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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

NIGHT LIFE OF Young MEN. - One
night often destroys whole life. The
leakage of the night keeps the day forever
empty. Night is sins harvesting time.
More sin and crime are committed in one
This is more emphatically true of the city
than of the country. The street lamps,
like file of soldiers, with torch in hand
stretch away in long limos on either side,
walk the gay-colored transparencies are
ablaze with attractions; the saloons and
billiard halls are brilliantly Illuminated F.;
music sends forth its enchantment; the gay
company begin to gather to the haunts and
houses Of pleasure; the gambling dens are
ahame with palatial splendor; the theatres
are wide open; the mill, Of destruction are
grinding health, honor, happiness, hope
out of thousand, of lives The city under
the gaslight is not the same rs under Gods
sunlight, The allurement and perils and
pitfalls of night are hundredfold deeper
and darker and more destructive. Night
life in our cities is dark problem, whose
dark depths and abysses and whrlpools
make us start back with horror All night
long tears are falling, blood is streaming
Young men, tell me how and where you
spend your evenings, and will write out
the chart of your character and life des
tiny. with blanks to insert your names. Ii
seems to me an appropriate text would be,
"Watchman, what of the night?" Police
man pacing the beat, what of the nightP
What are the young men of the city doing
at nightP Where do they spend their
evenings? Who are their associates
What are their habits? Where do they
90 in? What time do you see them come
out? Policeman, would the night life of
young men commend them to their en-
plOyers? Would it be to their credit.
Make record of the nights of the
week. Put in the morning paper the
names of all the young men, their habits
and haunts. that are on the streets for
sinful pleasure. Would there be shame
and confusion? Some would not dare to
go to their places Of business; some
would leave the city; some would COM
nit suicide. Remember young, men tina
in the retina of the all seeing Eye there is
nothing hid but shall be revealed. .-Baptist
Weekly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

WHAT is WINE MADE oFP-As wine
merchants are petitioning the French gov.
ernment to put stop to artificial wines,
the petitioners asserting that not e.third
OF the wine used in Paris is made of
grapes, the many Americans who turn up
their noses at the juice ofour grapes will
naturally wonder what the spurious French
wines are made of. An exchange says
tn There a number of large factories near
Paris in which wines are made of rotton
apples, damaged dried fruits of all kinds.
beets and spoiled molasses. But there is
not enough of these materials to make as
much wine as is required by foreign trade
Turnip juice has been worked into wine.
and American cider lie the basis of millions
of bottles of champagne. but good apples
and turnips are too costly to be wasted on
cheap wines such as most America ns buy.
Some Of the temperance societies might
find the returns they are after by satisfy,
Ing public curiosity about what wines are
made Of
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

