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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05
Remembrance.

Cold in the earth and the deep snow piled above
thee,
Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave,
Have forgot my only love, to love thee,
Severed at last by times all l-severng.waye.
Now, when removed, do my thoughts no Longer
hover
Over the mountains on that northern shore,
Resting their wings where heath and fern leav e.
cover
The noble heart forever-evermore?
Cold in the grave, and fifteen wild Decembers
From whose brown hills have melted into spring
Faithful indeed the love is that remembers
After such years Of change and suffering.
Sweet love of youth, forgive if forget thee,
While the worlds tide is bearing me along;
Other desires and other hopes besetme
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong
No later light has lighted up my heaven,
No second morn has ever shone for me;
All my life's bliss from tn dear life was given,
All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee.
But when the days of golden dreams had perished
And even despair was powerless to destroy,
Then did learn how existence could be cherished
Strengthened and fed without the aid of joy.
Then did 1 check the tears of useless passion,
Weaned my young soul from yearnIng after thine
Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten
Down to that tomb already more than thine.
And even now l dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain,
Once drinking deep of that dvnest anguish,
How could taste the empty world again
Emily Bronte.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05
An Archaeological Breakfast.

One of the most praiseworthy charac
teristics of English country life is the
Archaeological Society, which fourishes in
almost every country. The great landed
proprietors of the neighborhood, titled
and untitled, are its real patrons and hon.
oTary members; the clergymen form its
most efectual and practical staff. The
ruins of old abbeys, the Roman roads
camps or aqueducts, the restored churches
of long ages ago. with which England is
thickly strewn. form the subject for the in.
vestigations of the Society and the rretext
for weeks pleasuring, picnic, and "camp-
ing out" that makes a pleasant holiday in
many hard-working life. Men and wo-
men of all classes and occupations belong
to it,-some through genuine love of anti
quarian researches. and many because the
excitement involved in these tours is very
alluring in itself
The social side of the solemn progress
has strong claims on our consideration. 1t
is sacred custom, and one the full
fllment of which is broadly suggested by
the chairman each time the scientific cara
van draws near country manor-house,
that the whole Society should be royalty
feasted and entertained by the squires of
the district. On this account it is that
many who are not bona-,fde members,
associate themselves temporarily with the
Society, and thus gain free access to the
very innermost of houses and grounds,
which they could otherwise never hope to
visit.
1t happened that few years ago, our
house at Worcestershire was honor ed by
an invasion of "Arcieologicals to the
number Of at least seventy members. The
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NOTES ABOUT C0TToN.-Cotton owes its
kingship quite as much to the tenacity with
which its fbres adhere to one another, as
to their length or fneness and were it not
that the fibre produced by the 6om6aa, or
silk-cotton tree, is too smooth, cotton would
find in it a powerful rival. Cottonwood
is the downy bed in which the seeds of the
cotton plant are enveloped, and is the pro-
duct of hot countries. 1t has several
varieties, that cultivated in Algeria and in
Southern Europe seldom attain height
of over twelve inches, while at the equator
the plant grows as high as an apple-tree,
and bears fruit twice as large as that of
the A lgerian species. The cotton grown
in the East Indies is of very inferior
quality, its fibre being short and hard yet
it was largely used in manufacture, during
the war in the United States. Chinese
cotton is yellow, and hence the peculiar
color of the fabric called nankeen.
The cotton-plant is probably native of
Africa, and Livingstone found it in the
interior Of that country along the banks of
all the rivers. The ancient Egyptians
doubtless imported from Abyssinia their
cotton cloth for mummy-wrappings and for
the garments of priests and mobiles, and
from them the Jews inherited the employ
ment of that texture for the robes of their
priests; for, where the Bible makes mention
of fine linen, we must read cotton, as fax
does not grow in hot climates. From
Africa cotton-culture passed into Persia
and Georgia; then into India, and from
India to China. In the latter empire all
the clothing of the poorer classes is of cot
ton, of extremely firm texture. Indeed,
so strong is the cotton manufactured by the
Chinese. that it is impossible for man to
tear piece of it across, and the people
of China and India refuse to buy European
cotton manufactures, calling them mere
spiders webs-Dr. SAGE. in Popular
Science Monthly for December.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05

