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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

SCENE IN AN OPIux SHoP.-One who
has never visited IN opium shop can have
40 conception Of the fatal fascination that
holds it's victims fast bound-mind. heart,
soul and conscience. all absolutely dead to
every impulse but the insatiabIe. ever-in-
creasing thirst for the dsmniug poison. 1
entered one of these dens once, but can
never forget the terrible sights and sounds
IF that place of torment" Toe apart
ment was spacious. and might have been
pleasant but for ITS foul odors and still
fouler scenes Of funuttersbIe woe-the foot
prints of sin trodden deep in the furrows
ofthose haggsrd faces and emaciared forms.
On ali four -ides of the room we're couches
placed th'ckly against the vail. and others
we're scattered over the apartment wherever
there was room for them. On each of
these lay extended the wreck of what was
once . man. Some few we're old-sll we're
hollow-eyed. with sunken cheeks and ca
,iaverous countenances; many were clothed
IN rags. having probably smoked away
their last dollar; while others were off:r-
ing to pawn their only decent garment for
An additional dose Of the deadly drug. A
decrepit cd man raised himself as We en-
tered, drew long Sigh and then with =
bsIf-utsered imprecation on his own folly
proceeded to refill his pipe. This be did
by scraping of, with a fve-inch steel
needle, some OPIUM from the lid of tiny
shell box. rolling the paste into pill, and
then after heating it in the blaze of a lamp,
deposit it within the small aperture Of his
pipe. Several short wn'ffs followed then
the smoker would remove the pipe from
his mouth and lie back motionless and
replace the pipe. and with fast-glsziug eyes
blow the smoke sIo~ly through his pallid
nostriis. As the narcotic eff scts OF the
opium began to work he fell back on the
couch in state of 81 " stupetaction that
was alike pitiable and disgusting. An
other smoker, mere youth, lay with face
buried in his hands. and as he lifted his
bead there was . look of despair such as [
have seldom seen. Though SO young. be
vas . complete wreck, with hollow eyes,
sunken chest. and q nervous twitch,ng in
every muscle. spoke to him, and learn.
ed that six months before he had lost his
whole patrimony by gambling. and came
hither to qu,f forgetfaloess from these
Letheau cups; hoping he said. to 6ad death
as we'll as oblivioo. By far the larger
proportion of the smokers we're Sd entlre-
ly under the influence of the stupefying
poison as to preclude any attempt at con-
versation. and We passed out from this
moral pest-house SICK at heart as va
thought of these infatuated victims of self
Indulgence and their starving families at
home. This banefal habit. once formed,
,s seldom given up, and from three to Eve
years indulgence will utterly wreck the
ERNEST constitution, the train becoming
iaily moIe emaciated, the eyes % re sunk.
en-. and the counteusnoe more csdavsrous
till the brain ceases to perform its func
sions. and death places its seal on the
wasted life.-Lppiacoft for September.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