"A HISTORIC hoOM'-hecently | visited
tte mousse Wnere fresideht Lincoln died'
opposite fords 'heatre' writes "Gath to
,ne In Clnclnnatl E"4t''er from washington
Inc owner OF the mouse, Mr. Schade, THINKS
the government ought to buy It, IL was
DULL ABOUT lo49' ana IS tnree story orlck'
win lght basement. Inc basement Is
now used 70 print weekly newspaper
ana Tor the editor once. Inc room IN
whlcn MT. Lihcold aieo Is tue playroom
lor MI ochaae chlidren' IL Is unaltered'
except tnat' instead OF the one gas tuoe at
the sue between tne WINDOWS "hlcn ilt mp
the countenance OF the dying man, there is
now smaller chandelier' and the room
mas peen extended lew ieet' so as TO IN
ciude iormer servants room OF crin at
Ihe iar eho' Inc ceillng o, the room was
Papereu, ana tue lour sides' too' IN the
cleap' hSureu paper theh IN vogue there
was common worn carpet on 'he moor
- l. ne sVaio''se ln'hes an opiohS ihoen'aUloh
IKE cn'mhey' anu 'hto IL runs stoVe-
PiPe' NeAV 10 ,lle house' piazza eXIcI,o-
eu ca. i'oh i.s p"tIor' oVerhau9s tue orlcHy
WINDOWS one rearhihs up MS nanu cnn
l. -. - - - : ~ IT. III
mouse was one oi tlie oru'n"ry ~ washington
rooms 10 renI houses Inc Pheasant
parlols "eIe lnllolIeo oy Jonh Y breck'
inrluSe' III eVery hiaCerial respect tne
mousse Is Cne same as "hen' nearly sixteen
years ago 'ne great Ptesioeno aepar1ea'
q. can pe pougn. ior "pouV ezo'ooo. Inc
~ hools are sun s'ouV anu n"'u' anu 'le
,ieuSe wouIu iasI century OF more IL
mas elgnl ceuroohs' MI vernon ls 'ne
property oi "n associa'ion;
IL ,s suggesteu .l"' 1'ncoih mousse
sliou'u oe 'urneu ih'o museum, coh-
lheinoral'Ve 9l lhG events ol MS llie, IKE
NE W;ah touso oi ~ oo,In MuoH III Eu'nouts; w vi
n., nio.i'oi Aleclo, III rloteice' "'lhes
nooIn al one 'illie was u',lly ,!e9uenter
vi .ne Loo'ii wnere i1inoo'n uieu, tneh
lehteu Dy Jonn malthews' tle "ccor' 10
whom DOOM conhueo us cohleSslon' IN
Wrltlng' the "ay OF the ASSASSINATION.
roor Matthew'S VINO knew nothing about
hie ila''er' was norrineu 10 near OF the
muruer' anu iihu hlmseil IN the custody Oh
a uea1ly secret lie says tIia' one day'
WINE noo'h was lying on MS oed IN tne
same room "here Lincoln died' an ola
so'uler lranp came IN ana begged lnem 70
give hiih par vi SHOES anu something 10
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

A LITERARY SUCCEssION.-Longfellow,
Emerson, Whittier Holmes, Lowell-what
are we To do for authors when these are
gone? Who is in the succession? On
whom will their mantles fall? These
questions are often asked In a despondent
tone, as if American literature were TO
die with these representative names of
its present period. For one answer to
them, it is enough to ask whether Ameri-
cen literature died with Irving, and
Cooper, and Poe? And if this is not
enough, other answers are by no means
wanting.
One such other is that in literature
achievement is seldom repeated, and,
therefore, fame is seldom duplicated.
There has been but one Homer, one Dante,
one Chaucer, one Spencer, one Shake
speare, one Milton. Each individual
genius makes his own mark in his own
place, and passes away. No one copies
it. He who attempts to copy it proves
himself thereby not a genius. 1t is not to
be expected it is not to be desired, that
we should have new Longfellows, Emer-
sons. Whitters, Lowels, Holmses. We
do not want their sacred touch to become
a common performance. Their followers
must strike new paths for themselves.
There is another thought Great flames
may be rising around us which we are too
near to measure. The older generation
of American authors, of which Bryant
was one, have been before us so long as
to become invested with some of the
Shadowy grandeur of the historical per-
sonage. The present public has grown
up. as it were. into their presence. 1t
found them in possession of the field.
They were already of the past, and the
past is venerable. They were before the
war. and the war has showed the year
that preceded it back into an honorable
antiquity. Ours is new era. 1t can not
yet be that the men who belong to the
new era-Howelses, the Aldriches, the
St"dmans, the Jameses, the Scudders,
the Fawcetts- should seem to be of the
same stature with the men of the old.
They are to near us. We touch them
daily. They are bone of our bone and
flesh of our flesh But for the generation
which shall come after, they may be
| looming up into the proportions which
other figures wear to day. They have not
yet assumed the historical perspective
whose lines alone determine fame.
But there is another thought still. We
shall never know rs a wise and thoughtful
scholar said to US the other day, how
much the civil war decimated our literary
ranks. Ours is a thnned out generation.
We are the one armed soldier Our best
members are missing Poets. essayists,
historians, philosophers, in the embryo,
bright promises of future performance,
were cut down in the days of lS61-65.
We shall never know what American
literature lost in the losses of those terri
Bile years. Perhaps there must be an
interregnum Of mediocrity until the youth
Of to-day have attained their capacity of
tomorrow. Literary World.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

