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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19

ORANGE-GIovES IN ST. AUGUSTINE-
Returning down The archcd walks. we
crosse! over into I modern sweet q. lpg.
grove. the most beautiful in II. Augustine
or it, vicinity. 5 pmc of III" trees were
loaded with blossoms. some studded wi
the fu | close buds. which W. of the North
are accustomed t. associate with the satin
of bridal rute-, some hal still their golden
fruit. and others had all three. ut once. ;,t-
ter the p,rpleXng fashion of the tropics
There are about eIyht hundred tree
here. said oar guide. ".tni some of them
WELD annually five tholSln | oranges each
there is :, story cxt;,nt, on of tlI,. lgend>
of s.. Augustine, that formerly or.tnrc-
trees covered the Plaza. AMI that one oI
them yielded annually twelve thousand
oranges.
What an appaliin. mass Of sweet
ness, said Sara. Il am gitl that Tree
died: it WAS too good to live. like the ph.-
nomcnal children of Sunday School liicra
, ture.'
In the old Spanish days" said John
this neighborhood wa> one vast orange
grove; ships loaded with the fruit sale,
out on the harbor. and the grantees o.
! Spain preferred the $. Augustine orlng,
Y 10 any other. In Spain The trees live To :
/ great aye: some of them are sail ID h,
six hundred wears old. having been plane
+ bv the Moor>, but here an un,N Npectcl tros
has several times destroyed all the =: OWES
50 that the crop is b. ~ means a sur,
/ one.
| SO the frost does come here" | said
We have seen nothing of it; the thcr
mcmcter has ranged from eiNty-cisht t,
seventy eight ever since we arrived. :
They had snow in New York last week
said Aunt Di.
1T has melted. l think" sld John
AT least saw this item last evening il
4 New York paper: If the red >lei-hc
thinks that he >lcig to-day, he is mist.
ken
Shades of Emerson AMI Brahma. dc
fcnd US. said sara.
Then we all began to eat oranges. an
make dripping spectaclts of ourselves zen
orally. | defy any one 10 be graceful. @
even dainty. with an orange; ii Is 4 gre,
rich. generous. pulpy fruit. AMI ynu hlv
got To eat it in a great. rich. generous. pul
py way. How We did enjoy those orange
under the glossy green an fragrant bios
SONS of the trees themselves, We CAV
it up then and there. and said openly til
no bought Northern oranye- could cumpar
with thcm-From - The Ancient City" b
Constance F. Woolson, in HtrpcrS NIyu
sine for january.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19

HAPPY IlU>BANDs.-It is Il mans own
fault if he is unhappy with his wife. in
nine cases ont of ten. 1t Is u very eX-
ceptional woman who will not BE- all She
can be to IN attentive husbtnI. an | a
more exceptional one who will not he very
dis,yreeablc if she finds herself willullv
neglected. 1t would he very easy To hate
a man wlio. having bound Il won an to him.
made no effort To- make her hlppy; hard
not to love one who was constant and ten
der; and when woman loves she always
strives to please.
The great men of this world have often
been wreichcd in their domestic relations.
while mean and common men have been
exceedingly happy. The reason is very
plaln. Absorbed in themselves. those
desiring the worlTS applause were care
less of the little world at home, while those
who had none of this cToti>m, strove to
keep the hearts that were their own, and
Were happy in their tenderness.
No woman will love Il man the better
for being renowned or prominent
Though he he first among men She will
only be proudrr. not fonder. and if She
loses him through this renown, as is often
the c;,~e. she will not even be proud. Blt
give her love, appreciation, kin,lneSs an
there is no sacrifice she would not make for
his comfort. The IN IN who loves her well
is her kim. No less u hero to her though
he is not one TO any other; no less a king
though his only kingdom is her heart and
home.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19
Geology and the Bible.

