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How They were Saved.

Parton, in his lecture on the Pilgrim
Fathers. tells how they We're saved from
famine by an Indian. He says the women
and children of the Pilgrims, besides doing
their full share of the hard work of the
colony, supplied the men with motive, re-
ware and restraint. In beginning theil
new strugg for life. their capital stock
was ten bushels of Indian corn, stolen
from an Indian hiding place on Cape Cod
Ten bushels of corn, 1t was their life. 81
far IL we can see or they could see. they
must have persisted without the supply o
stolen seed But what could English wea.
vers and farmers do with Indian corn, o.
the culture of which they know nothing
and which would not grow in their sandy
soil. They had made another acquisition
50 important that we cannot see how they
could have survived without it. The
plague which had swept that coast so bare
of inhabitants, that there was no Indian
within ten miles of them, had spared one
man. because he was absent at the time il
London. He was one of fourteen Indian,
who had been stolen, some Years before b,
an English captain. who sold them IN Eu-
rope. ut twenty pounds a man, into slavery
This one SqulntO, as the Pilgrims called
him. had fallen to Il master in Cheapside
London. with whom he had learned Eng.
lish. and the ways of the English people
He had been sent back to hi, native shore
and had come with Samoset, in this frs
spring. to visit the settlers in his old home
He liked them; he was in his native place
he cast his lot with them, and spent the
rest of his days in their sacrifice. What :
possession to men situated as they We're:
He knew how to make corn grow in the
sand Into that sheltered cove of theirs
ut the mouth of the brook that flows from
the Ellington Sea, shoals of small. fat
herring like fish come in the spring tC
spawn in fresh water. Eight hundred bar
rels of them have been taken in one sea
son there. Squanto told them to plant
three or four of those fish in each hill Of
corn; and they raised such crop from
their ten bushels of seed that they had
enough corn to give every person peck Il
week till next harvest. They must have
raised between six and seven hundred
bushels. Squanto knew all the sources Of
food in that region-every fishing ground
every eel-bed, every clam beach. every
haunt of deer and fowl and the places fire,
quented by crabs and Holsters He gave
them, in fact, the knowledge of this locali
ty which his tribe accumulated by ages o
occupation; and the only knowledge of i
which he possessed was of just the kind
they must have had or starved
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-08

he mountains saying they were like
ailors, and make love for pastime.
After some time, becoming wearicd
With his opportunities, she told him that
f Bradbury n not return by the appoint
Il time, she would talk with him, but nm
i'll that time she would have nOthino
nore to say on the subject He then tool
lis departure not, however, until he ha,
nale an arrangement with a friend VIII
lived near by, to notify him promptly i
'radbnrv did not return on the twenty
fifth Of December.
While engaged in building his house
Bradbury received an injury from a fall
ng timber which disabled him for SOM
weeks, and occasioned some delay in his
departure. so that Christmas was already
past when he set out Crossing tn,
mountains he stopped one night at Jack
sOnviile, and then pushed forward a.
rapidly as possible, for his forced delay had
occasioned him no little anxiety. On the
second day after leaving jacksonville he
fell in with Il traveller, riding like himself
on horseback, and in the same direction.
This stranger gave his name as Harkman.
and after few hours became communica-
tive. He said that he had become tired of
SiUSlc llIc anu WIS 2OlUG uOW III
to the Umpqua to change his condition
Bradbury appeared to take but little notice
of his remarks, but contrived to keep him
talking until he learned that the young
lady whom he was going to see had been
engaged to a chap from California" but
as he, the Californian. had not appeared at
the appointed time, Harkman expected to
step it and win the prize with scarcely IN
|
pany, and when they come in sight OF
Boise's rancho, Harkman remarked with
much assurance:
There is the home of the future Mrs.
IIarkman."
Bradbury said nothing. and pretended
that he was journeying on to Portland on
Salem. HaIkman, however, invited him
to call on his fair Dulcinea, and touching
his horses rein, they rode together to the
house. Adaliza was at the door in mo-
ment, and as Bradbury sprang lightly from
the saddle she came to his arms as only
Oregon girls can and do come to the arms
of their lovers. Harkman looked on with
surprise, but at length found words to ex-
claim:
Euchered, what a grouse (Oregonian
for Simpleton) | was not to know it," He
I turned Ills IlOTSt = lltstu III the direction
whence he came. and no grass could even
Sprout beneath his horses feet until he was
ont of sight.
On New Years Day there was we'd
ding ut Bosses rancho. and few week>
later Il horseback journey down to the
| Willamette. and when the early spring
had come, and the skies were clear. !
longer ride through the flower besprinklet
valleys of Oregon, and over the fir ant
pine c lad ..Siskiyou to the neat cabin al
/ Indian Town.
My friends in that distant mining towr
tell me that the voices of beautiful happy
children may be daily heard around thi.
unasssuming home, but whether they ar,
web-footed, have never inquired
/ ldHd Transcript.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-08

