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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

A HUMoRIsT's DTNNER.-Twenty min
ues for dinner shouted the brakeman, us
we approached La hrop.
Arrived there, entered the dining-room
and inquired Of the waiter:
What do you have for dnner9
Twenty minutes, was the hurried re-
ply.
told him I would try half-a-dozen
minutes raw on the baf-shell,ju to see
how they went. Told him 10 make a
minute of il on his books. He scratched
his head trying to comprehend the order,
but gave it up, and waited upon some one
else.
approached man who stood near the
door with lot of silver in his hand;
What DO you have for dinner9
Half dolla: said he.
l told him | would take half u dollar
we'll DONE | asked him if he couldn't
give me, in addition, II boiled pocket book
stuffed with greenbacks, and some Seven
lhirties garnished with postage stamps
and ten cent strip. And | would like 10
wash my dinner down with national bank
notes on draft
He said they were ont of everything but
the bank notes, and that as soon rs the
train left he would order the waiter TO
draw some.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

CONSUMPTION A DISEASE OF INDOOR
IIFE.-Our home statistics show thai tl'
nprceptare of deaths by consumption IN
each state bears an exact proportion L.
the greater or smaller number OF inhaoit-
ants who follow indoor occupations. ana
is highest in the factory districts OF Ne"
ENGLAND and the crowded cities OF ou'
central sta es. In Great Britain the rat
increases with the latitude, and attains i!s
mlximun height in Glasgow,where' us oll
Charles Brodie remarks, windows arr
on+ ned only one day for every Two in Blr'
minuham, and every three and hall IL
London; but going farther north the per
centnoe suddenly sinks from twenty-thr,e'
~ rleyen, and even to six, if we cross the
tifv. seventh parallel, which marks th'
boundary between the manufacturing
conn,ies of central Scotland and the pas
oral regions of the north. It Is distress,
ngIy probable, then. TO say tho ieast' una
consun 11 ptlon, that most fearful scourge o
he human race, is not mysterious liS-
ensation of providence" nor Proluc' P
of our outrageous clmtte, but tne alrec'
onspoueucl of an outrageous violation o
,Ie physical laws Of GoI.--Dr. FeEta II
LssGGM.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

A COLLECTOR STRATAGEM.-While
collecting not long since, MIR. johnson had
the following experience at Il fine mansion
on the west side:
A little girl responded to the ringing of
the door bell, and in reply to Mr.. Jonn-
sons inquiry at to whether her mother
was ut home said: "Mamma says for
me to tell sou she amt in to-day. She's
gune out"
"Ah" remarked the impurturbed circu-
lator, without moving muscle of his
countenance, please 20 and ask her where
she is gone. "
The in>ufficiently trained girl ran
through the hall toward rear room,
shouting: " Mamma, he wants to know
where you have gone to. "
A smothered exclamation and blow,
followed by child's shrek of terror, WAS
heard, door was afterward loudly slam
med, and finally very red faced woman
bearing fifty cents, due the Post for one
quarter, appeared on the scene and depos-
lied The money in the collectors hands as
Il peace-offering g.-CLe retdnd Post.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

WHAT SMOKING DOES FOR BoYS a
certain doctor, struck with the large NUM-
ber OF boys under fifteen years Of age
whom he observed smoking, was led to in,
aure into the effect the habit had upon
the general health. He took for his pur-
pose thirty-eight boys, aged from nine TO
fifteen, and carefully examined lhrm; in
twenly-seven of them he discovered in
furious traces OF the habit. In twenty-five
there were various disorders of the crcu-
lation and digestion. palpitation of the
heart and more or less marked taste for
strong drink. In twelve there were fire.
qurnt bleeding of the nose. ten had dis
turbed sleep, and twelve had slight ulcera.
ton of the mucous membrane of the
mouth, which disappeared on coasing
from the use of tobacco for some days.
The doctor treated them all for weakness,
but with little effect until the smoking was
discontinued. when health and strength
were soon restored Now, this is no I" old
wfe's tale," as these facts are given under
the authority of the British Netticai Jour
nut,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

