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ed by the spirit of God. Which of these is to be primary, which secondary, must be decided by each human heart fol itself, and even then might, in varying circumstances, be difficulty decided But who should say that music has not performed her office in divine ser vice as efficiently and as sublimely as any other? What has breathed into the sould os man more great thoughts or impressed clearer visions of the true ob- ject of faith? What has so stirred the hidden chambers of the heart with gales of divine impulses, or so empower ed the whole nature for heroic action and Christ-like endeavor?
 Do you say prayer?
 But such music as I note of is the vehicle of the most tender and spiritual devotion,
 Do you say Scripture? The sermon? Hes, sometimes, or perhaps for you, always. But that worshipper wonder has a musical fibre and a breaking heart. She hears the beautiful "Oh rest in the Lord Wait patiently for Him. read in a reverent, impressive manner, and perhaps thirty minutes
 
 theology, polished diction and fervid eloquence But when the amen has been spoken, her heartache is no less. and no divine afflatus has breathed up- on her wounded spirit. And then noble voice takes up the words as in- terpreted in the divine composition of the devout Mendelsohn, and the splen- did music rings through the church arches and throng the portals of her soul, and the burden of material things grows very small and light and the fret and jar of life sounds very far away, and she walks out of that ser vice renewed.
 l think the testimony of converts in the Moody-Sanky efforts show how of ten music has been primarily used. I am sure "the morning stars sang to- gether" long before sermons came in | fashion, and fancy that when St. John | saw in the Revelation that great multi | tude standing on the sea of glass and | singing with the harps of God, the song | of Moses and the Lamb, he had a dim suspicion that something like worship | was going on in some corner of the uni verse.
 Therefore I am goaded to advise Sup port those churches Other things being aquaD which furnish among other aids to worship the supreme services of Music, the Handmaid of Religion"
 MUSIC LOVER.
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-----------.--4-L L-------.---- COMMUNICATION.
Mus c in Religion.


 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND co1rprpp
 "As we were saying" about tha, little characteristic fault of our towns. people, had not expected that anyone would stand up so very promptly to en. dorse my criticism, and also having been educated through the "recent and consistent" series of the church where worship to regard the reading of Sun day newspapers an un-sabbatical occu- patton, l have not observed the com munication of "Layman" until it was placed in my hands this a. m.
 That one should hasten to prove the truth of my reproach by doing the very thing that elieited the reproach does not surprise me; or that he should consistently proceed to pour ice water down the backs and throats of the devoted choir under consideration. untt1 every individual larynx is them is con- gealed and their sweet notes stif1ed for evermore. But that anyone should an nounce himself as very fond of music. !" and then insist that music should be used secondarily in the church service surprises me much. What should be used primarily?
 I am afraid that "Layman's" alma mater would hardly back him up in the use of the worship. He exhorts us to support those churches which provide reverent consistent worship" But worship is the adoration, the rev erence, the uplift of the individual heart, and the church can only provide the vehicles of worship, and none of these are powerful except when touch
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TOUCH.