WHERE DID APPLES ORIGINATE.-Among
the plant puzzles, Where dld the apple
originate has been one of the best dis
cussed of questions. A few years ago,
when the remains of the lake dwellers-a
people whe lived in houses made on piles
driven into the mud of the lakes-were
discovered, and apples were found in the
mud beneath, it was thought We had got
nearer the origin Of the apple; but when
they found wheat, fax and other things
also in the mud, and which certainly were
not indigenous to Switzerland, it was felt
that the great apple secret was as far
away as ever.
The great horticultural botanist, Koch.
believing that the apple is but develop
ment from some species yet existing, start
ed years ago with the determination to
fnd its native country. In 1868, With
the encouragement of Goethe and Hum
boidt. be explored the whole Caucasian
region, eastward to the Caspian Sea. He
found the apple in immense quantities
growing in large woods; but declded that,
though thus wild enough, it was not abor-
,ginal, although evidently growing there
from prehistoric times. Oae thing was
clear to him from what he learned on these
explorations, and that was that the arts Of
horticulture and agriculture were at one
time very far advanced among the ancieuts
of whom We know nothing, and that for
some thousands Of years after this there
Was gradual decline. After much time
and travel and an earnest spirit Of inves.
| tigation Koch failed to 6ad the apples
early home. He is inclined, however, to
think that what we have as the apple is a
" brid between several species OF apple
VIII ch does now exist. OF these, be names
what is known in nurseries as the Paradise
apple tPyrus pm mlia precor) used te
make stocks for dwarf apples; PyrM,
dasyphylla. the doucain stock p. Sytres'
tris and p. prunifolia, parents chiefly Of
the Russian and SlberIao crab apples
From some of these, Koch thinks the cul
tlvated apple must have sprung.
1t twill thus be seen, that nothing can
certainly be found of the apples origin
The hybrid view c,uld be easily tested
The species named. could readily be cross
ed and the result noted. But, as one
speculation is as good, perhaps. rs another
it is just as likely as not that the anc,en'
people, good agriculturists as We are com
ing to believe them to be, may have
cleared" aswe clear the ancient woods
Of Asia, and thus utterly destroyed The
wild localities, as we are doing with some
of our wild trees and plants; and that il
this way only the things which happened
to be preserved from the woodman's " Ak,
or some other, perhaps, natural destruct
i've agency, have been handed down to US
OF course, this implied that they had im
pements of culture more advenced thar
we think they had. Some day, when the
"Shah gives US railroads and other f.
elites for getting into the heart Of thess
old places, we may know more
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

it is soon as they could speak. The nasal
twang Of 3aff,lk is known in the other
parts Of Eagland as " Suffolk singing" !"
Mass Kate Field says that the nasal
t~ang' is very strongly marked 10 some OF
the English counties. Sle must refer to
the eastern counties-Norfoik, Su& 'lk.
Essex and Cambridge. On coming to
this country fouod twang among some
Of the people, and particularly Of the New
Englanders, very similar to that Of Suffolk,
and the case of the letter b was repeated
here; and passing through New England
could not fail to notice that very large
proportion Of the towns had been named
after those Of the eastern counties OF Eng-
land. which appeared to show that the
greater portion of the original settlers
came from the part Of the old couutry.
Here, then, was the simple explanation OF
the twang which is peculiar to the Yankee.
The first settlers Of Massachusetts, came
iu chief part from Saff,lk and ne,ghbor,ng
counties, and stamped the impress OF their
accentuatIon and tone of voice on the Ian.
guage OF the state, and as other imni-
grants never afterward arrived in sufficient
numbers to swamp the original settlers
the children Of the later comers caught
the accent which prevailed most in the
colony. 1t will be needless for me 10 point
out now that New Englanders in consider
atle degree stamped the whole country
with their character and language, for il
is thing we'll known to all Americans
70 verify this theory of mine l referred
the other night, to Pslfrey's History ol
New England, and [ found it there stated
that the original settlers named th'
towns after those from which they hae
come, and also that. as the greater part o
the colonists came from the east of Eag
land, they named the four counties int
which Massachusetts, was at first divided
Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Middlesex
THIS corroboration of my preconceived
idea of the part Of England whence th'
colonists first came assures me that AN
right in my opinion of the origin Of wha
is called the nasal twang of the Yankee
and also why the American shoeblack vii
be more correct in the use of his his thai
educated gentlemen from any part of Eag
land excepting the eastern Counties
Correspondence Of the Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

