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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

WHY CoLoRs CANNOT BE PHOTOGRAPH
ED.-It is now universally admitted by
chemists and physicists that natural colors
can never be reproduced by the process of
photography. There is broad philosophi-
cal reason for this belief Color has no
objective existence 1t is simply the brains
Interpretation of the rapidity with which
the waves of the ray of light beat against
the retina. Beats more rapid produce the
sensation of the mind known AS red. The
violet and red are nothing but the vibra-
tions of the other until they reach the optic
nerve and communicate to that the vibra-
tions which the brain translates. Until
collodion, or some other sensitive agent,
can be made to vibrate like the optic nerve
and can be endowed with intelligence like
the brain, the undulations that fall upon it
in ray of light will remain undulations
and nothing more. In other words, it is
as impossible to photograph colors as
sound. N. Y. Sun.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

A MERRY HEARr.-ld rather be poor
and merry than inherit the wealth Of the
Indies with II d>contrnted spirit. A mer-
ry heart, II cheerful spirit, from which
laughter wells up rs naturally rs bubble
the springs of Saratoga, are worth all the
money b'gS, stocks and mortgages of the
city. The man who laughs is doctor,
with IA diploma endorsed by the school OF
nature; his face does more good in sick
room than II pound Of powders or Il gallon
of bitter draughts If things 90 right he
laughs, because he is pleased. if they 90
wrong, he laughs because it is cheaper
and better than crying. People are al
ways glad to see him, their hands instinct
lively 90 half way to meet his grasp, while
they turn involuntary from the clammy
touch of the dyspepic, who speaks on the
groaning key. lie laughs you out of your
faults, while you never dream of being
offended with him; it seems as if Sunshine
came into the room with him, and You
never know what II pleasant world you are
living in until he points out the Sunny
streaks on its pathway. Who can help
loving the whole souled, genial laughter2
Not the buifoon, nor the man who classes
noise with mirlh-but the CHEEKY, content
ed man Of sense and mind. A good
humored laugh is the key to all breasts.
The truth is that people like 10 be laughed
at in genial sort of way. If you are
making yourself ridiculous, you want to
be told of it in II pleasant manner. not
sneered ut. And it is astonishing how
frankly the laughing population can talk
without treadng on the sensitive toes of
their neighbors. Why will the people put
on long faces, when it is so much easier
and more comfortable to laugh9 Tears
come to us un-ought and unbidden. The
wisest art in life is to cultivate smiles. and
to find The flowers where others shrink
away for fear of thorns.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

TIE BEAUTY OF TRIAL BY JURY.-Ihe
Jury then retired to consider the verdict.
Foreman-Wel. gentlemen. what shall it
be? For the defendant or The plaintiff? |
say for the plaintiff, damages one thou
sand pounds Number Two-Nons"nse
you mean the defendant. He was in the
right, and nothing shall make me give in,
if stay here all night. Number Three
Don't say that; because | have dinner
party at seven. Number Four-And |
promised nv wife to be back by six. Num-
Der Five-I say ditto to Mr.. Foreman.
Only make it larthing damages Moth
inc shall move me from that. Number
SiX-Which was tie plaintiff? Number
Seven Why. the one who refused to pay
the bill don't you know? Number Eight
-Lor' bless me, thought lie was the de-
fendant. Number Nine-Cume, gentle
men, it's getting late Mike up your
minds | don't care which you give it
for. in fact. | thought both sides in the
wrong. Number Ten-Did YOU? | thought
both sides in the right. Number Eleven
It's no use talking. l tell you he"n TO
stick to the defendant. Number Twelve
And | to the plaintiff Damages one
thousand pounds. Not a penny, mind
you. not Il penny less. Foreman-l see
gentlemen, we must decide it in the usual
way. will toss the shilling, if you will
be good enough to cry heads or tails,
The jury returned after few minutes
absence Verdict for the plaintiff-dam-
ages forty shillings.-Punch
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

