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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20

\ SOLITARY TwIN.-The :. Fat Contrib
utor" furnishes the Utica Observer the
following strange story of . a twin"
g There was Il woman out west who
gave birth to one twin-juSt one, that's all
there was of him. She never had another
solitary twin so long as she lived. He
was a melancholy child from the first and
wore such Il lonesome look. He ALWAYS
seemed to be watching and listening for
somebody who never came. He appeared
to realize that he wasn't all together
he was a kind of parenthesis with one
bracket gone-animated dumb-bells and
one dumb-bell misSing-a pair that
couldn't beat deuces and hardly worth
drawing. He used to moan in his sleep
and paw around his pillow for his missing
brother. When that boy grew up he was
different from any boy | ever knew-that
is to say. any one boy. He seemed more
like two boys-st least he was altogether
two boisterOuS for one. If he had a fight
with one boy twice as big rs he was, he
always licked. for he seemed to feel, some
how, as though there were two of him, or
ought TO be. He always managed to get
two pieces of pie at the table, just as if one
was for the other of him who wasn't there
and there was thin pretense of taking
care of it for him, but he always took care
to eat, l noticed. He only half learned
his lessons and double entry bookkeeping
nigh about set him crazy. because, rs l
told you. there wasn't but half of him
there. and he couldn't double entry He
wouldn't sleep with any other, because,
he said, it crowded 'em. He grew up but
he never got married. Once or twice he
attempted to court a girl, but he left her
when it was only half done, as though that
other twin of his would be along and court
the other half | don't know what became
Of him. / heard that he died from sheer
loneliness. but | only believe half | hear
about that boy, anyhow. If he is dead
you can bet he is only half dead"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20
A Snow Storm.

EDITORS COUNTRY GENTLEMAN:-I
Oldest resident of Northern New England
will recollect the great snow storm of May
18th, 1884. Since the first of April the
weather had been peculiar; cold, blue and
gloomy, quite dry; neither rain, snow, nor
sunshine; the heavens were overcast with
dark brown haze, which the sun, at
times, in vain attempted to dissipate But
little spring work had been done, and the
farmer, and everything about him, looked
blue. Snow commenced falling just be.
fore sunrise, quite moderately at first (wind
northeast). but soon increased: l was
then in the employ of the T: Brothers. just
south of the 44th degree of north latitude
in Vermont.
We had previously turned flock Of
sheep and lambs on pasture about three
fourths of mile from the barn. lmme.
diately after breakfast, four of us started
for the pasture to bring them up. Before
reaching the barns. the snow had become
SO deep that the strongest sheep could no
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20
How to Sell Fish.

Here were the mullet, with less of shine
than | always recommend and honestly
wish them to possess; here were the
prawns, with a look of paleness and al
most of languishing. such as they are
bound to avoid until money paid and
counted; and most of all, here were law
full bass, of very great size and substance
inclined to do themselves more Justice in
the scales than on the dish.
saw this would never answer to NV
present high repute. Concerning ques-
tions afterwards, the people being hard
upon me, out of thoughtless ignorance,
that was none of my affair. The whole of
that would 60, of course, upon the weather
and sudden changes, such as never were
known before And if good religious peo-
pie would not so be satisfied with the will
of Providence to have their fish as fish are
made. against them had another reason.
which never fails to satisfy.
The burning tide" as they call it. had
been heard of far inland, and with one
consent pronounced to be the result of the
Devil improperly Tipping his tail while
bathing. Although the weather had been
so hot, this rumor was beyond nv belief:
nevertheless saw my way, if anv old Gus
toner should happen, when it came to his
dinner time, to be ut all discontentet
(Which no man with fine appetite and 9
wholesome nose should indulge in)-I saw
nv way to sell him more, upon the follow
ing basket day, by saying what good peo
pie said, and how much had seen it.
With these reflections 1 reused nv spir
its and resolved to let no good fish be lost
, though it took all the week to sell them
For, in spite of the laws laid down in tn
books Cor young married women, and 8
FORTH there is scarcely any other thin
5 upon which men and women NAV be le
astray SO pleasantly as to buy fish, an
e when to buy fish, and what fish to buy.
:. Therefore started in good spirits on tn
$ Monday morning, carrying with me new
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20

A correspondent writes as follows of a
celebrated place in Colorado Canon, called
Echo Park: When a gun is discharged,
total silence follows the report for a mo-
ment; then, with startling suddenness, the
echo is heard, seemieg at great distance
say five miles to the south-whence it
comes back in separate and distinct rever-
berations, rs if leaping from glen to glen
Louder and quicker grows the sound, until
apparently directly opposite, when a full
volume Of sound is returned; then once
more the echo is heard, like the swapping
of a cap, far to the eastward
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20

