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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14
NO. 81.
neaa Thl., Young Ladies.

We heard a very pretty incident the 9th
er day which we cannot help relating. A
young lady from the South, it seems was
wooed and won by a youthful physician
living in California. When the engage
ment was made the doctor was rich, having
been very successful at San Francisco. II
had not existed six months, lowever,
when, by an unfortunate investment, he
lost his entire cheap" This event came
upon him, 1t may be added, just as he was
about to claim his bride. What does he dot
Why, like an honorable aud chivalrous
young fellow, as he is, lie sits down and
writes the lady every particular Of the un-
happy turn which has taken place in his
fortunes, assuring her that, if the fact pro-
duced any change in her feelings towards
him, she Is released from every promise
she has made him. And what does the
dear, good gr1 Why, she takes lump
Of pure gold, which her lover bad sent her
in his prosperity as keepsake, and having
it man nufactured into a ring, forwarded 1t
TO him with the following Bible inscription
engraved in distinct characters on the out
side: "Entreat me not TO leave thee, or re-
tuIh liOii dlAcI lutt NuilH-
or thou goest will go, and whittier thou
lodgest will 1 lodge; thy people will be
my people, and thy God my God whero
thou diest will die, and there will l be
buried the Lord do so to me, and more al
so, If auRht but death part me and thee"
The lover idolized his sweetheart more
than ever when he received this precious
evidence Of her devotion to him both in
storm and sunshine. We may add that
fortune soon again smiled upon tue young
physician. and that he subsequently return
ed to the North 10 wed the sweet girl he
loved, and who loved him with such un-
dying affection. Reader, this is all true.
Young ladies who read the Bible as close
ly as the heroine Of this incident seems to
have done, are pretty sure to make good
sweethearts aud wiyes.-Phtsburg Com
mercidl.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

A BENEVOLENT MANS MoDEsTY.-It Is
stated by the Rochester Union Of the late
Lewis Brooks, of that city, Qhe unknown
gyer" of 500, 600 to the University of Vir-
ginia,) that the extreme secrecy which gov
erned his deeds of benevoence was induc-
ed, not only by the motive TO do his aims
in secret, but also for the reason that he did
not wish TO become known as rich and
benevolent man, and be constantly annoy
ed by letters from adventnrers and others,
telling pitirul if not true stories of their
wants and unfortunate circumstances.
Prof Ward once urged him to have the
natural history cabinet of the University
called Brooks Cabinet" and that leg
end 10 that effect be put over the main en-
trance. Mr.. Brooks, however, declined,
and said almost angrily, "If anything will
make me regret that have given to the
University, 1t will be your urging me to
allow my name TO be used in that manner"
1t is also related by one Of his bankers that
he frequently went to the bank and drew
sums of $50, 800, $3.50, and SO on, in cur
rency, which he would put into sealed
envelope, and then ask the banker TO di-
rect It. The people 10 whom the money
was sent we're, it is believed, persons In
poor circumstances, or small tradesmen
who we're in difficulties. He had the bank
or direct the envelopes so that he could not
be traced out by his handwriting.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