III. GREELEY AND BRANDY PEACHES -
The Hudson River Chronicie says: lhe
philosopher of the Tribit14e was great
gourmand, not an epicure, and would eat,
in season and out of season, whatever
pleased his palate. And this, although he
was II proirssed Grahamile, or Il believer
in vegetable and cereal diet. We have
known him to walk several blocks for "A
loaf of GrahGm bread, which he would
consume with an accompaniment of two
dozen large fried oysters, and eat II mid
night meal of beelsteak and hot buttered
biscuit, that the Kentucky giant or half
civilized ostrich would have shrunk from.
But Mr.. Greeley never drank liquor of
any kind-neilher malt, wine, nor spirits.
He did not know the taste of spirits, and
would not use them even rs medicines
In the course of forty years that we knew
him intimately, we never but once knew
of his tasting anything that contained
liquors, and then he did it unwittingly.
For years it had been his custom to eat his
Thanksgiving dinner at the house of Il
lady friend who had brought with her from
Vermont the traditional New England
custom of celebrating Thanksgiving The
late Mr.. Henry j. Raymond and John +.
Cleveland, (Mr. Greeley hrohcr-in- law,)
also now deceased, were generally among
the guests. On one of these occasions
plates of brandy peaches were placed for
each guest. Greeley standing on no cere-
mony, tasted of the peaches, and finding
them palata6Ie, quickly disposed of his al
lotted portion, and was handing on his
plate for another supply when Cleveland,
who was on the opposite side of the
table-interrupled him with the question,
Printer" Gall his old associates called
him prInier.) what are YOU cating?"
Something good, answered Greeley,
with that peculiar drawling out ofthe last
word which was his habit when he was
particularly satisfied. We'll" continued
Cleve, 'yon have been gobbing down
brandy peaches like an old TOPPER" There
was IA look-a strange mingling of disgust,
sadness, and dismay-came over Mr..
Greeley's face, and moanfully saving.
What did you tell me that forp" he
pushed aside the repienished plate, and
the graliied palate was hastily cleansed
with bounteous draught of Croton. We
are confident that never before had Mr..
Greeley known the taste of liquor, aud we
are equally confident that never after
either knowingly or inadvertently-did
he use 1t In any shape. We know that ever
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

tents like whirlwind, and. stampeding
our animals, disappeared below the hori-
zOn. The only one of our number who
scurry and confusion, was little Pe-toh-
kip; and when discovered running in ad-
vance of the marauding band, apparently
in an eager effort to save at least one
horse from loss, we wildly cheered him
on. But, alas for innate depravity! Fore
most in that yelling group, with a look of
scernful trinmph on his face. and perched
upon my favOrite roam, he rode back t.
that old savage life from which he had
been cued-Appleton's Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

wheat crop clear gain. Another man
bought eighty acres of railroad land and
broke it. This years crop paid for the
land and all the expenses of seeding and
harvesting. A neighbor raised a thousand
bushels from thirty acres. These instances
might be multiplied. don't know of a
single instance of failure. Those whose
crop this year was less than twenty BUSH
els to the acre are an exception. Immense
train loads of wheat 90 to Minneapolis
every day, and every day they bring back
immense loads of lumber. So we may
build to protect from the cold, and defy
the Minnesota storms.
The railroad brings advantages, but evils
follow close behind. Hartland already
boasts of two saloons in spite of the vote of
the town against license. New Richland.
the next town north has already upwards of
sixty buildings. most of them of substan-
tail character, but | was told by one who
could smell whiskey rs far rs any one. that
liquor was freely sold in six of them. All
the border rufIianism incident to new
country abounds there. Drinking, swear
ing, fighting. bruised heads and bloody
noses are too common to attract especial
notice. Sixty buildings, six saloons, but
no church nor school house. | suppose
these things will come along by and by.
Pity they should have to wait till the last.
Before the railroad was built the good
people here enjoyed their quiet isolation
They had ways and manners Of their own
and were undisturbed by the customs of
New York or Paris. Now Boston fashions
come in on every train and there is Il wild
almost frantic restraining TO keep up with
the times. Our rustic simplicity has be-
come vulgar and unbecoming, and the in
nocent self forgetfuness of former times,
must be regarded hereafter as Il betrayal
of ignorance and lack of acquaintance
with the on-rushing world.
But | have discoursed too long about
the weather and the railroad. | meant to
have given you some account of our for
eign population, of whom we have large
proportion, especially Norwegian, but shall
have to defer it till some other time.
w, f,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

