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'WHEN publicly testified that ! had
been cured of Il terrible skin hunor by the
Cuticura Remedies, | did So that others
might ne cured, and do not regret the time
given to answering iuquiries.' Hon. Win.
Taylor, Boston.
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pt,. This i correct aceo",}i,r IN mile
Seth was born when Adam was 1870 Years
old. and was his last child Eut if the
rule were here reversed, as it is in the
authorized version. in the Fifth verse. it
would read thus: Adam lived , eco years
Hd bcgat Il son, This shocked the con
>riuusnr>S Of the Christian Translator.
and he VAS Gcivcn to the Iulc the Hebrew
uses in else of concrete numerals.
H. the 18th verse we have the force OF
the Violated RUE. thus: " .tnd all dc
days thai Adtm lived were 80 }cag> and
i,r L!td"" \. y. The uur reading If tit
s.,I. wnnla g ali the Gav, 81 .tdarn.
;y,,.,.n br lived syrr. = h,t,GyeI ,r;,rS
and he died " making the curily are -
\d,,; f:;g A. ..S instead ,.r $50 ,,;lS.
Iruff s.r seen. on examinations. t.lnt
concrete ,.rmrrai aGi.ctiyrs III Hebrew.
rs in Other I,u.,uan,s aur,a in number
,,itb nouns. !ulhr ease citr, in the \.
d,,Gs in the sinorlor ana not with wears
IN tnr ,,rurai The error j. seen at a
,.Ia,,cr for tI,r difference. between mine
car, md nine Hundred wears = is too
,rr,,t j.. f.c nyYr1oa,.p, in any careful
,rau,r,t;uu of = sacred book. The tlans-
l,1,,r assumed Ii,.,r ,,ipe here. AGREED with
m,,t. i,;u.,rc., j.. ;i,, text is itself a con
crete mineral, and separately "4rcr> with
wears. ,ur.ujuw a hundred Of wears: III
Inc dat. oi I'M, writing "l.ile huudrc,. ."
IF an, l.uli,her ef .Iund!c,.s above one
without .crr;lliou ot riruumi"cution.
! fnclc were ua!c Of the lnasoretic points
/ il use. liz the case of the age of Terah,
| the father Of Abraham, the translators
| have made the attempt to make two hun
t bred out of one hundred in the word ma
| thiu. used in the plm al as it might be to
agree with years. thus making Terah 2O5
/ instea oil lo5 years old at his death:
! holding the theory that the word mae
| cor lOo) would in the plural, m"thlm,
make 20. This is contrary to al! 1uit.
! he Hebrews could, by rlurailzlhg a
! mineral less than 10, add tenioid t" the
| unlt, thus: hemonh, =. heMoSheh, ~.
| This rule applied IL the case OF lerah'
! would make him ten times TO years ola
! or Loo years OLD. In the Gaze OF lerah
the historic record conciuslvely contra
! dts the translator, and hence demon
strates the lnle that rluralizing the hun
dred does not. III the Hebrew tongue.
! make wv "h'le is |" INC n"'ne' MS ''-
tween and 10 the rule might apply Thus
Shelesh, ), sheleshim, 80 and III ike
manner 10 10: With these corrections,
referring 10 'he ages "l Tie pau i'i'
before the Noaehiah deioSo' 'he af''eie
"o"'" Si1'" "o'''''' '''i ".''''' my
the age OF man since the GAVIN OIL his
tory
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CATARRH Relief i'll five minutes in
every case; gretifying, wholesome relief be-
you'd a money value. Cure begins from first
application, and is rapid, radical and perm
aueut. Ask for Santord's Radical Cure.
Complete for 81,
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POOR MEN S WIVES.

