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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-10-08
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13
Mans susoentibiltv Of Mental Culture,

| Such is the constitution Of man that he IS
capable of becoming fitted for states of life
for which he was once wholly unqualified
The human mind is susceptible Of great chan
ges, from the circumstances in which it is
placed. and from the attention and culture
which it receives. On this susceptibility, the
whole system of education is founded. A
persons estimate of the value OF education
will be very much in proportion to the strength
and vividness of his belief in the capacity OF
the mind for cultivation On this same be-
lief will depend bis hope for the intellectual
Improvement of individuals as well as for the
elevation of nations in the scale of civiiza"
ton and social Improvement. Were the
mind incapable of acquiring knowledge OF
securing discipline, of experiencing devel-
opment, the occupation of the teacher would
be gone, and his Office have 10 existence.
Were nations also incapable of improvement
in The arts OF life and destitute OF the power
mental and social elevation under the appli-
ance of the means of culture, the philanthro-
pist would cherish no hope of the advance.
ment of society, and the Christian no expec-
tation of moral redemption of the barbarous
tribes of the earth under the influence of
Christianity The fact that mankind are
susceptible Of improvement by culture is a
fact full of signiicancy in its bearings on the
cause of education and the hopes Of our race.
The plant and the animal are not required to
become different thing from what they al
ready are at the moment of their mature
growth. The purpose of their existence is
realized in its full extent by the fact alone Of
their material nature and physical organiza-
ton. Bnt wi h man, it is quite otherwise,
He is destined for Improvement. This is the
law of his being. Instinct is less in man
than in animal, because man is constituted
with this susceptibility for development-the
power of acquisition capability for adj
vancemcnt and elevation. The physical man,
however admirable may be his organization,
is not the true man. Man as barbarian, Or
as corporal giant, is not all he is capable
of being. He has higher nature and a
higher mission. He has susceptibility for
improvement-for intellectual, social, and
moral culture. The barbarian may be made
a civilized man. Under the influence Of ed
ucation in its largest sense he may be eleva-
ted to high position OF honor, enterprise,
and happiness Here is the warrant and the
security for systems Of education.-R. l.
SchoomaSter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13
JOINING THE CHuRcH.-People sometimes

JOINING THE CHURoH.-People sometimes
saw. II do not consider it essential to M
Christian life that should join the church.
can live Just as well by myself What il
company of cmigrants, divided into bands
for the convenience of travelling, were going
over the plains to California, and one man
among them should say, 81 prefer to take my
own route" and so he should go scouting oil
three hundred miles north of the party, max
ing his way alone through swamps and for.
ests, over streams and across mountains and
prairies, with no one to defend him, If he
were attracted, or to nurse him if he fell
sick, OF to speak cheering word upon the
road? We are pilgrims, travelling in bands
and companies to heaven, and the Christian
WHO refuses to join us, and goes on his way
alone, losses all those joys which make the
day short-al the sweetness Of campfire
conversations-all the strength and support
in trouble which has brethren would give
I have often compared Christian trying to
li7e alone, to fruit-tree growing on high
way. Every man and boy who passes thinks
he has a right to pluck the fruit thereon.
Every OK and COW reaches up to browse
upon the lower branches When the road
widens from the deep ruts in the spring, the
carriage wheels cut off half the roots. The
cattle rub themselves against the trunk. The
hubs of cart-whces Craze it. 1t is bruised
and SCARED and barkod; and though when it
does have,cherries, they are real Back-hearts,
large and sweet yet it has to spend most Of
its time in taking care of itself-in keeping
alive, and so has little leisure left for fruit
bearing. So when a Christian stands alone
outside of Gods gardens, the church, he has
to spend the most of his time in preserving
his Christianity-in keeping himself out oil
harms way, and can never have opportunity
to bring forth those abundant fruits by which
the Father is glorifed H. W. Beecher.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13

