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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

FIVE CENTS" Well, my boy" sale
Johns employer. holding out his hand fol
the change, "did you get what sent yor
for?"
"Yes, SIR" said John land here is the
change, but | don't understand it. The
lemons cost twenty eight cents, and there
ought to be twenty-five cents change, and
there's only seventeen"
Perhaps | made a mistake in giving
you the money!"
mo, sir; counted it over in the hall, to
be sure it was all right"
"Then perhaps the clerk made mis-
take in giving you the changep''
But John shook his head: mo, sir;
counted that too. Father said we must
always count our change before we leave
a store"
Then how in the world do you account
for the missing five centsp How do you
expect me to believe such queer story as
thatp"
Johns cheeks were red, but his voice
was firmp Il don't account for it, sir;
can't. All know is that 1t is So"
"Well, it is worth good deal in this
world to be sure of that. How do you
account for that five cent piece that is
hiding inside your coat sleeveY"
John looked down quickly and caught
the cleaning bit with little cry of pleas.
ure "Here you arel" he said. Now it
is all right. couldn't imagine what had
become OF that tive-cent piece. knew |
had it when started from the store"
There are two or three things that I
know now," Mr.. Brown said with a salts.
fed air. II know you have been taught to
count your money in coming and going,
and to tell tho exact truth, whether it
sounds we'll or not-three important things
for an errand boy. think I'll try you,
young man, without looking any farther"
At this Johns cheeks grew redder than
ever. He looked down and up. and finally
he said, in a low voice, II think ought to
tell you that l wanted the place so badly
l almost made up my mind to say nothing
about the change If you didn't ask me-"
Exactly" said Mr.. Brown; land if you
had done it you would have lost the situa.
tion; that's all. I need boy about me
who can be honest over Ave cents, whether
he is asked questions or not, The PGnSy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

MISUNDERSTANDING has a great
deal to do with the happiness and misery
OF human life. Indeed, we are 30 consti.
tuted that it seems as though we must
have something to be wretched about IF
your actual circumstances do not admit
OF this consummation, then our life ia a
world OF imaginary evils, and we weep as
though we had real sorrow. Instead of
taking bright and cheering view. we
seem never to be quite happy, unless we
have an opportunity to put an Elf" or a
" butt in somewhere. We always keen
an eye out for storm cloud, and make
ourselves unhappy over the possibility of
its coming, whether it ever actually comes
or not.
1t was a good rule of Abraham Lincoln's
never to cross river or climb hill until
he came to it and there was no other wav
to get on. We once heard of an invalid
who insisted to his doctor that he was Ger.
tsinly growing weaker every day, and that
the end was not far off. "Wby. doctor"
he said one day in querulous tone. "a
month ago could walk round the marx
yonder. and to-day l was so weak that
could walk only half way round and back
again" If he had only thought a minute
he would have discovered that to wall
half way round and back WAS lust IA far
as to walk all the way round The best
way to live is to live as well as you can.
and the only way to take care of the future
10 to let it take care of itself
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

HOME TALK.-A good many men and
women covet, and, perhaps, have the
reputation of being "charming converse
tionalists,' who never appear in that role
in their own homes. There their talk is
confined to humdrum topics, to mere
gossip, or enforcing quiet while they cul-
tivate their precious intellect, or settle
their nerves to fit them for amiabilitv in
public. Yet. aside from the pleasure
which cheerful and worthy conversation
diffuses over IL home circle, its educatiye
force can hardly be over-estinktued. The
bright aud interesting girls, who surprise
and delight you with their ready fund of
information quite outside of the conyer.
sational topics, and the well-po bows,
who know more than books could have
taught them, will be found, in general
to have father or mother who is wise
enough to visit with them, and who do
not keep their best mental and social gifts
for outside friends.
Show us father who saves his new
stories or jokes to delight the family circle
after supper; who has an eve out for nav
facts OF travel, discovery, science, litera.
ture, art, or religion. with which to slim
utate conversation at home; who talks
with the little chaps about their studies
and plays, and the older ones about their
duties, ambitions and labors; who keeps
before his daughters an ideal of gentle.
man who treata ladies with sincerity.
reverence and as equals, and doesn't carry
his ''small talk' in separate PACKAGE
from the rest of his knowledge, strictIv
for their use, and we'll show YOU a rare
man, we are afraid. If home i, to he
more than a boarding house. a
mere convenience or social necessity. it
ought to draw out the best gifts of each
inmate into the full fund of common
enjoyment and mutual ministrations.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

