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, 1879-12-04
w oman a Lady

Widness is thing which girls can
not afford, Delicacy is q thing that
cannot be lost or found. No art can
restore the grape in its bloom, Famili-
arity without confidence, without regard,
is destructive to all that makes woman
exAlting and ennobling.
''The world is wide these things are small;
They may be nothing, but they are all
Nothing} 1t is the first duty of
woman to be lady. Good breeding is
good sense. Bad manners in woman
are immortality. Awkwardness may be
ineradicable. Bashfulness is constitu-
tional. Ignorance of etiquette is the
result of circumstance. All can be con-
doned, and not Danish men or women
from the amenities of their kind. But
self possessed, unshrinking and aggres-
sive coarseness of demeanor may be
reckoned as States prison ofense,
and certainly merits that mild form
Of restraint called imprisonment
for life. 1t is shame for women to be
lectured on their manners 1t is bit
ter shame that they need it. Women
are the umpires of society. 1t is they to,
whom all mooted points should be re-
ferred To be lady is more than to be
a prince. A lady is always in her right
inalienably worthy Of respect. To a
lady, prince or peasant alike bow Do
not be restrained. Do not have inn
pulses that need restraint Do not
wish to dance with the prince unsought;
feel differently. Be sure you confer
honor. Garry yourself so loftay that
men will look up to you for reward, not
at you in rebuke. The natural senti-
ment of man toward woman is rever-
ence. He loses large means Of grace
when he is obliged to account her
being to be trained in propriety. A
mans ideal is not wounded when a
woman fails in worthy wisdom but if in
grace in fact, in sentiment, in delicacy,
in kindness she would be found wanting,
he receives an inward hurt.--Gail Ham
ilton. ...
, 1879-12-04
Wanted"

A clergyman who can preach three
sermons conselutively without m ontion-
ing Galileo.
A man who will refrain from calling
his friends speech "happy effort"
A woman who remembers last SIM
days text, but is unable to speak under
standinsly of the trimmings on the bon
net of the lady in the pew next in front
An editor who never feels pleased to
have have his good things credited, or
mad when they are stolen.
A pencil that is always in the first
pocket you put your hand into.
A man who has been fool some time
during his life and knows enough to keep
the knowledge of itIto himself.
A married man who does not think
all the girls envy his wife the prize she
has captured.
A married woman who never said,
"No wonder the girls don't get married
nowadays; they are altogether different
from what they were when / was girl"
An unmarried woman who never had
an offer.
A man who never intimnted that the
economies Of the universe were subject to
his movements, by saying, II knew if I
took an umbrella it wouldn't rain," or
some similar assinine remark.
A pocket-knife that is never in "them
other pants"
A mother who never said she "would
rather do it myself when she should
have taught her child to do that thing.
A father who never forgets that his
duties to his children are as many and
as weighty as theirs to him.
A child who would not rather eat be-
tween meals than at meals
A converted brother who does not ex-
aggerate his forsaken wickednesses when
relating his experience.
a person, age or sex immaterial, who
does not experience flush Of pride upon
being thought what he is not and may
never hope to be.
A button on the male garmenture that
never comes off except when the person
whose mission in life is to sew buttons
on is near at hand with her utensils.
A singer who never complains Of o
cold when asked to sing.
A woman who, when caught in her
second best dress, will make no apology
for her dreadful appearance, Boston
Transcript
, 1879-12-04
LIKE HIS DAD.

I hear his mothers chiding voice
"How came your trousers torn?
And black as ink, sir, is that shirt
You put on clean this morn.
"Your feet are wet, too, declare,
You're muddy to your knees;
It is too bad; you only care
Your mother, sir, to tease.
"And those nice shoes.--your Sunday best,
That but three times you've worn,
Are scratched and scraped and Oil run down,
The heel of one is gone.
"You're hair is twisted in snarl,
And Just look at that hand!
It locks as though 'twere never washed
How dare you say It's tanned?
.'You've been fishing, sir, guess
What been to see the match?
You'll have it Of sickness. sir;
A pretty cold you catch"
And thus she talks for half an hour,
RAnd only stops to say,
"Your father'l Ii hear of this tonight;
Iwonder what he'll say"
Ny friends in complimentary way
Declare to me they see
A close resemblance-very marked
Between the boy and me. :
But nothing that they see in him
In either form or face
Bespeaks my son as do his pranks-
In these my own. / trace.
And why should / al tattered clothes
Or dirty ones repine?
In him live my youth agair-
God bless the boy he's minel
, 1879-12-04


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, 1879-12-04
A Woman's Honor .

