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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-01-29
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BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.

The river hemmed with leaning trees
Wound through its meadows green;
y low, blue line of mountains
Showed the open pines between.
One sharp, tall peak above them all
Clear into sunlight sprang;
/ saw the river IN my dreams,
The mountains that l sang
No clew Of memory led me on,
Butwell the ways knew;
feeling of familiar things
With every footstep grew.
Not otherwise above its crag
Could lean the blasted pine
Not otherwise the maple hold
Aloft its red ensign.
So up the long and shorn foothills
The mountain road should creep
So, green and low. the meadow fold
Its red-haired kline asleep.
The river wound as it should wind;
Their place the mountains took,
The white, torn fringes Of their cloud
Wore no uuwonted look.
Yet ne'er before that rivers rim
Was pressed by feet of mine,
Never before mine eyes had crossed
That broken noun tain line
A presence, strange at once and known,
Walked with me as my guide;
The skirts OF some forgotten life
Trailcd noisele5s at my side.
Was it a dm-remembered dream?
Or glimpse through 4ons Old
The sc ct which the mountains kept,
The river ne'er told.
But from the vision ere it passed
A tender hope l drew,
And, pleasant as dawn of spring,
The thought within me grew.
That love would temper every change,
And soften all surprise,
And, misty with the dreams OF earth,
The hills of Heaven arse.
-February 4HaUfi4
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Boy LosT.-He had black eyes,with long
lashes, red cheeks, and hair almost black
and curly He wore crimson plaid Jacket
with full trousers buttoned on; had habit
of whistling and liked to ask questions; was
accompanied by small black dog. 1t is
long while now since he disappeared. L
have very pleasant house and much COM
pany. My guests say, All it is Plea
SAINT to be here. Everything has such an
orderly, put-away look,-nothing about
undertoot, no dirt" But my eyes are
aching fer the sight of WRITINGS and cut
paper on the floor; of tumbed- down card
houses of wooden sheep and cattle; OF
pop-guns, bows and arrows, whips, tops,
go-carts, blocks and trumpery. | want to
see boats a-rigging and kites a-maklng. L
want to see crumbles on the carpet, and
paste split on the kitchen table. L want
to see the chairs and the tables turned the
wrong way about want to see candy
making and corn popping, and to find jack
knives and fshhooks among my musllns.
Yet these things used to fret me once.
They say How quiet you are here. All
one here may settle his brains, and be at
peace" But my ears are aching for the
pattering of little feet for hearty shout,
a shrill whistle gay ira la la; for the
crack of little whips; for the noise of
drums, flies and tin trumpets. Yet these
things made me nervous once. A manly
: figure stands before me now. He is taller
than l, has thick whiskers, wears trock
nd Ha
has Just come from college. He brings
: Latin and Greek in his countenance, and
busts Of the old philosophers for the
sitting room. He calls me mother, but
am rather unwilling to own him. He
AYERS that he is my boy, and says that he
can prove it. He brings his little boat te
+ show the red stripe on the sail, it was the
end of the piece, and the name on the
: stern, Lucy Lowe, a little girl of ou1
j. neighbor, who, because of her long curl
b and pretty round face, was the chosen ia
t vorite of my boy The curls were loni
e since cut off, and she has grown to tall
S handsome girl. How his face reddens a
It he shows me the name on the boat Oh
/ | see it all as plain as if it were written il
i a book. My little boy is lost and my BIZ
it boy will soon be. Oh, | wish he were
r little tired BOY in a long white night Cow
/ lying in his crib, with me sitting by
IS holding his hand in mine, pushing tn
y curls back from his forehead, watching hi
t. eyeids droop, and listening to his dee
er breathing. If l only had my little DO
At again, how patient [ would be. Ho'
'e much would bear, and how little woul
l. fret and scold | can never have bill
back again; but there are still man
~ mothers who have not yet lost their litt
boys. wonder if they know they al
y living their very best days; that now
ne the time to really enjoy their children
at think if / had been more to my little DO,
| might now be more to my grown up on
at Home Magazine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-01-29

