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VOL. XXXIX.
MONTPELIEK, YT., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1882.
NO. 33.
&hc freeman.
HONTPELKB. VT.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 16. 1882.
To Our Youth Again.
In a former letter I urged you to seek
thorough mental training on the ground
that there was a great and Increasing
demand for vigorous thinkers in our land,
and that tbe eyes of the people, east, west
north and south, are turned toward New
England for a supply. There are other
and more weighty reasons urging upon
yon the same effort lor culture. Wo need
not only cnergotio thinkers, but those loyal
to truth and righteousness. The country
needs more conscience as well as more
culture. There is a ringing call for men
and women imbued with the spirit of
reformer!. Thore are yot wrongs and
abuses (thank God we have corrected
some) which will inevitably work our
ruin unless they are checked and put from
us. We noed bold, stalwart men who arc
not afraid of evil though intrenchod
behind iho dominant social or political
power, or cvon seated up ju the throno of
royalty.
' .Isii who cau stand befoni a (leinair.itdie.
And tlamu Ills treaeliopmi llalterioa witlimil uiiikititr;
Tail inpu.fliiu-LTuwiiod, wlio livo above tbo foa-
In eubllcdiity, anil ju irivato tuiukiUK-"
There are many circuuistancessurround
ing us hero which are calculated to pro
duce men of moral liber and rugged
manhood. We are removed from the
giddy whirl of businoss and ploasuro in
which men are consuuiod, body und soul,
in our largo cities. Great men have boon
born and reared in crowded cities; but the
great mass of illustrious men, who have
won tbo first rank among their follows,
havo been country brod. This is specially
noticeablo so far as great reformers and
sturdy moralists are concerned. Ia Bible
history let Elijah, Moses, and John tho
Baptist witness to this fact. Mosos, though
roarod in court, spent forty years among
the mountains and in the ilosert, leading
a shepherd's life, bofore ho was fitted for
the great work which has given him such
an enduring name among nion. S3 Luther
and Zwinyli, Edwards and Garrison were
men reared among the mountains. It Is
not a mere fancy that men partake some
what of their surroundings, and become
morally like what is noarest to them. No
grander plnco to produce men than tho
natural surroundings of New England;
and she has produced a generous progeny
of worthies. Thore is reason in all this.
A child of the mountains is much with
drawn from men, and is in communion
with nature and nature's God. Thus
contemplative habits are formed. One
thinks for himself, and by himself, and
becomes independent in his thinking and
in his convictions. Again the country
furnishes an opportunity to commune
with God through his works. Many a
farmer's lad among the hills of Now
England, taught to fear nothing save God,
aud to yield to no will save the divino
has turned aside among the crags and
mountains and in some cleft of the rock
seen the Almighty pass in his chariot of
cloud, riding in awful majesty upon tbo
wings of the wind just as really as Elijah
saw his power in tho olden time standing
at the cave's mouth npon Horcb. And
then after the storm in the twilight of the
evening, when tho clouds are gone, in the
noiy quiet 01 a unrisuan nomo, oy a
father's reverent prayer, or a mother's
tender pleading at the mercy seat, he has
been led to see a God of infinite love nod
mercy, even as be saw upon tho mountain
a God of infinite power and glory. And
to the still, small voice all that is strongest
and holiest in Iiim has yielded. All these
surroundings have conspired to produce
men of character here among tho hills of
Vermont. Thoso men tho world wants
and our country imperatively needs.
Training and culture will bring out and
develop thoso men and wouion from our
own farms and li resides, if only tliny can
be stimulated to seek tho proper culture
in the opportune time. Remember this.
young friends; God has not givon us the
grandeur of tho niountains.tho plenty of the
valloys, and llio inspiration of heroic and
Godly ancestors without putting upon us
a very grave responsibility, lie, as woll
as the nation, looks to us lor great things;
shall we not bestir ourselves to meet the
jnst and natural claim that is upon us?
All this by way of enforcing the thought
that there is a present, pressing demand
upon you to be ready and well furnished
when the exigencies of our nation and the
voice of God shall call you to a lifo of
vigorous and heroic activity. At some
future date I will write in a more
practical manner concerning tho liow of
this work of mental training.
Yours for every good work
Sunday School Lesson Notes.
nr nicv. J. o. SHEK1IUKN.
An. 2uta: The WU ked Husbandmen-Mark U:l-H.
Christ bad not done with the Jewish
leaders when ho had silenced them by his
question eoncorning John tho Baptist.
Becoming, by clearest right, mastor of tho
situation, be utters three most telling
parables, in each of which the wickod
refusal of tho Jews to receive him is visi-
bly set forth. Nono of his parables more
perfectly Dtted the case they woro moant
to representor woro moro simple andoasy
of application than these. Tbe Jews could
not fail lo understand their meaning at
once. Tho two others aro tho parable of
the two sons, and that of tho marriage of
the king's son.
In tho one now before us Christ uses an
old prophetic parable as the basis of bis
utteraneos. The song of Isaiah: "My
well beloved hath a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill," (Isa. 5:2), was. ono well
known among the Jews. Also several
other cases where tho same figure is used
lo represent tho position of the Jews both
by Isaiah and Jerimeah. Christ simply
olotbes anew, this old frame-work of illus
tration. The literal of this parable might
probably be found in almost any Judean
town in the time of Christ. A man Invests
in land suitable fur vine culture; ho inclos
es the Und, erects tho uecossary buildlogs
for the proccasoa of wine-making, builds
a high tower in some part or tho field,
from which the approach of any Arab
bands from the desert may be noted; and
having put tho property in shape so that it
is ready to bring a good return ho rents it
lo some laborer who is to return to the
owner a given share of the products.
This Is a primitive and simple kind of
tenantry which has, in one form or another,
been practiced all tbe world over, from
the earliest times. It is a case where the
rights of ths parties are clearly understood.
Tho owner is entitled to a certain share of
tho products sinoe he has provided the
capital for tbe business, and the laborer
to his share, since the toil of seouring the
product has been his. It was only natural
that when the wine -making season was
over the owner of tbe vineyard should
send his agent for tho share of the product
belonging to him.
Tho fact that the owner is represented
as sending rtgain and again may not bo en
tirely consistent with the general conduct
of men when their rights are refused them,
but it shows the mercy and long suffering
of the Divine proprietor of all things. The
abuse offered to those who camo in the
husbandman's name was really otrrcd to
him, and the spirit prompting it was one
of want on opposition lo that which is hc
knowledgod to bo right and just. Tho
picluro is a vivid ono; it holds up tho his
tory of tho past, faithfully representing;
the conduct of the Jewish pooplo under
tho old prophetic dispensation; it also
holds tbe mirror to the present, showing
tho Scribes atd rulers tbcmsolves tho ma
lignant and murderous disposition which
controlled them. It also.drcw a side the
curtain iroui tho future, and showed the
awful doom awaiting tho favored but re
bellious peoplo of Israel. What moro viv
id portraiture of the secret plottings of
tho Jews against Christ could bo given,
than that which tho 7th., verso affords!.
