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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

SLEEPING FLOWERS. all flowers
sleep during the night The marigold
goes to bed with the sun, and with him
rises weeping. Many plants are so SEN
sitive that they close their leaves during
the passage of cloud, The dandelon
opens at five or six in the evening. The
goat's bread wakes at three In the morning,
and shuts at five or six in the evening.
The English daisy shuts up its blossoms
in the evening, and opens its days eye "
to meet the early beams of the morning
sun. The crocus, tulip and many others
close their blossoms at different hours
toward the evening. The ivy-leaved let
tuce opens at eight in the morning, and
closes forever at four in the afternoon,
The night blooming cereus turns night into
day. 1t begins to expand its magnificent
sweet-scented blooms IN the twilight; it
is full-blown at midnight, and closes never
to open again with the dawn Of day
In clover field not leaf opens till af-
ter sunrise. These plants which seem to
be awake all night have been called the
" bats and owls Of the vegetable kingdom ,
-SOuthern CultiUator.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

Observation-Disclosures, in his new work
on @ The Expressions of the Emotion in
Man and Animals" has an interesting
chapter on bushing. The act, he tells US,
is the most peculiar and tae most human
Of all expressions Animals never blush,
although monkeys redden from passion
We cannot produce blushing by any phys
ical means; it is the mind which must be
affected and blushing is not only involun-
tary, but the wish to restrain it increase
the tendency. While the young blush
more freely than the old, infants do not
blush women blush more than men; the
blind and the deaf do not escape. 1t is
usually the face, ears and neck only, that
redden the blush does not extend over
the body but certain races who 90 ha-
bitually nearly naked blush over their
arms and chests, and even down to their
waists. The limitation of blushng to ex-
posed parts is explained by the fact that
these portions of the serface have been ha
bltually exposed to the air, light, and al.
terations of tempera ure, by which the
small arteries acquire the habit Of readily
dilatihg or contracting. Hindoos blus
but little the Chinese rarely blush the
Polynesians blush freely; the young
squaw of our American tribes has been
seen to blush the Kaffers of South Africa
never blush, neither do the Australians.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

The WRENs' REoUIEM.-It was on a
morning early in the spring, a few years
ago, that We heard an unusual twittering
outside our bedroom window, above which
is a deep thatch. On looking up We saw
two curious festoons hanging from it, ap-
parently in motion. 1t was in fact, two
half circles, composed of little wrens
clinging to each other by foot and wing to
the number Of twenty or thirty. They
chung together thus for the space of about
two minutes it might be more or less,
for as we did not mark the time by a
watch, could not with certainty say
now. They twittered mournfully all the
while, so different from their usual Joyous
little song then suddenly, as if by one
consent, they in an moment broke loose
and flew away. On descending shortly
afterwards. we found dead wren Just uu-
der the window. over which these festoons
of wrens had been hanging few minutes
before. 1t looked as if these affectionate
little creatures had been singing dirge
over their dead friend below at leas., we
could think of no physical cause for tho
unusual appearance. From that time the
wrens deserted that locality for more than
two years. On speaking of this to one
who had made natural history his study.
he told me it was called the {" Wren's Re-
qulem," and was N established fact.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

STAGES AND KAILwAYs-The first stage
coach in America started from Boston.
from the site of No. 80 North street in
1861. The first line of stage coaches be-.
tween Boston and New York was establish
ed in 1892. coach leaving each city once
a month fourteen days were required to
complete the journey. In 1902 the mail
coach started from Boston for New York
on Monday morning at eight o'clocn. and
was due in New York at noon on Friday.
On the seventeenth of April, 1884, the
first train Of railway passenger cars started
from Boston for Needham, to which place
the Worcester railway was then opened
the Western railway was opened to
Albany December II, 1841. Rail.
ways did not cross the Mississippi river
until 1851; and on the 10th of Nav.
1869, they reached the Pacific. The
number of miles of railway in the world
is one hundred and forty thousand, of
which one-half are in the United States.
These notes We find in the Washington
Republic. They are doubtless in the main,
correct Freight cars for the transporta.
ton of granite were run from the Quincy
quarries earlier than 1884.
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. Her fall is attributed to the deleterious

