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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

UNBIASED JUDGING AT FAIRs.-T have
never investigated methods Of coloriao the
skin, ears and horns, but have often seen
cases where it was most bpnglinglv done.
The horns seem difficult to color, the dive
or eoIoring matter rubs off 50 easily 1t
occurred to me years ago. that a cows
horn might be stained by nitric acid (aqua
fOHtS), just rs It coors the finger nails and
skin of the hands of those who handle it,
Or come in contact with the strong fumes.
but until recently I have never suspected
its being done. A friend of mine bought
Il heiter of one of those doctors, breeders.
successful exhibitors, and great "hlowers," :"
who are fly classed as ''cow Jockeys"
The horns We're especially yellow. and
naturally so to all appearance. The color
was surely part and parcel of the outer
shell of the horn itself, and the texture of
the horn gave no indication that it was
corroded by acid or other active "chemi-
CAL" After a few weeks the horn began
TO scale and crumble on the outside, and
the action of natural causes have now de-
nuded it Of this very attractive tint. 1t
seems to me that some OF our agricultural
chemists may suggest "a test which NAV be
tPpl'eu W uVihS CoIotcu III tulS WHY. HOW
delightful it would be. for instance, to be
able to sponge over dyed horn with some
solution which would leave natural sur
face unaffected and turn the stain to a
bright blue. 1t would be a pleasant way
Of calling attention to the skill of the ex-
hibtor in the art and mystery of dyeing
horns, for the judges to be able thus to
bring out fine scarlet or blue tint upon
one horn and leave the other as a sample
of the exhibitors handwork. .-.Mlsop G.
Weld, IN Amerjcan Agrjculturist for Oct0-
Der.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

flowers. But grandma's excited vision
was too quick for me for on attempting TO
pass it she said:
Here, dear. wait moment; whose
picture is this, wonderP'
1t is old Mrs. Garfield, the presidents
mother"
You should have seen grandma, then
For an instant her face looked drawn and
pinched as if with physical pain the next
moment it relaxed. and a smile like in
spiration spread over her features. saw
it was best to let her go on, for her spon-
taneous eloquenee was simply irrepressi-
Bile. She did not extend her arms as be-
fore, but clasping her hands tightly to-
gether, she spoke in the grooming, coaxing
tone she doubtless used in talking TO her
babies in that long ago, her accent pecu-
liarly marked in its consoling cadence:
''NeU-er mind" she said, poor old
mother, nev er mindl we're al most home,
you and |, almost home. It's lonesome
without them, know, but they're safe
your boy and mine-all safe. and we shall
see them soon. Now, don't mourn too
bitterly; our sons are not too happy in
Heaven to remember their poor old moth
ers! and we must keep singing-you and
NEARER my God to Thee; nearer to
Thee, en- though it be cross-'ts a
cross, isn't it, sisterp'-she was sobbing
out her words now" but there-there-"
! she crooned on, II lost my baby too, so
| know all about it, but rev-er mind, we're
almost home. you and l, almost home!"
She turned of her own accord this time
and taking my arm, said feebly:
Come, dear, let's go home now, I'm
tired and I've seen enough"
In vain urged her keeping on to the
great store just above to see the tablet, the
inscriptions, the wonderful outcome OF
generous loyalty, but no; she repeated
plaintively, &" l want to 60 home, I've seen
enough"
She rode the entire way with far off
look in her sorrowful eyes, and after she
was comfortably seated in her arm chair,
throughout the day her face wore visit
full, yearning expression which will haunt
US long with its hungry gaze.
And just before her bed time, as I was
half doing on the lounge, saw her pass
one wrnked hand passionately over
the back of the other. while she again
crooned reassuringly to herself:
" NeU-er mind we're al most home
she and Nearer my God to Thee near.
er to Thee, e'en though it be cross
strange the old wound won't heal, but
e-there-w almost home!" Mrs.
Harriet A Cheeuer, IN Boston Journal,
September %, 1881.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