l
 T reckon I'm about as tough as they make 'em," boasted the cooking -schoo biscuit. Chicago Tribune. Interrupted.-"W called?" "Tht doctor" T cant see him--tell him I'm not we'll L"-Pall Mall Gazette.
 Most men who are kind to a fault are kinder to their own faults than to those of any one else.-Household Words.
 "so you are still living in this tucked up little fiat?'" Yes; you see there is really no room for complaint."- Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 It is curious how a woman who screams at a mouse is not startled at a millinery bill that makes a man trem- ble.-Texas Siftings
 Parker-I would join the church if it wasn't full of hypocrites Tucker-Oh, you are mistaken about that There's always room for one more.--Life.
 T would have you to know, sir, that am Londoner as was born in Lon- don" But I, sir, was born in Cork, and am a Corker!"- Boston Globe.
 What interesting stories of travel Duflix tel,s! He must have roved a great deal" "No-o--he's always been here. But his mind wanders. "-Tid- Bits.
 Anything new or fresh here to-day?" asked the reporter. Yes" said the of- ficial addressed; that paint you're leaning against. Philadelphia Rec ord.
 Lawyer-You say the prisoner stole your watch. What distinguishing feat ure was there about the watch? Wit ness-It had my sweetheart's picture in
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lations, law. science. art, household economies, and history" But what will happen when this imperlum in inn perio is in good working order? Will not the plan then be to substitute it for the mems government under which the United States is grooming and travail ing? And will not the plan succeed un- less the men of this country pay more attention to what is going on than they do now? Eight millions of women anl- mated by desire 10 rule. and banded together for the purpose of ruling, will be hard to beat, if they can be beaten at all.
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1 she not only misses the bulls-eye, but fails to hit the target at all A dress in much better taste, extremely low as 1t is, is the one pictured here Its bod ice is of satin with a jet corsage belt, its top trapped in pink chiffon dotted with sequins, the sleeves being of the latter and ending in lace ruff1e. The skirt is of black satin richly brocaded with yellow flowers.
 Chiffon scarfs are shown for wear with such dresses and they are dis- tinctly an Improvements on the liberty scarfs so long popular. To make one, buy two yards and half of double or wide chiffon, hem 1t at the edges of the ends and set several rows of very nar- row ribbon at the ends, the first row right on the narrow hem At each cor her of the ends fasten knot of ribbon. a pretty butterfly bow heavy enough to keep the ends down Then place the scarf over the shoulders, the upper edge straight and reaching about inc neck, the back to a little way down the shoulder in front, Gather the lower edge up to this point, letting it take such folds across the back of the shoulders as shall allow it to lie with out any drawing or ungracefuIness Tie bow of ribbon here on, each side and the scarf is done. It will be of the newest fashion, too, and handsome enough to suit anybody.
 FLORETTE.
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French critics are finding fault be- cause Emperor William has set artists to work restoring the ancient and mutilated statues in the museums Of Berlin. One of them has put new head on the statue of young woman found at Pergamos, and now a prize of 2,OOO marks is offered to him who makes the best suggestion for performing a similar service for the famous Dancing Maenad."
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A Modest MnnonnIist.

My wants are few, I sit serene Upon contentment's highlands: If can have earth's continents l care not for it's islands. l would not climb upon a throne Through seas of bloody slaughter If l can call all lands my own, Why, you can have the water. And all I ask is just this earth, To regulate and man it, And l surrender all my claims To every other planet. And so you see I cut my cloth On a contracted pattern; Give me the earth drop all claim To Uranus and Saturn. Little need, my wants are few Nor would have them greater. only want the land between The poles and the equator. Give me the earth, 'tis all I ask. For me and my wife Sarah, Then I'll give all my fellow men A house lot in Sahara.
 -Pittsburg Post.
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The other night St. Louis policeman arrested somnambulist who was wan dering about the streets in his night dress. When the somnambulist awoke he exclaimed: Surely, you are not go- ing to arrest me; am not responsible. as I am a somnambulist." T don't care what church you are a member of, :" said the officer. You can't wall; the streets of St. Louis in your shirttail if you belong to all the churches in the city"
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Dr. Guelliot of Rheims has declared

Dr. Guelliot of Rheims has declared before the congress of French surgeons at Lyons that cancer is contagious. He further asserted that transmission may be direct from one person to another. though it more frequently comes about through wearing apparel and table utensils. Two cases he had traced to infected tobacco pipes.
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FASHION NOTES.
Evening Gowns of Extremists


 By the women who go in for the ex. tremes in low necked gowns few dresses have been worn that have no sleeves, the old time strap over the shoulder being all, This is a hysterical defectlon from the popular big sleeve and there will be few followers, A wo- man with only shoulder straps among a lot of others wearing big sleeves off the shoulder will be so conspicuous as to be uncomfortable, even if she be or dinarily indifferent to such results. If a woman can look different from others and seem the better dressed therefore, that is all very we'll but when she makes them seem the better dressed
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COMMITTEE ON STREETS.

