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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

Mr.. Huxley, at the distribution of the
prizes ut the university of London, recent
ly, gave the boys talk on success in life,
which is well worth attention. Three
things, he says, are especially useful-in-
tellectual quickness, industry, and the
power of bearing fatigue. But he is all
the while learning to think less of mere
cleverness, and to rank higher and higher
industry and physical endurance, and en-
durance highest of all. Often a mans
future hangs upon his ability to do an ex-
cessive amount of work, and if he does it
when he is not able, he losses patience
and good humor by the action of weak
stomach or II defective circulation upon his
brain.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

He WOULDN'T SrART.-A sad-eved
Bohemian walked up to II brother tramp
on the court house pavement the other day.
and said:
Lets start sunthn."
"What?'
Lets start newspaper"
The other fellow wisely refused aver
ring that there was no money in it.
Lets start milk wagon
Water is too scarce"
" Let S start beer saloon"
mo"
Let's start Sunday school"
/" It's too hard work"
"Wel, let's start show"
" Too many ahead Of u.s.
Let's start n free lunch counter
TOO much profit in it,"
Let's start n bank
See here, do YOU take me for retired
plumber? What in thunder do YOU want
to start sunthin' for? I've had enough
startin in my time to make yer hair turn
white. When | was young the old man
started me in the grocery biz Things
went on all right till the bills started
comm in, and then she busted. There
amt no use of startih' anythin' in this
world any more since hard times has come
and man has to work for livin'."
"Well, let's start for the next town"
No; | won't start anything"
Just then policeman came along and
started them off for the lookup WI
Transport BreaktdSt Tube.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

FIGHTING PREACHERS. Among the in
Vulnerable anecdotes told of Father Tay-
lor, the sailor preacher, writes the Boston
correspondent of the bingham Journal,
we do not remember seeing one in print
wherein the eccentric minister appeared
as a representative of the church militant.
1t was on the occasion of a camp meeting
some fifty years ago. just after the meet
ing had commenced, rumors of war had
reached the camp. gang of dissoIute
fellows, headed by a notorious bully, had
signtied their intention of breaking up
the camp meeting, but the brethren had
paid but little heed to these threats, and
proceeded with their exercises
One morning just rs the forenoon exer-
cises were to commence, an excited and
almost breathless brother rushed up to the
preachers stand with the news the gang
of roughs were on the march for the camp
ground. Some confusion ensued, when UP
sprung Father Taylor, shouting in stento-
rian tones: "Who will go with me and
fight these PhiistinesP" The first man to
respond was Rev. Lewis Bates. father of
the well known Rev. l.. B. Bates. He
was man of large stature and hercuean
otlSuHtlis bChOi lay loi was tIlEH III his
prime, and very tough, wiry and muscu-
lar. Several stalwart brethren at once
volunteered and in less than five minutes
time they were on their way to meet the
foe. When just on the outskirts of the
grounds they encountered the band of
rufisns, headed by their leader, huge,
wicked looking fellow. Now" says Bro.
Bates, {" will tackle that leader myself,
and the rest of you make the best use you
can of your fists and cudgels." The two
giants approached and clutched. In an
instant the bully was thrown to the ground
with great violence. and the heavy foot OF
Bro. Bates was placed upon his throat.
In the mean time, Father Taylor and his
aids made such vigorous assault upon
the rest of the gang that they fled for dear
life. Bro. Bates now addressed the pros
trate bully, who was writhing and choking
under the heavy pressure beg for
mercy, you scoundrel;" and he did beg,
and solemnly promised never TO disturb
another camp meeting, upon which he
was released. The brethren, having done
their whole duty, returned. like ''Uncle
Josh Whitcomb," to their prayers and
msditations.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

If an editor omits anything he is lazy.
If he speaks of things as they are people
get angry If he CLOSES over or smooth>
down the rough points, he is bribcd. If
he calls things by their proper names he
is unit for the position of an editor If
he does not furnish his readers with Jokes
he is an idiot. If he does he is rattle
head, lacking stability. If he condemns
the wrong he is a good fellow, but lacks
discretion. II he lets wrong and injuries
90 unmentioned he is 1t coward. If he
exposes public man he does it to crafty
spite, is the tool of a clique, or belongs
to the "outs." If he INDUCES in person
alities he is a blackguard. If he does not
his paper is dull and ipd.-BrStoH Post
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

Jim Webster sighed heavily. What's
de matter, Jim ?'' asked uncle Nose, in u
sympathizing tone 81 has made up NV
mind to quit the chicken business. is
tired being arrested and hiring lawyers
and habin folks ask 'Whar's my chick
ems p when | passes down on Galp ston
avenue. am gwne to 90 inter bizness
whar l'll be respected and whar de police
wont neher bodder me no noah l." Wha
bzness am dat, Jim 2' Gambling. -
Galveston NeUS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04
VOL. XXXVIII.