WAS THE Moon ALWAYS DEAD 7-Now
that astronomers have almost by unani-
nous coasent accepted the doctrine Of the
development of our system, which involves
the belief that the whole mass of each men,
ber of the system was formerly gaseous
with intensity of heat, they can no longer
doubt that The moon once had seas and an
atmosphere of considerable density. The
moon has, in fact, passed through the same
changes as our own earth, though not ne
cessarily in The same exact way. She was
once vaporous, a. was our earth, though
not at the same time nor for so long time.
She was once glowing with intensity Of
heat, though this stage also must have con-
tinued for a much shorter lime than the
corresponding stage of our earth's history.
Must we not conclude that amer passing
through that stage the moon was for time
a habitabe world as our earth is now? The
great masses of vapor and of cloud which
had girt our moons whole globe, even as
in the youth Of our earth her seas enwrap-
ped ber iu cloud form, must at length have
taken their place as seas upon her surface.
The atmosphere which bad supported those
comparison with the present lunar atmos-
phere, perhaps even by comparison with
the present atmosphere of our earth. Then
the glowing surface of the moon gradually
cooled, until at length the moon must have
been fit abode for life. But whether,
when thus swept and garnished into fitness
for habitation, the moon actually became
an Inhabited world, is a question which
will be variously answered according TO
our views of the economy OF nature in this
respect. Those who hold that nature makes
nothing in vain, will need only to ask
whether the support of life is the one sole
purpose which planet can subserve; If
that should appear probable, they would at
once decide that the moon must, during its
habitable stage have been inhabited. 9th
ers who, looking around at the workings OF
nature as known TO us, perceive, or think
they perceive, that there is much which re-
sembles waste in nature, will be less conf
dent on this point. They may reason that
as of many seeds which fall upon the
ground, scarce one subserves the one pur-
pose for which seeds can be supposed 10
have been primarily intended, as many
younglings among animals perish untime-
ly, as even many races and types fail OF
their apparent primary purpose, so our
moon, and possibly many such worlds,
may never have subserved and never come
to subserve that one chief purpose for which
the orbs peopling space can be supposed to
have been formed.-COrnhtu Magazine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

Whether it is because sound is trans
mitted more distinctly when the night is
dark than when fair Luna is shedding her
refulgent rays on the front gate, or wheth-
er 1t was because he was deaf and she spoke
in a loud tone of voice, may never be
known but the whole neighborhood heard
her say: "Dear George, your mustache
CRATES like new Russian towel; but 1
wouldn't have you cut it off for anything
on this green earth" Then there was a
sound as offs rock thown into pond, then
the ereaking ofa gate, and then naught
broke the stiffness but the tramp, tramp,
tramp of pair of stogy boots on the grav-
eled street.-AEStin (Nevada) ReveilIe.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14
Miscellany.


Harvest Verse.
From the broad nelds, their golden glory shorn,
And sunny uplands Of their beauty reft
Through the stin sunlight Of the Autumn morn,
And hedgerows, with their lingering jewels left
By the brown river, through the leafy lanes,
On to the farmsteads move the loaded waius.
The stalwart reaper bears his frightened scythe,
or tracks the course the great machine has made,
And bonnie lass and lad sunburned and 1.-THE,
Round whose straw hats woodbine and poppies fade
Wake all the meadow land With harvest strains,
Clustering and laughing round the loaded wAins
Tis soft September natures harvest yields,
But all through life our ripening fruit We reap,
Now storing volets from sweet April fields,
Now rosts that bright July sunshine steep,
Now garnering gray october's sober gains,
Now ChistmAs hollics pile our loaded wains.
All mel how fast the Spring flowers die,
How Summer blossoms perish at the touch,
And Hope and Love in useless sympathy,
Weep for the faith that gave and lost 80 muehl
From half our shesves drop out the golden grains;
Small is our portion in the loaded wains.
Yet ere the mighty Reaper takes 1t all,
Fling out the seed and tend It rood by rood;
One ear is full, though hundreds round it fall;
One acre mid mildewed upland good;
Eternity will rear on heavenly plains
The smallest treasure won from loaded wains.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

COSTLY LEGAL SERvIcEs.-The New
York Times says that from the day in which
the Continental Life Insurance Company
was placed in the hands OF receiver, it has
been surrounded by crowd of legal claim
ants who have already flched large sums
from the bankrupt estate and others who
are still clamoring for slices of what re-
mains. While Anderson was receiver va
rious attorneys and advisers were paid
sums which aggregate s40,539. In course
OF time Anderson was declared 10 be in pos
session Of the affairs OF the defuDct compa-
ny without authority of law, and he was
succeeded by Mr.. Grace, who was in turn
declared usurper. Mr.. Grace was paid
$4,000 for the three months he was aching
as receiver, and the attorneys fees TO settle
the question of the legality of his appoint
ment were $4,000. Mr.. Moses, who ap-
peared as the attorney of a policy holder,
has brought in a bill which contains $50
items aud foots uP several thousand dol
lars, from which it appears that his work
nets him about 500 day. The present re-
ceiver is besieged by crowd of claimant
lawyers whose bills aggregate 5000 Thus
far about Sl25,0O0 has been spent or is
claimed by lawyers; and the work OF set
tling the affairs of this disgraeed corpora
ton is scarcely entered upon.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