Sunset in the heart of the Australian
bush. Two travellers, fine, stalwart
young fellows, whose united ages would
not make fifty years, have just turned
aside from "the old telegraph line" some
twenty miles north of the Murray, and
are preparing to camp for the night.
They have chosen little cosy nook
by the side of tiny streamlet that goes
noisily on its course to the great river.
The genuine sigh Of relief that each
gives vent to, as he throws down his
''swag" on the soft turf, tells Of a long
journey under burning sun, and the
welcome anticipation of good nights
rest in the silence of the great forest
Before many minutes have passed, the
blue smoke of the campfire is curling
round the well-blackened "billy," and
the snowy dampers are ready for baking.
"Ned, you have the tea in your swag,
do the brewing, will yous says the one
who has just made the dampers, tall,
well-built colonial to his companion, a
broad-shouldered Englishman, with hand
some, refined features.
'With pleasure, my hungry friend.
How solicitous you colonials are about the
dispatch Of meal r replies he, proceed
ing to unroll his swag.
GAN very well for you to talk, when
you can lay in enough at one meal to
last for two or three days. Now, 1 can't
eat like polar bear, returns the colonial.
81 am sure that old farmers wife thought
she had made bad bargain this morn
ing when, in payment for driving up her
COWS, you eat a breakfast that would
have rendered dinner an absolute impos-
sibility to anyone but yourself"
"My dear fellow" replies his friend in
somewhat oracular manner, Sin con-
dition Of life like this, when ones next
meal is too often an uncertain specula-
ton, it is only commonly provident to
take due advantage of present oppor-
tunities; beside, I earned my breakfast
this morning honestly, while you, / do
not hesitate to say, simply talked the too
generous old lady into inviting you to
share the meal had worked for; though
| must say, she showed her appreciation
of my services by handing me this pack
age of tea, which, by the way, appears
to be wrapped up in piece of the 4 rgns
agony column"
as it reallyi Then, as it is the first
piece of newspaper we have seen for
several weeks, | propose to stop moraliz.
ing on your own excellence, and, having
made the tea, read extracts for the benefit
Of the company"
Certainly" said the Englishman, en-
tying the paper into the billy. "But no,
have talked for your benefit, you read
for mine; there is nothing ike due
division Of Labor"
The colonial, after a lazy excuse or
tFo, takes the scrap Of paper, and be.
ginning at the top o. the @Agony col.
umu," reads
"If James DAnvcrs, who left his shir
al Sandridgs in October last, uill com
munieats with Mr.. John Fyle, Plander,
street, Melbourne, be viii hear Of souse
thing 10 hia aavAniage.'
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rupts the Eagli4hmaR- "8ut hsrrs IN,
Ira browed; come along, that sill kse,
til after"
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thing frOm The old eOuHsry; hsisR
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, 1879-12-04

If you are going to paint your house,
barn, wagon or machinery, the wonder,
full Imperishable Mixed Paint is surely
the best, for it is warranted by their
agents in your own town not to chalk,
crack, peel or blister; to cover better and
ishsbIe Paint WAS awarded the nrst premium,
over all other paints, at the California Staie
Fair, 1873, and the gold medal at she oregon
state Fair, 1879. Get circular from thef
cry. Try ins ala sad you certainly woula
hayp no other.
, 1879-12-04

People in search of quiet region in
which to settle will be likely to steer
clear of Kentucky. In twenty counties
of that State the records of indictments
show III homicides in period of five
years, an average of SO to each county.
, 1879-12-04

Can you tell why n blackberry Is al
vars red when it's green
, 1879-12-04

She haa got shaa far when abe i
j0tned BY handsome young fellow
whom ws have seen before BY a. Aus
, 1879-12-04

tice Of Edward Stanley Fermore, he is
informed that his father, Sir Edward
Fermore, Bart, Of Fermore Grange,
Ernside, Kent, having died intestate, he
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-08

