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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21
THE TWO LIGHTS.

When I'm man." the STRIPPING cries,
And strives the coming years to scan,
All. then 1 shall be strong and wise,
When I'm man!
when was young" the old man signs,
Bravely the lark and linnet sung
Their carol under sunny skies,
When was young"
when I'm man 1 shall be free
To guard the right, the truth uphold"
when was young bent no knee
To power or gold"
Then shall l satisfy my soul
With youder prize, when I'm man"
"Too late found how vain the goal
To which ran"
when I'm man these idle toys
Aside forever shall be flung"
There was no poison in my Joys
When l was young"
The boys bright dream is all before,
The mans romance lies far behind.
Had we the present and no more,
Fate were unkind.
But, brother. toiling in the night,
Still count yourself not all unblest
If in the east there CLEANS light,
Or i'll the west.
-HdrpcrS Bas
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

A word of advice to newspapers is given
bv Rev. Washington GLADDEN. in Sunday
afternoon for May. He says: Not only
do our newspapers offend by the publica
ton of the vile details of great crimes, but
also by picking up and spreading abroad
little scandals, little unpleasantnesses in
society, little bits of gossip that no sensible
person wishes to know or would allow
himself to repeat. Much of the space of
weekly papers and not few dailies is
devoted to matters of this description.
The tittle-tattle of the neghborhood, that
is not only silly, but poisonous in the
extreme, is gathered and served up in as
appetizing a form as possible for the
entertainment of the whole community.
Domestic infelicities, with which the pub
lie has no business at all, afford material
for spicy items; business complications
are worse complicated by unauthorized
reports concerning them; little troubles
in the churches which those who have the
care of their interests are doing their best
to compose are famed into grave dissen-
sions by references to them in the news
papers. Sometimes when the details of
these small scandals are not given, there
are little hints and innuendoes that serve
to put all the prurient and meddlcsome
noses in the community on the scent for
indecency or mischief. What excuse or
justification can there be for the publica-
ton of such itemsp Who is protited by
reading them? What interest Of intell-
gence. of morality, of decency promoted
by spreading abroad these miserable de-
tails of gossip? The only reason for
printing them is that many people like to
read them; they make a sale for the
papers. But the taste that Graves them is
II vicious and degraded taste. and the
business of gratifying and stimulating
such taste is bad business.
If il is disreputable for man to &C
about ringing his neighbor's door bells
and reciting to them scandals by word ol
mouth, il is more disreputable for him tC
print them in widely circulated newspa
per. The story that gentlewomar
would not stoop to tell in good society, nc
gentleman ought to print in his paper
Meddling and misunderstanding is just rs
reprehenslble in a reporter as in any Other
man. The fact that such stuff makes hi,
paper sell is a poor justification. And
until the managers of newspapers learn tC
discriminate with n little more care be
tween the news which the public has ;
right to hear and the news which is simply
noisome or injurious scandal, the busines
of journalism will suffer serious loss o
respect and of influence.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21
Che freemau.
The Mothers Promise,


Mothers, weary with the tolls of the
day. dropping with household cares, press
ed down by physical weakness, no wonder
the falling evening shades impart some Of
their gloom to your spirit as you strive to
review the day just closing. But let me
whisper, "be not weary in well doing, for,
in due season. you shall reap if you faint
not"
This is your time of laborious seed
sowing; these immortal gems, given you
to shape and polish so exquisitely, that
without blemish they shall fit into the
great building of eternity. adding to its
iuster and enhancing its beauty, arc of
such priceless value and require such un-
weared patience, that to none other than
a mother did infinite wisdom dare to COM
nit the work.
When wearied as tonight. and feeling
that the monotonous round of household
tasks, the confinement of tho little pratt
tiers so fills your time as to shut you cut
from all opportunity to labor for the
world around, and thus your life is pass
ing without accomplishing any good, stop
for one moment, and looking over the diff
ferent gifts, prophecy, tongues, ETC.. decide
for which you would exchange the gift
of motherhood
Surely it is rs noble work to train these
pure spirits, so that from infancy to the
grave their influence shall he on the side
back to God, that their last days may be
spent in eradicating the poisonous seeds
they have scattered so widely while in
the service Of sin.
Very true we have to sacrifice many
intellectual pursuits, must remain away
from the social means of grace oftentimes,
and the tempter, seeking to SOW the seeds
of discomfort in our hearts, will piously
whisper of the great loss we sustain, of
our unnecessary watchfulness, and suggest
the transfer of our charge to hireings,
only that he may find opportunity to scat
ter tares on the rich and well prepared
soil. Let US keep in mind the "mother's
promise" if may SO call it, =" that we
shall reap in due time"
Who but mother can sooth childhood
grief, check the too impulsive, encourage
the distrustGul, decide the petty disagree
ments, strengthen the good, uproot the
evil, and amid all this. "pray withou
ceasing, and in everything give thanksP'
Although at times we may become
somewhat discouraged, may feel our labo
and self-sacriice is unappreciated, that ou
life-work is silent and unseen; yet let u
ever keep in mind there is One who sees
and sympathizes with us in every trial
and if He finds us faityM will bestow
reward beyond our largest conceptions
We have the promise of grace ant
strength sufficient, and if we content our
selves in doing the will of our Father, no
increasing our burdens by devotion t.
fashion and folly, we will even here fine
it richly fulfilled. Let us be faithful ;
little longer; then as we come up to re
receive our reward. without one jewe
missing, we shall begin 10 realize hov
grand the noble work in which we hav
been engaged. NJ. A. A.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