THOSE MARTIAL MooNs.-Prof. New
comb Of the Washington naval observatory
talked of Prof. Halls new discovery of
Mars's moons TO the scientists at Nashville.
He considers it the greatest discovery
which the telescope has given 10 astronomy,
If his remarks are correctly reported; but
does not explain how ii is so, though 1t is
interesting enough even TO the unlearned
mind. These satellites are very insigniti-
cant little bodies. Mars itself is one-sixth
the diameter of our earth, but its moons are
mere specks, even as seen from its surface,
If any one is there TO see them. The big
gest, which is also the nearest to Mars,
can't be more than 40 or so miles in diam
eter, and probably is not more than ten,
and the outer one is likely to be not much
more than four or five miles through. 1t
is true that these are both very near Mars,
the inner about 1000 miles off, not much
more than the distance across the Atlantic
ocean. If the reader asks how these con-
clusions are arrived at with regard TO such
small bodies, he is informed that the cal
culation Of distance is made like that of all
astronomical distance, but that of their size
is reached by a comparison of the amount
of light they give,-the outer moon, for in
stance, giving about the one-hundred-
thousandth part as much light as Mars it.
self. The inner satellite max es the journey
around the planet in less than eight hours,
while, as the planet takes "a bours to re-
volve on its own axis, the curious conse-
quence results that it rises in the west and
sets in the east. This must cause any
amount of embarrassment TO the Martial
astronomers, not TO speak of the inhsbit-
ants, who in any given locality must oc-
casionally see the same moon rise twice the
same night. This fact of the motion of a
satellite being faster than that of its planet
is an exception TO the rule among heavenly
bodies. Prof. Newcomb explained that the
reasons this discovery has not been made
before and is made now, are that Mars has
never been so near the earth and so favor
ably situated for inspection as now since the
great telescopes of the present day were
constructed. Tue last previous favorable
opportunity was in lS45, when only the
Rose telescope existed TO compare with
those now -Sprinafeld Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

We often hear of the leather medal, and
in some instances our military marksmen
have won, and occasionally wear, the leath-
er medal as a sort of absurd regalia mark
ing a very low rate of craftsmanship. 1t
may be of interest TO our readers 10 learn
the origin of the medal. Some time during
the fourteenth century the bad King John,
for the ransom of his royal person, promis-
ed TO pay Edward III. of England 1000, 600
gold crowns. In order to fulfil this OBJ
legation, be was reduced TO the mortifying
necessity of paying the expenses of the pal
ace in leather money, the centre OF each
piece being little point of silver. In his
reign is found the origin of the burlesque
honor of boyhood, called "conferring q
leather medal" The imposing ceremonies
accompanying the presentation gave full
force, dignity and value TO the leather jew
ell, which even noblemen were proud TO re-
ceive at the hands of majesty.-Notes aud
Queries.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

When the first branch bank was opened
at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State,
South Africa, Boer, who, afler the man
ner of his kind, had boarded up all his
savings at home with view to buying land,
presented himself to the manager and said:
II hear you take care of peoples money.
How much do you want for taking care Of
miner ave don't want anything" was
the answer ''and, moreover, If you leave
1t with us for fixed time, We'll give you
interest on it." "whati" said the Boer,
"yOu offer to pay me for taking care of my
money! You must be an internal set Of
scoundrelsP' And he walked of button
ing his breeches pockets.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14
The Temperance Reform.