HE WAY TO DEAL WITH BOYS ANT
GRLs.-A lady sensibly says in an ak.
change: 1t is not always easy for ns tr
distinguish between what is essential and
what Is an accident of development in oul
children. For the former we must have
long, patient and judcious training, reach.
ing from infancy to maturity. slowly weed.
ING out elements that are noxious, and as
slowly Incorporating those that are want.
ing, just us we graft pears upon ounce
roots or apples on the thorn tree. For the
accidental qualities we have only to wait
their growth. Yet these qualities, mainly.
are not the essential ones that provoke
scolding, of which mothers, far more than
fathers, are apt to be guilty.
The time comes fast enough when there
will be no little careless hand to make -
musS on the clean table cloth, no tiny
fingers TO scatter things around, no CHATTER
OF childish feet on the stairway. Fresh
paper may cover all the marks on the.hard
lnlsh, paint may conceal the ambitious
handwriting on the woodwork, and those
traces of boyish pranks that still remain.
the mothers eye and heart NAV cherish
us sacred 10 the memory of the dead or the
absent. as something she would not will.
ingly be without.
In genial, wholesome, tolerant. LOVING
atmosphere the boy Or girl will 90 through
the various stages of growth from child
hood to adult life, dropping whatever is in
its nature juvinile, little by little, as natur-
ally rs the bean vine drops its seminal
leaves but the forbearance and loving
patience of the wise father and iudicious
mother who' under innumerablo provoca-
lions' RETAINED from scolding, will never
be forgotten.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-08

To RAISE SuEEP SUCCESSFULLY.-
There is II general impression, among
those who do not know, that by means of
sheep II great deal may be made out of
nothing. We may frequently see absurd
statements to the effect that g sleeps foo,
turns all to gold;" and there is no reader
or surer way 10 firllize barren field than
to put flock of sheep to pasture upon the
brars and weeds in it; that in effect,
sheep will live upon the poorest food and
make the richest manure, and are thus the
very best stock Il farmer can keep on his
farm, But those who have been there ;
know better "Sheep are always an I'm
happy flock" and many II man who has
been deluded into keeping sheep in the
vain hope of finding gold in their foot
tracks. has found out d" the truth about it y
Now, having been through the mill and
turned defeat into victory by discussing
my mind of the common fallacies about
sheep, | warn intending shepherds that
there is no other domestic animal that
needs better care or food, for profitable
thrift, than sheep; that out of their finely
grinding manure mill comes nothing that
is not first put into the hopper; that yet
with proper care and skill. II well selectod
flock of the right kind of sheep in the
right place, can be made to pay one hun,
dred per cent on their cost every year. 1t
is true that II flock will clear IL field of
weeds, briars and rubbish, and will enrich
it, but it will not live upon these alone.
70 relish this rough heritage, the sheep
must be fed literally upon Supplementary
food, such rs bran, meal, cut clover. grass
or green corn fodder, and always u pint Il
day per head of linsecd oil-cake, meal,
b an or other grain food. Then, with this
alloy, the sleeps foot will take on IL gold
en- tinge, and will edge with gold the
farmers pocket, by making his poor lands
rich; giving him at the same time lamb
or two, and u fleece every year. A field
may be enriched, too, by sowing rape seed
ut the rate of II peck per acre, and when
the crop is of thrifty growth, the sheep
may be turned in 10 eat it down through
the late fall and early spring; thus fitting
it for II crop of corn, oats or roots next
year. But the sheep must have their pint
per dizzy of bran or oil-meal even then.
The fact is, sheep arc manure spreaders
rather than manure makers. I'VE feed
them with the material; they take their
pay out of it, and give us back the re-
mainder, transformed into IL substance of
equal vaue-because it is more available
with that which they received, and they
get fat meanwhile in doing it. Just as we
give the mint II bag of gold dust and we
get back exactly the same weight of gold
dollars, while the coiners have fed upon
it-but without The dust we get no dollars
So with sheep; if we don't feed them with
The materials needed to make fat for
themselves and rich manure for us, they
will be as improbable as Pharoah's lean
kline. And this is the truth about it,
Cincinnati Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-08

SCIENTIFIC BLUNDERs.- men
are not infnllible, though their confident
tone often implies that it is impossible for
them to make mistake. So long rs they
are content to observe patiently, and gath
er facts slowly, they are on safe ground,
and do excellent service. The world is
indebted to careful observers for much of
the progress of our age is due to their pa
tient labors. But when scientists 90 be-
yond facts, and frame theories or utter
prophecies, they are as likely to blunder
us are other men.
DR.. Dionysus Lardner wrote an able
article to prove that, on scientific princi-
piles, it was impossible for n steamship to
cross the Atlantic. Before the article was
published the Atlantic had been crossed
by II steamship. Isaac Newton predicted
that great telescopes could never be made
because it was impossible to make q large
achromatic or colorless lens. But an hum
Bile eXperimenter, combining two kinds OF
glass, made an achromatic lens, and the
difficulty was removed. Moro recently,
he most eminent scientific men have said
there is no life at the bottom Of the ocean,
for life is impossible under such pressure
and in the absence of light. But the
dredging machines of the Challenger found
living things on all ocean beds, and that
too, ut the depth of thousand fathoms.
Scientists are entitled to little credit when
they undertake 10 say what cannot be- and
their frequent plumbers should make them
caulious.-l0Wh'S Companion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-08