1t is we'll known that. when the study Of
geology first arose, it was involved in in
terminable schemes of reconciliation with
The letter of Scripture. There We're and
are two modes Of reconr lidtion, which
have each totally and dc>ervrdiv failed
The one attemps to Wrc>t the words OF the
Bible from their real meaning. and force
them to speak the language of science;
and the other attempts to fll>ify science I"
meet the supposed requirements of the
Bible. The " Seventy" finding that the
hare was described rs chewing the cud in
serted the word mot; and on the other
hand the Jesuit>, in editing Newton'~
" Principia," announced in the preface
that they were constrained to treat the
theory Of gravitation fictitious hypo-
thesis, else it would conflict with the de
crees of the popes glin5t the motions of
the earth.
But there is another reconciliation of II
higher kind. or rather not a reconciliation.
but an acknowledgment of the affinity and
identity which exist between the spirit OF
science and the spirit Of the Bible. First.
there is 4 likeness of the =, neral spirit of
the Bible truths; AMI. secondly there j. I
likeness in the methods. For instance.
the geological truth which our illu>truu>
student was the chief instrument in clear
lv setting forth and establishing, wis the
doctrine, wrought out bv careful, cautious
inquiry in all parts of the world. that the
! frame Of this earth was gradually brought
| into its present condition. MT bv sudden
and violent commissions, bat, hv the slow
and silent action of the same causes which
we see now, but operating through lonr
succession of ages beyond the memory
and Imagination of man. There need b.
no question whether this doctrine agrees
or not with the letter of the Bible. W.
do not expect it should For, had there
been no such scientific conclusions, W,
now know perfectly WILL, from oar in
creased insight into the n ,turc AMI origin
of the early biblical records, thlt they wcr,
not and could not be literal. pro>:lic. mat
terof- fact descriptions of the beginning @
the world, of which. rs of its end, no MAJ
knoweth OF can conceive,cxcept by figure,
or parallels. 1t is now clear to all student:
of the Bible that the first and second chap
tcrs of Genesis contain two narratives O
the creation side by side, differing from
each other in almost every particular OF
time and place and order. 1t is now
known that the vast epochs demanded by
scientific observation are incomp ltiblt
both with the 6,OW Years of the Mosaic
chronology and the six days of the Mo~ai
Creation. No one now intcrs from the Ri
bic that the earth is tixcl, that it cannot b
moved, that the sun does literally 90 fortl
rs Il bride groom from his chamber. or th:i
the stars sung with an audible voice in tn
dawn of the crea!ion.-Dcdu S'duleY, ii
Popular Science Monthly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19

A Navada new spaper. speaking Of the
avalanches of snow which have been 50
destructive to life and property this winter,
says:
The purely sliding avalanches, or snow
slides, are such rs occur in dry or merely
mois. snow, while the rolling avalanchcs
take place when the snow is wet or suli-
ciently moist to form into balls by rolling.
The avalanches that occurred in Eirg mia
City We're of the genuine rolling dc>crip-
tion-the kind most dreaded and most de-
slructivc in the valleys of the Alps. A
very small beginning when the snow is in
the proper condition NAV end in :: de
structive avalanche. A ball of snow no
larger than i mans head. started high up
on the side of Mount Davidson, might
have swept away several houses at the
foot of the mountain. The fearful force of
the avalanche was shown here when one
broke into i house and killed two men.
and buried five persons who were rescued
with much difficulty. 4 further illustration
Of the terrible force and de>t ructive powers
of the avalanche is to be found in the fact
that twenty v-eiyht Chinamcn We're killed
by one that fell near Genoa.
As we have said. a small ball of snow
started high up on the slope of Mount
Davidson would result in = genuine ava
lAnchc. In rolling q distance of iifty yards
in the moist snow the small ball of snow
would become four OF five feet in diameter
and then it would burst. and each piece OF
it would An instant after form u ball OF
large size; these in turn would explode a
soon Is they had acquired Il certain weight
and velocity. and Il moment after there
would be hundreds and thousands of these
balls in motion, all bounding down the
steep side of the mountain.
While hundreds of these are exploding
or Just forming. other hundreds are of full
size and are picking up rocks dirt, and al
mann, of rubbish, which becomes in
volved in the grand downward rush
Toward the lower part of their course. tn
balls become SO numerous that thew boun'
and clash together SO often that they ar
broken before they acquire any great size
and the whole avalanche is then Il plun~
inc. sliding mass of snow. The avalanche
which knocked two houses to pieces an
buried five phr>0n>, started out few
hundred yards above where the hous
stood 1t started at Il bunch of rock
which projected fifteen or twenty fee
. above the general surface of the slope o
. the mountain. On these rocks the >nov
had fallen and accumulated to the depth o
: about three feet. hanging in places rs Snoy
is seen to do on the caves of a house
From one of these rocks fell 4 bunch o
snow, which began to roll down the hill
and the result wlS destructive avalanche
Doubtless the avalanche which killed tw
men started in much the same way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19
THE TWO ANGELS,
BY John G. WHITE

