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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

PROVE IT BY MoTuER.-Wnle driving
along the street one day last winter in my
sleigh, a little boy, six or seven years old.
asked me the usual question: q" Please may
| ride?n
g" answered him. Yes, if you are
good boy
He climbed into the sleigh; and when l
asked again, Are you good boy P" he
looked up pleasantly and said, :" Yes, sir"
Can you prove it9'
" Yes, sir"
:" By whom?'
"Why, my ma," said he promptly.
l thought to myself, here is n lesson for
boys and girls. When child feels and
knows that mother not only loves, but has
confidence in him or her, and can prove
their obedience truthfuness and honesty
by mother, they are pretty safe. That 10y
will be II JOY to his mother while she lives.
She can trust him out of her sight, feeling
that he will not run into evil. | do not
think he will 60 to the saloon, the theatre
or the gambling house. Children who
have praying mothers and mothers who
have children they can trust, are blessed
indeed. Boys and girls, can you "prove
by mother" that you are good? Try to
deserve the confidence of your parents and
every one else.-Children's Friend.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

The London Times having shown much
sensitiveness about Gladstone's high trib-
ute TO the skill and increasing success CT
our artisans and inventors, an English
writer replies to it as follows:
The excellence of American edge tools
and certain kinds of agricultural imple-
ments is universally acknowledged in
England, even by those engaged in the
manufacture of the same class of articles /;
and Sheffield will need to look to its lau-
rcls if the American manufacturers keep
up the high quality of their goods. One
Sheffield firm has this season sold $500
dozen hay forks, SO dozen scythe snaths,
2ll5 dozen locks, 1900 dozen iron planes,
1850 dozen lockwood rifles, 1852 dozen hat
and coat hooks, 220 dozen hammers, and
variety Of other articles purchased from
AMCriCaH producers. 1t is well known
that American goods are being initiated in
England, but the result is in many cases a
poorer article"
1t is indeed fact that the most efficient
blow at our imported wares in England
has been given by the makers there who
have inflated them and put on an Ameri-
ran Nhc, thereby leading their customers
To think American goods inferior
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

THOUGHT HE SAW THE SEA-SERPENT.
A Phillipsburg farmer living on the
west shsre of the lake was awakened from
a quiet sleep one night recently, and on
looking out upon the water, which was
glistening in the light of the full moon. he
saw II strange object. He quietly made
his way to the beach and waited for some
thing to turn up. A light breeze stirred
the waters slightly, and every now and
then II splash and spatter broke the quiet
of the scene. A dusky object, several feet
in length, seemed to be slowly making for
the shore, and our hero says he kept so
still he could hear bis heart beat. AT last
the mystery was solved. the serpent"
turning out to be n tree which had evil
IDENTIFY been blown into the lake during
the late storm. The splashing was caused
by the huge branches which protruded
from the trunk of the tree-and thus what
might have caused nine days wonder.
only spoiled few hours sleep for weary
son of the soil who had toiled all the pre-
ceding day in II hay field. He firmly
declares that the size of the serpent"
depends upon the quantity af fire-water
drankl-Bedford Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

ANECDoTE OF BEETHOVEN. had beg.
ged OF Beethoven to compose me n caden-
n; he refused, and told me to write one
myself and he would correct it. He was
much pleased with my composition, and
altered little, only he thought one very
brilliant and difficult passage, though eff
fective, too perilous, and charged me to
write another. Eight days before the
performance he wished again to hear the
cadenza. played the offending passage
and failed in it he told me again with
some temper to alter it; did SO, but the
new passage did not satisfy me. studied
the other valantly, without for all that
making myself absolutely sure of it. At
the public concert, when the cadenZa
arrived, Beethoven sat quietly looking on.
| could not bring myself to choose the
easier passage. When l boldly attacked
the more difficult one, Beethoven gave
himself violent shake in his chair; the
cadenza succeeded, nevertheless, and he
was content, and called out, bravo!"
which electrified the audience, and gave
me Il position Immediately among the
artists. Afterward, in spite of his evident
satisfaction, he said. But you are very
self-willed. If you had broken down in
the passage, would never have given you
another lesson. "-ReiSs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