UNwRITTEN SoNGs-Anywhere by some
friugei stream in New York woods, or under
the shadow of a New England mountain, or
even here away in the leafy edges Of Indiana
or Michigan. But he must needs to get up
before breakfast; it is the mathis he must
have performed in that hour of gold silver
and pearl between the dawn and the sunrise.
The blue-bird and the robin, the bobolink
and the thrush the mocking-bird, the martin
and the sparrow, all these, and sever so
many MORE" fill the morning and the heart
with melody. But with the first flash of sun,
the ecstacy subsidies, aud the grand anthem
is ended.
Very few, we imagine, have ever heard
this gush Of song. Duty may rouse them,
or pain forbid sleep, but they were not
charmed awake. There is startling beauty
in that concert the listener can not be done
wondering at the volume of sweet sound there
is in single grove; the variety Of the tones,
and the marvellous harnonyof the whole.
Beginning gradually with MARBLE in the
grass or note in the trees, it rapidly null
tiplies and dcepens and extends, until every
leafy bough coneeals singer, while the east
is slowly Frightening, With the first deep
crimson and golden glow, the enthusiasm cul.
inmates, and the swelling wave of song sub
Sides And when the lazy World and his
wife yawl their way to breakfast, they pause
at the window, and while the robin holds on
its sweet old story, and the sparrow chirps Q
solo, they say chow charmingly the birds
do sing! +" not dreaming, luxurious souls, that
the concert was all over before thoir las
dream began.-B F. Taylor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13
ScrOfula, or Kings Evil,


g a constitutional disease, faint, or corrup-
ton OF the blood, by which this fluid be-
comes vltlated, weak, and poor. Being in
iho circulation, 1t pervadcs the whole body,
and may burst out IN disease on any part Of it.
NO organ IS free from ITS attacks, nor is there
o:.2 winch It may not destroy. The scrotulous
t@"t IS yarIously caused by mercurlal disease,
!3w lWng or dlsordered or unhealthy food,
impure ar nth and hlthy habits, the de-
lres'lnns wees, and above all by the venereal
Infection Whatever be ITS origin, 1t Is hercdl-
ta'y n the constitution descending IRON par
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13

Our RELATION TO GoD.-Do you suppose
man to know himself that ne comes into
this world on no other errand but to rise out
of the vanities of time into the riches Of
eternity; do you suppose him to govern his
inward thoughts and outward actions by this
view of himself, and then to him every day
has lost all its evil, prosperity and adversely
have no difference, because he receives and
uses them both in the same spirit; life and
death arc equally welcome, because equally
parts of his way to eternity. For poor and
miserable as this is, we have all of us free
access to all that is great and good and hap
py; and carry within ourselves key to all
US. We starve in the midst of plenty groan
under infrmtives with the remedy in our
own hand live and die without knowing and
feeling anything Of the One, only good,
whilst We have in our power to know and en-
joy ii in as great reality, as we know and
feel the power of this world over us; Tor
heaven is as near to our souls as this world is
to our bodief; and we are created, we are re-
deemed, to have our conversation in it. God,
the only good of all intelligent natures, is
not an absent or distant God but is more
present in and to our souls than to our own
bodies; and we are strangers to heaven, and
without God in the world, for this only rea-
son, because we are void Of that spirit Of
prayer which alone can, and never fails to
unite us with the One, only good and to open
heaven and the kingdom of God within us.
A root set in the finest soil, in the best
claimate, and blessed with all hat sun, air
and rain can do for it, is not in so sure a
way OF its growth to perfection, as every man
may be whose spirit aspires after all that
which God is ready and infinitely DESTROYS to
give him. For the sun meets not the spring
ing bud that stretches toward him with half
that sympathey as God, the source of all
good, communicates himself to the soul that
longs to partake Of him. We are all Of
us by birth the offspring Of God, more nearly
related to him than we are to ono another ;
for in him we live, and move aud have our
being. William Laac
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13

Nothing is lost; the drop Of dew,
Which trembles in the leaf and flower,
Is but exalted to fall anew,
In summers thunder-shower,-
Perchance to fall within the bow
That fronts the sun at fall of day
Perchance to sparkle in the flow
OF fountains far away.
Nothing is lost; the tiniest seed,
BY wild birds born or breezes blown,
Finds something suited to its need
Wherein tits sown and grown.
The language of some household song,
The perfume of some cherished flower,
Though gone from outward sense, belong
To memory's after hour.
So with our words or harsh or kind,
Uttered they're not forgot
They have the influence on the mind,
Pass on but perish not.
So with our deeds, for good or ill,
They have power scarce understood;
Then let us use our better will
To make them rife with good.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13

