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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
The Source of Strength.

We may be very weak, our talents
very few, our opportunities seemingly
still fewer, but our success does not de-
pend upon our own force or genius or
influence. 1t is Gods blessing that
gives the increase. Without it, the
mighty demonstrations of Paul and the
burning eloquence of Apollos would
have been IN vain. With it, the simp-
lest child in the school of Christ can
Overturn citadels of error, and build
up the waste places of many genera
tlons. Compared with each other,
some men may appear great and the
rest small; but compared with God, as
he looks down from the height that
knows no measure, and compared with
the immense difficulties in the way of
his cause, all are worms of the dust.
whose strength is that of the moth.
God does not need our strength to ac-
complish his purposes, though he is
pleased graciously to employ us in his
service. The united church could not
Of itself make a single blade of grass to
grow, much less convert single soul.
Omnipotrnce is needed to do either.
and omnipotence is his own, and was
lis own before ever a human heart
eat, human sinew was stretched, or
human mind thought. The strongest
among us is utterly impotent for any
good work; but the weakest among us
is mighty, if he work with God. d" With
out me We can do nothing" saith the
Savior. /" l can do all things through
Christ strengthening me-" said his
apostle. If we think to be efficient
causes of good ourselves, we shall be
disappointed. If we are willing to be
instruments in the hands of God, we
can accomplish anything he pleases,
for the power will be his, not ours.
The weaker, then, we feel ourselves to
be, the better for our success, if we try
to do good; because God will put his
strength in us only as we put reliance
upon our own strength out of use.
". Beth,me, ID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
Privileges Of Prayer.

Yes; cares, crosses, losses, the neg
lect, unkindness, and hard speeches of
others, all sorts of difficulties and troub-
les, may be spread before the Lord
and cast upon him. 1t is our privilege
to go to Jesus first, and at once and
boldly. If we are his, through faith in
him, he is our Elder Brother, touched
with the feeling of our infrmities, and
all that concerns us interests him.
The truth is, we need keep nothing
from Jesus. In his own time and way,
relief and abundant answer will come.
" In everything by prayer and supplica-
ton with thanksgiving, let your re-
quests be made known unto God."-
Erchanqe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10

DIR. THOMPSON ON THE MoXIE.-LowELL,
August 81 1SSS.-To the PUbHc 1t is now
three years since Moxie had an humble orr
gen in my office, after over six months of in
tense application on my part TO find some pro-
cess by which the natural food of the nerves
could be prepared for immediate absorption
by the nerves, when the patients stomach
could not so prepare it, AT last l discov-
cred this mode, and since the results have
made the most remarkable sale ever known
Twenty years of large practice taught me
that the terrible tired feeling in women was
caused by mal-nutrition of the nerves. |
found there was not one woman in ten
whose stomach could digest the food for the
nerves 10 proper consistence the stom-
achs of the males averaged much better.
Having found plant loaded with their
food, | resolved to meet this emergency
The result is scores of helpless paralytics
and nervous wrecks and hundreds of thou
sands of people who thought they had no
constitution, soon found they had they
had abused their st0machs until they could
not prepare food for the nerves; that was
the matter, and taking Moxie had proved it.
III people continue to abuse themselves,
they must as continually take MoXie to sus-
tain themselves. 1t is not only a food like
your meats and vegetables but a nerve
food. Look out for counterfeits. The gen.
uine has my vignette and signature on a
strip pasted across the cork. Buy only the
bottled goods. Respectfully, A. Thomp-
son, M. ID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
Rrli9lous 311isteIlanp.
Unconscious Element in Teaching.