HEART DIsEAsE.-The death retprns
show that during the last twenty wears
there has been steadily progressive rise
in the registered mortality from heart dis
ease in England and Wales. In the vear
1850 the recorded fatal cases numbered
III, $50 in 1860 they amounted to Is75S
and in 1870 to 25.259. We get a mora
accurate measure of this increase tho
Lancet says, when the growth of the DOB.
ulation is taken into account: thus in the
quinquennium lSsl-55 the AVERAGE an
nual mortality from heart disease amono
males was 7.3 per 10000 males living in
the next five years it was S.4 in 1861 .65
it was SO; and 10.9 in lS66.7O. The
fatality of the disease amongst female wac
slightly below the foregoing male ratios
but was marked by an equally rapid
growth in the four groups of years. Fully
one-thlrd OF the entire mortality of males
as well as of females occurred between
the ages of forty-dve and sixty.fve in
the first twenty years of life the fatality
is comparatively slight-less than 2 Der
10000; from twenty to forty-fve wears.
and over sixty years, the range is from 5
to per 10000. These facts, which we
take from DR.: Farr's last report, seem verv
conclusively to support the view of those
who hold that heart disease is actually
and markedly on the increase in this
country. True. We have to take into con-
sideration that simultaneously with the
augmented fatality of heart disease there
has been diminution of the deaths as
cribed to dropsy, and no doubt improved
diagnosis and nomenclature have materi.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05

MoDEsrY.-Modesty is the appendage
of sobriety, and is to chastity, to temper
ance, and humility, as the fringes are to a
garment. 1t is grace of God that mod.
crates the over -activeness and curiosity ol
the mind, and orders the passions of the
body, and external actions, and is directly
opposed to curiosity, to boldness, to
indecency.
Every man hath in his own life sins
enough, in his own mind trouble enough
in his own fortune evils enough, and in
performance of his Offices falling. more
than enough, to entertain his own inquiry
so that curiosity after the affairs of others
cannot be without envy and an evil mind
What is it to me if my neighbor's grand
father were a Syrian, or his grandmother
illegitimate, or that another is indebted
five thousand pounds, or whether his wife
be expensive? But commonly curious
persons, or las the Apostles phrase isl
busy-bodies, are not solicitous or iuquisi-
tive into the beauty and order of a we'll
governed family, or after the virtues Of an
excellent person but if there be anything
for which men keep locks, and bars, and
porters, things that blush to see the light,
and either are shameful in manners. or
private in nature, these things are their
care and their business. But if great
things will satisfy our inquiry, the courses
Of the sun and moon, the spots in their
faces, the armament of heaven and the
orbs. the ebbing and flowing of
the sea, are work enough for US or, if
this be not, let him tell me whether the
number of the stars be even or odd, and
when they began to be so; since
some ages have discovered new stars
which the farmer knew not, but might
have Sc n, if they had been where they are
now fixed. IF these be too troublesome,
search lower, and tell me why this turf
this year brings forth a daisy, and the
next year a plantain; why the apple
bears his seed in his heart, and wheat
bears it in his head; left him tell why a
graft taking nourishnent from crab-stock
shall have fruit more noble than its nurse
and parent; let him say why the best of
oil is at the top, the best of wine in the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05

