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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19
very anxious to see you, and so l let him

very anxious TO see you, and so | let him
in"
| do not know how the boy introduced
himself, or how he opened hIs business.
hut know that after talking awhile, the
principal put aside the paper he WAS
studying and took up Laln book and
oeSan TO examine the new conner. The
examination lasted some time. Every
question which the principal asked, the
ooy answered as readily rs could be.
WelI!" exclaimed the principal "you
certain y do WE'LL" looking At the boy
from head to foot. over his spectacles.
Why, my boy, where did you pick up so
much In my spare moments an-
swtred the boy.
mere he was, poor and hard working,
win but few opportunities for schooling,
ana yet talmost fitted for college, by simply
improving his spare moments? Truly.
are not the spare moments the gold
aust OF timeP How precious they should
them
what account can you give of Your
spare moments? What can you show for
them? Look and see. This boy could tell
you how much, how very much, can be
laid up by wisely improving them: and
tnere are many, many other boys, am
afraid, in the jill, in the house of correc-
non, in the folecastle of u whale ship. in
the gambling house or the tavern. who if
you could ask them WHEN they began
their sinful courses, might answer, " In
my spare moments | gambled for mar
blcS. " In nv spare moments began to
smoke and drink" "It was in my spare
moments that | first began to steal chest
nuts from the old woman's stand ut
was in my spare moments that got ac-
qunnled with wicked associates" Take
care of your spare moments.-Ihe Chill
dren'S Rccord.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

JIM FLOODS HouSE.-Thc Santa Clara
Valley Mill and Lumber Company is now
engaged in preparing the wood work for
the finish of James Floods mansion ut
Menlo Park. This company secured the
contract for the outside and inside furnish
ing, and all this work is being done in San
Jose. There has never been done in this
state, work of the same beauty and finish
nor Of the same quality. In the spring
Mr.. Blaine, the foreman, went east and
secured the wood TO be used. the greater
portion of which cost ut least one dollar
per foot. 1t consists principally of rose
wood, mahogany, birds eye maple, satin,
white holly aud oak. These woods were
cut and polished at the mill, engaged in
which task alone there are over seventy
i've men, embracing the best wood arti-
sans on the coast. All the woods are
highly polished, some so beautiful and
bright that they act in the capacity of Il
mirror. As an evidence of the elegance
of this work, Il few Of the parts of the
residence to be finished are given and the
manner and style in which the work is to
be done: The main floor and staircases
are TO be finished in bright mahogany, the
reception and drawing rooms in polished
satin wood, the library in black and gold
cherry, the music room in rosewood. the
dining room and billiard room in polished
black walnut, chambers and boudoir in
birdS-eye maple, the rear of the second
story in Prima Versa wood, and blinds of
white holly. There never came into this
state before such elegant and costly varie-
ties of woods. All parts of the world
have furnished their contributions. The
work has to be done slowly and carefully,
entirely completed ut the mill so rs to be
put in place as soon as received at the
building. 1t will be five or six months
before all the work is completed. 1t is
worth while to call at the mill and see
this work. An hour can be passed with
profit and pleasure.-SaR jose (Cal) IHGr-
cUTU,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

A JOKE RETURNED.-The Palmyra En-
terprise. published in Jefferson county.
Wisconsin. relates this new dog story
and pretty good one: A gentleman con-
necled with the United States Lake Sur
vey, IN this city, was engaged one d,g in
he skirt of wood in Indiana. Near
him, sleeping laziy in the sun, lay his
faithful dog, Tiger. Thinking TO have
some fun with the dog, he gave shout
and II jump into the thicket us if all the
game ever pro ected by game laws from
marauding hunters was lhrashing through
the bushes. AS he expected, Tiger came
barking and bounding to the fray, and
soon detecting the trick that was played
upon him, sneaked back to his lair and
lay down again. The surveyor resumed
his duties. and was hard at work for two
or three hours. when. all at once, the dog
rose from his sleep, set his ears and eyes
in the direction of the wood, gave bark
and made rush for the forest depths. The
surveyor followed the noble brute 10 tree
up which he was sending canine congratu-
ations to the prey; but when the surveyor
came and began anxiously to scan the
boughs for the hiding game. Tiger gave
satisfied "Ah Wooh bestowed glance
of contempt at the surveyor, and striking
II digniled gai, stalked back TO ris couch
with the appearance Of dog that had
squared up all accounts with the Lake
Survey, and had left nothing due on either
side.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

