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OKKEIf MOCUTADI FRKEMAH. afORTPEl.IER.VT. ' la the Brick Block. Read of HUu 8trt. tiimi: IJu II paid IB advance; otherwise, ta w. ParmeMmey b mad by mall or otherwise to H. B. WH EE LOCK, Editor end Proprietor. Th Fecim a. nndr th. recent law of OontnK circulates free in Washington County. On all paper arm oum WMhlntrton County, the porta la paid of the tMibltsh.r at the office to Mootpelter. ' $lu fixttmau. XONTPELKK. VT. WEDNESDAY, DFC. 7. 1881. tAt the late State Kunday school convention at Bel low. Falls the topics of the " Sunday Hchool Work ah p " Sunday nchno W.rk and atundav Mchool noripii irwiwnei .ur aincusslon in eaeaya to follow In order above. The following- ll the eeoond or the eerie.:) Suuday School Work. BT RET. J H BABBITT, SWANTON. Work in any department of industry ia an absolute thing and not a mere theory of effort. This is emphatically true in he department of Sunday scliool labor anl will be treated of as a realiiy. In Sunday school assooittiona we may expeot to find morn or less of pleasurable experiences; of reoreition and Mociatity, but these are the instrumentalities by which the desired end niay be promoted and not the end itself. The pionlos, ex cursions, reunions and other social ocon sions with recreation and amusement even are all timely and helpful in promoting the acquaintance and in cultivating a common sympathy in the work of our Sunday school. But although these thing; may and do Involve care and calculation and perhaps something of sacraflee on the part of the friends of theschool, yot this is not by any means the measure of the ambition of a true Sunday school worker. With proper safe guards and prudent management these influences are very helpful In popularizing the Sunday school as an institution, hut I think it of the first importance that wo draw the line of dis tinction between the great end in view and the means to that end in Sunday scliool work. That effort which extends only to the accomplishment of a reorentlve manage nient, is not worthy to be dignified as " work "In the sense in which our devine Master used this word when he taught men to work in his vineyard. The care less attendant upon the Sunday school may be influenced in this way and possi bly led into a deeper thought of the reali ties of the work in hand, but real work is of a more thorough character and finds its motive and its inspiration in deeper soil and richer conceptions of human need. Sunday school work to meet with any degree of permanent success must have a definate and permanent aim. Too much of our so called work is aimless, and therefore profitless beyond the passing day of effort. Its inspiration is only an impulse and therefore it has no permancy of pur pose, no stability of hope, no continuation of care for its outcome, and no prospective attainment which is the sustenance ot Its prolonged life. To-day it is enthusiastic because the sun ehines and the multitude attends the school, but to-morrow it shivers in the autumn wind, it droops in company with the fading flowers and disappears with the populace who chase some novel scheme of recreation. Hence it is of high importance that the true nature of the work in hand he duly comprehended, and that we study to so feel its importance as to realize a burden of care for its success ful iesne. I will therefore attempt to speak of some of the features of Sunilay school work whioh may first impress and then encour age those who labor in this department of the Lord's vineyard. M iny character istics might be mentioned, but I will only peak of three general properties: First, it is a worlc of great mignitule It contemplates no less an undertaking than the entire change of the purpose 01 life of such as are brought under the per manent influence of its teachings. The Sunday sohool of to-day is the right hand helper of the church, and second in influence and power ouly to the pulpit as a public teacher. The work of the Sunday school Is there fore secondary in magnitude only to the work of the Christian pulpit, and it under takes both to prep ire human hearts to receive the seed of gospel truth as It is cast abroad by the preaching of the Christian minister, and also -o enforce and enphasizo - that truth and cultivate its growth in the human heart after the work of sowing has been done. We should con sider the magnitude of the work of the Sunday school therefore as co-extensive with the work of the church, and hence paramount to any other undertaking in the world. It is indeed no less an under taking than the changing of the purpose of human lives, and the re-directing of their course from a natural choice of na ture, to that of an entire reverse purpose. Nature faoes to the world and away from Ood, but the work of Sunday school instructions is to bring the human face toward God and away from the world in it voluntary act of allegiance. This under taking involves a change of nature so rad ical, that former objects ot affection will become objects of hatred, and former ob jcts of hatred will become objects of affection. This must apply moreover, to every moral issue before the world. It involves the winning of the heart to love virtue and hate vice as a na'ural instinct, and that with such an intensity of emotion s to seek the one and flee from the other by Involuntary Impulse. In order there fore to bring about this complete result. the nndertaking also involves a due course of education as to the nature of virtue and vice, ami the marks by which each can bo identified; for vice sometimes seeks to disguise its form, and virtue sometimes ppears under disadvantageous surround ings, nnd that by no fault of its own Hence the work is further magnified by the necessity of such a complete course of education as to exalt all moral truth and ft ndemn all immoral influence so clearly " to mark the distinction by their known fruits. Our Sunday school work, noting with and supplementing the certain sound ol the gosiel truuiet fiora the utterances ol the Christian minister in his pulpit, should Include the whole gospel message as de livered by Paul to Felix, the Roman gov ernor, of righteousness, temperance and judgement to come. Our work herein is incomplete and to a TOL. XXXVIII. certain extent abortive, if we leave any part of this divine message unuttered, and specially if left to the profane care oi uere secular societies, which, however -arnest and sinoere in teaching the second point of doctrine, are yet wiihout qualifi eittion and perhaps without desire to en force the primary doctrine of righteous' ness. or the culminalive troth oi the ootu mg judgement. While then I would not by word or influence east a straw in the way of the societies which seek to pro mote any moral reform, yet I contend that e ought not to allow any society to mo nopolize any phase of moral teaching, oi to take from the church and Sunday sohool be presiige