A SPEcIMEN.-Here is my little four
year-old, with plump, round, ruddy face,
who comes in and begs earnestly for "just
two cents
PLEASE, papa, just two cents, that is
ALL"
Now, what does my little sunshine
want to get with Just two cents?"
She drops those long dashed eyelids over
those large hazel eyes, and hesitates. Like
many an elder person, she doesn't like to
tell. "But you know, my child, that your
father can't give you money to spend,
unless you tell him what you want to get,
for he wishes to know whether you want
what will do no harm or not"
"Well, then, papa, L just want to 20
around and see what they've got for two
cents.''
We were not little entertained By
this canded reply of childhood's simple
nature. And yet here was the germ of all
those limitless wants which spring up
among men and and women. The taking
of a copper coin in hand, and "just going
round to see what they've got for tiro
cents," is the root of the whole matter.
Who will deny that here the child is the
father of the man: the girl the mother of
the woman?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05

WHAT IS PIECE OF WooD.-We now
part with our "oId vioins " with feelings
not unmingled with regret the very sums
of money given for them bear witness to
their strange indefinite value and impor-
tance-3OO guineas is common rice for
a fine Stradiuarius The owner of the
Messie refused 600 guineas for that
unique gem, whilst 500 and even 1000
guineas have been offered by some who
could not get their favorites for less.
Fifteen hundred acres of land in Cincin,
natl were on one occasion given for
Stainer; and as the city of PIttsburg is
now built upon that land, we may con-
fdently say that this has turned out to
be the heaviest price ever paid for violin.
And what is that for? A little wood,
varnish, paint-a few shiIlings would buy
all the materials; the simplest mechanical
knowledge is sufficient to cut up and put
| together the common fiddle, which is now
sold for ten or fifteen shillings, and looks
to the novice so much more desirable than
the Messie," or % Pucele," though not
unlike them. Then what do we pay for
We pay for what no money can produce
again; we pay for conditions that
have passed away we pay for the inspira-
tlon OF matchless workman, and subtle
soul infused into elements which seems
beggarly but have become priceless we
pay for the concentrated experience of not
one life, but many put into curve or
futiDg-for few thin plates of wood
fixed together with an instinct that is
dead, but that ere it died made those slips
OF wood almost living organism-in
some respects more than living organism
because immortal. There is no reason
why the violin should ever wear out. 1t
grows old with its perpetual youth 1t
sings over the grave of many generations.
Time, that sometimes robs it of a little
varnlsh, has no power over its anointed
fabric-it need never be battered The
Joan Carlino viola is $50 years old, and
still almost without scratch. The hard
perennial substance STEPPED in the silicate-
like varnish, has well-nigh turned to stone,
but without losing single quality of
sweetness or resonance. The violin is the
only fossil that stills lives. and lives with
fullness of life and freshness that con-
trasts mysteriously enough with the failing,
sickly, and withering generations of man.
Even should mishaps bruise or break its
beauty it can be endlessly res;ored-it is
never fit for death it survives a thousand
calamities nay, even when cut up, dis
membered, its several parts scattered
through dozen workshops and through
500 years, it lives on with kind of
metempsychosis in new forms, and still
clings strangely to its Individuality, so that
men taking up patchwork violin, say, 1t
is fine, the front is poor, the head is tame
but, then, see, here is Stradiuarius back.
Thus, human in its power and pathos, and
superhuman in its immortal fabric, the
violin reigns the prince of all instruments,
and in the hands of Paganini or a
Joachim, the JOY and wonder of the civ
ilized world.-The Contemporary Rerie,o.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05

Considerable exception has been taken
by chemists to Wendell Phillips's asser-
ton, in his lecture on Lost Arts" that
modern science cannot make colors of such
vividness and durability as those used in
the fresc0es of Pompeii. The fact is un-
doubted that modern colors, though at
first very vived, fade into dullness in
comparatively short time This however,
says AppLeton's Journal, does not result
from lack of knowledge how to make
enduring tints, but from want of will.
Our modern colors are made with water
the ancient were worked by ire-processes,
which, though perfectly familiar to the
chemist and to the manufacturer, are un-
desirable, because costly. With due de-
ference to the great lecturer, the ability
to make bright, permanent colors must be
omitted from his catalogue of the Lost
Arts" for it is precisely one of the points
in which modern superiority is incontest-
able.
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SOrcer.y.