No greater mistake, remarks the Ban
list Teacher, can be made than to meas
ure the probable success of a teacher
solely, or even chiefly, by an intellect
ual standard. There is a sacrifcial ele-
ment in real teaching, which is the very
soil in which all the rest must grow.
Truth never can be impaired with the
highest success unless one learns, like
Jesus Christ, honestly and really to
"give himself" 1t is important that
man should know what he teaches. it
is tenfold more important that he
should be what he teaches. He may
talk about the love of Christ, his hui
mility and self-sacrfice, and ii may be
like talking about the fragrance of the
orange blossom. What the scholar
needs is TO have that fragrance done
up in bundle--personified. The man
must be love; he must be self-sacrifice:
he must be humility. Then, though
his speech may be contemplate. so that
he can scarcely describe the odor of the
flower at all, he may still be a wonder
full success in moulding that child's life.
in causing him to long for those groves
where such sweetness can be found.
The boy now knows all about its worth.
He has the orange blossom itself. This
explains the success of many an untu-
tored teacher, the failure of many a
learned one. The first has been on the
mountain-top, and, coming down, he is
like Moses "when his face shone and
he knew it not" That which we chiefly
impart in our intercourse with others,
is not what we say, but what we are.
And this is thought which may carry
hope TO many a discouraged superin-
tendent or pastor, when he sees the
comparative intellectual inability of the
average teacher. These people are
teaching better than they know. They
are able to read the lines and not much
more perhaps, judged by distinctively
critical standard; but all this time the
children are reading between the lines.
If the teacher is genuinely pure and de-
voted. silent gospel, which goes all
unuttered, will speak a thousand-fold
more eloquently than that which is ex-
pressed. 1t always does. That which
has caused the work of our divine Lord
to mould the ages lies not so much in
what he taught; rather may it be found
in that single description of Paul:
" Christ hath loved us, and hath given
himself for us, an offering and sacri-
flee to God, for understanding SAVIOR"
-ETchdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10

BRACE UP.-You are feeling depressed,
your appetite is poor, you are bothered
with headache, you are tidgety, nervous
and generally out of sorts and want to
brace mp. Brace up, but not with stimu-
lants, spring medicines, or bitters, which
have for their basis very cheap, bad
whiskey, and which stimulate you for an
hour and then leave you in worse condi-
ton than before What you want is an
Alternative that will purify your blood
start healthy action of liver and kidneys,
health and strength. Such a medicine you
will find in Electric Bitters, and only fifty
cents bottle at G. Blakely's drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10

LIVING ON THE REPUTATION OF OTHERS
" Take everything that / have but my good
name; leave me that and | am content"
SO said the philosopher. So say all manu-
facturers OF genuine articles to that horde
of imitators which thrives upon the reputa-
ton of others. The good name Of ALL
adventures to put in the market limitations
that are not only lacking in the best ele-
ments of the genuine article. The public
should be on their guard against the frauds,
and, when an external remedy is needed,
be sure TO insist upon having ALLCoCKs
Porous PLASTER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
Friday, October b,
SENATE-MDRNI