The LIME-KILN CLuB.-"Down on de
Central Market de odder day." began the
old man, Il hearn man longin' fur a
chance to become a hero. He wanted to
lay hisself out on sunthin' heroic. He
wanted TO have hsself pinted out as a
big gun, and he sorrowed bekase de day
of heroics had passed. l move aroun'
him an looked him ober. He had on a
shirt two weeks ole. His har was long
an greasy. His face an hands needed
soap an water. 'spcct dat his chillen
war bar futed an his wife obleeged to
take in washin'. He war sighin' to be a
hero, an de chance war right befo' him.
Few of us kin be on de spot in time to save
railroad trains, steamboats, an hotels from
any kolishun. We can't diskiver plots to
blow up opera houses. De water am so
cold dat we hate TO jump into de ribber an
save de lives Of skue house full chilren
But since saw dat would.be hero lie
been wonderin' if de man who works
steadily. takes good keer of his family,
pays his debts. tells de truf, keeps on bes'
side de golden rule, an carries clean
mouf aroun' wild him am not about as bic
a hero as lie nineteenth century kin bring
forth. It's my opinyun dat he am, an
lie gwine to insist on greetin sich man
rs entitled to admiration an respect.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26
A Leaf from Jonas, Diary.

And it came to pass, in the last DAYS,
that the children of men did journey
toward the Ute country, where there are
exceeding high mountains, wherein
dwelleth the elk, the antelope, the mount
ain lion and the jack rabbit.
And the children of men did dig in the
EARTH and they found much gold and sill
yer, and they said: "'Go to- let us make
brick and build us city that shall exceed
in greatness even the great city of Chi
cago."
And they made brick and burned them
thoroughly, and built unto themselves
city upon the banks of the river Platte,
which foweth through the great plains
that lie westward from Kansas; and the
name of the city they called Denver.
And the city increased in size until the
name of that city was found upon all the
maps. And it came to pass that the people
living in and round about Denver became |
very wicked and kept not the Sabbath of
the Lord, which is the first day of the |
week.
And the Lord became very angry with
them because they kept not His command
ments, and He stirred up the north wind,
and caused it to blow upon that city; and
the people called the north wind blIz.
zard, because it was exceeding cold.
Now when the blizzard had reioped for
the space OF three days. it became very
irksome to the Melican" men that
dwelleth in the city of Denver and they
reioced with exceeding great joy when
they looked forth and beheld that the
wind was blowing from over against the
land called Utah (where they have mul
itude of wives), for the wind which COM
eth from Utah is an exceedingly warm
wind, and it caused the snow to disappear,
md the sunshine was upon the face of all
he country round about Denver. and the
people liveth in peace from that time even
into this day. JONAS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

