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

SUGGEsTIoNs.-Don live in the back
end of your house. The boys will prefer
the saloon to the kitchen. Don't be afraid
of the coal bill or the wood pile. 1t is
cheaper to have warm parIor than to pay
liquor bills Put books and papers upon
your tables instead of wine and cider
Clear brains will honor the family record
more than drunkards. Marry into the
Cheerybess family and keep clear of the
Grumbers. Pull the latch string in for
gossip, and hang it out for the poor, that
yours may be Il house of mercy. In II
diving world don't spend too much time on
ruffies and killing flies. Your children S
bodies are o: more value than fine clothes,
lace curtains or Brussels carpets, and
their minds and souls are of eternal worth.
Don't starve to-day to riot tomorrow
don't hoard and scrimp for years that you
may be generous in your graves. Be
your own almoner, and see your children s
happiness while they are under the paren-
tai roof. Better have Sunday home
service than break your own and your
neighbor's Sabbath by visiting and dining
that day. Money laid out in song books,
organs, music teachers and tuners pays
compound interest, bringing health to
BODY, quiet minds, balm to wounds. and
makes the home an ante-chamber to the
choir above, Put your homes into close
communication with the church, the
school, and keep open house for every
good and noble cause Call to your home
every good agency that will make home
life sweeter, and give the good control of
vour children's characters The great
things you are going to do for them in the
future you had better swap off for the
daily little attentions which feed the affec-
ticns and mould the character and bind
them to you by heart chords that never
break.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

THE FUTURE LIFE.-I feel in myself the
future life. | am like forest which has
more than once been cut down. The new
shoots are stronger than ever am rising,
know, toward the sky. The sunshine is
on my head, The earth gives me its gem
erous sap, but heaven lights me with the
reflection of unknown worlds. You say
the soul is nothing but the resultant of
bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul the
more luminous when my bodily powers
begin to failP Winter is on my head and
eternal spring is in my heart. Then
breathe, at this hour, the fragrance of the
iIacs, the violeJs and the roses, as at
twenty years. The nearer approach the
end the palmer hear around me the i'm
mortal symphonies of the worlds which
invite me 1t is marvellous yet simple.
IT is fairy-tale and it is history. For half
a century have been writing my thoughts
in prose, verse history, philosophy, drama,
romance, tradition, satire, song-I have
tried all. But feel that | have not said
the thousandth part of what is in me-
When go down to the grave can say,
like so many others. " have finished my
days work." but cannot say Il have
finished my life." My days work will
begin again the next morning. The tomb
is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare.
1t closes in the twilight to open with the
dawn. l improve every hour because
love this world as my fatherand, because
the truth compels me as it compelled Vol
taire. that human divinity. My work is
only beginning My monument is hard.
ly above its foundation. I would be glad
to see it mounting and mounting forever
The thirst for the infinite proves infinity.--
Ncto Hugo.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

We often hear the question, What is tho
Lodge of Good Templars dong in this
place to forward the temperance cause?
We would answer that they are doing
great deal indirectly by getting young men
to join their order and sign the pledge as
It safeguard against the temptations that
meet them on every hand here in Mont
pelier. There are, at present, over one
hundred members, large number Of
whom are young men.
The quarter just finished has been par
ticularly pleasant. Everything has been
harmonious, the evenings have been en-
livened with music, recitations, papers,
charades, etc, while there has been hardly
II meeting at which there has not been one
or more limitations.
The Office for the ensuing quarter are
us follows: w. G T j. d. Clough; w.
V. T., Josie I, Gill; P. w. c. T.. j. p.
Eddy; w. S, f. F. H. Gary; W. +. S,
Ida E. Chase; w. T.. Mrs. Ches, Hatha-
way; W. G., Edwin Mutt; w NJ, Amos
Hartwell.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

