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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

SALT FROM THE SEA.-Among the
prominent local industries in Almeda
county, California, local paper says, is
that of salt manufacture. For long time
the consumption of salt by the packers and
butchers of San Francisco was entirely
supplied by the Liverpool and other for
eign manufacturers, and it is not until very
recently that local enterprise has inter-
posed in favor of home production. The
works are located on the bay shore, near
Newark, and the salt is made by solar
evaporation. The salt ponds are eighty
acres in extent, which are divided into
water tight compartments, each compart-
ment being provided with gate for the
purpose Of admitting the water supply.
The process of salt making is compara-
lively simple. The pond is connected
with the waters of the bay by ditch.
The water is then passed from the pond
into the upper end Of the watts by windmill
pumps, and from this point the water is
gradually distributed into the various re-
ceptacles, or lower watts, as evaporation
goes on, the water becoming more i'm
pregnated with salt as it passes toward the
lower rows. From these vats it is again
pumped into others, where it remains until
crystallized. and layers of salt half an
inch thick are formed. The residue of the
water is then lot off, and the salt taken up
and put into small cars. which run on a
wooden tramway. and carried into the
receiving house and there manufactured
into the various kinds in use, (which is done
by thoroughly drying it in heated pans
and crushing the salt in mills. Several
thousand tons are made in this locality
annually, which is carried in schooners
direct to San Francisco and sold to job
bers. The works give employment TO a
large number Of persons.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30
A BEAUTIFUL. LEG END.
BY MARY Z. MASNIx.

Softly fell the the touch of twilight on Judeas silent
hills;
Slowly crept the peace of moonlight DER Judea's
trembling rills.
In the temples court conversng, seven elders sat
Seven Grand and hoary sages wise of head aud pure
of heart.
" What is rest?" said Rabbi Judah, he of stern and
steadfast gaze.
" Answer ye whose tolls have burdened through the
march of many days"
To have gained" said Rabbi Ezra, decent wealth
and goodly store,
without sin by honest labor nothing less and moth
lug more"
To have found" said Rabbi Joseph moekness in his
gentleeyes,
"A foretaste of Heavens sweetness in homes blessed
paradise"
To have wealth. and power, and glory crowned and
frightened by the pride
Of uprising children's children" Rabbi Benjamin
replied.
ITO have won the pride of nations, to have won the
crown of fame"
Rabbi Solomon responded. loyal to his kingly name.
ITO sit throned the lord of millions, first and nobles
in the land"
Answered naughty Rabbi Asher youngest of the rev.
erend band.
All in vain" said Rabbi Jarus. if not faith and
hope have traced
In the Eoul Mosaic precepts, by SINS contact unef-
faced"
Then uprose wise Rabbi Judah, talest gravest of
them all;
From the heights of fame and hongr even valiant
souls may fall;
Love may fail us, Virtues saplins grow dry and
thorny rod,
If we bear not in our bosoms the unselhsh love of
God"
IN the outer court sat playing a sad featured fair
haired child
His young eyes seemed wells of sorrow-they were
godlike when he smiled
one by one he dropped the lilies, softly plucked with
childish hand;
One by one ho viewed tee sages of that grave and
hoary band
Step by step he ntared them closer. till. encrcled
by the seven
Thus he said, in tones untrembling, witha smile that
seemed of Heaven:
=" Nay, nay, fathers Only he within the measure of
whose breast
Dwes the human love with God-love. can have found
lfes truest rest;
Eor where is not the other must grow sagnan at
its spring,
Changing good deeds into phnatoms- an unmeanng
soulless thing,
"whoso holds this precept truly Jewel bright
er far
Than the Joys of home and children than ealth,
fame, and glory are.
Farer than old age thrice honored, far above trad
TONS law,
Pure as any radiant vision ancient prophet saw.
"ony he, wthin:the measure-faith apportioned OF
whose breast
Throbs this brother love with God-lOyo knows the
depth of perfect rest"
Wondering, gazed they at each other Praised be
Israel evermore;
lie has spoken words of wisdom spake
before!"
Calmly passing from their presence to the fountains
ripping song,
Stopped he to upift the lilies strewn the scattered
sprays among
Family stole the sounds of evening through the
sive outer door;
Whitley lay the peace of moonlight on the Temples
marble floor.
Whore the elders fingered silent since he spake. the
Undefied-
Where the Wisdom of the az sat amid the flowers Of
child!
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