such are the sorrows that November
brings. That month, which sees the year
disrobed, is not dreary month. l like
to see the trees with their clothes taken
OFT. l like Ito see the anatomy of tree.
like to see the preparation which God
makes for winter. How everything is
snugged and packed. How all nature
get ready for the cold season How the
leaves heap themselves up on the roots to
protect them from frost How all things
that are tender are taken out of the way,
and only things that are tough are left to
stand the buffetings Of winter. Novem-
Der is only sad to me, and it is sweet
sadness that it brings to my mind. After
that comes December the month Of begin
ming ice, the month in which the streams
are shrouded, the month OF SHOWS begun.
And then come January and February,
the months Of beauty. Is there anything
on earth so beautiful as the fallen snow
Yes, trees that are turned to crystal are
just as beautiful. The rain that you heard
pattering in the night froze as it fell, and
every tree is sheathed and cased with ice.
The glory of the sun is beamiDg through
the branches, and million glittering rays
strike your eye; and with every movement
of the wind and every change of your
position the glory is wonderfully magni-
fed. What are chandeliers; what is cut
glass, what are the gew-gaw trinkets that
human art can make, compared with this
workmanship of God? And God makes
it for nothing, No door-keeper stands to
tax you for looking upon Gods glory in
the world. There is no stinglpess in the
heavens. The seasons are not niggardly.
The earth is beautifully carpeted. 1t is
robed in white All the trees are magnii-
Gently apparaled. No leaves or blossoms
ever gave them such beauty as that in
which they are arrayed. And on behold
ing them in the morning one seems trans
lated to the heavenly land, and imagines
that he stands on the sea Of glass in that
crystalline sphere. The illusion would be
complete, if the contact did not bring one
back again to the realities of this life
But look at the organization of the snow.
If you will take the trouble to examine
1t, it is enough to fill the soul with wonder
and pleasure. The movements of it, too,
and the shapes which it assumes as it
drifts, are well worthy of notice. think
there are no such lines and curves in the
world as those which are formed by the
wind in the snow, which overlap and flow
into each other in every conceivable man
ner, and which are often to be seen on the
surface and along the overhanging edges
of drifts, They are careless and graceful
beyond all comparison, and are unsur-
passed in beauty Beecher IN Herald Of
He0TH
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The GLORY OF THE WINTER-We con-
ceive of summer as a beautiful time of the
year. 1t is. From the time of the first
fragrant breath of spring, and of the first
flock Of birds, clear down to the days of
November, when the trees are stripped of
their foliage, there is not an hour in which
the earth is not robed in beauty We
often hear people say, Job, the dreary
days of November % The days of No
vember are never dreary, though men Of
ten are. There are things in November
that make US sad, there are suggestions in
November that lead us to serious thoughts,
but November is not dreary. 1t makes
me sad, but there is a sadness that is
wholesome, and even pleasurabls. There
are SOM SORROWS that are not painful, but
that give piquancy and favor to life snd
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-01-29

