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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

Stun AFFEcTAuoN.-T There is nothing
more beautiful in the young than simplicity
of character. 1t is honest, frank and attrac-
tive. How different is affectaton The
simple minded are always natural. They
are, at the same time, original. The affected
are never natural And as for originality, if
they ever had it, they have crushed it out,
and buried it from sight, utterly. Be your
self, then, young friend TO attempt to be
anybody else is worse than folly 1t is an
impossibility to attain it. 1t is contemplate
to try! But suppose you could succeed in
initiating the greatest man that ever figured
in history, would that make youauy greater
By no means. You would always suffer in
comparison with the initiated one and be
thought of only as the shadow of substance
the echo of real sound--the counterfeit
of pure coin DR.. Johnston compared the
heartless imitator--for such is he who affects
the character Of another-to the Empress of
Russia, when she did the freakish thing of
erecting palace of ice. 1t was splendid
and conspicuous while it lasted. But the
sun soon melted it, and caused its attractions
to dissolve into common water, while the
humblest stone cottages Of her subjects stood
firm and unmarried. Let the fabric Of your
character, though ever so humble, be at least
real. Avoid affecting the character of an
other, however great Build up your own.
Be what God intended you to be-yourself
and not somebody else. Shun affectation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

NEwspApARs.-Judge Longstreet, the new
President Of South Carolina College, thus
sets forth the value of a newspaper Small
is the sun that is required to patronize the
newspaper, and most amply remunerated is
the patron | care not how humble and un-
pretending the gazette which he takes, it is
next to impossible to fill it fifty.two times a
year without putting into it something that
is worth the subscription price. Every pa
rent whose son is off from home, at school,
should supply him with a paper. still re.
member what a difference there was between
those Of my schoolmates who had and those
who had not access to newspapers. Other
things being equal, the first were decidedly
superior to the last in debate aud the compo-
sition at least. The reason is plain, they had
command Of more facts. Youth will peruse
newspapers with delight when they will read
nothing else.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

NEATNrss.--A filthy school-house is an
abomination. And yet who does not know
that one of the hardest duties of the teacher
is to keep the school-house and its furniture
perfectly neat and clean? Boys will bring
in so much dirt on their feet, and then both
boys and girls will find it SO convenient to
scatter SO many bits of paper, and now and
one will want to spit upon the floor, that it
seems almost as great a task to keep the
house clean, as it was for Hercules to cleanse
the Augcan Stables. And yet good school
can never be kept in any other than in neat
and well ordered school-room. Let the
teacher, and scholars, the committee, and
visitors, all look to this one matter, and in a
little time the whole aspect of the room will
change; and with this change will come a
change almost of the hearts Of the pupils
Cleanliness will make them alive to beauty,
and to duty too.-R. |. Schoolmaster.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

BLEssEDNEss IN Sorrow There are times
when some great sorrow has torn the mind
away form its familiar supports and laid level
those defcnces which in prosperity seemed SO
stable-when the most rooted convictions of
the reason seem rottenness, and the blossom
Of our heavenward imagination goes up be-
fore that blast as dust-when our works, and
Joys, and hopes, with all their multitude and
pomp, and glory, seem to go down together
into the pit, and the soul is left as a garden
that hath no water, and as a wandering bird
cast out of the nest--in that day of trouble
and Of treading down, and perplexity, the
noise of voices, the mirth Of the tabret, and
the joy of the harp, are silent in the grave
Blessed is the man who, when cast into thi
utter wrotchedness, far away from all crea
lures and from all comfort, can yet be wiling
amid all his tears and his anguish, there tt
remain as long as God shall please.-BritisJ
Quarterly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

A BOYS CRITICISM have rarely seen
a finer comprehension Of both truth and peo-
try, than that which is given in the following
anecdote. 1t reminds one Of the inspired
saying, " Out of the mouths of babes and
sucklings," etc. Let men say what they will
we can have no grandeur without the idea of
God. A boy, eleven years of age, heard his
mother read Lord Byron's address to the sea,
beginning,
"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll !"
and listened in breathless attention, while she
read. the moment it was finished, he ex-
claimed, 'It is very grand, indeed but how
much finer it would have been, if he had
said, at the close, that God could measure all
those waters with the hollow of his hand I"
Tho unsophisticated boy missed the recogni-
ton of God. He felt that there was atheism
latent in the poetry. God was ignored and
majestic as is the address, it is intrinsically
low in the estimate of one who knows that
truest dignity is ever found in connection with
the infinite AM. Mans littleness is az.
grandized, when linked to the King eternal
immortal and invisible.-Chr,Stian Intefli
gencer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
Our Social Circle,
Mr.. Anvil
Written for the Green Mountain. Freeman.


