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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

CHILDREN ErIQUErrE,-Always say
yes sir, no sir, yes papa NJ tn INK yIr,
good night, good morning.
Use no slang words.
Clean faces, clean clothes, clean shoes
and clean finger nails, indicate good brce /
ing.
Never leave your clothes about the
room. Have a place for everything, and
everything in its place.
Rap before entering Il room, aud never
leave it with your back to the. company
Remember this.
Always offer your seat to a laly or old
gentleman.
Never put your feet on cushions, chair
or table.
Never overlook any one when reading!
or writing, nor talk or read aloud while
others are reading.
Never talk or whisper at meetings ol
public places, and especially in privat,
room where any one is singing or playing
on the piano.
Be aleful to injure no ones feelings by
unkind remarks.
Never tell tales, make faces, call names
ridicule the lame, mimic the unfortunlle,
nor be cluel to insects, birds or anything
else.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

WEAR or Corn AND BANK NOTES -
The relative cost in wear and tear of gold
coin rs compared with bank notes has
lately been investigated in England, and
the advantage been founl to be largely
with the coin. To manufacture million
of sovereigns cost $4,000. or about a cent
apiece. In fifteen years they lose in
weight one half Of one per cent, or about
$4,000, and become too light for further
use. This makes their total xpense as
currency for the fifteen years $35,O00.
The paper and printing Of million one.
pound notes would cost. it is estimated,
four cents apiece. or 10000 at the outset,
and during fifteen years they would have
to be replaced at least three times, or,
with active use, six times, thus requiring
IN outlay of certainly Sl6O,O0O. and per-
haps S2S0,O00, for the same period that a
million sovereiGns would remain in circu-
lation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

Even Sitka, in Alaska, has attractive
and picturesque features to interest the
tourist. A correspondent of the San Fran.
cisco BNlLetW writes: Tho weather
during the month of June has been delight.
full. A succession of clear, sunny days,
tempered by cool winds; lovely cloudless
nights, when the twilight glow of sunset
mingled with the rosy tingos of dawn, the
sun setting in tho northwest and making
his appearance in tho northeast While
we are not in sufficiently high latitude
to witness the strange phenomenon of tho
midnight sun, We are on the verge of the
region of nightless days. For about seven
days-from June 2l to % inclusive-day.
light does not disappear, and VIC read an
ordinary newspaper, under the open sky
at the witching hour of midnight every
night between the above dates. Tho hfr.
Dor Of Sitka, with its numerous islets, and
tho picturesque setting of the little town,
with It's magnificent background of snow.
covered mountains, including tho volcanic
Edgecombe, challenges the attention and
admiration Of the most blaso traveller"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

1t is we'll Tor young men starting out in
life to know that when vocation is once
selected it is best to stick to it. If the
task is disagreeable, it should be remem.
bered that there is no position in life with
out its unpleasant surroundi ngs. II one
task is dropped to pursue another, it also
may be found unsatisfactory, The young
man, for instance, who is at one thing
to-day that disappoints him,and at another
tomorrow which atfordsno greater delight
how manufacturing, then farming,
to-day reading law, tomorrow studying
medicine-sooner or later finds himself
Jack of all trades and master of none"
Such persons gain no confidence in them
selves, and inspire less in others, and In
the end have no reputation. II may be
set down as an axiom that, having delib,
erately chosen line Of life, it is ordinarily
best TO stick to it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