DIsCoURAGED.--It is easy to say,
" Never give up the ship" 1t is so easy
to hold your head up and step firmly, to
laugh cheerily, and have n pleasant word
for everybody. when safely hedged in
from sorrow and poverty by the love of
friends and bottomless purse When
sickness passes by to knock at some other
door. when home is the one " sweet safe
corner" in all the world, when there are
those who would suffer that you might 90
frce-ah. then it is easy to teel us if moth
ing could ever make you quite discouraged
This is II beautiful world. and there are
lots of good things in it. Yes. many Il son
and daughter. n few wives and mothers,
and about the same proportion of husbands
and fathers, do live more in lhe shine than
in the shadow of life But there are so
many. SO many more, who have to buckle
on their armor. and spend their best
hearts blood in the daily life. Such Bit
ter trials as men and woman do live
through Who can doubt that heaven
sends them their fortitude? 1t cam
not be of earth Such strains of hear
and brain rs heart and brains do still bear
up under, Is it any wonder that weary
hands sometimes fall despondingIy, and
weary heads bow discouraged Oh! We,
whose paths are in the pleasant places
whose faith was never tried by heaven S
seeming disregard of your prayers and
tears! who never knew the lack of tender
home-love and protection, cxult in your
happiness, and thank Providence. But
while you drink from your cup of life
such honcy-sweet draughts give II thought
now and then to those whose daily por-
tions SAVIOR So strongly of wormwood, and
remember that Il kindly word and II help
ing hanl, which cost SO liule, may make
lighter the bun den of some one almost dis
couraged.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02
A VALUABLE PROPERTY.-Harvey's

A VALUABLE PROPERTY.-Harvey's
"reminiscences of Daniel Webster, just
published, contains the following:
Webster at our time took in payment of
his fee for legal services. a small farm in
the ncighborhooi of the White Mountains,
in New Hampshire. He left the tenant,
who was living there at the time, in pos
session. After his removal to Boston, he
heard nothing of his White Mountain es-
tate for several years. One summer. as he
jOurneyed northwarl with his wife. in
quest of recreation, he resolved TO turn
aside from the Travelled road, to ascertain
the true condition of his property. lie
found very miserable hut upon it, Oc
cupied by an aged woman as the only
tenant of his farm. He asked for glass
of water, which was readily served IN a
tin dipper. He then began to make inqui-
ries about her prosperity, and the present
condition of things around her. She said
that she did not own the farm, but that ii
belonged to n lawyer down in Boston by
the name Of Webster.
"Does he often come to see you, my
good woman?" said Mr. Webster.
NO" replied she, "hc has never been
near his land since lived here"
We'll" said he, "what rent does he
make you pay for the occupancy of his
flrm?'
RENT she exclaimed. II don't pay
him any rent. 1t is bad enough TO live
here without paying anything for it; and
if he don't fix up the house don't mean
to stay here freezing to death much lon
gerw
"Well madam" returned the kind
hearted proprietor, "it is pretty hard
case, confess. If you will accept this
bill Give dollars) toward your holding on
for another year, | will speak to Mr.. Web
ster when next see him, and perhaps he
will do something mere for You
so he took final leave of his valuable
farm and his interesting tenant.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02
THE OLD YEARS BOOK.


Now close the book, and lay it away
The Old Years Book-we have read it through,
Leaf afler leaf and day after day,
We have turned the pages, both and you.
What it has told us full well we know,
Each for himself the story has read;
A bitter tragedy. full of woe,-
Alas they found it who mourn their dead.
And some have read Of trial and pain,
OF weary burdens so hard to bear,
OF bright hopes crushed, again and again,
Turning It's pages in blank despair.
q" A pleasant storv," others may say,
"Telling Us more OF joy than of pain;
Almost sadly we lay it away
Would we might open and read it aganl'
Ana some have read it with loves own eyes,
BY the light that love alone can give,
While the pages glowed with loves surprise,
And life were joy, and 'twere joy to live.
Rut close the book The story is old
Lay it away with a smile or tear,
Written in black, or written in gold,
We open the book of another year.
NcU Years Day. -TrdHscript
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02
DlRGEOF HE OLD YEAR.
ny WILLIAM u. BURLEIGH.