1t is said that Love is blind" aud we
mortals OF to-day, having great respect fol
age, accept With due submission the venera-
bic assertion. But then Qet me whisper in
your carr We don't believe it one bit We
let dear Antiquity in more ways than one
have her say, while we, silently protesting,
have our way.
Really, love has microscopic eyes. 1t sees
all the beauty and every blemsh 1t reaches
out to correct the faults; and when this may
not be, it tenderly covers them from view
just as moss covers the ugly rock and vines
creep over and drape with beauty the rotten
log IN the woods.
No, no, Molly, don't tease me When
| make pleasure business, | do not get it
but when | 90 earnestly about duty, pleas
ure drops right into it. lis such queer
thing, this pleasure. 1t eludes you if you
seek it. If you turn from it, it pursues you
= But this once, for the sake Of happy
New Year, forego your theories and come. -
4" q Molly holidays are such hollow days
They they are the homesick days in the year
to ne. rm afraid of them SO you see, in
self-deteDse, | fill them Just as full of action
as they will hold. | refrain from giving
where gifts are expected, and give where it
Will be surprise. Don't you love to see a
sad lace light up with an unexpected pleas
ure co not care to seek my own pleasure
on these days
- That's the very thing. You are the one
OF all others to put the fun and soul into nv
party. Do something for me-come -
The two girls stood in the bay window ot
warm, bright library. Shadows gathered
about the room, but genial light from the
crate famed across the floor Without, one
by one, the street lamps were lighted, reveal
ing the snow-fakes silently falling. So the
upon the street. They were friends. can.
not Conjecture why, unless by the affinity O.
contrast, They were unlike in nature, and
even fortune had served them iiversely. One
lived beautiful, luxurious lie, the othe,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05