" Her fall is attributed to tn deleterious
influence of her practice Of reading perni-
cious literature, F." is a remark taken from
a secular journal regarding the now noto,
rious murderess, 6 Kate Stoddard." And
this, alas is the cause of the fall of hun
dreds and thousands of the young of both
sexes Of our land. Few of us have the
least conception of the extent to which this
soul poison is circulated in our midst, and
the means resorted to in order to give it
entrance into the purest families to the
ruin of the children Our railroad cars
are flooded with it; it fourshes on the
tables of all our news-rooms, and in the
windows and at the street corners of the
numerous dealers, And even as waste
paper it does its deadly work, for much of
the matter which is not sold when fresh is
sent to small dealers, who use it as wrap
ping paper for parcels, and thus thrust it
under the eyes of many innocent youth,
who, seeing it for the fist time, are per
chance attracted by its sensational appear
ance to read far enough to acquire taste
of the poison, which creates an appetite
for more. We caution parents to be on
their guard, and carefully to watch lest
they be thus deceived.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

The SAND CLUB.-This murderous weap-
on was originally made by filling an ee'-
skin with fine sand. This formed very
pliable and deadly weapon, A blow could
be struck with it which would easily
break bone without leaving the slightest
mark on the skin. 1t is only within q
few years that the sand club has been in
use or at least known to the public au-
thorities in the United States. Attention
was first called to the curious weapon in
New York. Several bodies of murdered
men were found at different times, the
post-mortem examinations of which show
ed deaths by external violence, but no
marks could be found on the outside of
the body. A burglar was finally captur
ed with sand club in his possession made
out of an eelskin stuffed with sand. Being
closely questioned he explained its use.
When the victim is struck, for instance.
on the head, he drops insensible and soon
dies from congestion of the brain. Often
times the skull suffers no injury from the
stroke, and if the person struck RECEIVERS a
state of sensibility he gradually relapses
into condition Of maudin idiocy Some
times man struck in the body will be
knocked down by the peculiar force of the
blow and feel no immediate results from it..
In few weeks, however, the flesh will
begin to mortify under the line of the blow
and rot down to the bone. Heller, the cele-
brated pianist, is supposed to have met
his death in Mexico from stroke from
this diabohcal weapon-the sand club.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

AMERICAN CHEDDAR CHEESE Geo.
W. Davis, OF Herkimer country, N. Y, has
adopted plan for making cheese which sells
well, and is claimed by him to be success
ful compromise between the American system
and that used by the English in producing
the Cheddar" brand. His course, as
described by himself, is substant illy this:
" Cold water is first run about the watts.
this and boxes TO cool them, after which the
milk is equally distributed in the watts ::
when the milk is brought by the agitators
to the temperature of so part of the water
is turned off; the agit,tors are kept at work
all night; the mornings milk is added. the
heat raised to 80, and then enough rennet
is added to coagulate the milk 10 twenty
minutes; one hour later it is cut one way
and left till the whey appears, then cross
cut again with the horizontal knife next.
heat is applied until the bottom of the vat is
warm, when hand working is commenced
and continued until the heat reached 97o:
1t is then stirred at intervals and left until
there is slight acid, when the whey is run
off, the curd dipped into the sink and left
until the whey has mostly run off: then
1t is turned over with the hands; salt is ap-
Piled when the acid is sufficiently developed
(Which is determined by taste or by hot
irony according to the condition of the curd
. IL to "a pounds in summer and less
IN spring, according to the quality of the
curd, to the 1000 pounds of mix. The salt
Is worked In by hand, and the curd allowed
time to coOl-ffteen to twenty minutes in
hot weather, In case it does not conflict with
the next vat..;; it Is then put Co press.
Is The product. Mr.. D wis claims, is equal
to the Cheddar or the American, if not
better than either. "-C0untry Gtntlempn.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