The PRESIDENTS FAMILY.-The presi-
dent and Mrs Garfield are gracious to the
public. That public, in the person of the
office seeker, occupies the days OF the pres
ident, but his evenings are given to bis
friends and to the high social duties de
volving upon him as the chief magistrate.
No former administration ever gave so
much informal grace to official etiquette as
both Mr.. and Mrs. Garfield have given to
the evening receptions, that have been so
frequent during the past two Heeks at the
White House. Mrs. Garfeldl is not de-
monstrative. The president is, and is also
impulsive. The line is we'll drawn. Hers
is fine nature, and exceedingly conscen-
tous, with mind more hig0ly cultured,
in the earnest sense Of the word, than any
of her predecessors. The children are all
at home. Miss Mollie goes as a day pupil
to the private school of Mrs. Burr in the
city. | think she is the first presidents
daughter that has gone out TO school, " like
other girls" instead of being taught pri-
vately at home. The boys, including the
two formerly with Col. Rockwell, are
taught by tutor in the house. Judge the
two Youngsters" Irwin and Abe, make
their own boy racket in the house, like
" other bows" on Saturday, when the rain
keeps them indoors; for the laughter and
scamper of feet that came to my ears to.
day convinced me that they had in no
way been subdued by official surroundings,
Col. Rockwell is not as has been stated a
relative of the president. He has but two
sisters, both married and living in Ohio,
aud one brother residing in Michigan.
Mrs. Garfield will not continue the Satur-
day afternoon receptions, but receive in
formally on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
- Washington Letter TO Hartford Coaramt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04
Young WOmen's Work for Temperance.

The temperance reform touches society
at all points 1t must. therefore, utilize
all forces. Young women WELD Il potent
social influence, and we must have it on
our side. They can do much to modify
and elevate the opinions of voters; we
need their co cooperation in this enlelvor,
They are themselves accepting PRINCIPLES
and forming habits which will mould the
sentiment of fnture family circles; we
may through them secure 4 pre-emp,ion
claim" upon the generations to follow
this. 1t is sufficiently evident that no
effective measures can be instituted for the
suppression of the liquor traffic until pub
lie sentiment is educated to higher stand
ard of morality. This is pre- eminentlv
the work of women, to be carried on by
means of prayer, of public and private
persuasion, founded upon argument, the
circulating of temperance literature, and
by giving at all times the weight of their
Influence and example on the side of total
abstinence.
Clearly, then, young women must re-
qulre OF men whom they admit to their
society and to their homes, Il purity of
personal life such rs they have not in the
past required. Bot, on the other hand. ii
is their duty to do all In their power to
make this nobler habit of life less tlillisut
of attlinment. by otfsetting the tpmpta-
tions OF the saloon, the grimy grog Shop,the
gHded restaurant or the billiard hall, by
the attractions Of the temperance reading
room and literary or musical reunions.
Undertakings of this character may with
propriety engage the efforts of young
women, and have been successfully car
ried on in many places since the greet
temperance awakening,
In their own social circle they can do
still more-by scattering about them the
light of pure example and of gently ut
tered argument in favor of total abstinence
as the only personal security. The auto
graph pledge book upon the parlor tahl
would be in itself an influence for good
of incalculable value. 1t would call Mt
tention to the subject, occasion argument,
and result often in confirmation of good
principles or the conviction of bad ones.
These three questions are involved in
the more specific efforts of young women
in our cause.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

| was sitting one Sunday morning with
newspaper IN my hand, feeling really
miserable My wife and eldest boy had
gone to church. | heard the other children
talking, and the question fell upon my ear,
" Horace, when you are man, which will
you do-go TO church like mamma does,
or stay at home and always read the news
papers P' 81 said Horace, eight years
old with great emphasis on the |, shall
do neither. | shall not 60 to church. and
shall not sit about at home. shall have
Il big horse, and jamie Lincoln and | will
gor for a ride, and go right away and have
lots of fun That chid's words sci me
thinking. | saw my own boy in company
with others of the lowest and most un-
principled of men, and perhaps women,
spending his time in "a way which would
break his mothers heart. thought of
my white haired old father and my placid,
amiable old mother, both gone; saw them
quietly walking side by side to church in
the old country town and us children fol
lowing could not sit another five u n.
Ites. Up rose, aud putting on hat
coat, went to the church and slipped into
Il pew in the rear and heard the sermon,
or tried 10 hear it, for the boys speech had
taken possession of my soul. and had fill.
ed it, My wife was astonished to see NE
waiting for her at the church door. 81
thought | would come and meet you," wa.
all said,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

