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eyes, certainly did not feud to raise my
spirits.
BY this time was nearly paralyzed
through sheer exhaustion, and felt but too
surely that endurance had reached Its
limits. One more terrible struggle, and
alas! my plight was worse than ever
Noises as of thousand cannon were ring
ing in my ears, and | fancied that blood
was starting from my mouth and nostrils.
Will you believe me when | say that !
was literally in cold sweat?
At this crisis, when | had made up my
mind for the worst, it occurred to me that,
lit | could not rise, | might be able to
walk or creep below water, and thus man.
age to reach the brink which was no great
distance.
1t was a heaven-sent inspiration and
acted on without a moments delay.
found to my Joy that there was no hind
rance whatever to this mode of progress
sion, and crawling along the bottom like a
crab, IN less than twenty seconds my drip
ping head emerged from the treacherous
bath, and was once more respiring the
warm summer air | was saved
Throwing myself on the grass with
unutterable thank kfulness, / rested for a
few minutes, aud then deliberately waded
IN again to recover the shoes and stockings
had left behind, which was easily accom-
pllshed 50 you see, my friends, that with
perseverance, some things may be done as
well as others"
Now gentlemen, why was it that
could not rise or swim in that water
The dashing of the torrent had raised
% many foam bells, and so iniItrated a
denser element with air, that the specific
gravity of the water was totally changed.
and [ might as soon have attempted to
float on oil or champagne, as on that
sparkling current.
The strongest fish that ever swan the
ocean would be powerless to rise from the
abyss of Niagara,
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I The name comes from two Latin words,
saTUDa a rock, and frangere, to break not
OF course, from any power in the plant to
really break the rocks, but from its so Of
ten being found growing in the crevices
and eletts of rocky hills The leaves
spring from the root of the plant, and are
quite thick and fcshy; the Towering stem
! bears dense cluster of flowers, with the
regular arrangement of FIVE sepals, FIVE
petals, and ten stamens, the first green the
second white, and the third yellow.
We shall find, too, though not in the
meadow, but in this case on the hill side,
the flowers of the Thalictrun dioicuR, or
early meadow rue When it first rises
from the ground, it comes up in a little
head resembling the tops of asparagus
when cut for the table both flowers and
leaves grow in similar dull purple tinged
cluster; the many times divided leaf, beau
titully folded together, SO as to take up
the least amount of room. The leaf is
three times divided into triplets, making
twenty-seven small leaflets, but all form
ing one lsaf; they of pale delicate green,
roundsh, with obtuse lobes The plant IS,
like the vii ows, dircious, that is, one con-
tains the stamens, and another the pistils !;
the name, coming from two Greek words,
meaning TWO houses. 1t belongs to the
same family as the Caltha, and contains,
as all the members Of it, an acrid juice
which is 10 a certain extent poisonous, but
which is decomposed by heat OF two hun
dred and twelve degrees, or by drying.
deer S7cchariRu12, or the sugar maple
This heautifui tree i now uIite conSDicu-
Gus by its clusters OF long. penduous
green flowers, coming out at the same time
a, the leaves. They hardly need de-
scription as the tree Is now used very
much on our highways for a shade tree.
aud Is well known to all This is the spe-
cies from which maple sugar Is obtained,
business which has Of late assumed consid-
cradle proportions. For this purpose, the
tree should not be tapped before it is twen-
" years old but after that, they have
been known 20 yield a bountitul supply
for thirty years They vary very much
ia the quantity ot sap produced, owing to
differences in position, and whether sur
rounded by other trees or standin. alone.
The product varies from twenty to eighty
gallons of sap in a season. which will give
from five to twenty pounds of sugar En-
cr~on speaks of one tree which gave one
hundred and 9eventy-fve gallons Of sap,
from which io,ty-three pounds of sugar
we're made The wood j. one Of the most
valuable. not only to the cabinet maker
in the shape cf birds eye maple, but also
for fuel IS il ranks next to hickory in
heating power
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

SAIr-ITS EFFECT oN THE BLooD.-Dr.
Stevens, a French physician and surgeon.
saw butcher killing pig. He observed
that he stirred the bio OF the animal
aud added handful of common salt to it
while stirring, which Immediately made it
crimson, and if stirring be discontinued,
the blood remained fluid. The change of
the color Of the blood awakened his curios-
ity. The butcher could give no explana-
ton of the phenomenon except that it
kept it from jellying and spelling Dr.
Stevens seized a vessel, caught some blood,
and made several experiments by putting
salt in it, and found that the blackest blood
was instantly changed to a bright vermil-
lion by salt Oh, said he, here is a
fact which may lead to a practical rule
He had observed in cases of yellow fe-
yer IN the army, that the blood drawn
was very black and fluid, and on adding
salt it became vermillion and retained its
freshness, whereas putridity Of the blood
is one OF the characteristics of the yellow
fever He therefore abandoned the usual
mode of treating 1t, and gave his patients
mixture of various salts, and in a very
short time reduced the mortality of fever
in the West Indies from one in FIVE to one
in fifty.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

