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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-12

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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

MARRIAGE AMONG THE APAcHEs.-Even
those copper-colored cutthroats. the
Apache Indians. have touch of delicacy
and romance in them. From lecture de-
livered in San Francisco, by Colonel John
e. Carmany, we take the following account
of their courting customs Every young
girl is at liberty to refuse suitor for her
hand. The father, mother, and brother
are prohibited from interfering in her
choice. Her person is at her own disposal.
After brief courtship the lover makes
formal proposal by offering so many horses.
Horses are standard of value among In
dians. As the squaw does all the work.
horses are accepted as an equivalent for
her labor. When a young warrior be-
comes enamored, he fastens the horse near
the wigwam of the squaw whose hand he
seeks, where he is left for four days. If
she fails to feed aud water the horse
during that time the master is rejected. but
if she accepts his offer she grooms and
kindly cares for the horse, and then ties
him to the wigwam Of her lover, as much
as to say, am willing to be your slave
and do your work." At the marriage the
sages and sachems meet together. and the
bride is not unfrequently loaded with forty
to fifty pounds of silver and copper trim
kets.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

BOXING THE EARS tends to dull the SEN
sibility Of the nerve, even if it does not
hurt the membrane. 1 knew a pitiful
case, once, of poor youth who died from
a terrible disease of the ear. he had bad
a discharge from it since he was a child.
Of course, his hearing had been dull and
what had happened was that his father
had often boxed his ear, for inattention
Most likely that boxing on the ear. diseased
as it was, had much to do with his dying.
And this brings me to the second point.
Children should not be blamed for being
inattentive, until it has been found out
whether they are not little deaf. This
is easily done by placing them at few
yards distance. and trying whether they
can understand what is said to them in q
rather low tone of voice. Each ear should
be tried, while the other is stopped by the
finger. l do not say that children are
never guilty of inattention, especially to
that which they do not particularly wish
to hear. Three things should be remem-
bered here: /. That slight degrees of
deafness, often lasting only for time, are
very common among children, especially
during or after colds. 2. That slight
deafness. which does not prevent person
from hearing when he is expecting to be
spoken to, will make him very du | to
what be is not expecting and, 8. That
there is a kind of deafness in which a per-
son can hear pretty we'll while listening,
but is really very hard Of hearing when not
listening.-Dr. Hinton.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

Mr.. HALE ON TEMPERANCE.-The Lib
erM Christian prints most excellent ser
mon by Rev. E, E. Hale on purity and
Paritans. in which he. thus .alludes to tenn
perance: believe that in temperance
the children have improved upon the
fathers; | believe that the last halt GEN.
tury. with bad reactions and rebufs, has
on the whole, made vast improvements
in this matter. Boston has not, perhaps,
improved so much as the country, but on
the whole, the sef-control in face of this
terrible temptation, more terrible in our
climate than perhaps in any other. is, as L
believe stronger and more reliable than
ever before. [ believe We see the danger
of intemperauce as the Puritans did not
see it. l believe We see the way to surer
and more perfect temperance in this mat
ter in the future. L trust to God that no
young man hears me who has not taken 10
through and through the Puritan theory,
that if he is to serve God and to serve man.
if he is to serve the State. if he is to do bis
fair manly share of duty by the world. he
must rise superior to every temptation of
the cup. He ought to be ashamed. if be
thinks he needs its cheer or help for any
duty. even the most arduous. He ought
to 60 and come in campaign, in jour-
ney. in voyage, in the wilderness, in the
tempest, with the tough Puritan strength
of true New Englander. without asking
for stimulaut, without resting on boughten
courage, able at any instant to bear or
forbear with the simple strength given to
pure body by an Almighty God. He
ought to keep himself pure.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