of leadership. . The Sunday school Is the rightful leader f every moral revolution; its piano is at he head of the oolumn, and its work is to move on and to keep the highway cleat of hitidcmnces tor the most enthusiastic sicul.tr follower. It ought always to be able to beckon such workers forward ami to say " come up higher " to every organ- action which has but a single issue to its moral effort. And to bold such ground as his, it must needs be in the advance on every line of moral progress, and bold its pr siige of established authority to com mand the forward movement. No less a measure of ambiliou than this ought ever to satisfy the purpose of oar Sunday school work. To be constantly in the advance and to aim for power of influence which shall assure Its Instrumental service in the re generation of mankind is the legitimate mission of the Sunday school of the church of Christ. Well may we meditate upon the magni tude of the work, for it might well appall the most courageous heart, and dissipate the confidence of the most sanguine work- r, if human strength and wisdom wore he only resources from which cometh our help. But we look further Into the prob lem and remark the second general prop- irty of Sunday school work as one of great promise of results. This promise is to the earnest worker, to him "that goeth and weepeth bearing precious seed." This ondition will ordinarily be met only by such as have dulv considered the magni- ude of the work in hand, and by that con sideration have ceme to measure the extent f their responsibility and the value of thei: opportunities. The-e results are of twofold character. First, they are of immediate import. Hence tbey are of present worth and not subject to ruinious discount to determine their value of to-day. The influenoe of the Sunday school is pure and elevating in every sense in which it touches the life of man. Immediate results are visibls m every oomruunity where the Sunday school exerts its influence to soften the tone f society, nnd as a restraint upon the otherwise unchecked passions of individual members of the community. Then there ire the ultimate results, wnich bear upon the future ot life and reach tho world be yond. Groat results are promised indeed when they are prospective of eternal change of destiny. Could we measuie the lifFironoe between condemnation and sal vation, with all the implied meaning ol hose suggestive words, it would illustrate he value of Sunday School work to one soul delivered from the power of Satan tnd brought to a saving knowledge of redemption through its instrumentality. fhen if we could multiply this infinite value by the countless hosts of the re leemed who trace hack to the Sundai school the vital and saving influenoe ot their lives, we c mid approximate the ulti mate value of the results of the work. But all these suppositions only illustrate the vast expanse of the unexplorable realm of possibilities which attaches to the prom ise of results of any work in behalf of our lellow men as tue suojeots oi uoa s saving grace. Short-si. hied humanity, forgetful of the ooming judgment and careless of eternal interests, calls with im patient tone for material proof of the sol vency of the Almighty to redeem His pledges; but the servant whose soul has stood face to face with Jehovah, and who has talked with Him as man talketh with man, reaches the comprehension of the truth, that the lesults of greatest importance and of most enduring value are those which have no material form, but rattier a spirit ual life and an eternal method of dividends. So the results of this work, both of the mmediate and ultimate classes, are not of this world in their best feature, but of the world to come, and of tho nature which defies the power of earthly decomposition. We note as the third general property of Sunday school work that it Is, one of great recompense. Its magnitude, its promise of results and its recompense are each and all very fnr in excess of these features in any other undertaking of earth. There is no such thing as gratuitous work for the cause of Christ. It is sometimes spoken of as though an existing reality; but it is myth, and never bad an existence. We are all Insolvent debtors to the Almighty, and out'ht to consider always that our best efforts and sacrifices are only a mere token of acknowledgment of the Indebtedness we can never cancel or even comprehend. There are, moreover, tangible fruits of recompense which may be gathered in this life, and which anticipate the recompense of eternity. To have the opportunity and the privilege of being the instrument which rescues a ohild from the demoralizing in fluences of the world, and which brings him into associations which connteract these influences, and lead him to become a useful, earnest, virtuous and Christian citizen, is better work for our fellow men and for ourselves, than merely to start that young person in business which has a mere commercial prospeot of success, and whioh is without the higher motive of benevolence to the world. No one will assume to question this truth when looking in sober earnestness at the reality of the things of this world, for it is plain to be seen by the most superficial observer that the wise oourse was chosen by Moses, and by his examplo clearly pointed out to the world, when be dis tinguished between the fleeting value of the pleasures of sin, having only a season able value and the recompense of the re ward of the servlees of Ood. For even the afflictions of the people of God are as short lived as the pleasures of the world, and th recompense of the reward' is not merely prospective in the world to come, but for this life, when the pleasures of sin reach their premature and early losa of power to charm the unsatisfied soul of man. For i ho night of g aity is soon over, the day of hilarity is bat short, and the night of dis appointment oomes with the eany twilight of live's short season of pleasure, and finds the Christian soul only in a state of prepa ration for the hour of accountability to God. That hour of accountability oomes often in this life. It confronts the soul whon any earthly disappointment spoils its cherished plan of pleasure, anil leaves ii fine to faoe with an aoousing conscience which stands to represent the fuiure Judge, t he artisan who can show you some com pleted and polished work of art in the mechanical field of industry, and who can say that be look the meUI from the mine mil carried it through all the processes and cringes to the complete work of art finds his recompense, not in the financial result of his work, for that is likely to be of small account, but in the triumph of his patience, his skill, his industry and his inventive faculties. So the worker in the Sunday school may find the recompense for his toil and his patient plodding, in the sight of living works ef grace, in the person of other men or women who by his instrumentality