STATE OF VERMONT, In Probate Court, holden at
LAMorLLE DISTRICT, IS. johnson, on the 18th day
of December, A. D. 1858.
John H. PAGE, Executor of the last Will and Tesla
ment of Valorous Meeker late of Waeryille in said
District deceased, make application to said Court for Ii
sell the whole Of the real of said deceased
except the widows dover, but including the reverson
of the widows dover, situated in the Town of Underh
County of Chitenden, representing that said sale is
essaryor the payment Of the debts of said deceased and
expenses of administration of said estate.
Whereupon it ordered by said Court that said app-
cation be referred to the 18th day of January A. D. 1885,
at the Probate Office in Johnson for hearing and de-
cison thereon and it is further ordered that all persons
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 and place, and If they cause, object thereto
By the Court,
Attest, JOHN l. GLEED, Register
true copy of record,
LII Attest- Holm l. GIEED. Reaster.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13
AYERS
loapOund Extract Of Sarsaparil|a,

.. most eifcctual remedy which the medical
-, Of chr times ca1 devise for this every
'iara prevailing ard fatal malady. 1t is com
.ti'ied 'fom the most active remcdals that have
taar d. eoscrcd Tor the expurgation Of this foul
disorder from the blood, and the rescue of the
T+c5m from its destructive consequences.
Hence it should he employed for the cure Of
ret oAly scroiula, but also those other aiScc-
tons NAi.h arise from it, such as EsurTIvR
and SsIN DISEASES, Sr. ANTHoNy's FIRE,
Rose. or ERYslrELAs. PMPLus, PUsTULrs,
j}LntcMa, Bt>fNs and BorLs, IuMoRs, TErrER
AID Sur RHrtv, SrID HrAr, RTXGwoRM,
AuruMATfsN, iYpuuIrIc and MrGcuEIAL DIS
EASis. pRop.Y, DYSPEPSIA, DgBuIrY, and,
indeed ALL CuYpLAlHTs ARISING FROM NnlA-
TED or INPUnE BLOOD. The popular lclief
in " impjoity Of the 5iood is founded in truth,
for scrotula is degeneration Of the blocd. lie
particular purpose and virtue Of this Sarsapa-
lilla is to purify and lesenerutc this vital sod,
without which sound health is impossible in
contaminated constitutions.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13


=, STATE OF VERMONT, I In Probate Court held at
DISTRICT, S. Montpelier in and for said
District on the 18th day of December, A. d. 1855
HEoRGE W. TURNER, Gardian of Henry and Annette
~ Miner makes application to said Court for license to
sen he following described real estate of his said wards,
70 VII Their interest in the real estate of which Mrs.
Adeia shoneo late of Duxbury died sezed said estate
peng one third part of the home farm of which Aanson
Miner late of Duxbury died eized also the interest of
henry miner in the said home farm of the said Aanson
Miner deceased, heng two thirds thereof deeree to said
henry as deysee Of said deceased and also the interest
OF the said nnett Miner in the of the aforesaid
Aanson Miner deceased said intees being of the real s.
tate decreed to her deYee of said deceased represent
ing that the sale of the said real would be conclusive
to the interest of his said wards for the purpose putting
the proceeds of said sale at Interest," investing them in
stock or real estate.
Nhereupon it is ordered by said Court that the ssd ap
pcaton be referred session thereof be held at the
Probate Office in Montpelier, on the 18th day of January
A. D., 1919 for hearing and decision thereon:
And it Is further ordered That nAtce Of said application
and order thereon be given all interested by the pub
cation thereat three weeks succesiveyn the Green Noun
tain Freeman, printed at Montpelier previous to said
time of hearing, that they may appear at said time and
place, and il they cause object to such license.
By the Conrt,
l5S Attest u. r. MERRILL Regi.ter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13
TEE CORNER STORE,
q gsSaEAE

