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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1873-04-19
Local Entelligrnre.
sTooKHOLDER's DIRECTORY.
Of EineI Levied Per Say Dehnq Sale

assEssAHNrs LEVIED AND UNPAID ON WHITE
PINE STOCKS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

over another new '' 'top-skirt," thus say
ing the cost of making two dresses at
least. She buys the materials for new
bonnets, and makes them herself, with the
garnishing of flowers and feathers, quite
as tastetulIy as the best milliner could do.
She owns boots and shoes for all kinds of
weather, before buying brooches or silk
stockings; also good assortment Of plain,
but well made underclothes, before " han
kering" after real Cashmere shawl
She has we'll stocked library, though
not owning point lace over-dress " for
party.
When she has dressed for the hour of
the day and the occasion, according to the
best of her judgment-and very good
judgment it is, too-she never insults your
common sense by apologizlng for not being
dressed in different manner. In short,
after being neatly and tastefully arrayed
for the hour, her mind has no further ln~
terest IN the subject, but has opportunity
to consider more important needs.
1t you chance to brulse your fingers the
New England woman has healing remedy
at hand. If your character is SAID to be
bruised, she will require proof OF the
same before she believes it, or turns you
the co d shoud der.
TIE New England woman puts away
her turs before the moths get at them, and
her cellar fl ,or Is as clean as that of her
parlor. ln short, she is woman possess
ing all the virtues and none of the weak
nesses of her sex who have the misfortune
to be born out OF NV E lgland. my
self am New England woman Fanny
Eor,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

There is something pleasing in the way
the English people speak of the Queen. AT
recent banquet the Earl of Derby, in
proposing I" The Health of Her Majesty
the Queen" said:
d" In this country, except for a very
short time and very long ago, the existence
of monarchy never has been party ques-
ton. We preserve it as link which con-
meets Us with our long historical past, as
check upon individual ambition and up,
on the violence of party spirit, and as the
symbol-visible to all and Ineligible to
all of the commuuity-of the unity, the
power and the dignity of the State zap
plause) The reign of her present Majesty
hns boon long and prosperous; and it is
bare justice to her to say that no sovereign
has ever kept more strictly within the linn
its of her or his constitutional duty; that
none has held the balance with more i'm
partial hand between politicians of con
tending parties; and that none has evel
shown to this country better example O
the performance Of all private and do
mestic duties"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17
The Alpine :iaiden.
BY ANNA C, BRACKET.

Down the steep path We wound with careful tread
Stones slipping, rolling, bounding far below,
And where vista opened wide ahead,
We paused in sunset glow.
Before us the white Junsfrau far away,
To"ered up into the blue and silent sky
All rosy with the light OF dying day
The Silbernorn famed high.
Down swept the glaciers rough and tortuous lines
Till lost 70 sight below, while slvery clear
rbe laughter Of lost trees and stir of pines
Made music far and near.
sudden the pttn curved rouad a wall of stone
With Aipnei roses corniced, fir and sweet,
And there within Il hollow, all alone,
She stood with sun-browned feet
An Alpine maiden, with her simple store
Of berries, waItln on the rocky shelf
For travellers who snoud pass her open door;
And sin sing to herself
Some quaint Odd Switzer song, born of the sound
OF mountain brooks from cloud-lost SUBMITS
leaping,
And mourntuI-cadenced as the wind that round
their storm-worn peaks comes sweeping.
Then, as we paused to taste the dainty food
"Where Is your SCHOOL," we asked the mountai
queen,
" onueflnS AT Ioiolgn words Sne un 1erStOod,
And at her gracious men.
She raised her brown eyes to the mo. tai grand
beyond tue pine tops and tue valley r,
And with graceful ge,t OF her
She answered simply, Here
o short wise n,wer striking deep to truth
The shallow question: did not dream to reach,
such wisdom ii, IN everlasting youth
The schools teach.
All came to her, who never strayed to seek;
Her teachers came oil every land and race,
And tau shL her all tneIr fore gn tongues speak,
But learned from her face
rhe strength o all the hills, their patience high,
rhe beauty and the g!ace about their feet.
That lett their impress the brow and eye
And made the soul complete;
And bore with them alar upon the sea,
70 dlstan lands, where'er their footsteps strayed
Perpetual blessing their nory,
That simple mountain mad
l-Hagper'S NdgaziHe for January.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17
FIDELITY TO ORpKRs,-The traditional