SEWING Room CoNvENIENCEs. -First of all
sewing-machIne with a hemmer, but
without braider or tucker or corder.
These are great consumers of time and should
be voted nuisance Hang near the sewing
machine scrap bag 1t may be crocheted
OF white cotton and red yarn, and made to
assume cylindrical shape by basting bits
OF old skirt hoop inside; or it may be cut
from old slate colored silesa and have three
sides. bound at the edges with red braid.
A shoe box covered with chntz calico,
with cushion on top to contain materials
70 De made up. The shoe boxes are conven-
lent to have In bedrooms, answering the
double purpose OF receptacles for various
articles and seats for children.
A work basket of course, furnished with
all the appliances for sewing and mending.
A stocking basket, or what is better
stocking apron, made after the STYLE of
hospital aprons, with two or three deem
pockets extending from the hem BALI wav M
the length of the apron. In these pockets
yarns of various colors and qualities have
place. and there is room for perforated bose
to bide its time for repair; there are darninp
needles In is, and old stockings for makjne
new feet and heels.
A bag containing patterns. TOE patterns
should be assorted, those for each member of
the family wrapped separately in piece of
brown paper and duly labeled, that whenever
any particular p,t'era is wanted it may be
.Sund without search.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

FASHIONABLE LITTLE GIRLs.-But one
Of the worst concomitants of this love of
fashion is that it is injecting even young
children. Little girls land it is feared
there will be none left shortly, for they
seem to be fast disappearing) are now
trigged off, and by Christian parents, too,
who ought to know and do better, in all
the ridiculous paraphernalia of their
mothers. 1t is sad to look upon children
thus transmogri6ed. 1t takes away the
child-like character, which is the beauty of
early years, and makes them women before
their time. robbing life of one Of its special
excelencies, the charm of unsophisticated
nature. A little girl looks far more in
terestlug and pleasing in plain and sim
pie attire than when tricked out in the
rings and furbelows and all the gorgeous
ness of fashionable ornamentation.-Let
US have children, yes, if you please, O
fathers and mothers! and not creatures
born into the world, like Eve, to immedi-
ate womanhood, to eat what ought to be
forbidden Acknowledgements Family
Guest.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

KEEPING WORK AHEAD.-rhe great trouble
with most of us is that we lay out too much
work for ourselvec to DO. We get great
many things halt done, and work twice as
hard as need be, when the same amount of
labor judiciOusly expended would have a
threefold result. This is Just how it is 10
the war against weeds. We are so accus-
toned to get into furry about getting
in the crops in time that we forget the weed
crop is already III, and going on at a rapid
pace. We have not untrequently seen the
greatest exertiOn in getting in seeds or
plants that would have done just as well a
week later, when the same time spent in
narrowing or wedding ground, would have
been equal to four times the time at later
period. These remarks of course apply
more to garden than to farm work. Where
horsepower is at hand, weeds half an inch
nigh, If annual weeds, are as easily de-
stroyed by broad tooth cultIvator, as if
they were but just pushing through the
ground but in garden-work simple raklng
up OF the ground when the weeds are just
-proutlng is quite effective as the best
hoeIng would be. An hour or two raking OF
garden between the rows of the various
crops, will in fact almost render hoeing IN
necessary, and thus save many hard day s
work
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

