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Grandmother.
BY ELSIE q -.

For a long time l did not understand it
at all. | thought that, because grand
mothers often We're feeble and Old-fashion-
ed, they could never really feel as we chill
dren do; that they needed no particular
notice or enjoyment, for it was their nature
to sit in rocking-c chairs and knit They
seemed quite different from the rest of the
world, and not to be especially thought
about; that is, by girls who We're as full Of
merry plans as we We're.
Grandmother lived with us, rs father
was her only son. We had a vague idea
that she helped mother mend the clothes.
and knitted all fathers winter stockings,
beside some pairs for the church society.
We were supposed to love her, of course,
and We're never openly rude; for indeed
we had been taught to be polite to all aged
persons. As for grandmother, she was
one of those peaceful souls who never
make any trouble, but Just 90 on in their
own way so quietly that You hardly know
they are in the house. Mother sat with
her sometimes; but we girls, in our gay.
busy pursuits, rarely thought of such a
thing. She seemed to have no part in our
existence.
1t went on SO for some, till one dav
happened at shutdown to 90 into the sitting
room, and there sat grandmother, alone.
She had fallen asleep in her chair by the
window. The sun was Just sinking out OF
sight, leaving a glory of light aS he went,
and in this glory saw grandmother-saw
her really for the first time in my life
She had been reading her Bible: and
then, as if there had been no need of read
inc more, since its treasures already lay
shining in her soul, she had turned the
book over upon her lap and leaned back to
enjoy the evening.
| saw it all in Il moment,-her gentle
ness. her patience, her holiness. Then,
while her love and beautiful dignity seem
ed to fold about me like bright cloud, the
sweet. everyday lines in her face told me
Il secret, that even then, in the wonderful
sunset of life. she was. O how human, So
human that she missed old faces and old
scenes; so human that she needed Il share
Of what God was giving uS,-friendS,
home interests little surprises and eXpec-
tations. loving offices. and, above all, Il
recognition in the details of our fresh
Young lives.
Girls, when grandmother woke up. She
found us all three stealing softly into the
room; for God had helped me. when |
went to tell my sisters about it. Mary
only kissed her. and asked if she had a
good nap; Susie picked her ball of yarn
off the carpet where it had rolled. and be
gan to wind it, all the while telling her a
pleasant bit of news about one of the
schoolgirls; and well, | kneeled down
at grandmother's feet. and. Just n was
going to cry gave her knees good.
hard hing. and told her she was darling
That's all girls. But its been different
ever since from what it was before
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make her mark high. The stock of this
company is looking we'll, as all the sur
roundings; the progress made the past
year justifies the assertion made after Wis
iting the farm year ago, that in my judg-
ment the company is fortunate in the Sc
lection of their superintendent, c. F. Pred
more, the right man in the right place
Boston CllItlldtOr
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Leave Montpelier at s55 m, 205 pm. and pm
Mail Train leaves St Adams at 20 am, connecting
for Boston, Worcester. and White River junction
with trains on the Passumpsic Railroad; at South Yer
non for Springfield and New York at New London
with steamer for New York.
Day Express leaves Montreal at $40 am, st. Johns
at Is Malone at $50 st. Adams at Il45
arriving i'll Boston via Lowell at 1000 D.
Night Express leaves Ogdensburg at 1900 m, Mon
treal at $50 pm, St. Johns at 450 pm. Adams
100 pm connecting at White River Junction and Bel
irving in Boston at s30 am. a South Vernon with
trains for Springfield and New York, arriving
York at IL 30 I'm, and IN New London at II. 10
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leave Montpelier $40 and 7.45 a M and 415 and SIS
Day Express leaves Boston Lowell at sos a IN for
Burlington st. Adams Montreal &c. arriving Mon
treal at lOl5 D. m, and OEdensburg at 900 u m
Mail Train for Burlington and st Adams leaves Bos
ton via Lowell at 100 via Lawrence and titchburg
at 80 Springfield at 500 New London at SO
am, South Vernon at lG00 m. Bellows Falls at 1LJ
am White River Junction at 2i5 pm, arriving i'll st
Trains leaving Boston via Fitchburh at 81 am and
Springfield at 90 connect at White River juno
ton with Day Express train
Accommodation Train leaves leaves Mortified at 7-3
am, Rutland at 80 am, Burlington AT 900 m, st
Adams at Il m for St Johns, Montreal and Malone
Night Express leaves New London at , a p.m South
Vernon at S5s m, receiving passengers from COnnec
tcut River Railroad leaving New York 300 pm
Springfield s pm Bellows Falls at II 20 pm.
