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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

waist it has round basque with frilling
| and narrow biGis of mauve silk round the
edge. This very simple bodice is finished
with a boulllon at the top; mauve ribbon il
run through the bOuillOn. and arranged in
bows upon the shoulders. Bow, to CORES
| pond, in the hair.
| CLOTH BOOTS, ETC.
| Among the fashionable novelties this sea
son are cloth walking boots for ladies
these are not made of the old-time prunell,
or glossy 9 lastIng,' but of doeskin, thlck
sotr, warm, and Jet black, without lustre
| The boot is of the hali-high Polish shape
| butoned on the sides, with very thick solel
and broad substantial heels. Some orna
mentatloD, such velvet bow and je
buckle, Is usually placed just below the in.
step. The warm and shapely boot il eI
| ceedIngly comfortable, and looks very hand
some when on the foot. Price SO. C,o'k
| slippers are also worn in the house. They
are trimmed with colored velvet faclngs aud
| bows, with buckles OF cut steel or Jet.
Among the latest wrinkles of fashion with
the ladies is that Of wearing a bunch of little
articles at the belt-a thimble case, hook flI
a ian. umbrella, parasol or bag, and even "a
case for spectacles. The bookcase and cha n
are made Of oxydized silver gilt. and other
sly les, the silver being the most stylish. The
thing Is very convenient, and the fashion ID
! becoming quite popular.
new style OF costume, for the age of ten
! to fourteen, is of blue wOollen serge, emb broi-
dered with white. The skirt il trimmed
with three bials Of the material, each pIped
on either side with white, and divided by
GrecIan patterns in white braid. Over tins
skirt there Is blouse composed entirely OF
alternate strips OF blue serge braided with
Wnlte and White serge braided with blue
the edge Is fuished off with white and blue
fancy fringe, and the blouse is fastened down
the front with blue and white buttons t.
match ; 1t Is htted to the waist with a belt
o! blue leather and small silver buckle.
Since we are speaking Of children, here is
also the costume ot little by, eight years
old 1t Is o plum-cOlored velvet, trimmed
with black passementerIe. The tight-f.ting
trousers are fastened below the knee with a
band OF brocaded braid, and peHdeloques on
the outer SIDE. The Jacket opens over a
black silk gIlet; 1t has slasaed basque, edged
ornaments between. There are reVers and a
turned-1Own collar to finish the Jacket, v hich
Is fastened down the front with bTaudeJOlugs
Of pa--ementerie. The sleeves have turned
up cuffs, edged with BRAID Knickerb lckers
are rather gone out Of fashion IN Paris, and
tight fitting cuioHes, button-d Just under the
knee, are now considered more stylish.
There are various new models in chapeaux
Our mOdistes have a decided penchant for
placing their new creations under the pat
rOnage Of art. After the Vatican, the
Greuze, and the Rubens-Which are now
indeed, still q la m1ds-we see the Michael
AHgelO bonnet
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

MENTAL VIGoR IN OLD AaE.-Of a eel
ebra:ed writer, whose age is sixty-seven
1t Is said 4" He now lives in retirement
having given up all labors, literary and
otherwise" How often IS this record made
of men whose powers are unimpaired, and
whose labors, If continued, might bless the
world TO the end of time
1t is related of Arnauld, the Jansenist,
that he wished his friend NicoIe to assist
him in awork. Nicole replied We are
now to old &; Is it not time to rest ?' " Rest -
exclaimed Arnauld, " have we not all
eternity to rest in ?"
DR.. Samuel Miller says There is no
doubt that the premature dotage of many
distinguished men has arisen from their
ceasing in advanced life TO exert their fac
ulties, under the impression that they
were too old to engage in any new enter
prise"
When John Adams was ninety years of
age he was asked how he kept up the Wig
or Of his faculties to that great age
He replied, by constantly employing
them. The mind of an old man is like an
old horse if you would get any work out
of it, you must work it all the time"
We have many remarkable instances of
earnest and successful workers after they
had passed into the period known as old
age.
Ecclesiastical history tells the story of
Cassiodorus, who at the age of seventy,
retired to a monastery, and devoted the re-
naming twenty years of his life to litera-
ture and religion and Epiphanius, who
became an author at sixty-four, and wrote
several large works before his death
Between the age of fifty-eight and sixty
six, some of his most valuable works were
written.
When an old man, Baxter was brought
before Judge Jefries on a charge of sedi-
ton During the trial. Baxter ventured
to put in word for himself
Richard, Richard, roared the Judge,
"dost thou think we will hear thee poison
the Court? Richard, thou art an old
fellow, and an old knave Thou hast
written books enough to load cart, every
one as full! of sedition. might say treason,
as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou
been whipped out of the writing trade
forty years ago, it had been happy"
1.-The only remarkable thing, says Han
nah Moore, which belongs to me as an
authoress, was that had written eleven
books after the age of sixty"
Says Lord Brougham, at the conclusion
of his autobiography, "If any statements
have been feeble, and some inaccurately |
rendered, let it be remembered, that | be-
gan the attempt after 1 was eighty-three
years of age, with enfeebled health, failing
and but slight materials by me to
assist it,
Plato died at the age of eighty-One, it
is said. with pen in hand and an account
is given of another, who wrote a history of |
MS times at the age of one hundred and
fifteen.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