The trouble is, none Of cur young
women are willing to become poor men S
wives. prolessedly, even though they
may be so in reality. The girl who
marries upon one thousand dollars a year.
looks forward to life spent i'll second
rate boarding. houses, from which she
will squeeze out a certain cheap domcs
ticity and some expensive pleasures. The
children which Heaven may send are not
thought Of nor provided for. 1t is Il
question whether the young wife can
wholesome meal of vituals. She marries
for freedom. To have Il good time, to
spend money She neither earns nor helps to
earn-for Heaven knows what-hut Ger
tainiy not to make comfortable, if hum
Bile home. for her husband. In this re-
spect we consider the British girl has an
immense advantage over the American.
From the chest To the lowest circles of
society IN Great Britain, girls are trained
TO make good and useful wives, inasmuch
as the ladies preside over the departments
of their household and see that every
thing is kept clean, and that the food is
well cooked: SO also in the lower classes,
mothers teach their daughters to do the
same for themselves; without suffering
any loss Of dignity III the doing of it
Many of our American girls will be sur
prised to learn that the Princess Louise
frequently makes her pastry-and makes
it well, too. On one occasion some april
cot tarts of her making being praised by
a guest, the royal lady wrote out the
recipe. with the words underlined: :" If
You desire to have an apricot tart well
cooked, always make it with an upper
crust The story has IA point, and the
point is that no one can never know how
to do n thing too we'll
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

A CHEAP PLANT STANDING made a
very effective plant stand for our front
yard last summer in the following man.
ner: A cedar stake, two or three inches
in diameter, was driven into the ground
SO as 10 stand firmly and of the required
height, a small piece OF board nailed
across the top, and another piece, little
larger, nailed over this, so as to make a
substantial base. and cheesebox nailed
10 this. Then we filled the box half full
by putting in a couple OF inches Of sand.
and sphagnum over it. The whole was
than covered with the pendent lichen
which grows on our swamp cedars, so as
effectually 10 conceal tho materials used
in its construction, and the box filled
with plants in pots, tall ones in the centre
and smaller ones aronnd them, with trail
ing plants to hang over the sides. 1t was
shaded by trees during the hotter portions
of the day, and such plants as gleechoma,
alyssum, ivy, othonna crassifolia, etc.,
succeeded finely by merely pressing a
handful Of sphagnum around the base of
cuttings and pressing them into the space
between the pots.-Gardener'S Mon,hty.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

Concerning the recent celebration o.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves SEVENTEEN
birth day, at which notables from all over
the land We'd with each other in giving
praise to the heroine ofthe age, the Rutland
Herald says:
'1n 1850 there were no more abolition
lists, scarcely any more anti-slavery men
than there were when Phillips in 1887
spoke over Lovejoy's corpse more inspir.
ingly than Antony over Cesar. In 1851
the hunt for fugitive slaves q: the north
began. Twenty-six were dragged back
from Pennsylvania, twelve from New
York, and on the 18th Of April, 1851, Sims
was surrendered in Boston; the people
submitted, save the handful of abolition.
lists, whose pathetic and indignant elo-
quence was no more consequence to a
Bosten merchant than the aurora in a
winters night; it was brilliant, erratic and
beautiful. but it did not represent fuel nor
stand for flame. Just then when all brave
hearts were breaking fast at the shameful
sight plain, delicate, but broad.browed
little woman, whose lips were touched by
the finger of God, stood up and flung her
whole passionate. sympathetic soul into
the fight, and woman-like she cast her
soul on the weaker side; she warmed the
facts Of her experience to white heat of
wrath welded them together with fine
dramatic instinct; she fused her deep heart
and teeming brain into a glowing mass,
stamped it "Uncle TOMS Cabin" and
flung it at the head of the Moloch of
slavery in his most insolent hour of vic.
tory. From the day that this little won-
ans soul was flung, into this fight it was
steady march to victory without q halt
Luther and his Bible was no more to the
reformation than this woman and her
book was to the cause of the slave. Flo.
qaence, constitutional arguments, logic,
invective, all the ordinary masculine
weapons of agitation had been discharged
at the citadel of slavery, and not a stone
had been displaced upon its battlements,
but here was something mere than
eloquence, or argument, or law; it was
the ringing cry and pealing protest of a
woman's heart. beating through all the
pages of her book against wrongs upon
the primitive rights Of human nature,
wrongs that kill the soul before the body,
wrongs whose wide appeal whenever
sounded by master hand echo round the
earth, following as far as the religion of
humanity reaches through Christ to the
Koran. Mothers at the north cried over
it; mothers at the south began it with
angry contempt and yet finished it in tears
The wonderful dramatic genius of the
woman swept all hearts by storm. The
springs of human nature were smitten so
strongly that the angry politicians of both
parties found thamsalves like tho infidal
who went to church to scoff and remained
to pray. The heart of Europe was touch
ed as strongly as that of America"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

