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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-17
A Naughty Terrier.

A man of Athens has a fox terrier.
There appears to be something like rea-
soning power directing some of her ac-
tons. She had been sleeping in the
basement of the house, in box placed
under the stairs for her convenience.
Recently, one of the servants missed a
small shawl, which early in the morn
ing and late at night she had been ac-
customed to wear. A short time ago
she went down stairs late at night, and =,
glancing into Spots box, saw the dog
snugly wrapped up in the shawl. She
didn't disturb the dog, but told her mas
ter about it the next morning, and he
concluded to watch the dog that even
ing. The shawl was missing as usual
during the day. AT night, when every
body else had left the basement, he saw
Spot scratch away a lot of kindling wood
in the cellar and scratch out the shawl.
She pulled it across the floor to her box,
and, carefully adjusting ii, took one
corner in her mouth and rolled over
twice. In the morning the shawl was
not in her box, and a search of the
wood-pile revealed the clever dog had
removed it and carefully covered it up
atlanta Banner.
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call it antiquated, and its antiquity is
as that of God himself. 1t is older
than the stars and the earth, and
awaits their dissolution, that all its
revelations may be fulfilled. But it is
also ever new, as we'll as ever old; the
most progressive, as it is the most con-
sentative Of influence; the counter
part of the wisdom of God. All litera-
ture has drawn deep and precious
draughts from its fountain; its orient
pearls are scattered through all lands;
philosophy has there found the test of
its errors and the lordliest of its truths.
For four thousand years its words have
been inspiration and life, comforting
the downcast, and breaking the OPP
pressor's rod; pledging peace to the
penitent, and opening to all the very
gates of endless life; subduing with
imperial might all other words; speak
ing with such tones of authority as you
read in no other books, and in the very
name of the Lord, proclaiming king
dom which has been ever advancing,
yet never subdued. And thus, like a
living power, it has been doing living
and abiding work among the children
of men, in every cline, in every
language, and now wider than ever
before are its words rehearsed. "Its
lines have gone out through all the
earth, and its words to the end of the
world
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-17
Christian Individuality.

Christians sometimes overlook the
fact that God designs to carry forward
his work in the world-not only
through varied agencies, but through
individuals possessing diverse mental
characteristics. All the differences of
natural temperament in his chosen in
struments should be gladly welcomed
only so that they are sanctified by the
Spirit, and are enlisted in seeking the
one great end. If we study the lives
of the evangelists, we will be impressed
with the peculiar personal traits that
constantly become apparent in their in
tercourse with our Lord and with each
other, and we can not fail TO be struck
with the manner in which these traits
were employed by their Master in fur
thering his kingdom. All this was
clearly exhibited by the apostles in the
early periods of the church. Indeed,
the record furnished by the four evan
gelists, and that of the acts and the
epistles, will give a truthful picture
of church life around us at the present.
Gods servants must possess Chris
tian individuality-ea one fitted to
act for himself-in order to reach the
best development of Scriptural doctrine,
and to give direction in practical effort
to the philanthropic and Christian
movements of the age.-MethOdiSt Prot.
eSt0nt
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The COmpaniOnship of Christ.

If we can enter into the company of
Christ and live there, then our unknown
possibilities shall open to us, and in the
light of those unknown possibilities we
shall be able to despise and to escape
from the baser things that cling to us.
Do you remember how he went snap
ping this chain and that chain among
the sons of men whom his life touched?
Nicodemus came to him, and the creed
bound Pharisee became the faith-clad
man. Christ came to the poor Magda-
len, and in her sin he touched her, and
she lifted herself up and was free, not
only from her sin, but from the tyranny
of her dark remorse, and entered into
his service, and by and by was with him
at his cruci6xion. He came to twelve
plain men, and touched their lives, and
each and every one of those men be-
came that which any one of us would
give his life if he might become-one
of the apostles of the new redemption,
one of the saviors of the world.-Phil-
HDS Brooks
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The Boy Who Became a Sculptor.