Mr.. EDITOR Did I ever tell you about
Mr. Anvil2 A dreadful hard name,-but
the worst was, he belonged to the wrong
Church.
What's pity How impolitic ? Strange
that he should be so short.sighted as to join
the wrong Church. Now, everybody ought
to belong to our Church, and attend our meet
ing constantly. They ought to have our Doc
tor when they are sick. We do not hold to
patronizing those irregular affairs, who set
up doctoring before they can tell bone from
cartilage, or a muscle from a nerve -
Quacks, who cure without medicine, and some-
times in spite of it!
Everybody, too, ought to take our news.
paper, and our almanac A strange pass
this world is coming to, when people remove
the old landmarks, and 60 to reasoning
about what their Bible and their minister
says. If the minister says It's SO, pretty
likely tis, he's learned men, and he ouqht
to know,-and | don't think it looks very
well, to say the least, for common people, es-
pecially those who are not very well off in
the world, to do their own thinking; they
have enough else to attend to,-'ts as much
as they can do in these hard times to get
bread for their children, without spending their
time Investigating, as they call it, every new
tangled notion and humbug which comes along
But was saying, he, Mr.. Anvil, belonged
to the wrong Church, and SO he did. Twas
thousand pities; but then he was such 9
set sort OF man, he wouldn't change his opin
ion till he was convinced he was wrong, i
the whole town was against him.
Now you see, Mr.. Editor, this made i
dreadful bad for him. He was once engaged
in q school as teacher, and it was acknowl
edged on all hands, that he "kept" capita
school, "a little odd though because he woul,
not punish the little ones for what the hi
ones did; well, after a while, some Of III
"big boys" who belonged to the riqht Churc,
began to "pick flaws" and try to get out re
ports oil one sort and another, though neve
thought one Of them had the least foundation
50 they kept whispering and surmisnc, an
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

CHURCH BELLs.-There is something beau
tiful in the church bell. Beautiful and
hopeful. They talk to high and low, rich
and poor, in the same voice there is sound
in them that should scare pride and envy,
and meanness of all sort from the heart Of
man; that should make him look on the world
with kind, forgiving eyes; that should make
the earth seem to him, at least for time, a
holy place. Yes, there is whole sermon in
the very sound Of the church bells, if we
only have the ears to understand it. There
is preacher in every belfry, that cries,
"Poor, weary, struggling, fighting creatures
poor human things, take rest, be quiet
Forget your vanities, your follies, your week
day craft"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
Things that I Hate and Love.
WHAT I HATE,

WHAT I HATE.
|. hate to see children sour and cross,
and ever manifesting a peevish and freful
disposition towards their playmates.
2. hate to see children slack and neg
lectful about their persons, looking as though
they were more fit to run with the pigs, than
to be inmates Of the house.
8. [ hate to see children unrefned and
coarse at the table; pitching into this and
that favorite dish themselves, instead of re-
spectfully asking their parents OF some proper
one to help them.
4. l hate to see children while passing
along the street cutting all manner Of strange
antics, and acting more like untaught Hot
tentots and rude wild creatures than children
of christian land.
5. do exceedingly hate, yea, it puts me
in dreadful misery to see children breaking
the 5th commandment, and daily aud habit
ually rcbeling against the righteous laws o.
their fathers and mothers.
WHAT LOVE.
l. love to see children anable and kind
and continually exercising a sweet heavenly
temper, especially while they are in the soci
ETY. of each other.
2. love to see children neat and tidy il
their dress and persons; and then. though
their clothes may be old and coarse, they
seem really inviting and attractive to the be
holder. Clean children always look good.
5. love to see children polite and refined
when they come to the table; eating what il
given them with thankfulness in u decorou
manner, and not tease and pout and make {
great ado because they can't have their fill o
some desert, or food that should be cate,
sparingly.
4. | love to see children while passin,
along the road respectful and courteous t.
each other, and always civil to the passers-by
Such children are so scarce that when hap
pen to meet any, want to stop and lool
right at them. To me, such a group is ia
more interesting than circus or menageri
of wild animals.
5. l love, yea it puts great gladness i
my heart, to sec children piously endeayorin
to obey that command which the great Go
especially designed for them, and walking i
all the preccpts and wishes of their parent
blameless. Such seem to carry little heave
with them wherever they go, and we kno,
they will get q great reward in the world
come.
The Saviour loves good children: he mark
down all their good actions, he remember
them all, and by and by they will hear hi
sweet voice saying: "Come ye blessed of m
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for 20
from the foundation of the world. Inasmuc
as ye have been faithful in few things,
will make you ruler over many; ENTER THO
INTO THE JOY OF THY LORD. u. W. A.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

telling white lies, fashionable you know, till
they cot Mr.. Anvil removed from school
This was done without an hours notice, aud
just as long hard winter was setting in, d
Mr.. Anvil was left without employment Tor
nearly year, with Il large family dependent
on his labors for their support. 1 have been
told they had pretty hard time ont, and
should not wonder if once in while his
children went to bed when a little more sup,
per would have tasted good. But as | SAID l!
at the the beginning, strange that people Will
be SO imprudent as to belong TO the wrong
Church. HELEN MAR.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
Hymn to the People.