MONKEY TRICKS An old monkey sat
asleep in n snug corner, with FREUD
nesting against him and indulging like
wise in comfortable snooze. Presently -
young skylarker approached them some
what timidly, and sqmtting beside the
friend, sat quiet for some seconds, then
suddenly, as if possessed BY some mali
cious inspiration. he reached his arm out
cautiously behind the slnmbering friend
and gave the elderly monkey "A whackn9
box on the ear. lie. waking in just wrath.
end unsuspcious OF the truh-tor the cul-
prit was w:shammng sleep and looked
the picture Of innCcence-llew upon his
friend with IN indictment for assault, and
chivied him with monstrous clunourround
the cage, while the cuplit sat regarding
them and iabbering with joy. Some little
time after, the performance was repeated;
the old monkey and his friend having set
tied in the corner, and the assault AMI
wrongful punishment occurring as before.
Once again the trick was tried. but the
friend, who had twice suffered, was sham
ming sleep this time, and caught the cul.
prlt in the act, and, with the hel lp of the
old monkey, gave him good drubbing,
which, indeed, he well deserved.-.4N The
Year Round.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

HAVE FAITH IN BoY3-Some what
more than fifty years ago, was appoint
ed midshipman in the navy and sent to
New York. was only fourteen years
old, and being of delicate make and
small stature, did not look more than
eleven. My previous life had been spent
in the country, and | knew nothing Of
city ways or business proceedings. Pay
day was the thirtieth of the month, but |
wanted some money on the twentieth, and
passing through Wall street went into n
brokers' office and said:
"You lend money hero, do you not?'
"Yes."
81 want 10 borrow twenty dollars for
ten days" said.
| did not then understand the quizical
manner with which the broker looked at
mo before replying:
You shall have it, and | won't charge
you interest for it either"
He gave me the money and | signed the
receipt; and, need not add, the twenty
dollars werc promptly returned at the
expiration of ten days, am sorry that
have forgotten the name of the broker
mentioned the incident many years
alterward TO n gentleman who SAID 1t was
the most extraordinary story he had ever
heard of Wall street broker, of all men.
The other case happened in Washington
about fifteen years ago. was standing
in tho porch of Wllard's hotel. when {
little boy with bright, honest face said tc
me:
- Please, sir, lend Inc twenty live cents
TO set up in business? | want 10 buy
some newspapers to SELL"
replied:
MY boy, | haven't got twenty-five
cents, but here are fifty cents, and when
you want to return it you will find me At
this hotel"
Thank you" said the little lad
will bring it back.
never expected to see him or the mo J.
ey again and considered it a donation
but in the evening as l was walking up
and down in the entrance hall smoking
my coat was pulled by a little newsboy
and l turned and beheld the youngsteI
who had applied for loan in the morn
ing, with the same bright face that had
attracted me then.
Well, nv man, what is it?' | said, a
though l didn't know him.
Il have brought you back your fifty
cents, sir" said he, " and | am ever 81
much obliged to you. have made moro
than dollar clear profit with your mon
y."--Erchange.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

The WASHINGTON MoNUMENT.-Th
white, tall, plain shaft of the Washington
monument is foot by foot daily rising sky
ward, and its comrs6ion, in due course
of time, is now assured says the Wash
ngton Posi-. 1t is already landmark
visible from any part of Washington, and
the inhabitants, after generation of ridi.
cule, are beginning TO be proud OF it.
tectural wonder, modern science proposes
to utilize it for pnblic benefit. The signal
Office expects to have permanent station
at its summit, and its officers say that OBJ
servatons of tho air and atmospheric
movements taken at an altitude of $50
feet will be of great value. Observations
are taken, of course. Mt far greater alti
tudes than this, but tho gradual slope of
even the precipitous mountains and the
presence of large masses of rock near the
observatory create surface currents, even
on mountain heights, and interfere with
the study of the phenomana of tho higher
levels of the atmosphere. 1t has often
been proposed to institute series of these
experiments by means of captive balloons
but the expense of such work prevented
tho plans being carried out. The monu-
mcnt is now 260 feet high. Tho original
design contemplated height of 500 feet,
but Mt n moeting of the commissioners
two years ago, when it was decided to re-
sumo tho work, it was voted to mako tho
monument the loftiest structure in the
world. The commissioners examined the
heights Of all the noted monuments,
towers, pagodas, spires, buildings and flag
poles, and found that TO safely distance all
rivalry hoight of $50 feet would be nee.
essary. 1t was therefore determined to
complete the shaft on this plan, and the
drawings were modified to that end. What
was the surprise and qualification of the
commissioners TO find subsequently that
the new proportions Of tho shaft as now
adopted were exactly those Of an Egyptian
nheli.k.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