In little Italian village there once
lived a jolly stone-cutter named Pisano.
He was poor, of course, or he would
not have been stone-cutter; but he
was full of good humor, and everybody
liked him.
There was one little boy, especially,
who loved old Pisano, and whom Pisano
loved more than anybody else in the
world. This was Antonio Canova,
Pisano's grandson, who had come to
live with him because his father was
dead, and his mother had married a
harsh man who was unkind to little
Antonio. Antonio was frail little
fellow, and his grandfather liked to
have him near him during his waking
hours.
While Pisano worked at stone-cut-
ting, little Antonio played at it, and
amused himself with making clay fig
ures, drawing, and cutting into shape
the small pieces of rock which lay
about the yard. The old grandfather
soon saw that the pale-faced little fell
low at his side was wonderfully skilled
at such things.
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Henry b. Smith on the Bible.

The Bible as an inspired record is
an infallible, and it is the final, author
ity for faith and life. Its inspiration
involves its infallibility. Interpreted,
as all works must be, by its real spirit,
it gives us truth without error. Light
and life come from the ministry of the
Word. Its hallowed sayings are our
stay, when all other support fails; our
rock amid the pillows; the songs Of our
pilgrimage; the pledge of our final rest.
Such implicit faith may be stigmatized
as Bibliolatry; but where else can we
90 to find the words of eternal life?
Bibliolatry clings to the letter; spirit
uality in the letter finds the Spirit, and
dares not disown the letter which
guided to the Spirit. For the enduring
wants of the soul, for the problems of
sin, salvation and eternity, we find
here an unwavering authority, and rest
in faith and joy upon the last assurance
of the highest testimony, "Thus saith
the Lord" And as it is an infallible,
so is il final authority. No man may
add unto or take away from the words of
this Book. E" Here is the judge that
ends the strife" Like its Divine Au-
thor, it has full oft been called before
human tribunals, been reviled, spit
upon, yea buried, that it might rise
again with new power, and bless even
its prosecutors. OF controversy, as
history testilies, it has ever been the
arbiter; of opposing systems, the in
variable conqueror; every scheme of
men has become wan and shriveled at
its touch. Beyond its revelations and
its prophesies thought cannot reach
it contains the oldest of records as the
most living of prophesies. New assail-
ants, in the flush of self-consciousness
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A Shining COuntenance.

That is a pleasant story which comes
from the mission field, how Japanese
civil officer who was feeling depressed
and perplexed with his religion saw a
Christian lady whose face wore such an
expression of peace and joy that he
argued her religion must make her
happy. He decided to inquire into the
doctrines of Christianity and was finally
led to embrace it. The religion of
Christ is calculated to make itself known
in the faces of its believers. 1t is said
the faces of the Christian women of
Syria are far more intelligent and beau
tiful than the faces of their Moham-
medan sisters. They are of the same
race; it is different religion that makes
the difference. Christianity is a cheer
full religion. Jesus said, BE not of sad
countenance. Better than his precept
was the truth he taught, which trans
forms the face of him who receives it
into his heart
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-17

There is pertinent temperance lesson in
the following anecdote: A farmer once
employed young man to labor upon his
farm without knowing anything of his
habits. All too soon the farmer found that
his new hand was addicted to drinking alco-
holcs and this habit interfered with his
usefulness. John" said the farmer to the
man, I'll give, We one O. my best sheep. if
yen give up drinkin' while We work for
me-" cts bargain" declared the man.
A grown son of the farmer, overhearing this
agreement, looked up and asked: Pa, will
you give me sheep, too, if | will not drink
this season." yes" replied the, father,
" you may have sheep" Then the little
boy spoke up and said :" Pa, will you give
me sheep, too, if III not drink" Yes,
son, you shall have sheep, also" After a
moments pause, the little boy turned to his
father and said; "Pa hadn't you better
take a sheep, too?" " | dunno, dunno"
the farmer replied, doubtfully, and then
suddenly concluded, Z" | decar, I'll try it
and see" The old gentleman was heard
afterwards to declare that he made the best
investment of sheep that season he ever
made in his life Companion,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-17

"Stick to your fathers religion until
you can find BETTER" do we say? No!
we do not believe in comparative re-
ligions. A faith which does not rest
alone on Jesus Christ as the co-equal
Son of God, on the sacrificial death and
justifying resurrection - which does
not hold steadfastly to the new birth
and the bearing life which the
Savior enjoined-is not the religion of
the gospel, whatever else it may be. 1t
is a delusive counterfeit. If your
fathers religion was a religion of faith
in Christ, of daily prayer, of self-denial,
of separation from the world with
its vanities and follies, then stick to
your fathers religion indeed, for you
will not find a better. There is but
one religion and that is the true one
not the better or the best, but the
only.-Rer. 4. j. Gordon, in Young
at Work.
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Our 8ops anb Girls.
Charities Conclusion.