A writer in the English Churchman'S
Maqazine undertaking to ascertain the
number of hymns in the English language,
puts the number at seventeen thousand.
and finds that only two hundred and six
teen have received the broad seal of ap-
proval from the whole Anglican church.
and they have appeared in ten church
bvmn books. In these two hundred and
sixteen, twenty-four are by Watts. twenty
one by Wesley, sixteen by Montgomery,
eleven by Heber, nine by Newton, nine by
Tate and Brady. eight each by Cowper and
Doddridge, and five each by Keble, Kelly.
and Neale, and five only are by 8 Anon" p"
We remember reading in the preface to a
large collection of German hymns, some
wears ago, that the German language then
numbered fully eighty thousand hymns
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20

outrages she has received, and if our old
Europe, placed in the rank of subaltern
power, will not become colony of the
New World?"
Lucas Alaman, the greatest statesman
of Mexico, declared that though his coun-
try must, from its natural advantages be a
land of prosperity, yet it would not be SO
for the races which now inhabit it. As
the ancient MeXicans fell beneath the pow
er of the Spaniards-the country gaining
! by this change of dominion, though its an
cient masters were overthrown-so like
wise, its present inhabitants should be
ruined. Bishop Shipley of St. Asaph utter
ed many remarkable prophecies, and
among them one that had in tlis favored
country time and discipline would discov-
er some means to correct the ext eme in
equalities of condition between The rich
and the poor.
MIR. SUMMERS OWN VISION.
These are but specimens. Fox and
Shiridan and Robert Burns, Cerisier, Gal
lani and Amanda, De Tocqueville and Cob
den, and many others, are drawn from,
and Mr.. Sumner, after rccapitulating
adds:
All these various voices of different
times and lands, mingle and intertwine il
representing the great future of our Repub
lie, which from small beginnings has al
ready become great. 1t was at first only
a grain of mustard-seed, which is, indeed
the least of all seeds; but when it is grown
it is the greatest among all herbs, and be
comes Il tree. so that the birds of the ali
come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Better still, it was only a little leaven, bu
it is fast leavening the whole continent
Nearly all who have prophesied speak o
America,' or North America and not o
any limited circle, colony, or State. /
was so at the beginning. with Sir Thoma.
Browne, and especially with Berkely
During our Revolution, the colonies, strug
Cling for independence, We're always de
scrbed by this continental designation
They We're already America" or Nortl
America and such was the language o
Washington, thus incidentally foreshadow
ing that coming time when the whole con
tinent, with all its various States shall be
a Plural Unit, with one Constitution, ont
Liberty, and one Destiny.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20
MACARIUS'S LESSON.

The sunshine lay along the sands
In lingering, level, shining bands:
Into an open cell it shone,
Where monk Macarius sat alone
And started as shadow fell
Across the glitter In his cell.
Father" hardened sinner said.
How shall my peace with God be made?
How shall | live the life of saints,
For which my hungry spirit faints?"
" Ely from the sight of man, my son,
So be thy Christian race begun
In solitude thy sin lament,
By night and day thy deeds repent;
Sin not in speech, thy tongue control
SO shalt thou save thy sinful soul"
That night Macarius on his bed
Heard a sweet voice that softly said.
T. Thou thinkest goodness dwells with thee:
Risel go to yOnder town AMI see!
Beside the shore two women dwell
Far above thee as heaven from hell"
At early dawn, with prayer and groan,
Macarius left his cell alone,
And sought the city's busy roar,
The craftsmen's street beside the shore,
Where Claudia and Eudora sat
Braiding together on a mat.
With accent stern the abbot said,
" What life, o women, have ye led
That any angel should come down
To give to you sanity crown? ?"
With startled eyes, and lips apart,
And mingled words, as one in heart:
1--WE are our husbands wives, and try
To serve them with humility
No saints, o father, can we bc,
But two poor women, as you see"
{ Nay" muttered he; " some mishtier grace
Has sanctiied your dweling-place
What have ye offered to the Lord?
What duty done what sin abhorredl
How in the crowded, wrangliny street
Made of your lives an odor sweet?D
we have done nothing. Once we said
For Gods sake we would be unwed,
And live rs nuns in convent cell.
Our husbands did not think it well,
SO then we only made VOW
To live in Christian peace as now,
Nor let a word of strife or wrong
BE heard again from either tongue"
The father bowed his head and sighed
Obedientl silent! selfdeniedl-
And women tool All, Lord, | see
How far this lie surpasseth me-"
wiser and a better man
His course from thence Macarius ran.
o saint and abbot, sleep in peace
pray not that thy tribe increase,
For if that angel came again
To cleanse soul from sinful stain,
in what new land beside what sea,
Could two such wondrous women be?
Harper'S Nag Yin
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THREATENED TO INVADE BELGIUM
LIFE SERVITUDE IN THE MINES