was bound for the north via. the Northern
Central Railroad: After leaving the gap in
the mountains above Harrisburg, the valley
widens, and the mountains retreat from the
river, which divides between Northumber-
land and Sunburg. The head waters Of the
north branch rise 10 New York, not more
than fifty miles southwest of Albany, while
the west branch drains the northwestern
part OF Pennsylvania, east of the mountains
that separate it from the head-waters of the
Allegheny. am to follow the west branch
to Wiliamsport, beautiful town of Is, 900
Inhabitants, and the great lumber mart of
northern Pennsylvania. The amount repre-
sented here in the lumber trade, both in
square and cubic feet, and their values, is
simply fabulous. l saw single boom which
held in its strong embrace over sixty millions
feet of pine and hemlock lumber, and this
was only one of the many stretched across
the river at available points, for a hundred
miles above. The logs are manufactured
into lumber here and shipped south and east
by rail, canal and river.
Near Williamsport, up the west branch,
is the famous wild CIT REGION" noted for
its new and extensive tanneries and lumber
ing interests, Messrs. Peck and Johonnott
would fancy this sort of thing, l imagine,
and would enjoy looking through those i'm
mense piles of bark, and leather establish
ments. A vast tract of territory as opened
by the Pennsylvania and Erie Raj lroad to
this branch of industry, as we'll as to dis
coveries of coal and iron.
HApuoy
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

DAUGHTERS intelligent writer says
d" 1t is not possible to over estimate the aG
vantages which would result from men in
trades and professions allowing their daugh-
ters some participation in the work of their
daily lives. What girls want is larger OBJ
servation of the world, and deeper knowl-
jge of human nature. There are few Of our
merchants and manufacturers and profess.
ioual men who could not largely avail them
selves of the services of their educated and
competent daughters; and if such services
could be rendered generally available. it is
not too much to say that wider and more
fertile social lie would arise for mankind.
Mems occupations would in no sense be
prejudiced, whilst women would at once
find that outlet for their faculties for which
so many of them have been so long striving.
A certain responsibility would increase
their self reliance. A capacity for earning
would remove their sense of dependence;
and definite occupation would bring both
health and cheerfulness and the larger ex-
periences of life would give force and com
pleteness to their mental character.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

would conceal me l quietly raised myl
head; the ground was slightly rising, and
I could see around for some distance,
There was my horse unconsciously grazing
away, but the grass was too long for me to
see my enemy's whereabouts. i, however,
guessed that he would try and get between
us, and so 1 waited, watching and grasping
my rife.
Ten minutes passed in silence, and then
| fancied that the grass was moving un-
naturally. In another second hand and
bow appeared; heard little twang, and
saw the tiny messenger of death again
pierce the spot where had been. kept
myself from firing, though l covered the
place. Surely he would become impatient,
and give better chance. Another ten
minutes, and suddenly, in different spot,
which commanded a better view of my
cap. little black head peered over the
grass. 1t was enough and as fired, .
shrill shrek and spasmodic spring into
the air told me that had nothing more to
fear.
Getting out as quickly as possible,
dragged myself-ior the limb was now
much swollen, and becoming more and
more painful-to my saddle, where l
carried in little bottle some remedy for
snake bites, and poured out a large dose.
After drinking it,. L caught my horse,
| saddled it, and picking up two of the
arrows, went to have look at the dead
Bushman. He was scarcely over four feet
high, with arms SO long and thin as to
reach deformity, short and bow kneed legs
supporting little round body-he had
evidently not been starving lately-and
features SO closely resembling those of an
intelligent ape, that had there been a tail,
no one would have thought twice about
the matter. l did not remain long there
was no time to lose, SO, taking his bow, |
mounted, and putting the horse at his
best pace, started on my long ride. knew
we'll that the only chance of saving my
life depended on my reaching Ladysmith
that night and obtaining medical aid. The
distance was sixty miles, and, there were
nothing but Dutch Doors houses on the
road whence | could not hope for any help.
For the first twenty miles l kept steady
on my way, though the agony was dread:
full, and could hardly sit my horse. |
reached an Euglishman's farm, pulled up,
and asked for spirits to keep my strength
up, and fresh horse. | shall not forget
his wife's look as she came out and saw
me by the light of her Pickering candle.
They brought me out bottle of whiskey
and tumbler which | filled and drank of
neat, but they had not got horse " up. >
They were, all running, and it would take
hours to find them. | do not remember
much more of that wild moonlit ride; |
just retained sense enough to 60 straight
How | did it | do not know, as for the
great part of the way there was no road
However Providence guided me right, and
| reached the town at one A. NJ. l had
finished the whiskey on the road, and to
that the doctor ascribed my recovery. For
days | was delrious, and it was six weeks
before | got well, and for years the wound
did not heal. Even to the present day it
bursts out afresh, and will probably do &c
to the end of my existence.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

