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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

ELEpHANTs.-Elephants are not suppos-
ed. generally, to have any particular value
except to showmen, but they have been
killed so freely within the last twenty
Years in India, as well us in Ceylon and
Africa, that they are getting comparative
" scarce, and are, in consequence, I'M
proving in price. Steps have been taken
recently to acclima;ze the Indian ele-
phanl to the region Of equatorial Africa,
and it is not improbable that the success
of the experiment may lead in that coun-
uy to some facility of locomotion, the lack
of which has ALWAYS been the main obstacle
to its opening up.The market for elephants
is advancing, as may be seen from the fact
that herd of ffty-tive wild Indian ele-
pAauls, captured in one day, brought on
the spot, not long ago, 100000, or about
$50 each The elephant is growing more
interesting, too. Persons who have studl-
ed the habits of the animal have come to
the conclusion that he, not the lion, is the
true king of beasts. The age of the elc-
phint is still in dispute; but the best
authorities agree in the opinion that under
favorable conditions, he lives 100 years.
The question, What became of the ee-
phant?" is still unanswered. No man APP
pears to have seen an elephant that had
died a natural death.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

TAKE CARE OF THE NECK.--Why?
Here, lust inside, are tie vocal cords, more
wonderful in variety and range Of tones
than any musical instrUment, and Of more
delicate construction than watch. Here
are those membranes the Inflammation OF
which is so often the beginning of CON
sumption. On these same membranes
diphtheria, that most fearful Of scoulgts,
first faatcns, Here is the seat Of quinsy.
with its fierce pains and sense Of suifoca-
tion. Here begins bronchitis, with lis
hard cough, often extending through
scercs of years. and pneumonia. which
may in a few days do up its work of death.
In the immediate vicinity is the elr,
liable to cNcruciating aches and assesses,
and to the loss of hearing. Here are
crowded all the arteries which supply the
brain with blood, and the veins which
bear away the etcte matter. Adjacent
are the nerves and ganglia, on which de-
pend the movement Of the muscles and
The action of the senses.
How protect the neck
i. Don't let it be exposed to Il cold
wind blowing steadily on one side Of it.
,. Keep the mouth shut in going from
u heated room into the night air, espc-
cialy after singing or speaking in public.
;. Wear u scarf throughout the cold
season, thick or thin, according to the
weather.
I. If nature has furnished you with u
beard, don't shave it off, especially in
winter. 1t is one of the best projections
against cold one cpn have. Besides, rs
all hair is hollow, to shave it is to specially
expose the network Of nerves and blood
vessels near its root.
). The fashion now is to trim your hair
short behind. This leaves the neck un-
protected. Neither the beard nor the hair
were given simply to be cut off.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

There's many man languishing in
prison in Germany today who has been
guilty of nothing worse than grim pleas
antry. \ cabman at public house u few
days after Nobiling's attempt, expressed
his opinion that kings and emperors were
not much good to anybody. They cost n
deal of money, he said, and nobody was
the better for it, A policeman in plain
clothes pounced upon the cabman as soon
as he had uttered his sentiments, and he
is now in prison and will remain there
for two years. About the same timo It
lad of sixteen exclaimed. " wish the
emperor had been shot in 1870; then we
in Alsace should not now be Germans
The boy was condemned to imprisonment
for two years and six months
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

SyoEING.-.The habit of snoring is pccu-
liar to no class, but that the snorer is Il
common pest no one will deny. 4 con-
tributor to the Popular Sticaee MouAly
tells us the cause of snoring. and how it
may be cured. First, us to the cause.
The air reaches the luncs through two
channels the nose and the mouth. The
two currents meet in the throat below the
soft of the palate, the end of which hangs
loose, and swing. backward and forward,
producing the snoring. If the air reaches
the lungs as it should, through the nose.
no noise will be made, Ifit reaches the
same through the mouth, the palate will
make more noise, since it is not the natural
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

TO CHOOSE a PHYsIcIAN.-To choose a
physician, one should be half a physician
ones self; but this is not often the case.
The best plan which mother of family
can adopt is to select man whose educa-
ton has been suitable to his professor {,
whose habits of life are such as TO prove
that he continues to acquire both practical
and theoretical knowled &c; who is neither
bigot in old opinions nor an enthusiast
in new; and, for many reasons, not th'
fashionable doctor of the day.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05
NNC.