The next letter from the emperor in
formed Alexis that his missing letters, par
tally printed, had been recovered, and the
Young gentleman was admonished to be a
little more careful of his love missives in
the future. Had these letters been pub
lished a profound futter would have been
created among the faircst, if not the best
of the great cities of the east, and the vol
ume would have met, of course. with a
prodigious sale. The erring ones will APP
preciate their narrow escape when they
learn that they were saved through the
menace of a general European war and
the lesson should serve them through life
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20

A citizen of Brownsville, Texas, en-
ployed Mexican to transport $4,000 in
silver from Saltillo to Brownsville. While
the messenger was still in Mexico. en- route
for Brownsville, he was set upon by desper-
ADDE'S and severely wounded, but be fought
his way back to Brownsville and delivered
the silver to his employer. However, on
the night following, he entered the house
where the silver was stored, killed the
owner, and stole all the silver he could
carry away.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20

ney westward In due time Alexis re-
eeived letter from his august father,
announcing, among other matters, that
four sealed packages had been received
from him, but the messenger was missing.
Alexis ut once surmised that one of the
packages had been stolen by the orderly.
whose purpose was to make them public
Unwilling to have
THE REPUTATION OF MANY LADIES
of frespectability thus compromised through
his carelessness, Alexis promptly tele-
graped to the emperor to arrest the orderly
at any cost and seize the missing letters.
All the police appliances of the Russian
empire were at once invoked, but the Or
derly could not be found within the vast
dominiOns of the czar. He was at length
discovered in n town in Belgium, where he
was serenely engaged in making up the
letters in an attractive volume of three
hundred or four hundred pages, and the
book was on the point of being issued, for
the fellow who had made good use of his
time. No time was to be lost. But what
was to be done? Russia had no extradi-
ton treaty with Belgium, and the Belgium
authorities, although willing to accommo-
date the car, did not see how the publica-
non could be suppressed. Exasperatcd at
this state of affairs. the car
THREATENED TO INVADE BELGIUM
at once with powerful army, utterly
reckless of the peace of Europe, unless
the culprit was surrendered. Alarmed al
this extraordinary threat, the Belgium
king set about finding some pretext upon
which the orderly might be arrested. II
was finally ascertained that he was print
ing his book without the usual license, ant
he was promptly taken into custody. Will
his unfinished volume and stolen letters he
was hurried across the Belgium line into
Prussia, where the agents of the Russian
Government were ready to receive him
He was soon in St. Petersburgh, and il
twenty four hours after was on his way tC
Siberia under sentence of
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TuE ANCOMpIISLIED rREnICTI0Ns

These, rs Mr.. Sumner collected them.
range from Seneca dOWnwards 1t was
400 years before the discovery of Amer
lea that this Roman wrote his famous lines,
which are thus translated: There shall
come time, in later ares, when ocean
shall relax his claims and Il vast continent
appear, and pilot shall find new worlds,
and Thule shall be no more the earth's
bound Pulci, the Italian poet who died
five years before Columbus sailed on his
first VOYAGE. writes:
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20
Prophetic Voices.

THE PREDICTIONS CONCERNING AMERICA
WHICH SUMNER GATHERED.
The book which Mr.. Sumner had lust
completed ut the time of his death, the
" Prophetic Ioices Concerning Anlerica,' y
quotes the visions of poets philosophers and
statesmen of the past eighteen centuries.
These predictions are naturally grouped
into two claSses-the fulfilled and the vet
maccomplished.
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The daring mariner shall urge far Ger
The western wave, a smooth and level plain,
Albeit the earth Is fashioned ike a wheel.
Man was in ancient days of grOSser mold
And Hercules might blush to learn how far
Beyond the limits he had vainly set
The dullcst sea boat soon shall wing her way.
Men shall descry another hemisphere,
Since to one common center all things teHd;
So earth, by curious mystery divine
Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres
At our Autip0des cities states,
And thrOnged empires nc'er OWNED of yorc.
But see, the sun speeds on his western path
To glad the nations with expected light
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STATE OF ILLINOIS, tss
Rock ISLAND COUNTY, IS.
In the Circuit Court of said County, Of the May
term A. d. 1S74.-In Chancery.
John Carr VS.. the unknown heirs OF JACOB ~.
Strong George D. Gould Levi r. Harson, and the
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