An incident of the life of Jesus shows
him sitting by, watching the rich
md prosperous as they went up and
east their offerings in; and he judged anu
valued very differently from any human
spectator.
- And looking up he saw the rich m n
casting their gifts into the tt, a>ury."
" And he saw also Il poor widow casting
therein two mites. and he said. OF trutl
| say unto you this poor widow hath Gas
in more than they all. For all these hav,
of their abundance cast in unto the offer
ines of God, but she of her penury hatl
east in all the living she hath =
Here is the secret history of Il life which
mirrors thousands. A widow with non,
to work for her, poor, pinched to make ths
ends of life meet restricted to the PLANES
food and scantiest clothing. and yet witt
u longing to do a little something for hen
country and her God. Patriotic and piou:
feeling burned in her heart-her two pool
mites could scarcely be more in the grea
splendid treasury than two snowilakes IL
the ocean, but she wanted to give them
Perhaps she did not hear the words of jesus
and only went away with the feeling of :
loving heart that she had done what she
could
But Jesus. like the merchantmen seek
ing goodly pearls, saw the pearl of gre;l
price in this silent gift. The tenderness
of Jesus for the widow is often shown. |
was the only son of widow that he called
back from the dead; it WAS poor widow
beSetting an unjust judge, that WAS hi
Illustration of the prevailing force of pay
er; he Indignantly denounces those wh'
devour widows houses. 1t is inferred from
many incidents in the sacred narrative tina
his own mother was left Il widow befor,
the beginning of his public career. an,
thus personal knowledge of the trials o
such added to his feeling. The name o
this woman is not told us. She drifts be
fore us as the type Of a great class nevel
wanting in life, the poor, working
lttle-regarded widow. and what w;ts sal,
of her was dcs gncd for the comfort o
thousands. 1t may have been among tn
blest surprises of heaven. after this woman
passed the golden gate, to find her poo
little offerings garnercd up in Gods lovin.
remembrance rs we keep the little play
thing our sick and suffering child gives IL
a. it, last love Gift. This generous God
who thus cares for the least and lowest, i
the God revealed in Jesus. He iS on
God forever: he will he our guide unit
death. = Christian Union.
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CUsTOMs IN FINLAND.-One of the Gus
toms of Finland is for the members OF
every family to take a hot bath once a week
in the water of stepped leaves The leave,
are gathered in the woods and stepped in a
large kettle. and this kind of bath Is es-
teemed a delightful luxury.
Another custom is, whenever girl
wishes to leave the country, she has to 20
first to her clergyman, and partake Of the
sacrament, and procure a letter of recon-
mcndaton from him, after examination, n
certificate of good health; then TO an Off
Ger of the government, from whom she
procures a certificate of permission to re-
main absent certain specified number of
years. This certificate, costs her sum
equal to about four pounds in our curren-
CIV. If she returns promptly at the end OF
the time prescribed. all is well; but if not
her name is erased from the book in which
it has been entered, and she is considered
as having violated her contract with the
government, and she loses her citizenship
forever.
The inhabitants of Finland dig very
deep pits in the EARTH in which hey entral
wild beasts in the winter. They cover
these excavations over with boughs, which
conceal them from sight, and the unsus-
pecting wolf, or bear, stepping upon the
boughs finds himself precipitated to thu
bottom of the pit. Sometimes goose il
fastened to the middle of the covering as
a bait for beasts. An anecdote is related
of blind old woman who happened upon
one of these pitfalls, and tumbled in
| She went down and down, until finally she
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-08
For the Freeman.
The Temperance Work.

