Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-14

The Creator has not been handcuffed hv
his own laws. Laws we admire; but it is
not the gravcstone of God. The great
system of nature is his instrument, not
his tomb. While we say this we believe
to borrow the words of Mark Hopkins
that one familiar with his Bible " could
not, except under special direction, ask
God for miracle, for the same reason
that Il child could not ask his father to
burn the house down. The regular order
of nature is the house we live in. 1t
could not be disturbed by frequent mira
cles and be fit for the training Of rational
beings DR.. A. Wtche}t, IN Inter- Ocean,
SPRING CARE OF STRAWBERRY BEDS
Do not be in too much of hurry to un-
cover your strawberry beds in the spring.
Leave them until the ground is entirely
done freezing at night, and until the plants
are about ready to begin their seasons
growth. 1t is possible that this will make
the fruit two or three days later in ripen-
ing, but on the other hand the fruit will
escape all harm from late spring frosts.
When the covering is removed the ground
between the plants should be hoed and 4
coat of fine manure or ashes applied.
Go to work, my friend; the world is get
tng better. | have dream that prisons
will not always be cursed with the shade
of the gallows; that ignorance will not al-
ways exist in this world; that the withercd
hand of want will not always be extended
for charity; that wisdom will sit in the
Legislature; that honesty will sit in the
courts and charity will stand in all the
pulpits. and that the world is progress
ing in education, in everything that will
carry out the grand destiny of the Ameri-
can people.-C0J. r. G, Inger5oM
"You see," said Uncle Job, "my wife's
n curious woman. She scrimped, and
saved, and almost starved all of us 10 get
the parlor furnished nice, and now she
won't let one of us 60 into it, and hain't
even had the window blinds open for
month. She Is a curious woman" There
are a good many curious women. Nothing
can be more absurd than to keep the best
for strangers and the poorest for the fami-
ly.
The first film of ice is scarcely percept-
Bile: keep the waters stirring, and you will
prevent the ice from hardening it; but if
once it film over and remain so it thickens
over the surface, and it thickens still, and
at last it is so solid that wagon might be
drawn over the solid water. So with con-
science, it films over gradually, and at
last it becomes hard, unfeeling, and it can
bear up a weight of iniquity. Bishop
Simpson.
In France, Sunday is holiday. Ro-
manists, however, are coming to see that
no Sabbath means no religion, no virtue,
and no real political stability. This feel
ing is finding expression in a movement
lately begun foG its revival. NJ. de Cissey,
a lay Catholic, is preaching to crowded
houses in various parts of France, urging
reform, and pleading for the scriptural
sanctity of the day. He has already made
profound impression Watchman.
Mr.. Edwards Pierrepoint must have en-
ioyed his American citizenship at the
ceremony of the opening of Parliament.
In that bedecorated throng, what sartorial
distinction could have made him so con-
spicuous as " the absolute plainness of his
dress" which the Landon reporter notese
The postmaster general has received in.
telligence that General Macarthur, the
postmaster at Chicago, has not only gone
into bankruptcy, but is defaulter to the
government to large amount.