ReSolution.-By Senator Holmes. That
when the senate adjourns, it be to meet on
Monday, October S, at two o'clock p. NJ.
adopted.
a communication was received from His
Excellency the governor announcing the
appointment of Fred Arthur Rowland as
secretary of civil and military affairs.
The committee on nomination of standing
committees reported, through Senator Ham
mond, as follows:
STANDING COMMITTEES
On RuleS.-Senators Bates, Smith and
Stevens
On Fmance.-Senators Smith, Frary and
Perkins.
On NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. johnson, Taft,
Bates, Mansur, Fisk of Lamoille, Butter
field and Briggs.
On administrations Briggs, Hammond
Mattison, Holmes and Bell.
On observation-disclosures Bunker, ST.
monds, Fisk of Lamoille, Perkins and
Adams.
On agriculture. Chamberlin,
Hlgbee and Parker
On Mdnuactures-S Senators Cramton
Stevens and Ripley.
on Elections.-Senators Frary, Adams and
Chamberlin
On NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mansur, Stranahan
and Smonds
On Railrodds-Senators Hammond, Ter
Stevens and King.
On HighDayS and BridgeS. -Senators Fisk
of Grand Isle, Parker and Mattison.
On Bdnks.-Senators Stranahan, Peake
and King.
On Land TareS.-Senators Peake, Bunker
and Bell.
ON Printiag.-Senators Perkins, Fisk of
Lamoille, Smith.
General ommittee.-Senators Taft, JONES'
johnson, Cramton, Bates.
On Federal Relations. Senators Simonds,
Holmes and Giddings.
ON State PriSOR.-Senators Butterfield
Ripley and Terrill.
On Insane Administrations Giddings
Higbee and Frary
On Grand LiSt-Senators Jones, Ham
mond and Fisk of Grand Isle. Adjourned.
HoUsE-MoRNING.
Bills introduced and referred.-By Mr.
Holton of Brattleboro, III. /, for the protec-
ton of the public health, and TO prevent
adulteration of dairy products and fraud in
the sale thereof Makes any person or
corporation guilty of misdemeanor and
liable to fine of from one hundred TO three
hundred dollars for the manufacture or
sale of dairy products manufactured out of
any oleaginous substances or any COM
pounds thereof. 1t repeats No. H. Acts of
1856 to the committee on agriculture.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
THE man who studies pedigrees
And thinks he knows a sprinter,
Is doomed to wear buster and
To eat snowballs all winter.

THEIR BUSINESS BooMING.-Probably no
one thing has caused such general revival
OF trade at G. Blakely's drugstore as his
giving away to their customers of so many
free trial bottles of DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for Consumption. His trade is sim
ply enormous in this very valuable article,
from the fact that it always cures and never
disappoints. Coughs, colds, asthma, bron-
chitis, Group and all throat and lung dis
eases quickly cured. You can test it before
buying by getting a trial bottle free; large
size, 81. Every bottle warranted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10

A GOOD appetite is essential to good
health; but at this season it is often lost,
owing to the poverty or impurity of the
blood, arrangement of the digestive organs
and the weakening effect of the changing
season. Hoods Sarsaparilla is wonderful
medicine for creating an appetite, toning
the digestion and giving strength to the
whole system. Now is the time to take it,
Be sure to get Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10

THE man who got So 900 from railroad
company for having his brow cut must have
had a very high forehead YonkerS States
man.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10

The new red champagne reminds us
forcbly of the average Englishman's face
1t is such red phiz.-NelC York Eyening
SIM
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10

Senator Smith and Messrs Palmer of
Waterbury and Ballard of Burlington were
appointed committee to wait on Hon
William p. Dillingham; and inform him of
his election as governor. They performed
that duty and presented him to the bar
when he took the oath of office, admins
tered by Hon. James NJ. Tyler, Judge of the
supreme court. The governor-eect then
delivered his message See another col
umn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10

WE often do more good by manifcsting
sympathy than by all the labor we might
bestOw.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
DOUGLASS SEMINARY w ss,ns

ReOpens September 5th. Location and Buildings
pleasant and healthful. Home and School life com
bined Best of teachers; instruction thorough;
certificate admits to college Address
Miss H. Il. DOUGLASS, Principal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
Thursday, October A.
SENATE-MORNIN

Bills introduced and referred.-By Senator
Taft, An act in amendment of sec. Pope of
the revised laws. 1T proposes to amend by
adding after the word Judge" in the first
he cannot attend to the duties of his office (:
in such case, the register is to perform the
duties of the office, The bill, in effect, de-
fines the word "incapacitated, in the
original section.] Referred to judiciary
committee.
The chair appointed the following com
mittee to nominate the standing committees
OF the senate: Senators Hammond of Addi-
son, Simonds of Bennington, Bates of Gale
donia, Taft of Chittenden, Mansur of Essex,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
THE CONVENTION.

