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DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.


The importance Of the system. Its power
lie and the direct bearing which has happi-
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Ing TO the patient who naturally wants to with
delay what Is the matter the Of the
ment the probabilities oil recnperation and the time
CURED
IL tho brain has become exhausted by intense mental
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only its strength by being properly and
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

host, hope said Mrs. Taunton. whom
he hurriedly admitted, "that will last for
life. lie is so true hearted and generous
Richard that you can hardly fail 10 esteem
one another If he had been spared" she
kissed (not without tears) the locket in
which she wore his hair, he would have
appreciated him with his own magnanim-
ity, and would have been truly happy that
the evil days were past which made such
II man his enemy"
She left the room; and the captain
walked, first to one window, whence he
could see the dancing in the garden,
thence to another window, whence he
could see the smiling prospect and the
peaceful vineyards.
Spirit of my departed friend" said he,
" is it through thee these better thoughts
are rising in my mind? Is it thou who
hast shown me all the way have been
drawn to meet this man, the blessings OF
the altered time? sit thou who hast sent
thy stricken mother to me to stay my
angry hand? Is it from thee that the
whisper comes that this man did his duty
us thou didst--as did, through thv guid.
ancc, which has wholly saved me here on
earth and that he did no morep"
lie sat down, with his head buried in his
hands, and when he rose up made the sec.
ond strong resolution of his life-tbat nei.
ther to the French officer, nor to the
mother of his departed FRIEND nor to any
soul, while either of the two were living
would he breathe what only he knew, anC
when he touched the French officers glass
with his own, that day at dinner, he
secretly torgave him in the name of the
Divine Forgiven of injuries.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

YOUNG (?) WoMEN.-The world is full
of advice to young ladies', of endless ad-
vice 10 young wives and mothers; but the
chronic form addressed to women no lon
ger young, intended to solace the After
noon of Unmarried Life"-can anything in
all literature be more doleful? The as
sumption that such life is an infection
burden to its posSessor-the general at
mosphere of coddling and psalm-singing
pervading the whole-does not make
cheerful reading, it must be confessed. A
life so preposterously doleful--so utterly
devoid of comfort as to receive consolation
from such source could not sustain the
burden of existence. There must always
remain to such poor souls that final relief:
&" TO shuttle off this mortal coil"
But this is only one form of what meets
the single" woman everywhere: the
gentle commiseration of tender souls; the
delicacy which avoids all reference to
birthdays; the comforting assurance that
she still looks young, she must meekly ac
cept, even if she escapes the hearty ard
undisguised contempt for any of her ST. =
cies in which some honest souls indulge
So universal is this sentement-so fam Il
iar has it become-that its absurdity is
overlooked. One meets it everywhere.
1t is amusing to observe the inevitable
taunt from the victims whom Gail Hamil-
toms scathing pen has reduced to an
otherwise ignominious silence. This
maiden, this ancient maiden" is their only
cry. One editor, after an appreciative no
tice of an article Of hers, in which he uses
such complimentary phrases rs mastery
of sharp incisive English" great brain
power" &C., finally refers to her with
telling sarcasm as "this young (?) female,
1--WE give every woman the benefit of the
doubt)' As though he would say, " We
do not lightly accuse any; although the
young (D woman has been for many
years popular writer, II suspicious cir
cumstance, we are yet willing to give her
the benefit of the doubt. We sincerely
hope that she is still sweet sixteen"
Now, can anything be more absurdly
funny than this? What has this grave ed
itor, discussing profound political ques-
tions to do with Gail Hamilton's age?
Suppose men were to treat each other in
this fashion: We agree with this writer
in stating that the balance of power in
Europe-but have been told that this au-
thor has Roman nose, and that his father
was bow.legged?' This author pre-
sents some original and suggestive ideas;
it however occurs TO US that the gentle
man is slightly bald" Would it not be
the tendency of such a course to greatly
increase the number, already too large, of
bald heads? And why is this less import
ant when woman only is concerned?
Where is the harm, after all, when q
woman of sense provided she is judi
cious and not of the ranting sort-even if
she is unmarried, gradually becomes-to
speak bluntly-older? And, in fact, how
can she help it? And would it not be cx-
tremely tiresomc and insipid if she could?
Golden Rule.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