az ms opinion, that neither dignity nor au-
'horlty can be supported in human mind.
colected into nations or any great numbers.
without a splendor and majesty in some degree
/ proportioned TO them. He opposed the
pra :tIce OF styling the President His Excellen-
cy Tor precisely the reason which made Il a
RUE I the old French court to give every
| one some title Of honor excepting alone the
King. To style the President His ExcelIen-
| cy, Mr.. Adams thought, was to put him on
Il level with governor Of Bermuda, or one
OF hIs o"n ambassadors, or a governor Of any
| one Of our states
''OH- "ould think, from reading the letters
an newspapers of 1889 and 1890, that pick
[ pockets and cut-thrOats could be driven awe
struck, from their evil courses by the magni-
hcence OF the President's house and the splep-
dor Of his chariot. =
systematic attempt was made to give
queenly Pe-cminence to the President's s ex-
cellent fe The movements OF that industri-
ots little lady were chrOnIcled very much in
the style OF the London Court new sman W hen
he essays to inform the world OF the manner
IN which the queen has managed to kill an
other day. Every week the Gazetie contained
a full budget OF court news, not unireduent-
~ giving hail column Of such announce
meut- ar these:
The most Honorable Robert Morris and
Lady attended the theatre last evening
= Monday last, the Senate Of the United
states with the FIce-Presldent at their head
went in a body, IN carriages, to the house Of
The President, and presented him with an
tdIre-s.
1--WE are informed that the President. his
TX cheney the Wee President. his Excellen
~ The Governor Of this state and many other
peTsonages oi the grea est distinction, will
be present at the theatre thiz evening
''Ihe following Is the Gazette 5 account of
the arrival IN NV York OF Mrs. Washing
,on, May 80, l7s9:
''N ednesday, arrived in this city from
Mount Vernon Mrs. Washington the amiab e
-ousOIt OF the President OF the United States.
Mrs Washington from Philadelphia was ac-
;5mpanled by the lady o Mr.. Robert MOrrIs.
At EIlzabethtowu POINT she was met by the
President, Mr.. Morris. and several other gen
eiemen + distinction, who had gone there
or that purpose. She was conducted ever
he bay Ia the Presidents barge. rOwed by
hrteen em nent pilots IN a handsome white
ire-s; on PASS NJ the Battery a salute was
uFed and On her Iaudius she was welcomed
y crORGs of cltizsHs VINO had assembled to
.eatIiy their JJy on tlis happy occasion. The
principal IaI e # the city have, with the
-trIe-t attention and respect, paid their
asCOlrS To the amIable consOrt Of our beloved
PRECEDENT, namely, the Ltdy OF his Excel en-
~ the Governor, Lady Sterling, Lady Mary
ats, Lady nifty Duer, La MarchiUness de
6rehan, tile ladies OF the Most Honorable
Mr. LlugdJn and the Most Honorable Mr..
Dalton, tine Mayoress, Mrs Livingston Of
CIernout, *, &c, &c.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

A very hard-hearted clapper in an old
church tower professed the intensest dis
tress because its bell was hopelessly crack
ed. Many people thought 1t pitiable
position, and wished the sad hearted clap
per a better bell But just then the
ghost of Diogenes, the sage, foated in
through the window, and whistled most an
grily Master Clapper, cease your noise
and remember, in the first place, you
cracked the bell; and, secondly, nobody
would have known it had you not told
them" have observed often that those
who bemoan divisions in a church are they
who make them; and [ also have observed
sometimes that they who make them are
most ready to publish the fact. | have
observed annother fact, viz. that all
clappers are. not of as good metal as the
bells they crack.-BaptiSt Weekly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