FERrILGzERs-A correspondent Of the Cul-
TRAITOR writes
A short time ago, by the kindness of the
tr ,nslator, [ received pamphlet, with the
title " Chemical Manures.'' ibis one con-
tanned the SIX agricultural lectures delivered
At the Experimental Farm at VIncennes in
the year 1867 by George Vile. These lee
lures, as may be seen, We're delivered by the
SINE author as the preceding, and give the
result of the authors experiments and re-
searches up to the year 1867, as the others
did up TO the year 1861. Both are intended
to strengthen and confirm Prof. Vllle's
theory, which [ think may be fairly said to
Ne that chemical fertilizers may be made to
more than supply the place of cattle manure
for all purposes of the farmer aud at less
cost aud trouble lie maintains that high
tarming can BE- carried on without cattle
manure, but, as he considers cattle to be a
necessity on all large farms, he holds that
their manure should be used abund ,ntly in
connection with chemical fertilizers. At the
ose Of the fifth lee ure, which is devoted to
comp ring chemical Fertilizers and cattle
manure, he says:
{" You see, gentlemen, there is no way of
escaping the conclusion. which | must again
repeat-the great profit in agriculture is
from abun liant manuring what is not well
MANFRED is of little value it is only when
We pass from small returns to large returns
that benefit is derived. All our efforts
should then tend to manuring abundantly
have laid down the principle in this lecture
that the chemical fertilizers, whose excu i've
use | first studied, can be advantageously
associated with barn-yari manure, and
have showed you the manner of making this
new application. To complete these first in
dcatiOns it remains for me to take up the
question in detail, and show you the most
Convenient formula for this especial case"
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goetry.
Question.

Dear and blessed dead ones, can you look and
listen
Ts the sIghing and the mo lning down here below
Does it IN IKE a dscord in the hymns of heaven
The discord that jangles in the life you used to
know?
When we pray our prayers to the great God above
you,
Does the echo of our praying ever glance aside
yourway
Do you know the things we ask for, and wish that
you could give it,
You whose hearts ached with wishing, in your own
little day
Are your ears deaf with praises, you blessed dead
of Heaven,
And your eyes blind with glory, that you cannot
see our pain.
If you If you heard. you would weep among
the angels,
And the praises and the glory would be for you in
vain.
Yet he listens to our praying, the great God Of
pity,
As he fills with pain the measure Of our Ife's little
day;
Could he bear to sit and shine there his white
throne in Heaven,
But that he sees the end while we only the
way?
Louis Chandler Moulton in Atlantic MONTHLY.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

Turning slabs of slate into limitations OF
marble is effected by the following pro.
cess The slabs Of slate are first surfac-
ed by planer and brought to the requir-
ed thickness. Patterns are then laid upon
the slabs, and the mallet and chisel work
out the required forms and mouldings.
The marketing is the peculiar feature in
the operation. The marketing material
is prepared in vat, and the slab is let
down upon the composition, which adheres
to the surface of the slate. The slab is
next baked in an oven for one night then
gets coat of varnish manufactured for
that especial purpose; and after six repeti-
lions OF these processes it is finally remov.
ed and polished, the surface presenting a
beautiful appearance. So firmly united
to the slate is this coating that it cannot
be scaled or clipped off without taking the
soaly particles With il.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

Cool WATER FOR THE HARVEST. One of
the great discOmfOrts of the harvest field,
where ice is not used, is the mawkish warmth
which the drinking water acquires, after
being carried out to the field This may be
easily obviated however, and cool draught
always be had. When the water is carried
IN large jugs, all that Is necessary ls to
enveIop them in several folds of coarse cotton
or linen cloths, kept constantly wet The
evaporation OF the moisture in the cloths
keeps the vessel perfectly cool, and just in
proportion as the evaporation is fast or slow
Thus the evaporation. of ether or other ex-
ceedlngl y volatile substance in a draught IL
sometimes employed as an experiment to
freeze substances in the hottest weather
And the experiment may be made, in a
degree, By successfully wettIng the finger
and holding it up in the breeze.
If the harvest force be large and a barrel
be used, it should be more thickly enveloped
with cloths, and whatever vessel be used it
should be carefully shaded, but is better if
exposed to the air. Whenever water is
taken for drinking, enough should be poured
on the cloths to keep the evaporation perfect.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

Soft SOAP WITH PoTAsH.-Excellent soap
may be made from the following recipe
Use pine barrel for hard wood barrel
will warp and leak. An old fish barrel is
commonly taken for the purpose Put in
ten to twelve pounds of potash, and throw
upon it two pallfuls of boiling water. Let it
digest awhile and then put in two pounds
grease to each pound OF potash. Have the
grease hot. Let that digest awhile, then
add a third pailful of hot water. Stir and
digest awhile, then add another paiIful of
not water. Keep doing this until the barrel
Is within six inches of being full. Stir
occasionally until the whole is well mixed
1t should stand three months before use.
Stir occasionally during the first week. The
longer it stands after making 1.-THE better the
soap. We keep it year before use.-Wtes-
erR Rural
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goftru.
Youth and Age.
EDMUND CLARENCE srEDMAN.