before existed between New Orleans and
the sea. II is claimed by his critics. how
ever, that the effect of his work is to retard
the How OF the river above it, and by the
consequent settling of the silt held in
solution, TO build up the bottom of tbe
river. and thus increase the dancer of
overflow.
The plan of the Mississippi river com
mission IS more elaborate than anv other
Gere described. They propose TO narrow
Inc wide places in the river 10 n uniform
width of 5000 feet. in order that the bot.
tom shall be secured out in the shallow
places, and they propose 10 strengthen
the banks, and regulate the shape of the
bottom by wire and woven brush mattress
es, or Innings. TO be laid in such places as
The river would naturally cat away. In
conjunction with this it is proposed to
strengthen the system of levees. though
this Is not a part of the work of the COM
mission. These wire and brush M ,ttress.
es are to be placed in position in such a
way as to encourage the settling of sedi.
ment IN places where it is desired to have
the revetments, and they are to be secured
with rubblc stone, while in places stone
pavements are 20 be constructed. There
are. of course, in plan of this kind, an
enormous number of details that cannot
be described within the limits of a maga.
zine article, but the general scope of the
plan has been fairly told.
As was to be expected, the plan has been
severely criticised, and numberess argu.
ments have been made to show the defects
in its theory. Whether it is sound or not
however, the theory has been adopted by
the government, and the work is in prog.
ress. The lowest estimate of it's cost by
one of the commission was $4,000, 900,
and another member said it would be no,
more than Si6,000,0OO. Its opponents
however. declare that ten times that sun
will not complete it satsfactorily.-Daril
d. curtis, in Htyper's Mtga:iae for Sep
temJcr.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

declares that so great would be the suffer-
ering of those times that except the days
be shortened the whole people would per.
ish. But for the sake of tho elect, or
chosen, he declares the days will be short t.
ened. We little know how many calam.
itics have been nverted from individuals
and nations for the elects sake. The
people of God have been and are the con.
Scrvators of the race; and because God
owes his people, he defends and protects
he nations where they largely dwell.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

A little Philadelphia hoy had his long
curls cut off the other day, and was an
noyingly reminded of the fact by the re.
marks of his friends. 70 his deligh. he
escaped them by going with his f,mily to
the country. Soon after his arrival, how.
ever, he came running into the house in
great sorrow, crying, mamma, mamma,
even the hens laugh at me; they all say,
'Cut-cut-cut-g got-your-h r-hair-cutr "
Henry Erskine, pleading before Lord
Thurlow, had to speak of a certain cura-
tor, and gave the Scotch pronunciation of
the word, with the accent on the first
syllable. Pardon me, SIR said Thur
low. I'VE pronounce the word cu-ra.tor
in English, following the analogy of the
Latin language, in which the penultimate
syllable is long" THANK YOU, nv
lord" replied Erskine," and l bow at
once to the authority Of IL SO na-tor so
learned and an ora tor 50 eloquent as
your lordship."
A correspondent of Vick's magazine
recommends the use of salt in eXtermina-
ting white worms. /" In order to kill the
white worms in plant boxes. used about
a teaspoonful of salt to each gallon of soil.
Just sprinkled the silt on the surface
and then stirred it up we'll. and l have
not seen any since. | put salt around
geraniums, fuschias. begonias and parlor
ivy. do not think the salt did them any
harm 1t is n very simple method, and
easily practIced. | shall try it on cabbage
plants for cut worms.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