ENGLISH LAVA poor woman named
Catherine Connolly has husband in the
Clarkenwell, England, house Of detention
under remand on charge of felony.
Two weeks ago, in violation of solemn
law, she conveyed 10 him while on II visit
II small quantity of tobacco-or, to be
more precise, about a q~rter of an ounce
which was found beneath paste turn
over" that she brought him for his dinner.
When arrested, she explained that the
turnover had been given to her by IN
acquaintance of her husbands outside the
prison, who told her to take it in, and she
was not aware that she was doing wrong.
She made a piteous appeal to the magis-
trate for mercy ON account of her children,
and also on the ground that she was in ill
health, again declaring that she had acted
entirely in ignorance, and without any
intention of breaking the prison rules.
The mcrciful magistrate, however, sem
fenced her to twenty.one days imprison-
mcnt with hard labor, without the option
of fine, and she was removed from the
dock in II lamentable condition. crying
bitterly and asking. "What will become
of my children and my homeP' One
little child belonging 10 her-a girl about
six years old-was left in court to find its
way home rs best it could.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

Whether this be story of fact or alle-
CORY, there is evidently something wrong
with the school system of Texas. The
Galveston NelOS has the following anec-
dote: " How is your son coming onp
"Oh. l am having power of trouble with
himr' " What's the matter now?" "Well,
you know couldn't send him to school,
because, thanks to Gov. Roberts, there are
no free schools, and l could not afford to
send him to private school," Yes,
know that is So" WE'LL / sent him
away from Galveston out to the frontier,
and as luck would have it, he was convict
ed of horse stealing and got five years in
the penitentiary." That was bad. " No
it wasn't, for you sec at the penitentiary
he could learn trade and become useful
citizen" Well, that's good" "No it
ain't for Gov. Roberts has pardoned him
out on account of his youth and igno-
rance"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11
PrODateand ndcommissiOuers'N Notices 90. Oueaeh.

The Rev. DR.. Alexander relates that
there lived in Peeblesshre half-witted
man who was in tho habit of saying his
prayers in a field behind turf dyke.
One day he was followed to the place by
some wags, who secreted themselves on
the opposite side listening to the man at
his devotions, who expressed his convc-
ton that he was very great sinner, and
that even were the turf-dyke at that mo.
ment to fall upon him it would be no more
than he deserved. No sooner had he said
this than the persons on the opposite side
pushed the dyke over him, when scramb-
ling out, he was heard TO say: "Hech,
sirs it's an awful world this; body
Gamma say thing in joke. but it's taken
in earnest
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

The number Of volcanoes discovered
constantly increases with the progress of
geographical knowledge-highiy volcanic
regions being found in the least explored
countries. A. Won Humboldt enumerated
407, of which 227 were active. Several
thousand are now known, and, according
to NJ. Fuchs, the number of active vol
canoes known at the present time may be
set down as 1928. 1t is difficult to draw
the line between active and extinct vol
canoes, for the reason that the greater
portion of the former have periods of re-
pose, sometimes century or more in
length. The ancients considered Vesuvius
a harmless mountain up to the time of the
great eruption of A. d. 60, when Hercu-
ladeum and Pompeii were buried; and it
was quiet from 1907 to 1631-more that
three centuries.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

