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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

ANECDOTES OF RICHARD BRINsLEY SHER-
IDAN.-Sheridan was once staying at the
house of an elderly maiden lady in the
country, who wanted more of his company
than he was willing to give. Proposing
one day to take a stroll with him, he ex-
cused himself to her on account of the
weather. Shortly afterward she met him
sneaking out alone. So, Mr.. Sheridan,
said she. it has cleared up Just a
little. ma'am; enough for one, but not
enough for two.
As Sheridan was entering court one day,
carrying his books and briefs in green
bag, according to the custom Of the time,
some OF his brother barristers, thinking to
play Joke on him, urged some boys to
ask him if he had old clothes for sale in
his green bag.
Oh, no. instantly responded Sheridan !;
they are all new suits,
Those people who are in the habit of
telling prodigious stories ought to have
good memories; but, unfortunately, their
memories are usually short. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan dealt with these men
dacious pests in a manner peculiar TO him
self. He would never allow himself to be
outdone by verbal prodigy. Whenever
a monstrous story was told in his presence
he would endavor to outdo it by one of his
own coinage, and consign the narrator to
confusion by a talsehood more glaring than
his own. Once in his hearing sporting
adventure ran thus:
Twas fishing one day, in a certain cold
spring full Of delicious trout, and soon
caught large mess. But what was real
ly surprising, not a foot from the cold
spring there was one of boiling water; so
that when you wanted to cook your f~h,
all YOU had to do, after hooking them from
the cold spring, was to pop them directly
into the boiling"
The company all expressed astonshment
and incredulity at this monstrous assertion,
with the exception of Sheridan.
l know, said he, " of phenomenon
vet more surprising. I was fishing one
day, when | came to place where there
were three springs The first was a cold
one stocked with fish the second boiling
spring; and the third natural fountain
of melted butter and parsley"
Melted butter and parsley r'exclaimed
the first story teller. impossible" Bench
and bar, By L. J. Bigezolo.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02
The Religious NeWSpaper.

The time is coming when the religious
newspaper Will be among the most gigan-
tie instrumentalities in the hands of God
and the Church for the worlds evangeliza-
ton.
If rightly conducted, such would be its
moral status even now. The pulpit has
its own appropriate work and mission. The
family has its marked and definite sphere
of working. But the press is differ
ent from both. This is the sibJl,
whose oracular leaves, all luminous with
living truths and wonders, exert potent
influence upon millions of minds and
hearts. This is adapted to penetrate into
every avenue of thought and motive
the mighty power of God, of the nine
teenth century, for the pulling down of the
strongholds of Satan, symbolized by the
prophet as tho time when many shall run
to and fro, and knowledge shall be increas-
ed" Men now literally "read" as they
run" The newspaper is slipped in under
their door. when they are wrapped in their
blankets and their slumbers. 1t salutes
them as they 90 out into the street, as
they enter their counting-rooms, in the
swift vehicle and at the freside, on the
mountain top and in the consecrated vale.
Everywhere it obtrudes itself, a sort of
ubiquitary, whose presence none can evade.
whose power none can resist.
And, despite all We can say or do, in
the formation Of the principles and faith
of our children, the newspaper will and
does exert most powerful agency. From
it, they will derive their religious prin-
ciples, their views Of governmental policy.
their habits Of thought and action, and
By it all these, if not positively controlled.
will yet be largely nodded and biased.
And not only Is the newspaper desidera-
tltna-it is a moral necessity The world
could no more dispense with it now, than
it could dispense with light, or heat, or
air. 1t must and will be-to instruct,
indoctrinate. educate, and fashion, the
minds and hearts and lives of men. How
vast the responsibility, then, thrown upon
the religious newspaper, and how sad the
truth, that many claiming to be religious,
are yet among the most irreligious extant
serving no higher purpose than to de-
fame, abuse, detract, and sow the seeds of
strife and discord and alienation broadcast
over society and the Church, adequately
to meet these responsibilities, and con-
scientiously and faithfully to employ this
instrumentality, Is a work of no mean
magnitude.
God help Us rightly to appreciate, and
properly to discharge, the high trust i'm
posed upol s.-Latheraz OJSerrer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02
Great Men and Their Wives.