CHARACTER.-Among the happiest and
acter 1t is his weath-it is II rank of it.
self. 1t usually procures him the honors,
and rarely the jealousies of fame. Like
most treasures that are attained less by
circumstances than by ourselves, charac-
ter is more felicitous reputation than
glory. The wise man, therefore, despises
not the opinion of the world-he estimates
it ut its full value-he does not wantonly
eopardize his treasure of n good name.
lie does not rush from vanity, alone,
against the received sentiments of others;
he does not hazard his costly jewel with
unworthy combatants, and for a petty
stake. He respects the legislation of
decorum. What is the essence and the
life of character? Principle, integrity,
independence! or, as one of the great
old writers hath it," That inbred
loyalty unto virtue, which can serve with
out livery" These are qualities that
hang not upon any mans breath. They
must be formed within ourselves; they
must make ourselves--indissoluble and in
destructble rs the soul! If conscious of
these possessions, we trust TRANQUILITY to
time and occasion to render them known,
we may rest assured that our character,
sooner or later, will establish itself. We
cannot more defeat our own object than by
restless and fevered anxiety as to what
the world will say of us. There is a moral
honesty in due regard for character
which will not shape itself to the humors
of crowd. And this, if honest, is no less
wise For the crowd never long esteems
those who tlatter it at their own expense.
He who has the suppleness of the dema-
gogue will live to complain of the tickle-
ness of the mob.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

THANK GOD, Won EEs DEAD,"--A
friend of the writer was once travelling in
a stage coach in New England, and ar
rived at village at 8 O'Clock in the eve
ning, where the vehicle was to remain un-
til morning. Having some acquaintances
in the town, he went out Immediately to
call upon one of them. Returning to the
tavern at midnight, he found all the beds
in the house occupied but one of dozen
cots that had been put up temporarily in
the parlor, for it was "court week " at
that county seat. During the day my
friend had been greatly amused by fell
low passenger, lively young Frenchman.
Where he was that night my informant
did not know when he retired to the uu-
occupied cot in the parlor, but he soon
found out. The sleepers in the other cots
were making night hideous " with their
snoring in various cadences, some putting
, some with long drawn nasal sounds, and
all in discord At length one of the snor
ers brought up with n snort and was sud
denly silent, when the young Frenehman
who occupied cot at the further end o
the room, and had been annoyed by tht
noise of the sleepers, cried out, "Thanl
! God, Won ees dead!"-Hdrper'S Magazine
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

TIE BLACK SEA.-The Black Sea,
which is becoming the scene of stirring
events in the Russo-Turkish war, is n re-
markable body of water. 1t is about seven
hundred miles long in its longest drec-
ton, and has an extreme width of about
three hundred and eighty miles, being
thrce-fourlhs longer than Luke Superior
and more than twice as wide. Its depth
is from four to forty-eight fathoms near
shore, but in the middle no soundings
have been found ut one hundred and sixty
fathoms. The greatest depth of Lake SUI
perior is two hundred fnthoms. The
Black Sea is not, like our lakes, fresh
water sea, but on the other hand it con
tains one-seventh less salt than ocean wl-
ter, and is held to receive one-third of the
running water of Europe. The puzzle is
what becomes of all this fresh water, and
how the Black Sea retains its saltness
There is no perceptible current toward
the Mediterranean. 1t has the same lcye
lis the sea of Marmora The outlet by th,
Bosphorus, even where there is IL strong
current, wonld be insufficient to discharge
the immense volume of water constantly
pouring into the inland sea, and it scarcely
seems credible that the evaporation il
sufficient to carry off the surplus water
Like our own lakes, it is subject to fire
quent storms, but navigation is no
pcrilous, and extensive steam navigation
is carried on. There are several island
near the mouth of the Danube, but tn
sea is sinpularly free flOm rocks an,
shoals. The Sea of Azov, which i
connected with the Black Sea by the mar
row strait of Yenikae, is much smaller
being only about one hundred and sixty
eight miles long and eighty broad. 1t
waters are fresh and abound with fish, bu
are very shallow, and fall off toward tn
west into huge marshes, which have bee
aptly named the Putrid Sea. 1t is of com
paratively little Importance for purpose
of navigation, though it has several part
and roadsteads.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