DEATH OF THE WANDERING JEW. y
I" Old Alexander, the wandering jew, p"
who for over half-century has wandered
alone over the face Of the earth, making
his appearance periodically about twice Il
year in New England, has just died with
out friend. aged 81, at the Middlehury
town farm His real name is supposed to
have$been Francis William Alexander
He was n Scotch highlander, and in early
life removed with bis wealthy parents to
the north of Ireland. He graduated at
the University of Dublin, but, for some
mysterious crime, as is supposed, fled from
the country and became II tramp, wander
ing princi pally over the United States
He was supplied with ample means, fire.
quently exhibiting hundreds of dollars
while dressed in the garb of mendicant.
He was possessed of II remarkable memo
ry and fine scholarly attanments, yet was
at times very coarse and profane in his
language. Many elderly people of to-day
throughout New England remember "Old
Alexander in their youth He was then
the terror of all school children. for whom
he manifested an especial dislike. He
died without revealing anything more
to his identity or that of his family.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

PETTY WORRIES,-Wha blessed thing
it is that we can forget To.day's troubles
look large, but Il week hence they will be
forgotten and buried out of sight. Says "a
writer, If you keep book and daily put
down the things that worry you, and see
what becomes OF them, it would be a
benefit to you. You allow II thing to
worry you just as you allow n fly to settle
on you and plague you; and you lose
your temper Cor rather get it, for when
men are surcharged with temper they are
said 10 have lost it; and you Justify your
self for being thrown off your balance by
causes which you do not trace out. But
if you would see what it was that threw
you off your balance before breakfast, and
put it down in little book, and follow it
up. and follow it ont, and ascertain what
becomes of it, you would see what fool
you were in the matter. The art of forget
ting is blessed art, but The art of over
looking is quite as important. And if We
should take time to write down the orig
inal progress and outcome of few of our
troubles it would make us so ashamed Of
the fuss we make over them that we
should be glad to drop Immediately all
such things, and bury them at once in
eternal forgetfulness. Life is 100 short to
be worn out in petty worries, frettings,
hatred and vexatlon.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

have peeptd into quiet "parlors," :"
where the carpet is clean and not old, and
the furniture polished and bright; into
"rooms, - where the chairs are deal and
the floor carpetless; into kitchens, "
where the family live and the meals are
cooked and eaten, and the boys and girls
are as bithe us the sparrows in the thatch
overhead and see that it is not so much
wealth and learning, nor clothing, nor ser
wants, nor toll, nor idleness, nor town, nor
country, nor station, us tone and temper,
that make life Joyous or miserable that
render home happy or wretched- And |
see, too, that in town or country, good
sense and Gods grace make life what no
teachers or accomplishments, Or means Of
society can make 1.-THE opening stave of
IN everlasting psalm; the fair beginning
of an endless existence, the goodly, mod
est, well proportional vestibule to tenn
pie Of Gods building, that shall never
decay, WAX old, Or varnish away Rec.
Dr. John HaH.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04
Ufmpfranff.

A STRAw.-A writer in the Ocean Grove
Record states: "A gentleman well informed
on the subject, having visited the home of
every cabinet officer in Washington. assures
the writer that he failed to see one drop of
wine or any kind of drink offered to those
who called to pay their respects. This
speaks volumes at the present iuncture of
affairs, and should be mentioned 10 the
credit of these distinguished members of
the hodv social 1t was gratifying also to
note that there was little or no drunken
ness observed on the streets How much
Of this is due to the total abstinence prin-
cipes maintained at the White House, who
can tell?'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