/ From the day of Socrates tJ Charles
Dickens there has been one long success
/ ion of unfortunate examples Poet and
painter. dr,.matist and novelist philoso-
pher and iinguj~t-the Molierc-. the Mil
tons, the Byrons. the Bu,wers the Dlrers.
the Scaih.rrs, the ShcriIans, the Thack-
erays-dil all marry and quarrel ia the
past. Al. these men, without exception,
will ia the future as IN the past, bame
their wives for their several successive
catast.ophies And yet what a record Of
heartlessucsS and Indifference our greatest
men have ictt Of their domestic life Dr.
Franklin. that old utiitayiau kite-hyer
went 70 Europe, leaving his wife behind
and never saw her face for eleven years
She had shared his poverty, practiced his
poor Richard maxims, pinchcd and ocono-
mized, patched aud darncd worked early
and late, bred children. nurscd them
through jaundce, red gum, whoopiug cough
measles. scarlet fever and fits, while Ben
jamin enjoyed the splendors of courts.
velvet coucheS, great dinners. and choice
society OF course, when be came back
the poor drudge was no match for the
philosopher there was "a great gulf be
tween them That her heart rebelied is
manifest in the headstrong acts Of his
children. lie quarreIed with one OF his
sons, and disinherted one OF them. Thus
the mothers wrongs were revenged. \
just retribution for any wrong on woman Is
sure to come in the vice and crime Of her
children to the third and fourth generation.
Henry Clay thought he could safely leave
his wife at Ashland to bear children and
make butter for the Lexington market,
while he made laws for the nation and
love to the lovely women in Washington.
There his heart stood open as any boarding
house door, but shut against her who was
playing SolomOn's wise woman on a farm
in Kentucky, cutting out linsey and jean
for the negroes. His dream of ambition
over, sick and sad, he went back to Ash
land to find that the domestic drudge, call
ed by the holy name Of wife, had reared
up for him race Of degenerate, wayward
children. lie was filed with the bitter
ness OF disappointment. But they meas
ured the depth of the mothers humilia-
tion the angles of incidence and retalia-
tion were but equal. Was it the sorrow
ful mother that made one son crazy with
hopeless love another a sour, discontcnted
man, overcome through life with a sense
of inferiority, and Jockeys and gamblers
of the rest -Rer0lutiOn.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

The slave trade has shifted quarters
Perhaps there is not at this writing a sin-
gle siaver afioat on the Atlantic on the
Pacific there are plenty of them. Polite
people call them coOlie ships, but we pre-
fer to call them their real name They
are slavers, nothing more nor less. Coolie
labor is slave labor. The contract term
of service covers the average lifetime of
the laborer. The contract wages barely
cover the cost Of food and clothing. The
instances in which coolies are returned to
their native country are very rare. The
vast majority of them are worked to death
by their owners, and slave holders of Peru,
Tahiti, the Chincha group and other South
Pacific islands The worst of this ugly
business is that American ships are mixed
up in it, though they have the grace gen.
orally to fly foreign colors. Isn't it about
time for civilized governments to declare
this new slave piracy, and stamp it ont as
they have stamped out the old one?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02
Walking with God.

The briefest human biography iu the
Bible is also the most resplendent. 1t is
that of Enoch. He walked with God.
That is all we know of his life. And be
was not, for God took him." That is all
we know of his translation. But that is
enough to give him a place in the apos-
ties record of the glorious company OF
prophets and martyrs whose lives witness
to the power of that faith which overcom.
eth the world.
To rest in God, to fee to God as a
refuge in hours of danger and distress, to
rejoice in God in TRANSPORTATION hours of
strange spiritual exaltation, this is not an
unusual Christian experience. But how
many of US walk with God ? To how
many of us is he a daily, hourly
companion, not in the closet only, but in
the street, the kitchen, the counting room,
the nursery?
o, weary and weak Christian, are you
sorely tempted Do you even lie beaten
and bruised within the precincts of
Doubling Castle ? Do you doubt whether
you ever were a Christian? Have you
called up again and again all your strength
for life's battle, only to find it weakness
Have you again and again, in the morning
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