They said "among thomselves."t This is
tho heir, como let us kill him and the in
inheritance shall bo ours." Tho applica
tion of tho parable was perceived and
only tho crowds that favored Christ kept
the .Tows from ending tho lifo of tho son
of man at once. The eighth verse contains
a manifest prophesy concerning the man
ner of ohrist's death. Matthew reverses
the clauses, and says. "They cast him
out of the vineyard and slew him." This
exactly fits tho action of tho Jews, who
not only denied to Christ the plaoo that
was his by right, but cast him out from
among his people turning him over to the
Romans, and leading him out of the holy
city to put him to death. To the question
of the 9th verse; "What therefore will
the lord of the vineyard do?'' Matthew
makes the Jews thomselvcs answer, say
ing, "lie will miserably dostroy thoso
wicked men and will let out his vinoyard
to other husbandmen. This would be
only a natural answer for all right think
ing men. But it is more natural to think
that Mark and Luke are in the right whon
they put tho answer in the mouth of our
Lord. The Jews would hardly havo con
demned themsolves, In language which re
fers to them. The; answer, he will miser
ably destroy those wioked men, would
hardly have been given by those who Baw
that he spake against them. Christ next
asks them a question concerning a particu
lar prophesy of their scriptures, saying,
have ye uever read it? By this he meant,
have ve seen its meaning, or thought of
its possible application to your rejejtion
of the Son of man ' He would not supposo
that any Jow of learning had failod to
read this passage from tho 118lh Psalm;
but many, then as now, read without see
ing the force of what they perused. Tho
Jewish loaders built, in a sense, the form
of beliof accepted by their people, and
held until tho present time; hut ill this
structure tbev refused to give Jesus of
Nazaroth a plaoo. How truo it Is, that
while thoy have gono on refusing him, ho
has becoiuo the great factor, tho chiof cor
ner stone in all tho vital religious niovo
racnts on earth.
Tims God s ways arc not our ways.
So he brings to naught the wisdom of the
prudent, and evermore his doings arc
iiarvclous in our eyes. This parable has
1 very pertinent application to mon in all
limes, to us in our lime. To every people
where Christ is known he presents himself
as he did to tho Jews. Tliev receive or
reject him just as did tho peoplo of his
own tlmo. Indeed wo havo scripture
warrant in saying that Christ is rejected,
spurned and crucified at tho present as
woll as in the time of his abode in the
flesh. Wo aro every ono in tho position
of tenants, occupying property, lime,
talonts and opportunities that have been
secured to us by anothor. God sends to
each of us his claim upon the products we
have secured, while occupying his posses
sions. Every time we refuse or neglect
to make just return, wo expose ourselves
to moritod wrath. Every time wo spurn
the gospel invitation, we really spnrn him
who brought it, and in rejecting Christ we
really manifest the same spirit as those
who crucified him, and the fato they
suffered may well bo a most solemn
warning to as.
Temperance Camp Meeting.
TUESDAY EVENING.
Uov. W. J. Johnson presided and Rev.
E. Folsom offered prayer. The speaker
was Kov. Dr. A. A. Miner of Boston, who
took for his thomo, "The temperance re
volution." Ho camo to the discussion of
tbe subject with no thought of its being
narrow; ho considered itsocond to nothinsr
but religion. Tho tomporanco cause sought
to effect a practical revolution In business,
in social customs, in medicine, in law, in
scienco and in politics. Much has al read v
beon done. Many present who could re
motnber tho time when every one drank
and considered it little or no disgrace to
bo occasionally drunk. This leads us to
see that a great revolution has already
been wrought in public opinion since now,
no one doubts that nine tenths of the woos
that afi'eot tbe human race are the result
ofthetralho in strong drink. Very few
homeopathic physicians who now proscribe
any kind of liquors, and there has boon a
great improvement among allopathic
physicians in this respoet. It is dillioult
to tind to-day in New England a native
who believos it a decent business to sell
liquor. Even those who engage in tbe
traffic admit that thoro is no other busi
ness so degrading to soul and body and
produotive of harmful results as this.
Tbe second stago of tbo revolution has
also been reached, that laws must be en
acted and enforced for the suppression ofi
the trallic. At the present tlmo no man
favors license unless "he has some end to
gain, either directly or indirectly. Tbe
great Gov. Andrews of Massachusetts ap
peared before tbe Massachusetts legisla
ture to secure a license law instead of the
prohibition law then in force. For his
work for Iho country during the war he
may havo had only a pure motive, but on
this assault on prohibition he rcccivod
$15,000 from Massachusetts brewers and
traffickers. Dr. Howard Crosby's experi
ment of moderate drinking had proven a
failure in New York, and ho ought to send
a card to Boston to countoract tho almost
infamous statement which he made in
Tremont Temple on that subject. Mas
jachnsetts had prohibition from '55 lo "07.
Gov. Andrews' attempt to securo the re
peal of the law was a failure, but a license
law was soon enacted and tbe slate has
been degenorating-ever sincn. Maine has
tho best prohibitory law of Now England,
yot many Maine officers havo an uowill
ngnoss to execute tbo law, which a but
a willingness to violate their oath and to
degrade and defraud the pooplo.
There is among the peoplo a growing
tendency to adopt the third stage of tbo
revolution constitutional amendments.
Such amendment has already been secured
in Kansas and Iowa. The great value of
such amendment is that it makes tho basis
of prohibition moro secure, legislatures
can not repeal it at a singlo session.
Every effort of the temperance promoters
in tho past has demonstrated tho great
difficulty in securing practical prohibition.
Under tbo existing political parties it is
exceedingly difficult to secure legislation,
A' tho last Massachusetts legislature Mr.
Noyes was elected speaker on the supposi
tion that hu was a staunch temperance
man. Tho jpinstion of prohibition came
up in tbe legislature and Iho vote stood 1 10
on each side, but instoad of proving truo
to bis professed principles bo betrayed bis
supporters and voted for licepso. He ex
pected to be a candidate for governor, and
did this to secure the votes of the rum ele
ment in tho party, but ho failed. We may
elect a republican as a prohibitionist and
he will remain a republican but will bo a
prohibitionist according to circumstances.
