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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

CUISINE PRovERBs.-There is green
ness in onions and potatoes that makes
then hard to digest. For health's sake
put them in warm water for an hour be-
fore cooking.
Good -four is not tested by its color.
White flour may not be the best The test
of good -four is by the amount of water it
absorbs.
In cooking fowl, to ascertain when it
is done, put a skewer into the breast and if
the breast is tender the fowl is done.
A few dried or preserved cherries. with
the stones out, arei the very best things
possible to garnish sweet dishes.
Single cream is the cream that has
stood on the milk for twelve hours. 1t is
best for tea and coffee. Double cream
stands on the milk twenty-four hours, and
cream for butter frequently stands forty
eight hours. Cream that is to be whipped
should not be butter cream lest in whip
ping it change to butter.
To beat the whites of eggs quickly, put
in pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs
the quicker they will froth. Salt cools
and also freshens them.
In boiling eggs hard put them in boil.
ing water. 1t will prevent the yolk color
ing black.
You must never attempt to boil the
dressing of clear SOUP in the stock, for
it will always discolor the soup.
In making any sauce, put the butter
and flour together, and your sauce will
never be lumpy. :. ......
Whenever you see your sauce, boil from
the sides of the pan, you may know that
your fourI or corn starch ia done. ''
Boiled fowl with sauce, over which
CRATE the yolk of eggs, is magnificent
dish for luncheon,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

MEXICAN HoRsEs.-Horses are bred in
great numbers at the different bacindas in
provinces, some of the larger estates hav-
ing eighty or hundred thousand cattle
and fifteen or twenty thousand mules and
horses. The pasturage is green all the
year round, and the animals receive no
other food. They multiply as the birds do,
and with as little profit to their owners
Generally speaking, they run wild until
wanted, when they are caught with u las
so, hoodwinked and Immediately mount
ed. For the first fifteen or twenty minutes
they exert their whole strength, to throw
their rider, but. finding their efforts una
vailing, patiently submit, and generally
give but little trouble afterward. Owing
to their immense numbers. horses are sold
very cheap, the average price for an un-
broken herd being eight or ten dollars a
head, with but little demand at that. 1t
sometimes occurs that the government
purchases few hundred for the army, but
generally speaking, there are few occas.
ions when they can be sold. Mexican
horses. as rule, are not handsome, and
are seldom more than eighteen hands high
still they have nothing of the peculiar
build of the pony about them. Fed en-
tirely upon grass, they yet endure more
fatigue and are capable of maintaining d
rapid gate for a longer time than the grain
fed horses of other lands. In the towns
and cities they receive the scautiest care
and the meagerest supply of food. Tied
up the whole day in the sitting courtyards
they stand patiently awaiting their even
ing meal. Frequently they are turned
loose together when it requires the use o
this instrument do they become, that tn,
moment the animal feels the rope aroun,
its neck it stands stock still. when withou
it it would not suffer itself to be saddled o
bridled.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

ELECTRICITY IN MORNING GLoRIEs.-A
Lafayette Qnd.) man accidentally made a
most singular discovery respecting the
electrical influence of the ordinary morn
ing glory vines. Seated near the lattice
work, over which the vine was trained
his attention was attracted to a single
branch tipped with growing line extend
ing straight out from the rest, and specu-
lated within himself whether the tiny
hairs with which the stem was clothed
were not placed there for the purpose of
conducting the electric fluid of the atmos.
phere TO tho plant. In order to continue
his investigations, he approached his finger
within about half an inch Of it, and was
amazed to observe slight, almost imper-
ceptible motion of the stem. AS he pushed
his finger little nearer, the stem trem'
bled very visibly, and was seemingly
attracted and repelled from him. The
hairs which he noticed before did not
move, but remained erect. There was nc
wind at the time, and the motion wal
purely an induced one. After this inter-
esting experiment he placed his fingej
within short distance of the growing
bud and slowly moved it in circular
direction. The stem followed the motion
until it was bent in the form of the lcttel
G., and when the finger was Withdrawn
it Instantly regained the former straigh
position. The last experiment was wit
messed by several persons, all OF whom
tried it with varying success
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15
A HANDY BoY.-A clerk in a Lewiston