81 JOhN u Will llEE
God called the nearest angels who dwell with him
above:
The tenlerest one was Pity, the dearest one was
Arise he sal ''my angels n wall OF woe and
Steals through the gates of heaven, and sadlens all
within.
lost world swells;
The smoke of torment clouds the light ani biishts
the aspholes.
"Fly d,wnwlr to that un lcr wo:ll AMI its
souls OF pain
Let love drop smiles Of sunshine, AMI Pity teal
like rain -
Two faces bowed before the throne. veilcd in thei,
golden han;
Four white wings lessened swiftly down .he dari
abyss of ar
The way WAS strange the flight long; at las
the angels came
Where swung the lost and neither wori q, red wrap
ped in ray less flame.
There Pity, shudlcrin5, wept but Love, with faitl
too strong for fear,
Took heart from Gods alinlshtine5s, AMI smiled ,
smile OF cheer,
And lot tht tar "f pity ql:l;ltI ta. unc
Whc:eon il fell,
And with The sunshine of that smile hope entered
into hell
Two unveiled faces full OF joy looked upward t.
the Throne,
Four white wings followed at the feet of Him who
sat thereon!
And deeper than the sound OF seas, more soft thai
falling fake,
AmlS the hush of wing and song the Voice Eterr
a spakei
" Welcome my angels yc have brought holie
j'y to heaven;
HencrioIth It's sweetest song shall be the song
/ 1oiglvcnt'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19

nm very much. lie set traps, but they
did no good; for the old turtle that knew
enough to bick out the best cucumbers for
his supper, knew enough to keep out of
traps. lhe man put up Sclre-crOWs;
hut the turtle WASH afraid. Every night
he went out of his mul-hpusc. by trap
IN under scare-crows. and fcasted till he
conld eat no more. But one morning he
stat Il little too late Mr. Wilson. who
owned the garden, rose very early, and
there he saw the thief Scarlching his WAY
to the brook AS FIST IL his sc,lv claws
would carry him.
Mr.. Wilson saw thlt he must either
catch tn, turtle or lose his cucumbcrs
lie watched very closely for him the next
night, AMI Just rs he was enjoying i jnicv
mouthful he pat his foot uni,.r him ana
turned him over on his back Th. old
fellow cl;twed and struggled. and snapped
with his scissrrs-likc Jaws; blt it VIZ of
no use. lie had been stealing to lonr to
get away easily. Mr. Wilson put him in
to Il barrel wondering VIII It he should do
with him.
The next day. rs Mr. Wilson was 90
| ing to drive over To the store in the nrign-
boring town. he thought he woull pat tn,
! troublesome turtle into his wagon and car
rv him off.
Now he had real of beople's cutting
letters on the back of turtles and lcttin.
them 90. finding them lg lin after many
years. He thougt h would try il. 50 h,
/ took his knife and cut :. A. W. : in tin
turtles back. And he cut a squire an
compass under his initials. lie was
sure he should know that turtle if he eve
saw him again. Then of he drove will
his prisoner at his feet in :, basket. Whri
he got about sevel mile, from iom". h
came TO :, bridge which crossed Il river
Here he stopped and threw Mr.. Turtle in
to the water. saying: " GUESS yoI vii
not steal out of my garden again vcr,
soon
Nothing more WIS seen or heard of th'
turtle that wear. But the next season Mr.
w. was in his garden one day. AMI look
inc into the brook th,rr on the stOn,
wttch-towcr, WAS the old turtle again
The very same; a little larger than
dining plate now, but with A. W. " am
the " squire and compass " on his buck.
Seven miles afoot' Isn't That rrrtt,
we'll for a turtle, bov>? Who taught hin
10 love his old home in the muddy brook
Who showed him the WAY back? Wha
kind Of guide boards has God set mp in tn
) water and the gri>S to point out the rol'
10 the turtles?
wonder if he sung Home, Sweet
ONE. on the way.-C1Ayr, 9 ttout.tSi.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19
Hunting the Antelope.