So far as political parties aro concerned
patriotism" is a thing of the past. It is a
good word with which to round off a period
but has no practical moaning in political
circles. Prohibitionists should form fa
separate party and lot tho country know
thoy mean business. Tho national Senate
has passed a bill to appoint n commission
to investigate llio liquor traffic; tho House
will not concur. This House is in the con
trol of the beer brewers of the country ;
and this House is governed by the repub
lican parry iso party which lought the
war, saved the union and freod the slaves
the party that had a conscience once but
has lost it. Iho only practical issue be
tween tbe party now is. Who shall have
toe omces? (50 we must step out. It
may be urged that this would leave the
way open for yet more destructive lecis-
lation ; if wrong must bo done let us not
be parties to it. Hut if we put the repub
lican party out of power they will then
reform and purify themselves as tho only
way to get into power. The history of the
past snows ibis. Metliodists should not
dofer all judgment until tho future, bu',
should lot selfish nnd dishonest politicians
know mat tbey will be summoned before
the bar of ino people to answer for the
trust given. Let no one bo elected to tho
state or national legislature who will not
pledge himself to practical prohibition.
This may be a "one idea" party, but so at
that timo was the party that put down
slavery. He considered tho church and
pulpit of to day, with manv notable ex
ceptions, to be in criminal complicity with
tho work of licenso and free rum. It is a
woll known fact that before tho combined
inlluence of the ohurches and clergy of
tbo land, the traffic must go down. The
trallic yet exists, henco the churches were
not guiltless.
WEDNESDAY MOI!NlNl.
Rev. H. Morgan presided and Ilev.
offered prayor. Hev. Dr. A. J. Gor
don, Clarendon street Baptist church, was
the speaker, and took for his thomo, "Con
stitutional prohibition." It was tho part
of practical wisdom, he said, to consider
the foes we must light. Ho then spoke of
me onnding, inuiaiising and barbarising
effects of alcohol. Among the many fala
oles popularly relieved with regard to
alcohol is tho one that it is nourishing.
Baron Loibig says that wo can hold on the
point of 11 penknife all Iho nourishment
obtained from nine gallons of Bavarian
beer. Alcohol stimulates but it stimulates
in the sanio way that spurs stimulate a
horse. Tho real oll'oct of alcohol was
simply robbery, taking something from
tbo tissues ef every organ of the body with
which it camo in contact. There may
seem to no nil exception in the casoofheor
is men men grow Healthier, but that is
because, as tbe Hues fiom stoves and fur
naces are sometimes shut ofi" anil soot ac
cumulates, sii beer slops somo of the
passages and the system tills up. It is on
tbo same principle that a room will grow
fuller if never swept This is simply a
popular statement of a well known scien
tific fact. Aiooliol makes man belo.v llio
brute. This is in accordance with the
Bible, which says, "Tbo ox knowcth his
owner and the ass his master's crib; but
Israel (loin not know." As a rule, if an
animal is persuaded to take liquor aud get
drunk once ho will nover touch it again.
To accomplish anything men must lake
advance positions. Every reform has
around it tl 10 germs of cxtinot half way
rclorms. An ensign once, with a fow
brave followers, carried tbe Hag to a
daugerons position in tho midst of the
enemy. His superior shouted, " Bring
back your colors." "No, no,'' said the
ensign, "bring up your men." Sj we
should not hail advanced reformers as
fanatics, but advance to tho positions thoy
occupy. Wo nocd constitutional prohibi
tion In tho man first. We should begin
with tho children and not wait for them
to mako n doubtful choice when oldor. A
friend of Coleridge thought pooplo ought
not to prepossess children in favor of re
ligion, but let them choose for themselves
when ablo to judge. Whon this same
friend reproved Coleridge for having a
garden full of weeds the poet replied, "I
don't want lo prepossess my garden in
favor of flowers, but I let it choose for
itself." Every home Bhould bo a tomper
ance society, cvory public school should
have its pledge and ovcry Sunday school
should toach total sbstinenco. A little
boy of tho doctor's Sunday school would
not take brandy even though the physician
told him it was the only thing that would
save him. ino boy, having been taught
total abstinenco in tho Sunday school,
bravely refused tho cup and pulled through
without it. mere are some things which
we call organic and somo functional.
Constitutional prohibition is organic, lcsnl
enactmonts are functioned. Tho boat of
tbo human heart is organic while tho cut
of tho hair is functional, and the difference
between tbe results of organic ami func
tional promqiiion is no loss, ino man
ought lo be in fellowship with a church
whoso members engage in tho trallic.
Men of wealth in the congregation bocome
brewers and thoy demoralize tho pulpit.
Tbe clergyman will bo silont on the sub-
ioct of tomporanco in order that he may
not offend somo, and it is a known fact
that a church will riso no highor than a
pulpit house, oto. A church which is
underpinned with boor barrels, olthor liter
ally or figuratively, is a shame nnd dis
grace to tho cause, hence wo need consti
tutional prohibition in tho churches.
Prohibition ought to be a part of tho creed
and one of the tests of membership.
We also need constitution d prohibition
in tbe state. This is valuable because no
one legislation can reverse it. We may
perhaps buy a legislature but we cannot
buy a whole people. Without the consti
tutional amendment our statn is no more
secure lhan would be a mill owner who
should nttempt to run his machinery con
stantly by the obb of the tide. An ingeni
ous Yankee invented a dam lhat provided
continuous power from the tide, s o in
stitutional amendment dams up prohibi
tion for all time. Many people say a
prohibitory law is of no use sineo it cannot
bo enforced. Wait, they sav, until the
peoplo are educated np to it. But tho first
question should bn. Is It right ? No; and
can it bo in forced ? God gave Muses on
the table of stone a law against idolatry.
The tallies were broken becuno tho law
was broken. Did God say to Moses on his
return, "I will wait until Israel is oduc,
ted up to this law before I givo it to them
ignin ?" When our legislatures seo the
law broken they do just what Moses did.
they repeal the enactment. But God sent
Moses back to Israel itli the sanm law,
and we have lieen trying ever sineu to
bring up pnblie sentiment to that law.
One of the very few places In tho world
wboro tho rokilitni-T u 1. uhsolll'.oly
enforced is rimbuotoo. Tho Malmmino
dan religion prohibits the uo of spiri nous
liquors. We have more gospol in New
England than they have in i'imlmctno,
but we have more rum also. llir revenue
from liquors in 1880 was $."00,00l), but the
same year Iho queen of Madagascar refus
ed to tako ono cent of rovenuo from that
which demoralizes and destroys her sub-j-et,
wo may almost say. Who will come
from Tiiubuotoo nr Madagascar us mis
sionaries to Now England ? Too prospect
is indeed dark; but wo should remember
that tho final reward promised is not given
because of success but because of faithful
ness. The gallant John Ziikar, when
dying, ordered his skin to bo made into a
drum to be beat at the bead of the army
that his soldiers might think lhat lio was
still leading thorn on to victory. So, if
faithful here, when our voice is hushed in
death, our deeds may yot speak far the
great cause.
WEDNESDAY AFTKKN00N.
ltev. II. I. Cushing presided and Rev.