COMMITTEE ON STREETS. VIE Committee on Streets will hold \ hearing in Room l6 City Hall. on Tuesday, Feb. 26th, 1895, at s D. m., for the purpose of considering the proposition of the Chamber of Commerce to instruct the corporation counsel to urge the passage of the bills pend- Ing before the general assembly, providing that the City of New Haven shall be author- lzed to issue Street Improvement Bonds, and also to nave the law governing the taxation or street railways amended so that the taxes shall be paid into cities and towns instead of into the State treasury
 All persons interested in any of the foregO4 ing are hereby notified to be present and be heard thereon without further notice.
 Fer order: FRANCIS s. HAMILTON,
 Chairman. Attest; EDWARD A. STREET, f&3 St Assistant City Clerk.
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Several large canal projects are at present under consideration by the min istry of roads and communications in Russia. One of the most important plans is not new. having been brought up at intervals for a number of years; it is that for connecting the White Sea with the Baltic. The estimated cost by the latest survey is 1O,OOO,o0o rubles. Another canal for which surveys are now being made is. that to connect the Don and the volga, which would also serve as a connection between the Black Sea and the Caspian.
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There is some gold left in the earth. Wonderful estimates are made in Cali fornia of the quantity of gold in gravel mines in that State. Some men who are considered experts say that there will be more gravel mining fifty years hence than there is now. One county is said to have within it's limits, 200 miles of unworked auriferous gravel worth from $5oO,ooo to $5.ooo,ooo mile. Another county now produces $2 900 of gold a year, but a portion of this is from quartz mines. Still another county is said to have the richest and most extensive deposits in the United States if not in the world.
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 The Cincinnati fire department i!
 making arrangements to add a porta
 ble telephone outfit to every fire en
 zine, and it believes the scheme vii
 vastly increase the efficiency of the department. The plan is very simple
 When the engine arrives at the fire one of the firemen will connect the tele- phone outfit, which only weighs a hound, with the fire alarm line, Tn this way immediate reports of the fire can be sent to headquarters, additional engines ordered where the occasion does not justify calling out an entire relay of apparatus and thus uncovering additional territory. The use of the telephone will transfer the active man. agement of the whole fire department to the scene of the fire at which the department is at work
 The big department stores are caus- ing trouble in the retail trade of New York and Brooklyn. They have lately taken up the crockery business, with the result of bringing many of the reg u1ar dealers in china and glassware to the brink of insolvency. These latter tradesmen say the department stores often sell crockery at a loss but make it good from other departments of the store which are patronize6 by people drawn inside to get the crockery bar gains. The retail grocers and butchers are all up in arms against the assump- ton of their business by the big dry goods or department establishments, and are trying to organize a boycott. The retail butchers association has called upon the wives and daughters cf l the members to keep away from the large stores and buy their dry goods in | such places as deal only in dry goods. l But the big store managers laugh and say they can't prevent the women from running after bargains,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-06
NEWEANE.