A HANDY BoY.-A clerk in Lewiston
insurance office took kerosene oil can
and went out to purchase some oil. the
other evening. On the threshold he met
an acquaintance whom he had not seen for
some time. and stopped to converse with
him few minutes. A clever looking.
tow headed urchin came along and the
clerk hailed him in this wise: See here,
bub, just go and get my oil can filled for
me-" The boy consented. The clerk
placed thirteen cents in his palm and off
he went at q dog trot. Meanwhile. the
gay young insurance man enjoyed himself
in conversation with his friend. The boy
came back shortly with filled can. The
clerk rewarded him and re-entered the
office. The lamps were filed, burned
brightly u few moments. commenced to
flicker, and finally went out. The lamps
were examined and were found to be filled
with water. If that clever looking, long
haired boy could have been examined, the
thirteen cents would have been found in
his pocket! 1t did moi require close ex-
animation TO discover disgust in the insur-
ance clerks face. If that boys parents
want to make small fortune. they should
have their darlings life insused for IS, 1000
and send him into that office --LewiSton
Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

PRESSURE ON TIE BRAIN.-A physician
was called one day to see youth, aged
Is, who had been struck down insensibly
by the kick of horse, There was a
depressed fracture of the skull little
above the left temple. The skull was
trephined, and the loose fragments of bone
that pressed upon the brain were removed,
whereupon the patient came to his senses.
The doctor thought it good opportunity
to make an experiment, as there was a
hole in the skull through which he could
easily make pressure upon the brain. He
asked the boy question, and before there
was time to answer it, he pressed firmly
with his finger upon the exposed brain.
AS long as the pressure was kept up the
boy was mute, but the instant it was
removed he made Il reply, never suspect
ing that he had not answered at once.
The experiment was tried several times
with precisely the same result, the boys
thoughts beng stopped and started again
on each occasion rs easily and rs certainly
as the engineer stops and starts his loco
motive.
On another occasion, the same doctor
was called to See groom who had been
kicked on the head by mare named
Dolly,and whom he found quite insensible.
There was fracture Of the SKULL with
depression at the upper part of the fore
head. As soon as the portion of bone
which was pressing upon the brain was
removed, the patient called ont, with great
energy, "Whoa, Dolly" and then stared
about in blank amazement,, asking,
Where is the mare2 Where am I?'
Three hours had passed since the accident,
during which the words which he was
just going to utter when it happened had
remained locked up in the phonograph, to
let 60 the moment the obstractng pres
sure was removed. The patient did not
remember, when he came TO himself that
the mare had kicked him; the last thing
before he was insensible which he did
remember was that she wheeled her head
round and laid back her ears viciously.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15
VOL. XXXVI.
Why the Light Went Out.

Next time you go out on the Michigan
Central road take seat on the right-hand
sitle of the car, so that you may notice,
about ten miles down the road. a little old
red farmhouse The curtains will be
down, the doors shut, the rank weeds and
tall grasses will meet the flying glance in
the front yard. A month ago, old Nan
Rogers lived there; to-day, the place is in
the keeping of rats and mice aud desola-
ton. The old woman was a widow and
childless. If she had relative anywhere
in this great world, those who buried her
were not aware of the fact. She lived all
alone, having only bit of land and being
aided by kind neighbors to raise enough 10
supply her wants. Seven or eight years
ago, when her last child left home to meet
Il violent death on this same road, the men
of the rails became interested in that
quaint old farmhouse. One night, they
saw bright light in one of the windows
Its rays Streamed out over the flowers and
fell upon the rails along which the wheels
thundered, and the engineer wondered
over the signal. The lamp was there the
next night, and the next, and it was never
missed for single night until one even
ing Il month ago. Old Nan, deprived of
husband and children, made friends with
the rushing trains and their burdens. The
train men soon found that the lamp was
for them, and they watched for it. During
the early evening hours, they saw old
Nannys face behind the light or at the
door, and a thousand times condu ctors,
engineers, and brakemen, have called
cheerily through the darkness:
Good night, old Nanny-God bless
you!"
Winter and summer the light WAS there.
Winter and summer the train men looked
for it, and the more thoughtful ones often
left a bit of money with the station men
beyond TO help the old woman keep the
bright rays shining. The lamp was not
there for one train, but for all, and all men
understood the sentiment and appreciated
it.
One dark night, not long ago, when tn e
wind howled and the raindrops beat
fercely against headlight and oab, the en-
gineers missed the signal light. They
looked for it ag ain and again. us one sud
denly misses an old landmark in a city,
and when they failed to find it the hand
instinctively went up to the throttle, as if
danger lurked on The curve below. Each
train aboard that n light looked for the sig
nal, became anxious at its absence, and
made inquiries at tue stations above and
below. Next day. men went do wn to the
little old house, fearing old Nan ay might
be ill. There sat the lamp on the window
sill, but the oil was exhausted. In her
bed. seeming to have only fallen asleep
was the poor old woman, cold and dead.
Life and lamp had gone out together. and
men of rough look and hardened heart
replied as they heard the news:
I" Poor old woman! May her spirit rest
in Heaven w-Detroit b1se Press.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