WY SHI REfuseD.-You say you
vent to . party last night. and you saw
Mrs. Smith. a old friend, whom you had
not seen since she aud your sister were at
school together. You had very pleasant
talk until supper. when you gave her your
arm and took her to supper. When some
one came along with . few glasses of wine
pn waiter and off,red her q glass, you
saw her shudder as she said, I" No !" and
you wondered why Mrs. Smith. who didn't
ase to be particular about such things, not
only refused, but shuldered when she SAID
No! You cannot tell why7 1 Gao tell
WY. Y'u went on With your talk ; and
little q a.ttering. did you? wort say
you didn't. Sac was very gay and seemed
very glad to forget herse f. did s1e 7
Very well, [ am very glad you gave her
that hour of the evening. 1 can tel you
shere she went after the party was over.
She went home-the latest person from the
party. She vas glad it was late, for her
husband had not come home. Sac sat and
read for an hour. and her. husband did not
come. Sac wrote for an hour, and her
husband did not come. Sae sat at the
piano for an hour, but he did not come.
At length, between three and four o'cl ,ck i,
there was . noise at the door. she went
to the door, and two policemen held him
q their arms. She knows them both we'll
by this time. It happened 90 often that
she knew every policemen on the beat.
They bade her good night. She had lock-
ed her child room that he might not
abuse him. She took the abuse as be flung
himself on the bed. She dragged off his
oeck-cloth and coat. and sat there until he
should fall into his stupid sleep. She was
the woman who refused the glass of wine
With shudder. You thought she was gay
and bright. know her story because I
AN her minister. They have sort of
skeleton in the closet, which We are per-
mitted to see and you are not. And when
We see that skeleton, do you wonder that
We sometimes say pretty sharp things
about moderase drinking. and the tempts-
t'ons offered 1t parties ?-Rer. E. +.
Hale.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON PRISON D1scI.
PIINE.-ln the matter Of devising the best
mode of reformatory punishment for
crimes against property, to which | owe
my correspondence with yourself, / believe
nothing has been done but talk. Yet the
subject is becoming more pressing every
year. No one but knows of skillful work
men, discharged with good character and
good trade from prison, yet resuming the
trade of theft within few days, even
few honr,, as more lucrative, and even in-
forming employers that they had been in
Jail as means of escaping employment.
Who can believe that this would be the
case if these persons had to work
out and pay the price of their
theft? Theft would Dot then be lu-
crative. As it is, good prison is actual
ly reward, not deterrent to the thief.
No one but knows the sickly, unskillful
thief, who likes the good bed Of the prison,
his trade of thieving not being renumera-
tive, but the prison is. 1t is stated that
one of the four American forgers who have
just been convicted here was just out of an
American prison for forgery. Who can
believe that, had he been sentenced to
work out and repay the price of his former
forgery, he would instantly, on his release
from prison, have recommended the same
course ? The prison is actually not a
punishment for, but, as it were, an encour-
agement to, thieving. At least, it is theft
made easy. (For crimes accompanied
with violence. especially for violence to-
ward women and children, would whip.)
Now the United States, which are fore
most in the field in these good matters,
ought they not to show us some new sys-
TEN in these things? The important sub
ject of g How to reform prostitutes, how
to teach them to earn an honest livelihood.
with all the means absolutely essential,
moral and religious, for Strengthening the
wills of these poor creatures, equally far
from petting and from revolving cheerless-
ness, this, too, is a thing on which we
seem to have made little progress and in
which we might we'll exchange information :
al experience. Pardon me. dear sir, this
note, for which l feel do need your par
don, as nv hands are already so much too
full of business that, invalid as [ am and a
prisoner to my room, it is impossible for
me to take up and practically to work out
this reformatory subject. But leave 1t
in worthier hands than mine. May God
bless you for all you have done and all
you will do Letter to Prof Wines.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

The LATEST INVENTION FOR PRoPELLING
CANAL BOATS BY S.EAM.-The 100000
prize offered by the New York Legislature
for a steam craft that can be propelled at
the rate of Eve miles an hour on the Erie
canal without damaging the banks, has
called out no end Of competition among
inventors. One of the most hopeful as
we'll as ingenious contestants for the prize
is Col. Roberts of T.tusviile, Pa, who
has recently completed an experimental
steam-tug that seems to comply with all
the requirements. The boat has neither
screw nor paddle-wheels, and yet when its
little three-horse-power machinery was
set in motion on the trial, the other day,
she moved from her moorings like q
thing Of life." making speed of five miles
an hour, against current running mile
an hour, which speed would probably have
been materially increased had she been
afoat on sheet of wafer large enough to
have allowed her to have got under way
And now az to the mode of propulsion
A nidships is tubular boiler and three.
horse.p, wer engine, the whole weighing
two thousand SIX hundred pounds. Tue
engine is simply a double-action pump,
resting on hollow bed-plate or boz
about four feet long. At each end OI
this hollow bed plate there is double.
acting valve so worked with connectiug G
rods that when one of the valves toward
the bow of the boat is open, the CORES.
ponding one towards the stern is shut, and
vice versa. Connecting with this hollow
bed-pate or box are square receiving and
dischargipg sluices. Now it is apparent
that when the engine is at work constant
stream of water is received through the
forward sluiceway. and discharged througt
the rear one at the stern. Aud it is also
clear that the deeper down the boat il
loaded the more power will be given tt
the waiter discharged to send her through
the water. and consequently the less sgl
tation will b, on the surface.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