purses. When they die,som of them. the
papers will report. ''died of drOpsy." or :,
died of consumption" when, if the real
truth were told, it would be, died OF strong
drink.
Again. rs Mrs. Whitney says, l have
found real people in Boston. men and
women who love and prize the old-faShion-
ed virtues. and know how to treat even the
unpretending census taker.
One woman found, woman in a pro-
fssion. who seemed so happy that l longed
to know her secret, so | artfully asked her
a few questions, not set down in my rules,
and found that she was helping MANY
persons over hard places in life. She had
orphan children in her family whom she
was educating, was tenderly caring for an
aged mother, and was doing many other
things that will not repeat, for fear this
sketch may fall under her notice.
On the whole, my work has been very
pleasant. and the supervisor of the district,
Carroll d. Wright, has done everything in
his power to assist us in our task. | would
not miss the experience of these ten days
out of my life. Other women are doing
well. ana are particularly fitted, if ready
writers. for this work. Twenty-Five or
thirty of them in Massachusetts are in the
field. among them Mrs. Robinson. wife OF
the late Warrington, ,"-Rdtie Clinton, IN
Boston TraUeIter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

IMPROVE Your LEIsURE.-General Gar
college, of which he was for several years
the president, gave utterance to thought
which young people cannot too fully ap-
preciate He said:
While | have been sitting here this
afternoon, watching your faces and listen.
ing to the very interesting address which
has Just been delivered, it has occurred to
me that the best thing you have, that all
men envy-I mean all men who have
reached the meridian of life-is perhaps
the thing you care for least. and that is
your leisure, the leisuse you have to think !;
the leisure you have to throw the plummet
around the depths and find what is below !;
the leisure you have to work about the
towers of yourselves and find how strong
they are or how weak they are, and to
determine what needs building up, and
how to shape it that you may be made the
final being that you are to be. Oh, these
hours of building! If the superior beings
of the universe would look down upon the
world to find the most interesting object,
it would be the unfinished. uniformed char
acter of young men and of young women.
Those behind me have probably in the
main settled such questions. Those who
have passed into middle manhood and
middle womanhood are about what they
shall always be, and there is little left Of
interest or curiosity as to our development /;
but to your young, uniformed natures, no
man knows the possibilities that lie treas
ured up in your hearts and intellects, and
while you are working up those possibili-
ties with that splendid leisure, you are the
most envied of all classes of men and
women in the world. congratulate you
on your leisure. commend you to keep
it rs your gold, as your wealth. as your
means, out of which you can demand all
the possible treasures that God laid down
when he formed your nature and unveiled
and developed the possibility of your
future.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

A horse dashes past series of cameras
at full speed, and in the brief interval of
single bound Mr.. E. j. Muybridge secures
dozen or more photographs of the animal
in successive stages of the leap. each pic
ture recording different position of the
body. To represent the living animal
upon a screen by means of these views,
Mr.. Muybridge has now perfected an in
strument which he calls the zoogyroscope
1t is circular glass having upon it a
series of the instantaneous photographs,
which, being successfully Illuminated by
an oxyhydrogen lantern as the glass is
revolved, show a single continuous but
ever-changing picture. The effect is mag
ical. The separate postures rapidly fol-
lowing each other produce upon the screen
the perfect semblance of fast-s speeding
horse, every motion. even to the shake Of
his head or whisk of the tail, being faithful
to life. Moving men and animals besides
the horse have been shown in like manner.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

