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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-05-03
II. w. I.ONGFELLOW

The grave has DER the poet closed
His psalm Of Life" il sung,
And mourning echoes wake ..Hherc'cr
Is heard the English tongue.
Truo child Of nature: timo itself
VIII Keep thy mem ~ green
In "Hiawatha's," stirring stratus.
In sad "Evangoline."
The Village blacksmith" long VIII strike
Its sparks Of simple FIRE.
Excelsior" will point the way
To earnest life and higher.
Earth's "voices of the Night" were hushel
When Angels Footsteps" trol,
To bear that gentle spirit home
To hymn the praise of God.
There is no need, in feeble verse
To lisp the worldwide praise
OF him, whose honored namc:aloin-
His own immortal lays.
A weeping country, mourning:world,
His fuu'ral dirgs prolong;
And wreath the lays of fame around
Their glorious son Of song.
sESE
Georgeville. April 6, lss2.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-05-03

IMPORTANT RULES OF CoNpucr. .-Sev
eXaggerate.
Never point at another
y yer betray u confidence.
y vcr leave home with unkind words.
Never neglect to call upon your lrlenus
Never laugh at the nisiorlunes of 9th
oTs.
N"vor give promise that yon do not
fulfil
Never send a present, hoping for one in
Io'urn.
Never speak much OF your own pcr
formance5
Never fail to be punctual al the time
appoined
Never make yourself the hero Of your
own etory
Never pick teeth or clean the nails in
company,
Never fail to give a polite answer to a
civil question
Never present gift, saying it is of no
uSr to yourself.
Never question servant or child
tonc, rning family matters.
Nryer read letters which you may find
addressed to others.
Never fail, if gentleman, OF being
civu and polite TO others.
Never call attention to the features or
!urm OF any one present.
N ver refer TO GIFT you have made, or
4 favor you have rendered.
Nrvcr associate with bad company
kt'r good company or none.
Never look over the shoulder of another
wi - reading or writing
Never appear TO notice scar, Or deior
inr or defect Of any one present.
Never arrest tho attention of an ac-
1usnIancc by touch: Speak to him.
Never punish your child for n fault TO
which YOU have addicted yourself.
Never answer questions in general
company, that have been put to others.
Never, while travelling abroad, be over
cot nry.
Never call new acquaintance by the
Christian name, unless requested to do so.
Never lend an article you have borrow
cd, unless you have permission to do so.
Never attempt to draw the attention Ol
the company constantly upon yourself.
Never exhibit anger, impatience OIL
excitement. when an accident happens.
Never pass between two persons who
are talking together, without an appolo
gy.
Never enter n room noisily; Never fail
to close the door after you, and never
slam it.
N,ver forget that, if you are faithful in
Il few things. you may be ruler ovel
many
Never exhibit too great familiarity will
new acquaintance; you may give
offence.
Never will gentleman allude to con
quests which ho may have made with
ladies.
Never be guilty OF the contemplate
,neanness of opening private letter
addressed TO another,
Never fail to offer the easiest aud best
se1t In the room to an invalid, au elderly
person, or lady.
Never neglect TO perform the com mis-
sion which tho fricud intruslcd to you
You must not forgot
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TERMS FOR ADVERTISING

better farmers than their fathers, but the
offer OF the prizes raised an object to be
accomplished and they earnestly and with
a will went about il. And | cannot better
close than By recommending TO lndifTeren,
farmers the lesson which may he learned
from the examples OF the boys who com
peted for the prizes in corn raising.
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temperance


So you are tho young lajytha.'~ Lcacii-
ing my children MOI 10 tls'e of cider, beer
or wiue?' asked William Benson, a notori
Gus hard-drinker u lie me, Tho village
school.mS am. on tho way 10 her boardipr
place.
"ExaclIy,r replied Miss Elton, fragile,
little blonde. land IwiSh c0uld not only
teach the children how pernicons and
wrong the practice is. but also the older
people.
Wrong To drink Wine, is IL Then
yoa've gol ahead of ST. PAM. lie ordered
Timothy to take little wine for hi,
stomach's sake, and other iniirIuities.
What do you say 10 that Miss EltonP''
Say" responded tho latter; why.
wouldn't object to such wine as Psul rec
ommends. myself"
You wouldn't, hey Well. where. the
difierence?-wine is wine; you can't DEM
hat"
81 But, Mr.. Benson there Is nil The lil.
ercncc in tho world between ancient an,l
modern wine. Ono is tho pure Juice OF
he grape, drank as soon as expressed; the
'ther, even when not doctored with chem
Gals, is kept fermcnting and rotting I'LL
.Il i's virtues arc destroyed. You wouldn't
hink of Partaking Of rotten apples or
potatoes, why should you Of rotten sugnr
for that's Just what alcohol is"
''Pshaw now; you temperance folks ar
'hrowd; but how do You know Bibo wins
sn't rotted sugar. as you call it? Yon
Gan't prove that ii is not Just like ours.'
" Yes, can. and by the Bible, too. We
read in the Old Testament of tho cupbaat-
ers taking tie cup In hand, pressing The
grapes into the cup, and giving 1t inmedi-
stely to Pharoah. The Egyptians drank
10 ieFmented wine, because they thought
It produced by an evil spirit, but they did
lot object to the Juice of the grape, taken
- soon as expressed"
After few moro questions by benson
md few simple cahovsations by Miss
Elton. the former slowly wcndc,i his WAY
Iomeward. muttering," Well. wcll;it may
'e MS she says. Anyhow, I'll not hiect to
1er teaching the children. Wish somebody
mad explained 1t to me when was a boy
-'twould have been better than for
une"
CONSCIENCE AND LAM" You cant
make men good by law thnndeFs the
opponent Of legal suasiOn.
| deny it, sir. and call for proof. Your
soft head will be covered with gray hair
before you can succeed in provn. to-
'osilion yon So confidently assume. Now
IS not my denial as good rs your atHrma.
tion? What will you do about il?
You should have this to think uhou.,
viz:
We can make men bad by law, unA
that is what we do when we license
wickedness Of any kind
The average man gels t GOOD pn-g Of
his moral education from the law of the
land. What the law permits he believe,
is right, When VIC license the sale of rum
we give y powerful object lesson to such
people. We teach them il is RICH. to sell
whisky if they get u license. Their
conscience is thus wrongly educated BY
lhw. They are thus lei 10 believe i, righl
do what is wrong
Now sir, if we CannOt make inca good
by law. VIC can cease to mako thom bad
by law. Let us wipe the iiceuse law of
If al our statute books. aud so cea.p to
1avo fellowship with evil Lot Us put rum
selling Under the ban of itw and 50 teach
he public that it IS WONG What '!u you
say to this?-Er.
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Hasty Legislation.

