss
have been stirring for, Wichita in spite Of
hrr~eIf becomes the Athens Of her state.
A. for the Lewis Academy. II has great
friend m the EAGLE, friend Who not only
.ndor~ss the liberal r,en who foSndsd il bu:
who viii note is future progress With 40
mall degree of prida
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-05
OUR CITY SCHOOLS.

Our city schools will open next Monday
of teachers:
Prof. II. Chidester, supt.
High School-W p Shull, principal; Miss
Dora Wadsworth, Miss Ruba Andre, Miss
Mary Neeley, eighth grade; d. S. Pence, in
structor in penmanship.
First Ward-Principal, Miss Lizzie Dickin-
son. sixth and seventh grades; Miss Dora
Hays, fifth grade: Miss Blanche Smith, third
grade; Miss Eta Fellows Mrs Ada Embre.
Second Ward-Principal, +. E. Phillips,
seventh and eighth grades Miss Ella WORDS,
fifth and sixth grades: Miss Millie Moore,
Miss Kate McKnabb, second grade; Miss
Mary Crowther, first grade
Third Ward-Principal, Miss Mary Glib
soa, third and fourth grades; Miss Anna
Muzzy, second grade; Mrs Fahnie Haynes,
first grade.
Fourth Ward Principal, Miss julia
Leach, seventh grade: Miss Tinnie Cleveland,
sixth grade: Miss Belle Neely. fifth grade:
Miss Grace Bidwell, fourth grade; Miss Ollie
Bolts. third grade: Miss Addie Brook. second
grade; Miss Anna Smedley, first grade; Miss
Rilla Taylor, first grade.
Fifth Ward-Principal, F. L. Boyd, sixth
and seventh grades; Miss Marie Mathes, first
grade.
Park Schooi-Principal, Bertha Daugherty,
sixth grade Miss Eva Martz, fifth grade
Miss Jennie Daurherty fourth grade: Miss
Minnie Bearisley, third grade; Miss Rena g.
Burwell, second grade: Miss Alice Oyerstreet,
first grade.
Lincoln School--Principal. Mrs a b.
Craven. sixth and seventh grades; Miss Fan
ME Vance. fifth grade; Miss Julia Barwise,
third grade; Miss Lettie Herring, second
grade: Miss Ora Stanley. first grade
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-05
BIG DAY.

The Knights of Labor and the labor unions
of the city have perfected arrangements for
a grand demonstration on Monday. The
parade viii be large and imposing, judging
from reports Of committeeman representing
the various trades unions There viii be
speaking and a,nusements at Riverside park
in the afternoon, and, III short, the labor ele-
ment of Wichita will have Of royal enjoy
ment In this connection we are requested
to state that persons having baskets of pro
visions to be taken to the park should leave
them at Excelsior hall, 1l6 West Douglas
avenue, between and 10 a. NJ Monday,
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-05
A MUSICAL RECEPTION.

On Tuesday evening, September 7th, re-
ception will be rendered Prof. VIM. o. Brew
ster, pianoist, organist and composer at
Shaws Steinway music house, 129 Main street
the invitations for which are out. Prof
Brewster will give six selections from
MendeIsohn, Schuman, Chopin and other
eminent composers, also the 'Tarraritelle
Impromtu" composed by himself. The invi
tation cards say o'clock.