Down IN A SILVER MINE-We had
long ride up the steep Nevada mountains,
covered with nothing but sand, before we
came to the rich silver mine which Char
lie was so anxious to visit. 1t hail no ap-
pearance of being mine on the outside.
There was only n long, low building which
might have been Il barn, but within there
was huge engine. and its long arms
worked up and down, up and down, slow
ly and constantly bringing little boxes or
cars of ore and sending down empty cars
to be filled, or men to work. all through q
hole in the floor only a few feet square.
The mine was over n thousand feet deep,
but we decided to so only to the fifth level,
each hundred feet being called "level."
Perhaps Charlie would say that he was
not frightened in going down, but when
the gong sounded and we began to drop
down, down into the darkness, with SEN
sation like falling from some dizzy height
in dream, he certainly grasped my arm
very tightly; and l know he was glad
when we stopped and our guides gave us
little candles to light our way through the
dark streets, or drifts" as the miners
call them. And very dark it was. in these
regions guarded by walls whose thickness
we could only guess, five hundred feet
below the blessed sunlight. 1t seemed like
deepest midnight, and our candles only
lighted few steps before us.
Iron tracks were laid on all the princi-
pal streets, and grimy faced men were
pushing cars of ore along to the cage on
which we had made our descent. A great
many miners were slowly picking at the
precious walls, which glistened with rare
beauty by our feeble lights. If you wish
to know how it looked, much of the ore
was n deep rich blue, with bright scales
of points. and some was only dull earth
that rescmbled pure silver AS much as the
sand in the street does.
Charlie was surprised at the size of the
mine, for it was laid out in series of
streets. crossing each other, MS in II city;
and although we walked long time, we
did not see half of this one level, sup
pose.
We constantly heard many blasts going
OF in the levels below us, and some, |
suspect, not far away. though the superin-
tendent would not let US think so. In one
part the miners, in their excavations, had
discovered beautiful natural cave. whose
walls were lined with frail white SUBJ
stance which was very beautiful in colored
light.
1t was hard to realize that from these
heavy masses of rock millions of dollars
worth of silver have been taken, but so it
is. and The stockholders, mostly English
men, have become immensely wealthy.
Many of the miners came from Wales, and
we tried to express our sympathy with
their hard lot to one, but his honest smile
and cheerful reply convinced US that he,
at least, was quite content.
The ascent from these gloomy regions
was fully as lrigAtful as the descent had
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

Ralph Waldo Emerson keeps two cows
and milks them himself. Some of his
brightest thoughts have come to him while
being kicked half way across the stable.
Millet and Hungarian may be sown from
the middle of May to the middle of July
according to locality. The German or
golden millet is generally preferred. If
intended for hay it should be cut before
the seed ripens, If it stands too long the
stem becomes woody, and the plant loses
much of its nutritive properties.
The first of May is too early to sow
Hungarian; it should not be sown before
the 20th of the month, and in backward
spring even this is too early. Better sow
it about the first of June. 1t is not desira-
BILE to sow any kind of grass seed with it.
1t would be better to harvest the Hunga-
rian, which could be done by the first of
August, then plow again, adding little
more manure or some fertilizer, and seed
down; you will thus obtain an excellent
crop Of Hungarian, next year a good one
of hay. The Hungarian would be very
likely 20 shadow out the grass.
A young man, eighteen years of age
who has been his fathers main help in
cultivating an eighty acre farm, said:
"Our principal business this summer has
been the saving of manure, one item of
which has been to supply bedding for
eight calves that were kept under shed
during the entire summer. Early in the
season sawdust was used daily, in suffi
ts,N-t u, H.. Al. 4
keep the calves dry, and later, dry earth,
leaves or anything which could be obtained
most readily. In the fall thirty one horse
cart loads of manure were drawn from
this shed. Since manure is the one article
most needed on farm, the farmer never
should cease laying plans for making it,
and if successful, he may look for large
returns in produce.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