Sleep may knit up the raveled sleeve
Of care" but il won't darn the torn stock.
ings of poverty worth cent.
An editor has offered three dollars for
the best written love-etter. There are
some people who would give more than
that to get back some that they have
written.
Rev. j. Ii. Gaylord of Bernardston,
Mass, member of the Vermont confer.
ence, has been supplying tho pulpit at
Halifax Centre.
Rev. Messrs. Curtis and Sheath, theolog-
ical students from Yale, who are supplying
the Congregational churches at Williams
town and Weston with great acceptability
contemplate finishing their theological
course at Boston university and school Of
theology. Two students from the Mont.
pelier seminary-Newcomb Of 'S1 and
Poland of 'S2,-enter the same department
the coming September. So also do Messrs.
Knight and Tirrell of '82, Dartmouth. The
solid work which Boston university has
done is bringing il into increased favor
with the public.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

ode BEST WAY."-"Weil, Sam," said
his honor, I'm afraid I'll have to send you
up again; the evidence is pretty strong
against you. To be sure, as you remarked,
the chicken that you had under your coat
might have got there without your knowl-
edge. by climbing up the leg of your pant
aloons; but the evidence shows that it was
pratty dark night and tho chioken would
hardly have groped its way to its comfort
able roost without creating some little
commotion.
Besides. that fails to account for the
presence Of the one you had In your hat,
the two in your coat tails, and the trunk
you had slung over your back. But must
confess that the evidence does not set forth
how it was possible for you to steal those
chickens when they are roosting right
under the owners window and there were
two savage dogs in the yard. How did
you manage it?"
"Bless de Lord, Massa Jedge, it won't
do no good fer dis child to splain how |
kotched dem chickens, for you couldn't do
it in forty times yerself, and yer mout get
yerself kotched by der dog, an yer hide
full O buckshot de erry fust time yer put
yer leg ober de fence. De best way for
yer to do, Massa Jedge. am for yer to buy
yer chickens in de market"
"Sixty days. said his honor Chicago
Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

Doc TEAMS IN GERMANY.-A Berlin
letter says:-One sees various combina-
tions and styles of dog teams, varying,
Of course, with the wealth and station OF
life of the owners. For ordinary pur.
poses and light work single dog is
sufficient, but when the load to be
drawn is n little heavier, and the owner s
purse will not admit of the extra expense
Of another dog to foed. a boy is put on the
other side OF the tongue, and dog and boy
90 contentcdly along together, the dog, Of
course doing most Of the work, and the
boy, as all boys will, amusing himself by
whistling, racing with other teams, and
stopping now and then to discuss matters
with other boys. When there isn't boy
handy, which is tolerably frequent. an old
woman or girl bitches herself in alongside
the dog and tugs alongside stoldly, feel
ing, no doubt, happy and contented in her
possession of one of woman's rights.
Those who are little wealtLier or little
more aristocratic employ double team of
dogs, and the creme de la creme, so TO
speak, of the peasantry 90 to the extrava-
gance of hitching in three dogs. But this
latter is rather rare, because the old WON.
on are sufficiently numerous to enable
one to avoid such an extravagsnt outlay.
The old women must be fed and why
should they remain idle? Not only are
these dog teams employed by the peasants
to draw their loads of vegetables, milk
and the like, but some of tho stores have
them attached 10 delivery wagons.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