USELESS MEDICAL SKILL.-Some months
apo couple of our fast and reckless
young men tried to make Il very short
turn of the corner Of Cherry and st.
Clair streets, while the horse was going
at a rapid gait. The buggy was upset
and the young fellows thrown out with
great violence on the sidewalk. One OF
them remained motionless. A crowd
collected and one Of our well known
German physicians was hastily summoned
to attend him. The doctor worked with
him patiently for some minutes, when u
bystander exclaimed in IN agony of inn
patience;
"Oh, doctor, can't you, cunt you bring
him to?"
"Oh, yaw," said the doctor, phlcgmati,
cally, as he stopped to wipe his heated
forehead; yah, can pring him to; but
vat is dc use? De mans mech, IL Is
probe."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

BELLS AND AGE.-A fiddle improves by
age and use; II piano does not, neither
does bell. There is, perhaps. slight
improvement for the first few years, but
afterwards the quality deteriorates. Metal,
we know, is altered by repeated and long
continued hammering. Thump piece of
iron, and you change the quality OF its
magnetism; the shock of the waves mod
ifies the magnetism of an iron ship, and
some of the music is knocked out of bell
by long continued use of the clapper. A
peculiar effect is noticed in the bell OF
Cripplegate church when it strikes twelve.
The first three strokes are distinct anl
clear, then discord begns, which aceu'
mulates with every stroke, until with the
eleventh and twelfth complete double
sound is produced. Chambers JoalRat.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

KEEP YoUr ACCoUNTs.--Th Dutch
have a proverb that he who keeps books
seldom fails. That is, he who keeps his
accounts correctly, and is automatically
certain what his income and his outlays
are-who knows the cost of his property,
whatever it may he, the expenses attend
ing and the amount on hand. will at once
foresee evil and ward off the danger.
Farmers, particularly, should practice
this; for as their real profit on many OF
their articles of produce is small, and the
expenses attending the feeling and rear
ing many kinds of stock are large, it is
absolutely necessary that they should know
the exact cost, in order to shape theil
course and set their prices. .-Mtinc Farm
1,-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

Coon ADvICE.-Perscvere against dis
couragements keep your temper; em-
ploy leisure in study, and always have
some work in hand; be punctual and
methodical in business, and never procras-
innate; never be in Il hurry; preserve self
possession and do not be talked out OF
conviction; rise early, and be IN econo,
mist of time; maintaip dignity without the
appearance of pride-mnnner is something
with everybody, and everything with
some; be guarded in discourse attentive
and slow TO speak; never acquiesce in
immoral or pcrncious opinions; be not
forward to assign reasons to those who
have no right to ask; think nothing in
conduct unmportant or Indifferent; rather
set than follow examples; practice strict
temperance, and in all your transactions
be honest.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

A REpoRTER'S CLEVER RUSE.-At the
opening of the electione, ring campaign
that resulted in Abraham Lincoln's eeva-
tion to the presidency of the United States
the Hon. w. l.. Yancey, then on his way
TO the Baltimore convention, accepted an
invitation to address the electors ut an
agricultural fair in Il small town. The
Baltimore newspapers determined to fur
nish their readers with verbatim reports of
Mr.. Yancey's speech, and five reporters
left that city together by the morning
train for II june tion station where they
hoped to catch another train bound for the
fair ground. AS they travelled along they
entered into an agreement not to take any
unfair advantage of one another no mat-
ter what opportunity for doing so might
present itself. They arrived ut the june
tion too late for the connecting train, and
were in II difficulty rs to getting over the
intervening half dozen miles of country.
They went prospecting, four thin scribes
hurlying in advance of Il veritable Falstaif.
At last they csped an old fashioned
wagon drawn by II lean horse, and in a
very few minutes the treacherous four
were ensconced in the vehicle, filling it
picItlJ. III Ntlli hl't ttiC ib'ti Va i'tl
remind them of the agreement; his expos
| tulations were received with derision, and
the driver ordered to start. The cheated
reporter appealed to the countryman,
offering to give five dollars for seat on
the dash board. The offer was accepted
and the man slipped down to help him
up.
:" Stop" whispered he; III buy your
horse for twenty-five dollars, cash down
" Done" said the man; and the dollars
were banded over.
Now" said the new owner of the
horse, " take him out of the traces, anC
help me on bis back"
1t was done; and horse and rider wer'
soon lost to view. Next day, only ont
Baltimore paper contained full report
of the speechifyIng at the fair; and toul
belatcd journalists had n bad time of
with their respective editors.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