put on good resolutions, as the tree puts
on its bud and leaf in the Spring, only to
see them fall dead before night, like
leaves before the frosts of Autumn Are
your best purposes like Jonah's gourd
that withered at the first hot sun?
Consider what it is to walk with God.
| 1t was the hour of wrestling in prayer
in Gethsemane that gave to the MAN Christ
Jesus the fortitude to bear in immovable
patience the shame of the trial and the
agony Of the cross 4 half hour of
communion with God at early dawn is
better protection. Though you walk in
the midst of the fiery furnace, if the Son
of God be with you, the fame shall not
singe your garment. IF you march through
the Red Sea, with angry waves upleaping
on either side, if Christ is the way where
on you walk. they shall not overwhelm
you. The fercest storm is dangerless if
Christ be in the boat, ready to bid wind
and wave be STILL Yea, though your pill
grimage draw toward its close, and gray
hairs, and dimmed eyes, and dull ears,
and all the signs of approaching age,
warn you that the grave is near, you shall
not fear the river of death itself, if the ark
of God is borne before you through the
swollen torrent
"No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper: and every tongue that
shall rise against thee IN judgment thou
shalt condemn. This is the heritage of
the servants of the Lord for their right
eousness is of me, saith the Lord 4" Even
the youths shall faint and be weary; and
the young men shall utterly fall. But
they that wait upon the Lord shall renew
their strength; they shall mount up with
wings as eagles they shall run, and not be
weary ; they shall walk and not faint"
Christian Weekly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

IHE HoNE OF QUININK-People addic-
ted TO the luxury OF fever and ague will
be pleased to hear that. according 10 an
article from the Bieu PatBZico of Bogota.
there is in the United States of Colombia
region little known, called San Martin
Among Its vegetable productions are to be
found the Peruvian bark trees, the essen
tial salt Of which, known as quinine, has
become even more indispensable TO the old
world than the new The wooden high
lands Of the territoay are situated in the
rich zone Of the DUMAS The trees which
produce this valuable bark abound on all
the eastern decliyities Of the Cordilleras,
from the headwaters of the Guariari to
those Of the Upir
This zone has ia the territory an ex-
tension of forty leagues long by FIVE or six
wide Atits southern or northern extrem-
tiles collections of Quina bark are made
in large quantities Toward the south
company called the Colombian Bark Com
pany and several individuals have been
extracting and exporting the bark for
some years past. The high prices it brings
ia the markets Of the United States and
Europe are proofs sufficient of its quality
The part of the Cordilleras comprehended
between the Ariari and Rio Negro has not
yet been touched, in San Martin and Vii
lavicencio it has the name of being richer
in quinas than any other part, besides
consisting entirely of unclaimed lands.
The balsam Of copaiba is collected by the
Indians of Vichada in large quantities,
and embarked on the Meta for Ciudad
Bolivar.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

valling sentiment Of his countrymen when
he said that the highest merit of woman
| is, not to be spoken of either for good or
for evil and Phidias illustrated the same
feeling when he represented the heavenly
AphrOdite standing on a tortoise, ,typifying
| thereby the secluded lie of virtuons wo-
man. In the writings of Xenephon we
have "a charming picture of husband who
had received into his arms his young wife
of fifteen, absolutely ignorant Of the world
and its ways. He speaks to her with ex-
treme kindness, but in the language that
would be used to a little child Her task
he tells her, is to be like a queen bee,
dwelling continually at home and superin-
tending the work Of her slaves She must
distribute to each their tasks, must econo-
mize the family income, and must take
especial care that the house is strictly or
derl ly-the shoes, the pots, and the
clothes, always in their places. 1t is
also, he tells her, a part OF her duty, to
tend her sick slaves but here his wife in
terrupted him, exelaiming, Nay, but
that will indeed be the most agreeable of
my offices, If such as | treat with kindness
are likely to be grateful and to love me
more than before" With very tender
and delicate care to avoid everything re-
sembing reproach, the husband persuades
his wife to give up the habits of wearing
high heeled boots, in order to appear tall,
and Of coloring her face with vermillon
and white lead. lie promises her that, if
she faithfully performs her duties, he VIII
himself be the first and most devoted Of
her slaves. lie assured Socrates that
when any domestic dispute arose, he could
eXtricate himself admirably if he was in
the right but that, whenever he was in
the wrong he found it impossible to con
vince his wife that il was otherwise
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