H. A. Spencer led in prayer. This service
was devoted to the children. Through
the untiring efforts of Bro. Cushing this
meeting wag made a grand success. He
had invited Sabbatli schools of every do- I
nomination, had stirred np superintendents
nnd pastors to bring full delegations and
tho result was that tho trains were crowded,
schools coming from as far distant as
Montpelicr. Tho Marshtiold hand was
present and discoursed sweet music. Savo
llio great heat the day was all that could
be desired and all went merry as a mar
riage bell.
Kev Cbas. W. Cushing. D. D., of Brad
ford, Pa., delivered the first address. He
spoke of a locomotive, how wonderful it
is, yet how much moro wonderful Is a boy
since he can go alono, can think, can
grow, etc. Then tho bov is wonderful
because he gains power and nronensitv to
do a thing through practice. This was
illustrated by pious practice, which in its
simplest forms is exceeding difficult at
nrst, but becomes mechanical and easy
after long practice. Thus a boy can form
habits which are binding, habits of swear
ing, smoking and drinking. Tho way in
which boys becomo bound in habils was
illustrated by Iho way in which a spider
gradually entanglos a fly. Tbo address
was lull ot thought and was lntorestinc to
all classes, the children paying tbo very
best of attention.
Kov. J. D. Beonmn, presideul of llio
seminary at Montpolior, then sang to tbo
audience. "Where is my wandering boy
to-night?"
Ilev. Dr. B. K. Pierce, editor of Zion's
nerald, followed witli a scries of stories
and observations.
Rev. H. A. Spencer then sang, "I'm a
child of the King."
Mrs. Rov. A.J.Gordon then spoke ai
the representative of tho woman's Chris
tian temperanoo union. She commenced
by saying that, "To every man his work"
"Lord what will thou have mo to do?"
and "Ready to do what my Lord hath,"
are tho llireo passages indicating the truo
position of disciploship. This kind of
disciplesbip was needed bv the ladies of
the H . O. 1 . U. She said it seemed to
her a great privilege to bo able to live in
a prohibitory state where tho children do
not havo to go by miles of grog shop3 on
their way to school, and where they aro
not exposed to every possible kind of
temptation at eucry step. Yet there was
temperance work to lie dime even in
Vermont. A lotfer had been written to
her telling of the ruin wrought in a Ver
mont htuno by liquor sent from Boston.
Slio look that letter lo tbo man who
urnisbed the liquor, ho was an attendant
upon her husband's church, nnd endeavor
ed to secure tho closing of tho saloon. The
most she could effoct was a promise that
no more of tbo accursed stufi' should be
sent to that Vermont town. One of the
ureal hindrances to tempcrnnco work in
Vermont was the largo amount of cider
drank. Slio had formerly considered it
fanaticism to give up eider and had onco
refusod to sign Iho pledge because it pro-,
hibited the uso of cider but, sineo sho had
seen tilings as they really wore, sho had
changed her wind and now saw what a
hindrance lo the work she had formerly
been. She now took overy opportunity
to work for tho cause. When a couple
came to got married Ihey woro given tho
pledgo to sijn, when caronters came to
repair tho houso tliev were givon the
pledge to sign, whon tho butcher, baker
or milkman came to tho house thoy were
pleasantly asked if thoy would not like to
sign tho pledge, when ladies camo to mako
a call thoy wore rcquostod to givo tho
weight of thoir inlluenoo to tho cause, and
thus by tho exercise of tact, forbearance
nnd pationce sho was enabled to accom
plish much for tho cause. Could not othor
minister's wives do the satuo?
WEPNESOAY EVENING.
Tho mooting was presided over by Rev.
J. 1). Boeman and prayor was offered .by
Rev. A. L. Cooper. Rev. Hugh Montgom
ery, oity missionary of Norwich, Conn.,
was the speaker. When 15 years of ago
he spent a day and a night as a clerk in a
liquor saloon nnd thero saw enough to
mako him a life long temperanoo man.
When ho was pastor at Newbury, Vt., a
half tipsy man came to him one day and
sahl, very affectionately, as mon in that
state nro wont to do, that be liked Mr.
Montgomery because be pre.iched neither
temperance nor politics. Since that time
he had always preached temperance and
politic" so far as connected with temper
ance. Sinoe thore was no other evil which
stood so prominently between God nnd the
sinner as intemporance thero was no evil
which should be so persistently combatlod.
He thought the time would como whon all
states would have the same constitutional
amendments as Kansas nnd Iowa. But,
until then, wo mnst execute thn laws we
havo. He thon gave somo of his exporionco
in gotting a verdict of guilty from an
unwilling jury and claimod that the guilty
could always be brought to punishment if
the prosecuting officers woro roally in
earnest. Already muoh has beon aecom
pllshed. Every one now belioves that any
man in the liquor businoss has arrived at
that pitch of moral degradation whero be
will not respect tho sanctity of an oath.
Of the hundred of cases he had prosecuted
he had never bad but one case whore the
respondent refusod to perjure hiuisolf.
Men are beginning to soo tbe dogradlug
nature of the trafflo and to leave it to for
olucrs. No ono who now has nny regard
for homo or country will engage in the
traffic, of Km olkil legalized dram shop
iu New York city all but 2u5 are kept by
foreigners. Of tho 303 kept by women
only one is kept by n Yankee" woman.
Americans consider tbo business disgrace
ful Some thought tho evil could be
remedied by having only first-class men
as rutnsi I'ers. But the supervisors were
limited m to their choice. He could soloct
a wifu from the whole United States, a
governor could bo selected from nny
whetn in u wholo state, but rumsollers
could b) selected only from tbe ward in
which ihey resided. 'Moreover tho choice
was to ho made froni tho'applicants and if
tbe angel Gtbriel was summoned from
heaven and given power to examine the
true character of tho applicants ho would
return with the report tint thev wcro all
equally bid. The Old Testament taught
total abstinence. Tho mother of Simpson
was enjiiined to cat nothing th t came of
the vino nor to drink any s'rong driuk.
Tho Rechabites were commandod to
abstain from that which could intoxicate.
Tbe New Testament taught total absti
nence and its wholo teaching was. "Touch
not, lane not, handle not," howovcr much
pessimistic divines might say about tho
urilflnal Oivek in tho ile-u. ijiiiuii in iue
wedding at Cana. Five hundred physi
cians onco wroto essays on the uso of
liquor as 11 medicine, whether necessary
nr nut. Tho successful essay declared
that out ot 300 gallons of liquor thoro
wero only ten ounces of nourishment,
hence thoro was no noed for physicians to
proscribo liquors in case of illness. Wc
should carry tbo tomporanco question into
politics ami shall nover succeed until wo
do. Our enemies gain the day whilo wo
aro inditlerout. Wo allow them to pack
tbo caucuses and control Iho nominations.