Our Laughing Laddie is Tam no longer.
The shepherds boy, who, taking his
mothers morning kiss went laughing and
frolickipg out On the braes five and twenty
years ago, is now Mr.. Thomas Telford
about whose works all the world is talk
ing. And we'll they might talk. From
shat date onward for forty years be was
the great engineer of Europe. In concep-
ton, description, and execution of the
mightest works of internal Improvements,
the apprenticed stone mason of Westerkirk
has never had an equal. His history Is
the history of English engineering.
We can 10 more than refer to some OF
the works which made Telford's name
famous, and loaded it with honors. He
conducted the Ellesmere canal across the
river Dee, seventy feet above its bed; he
threw as if with the magic skill of
Aladdin's lamp, at a height of one hun
dred and twenty seven feet above the same
river, the Ponteyslite aqueduct; and by
means of the Caledonian canal, which at
that day was the grandest specimen of in
land navigation the world had ever seen,
he poured the waters Of the North Sea, in
spite of unforeseen difficulties and almost
insuperabe obstacles, into the Atlantic.
In 1908 he was invited by the king to
visit Sweden. If the Bereneau can be
Joined to the Baltic" the Swedes had
been saying for twenty years, " then the
sun will shine in Northland." But the
Swedish engineers feared failure. Our
stone mason said " Yes when he had ira.
versed the rugged hills which separate the
two waters; and in three years the long
goudoas guided by Norwegian fishermen,
were floating from Stockholm toChristiana
on the waters of the Skager Rack. Telford
returned home, knighted by the Swedish
king, and almost idollzed by his people.
To this day travellers come from every
part of the world to see the Menal Suspen-
sion bridge. 1t is flung across the strait
like bow in the heavens. The tallest
masted ships ride beneath it. In design
and work manship it is even yet unequal led
And as for beauty, there is not ruined
temple in Greece, nor a statue in the
Vatican, that surpasses it. Graceful and
light in appearance as spiders web,
picturesque as surveyed from the neighbor
ing cliffs beyond representation, and solid
/ as the everlasting rocks which form 1t:
piers, it is monument to native genius
the noblest in the world. So long as il
spans the waters, Telfords name will mo-
be forgotten.
Our hero reached the age of seventy
seven, great in intellect, and good in heart
proud of his power as man IN the pres
ence of men, humble as a follower Of Jesu
in the presence of God. He died in 1854
The British nation honored his memory
with public funeral, and his remain:
rest in Westminster Abbey. Exceptln!
the case of the great and good Faraday
who, from the stable-room over Londol
news to the lecture-desk in the Roya
Institution, walked all the way with God
[ know Of no instance where simple taltl
went hand in hand through life with might.
intellect more striking than that Furnished
by the Laughing Laddie of Eskdale.-N
Y. Observer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16
Doctor Charming.