A SAFE MELON In tract of country
in the southwestern part of Africa, distin-
guished for its dry but rich sofia gigantic
perennial melon has been discovered, which
is a most delicious, wholesome fruit, and
which is largely consumed by the native
inhabitants as food. In order that this
melon may flourish, it Is necessary that it
should strike its roots through the sand
thirty feet to reach the permanent mois-
ture. That it does, and grows in great lux
uriance where all else is parched. If it
were huge melon with smooth skin, it
would be destroyed. To prevent this, ma
ture has armed its rind with long, sharp,
thorns, which so lacerates the mouth and
noses of animals that they are glad to let
it alone. Man, with his sharp knives, finds
little difficulty in opening the luscious
fruit. The natives have no necessity of
putting fences about their melon patches,
for the plants are self-protective.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

THE WIVES OF GREEcE.-They were US
ually married when very young. Their
occupations were to weave, to spin, to en-
broider, to superintend the household, to
care for their sick slaves. They lived in
special and retired part of the house
The more wealthy seldom went abroad
and never except when accompanied by a
female slave; never attended the public
spectacles; received no male visitors ex-
cept in the presence of their husbands,
and had not even u seat at their own ta-
bles, when male guests were there. Their
pre-eminent virtue was fidelity, and it is
probable that this was very strictly and
very generally observed. On the other
hand, living as they did, almost exclusive
ly among their female slaves, deprived of
all the educating influence of male society,
and having no place at those public spec
tacles, which were the chief means of
Athenian culture, their minds must neces-
sariIy have been exceedingly contracted.
Thucydides doubtless expressed the pre-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

THE PURITANs As BUSINESS MEN.- In
his lecture on the Pilgrim Fathers James
Parton says
They acted with strict justice to the
Indians, were assiduous in paying them
honor, and finally always presented bold
front whenever menaced. For the first
seven years these colonists were commun-
lists, but not in the French sense. This
system was remedied speedily, and each
member labored earnestly for self-preser-
vation. Famine was finally overcome after
they had been in the colony for three years.
The lecturer then described how the Puri-
tans thrlved By trapping the beaver, otter
and other animals, and sending them to
London, where they were in great demand.
After the fourth harvest they filed their
boat with corn, and sent it to the Kenne-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

bee river in Maine, TO trade with the In,
dians for beaver-skins, in which they were
entirely successful. This was the COM
mencement of the Pilgrims commercial
enterprise. They had then a thousand
pounds of beaver-skins, which for a Gen.
tury was the currency of the coast. They
then went to speculating and accumulated
a thousand pounds more of beaver-skins,
which they sent to London. In six years
they had a capital of El500 sterling and
were fourishing. They then struck out
for independence, and in order to pay the
mother country, an organization was form
ed, and this led to a ring first of
the American rings. The governor and
three others agree to pay the whole in
debtedness TO England provided they
could have the control of the commerce
of the colony. This was accepted, and
resulted in bringing over the remainder
of the colony from Leyden. On the site
of the present capital of Augusta they
built a storehouse for trading purposes and
sent the product direct to London. But
the ring did not succeed in paying off their
indebtedness, owing to the delalcation of
Isaac Allerton, the capture of some of
their goods by French privateer, and
other unforeseen circumstances. Disease
broke out among the Indians in Connecti-
cut, and one calamity after another brought
the colonists 10 great tribulation. But
their kind conduct toward the Indians led
the savages to bring in large quantities Of
supplies Of beaver and other skins They
could not pay their debt in SIX years but
they did in thirteen, and the ring were
satisfied. In twenty-one years the colony
were entirely out Of debt and prospering
greatly which they have continued to do
ever since
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