FIDELITY TO ORDERs.-The traditional
union of fidelity, says Lippincott's. obe-
dience to orders, strict decipline, and stu
pidity in the old-fashioned, military SER
want is wittily illustrated in story told
by the Gazette de Paris, a. the expense OF
a captain of the Melun garrison. This Off
Ger, who had been invited to dine at
neighboring castle, sent his valet with
note o" regrets" adding, as the boy start
ed, &" Be sure and bring me my dinner, Au-
guste, when you have left the letter." The
old soldier took the letter to the castle,
and was told, of course. " It's all right"
Yes, but want the dinner" said the lad;
" the captain ordered me to bring it back,
and l always obey orders" The baroness,
being informed of the good fellows blum
der. carried out the joke by dispatching
splendid repast. The officer, too amused
to make any explanation to his servant,
merely sent him back at once to buy a
bouquet to carry with his compliments to
the baroness. Successfully accomplishing
this feat the brilliant Auguste was handed
fve-franc piece from the lady. That
won't do" says the honest fellow; " L paid
thirty francs for the flowers The differ
ence was made up to him, and he returned
to the fort, quite proud at having so ably
discharged his duty.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

ONLY ONE CUsToMER.-It was only one
customer that the surly man snubted.
The customer asked for ten cents worth of
wire. The sury y man said something to
him about the trouble of cutting off so
small piece, and sneered at him for being
such a small Gus omer. He cut it off from
the roll, and the customer, who had intend
ed to buy some hinges and bolts, and two
or three locks, which might have amounted
in all to five dollars, concluded be would
deal at some other store for the rest. He
paid for his ten cents worth of wire, and
pushed on to the next hardware store
The surly man did not even bid him good
day. That one customer seemed a very
small affair to the dealer, because he want
ed to purchase such limited amount of
merchandise. He forgot that man does
not ask in one breath for all that he wants.
He forgot that the small customer of to-
day may be the larger customer Of to-
morrow. He forgot that the man who is
treated shabbily at store s,ldom returns
to it except for something which cannot
be purchased elsewhere. He forgot the
influence which each customer carries with
him for good or i'll.
Courtesy brings custom, and if custom
brings success in business, courtesy must
not be neglected. A man who is politely
treated at store is very apt to come
again, and to mention his experience to
bis friends. A man who is rudely dealt
with is still more apt to tell his friends Of
it, and to warn them against the place
Some men have built up large business
aud have made money, in spite of thei,
uncivil treatment of people with whom
they dealt. How much more they might
have made if they had been polite. it il
d ficut to calcnlate. But let every young
man understand that, all things being
equal, the courteous business man will
make much better success of bis work
than the crusty and ill-natured one.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

Talk about Northern literature as We
may, in certain important particulars the
writers of the sunny South excel their cold
er-blooded brethren of the land of east
winds and snow drifts. There is certain
warmth of description, a luxury of adjec-
tives, in the treatment of the most simple
subject, which clothes it with peculiar
interest and makes even the cursory reader
stop and wish he could do it. For instance,
one of our best New Orleans exchanges
chronicles in enthusiastic language the
triumphal entry into that city, after an alb.
sence of four months, of" Colonel Moody,
the renowned shirt merchant" Says our
exchange d" He comes crowned as before,
with the coronet of loyalty, the great Shirt
King Of the South" and, after detailing
his travels in search of new patterns, adds
+" This market is already distinguished by
his regal selections, and catching the spirit
of the times as they now exist, he marks
them down at prices almost as fabulously
cheap as the rich gifts given away in by
gone days by the Magi of the East, to those
who won their favor and esteem" Ger.
tainly, the South has attractions beyond
its climate.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