SrANLEY.-At the reception gwen by
the Herald Club to Stan ey, at Delmon-
ieo's, the latter remarked Il may be
called forger, hut would ike to know if
[ could forge Dr.. Livingstone's cap :" and
here Mr. Stanley suddenly drew from his
pocket dark blue military cap, with
large gold band around it, raised on a still
larger band of red velvet. That" said
Mr.. Stanley. sis the veritable cap which
DR.. Livingstone took off at Ujji when the
New York Herald reporter said to him,
with bow, DIR. Livingstone, [ presume
If you have any more doubts, here is the
doctors brother, the very duplicate of that
fine Christian gentleman that l met desti-
tute and in distress at Uj1i," and the
doctors brother was thereupon presented
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
remarking upon this little incident, says:
There are men who are deeply grieved
that he didn't bring the doctors scalp,
which would have been undisputable evi-
dence of the success of the expedition
The men referred to are probably the men,
bers of the Royal Geographical Society
whose knowledge of the interior of Africa
is seriously questioned by Livingstone's
actual discoveries.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

sents himself for his first examination,
which is conducted by the authorities of
the college under the superintendent of
the school councillor. This examination
embraces religion, language, arithmetic,
writing, drawing and singing, and is partly
oral and partly on paper. The perform
ances of the candidates are estimated with
great precision, and certificates are given
to all who acquit themselves satisfactorily.
The teacher is now taken in charge by the
department-couneilor, who appoints him
to vacancy in his district. He holds,
however, only the position and the title of
provisional teacher, full status and rank of
schoolmaster being withheld until he has
passed a second examination, held three
years after the first This examination is
rather an investigation into character aud
conduct than into attainments. When his
last ordeal has been passed, the teacher
takes the oath of allegiance and receives
definite appointment as master of the
school,"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

DESTRUCTION OF WOOL IN BosroN-The
following estimate Of the amount of wo
destroyed by the late fire in Boston, is by
Geo. VIM Bond, Esq, dated Nov. y,
1872 -
The terrible fire which devastated our
city, destroyed the warehouse and Offices Of
all who were engaged IN the Wool trade
This does not include the importers of for
eIgn wool, whose stock was mostly IN bond
ed warehouses remote from the section
burned.
We obtained the amount of stock few days
before the fire, and can therefore give very
close estimate Of tue quantity OF wool des-
troyed as follows: say 10000 pounds fine
secured, $4,000 pounds tub. 1900 900
pounds fleece, 900. 900 pounds pulled, IU0,-
600 pounds Cape 100000 pounds Califor-
ria, 300 900 pounds South American. l.
500, 600 pounGs 4 australian, 500, 600 pounds
ndrIes. The total value being about $4,-
500 900.
The Wool market il by this go unsettled
that 1t is of no use to a tempt to quote prices
As far we can learn, the W Ool dealers
were fully covered by insurance.
We We taken an office at No. lO4 State
St. where we shall continue the Wool
Brokerage business.
Mr., Bond also gives a statement of the i'm
ports of Wool, into Boston, for the fYst
three-quarters OF each year for the past ten
years. lie gives the countries from which
the importatIons were made. The follow
ing Is the amount from all sources -
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

SENSIBLE TALK.-A Massachusetts, farmer
by the name OF Foote, at a Farmers Club
meeting, in reply to the remark THAT tie
inducements were very small for any man
old or young, who was out Of business, TO
70 to farming" thus put the matter, as he
viewed it:
Il think the farmers condition will CON-
parc.favOrably with that of other callings.
and | have yet to learn that there il a busI-
ness OF pursuit followed by man which is
frse from hIndra ces and obstacles Every
man thinks ms iusiuess Is little the most
difficult Tie merchant will say, "Oh, If
only had your larm.'' The mechanic will
say, 'FoOte, you don't know anything about
work The manuiactuI er longs TO get rid
Of his cares, AMI the professional man his
confinement. and here We farmers have come
together 10 have "a good time with oar wives,
ami make our president and his wife twice
glad, and brought this SUBJECT of hindr4nces
and obstacles with as. IL don't seem to me
very appropriate. | think 1t would be
great deal better for us to talk about our
prosperity, our Cucces ses, our enterprises anJ
our achievements | don't believe 10 does US
any good to talk very much about our
troubles, and 20 mourning over what We
can not help. A man can find obstacles, and
VIII have a big crop if be ls continually look
ing after them; but If we can remove the
hindrances 70 our success, or by any me tns
better our condition as farmers il We can
make our farm pay larger increase, or make
ourselves better men, our wives better women.
1t becomes US TO use every means IN our
power to do 50.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