Mrs. Fred Pierce and four children are
spending the week at J. d. Pierce's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Wright have gone to
| Connecticut where Mr.. Wright has found
work.
| Mrs. Gilbert Yeaw at last accounts lay
in a critical condition at Mr.. Rawson's,
where her sons from Brattleboro and Do
yer and her daughter, Mrs. Eager, are in
attendance upon her.
The next lecture of the Christian En-
| deavor course will be given Wednesday
evening by Principal Beverage of the Brat
tleboro High school, of whom 1t will be
reasonable to expect a profitable and en-
| tertaining speech, and may there be good
| house to greet him.
The sermon by Rev. S. Norton last Sun.
day was a strongly conceived argument on
1.-THE preaching Of the gospel supreme
necessity The preacher claimed that
passages like the first verse in the Bible,
the Lords prayer and the story of the
woman of Samaria gave a revelation of the
kind of God we need, such as all the theo-
| ries of scientists and abstract researches OF
| philosophy have been unable to give.
There was party of 22 at F. II White S
/ Thanksgiving, including +. X. White of
I Wardsboro Mason White of Brookline,
| John White of Brattleboro, j. Willis OF
| Fairfield and their families, who sat around
the board containing. for one thing, a
roast pig. At A. T. Edwardss was par
ty of 20, including Eugene Howe OF
Townshend, Chas. Adams of Wardsboro,
w. G.. Wright of this town and their fam
lilies.
At the annual meeting of the Congrega-
tiOnal church society on Tuesday the
former committee was reelected. The
matter of building a church was consid-
cred. Mrs. Butterfield and Miss Chamber
lain made the generous offer of building
lot north of their house on West street, the
place owned by Mrs. Joel Redfeld for
many years. This gift would be condi-
| toned on a parsonage being built without
mourning debt. Messrs. Bruce Benedict,
Hescock, Whitaker and others volunteered
substantial gifts of lumber. +. c. Bene-
dict, W. II. Hescock and Frank Whitaker
were chosen a committee to make proper
investigation on the subject and report at
the next meeting on the 2lst.
About a hundred people took lessons in
How to get there" as taught by the Rev.
Mr.. Hough of Brattleboro in his we'll
known lecture Wednesday evening. As
expected, they were entertained by Ian
guage calculated to incite to prompt and
energetic business life and made to laugh
at witty illustrations. Those of us who
are late sometimes at meetings, and others
habitually so, received jogging that
should lead to reform. 1t was prophesied
that 'in some sweet day we shall travel
$50 miles in an hour, and on the way to
that time of hustling progress if ministers
will preach long sermons they have no
right to expect their audiences to sit to
hear them out-and many other alert say
ings too numerous to mention.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-06
LACKSONVIILR.

Mrs. Carrie Wilcox Read and daughter
have returned home to Easthampton,
Mass.
Christmas exercises will be held in the
Universalist church Monday evening,
Dec. %.
Services appropriate to the day were
held at the Methodist church Thanksgiv-
ing day.
The grange will elect officers Dec 10 in
stead of Dec. "a, as that is Christmas eve.
A full attendance is desired.
Miss Craven holds religious services each
Tuesday evening at the schoohouse in the
Niles district in the edge of Halifax.
An entertainment is to be given at the
village hall next Thursday, Dec. II, at 6:GO
=. NJ. That you may come and bring six
friends is the wish of the six committee.
The exercises in charge of the men at
the grange meeting Tuesday evening were
very interesting. The song of II. D. Al
len and W. +. johnson evoked special
applause.
w. S. and G. A. Allen are introducing
the system of dehorning cattle about here.
They have dehorned several herds, and it is
understood that here, as elsewhere, people
are much pleased with the method.
We have had fine moonlight evenings the
past week, so fine that some have re-
marked harvest moon" Wednesday
morning as late as half past six the moon
was so bright that it caused buildings,
trees, etc, to cast distinct shadows.
Mr. and Mrs. L. p. Dalrymple spent
Thanksgiving with their daughter, Mrs.
Brigham, in Hinsdale, y. II. They met
with quite an accident as they started
from home, the horse taking fright, upset
ting the carriage and doing some damage,
but we hope not serious.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-06
SOUTH LONDONDERRY.

Geo, Holden moved into his new house
on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Hastings returned
from their visit in Worcester, Mass, last
Monday. Mrs. Hastings has been away
nearly a month.
l.. A. Dryden has bought and moved in.
to the house vacated by Joshua Martin,
and Mr. Martin has moved into the house
known as the Reed place.
The Epworth league held their Thanks.
giving services, consisting of songs, recita-
tions, ETC., last Tuesday evening, being
postponed from last week on account OF
the weather.
Prof. Gilbert, father of the famous Gil
bert jubilee singers, lectured at the Baptist
church on Sunday evening and the Metho-
dist church on Monday evening. His songs
and lectures were very good.
The fair given by the ladies last evening
was very pleasant affair. The costumes
of the ladies taking part in the entertain
ment were varied and well adapted to their
respective characters. The booths con-
tanning the tables for the fancy work and
for the ice cream were handsomely trim
med with evergreen, and the supper all one
could wish.
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DUMMERSTON.