THOUGHTS FOR LABoRERs.-Wi all
sympathy for all men who are injured or
who conceive themselves, injured, we
would like to ask the leaders of the strik-
ing trades unions, what they have gained
by the strikes of the past year, or what
they ever expect to gain by such violent
measures as they constantly pursueP Will
they never learn that violence of any kind
drives capital away from its neighborhoodp
Out of every hundred strikes in England,
only seven have been in any measure
successful. On the other hand, houses
have been ruined and capital driven else
where by the fury of the strikers. The
supply of labor is above, and supply Of
capital below the demand. This is fact,
and nobody is to blame for it however
pitiful and pitiless the consequences may
be. Forces beyond the control of either
capital or labor have disturbed the balance
of commerce and manufactures. The
equilibrium will be restored again some
time. Everybody must be patient-capi-
talists while they stand on the verge of
bankruptcy, laborers while they sit on the
verge of starvation.
The revival of trade means as much to
ihDoL 60 ~ bOCo W Cdpltil. uC lulC
unsuccessful strikes in Fall River most
forcibly show the folly of strikes in gener-
al. There was weekly direct loss to
the town of some four hundred thousand
dollars. of which one hundred thousand
dollars was to strikers in the way of
wages OF tho other three hundred
thousand dollars, the loss was to mill
owners in stoppage of profits, and in
taxes, Insurance and interest on the idle
property. Nobody gained anything
and least of all the strikers, who must not
only pocket their direct loss, but feel the
necessary depression that they have caused
in the business from which they gain their
support. A strike is boomerang; ii
goes little ways with a great whirr and
then comes back to slap the thrower in
the face. Only savages use it skillfully
and savages have no place in our nine
teenth century civilizations; labor dema
gogues to the contrary Notwithstanding.
We do not mean to say that labor il
never wronged. Far from it; it oltei
suffers grievously. But in the long run
the Lords vengeance rights all oppression
and mans vengeance is puny. fulfil
thing. The man who is right can affor'
to wait The spirit of equality and justic
is growing spirit as civilization grows
lie who brides his spirit and sits in tn
splendid glory of the golden rule, is tn
strong man. Laborers, put yourselves i
the places of capitalists! Capitalists, pu
yourselves in the places of laborers! Th
day is dawning in the light of which a
!, your interests will be seen to be mutua
,, interests. The sun will not be hurried j
rising-be patient and wait.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

There are eastern dairymen who are
feeding large amounts of western grain to
their cows, quite rs much for the manure
rs for the milk. Though they believe
they are more than getting their money
back in an increased butter or cheese pro-
duction, they still look with the most sat-
isfaction and hope of ultimate gain to
their larger aud much richer manure piles,
which, used as top-dressing for mowings
and pastures, will enable them to increase
the number of cows they can carry from
year to year. This attempt to arrest some
of the prairie fertility in its way across
and out of the country and over sea is, in
my Judgment a worthy one, and likely, in
judicious hards, to be profitable; but not
to lien whose manure stands for six
months in the year beneath unspouted
caves, or the liquid excrement of whose
stables runs 10 waste. These will not find
much profit in feeding grain to dairy
cows.-COrrepondent Of RuraL Ncto York-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