LOST ON Mt. WAsHINGToN.-Thc ac-
cident on the Mt. Washington carriage
road, in which one lady was killed and
several others injured. and the finding of
the remains of Harry w. Hunter, the Pitts
burg printer, who perished six years ago
while walking up the bride path to the
summit, have furnished topics of tragic
interest. Only four of the injured ladies
remain at the Glen House, and they are
improving. Only one is confined to her
room. Mrs. Milliken is kindly caring for
all their wants. The driver is recovering,
and it is expected that he will get well.
He has not referred to the accident and as
yet has no realizing sense of what has oc-
Cured. Of all who have perished on Mt.
Washington nothing compares in sadness
and suffering with that of poor Hunter.
After his fatiguing walk of nearly ~ miles
from the Wiley house, the last half Of
which was through a cold, driving rain,
and against wind of more than sixty
miles an hour. he laid down to sleep Of
death within mile of the signal station,
which he must have seen for several miles
before he gave out, and which would have
afforded him relief and shelter. Here his
bones have laid bleaching for six years,
and meantime his fate was wrapped in
profound mystery. He wrote his father
on the day of his arrival at the Wiley
house, Sept. 9, that he should ascend Mr..
Washington on the next day, and that was
the last known of him. His friends were
greatly distressed and caused search to be
made for him. The next January his
father wrote to Mr.. Merrill of the Craw-
ford house; The mystery surrounding
his disappearance has caused me much
painful reelection. If knew that he had
perished in the mountain could reconcile
myself, but the uncertainty keeps me con-
tinually in suspense As soon as his
remains were discovered Mr. Merrill tele
graphed the fact to the father ut Pittsburg,
which brought back II reply to hold the
remains for written directions. A lette:
has been received which states that the
father died in 1877, but that his mother
and brothers are living. Monday the re-
mains will go forward for interment. A
monument will be erected on the spot
where Hunter perished, by strangers to
him, rs u tribute to u human life which
went out in wild and lonely place, with
no one to tell his fate.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

1t was recently remarked by Professor
Maudsley that one striking feature observ-
ed by medical men in cases of hallucina-
ton is that the patients cannot bc con-
vinced that the objects they sec, the sounds
they hear and the smells they perceive
have no real existence, and that the sensa-
tons received arc the result of an excited
state of their nerves. Hallucination often
extends to but one sense, the person affect
ed being otherwise in Il perfectly normal
condition. 1t may arise from an idea on
which the mind has dwelt closely, or from
excitement of the sensory nerves. 1t is
said that Newton, Hunter and some Others
of equal eminence, could, at will. picture
forms to themselves until they appeared to
be realities.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11
IN THE EIGHTH YEAR
OF CESAR AUGUSTUS,
BARBARUS, PREFECT OF EGYPT,
CAUSED THIS TO BE ERECTED,
PONTIl,S BEING ENGINEER.


Capt. Gorringe has rcctifed little mis-.
take of 1900 years that the American press
made in estimating the age of their Obe-
lisk. He produced authorities who dis
tinctly remember that the Obelisk was
constructed in the reign of Thothmes H.,
about l 500 years before the Christian era,
and not % years before, as the American
public was led to believe. Something did
hapen to the Obeisk at the latter date,
Temple of ANEW, at Heliopois, to the
temple of C9sariem. ut Alexandria, by
order of the conqueror Augustus Caesar,
and in the eighth year of his reign,
What long and wonderful story this
Obeisk could tell More than fifteen CEN
turies before the Lord Jesus Christ was
born, there reigncd in Egypt one of its
greatest kings, Thothmes, the second of
that title. He was such II brave and sue
cessful warrior that no nation of either
Africa or Asia could stand against him.
He brought even the far off King of Nine
veh into subjection, and compelled him to
pay heavy tribute. He was also a noted
hunter, and Il painting shows him in the
act of slaughtering l20 elephants. So
proud became Thothmes through his un-
broken career of successes, that he had his
name engraven in one of the temples as
"The living good god, lord of the upper
and lower world, the lord of diadems!"
AT his order, hundreds of men were set to
work TO hew two Obelisks out of hard
granite rocks at Syene, in Southern Egypt,
near where the Nile dashes through the
cataracts. He was determined that the
memory of his victories aud Of his great
ness should be preserved for ever on these
pillars of stone. After the patient labor of
many months the huge Monoliths lay
finally separated from the bed rock in the
quarry. They were then transported a
distance of 500 miles to Holiopolis, or On,
the City of tho Sun, near the delta of the
Nile. So the stone was moved across in
clned platforms on raft, which had been
brought to the edge Of the quarry, and then
it was floated down the Nile during an
inundation. On its arrival the granite was
carefully polished. Next the figures and
inscriptions were skillfully inscribed, yet
very slowly, on account of its extreme
hardness. The base of the Obelisk
was then set within II groove in the
pedestal, and the entire monument was
raised to the perpendicular by building up
a ridge of earth beneath it.
The Obelisk which now lies in the hold
of the Dessong awaiting the decision of
tho Central Park Commissioners as to the
exact site on which it shall stand, together
with its mate, stood as guardian deties,
before the grand entrance of the Temple
of the Sun ut On. They were symbols OF
the rays of the rising sun,as the pyramidsto
the westward were Of the slanting or set.
ting rays. In that idolatrous age, they
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