ever, but the rocky defle through which we
were to pass, and the gllmpses of the lower
mountains. Down we went; at steady,
smooth rate, on the slight decline Of the road
1t had needed six horses to pull US up Now
we had only two, and they were Of use, only
to steer. Soon we came to the edge Of a
deep, long, dismal, valley. Zigzag after zig
zag in rapid succession (the guide-book says,
forty-six) let u down, almost as if deeend-
ing il balloon. As the road had no fence
and the diligence, in turning the corners,
rolled very near the edge of tile precpice
some of the passengers became rather nerv-
our. But driver and horses were well train
ed 70 the road. and soon brought up safely tc
the bottom Of the valley, from which We look
ei back, almost with a shudder up the steep,
ar-reachiug ladder Of zigzags.
II was rapid travelling now On We roll
ed, through the opening valley, between the
bare, rocky walls Soon few evergreens
appeared. Then chestnut-trees, which be-
camo very abundant further below. Rapidly
we passed through the first villages, stopping
once to change horses, rapidly on through
the long. picturesque valley, with, every
where around US, the features Of Italian life,
in the quaint, tumble-down cottages, the
olive complexion and black eyes Of the peas
ants, the chestnut-trees. and here and there,
the vineyards Il was after dark, when we
arrived at the first considerable village, Fai-
do and there we found shelter in a com
Portable hotel, where the different fashion Of
everything, the arrangement Of the house,
the furniture, the irescoed walls, reminded
us constantly that We were in Italy,-in
Italy, geographically speaking, though tLis
valley is politically part Of Switzerland.
We were still high up among the noun
tains The next day, we rode, for many
hours, through the long, gradually opening
and descending valley; We began to feel the
warm, fragrant breath of the Italian plains,
and the sky serener, bluer and higher Here
and there, were fantastic crags, or Wild
ruins, or lovely ve-tas The chestnuts be-
came larger and more numerous ard oc-
casionally olive-trecs appeared. People were
gathering purple grapes from horizontal trel-
lises, about Elk feet high 4 trife bought
US All we COulQ cat ~ lasI, we cane 70
Bellozona, with its three massive, old castles,
and its glorious scenery and then, at even
ing, to the head Of Lake Maggiore, lovely as
Paradise
But cannot tell you more, at present.
Perhaps | may be of for the sunny South IN
a few weeks and may lie able to write You
directly from that land Of wonderful beauty
For the present, adieu.
Yours,
CHAs A. ALLEN.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

How UGLINEss BECOMES BEAUTIFUL
4 beautiful face is one Of Gods beautifnl
works but He has made more beautiful
things. We shall see, may be, in our
travel OF to-morrow-you or I-some an
gular-taced woman of youthful but uncer-
tain age, in gold-bowed glasses perhaps,
and shall say at the first cruel glance (you
or /. } Good gracious. what woman to
live with = An old gentleman her atten-
dant goes haItingy TO the place beside
her-and there i such touching and deli
cate attention on her part to every want of
his-such grace of action-such tender,
eager, yet not ofiicious or presuming watch
fulness-tbat you cannot keep your eyes
from her, ugly though she be and the face
of the old gentleman grows radiant as it
turns towards her. and you perceive him
to be under such abiding charm as her low
musical voice falls on his that. little
by little, even as you look, the angularities
melt away into the fine flowing lines and
the h0melv text of her face, hour BY hour,
aud feature by feature, grows luminous
with a sweet deep meaning, that is subtle
and penetrating in its influence as beauty
itself And if an hour of on-look can
work such TRANSPORTATION and make one
blind to any possible crabbedness of text
by reason of the sweet meaning it carries.
how shall it be with the reading of a
month or a wear, or q life ?-Do7lald G.
/ MITCHELL
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

Clouds are of the utmost utility in fore
telling weather, especially the Cirrus, Cir
ro-Stratus, and Cumulo Stratus
The Cirrus, called by sailors Cats
tail, and sometimes by others the Curl
cloud, is made up of wavy, parallel or
diverging fbers, or slender filaments like
white lines penciled on the blue sky. 1t
IS probably composed of minute snow
fakes or ice-crystals. Its movement is a
fine index Of the great atmospheric cur
rents, aud it is thus a valuable prognostic
Of stormy weather. 1t doubtless often
reaches height of ten miles above the
earth. When the fine threads of the Cir
rus appear blown or brushed backward at
one end, as if By wind prevailing in
these lofty regions, the wind on the sur
face will sooner or later veer round to
that point
The Cirro-Stratus, partaking OF the
form OF both the Cirrus and Stratus, Buch-
an says, is markedly precursor of
storms and from its greater or less abun-
dance and permanence, it gives some indi-
cation OF the time when the the storm
may be expected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