Tie DIFFERENCE IN DUCKs.-A good
story is told of Rev. Myron w. Reed:
While out with u hunting party several
years ago, his comrades insisted that he
should cook the dinner, and left him in
camp for that purpose, somewhat against
his wish. large hawk alighted in the
top of a tree hard by, and moment after
wards the sportsman's gun had brought
him to the ground. He was ancient and
tough, and suited admirably the compul-
sorry cooks purposes. He was put into
the pot with couple of fine ducks. The
dinner was served, and was pronounced
excellent, with the single qualification that
there seemed to be deuced big differ
encc in those ducks" But the Innocent
looking cook held his peace, and made his
own selections, and ducks and hawk
quickly disappeared from the table; Did
You tell them about itP' asked he who
heard the story. Tell them!" answered
the reverend gentleman, with an emphatic
shrug; "lhcy'd have drowned me-"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

They had IL dime supper in the neigh
borhood of Pawtucket, conceived and
carried ont by the ladies. The conditions
Of this novel supper were these: For
every word spoken by the gentlemen at
this supper table, forfeit of ten cents
was imposed but on the other hand Gas
duties are always compensated with rights
and restrictions with privileges) it was
agreed that whoever could weather the
whole supper. submitting to all queries,
surprises and ingenious questions without
replying, should be entitled to it gratuit-
ously. Many and frequent were the arti-
fees and subterfuges resorted 10 by the
ladies' in attendance to entrap the unguard-
ed, and one after another stout and dis
erect man went down before the constant
volley of artful interrogations. At last all
fell out and paid tie dime penalty save
one individual-a queer chap-whom no.
body seemed to know. He attended
strictly to business and passed unheeded
the jokes. .ibes and challenges. They
quizzed him, but all in vain. lie wrestled
with the turkey and grappled with the
goose. lie bailed out the cranberry sauce
with answering hand and he ate celery
as the Scriptural vegetarian ate grass, and
finally, when he had finished his fifth
piece of pie, he whipped out Il pocket
slate, wiped it with his napkin and wrote
on it, in Il large and legible hand, II am
deaf and dumb!"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

1t may interest business men to know
that the following commercial paper is
regarded as personal correspondence, and
is subject to tirstclass rates of postage: A
policy signed and duly executed; daily re-
ports notice Of premium due assign
ments or transfers; promissory notes at
tached to policies or unattached; applica.
tions for insurance, and all notices from
local agents to policy-holders respecting
renewals, cancellations; receipts, or other
kindred matter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19
A CHILD'S THOUGHT.


Softly fell the twilight;
In the glowing west
Purple splendors faded;
Birds had gone to rest:
All the winds were sleeping:
One lone whip-poor-will
Made the silence deeper
Calling from the hill.
Little Fred,-th darling
On his mothers knee.
In the gathering darkness,
Still as still could be.
Watching the deepening shadows;
Saw the stars come out;
Saw the werid bats fitting
Stealthily about:
Saw across the river
How the furnace glow,
Like fiery pennant,
Waved to and fro:
Saw the tall trees standing
Black against the sky,
And the moou's pale crescent
Swinging far and high.
Deeper grew the darkness;
Darker grew his eyes
As he gazed around him,
In a still surprise,
Then he listere ed listened
' What is this hear
All the time. dear mamma,
Sounding in my ear 2"
hear nothing" said abe,
''An tue earIn lis still"
But he listened, lsteAed.
With an eager will.
Till at length quick smile
Ger the child face broke,
And a kindling lustre
In his dark eyes woke
Now know, dear mamma.
l can hear the sound
OF the wheels, the great VIII Is
That move the world ann d :"
Oh, ears, that earth has dull I'd lot.
In your purer sphere.
Strains from ours withhold a
Are you wise to hear ?
"a G. r.; Dorr, in Friar Anseimo dad on
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

A little boy was told by his grandmother
to turn down leaf in the family Bible
every time he told lie. At the end of
week the old lady asked him how many
lies he had told during the seven days.
He silently handed her the holy book
She turned page after page, and at length
said angrily. "Why, you little brat you've
lied all the way from Genesis to Revela
tions, and half way through the Psalms. ="
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19
AT THE LAST.