more and something better in our politi-
eians than knowledge or scholarship, until
We demand that they shall be gentlemen.
we shall take no step forward. George
" Washington got along very we'll as a poli-
tician on limited capital Of culture. and
large one OF patriotism and personal
dignity. Aaron Burr was scholar whose
lack OF principle spoiled him for any good
end In politics, and made his pane stencil
IN the nostrils of his country.-Dr. J. G.
Holland, Scri6ner's for October.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

WHERE THE YANKEs NASAL TwANa
CANE FRox.-I am IN Englishman
from one of the northern counties. Liv-
ing for some months in the county of
Suffolk, l was struck with the nasal twang
that ell the people had, and also was sur
prised to find that the very poorest and
most nneducsted people would correct me
when | misused the lstter 10 my pronuncia.
ton, the correct use Of that letter being to
them quite natural, q they begin 70 learn
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01
The World and 1.

Whether my heart be glad or no,
The summers come, the summers go.
The lanes grow dark with dying leaves;
Icicles hang beneath the caves;
The asters wither to the snow:
Thus doth the summer end and go,
Whether my life be glad or no.
Whether my life be sad or no,
The winters come, the winters 60,
The sunshine Lays W tn baby leaves;
Swallows build about the caves;
Theslovels W pd-fowers bend and blow:
hus doth The winter end and go,
Whether my life be sad or no.
Yet Mother Nature gives to me
A fond and patient sympathy;
In my own heart find the charm
T" make her tender, near and warm:
Through summer sunshine, winter snow,
She clasps me, sad or glad or no.
NELLY NJ. HUTCHINSON, in Harper's Magazin
or October.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

A new and important fact in silk cui-
ture has been developed by the Acclima.
tion Society, France, namely. that SILK Of
varied color can be produced by feeding
the silkworm on different leaves. Worms
fed on vine leaves produces . silk Of .
magnificent red color. Lettuce has been
found to produce an emersid-green oolored
silk.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-01

consignments of oranges having been al
ready received. The orange has 80 far
been much more cultivated than the lemon.
The trees grow to about the size Of an
apple tree, and begin bearing when from
three to FIVE years old A full grown tree
yields from $40 to 1000 oranges year.
The fruit is carefully picked by men and
boys. assorted by women. who reject every
detective specimen, and then wrapt in pa
per and packed in boxes by girls. ."-Ru-
raj New- Yorker.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-07
NEW HERALD SATURDAY JUNE l. l873-TRIPLE SHEET.

time OF payment was ever made; that the drafts
were only taken as collateral; that none OF them
was accepted and but one paid by the drawers.
Judge Curtis charged the jury that the defence
was OF q dual natnre--usury and extension OF Time
without the assent OF the endorser; that II the
jury were satisfied that l.. Steinhardt was an ac-
commodatior endorser without consideration, and
that the first purpose to which the note was put
was an nsurious one, then the note Itself was
tainted in whosevers hands it might come, and
was void that II the Jury believed that plaintln
granted an extension OF time TO pay the note tnen
the liability OF the endorser ceased, as new legai
obligation and responsibility were created ON MS
part but If they believed that no usnrious interest
was exacted and no extension OF time granted,
and that the drafts were simply in the nature OF
collateral security, there should De verdict TOT
plaintiff.
Jury found for plaintiff in $1,000.
Action for Injuries 10 mn Infant.
Moritz Poutschek We. The Gold and Stock Tcle-
graph Company.-The plaintiff sought TO recover
for the loss OF services OF minor son, who II was
alleged, was injured by the agents OF defendant
who were constructing Geographic apparatus
along the line OF the Bowery. 1t appeared in EVIL
dence that the son OF plaintiff in company with
another boy, attempted to leap over long tele-
graph pole as II was being rapidly drawn by TWO
horses down the Bowery and hence the injury. III
was further shown that the work in question was
being done by contractor under Written agree
ment and that the immediate agents and servants
OF defendant were not engaged upon the work at
all.
Judge Curtis on motion Of Mr.. Joseph Lar0cque,
dismissed the complaint upon the ground Of con-
tributary negligence and non-llaDihty III any event
OF the defendant corporation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-07
IMPORTANT COLLISION CASE
A Cross Action at Sea and Ashore
Decision by Judge Blatchf0rd.
BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS.
Suit for the Condemnation Of Oil Paint
ings- Bursting Of Oarboy Of Vitriol
and What Game of It-Liability of
Note Endorsers- Business in the
General Sessions decisions.