Boy SHEPHERDS IN NEBRAsKA.-One
pleasant day we rode twenty miles over
the Laramie plains, from Laramie city to
the Little Laramie river, where we found
prosperous sheep raiser from Nebraska,
named Edward Farrell. There were no
neighbors for miles around. with the ex-
ception of a nephew of Motley, the histori-
an, who had left his fathers pleasant
home, near Boston. Mass and located a
sheep ranch close by here. The Farrels
gave us most hospitablc reception. We
babe them goodbye late in the afternoon,
turned off to the right of Sheep mountain
and entering narrow plain between high
ranges OF hills, spurred forward our jaded
warned us that we could 90 no further
with safety.
At daybreak we spied large flock o
sheep in corral close by rude cabin OF
dugout, in which were two boys, sons o
Mr.. Farrell Here, twelve miles or more
from home, they had been tending a flock
of 2,300 sheep during the entire season
They shot their game with an old rifle
did their own cooking, and lived entirel,
alone with their dogs and two ponie
employed in herding the sheep. The.
alternate in watching the sheep, whicl
were driven into the corral every night
as protection against bears wolves, an,
other wild animals. An antelope, whicl
one of them had shot the day previous
was suspended near the door of the cabin
There was good range here, and tn
father had in the sprngtime sent the shee
and the boys to possess it.
You will be surprised when tell yo
that these lads, intrusted with the care @
over 1000 sheep, and living here in thi
remote, secluded spot, were eleven ant
thirteen years of age. 1t is astonishing
the early self-reliance which these frontie
children display, and the skill which, a
mere urchins. they attain in herding sheep
-An,erican AgricuLtarist
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15
PERoUIsIrEs OF WASHINGTON pAs

PERoUIsITEs OF WASHINGTON PAGES.
One of the pages of the United States
Senate, in letter to St. Paul paper,
says: We used to get 800 month, but
now it is only S75. The boy who gets
the presidents room is rewarded with ST.
400 year. A good one has no trouble in
making 800 month. A complete book
of the autographs of congressman and the
heads of departments brings $50. A page
made $500 out of what was known as the
" deadlock picture"-a humorous sketch.
While the electoral commission was in
session the boys had good opportunity TO
make something. They .speculated on the
extra tickets the congressman shelled out.
l sold one to Lizzie Snow for $50. Wash.
ington people know who she is. knew
boy who made $50 off the bier of Chas.
Summer. He sold the flowers for $40.
Wormley paid him $40 for one bouquet.
When tue casket was removed he watched
his opportunity and cut the fringe from
the bier. He sold it to the colored people
for $50, dealing it out in pieces"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

The MOUND BUILDERS. curious ex-
hibition was made in the grain depart
ment of Cincinnati chamber of commerce,
being quantity of carbonized or charred
corn taken from pit in one Of the burial
grounds of the mound builders near Mad
isonville, Ohio. few miles distant from
Cincinnati. The pit was paved at the
bottom with boulders, and contained some
three or four bushels of corn, some shelled.
some on cobs. The entire mass was ap-
parenlly thoroughly charred. 1t was COW
cred with layer of gray ashes containing
bones of animals, and still above this was
layer of clay and soil. 1t is supposed to
have been used in some of the religious
rites of the mound builders. being located
in the midst of one of their large burial
grounds. whence many skeletons have
been removed during the past few months.
From the trees which have grown above
these graves and whose roots intersect the
skeletons there can be no doubt that the
race of which this is the work must have
existed here in America fully five hundred
years ago.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

THE SICK RooM.-It is extraordinary
how many persons, unused to the sick
room, mistake certain noises for quiet.
When such people have to walk across a
room, they do so with balancing sort of
movement that makes every plank creak
uneasily. Their very dress rustles in a
way that would make the fortune of II rat
tlesnake. If any thing has to be said, it
is spoken in loud, whirring whisper,
that nearly conceals the words, but makes
the most irritating of noises. Now, the
silence of sick room must not be labored,
it must be natural. Shoes which do not
creak must be worn, and in walking the
foot must be put down carefully, of course,
but with a firm step, that comes steadily,
yet gently to the floor. This will not make
the oreaking sound caused by the toe
pointed. gingerly mode of movement, SC
much adopted by those whose experience
of sick rooms is small.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