When the Republican convention adj
journed at 10 o'clock last night the stu
alton was as fully beelouded as IL has
been at any time within the past week.
Nothing occurred during the proceed
ings of the entire day and evening to
clear away the mist of uncertainty that
has all the time hung over the guberna-
torial nomination, or even to develop
the relative strength of the candidates,
except the show of MCGILL hands made
on Gov. PILLsBURY's motion last night
to reverse the order of business that had
been adopted in the early proceedings
of the convention. 1t was understood
when the convention met in the evening
session that the MERRIAM and SCHEF-
FER forces would combine in opposl-
ton to any movement in the direction
of forcing a ballot before the platform
was reported. So the 100 votes cast in
favor of the PLLsBURY motion are
known to be the bulk of MCGILL's posi-
tive strength. In what proportion the POS
negative votes are to be apportioned be-
tween MERRIAM, SCHEFFER and GIL
MAN is still the study of the political
arithmetician.
Whatever may have been the relative
strength of the four gubernatorial can
didates at the hour of adjournment last
night, there is reason to believe mate
rial changes will have been made by
this mornings sunrise. 1t has always
been the case that the night which in
tervenes between the two days of con-
ventiOn is generative of floppers, and in
this particular instance the prolific
causes are more abundant than usual.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
THE DEATH STRUGGLE.

For the first time in its history the
Republican party of Minnesota is ell
gagged in life and death struggle with
itself; and to all appearances it makes
no difference which way the contest
may turn, the result will be fatal to
Republicanism in this state.
1t is the first time the power of boss
ism and ring domination has been seri-
ously disputed in a Republican conven-
ton in this state. Rule or ruin is al
ways the actuating principle of bossism,
and in this case the continuation of its
rule will be the ruination of the party.
If the bosses are not permitted to rule
the party, then they are resolved upon
effecting its overthrow. If their rule is
continued, then ruin stares the party
directly in the face; for back of parties
and conventions there is an organized
movement among the masses in favor
of political independence which is
stronger than the machine. As one of
the excluded Traverse county delegates
expressed it last night, if the people
cannot get their rights in a convention
controlled by the bosses they can get
them at the polls.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
SARAH ALTHEA.

The newspaper readers of current lit
eIature have heard repeatedly of SARAH
ALTHEA HILL, of California. She is a
beautiful blonde, with alabaster COM
pleXiOn and a retrousse nose. Her eyes
are pale blue. her form voluptuous, and
her walk has the springing grace of an
ATLANTA. But ALTHEA is a dangerous
young woman. If she possesses the
destinations of the Gree, she is equally
adept in the arts of the Nemesis. AT
one period in her not very remote past
she was the chosen idol of ex-senator
SHARON, of Nevada. Around his angu-
lar and unimpassioned existence she
wOve many spells. And when the blase
old gentleman grew tired of the lovely
siren and attempted to whistle her
down the wind, she let him know
very plainly that she was not that kind
of girl. On the contrary, much to his
surprise, and subsequently to his griev-
Gus tribulation, she produced mar
riage contract, allowed by the statutes
of California, which she had prepared
in her hours of idleness and ease. This
contract said she was his wife, and by
implication asserted the further upalata-
BILE claim to an equal share in his thirty
millions. He had thought her satisfied
with $500 month, but AI.THEA had an
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
THE TRUST BILL.

The bill to abolish trusts considered
in the lower branch of congress last
week will come up in the senate, it is
believed, Friday. 1t is proposed to
push the bill to test vote. Since MIR.
BLAINE's speech declaring trusts to be
private arrangements. with which legis-
latures or the people have nothing to
do, it will be interesting to see how the
Republicans in congress vote upon it.
If the senate refuses to pass the bill,
then it must be inferred that the Re-
publican leaders hold with Mr.. BLAINE,
that trusts are private affairs and con-
gress has no right to interfere with
them. The public will then know pre-
cisely how the Republican party stands
on the monopoly issue. The list of
some of these trusts, with the rate OF
tariff protection and the rate of wages
on every Sl0O, is set down as follows:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06