WHICH IS MASTER Said man to me
one day, when we were talking on the
matter of temperance : Liquor don't
trouble me much; | wish | could say the
same about tobacco. Tobacco's the only
boss We got I've tried to quit, but can p"
1t is too evident that very many, besides
this man. are serving in demOralizing
bondage under this unsavory, relentless
boss, )" or sope other fleshIy tyrant.
Such bondage is unbecoming to men.
1t saps true manhood, and letters the high
est faculties of the soul. Centuries ago,
that stern old Roman. Cato, just before his
death insisted that the :" good man alone
is free, and all the rest are slaves"
Body and spirit constitute "A man. The
spirit is the higher element, the body the
lower.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

Sam Johnsing, Galveston colored
darky, applied to the county clerk, for II
marriage license The clerk, in order to
poke fun at Sam, said very seriously: II
hope the fair bride has $40 in cash, for the
Legislature has passed law forbidding us
to issue license until the bride has $40
in cash in her own right" jess 90
ahead wild de papers. den, boss, and, APP
proaching the clerk, he whispered: "Dar
am reliable rumors in de atmosfere about
5000.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

Better be able 20 do one thing well than
half-a-d dozen imperfectly. There is true
economy of time in it.; for the one thing
well learned and thoroughly mastered will
he kept for pleasure, and room will be
made for the next acquisition; while the
time consumed in getting only smatter-
ing of many things is utterly lost when
they are given up in disgust at their prac
tical inefiiciency.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

The Christian philanthropy is self
denying service. The good Samaritan put
the wounded man on his own beast He
therefore had to walk, and run the risk of
assault himself. His benevolence cost
him something. We are always trying to
do good to our fellow men without bear
ing any burden ourselves. But Christ
bore our burdens and carried our sorrows
He took them un Himself. The mother
carries in her own person the sins and
sorrows Of her children. True Christian
philanthrophy takes up its cross to follow
Christ in going about doing good.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

HUSBAND THE MOMENTS. There is an
old adage Take care OF the shillings, and
the pounds will take care of themselves "
So with time. Take care of the moments.
and the hours will be 50 long that one need
scarcely ever complain for want of time
to do this or that. We know woman in
her sixtieth year, who simply by observ-
ing this precept, does all her own work
(washing, ironing, baking), entertains a
great deal of company, does her own
dressmaking-indeed, makes everything
she wears Except her shoes), hats and
sacques not excepted; makes all her hus-
bands shirts, cuffs, collars, wrappers,
drawers; knits his socks; knit or crotcheted
and gave away ten pairs of mittens to the
" fair and little friends this winter
pieces and quilts both silk and calico; Of
ten pieces quilt for the orphan home,
finds time for fancy work not only to
ornament her own home, but for fairs and
friends. Gets time to sew every now and
then nm afternoon for the two homes and
the industrial school, and yet makes it a
point not to get sewing around in the
evening (spends evening hours reading
aloud or knitting). Writes some for thepaper
and some for the waste basket; finds Il
great deal Of time to ride. and play the
piano when she has one. Has the prettest
iower-yard in the neighborhood IN sum.
mer, entirely cared for by herself; and yet
her hair is not gray her eye not dim, nor
her natural force abated."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04
4tlistellang.
The Moon and the Weather.