A STRANGE DISCOVERY Prof. TyndaIl
of London has just invented a new scienli-
fc apparatus that, when properly used
gives most singular results, and shows
that the wonders of the photophone have
only Just begun.
The photophone has already been de-
scribrd in the COmpGni0v, and you may
remember it as an instrument invented.
by Professor Bell for causing a beam of
light to convey a telephone message to
distance
In the new apparatus beam of light
from lime light, or even candle, is
thown upon common glass flask having
q long neck. To this is fastened rubber
speaking tube that may be placed to the
ear SO hat any sounds in the flask may be
heard through the tube.
Between the flask and the light is placed
il circular disk of metal, having narrow
sots, or openings. placed like the spokes
of wheel round the edge. When the
disk is at rest. the beam of light may pass
through one of the slots and fall on the
flask.
If. now, the disk is made to turn rapidly
on its axle, the light will reach the flask
in series of flashes, rs il shines through
the slots one after another. Here the
curious discovery comes in. When the flask
is filled with gas, or vapor, say OF vapor
of sulphuric ether, common street gas. oxy-
gen perfumes like patchouli or cassia, or
even smoke, and the beam of light is made
to fall on the flask in II series of alternate
flashes, the operator. listening with the
speaking lube at his ear, will hear strange
musical sounds inside the flask.
The pitch of these tones will correspond
exactly with the speed with which the
disk is made to turn, and each kind of gas,
or vapor, in the flask will give different
kind of note, some soft. some loud, and
some very sweet and musical.
This is certainly the most remarkable
discovery since The photophone, and it
shows that light may be made the means
of making sounds audible at distance
even when the eye can see no difference
in the hight. Ii even suggests the idea
that we may yet be able to hear the sounds
of the fires raging in the sun. 1t may in
indeed, be on n hint to yet more wonder
ful and unthought of relationships between
light and sound, which may be utilized as
medium of communication. - Youths
Companion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

PEACE VERSUS WAR.-Astorand Lenox,
who founded libraries; Peter Cooper. who
founded an institute; Vanderbilt, who
founded a university; Stewart, vino found
ed Garden city; Roosevelt, who founded Il
hospital; Bryan, who founded picture
gallery, and Bennett, who founded the Irish
famine fund, put, at least, II part of their
money where it would do the most good.
But not so did Commodore Stevens, who
spent so large Il fortune in building the
Stevens battery That lutkless engine of
war, after having been subjected TO all
sorts of reverses. and after the purpose of
its protector had been totally thwarted, is
now undergoing demoishment at Hobo
ken, and the clangor of the heavy ham,
mers of the workmen upon its iron sides
sounds like the knell of its inventor IS
hopes. Thus let all agencies and applian-
ces of war perish from among men, while
the works oil peace, enlightenment and pro-
gress flourish and bear fruit forevermore !!
-NeW York Sun.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

There is nothing which shows more
clearly the truth and goodness of virtue
than the universal homage that is paid to
it. Those who walk in its paths and
those who stray far from them unite in
pronOunrng them to be the right roads to
take. The drunkard never upholds drink
iug. the sensualist never recommends
inpurty. the swindler never justiies
dishonesty, the oppressor never vindicates
cruelty. They never desire their children
to follow in their footsteps and copy their
vices; on the contrary they endeavor to
counteract the influence of their own
example and to remove far from them the
temptation nnder which they themselves
have sunk.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

TO make shoe pegs enough for American
use consumes annually 100000 cords Of
timber, and to make our Iucifer matches,
800, 600 cubic feet of the best pine are re-
quircd every year. Lasts and boot.trees
take 100000 cords of beach and maple,
and the handles of tools 100000 more.
The baking of our bricks consumes 2,000.-
600 cords of wood or what would cover
with forests about $4,000 acres of land
Telegraph poles already up represent 800,
900 trees, and their annual repair consumes
about 100000 more. The ties of our rail
roads conslme annually thirty years
growth of $1,000 acres, and to fence all
our railroads would cost S45, 900 with
a yearly expenditure of Sl5,O00000 for re
pairs. These are some of the ways in
which American forests are going. There
are others our packing boxes. for instance,
cost, in 1864, Sl2,000,O00; while the timber
used each year in making wagons and
agricultural implements is valued at more
than 100000, ,000. 0.-Ft&bhiU !Standard.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