A Political REHINIscENCE.-Some
western newspapers having been discuss
ing the part taken by the Texas annexa-
tion question in the canvass of 1874, the
St. Louis Democrat tells an incident of the
time. Tom Corwin was then in his glory
as stump orator, and was wont to rouse
the moral indignation of his whig auditors
by depicting the horrors of war, which he
predicted as a result of the annexation of
Texas. He produced startling effect in
speech delivered near Cincinnati, in
which, after describing the scenes of battle,
the groans of the wounded. and the suffer
ings of the bereaved whose homes would
be made desolate, until the sympathies of
the crowd were excited to the highest
pitch, he stepped suddenly to the edge of
the platform, AID waving his handker-
chief above his head, shouted three times
at the top of his voice. Huzza for de-
mocracy,"" Huzza for democracy" HUI
"a for democracy" The terrible irony of
the orators looks and tones produced a
thrilling effect upon the crowd. Corwin
was not so successful, however, in speech
delivered the same year IN the abolition
stronghold in the Western Reserve. He
went upon the platform brimful of talk
for Clay and free soil. While the people
we're assembling he noticed a small boy
with basket of tracts which he was busi-
ly distributing among the crowd, and by
the time he was ready to address his fel-
low-citizens every man before him had one
in his hand. Mr.. Corwin asked for one,
and, upon glancing at it, discovered that
it was Clay's letter in favor of the annexa-
ton of Texas " if it could be done without
war;" &c. The fountain of the orators
eloquence was suddenly dried up, and he
stood there for couple of hours holler-
ing like a frog on the side of hill,'' as he
humorously expressed it, with a perfect
consciousness all the while that the little
boy had utterly spoiled his speech.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17
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1t is rather humiliating for US to learn
that an English vessel-the man-of-war
Nlobe- the means of preventing tho
execution of the remaining prisoners of
the NIrgnIus. According to the account
given in the Neao York Times, by an eye
witness, the massacre was most revolving
Mr.. Cofr states that the remainder
of the passenge,s, s., fifty in number, were to
be executed on the 7th, but on the morn
ing of that day an English man-of war,
the Niobe, arrived in port. The Cap ain,
on coming into the harbor, did nc, Lutte
the Spanish forts. He was in his p: be-
fore his anchor had touched til Jttom
and on landing proceeded straigh to the
Governors house, and peremptorily de-
manded that the executions should cease.
The Governor at first declared that he had
no right to interfere, but the Captain said
that in the absence of an American man
otwar he would take the responsibility
protecting American citizens, and guarding
the honor of the American flag. 1t is
said he gave General Burriel his choice
between yielding to his demands or having
the town bombarded, and the Governor ac-
cordingly gave way. One Of the first acts
of the commander of the Niobe was to
compel the Spaniards to remove the
American flag from the place on the deck
eff the Tornado where it had been thrown
about and trampled on for days more like
a rag than flag. He also compelled the
Governor of Santiago to furnish him with
five copies of the official proceedings in re-
gard to the trials-one for himself, one
for his commodore, one for the American
Government, one for the British, and the
remaining one for the American commo-
dore."
Whatever regret may be felt that the
credit of upholding the rights of our flag
was not an American, yet our hearties
praise is due to the manly British Cap
tain who honored his country and humani
ty by his noble conduct.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

Alfred Wallace, in his travels in the
Malay Archipelago, encountered in Bor-
neo tree frog to which he considers the
term flying may fairly be applied. Of
this animal he gives the following account;
lone of the most curious aud interest
ing creatures which 1 met with in Borneo
was large tree frog which was brought
me by one of the Chinese workmen. He
assured me that he had seen it come down,
in slanting direction, from high tree as
if it few. On examining it | found the
toes very long and fully webbed to their
extremity, so that when expanded, they
offered a surface much larger than the
body. The forelegs were also bordered BY
membrane, and the body was capable of
considerable initiation"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