The common notion that the weather
changes with the moons quarters is still
believed by most people in this country
and abroad, although. rs the meteorolo-
gists long ago pointed out, there is no
ioundatiun tor this fanclful lunar rule. 1t
is curious, however. to find educated per
sons, 10 whom exact weather records are
accessible, putting credence in this maxim
of popular astrology Hence in many
parts great attention is paid to the day OF
the week on which the moon change
occurs. BY general consent Saturday is
an unlucky day, and according to the well
known proverb,
"A Saturdays change and Sundays full moon
once in seven years is once to soon"
Another version of this rhyme tells us,
saturday new and sunday full
Never was gool and never wull"
The same notion prevails in Scotland,
W here IL is said.
Saturdays change and Sundays prime
Is enough in seven years time"
A change on Sunday is not altogether
propitious, as, we are told, it indicates that
there will he IA flood before the month is
OUT. ueW Aobh oh NhohuoJ' ho"c W.
is in most places hailed as an omen OF fair
weather. Similar supersttions are found
on the continent, as, for inst. nee. in some
parts of France. where Friday is consider
ed an untavorable day for a change of the
moon.
When the moon is in such Il part of the
ecliptic as to appear turned much over
upon her back, wet weather may be ex-
pected; and we find various rhymes on
the subject, Thus one in Scotland gives
the following admonition,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

BEER DRINKING Richard Grant White
has an article in the atlantic which
astonishes us by its startling statements
The subject is Beer Drinking in En-.
gland" 1t should be widely circulated as
Il warning for our land, and rebuke for
the class Of temperance men whose
principles permit tie use of beer. Its use
among the laborers reduces their working
time to four days OF the week. 1t is not
only ruinous to men and their families,
but the aggregate industrial loss must be
very great.
A steady, besotted drunkenness seems to
be at the bottom of most Of the distress
and most of the crime of England A
clergyman told me that he felt utterly
powerless before this vice. which was Il
constant quantity in the problem he was
called upon to solve. The women are
almost rs bad as the men. husband and
wife get drunk together; they quarrel, they
fight, and their children grow up with
this before them. They are never really
quite sober unless they are starving or ill.,.
70 many children drunkenness comes un-
consciously, like their mother tongue
They come out of the cloud land of infancy
with the impression that drunkenness is
one of the normal conditions of man, like
hunger or sleep.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

Her name was Eva, AMI when Charles
Augustus called the other evening and
asked her to be his darling wiley, she
gently thrust him fom her and sweetly
said: " Not this Eva Some other Eva
Good Eva. a."-W Wheeling Journat.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

PROFESSIONAL TESTIMONY. Many of tn
their daily practice because it is the besn
cough remedy that can be made.
Biiousnes and Jaundice. which are so
prevalent in the spring months. Only 25
cts bottle
should be in every family Used for Cuts
Burns, Scslds, Bruises, Strains, &C., it has
no equal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

REASONS FOR DRESSING PLAINLY ON THE
LORDS DAY.. I would lessen the
burden of many who find it hard to main.
tain their places in society
2. 1t would lessen the force of temp
taion which often leads women to barter
honor and industry for display.
3. If there were less style in dress Mt
church, people in moderate circumstances
would be more inclined to attend
4. Universal moderation in dress at
church would improve the worship by the
removal of many wandering thoughts.
5. 1t would enable all classes of peo-
pie to attend church in the unfavorable
weather,
6. 1t would lessen on the part of the
rich the temptation to vanity.
Z. 1t would lessen on the part of the
poor the temptation to be envious and
malicious.
8. 1t would save valuable time on the
Lords day.
g.. 1t would relieve our minds of seri.
Gus pressure, and thus enable us to dc
good enterprises. limited Presbyterian.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

For one square Of - lines less Of A<ate type, on
nsrti1u slH' for eacu subsequent insertion . eta
Unless the number Ofnsertous are IlArEed II tho al
ertls4 uleut n Ellt be continued Until ordered out
LIBERAL is, '1ut nlte h merchants anu other adver
sing by the year
Proba'eand commissioners y offices s2Uieach.
tpE Notices Of Liberation Estray- Formation
Ahh Dissolution 1t CO-pa tuarsmps x st-ieurhtOr
three insertions, II sent hy uailtue money must
company he etteT.
Notices in news columns 3Icen-s per line each. iu-
ertion, but no charges made OF less than scents
NOticesot Deaths and Marriages Inserted gratis bnt
extended Obituary Notices OF Poetry VIII be charged
at the rate Of five cents per line
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