How far away appears that memorable
quarrel in Harvard College, when John
Quincy Adams was Professor of Rhetoric
there, and when DR.. Holiness shadowy
hero the Rev. Eliphalet Pearson, seeded
from the faculty and resi- gned his fellowship
rather than countenance the inroad of Ar
minian theology. That was less than sew
enty years ago; and it is just seventy years
since DR.. Charming accepted the call to
settle over the Federal Street Society in
Boston, where he preached for nearly forty
years. Before that ministry was half
ended be was the most renowned and
celebrated preacher in Boston; and long
before his death, in 1912, he had Eu
ropean reputation as we'll as the widest
celebrity in the United States. His fame
was of mixed and general character to
the majority he was hereto in religious
opinion, holding and successfully propagat-
ing unsound doctrines to many he was
the patriarch of their sect; to more, per-
haps, light and guide in philosophy y
and literature while others knew him as
the impressive pulpit orator, the enthusi-
astic but self-restrained reformer, the re-
vered and sanity devotee of faith at
once spiritual and practical.
Even Boston has wellnigh lost remem-
brance of the era when Charming and
Everett and Bancroft and Sparks and
Pafrey were all Unitarian ministers, and
it is only by an effort that any of us can
call up that long buried past. Yet in
1919, when Mr.. Everett, newly returned
from Europe, was rousing enthusiasm in his
Greek classes at Cambridge, and while
Mr.. Bancroft was pursuing his studies in
Germany under DR.. Kirkland's patronage
while Mr.. Emerson was Junior in col
ege, and before Mr.. Caleb Cushing be-
came his tutor,-in that year Mr.. Sparks
was settled over Unitarian parish in
Baltimore, and Mr.. Charming, not yet a
doctor of sacred theology, went down to
preach his ordination sermon and to de-
clare to the Southern people what Unita-
rianism truly meant. Let it be added that
DR.. Palfrey, who was classmate of Mr..
Sparks, was already preaching; aud that
Mr.. George Ripley, now President of the
New York Tribune Association, but then
aiming towards the Unitarian ministry, en-
tered college that same year; while Theo.
dore Parker was painfully beginning Latin
on his fathers little farm in Lexington. How
much of the intellectual history of New
England do these names suggest: and how
many of the men who bore them owed the
inspiration of their lives in good part to
DR.. Charming! But when the great fire
swept over the spot where Charming
preached SO many years. few of the Bos'
tonians of last November reminded them.
selves that his pulpit once stood there,
and that his parsonage was not far off,
From Atlantic for July.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

ANECDOTES OF JOHN BUNYAN.-To pass
away the gloomy hours in prison, Bunyan
took a rail out of the stool belonging to
his cell. and with his knife fashioned it in
to flute. The keeper hearing music, fol-
lowed the sound to Bunyan's cell, but while
he was unlocking the door the ingenious
prisoner placed the rail in the stool, so that
the searchers were unable to solve the
mystery; nor during the remainder of Bun
yan's residence in the Jail did they ever
discover how the music was producsi.
FrorL all old accounts of Bedford there
is an equally gooi anecdote. Amau came
to Bunyan in Jail, one day, with what he
professed to be message from the Lord.
= After searching for thee," said he. in
Z" half the jails in England, am glad to
have found thee at last" Z" If the Lord
sent thee," said Bunyau sarcastically, {" you
would not have needed to take so much
trouble to find out. for he knows I have
been in Bedford Jail these seven years
past"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

A NOBLE REpLY.-The best temperance
speech ever heard fell from a woman's
lips. 1t happened on this wise:-l was
calling upon family with whom she pass
ed part of each summer, and the conver-
sation CHANGED to turn upon the practice,
so common in fashionable circles, of offer
ing wine to callers she remarked -" 1t
is passed to me, but [ always refuse it,
and tell them the mother of tour boys ,oust
not ronch H,-MUsN'T EVEN Touch IT.,
She was winning. graceful, beautiful wo-
man, but | had thought her woman of
the world, and myself much the superior
in the sterner qualities of womanhood but
| now stood before her with downcast eyes
and burning cheeks, for l remembered
when wine had been offered me and had
not refused it. From the depths of my
heart | honored her, and thanked God
that he had given her four boys. A fresh
tide of intemperance seems sweeping over
the land, and no mother can say that she
is guiltless when her sons fall prey to
the tempter, if she has even looked upon
the wine sparkling in its cup,-even touch
ed it,-eren touched 1t. l recall a pleas
ant little story Of one of these four boys.
He is in the employ of one of Boston:
merchant princes, and is perhaps bes'
known for his passionate love of fowera
He is never during their season, without
bouquet of choice flowers in his button
hole. His employer noticed this, anc
chided him one day for his extravaganza
Jamie looked him in the face and said
pointing to his bunch of flowers" This
sir, is my tobacco. The merchant turning
upon his heel, with vision of the green
backs turned to ashes on his own lips, ant
l doubt not with sudden thought of longer
draughts and deeper potations, remarked
=" James, yom are uise boy" AS VI
contrast the filthy weed wich God neve
made so, with the fragrant flowers, the ex
preston of His own love of the beautiful
we can but feel that the son was worthy o
the mother. His breath had never beel
poisoned by tobacco, nor his brain 6re'
with alcohol, but instead, he had, thougl
only clerk, bank account of which am
young man might be proud.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