were even worshipped rs divine images,
and oblations were offered TO them. These
monuments M ay have been standing at On,
when Joseph became Vizier over Egypt,
and was welded to n daughter of the
priets of On. 1t is hardly to be doubted
however, that they were in their place
when Moses was being schooled "in all
the learning of the Egyptians" and that
he may have often looked upon their faces.
While the Hebrews were sinking from free
shepherd life into bondage in Egypt, an
other great and vain-glorious monarch
arose. This was Rameses H., pompous,
cruel king, rs his own inscriptions show
lie was so boastful that he often engraved
praises of himself ON the monuments of
earlier kings, and thus it came that his
deeds are mentioned on the Obelsks. 1t
was this Rameses who compelled the child
rem of Israel to build him treasure cities of
brick as the Bible records. The plaques
and the Exodus of Israel took place under
the reign of his weaker son, Manephtha.
After the Romans had conquered Egypt.
centuries later, these two Obelisks were
removed from On to the city of Alexandria,
on the coast. They were then set up be-
fore the new temple erected for the worship
of the Caesar of Rome. the then sovereign
of the world. This was the reign of the
Emperor Augustus, 1900 years ago, and
shortly after the death of Cleopatra, the
last Queen of Egypt. In after years the
Egyptians gave currency to a tradition that
she had conveyed these monolith, to their
new station, and SO it Glanced that they
have been ever since known as Cleopatra's
Needles. In lapse of centuries one of
these Obelisks fell PROSTATE, and that is
the one which now adorns the Thames
Embankment, the other being the one so
successfully brought to this country by
Captain Gorringc. This Needle has stood
erect throughout the entire period Of the
Christian era, though a part of its base has
gradually worn away, and the column has
required to be kept in position by inserting
loose stones. The inscriptions on the east
and south sides have also been somewhat
defaced, either by the action of the sea
breeze, or the steady cutting by winds
laden with sand from the desert. Still it
is in remarkable preservation, and when
set up will prove one of the greatest at
fractions Of this city. The entire cost in
volved in bringing it here will be about
100000, which, it is understood, is to be
borne by William II. Vanderbilt, Esq.
To the editor-in. chief of the World, of this
city. however. belongs the credit of first
having started the project and placed it in
such shape that its accomplishment be-
came an easy matter.-Erchange.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

InosE HYMNS WHO can tell the price.
les, value of beautiful hymns sung by the
Htlr child in the nursery, by the sailor
on the mighty ocean, by the lone negro
woman in her cabin on the Florida shore.
aud by the bedside of the sick and dying.
hey are Gul of words of love, of holy
hlh and holy teaching, and they cannot
but elevate and purify the heart and life,
and from my inmost soul | bless God for
the gift of beautiful hymns.-ChriSt'a"
Weekly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

BEAUTY BEFORE UTILITY Humboldt
tells us that an Orinoco Indian, although
quite regardless of bodily comfort, will
labor for fortnight to purchase pigment
whercwith to make himself admired; and
that the same woman who would not
hesitate TO leave her hut without frag.
ment of clothing on, would not dare to
commit such breach of decorum as to go
out unpainted.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