" l wish you would tell me- mamma"
Said four-year-old Charlie, one day, [tache
"What makes grandpas beard and mus
And the hair on his head so gray"
I answered, with smile and with sigh.
when grandpa was younger, his hair
Was glossy and brown as your own,
His face bore no traces of care;
" But now he is gray-haired and old,
Grows older each day and less strong;
The gray on his head is sign
That he may not live very long"
The child said no more at the time,
But turned, and with lettering feet
He stepped to the window and gazed
With thoughtfulness out on the street.
Then suddenly startled us all
BY uttering loudly this cry
"Come quicklyl come, see an old horse
That surely will very soon die.
off people with gray on their heads
On earth will not much longer stay,
Then surely that horse will soon die,
For see, he is all oUer gray"
M Ella Cornell.
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The Victory of Faith.

The only victory which fully and en-
tirely overcomes the world, comes from
the faith which places man above and
beyond the world, which makes hui
mainly the lord of nature and time, and
change and chance, because it makes
all these subservient to that life which
has its source not in the creature, but
in the Creator, not in the world, but in
God. Compared with this one great
lifelong victory for humanity, this con-
quest over all outward circumstances,
those other occasional miraculous con-
quests of his, those victories not of
endurance, but of change of circum-
stance, that strike us so much at first,
seem infinitely smaller conquests. We
might conceive of our being able to
work all these works, and greater than
these, and yet gaining no real victory.
What would it avail US, though we
could turn stones into bread, and water
into wine, if our gluttony and intemper-
ance made us slaves to the food and to
the wine we had miraculously produced?
What would it avail us if we could heal
disease by touch, and recall the dead
with word, if the health we regained,
and the dead we called back, were to us
more than God-were sources to us,
therefore, not of life, but of death? Is
not this the mistake, the sad mistake,
man is ever making, when he imagines
that his discoveries of the powers of
Nature are giving him increasing power
over Nature? The truth is that they
are all of them giving Nature increased
power over him. These new forces in
Nature which man discovers, as we
apply them to the uses of human life,
what do they do for us? They quicken
the pace at which we must all live.
We must live now faster, harder far,
than our fathers did. Steam and cleo
tricity are our masters, not we theirs.
We are like hands in some great
factory-the faster the wheels revolve,
the more unremitting and eXhausting
is our work to keep up with them.
Circumstance is our master, and condi-
tions our life as much as ever. 1t is
not in our surroundings, change or i'm
prove them as we may, but in ourselves
that true power over Nature is to be
found. Which do you think is most
truly lord and master of outward ma
ture, he who could, by one wonder-work-
ing word, bind the Old World and the
New with such link as binds them
now, or he who could bear with patient,
trusting heart, with calm, mistaken
faith, the message those wires might
send him that all he loved and all he
possessed in life were gone? The world
might be the master of the one; the
other would be the master of the other.
DR.. Magee.
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moral ann 8eligioms.
Shall We Find Them at the Portals!

Will they meet us, cheer and greet us,
Those we've loved, whove gone before9
Shall we find them at the portals
Find our beautiful mmortals,
When we reach that radiant shore?
Hearts are broken for some token
That they live and love us yet
And we ask, Can those whove left us,
OF loves look and tone bereft us,
Though in heaven, can they forget?"
And we often, as days soften,
And comes out the evening star,
Looking westward, sit and wonder,
Whether, when so far asunder.
They still think how dear they are
Past the portals our immortals,
Those who walk with him in white,
DO they, mid their bliss, recall us2
Know they what events befall us2
VIII our coming wake delight
They will meet us, cheer and greet us,
Those we've loved, who've gone before;
We shall find them at the portals,
Find our beautiful immertals,
When we reach that radiant shore.
Rev. j. E. Rdqkin, DID,
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DRFNTIss NJ. sHEPARD's ESTATE.