This should not he. No wire pulling
should he allowed by our enemies. The
election should ho fair, every ono voting
with bis eyes opeu. When peoplo see
things as they really aro they will seo that
wo might as woll license a man to sell the
itch for $1000 and then prohibit men from
scratching as to enact somo laws that
I havo disgraced out statute books. We
I should "carry tho war into Atrica" and
mako every politician feel that tbo price
of our support was uncompromising
hostility upon his part to tbo traffic In
every form. Then can wo hasten tho day
when our land shall be free from the curse
which now carries sixty thousand to a
drunkard's gravo each year. England is
setting us a good example in some re
spects, 11.000 out of tho -JO.OOO clergymen
of the established church aro total abstain
ers and 1,000,000 members of tho same
church havo already enrolled themselves
among the ranks of tho teetotalers.
TIIUKSDAY MORNING.
Rev. P. N. Granger presided ami Rev.
F. B. Phelps of East St. Johnsbury offered
prayer. Gen. Neal Dow of Portland, Me.,
was tho speaker. Ho first spoke of the
magnitude of tho evil which wo had to
put down. Gladstono approvingly quoted
tho London Times as saying that England
sull'ered moro from intemperance than
from war, pestilencoand famino combined.
No moro terrible Indictment of tho traffic
has iieen mado than that of John Wesley
in which he said that drink drives pooplo
to hell nnd that all who engage in
tho traffic are men of blood. Wo deter
mine tho valuo of anything by the amount
of good it brings as compared with the
amount of evil it produces. Everv one
knows lhat this traffic produces all manner
of ovil and even its upholders can point to
no gooti it accomplisncs. Dr. Lyman
Buccher said, "I defy any uinn to say that
liquor sellers are not murderers." As
Lot Morrill said in congress, liquor soiling
is llio crime of all crimes. Murder is a
part of Iho 'system of the traffio just as
much as mo conimissarv ilepartment or
the sanitary department are a part of the
system of a campaign and do their part
toward killing tho enemy. What consti
tutes a crime? The doing of that which
is ircnnsistcnt with tho general good
Measured by Ibis stnndard liquor soiling
is the crime of all crimes. Larceny is a
onnie but wo would rattier men would
steal our money than our self-respect and
manhood. Grand larceny is a crime but
even a rum seller would rather a man
would break open his house, rifla its con
tents, set it on fire so that its Haines should
consume bis only son than to have that
same son die a drunkard s death. Murder
is a crime, yet we would rather seo our
brother's throat cut from ear to ear than
lo see him die of dolirium tremens. Tho
trallic being so criminal wo proxse to put
it down, and to put down all who stand in
the way even though it bo the gentlemanly
Dr. Crosby of New York. Ho then gpok'o
at length of Dr. Crosby's plans, showed
their utter fallacy from tho standpoint of
common sense and practical use, and
completely demolished the theory of Ihc
gradual extinction of the Iraflij through
the medium of high toned saloons. Tliur
low Weed wrote a loiter to tho Tribune in
which lie said that prohibition in Maine
was an nlmrtion and a failure. The
venerable statesman was for enco talking
of what ho knew nothing about. The
Maine law had been a success in the
highest sense of tho word. Enacted in
1851 it had since reduced Iho amount of
liquor sold nincteeii-lwcntioths. Formerly
Maine was Ihe worst state in the Union
for intemperance, spending tbo entire
value of liioir tnxablo property for drink
every twonly years. Before this law there
were seven distilleries in Portland alone.
Now there is not a distillery or browory in
ttio wholo stale, nnd tho lifllo liquor that
is sold is disposed of in tho most socrct
manner. Prohibition has boon a financial
success iu Maine. Formerly Iho stato was
In debt, now it lias uiouoy to lend, litisl
ness of every kiud, as bo hud learned by
aclual investigation has largely increased
since tho present law has been in force.
Maine's proportion of tho nntional drink
bill would bo thirteen millions, it really
is only ono half a million so tbe annual
saving to the slate is twelve millions direct
ly and llio sanio amount indirectly, as all
admil lhat llio actual cost of the liquor
sold is but ono half tho rest cost to the
country. In tho days of Tippecanuo and
Tyler it was said that if thoy were elected
every man would have roast beef and two
dollars a day. That time has already come
for Maine as a wbole.Truo a little liquor is
still sold in the cities, but the temperance
men proposo to secure a constitutional
amendment and stop even lhat so that it
may he a clean state. In closing ho urged
the tomporanco men of Vermont to nwako
to a sense of their noed nnd their power
and follow In the steps of Maine, Kansas
and Iowa.
T11UHSDAV AtTF.KNOON.
At 1 o'clock occurred tho annual moot
ing of tbo association. The following
officers wero elected: President, W. J.
Johnson; vice presidonts, Rov. It. 1).
Osgood, Lyndon. Rev. R. A. Tillotson, St.
Johnsbury, Dr. L. Oilman of St. Albans,
Rev. II. A. S)enccr of Montpolior nnd D.
M.Camp of Newport; secretary, Goo. II.
Richmond of Northliold; treasurer, C. W.
Wyman of Brattloboro; oxecutivo com
mittoo. Rev. J. R. Bartlott, Bane, W. L.
Pearl, St. Johnsbury, (J. H. Smallcy,
Lyndnnvillc, L. Gilinan, St. Albans, and
W. P. Houghton, Lyndon. A finance
committee was also appointed but the
names are not among our notes. 1). P.
Hall, Rev. E Owen and Rev. II. P. Cush
ing were elected delegates to the national
prohibition convention to bo held at
Chicago tho last of this month. Tbe
report of tbo socootary showed tho associa
tion to havo 75 uiombors against 12 in
18M and IS3 in 1880. Tho treasurer's
book showed tho receipts thus far to be
112 and the ox pounca only $5:1.75, leaving
$53.25 in tho treasury. Some few bills
wore not then paid but they hoped to leave
nearly .$50 in the treasury. The association
then adopted a vote of thanks to railroads,
to tbo press and lo the (rood Templars'
lodge of Lvndotiville for favors received
The general opinion was that no one could
do more for tho interests of Ilia meeting
than had been done by II. E. Folsnui,
superintendent of tho Passumpsio railroad
He had acceded to every request in Ihc
running of trains, in the granting of favors,
he had entirely changed tho scats on the
ground, had greatly improved the stand,
and had done everything in his power to
make tho meeting a success.
Tho regular meeting was presided ovei
by Rev. II. Lockhout, Rev. R. Morgan
offering prayer. Rev. Morrit Hulburd of
Burlington was iho speaker and took
for his theme, "Practical work as the out
come of this meeting.'' We need enthu
siasm and sentiment, but these are useless
unless they result in action. Ideas should
bo mado concrolo We need to under
stand the enemy against which we have
to contend. If all the council of Pande
monium were asiembled to invent a plan
by which tbey could best hinder tbe pro
gross of nro thev. could find "'
uw uiiaptcd lo their purpose than the
rum traffic. Viewed from a financial
standpoint only, it is an enormous ovil.