woli unspokcr, hand Impressed
look unseen, or a thought unsues es-.,I.
And souls that were kindred may 1--we apsrr,
Never To meet or to know the truth.
Never 10 know how heart beat with hrarl
In the dim past days OF wasted you,H,
She shall not know how his pulses Ietpt
When over his temples her tresscs swept;
As she leaned to give hn the tsmine wicqt
She felt hs breath, AMI her race flushed icI
with the passionate love that choked her breath
And sadlens her lfc now her youth i, dead.
faded woman who waits for death.
And murmurs name beneath her breath
A cynical man who SCOTS and iccr5
At women and love in the open DAY,
And at nighttime kisses with bitter Tears
a faded fragment OF jlsmine spray.
L0.pfgg ,,.... %,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

WE WANT NEW PRONOuN. - The
need of personal pronoun Of the singu.
lar number and common gender is so des-
peratc, urgent, imperative, that according
to the established theories it should long
since have grown on our speech, as the
tails grew off the monkeys
When | was a child, and spake rs a
child, reckless of grammar and rhetoric,
there was no trouble; but, growing mind.
fu OF the propreties of speech, became
conscious of need, dimly felt at first, and
hardly recognized, but even growing more
imperative, until now it calls loudly every
time open my mouth TO speak, or take
n pen to write. For instance, | am writ
ing story. and come to the following
sentence: Then they had delightful
time reviewing the whole transaction, each
stoutly defending the course of the other,
and severely blaming"-I pause. Him
self " will not do, because one of them is
woman. g HERSELF is out of the qucs-
ton, for the other is man. Once | would
have written themselves" but now |
know better. That sentence can never be
finished. | must write it over again, using
both" instead of ''each,' and failing to
express my exact meaning.
Again, | am writing q business letter
| say, If there are any further preimi-
narics to be arranged, let Mr.. or Mrs.
Smith come out on the ten o'clock train,
and we will meet'-lIere | stop. Not
him. for Mrs. Smith might come; not
" her." for it might be her husband
will not reconstruct my sentence, and
say "them," when | particularly wish they
should not both be present.
And so | am tormented ut every turn,
my only comfort being the fact that am
not alone in my misery. How often do
see a fellow mortal pruse in the middle of
Il sentence cropping hlindly for the missing
word, and then begin over again, or lloun-
der miserably, and ungrammatically
through to the bitter end.
Whv should we not have new word?
What is the use of such men as Professor
Whitney, or Professor Max Muller, or Mr.
Richard Grant White. if they cannot help
us in a real trouble like thisp They are
like the entomologstS who spend years of
patient reserch in finding out the scientific
name of the potato bug, and cannot tell
us how to get rid of him. Let the eminent
linguists leave the spelling reform and such
trifes long enough 10 coin us u word which
shall spare n preacher from saying, as |
heard one once, Let every brother or
sister examine himself or herselfand look
ing into his or her heart find out his or her
besetting sin, and resolutely cast it from
him or her,
do not believe there is Il writer in the
coantry that is not hnmpored every time
he-no, She There! I've run against the
old snag .-Atla,9tic Monthly for Norcm-
| Der.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

PECULIARITIES OF THE WINTER OF 1873
9.-Some peculiar features Of the weather
this season are worthy of notice. The
manner in which the northern part of the
state of New York has been buried in snow
storm succeeded storm, until the whole
region became almost wholly impossible
from the burden of it, is Il remarkable
incident of the season. The railroads in
that region have had an almost unprece-
dented experience On the New York
Central twenty-siX feet OF snow held its
own against the train for five days. One
train in charging it struck an unyielding
mass Of ice, five engines went over and
were completely wrecked; one engineer
was killed. 1t took II force of twelve
hundred laborers nine hours to clear the
track. In this battle with the elements,
cases Of heroism and rare devotion to duty
were frequent. Brakemen were frozen at
their brakes, engine-drivers were killed
and workmen toilcd for days with the
mercury below zero. In connection with
this subject it is curious to note n remark
able and most fatal change Of weather
which occurred in South Africa during the
recent winter there (our summer), Last
August piece of country in the Transvael,
between fifteen and twenty miles wide
and perhaps the same in length, was visited
in twenty. four hours with such a sudden
change of temperaturc-from eighty-ive
to forty-two degrees Fahrenheit-that
more than one hundred bodies of dead
Kaflirs, besides oxen, were found us if
killed by the sudden extraction of caloric,
Here was the touch of "Cold wave" very
limited in extent, and in region rarely
visited in this way.-P0ri'aW Transcript
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