Not to be blest with warrior strength,
To WELD the sword and wear the gaive,
Or rise to conqueror's fame at length,
Proclaims the good or makes the brave.
To have the power to bde the scorn.
And rise above the hate and strife
OF those to wealth and title born,
Is the crown'd courage of our life.
What are the swords that prop king
The banners in his army's van
To strength of seul, that dares to spring
And show the monarch in the man?
Kings and the mightiest men of arms,
Stroug as the heads of realms they bide.
Sport as they may with fortunes charms,
They are like leaves upon the tide.
In dim of old sepuchres they lie,
The feast Of silence and decay,
While the true world heart beateth high
And thrones itself upon to-day.
Give me the man whose hands have tossed
The corn. seed to the mellow soil,
Whose feet the forest depths have crossed,
Whose brow is nobly crowned with toll.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

CoNrENTIoN.-An old divine, cautioning
the clergy against engaging in controversy,
uses the following happy SMILES If we
will be contending, let us contend like the
olive snd the vine, who shall produce the
best and the most fruit; not like the aspen
and the elm, which shall make most noise in
the Wind
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
Farm for Sale i'm Orleans 60.

CONSISTING of 225 acres, or less, of land in ras
" burgh easy Of access, about two miles from the
Count House. About l50 cleared say twothirds
of which, lying in one body is meadow-rich and hand
prairie. The pasture and sugar-lot cant o the
southeast the former afording abundantly very sweet
erbage The farm is we'll and thoroughly fenced amply
supplied with pure soft by brook and lead aqueduc
westocked with timber for fuel hewing and saving and
affords bounul supply Of rich muck. The buildings,
which mediocre pleasantly located, and the farm,
with very small expenditure, be made the most vau-
able and productive dairy farm in the best agricultural
County in Vermont. The not being farmer wshs
to SELL and will also sell stock, crops, implements,
and give possession at any desired time For terms in
qure of the subscriber at rasburgh the premises.
j. II. PRENTISS.
Nov Goth 1888 l53tf
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
Kelsey F5scas's Estate.

STATE OF VERMONT In Probate Court, holden AT
LAMvILtE DisTR,cr,s S. Johnson, within aud for
said District, the 5lhday of February A. d. 1859,
II N. FITCH, E&ecuor On The ESTATE OF
l. BErsEY FITCH, late of Hydepaik in said Dis
tric deceased presents his administration account for
Whereupon it is ordered that the he
referred the 5tb day of March, next, at the Probate
Office in said Johnson for examination and allowance,
aud that al concerned BIZ bottled hereof by qualification
of this order the Green Mountain Freeman printed at
Montpelier, imee weeks successfully may be,
thathey may appear, md said time and place they
cause, object thereto
by Order Of Court,
Attest, JOHN l. GLEED, Register.
true copy of record,
16l AtipEf John l. GIEED ReUistpr.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

REASON AND REvELATIoN.--He that takes
away reason to make way for revelation, puts
out the light Of both, aud is as if he would
persuade man to put out his eyes the better
to receive the remote light of an invisible
star by telescope
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
FAR EIsAsg SALE

THE subscriber offers for sale the Farm which he
L now lives Said Farm is situated mile south of
Barton Village Orleans County,conains 100 acres, Is
acres of Meadow. The Buildings most new, and
of the Best Locations in Northern Vermont.
Also Farm situated mile West of Barton Village,
containing 10 of Good Land-well dviced into
Moving and Pasture land. Buildings good. Each of
said Farms has good Sugar and small Apple orchard
Any person wishing to buy will do we'll to call and
for themselves. MARK NUTTER
Barton, Feb. 10, 1859. 164tf
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
FARMS EAR SALE.

THE subscriber will sell reasonable terms two FARMS
L situated in the town Of Stowe. One is located the
Stage Road from Stowe to Waterbury, and contains 40
acreswell proportional to wood and improved land
pasture and meadow, and has sugar orchard of 1000
trees. The buildings good and 40 Of the land
is intervale meadow. The Other farm, continuing l40
acres, is located what is called Little River" about
three miles from the Centre Village The buildings
new and excellent. Timber and improved land pasture
and meadow in good proportion sugar place and orchard
Both of said farms have running water at the buildings
For further particulars inquire Of the subscriber.
DANIEL LAND0N.
Stowe, Jan. 18th, 1853. 161tf
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
Attest, T. R. MERRIIL, Register
A true copy of Record,
ATTEST Il. R. MERRILL, REGISTER.
Eeorge 81. astlgerly,s Estate.