BED FOR THE ICKRooM Two narrow
beds Gron bedsteads), with fresh hair or
straw mattresses, are the best. These
beds are easily moved and thus the patient
will not be compelled to look constantly
at the same cracks in the wall or count
the same three spots in the corner. You
can move him nov into u shaded corner
now to the western window, to see the sun
90 down; again, in front of the fire. that
ne may look at its cheerful blaze; and
tnOn, into the most secluded corner. that
he may rest and sleep. Ali this is an i'm.
mense gain, and is sure not only to COM
fort the prisoner but to shorten his sick
ness
No mater what the malaly NAV be.
there is more or less fever, and, in everv
possible case, the emanatons from the
skin render the bed foul through and
through. All the emanutions from our
bodies are foul, and should be GOT rid of
As soon ~ possible. The only way to
manage it is to have two beds, and lift the
patient from one to the other When the
bed which has been in use from four to six
hours is released the mattress and blank
cts should be pat where they can be thor
oughlY aired, and, if practicable, summed.
This will not only shorten and mitigate
the graver stages Of The malady, but it
will greatly hasten the convalesence -
Dj0 LeUjs, IN T0-duy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

WORTH THINKING ABOUT.-One Of the
most effectual ways OF pleasing and OF
making ones self loved is to be cheerful
JOY soltens more hearts than tears.
Our customs and habits are like the ruts
in roads; the wheels of life settling into
them, and we jog along through the mire
because it is too much trouble to get out
of it.
To him who thinks a thing is sinful it is
sinful, though it may not be sinful to his
neighbor. Many man is doing right,
and is SHINING in doing it, because he is
violating his own conscience-not any
natural law or custom, but simply going
against his own conscience.
A wealthy man one day displaying his
Jewels to a philosopher, the latter said,
THANK you, sir, for being willing to
share such magnificent jewels with me"
"Share them with you sirP' exclaimed
the man, What do you meanp" "Why,
you allow me to look at them, and what
more can you do with them yourselfp" re-.
piled the philosopher
Only II sensitive and sympathetic nature
can tell just where intrusveness begius,
so as to avoid its first approach. We can
all, however, improve in this respect by
cultivating our perceptions and sympa-
thies so rs to enter somewhat into the
consciousness of other people. No one
deliberately intends to become bore, but
many actually do so from selfish and care
less disregard of the feelings of others and
an utter ignorance of the way in which
their conduct effects those who view it
from an outside standpoint
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

BIG But LAWFUL SwGNDLE.-Freder-
ick county, Nd. is suffering from one of
the queerest swindes on record, for while
it is not uncommon for a man to make
himself out simpleton for the furtherance
OF sinister ends, it is novelty to see the
courts of justice made the chief means, and
in such wholesale way. 1t is not appar.
ent how long Harrison Wagner, 'the pro-
fessional litgant,' has lived in Frelerick
county, but it WAS long enough for him to
have been considered a harmless lunatic
when he began his operations two years
ago. He had studied an eccentric habit of
action and speech, and when in the fall of
1879 he went before an obscure county
magistrate and entered several hundred
suits for damages against leading citizens
in all parts of the county, many of whom
had never even seen him, everybody
laughed and right away forgot all about it.
Hundreds Of other suits were brought from
time TO time, and those, too, were regard
ed As the harmless amuSemcnts of luna
tic. Wagner disappeared in the spring of
1880. and with him it was thOughl his suits
had dropped from view. But in the fall
the community was thrown into Juror of
excitement by the knowledge that Wagner
had begun proceedings to enforce udg-
mont in 1880 Of the suits. Then it was
learned that while the people had slept and
had failed to appear before the magistrate
TO answer, judgment had been entered in
each case for the amount claimed--rang-
ing from seventy-tive to one hundred, -
that Wagner had shrewdly kept quiet until
the year in which an appeal could be taken
had expired, and that now each judgment
was endorsed by default" and No ap.
peal taken" The citizens then began to
dispute payment on the ground of fraud;
but the courts have now decided that they
have no redress, and within few days
most of the victims have paid up, rs the
judgments We're, of course, Il lien on their
property. A great deal of suffering has
resulted, and in one case where he huS.
band has died since the suit was brought,
leaving $500 10 his widow aud three
little children. Wagner's claims amount
ed to $4,000. The county is too hot for
him, and he has for some time kept in the
security of New York city.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