You mustn't think a dentist is mad be-
cause you catch him grinding his teeth.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

and, strengthened and inspired for lifc's
duty, equal to its actualities, all things
seem again possible. The mothers work
basket! Out OF it have come thoughts and
words from earth's heroes and saints.
Perhaps she did not guess at the time how
she was weaving these inspirations TO all
nobIeness of purpuse,~.ll true endeaVoH,
into the texture of your life, And their
echoes, floating across the years, hold you
now to he less unworthy the counsel that
thus came from lips that on earth shall be
silent evermore. And It mist of memories
and tears come unbidden when you racall
those pictures of summer afternoons, of
bits of happy talk and ripping laughter,
and gentle words that are associated for
ever with those id, Inc days.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

Bjornstjorne Biornson has been greatly
delayed in bis western travels by snow
storms. The snjow pillows didn't make
the TRACKS wide enough, and his name had
to be taken in SECTIONS. Biornson sails for
Norway next week,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04
An Old-Fashioned Accomplishment.

! The mothers work basket is becom-
ing essentially a thing of the past, Though
to memory dear, it is yet lost to sight
amid modern bric-a brac and pretty pre-
lenses of needle work. But there are
associations that linger-a certain "scent
of the roses that hang around it still,
which invest it with a subtle charm of
poetry. The work basket was an affair of
compartments and hooks and inches 1t
was likely to have been purchased at Il
church fair-a common place willow bas.
ket at first. but lined with cleaning silk
blue. scarlet or gold; furnished with
pockets, & stuffed pin cushion, II needle
book whose leaves were of the daintieSt
flannel embroidered at the edge. There
were two or three loops TO hold the various
sized scissors; wax, thimble, tape line,
darning ball, button cutter and knife each
had its place as well considered as the
crystal and porcelain that furnished the
china closet The pocket of colored silks
in all the cleaning tints of the rainbow.
or of summer sunset, was fascination
of childhood. The hours when this work
basket was in use have sometimes set for
their portraits, not consciously at the time,
but impressed like writing in sympathetic
ink sometimes to flash out into full signi-
icance.
Hawthorne says it is always proof of
repose and highthought when a woman
loves to sew, as she is never more at home
with her own heart than when SO occu-
pied. Hawthorne was essentially poet,
and thus he saw the inner truth and beauty
of outwardy prosaic routine There is
sewing and sewing. That which is hurried
and anxious and dreaded is the sewing of
tangled threads and unrestful thoughts.
It is WEAKNESS to the flesh and greater
WEAKNESS TO the spirit. 1t jars upon every
nerve and is species of slow suicide. 1t
may sometimes be necessity, but it Is one
to be deprecated. On the other hand there
is the sewing which we all remember of
long summer afternoons, when the book
on one side of mothers chair quite bal
anced tho work basket on the other, when
Il poem was stitched into II seam, aud half
q romance, or the last number of the
Atlantic, was inviSbly connected with the
delicate hem or rutlled edges
In some of those enticing pockets of
mothers work basket even clippings from
news papers exquisite waf of the
poets fancy, bit of moral herosm,
thought that made its impress on the day
and made Il date in iife--were 10 be found,
to be read in some quiet hour by the sweet
voice, and which then and there uncon-
sciously entered into life and became
another o. the golden memories OF the
mother-love and gentle guidance. Years
after-long after that voice is hushed on
earth forever some of these come back
to you. Again you hear the words:
We are on dangerous grounds when we
caR calmly survey ourselves in the light Of
shabby achievement" Or again, when
you have drifted out to the realities of ac-
tual life, to that place d" where life and its
ventures are laid" there comes stealing
across your memory in some hour of dis
couragement and sadness the lines sh
read TO you:
! No YIl IA Avyill ,-1u
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