\ MULE BATTERY IL AcrIoy.-The
Ordnance Select Committee of England
recently made an experiment, in firing a
mountain hOwitzer strapped en- to the back
Of mule. The mule the loaded gun. the
committee and several big-wigs attract
ed by the novelty of the experiment, went
to the trial ground at Woowich to wit
ness the firing. The mule was backed up
into position, so that the muzzle of the gun.
pointing over his tail was aimed at an
earthen mold The committee decided
to fire 1t by means ola slow match, and it
was prepared, lighted. Hitherto the mule
had taken a sleepy interest in the proceed
ings but somehow the fixing on his back
caused him first to prick up his ears. then
TO lay them back, and finally to begin to
turn round. The committee were thunder
struck and skedaddled in all directions
the secretary threw himself fiat on his face: +:
there was q moment Of agonizing suspense
then bang; the shot ricschetting away
In one direction, while the wretehed mule
turned a complete sumersault in the other.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

and, as church attendance had been shown
in last Sundays sermon to have this
influence on the non elect, he trusted that
the faculty would for all time coming
exempt him from it
The result of this petition, written out
in an imposing manner, and formally
presented to the faculty, was that Butler
received a public reprimand for irreverence
aud, but for the influence of one or two
friends in the faculty, would have been
expelled.-EDIToR's DRAWER, in Ha1per's
Magazine for Auylst.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

Ben. BUTLER At CoLLEGE.-We have a
very good story of the Hon. Benjamin L
Butler that has not yet found its way into
the newspapers When student in col
ege it was binding on the students to at
tend the college church duty which to
him was very irksome. On one occasion
he heard the preacher (who was also a
professor advancing propositions like the
following a. That the elect alone
would be saved O. That among those
who, by the world, were called Christians
probably not more than one in hundred
belonged really and truly to the elect
81 That the others, by reason of their
Christian privileges, would suffer more
hereafter than the heathen, who had never
heard the Gospel at all Mr.. Butler,
whose audacity was as conspicuous as his
reverence, made note Of these propositions
and on the strength of them drew up
petition to the faculty, soliciting exemption
from further attendance at the church, as
only preparing for himself a more terrible
future. For, said he, the congregation
here amounts to siS hundred persons, and
nine of these are professors Now, if only
one in a hundred Is to be saved, it follows
that three even Of the faculty must be
damned. He (Butler) being mere
student, could not expect to be saved in
preference to a professor. Far, he said,
be it from him TO cherish so presumptuous
a hope. Nothing remained for him,
therefore, but perdition. In this melan-
choly posture of affairs he was naturally
anxious to abstain from ANYTHING that
might aggravate his future punishment;
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

VIII you not wish US God speed and he
held out his hand. Each of US was man
enough to walk up and take it and the
little brown hand which had been given to
Jim.
Then we had supper. There wasn't
much eaten, yet we all lived through it /;
but none Of US have felt much hankering
after weddings since, L reckon.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

IHE BupY A TEULE.-Wh hat an iuccn-
tive to holiness, TO purity Of life and con
duct, lies in the fact that the body Of a
saint Is the temple of Coda truer. nobler
temple than that which Solomon dedicated
by his prayers, Jesus c0nsecratcd by His
presence. In popish cathedral, where the
light >treamed through painted windows.
and the organ pcalcd along lofty ai~ie>,
and candles cleaned on golden cups and
silver crosses, and incense foatci in fra
grant clouds. wc have often seen the
blinded worshipcr uncover MS head drop
.rcvercntly on his knees. and raise his awe
struck eye ON the imposing spectacle, we
have seen him kiss the marble floor and
knew that no sooner would he be smitten
dead upon that floor than be guilty Of
defiing It How does this devotce rebuke
Us We wonder al his superstition how
may he wonder at our profanity Can
we look On the .owly veuerauon he cx-
presses for an clitce which has been
erected by some dead mans genius, which
holds bat some deihed virgin or bones oi
a canouizcd SAINT, aud which time shall
one day cas-, to the ground, and oury in
the dust. can wc, ~ay. look on that, and
II sensible to rebukc, not feel rrprovei by
the spectacle in how much more respect
In how much h0.icr ycueration should we
hold this body The shrine Of immortali-
ty. and a temple Dedicated 20 the Son of
God, il is cou-ec-atcl by the presence of
the spirit a living temple. over whose
porch the eye of Fiety reads what the
finger of inspiration has Written Il auV