A HAPPY WoMAN.-What spectacle
more pleasing does the earth afford than Il
happy woman conlented in her sphere,
ready at all times TO benefit her little world
by her exertions, and changing the briars
and thorns of life into roses of paradise
by the magic of her touch? There are
those who are thus happy because they
cannot help it; no misfortnncs dampen
their sweet smiles, and they diffuse a
cheerful glow around them as they pursue
the even tenor of their way. They have
the secret of conlentment, whose Jaue is
above the philosophers stone; for without
seeking the baser exchange of gold which
may buy some sort of pleasure, they con-
vert everything they touch into joy. What
their condition is makes no difference
They may be rich Or poor, high or low,
admired or forsaken by the tickle world
but the sparkling fountain bubbles up in
their hearts and makes them radiantIy
beautiful. Though they live in log
cabin. they make it shine with luster
that kings and queens may covct, and they
make wealth IL fountain OF blessings TO the
children of poverty.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

Now, Johnny says grandma, Il
want you to sit still rs u mouse"
Mouses don't sit sill, grandma"
1t is better that joy should be spread
over all the day in the form Of strength,
than thtt it should be concentrated mo
rcstasies, full of danger, and followed by
reactions. .-Emcrs0n.
Three -yearsold Jennie running to the
window and raising the corner of the cur
tain in the morning, sees the moon and
remarks thnt she - should think it WAS
about time God took that moon in.
A little five year old Rhode Island boy,
who had seen II peacock for the first time,
ran ino the house cxclaiming 10 his sist' +,
20 Lizziu I've seen II great, greal, big.
monslterous tail walking round with Il
hen lied to it,"
The eccentric genius who delights in
statistics says every man eats on AN aver
aye eight bushels of wheat in the course
of year. We can point out men who
consume at least twenty-five bushels of
corn in the same time, but they don t take
the trouble to chew it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

CRoCODILEs.-The difference between
crocodile and an alligator is thus set forth
by one who evidently knows whereof be
speaks: i know the alligator as know
buffalo, and the Nile saurian is no more
like the South American alligator than II
subsidized. bargain hunting missionary is
like sincere Christian The reptiles be.
fore us were from fifteen to eighteen feet
long. sandy yellow in color, not at all
black. thicker and shorter in the head than
the alligator, and so supple and 1.-the us to
turn themselves almost double when
alarmed. with the ease OF an acrobat. The
alligator when turning moves the whole
body. The Nile crocodile is always II
dangerous antagonist. The alligator in the
Nouthern swamps Is, at hest, sport for con
valescentS and boys in Florida. Even in
his native element the alligator will flee ut
the approach of man, whereas | am told
by the native hunters that in the water
the crocodile inva lably ait tcks, deeming
himself its mighliest inhabiiant.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

RAIN.-The first water,-hnw much il
means! Seven.te tenths of man himself is
water. Seven-tenths of the human race
rained down but YESTERDAY! 1t is much
mere probable that Caesar will flow out OF
hung hole than any part of his remains
VIII ever op one. Our life is indeed II
vapor, breath, II little moisture condens
e'i upon pane. We carry ourselves as
in phal. Ceave the flesh. and how
quickly we spill out! Man begins AS II
fish, and he swims in sea of vital fluids
as long us his life lasts. His first food is
milk; so Is his last and all between. He
can las e and assimiale and absorb nolh
ing but liquids. The same is true through
out all organic nature. 'Tis water power
that makes every wheel move. Without
this great solvent, there is no life. ] ad
mire Immensely this line of Walt Whit
man:
rhe slumbering and liquid trees"
The tree and its fruit are like sponge
which the rains have filled. Through
them and through all living bodies there
goes on the commerce. of vital growth,
tiny vessels, fleets and succession of fleets 5,
laden with material bound for distant
shores, to build up, and repair. and restore
the waste of the physical frame.
Then the rain means relaxation; the
tension in nature and in all her creatures
is lessrne. !. The trees drop their leaves,
or let 90 their ripened fruit The tree
itself will fall in still. damp day, when
but yesterday it withstood II gale of wind
A most south wind penetrates even the
mind and makes its grasp less tenacious.
1t ought TO take less to kill man on Il
rainy day than on clear. The direct
support of the sun is Withdrawn; life i,
under cloud; II masculine mood gives
place to something like feminine. IT.
thls sense, ram is the grief. the weeping
of nature, the relief of burdened or az.
onizrd heart. But tears from nature I,
eyelids are always remedial and prepare
the way for brighter, purer skies. Serb.
ner for July.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