WHAT BURIED HERCULANEUM? ?-Wbat
was the fate of Herculaneum during the
eruption of AID, 10? What special phe-
nomena were displayed on that side of
Vesuvius? What causes buried flourish
ing city in an instant out of the inhabited
world? 1t has been proved that Pompeii
suffered an interment so incomplete that
after few days its inhabitants could
recognize their dwellings. could camp above
and clear them out Herculaneum, on the
contrary, was buried so deep that the next
day it was impossible to trace vestige OF
it. The ready answer to all these ques-
tions usually is, Lava worked all the
ruin Herculaneum was swallowed up
under eighty feet of lava. Ifworks of art
bronzes and pictures, have been miraculous
ly preserved, 1t was due to the impenetrat-
able shield of lava, yielding only to cut
ting blast that protected them from the
ravages of time" The explanation is
tempting. Fancy pictures waves of fire
rolling upon the city, rising like the tidal
swell, surging in through doors and
windows, sweeping around and molding
everything. then slowly coiling, and pre-.
serving for posterity treasures that labor
must unveil, repaid by their recovery in
unharmed beauty.
This is really the opinion that all Europe
holds, and even at Naples almost al!
visitors of Herculaneum declare that they
have touched the lava with their own
bands and, in books written on the Vesu-
Wan cities, more than one traveller afirms
as positively that the difficulty of cutting
the lava presents the chief obstacle to the
dislnterment of Hercuaneum. How can
one venture to meet such convictions by
asserting that water, not fire, overwhelmed
Herculaneum that it was not a torrent
of glowing lava, but a food of mud and
wet ashes that filed the city? How up
root prepossession so deep that the works
OF geologists and savants have failed TO
shake it? Dufrency proved that water
alone swept over Hercuaneum heaps of
scoria and pumice crumbled from La
Somma; Dyer, Overlook, Ernst Breton,
and others have affirmed in various lam
guages, to no other purpose, that nothing
but ashes, wet to paste and hardened by
pressure, covered over Herculaneum no
one needed them, and the blame continues
to be thr own on the lava, which makes ex
cavations SO costly and laborious-Popu-
lar Science Uonthlv.
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middle, and the best honey at the bottom,
otherwise than it is in some liquors that
are thinner, and in some that are thicker.
But these things are not such as please
busy bodies; they must feed upon trag-
edies, and stories of misfortunes and
crimes.
Therefore Plutarch rarely well compares
curious and inquisitive ears to the execra-
BILE gates of cities, out of which only
malefactors and hangmen, and tragedies
pass, nothing that is chaste or holy.
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of
the spirit.
Knock, therefore, at the door before
you enter upon your neighbor's privacy
and remember that there is no difference
between entering into his house and look
ing into it.-Jeremy TauLor.
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but within month Miss Agnes Strickland
returned and paid US the promised visit.
She was most kind to me, and often
talked, very much as she does on paper,
about history and biography, etc. But
there is poetic side to her talent, little
known to the world; she presented me
with copy or verses in her own hand
writing, and also wrote her name in full
on the fy-leaf of one of her own early
books, Aida the British Captire, a tale of
the first ages of Christianity in Rome and
Britain. This was seeing the biographer
of English Queens in quite a new light
She proved herself a most agreeable COM
panlon, an in defatigable walker, and a
sympathizing conversationalist. all the
time l was with her.
She was like a new study to me. What
was strangest about her was the intense
earnestness and gravity of her interest in
things gone by: she spoke of historical
events three or fonr hundred years old in
the tone of actual concern with which we
canvass the pas sing deeds of to-day the
morning newspaper did not interest her at
all, while an old chronicle would keep her
pla cidly occupied for many pleasant hours
Above all, Mary Stuart-her wrongs, her
sorrows, and the history of her accusations
with their denials-was an all-absorbing
topic of conversation. One morning at
breakfast she talked of this so long as to
send half the company to sleep, but she
was too deep in her subject to mind that
She is one of the most whole-souled, warm
hearted beings | ever met, woman whose
genuine enthusiasm is refreshing expert
ence, md whom it is pleasure and an
honor to count among ones friends. Since
that short visit | have never seen her, but
we corresponded occasionally, and her
letters were, like herself, full Of heart, of
youth, or energy and sefreliance. She
lives alone in little cottage in one of the
southern counties of England, the center
of a wide-circle of friends whom she does
not know by name, but who know her and
her efforts well; a little lonely, perhaps,
when she looks around upon the homes
that she can see with the eyes of the flesh,
but happier in the visionary world of the
past, where she dwells with bright, holy.
beautiful, Of gifted women, and knightly,
generous men.-Scribner's for February.
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ally altered the relative position in the
mortality returns of heart disease as under
stood in 1850 and in 1870. But making
all reasonable allowance for these disturb
ing causes, enoug b remains to show that,
from whatever reason, heart disease is
more fatal than it used to be. DIR. Farr
considers that this result is due to the
greater wear and tear of business and the
increased mental activity of the age. He
thinks that physicians are apt to get their
Impressions from the study of particular
cases which are not fair samples of the
whole mass, and he goes so far as to say
that " it is certain that the strain on the
minds of the classes who consult eminent
physicians is not shared by the great bulk
of the population that fill up the re-
turns"
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Art is one of the last thing which would

Art is one of the last thing which would
be thought subject to democratic principles.
but it is one of the first. 1t is better to
adorn the poor mans cottage than palace.
The artist must take the times as he finds
them, and work for his fellow.men. Ar
fists decry chromos, but is it not better to
have them than to have bare walls? bless
God for cheap pictures, that shall. like
John the Baptist, prepare the way for the
coming artist.-Henry Ward Beeeaer.
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February. 1873.

Ills Winter, yet there is no sound
Along the air
OF winds upon their battle ground,
But gently there,
The snow is falling-all around
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