| WHAT WE OWE TO Pooh CHILDREN
Ihe world owes some of its richest treas.
ures to those who were deemed unfortunate
In youth. and who looked to ohers at that
unsheitered period for pity, protection and
help. Our country was discovered by
Columbus He was a hard worked boy,
and often knew the need of sufficient food
We owe our freedom of religion. which
has made our institutions what they are. to
Luther. The refOrmer once sung ballads
in the street to procure the means of an
education. Our advance in science start
ed with Franklin, yet the inventor ate his
penny roll in the city of Philadelphia
when lad and knew what it was to be
all alone in the world. We owe the be-
ginning of our cotton mills to Sir Richard
Arkwright, He was the youngest of
poor family of thirteen children, and his
father was barber. The curse of slavery
was removed from our land by the pen
stroke OF Abraham Lincoln. He ate the
bread OF hardship in childhood, and went
as poorly clad MS the humblest child in the
streets of any country village to-day. The
president elect of the United States was
once poor, Woodworking, friendless boy.
Ihe great missionary of the century is DR..
Livingstone. He learned Latin from "A book
on his loom while at work. and he once
SAID proudly on completing his education,
" nee had a dollar that did not earn"
Professor Heyne, one of the greatest schol-
ars that Germany or the world ever pro.
duced. was penniless child. Want, ;"
SAID lie " was the companion of my child
mood well remember my mothers dis
tress, when without food for her children.
l have seen her on Saturday evening,
weeping and wringing her hands as she
returned home, having been unable to sell
the goods that my father had made" A |
kind family helped him in his distress at
school, and in so doing honored themselves
and their country in "A way o: which they
dld not dream. Some forty years ago, |
there lived in one of the country towns of
New York Il slender little factory girl. |
She speaks of her early recollections of
. noise and filth, bleeding hands, sore feet
and very sad heart" She says, II used |
often TO rise ut two o'clock in the morning,
and do the washing for the family" She
found friends. That girl was Emily
Chubbuck Judson. He who protects, as
'lsts, educates friendless children, makes
,he best contribution to the future that
human resource can find. He builds him
,elf monument, not in marble, but in in
1uence. Lips will call him blessed when
he moss is filling the letters of his ceno.
aph. He lives for ends that do not termi-
late in himself.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

PURE WATER.-Those who have heard
John b Cough apostrophze a goblet of
water--lifting it on high-in his glowing
imagery of the good, the pure and true,
will not fail to enjoy the following beauti-
fnl thoughts of Mr.. A. E Ballard: "God
never gave Us the intoxic lnts. None of
them are of His making. He gives us the
water. He mingles the pure gases togeth
er and produces it. Then he pours it into
the rock basins of the sea for preservation
while lie purities iC, Then He divides it
into pieces of vapor so small as to defy the
Vlson and lifts them with the gentle arms
OF the wind into the armament, when everv
particle is examined through the clear
glass OF the sunlight purifying them with
It's glory, He puts them into the pools of the
clouds, where He rounds them into drops
and pours them down upon the earth in
showers for the drinking of its fora.
Some of these PARTICLES He folds around
with the cold, forming them into beautiful
snow crystals and laying them down upon
the tops OF the mountains, where He sends
the san to kiss them into Weakening OF
warmth and life. Then they go down that
mountain side IN the sportiveness of Glad.
den4d childhood; they leap in cascades
the7 rush over the rocks foaming with
laughter; they hide among the bushes
thet reappear in the streamets; they mur
mul to the fern flinges of their margins
they find the hidden paths of nature and
60 down secretly to the mountain s foot.
where they bubble their JOY in springs, or
secllde themselves in the cool, damp eel
lars OF the earth which He has masoned
into reservoirs till the wells 90 down to
them and bring them up for the cooling of
thlrst ana the sustenance of life. For hui
man disorders he medicates it with the
salts and the sulphur and the magnesia
anc the iron. For luxuries he puts it INTO
the mouths Of the roots, and pours it
through the sap veins into the fruits of the
grape and the berry and the peach and all
the myriad forms of life. For our sense
OF beauty he causes it to diamond the dew
drop, and sapphire the rainfall, and flash
IN the streamlet and sparkle in the cas-
cad9 and whlten in the waterfall, and color
IN tine rivers, and emerald in the ocean
everywhere in bushes ofI
sllvey glainess over the sun smiles of the
Creaer. Beyond us the one deep curse of
the lost world is that there is no water In
the first Eden there was Il stream in its
centte which parted into four heads, so
that everywhere the eye rested on water.
In the Eden which is to come the river of
the water of life is its greatest attraction.
For the angels who are at home in the
other world, there flows from beneath the
throne pure river of water, clear as crvs-
tai. for the refreshing of their glory.
Everywhere water; never once n rotten |
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26
HINTS FOR CONvERsATION.-T