A COOP CAT STORY clergyman had
4 cat which was Il great favori,e in the
family, and endowed with some qualities
not usually credited to her humble species.
Puss, at one time had very lntei estlng
family of little kittens They We're all
bright and active, but one of hem WIS OBJ
served to have Il greater resemblance to
it's mother than the rest, and was, indeed,
the pretLest kitten of the whole and the
mother showed IL peculiar attachment to i .
4 neighhor begged one of Ihem, ami
being allowed her choice, selected The
ftvorite, and carried it home. All this
occurred in the absence of the feline motf-
er, who on her return evidently observed.
with concern, the absence of her let. She
Immediately commenced searching the
house and out buildings, insisted on having
the d 'ors opened for her admission to all
the rooms in the house, and when satisfied
that il was not on the premises, she insti-
tuted similar search Throughout the
neighborhood. Occasionally she would
return to her remaining little ones. for The
purpose of meeting their demands on her
for nourishment, and then she would again
renew the search for her lost favorite
LlhNluS cAPiOiCu thO ploLhioCo VI al the
near neighbors, she at length entered the
last house in the last village, where sht
finally found the object of her long perse.
vering pursuit. She caressed it with every
manifestation of maternal fondness ant
delight. fed it, and then, much 10 the sur
prise Of the lady of the house, took hel
departure, leaving the kitten behind. She
was not, however, long absent. In q few
hours she returned, Bringing one of hel
other kittens in her mouth, which she plac
ed on the floor beside the newly found
"Ahn' thought the lady, :" 50 am to have
the mother and all her progeny quarteret
upon me-" This, however, was not tn,
intention of the Cat tor, after caressn!
the kitten she had brought for IL few mo
ments, she took the other in her mouth
and carried it 10 its former home, ant
never afterwards visited the one she ha
given in exchange for it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

Every one spoke of the family as an un-
commonly united one, for each and every
member showed such strong attachment
for the home to which each one contribdt.
ed 50 much ule.-RuraL Home.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

10 show the comparative estimation
placed upon the principal American wood
used in cabinet making, Professor G. S
Sargent gives the following table of actual
prices, per 1000 feet in the Boston market
Black walnut, S75 Butternut, $50
White Oak 65 White Ash, 10
Cherry, 81 Sugar Maple, 40
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10
MISTAKEN KINDNESS.

MISTAKEN KINDNESS.
Under spreading thistle leaf
grass bird built her nest,
And there her little brood she fed,
And warmed them with her breast.
And in and out she softly few,
With scarcely room TO pass,
So close the pnckly covert dropped
Its curtain on the grass.
gentle heart in passing near.
The leafy shelter spied,
And with loving, kind intent,
Turned the sharp leaf aside.
1t really seemed too rough a thing,
To shadow such nest;
The pricks might wound some uniedged wing
Or pierce some tender breast.
Alas the wisdom so unwise
That knew not What II didl
The prickly leaves fom dripping skies,
The open nest had hid.
And now the cold rain fell anew
The rOoness nest around;
The covert from the stor M was gone,
The little brood was drowned.
So may our sharp defences be
A proof 'gainst grief and care;
A shelter from tercer storm,
Or mole fatal snare.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