Last month wo paid $13,000,000 of our
national debt, but our drink traffic for a
vnar amounted to 1,400,000,000, or $1,
211,000,000 than we should annually de
croaso our national debt, hence from a
financial standpoint only, it dwarfs every
thing else but money--ono of tho least
considerations. It ruins our bodies and
destroys our minds. It is not a local epi
demic like tho yollow fever, but there is
not a hamlet in all the land where its blast
ing influence is not fell; not a family in all
our vast extent of territory into whose
kinship tho destroyer has not como.
In tho temperanco work of to day there
are two spectres which hinder our pro
gress. Tho first is that of general apathy;
he is tho greatest foo of the temperance J
cause in tins stale. It is continually
thrown in our faces lhat prohibition does
not prohibit ami many aro indiflorcnt as
to wuctner tun insinuation is truo or raise.
Many men in this state arc willing to
sacrifice for tho cause if I hoy can do it by
giving all their wile's relations to tho war
The second spectre is public opinion.
This Is created (1) by the pulpit. If next
Sunday every pulpit would preach on the
subject tho people would be set to thinking
and somo practical good would be the
outcomo. If the Roman Catholic prlesU
hood could be induced to tako a decided
total abstinenco standpoint much could be
accomplished. Whilo this meeting was
being held there was a Roman Catholic
total abstinenco convention in session at
St. Paul, Minn. Wo ought to all unite in
his and give tho world tho spectaclo of
tho nnion of every religions body for this
common end. (2) Public opinion is also
moldod by tbo press. Whilo tho news
papers mold public opinion mon of
influence can direct iho tone of tho press
and thus that of public opinion. They can
also create among tho peoplo a tasto for
temperance literature, and the press is
always quick to meet a demand. Every
paper taking tuo wrong side on tins ques
tion should bo boycotted. (3) Public
opinion is molded by the way in which the
law is executed, henco wo should elect
officers that will execute tbo law and give
it character in tbo eyes of tho people.
None but staunch temperanco men should
be elected to office. If others atonominated
they should bo bolted. The need o f such
bolting was forcibly illustrated. The
speaker said that ho belonged to the party
ot fllartm Kntnor wno said mat uod and
ono man make a majority. Ho thought it
would bo a grand thing for every nominee
to give in his experience and testimony
on tho subject of temperance, nnd ho
wonld havo been glad to make way for a
Methodist class meeting if only tho grand
statesman recently nominated for congress
on this side the Green Monntains could be
induced to givo in his testimony. Tho
speaker closed by an appeal for action
Till ItSDAY KVHNINil.
Dr. L. Oilman of St. Albans acted as
president and Rev. W. II. Hyde led in the
devotions. The spsakor for tho evening
was the Rov. T. P. Frost of Bradford, who
took as his theme the "Hinderors" to the
temperance work. (1) "The Great
Objector,'' who is tho chief secretary of
tne proprietary departmental the universe.
Ilo will have none ot tho proprieties
violated. He would havo nsotil lost rather
than saved in the orthodox wav. and
wonld rather havo a wholo community
sutler irom tuo untuning etiects ot tbe
traffic than to havo any force used in
breaking up n sink of iniquity. The
mistakes of the temperance workers give
lum moro troublo than llio evil of intern.
poranco itself. Tbo great objector is a
master in tho art of lino distinctions. He
don't object to certain kinds of saloons
and high-toned drinking customs, but bo
docs object lo all secret societies, to reform
clubs, church temperance socioties, legis
lation on llio subject, prosecutions of
offenders, etc. He admits that somo evil
is the result of the trallic, but objects to
any measures moauing war iixn and
extermination of the trallic, yet bo claims
to lie u great " temperance man." In
reality bo is a great hypocrite nnd often a
secret tippler, though somotiiues only a
chronic grumbler, and occasionally a
sincere but deluded Christian.
(2) "The High-toned Tippler." Ho
sometimes controls politics and men cboor
and honor bun. Ho uses wino at home
and abroad wbeu tlin"dignity"ortho occa
sion demands it and maintains the nations
honor at n president's funeral by a drnnk
en debauch, lie is nl'ien in high places
anil sometimes sits ill tbe president's chair.
(U) "J be Discreet Well Wisher."
Ho wants every reform elKieted and glor
ies over the work already dono and over
tbo ways of work adopted. If ho is a pray
ing man he prays for the cause or a swear
ing man ho swears for it. He speaks
much of the sweetness of saorifice and
then lets other peoplo make all tbe sacri
fices. He is always conspicuous for his ab
sence during any temperance work nnd
really helps tbo other sido. Sometimes he
is tho editor of a political paper and can
advocate licenso or prohibition as tbe party
may direct. Ho bos the art of balancing
himself on the tenco to perfection. Really
ho is possessed of moral indirt'oronco and
cowardice. (4) "Tho Ollico Seoker."
He will profess almost anything to got
office His desire is to got votes and so
he wishes us well and lets tho rummies
alono.
These are giants nnd in their and our
owu sight we nro but as grasshoppers,
but liko Israel we are ablo lo go up and
overcome tho giants and possess the land.
Tho meeting was a success in every
sonse of Iho word. Every speaker adver
tised filling his place, tho addresses good
and tho attendance much bolter than in
previous years. Toniporauee camp meet
ings may now bo considered a fixture and
may bo expectod to grow in interest and
attcudanco every yoar.
Reports continue to como in of wide
spread devastation by tho recent storms
in northorn Ohio. A special from Wako
raan says lhat tbo hail cut down tho crops
and gardons. Thirty bridges were swept
away In Holmes county. Oats are totally
destroyed, potatoes nearly all ruined, corn
greatly damaged and wholo farms on the
hillside are denuded of soil as well as
crops. Decaying vogetablo matter on the
bottom lands has becomo offensive, pro
ducing sickness. Tho barns In many
f daces woro struok by lighning and
lurnod.
The Egyptian as n Soldier.
We have received tbo following from a
correspondent who has hail considerable
experience in eastern wars :
"A not unimportant elenent in (lie
consideration of the Egyptian question is
the value of Ihe Arab as fighlina material.
Of tbo courage of Iho wretches who beat
out tbo brains of so many Europeans
caught by surprise and unarmed in the
lole Alexandria riots, ono mav judge by
an incident nbich took place in the course
of them.