Extract from letter from late eminent
English clergyman, the Rev. J. ]. Taylor !:
81 think some nonsense has been written
and some fanaticism displayed in connec-
tion with the teetotal movement; but 1t
seems TO me impossible to deny that the
question is now assuming n very formida-
BILE importance. I do not regard the mod
crate use of the stimulus furnished by fer
mented liquors TO be either pernicious or
morally wrong. But the thing has become
in its abuse a positive curse to society
a moral pestilence which sweeps down
whole multitudes Of men and women and
even children, who have not moral vitality
TO resist the attack, and whom, IL we are
not absolutely bound to protect against
their own weakness, we ought at least TO
guard from gratuitously multiplied and ar
tifcially stimulating temptation. When
such an epidemic seizes human society, Il OBJ
serve, in the or dinary course of human af-
fairs, nothing can resist it but some intense
reaction, pushed by the very necessity OF
its existence into some extravaganza, aud
headed by leaders whose moral esrnestness
almost takes the form of monomania, aud
in whom the sense of an awful evil TO be
overcome, masters for the time every 9TH
er consideration. | can often discern the
weakness and the limited application of
some Of the arguments put forth by such
men but they are strong from the intens-
ity of moral purpose which animated them,
and 1 perceive, that in these vast tidal
waves of popular influence, urged on by
the profound moral sense surging up from
the popular heart, the greatest evils of So
ciety have been constantly swept away.
Here I am compelled to recognize the
working Of the spirit OF God"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14
A BusinessIILe Vvooing.

Miss Maria Roop was married in Boston
on Saturday last under the following cir
cumstauces Captain Roop, a distant rela-
tive who sails an English ship, visited Mr..
John Roop's few weeks ago, on bis way
to Parrsboro', N. s., and met his fate in the
person OF the young lady who is now his
wife. He returned 10 New York and be-
gan TO load for Java. He wrote 10 her, and
proposed that she meet him in Boston the
next week, marry him, and sail for Java.
His boat was on the shore and his bark
was on the sea, or loading at the wharf, and
she must decide at once. The letter was
received in the morning, and bad not been
read more than a ball-dozen times (such
letters require a great deal of reading, it
seems) when despatch was received, 10
the following effect: "Please answer my
letter by telegraph-yes or no." Any girl
can promptly say yes or no to the offer Of
hand and heart, but when such SGvs is
coupled with thl ee Gays notice Of mat
riage and a sea voyage TO the East Indies,
the case requires a little more considera-
tiou. 50 she took time TO consider, and
added strength 10 the saying that the wo-
man who considers Is lost for when The af-
ternoon Of the same day brought her anoth-
er despatch, which was simply "Yes or
nor she went 10 the telegraph Office and
wrote "Yes" on blank. The operator,
knowing nothing of the vast importance of
that nonosyllable message, placed it on file
for transmission, and the most anxious
man in New York was soon made happy
by the reception. The lady left here on
Friday morning last, and met and married
the captain at the residence Of relative in
Boston. Their wedding tour will be long
one--around the world, but not in eighty
days.-St. John IN. B. } NepS, august "a.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

AN INDIAN DUST SToRM.-In his clever
account of Baum, district in the Punjaub,
Thorburn describes a dust storm on the
great plain Of Marwat, phenomenon oil
such imposing force and grandeur as to be
well deserving of the important position
lately accorded it, by American scholars,
among the great geological agents.
Marwat, the bed Of an ancient lake, is
now a vast treeless plain OF undulsting,
losmy clay, deeply furrowed by water
courses, and overlaid by a layer Of gravel
and smooth, rounded stones, called "hell
stones" by the people, because OF their
black and seorched appearance, the effect,
probably OF natural sand blast attrition.
Seen in autumn or in year of drought, il
appears a bleak, bowling wilderness, fit
home for the wbisliIng, heat laden dust
storms that often sweep across its surface
in the hot months; but in late spring, amer
few timely showers, it presents an in
terminable sea OF wheat, The vivid green of
which gives place here and there TO streaks
and patches of darker shaded grain.
The approach Of a dust storm over this
place in the dry season, and Witnessed
from one OF its boundary hills, is grand
and impressive sight. At first but speck
on the distant horizon, 1t rapidly elougates
until ii stretches from east 10 west, a nigh
ty, threatening wall a thousand feet high
and thirty miles in length. Nearer and
nearer 1t comes, phantom-like its rushing
noise being inaudible TO the spectator. Now
one wing is pushed forward, now another,
nearer still and now the birds-kites, vul-
lures, and stray eagle or two-circling IFS
front are visible, and one by one the villages
at the foot Of the hill are enveloped and
hidden from the eye; few minutes more
and the summit of Shekhbudin, till then
balhed in sunshine aud sleeping in the sui
try stiffness Of the June morning is shroud-
ed in yellow scudding clouds. Vanished is
the grandeur OF the scene in a moment,
and nought remains but the sitting, be-
griming dust, flying and eddyiDg about in
all directions, penetrating everywhere.
Outside nothing can be seen but a darkness
which can be felt, and nothing is audible
but the whistliDg Of the wind and the flap-
ping of bungalow chicks but inside the
lamps are lighted, aud quarter of an hour
is idly passed, until the storm, which gen.
orally spends its fury on the hillsides, sub
sides or passes on.-Scientjffc american.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