BLUE CHECKs.-In Ohio, few days
ago, saw girl in Il span clean checked
apron that went around her wrist with u
string; the old fashioned sort, made of
numberless and undivided checker boards,
with the little blue and white squares alter
mating with mathematical precision. The
sight of that apron would have taken you
back to an older wearer of u similar gar
ment, who brought apples from the orch
ard in it. and white maple chips from the
wood pile, and picked peas in it upon
pinch, and gathered eggs in it from the
hay-mow, aad spread it smoothly and
decorously over her lap when she sat, and
her knitting work reposed in it and some
times cat, marked like her best Sunday
comb, would assay n slumber upon lis
checkered existence and be whsked off in
second. You have seen that apron
flung over its owners heal like the knit
ted cloud " of modern times, when she
went to the next neighbor's. That apron
has wiped away the tears of your childish
sorrow, when they ran down your face,
and your clamorous tongue ran out at each
corner of your mouth between the syllables
of lamentaton, and licked them in! You
saw where she laid it when its work was
done. You saw where they laid her when
her work was done. There is whole
system of mnemonics in those blue and
white checks.-B. +. Taylor IN Examiner
and Chronicle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

The endurance of the tramp is some
thing marvellous, and he has II capacity
for sleep that is to be envied, though the
circumstances under which he takes it may
not be judiciously managed. A member
of that fraternity named Bowers lay down
near Troy, Penn, last week, with his legs
across railroad track, and sunk into pro-
found slumber. lie didn't notice any train
pass, but when he awoke from his nap he
found he couldn't stand One leg was
severed below the knee, and the other was
badly broken. Bowers hailed the next
train by setting newspaper on fire with
match and waving it to attract the atten
ton of the engineer He was taken tC
Troy, his leg amputated over again in :
more workmanlike manner, and the bones
of the other put in place, and he is said tC
be doing well, which apparently is more
than he ever did before.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

After men get into the Church ministers
are apt to think they are safe, and to look
ou. for more. They are always dragging
their net, and never packing down the fish.
Yet we are more responsible for men after
their conversion than before. They are
in covert, but are in great danger. Their
higher life is now to be developed. 1t is
your business, as ministers, to make each
feel that he must follow Christ in his own
place the boy at school, the mother at
home in the family, the mechanic and day
laborer at their business altars. The
Church is the pasture-ield for Christian
development; the world is the drilling.
ground. No man who has TO harmonize
antagonisms in himself can develop seren-
ity unless late in life.-Beecher.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

Grant will always be formidable, ever il
lustrious the standard man of democratic
age, the type of America at the close of its
first century. He and Lincoln and their
volunteer soldiers represent the West rs it
arose at the close of that century, the
young imperial power to preserve the re-
public from the indifference and skepticism
of tho East, the folly of tho South. AS
Cavour died and Victor Emanuel lived
and finished the task as William of Orange
died and young Maurice lived and fought
Holland free, so Grant lives on, preserved
from every evil, as if a spirit in the heav-
ems were intrusted with his fame and
guided him through the future in memory
Of his past" Gath"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

ADVANTAGES OF A MADEIRA VINE AS A
WINDOW PLANT-First, it is unmolested
by insects. While the red spider is des-
troying the smilax and maurandya, and
the scaly bug is on the ivies, land dphiS and
hrip preying upon other plants, freedom
from all these is seen in the Madeira. Peo-
pie who know it only in its luxuriance, out
of doors, would be surprised at the delca-
cy of its leaves, the pliancy and graceful
ness of the vine in the house. Exposed to
n full sun, perhaps it would grow too rank,
but for place not sunny, though well
lighted, it is admirable. 1t grows very
freely, needing only thread, almost in
visible, TO sustain it, by means of which it
can be made to run on the wall, embellish
pictures, brackets. statuettes, or whatever
one may choose. After doing duty through
the winter, it is often considered far loo
beautiful to remove in the spring, and will
continue 10 grow and beautify the place
where it stands during the summer, only
that one feels after season that it is time
to cut it down, aud give the plant an op,
portunity for repose.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18
VANITY.