DECLIvITY OF RIvERs.-A very slight
decIivty suilices to give the running mo-
ton to water. Three inches per mile in
Il smooth, straight channel gives velocity
of about three miles an hour. The Ganges,
which gathers the waters of the Himalaya
mountains, and the loflicst in the world,
is, at 1900 miles from its month, only
about 800 feet above the level of the sea,
and TO fall these 800 feet in the long course
the water requires moro than a month
Tho great river Magdalena, in South
America, running for 1000 miles between
two ridges of the Andes falls only 800 feet
in all that distance; above the commence
ment of tho 1000 miles it is seen descend
ing in rapids and cataracts from the
mountains. The gigantic Rio de la Plata
has so gentle descent to the ocean that,
in Paraguay, 800 miles from its mouth,
large ships are seen which have sailed
against the current all the way by the force
OF the wind alone-that is to say, which,
on the beautiful inclined plane of the
stream. have been gradually lifted by the
soft wind and even against the current OF
an elevation greater than that of our loft
lest spires.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

No CLIMATE AT ALL.-South America,
it might almost he said, has no climate at
all. Here, in this southern continent, the
same wind from the south pole blows
throughout the year, fresh and keen all
along the coast; so fresh and keen that on
the sea or close to it the vertical sun of the
tropics loses all its power even ut noon,
and the long equatorial night has chill
which renders it unsafe as well rs uncom-
Portable TO sleep in the open air, and un-
wise and almost impossible TO dispense
with heavy blankets. On the western
coast of South America the vapors that
would be waited up to it from the Pacific,
are met by the perennial breezes which, as
l said, come up from the pole, and they
are drveA upward till they reach the sum-
nit of the mountain wall of the Andes,
where, condensed by the cold of that
lofty region, they fall in copious rain,
drenching and fertilizing the entire water
shed, passing over the western slope and
leaving it untouched, arid, barren and
desolate. For the six winter months in
the year, what in the West Indies is the
rainy season, is here the season of clouds
and fogs We have the constant threat of
rain, with hardly ever drop of it, that
breaks out in pale glmpses toward noon
is seen but not felt. This is especially the
case with Peru. the coast of which, pro-
lecting westward in all its length from
africa 70 Payta. is more Immediately ex-
posed to the polar wind and more unmer-
cifully searched and blighled by its blast.
That its climate, as tropical one, may be
all the better for it, is very possible: and,
indeed, there is no fault TO be found with
it on the score of human health; but it Is
dull and gloomy and doomed to perpetual
drought. There is no moisture or dew in
the land. and, consequently, no vegetation,
or only that which is fostered by the scanty
rills creeping through the sand and stone
of their narrow glens, and only breaking
down, torrent fashion, when the thaw oi
the perpetual SHOWS OF the CordIllera sets
in in good earnest in the summer months.
-SouIb America Cor. London Times
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

Chemical science has recently succeed
ed in extracting the coloring matter from
human hair. These coloring pigments
are found-yellow, red and black-the
various shades being produced bv mixture.
1t appears that in pure golden hair there
is only the yellow pigment; in red hair
the red mixed with more or less yellow;
while IN dark hair the black is always
mixed with yellow and red-even the
blacklist hair containing as much red
pigment as the very reddest-the lighter
colorS being overpowered by the black.
FROM SMALL BEGGNNINGs.-It is not
necessary that a boy who learns a trade
should follow it all his life. Gov. Palmer
Of Illinois was Il country blacksmith once.
ItNmas llayne. rich and eminent law
yer. also of Illinois, was once book
binder. Erastus Corning, of New York,
too lame to do hard work. commenced as
ship-boy in Albany. When he applied
for employment he was asked: "Why, my
little boy, what can you do?' "Can do
what am bid was the answer, which
secured him the place. Senator Wilson,
Of Massachusetts, was Il shoemaker. Thur
low Weed was Il canal boat driver. Ex-
Gov. Stone, of 10 ta. was Il clbinet-maker,
which Stephen \. Douglas also worked at
in his youth. Large numbers of men of
prominence now living have risen from
humble life, by dint Of industry, without
which talents are as gold coin on barren
island Work alone makes men bright,
and it does not aone depend on the kind
of work you have to do whether you rise
or not; it depends on how you do it.
DR.. GUTHRIE on PoRRIDGE AND PRAY
ERs.-Mr. Trestrail's last meeting with
Guthrie was in Amsterdam in 1867, at the
evangelical alliance congress in that city.
The doctor gave an account of his ragged
schools to "A vast audience chiefly c0mpos-
ed of foreigners. Many were able to fol-
low him though he SPOKE in English. and
their a,touishnen was indeed great Even
the undcmonstrative Dutch were reused
by his stirring appeals, and their enthusi-
asm rose to u high pitch when he closed
By saying, Nov, it you mean to take this
work in hanl, and try and rescue these
forsaken ones, mind that ye provide plenty
of soap ard wa.er. Begin by washing and
scrubbing them well, that they may know,
it may be for the first time in their lives,
the feeling Of being clean. Then feed
them with bountiful meal of milk and
porrdge; and hcn prayers! Porridge
first, mind; prayers afterward." The
people fairly shouted as they listened to
this quaint but sensible advice from the
eloquent Scotchman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