cattle in with immunity. and they will eat
pumpkins enough to keep their bowels
loose. and no amount of shucks or smut
will do any harm.
One gentleman said that salt pork would
cure an afflicted animal.
Mr.. Morse said salt pork is not RENE
dy, but if the knife could be applied to
excise the hard accumulations found in the
stomach, then cure might be effected
Mr.. Vanderpool thought that they die
of dry murrain, and no amount of drugs
or other remedies will be of any avail in
forcing passage through the regular
channels.
Mr. Tester found in some of his animals
no dry shucks, but only good hay; has
fed smut without harm; believes their
bowels should be kept loose; this can be
done by feeding corn.
The attendance at the meeting was
respectfully large, and great deal of in
terest was manifested upon this important
question.
Mr.. Morfit lost two head of cattle, then
gathered all the smut out of his stalks,
and week thereafter again turned his
cattle into the field, and in two days lost
another animal, which certainly ate no
smut, as there was none TO which they
could have access.-Prdirie Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-08

HOMEMADE FLOWER PoTs.-Save the
tin fruit cans, and convert them into taste.
full flower pots in the following manner
With a can opener cut off any rough OF
projecting portions of the cover, leaving Il
narrow rim to project inward. With a
pair of plyers, or IL small hammer, bend
this rim down. This gives frmness to the
top of the can. Punch three or four small
holes through the bottom of the can. Then
paint it with varnish made of gum shellac
dissolved in alcohol, and colored with
lampblack and II little yellow ochre to give
Il dark brown color. The cans NAV he
ornamented by FASTING on them little
medallion figures or pictures. They are
handsolner than ordinary flower pots, re-
quire less watering, and keep the plants
from all insects, owing to the presence of
iron rust in the can. One of the prettiest
arrangements for plants we have seen.
was window with two narrow shelves
placed one above the other, on which were
these home made flower pots containing
hellotropes, gcraniums, pinks, begonias,
tuchsias, and other plants, all us thrifty as
II grown in greenhouse. They should
be showered once II fortnight with luke
warm water, using whisk broom for the
purpose, watering sparingly every second
day. On very cold nights newspapers
may be plced between the window and the
plants TO protect them from frost.-Halrs
Journal Of HeaM.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-08
Size of Dairy Stock.

The choice of dairy COWS, like the selcc-
ton of salt for. seasoning their butter, is
too often a matter of fancy, or is based
upon wrong standard. Size of animal,
or product per head, is apt to be the basis
of selection, rather than II careful ref
erence to what the product will cost. 1t
is true, when all other conditions are
equal. that large COWS are better, either
for the dairy or for beef, than small ones.
They have less surface in proportion TO
their weight than small cattle, and hence
lose less heat bv radiation, and consequent
lv can use a greater per cent of their food
for making fat and flesh or milk. This is
more particularly true in the cooler part of
the wear. When oppressed with heat, the
influence of size is in favor of the smaller
animals. Large animals, too, furnish beef
in a better shape than small ones, but beef
in a dairy COW is rather u questionable
element. 1t is not necessary that it should
be entirely ignored, but it is not to be de-
sired in COWS which are to remain long in
the dairy. To illustrate the bearing of
beef derived from n dairy COW at the end
of her period of usefulness us II mixer,
let us suppose two cows, one weighing
1900 pounds, and another weighing 800
pounds live weight, and that, beng fed on
the same kind Of food, each gives milk of
The same quantity and value.
It is a common rule, and pretty near the
truth. in estimating the cost Of keeping
animals. TO reckon one pound of hay "a dav
for each fifty pounds of live weight, as the
amount necessary to sustain the animal in
a uniform condition, without gaining or
losing. If we adopt this rule, without
taking into account the better use of food
by larger animals, or the extra food re
ouired for producing milk, which will be
the same for both cows, it will cost for the
simple support of the body of the larger
cow. twenty. four pounds of hay a d9y;
for the smaller one. sixteen pounds; diff
ference eight pounds day; for the wear
this will be 292O pounds, and for ten wears
the AVERAGE period of usefulness of
dairy cowsEit will be 29,2OO pounds, or
146 tons, which is the cost of maintaining
for ten Years 400 pounds of live WEIGHT
not REQUIRED for producing milk, and
which IS worth no more at the end of the
term than it was at the beginning. If we
count the hay at 81 a ton, the cost of sus-
tanning 400 pounds of weight ten years