Meeting with trains the Cheshire Railroad leaving
Boston 81 pm connecting White River junction
with tram leaving Boston at 600 for Burlington
St Adams, Montreal &c, arriving IN Montreal at 93.
and in OgdeuSburgh at T. ID wit
Grand Trunk hallway for the West
Sleeping Cars attached the Night ENprass
Train running between Montreal and lstOn- and Mon
treal and SprinTheId. and St Adams and Troy
Drawing Room Cars on Day Express Trains beetweeI
Montreal and Boston
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for sale al
The principal stations
JOHN " HOBART. GenI supt
st, Adams, Dec. ). 1873 FMIy
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THE YELLOW COTTAGE.

THE YELLOW COTTAGE.
mid fields with useless daisies white
Between a river and a wood,
With not ar other house in sight,
The low-roofed yellow cottage stood
Where 1,
Long years ago, a little maid,
Through all life's rosy morning played.
No other child the region knew,
Ny only playmate was yself,
And all our books, a treasured few,
Were gath cred on single shelf;
But OIL
Not wealth king might prize could be
What those old volumes were to mel
On winter nights beside the fire,
In summer, sitting in the door,
turned, with love that did not tire,
Their weil-worn pages DER and DER;
In me,
Though sadly fallen, it is true,
Their heroines all lived anew
One day, about my neck a run
OF elder flowers with fragrant breath,
was, with conscious pride enough
To suit the part, Elizabeth;
The next,
Ensnared by many willy plots,
sighed, the hapless Queen of Scots
Where darting swallows used to fit
Close to me on some jutting rocks,
Above the river would sit
For hours, and wreath my yellow locks
And trilI
A child's shrill song, and, singing, play
1t was a SIRENS witching lay.
On Sunday, underneath the tree
That overhung the orchard wall,
While watching one by. one, to see
The ripe, sweet apples fall,
/ tried
My very best to make believe
/ was in Eden and was Evel
Oh, golden hours when / to-day
Would make a truce with care,
No more of queens in bright array,
dream, or sirens fair;
In thought
| am again the little maid
Who round the yellow cottage played
farion HoUland in 50. Nicholas.
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Designed for Practical Application in Business
COMMERCIAL WRITING.
with Special Reference - Legibility and RapdityD
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(R ating Negotiable paper. Contracts. Partnership
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All which especially necessary and adapted
Commercial purposes.
Those desiring to accomplish more than the course
included in the above studies may select any
the following studies. viz: READING, WRIrIS SPELL
GRANMAR and ARITHMETIC, and pursue them as
associate studies or separately.
Pupils received any time when there vacancies
desiring their children educated i'll useful and
practical invited to examine into the merits
of the School
dressed WASHINGTON STREET. which place inter
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A new style of wall paper for dining
rooms has nedallions of game and birds
real skins and real feathers being used
The figures are raised on light bach
ground. Flowers of wax and linen, tied
together with bright eolored ribbons, are
also introduced.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-08

GREEN CROPs.-Prof. Johnson said at
the recent meeting of the Connecticut
State Board of A Agriculture
Green crops are adapted to light sandy
soils, but it is not necessary TO have
vegetable matter in the soil to produce a
good crop. In having clay lands drain
age and lime would effect more benefit
than blowing in vegetable matter. Prof
Johnson said it was impor ant that land
should have something growing on it all
the time. The action of the living roots
of green crops was valuable. 1t retains
OF prevents the evaporation of the fertile
ing power of the soil, Land actively oc,
cnpied is improving constantly. He gave
a very important suggestion in saying
that the value of a farm did not depend
so much upon the area as its depth. Small
lands well TILED and a concentration
would produce the most valuable gains.