The good Old Yearl the brave Old Yearl
lie loved you long and he loved you well;
Scatter ye snow flakes on his bier,
And plant his grave with the asphodell
The good Old Year that brought you cheer
In the days now gonc-the brave Old Year,
Dead in the midnight of tear
II.
WinHs Of the midnight wildly swell,
And pour your dirse DER the dead Old Yeari
For the good Old Year so wan and pale,
The dead Old Year on his icy bier,
For the brave Old Year let the wild winds vail
For the dead Oh Year, toll, toll the bell,
And let the winds of the midnight tell
To the sobbing streams that moan and plain,
TO the streams that moan like souls in pam,
That the good Old Yeir comes not again
Ill.
Dead in the midnight words of fearl
Dead IN the midnight brave Old Year!
Dead in the midnight on his bier
Winds of the mdnightl toll the bell
OLD Year, FAREWELL
Farewelli-
FAREWELL
And the solemn midnight hears his knclI
".
The rivers sob like souls in pain,
For the Year that never comes again,
And the wailing winds to the woods complain
That the good o d Year meier comes again
That the soul of the brave Old Year has ned;
And the woods respond to the wild wind wall
With many moan,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

OUR DAUGHTERs.-Let us teach them
to be useful in all directions. Give them
Il thorough education. Teach them to
cook nourishing meal. Teach them to
wash, iron, darn stockings, sew on buttons.
to make their own clothes, and well-tit-
ting shirt Teach them to bake bread
and to understand that good cook saves
much on the apothecary's bill. Teach
them that only those economize who spend
less than they receive, and all those who
spend more must become poor. Teach
them that calico dress, paid for, dresses
one better than silk one with debts
Teach them that one round, full face is
worth more than fifty consumptve-look-
ing beauties. Teach them to Wear good,
strong shoes. Teach them to make pur-
chases and examine accounts. Teach them
that an honest mechanic, with health and
strength, is worth dozen effeminate, ex-
quisite, not over honorable loafers. Teach
them that happiness in married life de-
pends neither upon the department of the
man, nor upon his wealth, but on his reli-
gious sense and good character. If you
have thoroughly impressed them with the
importance of all this, and they under
stand it, then let them, when the time for
matrimony has come courageously marry.
If they have protited by your teachings
you need have no fear for their future
Toronto GLOBE.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

The Yale jokers who included piece of
stained brick among the geological
specimens " which they placed upon the
desk Of their professor as objects worthy
of his explanatory remarks, received the
following reward. Taking up one of the
specimens, be said: This is a piece of
baryta from the Cheshire mines. This"
holding up another, is a piece of field
spar from the Portland quarries. And
this" coming to the brick, i" is piece of
from some member of the
Glass;
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

SOME ONE TO LOvE.-Perhaps one of the
most positive proofs that we have Of the
souls independence Of the body is our
great need of love and of something to
love. Were we animals, creatures doomed
to perish after II few brief years of life in
this world. that which contents the brute
would also content US. To eat and sleep
well, to have an easy time of it. would be
enough. As it is we may have all these
things, and health to enjoy them. and yet
be utterly wretched. Neither can mental
food satisfy US. Some one to love" is our
hearts cry.
When the atmosphere of tenderness is
about us, we rejoice; when people are
hard. harsh and unkind, we suffer. We
begin life wishing to love all people. and
believing that they love us. Experience
hardens us. Our dear ones grow fewer.
but. rs long as reason lasts, we mnst love
some one, we must at least imagine that
some one loves MS, The parents, sisters,
and brothers, that dearest friend whom we
promise to love and cherish until death
these come into our lives and fill them up.
Afterwards come the little children. frail,
helpless babies, who need our care 30
much, and friends TO whom we are not
kin, yet who grow dear to US.
Some have many loved ones, ana some
have but one. Heaven help those who
have none, though they are generally to
blame for their empty -hearledness for
kindness will win love They are alway,
wretched, and show their craving for
something to love by chrrishng some
dumb animal-a dog, kitten, II parrot,
perhaps, on which they lavish cares>es,
which, better spent, wouli have bound
some human heart to theirs. Pride, or
morbid sensitiveness, may have been at
the bottom of their loneliness. and these
pets of theirs fill the aching void IL little.
Some one to lovel 1t is the cry # the
human soul, the note TO which every heart
responds: the bond which shall bind us I'll
together in that other world where mourn
erS shall be comfortcd and Love shall
reign forever.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