BY EDMUND CLARENCE sTEDMAN.
How slow, how sure, how swift,
The sands within each glass,
The brief, Elusive moments, pass
Half unawares we mark their drift
Till the awakened heart cries out-Alasl
Alas, the fair occasion fed,
The precious chance to action all unwedi
And murmurs in its depths the old refrain
Had we but known betimes what now we know il
vainI
When the veil from the eye is lifted
The seer's head is gray;
When the sailor to shore has drifted
The sirens are far away.
Why must the clearer vision,
The wisdom of Lifes late hour,
Come, as in Fate's deris'on
When the hand has lost its power?
Is there rarer being,
Is there fairer sphere
Where the strong not unseeing,
And the harvests are not ere;
Where, ere the seasons dwindle
They yield their due return
While the lamps of knowledge kindle
While the flames of youth still burn |?
o, for the young mans chancesi
o, for the old mans will
These flee while this advances,
And the strong years cheat us still.
-Scribner's for august.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

MILK AS A REMEDIAL AGENT Con iderable
has been lately said In medical journals con-
corning the value of milk as a RENE iial
agent in certain diseases. An interesting
article upon this subject lately appeared in
the London Milk journal IN which it i.
stated on the authority of Dr. Benjamin
Clark. that the East India warm milk is
used to a great extent as specific for diar-
rbea. A pint every four hours will check
violent diarrhea, stomach ache, incipient
cholera and dysentery. The milk should
never be boiled, but only heated sufficiently
tn be agreeably warm, not too bot to drink.
Milk which has been boiled is unfit for use.
This writer gives several instances to show
the value OF this simple substance in arrest
ing this disease. among which is the follow.
bg: Tue writer says, Il has never E. lid
n curing me In s.S Or twelve hours, ana
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-06

The Heart of Mid Lothian is one of
Walter SCOTS most beautiful romanccs.
The heroine is plain but kind-hearted
Scotch lassie, by the name of Jeanne Deans.
Efie, Jeanie's sister, was condemned for
murder of her own child. jeanne, how
ever, believed her innocent, and alone aud
on foot walked all the way from Edinburgh
to London to implore Queen Carolne's
good Offices in persuading the King to re-
prieve, and, If possible, to pardon poor
Fife. Jeanie met the Queen in the gar
den, and vas lett to plead her own cause.
%, madam said she, IF ever ye kend
what it was to sorrow for and with a sin
ming and suffering creature, whose mind
is sac tossed that she can be neithet ca
fit to live nor die, have some compassion
on our misery Save an honest house
from dishonor, and an unhappy girl, not
eighteen years of age, from an early and
dreadful death Alas it is not when
we sleep softly and wake merrily ourselves,
that We think on other peoples sufferings.
Our hearts are waxed light within US then
and we are for righting our ain wrongs
and fighting our ain battles. But when
the hour of trouble comes to the mind or
the body-and seldom may it visit your
leddyship-and when the hour of death
comes, that comes to high and low lang
and late may it be yours, oh, my Teddy,
then it is IA what We haze done for our
sells, but what we haze done for others, that
We think on maist pleasantly
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though very rarely seen. Possibly some
reader may be able to throw light on the
subject.
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DR.. H. S. FLINT 81 CO.,
AT their Great Medical Depot, 1875 and 1877 Broad
Street, Providence X. |.
Sold at wholesale by WELLS, RICHARDSON &
CO, Burlington; atretail by BiBCOCK & CUTLER,
Montpelier yrI2-ly