"On tbe great square of Alexandria
soma two hundred of these patriotic pro
testors against the rule of the foreigner
were engaged in bunting Europeans,
when four of the attendants of tbo tribunal
rushed out of their sanctuary with drawn
swords, and tho whole two hundred took
to precipitate flight, leaving the square
empty of all but tho dead and wounded,
and the four messengers of justioe. With
out some firm assurance of tho support of
mustuliz or hizun it is quito certain that
none of the rabblo wonld ever have dared
to raise a hand against a foreigner. A
kourbash is quite enough for tho courage
of an Eiyptian on nr. ordinary occasion,
- -up hb.o.ir regiu.. J. .itiuuiYifU
Ali lias given him a prestige which, like
the scent of the roses, lingers lung after
iho organization is shuttered. It is true
that once Egyptian soldiers defeated Turk
ish, but the latter wero in a much lower
state of disciplino than no v, whilo the
(nrmer were ruled with a rigor, of which
tho following incident, related by a veteran
who remembered Mehcmet Ali, will give
an example: A milkwonan came to the
Pasha ono day complaining that ono of his
soldiers had robbed her of the milk sin
was bringing into camp. The soldier was
identified and denied having taken the
milk. ' What did ho do with it?' asked
tbo Pasha. Drank it,' was the reply.
At a sign the man's head was oil' bis body,
and his stomach being opened, was found
full of milk. ' Go,' said the P.islia to tbe
horrified milkwoniun, paying her tbo value
of her milk, but if ho had not taken it
your head would have paid for it.'
jNcedloss to say tins Draconian rule
has long since passed away, an 1 the Egyp
tian soldier to-dav is perhaps the most
cowardly and degraded regular in exist
ence. In the Into 1'iHSii-Turkisli war thoy
could not bo brought to face lire, and were
kept in reserve for depot duty. Iu the
Cretan insurrection of 1800 tho Viceroy's
guard was sent to tbo island to aid in the
subjugation of tho Christians, but on the
first encounter 4,ot)t ot tlicm, attacked in
an entrenched position by about 1,500 ill
armed Cretans, wero driven into their
intrenchmonts, their access to the water
sources cut off, and ihey surrendered
uncon litionally after tbo defeat of another
division, which had marched to their roliel
tbe total being 8,000mcn, with artillery,
and considered the best troops in the
Egyptian army, la a subsequent affair,
under Mehemet Kilitly P.isha, when the
bgyptians wero to cover ttie retreat of the
main army, they broke and tied precipi
tately at the first attack of tho insurgonts,
and squads of them, losi in tbo complica
ted byways ami broken ground of ihe
pass oflirapi, throw down their arms and
wero butchered without resistance by tbe
Cretans. At Itho assault of the convent
of Arkadi the only uso tho Egyptians
could bo put to was to be put in front
witli llio bayonets ot trie lurkisn regulars
behind them and no alternative of safety.
Thoy were thus driven into tho broach,
covering tho Turks by their bodies.
" This was tho testimony of ono of the
Italian officers in command of them, and
nothing was more common than for the
Cretans to send an Egyptian prisoner away
contemptuously, saying mat it was liki
butchering sheep to kill ihe Egyptians
They aro capable only of tho simplest
evolutions, and their officers know little
more about tho scienco of war than the
privates. The former are fond of line
uniforms and gewgawry, but Ihey actually
aro Dover exercised in any movements of
warfare; there is no conception of organ
ization, and if a necessity arose for aclion
it is not too much to say that the soldiers
could not find their cartridges, their offi
cers their commissariat.nor tho command
ers their officers. Nothing but the most
inconceivable blunders ojuld ever give
them a military advantage, and the slight
est menace toward a Hanking movement
would put tbe entire nrmv to rout without
bring a shot. A division from India land
ing al Suez and marching on Cairo would
see Ihc defenders of Alexandria in instant
retreat, and a distribution of a few pounds
would set the whole of the Bedouin tribes
to plundering tho regulars. With the
exception of the Copts andasmall number
of the better classes ot llio inhabitants of
lowor Egypt, thero is nothing to form a
self governing nation; whilo anything
like representative government or mili ary
efficiency must bo tho result of generations
of development," l'ill Mall (iuz'.tlc.
A Sknsiiu.k Word Anour Nhwsi-a-l'Kits.
It is a groat deal easier to say
what a newspaper should no!, print th in
it is to say what it should print, sineo tho
legitimate field of activity includes every
topic which engages tho attention ef ra
tional and decent socicty.whilo tho forbid
deu subjects are those against which a
man who respects himself instinctively rc
volts. Ti ns, ono of the first Tub's impress
ed upon now comers iu well conducted
newspaper offices is this : "Wbeu in doubt
do not piiut." This rule presupposes that
the newspaper man represents llio average
sonse of decency of llio community, and
that the doubt with which bo regards the
matter will be snared, only in an intensi
fied degree, by society at largo. Tbe
same general idea is often expressed in the
maxim lhat it is not whal you put into a
newspaper but what you koop out of it
that makes it successful.
The rule and the maxim botli rest upon
tho assumption that tbo personal character
and experience of tho responsible journa
list aro up to a certain grade. In the oar
lier history of journalism the case was
different. A certain brilliancy of expres
sion, an excess of imaginative power; a
Byronio tendency toward Bohemlanism,
that intlesoribablo quality called "gonius,"
which is usually a mero sham these were
not only qualities popularly ascribed to
newspaper men but those which they ac
tually possessed. Out of this atmosphere
of "gonius," camo tho tradition that a
newspaper man must not ue euureiy rep
utable; that he must not bo too willing to
pay abill; that ho must certainly got drunk
upon occasion and must be at all times
ready to drink ; that ho must work by fits
and starts, and cultivate some pot cecon-
triclty. In fact tho notion was that he
must be very peculiar and irregular, and
surprising, and that thoso characteristics
made him very groat. This notion was
utterly destroyed by tho war. At that
timo tho mass of rcadors learned to do
mand tho facts about current ovents, and
tbo man with tho (lowing nock-tio and the
long hair and rolling eye was knockod out
of the printing house never to return.
Tho newspaper uian of lo-day is a plain
man, who lives with his family, pays his
debts, goes lo chinch, keeps hiuisolf clean
in body and mouth nnd spirit, and gener
ally trios to boliavo himself as well as his
business, to represent as nearly as he can
the average intelligence nnd conscience of
tbo community in wnicii no worKS, never
going below thoavorage but always trying
to lift it a little higher. His Imagination
is the least used part of bis mental equip
ment. Ilo concerns himself with lauts
chiefly, nnd with such facts as concern
other reputable citizens. Whilo he pictures
the lifo of the time, he avoids as much as
possible tho bad lifo of tho timo. Ho tries
not to print what bo would not liko to road
alond before refined women and innocent
children. He has fun and llfcnnd sparkh ,
but these are decent in subject nnd pure iu
their tendency.