T. STATEOF VERMONT, Warrington DISTRICT, So
In Probate Court. held at Montpelier in and for
said District, on the 5th day of June A. d. ISL:
An instrument, purpOrting to be the last viii and
Testament of irentiss NJ Shepard late of Eass Mont
peier, in said District deceased, being presented to
the Court for PrObate II is ordered by said Court that
all persons concerned therein he notified appear at
session of said Court to be held at the Probate ONCE
in said Montpelier, the I'd day of July. A. ID.
1891 and show cause, If any they may have, against
the Probate of said instruments for which pur-
pose it is further ordered that notice of this
order be published three weeks successfully in
the Vermont WdtchmdR a. State Journal, newspaper
printed at Montpelier in this state previous TO said
time appointed for hearing BY the Court.-Attest,
4345 HIRAM CARLETON. Judge.
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CHEsTINA DODGE,s ESTATE.


The undersigned having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ngton Commissioners to receive, examine and ad-
just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Chestna Dodge, late of East Montpelier
in said District, deceased, and all claims exhibited
in offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will
meet for the purposes aforesaid at the dwelling house
of George Davis in East Montpelier aforesaid, the
26th day of June and 10Th day of November next from
one o'clock p. NJ until four o'clock Z. NJ, each
of said days, and that six months from the 26th day
of May, A. d. 1891, is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors to present their claims to
for examination and allowance.
dated at East Montpelier, this 4th day of June,
A. d. 1891. AUSTIN TEMPLETON, C..i....o
4345 JAMES r.. YOUNG, commissioners
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WILLIAM ELLIoTT's ESTATE.

' l.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in and for
said District, on the 9Th day of June A. ID, 1891;
j, II. Hastings, Administrator and Laura =.
Elliott, Administrative, of the estate of William
Elliott late of Warren, in said District de-
ceased makes application to said Court, with the
and appreciation in writing of the heirs of said
deceased, residing in the State of Vermont for Ii
cense TO sell all of the real estate of said deceased,
situated in Warren in said District, to wit; Home
farm, consisting of about 200 acres of land with
buildings thereon als9 back lot, consisting of about
10 acres of land, except the widows right of dover
therein, hut including the homestead aud reversion
of said dover, representing that the sale thereof
would he beneficial the widow and heirs of SAID de-
ceased and those interested in his estate in order to
convert said real estate into money Nhereupon Is
ordered by said Court that said application be referred
to session thereof. to be held at the Probate Office,
In said Montpelier, the 25th day of June,
A. D. 1891 for hearing and decision thereon; and 1t is
further ordered that all persons interested be noti
fled hereof by publication of notice of said appca
ton and order thereon three weeks successfully in
the Vermont Waterman 6 State Journal, IA newspaper
published at Montpelier, in this state, and which
circulaes in the neghbOrhood of those interested,
before said time of hearing, that they may appear
at said time and place and, If they cause object
thereto. by the Court-Attest.
4345 HIRAM CARLETON, Judge
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MARY Il. DODGE'S ESTATE.

Il.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Washing
ton, Commissioners, to receive examine and adjust
all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate Mary T.. Dodge, late of Prophets
town, in tina County of Whitesde and State
of Illinois, deceased, ana all claims exhibited in
offset thereto, hereby give notice that will meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the office of Homer W.
Heaton in Montpelier in said District, the eth day
of July and 18th day of December next from
O'Clock A; NJ; until four o'clock NJ, each of said
days, and that six months from the 9Th day of
June A. ID. 1891, is the time limited by said Court
for said creditors to present their claims TO us for
examination and allowance.
Dated at Montpelier this 9Th day of June, A. d.
1891. HOMER W. HEATON, Co,isi,,.s
43.45 &. +. BUSWELL, commissioners
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WHAT it costs must be carefully con-
sidered by the great majority of people
in buying even necessities of life.
Hoods Sarsaparilla commends itself
with special force to the great middle
classes, because it combines positive
economy with great medicinal power.
1t is the only medicine of which can
truly be said 900 Doses One Dollar"
and a bottle, taken according to direc-
tions, will average month.
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Geaal Motites.
EzEKIEL ID. NYE,s ESTATE.