EVENINGS AT HoME.-The long even
ings, which follow the short days, are
made, in some families, the hnppeSl
of all happy times. The cares of the day
are ended, the mothers resting time has
come; the father has dropped all sorts of
business worries and perpIeXties, and the
whole family throw themselves with zest
into the innocent pleasures of the nome
circle. Solomon tells us that there is Il
time TO weep and II time to laugh. To
play and sing comes most appropriately IN
the long, pleasant evening hours, when
The cares that infest the day
Folding their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
1t is we'll for the women of the house
hold 10 remember that the pleasant even
ings Mt home are strong anldotes to the
practice OF looking for enjoyment abroad,
and seeking pleasures in by and forbidden
places, for relaxation and recreation will
be indulged in somehow by most men,
and happy are they who find in the home
circle the diversion they need. A lively
game, an Interesting book read alou,l, or,
in musical families, new song to be
practised, will furnish pastme that will
make an evening pass pleasantly. A little
forethought during the day, little pulling
of wires that need not appear, will make
the whole thing easy, and different WAYS
and means may be provided for making
the evening pass pleasantly, and u Time to
look forward to with pleasant anticipation
We visited once in II large family where it
was the duty of each sister in turn TO pro-
vide the evenings occupation, and there
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10
A SYMPHONY.

PAkTI.
As the spring wore on and the weather got
All sultringly sultry and horribly not,
The late MIR. Brown declared he'd not
Be melted to death in that dry goods tore,
And hence he concluded he'd wear no more
The undershiIt he erst had wore.
PART II.
A little cold in his delicate lung,
A little song by the church choir sung
A little corpse to the graveyard b. ung.
st. Louis Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-07

One dollar and fifty cents, STRICTLY
IN ADVANCE, a0iH pay for the MoNIToB
one full gear.
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4-e-
FAITH.

Faith is blind, but it is itself sense
keener than sight The eye needs light,
but faith sees in the dark. The under
standing requires reasons in order to
give its assertion, but faith believes with
out reasons. Reason requires evidences,
but faith is itself an ''evidence of things
unseen" 1t is no SANDER against the
ear to say that it cannot see, for it is
enough that it hears. and the ear asks
not the eye to assure it of the delights
Of melody. So faith is itself spiritual
sense, and it asks no help from eye or
reason to assure US of the things that it
reveals. In fact, when we have sight
or reason to set truth before us, there is
then no need of faith. When Abraham
left Ur Of the the Chaldees, if he could
have clearly seen the land towards which
he wandered, could he have seen that
great nation shining forth from it upon
all lands, and that long time of prophets,
priests and kings that were to spread his
fame through the ages, the faith that
made him .'father of the faithful never
could have been born in his heart. Had
he clearly seen that he was to spring
from his loins who was both the ssroot
and the offspring of David" it would
have been no task and no virtue to be.
lieve the promise-"In thee shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed" Could
Paul have seen himself as we see him,
the foremost man of that age, and the
mightiest force of modern civilization, he
never would have had the faith that
made him Paul. He simply did the
duty of the hour as be wrote letters to
, little bands of prosecuted Christians,
never thinking that his words would be
more precious than diamonds to coming
ages. Faith gives them that quenchless
: lustre that shines in the darkness
lions Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-07
TO COMFORT OTHERS.

Take an aged mother seventy years of
age and she is almost omnipotent in
comfort Why? She has been through
it all. At seven o'clock in the morning
she goes over to comfort a young mother
who has just lost her babe. Grand
mother knows all about that trouble.
Fifty years ago she felt it. At twelve
of that same day she goes over to COM
fort a widowed soul. She knows all
about that. She has been walking in
that dark valley twenty years. At four
o'clock in the afternoon some one knocks
at the door wanting bread. She knows
all about that. Two or three times in
her life she has come to her last loaf.
At ten o'clock that night she goes over
to sit up with some onr severely sick.
She knows all about it. She knows all
about fevers and pleurisies and broken
bones. She had been doctoring all her
life-spreading plasters and pouring out
bitter drops and shaking up hot pillows.
and continuing things to tempt poor
appetite. Drs. 'Abernethy and Rush
and Harvey were great doctors; but the
greatest doctor the world ever saw is ar
old Christian woman. Dear me! do We
not remember her about the room wher
we were sick in our boyhood? Was
there any one who could ever so touch ;
sore without hurting it? And wher
she lifted her spectacles against hel
wrinkled forehead, so she could lool
close at the wound, it was three-fourth
healed. And when the Lord took he
home, although you may have been mel
, and women, thirty, forty. fifty years o
, age, you lay on the coffin lid and sobbet
: as though you were only five or tel
years old. o man, praise God if, in
stead of looking back to one of these be
rouged and bespangled old people, fxe'
up of the devil to look young, you hav
: in your memory the picture of an hon
est, sympathetic, kind, self-sacrifcing
S Christ-like mother. Oh! it takes thes
a people who have had trouble to comfol
!, others in trouble.-Iatnage.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-07
2eliaiolls department.
PEARL OF THOUGHT.