GUARD THE HoME.-When we are con-
the dangers which threaten our
youth, we should not direct our thoughts
too far away from home. For the means
of safety are to be found only in SO arming
ourselves and our children with the wis
dom of innocence that the grosser temp
tations of life shall be as though they were
not. By sincerity, by honesty, and by
purity in thought, word and deed, we may
give mighty reinforcements to the good
which in other men lies sleeping but never
dead. BY the untrue word, the dishonest
act, the loose jest, or even the unuttered
sympathy with evil. we may set the ex.
ample which our children will exceed in
their practice. After making all allow
ance for the influence which comes into
the home from without, we must still hold
ourselves responsible for the opportunity
which evil men find in the unguarded
lives of the young, the weak and the igno.
rant George Bachelor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

STRANGE CONDUCT ON THE PART OF A
CoRPsE.-A remarkable case occurred in
Memphis, Clark county, Ind, on Thurs
day evening. Mrs. Eliza Weir, aged &c,
wife of John Y. Weir, of that town, had
been ailing for IL number of days of in
hammatory rheumatism, and on Thurs
day afternoon gradually grew worse and
at o'clock p. NJ, to all appearances
breathed her last. Her pulse failed to
beat. The body became cold, and the
attendants decided that she was dead, and
made arrangements for the funeral. She
was laid out" coppers placed over her
eyes, handkerchief tied under her chin,
etc.. and the neighbors who were ,ther-
ed around were discussing the deceased
lady's good qualities, when suddenly,
within fifty minutes Of the supposed de.
mise. the i" corpse" " spoke out, making
some unintelligible request. There were
several ladies In the room, and all of them
became terribly frightened and retired in
confusion, except Mrs. John Hall, who re-
manned and administered to the lady S
wants. After while Mrs. Weir breathed
freely. and is gradually returning to con-
sciousness. Courier journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15
Let us beware of a technical notion O

Let US beware of technical notion of
religious life and truth. The essence and
power of religion are often contained in
that which has not the ritual imprint.
1--WE may take up" says Dora Greenwell,
"some exquisite poem or story, which has
no directly religious bearing. and feel that
it is religious because it strikes chord so
deep in human nature that we feel that it
is only the divine nature, God who COM
passes u.s. that can respond to what it
calls forth" God has cleansed many
things that, to the prosalc dogmatlst or
ritualist, seem common or unclean. His
ways are not our ways. He is subduing
to Himself forces and clements of life that
often seem to us quite outside the spiritu-
al realm. The progress of His kingdom
is not wholly reported on our church reg
listers. and the songs of Zion are not all
sung by our choirs. The wind that blow
eth where it listeth bears in its sweet
breath the fragrance of many flowers that
do not grow in our gardens. Let US be
ready to feel the heavenly influences even
when we cannot analyze and classify
them, and learn to think more of divine
realities than human phrases. .-Sunday
afternoon.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-15

PETROLEUM FOR RUSTIC WoRK.-Here
is room for great improvement. We see
on every hand handsome rustic work fall
ing to decay and becoming distorted by
age. 1t is commonly made Of a kind Of
wood which does not last long. Soak it
thoroughly with crude petroleum when
new, and it will remain unchanged indef-
nitely. A rustic summer house on a
shaded part of our grounds would have
been unusually exposed to dampness and
decay had not such result been pre-
vented some dozen or so years ago by Pc
troleum. The peculiar brown color i'm
parted by a mixture of the heavy oil re-
mains unchanged; and a lattice-work oi
pine lath fourth of an inch thick. fully
exposed to dampness and the weather, is
as sound and unworn as ever. The oil is
now so cheap that there is no excuse fol
emitting its application, and it may be
rapidly and easily brushed over the sur
face and sunk into the pores with white
wash brush. Apply it heavily.-Erchange