have been won from the crude tendencies of the natural heart, to walk in newness of life and in holy daily oommunion with the living God. Then we might dwell upon the recompense of reward which attaohes to the reflex influence of Sunday school work. It might be shown how benefit surely accrues to individual citizens, nnd hence to communities at large, by the ele vation of every citizen who engages with earnest purpose and an bonest heart in any work for God and humanity. And this line of argument might be carried on to illustrate the reflex recompense which al ways returns to the worker Id the Sunday school ; how be is made a better citizen, a better member of the family, of society, and of every association of life, because he is purified, ennobled, blest and sanctified by his efforts to elevate his fellow men. For the true test question with some of us may be, not altogether whether we can lead others to the kingdom of grace and glory, but whether we oan ourselves roach there in the end, unless we keep our hearts warm and our love refreshed by the felt responsibilities of continued work in the Master's vineyard. In view thon of the work under consider ation, with its features of great magnitude, of great promise of results and of great recompense, it is fitting that it be planned with unstinted purpose of effort and with unlimitod consecration of power. It may well involve our best powers of mind, our best years of lifo, our best investment of time and even of wealth; not, however, in any respect without subordination of posi tion to the church. But in the church of Christ, to aid the church in its prime ob ject of existence, to prepare the public mind for tho seed of gospel truth, and then to cultivate and stimu'aie the growth of that seed to the full maturity of life eternal Anglo-Japanese Work. This is an elegant and easy ilotneslic art. Materials, Autumn leaves dried, disolved gum arable, black paint, copal varnish, brushes, etc. Almy articles may be decorated with these simple materials, such as screens of ill descriptions, work boxes or tables. fl .wer pois, wall pockets, tea caddies, etc Select perfect leaves, rub the articles to be ornamented with fine sandpaper, then give it a coat of black paint, which is best procured mixed at a color shop. When ury, rub smoth with a smooth pumice stone, and give two more coats a little thinner than the first. When dry arrange tho leaves in manner and variety 10 suit the tast, or in any suitable selected design. Gum the under sides of the leaves and press them in their places. Dissolve isinglass in hot water and brush it over the work. Dry, and finish with three coats of varnish, giving each ooat time to iry. A Thue Picture Now, you will find that liberal peopio are happy people, and get more enjoyment of what they have than folks of -churlish mind. Misers nev er rest until they have been put to bed with a shovel. They often get so wretched that they would hang themselves, only thoy grudge themselves the expense of a rope. Generous souls are made happy by tho happiness of others. The money they give to the poor affords them more pleas ure than any other they lay out. I have seen men of means give coppers, and they been coppery in everything. They carried on a tin-pot business, lived like beggars and died like dogs. I have seen others give to the poor and to the cause of God by the shovel fills, nnd they have bad it back by the barrow loads. Tbey made good use of their stewardship, and the great Lord baa trusted them with more, while the bells in their hearts have rung out merry peals when they have thought of widows who blessed them, and orphan children who smiled into tneir faces. John Ploughman's Pictures. The Bible Confirmed. Here is a book, portions of which reach back to the dim twilight of historic times, upon whose pages the discoveries ot the onmoving cen turies, the revelations of man's latest and highest wisdom, have been pouring their intense beams, and lo! like the burning bush of Horeb, it remains nnoonsumed. Not a single essential feature is disproved or discredited; nay, rather, its heavenly origin and authority are attested by every new ray of light which man's increasing knowledge sheds upon it. The archssol gist has dug among the anoient ruins of Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon, only to find on temple, cylinder and lettered stone cor roborations of this sacred book. The phy sicist has searched through the arcana of nature and brought forth ber secrets ; the the astronomer has scaled the heavens and weighed in bis balances the starry worlds; the ethnologist has explored the remotest parts of the earth and stuided the races of mankind; the historian has traced the streams of human history back to their sources; the philologist Das investigated the origin and development of the bab hlintr loneuos of earth; an arm of honor ed and learned men have wandered through every realm of science, in all her vast domain of earth and sky, wild micro scope and telescope, from every depart ment oi nuiuan learning, aim ovuijr pur suit of votaries, each patient investigator has returned to give new sanction to the altered SuriDtures and add new emphasis to the demonstrated fact; "The word of the Lord it tried," and its truth "abideth forever". Rev- Or- fayne. " ' "iTmarwmmm m i . MONTPELIER, VT., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, A Touching- Incident. My name is Anthony Hunt. I am a dro ver, and I live miles and miles away, upon the western piairie. There wasn't a house within sight when we moved there, my wife and (; and now we have not many neighbors, though those we have are good ones. One day about ten years asro I went away from borne to sell some fifty head of cttlle ane creatures as ever I saw. I was to buy some erooeries and drv roods before I came back, above all, a doll for our youngest Dolly ; she never had a shop doll of ber own, only the rag babies her mother had made her. Dolly could talk of nothing else, and went down to the very jrate to call after me, " Buy a big one." Nobody but a parent can understand how my mind was on that toy. and how, when he cattle were sold, the first thing I hur ried off to buy was Dolly's doll. I found a large one, with eyes that would open and shut when you pulled a wire, and had it wrapped np in a paner.and tuoked it un der my arm, while I had the parcels of caiioo and deiaine and tea and sugar put up. It might have been more prudent to stay until morning, but I felt anxious to get back, and hear Dolly's prattle about the doll she was so anxioush expecting I was mounted on a steady-going old horse of mine, and pretty well loaded. Night set in before 1 was a mile from town, and settled down as dark as pitoh while I was in the middle of tho wildest bit of road I know of. I could have felt my way through, I remembered it so well, and it was almost that when the storm that had been brewing, broke, and