HINTS FOR CoNvERsATTON.-Th is
one rule of conversation which should be
thoroughly impressed on the mind, which
is to remember there are two persons of
whom you should never suffer Yourself to
speak-one is yours If and the other your
enemy. The reason is evident; you run
into two dangers-egotism and injustice
Women are too Justly accused of a love
of scandal. and in group or ladies col
lected for a chat" it often happens that
severe remarks on the conduct or motive
of their neighbors form the staple OF their
conversation. The time passed in CONVEX
sation on servants and babies. or the more
reprehensible animadversions we have Just
allnded tn, is neither very entertaining nor
very instructive. The topics of the day,
the new books, amusing anecdotes, pretty
works and graceful feminine occupations
should firm the staple of conversation.
They are subjects free from danger to that
"unruly member" which requires such
constant restraint.
From mind we'll stored with good
reading. good words are almost sure to
emanate; and more attractive than beauty
is the pleasant, intelligent companion
whose clever and original remarks will
be full of refreshment to the tired man of
business on his return home, who will
know that at home a bright welcome
awaits him from one whose pleasant
talk" will refresh and amuse him, and
render the evenings at home as agreeable
as those passed in society.
Having fully impressed yourselves with
the first rule we have laid down respecting
the two subjects of conversation to be
avoided, | would suggest that you should
remember never to talk too fast nor too
loud.
Many mothers, and those who have the
care of the young. are apt to restrain
them too strictly from conversation during
meals. 1t is better to make rule that
they should speak only when spoken to,
and then address them on subjects suited
to their comprehension, encouraging them
to give their own ideas of things that are
daily occurring, questioning them on the
books they have read. and drawing out
their minds, so that conversation will be
no effort to them when they go out into
society. and that painful mauUaise honte,
which makes girl afraid to hear the
sound of her own voice, will be effectually
avoided
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

The HUMAN FIGURE.-The height of the
human figure is six times the length of the
feet. Whether the form is slender or
plump, the rule holds good; and deviation
Is a departure from the highest beauty in
proportion. The Greeks made all their
statues according to this rule. The face
from the highest point of the forehead
where the hair begins, to the chin, is one
tenth OF the whole stature. The hand
from the wrist to the end of the middle
hnger, Is the same. From the top of the
chest to the highest point of the forehead
is a seventh If the face, from the roots
of the hair to the chin, be divided into
three equal parts, the first division deter
mines the place where the eyebrows meet,
and the second the place Of the nostrils.
The height from the feet TO the top of the
head is the distance between the extremity
OF the fingers when the arnsare extended.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

JAMAICA RUM.-For good many wears
it has been difficult thing to obtain a
good article of Jamncia rum. Dealers in
liquors have frankly admitted that the
beverage does not improve with age, but
is apt to detiriorate in flavor and taste,
and so they put off the purchaser with the
next best thing, pure old St. Croix."
But, thanks to the inventive genius of the
universal Yankee nation, better day
dawns upon us. Henceforth the market
is to be abundantly supplied with good
old Jamaica" and it will be an article
that will not spoil with age either. In
New York these men of genius have
discovered that an excellent article of
Jamaica spirits" can be made from cast.
off boots and shoes; and as the number of
these worn out poi tions of attire in New
York and Brooklyn which the ragpickers
gather annually and sell to the manufac-
turers reaches at least 3,000,00O the lovers
OF Jamaica can calculate for themselves
what chances they stand of getting a
genuine article when they step up to bar
and call for Jamaica rum. The Evening
Post says the number of old shoes that 90
to gallon of rum cannot be ascertained;
but this of course must vary. Some old
shoes are more classic in their associa-
tions. and have a more fragrant and de-
licious odor than others. For instance, a
pair that has been worn for year or
more by healthy man in a tan yard must
be capable of yielding richer extract
than pair worn by an exquisite capering
nimbly in his lady's chamber to the las
civious pleasings of late. 1t would be
interesting to know just how the rae
pickers and manufacturers adjust the
difference in the value of these cast-off
and still the matter is one of
trlding moment compared with the
weightier consideration that the country
is to be well supplied with choice article
OF Jamaica rum"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