TO PRoTECT VINES. Take boards eight
or uine inches wide, cut two lengths
eighteen inches long and two twenty
inches long. Nail the ends together, max
ing II curb eighteen inches inside. Cover
with fly netting, found at any store. The
cover should be cut large enough to turn
over ut the edges, and over all a strip of
cloth half IN inch wide should be nailed to
give strength. Put these over the vnes
pling the soil up ut the bottom to prevent
the bugs from crawling under. Vines
covered in this way will grow faster than
if not covered. The cold winds are check
ed, while air, rain and sunlight are freely
admitted. When the season of bugs is
past the boxes should be removed and
housed. The cost Of the boxes is but a
few cents each while they will last sever
al years and pay for themselves every
years. b. C., in AmericHn CuttiUdt0r.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

Umbrella Irritation: To place your
umbrella in rack indicates that it is
about to change owners. An umbrella
carried over woman, the man getting
nothing but the drippings of the rain,
signifies courtship When the man has
the umbrella and the woman the drip
pings it indicates marriage. To carry it
at right angles under your arm signifies
that AN eye is to be lost by the man who
follows you, To put cotton umbrella
by the side of nice silk one signifies
exchange is no robbery To lend an
umbrella indicates u am fool To
carry an open umbrella just high enough
to tear out mems eyes and knock off mems
hats signifies e am a woman. '-Bosto"
Transcript,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

President Garfield is quoted by the
Cleveland Leader as saying that for TWEEN
ty years after her husband died his moth.
er scarcely ever had the comforts. much
less the luxuries of life. "And now," add-
ed the president, lit has been my study
to promote her happiness and comfort in
every way possible in order to make up
for the privaton she suffered during my
boyhood. She has the best room in my
house and there is nothing she wants but
what she always has. Whenever 60 to
Mentor she always accompanies me.
When return to Washington she always
comes back with me. Whenever she
wishes to 60 to New Hampshire to visit
her relatives she goes and 60 with her.
In this manner | am trying to make up to
her what she was deprived of during the
days OF her sore poverty"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

IMPROVING THE LOCOMoTGVE.-They
are actually about to construct a road be-
tween New York and Philadelphia in
which speed is promised of eighty miles
an hour. In other words, it is expected
to make the distance between the two cit
les in about an hour This is almost as
swift as flying, it is more rapid than the
flight of the storm. But still inventors are
not satisfied. They believe steam loco.
motive can be so improved as to do swifter
aud more efficient work at less cost Then
GENES Edison to the front and he declares
that the motor of the future is to he cleo
tricity, and the place for testing them is
on the elevated roads of New York city.
If we can make eighty miles between
New York and San Francisco, the child is
living who will see the distance between
those two cities covered in forty-eight
hours. Even with the present speed on
the English road, about fifty miles an hour,
when the tunnel under the channel is com
pleted, the traveller can leave London in
the early morning, spend the greater part
of his day in Paris, and return to his home
or hotel in London before bedtime. What
a marvellous age for travelling we live in.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-04

A TEMPERANCE LECTURE. remem-
ber once hearing SNUG faced minister,
in gentle tones, assure his beloved breth-
rem that the beautiful moon did not shine
on ugly beer and porter. but on pure,
lovely water; and that. therefore, it was
water, and water alone, that they ought to
drink. No one was moved. He went on
to say that he knew mother of ten love-
y children and one idiot. The idiot was
the eldest and was born before she had
signed the pledge. Still the people were
scarcely stirred. But he was followed by
Il decent looking working man, in good
clothes. He described how few years
before he had been in rags. He then
pointed to the dress he was wearing. turn
ed himself round, and said " Is this
good coatp Is this good pair of trousersp
Why is this, whyP Cos aint got no drink
in my eye" He next pointed to decent,
comtortable-looking woman, who was, he
said, his wife. He drew the attention of
his hearers to the excellence of her gown,
and told how ragged she, too, had once
been He again lriumphantly asked
why is this, why?" and as triumphantly
answered, "Cos | amt got no drink in
my eye" In like manner he described
the various advantages Of his reformed
life, and gave the same poetcal eXplana-
ton of the origin of each. He carried his
listeners away with him, and was reward
ed with shouts of applause SATURDAY.
RerteD.