Yesterday seven sailors who. had deserted from
the German vessel China were brought before Com
missioner Shields and charged with that offence
the ship, and an order directing them to so on
board was made out accordingly.
In the United States District Court, yesterday,
Judge Batchford rendered his decision in the case
nj Charles ii. Chambers and others the schooner
Helen }. Holway and William 9. Holway and others
vs.. the schooner Enoch J. Moore. This was cross
libel for a collision in the Chesapeake Bay. The
libel OF the Moore was dismissed with costs; on the
libel Of the Holway decree for libelant with costs
with reference to ascertain the damages.
In the United States District Court yesterday,
fore Judge Blatchford and jury, in the of the
United States vs. Forty-fve Oil Paintings, which
was an action to condemn the paintings on the
ground that they were smuggled there was YER
dict for the claimant.
most important question as to the constitu-
tiOnality OF the Habitual Criminals act came up
yesterday In the case Of jeremiah Mccarthy, q
notorious violator of the law, as known TO the
police and the criminal courts, on points raised by
Mr. w. +. Howe. A crowded court OF the class to
which Mccarthy belongs attested the interest
with which the sweeping law is watched and the
terror 1t is calculated to engender in the hearts of
the "habituals." The points are well raised and
were ably sustained by argument The District
Attorney appeared in support Of the constitution
Atty OF the act, and, after full discussion Of the
question: Judge Fancher reserved opinion till this
morning and, in the meantime wiz confer with
his associates.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-07
ANOTHER CHURCH FOR BROOKLYN.

Laying the Corner stone Of TIA ina gels
New Free Tabernacle i'm brooklyn To-
Day.
The laying OF the corner stone OF Rev. T. DE Witt
Tamages new Free Tabernacle will be the event In
BROOKLYN to-day. The new tabernacle will be
erected on the site of the former one (which, it
may be remembered was destroyed by ire last
December, in Schermerhorn, between Nevins and
Powers streets. 1t will be Of brick, $50 feet wide
by 1l2 feet deep, and will accommodate an audience
OF 45o0 people. The audience room win be amph-
theatral in form, the aisles branching on
from the preachers platform. There will be no
pulpit A large gallery viii extend entirely around
the room from one side Of the platform TO the
other. The building Will be erected in the Gothic
style, at total cost Of about ninety thousand
dollars. One feature OF the new Tabernacle VIII be
the great organ. In the former church they had the
sspig organr OF the first Boston Coliseum Jubilee but
in the new building they will have an entirely new
at cost of $4,000. The Tabernacle people say 1t
win be the finest organ in the country The modes
OF ingress and egress at the new edihce viii be as
perfect as possible. 1t will take only five minutes
for the vast audience to leave the building.
The ceremonies attending the laying OF the cor
afternoon, will be OF more than ordinary interest.
Representatives OF the clergy OF all the Protestant
denominations in New York and Brooklyn Will he
present to participate, and among them the Rev.
Drs Prime OrmistOn, Crooks and bowling, OF the
former and Rev. Drs. Buddingt0n, Duryea and
Stars OF the latter city. Mr. Talmagc will also be
present and address the people Should the
weather be unpleasant the exercises VIII be held
In the Lay College building, In the immediate
vicinity OF the Tabernacle site. i