Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-06-21
From the New York Tribune
Blue Glass.

Are we mistaken Can it be that the
first warning note of the millennium has
sounded, and of all places in the world has
wakened Philadelphia What else dod>
this mean? Here we have, in a modest
pamphlet, the final discovery Of all ages,
j discovery which Is to annihilate death
and disease in matter and in mind, and
restore the world to its pristine freshness
and beauty. What Is the Darwinian theo-
~ or wire-drawn hypothesis of correla-
tlon OF forces, or any other purblnd CROP
Ing after primal causes, to this? Here
Is the secret Of the Sphynx unridlled !;
mere Is life itself, all in pane of blue
/ glass The world has been searching for
| tive thousand years, at least, for the secret
Of its being; for this in vain did astrolo-
gers ransack the stars, alchemists summon
Osiris and Aetaroth 70 their laboratories
and Ponce de Leon lose himself in Miss
issippi mud prophets and Kings desired
it long and died without the sight : and
now, IN the nineteenth century. an old
gentleman stumbles upon it while walking
about in his eight-by-ten backyard, in a
pane OF glass-bue glass,
Let Us, if possible, calm ourselves and
convey to our readers these good tidinss
the dIscoverer is, We learn, general an
" armi potent soldier. who. during our
national struggle, necessarily and valiant
i did lead the puissant Home Gurads up
aud down the streets of Philadelphia
But although thus bred in wars. like Corio-
lanus, be is by no means ill-schooled in
b0ited language His warfare over, he
devoted himself during these piping times
Of peace to wooing Science and Nature.
with what result this latest great birth Of
Truth into the world attests. The first
conception of his discovery came upon him
he tells Us, while gazing at the sky, whose
color be found to be blue. How the sec
ond idea of glass was suggested. we know
not; but we next find him with the theory
firmly established in his own mind that
the germ Of all growth and life lay in blue
grass. He covered a grapery with it.
and IN five months twO-inch vines had
grown torty-fve feet; in year they bore
grapes by the wagon-load. He covered
piggery with it; the three sows under the
violet grass increased Il lbs. more than
three sOws In a common pen; a barrow
pig at the same time increased much more
rapidly, owing to the abnormal develop
ment of greed and viciousness which en-
abled him to seize on more than his share
OF food. Rising in the scale of animal
nature, the General next sequestered an
Aiderney bull calf just born, and ap-
parently dying, under the violet glass. +
In few hours 1t got up and ate with /
great vivacity; the next day it began to
grow, Its growth was so apparent SAYS
the General, that as its hind-quarter was /
then growing | directed my son to
measure it. 1t grew six inches in fifty I
days, carrying its lateral development with .
It. The calf grew and the General con-
tinued to measure its hnd-quarter for
four months, when the experiment ceased.
The calf was full grown, finished animal.
and went out from under the glass. The
General has unfortunately, carried his
experiments no higher; but suggested that
architects be at once directed to roof our
houses with the life producing violet hue /
Thus can health not only be restored to
5he invalid, but youth to the aged We
can produce in the temperate regions the
Early maturity of the tropics, and develope
n the young a generation, physically and
u0OiiSSeUdiI1 y HuiCu Will DGcOt1S mar !
yel to mankind. We can believe it
Che very contemplation of the idea afar
If Of those unborn generations seated
through the ages Of the vast hereafter at
heir pap and primers under blue glass.
ills the mind with awe and astonishment.
Dr. will pap and primers be necessary? =? IfI
he body and brain of an Alderney calf .
ind development without them, why not ,
human being? What to do with f1. :
ure babies is one of Our most vexing ma.
lonal problems just now women are trv-
ne to shirk them for their higher duties.
nd men have not yet consented to take
hem up. Put them under blue glass.
ays the General: behold my grapes and
ows Was ever relief more timely ,
We look upon it as providential inter l
arence on behalf of the Advanced Female.
But why should the benefit of this great Q
iscovery be left to posterity Why not '
oof Tammany with blue glass or the S
'apitol? IT the glazier can supply ab- [
ormal virtue, and wisdom, and knowledge e
t the expense of few panes and putty. J.
1t him 60 to work. Though it destroy a
ne occupation of press and pulpit, glass I
less noisy reformer than either. But 4
tay. We reckon without our host. the h
+eneral. HIS glass. he promises, will de- t