A PARROTS RoGUERY. Human nature
must have certain liking for SUFFERING
vexation AS we'll as giving it,-otherwise
monkeys and parrots would not maintain
their place as they do among pets and
family companions.
An amusing story is told by Lord Dun
donald in his autobiography of a parrot
which used to accompany him to sea. and
whsch used to mark its sojourn on board
the vessel by getting into as much mischief
as possible.
One day a party of ladies paid a visit to
Lord Dundonald and his officers, and had
10 be hoisted on deck by the usual means
OF whip on the mainvard. The parrot
gravely pcrched aloft, was an Interested
witness of the scene
The ladies had all but one been safely
landed on deck, and this exception had
been hauled up to the level of the deck
and would have been safe in an instant,
But the parrot. ever on the lookout for
fun cried. "Let 60"
The order was instantly obeyed and de-
spite the screams and protestatons of the
unfortunate lady, she was slipped down
again and soundly soused in the sea, OF
course she was promptly rescued, but his
tory is dumb as to what befell the parrot.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26
The only representatives of the monkey

The only representatives of the monkey
tribe now found native in Enrop" is the
baboon of Barbary, Of which colony of
twenty-fivo individuals stItl exists on the
rock OF Gibraltar. The officers of the
tort have orders to protect the animals
and to record all curious facts regarding
them. The apes always avoid the wind
by taking the side of the rock that shell
ters them from it, and are keen at detect
ing changes in the weather. They eat
grass, roots, bulbs, especially of oxalis,
wild olives, and small native date,
They will not touch the fruits the soldiers
leave for them. except they be grapes. but
sometimes go down into the gardens for
hgs. and are very agile climbers of the
rock.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

PERFUME.-No one has yet been able to
analyze or demonstrate the essential ac.
ton OF perfume. Gas can be weighed but
not scents; the smallest known creatures
the very monads of lfe-can be caught by
microscope lens and made to deliver IN
the secrets of their organizations; hut
what it is that emanates from the pouch OF
the muskdeer that fills whole space for
years and years with its penetrating odor
--an odor which an illimitable number of
extraneous substances can cvrry on With
out diminishing its size and weight-and
what it is that the warm summer air
brings to US from the flowers, no man has
yet been able to determine. So fine, so
subtitle, SO imponderable. it has eluded
both our most delicate weights and mea-
sures and our strongest senses. If we
come to the essence of each odor. we
should have made an enormous stride for.
ward both in hygien and chemistry; and
none would profit more than the medical
profession, if it could be as concIusively
demonstrated that such an odor proceeded
from such and such cause, as we already
know of sulphur. sulphurated hydrogen.
and the like.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26
EFFECT OF SMOKING IN TENDER YEARs,

EFFECT OF SMOKING IN TENDER YEARS.
One of the English medical journals re-
cords the observations of a physician who
has been investigating with great thor
oughness the effect of tobacco smoking on
boys. He took for this purpose thirty
eight boys from nine to fifteen years and
carefully examined them. In twenty
seven he discovered injurious traces of the
habit. In twenty-five there were various
disorders of the circulation and digestion,
palpltation of the heart and more or less
taste for strong drink. In twelve of the
cases there were frequent bleedings of the
nose ten had disturbed sleep and twelve
had slight liberation of the mucous men,
brane of the mouth. which disappeared on
ceaslng the use of tobacco for some days.
The doctor treated them all for weakness.
but with little effect, until the smoking
was discontinued, when health and
strength were soon restored.