The sun comes up and the sun goes down,
And day and night are the same as one
The year grows green and the year grows brown,
And what is all when all is done?
Grains of somber or shining sand,
Sliding into or out of the hand.
As men 90 down in ships to the seas,
And hundled ships are the same as one;
And backward and forward blows the breeze,
And what is it all when all is done?
tide with never II shore in sight
Setting steadily on to the night.
The fisher dropeth his net In the stream,
And hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreamPth her lovc-lit dream,
And what is it all when all is done?
The net OF the fisher the burden breaks,
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

WHAT | LOST BY SINGING THE PLEDGE.
i have been thinking about the losses l
have met with since signed the total alb
stinence pledge. There isn't man that
has lost more by stopping drink than l
have. Wait bit and will tell you what
l mean. There was a job of work to be
done in the shop, and the boss called for
me.
"Give it to Spencer" said he; d" he's
the best hand in the shop"
Well, told my wife, and she said
Why, John! he used to call you the
worst. You've lost your bad name, have mt
you?"
That's the fact, wife," said l. "And it
isn't all I've lost in the last sixteen months
either. | had poverty and wretchedness,
and I've lost them. l had an old ragged
coat and shocking bad hat, and some
waterproof boots that letthe wet out at the
Toe rs fast us they took it in at the heel
I've lost them. had a red face, a tremb.
ling hand, and pair of shaky legs, that
gave me an awkward tumble now and
then. I've lost those. had habit ol
cursing and swearing, and I've got rid ol
that. had an aching head sometimes
and heavy heart, and, worse than all the
rest, a guilty conscience, Thank God
I've lost them all"
Then told my wife what she had lost.
"And you had trouble and sorrow, ant
a poor, wretched home, and plenty o
heart-aches, for you had miserable
drunkard for Il husband Mary, thank the
Lord for all that you and | have lost since
l signed the pledge, Tenn. Agitator.
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Life Insurance.
Life Insurance.
.LETrER FROM ONE WHO COULDN'T UN.
DERSTAND IT.
From The N. y. HTJur,

fe are permitted to publish (omilting
nes) the following letter, written by IA
'kleman who was insured on the "half
a plan " in one of our leading life in
Nnce companies, in reply to the COM
|E's notification of the amount due on
policy. 1t will be read, no doubt, with
ppathelic interest by many policy hold
who had similar struggles with the
SERIOUS mathematics of this kind of
France. 1t should be stated, in fairness
Pie company, that the explanation oil
hctuary was SO satisfactory that, in
n Of Insisting upon getting out, the
Yer OF the letter decided to keep up tho
fey:
NEW York, May 81, 1877.-Mr. -
Pe President, etc.-Dear Sir: | am in
|elpt OF postal card advising that my
\ annual premium (policy No, 43,369,
l4| ,O3. Thereby | am reminded thai
HE insurance business, us managed by
pr company, is like the providence o
~ " past finding out" | began paying
cash and S52 note on this policy il
T. 1t seemed an inexpensive luxury
you'd have been if / had died. | un
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Summer Meeting of State Grange.

At meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the State Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry, of South Carolina, held at
the Columbia Hotel, May the 10th, the
following preamble and resolutions were
read and unanimously adopted:
In order to carry out the design of the
State Grange at the last meeting, and to
further promote the interest and object
of the order of Patrons of Husbandry in
this State,
Rcsolued, That the State Grange, Pa
irons of Husbandry, Of South Carolina,
hold their annual summer meeting for
the present year, 1877, at Anderson G..
H., on the 9th day of August next.
Rcsolued, That the subordinate Oranges
of the State be urged to have a represen-
tation at this meeting, and that all Pa
irons bring for exhibition such articles
as may be of interest.
Resolued, That the State Agricultural
and Mechanical Society and the Ander-
son County Agricultural Society be re-
quested to meet with us and to partici-
pate in all of the discussions of the meet
ing.
Resolved, That the following Patrons
be invited to either read an essay or open
the discussion by an address upon the
subjects named, viz. DIR. st. Julien Raw
enel, on phosphates and fertilizers; Gen.
johnson Hagood, on blooded stock; E..
L. Roche, of Ashley Grange, on the usury
law; Gen. Bratton, on cattle; J. D.
Wylie, on bee culture; Richard Tozer,
on plantation engines; Col. Thomas
Taylor, on corn fertilizers Iredell Jones,
on tenant system; W. W. Russell, of
Anderson, on railroad transportation !;
Julius Mills, on immigration: B. F.
Crayton, on fence law; Major Woodward,
on fish culture.
Resolved, That the Executive Commit.
tee of the Agricultural and Mechanical
Society be invited to cooperate with the
Executive Committed of the State Grange
in making arrangements in detail for car.
rying out the object of this meeting, and
making this a large and harmonious
meeting + the agriculturists of the State.
r. NJ. SIMS,
Secretary and Member of Executive
Committee State Grange.