During q long period, the friends of
temperance have been contending with the
Iouor traffic. by way of temporizing in
efficient legislation, by attempts at regula-
tion and license. by prohibition-still, the
deadly scourge exists. 1t has set at defiance
the efforts of men, and the power of law.
In the GOOD providence of God, the Chris
tian ladies of our country have risen up to
crapple with this giant foe. 1t must be
acknowledged that the women engage in
This GOOD enterprise with some real and
important advantages; they have keener
SENSE of the evils against which they con-
tend; they have more of love and falth,
and simpler trust in God they can WELD
the instruments to be employed in this
work more effectively than men. 1t has
been said that this is an inappropriate
sphere for the'laborsfof women. l would
ask, who is more deeply and seriously af-
fected by the vice of intemperance than
the female portion of the community?
Woman is destined by the order of nature,
and by the customs of society, to life of
comparative seclusion and obscurity; she
i not abroad in the pursuits of wealth and
onbition-in the game of war and politics.
No her pleasures and her sorrows are those
of the fireside. This deadly vice poisons
the fountain of her earthly happiness; by
invading the temple of domestic peace, by
breaking in upon the privacy and tranquil
itv of the family circle, it rObs that circle,
with a ruthless hand, of all its charms, and
converts it into Il den of horror. Should
not woman engage in this enterprise? Is
there not enough to arouse her to the most
Jealous. determined action? Think of the
hrart-broken wife, crushed beneath sOr-
rows that defy description. Contemplate
the widowed mother of an only son. She
once fsndlv cherished the hope that he
would be the stay and solace of her declin-
inr wears: but the deadly cup is held out
TO him. he sips, and thus crosses the thresh-
hold Of death; he has commenced the
druukard's career, and soon the awful con-
virtion sinks and settles in the mothers
heart that her son Is lost. Numerous are
the painful pictures drawn by intemper-
ance. Look upon the dark, deep current
of crime that is rolling through our coun-
try; this mighty torrent takes its rise in
intemperance. Each public journal sets
before Us some fresh example of its horrid
effects. To-day, perhaps, we read of an
awful suicide, occasioned by strong drink
tomorrow we may read Of n drunken
husband. who, in a moment of frenzy, cuts
down with an axe, the wife of his bosom,
with a babe clinging to her breast. for
bear; the hand would tire and the heart
sicken before the horrid catalogue of crime,
perpetrated through intemperance, was
half completed. l heartily rejoice in view
Of the noble effort inaugurated by the
ladies' of Montpelier. As a citizen of the
state. and one who has often been a So
iourner ut the capital. it is a source OF
pride and pleasure. May heaven crown
this Christian movement with glorious
success. H. +
PrOctur>ville. Vi
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-08