Monotony is pleasant in itself; morally
pleasant, and morally useful. Marriage
is monotonous but there is much, / trust.
to be said in favor of holy wedlock. Liv-
ing in the same house is monotonous but
three removes, say the wise, are as bad as
a fire. Locomotion is regarded as an evil
by our litany. The litany. as usual, is
right "Those who travel by land or
sea-" are to be objects of our pity and our
prayers; and l do pity them. delight
in that same monotony. 1t saves curiosi-
ty. anxiety, excitement, disappointment,
and host of bad passions 1t gives a
man the blessed, invigorating feeling that
he is at home; that he has roots, deep
and wide, struck down into all he sees :;
and that only the Being who will do moth
ing cruel or useless can tear them up. 1t
is pleasant to look down on the same par
ish, day after day, and say. 1 know all that
lies beneath, and all beneath know me-.
IF wont friend, kuvw uhoro to fud
him; if l want work done, know who
will do it. 1t is pleasant and good to see
the same trees year after year the same
birds coming back in spring to the same
shrubs; the same banks covered with the
same flowers, and broken if they be stiff
ones) by the same gaps. Pleasant and
good it is to ride the same horse, to sit in
the same chair, to wear the same old coat
That man who offered twenty pounds re-
ward for lost carpet bag full of old boots
was sage, and L wish l knew him. Why
should one change ones place, any more
than ones wife or ones children? Is q
hermit crab, slipping his tail out of one
strange shell into another, in the hope Of
its fitting him little better, either dig
ni6ed, safe or graceful animal? No
George Riddler was true philosopher,
"L Let vules go sarching vur and nigh,
We bides at Whum, my dog and 1; I"
and becomes there, not only wiser, bu
more charitable; for the oftener one sees
the better one knows; and the better ont
knows, the more one loves.-Charle!
Kingsley.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

A STRAPPING JoKE.-A French musi-
elan has been creating considerable social
and public disturbance by his inveterate
disposition to play practical jokes. His
chief object in life seems to be to worry
custom house officials. Arriving at a
place on the frontier, provided with
quantity of luggage, he would pretend to
conceal huge trunk and smaller one
from the eyes of the officials, only the
more to excite their curiosity. At last
the larger trunk would be opened. 1t
would be found to contain thousands of
secondhand trouser straps-an appendix
of trousers now perfectly obsolete-which
had evidently been packed by hydraulic
pressure, for the most frantic efforts of the
employees could not put them back again
into the trunk. In the mean time hun
dreds of passengers storm at the detention
while the practical joker calmly looks on
atthe bother he is causing. But the Sec
amlned and the custom-house people hope
there to find him in default. They ask
for the keys. The practical joker draws
punches of ponderous keys from every one
of his pockets none will fit, until, at last,
their patience exhausted, the custom m-house
officer threatens to burst the trunk open.
Then the possessor of the trunk calmly
asks the angry officer if he is married.
"What business is that of yours ? is the
surly reply. "Only this that before you
omen that trunk | would advise YOU to &C
home, shake hands with your wife, kiss
your little children, write your will and
call at an undertak er's as you come back
There are rattle-snakes in that trunk.
never travel without them" OF course
the man leaves the trunk instantly, and a
messenger has to be sent to the head di
rector, Who is shrewd enough to be aware
that he has to deal with some practica
joker. Presently the official returns anc
asks pompously, " How many snakes have
you, sir?" "Only six" is the rep y
:. look for Yourself" "Oh only six
The head of the department says six snake:
can pass, but that seven would have to pay
duty. | am also directed to state to yor
that if you do not leave this ofice-trou
ser straps, snakes and all-in five minutes
you will be torclbly elected" "And wh'
is to repack my precious straps, collec
tion unequaled in the history of the world
The law entities me to all my goods. Yol
took them out put them back again
The best period of my life is being devoted
to finding pairs for these straps,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