A party of my friends were starting
down the Platte River to see their herds
of cattle.
don't YOU want to 60 with Us? " said
Calvin. 1--WE may get some antelope"
The idea of riding and camping and
STORYTELLING and hunting for week SEEM
ed charmins just then, so with blankets
and rifle. joined the party,
In an hour we came in sight of the
river. of which some traveller has said,
. 1t is navisable only for shingle.' - so
sandy is its bed and SO changing its cur
rents. All day we followed the river bot
tom. now near the water, now mile away
from it. In the "oX-bows." or beds OF
the river, the grass was growing abun-
dantly, and thousands and tens of thou
sands of sleek kline were feeding there.
Near the high lands we saw great NUM-
bers of prairie-dogs and little owls living
in the same holes. The dogs wagged
their tails. and barking with great ener:
ey, ran into their houses; the owls, old and
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young, toddled in, too. when we approach

young, toddled in, too, when We approach
ed.
Toward evening we saw tall blue cranes
alighting on the slnd-bals. Flocks of
ducks arose from the water and fled from
the hawks. Jack rabbits bounded queerly
from our path, and little way off. turned
to see what we intended to do We saw
two wolves sneaking among the bluffs, but
never an antelope.
The morning after we reached Dana's
cattle-camp. we went out early among the
sand-hils for antelopes.
We agreed to hunt independently, and
during the next half hour we saw plenty
of game in the distance. After Il time,
Dana and met. Carelessly ascending II
little sand-hill, we started up lonely
buck We SO quickly sank upon the
ground that the animal had only a glimpse
of us and after short run, turned to sat
isfy its ever eager curiosity as to what we
were. My companion passed his red hand
kerchief to me.
Wave that he whispered. ION the
end of the rifle. Well try the Indian
game on him. Easy. Wave it easy"
Slowly I waved the flag to and fro, just
in the creatures sight while Dana settled
his body ut full length upon the sand, and
rested his Winchester rifle upon an unoc-
cupied ant-hill.
The antelope now advanced few steps,
| retreated. turned and looked again. As
we presented the same appearance, he be-
came as curious concerning us us Blue
Boards wife about the forbidden room.
| Several times we thought he had seen
enough of us, and was Off But no; his
intense curiosity forced him nearer. Tn
used to hunting as | was, became much
excited Had that antelope been an ele-
phant, l don't believe l could have hit it.
| had what old hunters call - buck fever.
Suddenly the buck exposed his side to us.
Crack! went Dana rife and over went
the antelope.
We saw her(er on his pony, not far
away, and beckoned him to come near,
Dana knew him. and asked him to pack
our game to camp. But no sooner had We
placed it behind the saddle than the pony
reared and plunged until he had di>lodge,
his burden. So We cut off the launches
and making pack horses of ourselves. took
them to camp.
In the month of June it is not Il har,
matter to capture young antelopcs. They
are then SO trall and tender that a man on
horseback soon overtakrS them. They
are then taught to take milk from 4 bottle
and soon become very tame. We saw Sev
eral 50 tame that they would come at call
We passed i turf-cabin whrro there Were
five of these pretty pets, all with ribbon
about the neck, and one, Il graceful doe
with a cherry ribbon tied about the tail l.
OIirer UoCurl, IN ST. \ichO'dS.
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The Coins of Jnd1a.