At Il recitation in ancient history, an au-
burn-haired student, tempted thereto by
the assertion that the Egyptians were in
the habit of sacrificing red-headed girls to
the devil" puts the question: What
did they do with the red-headed boys?"
and the professor answers unto him I:
They supposed they would 90 of their
own Accord
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

after when at his annual visit, he was par
ticular to ask. "Mothcr B. have YOU
been poisoning those peaches with that
Internal brandy?"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

ARE LOANS WORTH SIX PER CENT?
According TO crcdtable authority n pot
containing nine thousand pieces of coined
metal was discovered recently by laborers
while at work draining low land in Scot
land. The statement is made that these
coins are chiefly Of silver, some of them
belonging to the twelfth, thirteenth, and
fourteenth centuries. 1t is supposed that
they were used in the rcigns of Robert ii.
Robert III, and David III, and have laid
in the earth upward of three hundred
years, having previously been worn near
ly smooth. The inquisitlve mind natural
" inquiries How much has been lost on
this secret deposit by way of interest, tax
ing six per cent as an equitable rate? We
find the answer to be Counting the nine
thousand pieces TO be worth an average of
only ten cents, or IL total OF nine hundred
dollars, and making the statement some
what in detail and adding interest only at
the end of each Year, rs follows:
At the time of the deposit, say
Observation-Disclosures. $500
one hundred years after dcpo-ll
or l677..................... 3Ot Op
Two hundr years ailer deposit
or ......................... Ia 100000
Thee hundred Years after dt-
po,it or Is77................. 3l,373 600 900
Since the small pot of silver estimated
to he worth nine hundred doilarS in the
open market. if il had been deposited in u
savings bank three hundred vars ago,
and sir per cent had been added ut the end
Of each year, would now have amounted
To the enormous sum OF HtHy.fce btHt0nS,
three hundrcd ald Scremy- h''e mslft"ns
md SIS Thousand doilaS, Or mole than III.
teen times more than the tot.i of our inn
menSe national deb., it must be apparent
to the most careless mind that six per cent
is II rate far hey ond the ability of men or
governments 10 pay, and the attempt to
pay it makes slaves of men who try,-D'y
foods Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

| CHANGED to pass one evening, in the
Clristmas-time, at country inn in "a little
Comprehensive village remote from rail
ways. Certain wanderings though green
lanes (and the lanes were still green, al
though it was cold, midwinter weather.,
had brought me to the place at dusk, and
being weary, had resolved to rest there
for the night. Some local festivity Of the
season had taken place during the day,
winch had drawn into the village IN un-
usual number OF farmer-tOlE from The i'm
mediate nelgnborhooh. Alter n simple
dinner OF chop and hall pint OF c0rt0dn
GOOD beer,) stroIled into what they call
ed the smoke-room, by way of distin-
gushing it from the tap-room adjoining. 1t
was a plain little room, with hlgh-barked
wooden settles against the wall; indeed.
the backs reached nearly up TO the ceiling
III gave an Old fashioned air Of comfori
to the room which no amount of gliding
ana mirrors could possibly lmpart. Two
or three farmers were sitting there drink
ing lheir beer and smoking their pipes,
ana loasllng Their irouserless shlnS before
the DinZlnS llre' fr' scnlly Welch harper
with his harp entered from outdoors, and,
seating himself IN the corner OF the room,
began to tune his instrument. The room
quickly hlled up with men and women,
and the AR was soon reeking with tobacco
smoke and music. No drinks but beer
pop, were INDUCED in by the company,
save that some OF the women drank tea;
but Bacchus never saw more genial
company. by my side sat jovial. collier
who presently struck nm in a Ioud rlpa,
b.ritnna a.. r;noin,r conc, ,vb;,h cha b,r,,
inmediualv tnok mn ,nI f,llowed II w.s
o,;Io,tI,, sonc, ,ll ,,r,.o,,, L,,,, Co.. ,h',,
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