Mis-. LIvERMoRE AND THE SOLDIERS
WIDOWS RTNG.-When Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore lectured in Albion, Michigan,
recently, at the close of the lecture an
elderly white.haired woman approached
her with the following inquiry: "Do you
remember writing letter for John --
of the 18th Michigan Volunteers, when he
lay dying in the Overton hospital at Mem
phis. during the spring of 1868, and Of
completing the letter to his wife and
mother after he had died2 Mrs. Liver.
more replied that she wrote so many let
ters during the war, under similar circum-
stances, that she could not recall any par
ticular case.
The woman drew long letter from her
pocket that had been torn into pieces in
the folds of the note and was then stitched
together with fine sewing cotton. "Do you
remember this letter." she asked. Mrs
Livermore recognized her penmanship
and admitted her authorship Of the letter.
The first four pages were written TO his
wife and mother, at the diotation of a
young soldier who had been shot through
the lungs, and was dying Of the wound.
Then she had completed the letter by the
addition of three pages written by herself,
beside the dead husband and son, in which
she sought to comfort the lonely and be-
reaved relatives.
II think my daughter-in.law and
would have died when we heard that John
was dead but for this letter." said the
worn and weary looking woman. ut
comforted us both, and by andbye, when
we heard of other women similarly atllict-
ed, we sent them the letter to read, till it
was worn in pieces. Then we sewed the
pieces together and made copies of the
letter, which we sent to those of our &C.
quaintance whom tho war bcreft. But
Annie, my sons wife. never got over
Johns death. She kept about and worked
and went to church, but the life had gone
out of her. Eight years ago she died of
gastric fever. One day, little before her
death, she said: Mother, if you ever find
Mrs. Livermore, or hear of her, l wish you
would give her my wedding ring, which
has never beer off my finger since John
put it there, and which will not be- taken
of till am dead. Ask her to wear it for
Johns sake and mine, and tell her that
this was my dying request"
II live eight miles from here" contin.
ued the woman, "and when read in the
papers that you were to lecture here to-
night decided to drive over and give you
the ring, if you will accept it," Deeply
affected by this touching narrative, not n
particular of which she is able to recall,
Mrs. Livermore extended her hand, and
the widowed and childless woman put the
ring on her finger with fervently uttered
benediction.- Youths Companion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

Georgia has not been regarded as a
particularly progressive state, and yet it
has been the first to enact no-fence law.
One of its features was county option
and Coweta county was the first one to
put it in operation. After years exper-
ience the new law is reported to be
perfectly satisfactory in its working, and
the system of fencing cattle in as against
fencing cattle out is declared to be worth
thousands of dollars to the people Of the
county. To fence the cultivated lands of
Coweta under the old system cost $S9i,.
09f. and it required 100000 year to
keep the fences In repair. The law gets
rid Of tbree-fourths of the fences,
reducing the cost to s223,7O0, and
bringing the annual expense for repairs
down to $22,500. The total value of all
the cattle in the county is 1894 4,4S5, or less
than half what the fences cost under the
old plan. The result of the no.fence law
there, has been to increase the acreage of
the crops by 26 per cent, and to add SEN
sibly to the wealth and prosperity of the
far rmers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

BEAUTIFUL HANDs.-There was dis
pute among three maidens rs to which
had the most beautiful hand. One sat by
the stream and dipped her hand in the
stream and held il up. Another plucked
strawberries until the ends of her fingers
were pink and another gathered volets
until her hands were fragrant. An old,
haggard woman, passing by asked "Who
will give me gift, for am poor9' All
three denied her, but another who sat near,
unwashed in the stream. unstained with
fruit, unadorned with flowers, gave her n
little gift and satisfied the poor woman.
And then she asked what was the dispute,
and they told her and lifted up before her
their beautiful hands. Beautiful indced!''
she said when she saw them. But when
they asked her which was the most beau
tiful she said: at is not the hand that is
washed clean in the brook; it is not the
hand that is tipped with red; it is not the
hand that is garlanded with fragrant
flowers. but it is the hand that gives to the
POOR which is the most beautiful"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