TACT IN LITTLE kINDNEssEs-I spent n
lew days on a steamboat Journey last
spring, and in the evening the passengers
would gather in the cabins. and each con-
tributlng something to the general enter
talnment. we had very pleasant times
one young man gave recitation, not
much ofa piece, perhaps-one of the old
time School-boy declamations-and in the
midst of it he forgot how it went. got con-
fused and broke down. feeling immensely
mortified. But one of the ladies sitting
near him spoke. Thank Won for that
piece 1t WAS particularly pleasant to me
10 be reminded of il, for | used TO hear il
Years ago. and it brings to my mind the
pleasant old times when | went TO the
district school in the country But have
not heard it, nor thought of it. for a long
time. The mans embarrassment was
hall taken away by such thoughtful ac-
acknowledgement that he had given pleasure
by his attempt, and the lady proved her.
self Il real lady, but unfortunately. nine
out of ten would not have thought to say
anything of the kind
If the man who happens to sit on the
same seat with You in the cars has not the
morning paper. and vou have, don't read
II through and put it in Your pocket but
offer 1t 10 your neighbor. And, in offering
a kindness, if you can put it into shape of
asking one. so much the pleasanter. A
lady said 10 me: hate to carry round
subscription paper, and 90 begging. but
when | do 90, there is just one man like
TO 20 to- Mr.. A. always thanks me for
coming, Just aS though had done him a
favor by giving him a chance 10 subscribe.
Sometimes he says he can't give me ANY,
| ihing. but he always thanks ma for COM
ing How easy for Mr. A. to do so; vet,
in one point at least, it makes him regard
ed as the most agreeable person she
knows.
The impressions left by these little
things lasts 80 long. too. | remember well
how an old gentleman. Il stranger TO me.
@ave me Il luscious pear one day. when /
was an errand-bov in Boston. He slipped
| ii through the wire-g grating to me without
saving word. Why the thing has been a
pleasure 10 me every time have thought
of it, all these wears
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during the fire. Since then the officers of
the bank have been investigating the mat
ter, their suspicious having been aroused
by the discovery that notes had been paid
and the money received not accounted for.
On Thursday evening they were in the
bank; Wright went in, but soon left. At
ter they left Wright went into the bank,
took what money there was in the safe.
amounting to some four thousand dollars,
as near as can be learned from depositors
and left in the night train going South.
Some pieces of tin, supposed to have
been from the binding of the ledger, have
been found in the stove. Mr.. Hale re-
membors that Wright had very hot fire
in the stove on the day of the fire. and
kept stirring it, and it is supposed that it
was burned at that time
1t is now understood that for some time
the directors have not been satisfied with
Wright, but the cashier had the most i'm
plicil confidence in him.
1t was remarked by one of the saloon
keepers of the village, before the fire. that
Wright was spending considerable money
The institution has been in operations but a
few years, and we think Wright has beer
teller from the start He went to Brad
ford from Oxford, N. H., where his father
resides. The elder Wright is a drover,
and much esteemed citizen. The son
was member of the Congregational
Church at Oxford, and has been a teacher
of class of Young men. in the Sabbath
school ut Bradford. A few weeks since
he was in Boston, and, calling upon one o
his former pupils, he gave him a quantity
of good advice, 1t is reported that he
was engaged to be married to most esti
mable lady, and among his near relative,
are several well-knOwn and much-esteem
ed gentlemen of Boston.
AS he was arrested before he had an OPP
portunity to eXpend much of the money
taken, it is hoped that the bank will no
suffer 4 large loss.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-08

WHY BARNEY WAS RETAINED.-A firm
dealing largely in coal in one of our West
ern cities had in their service an Irishman
named Barney. One day the head of the
firm. irritated beyond endurance at one of
Barney's blunders, told him to 90 to the
office and get his pay, and added. '' You
thick headed, can't teach you any
thing"
Degorra. says Barney, Z" larnt wan
thing since I've been wild ye,"
What's that?" asked his employer.
THAT sivinteen hundred make ton. "
Barney was retained, or, to use the
phraseology ola Southern gentleman who
has Just won the heart and hand of one of
New York's most opulent widows, "he
resumed the primeval condition of his
former rectitude. "-EDITOR's DRAWER, in
Harper's Magazine for Aprft.
One might write a column obituary
notice on an ofice-holder. and then not
equal the brief announcement in an Iowa
paper: :" Harvey Jackson. county treasur-
er. is dead. He was linient with the wild
owed, and his books always balanced"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-08