LUMBER REGION OF THE FUTURE.-A Mich
gan gentleman has been visiting the timber
region around and about Puget sound Oregon.
and is now telling the Michiganders some
thing about it. Going through the forest it
was rare to find a tree as small as three feet
through the butt. They were from five to
six, seven, eight, and sometimes nine or ten
feet through at the base, and marvelously
tall some $50 feet high. He saw one tree
that would make an amount of lumber equal
TO the average of five acres in Michigan. 1t
is estimated that tree 200 feet high and
ten feet through at the base will make so 400
feet of lumber eight acres Of Michigan pine
lumber, as the trees run, would therefore
make no more lumber than one of these
Oregon trees. They are Of white cedar, make
very fac finishing lumber and the product is
worth $40 per thousand feet at Portland and
other places On the coast.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18
WingS-SOme Day.
Nature had failed in her measure,
Made a mistake in her plan,
Fixed to the limbs of an infant

Nature had failed in her measure.
Made mistake n her plan,
Fixed to the limbs of an infant
The trunk of man.
Down on the deck, while the ferry
Crossed and recrossed the stream,
And faces were changing about him
Like those in a dream.
Down on the deck in his wagon
He sat all the day, selling books;
But far beyond price was the story
read in his looks.
Eyes that grew bright meath the burden
That breaks many strong men down,
Looked into mine from that wagon,
Beaming and brown.
Eyes that had laughed at the sorrow
From which a worldling fies,
Eyes that were full of tomorrow
Beautiful eyes.
In them 1 saw Peace sitting,
Who keepeth the worlds heart warm;
Peace, who comes after the battle
After the storm.
fearful the eyes of lady
Crossing the river with me,
As she said, when she saw how helpless
\ creature might be:
81 To what can the poor boy look forward
Through all hfe's wearisome way ?"
Quick rs his smile came the answer:
To wings-some day
Men were passing, complaining
God had forsaken their part;
Better the crippled in body
Than crippled in heart.
Darkness may gather about rs;
Clouds may enyelop the light;
Hope may shine dimly, Ike starlets
Far OF IN the night.
Let Us remember the answer
OF that boy IN his hopeful way;
And ever look upward, forward
To wIngs-so ONE day.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

SERGEANT BATES AND THE FEELING IN
ENGLAND TOWARD Sergeant
Bates, of iag-carrying notoriety, who
made a wager that be would carry unfur-
ed the stars and stripes from the Scottish
| border to the Guildhall at London without
! being insulted, has fairly settled down to
his work. He started from Gretna Green
ten days ago, and a telegram to-day says
he has arrived at Stockport, few miles
south of Manchester. Crowds always
collect in the towns and villages through
which he pas es, and the sergeant imme-
diately satisfies the curious who want TO
know what the row ?'' by explaining
his mission fully. This is an artful dodge
on the sergeants part, for it puts the
crowds on their good behavior at once,
and cheers are heard in many instances
where in default of such explanation Kisses
and groans would naturally occur The
sergeant will VIII. probably, because his
greatest difficulty has been surmounted,
namely, that OF (n so many words beg
ging for mercy. Besides, the newspapers
nave taken the matter up and made it
public; the route for each day has been
published, and the people on the line of
march have Deen appraised when " Excel :
sior," as he is called, may be expected "in
their midst" Besides, again, the SER
geant was shrewd in making his journey
from North to South instead of from South
to NOrth-thus acquiring a sort of prestige
at the beginulng-Lancashire and the ad-
joining counties being filled with popula-
tlon more closely asslmilating to our own
than that of any other quarter of England.
The sergeant will win, L say; but 1t will
be through the instrumentality of his
stratagem only. So far as his experiment
tends to test the temper of the British
public towards the national banner of the
great people to whom the said public
probably owes fraternal love, and certainly
owes some millions of dollars, it is q dead
failure from the start. While 1t is un-
questionable that the balance of public
opinion here is friendly to America-over.
whemingly so-it is not by any means
unanimous. If Sergeant Bates, or any
other American, think otherwise let him
90 to the music halls of London-not the
best places of amusement, to be sure, but
certainly the best thermometers of the pop
ular feeling. Any picture of or allusion
to Abraham Lincoln is always greeted
with storm of cheers, and no hisses.
The case is quite different when General
Grant, or even George Washington, or the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