eye to business and preferred thou
sandweight or so of glittering gold.
Then came the long controversy, the
law suits and the divorce proceedings,
the angry recriminations, the false
swearing, the marvellous perjuries and
the leprous revelations of moral turpi-
tude and guilt, and finally the ludicrOus
scene IN the United States circuit court
room at San Francisco reported in yes
terday mornings dispatches. The heirs
of SHARON have no doubt got SARAH
ALTHEA on the hip at last, and her
brief glimpses of old SHARoN's millions
will possibly turn out a barren and dis
tressful ideality. The wages of sin
often turn out to be no wages at all.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
THE RED FLAG.

1t must have excited the Indignation
of every genuine American when he
read in the dispatches yesterday an ac-
count of the march of the anarchists at
Cleveland, carrying a red flag through
the crowded streets and subsequently
attempting to Unfurl it as an emblem of
their lawless hostility to everything we
have been taught to love and revere. 1t
did excite the indignation of the work
ingmen whose peaceful demonstration
the miScreantS sought to convert into
an anarchist revei. They compelled
the revOlutiOnists to put it away, and
would perhaps have handled them very
roughly but for the interference of the
police. As it was, the ringleaders were
arrested and jailed and theiI flag thrown
into the mire.
But this summary method of sup
pressing the ensign of the Cleveland
yagabonds, who attempted to openly
DEFY decent public opinion and the laws
of the country in which they have
found an asylum, does not eradicate the
evil, and it ought to be eradicated
These wretches, who are not even cil'
zens of the country, who are aliens in
language, customs and laws, who are
too lazy to work, too improvident to &C
cumulate, and too cowardly to steal
rave at the gains of others and preach
religion of universal chaos. Character
less vagabonds, they presume to deride
civilization, and assert with insOlent
bravado their claim TO propagate among
decent people their repellant doctrine
of license. infamy and lust.
For such scum as that there should be
but one alternative method of dealing
they should be met with the halter or the
musket. Why cucumber the jails with
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
LATE MINNEAPOLIS NEWS.

About II o'clock last evening, Mr.. and
Mrs. q. L. Woods, of 401 Seventh ave-
nue. south, were assaulted and knocked
down by two men on the corner of
Seventh avenue south and Sixth
street. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Woods
made a terrific struggle and the
thugs finally ran, entering the boarding
house on the corner of Seventh avenue
south and Fifth street. Inspector Fair
BARN was given the case, and succeed
ed in locating the two men at the board
ing house. They were identified by
both Mr.. and Mrs. Woods, and gave
their names as James Harvard and
Frank Frankfort.
Mrs. Mcnamara, of Calmar, To-, died
at st. Mary's hospital yesterday even
ing. The day before an operation was
performed and tumor weighing los
pounds removed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
POND LILIES.

After the heat of the MONDAY sun
And twilight falls when the day is done
The moonlight falls softly on the water
below;
Ont from the shore moves our frall little skiff,
And we seem to float DER the stars as we
drift
Down thestream where the pond lilies grow.
They lie on the breast OF the murmuring
stream,
With their pale, waxen faces, and hearts
golden CLEAN
Upturned TO the stars calm light.
The wind even bushes its breath on its way
ItWould not disturb aught so peaceful as they
This calm summer night.
Our oars lie idle, the skiff is still,
We lean near the lilies our hands to NIL
With blossoms we love so well.
But lust away out of reach they CLEAN,
Like the hopes and castles we build In
dream
A little beyond us they dwell.
How oft have stretched out our arms in vain,
How oft have we gathered what brought US
pain
AS we row'd down the stream Of time.
And we reach out our arms as the twilight
lays,
With its purple lights and golden haze,
AS we hear the bells sweet chime.
This hour brings a longing for one far away,
| For the ship we hope soon will float into the
bay
With its treasured lilies of snow.
After the heat of the MONDAY sun,
| Night draws near and the day is done,
We will drift where the pond lilies grow.
| -E. +.