LOVE- AND RELIGION N CoSFuCT.-A
very curious case of the conflict of love
with religion is just now before the New
York courts 4 pretty Jcwess loved a
Christian, too well certainly, and then in
sisted on his turning Jew and marrying
her He was ready to marry, indeed
eager, but he would not change his relig-
ion. There did bot appear to be very
much of his Christianity, but what there
was he insisted upon keeping Thereupon
she turned about, sued him for seduction,
and had him in the Ludlow street jail,
and now insists either on his money or his
faith He still holds on these points,
though ready to forgive her for her per-
secution, and marry her at sight. if she
viii have him as he is 1t would seem as
if her religious scruples should have com
menced a little earlier; yet she is not the
first person in this world who has put his
or her religion above his or her character
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clergyman was lately asked to con-
clude the exercises of a Sabbath school
anniversary in New York by few re-
marks. 1t was already PM, and tn e
speaker began by asking the children
whether they wonld rather 90 home or
stay and hear his speech. Those who
wished to 60 home say aye quoth he,when
to his astonishment nearly all of the two
hundred and fifty children united in a
chorus of ayes, easily heard block away.
The speaker blushed and covered his re-
treat with the benedietion.
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storm Forecasts.


t9n ro F0EEIILL TiE WEATHER.
.rha rovsr of toretsr.iur the character
.fts. weather il sometimes very uSef,l
h f.u8-r.eu i. wall as rs those who follow
the sea-. and Il +, ,r..tifyru, 10 know that
the wise men who are sometimes more
than alrYnac.Daker-. have reduced the
rroiffn t..g 4..wan.f,tbla science The
b4s- SUMMARY 81. narsoyla..s..l ofserza.
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in the study OF lis meteorology. Ii /.
said by pioneers of the forest, that. IL our
hemisphere, knowing that the moss delights
IN shady places. they borrow the custom
of the Indian. and 6nd their way at mid
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24
Song of Fire.

With my throcs | shake the sphere
Through the snowy-topped volcanoes
At the surface l appear,
Then | burst through chains that bind II
Startle moItals with nv power,
Over prairies wide | scurry,
Feed on forests, towns deyour--
Strike the ships midway in ocean,
And the teeming towns devour.
Fire they call me. am father
Of the granite rocks that lie
Ages deep beneath the mountains,
Unperceiyed Of mortal eye
At my breath they sprang TO being,
At my touch their crystals came,
That were merely shapeless atoms
Ere | kissed them with my fame
Ere with arder | embraced them,
Ere kissed them with my flame.
Rarest gems of countless value,
Nuggets Of the yellow gold
That, through all the time historic,
Men and empires has controlled.
And the grim and swarthy IRON,
Couqueror on land and 50.
With the many meaner metals,
Owe their birth and shape to me
Cleaning ores and dazzling crystals
Owe their birth and shape " me.
W hen tbs rolling OF tie thunder
Strikes he trembling wrstches dumb,
hen the Visi"n-biindinG iiThining
menus u e muihy eiouds' come
rear attends me, horror alter
Rum round me WIDE ! east
Men my name with hated breathing
Multef "h,h my steps nave passed.
"aZlnE NoItc4eS9 II lhe h7uts
mere my 'eFil'-e s'et nave pa5seu.
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~ ny Pai'',' ~ .1''u.s
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The Cumulo-Stratus is distinctly formed
just before rain begins 1t is the forerun-
ner of the lurid display of the thunder
storm, as Tennyson has painted it
'' The wild unrest that lives in woe
Would dote and pour on yOnder cloud.
That rises upward, always higher,
And onward, drags laborlng breast,
And topples round the dreary West,
looming bastion fIinged with fire
The poky cloud " is an almost uner-
ring storm warning. 1T clouds be red and
lowering in the morning, the red color
arises from a large amount of vapor in the
vascular state, when, as Forbes has shown,
the blue rays of light are absorbed and
the yellow and red rays pass. This gives
rise to the weather proverb
The evening grey ana the morning rcd
Put on your hat, or you1l wet your head -
and may sometimes prove ominous of a
storm.
OTHER MONITIONs.
Professor Maury adds that among other
presages are the following The sun set
ting red. remarkably red color OF the
clouds the sign almost intallibie at Maur-
titus, a brick dust haze in the horizon j;
frequent shifting of breezes from all points.
thick log tiylug fast to the south, bright
halo round the moon, stars very brilliant
and unusually twinkling at low attitudes
noises in caverns and wells like storm
moisture on wells and pavements, birds
coming to land, waterfowl flying about;
the swell of the ocean rolling la, though
the hurricane may be six hundred miles
distant; turtles floating ia the calm, ap-
parently in state Of stupor the sea pc
culiarly clear at great depths tides irrcg-
ular; branches of trees not bent forward
as by O stream, but constantly whircd
about water rising in wells and ponds ;
and disturbances Of currents on the tcle-
graphic wires. Barometers, bydrometers
and other meteorological instruments, are
not always at hand, but these natural pbe-
nomena are as unerring as the mercury
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