IZEKIEL ID. NYE'S ESTATE.
II STATE OF VERMONT. Washington District. IS.
In Probate Court held at Montpelier, in and for
said District, on the I'd day of June, A. ID. 1891:
An instrument purporting to be the last WIN
and Testament of Ezekiel d. Nye late of East Mont
pelier in said District deceased being presented to
the Court for Probate: II is ordered by said Court
that all persons concerned therein be notified
appear at session of said Court to be held at the
Probate OMce in said Montpelier, the 26th day of
June, A. d. 1891, and show cause, If any they
may have, against the probate of said instrument;
for which purposeit is further ordered that notice of
this order be published three weeks successfully in
the Vermont Wdtchn,dn d State Journal a paper
printed at Montpelier, in this state, previous to
said time appointed for hearing.
BY the Court.-Attest.
42-A HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
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Cline Gables.
Central Vermont Railroad.
Commencing October 10, 1890.

Trains Going South and East mill Leave Mont
petier as t0NO,oS!
1888 A. M. MAIL, for Ftchburg Boston, Spring.
field, New London and New York.
1878 +. NJ. FAST TRAIN, for Boston via Low
ell and New York via Springfield.
@; is Il. NJ. PASSENGER, for White River
junction.
1910 A. NJ. EXPRESS, for Boston via Lowell
and all points in New England.
Trains Going North and West.
$3.50 A. NJ EXPRESS, for Montreal, Ogdens
burg and the West
6:25 A. NJ. ACCOMMODATION to st. Adams
Burlington and Rutland, Troy and New York
10: 10 A. NJ. PASSENGER. for Burlington, st
Adams, Richford, Rouse's Point and st. Johns.
3 43 Il. Nj. PASSENGER. for Burlington, st
Adams, Montreal, Ogdensburg and the West.
1920 +. NJ. FAST EXPRESS. Pullman Sleep
ing Car to Chicago.
Trains leave for Barre at Il 90 aud 10; 80 A. NJ and
2: Is, 20 and 4 II p. M Trains leave for Williams
town at 10: % A. M and 4; 90 Pm
Through tickets to Chicago and all points West TO
sale at the principal stations.
J. W. HOBART. General Manager.
S. w. CUMMINGS, General Passenger Agent.
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In Probate Court held At Montpelier in and for said
District on the 9TH day of June A. ID. 1891
Martin W. MheelOck. Administrator, with the
will annexed. of the estate of Mary T.. Dodge, late
of Prophetstown, in the county of Whieside in the
state of Illinois, deceased, makes Applicant ion to
said Court, of the egatees devisees of said
deceased residing in the state of Vermont for
license to sell all of the real estate of said deceased
situated in Berlin, in said District, to wit: Lot Of
land with the buildings thereon standing on the
westerly side of the old Paine turnpike and between
the lands of the estate of the late j. W. Wheelock
and the estate of the late Jennette D. Preston, rep
resentng that the sale thereof would be beneficial
to the legatees and devisees of said deceased and
those interested in her estate, in order to con
vert said real estate into money. Where
upon II is ordered ny said Court that said application
he referred TO session thereof, to be held at
the Probate Office, i'll said Montpelier, the 25th
day of June A. D. ls9l for hearing ana decision
thereon; and it is further ordered, that all persons
interested be notified hereof by publication oi notice
of said application and order thereon three weeks
successfully in the Vermont Waterman state Jour
nal, newspaper published at Montpelier, in this
state and which circulates in the neighbOrhOod of
those interested before said time of hearing, that
they may appear said time and place, and If they
see cause, object thereto. by the Court.-Attest,
i3I5 HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
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To dispel colds, headaches and fevers,
to cleanse the system effectually, yet
gently, when coslive or bilious, or when
the blood is impure or sluggish, to per-
manently cure habitual constipation, to
awaken the kidneys and liver to
healthy activity, without irritating or
weakening them, use Syrup of Figs.