The source of craving vanity is often
restless modesty. that longs to hear some.
thing better of itself than it thinks of
itself.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11

A young lady, having read about man
who invented Il stove which will consume
its own smoke, hopes he will next devise
a method whereby Tobacco smokers can be
run on the same economical principle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-11
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

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Probateand ndCommissioneTsNoti y Offices, 81 OUeaeh.
For Notices of Liberation, Estray e Formation
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AZ the rate of i've cents per line.
Connecticut western news., 1880-08-25
Something to Reflect Upon.

The liquor traffic imposes a tax of 33 per cent on the people. The saloons outnumber all other kinds of business houses of any one class in the country. We pay about one-eighth as much for education as for rum; twice as much for intemperance as for the support of the Government. We waste over $700, ,000,- GOO year for the debasement of the in- tellect and the destruction of the body, and pay with reluctance less than $100,- 900, GOO for education and culture then we throw over fifteen times as much into the seething caldron of rum as we con- tribute annually to the cause of religion Are not these startling statements? ? Do you comprehend the enormity of this national vice With these facts before us is it strange that our measure of misery is full? This vast waste would provide a school-house, thorough ap- pointed, for every fifty of our youth, and set teachers in the midst of them, of the highest possible culture. Aside from the lamentable havoc and waste caused by the use of rum, we are compelled to support courts and prisons and an army of official benefactors in the name of charity that would be almost wholly un- necessary were the people taught to shun rum as an enemy.
Connecticut western news., 1880-08-25

the nasty smoke in the face of their wife and children. Now on the same princi- pie that you can stand pinch you give yourself better than pinch somebody else gives you, you can put up with your smoke, even if it is vile; but just imag
 inc yourself to be delicate woman with qualmish stomach, no appetite and 8 tendency to nausea, and then have 8 great hulk of selfish flesh for his own qualification fill the room with stench- ing odor and start the day for you with your stomach in revoltl Husbands do this sort of thing habitually, and their wives, rather than complain or give them an excuse to go out, put up with it and suffer from it. Young men sicken their mothers and disgust their sisters in the same way. But women smoke cigarettes, too. I know they do. Some women. They have the privilege of do- ing as they please, but no woman who smokes cigarette of the modern make is sweet enough to compensate me for the agony of nausea she occasions by her smoke
Connecticut western news., 1880-08-25
A Birds Grief.
REMARKABLE CONDUCT OF DOVE WHOSE
 MATE WAS KILLED BY LOCOMOTIVE.

A year or so ago little girl living near the line of the Erie Railway, two miles from Rathboneville, N. Y., was were in the habit of flying about in the vicinity. One day recently they were fly ing across the railway track, when the male bird came into collision with the smoke stack of the Pacific express, which passes the spot about seven o'clock in the morning. The bird was killed by the shock and instantly thrown out of the sight of its mate. The female cir cled about the spot for few minutes, in evident amazement at the sudden dis appearance Of her mate. She then flew to mile post near by, and for long time gave utterance to the mournful notes characteristic of the dove. Sud denly she seemed to realize what had carried the male from her sight, and she rose in the air and flew swiftly in the direction the train had gone. She did not return until about noon. She alighted at her cote, where she remained the rest of the day, uttering her plaintive cries. Next morning, just before seven o'clock, she was seen to fly away, and take position on the mile post near the spot where she last saw her mate the day before. When the express train came along she flew at the locomotive, and lowered about the smoke stack and the cab, as if looking for her mate. She accompanied the locomotive for mile or so, and then returned to her cote. Every day since then she has repeated this strange conduct. She goes to her lookout for the train at precisely the same time each morning, and waits un- til the train comes along, no matter how late it may be. She never goes further than about mile with the train, return. ing then to her cote, and mourning pit eously all day. .....