The hardest thing in this busy world
of ours is to do nothing.
A wise man seeks to shine in himself.
fool to outshine others.
Show may be purchased; but happi-
ness is a home made article.
Philosophy, if rightly defined. is
naught but the love Of wisdom.
He that keeps his temper is better
than he that can keep carriage.
1t is easier to believe all ill report
than to inquire into the truth thereof.
Hypocrites are beings of darkness
disguised in the garment of light.
Though fancy may be the patients
complaint, necessity is often the doctor.
He who has not known adversely is
but half acquainted with himself or
others.
He who will not reason is bigot, he
who cannot is fool, and he who dares
not is a slave.
If all the year were playing holidays,
to sport would be as tedious as to work !;
but when they seldom come, they are
wished for.
Vanity is our dearest weakness, in
more senses than one; man will sac
rifce and starve out all his inclinations
to keep alive that one.
There is nothing evil in life for him
who rightly cnmrrahenda that death is
no evil; to know how to die delivers us
from all subsection and constraint.
Like many virtues, hospitality il
practiced in its perfection by the poor
If the rich did their share, how would
the woes of this world be Gghtened
He that does good to another mai
also does it to himself, not only in tn
consequence, but in the very act Of do
ing it, for the consciousness of we'll doin
| is an ample reward.
There is no funeral so sad to follow
as the funeral of your own youth, whic
we have been pampering with fond dc
sires and ambitious hopes, and all th
bright berries that hang in poisonou
clusters over the path of life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-07
HARRY THE LITTLE BOATMAN.

Harry Wilson was born on the sea-
side at fishing village near the mouth
Of a large river. He grew up almost as
much on the water as on the land. He
could swim almost as soon as he could
walk and could use an oar almost before
he was strong enough to lift one from
the ground.
This was fine as play, but one day
there was gloom in the little fisherman s
cabin. All were weeping. Harry's good
brave father was dead, and he was left
alone with his poor mother.
When the funeral war over and affairs
were settled up. the share in the fishing
smack was sold, and everything the
widow could not use for her support.
They were going to sell good boat
but when this was talked of, Harry step
ped up.
"Now, here" says he: 81 am little
chap, l know. and I am lot very strong
but must do something to help mothe
and | want that boat"
"What can you do with it?
"Why, there is no one here to carr,
people across, and lots of people have Il
wait an hour or more till some one ha
time to carry them over"
"But you couldn't row them.
Cant l, indeed? Why, this week
have run at least ten miles trying t
hunt up old Jake to row folks over; S
yesterday, instead of wasting my time
l pulled off my cap mighty polite to
gentleman, and asked him to step int
our boat.
"Why, you didn't undertake to 70,
him across. did your"
Certainly, and rowed him splendid
ly. He asked me lots of questions, an
l told him all about US. He saw | wa
able to manage the boat. and gave me
dollar. as he said, to encourage me.
took Carlo along for l thought ifa squa
did come on, and couldn't manage
his bark would 60 further than my hal
and if tumbled over he'd pick me up.
All agreed that Harry had the cou
age and energy to get ahead, and ever
one knew he could manage a boat
all summer long he was at his post. H
fixed white flag on to a pole at eac
side. and when he was wanted on Il
, side on which he did not happen to b
they raised the flag and he was ov,
like a rocket.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-07

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