A ROYAL PHYSICIAN Henry VIII,
hunting in Windsor forest, struck down
about dinner to the Abbey of Reading
where Disgusting himself as one of the
royal guards, he was invited to Join the
abbot's table. A sirlon was set before
him, on which he laid to as Justify as any
beef-eater. "Well fare thy heart" quoth
the abbot, land here in a cup of sack I
remember the health of his grace your
master. would give hundred pounds
that could feed on beef us heartily as YOU
do. Alasl my poor stomach will scarcely
digest the wing of chicken" The king
heartily pledged him, thanked him for his
good cheer, and departed undiscovered.
Shortly after, the abbot was sent to the
tower, kept a close prisoner, and fed on
bread and water, ignorant of the cause,
and terrified at his situation. At last a
sirloin of beef was set before him, on which
his empty stomach made him feed vora.
cionsiy. My lord exclaimed the king.
entering from private closet, " instantly
deposit your one hundred pounds, or no
going hence. have been your physician,
and here, as deserve it, | demand my
fee.n
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

OLD-FASHION MoTHER.-Thank God
some of us have an old-fashion mother
Not woman of the period, enameled and
painted, with her great chignon, her curls
and her hustle. whose white ieweled hands
never felt the clasp of baby fingers; but a
dear old-fashioned sweet voiced mother
with eyes, in whose clear depth the love.
light shone, and brown hair, just threaded
with silver, lying smooth upon her faded
cheek. Those dear hands, worn with toll
gently guided our tottering steps in child.
hood and smoothed our pillow in sickness
ever reaching out to us in yearning and
tenderness. Blessed is the memory of an
old.fashioned mother. 1t floats to us now
like beautiful perfume from some wood
ed blossoms. The music of other voices
may be lost, but the enchancing memory
of hers will echo in our souls forever
Other faces may fade away and be forgot
ten, but hers will shine on. When in the
fitful pauses of busy life our feet wander
back to the old homestead, and eros sing
the well worn threshold, stand once more
in the room so hallowed by her presence,
how the feeling of childish innocence and
dependence comes over us, aud we kneel
down in the molten sunshine streaming
through the open window-just where,
long years ago, we knelt by our mothers
knee, lisping, " Our Father" How many
times when the tempter lured us on has
the memory of those sacred hours, that
mothers words, her faith and prayers,
saved us from plunging into the deep
abyss of sin. Years have filled great drifts
heiWeen her and us hut thew have not
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

MAKING GIRLS STRAIGHT. The Hindoo
girls are gracefully and exquisitely formed.
From their earliest childhood thev are
accustomed to carry burdens on their
heads. The water for family use is always
brought this way. The exercise is said to
strengthen the muscles of the back, while
the chest is thrown forward. No crooked
backs are seen in Hindoostan. DR.. H.
Spray says this exercise of carrying small
vessels Of water on the head might be ad
vantageously introduced into boarding
schools and private families, and that it
might entirely supersede the present ma.
chinery of dumb-bells, black boards, skin.
ping ropes, etc. The Young ladies OUGHT
To be taught to carry the jar as the Hindoo
women do, with out even touching it with
their hands. The same practice of carry.
ing water leads precisely to the same
results in the south of Italy as in India. A
Neapolitan female peasant will carry on
her head a vessel full of water to the brim
over rough road and not spill drop of
it, and the acquisition of this art or knack
gives her the same elastic gait.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

How TO TREAT A CHILDS FEARS -
Mamma called out little boy the othe
night, after he had been snugly tucked ~
in bed, and was supposed to be far OF
the way toward sleep-"mamma, I'm
afraid! my blouse hangs by the window
and it puts things in my head that frighter
mel"
You are not afraid when you know it il
your blouse that puts the fears in your
mindP"
"Yes; and can't help it mamma"
There were two ladies sitting in the
room below who heard the boys words
One said, "How perfectly absurd! What
won't a child do to get his mother tc
come up stairs to him! | really think
he ought to be punished for making up
such a story as that" The other. happily
was the boy mother, and she said-but
without going to him: "If you are afraiG
of the things in your mind you may gel
out of bed, light your candle, and take the
blouse down; you can look after you put
the light out and see that there is nothing
at the window to frighten good boy"
She remembered, as if it were but yes
terday, night, great many years ago,
when she lay trembling, Mortified child,
whose mother was dead, and there was no
one in the wide world to whom she dared
to say that the lights aud shadows made
by the moonlight coming through Il broken
slat in the blind were so trlghtful to her
that she could not sleep, but lay holding
her breath and almost smothering beneath
the clothes. She felt sure that her own
little six years old boy was suffering from
this same unreasonable terror, at which he
could laugh in the morning when he would
awake and see his blue blouse waiting for
him. The child, taking his mothers
advice and lighting the candle which IA
kindly freak of fashion allowed him to
have, removed the cause of his terror, put
out the light and went back to his bed. and
in a very few minutes profound silence
indicated that he was fast asleep.
One can easily feel sympathy for what
may seem like an absurd whim in child
if he or she has paid any attention to the
literature of nervousness. and knows any
thing of the many ways in which strong
minded men have beeh afflicted by hallu.
cinations, or have been annoyed as was the
carpenter who, when sick, called his son
to his bedside and asked him to make a
shelf that was in the room perfectly true
and when the son demonstrated, he said
with IN expression not to be denied
Troubles trouble; that shelf must bC
changed" 1t is to be deplored that moth
ers, and all those who have the care o
children, do not possess their complete
confidence, and so can encourage entire
outs tspokenness, and be enabled by th'
knowledge thus gained to prevent NOR
bid condition of the mind, which 1t maj
take years to outgrow.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