NJ. de Saulcys great work. . Ia Nj
msmatique de IN Terre Sain,e, Just pub
lished in Paris. is entirely devoted to the
study of Greek and Romrn coin, struck
in Palestine during the Roman occupation.
with twenty-five plates of the most inter
cstiug coins referred to in the text. In
this volume will be fonnd an unique ac-
count of the coins of the Roman Procur-
ators of Jud;ra. from the time it came a
Roman province, A. ID. 6, to the destruc-
ton of Jerusalem 10y Titus, A. ID. 20. with
4 mass of most valuable materials, illus
trative and contirmltory alike of the New
Testament and of protlne history; it con-
tains also an account of the money struck
in Judea by no less than iifty-four Roman
Emperors and EmpreS>eS. a future vol
ume i. promised, which will comprehend
the regal series of IIerod and his flnily.
The principal points of interest group
themselves around the Palestine of S:l-
cred Story, or derive their value from lin
Suistic or pathological causes. Thus,
among the former, may be mentioned the
satisfactory determination of the site OF
the Emmaus of the Gospel. which has re-
covered its ancient name, slightly modi-
! fled to Amouas, and rejected its second IT,
tie of Nlcopoli~, which the Romans had
given to it after the overthrow of Jcrusl
lem by Titus. The numismatic types o
this Roman Nicopoli-. offer representation:
of wolf attacking a wild boar. the lnttel
animal having been chosen in deri>on O
the Jews, in spirit similar to th,t whcl
led Antiochus the Fourth to pollute the
high altar of the Temple by the sacriiic,
of the same uncleln beast. The sam,
idea is exhibited, though in IN opposite
sense. on the money issued by the Samnit,
league in Italy. where the Samnite bul
appears in the act of crushing the Roman
wolf Again, among the coins of the
Procuratores. we find specimens that must
have been struck by Pontius Pilot, Por
cius Festus. and teiiX; and hence some
types which must have been current dur.
ing A. d. 30, 81 and 81, years of our Say
ors preaching in Jerusalem. The
names of the Procurators do not them
selves occur; but, rs their coins are datet
(anl there is no question about the these
dates), there i. 10 difficulty in assigning
them to those who respectively mintc,
them. Memorials have been found by Nj
De Saulcy of the Legio Y. Freten>is
which aided in the capture of Jerusalem
and was subsequently lift theee by Titus t,
watch over its ruins; curiously enough
their badge is the same wild boar foun,
on the money of Nicopois.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19

The Milwaukee (Wis) NeWs says
There WAS a young girl at the police STA
ton recently, not over sixteen. with pre-
possessing face and n good figure, whose
body and limbs are covered with scales
about the sixe of and similar in appearance
TO the scales of a fish. Medical gentle
men who have examined her say that she
present.. the most extraordinary case of
malformation on record. These scales
have the chameleon-like function of chang
ing their color. The scales no her arm.
while the writer was present, changed
twice from pale amber color to blood red
and back again. They do not overlie each
other rs in the case of fish or reptiles, but
appear TO be mbedded in the flesh-in a
sort of mosaic work; and in the color
changes, the transformation does not take
place at once in all the imbricated plates
but varies, some turning red while others
retain the amber color which seems to be
the primary hue"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19

i MoD.I. Bpr-Lulv Il trkrr. in 4 re-
cent work, gives her id,-,l ot a molcl boy.
AZ follow: - If could m,k,. i mo lei
boy. tell vnu what he should he like
lie should l"vr cold wi--r an hate :: lie.
lie >houl be fr INK an Il un- I-p.cious, a
rcome~ a noble trusting n,tuse, inl vet
he >hrull be neither silly or >of- He
should have plrn-y of mlniiS He should
nave IN appetite like 4 wolf. for should
Ni>h him Ia Ice tiil AMI strong; bat he
must not bc a BIT greedy IL, should not
br ash tm,d of loving an rrV"r,ncin- all
that is COOL and holy AMI pare. but with
nothing of the mnliyc,llic alb at him.
lie should have a fine sweet temper. yet
he should b.. a the Yankee song say.
An urkrrel man in row. and he slo I'D
know how to take care .f hnnS-lf with
his fists
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LEAl;N To CONTROL TIE NoICE--To
k,.rl. the lungs ana The v"i.-c in gnoi con-
,iitiun. il j. necessary 10 give them plenty
IF exercise This i dnuitlc-s The reason
why it i 80 natur a for Young people TO.
lau.h. shout. AMI sing. The Cr..itor in
tended tltt their vocal organs should he
well Developed in You h. ami 50 it is found
Utmost ilnp">>ibl" lo keep a child q:iiet.
long a Il TIM Bat. boys and .irl-. YOU
who are old enough t. think about The
matter. do not let this natural impulse
make vour company unpleasant 10 older
PERSONS. 1t The play -ro and or the field
RIM with your hipiw >hout>: there i pl'n-
" room there f L nose. and ii VIII d. You
good. Ina, in The house speak quietly Keep
H.. voice down Il a pleasant tone loud
words are very ann wing tn :. tired or ner-
vpus person. Fathers an mothers would
bc cross much les f.rq lcntly- an children
happier ii this rn!e were generally OBJ
-rrvrd; practice would loon m Ike il a
habit.