AT THE LAST.
Will the day ever come. wonder.
When shall be glad to know
That my hands will be folded under
The next white fall of the snow?
Toknow that when next the clover
Wooeth the wandering bee,
Its crimson tide will drift over
All that is left of me?
Will ever be tired of living,
And be glad to go to my rest,
With cool and fragrant lily
Asleep on my silent breast?
Will my eyes grow weary of seeiug,
AS the hours pass, one by one,
Till long for the hush aud the darkuess
As never longed for the sun?
God knoweth Sometime, it may be,
shall smile to hear you say:
" Dear heart she will not waken
At the dawn of another day :"
And sometime, love, it may be,
shall whisper under my breath
The happiest hour of my life, dear.
Isthis. the hour OF my death I"
Ft0m Julia c. Il. DorT'S Ffidr AnSctHi0 and O,hc
H51HtS."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

General Lee asked a straggler one day,
whom he found eating green persimmons,
il he did not know they were nnit for
food. "I'm not eating them for food,
general" replied the man; I'm eating
them to draw my stomach up to fit my
rations."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

A MOUNTAIN OF GLAsS.-Another mar
vel, recently brought to light in the yell
lowstone park Of North America, is moth
ing less than mountain of obsdian, or
volcanic glass. Near the foot of the Bea-
Yer lake, II band of explorers came upon
this remarkable mountain, which rises at
that place in columnar cliffs and rounded
bosses to many hundreds of feet in altitude
from Kissing hot springs at the margin of
the lake. AS it was desirable to pass that
way, the party had to cut road through
the steep CLASSY barricade. This they
effected by making huge fires on the glass
to thoroughly heat and expand it, and
then dashIng the cold water of the lake
against the CLASSY surlace,so as to sudden
ly cool and break it up by shrinkage.
Large fragments were in this way detach-
ed from the solid side of the mountain land
broken up by sledge hammers and picks,
not. however, without severe decorations
of the hands and faces of the men from
The Gibson river, the explorers also found
precipices of yellow, black and banded
obsidan, hundreds of feet high. The
natural glass of these localities has from
time immemorial been dressed by the
Indians to tip their spears and arrows.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

BOYS IN BED.-Whocver has lifted the
curtains of boys alcoves, soon after their
inmates have gone to bed, and has looked
lovingly in, has seen u pretty sight? Cen
orally their faces are lying most restfully,
with hands under cheek, ana in many
cases they look strangely younger than
when awake, and often very infantile, as
if some trick Of older expression, which
they had been taught to wear by day, had
been dropped the moment the young am
bilious will had lost control. The lids lie
shut over bright, busy eyes, the air is
gently famed by coming and going
breaths; there is II little crooked mound
in the bed; along the beds foot or on q
chair beside, are the day clothes, some
times neatly folded, sometimes hudded off
in Il hurry, bulging with balls, Or, in the
lesser fellows, marbles; stained with the
earth of many fields where the woodchucks
have been trapped, or perhaps torn with
the roughneSs of trees on which squirrels
have been songht perhaps wet and mired
with the smooth black or grey mud from
marshes, or the ooHy banks of streams,
where the muskrats have been tracked.
Under the beds foot lie the shoes-one on
its side-with the gray and white socks
now creased and soiled, thrown across
them; and there, in their little cells
squared in the great mass of night, heed
less how the earlh whirls away with them,
or how the world goes, who is thinking of
them, or what is doing at home, the bust
est people in the world are resting for the
morrow.
a writer in the InterRaIionDJ RerjeU,
gives the following evidences of the dawn
of better times: "Our cotton goods are
sold in Manchester, II city which has held
the supremacy Of the world in cottons, for
half cent II pound cheaper than the same
quality can be produced in that city. Our
Goals are sold in Newcastle, ,and one enter
prising American gives away a stove with
every ton Cf American cotl. American
street cars are sold in New Zealand, and
our locomotives find II ready market in
Italy. The English war Office uses Ameri-
can locks, while Continental post offices
have introduced the Yale lock box. Rus
sa has declared American scales the stan-
dard scales of the Empire. We have in
vatled the German markets with our nikel
plating, and the Prince of Wales. in pur-
chasing American plate for his own USE,
reminded the British dealer thet in at
least one high industrial art he had
found new connection"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19