been. and the darkness, in either case.
was Of the sort to be fell, it was so deep
How delighted we all were to breathe
the bracing air of the fresh autumn dav
once more. and how enchanting the sun
shine seemed to US. And think, although
we are very glad to have seen how the
inside of the earth looks. we shall never
care to undertake such an expedition
again.-ESther H. North, in Christian
Weekly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

When it is necessary to chop suet for
any culinary purpose, if -four is sprinkled
over while chopping. it will prevent the
pieces from adheriDg
Fish, when fresh, have firm flesh,
bright, clear eyes, rigid fins, and ruddy
giils. Lobsters and crabs must be bright
in color and lively in movement.
'Yes, he may be good scholar, and all
that, but he cant pass beer saloon,
was what one literary gentleman remark.
ed of another on the street yesterday.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

CALIFORNIA HOMES" The saddest
phase of this coast" says the Virginia
(Neyada) Enterprise, land probably of
all gold and silver mining regions. is the
absence of homes. We mean real homes,
whose founder laid the irst hearthstone
and made the st clearing with the
thought that on that spot he was to do his
life's work, and there mt last, amid famil-
lar scenes, sink into that sleep that is final.
The absence of this disposition has made
nomads of the men of this coast, They
came here originally with the thought
that in II little while they would return
and make the home of their future in the
lands of their birth. Could the air castles
which have been erected in thought by
men on this coast, while lying in hunks in
rude cabins, or in blankets around camp
fires, be woven into II picture, what city
it would make. But the years have
stolen by; except in isolated eases, the
bewitching dreams have never been re-
allied, and while the hoped for homes
were never buildcd back in the land of
childhood, neither, alas, have they teen
builded here. We do not mean TO say that
there are not plenty of families living in
what they call homes. But those who
have homes which were created with the
expectation that they would be permanent,
that in and about them would be boarded
the gathered treasures of lifetime, are
very few This might, perhaps, be ex-
pected here in the desert. but the same is
true of California. especially in the coun-
try. As rule, the farm houses of Cali
fornia and their surroundings are II per-
petual sign of For Sale On many of
those farms men and families lave lived
for quarter of century, and still il has
never been home in any rightful sense OF
the word. There has never been a time
that the husband and father has not in
tended to sell out in the course of u few
| months, and never time that the family
has not hoped he would
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

mo, William" she mournfully uttered,
still allowing him to retain her hand. "No,
William, can t marry you. don't be-
lieve you can provide wife with butter
upon your present salary, and 1 can't eat
oleomargarine."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

The mule has got his match. 1t was IN
Delaware. He kicked over beehive.
lie died IL next day. The little bee is
never too busy to decline an invitation 10
fight.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-30

Unhappy is the man for whom his own
mother has not made all mothers vener-
able. Richter.
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