Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-06-06
A Wife's Devotion.

We copy from 8" Hours at Home - the fol-
lowing interesting narrative, by an Engli: b
missionary to the canlbals OF New leland:
aftOi M.,I2r o-aaL I.La o-ook IN
the banks OF which We hai eocamped) WI b !
10 small difficulty on account OF It's muddy |
bottom and great width, beng nearly mile
across, We arrived toward nlghtiail of the next
day at ano. her creek called Little Muddy |
creek. Here iouLd living in log hul a
white man, Old and giey headed, WI his
wife, 3 native and OLD ike himself, but y,
how frightfuily hldeous and ugly All her
flesh seemed To have dried up, and her nrIn
kled skin hung II loose folds about her per- |
son her race was al di.hgure1 with lines
oi tittooIng, aud aer eyes all b.oodshot and
beared with he long etf5c,s OF the wold-hres
she cooked over She gave Us, however, an
excellent supper Oh fresh-caught teh, and 20
tAtoes, with good dampers and hot tea.
cou d not however, take my eyes off her all
the time We were in the hut after supper,
Leonard and | went out 10 smoke our pipes.
- Leonard, exclaimed, g did you ever
see "a more hdeOus creature than that wom Al
is ?" " Preserve me from native women If she
is a specimen Of NJ torl beauty
"An, sir - SAID thin qulvering voice
reco gnIZsi as her hush and'5, ''she lnay be ug
iy Ia your eyes, blJ she Is nos IN mine. Ii IS
now weli-nssh thirty years since ran away
from whaie-ship, and took 10 living here
among the slvaSes, for | warrant y0u they
were wage en- n,ugh then. | helped 70 buIld
tor the chief oi the tribe came among boat,
and he gave me the woman d reward for
my services She was good enough looking
then ans: she helped me build house, and
planted my potatoes, and caught my hsh,
cooked nv food and was faithful and true
wife to me. Some years afterwards | tell
! i'll. The native tohungas, or doctors, tried
their hands 1T curing me, and Ii was not
| toy want of nursing on h-r part that did
not get we'll h"wsoever | got weIse instead
of better, and Haru, my wife, b. gan II tang
| Qret) for me. O0e daF she teard from some
uf her friends who had just returned from
| Auckland (the chief Engii7 settlement) thai
there was i Iakaha e. white many there who
| could cure me and the next day she start
et To see him in her canoe but she had we'll
nigh tweDtY miles t. walk as We'll before
she got there. The third DAY she came back,
ner SIS CT having nursed me meanwhile. and
| brought me some medicine 1t did me some
good, but could not cure me. She told me
| rhe doctor wanted to see me, but could not
or would not come out to me. Alter week :
| trial of the stuff he had sent me, and my
| being 10 grea5 deal better, she determined 10
| take me 20 HIM, aud she put me ia her
canoe, sud then carried me the twenty miles
on her bsck-ay, | tell ye. every foot OF the
way ; AMI L there weli-nigh two months
! IN little hut she built me herself outside
! the town and every week she went back
ward and forward between here and there
| laden with the week s provisions. At length
| got well aud came back with her home :;
and ever since then she has been, ay, and Is
now, beautiful IN my eyes; letting alone
she has twice saved my lite from the mig
gers of the \ LatIwals, and once from drown
ing. " | would like 10 know, said he,
= what white woman would have done the
like aud | tell We | believe God Almighty
will give her Il place IN heaven, ugly and dark
though she be- aud halt heathen as you
would call her.
1 t)und afterwards that the mans tale was
true, and must confess this narrative Of his
sottened very much her bodily in6rmities and
appearance IN my eyes
| SPIRITUALIsN.-ThIsl ism has been somewhat
exposed at Rutland recently. MIR. Won Week
giving exhibitions, aud doing WI hout spiritual
aid what some Spiritualists pretend to do With
the help OF invisible agents. Tne Herald
says:
Las, evening the Town hail was again
| crowded, many gong tor the first time In the
hope of hea' ing V"e mysteries ot Splritualism
revealed and explained. But the programme
was entirely changed. Mr. olocum OF this
| oown-a beiiever III Spiritu ilism-had pledged
himself TO pay 10 benevolent objects one hun
dred doll ,rs II Mr.. Von Week could or would
60 what the Eddy family OF Spirltuaists could
| OF would do MIR. Slocum posted oil 20 Chit
! tenden, ana ny much persuasion induced the
t.dd Us to come to RaJland. They came, and
a large box or cabinet was CONSTRUCTED IN
which the spirits wers 10 perform their won
ders through the E1dys.
the audience waited patiently nll nearly or
quite ten o'ciock before toe box and things
were ready. Meanwhile a committee, con-
sistIng of General Ripley, Dr. Adams and
Chester kIngsly. was chosen TO Sc fair play,
and NJ. G Everts was chosen chairman OF the
- meeting The committee tied the hands
and feet OF Mr.. Eddy and a female member OF
the family, VINO entered the box, Mr.. q. \
Tuttle and wife entering it with them. But
after waiting awhile the audience was inform
ed that the spirits were not willing To perform
when outsiders were present. SO Mr. and nj s
Tustle came out and The TWO Eidys were left
alone. But even then the spirits worked
slowly and badly. The music they were tc
perform was exceedingly bad, there being
hardly enough noise made t. be heard. AnC
the cords with which Mr.. Eidy boun
the spirits refused to unloose, but they weIt
broken by the violent eff rts of the medium a
the bood-red marks about his wrists indicat
| cd Wnlle the cOruS Win Wnlcn the leLnale
medium was bound the committee had to cut
| or did cut.
Mr.. Slocum now came forward and confessed
that ne " caved that the Eidys had don'
no thing-had failed.
Then Won Weeks turn came-but Eddy
claimed the right to bind him in mis- Owl
manner, and tight as he pleased-but tn
audience insisted that the same conmitte
, that bound Eddy should bind Won Week, ant
in the same manner. Won Week was accord
ingiy bouni and entered the box. A Nh
Buck was also bound, and the two entered In
; ; box. The music tar exceeded that produced
= by the Eddys, and Won Week succeeded il
getting the cords off, without breaking them
! or producing any marks of violence, whii
: Buck remained tightly bound /; to convinc
. the audience that he could not have asslsle'
Won Week.
The audience appeared entirely satisfies
J With the success of the lecturer, aud the com
: plete failure of the Eddys. Slocom was con
{ fused, and evidently suffered under the defeat
Mr.. Milo Lyman-a believer In Spiritualisu
Came forward at the close, and told the au
dience that everything was done fairly, an
that the Eddy family was failure.
Mr.. Won Week lectures again this evening
= and will not be again interrupted or tri6e
, : with, we hope.