fancied wrong way back in old Jerry's
life. was sure of il.
Do you get on well? What have you
learned?
Well. you see it's mighty hard work, |
knows my letters, ebbery one; hut ebbery
letter war harder to learn dan dis nigger
found mule to break, and I'd rather
work all day in the field hoein' and pick
in. if work dats 'sidered. But gets on
'mazin' nebber neglects de Lords work
and keeps preachin' de truf; but reck-
on I'll sound de gospel better when can
read it, and | say to myself, l know eb-
berry word in de good book by right.
When l goes down de street wild my slate
dey call out to me from de cabin dos.
Ole man, yer'll nebber learn nothin'.
And de chillen dey cry out. He'd better 60
in de cotton field. Yer see, missis, Niger
is heap more sassy and pert like dan in
de ole times. But for all dat, l amt
scouraged yet.
The noon recess had come, and school
was dismissed. Kate had group of child
rem about her, and heard her ask:
Which of you ever saw snow?
There was no reply. Not child had
seen the tniest fake.
reckon knows what it's like, spoke
up small boy. It's like cotton, a-blow-
in and a-blowin'.
Go way, chile, broke in old Jerry, who
had caught his words. l amt no clear
ideo myself what SHOWS like, but de-
clare to de truf it amt like cotton a-blow-
in and a-blowin', kase cotton's mighty
scarce whar de snow flies. know dat
much.
know what it is like, chimed in the
oldest girl in the school. Miss Fabian she
said, when took home de clean clothes
to de hotel, dey look like snow. l 'spects
snow looks like de sheets and bosom
shirts, flynn in de air and hangin' on de
trees.
Day after day, during our short stay,
we went down to the school and tried to
bring order out of its chaos. But we cer-
tainly did not reap while we sowed, if
any good came from it ever. Bright and
quick to learn, but all unused to dsci-
pline, the children were left TO struggle
along with their good natured but un-
taught teacher, to whom we were neces-
sarily subordinate. The old man bent all
his energies to his tasks, but in FIVE
months schooling had never learned from
which hand to begin to write, and quite
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21
Account him thy friend who desires thy
good rather than thy good will.