(ALR-ViA you come 70 my mountain home, ioueD
win you come to the Corner Store, friends,
viii you to the Corner Store
There are beauties rich and rare, friends
Gathered in al the Corner Store,
With happy hearts and merry smiles
We will all at your bidding be,
And with cheerful words your stay beguile
With hearty social gee
We've robes as fair
As the Graces wear
To display to your wondering eyes,
And fabrics light
As the dews of night
To enrapture with glad surprise,
Hank bark to the loud and Joyous shout
q We have been to the Corner Store'
And list! It's q voice ringing merrily out
Away to the Corner store
Chorus-Yes to the Store! YES to the Store!
Yes to the away
Yes to the Store yes o'the Store!
Yes to the Store away!
Ho hilliho lilo hlliho!
llo! hillihoi hiho!"
(rle original set to music and arranged for the Piano
Forte, can be obtained at of popular Book sore)
We've Dress Silks in pattern and fabric so rare
That sunbeams might weary in vain
To outshine or eclipse in a midsummer air
lady's magnificent train.
Rich Dress Goods of Ihbets and soft wool Delaines
Mernoes and plain iyouese;
Raw silks and Wool Plaids that might rival the fame
Of The long talked Of Golden Fleece.
Delaines and French Goods, Robes A guile and
Scotch Bingham, American Print,
And English ones too, you will hnd never fear,
Of every pattern and tint
White goods in lbundahce Brilliants, Cambrcs ant
Lawns,
And Cottons Of every grade,
Curtain Goods, Table Covers and fine Counterpart
We can show to those wishing to trade
We've Bonnets and Ribbons and Flowers to match,
Fine Lac and Musns TOO,
And raretons the zephyrs might weary to catch
In a vain endeavor to
sleeves and Collars, Embroidered in sets alone,
In Cambria, Narcotics or in Muslin,
Insertngs EdgiBgs, hg1d-mafe or by loom,
Thread, Smyrna, Silk, Cotton or Linen
Scotch Mantilla Shawls, styles new and unique,
Cashmere, Waterloo and Bay state,
Fine Ladies' Cloth goods, Mantillas, Vistes,
Cloak rassels and Trimmings complete,
Broadcloths, Cassmeres and Doeskns for gents,
Vest patterns Of various kinds,
Grenadines, fine Satins, and hastings to suit
The most fastidious minds.
Fine Hosiery, Ladies' and Misses and Gents.
Fix, binen, and Cotton or Wool,
Nice Drawers and Undershirts, warm to prevent
The singing effects of the cold,
Gloves OF hne Paris Kid, yorsted, Cotton and Thread
Ladies' Gauntlets Of every style,
Shoes for Ladies and Misses, of every grade,
And kubbers to keep them from soil.
Fine Family Groceries, West India goods,
! Teas, Coffee, and Sugar, and Spices,
Come ana see Come and see We are sure you will fin
We can snit In our goods and our prices.
4 FIELD & WATSON,
/ Corner Store, Main and State sts., Montpelier, Vt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13
DoettcaL.
Written for ths Green Mountain Freeman.
Midnight Musings.

Why, my soul, this pensive muaing,
Till this late, this miinish: hour
What can hold my mind thus waking?
And why drops the silent tear!
Why this lonely vigil keeping,
When no sound breaks on my ear
save hear the clock that's counting
The last moments of the year.
All how llcetly time is flying,
Soon Old Year will pass away;
lie Is now his mission closing;
Soon hem leave, and leave for aye.
On his brow cold damps ne gathering,
Pallid are his narrowed cheeks;
All the hoary year is dying
Hist 'tis o'er--in death he sleeps.
Meath cypress tree they've laid him,
On his dust its branches wave;
Plaiutively the winds are signing,
Requiems Ger his lonely grave.
Who his mantle will be wearing?
Who will hll the vacant throne
Lo! New Year is now approaching,
On his head wen place the crown.
] will rise and bid him enter,
Greet him kindly with a smile,
And will wish Happy New Year,
Fraught with blessings unto all.
While we crown this lovely stranger,
Who'll our joys and sorrows share,
Our late friend who's sleeping yonder,
Claims the tribute OF a tear.
anuary l, 1850.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13
Er mn for sale i'm Orleans 20.