BABYLON Nor so VERY DEsoLATE 1t
is usual for travellers to dwell upon the
utter desolation of Babylon and to pain
its site us Il strip of desert, especially woe
begone and unfertilc. But they could not
have seen it in the middle of April. The
date groves and gardens along the banks
of the Euphrates are then things of beauty
in their fresh spring verdure and the plain
itself is laid down with crops. Irrigation
canals cross it here and there and give
trouble TO the horseman. No grass grows
upon the mounds, and there are patches of
the level white with the nitrc which is to
be found here as in other parts of Mesopo-
tamia; but the surface of the soil is on the
whole, green and pleasant to the eye.
The glad waters Of the river flow on in the
bright morning sunshine, with palm and
mulberry hanging over its banks, drinking
in it sap and life. The great city, which
counted its population by millions and
filled the world with II reAown not yet
forgotten, has disappeared under the dust
of twenty centuries, but nature is as fresh
and jocund as when Babylon was still
unbuilt.--Gearing, " Thougb ASiatic
Turkcy
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05
GUARDIAN ANGELS.

Not only in the quiet night,
Not only in the busy day,
Not only in the mornings light,
Or when the daybeam fades away,
But, silently, as sun ray bright,
Come those departed from thy sight,
10 follow where thy footsteps stray,
At morn, at noon, at evening gray.
With love illumcd and joy bcdight,
The visitants from heavens height
The Guardian Angel Of the day.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

\ GLACIER MEADOW OF THE SIERRA
Imagine yourself at the Tuolumne Soda
Springs on the bank of the river, days
Journey above Yosemite Valley. You set
off northward through forest that
stretches away indefinitely before you,
seemingly unbroken by openings Of any
kind. As soon as you are fairly into the
woods, the gray mountain peaks, with
their snowy gorges and hollows, arc lost
to view. The ground is Uttered with
fallen trunks that lie crossed and rccrosscd
like storm-lodged wheat; and beside this
growth of pines, the rich moraine soil
supports luxuriant growth of ribbon
leaved grasses, chiefly bromus, trticum
aud agrostis, which rear their handsome
spikes and panicles above your waist.
Making your way through this fertile
wilderness, finding lively bits Of interest
now and then in the squirrels and Clark
crows, and perchancc in deer or bear,-
after the lapse Of an hour OF two, vertical
bars Of sunshine are seen ahead between
the brown shafts of the pines, and then you
suddenly emerge from the forest shadows
upon a delightful purple lawn lying
smooth and free in the light like Il lake
his Is IL SlttCltL lhttNOh' IL 10 dOOuI Il
mile and half long by Il quarter Of mile
wide. The trees come pressing forward
all around in close serricd ranks, planting
their feet exactly on its margin, and
holding themselves erect, strict and order
" like soldiers on parade; thus bounding
the meadow with exquisite precision, yet
with free curving lines such as nature
alone can draw. With ineXpressible
delight YOU wade out into the grassy sun
lake, feeling yourself contained in one of
natures most sacred chambers, withdrawn
from the sterner influences of the noun
tains, secure from all intrusion, secure
from Yourself free in the universal beauty.
And Notwithstanding the scene is 50 inn
pressively spiritual, and you seem dissolv-
cd in it, vet everything about you is bcalins;
with warm, terrestrial, human love,
delightfully."- substantial and familiar. The
rosiny pines are types of health and stead
fastness; the robins feeding on the sod
beleng to the same species you have known
since childhood; and surely these are the
very friend flowers of the old home garden.
Bees hum as in harvest noon, butterflies
waver above the flowers, and like them
YOU lave in the vital sunshine, too richly
and homegenously joy.lilled to be capable
of partial thought. You are all eye, sifled
through and through with light and beau
Ity-JObn MUir, IN .Nidwi0'Cr ScrjJner.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05
ASHES or RO~!:

ANllF.H OF itOS!.
Soft on the sunset skv
Bright daylight closes,
Leaving, when light doth llr,
Pale hucs that mtngl u. 'ic.-
Ashes Of roses.
When loves warm sun 0. ,rf
Loves brightness close;
Eyes with hot tears are wet
Ia hearts there lingcr yet
Ashes of roses.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

arelt writer says; Some people are
born Christians. But there is no occasion
for worrying over the matter; they gener'
ally outgrow H.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

Tor square of q liurs or less Of Avatc tyne one
r~fri' - '. Tor each suh<.i iueLt Insertion Is r'-
n---- tl' uUu~r Ui insertions uIasEI uu tine AL
srgt-HI .it a. vii iH raHtIuu- until urIlertl out
i-.fIl discount us.' f merchants aud then alyer
t-.Ha- iy ibr stsr
ir.t-ia si.i Commissioners Notices, > Cal each.
3 c Nu'i,,~ uf Liberation. Es'rlyt. tn Formation
and Dis HUTTON o. rlrrshlIf-. ,.-. - - each fur
iir- in-"rt'u % scat hy Inall the a1Iry must ac.
cuU4. .rlly o., Jester.
@NI'aS in news columns. iHCsrt- T,r lIa each it-
-tflHu, hil no charges Iulg uf less tIu sf cents.
Na+f,sso 90 br7tLs ard MARRIAGES if serted graf. t.
'N.sulHi 'utuAgy tlces 20 Ps-.ry vIil l- CHARGED
az tus rate % i've Ccut8 per tine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

Character gives splendor to youth, and
awe to wrinFlcd skin and grey hairs
Emerson.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

oh' righteous doom, that they who maze
Pleasure their only end
Ordering the whole life for its sake,
Miss that whercto they tend.
While they who bid stern duty lead,
Content to follow thee,
OF duty only taking heed,
Find pleasure by the way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

Dust we are, and we must tu-t
All We love to Death aud dust:
But where Faith and Hope are founu.
Death and Dust no tcrrors bring;
Where they conscCrate The ground
Dying seed to life shall spring;
Ever light the earth sha'lrcst
On the heart that Christ his hlcs>e
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05
Neatly Said.

1t is only the foo, who is rash enough to
think himself n wise man; the really wise
knows he is fool
five were only grave diggers there arc
some people of our acquaintance for whom
we could work with great pleasure.
lou VIII sooner succeed in the difficult
task oi swallowing yourself than in escap.
lng the consequences of a dishonest act.
lhere are some men who are so very
shrewd that they would rather cheat
themselves than not make good bar
gain.
One evening Jerrold saw very tall
waltzing with very short woman
" Humph!" " he said, there is mile
dancing with a milestone"
No one is so greatly to be feared as the
man W no is willing to tell you all he
known, because the chances are that he
Will tell you great deal more.
Fashion sometimes makes Il funny de-
hnltlon OF terms. Does it follow when Il
person goes into half mourning that the
individual mOurned is only half dead?
We never knew till now that kiss has
Il strong resemblance to a sermon. They
are alike however, IN three particulars.
They both require first, an Introduction;
second, two heads, and last, an applic;t,
tion.
A lady said to one of her admirers that
another admirer had the softest lips in the
world, Then" as the caustic reply OF
jealousy
As like as two chips
Are his head and his lips"
Some men lay ilattcring JUNCTION to their
souls that they are very charitable, be-
cause they every morning clohe the max
ed and feed the hungry, which, being
properly translated, means that they dress
themselves and go down to breakfast.
A delicate compliment is y rare thing.
Here is good illustration of one, how
ever. Louis NV having gained victory,
the Due du Maine said to him. " Sire, !
shall never be anything bat an ignorant
Ounce, for whenever you gain victory
my tutor gives me holiday"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

.I..ts. some four or i've IN number
chapters from q forthcoming work,
.H.... .. |Hu., IS Co, Boston, and to be entitled,
||ustrated History of New England -
F. a,ubrare succ inCtly all that is mate.
sHfh the early political history of this
....H important and deeply interestin,
rails embodied in these brief annals
..u.ratuu, there is reason 10 beliey {
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-05