ELEPHANTS PLAYING POSTUM" There
are some very cunning fellows among our
twenty elephants" said Mr.. Durand.
agent for the combined Barnum and
London shows, yesterday. The other
day, Chieftain and Maudrie, the top
mounters in the pyramids, and the most
cuHning in the flock, suddenly took shiv-
ering chill at rehearsal. The keeper sent
out and bought four gallons Of whisky,
which the monsters devoured rapidly and
with great relish. The bill came to Mr..
Barnum, whose strong temperance predi-
lectlons you know. After paying the bill
Mr.. Barnum insisted that nobody in his
employ, not even his elephants, should
drink whisky under any circumstances.
In 4 little while the elephants, when the
effects of the liquor had died away com
menced shivering again, and apparently
had another chill They looked longing
ly at the keeper, and attempted to caress
him with their trunks, as much AS to say,
= Give us another drink The keeper
shook his head and told them positively
No. In five minutes every appearance
of ague had vanished, and the animals
were quietly munching hay as usual. They
had been playing possum ~ 2. san.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

A THRILLING SKETCH One warm day
in August, upon the bank of the muddy
Colorado, we children we're lazily sitting
about on the ground. One sister was
stringing beads taken from an old mecca
sin, and most of the men were sleeping
under the wagons through the heat of the
after noon, There was "a great stiffness
upon everything, save Tor the children 3
chatter, and II heat rose from the ground
that smote the eyes. Suddenly there was
II drei lfl scrs ,ru. ech Jed, re-. echoed,
multiplied; then another, as when one
strikes the hand upon the month, ill in
one second of time the air seemed rent
and torn with yells. In just that second
the close chaparrol had become black
with lndians, who had crawled. serpent
like. on hands and knees. till, right upon
us, in concert they could leap into sight.
They wore clothes upon their lons, and
had some feathers wound in their hair,
with hideous paint glowing on face and
breast. gazed in dumb amazement, be-
numbed with rpriSe, and | think awOke
to the excitement of the occasion The
women and children, through an air thick
with flying arrows, were marshaled intt
one covered wagon, and there my mother
wrapped us all round with feather beds
blankets and comforters. do not think |
was frightened, not because of any pre-
cocity OF courage. but because of wild
excitement that filed me. | half leaned
upon the knee of my sister. She said she
was conscious of no pain, she felt no sud-
den pang. but something warm seemed
running down her side, and, looking
down, she saw an arrow which had pierre
ed her flesh and protruded it, flinty head
from the wound. "Molher," she exclaim-
ed, II am shot," and tainted. My mother,
the woman whose spirit never failed her
in this or the dreadful trials which
succeeded this disastrous fight, put forth
her hand and drew the arrow backward
through the wound, 1t was while thus
supporting the head of the girl she sup.
posed dying, it somehow became known
to her that her bush; nd was lying quite
dead and filled with arrows under the
great cotton wood tree round which the
camp was made. 1t was but few
moments more till one of the men spoke
from the front of The wagon. Said he
"Our ammunition is giving out, and we
do not know but il may come to hand to-
hand fight Get out the knives you have
in the bed of the wagon Through the
backward march which followed, it was
ever the women who rose superior to
suffering and danger. The men lost cour-
age, hope and spirit, but the women never
A few moments after the demand for the
knives Methodist preacher, who had
seized my father riflA. aimed at the chief
with the dinner-bel depending from his
belt, and SAW him fall. In i've minutes
not IN Indian was to be seen, the living
dragging with them the dead as they
went. In the meantime. under cover o
night, our great herd Of cattle had been
made to swim the river, and were safely
corraled in the Mojave villages.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23
A Winter Convenience.