They tell good story on the early ap-
pearance ofDr. Bethune, in church then
located on the outskirts of the city of
Rochester The edifce was placed in
the center of large square or park, and
it being summer, the open doors made the
green aisle carpets appear like con-
tinuation of the grassy lawn outside. At
least 50 the matter appeared to a half
dozen geese, who quietly walked into the
church just as the preacher, closing a
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

\ laugbable incident is related by la
DIV in Portsmouth, \. H, of the queer
doings of trio Of little girls just old
enough to play cut Of doors. One of
them had lost a pet chicken by death, and
her two companions were assisting her to
decenty inter the remains in the garden.
A cigar box, decorated with flowers, an
swered for a coffin, and slowly and sadly
the little ones laid il away in grave
which they had dug with the fre-shovel.
When the sJrrowful task was completed,
one Of them came in and inquired if peo-
pie didn't sing at funerals. On being
told that they generally did, she ran back,
and 10 few minutes after the three were
seen standing, hand in hand, round the
little mound, gravely singing Shoe fly,
don't bodder me.
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splendid passage Of eloquence, was quot

splendid passage of eloquence, was quot
ing the lines:
"Who are those arrayed IN white ? sc.
A green, halfgrown country boy, who,
supposed the quotation so eloquently pro-
pounded required answer, at once replied
IN bashful lisp, " Them-them's goethe.
The wings of the young minister were then
abruptly clipped while he was a-hight.
and the ones arrayed in white were the
only dignifed individuals in the aud .ence.
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q bt II rGtman.
WEDNESDAY. MAY "a. 1871.
letter from Rev. c. A. Allen.
BERLs, PRrssn. Feb. ?, l87

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a1lAAs rocky ana sterile ana ied uF' Dy
asH5at ascent, ana between lofty ana often
-es.1 t}us mountains, INTO the higher -
..he 7.'"- iHe7e sH""S7 arc a I4oIy
..l aui sino'.H- 'il' oeS' io@us III 'le
'.5il- IAe aIf became coo' ana Oraelhg
'-r7@ aHA tAeret the Sno"-coVeIed helSh1s
"'1H'so '' oNsEHaH1 - IL ioad Ds
gan f3 Nind more ana more loiloWing the
eartcs oL the narrowing valley. soon IT be-
gan % clImb along one OF the steep SIDES turn
az sharply round projecting points ana pend
* tar into some huge deep . guliey, or
following q side valley little way, TIL a
-'at stone bridge was gained across it-
lh- view hcioW U.s. GOWN tue steep Slope
t-ane deeper and wider OCCASIONALLY
.anuei opened p way through a projecting
barrier 3t reek nr a ttr3n%, stone root shel-
tered tfe rock, where we crossed the deep
IiauEdcd, rgck-strewed, track of aTa!anches
At times, y hen the valley Sc more stesPly,
ther.a- asseuded the rugged slope to a high
-r sFa'. rs a series Of zigzags, and the again
rt7 along the mountain side. All the trees
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24

How TO SpELL.-Often, in writing, a
simple word is required. of the orthography
of which the writer IS not sure The die
tionary may be referred to, but it is not
always convenient. An easy mode is to
write the word on piece of waste paper
in two or three ways OF which you
are in doubt. Nine times in ten, the
mode which looks right is right Spell
lag, particularly English spelling, is so
completely a work of the eye, that the eye
alone should be trusted. There is no rea-
son why receive and believe should be
spelled differently, yet sounded alike in
their second syllables Yet write them
receive and believe and the eve shows
you the mistake at once. The best way
for young people, and, indeed, people of
any age, TO learn to spell is to practice
writing. Cobbett taught his children
grammar by requiring that they should
copy their lessons two or three times.
These lessons he himself gave them in the
form of letters and his French and En-
glish grammars are two of the most anus
ing books in the English language. Of
course learning to spell came in inciden-
tally.