Account him thy friend who desires thy
good rather than thy good will.
Cities force growth, make men talka-
tive and entertaining. but they also make
them artificial.
Friendship is the medicine for all mis-
fortunes, but ingratitude dries up the
fountain OF all goodness.
Never plead guilty to poverty. So far
as this world is concerned. you had better
admit that you are villain.
Man wastes his mornings in anticipating
his afternoons, and wastes his afternoons
in regret;ing his mornings.
The chief properties of wisdom are to
be mindful of things past careful of things
present and provident of things to come.
We have seen prudent, Industrious
wife retrieve the fortunes of family when
her husband pulled at the other end of the
rope.
Those who excel in strength are not
most likely to show contempt in weakness.
man does not despise the weakness of
child.
of two things are certain. She has either
lost her modesty, or she is assured of her
revenge.
A great secret of education is to make
the exercises of the body and those of
the mind serve always as a recreation to
each other.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but then
it ism half so interesting. And then no.
body likes to be familiar with strangers.
Burlington HaWkeye.
The world will never fully know how
much it owes to science. A scientific"
man who has been investigating the coal
oil regions of Pennsylvania has come ont
with the alarming theory that the oil
comes from the bearing of the earth's
axis, and that the earth will cease to
turn when the fabrication ceases. There
fore he holds the opinion that the
government ought to interfere at once and
put a stop tie this pumping and boring for
this gudgeon- grease of the universe.
That honesty is the best policy was rath-
er singularly illustrated the other day at
| Waterbury, Conn. A young Irish lad had
bought himself pair of shoes the new
pair was placed on his feet, and what was
left of the old ones was done up in a nice
bundle, with the card of the shoe dealer
printed on the wrapper. On going into
the street when no one was looking, he
laid them in the gutter. A coun,ryman
going by. seeing the boy picking them up,
as he thought, said, " Here. hoy, that is
my bundle" The lad gave them up, and
the countryman gave the boy ffteen cents.
BIBIE TERMs.-A days journey wAs
about twenty three and one-fifth miles.
A Sabbath-day's journey was about an
English mile.
Ezekicls reed was nearly eleven feet.
A cutbit was nearly twenty Two irches.
A hands breadth is equal to tnlee md
livc-Ni~i'ts inches.
A fingers breadth is equal to one inch.
A shalel of silver was ,,Iout fifty cents.
\ sLcnel of gold was eight dollars:
talent of silver w~s D.o hnH':ed and
thirty ut dollars and thirty cens.
A talent y. gold was thirteen thousand
eight hu7 led and nine dollars.
/ piece of silver, or penny was thir-
teen cent.
A farthing was three cents.
, A mite was less than Il quarter Of a
} cent.
} A gerah was Il cent.
An epah, or bath. contains seven gallons
and i've pints.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

An Englishman writing home to the
London Live Stock Journal from this coun-
try remarks that some of the finest horses
in the world arc now being produced here
hardy compact. serviceable animals that
sell at 800 to 5000. Good draft horses,
bred from Norman and Percheron stock,
realize from $3.50 to $3.50; if unusually
heavy and we'll matched, they bring por
pair $3.50 to 81, 100.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

PROFESSORS" Some years ago the
word professor carried with it the idea
of middle-aged or old man with q
learned look and spectacles, who was en-
crossed in his studies and his work of
making the world better than he found it,
in the walks of literature, science or art.
1t is supposed that such professors still
exist-somewhere. If they do exist, no
doubt they vince if any one terms them
professors. There is, perhaps, no more
abused word to-day in the English lam
guage than the word professor" The
late billiard match was between Prof.
Punchem and Prof. Pocketit. A recent
sparring exhibition was between Prof.
Mauling on the one side and Prof. Strike
out on the other. A walking contest mas
Just been arranged between Prof. Long
stretch and Prof. Quickstepper. Nc
Laughlin, Detroit's wrestler, who shows
his sense by not claiming to be Il profess
Harvard or Yale turned out. If Il man
rides race horse nowadays he is a pro-
fessor. Then we have Il continual run of
professors at our variety shows. 1t is a
poor week if they do not have at least
three professors. The man with the tame
canaries is a professor. Prof. Flight, of
the trapeze, is a well known professor of
aerialism. 1t is professor who puts the
trained dogs through their tricks. Pro
fessors of the clog dance are too numer-
Gus to mention. The cheeky individual
who growls ventriloquism is professor
Taking it all in all there is not word in
our language that deserves such universe
pity as the misapplied term professor, :,
Detroit Press.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21
THE PALACE a. THE KING

BY WILLIAM MITCHELL, EDISBURGH.
It's bonnie, bonnie varr
That we're liyin' in the moo,
An sunny is the Ian
We often travel throo;
But in vain we look for something
To which our hearts can cling,
For its beauty is as nothing
To the palace o. the King
We like the gilded simmer,
Wi its merry, merry tread,
An we sigh when hoary winter
Lays its beauties wi the dead;
For though bonnie are the snaw- flakes.
An the down on winters wing.
It's fine to ken it daurna touch
The palace o. the King.
Then, again, I've Just been thinkin'
That when a thing here's sac BRIGHT,
The sun in a. its grandeur,
An the mune wi quiverin' licht,
The ocean i the simmer,
Or the woodland l. the spring.
What maun it be up yonner
L the palace of the King?
It's here we hae oor trials,
And it's here that He prepares
A. His chosen for the raiment
Which the ransomed sinner wears,
An it's here that He wad hear US,
Mid oor tribulations sing.
Wen trust oor God who reigneth
L the palace o. the King"
Though His palace is up yonner,
He has kingdoms here below,
An, we are His ambassadors
Wherever we may go;
We've a message to deliver,
An we've lost anes hame to bring,
To be leal and loyal -hertet
L the palace o. the King.
Oh it's honor heaped on honor
That His courtiers.should be ta'en
Frae the wand'rin anes He died for,
I this warr of sin and pain,
An it's fu'est love an service
That the Christian aye should bring
To the feet o. Him who reigneth
L the palace o. the King.
An'latu us trust Him better
Than we've ever done afore.
For the King will feed His servants
Frae His ver-bounteous store;
Lat us keep closer grip o. Him,
For time is on the wing,
An sune He'll come and tak'us
Tae the palace o. the King.
Its iv'ry halls are bonnie,
Upon which the rainbows shine.
An it's Eden bOw'rs are trelised
Wranever- fadin' vine;
An the peary gates of Heaven
Do glorious radiance fling
On the starry floor that shimmers
l. the palace o. the King.
Nae nicht shall be in Heaven,
An nae desolatin' sea,
AMI nae tyrant hoofs shall trample
L the city o. the free;
There's an everlastin' daylight,
An a never fadin' spring,
Where the Lamb is a. the glory,
L the palace of the King.
We see our fren's await us
over yonner at His gate;
Then let us a. be ready,
For ye ken it's gettin' late;
Lat our lamps be BRIGHTLY burnin'
Lat's raise our voice and sing,
Svne we'll meet. to part no mair,
In the palace o. til King
London Chris
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