U..HI4t Read. af BURLINGTON. IN his
al. .f t.HsBsstsr IN The Vermont His.
T.. -4 says that the Isle La MOtte,in
...aHH I-Ir, ha4 the honor OF being the
. |Us Uuftr Hf Vermont where clNl-
....T RH4 f-tHrauUy we're cunlnenced
...f.r .HUH4tutg called CHIMNEY y
..f .H rhr TIRE gh .as military post)
...# |s+t. .utarly one bundled years
U.. .... .f fue rF'ahu4hmeut on the Con
.i vermont waIs principally
asHa IuIruas hitteuIeu
... a. irlHl ,.uue.tlru..
settlement iid not become e.
.".r fHs treaty ~ peace IN l7F4. by
.-I e.. ,rrH.' Britain.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-21
FROM ABROAD.
DoINGs ALL OVER THE WORLD
Outbreak at Herat and Mutiny of the
Troops Ayoob Kahn Wants
to Resign-MacMahon
Swinging Around.

London, Sept. 20.-The India Office
confirms the report of the outbreak al
Herat on the 9Th instant. Special dis.
patches state that the troops of the gar.
rison plundered and burned the govern.
or's house and murdered the command.
ing general, who was the friend and
supporter of the ameer. The affair
throws suspicion upon the loyalty Of
Ayoob Kahn, brother of the ameer.
A special dispatch from Lahore says
the Afghan tribes occupying Gunda.
max threaten Dukka.
The Cabul rebels are levying forced
loans on the merchants. Much appre-
hension is felt about the safety of the
British residency at Mandalay, Burmah.
Calcutta, Sept. 2O.-The viceroy of
India has received a letter from the
ameer Of Afghanistan dated September
10th, enclosing the report from his
brother Ayoob Khan about the out
break at Herat. Three regiments par
ticipated In the mutiny. They mutt
MED because they had been ordered to
march to Kohistan, where the disturb
ances had occurred. Ayoob Khan asks
to be allowed to resign his command.
The ameer hopes shortly to regain con-
troll of affairs, when he will exhaust his
resources and energies in maintaining
faith with the British.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-21
THE sPRAouE ESTATE.
The Case Before the Supreme &C

The Case Before the Supreme Court
Providence, Sept. 20.-In the su.
preme court this morning hearing was
begun upon the application of Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprague, for the appoint
ment Of trustee on her property.
The council for the petitioner stated
that Ex-Governor Sprague and wife
were not living together and no reason
able prob ability that they will live to-
gether in the future. This declaration
he based upon the sayings and acts of
both persons. He then nominated
Ross Thompson for trustee.
The council for Ex-Governor Sprague
agreed with the other side as to the
law In the case; that Mrs. Sprague has
the right to trustee, but he objected
to the nomination of Thompson, and
moved Its reference to the m aster.
This motion the court overruled;
when council for Mrs. Sprague nomi-
mated Arthur Watson for trustee, and
asked postponement until Friday
next, to enable him to file reason for
his motion. The case then went over
until Friday next.
Various parcels OF A. and w
Sprague's estate, sold under execution
to the New York National bank Of
commerce, were struck off again to-
day to satisfy the judgment claim of
the Franklin institution for savings.
The receiver of the bank was the only
bidder.
The judges, owing to the Importance
OF the questions at issue, have ordered
both sides to appear on Thursday next
for full hearing.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-21

London, Sept. 20.-There was dis
turbance at Ashton last night growing
out of demonstration by the strikers
against the few operatives who had re-
turned to work.
The demeanor of the crowd at one
time was threatening and the mayor
who endeavored to appease the malcon-
tents had to be escorted by the police.
Dale, arbitrator, in great dispute
in the north of England, decided that
the wages of some special class of oper-
atives shall be reduced 12t per cent. in
stead of Is as claimed by the masters.
The present rate of wages will be
maintained for the bulk of the opera
tivaa
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-21
Charity TO a Murderer.

New York, Sept. 20.--Francisco Por.
cello, who murdered Michael Bolender,
on July oath, in Fulton street by stab
bing him in the heart, was sentenced
to states prison for life yesterday, the
district attorney accepting the plea of
guilty of murder in the second degree.
Several medical experts testified that
Porcello was demented by the starva-
tion of himself, wife and child, and
committed the crime. while under acute
mania.
The sentence causes considerable sur
prise, as the murder was apparently
wholly unprovoked and deliberate.