pelted the rain in torents, five miles, or may-be six, from home too. I rode cn as fast as I could; but suddenly I hoard a little cry like a child's voice. ( stopped short and listened. I heard it again. I called and it answered me. I oouldn't see a thing. All was dark as I got down and felt in the grass; I called again, and again I was answered, Then I began to wonder. I am not timid ; but I was known lo he a drover and to have money about me. I am not superstitious not very but bowcould a real ohild be out on the prairie in such an hourP It might be mora than human The bit of coward that hides itself in most men showed itself in me then, and I was half inolined to run away ; but once more I heard that piteous cry, and said I. " If any man's child is hereabouts, Anthony Hunt is not the man to let it lie heie to die. I searched again. At last I bethougt me oi a nollow under the hill, and groped that way. Sure enough I found a little dripping thing that moaned and sobbed as I took ft in my arms. I called my Dorse, and the beast came to me, and I mounted and tucked the little soaked thing under my coat as well as I could, promising to take it home to its mammy. it seemed tired to death, and pretty soon cried itself to sleep against my bosom. It had slept there over an hour when I saw my own window, there were lights in them, aud I supposed my wife had lit them for my sake, but when I got into the yard i saw tnat something was the matter, and stood still with dead fear of heart five minutes before I could lift the latch. At last I did it, and saw the room full of ueighbors, and my wife amid them weep ing. When she saw me she hid her face. " O don't tell him!" she cried. " It will kill him." "What is it, neighbors?" I cried. And one said, " Nothing now, I hope. What's that in your arms?" " A poor lost ohild," said I: " I found it on the road. Take it, will you? I've turned faint." Anil I lifted the sleeping thing, and saw the face of my own child, my little Dolly. It was my darling, and no other, that I had picked upon the drenched road. My little child had wandered out to meet " daddy" and the doll, while her mother was at work, and whom they were la menting as one dead. I thanked God on my knees before them all. It is not much of a story, neighbors; but I think of it olten in nights, and wonder how I could hear to live now if I bad not stopped when I hoard the cry for help upon the road the little baby-cry, hardly louder than a squirrel's chirp. An, mends, the blessings of our work often comu nearer to our homes than we ever dare to hope. Economy in Dress. A dress that is so peculiar as to be striking, cither from its Brilliancy of color or any other cause. should be adopted only by a woman who has many changes of raiment, and so may wear it only occasionally or the siirht of it becomes a bore, even though at first it is interesting trora its novelty. Ihe woman who has many dresses can also afford to give it away or convert it to some other use before it is worn, while the unobtrusive dress easily lends itself to some different adjustment, which gives it an entirely different aspect. A woman who has but one best dress can "wear it with a difference," like the rue Ophelia offers to ber brother, so as to make it suitable for many occasions, espec ially if she have two waists or bodies as the English call them. One skirt will eas ily outlast two waists, and therefore this is a real saving. But suppose there be but one waist or the dress be made all in one piece, (than which there Is no prettier fashion) and it should be worn one day high in the neck with collar and cuffs, and another day with the neck turned in, and a lace or muslin fichu gracefully adjusted with a bow or with flowers, and a bit of lace at the wrists, a pair of long gloves and a more elaborate dressing of the hair, it will be scarcely recognizable. But the dress must be of very general character, like black silk, or some dark color, or the pleasure of the new impression is lost. The wise person with a small capital never buys any but a good and lasting thing. Eaoh year she adds one or two really solid possessions to ber wardrobe, which treated with care, last her many years. Thus on a really small sum she may dress very beautifully. Without a capital one is often obliged to buy what can last but for a few months ; but there is ohoice even here. There is certainly gueat economy in a woman's adopting for occasions of ceremo ny one dress from which she never diverg es. It becomes her characteristic and there is even a kind of style and beauty in the idea. The changing fashions in color and meterial pass without affecting her. She is never induced to buy anything be cause It is new. She is al ways the same. Tho dress in this case mrst have a oertain simplicity. It costs her little though, lit tle trouble and little time, and when the old edition, becomes worn, gjvos way to the new, the change is not perceived nor is it noticed when the, new in its turn be oomos old. Such dress as this must of course lie with in certain limits. Suppose it to be a black velvet: It would last, with care, at least five or six years. Suppose it to be a white caslimere a dress of small cost: It would, with care, last two seasons; and then, cleaned, last another season or two; and then, dyed, be turned into a walking dress to last two seasons more. If a dress is put on with grace its owner alone is aware of its defects, and it is a kindness to the spectator if she will keep her own secret. There iB a great economy in deciding on a few becoming colors in their several shades, and confining one's dress to these. Choosing colors that harmonize with each other, like gray, blaok, blue, yellow, white and never buying any other colors, one may, in making ever garments, use one with another so that nothing Is wasted. It is also important to know what point of Jress to emphasize. For instance, one n.ay expend a large amount of money on a dress, and if the shoes are shabby or ill made, the gloves worn, ' and the bonnet lacks style, the gown is entirely thrown away. But the dress may be no longer new ; it must now be carefully brushed and well put on, the collar and cuffs, or other neck and wrist trimmings most be in per fect order, the boots well made and well blacked, even if not new, the gloves fault less, and the bonnet neat and stylish. The effect is of a well dressed woman ; no man and very few women peroeive that the dress Is not a new one. Harper's Maga zine. Capt. Eads' Ship Railway. The suggestion of a ship railroad dates back from the adventurous epoch and from the busy brain of Cortea. The "wild surmise" which held Balboa "silent upon a peak in Darien" very soon gave way to a depressing conviction that there was an obstacle in the way of Columbus' idea of reaching the east by way ot the west, and Cortex was not content with merely con qnering Mexico as long as anything re mained beyond. He made a