-Four years after the above happened,
Gilbert lIazen was settled over flourish
ing church. Basil chose the mercantile
business, and from that day to this has
been the minister's staunchest friend.
"What Strengthened me out" said Basil
on n recent OCCASION was another fell
lows Course of Pinch. - Christian
Union.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-08
LAR PACKETS ron TUESDAY.
ExehAnke ClIpplnks, June 3.

ExehRHEe Clippings, June D.
Nksddanatl Commercial:
EksAtL III Winston, first engineer, and John w.
EzsM.ell second engineer. of the steamer Brill
INIT was blown un opposite Hnilipylia.
y last August. haye both been Indie 81 BY
aAfHnd jury OF the United States District
saA "a Hession. Ut Charleston. last week. Tor
&SsRahKhter. Four Witnesses testified to the
llaaas more steam than the law allowed. and
IL Time Of the disaster they believe she was
{SsalHa4pG over 200 pounds OF steam, when they
INV nave been. using $50 pounds, as q lowed
/! IN taw. Mr.. Winston, It will be remembered.
Pug aaae opened UP before United States
ssaf5cNhtilR Inspector Fehrenbateh. In Oineln-
VII Mo- eHonerated him,
Egais TimeH.J Journal:
IsTTvrleRnH business men had better Inter.
ss.llsHEelveH about The wharfage law q, that
I'll apeupationelgone. We understand TINT
~ y, our lines ars thinking Of building sle-
II asaa laeir own above or Glow the city. AZ
2 SssS|sstt ney Will not submit to this thieving
KIHllol much longer.
sassaAHlon. and the result ia pretty rertain to
saftsyur OF the steamboatmen, led. Demo
sSansesOaIroA Argus has d display card of all the
HIM saa. Line New Orleans steamers. stating
z4say Tor the South.
lBneeial to the Democratic.
Y WI a1pis. June 7.-The river is rtafpg rap
aT3lM hixteen feet ON the gR1Re showing q
M n .; Naeestenths III y foot during the last
7kseRt vliv oil. Alton from New Orleans. Last
NV. lsenarted: Belle of shreveport for New
ssnss Belle Of Memphis for Memphis. The
s " WA drawing Six feet oil round
~ paving tho wharf. and has 500 tpns en-
NJ ! tee9.ween here and Cairo. The Alton be-
IN load Monday To leave "Wednesday, to
4 allowed by fhe Oantannial on Hat7l rdav.
@tness ID good. w, a.. A.
ne by Telegraph
Ss.sN " derartur es. Weather cloudy.
fee.sBHRa. June 7.-Tiver . feet Q Inches and
SSs@ss~.. Weather clear and cool.
&BssssAlINu. June 7.-Rfver 3 feet . .tnehas ana
EEfsIs Departed. Buckeye State for. Muetn.
i M.H. Thompson for PattsburE. Weather
ssasvyIIIE June ARRIVED: James ". Got.
aA lMitn.hell and Arkansas Bells. Departed:
stf Memphis. Business is brisk. Ihe
~ stMslaillng, with Y feet large on the gauge;
sSass clear and hot. THERMOMETERS b. Wind
~. June ARRIVED: Grand Tower, from
49, XVI Paris {. Brown from New Orleans.
= I'M drand Tower ana haven LoT n ~
~ ron Mountain for PittsbuEg. Paris Y.
N lory Cincinnati at 4 q. m. weather 1air
fsssaISsslTr. June 7.-River. o feet \ Inches
8SNsl9R. Weather clear and warm. Arrived:
IN " from st. Louis. DEPARTED. to-day:
n iof Pittsburg. Parker for Memphis.
TIM var for New Orleans. The Natchez,
kkS wv orleans. due early to-day, IL aground
~elnG San har.