Mrs. Lydia Bacon, who is past four score
years of age, walked to Dummerston Cen
tire and ate Thanksgiving dinner with one
of her neighbors.
All persons interested in recognizing
the lyceum club the coming winter will
please meet in the vestry on Tuesday even
ing, Dec. 10, at : o'clock.
The winter schools are in charge of the
following teachers Mary +. French of
Cheter at Dummerston Centre; Melvin W.
Smith of Dartmouth college in the
Wheeler district; Alice Banks of West
minister in the north school; Minnie A
Colburn at the bridge school; Harriette
Z. Davis of Putney in East Dummerston; ;
Mrs. Nellie F. Bailey of Brattleboro in
West Dummerston, and Laura f. Braley
of Putney neal Sunset lake.
Prof. VIM. D. Miller and family of
Northampton, Mass, spent Thanksgiving
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
VIM. o. Miller. Randolph Knight and
family came over from West DummeIston
and enjoyed Thanksgiving at the old home
stead, with his sister, Miss NJ. Z. Knight
Hugh Adams and family of Brattleboro
made a Thanksgiving at Morton Pratts.
There was family gathering at Thomas
Reeds on the festive holiday. Postmaster
Harry Miller had the pleasure of visit
from his daughter Lila, her husband,
Dustin Reed, and son Harold, who has
now passed two Thanksgiving days.
We learn with regret that we are to lose
two of our best families, that of Mrs. Asa
button and daughter, and A. w. Adams
and family in their removal from this town
to Mortified, Mass. Mrs. button has sold
her farm, one of the best in Windham
county, and bought her a home in the
beautiful thriving town of Mortified on
the Connecticut river. Mrs. Dutton has
been lifelong resident of Dummerston,
and will be greatly missed as an active
business woman interested in all public af-
fairs, generous helper to the needy and a
kind neighbor With sincerity we feel that
our loss may be their gain and give both
families our best wishes for their prosper
ity and happiness in their new home.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-06
TOwNSHBND.
Goldcn wedding C.I.hrntInn.

Mr. and Mrs. A. r. Byard celebrated
their 50th anniversary at their home
Thanksgiving day. Mr.. and Mrs. Byard
were married in Peru in 1915, and lived
there most of the time until seven years
ago, when they bought the Hiram Howe
place and moved to this town, where they
have lived since. They have had sixchil-
dren, all of whom are living, and all are
married but the youngest son, vino is with
the Barnum circus. Among the friends
present were Hon. l. X. Batchelder of
this village, who published Mr. and Mrs.
Byard in Peru 80 years ago. Three of the
children were in attendance, A. A. Byard
of Chesterfield, n. H., John L. Byard and
family of Marlboro, Mass, and Mrs. J. L..
Howard of Maiden, Mass. Mrs. II. +.
Reynolds of Burlington and Mrs. j. G..
Miller of Williamsburg, Mass, were de-
tanned at home by sickness. Among 9th
ers from out of town were Mr.. and Mrs.
c. A. Pierce of Bennington and Mrs. En-
lily Symonds of Peru. Mr.. and Mrs. Byard
received several presents, among which
was purse of Sj0in gold from the friends
and gold-headed cane from Mrs. Aman-
da Weeks of Milwaukee, Wis, a niece Of
Mr. Byard. AT this time Mrs. Byard pre-
scented her second son, John l.. Byard,
with watch which his at-grandfather,
Lawrence McMullen, brought from Ire
land in 1894, he being named for his great
grandfather Though over one hundred
years old this watch keeps very good time.
Mr. and Mrs. Byard have received Is let
tiers of cOngratulation from ten different
states. Their many friends here wish
them good health for many years. Both
are remarkably well preserved for people
of their years.