pei sonal ex ploration of the Coatjaco&loos, the river of the isthmus, with a view of establishing a portage across the shot t path to the South Sea, for the rioh commeroe of Zipangu and far Cathay. Spain thought well of the protect, and, after three hundred years of thanking.issued a decree in 1814 author izing the attempt, out the revolution had already started, and prevented all fur ther proceedings until 1812, when the re public granted a concession to Don Jots' de Garav to build a railroad there. The Garay concession lapsed, although the gov ernment of the United States was prepared lo pay fifteen millions of dollars for a right of way across the isthmus, and authorized the commissioners of the boundary treaty to offer that sum to Mexico. This too fell through ; but after tue gold discoveries of California our government kept its eye on the isthmus, and has since made two sur veys for the purpose of determining the practicability of a oanal. These surveys were made by Ueneral Barnard in 18 ji. and by Commodore Shufeldt in 1870; but it looks as if the islnmus was waiting tor the ship railroad for in the interval three successive concessions were made to Mex icans, and one to an American company, yet the Panama Canal, twelve hundred miles farther away from us, was begun before the Mexican government turned a illing ear to the idea of Eads. The idea of Eads is that wherever a oanal can be dug to float a ship, a railroad can be built to carry a ship; and, strange and novel as the idea sounds upon its first mention, the most sober-minded and com petent engineers of this country and of l'.ngland declare that it is scientifically sound and quite practicable. Ihe lehuantopeo proiect is already well advanced, and under circumstances that promise speedy success. The concession which the Mexican government gave to our fellow countryman is the most liberal that any government ever granted to a private individual. It exempts his com pany from taxes and duties of all kinds, Jves him right of way and full control of tolls and regulations. As one of the few opponents of the bill in the Mexican Con gress put it, the grant made tads sover eign of the isthmus in place of Mexico, which had abdicated, its importance lo us consists in the fact that the charter permits tho company to discriminate in favor of tho commerce of any nation which aids in building the work. If this provis ion is made use of, it may open to us a way of building up that ocean commerce of which we mourn tho loss. Our oountry, whioh possesses the larg est coast line and the finest harbors in the world, and which, in its lusty and adven turous youth, ranked second only to the mother county in the strength ot us mer chant marine and navy, has fallen so far to the mar that it hardly carries one twenty-fifth part of its own foreign com merce. We have lost our vessels, our sea manship, our prestige, our naval strength, and those substantial profits which flow from ocean transportation and from the industries connected with it. The most liberal of all people toward foreigners in all other respects, we have sunk to the level ot the old Spantsn exciusiveness in Mexico with regard to our coastwise trade, and we do not allow an Italian, or a Nor wegian, or an Englishman, to trade along our coast, well knowing that, if we allow ed them to compete with us, we would be d iven out of the competition. The prob lem of remedying this disgrace and restor ing our commerce to its natural position is one which statesmanship and self interest have both failed to solve. It trie building of the Tehuantepee ship railway should open the way to a solution of it, it would be wortn more to us man toe imecn mil lions we offered thirty years ago for the more richt of way . This is the considera tion which leads the projectors of the enterprise to count on the aid of this nation. If the world's commeroe oan be carried across the isthmus more cheaply than around Cape Horn, it will go there; if it can be carried more cheaply in Ameri can bottoms than in English bottoms, It will o in American bottoms; and it Is a question in whioh American capitalists and American citizens all nave an interest, namely, lo discover whether a rebate of thirty-hve or ntty per cent on transit dues would enable us to compete with hngland our chief competitor while at the same time permitting the company to make nnouab money to earn interest on as cost This is the question which was betore con gress last winter, and which will be sub mitted to its wisdom again next winter. Harper's Magazine for November. Good Luck. "Too ofton do we hear the terms 'good luck' and 'bad luck' on the farm." savs the Iowa Register. "And men frequently give Providence credit for both. A ereat general once said that Providence always smiled on the side of the bravest soldiers, the bravest baltlllons and the largest ordinance. "And the same principles can safely be applied to farming. Good luck is the re. suit of good sense and careful attention, It follows a prudent saving of time and a vigilaut application of labor directed by wisdom. Good luck loves to dwell about good gates, efficient fences, and romforta. ble out-buildiugs, and it smiles beneficent. Iv on farmors who have the best breeds of all kinds of Btock. Good luck is always about where soils are rich, and kept so by an intelligent rotation or crops and oarelul uses of natural fertilizers." Corner Bracket. I have just made a corner bracket by a pattern I saw in Peter son'sand made it all myself. I out two shelves, three-cornered, so as to tit in the corner of the room, with the front odge rounded. These shelves are fastened to three round posts one at each oorner. for these posts I took three old broom-sticks, as tht.y wore about the right length. The bottom shelf is fastened to the post six inches from the floor or bottom of posts, and the top shelf six inches from the top. Tho posts and shelves are covered with velvet before being fastened together. A good way to secure the shelves to the post is to bore holes near each oorner just largo enough to admit the posts, then fasten them with nails or wedges. After this is done tack a cheneille fringe around the front of each shelf. This makes a very pretty oorner stand to hold little ornaments of any kind. warn, no fJ JJlt 1881. How to use Lamps. Having long experience in looking after lamps, I feel safe in saying that not half the people who use them, know how to use them, and all accidents from their use are the result of carelessness. We often see in well ordered houses, lamps with smokv fly-specked chimneys, foul burn ers, dirty, untrimed wicks and greasy bowls, turbid, oil that is part sediment. When lighted, they smell to heaven, and only makes darkness visible. To have your light safe, clear and beau tiful in the first place buy tested knro sene from a reliable dealer and beware of the cheap oils that agents peddle around. They are all nearly