over the cost of the ribbon, and makes up
her mind to have flowers in hers like
those worn by the woman in the corner,
and lace like that gaudy-looking creature
in the middle. And when she walks down
the street and studies all the hats that
come along, and when woman passes her
with one on, she twists her neck around to
see how it looks behind, and is disgusted
to see that the woman is also disloeating
her neck, to see how she trims her hat.
When she arrives in front of q millinery
store she fingers until she has analyzed all
the spring hats in the window, and she
determines to trim hers nineteen different
ways, and decides not to have flowers like
the woman who sat in the corner, Then
she shoots into the store and asks to see
hats, with the air of person who has a
whole female seminary to rig out with
eighty dollar head gear. She examines
every hat in the establishment, overhauls
ten bushels Of flowers, gets about twenty
dollars worth of work out of the sales
woman, and then says she will look
further. Then she goes home with her
mind fixed on thirty-eight or nine different
styles in which she wants to trim her hat
After awhile she begins to think she
ought to have a feather in it, and she
passes two or three sleepless nights trying
to decide whether to put one on or not.
At last she resolves she will. Then
she lies awake for two more nights en-
deavoring to determine whether it shall be
red or blue. She fixes on blue. She
buys the trimming and sews it on in sew.
enty successive positions, her mind filled
with deepest anxiety as to whether the
feather should 60 on the right side, the
left side, or on top. She puts it on the
right side, but just then Mrs. Brown
passes the front window with a feather on
the left side of hers, and so she change
it. The next morning Mrs. Ferguson
calls, and her feather is on the right side
and then another change is made A
church the next day, Mrs. Smith ha
feathers on both sides, and Mrs. johnson
has one on top. Then more sleeples
nights and more painful uncertainty. A
last, in utter despair she takes the nat tc
a miliner and pays ten dollars to have il
trimmed. When it comes home she pro
nounces it hateful, and picks it all Il
pieces, and broods over it, and worries ant
frets, and loses her appetite, and feels iif'
to be burden for two weeks longer, unit
suddenly she hits just the right thing, an
becomes once more serene and happy, an
puts the hat on and goes out and make
millions Of other women miserable becaus
their hats are not trimmed exactly lik
hers. As wife, woman is blessing; a
mother, she is an inestimable boon; a
5 an organizer of spring hats, she is simpl
an object of compassion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

The CITY OF WASHINGTON DISASTER
The saloon passengers were mostly chatting
or playing cards when the ship went at
full speed on Gull Rock shoal. She gave
two slight bumps, and tremendous tre-
NOR ran through her. No one had the
slightest idea where the ship was. After
the lapse of half an hour of terrible con-
fusion, from cannon-6ring, fog-horns blow
ing, and women aud children shrieking, a
sailor cried. 8" hear a human voice." A
death-like silence followed, and soon two
brave men, Cornelius Swanburg and Will.
lam Ferguson, who had put out from shore
in small boat, climbed up the side of the
ship. The latter had just risen from q
a sick bed. The work Of disembarking
Immediately commenced, under their guild
apce, with three ships boats, the second
sfaser standing st ths gangwsy Of the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

ARKANsAs.-The Arkansas linguists feel
that if the name of that state is to be often
in the mouths of men, as it is likely to con-
tinue to be unless the inhabitants mend
their manners, then the true and orthodox
pronunciation of it should be definitely SET
tied. The weight of authority 10 the state
is in favor of the broad "a' in the last
syllable, with the final " s. silent-Arkau-
sad. To fix the matter definitely and
authoritatively the native linguists have in
vestigated the derivation of the word. The
territory was called Ock-en-sea. The old
French settlers spelled it, as their records
testify, Akencea-the GO" being soft.
This indicates that the final s" should not
be sounded. The inhabitants prefer Arkan-
sasc, and as it is their own state We sup
pose that they have . right to do - they