Occasionally there is seen, in the col
umns OF our periodicals, suggestions TO in
venlOrs of further needs in their line, and
most of these suggestions relate to house.
hold or personal conveniences The very
pen with which this paragraph is now be-
ing written is probably the result of effort
directed to the solution of the problem pro-
posed years ago as one among Il short sug-
gestive list. 1t is certain that some of the
most profitable Of patents and the best
paying investments are those relating to
simple articles that recommend themselves
to the sense of genenal convenience or the
desire of personal comfort.
Among the multitude of little conven-
fences which have proved valuable to
their introducers it seems strange that no
proper device has been presented to pre-
vent falling on slippery walks made un.
safe by newly fallen snow, frosty damp
ness and ice. In our northern climate
pedestrianism out of doors is really dan
gerous for much of the time during six
mouths in the year; and where the youth
and agility of the walker reduces the real
danger to the minimum, there is n constant
strain on certain muscles that renders
walking very wearisome.
There have been devices similar to the
old fashioned "creepers worn formerly
by ice gatherers, but these metallic appen
dages are noisy, cum bersome and awkward
in use, and in most cases they are attached
only to the heel leaving the ball of the
foot entirely unprovided. Besides, these
creepers, with their sharp points, damage
carpets and deface smooth floors.
Let US return to first principles. When
we were children our mothers used to
draw over our shoes pair of old woolen
socks that rendered us great deal more
Independent than hog on ice," and
operated equally we'll on wet or frosty ice.
When the gums or "rubbers " arc
new their corrugated soles answer u
similar purpose, but India rubber slips on
wet ice and these overshoes and boots
are not always convenient nor desirable.
1t would seem that felt sandal might
obivate the difficulty. The sole need not
be formed to correspr md with the de-
preston between the ball OF the foot and
the heel it could be simple Il tt sole COW
erinS he outer sole of the boot or shoe
havink toe piece of leather tni an elastic
at the heel passing around the ankle. This
felt sole could have lining of oiled cloth,
thin rubber cloth, or similar substance, SO
that the moisture passing through the felt
need not touch the leather sole. The ad-
aptation of the felt to this purpose, and
the style Of the article would probably be
sufficient claim for letters patent, and the
ready sale at a fair price, say 80 cents per
pair, ought to leave very handsome
profit to manufacturer and dealer, The
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23
TERRIBLE RESULT OF A Boys CRuEL1

TERRIBLE RESULT OF BoY's CRUELTY.
"A. j. Payne, living near Bloomington,
Ind. has bright and pretty little daughter
school in the neighborhood of her father s
farm. On a pleasant morning about four
wears ago, while on her way to school, the
girl WAS met by "A vicious neighbor boy,
three or four years older than herself, and
who had dead black snake. which he
carried on stick. He thrust the snake
into the girl $ face, and she was 50
terrified that she could not run away.
Then he wrapped the snake around her
neck and shoulders and ran off and hasten.
ed on to school. The child was greatly
agitated during the entire forenoon, and
when she returned home her parents,
greatly alarmed, urged her to tell them
what had occurred, for her conduct was
wild and strange. She gave them the
story in disjointed manner shrieking out
frequently, fake the snake away" By
night her reason was a wreck, and has so
remained ever since. Four years she has
recognized no one, but has daily sat with
her little slate on her lap, marking ont the
same figures she had been given as u
lesson at school on the fatal day on which
the vicious boy placed the dead snake
about her. and this monotony was only
broken at times when she would cry out,
" Take the snake away" Hoping that
medical science might possibly do some
thing for the relief of his daughter, Mr..
Payne took her to the stale insane asylum
at indianapolis few weeks ago. The
physicians of the institution last week
wrote him there was only faint hope for
his beautiful child, and she will probably
end her days an occupant Of the asylum
for the incurable insane. Cincinnati
Commercldi.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

AN AFGHAN IN FIGHT.-An Afghan
never thinks of asking for quarter. but
fights with the ferocity oil tiger, and
clngs to life until his eyes glaze and his
hands refuse to pull pistol trigger or
kill his enemy. The stern realities of
war were more pronounced on the battle
fields in AfghaniStan than perhaps they
have ever been in India if we except the
retrlbutive d tys Of the mutny. To spare
- wounded man for II minute was pro
baby to cause the death of the next
soldier who unsu1piciously walked past
him. One thing our men certainly learned
in Afghanistan, and that WAS to keep
their wits about them when pursuing an
enemy, or passing over hard won field.
There might be danger lurking in each
seemingly inanimate form studding the
ground, and unless care and caution were
exercised The wounded Afghan would
steep his soul in bliss by killing "A K,ffir
Just when life was ut its last ebb. FMS
stubborn love of fighting in e1tYemis is
promoted doubtless by fanaticism, and we
saw so much of it that our men at close
quarters drove their bayonets well home,
80 that there shonld be no mistake as to
the detdiness of the wound, The physi
cal courage which distinguishes the un
trained mobs who fought so resolutely
against us was worthy of all admiration;
the tenacily with which men. badly armed
and lacking in skilled leaders, cung to
their position was remarkable, to say
nothing of the suIlen doggedness they
often showed when retiring. But when
the tide of the fight set in fully against
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