benzine, gasoline or naphtha, and arc dangerous as gun pow der. Fill and trim your lamps every day When a half empty lamp is lighted. Die gas in the space above the oil expands with the heat and an explosion often fol lows. Wash chiiuneyes and lamp bowls in warm soap suds, and wipe clear with old fine muslin cloth (worn out pillow cases will do nicely). Trim all tnecinder off the wick, rounding the corners a little with an old pair of scissors kept for that purpose. Have a place for cloths, scissors etc., and always put them there- Your wiping cloths must be perfeotly clean and dry if you want your chimney to look nice. If the chimney is not smoky or smeared, simply breathing on them or holding them over steam and polishing is sufficient. Handle carefully by top or bot tom so that there will be no fingar tracks. Flat chimneys are best About once a month, or whenever sediment begins to collect in the bowls, empty and strain the oil, wash out the bowls thoroughly with hot soup suds, wipe clear and bright with a long strip of rag pushed in with a stick ; wash the bnrners clean ; if burnt scour with ashes; put in fresh wicks; fill with clean oil, and your lamps will be in joy forever. If the dirty wicks are long enough to save wash, rinse and dry for future use. Can ton flannel folded three times width ways and stitching on either edge with the ma chine makes exellent wicks, the cost being next to nothing. If your oil can is em ply and You live far from town, raise Ihe oil in your lamps wltti water- Of course you have to keep on filling till the oil is all gone. Five minutes work on a lamp every day will make it shining clean, then put it out of the way of dust and flies. A small lamp is better than a candle to carry ar round, there being no danger from sparks, or curtains and clothiug coming in contact with the ll uue. Where there is a family of small children, bracket and hanging lamps are safest. Never turn the lamp down and leave it burning. It will till the room with poisonu gas in a few minutes. It must bu high and bright or extingushed Where a dim light is necessesry, nut a tube of stiff paper over the lamp. -Toledo Blade. Be Ai.ive Death is out of place in the service of the Lord of life. The living God does not ohoose dead servants. Idleness, laziness, stupor and death in churches and associations of Christians are enough to astonish devils and make angels sad. The world calls us with ten thousands calls of pain and want and woe and sin, and the voice of Him who has all the power in heaven and earth sends us " into all the world," and bids us bear to every creature the glad message of His love and grace. And with such urgent calls and such high commands sounding in our ears, shall we play, trifle, sleep ami die? Such a oourse is abhorrent to our nature, even in world ly things. In the language of Arnot: "We like a leaping river better than a stagnant pool. It is far hetter to be worn somewhat by work than corroded by the rust of idleness. If thero are 'abominations in the earth ' a Christian does not exhaust bis duty by 'sighing and orving' over them. "' Up, guards, and at them!' is a very good motto for our warfare; and in one phrase of Soripture we shall find both our strategy and our armament 'Speak ing tho truth in love.' This is not a good world for resting in, but it is a good world for working In; and if we are fellow workers with God our labor will not be lost. 'I he Christian. Accidents at the Pakis Exhibition. The correspondent of the London Times reports in that paper s issue ol the 4th Oct. the following accidents at the electric ex hibition. He says: "Yesterday a gentle. msn was leaning over a balustrade to examine an extremely interesting machine of M Chrislofle, when his gold chain made a connection between two conducting wires whioh happened to be exposed. His chain became red hot and set fire to his wai-t- coat. To-day I had some conversation with a gentleman who was nearly killed the other day by a Brush dynamo-electric machine. Part of the conducting wiro was not insulated and was lying on the floor. He touched the stand of a lamp which formed pari of the conducting system. His bocy then formed a connection through the ground to the naked wire, and con tracted bis muscles so as to cause bis hand to olinoh the lamp. Ten lamps were in circuit at the time, and so much ourrent was passed through him that eight of them were extinguished. He was powerless to unclasp his hand. Every muscle in bis body was paralyzed. His face was dis torted; his lungs were so acted upon that he oould scarcely breathe. He could only utter a faint and unnatural cry. The work men in the place fled from the workshop. believing that some oxplosion was about to happen, A friend came up and tried to unlock his band. It Was impossible. He then lifted his legs from the ground. This broke the circuit and Ins bauds were re leased, while burning sparks flew to his hands in the action ot breaking the eircuit. He was insensible but has since then great ly recovered, and has devised an improve ment to the lamp which will prevent a recurrence ol such an accident. Thly Have Comk and Gone. For weeks we had looked forward to their coming. We long to greet the dear children ouce more under the old roof where they were horn and nurtured. At length, in the kind providence of God, they came, and cordial was the meeting and the greeting. Pleasant was the inter course that we had together from day to day as we conversed o. the past and of the future, and all those things dear to our hearts Morning and evening, as in days gone by, we bowed together around tiie family altar, and on the holy Sabbath walked again to the house of God in com pany. But time lingered not. Sooner than we wished, vacation was over, and again we must part. The dear ones must return to their several places of business. The re luctant farewells were spoken, nnd once more the aged parents were alone. And so it is Id this transitory world. A young couple are united in mariage, and start in lifo together. Children, one after another, am born unto them. Gradually they grow up and mature, and one after another take their departure, and go fourth into the world. In time the last is gone, and the parents, now wrinkled with age and oarn, and sprinkled with gray hairs, are left alone as when they commenced life together. Occasionally the ohildren return, but it is only for a brief and hasty visit. Saddening thought! It is no more to make theold family mansion their home. How true it is, that we are hut strangers and sojourners hero! Well wore It for us did we realize this great truth more fully, and live as prilgrims do, seeking a better country, even an heavenly, where we all meet at length, and dwell together an tin- prokon lamily toreVerl NO. 40. tSfrapfrancf. Address of Welcome, at the coxvention op the w. x. c. T. u. OKLIVCHF.D BI Mil., CUB. U KoCB. WASHIS(ITOS Miss president, dear sisters of