There is popular belief among sea-
faring men that whenever a planet or
large star is seen near the moon, or, to
make use of their own phrase, Il big star
is dodging the moon wild and tempest
uous weather will soon set in. A corre-
spondent tells US that some years ago II
fisherman of Torquay told him. after a
violent gale, that he had foreseen the
storm, as he had observed one star ahead
Of the moon towing her, and another
astern chasing her, -Hnrper's Weekly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

upon her back, wet weather may be ex-
pected; and we find various rhymes on
the subject Thus one in Scotland gives
the following admonition,
THE bonny moon is on her back:
Mend your shoon and sort your thack,"
Implying, as Mr.. Chambers. in his
popular rhymes of Scotland, tells us.
mend YOUR shoes, and see after the thatch
of your cottages. In many places, when
the moon is thus situated, it is said to be
like II boat, and is thought to be a sign OF
fine weather-an idea which is thus men
toned by George Eliot in Adam Bede:
1t 'ud ha' been better if they ha' buried
him i the forenoon when the rain was
falin': there's no likelihood OF q drop
now an the moon lies like boat there,
That's sure sign Of fair weather. Sail
ors, too have similar belief; for to use
their phrase, You might hang your hat
upon it, Southey notices this quaint
piece of weather lore, and assigns this
curious reason for it: Poor Littledale has
this day explained the cause of our late
rains, which have prevailed for the last
five weeks, by a theory which will prob
ably be as new to you as it is to me. /
have Observed he says, that when the
moon is turned upward, we have fine
weather after it, but when it is turned
downward, then we have wet season; !;
and the reason, think is that when it is
turned down it holds no water-like a
basin, you know-and then down it
comes"
A pale moon is another sign of wet
weather, II notion to which Shakespeare
aIlu les in a midsummer nights dream
iii. y, where he makes Titania say,
Therefore the moon, the Eoverness of floods
Pale i'll her anger washes all the air.
That rheumatic diseases do abound"
a piece of weather wisdom prevalent in
France, whore it is said that a pale moon
in the evening or morning brings rain "
When. however. it has Il red appearance
il is believed to he indicative of wind-a
notion to which Virgil alludes in his first
Gecgic (430. y A clear bright moon,
again a good omen of fine dry weather.
Thu, in summertime the farmer is ad-
lut nished,
" If the moon show silver shield
BE not afraid to reap your field;
But if she rises shaped round,
Soon Wen tread on deluged ground"
When halo is seen round the moon it
ucasantry express it, The moon with a
G rcle lings water in her beak. Accord
ing to the Scotch rhyme,
About the moon there is brugh;
The weather will be caud and rough"
The term brugh, says Mr.. Chambers, is
the early Tuetonic word for circle; the
the same phrase as is applied TO circular
forts on hills. If this hazy circle be wide,
and at some distance from the moon, it is
sign that the rain will be delayed for
some time; if, on the other hand, it be
close, and, as it were adhering to the disk
of the moon, rain may be expected very
soon.
Again, foggy weather in the last quarter
of the moon is thought TO betoken mois-
ture, in allusion to which there is rhyme
in Scotland
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-05-04
FOR SALE.
I will sail at a low price a good Piano.
Mar. 7th 2mo. ID. W. AAPHiS.
Good Leather.

An who are in want Of good home-tsnned calf
and kipskins should call on or address II: q OIL
AT the old glove stand in Woodstock, where you
win find the cheapest and best SKINS in the mar
ket. he would ask the especial attention OF shoe
makers and leather dealers to his large stock, as
he will sell by the dozen or hah dozen at Bal u
more prices, few reliable merchants in the
comfy having good leather trade, will be allow
ed liberal ON mission to sell leather aud buy In
hides. NJ.
De takes no short cuts in tanning his leather put
has II taken through the old process, by tina. well
known and exprocess, tanner,
ROBERT r. NEWMAN.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-05-04

up in a single stall. Change the
food occasionally, Give oats in
stead Of corn, and give one or two
good bran mashes during each
week. Keep some salt constantly
placed where the animal can partake
of it at will.
SPAWN CURE.-A wise man.
who wants to see his remedy in
print, generously sends us the fol-
lowing as sure cure for bloody
spavim.' Mix together about two
parts of soft soap, one part OF the
contents ola chamber pot, and a
pintch of Scotch Snuff
PROLAPsE OF THE VAGINAL
B, Gridley, Ill.-rhe cow being in
calf, and due calving in six weeks
the case cannot be one Of inversion
of the womb, as supposed by you.
Your case is one Of partial prolapSe
of the vagina, which often occurs IN
COWS during the latter part Of ges-
tation. The stall in which the COW
is kept, should not lie slanting
very much, in fact, it would be
preferable to keep the COW on a
level hsor, such as in a box stall.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-05-04
OR @ AM .

Genr. Travelling Agent for
Shenandoah Valley.