Studying is using books for a purpose,
asking them questions on topics about
which we are concerned, in order to form
our own judgment correctly. Reading
books is often simply surrendering our
selves to the author, as we would listen to
a good talker. 1t may be helpful or
hurtful, may interest without stimulating.
or may captivate at the expense of our
own intellectual processes The Bible is
one of the few books which can be both
studied and read. 1t answers the most
important questions while, on the other
hand, we may surrender ourselves to it's
thought, sure to be helped. stimulated, and
edited in mind and heart alike, The
reason is very simple one. The habits
of mind formed in learning one thing
well make it much easier to grasp the
main points in regard to many others.
On the other hand, the discursive method
leads to failure in grasp; the supposed
knowledge is at best like a large bag of
short strings.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

NEW ENGLAND ELF-RELIANCE. If
there is one characteristic more univer-
sally apparent than an other among the
New England people it is self.dependence
in everything. 1t is, 10 s0utherner,
more observable in the women because
less expected there, but the woman who
does not display this characteristic is the
exception in her neighborhood. 1t may
be said with entire accuracy that if any
person in that country wishes anything
done that person does it unless it requires
more then one, and the rule holds good
with all ages, classes and sexes.
Whenever "help" is employed It is
needed. There are no supernumerarirs,
and there is absolutely no waste. One
family in the south, of Il given condition
as 10 means, will waste more than ten
families of like condition in Vermont.
VI course there are exceptions to these
general statements, but they are not nu-
merous. The absence Of male walters at
the hotels and eating-houses in Vermont is
one Of the things that first strike a stran-
ger. Unless, perhaps, we except an
occasional superintendent of dining
room, it is questionable if there is male
hoSoi ""itcl III tuo ettle, anu, WIlht SJllI
more forciably strikes southerner is the
fact that, in many instances the handsome
young lady who waits on him is graduate
and very possibly the daughter of some
prominent citizen of 1.-The village AS
most of the towns are called, which at
counts for the slender appetite of the
young men from the south upon their
arrival in the Green Mountains, and it's
phenomenal development, rs illustrated
by their prolonged stay at the table ever
afterward. Cleanliness in household
matters is sort of religion with them and
if man should confine himself strictly
to the food served at his own home, he
would have to live very long time before
he could eat the traditional peck of dirt
Vermont letter of er coagyesSmen A. M.
WaddeN of North Carolina.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-23

believe the moon was made of green
cheese. it is the western lang, shark.
The water in Dakota is generally good,
although one needs to assure himself that
the water about is accessible and good
before he locates.
The rush westward the coming spring
will he immense Dakota will doubtless
get its share, The population of the ter
ritory increased in the past ten years from
fourteen to one hundred and thirty five
thousand There was built in the territory
last wear six hundred and eighty miles of
railroad.
As Vermonters we are especially inter-
ested in the Northern Pacific which under
the capital and push of Mr.. Billings of
Woodstock is reaching rapidly to its com
pletion. For the general development of
the territory. however, more is due to the
Chicago and Northwestern, which has
penetrated the central part, opening up to
the settler the fertile acres of the valleys of
the Sioux and Dakota rivers and brings
them near to either of the two best wheat
and stock markets in the world.
Together with four brothers the writer
has located land in the Dakota or James
river valley, and frankly admits that he
is interested in directing any one west
ward bound toward the same locality, for
we would much prefer to be surrounded
by settlers from Vermont than from Nor
way or Russia. If any one contemplating
western trip, who does not already know
too much to learn more, will address the
writer he will gladly furnish them further
information in regard to Dakota and how
to get there.
o. S. BAsFoRD.
Esspx VT