A Spanish nun has renowned the black
veil," in order to enter matrimony. The
case excites good deal of attention at Mad
rid, the courts of law being expected to de-
eide whether woman who has promised
never to marry can be permitted to break
that vow-to decide in fact. if 4 woman has
a legal right to change he's mind
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A QUESTION OF GRAMMAR.-A searcher
after truth writes to ask US which is
dramatically correct, to say the house
is building" or " the house is being built"
" the street is paving" or. " the street is
being paved ? There is a wide diversity
of opinion upon this subject but we in
cline to favor " is being built" for the
following reasons: Suppose you wish to
express another kind of an idea, would
you say, for instance, Johnny is spank
ing" or Johnny is being spanked ?"
The difference to you may seem inmate
rial, but it may be matter of considera-
bic Importance to Johnny; and it is proba-
BILE that, if any choice were given him, he
would suddenly select the former alterna-
tive. You say again that the " missionary
is eating" Certainly this expresses a
very different and much pleasanter idea
than the form " the missionary is being
eaten, and the sensation is very different
for the missionary, too We have con.
suited several missionaries about it, and
they all seem to think that the two things
are some how not the same, no matter what
the grammarians say.-Hudson Register.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Hear ye the mighty Centaurs tread
See the long line Of myriad dead
With hoof of horse and human head
Rise up and speak
"Twas proud Olympus gave US oifln;
For thousa nd years we roamed the earth
Eat perumed flowers of the century plant
Drank liquid from the volca nos mouth
Slew man nd beasts 10 play our part,
Then restored to Ii e by the Centaur's art;
Chased wild mares the field OF Mar,
Lived on the earth, AID slept among the stars.
On other mission now we're sent,
To bless mankind with an emoliient,
o. which It world ne'er hath dream't,
Even our CENTAUR LINIMENT.
Ii ban>hes pain and all such things,
Cures burns and scalds, poisonous stlnss-
Rheumatic horrors scares Away,
Lint stiff joints in single day.
Poor Cripples In their hobbilng way,
Linn in on crutches-then walk away.
Fear not dumb horse, thy friend now speaks,
Who'll hea YOUR wounds and make GU leap
len bars-piles of oats TO bolt,
And frisk about like yOnder colt.
Yellow wrapper is the thing for bfutes,
White wrapper alone the family suits.
J. F. Lude Wig, of Hoboken, N. J., SAYS: I" The Cen
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te nse suffering for FIVE years"
tried MANY remedies for my sprained ankle win
out reef The second bottle OF Centaur Lnme Mt cure'
il perfectly. CHAs. BILL, 6l6 Pine st. Phiia"
H. Marsh, Esq, Supt. of Adams Express Stables
New York saws: All OF horses sh1u Id know
he Centaur Linmenr. We find it the best thing eve
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This testimony could be repeated fer mon til. If yo
want TO avoid suffering just the Centaur Lini en
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FIRE PRooF. Plaster of Paris is fire.
proof material. Being cheap and easily cast
in molds in any desired form, it is combined
with other materials and made into bricks
In Europe it is used extensively in buildings
for partition walls, &c. A company in
Chicago has obtained patent aud begun
manufacturing what it calls g patent fire.
proof castings for partition walls. These
castings are simple hollow blocks Of
plaster, mixed, perhaps with some kind of
cement and sand. The other day this COM
pany had test of their new material before
a committee of architects, builders, the Fire
Commissioners, Board of Public Works,
Fire Marshal and Wardens, the Board of
Underwriters and others. Several rooms
were constructed of the fire proof material.
One room was filled with straw, which was
set on fire. Three cords OF fire wood were
set on fire in another room In the third
room dinner table was set at which the
party ate, while the fire was raging. The
walls were only seven and half inches thick
and the sides toward the flames were heated
to a glowing white heat; yet no heat came
through. Indeed. the thermometer hung
on the outside of the walls of the room in
which the fire was indicated zero, while the
thermometer in the room where the party
dined indicated only AZ degrees above zero.
The walls did not crack, calcine, or deterio
rate; only the smooth white finish was
smoked, and the usual " hard finish - peeled
off. By replacing that, the walls would be
as good as new again. These facts with a
very high recommendation of the plaster
blocks, are certified to in the report of the
committee. The report says that, with fire.
proof doors and windows, the use of this
material will, in their opinion, in all cases
confne any fire to the room in which il
originates, and prevent its injuring the walls
of the building. These facts suggest the
employment OF plaster (gypsum) which is
so plentiful in this region OF country, in the
manufacture of fre-proof building materi al
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GA1O& 900 per osy Age ts wahea! a N cissse, a
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T2c Montpelier, W
COMMON Sc NSE
f [ r e Il N GINE

we tnat hnme LOT the
reasons:-
LIT be supplied with water from wells and els
ems from which large and powerful engine
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when the little engine would be at work.
2.-Beng smah, it be started much qui, ker than
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than large after The fire has gained consider
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3.-Half dozen of these engines, easily moved
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Under TIE present system, large engines are
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thai sevenyve PER cent. ofhe ars losses, so called
are caused by water ace
One OF these engines, MAKING USE OF
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thoroughly ignited; which clearly how it
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MISCELLANEOUS.

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Every Day an Increase In Flesh
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THE SCIENCE OF LIFE OR SFLF-PRFSERVA
TION. A Medical Treatise on he Cause aud Cure o
Exhausted Vitality, SpermsIorT R Sen iusi Weak
ness lmpotenev- Premature Decline il Man. Nervous
aud Physical Debility. Hyp0co-dria and all IA
arising the Errors youth, the lndIscre
Ii, E1ce,~eS OF mature wears This IS indeed
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SARSAPAKILIENN RESUIVENI
HAS MADE THE MOST ASTONISHING CURES :
80 QUICK. 20 RAPID ARE THE CHANGES
THE BODY TNDERGUES. UNDER THE IN
fLTENtE OF THIS TRULY NONDERF [ /
NENIEINE. IHAI