the con. vention, and kind frie.ids assemble,) to-night, we come to bring you greeting. now muoreni, aias; irom wnat we thought it could be. As you from vour f,ir-r,flr homes. entered the precints ol our nation's capital, you doubtless felt the hush then was in the very air, and sad memories of the past few months crowded in n,,n Our beloved James A. Garfield has fallen. Our hearts have been as one. We have wept, prayed and hoped together. There has been no north, no south, no east, no west. Somehow we have been reminded in faintest type of the blessed time coming when we shall all sit down tnu-tlinr in our Father's kingdom. Yet there is a welcome in our hearts, even though it is bedewed with tears. God's lovo"nas al ready shone on them and a rainhuw of promise is written there. Yes welcome weloome to vou sisters of the Yew En gland hills. Maine first to have a prohib itory law. When we think of tho six sisters we remember the Maiiliower, Ply- luouiu hock, and tne open Bible. Ever dear ones, be true to conscience, true to God. And you, sisters of the Middle States, whose work for the Master is as grand and glorious as that of our workers from more remote sections welcome Welcome, sisters of tho far wesi. ad vanomg, leading us so swiftlv forward- sometimes we have to stop and take reck oning, but we have always found vou a prophetesses of God. We forget not from the west came inspiration to our work The west Illinois gave us also our gen tie president die blessed evangel ffoin" through the land touching all heartsrwef come to thee, beloved alike by north south, east and west. And you of the sunnv smith ,, ,;.i. us for the first time in national convention. welcome, thrice welcome. There has been musio in your coming. We listened once tor your Tootsteps as those of enemy, but to-night we clasp hands loving- ,-"71 muse, our country is one. We welcome you all to the nation'. ,.!ii yours and ours; to her beautiful avenues: to her magnificent public buildings; to her historical associations. For all our best and bravest from all tho i..... dwelt here. Welcome (o this temiilR nf fSr.,1 ,!,,. swept Lucy Webb Hayes sat Sabbath after Sabbath, and was strengthened to do God s will, and stand firm for the right The example of her pure life has been such that many shall rise up and call her uie-mju in iuis anu other lands. Welcome to our hearts and homes. We have prayed for your coming; we feel sure a blessing has come and will go with you; that an influence shall go out from this body of consecrated women whioh shall be felt through the nation yea, throughout the wide, wide world. Forget not, as you stnv with us. beloved guests, that you are at the nation's fount-ain-head. As you look with ni-i,i n n her greatness and s-rnndnr r,.,n,u. tho pall of sin that hangs over us. Think from whence oomes much of her affluence We blush with shame and grief when we remember that of her great revenues so vast a sum is from the sale of intoxicating liquors. Nearly fifty years ago, at an anniversary of the congressional temperance sooiety. .fiioei uapuoi, me uon. Theodore t relinghuysen, senator from Mem X,i-.n offered the following resolution, which he most eloquently sustained : Resolved, That the influence of woman is essential to the triumph of every great and good cause; and should that influence which God has graciously given her be universally and perseveringly exerted in favor of the temperance reformation, its triumph would be certain and complete, and its blessings, while richly enjoyed by herself and thoso whom she loves, would be extended to all people and perpetuated to all ages. How prophetic! Fulfilled are his words in our day and generation. Behold to night, almost under the shadow of yonder dome, this great gathering of Christian women, coming from all the states, one purpose within their souls the crushing out hi tue liquor tramc. When, a few years ago, the women of the west, baptised with the Holy Spirit, enter ed upon this orusado against sin, many said it was but the thing of a day soon would pass away; but we began a warfare which has never ended nor wilt not till victory is ours. As I look down the years I see a company of Christian women; small it is, but they have been with God. They step out from their homes and their church walking with a steadv miruose pictured in the tear-stained faces that are lifted upward. Lines of sorrow and care are there, yet a Hevenly ligh' shines tnrougn an. nam; l near them singing ' Kook of Aires, cleft fur mo. Let me hide myself In Tlie?." Tbey dare to enter saloons, lift up the lalien, point them to Christ and sing as they work " Down in the tinman Ucart. c-riisue.l by tue teui.ter, Feeltutr. He bni'led tliat trraoecan restore: Touched by a loviuif heart, wakened by kluduese, Chords that wers broken will vibrate ouce more " Their numbers increase; the women in the east and south take up the work f they move on like a vast army; through their efforts many are brought to Christ; dark homes are made light ; joy and peace reign once more in tho household; time passes on, still they are at work; the children and young people are instructed as to the evils of inteinperanco, and warned neither to" touch, taste or handle;" literature is scattered ; the press is influenced ; churches are persuaded to use unfermented wine; prisons nnd jails are visited; temperance eating rooms are established. In the midst of all, the startling fact dawns slowly on the minds of many that drunk ards are being made faster than we can save them, by this licensed tratlic. Train our hoys, yes, and girls carefully as we may, pitfalls are at our very doors, and hells of vice are open to receive them. The mother looks on her boy, presses him to her heart, aud dreads the future, praying, as wo have, that he may be taken from ihe evil to come, rather then fall into the snare of the tempter. Then, as we have looked into the cold, still faoe lying so low in the casket, with aching arms and bleeding heart we havo oried out he is safe, forever safe. Oh! in these hours it is with trembling lips we have sung, " Neater ruy iHn! to Thee Nearer to Tbee! E'en UioukIi it be a cross That ralseth ule." We have seen mothers staggering under the load of grief, whose lips were white with awe, as they have for the last time gazed Into the face of him who should have been, and was in hours of reason, their stay and solace. Ohl we have been in homes of such mourning our hearts have grown cold with griel. It is because we have suffered so, we have come to the firm conviction that the laws of our land must he changed. We ask not for better license laws not to have the cursed tralBo regulated but wo ask for prohibition We long for all states to be as freo as Maine and Kansas; the other are seeing these beacon lights in the Union, and some are struggling up to It; faint not, North Carolina, you shall yet have the viotory. We feel the time has oouie for woman to save and protect her home. Once, the time was not long ago, it was a sin te have cast a ballot. Wbv, the very thought TERMS FOR ADVERTISING. rr on. annsr. of n lini or Imm of mt, trpf, one r..l the n.iml-r o turl on ar- mark-ri on tha a.lrertl-m-t.t it will he c-.?i .teiM until Td-rM out. I.C-rol diw.,iint mad' , iiK-irliant. and other, advar tlaltiv by the year. Probata and ' .rn iime-mer.' Notices, 9-6e. F'tr Nott. of Mh-ttnn. F.traTS. th. ForrnatlOB s.id IH-,l.itlii of ''i-p.rtnrhii. etc . SI ea.h fc three l!i.