CONSISTING of 225 acres less, of land in Tras
" burgh easy OF access about two miles west from the
Court House. About $50 acres ceared say twothrds
OF which, lying in one boa Is meadowrich and hand
some prairie. The pasture and sugar-ot to the
heritage. The farm is well and thoroughly fenced amply
supplied with pure soft by brook and lead aqueduct
westocked with timber for fuel hewng and saving and
affords bountfu supply Of rich muck. The buildings
which mediocre pleasantly oca ted and the farm
with very small expenditure, be made the valu-
able and productive dairy farm in the best agricultural
County in Vermont. The not being farmer wishs
es to SELL and will also sell Stock crops, Implements &c.
and give possession at any desired time For in
quire of the subscriber at rasburgh the premises
j. II. PRENTISS.
Nov. Goth, 1858. 153tf
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13

A SHINING CHURCH.-A church may be
made up of men of wealth, men OF intellect,
men of power, hlgh-born men, and men Of
rank and fashion and being SO composed,
may be, in worldly sense, very strong
church. There are many things such a church
can do; it can launch ships and cndow sem
inaries; it can maintain an imposing array of
forms and activities; it can build splendid
temples, can rear magnificent pile, and
adorn its front with soul ptors can lay stone
( upon stone, and heap ornament upon orna-
ment, till the costlness Of the ministfation at
the altar shall keep any poor man from enter
ing the portal. But. my brethren, will tell
you one thing it can not dot can not
shine. 1t may glitter and blaze like an ice
berg in the SUM- of all that is formal and
material in Christianity, it may make a
spleneid manifestation, but it can not shine,
1t may turn almost everything into gold at
its touch, but it can't touch the heart. II
may lift up its marble front, and pile tower
upoc tower, mountain upon mountain; but il
can not touch the mountains, and they shall
smoke it can not conquer souls Tor Christ
it can not awaken the sympathies of faitf
snd love; it can not do Christ's work il
mans conversation 1t is dark in itself, anC
can not diffuse light. l is cold at heart, anC
has no overhowing and subduing influences t(
pour upon the lost And with all its strength
that church is weak, and for Christ's pecu
liar work, worthless.-Dr. DIN.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13

" Tho School-House," says Gov. Chase,
i is a better institution than the Court-Hou
or the State House, in the State House laws
are enacted in the Courthouse, laws are
applied; in the School-House legislators,
Judges and iurymen are made. Especially is
the School-Housc Indispensable where popular
government is made practical reality by
free suffrage and general eligibility to Office
1t is impossible to over-estimate the import
ance Of universal education, where every boy
is TO be voter, and any boy may be Pres
ident y
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13

PURITY OF CHARAcTER.-O the beauty
of the plum and the apricot, there grows a
bloom and beauty mole exquisite than the
fruit stself,-a soft, delicate blush that over.
spreads its blushing cheek Now if you
strike your hand over that, and it is once gone
it is gone forever, for it never grows but once.
The flower that hangs in the morning impearl-
ed with dew--arrayed as no queenly woman
ever was arrayed with jewels shake it,
so that the beads roll off, ind you may spriu-
kle water over it as you please, yet it can
never be made again what it was when the
dew fell silently upon it from heaven! On a
frosty morning, you may see the panes of
glass covered with andscapes-mountains
lakes, trees, blended in beautiful, fantastic
picture, Now lay your hand upon the glass,
and by the scratch of your finger, or by the
warmth of your palm, all the delicate trace
ry will be obiterated. So there is in youth
beauty and purity of character, which,
when once touched and de6led, can never be
restored fringe more delicate than frost
work, and which, when torn and broken, will
never be re-embroidered. A man who has
spotted and soiled his garments in youth
though he may seek to make them white
again, can never wholly do it, even were he
to wash them with tears. When a young
man leaves bis fathers house, with the bless
ing of his mothers tears still wet upon bis
forehead, if he once lose that early purity o
character, it is loss that he can never max,
whole again. Such is the consequence o
crime. Its effects cannot be eradcated i
can only be torgsoen -Henry Ward Beecher
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-13

SEbF-DEPENDBNoE.- an unwise pa
rent works hard, and lives sparingy all his
life, for the purpose of leaving enough to
give his children start in the world, as it
is called. Setting a young man ahoat with
the money left him by relatives, is like tying
bladder under the arms Of one who cannot
swim; ten chances to one he will lose his
bladder and 60 to the bottom. Teach him
to swim, and he will not need the bladder
Give your child sound education. See to
it that his morals are pure, his MUD cultivated
and his whole nature made subseryient to the
laws which govern man, and you have given
what will be Of more value than the wealth
of the Indies You have given him a start
which no misfortune can deprive him Of
The earlier you teach him to depend upon
his own resources and the blessing of God
the better.