It is only when son-c half-ripe boy gels
hold of tho printing press now -a days lhat
it begins to turn toward scandal ami inde
cency. Ignorant himself, unguidetl, and
with little sonse ot responsibility, he lias
just wit enough lo copy the minor weak
nesses of large newspapers. Their sterling.
iouu quinines are oeyond Ins compre
hension, nnd so he bends his immature
mind toward personal failings and moral
dirt. He turns Iho press, which surpasses
in power all othor social agencies for
good, into a mere cider-mill of tilth; anil
ho becomes for the time being a social
pest. His noso becomes as sharp its a
terrier's in ihe pursuit of human weak
nesses and sins, and Ihe deeper he can
stick il into the moral sore the happier
and the prouder he is. He is a survival
of the worst, and a very puny and con
tcmpliplo survival, too. The public sense
of decency and iho social instinct of self-
preservalmn soon force hiiu to tbe w ill in
ono way or another. Honest and diPent
iour3.l.ii..vi,lU wiMmiwf Mb
titan the Honorable prolessjon ot tin- aw
mould be lielil responsible lor the disiep
ulab'.e doing of a Toombs court sbys or.
tt'iimiiigtun. hi , Mnrniinj Xtni'.i.
Something Cui:ioi:s Hai-it.skp. A
biy 10 years old pulling a heavy cart
loaded with pioces of boards and structure
an every day sight in all our cities'.
Tirol and exhausted he halted limb r u
shade tree. His feet were bruised and
sore, his clothes in rags, his face pinched
and looking years older thim it should.
What must bo tbe thoughts of such a child
as be looks out upou the world tho tine
bouses, tho rich tlressos, llio lolling car
riages thn happy faces of those who have
never known wbat it is lo be po ir. Does
il harden the heart and make it wioked, or
does it bring a feeling of loneliness and
wretchedness a wondering If tho rich
man's heaven is not so far off from the
poor man's heaven that ho will never catch
3iglit of their pinched faces.
The boy lay down on llio grass, and in
five minutes was sound asleep. His bare
feet just touched the curbstone, and tho
old hat fell from his head and rolled lo tho
walk. In tbe shadow of the treo his faoaj
told a story that cvory passer by oould
read. It told of scanty food, of nights
when the body shivered with cold, of it
home without sunshine, of a young life
confronted by mocking shadows.
Thon something curious happened. A
laboring man a queer old man with a
wood saw on his arm crossed the street
to rest beneath the same shade. Ho
glanced at tho boy and turned away, but
his look was drawn again, and now be
saw the picture and read the story. He,
too, was poor Ho, too, knew whal it was
to shiver and hunger. Ho lip-toed along
until lie could bend over iho boy, and then
hc took from his pocket a piece of bread
and meat tho dinner bo was lo eat if lm
found work and laid it down besidetho
lad Then ho walked carefully away,
looking back every niouiont, but hastening
out of sight as if he wantod to escape
thanks. Men, women and children had
seuu il all, aud what a lever it was! Tbu
human heart is ever kind and generous,
but sometimes ihero is need of a key to
open it. A man walked down from his
steps and left a half-dollar beside tho poor
man's bread. A woman walked down
aud left a good bat in place of tbe old one.
A child came with a pair of shoes and a
boy brought a coat and vest. Pedestrians
halted and whispered and dropped dimes
and quarters beside Ihe first silvor piece.
Sjiuething curious had happened. The
charity of a poor old man had unlocked
the hearts of a score of people. Tneu
something strange occurred. The pinched
face suddenly awoke, and sprang up as if
it were a crim3 lo sleep there. Ho saw
the bread tho clothing tho money the
score of people waiting around to seo
what he would do. He know that he had
slept, and hc realized lhat all those thing!
had como lo him as be dreamed. Then
what did ho do? Why. bo sat down ami
soblied like a giievcd child. They h-ul
rtad him a sti mon greater than nil the
sermons of t lie churches. They bad U
his heart to swelling aud jumping until il
choked him. Poor, ragged and wretched,
and fueling tint hu wis no moro to the
world than a slick or a stone he bid
awake.ied to find tb it the world re((tr.l ' f
mm as a Hum m Doing worthy of aid a:i I
entitled to pity. .If. iid.
Painting Houses. Mr. E. E. Koxford
preeutssome important facts on "Painting
Houses," In tho Amcrician Airi,:tiHurisl,
from which we select the following:
l or country houses I would i.dviso for
open, exposed places, a pale gray, or drab.
There arc complaints made fnqTcntlv
that drab looks cold. It cannot Iook
colder tlnti white does, and there is no
reason why it should look cold at all, if
proper caro is taken lo have tin '.i hu
ntings of the house of sonic w inn cheer
fill color. I know a drab bouse with deep
warm toned brown cornice and blind.-,
with plenty of vines clambering up it tu
f break the monotony of Iho surface bc
tweeu the windows, aud il is one of the
warmest looking houses I kn.iw of. It
does not pain the eyes with its glare. It
does nol assert ilsolf the moment you rtnch
tho top of tbo hill and come within sight
of it. A whilo house would draw your
attention at once; and uo matter how yen
miglit try to look at somothlng else, li e
white blotch on the landscape would leave
its impression iu your eye, and you could
not help soeir.g it. This gray house seems
part of tbo landscape. Its colors blend
woll with the green about It. There at c
no large trees around it, but there are
vines, and the goneral ctl'jct in summer is
cool and subdued and in winter it g.vts
a sense of warmth and comfort. Why it
gives a sensation of warmth at one season
and of coolness at another, is ox plained
by tho fact that summer is a season of
high, bright colors, and tbo drab is in u
lower tone of color than those prevailing
in tho landscape Wintor is a season of
but little color, und then drab, in contrast
with the snow -covered earth becomes cheer
ful, and deep-toped trimmings, which
should bo seen on every house painted in
drabs or grays, give a sense of warmth
which tbey would not nave tn summer
when all about is in bigb, decided tones.
WOM VN S MlSDIllECrSD SrllENGTIl. I
am sadly conscious tnat tnousands of
mothers are so over-burdened that the
actual demands of lifo, from day to day,
consume all their time and strength. But
of two evils choose the least;" and which
would you call the least, an unpolished
stove, or an untaught boy? Dirty win
dows, or a child's confidence you have
failed to gainr Cobwebs In the cornet, or
a son ovor whose soul a crust has formed,
so strong that you despair of melting it
with your hot tears and fervent prayers?
I have seen a woman absolutely Ignorant
of her children's habits of thought, who
never (olt that she could spare a half hour
to read or talk with them, I have seen
this woman spend ton minutes in ironing
a sheet and there were six In tbe washing
one hour In fluting the ruffles and
arranging tho puffs of her little girl's
" sweet white suit;" thirty minutes in
polishing tins which were already bright
and clean; forty minutes in frosting and
decorating a cake for toa.because " compa
ny " was expected. Harriet Hydra Mo rfis,
in ll'omaji's Journal.