STANDARD FURS.-Among tie most fash
ionable are those of the Russian aud the
Hudson's Bay or American sable, gathered
from the weasel native to high northern lati-
tudes iu Russia and the regions AROUND uud-
sons Bay in America. The Russian sable is
the handsomest and the costliest of furs.
Ii has a fleece as soft and as delicate as down,
lustre as fue as silk with the merit Of
lasting an indefinite len yth of time if prop
erly taken care Of The finest grades, bear
ing tha name of " crown Russian sable" of
very dark, rich brown, with an olive tint,
are becoming so much more scarce from year
to year it is almost impossible to supply the
demand for them. Sets of round muf and
round boa sell at from 1000 to 81 900
according to the color and quality of the
fur Sets of lighter shades sell at from 5000
TO 500. Very handsome sets, made of the
tairs of the animals, sell at from $3.50 to
S400 The mutfs are lined with satin gree
and finished with bows of gros grain ribbon.
American or Hudson's Bay sable very
closely resembles the Russian, but is of a
coarser quality. not SO finely colored, and is
less highly priced. though equally fashlona-
bic and much more extensively used, because
of its comparative inexpenslveness. Sets OF
muffs and boa, whether from the bodies or
tails of the animals sell from 800 TO $500,
according to the quality and color of the fur,
the darker shades always commanding the
highest prices.
The mink, standard fur because of its
usefulness, is no longer fashionable, but still
popular with ladies past middle-life, who ap-
preciate the capacity for wear AMI tear more
than the intrinsic beauty of an article, and
they still demand the mink collar instead of
the boa. Sets of muff and collar sell at
from $40 to 800, according to quality.
The Alaska sable or black marteu, from
its richness and usefulness, has attained
standard position among furs; but to be use
full and even endurable, care must be taken
that the fur be thoroughly deodorized; else
the pelt will breed worms for its own de-
struction, and the fleece will be peculiarly
attractive to moths. Price of sets of muf
and boa from SlS to $40.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-17

A MEDICAL observation-disclosures with
an aggravated case of mumps, or who may
be suffering from severe attack of brain
fever would do we'll to try mode of treat
ment which seems to have been adopted
with very considerable success in the case
of two individuals living in the neighbor-
hood of Pittsburg. 1t appears that
gentleman with mumps and gentleman
with brain fever were lying in one room,
very sick. So much so, indeed, that
watchers were neede d every night, and it
was thought by no means impossible that
the brain-fever gentleman might, at any
moment, and without much ado, 60 out Of
the world. A man was engaged to watch
the patients and to wake nurse whenever
it became necessary to administer medi-
cine. As some people will do on occa-
sions of the kind, in still room and by a
sick bed, both watcher and nurse tell
asleep. The gentleman with mumps, who
seems to have been person Of some de-
termination and considerable sympathy,
lay awake watching the clock which gave
notice of it's beng time for his friend with
brain fever to have dose of medicine.
Mumps being a disease which makes it
exceedingly disagreeable even to open the
mouth, let alone speak, the mumps patient
found it difficult to call aloud, and not
finding it desirable to jump out of bed
probably the room was cold on the fever
mans account-was for the moment In a
difficulty; but it was only for an instant
BE seized hold of pillow, and apparently
with great deal of vigor struck the
watcher in the face with it. This seems
to have had the desired effect, for it not
only awoke the watcher but knocked him
down, awakening also the nurse and the
man with fever. The position Of affairs
and the scene sent the mumps man into
fits of laughter so uncomfortable that Il
threatened not only to crack his sides bu
his cheeks. The fever man saw the joke
and had just sufficient reason left in him
to enjoy it. He laughed, too. Then nurse
and watcher joined, and there was quar-
tet of laughers, who, " for fifteen or twenty
minutes" literally brought down the house
in their night-shirts, to find what all thi
row could be about in the dead of night
To follow the account given in the Pitts
burg Gazette " When the doctor came il
the mornlng he found his patients vastl.
improved said he never knew SO sudden s
turn for the better and now both are VI
and WELL" We commend this medical dis
covery to the special attention of earnes
workers in the profession, in the hope tina
doctors will henceforth find it desirable t.
recommend a proper supply of pillows an
sleepy watchers to be always at hand il
cases of mumps and brain fever.