The charge of the woman's suffrage
bill in the English House of Commons
has been transferred from Mr.. Jacob
Bright, the late radical member for Man
chester. to Mr.. Forsyth, the conservative
member for Marylebone
"NEXT.' .'-Says the Cincinnati Times
" Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned rs the
first Granger, but incorrectly Eve, who
made a reputation in the apple business,
and who broke up Adam monopoly, was
the first to patronize husbandry.n
All of the latest advices from Minnesota
are united in declaring Indian Commits
sioner Smith completely innocent of all
dishonesty in the infamous pine lands
transaction. While the verdict is against
the sale, it exonerstes Mr.. Smith from ali
completely in it.
Turkey and Russia are said to be quiet
| ly preparing for war against each other.
Turkey is purchasing cannon and pushing
the construction of railways, and Russia
is rebuilding Sebastopol. making all the
men of the empire liable to military duty,
and adding iron monsters to her Black
Sea feet.
A request was received from Mrs. Has
tinos. Mr.. Summers sister in San Francisco,
asking Miss Maud Howe, daughter of DR..
S. G.. Howe, to have prepared for her a
wreath and cross, the description of which
| was fully given, which she wished to have
placed on the Senator's coffin previous to
burial. The order was tenderly executed
at the grave in Mount Auburn.
The Rev DR.. Cheney created great ex-
element ut a concert in his church at East
Boston last Monday evening, by requesting
the audience, which was very large, to
withdraw as quietly as possible. and when
about half had gone he explained with
visible emotion that there had been danger
/ of a breakdown, whereupon the people
drew long breath, and thanked DR..
Cheney.
An important case has Just been decided
in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, in
volving the legality of a marriage between
a white man and Il negro woman. The
children of the persons brought suit, as
heirs, for large amount of property left
by their father. and after years of litigation
their right to the property has been affirm
ed and the union thus declared legal. This
is the first case of the kind ever decided IN
Mississippi. The estate is worth 100000
\ trapeze performer was killed in a New
York theatre on Thursday night. while at
/ tempting one of his hair Drained perform
ances. 1t is difficult TO comprehend the
! fascination for an audience which there Is
in seeing a man risk his life for THEN
amusement, but there will be men enough
ready to do it SO long rs it pays These
! things are among the mysteries OF human
nature If il is for the public interest tC
discourage suicide we are not sure but
trapeze performances should be prohibited
by law.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-08

THE BROAD LAKE OrEN.-The strong
west wind of last night broke up the ice
in the Broad Lake, and drove it into the
bays on the eastern shore. Daylight, this
morning, showed our Bay mostly filled
with drift ice, and a white barrier extend
ing across the mouth, beyond which the
broad, blue water was dancing and flashing
in the sunlight north and south, us far as
the eye could see; and it was a cheerful
spectacle to behold. This is an unusually
early opening Last year the Broad Lake
opened the morning of April 24th, and the
Williams went to Port Kent in the after
noon. In 70. the Williams made her first
trip on the 23d of April. In forty years
past the ice has held till after the 10th of
April oftener than it has broken up before
that time. In 1S47 the ice held till the first
of May. The first trips of the ferry boats
across the lake averaged about the 10Th OF
April.-F'ree Press. 27tt.
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WHAT A PLANT DID.-A little plant

WHAT A PLANT DID.-A little plant
was given to sick girl. and in trying to
take care of it. the family made changes
in their way of living. First. they cleaned
the window that more light might come to
its leaves; then when not too cold, they
would open the window SO that fresh air
might help the plant to grow strong; and
thus purified their own lungs as well. Next,
the clean window made the rest of the
room look so untidy. that they used to
wash the floor and walls. and arrange the
furniture more neatly. They led the faith
er of the family to try and mend a broken
chair or two. which kept him at home
several evenings. After the work was
lone he still stayed at home instead of
spending his leisure in the bar-room; and
he money thus saved went to buy comforts
for them all. And then. as their home
grew attractive, the whole FIRMLY loved it
md each other better than before, and
grew healthier and happier with their
flowers. Thus, the little plant brought a
moral as well as physical blessing,
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THE SANDS OF DEE,
BY THE REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY.

The following wild and beautiful poem was writ
ten twenty-five ycarssago by Canon Kingsley. wht
is now lectnring in this country.
Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call tbs cate home,
Across the sands of Dee."
The western wind was wild with foam,
And all alone went she.
The western tide crept up along the sand
And DER and o'er the sand,
And round au..r ..rouni the sand,
AS far eye could see
The rolling mist came down and hid the land;
And never home came she.
oh, is it weed or fish, or floating hair
4 tress of golden hair,
drowned maiieD's hair,
Above the nets at sea ?"
Was ever salmon yet that shone SO fair
Among the stakes of Dee?
They rowed her in across the rolling foam
The cruel crawling foam,
TIE cruelhungry foam,
To her grave beside the sea,
But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle hom
Across the sands of Dee.