Don't live a single hour Of your life
without doing exactly what ought to be
done in 1t, and going straight through 1t
from beginning TO end.
There is a man in New York so close
that when he attends church he occupies
the pew furthest from the pulpit, 10 save
the interest on his money while the colleC-
tors are passing the plates for contribution.
About ten thousand artificial eyes are
sold annually in the United States, but this
does not supply half the number who suf-
fer from this optical deficiency. 1t is said
that in proportion 10 the population there
are more one-eyed people In Patterson, N.
j., than in any other place. Those who
live In towns that have foundries and fac
tories, and whose air is impregnated with
SCOT and smoke, are more liable to this de-
feet. The color for eyes most in demand
is what is known as "Irish blue''-a pecul-
iarIy light azure that predominates in Ire.
land. The average cost Of an eye is tlO.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

How THE AMERICAN ADoRIGINEs DIS
POSED OF THEIR DEAD.-The modes of dis
posing of the bodies OF the dead in use
among the abori2ines of America arc class.
ed by Mr.. Edwin A. Barber, in tue Nat
urdliSt, under four heads, viz; inhuma-
tion, cremation, embalmment, and aerial
sepulture. OF these, the first was most
usually employed, the bodies being inferred
either in ordinary graves, in mounds, or In
caves. Several tribes, among them the
Lenni-Lenspe, or Delawares, were accus-
toned TO incase their dead in stone boxes
or tombs. In tumulus- burial, the dead
were generally laid near the original level
of the surface, and the mound heaped over
them. Only isolated instances OF fcave-burial
have been signaliZed in the United States,
as in Breckenridge County, Kentucky, and
in the Canons of Utah, Arizona, and New
Mexico. Cremation was of two kinds-in
graves and in urns. Among the Pueblos
of Arizona and Utah the body was some-
times burned, and the ashes deposited ia
shallow tombs. Several tribes on the Gila
river, in Southern Arizona, burned the
bones of the dead In urns. But few cases
of embalming are known TO have occurred
in the limits of the United States. As ex-
smples of this mode of preparing The corpse
may be mentioned the Mammoth Cave and
Salt Cave mummies of Kentucky. These
bodies have been preserved by rude spe-
cies of embalmment and by exsiccation.
Aerial sepulture was oftwo kinds-the first
by suspension on scafiolds or in trees, the
second by sepulture in canoes. Several
tribes still employ the former mode of
burial. The Sioux elevate the bodies of
their dead into trees, or stretch them out
on raised platforms, wrapping them in
blankets and leaving them 10 the mercies
of the elements and carnivorous BIRDS
Popular Science Monthly, for September.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

The calmness Of this noontide hour,
The shadow Of this wood,
The fragrance Of each wildling flower,
Are marvelously good;
o, here craEed spirits breathe the balm
OF natures solitude.
It is most delicious calm
That reSteth everywhere
The holiness Of soul-sung psalm,
OF felt but voiceless prAyeTl
with hearts too full tJ speak their bliss
Gods creatures silent are.
They silent are but not the less
In this most tranquil hour
OF deep, unbroken dreAminess
They own that love and power
which, like the softest sunshine, rests
On every leaf and flower.
William Mothefwell.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-14

didn't love. What wH Mrs. Bruce say ?
What will every body say ?"
"They will say, IT'S an i'll wind that
blows nobody good,'" answered her lover.
-Hdrpers' Bdkdr
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