q" OLD FASHIONED Fowls. There are
great many people among us who are always
signing for the good :" old-fas hioned' breed
of owls-thCse with big bodies and short
legs non-scIatchers and everlasting LAYERS
regardless of the Burtonian maxim,
that - the sassengers of infancy never re-
turn, and obliviOus of the fact that if the
same motherly old hens that live 50
pleasantly in their memories were suddenly
resurreeted, they would cut a sorry figure
by the side Of our modern Brahmas or
CJchins 1t is a very general, and very
harmless delusion, that the sun shone bright
er and the grass grew richer green when
we were boys but when talk OF the past
glOries of our domestic animals, we are con-
fronted by the stern and unde niable fact.
that there has been constant and steady i'm
provement in their useful qualities for the
past twenty years or more, and that among
the many breeds and varieties now kept by
ianciers, are fowls that will outweigh,
outlay, and Out-shOw anything produced in
the days of auld lang syne."
Not many years ago, writer on poultry
matters was rash enough to state that it was
no uncommon sight to see cocks weighing
nine pounds by the road side in Ireland
whereupon be was quietly assailed by Amer
lean fancers who Informed him that nne-
pound cock was sturdy FELLOW of any Of the
large breeds, and that it was hardly likely
they were common anywhere. Now we
venture the assertion that nine poun1 cocks
not uncommon in the bArnyards of
America and we think, pinch, we
could find some that would 20 twelve pounds
or higher.
As for egg producers, it hardly holds TO
reason that the old fashioned buddy, with
her season of laying and her season OF fuss
my arc und with her eggs and chickens,
could have been as useful to those
who want hens only for their eggs as our
modern animated egg mach mes, the Black
spanish, Leghorns or uamburgs which
hardly give themselves rest enough from lay
ing TO keep themselves from an ca ly grave.
As iondty AS We may hug the deiusIOr, we
cannot resist the 70 rec OF testimony to the
fact that our modern fowls show the result
of persistent effort toward lmprovtme as
much az the present rsc-s OF cattle, she ep
or swine-LiUe StOck Journal
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

The GREAT FIRES IN LOWER CALIFoR-
MIA The San Diego (Cal.) Union of the
2oth ult., gives the following concerning
the fires which are said to have burned
over fifty square miles of territory in
Lower California
The fires which have been raging near
the boundary line in Lower California
during the past four or FIVE days surpass
in severity and extent of country burned
over those of any year within the recollec-
tion of the oldest settler Certain sections
of Lower California bordering on this
country have always been regarded as
subject to these annual visitatlons. but
this year the destructive element has Wis
tied places and valleys hitherto exempt.
Among the valleys that have until this
year enjoyed immunity from fire is the
Rosario. But during the past five days
the flames have swept it entirely and now
there is scarcely bunch of dried grass to
be found in the valley. a gentleman who
has Just arrived from the lower country
informs US that the fires have swept over at
least fifty square miles of land, and that
their destructyeness had never been
equaled in former years. He thints s that
the flames were confined to the north
side of Table Mountain, and that they did
not spread further south. Ii his surmise is
correct, the entire country burned over is
visible from this city. Judging from
appearances We should think that his
estimate of the amount burned over is
rather within than over the marx. On
Saturday last, when the fires seemed to be
at their hight, the entire range of country,
commencing at a point due east ofthe city
and extending to the seacoast on the south
east, seemed to be burning. Vast volumes
ofsmoke filed the air, and the odor ofthe
burning brush and grass was distinctly
noticeable in this city, forty miles from
the fire"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-12-18

flag or the country is under discussion.
The affirmative in all instances is the strong
est, and comes from the best quarters, but
there is minority always there, insignif-
cant though it may be. Blood is thicker
than water, but Geneva and Berlin have
had some effect.
At Manchester Sergeant Bates was
greatly lionized, and was compelled to
speak from a hotel balcony. Here he
was presented with the union jack, which
he intends to carry all over the American
continent on a similar wager.