The TOO SMART JUDGE A good story,
told at the expense of well known ex-
Judge, is going the rounds of the lawyers
Offices and it is heartily appreciated by
those who best know the irrascible but
goo1-hearted disposition of the old gentle
man. 1t was an admiralty case, where he
is most at home. The deposition of a
sailor, who was soon to die, had to be
taken at his bedside in Brooklyn one day
last week "How long" the ex Judge
snapped out as the first question on cross
examination, "do you think it was after
the vessel left the wharf before the COLI
sion occurred?"
The sailor was himself something of a
character, and not so near death but that
he appreciated the vital Importance of
"getting back on " cross examining
lawyer. Waal,' he drawled out, "'bout
ten minutes, sd Judge"
= Ten minutes! Zen minutes exclaim-
ed the lawyer, jumping up. Man, how
long do you think ten minutes to be?'
" jest bout ten minutes" was the un-
mutlled reply.
:" How do you generally measure ten
minutesp persisted the lawyer.
The old sailor turned slowly in bed and
eyed his questioner. Then he tnrned back
again and said indifferently: "Waal,
sometimes with watch and sometimes
with Il claack."
This made the lawyer little mad. He
jerked his watch from his pocket and said
in querulous, high pitched voice. "Oh,
you do, do you? Well, III tell you when
to begin, and you tell me when ten min
utes are up.
The sailor slyly winked at the lawyer
on the other side, and he took in the situa-
ton in an instant and made no objection.
The ex judge stood with his back to a
mantel on which little clock was quietly
indicating the time to.the sailor, who lay
facing it.
AYE, aye" the sailor said and remain
ed silent.
After three minutes had passed, the ex.
judge became impatient and exclaimed,
See here, are you going to keep US here
all day?" But the sailor made no answer.
As five and six and seven minutes went by
the lawyer became almost wild in his as
sumed anger at the man for keeping them
so long beyond the time. But not until
the hand of the clock was on the exact
notch of ten minutes did the sailor speak.
Then he said carelessly, Guess the time
must be bout up
The judge put up his watch and sank
back in his chair "Well, he said, of
all men, dying or alive, that | ever saw,
you Can measure time the best"
1t is said that the ex-judge does not even
yet know what made the other lawyers
tlOuble themselves over with lauUhter as
they did at that last remark of his.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

TRUE MARRfAGB.-I have in nv mind
couple united in holy marriage December
10, 1903. Their Christian names were old
fashioned, like emselves-David and
Catherine. Legal contract, of course, but
most of all, the heart married them. They
lived to celebrate their crystal wedding.
their silver wedding. their golden wedding
and nine years beside. Over three child
ren's graves they wep', but through all
struggles of life they kept the Christian
faith. They lived for God, for each other.
for their children and for everybody but
themselves. Their hair whitened, and
their steps grew shorter, and their voice
trembed in the church psalm, though once
they had led in the village choir The
one leaned heavily on the staff which
have iu my house. but heavier on the arm
Of that God who had never failed him.
These two married ones were well mated.
What was the JOY of one was the joy of
another; what was the sorrow of one, was
the sorrow of the other. At last they
parted. Three years precedence did the
Lord give her. Though a deeply sympa.
thetic man, never saw my father cry but
once, and that was on the day of mothers
burial. You see, they had been together
fifty-nine years. In her last moments
mother said to my father. Father, would
it not be pleasant if we could both go to-
getherp" But the three years passed away
and they were remarked. Their children
are gradually joining them, and soon we
will all be there. But that vision of my
parents married life will linger in my
memory forever. Together in the old
church at Summerville on the morning
they both professed Christ before their
marriage day; together in all the vicissi-
tudes of long life; together in the quiet
village graveyard; together in Heaven.
"In the cave that is in the field of Mach
pelah, which is before Mamre, there they
buried Abraham and Sara, his wife; there
they buried Isaac and Rebecca, his wife,
and there buried Leah."-ReU. Dc Rat
| Tdlmdge.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19
PRAYER
REV. ALFRED J. HoUGH.