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BREEDING DAIRY SToCK.-There is little
prospect that the perfect dairy COW will be
produced to any extent until the practice
of breeding and dairying through the same
herd shall be adopted. The practice OF
dairymen is now quite unfortunate and
destructive to their own business. 1t is
a great point with them to pick up through
the country the best milking COWS, and to
use them in the dairy until they shall grow
old, without raising from them single
calf. BY this cause the very cows which
ought to be kept for breeding, being devo-
ted entirely to the dairy, and their calves
slaughtered at an early age, are entirely
lost us breeders, and the greater proper
ton of the COWS are bred from second OF
third rate mixers. In this way the dairy
stock is continually depreciating.
Why will not dairymen endeavor to make
their mark by establishing race or breed
of distinguished mixers? The task is not
a difficult or expensive one. Let dairymen
bring into their herds rs large Il number
of first rate mixers as practicable, and
breed them to bulls whose ancestry are OF
were from the best milking stock. Let
them rear the most promising calves from
the best mixers, and let each heifer be
brought into milking at the earliest practi-
cable age, and be properly fed and treated
with view to the production of the great
est quantity of milk.
1t Is not of any great Importance upon
what breed the-ideal milking herd shall be
based. 1t may be upon a careful selection
of COWS from the common stock of the coun-
try, from the Ayrshire, the Holstein, the
Norfolk pollcd COW, OF the Devon, or Dur
ham, or from mixture of any o. these.
provided calves for the dairy are bred
only from the milking stock. 1t must be
remembered that each COW must have a
good pedigree-she must trace her lineage
on both sides for many generations through
the first rate mixers. 1t would be well il
II herd book of distinguished mixers should
be established, in which should be recorded
the most distinguished milking COWS, and
their exploits at the pail and that premi-
ums should be offered at the agricultural
fairs for the most distinguished milking
COWS whose lineage should be recorded
in the herd book.
The cows kept for milk do not probably
produce in the aggregate more than hall
the valne in milk that they might with
proper breeding, keeping and treatment
| am not disposed to overlook beauty in
form. but for dairy stock this should be
secondary to milking capacity. Culture is
us essential to the perfect milking COW as
to the perfect horse. or the perfect beef
making Durham.-Country Gentleman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-08

POTATOES FOR STOCK.-Mr. f. Broom
ley, corresponding secretary of the Gull
ford. n. Y, Farmers Club, reports Il re-
cent discussion by that intelligent body on
the value of potatoes as feed for stock-a
question which is just now considered us
of special consequence for the reason that
potatoes are plenty, and hay in many
places no more than two-thirds of an aver
age in quantity. Mr.. George Bradbury
said they,were worth fifty cents per bush
ell to feed almost any kind of farm ami
mails, but should not be fed alone prefer
one half corn-meal or some other grain,
and thinks this mixture better for stock
than either one alone; thinks farmers
should not draw potatoes from the farm to
the market less than so cts. a bushel at any
time and especially this year, Mr.. c. d.
Whittemore would prefer to sell potatoes
and purchase Western corn ut present
prices he thinks cows may be well wintered
and cheaper by daily feeding one or two
quarts of corn-meal. This experiment, the
secretary says, will be made by some
members of the club, and in some future
report he will notice result. Mr.. c.. Wade
thinks proper estimate is not generally
given to potatoes or apples or roots as a
condiment with dry food thinks they are
worth the price above stated said he had
Just killed beef, fed upon apples; it was
very fat and the best of beef.
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STARTING BALKY HORSss.-A ceres
pondent of the Country Gentleman writes
| have plan that will start the balky ami
NAL in few minutes, and if persevered
in generally effects a permanent cure, but
it is often too difficult Of application to be-
come generally useful. Have with you a
small quantity of whole corn, and when a
remedy is needed 90 gently to the horse S
head with n handful, and coax him with
caresses while he eats from the hand
Attempt to lead him. hold the corn little
way before him, and when he goes quietly
and shows that his temper has subsidized.
leave him with his mouthful Of corn, get
in the vehicle, and speak to him to 90 on,
using quiet manners just as if nothing
was wrong; and if he refuses, apply the
same treatment again, and again if neces-
sary, until success attends. Perhaps it
may not be clear to the reader what the
difficulty is in applying this remedy. 1t is
the worse than balky disposition of the
driver, who would rather succeed once in
twenty times by passionately whipping,
than nineteen times in twenty by gentle
ness. Only gentle man can manage a
balky horse, and while there are plenty
of gentlemen in society, there are not so
many gentle men in the treatment of ami
mails.
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