Make no more VOWS to perform this or
that; it shows no great strength, and
makes thee ride behind thyself.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

When woman smiles at An affront, one
of two things are certain. She has either
lost her modesty, or she is assured of her
revenge.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

Those who excel in strength are not
most likely to show contempt in weakness.
A man does not despise the weakness of a
child.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

We have seen a prudent, Industrious
wife retrieve the fortunes of family when
her husband pulled at the other end of the
rome,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21

A great secret of education is to make
the exercises of the body and those of
the mind serve always as a recreation to
each other.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-02
Week of Prayer.

The Executive Committee of the Evan
gelical Alliance of the United States
makes the following suggestions for the
observance of the Week of Prayer, sub
ject to such alterations as local circum-
stances may render desirable.
The Alliance is now so widely extend
ed as to include in its membership Chris
tians in all Nations, and the first week
in January, 1879, will be observed in all
Christian countries and at missionary
stations in heather lands.
For the Sabbath, January 5,as a subject
for the pulpit: "Christian Union"
Monday, January Thanksgiving for
the blessings of the year past, and prayer
for their continuance.
Tuesday, January Prayer for the
Church of Christ, its ministers, its growth
in grace and its enlargement.
Wednesday, January 8-Christian ed
ucation; the family; the young; colleges,
seminaries of learning, Sunday and other
schools; Christian Associations of Young
Men and Women.
Thursday, January 9.-For Nations;
rulers and people; for peace and religious
liberty in the earth.
Friday January 10.-The press; for a
blessing on publishers, editors and auth
ors; the cause of temperance and other
social reforms.
Saturday, January 11.-Home and For
eign Missions and the conversion of the
world.
On Sabbath evening" January II. it is
suggested that public union meeting be
held for prayer, praise and the presenta
ton of the object and work of the Evan
gelical Alliance.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-02
New Years Reflections.

How many recollections gather around
the closing year? How sadly and vivid,
ly the scenes of other days come baekto
us? We think of the time when an tn
broken and happy family were gathered
around the hearth at the old homestead
Father. mother, brothers and sisters were
all there. AS the winter storm howled
around our humble home, how bright
and joyous the scene within, with what
zest we entered into the pleasures of the
evening, but the scene has chan ged !;
that father and mother long since passed
over the river. The SHOWS lie cold upon
their graves. The winds sigh mournful-
ly above their quiet resting places, where
they sleep the years away. Those broth
ers and sisters are scattered no more to
meet as family till they gather in their
home above.
The old home has passed into the hands
of strangers; the log school house in
which we used to gather every winter
has disappeared; the forests in which
we loved so well to wander have been
destroyed. The comrades of our youth
are no more to be found. The years
move on, bringing their joys and sorrows
their sunshine and shadows.
The duties oflife gather thicker around
US; with all earnest souls, the conflict
grows more intense with each passing
year. We travel on toward the end OF
the journey; our history will soon be
made; our winding sheet and graves
will soon be prepared by other hands
Our great concern now should be to make
our lives pure, and unselfish and noble
AS we start out on the year 1879, let
US aim higher, let us all strive with true
heroism and patience to realize our idea
of human life. Let us learn wisdom
from the mistakes of the past Let us
follow Him whose birth we have just
celebrated, and we shall reign with Hin
at last W. II. GIBBONS.