Guess we're all right nowr' pulled the
old gentleman ns, mOppng the perspira
tion from his forehead, he reached the
landing with his wife Just in
time to be too l,te; guess we're all right. "
"Guess we're all right, 10 vou?" rel ,inel
she, catching glimpse of the steamer rs
it disappeared around bend in the river
Guess we're all right! Well, | guess
we're all left" and thev were Detroit
Free Press
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

"PERTECrLY HARMLESS" "A Londoner
who lately crossed from Canada to Ogcns-
burg asked the hack driver as to to popu.
lation and form of government of Ogens-
burg. On being informed that it was an
incorporated city,the chief officer of which
was mayor, he inquired: And does the
mayor wear the insignia of oflice?" "In-
sigma, what's that?" asked the astonished
hackman. "Why, a chain about his neck,
explained the Cockney. ooh, bless you,
no." responded the other; "he's perfectly
harmless, and goes about loose. ."-BOSton
Budget
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

ROTATION OF CRorS.-Experiments
by Sir John Lawes, tho eminent agricul-
turist, have proved that. with proper ma
nurc, the rotation of crops is unnecessary,
amsted foT thrty-eight years i'll succession,
turnips-with an interval OF three years
for twenty-five, barley for thirty years,
and so on and, tax ing the results of, say,
twenty years, the annual average produce
in bushels Of wheat per acre without ma
nure was sixteen and a quarter, with
farm-yard manure exactly double, and
with artificial manure thirtyiiye and three
quarter bushels.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

A little girl, of two and half years,
picked upa cane in the corner of the
room and was playing with it-a plain
stick bent at the end. Papa asked.
"What are you doing with tho cane?"
1T isn't a cane" What il it lhen?'
Its IN umbrella withoutauy clothes on"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-16
Whit whitman on the Noon.

No one ever gets tired Of the moon. God
dess that she is by dover of her eternal beauty,
she is true woman by her tact-knows the
charms of being seldom seen, of coming by
surprise and of staying but little while;
never wears the same dress two nights run
ming, nor all night the same way, commends
herself to the matter-of-fact people by her
usefulness, and makes her usefulness adored
by poets, artists and all lovers in all lands /;
lends herself to every symbolism and TO every
emblem; is Diana's bow and Venus's mirror
and Mary's throne is a sickle, scarf, an
eyebrow, his face or her face, as looked at by
her or by him: is the madman's hell, the
poets heaven, the baby's toy, the philoso-
piers study; and, while her admirers fol-
low her footsteps and hang on, her lovely
looks she knows how to Keep her woman's
secret-her other side unguessed and I'M
guessable.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-16
Man as a HOusekeeper.

| Penelope in Indianapolis Review.
Man is creature that has always elected
our unqualified admiration; he is in many
capacities useful, and by q judicious arrange
ment of blue cloth and brass buttons, can Of
ten be rendered to certain degree ornamen-
tai In the sphere of action for which his
many estimable characteristics have qualified
him, we accept him without murmur; but
when it comes to having him foisted upon us as
housekeeper We Indignantly reject him. We
have wintered and summered him in that cap
acity, and he is an ignominious failure For
the ornamental part of housekeeping he is
peculiarly untitled; his soul is closed, and his
vision dim to the truly beautiful He scorns
brio -brac, and is not susceptible to the en-
nobling and refining influence of that home
angel, the tidy. If there were fifteen tides on
one chair he would manage to crumple ten
under him and get up with the rest on his
back He is sworn enemy to all decorative
art and if not watched will go to bed on the
pillow shams He pulls the bed clothes out
by the roots when he gets up; he leaves water
the floor He makes hat rack of the piano,
and expects to find his slippers just where he
left them last week.
His idea of being comfortable is to throw
open every door and window in the house,
and, as to becoming arrangement of lights and
shades, his mind is a perfect blank He
never was known to make knot in a towel
and chase flies out of the room, and il he does
not see what he wants the minute he opens
the bureau drawer, he knows it ls not there
and YOU cannot, convince him to the contrary.
He lacks adroitness and always drags out the
weak legged chair for a visitor to sit in. His
mind is not nimble at taking hints; we have
seen man who understood Emerson, help
himself to the last slice of cake, with company
present, and unblushingly call for more, not
withstanding his wife was kicking him under
the table and winking at him over it. 1t will
readily be seen that he is, by nature and ed
ucation, totally disqualified to act as goddess Of
the home His occasional presence is neces-
sary to have him patronizs the deserving in
stitution at least three times day, and it looks
well to see him sitting around in the evenings,
but it would never do to leave him in charge
of the dearest spot on earth. He would bank
rupt domestic bliss in week. Let all who
are interested in the preservation and mainte-
nance of the freside, humbly petition the
managers of this new movement to exempt q
few able bodied industrious women to con-
tinue the time -honored and laudable employ
ment Of housekeeping; or at least, to post
pone any radical change until few men nave
been taught to discriminate between macrame
lace and dish towels.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-16
6 CREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUT

advantages comforts
VEL
RECLINING CHAIR CARS
FINEST RUN UPON ANY
h low rate OF
CHICAGO
CHICAGO MINNEAPOLIS
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-16
Highest Bridge In the World.

New York Graphic.
The highest railroad bridge in the world,
now being constructed on the extension Of the
Bradford branch of the New York, Lake Erie
and Western railroad, is now nearly half COM
pleted, and will no doubt be finished and
trains crossing within six weeks. The bridge
spans a deep ravine, at the bottom Of which
flows tho Kinzua creek, situated in Mexican
county, Pa, three miles from Alton, the pres
ent terminus of the Bradford branch. The
structure, when finished, will be 2,052 feet
long between abutments, and 302 feet high
from the surface of the ground to tho base Of
the rail
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-16

AGENTS WANrEp.-ActIve agents wanted
in every town IN La Sale, Bureau s1d Liv-
ingston counties. Good compensation paid.
Address, Ia Sale Comfy He,old, Ottawa, Ill.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-16

Malaria is an almost in
describable malady which
not even the most talented
physicians are able to faith
ON. Its cause is most fire.
quently ascribed to local
surroundings, and there is
very little question, but this
opinion is substantiated by
facts. Malaria does not nee
essarily mean chills and
fever while these troubles
usually accompany it. It
often affects the suffercrwi
general lassitudc, accom-
panied by loss of appetite,
sleeplessness, a tired feeling
and a high fever, the per-
son afflicted growing weak
er and weaker, loses flesh
day after day, until he be-
comes a mere skeleton, a
shadow Of his former self.
Malaria once having laid it,
hold upon the human frame, the
door OF the system is thrown open
to nervous diseases. The body
weak and enfeebled abs.rbs no
uourishment, but subsisting upon
itself, the digestive organs no
longer perform their functions:
the liver becomes torpid. and other
organs failing to do their routine
work, speedily become disordcred,
and dissolution and death arc apt
to ensue.
In addition to being a certain cure
for malaria and chills and fever,
Browns IRON BlTTERs is highly
recommended for III diseases rcquir-
ing certain and efficient tonic; es-
peciallyindigestion, dyspepsia, inter-
mittent fcvers, want Of appetite, loss
of strength, lack Of energy, etc.
Enriches the blood, strengthens the
muscles. and gives new life to the
nerves. Ac,, like charm on the
digestive organs. 1t is for sale by
all respectable dealers in medicines,
price, 81 per bottle
Be sure and get the genuine
BROWNS IRON BITTERS.
Take no other.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-16

Remember the +. y. Uaes SHOES have no
equal In the market, and Maher Bros. nave
the exclusive right.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-16
CHICAGO. ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R'Y

Ito unred
utheast,a me West,N 49,
OF road between the AtIanuc
In
hundreds Of otss villages and towns