STATE OF VERMONT, In Probate Count holden Al
AsHINGroN Dis,nIcr IS. Montpelier within and Tor
said Dsrrt, on the l9h day of February. A. D. 1885,
n GORGE W. BAILEY, Administrator the E,tate If
" George u. Edgey, bite Of siddesey in said District
deceased, presents his administration or settle
Whbeupail, s0rde ed that The he referred to
in said Montpelier, td' examination and allowance and
that all concerned be notified hereof BY the publ caon
of this order in the Green Mountain Freeman printed al
Montpelier, three weeks snccessively may
that they ny appear, and said time and place il they
see cause, object thereto.
BY order OF Court,
II NERRIII Reni
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

DR.. Adams says, that one reason why the
world is not reformed is because every man is
bent on reforming others, and never thinks Of
his own ways as in need of mcnding
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
THE LIVER
I n " AG d " A IL d IL {!
PREPARED BY DR.. SANFORD.

COMPOUNDED ENTIRELY FROM GUMS
of the best purgave and liver medicines b.
fore the public, that acts Cathartic easier mlder
aud ciectua than any other medicine known. 1t is
not only Cahartic, but Liver remedy, acting first
the Liver to eject its morbid matter then the stomach
and bowels to carry of that natter thus accomplishing
two purposes eecualy without any of the painful feel
ings experienced in the operations of most Cahartics
1t strengthens the system at the time that 1t purges
and when taken daily in mode doses, will strength
en- and build it up with unusual rapidity.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03

STATE or VERMONT, pRoBATE COURTS within
AsHiSGIoN DISTRICT, and for the District aiore
said sd be holden at the Probate Office in Montpelier in
said District, Tuesday Of each week. during the year
ensuing. GEORG W uAlLEY Judge.
December l I85g
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
Probate Courts for Randolph
Nks.,f..snf

DROBATE COURTS within and for the District Of Ran
doph for the year ensuing will be holden as follows;
AZ the Registers Office, in Brookheld, the first Thus
day in each month at the Hotel in West Randolph, on
the second Thursday in each month at the Hotel in
Washington the third Thursday in each month"; at the
Orange County HOTEL in Chelsea, the fourth Thursday
in each month"; By order Of Court
j. X. CLEAyELAND, Register.
lgpa bar
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
Nathan Adams Estate.

TIRE Subscribers having been appointed blythe Honorable
J. Probate Court for the District Of Washington, Com
mssi0ners to receive examine and ADJUST all claims and
demands of all persons agiiust The Estate of NATHAN
ADAMS, late If Worcester IN said District, deceased
represented nsoyeu aud the term Of six months from the
18th day Of January, 1859 being allowed by said Court
the creditors of said deceased to eShht prove their
respective claims beure nsgve notice that will attend
to the duties f appoint ment ut the dwelling house Of
Thomas Hutchinson in Worcester, in said District
The fourth Tuesday If April and July next at O'Clock
in the afternoon, each Of said days.
HENRY K. BROWN, r,
HORACE HOVEY, w" 49,
Worcester February 8b. A. d. 1850 l64w3
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-03
ESmnsaafe a,nMrfS.

IANoHLE DsrRior 49, the District of Lamoille, for the
year ensuing, will be holden at the Probate Office in John
son, IN said District the FIRST Monday Of each month
BY order of the Court
December l. LIS. JOHN 1. GLEED, Register.
STATE OF vERMoNF,7l In Probate Court held at
ARLINGTON DISTRICT IS. Montpelier, in and for said
District, the 18th day of February, A. ID. 1859
llALVIN CLARK, Administrator Of the Estate OF Aaron
" Goss late Of Moretown, in said District, deceased,
makes application said Court, for license to sell the
following described real estate of said deceased to wit
the Hurley Farm" so called situated in said Moretown
and now occupied by John Somerye, and the Thomas
Farm so called, situated in Fayston and occupied
by Daniel Thomas representing that the sale of part of
the real estate Of said deceased necessary for the pay
nent Of the debts of said deceased and expenses of ad
Of said estate and that part of the aforesaid
described real estate be sold without injury to
those interested in the remainder thereof
Whoreupon it is ordered by said Court that said appi
cation be referred to the 18th day Of March, A. D. 1859,
at the Probate Office in Montpelier, for hearing ami de-
cson thereon anI it is further ordered that all
interested be notified hereof by publication of notice of
this application and order thereon, three weeks
lively In the G. NJ freeman, printed at Montpelier be-
fore said time of hearing that they may appear at said
time md place, and, II they cause, object thereto
- BY the Court,
Attest, T. R. MERRILL, Register
A true copy Of Record,