The Music or THE MosQUIro. Mr.
Beecher, in his quaint work. Eyes and
Ears" has tho following whimsical re
marks upon the musical gihs of tho mos
quito: "a. mosquito has an intense
individuality. Other insects there are thai
love plunder. that will shed blood t1 secure
their ends. they are powerless to do 50 at
night. But this only of these adventures
commits depreciation under tho color of
line arts. Other insects, that shall be
nameless, make n business of supplying
their hunger without refinement, without
the accomplishments of conversation or
any refinement whatever. 1t is mere ap-
petite. But mosquito will not gorge
himself for tho sake of eating; he will first
offer you song, he will exhibit you many
feats of dexterity; he is y good gymnsst
and nimble enough. Your first intimstion
OF his presence is the finest audible sounds,
as II he had strung gossamer upon his
violin and was sounding the scale far up
in those tones which end the earthly scale
and join on the ethereal sounds too fine for
gross mortal ears. 1t is not dull mono.
tone. His swift flight and habit of ex-
cursion give 10 his music the variable and
intermitting ELECTS noticed in an ;eolian
harp-now loud, now soft, now near, and
now far distant. 1t is this variety. among
other things, that gives such effect to his
music. Many persons who do not listen
to common music listen instantly when
ever they hear his. Persons without any
natural musical car can detect to nicely
every note of this airy mucian, and often
he sets them TO beating time for him.
Some have supposed the mosquito was of
a devout turn, and never would partake of
a meal without saying grace; but that can
hardly be-so long is tho ceremony-un:
loss he be imagined Puritan, addicteu to
excessive length of service. Others sup
posed him n gallant out on serenadc,
singing gaily to some fair one; or some
roysterer returning home from too convival
a meeting, and singing ditties and snatch
es as he goes along. But no one who ex-
amines this gentle creature can held these
theories. He is spare. which indicates
temperate habits; he is slight and slender,
and may be little vain of his figure, but
the sober gray of his dress shows that he
is not a conceited fop. am, upon pro.
found meditation, satisfied that the mos.
quito has natural voice; that, like the
he sings OF preference at
night, and that bloodsuckiug is but an
incident, while the fine arts are the true
aim of his being.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

A VERY Curious RIDDLE.-Here is a
curious old story that is something like a
puzzle A crocodile stole a baby, sin the
days when animals could talk" and was
about to make dinner of it. The poor
mother begged piteously for her child.
Tell me one truth" said the crocodile,
"and you shall have your baby again y
The mother thought it over, and at last
said; "You will not give him back" "Is
that the truth you mean 10 tell P" asked
the crocodile. YES" replied the mother.
Then by our agreement l keep him !"
added the crocodile; "for if you told me
the truth l am not going to give him back,
and If it is falsehood, then I have also
won." Said she: mo, you are wrong.
If told the truth you are bound by your
promise; and, if falsehood, it is not
falsehood until you have given me my
child" Now the question is, who won?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

THE HEAVIEST LOCOMOTIVE IN THE
WoRLD.-The Pennsylvania railroad has
recently built the heaviest engine in the
world. Jumbo" as the novel steam
monster is called by the habitues of the
round house, is ungainly in appearance,
weighs 120,400 pounds, or little over
sixty tons, and is fitted with five-feet
driving wheel. The cylinder is a 17x24,
and the water tank which has a capacity
of 1000 gallons surrounds the entire fire
box which is eight feet deep. The engine
is so constructed as to run in either direc-
tion and has o pilot at each end. The
locomotive is one solid frame, there being
no break between the tender and the en-
gine proper. The cab, which is entirely
closed, is about three times the size OF that
of other engines. Either hard or soft coal
may po used. "JumUU" las u patent hot
water reversing gear, which has never
been put into practical use on any engine
in this country. AS is generally known,
engines are reversed by the power Of
steam. Jumbo" is so constructed as to
be reversed with the hot water from the
boiler, and virtually reversos itself, saving
the engineer physical work, as all he has
to do is to touch n spring and the engine
will instantly change its course. Jumbo"
is probably the heaviest locomotive in the
world.