4" God be merciful to me,
A Sinner - Brief,
The Publican's repentant plea;
And brief the message of the thief;
Remember me! :"
Not so the Pharasee:
Loud mouthed, and garrulous was he:
Too hard his heart for mellowngrief.
Too proud his soul to seek relief,
On.bended knee;
God needed not his cries,
The publican he justified,
The thief with a sweet promise died,
And entered paradise;
Be brief, my lord. nor otherwise,
True prayer in broken words or sighes,
Shall answered be;
A" God be merciful to me "
Will reach the far-Off skies,
And find forgiveness full and free,
While VISIONS long and polished plea
Unanswered dies.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

Let every man give himself to some
useful and honorable work-a work that
takes his best facilities. Then let every
man keep his mind and body as he should
his tools or capital, in good working order
Sometimes by fasting, sometime by friski.
ness, sometimes by popular amusements,
at other times by unpopular sobrieties.
Let man recreate himself as often and
as perfectly as he can, for busy man will
wear out soon enough at best.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19
GARFIELD,s FAVORIrE PnEM

The following poem was great favorite will
lamented Garfield, aud was often quoted by him,
authorship is unknown but it will be treasured
after like Lincon's favorite poem,::.' Why Should
spirit of Mortal be Proudg"l
Commend me to the friend thatcomes
When am sad and.lone,
Andmakes the anguish Of my heart
The suffering of my own;
Who cOldly shuns the glittering throng
At pleasures gay levee,
And comes to gild sombre hour.
And gvei his heart to me.
He hears me count myisorrows DER,
And when the task is done,
He freely gives me.all l ask
A.sigh,for every one
He cannot wear.a smiling face
When inc is touched with gloom,
But like the violet seeks to cheer
The midnight with perfume.
Commend me to.that generous heart
Which. like the pine on high,
Uplfts the same unvarying brow
To every change of sky;
Whose friendship does not fade away
When wintry tempests blow,
But like the winters icy crown,
Looks greener through the snow
He flies not with the.hitting stork,
That seeks a southern sky,
But Angers lrhere the lcounded bird
Hath taid him dOl0R to die.
o, such friend lie is in truth
What e'er his lot may be,
rainbow on the storm of life,
An anchor-on its sea.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

"Mabel, think it is about time | began
to brush your teeth" said mother to her
three-year-old, whose sole previous exper-
ience had been limited to a hair brush, and
was almost thunderstruck at hearing the
following interrogatory comment on her
intention: Is there any hair on themp"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19
HEAVEN.

All earthly springs will fail us,
Though bubbling now 50 bright,
Now fair as.Eden blooming.
May perish in a night;
All ties that bind us earthward.
VIII very soon be riven,
The.stricken soul, then whispers,
That naught is sure but Heaven.
The foudest hopes we cherish,
The friends we hold most dear,
Like as the dew of morning..
By sun-rays disappear;
So God in His great wisdom
Takes only what He's given,
And shows us by our losings.
That nothiDg's true, but Heaven.
Then look beyond the shadows
Where pure light crowns the hills.
Where gifts are ours forever,
Unchangediby earthly ills;
Love there will never fail us,
Nor heartsIwith grief be riven,
When in the bright hereafter,
We.gain the bliss of Heaven.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-19

A dog that hears through an ear trum.
pet and wears spectacles belongs to Patrick
NAL is said to be 80 years OF age, and has
lost his hearing and sight. and his master
procured these aids to cheer him. A set
of artificial teeth are being made for him.