-rtlmi. ff .-ut by ,n. the money must ae. comiany the letter. Notice In new. columns. In cents per lln. each tnser. 110 ch.ripe. m.H of Im. thin u m. Noll. -es of ri-sth. sod M.rrlsre. Inserted rratts hnt . .I oi.mmrv vc.of p.wtry will h.charireda te of 6 cent, per lln- the n, teiir of it seemed unwomanly, hn we have learned much. The !iule slip of white paper .eenia to lis now one nf the ways out of this erent evil ; hut, hv pure hearts and hands we know it must he before our oountrv ran be freo. There is a sin that ?oo hand in hand with intemiernee. which I need not name, that is ruining our voung men, hlastin" th" reputation of those In middle life. Pulpit and pres. ar mnslty silent. We are handling:, huggins theae evils as a people. They are fvit gaining the mastery; wo soon shall be Sodom and Gomorrah. Why is it sleep so? The presence of the cholera, that dreaded disease that carries off hut a handful in one season of visitmion. compared with those slain by mm. brines a quaking fenrto all hearts. The Michigan Ares. whv. the snfferinca of these poor peopio have stirred our deepest synipath'es. There Is a fire raging through our streets, destroying in minv instances our de irest ones. The whole world has boon moved wi'h our sorrow, as we nave laid onr beloved president awav. His gentle wife. Ltieretia G irfioM. ran we ever fnriM her? Such brave sufferings a lesson tor nil women Tor all time. Yet James A. Garfield rests his works do fol low him. But. oh ! so many chief m- n, great and strono, are beintj slain by the assassin rum. We bring Gniteaii to trial. We do well. Is it not time we brin ourselves. our law-m ikers, our nation to the bar of judgment? Whence all the poverty and crime that is upon nsr Whence onr poor houses, jails and in-ane asylum? Whoner the drunkards srraves that are beins filled every year? I answer the liquor trafno. God has Iven dealing wiih 11s. shall we heed his will? Oh, Hint from this convie- tif n. from the capital of our nation, may go out an influence that, shall stir every good man and woman to notion. Let us not Iream or sleep any longer, hut rise in the might of our Christian manhood and wo manhood, and go forth to slay this vice Dr. Stuart Robinson bequeathed 825.000 towards the endowment of a fund for the benefit of invalid and aged Preshvterian ministers, provided the generel assembly 1 nines 8100.000 additional Prebiterian KltTTKit Snrvrru Piwnv (nn M..nA t . . ,,,, u, U sugar, three ounces of butter, pnt in a stew pan or kettle, nnd stir often to prevent burning. Try a little in water, if brittle it is done. Pour out on the top of a buttered n,n nnA mo Ir In a.i,.. e T iUi.1. . l. iii.no iu i,,nri. 1 iiiinn tueiu na good as those you buy. A little grated imou mm improves me uavor. Tiik Skim.kd Workman. The Sani tary Engineer makes some pertinent re- marKS on tins suhject, among them the following: "The skilled workman, it will be observed, exercises his brains as well is his hands. 1 he man who acauires a skill superior to that of his follow work men, and oomands hetter wages. Is the man who thinks. There is a too common prejudice among American youths against learning a trade. They prefer a more genteel occupation, which holds out greater prospects of making money with slight exertion, forgetting that very little money is earned in this oountry without hard work, and they think a clerk ship much prefable to a trade." The fol lowing remarks of .fames Parton are com mended to these " misguided youths:" " Compare tho mechanics in the novelty works with the clerks in Stewart's store. The clerks are excellent follows; thoy look well, dress well, understand their business anil are in every respect worthy members of society; but onr best raeohanics have a certain force of manhood, a weight of character and a depth of reflention rarely seen in thoso who only buy and sell. I say, then, lads of fourteen, if you would lay a foundation for sure prosperity- hegin by learning a trade. If yon would escape the perdition of being a fool, learn a trade. If you would do a man's pari for your country, begin the work of preparation by learning a trade." Says the New York Herald, speaking of the fashionaable city woman: "The farmer's wife and daughters who criticise and envy her would find, could they change places wi'h her, that their own positions In life are comparatively easy. Thev would also find some sets of nerves of which they never before knew anything." High Pkicf. of a Mkhino Ram. At the sale of a flock of 4.1G Merino sheep, at Tasmania, a soven-vear-old ram fetched 'he high price of 001 guineas ($3 020). The whole flock realized 7.1U7 guineas ($:I5.985). Thir hamlsome sale, and the prices approach the best of those ever re alized in Vermont. Tasmania, formerly called Van Diomen's Land, as well as the opposite coast of Australia, arc famous sheep breeding grounds of English col nists. Millions of 'hem are kept there. Some of ihe best rams, the flock masters p s-ess, tbev procured in the United Siatet and it is said they have made a greater improvement of the sheep there, than any others ever Imported into those territories. An AiiHiia i.TURAi. Coi.i-eob Lkotl-kb Colksr. The students of the Massachu setts Agricultural College respectfully ftnnounce thai they have arranged for a course of lectures on agriculture and kindred subjects, to be delivered during the coming winter. On Thmsdiv. No vember 3d, at 7 o'clock . si., Mr. Joseph S. Wells, of the llattield ore unci v associa tion delivered a lecture on "The practi cal working and advantages of the cream ery system," which was followed by a discussion. On Thursday, November 10th. at 2 o'clock I". M., Hon. ,1. K Russell, secretary of the state bordof agriculture, delivered a lecture on " The breeding and management of horses," which was fol lowed by a discussion. The closing lec ture of the month will he delivered on Thursday evening. November 17tb at 7 o'clock. Mr. K K H owditch. -oprietor of the celebrated " Millwood Farm," Fram ingliaiu. Subject : " Buiter making and the dairy," followed by a discussion. The meetings have been held in the agricul tural college chapel. Til AT POOR BKllRllfDEN. Invalid wile, sister, mother, or ilAnstiter, can ba made Ihe picture or health liy a tew bottles of Hop Bitters. Will you lei them suffer when so easily cured? AN ENTHUSIASTIC ENdKIKSEMFNT. UORI1AM, S. 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