The Dallas Herald referring
to railway legislation, says that
in Texas, as elsewhere, we have
a number of legislators who i'm
agine that they can tax any
body or anything as heavily as
they see fit. Chartered .institu-
tons doing business under the
authority of the state are guar
anteed the same rights privileges
and immunities as individuals.
1t is the railroads and the tele-
graph that make US part and
parcel of the outside world, and
give us our civilization, and yet
our state legislators seem to be
blindly marching ahead in op-
position to our most useful as
slstants and factors in the march
of evnts. Without railroads
Texas would be a vast plain in
habited chiefly by cattle and
horses, an immense stock coun-
try without agriculture and nee
cessarily with a sparse popula-
ton. Yet, there appears to be
a disposition, on the part of at
least some of the legislators, to
make such laws and to put such
restrictions on railway corpora
tons as would put an entire
stop to building them in the
future. If there is any wisdom |
in such short-sighted policy, it |
is apparent only to the short
sighted legislators, number of
whom are evidently of the opin-
ion that they have accomplish
ed a wonderful thing for the peo-
pie of Texas in passing the'now
notorious Three-centlaw When
the railroads make up in freight
.ariffs what they lose on passen-
gers the people will be unable
% discover the good that has
been accomplished by the pas
'enger legislation. It is an old
Ixiom that taxation to be Just
must be equal, and there is GER
ainly no equality in legislating
gainst corporations which do
more for the state than any in
lividuals or firms can do in their t
Individual capacity. 1t may be |
dded that the papers which c
pPose railway legislation are '
OF the organs of the railroads, t
either do they advocate mon S
poles, but they have in view S
lie best interests of the people
the state at large.
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Railway Legislation.

The Galveston News publish
es in full the arguments of the
Texas railway men before the
railway committee ofthe Legis-
latnre. Major B. W. Cave, OF
the Houston and Texas Central
railway gives a formidable ar
ray Of facts and figures, being
statistics ofthe passenger traffic
on the leading railroads in the
United States. The following
is a statement OF comparative
passenger earnings in 1880. N.
Y. Central 1918 miles; S,2zo,-
Ss7 passengers, So, 900 earn
ed. Pennsylvania I1I2 miles,
z757,o4o passengers, s4.4S7,146
earned. N. Y, and Lake Erie,
1910 miles. s,4oI,437 passen-
gers, s3,6S2,osI earned. Five
leading Texas railroads 1918
miles, 7o2,495 passengers. ST.
767,Soo earned. The New
and Pennsylvania roads average
a fraction over two cents per
mile per passenger, while the
Texas roads average SO cents
per mile. 1t will be seen that
the Texas lines are fully two
thirds longer than the roads in
the old states, and that the
gross earnings are one half
smaller than the smallest in
New York and only about one
fourth as large as the largest. In
other words less than two-thirds
as many miles OF railroad in
New York earns from passen-
gers four times as much as the |
Texas roads. The figures go
to show that the Texas railroads
make no money on their pas
senger traffic. Texas has a pop
ulation of a million and a
half people, yet the total num-
bet of passengers carried by
Texas railroads does not
amount to one half that num-
Der. The state is very large
md thinly settled, a great many
people living out of the range Of
.ailroads altogether. The re-
iuction to three cents a mile,
aking the figures given, affects
'nly one half of the people
numerically, as appears by the
igures, but in reality on a few
'ersons, comparatively, travel
IN railroads, and whether they
'ay three or FIVE cents does not
materially effect the generalpub
C, but the general public is di-
Getty concerned in freight tar
is. Railroads will regulate their
wn tariffs and if determinations
an be prevented it is all that
,gislation can accomplish.
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Bolton and the Santa Fe
road are not on good terms.
The Journal says: Galveston
could always have counted on
the fast friendship of an entire
community had the Gull, Colo
RADIO & Santa Fe road treated
US as the managers promised,
but now a large share of our
business men will not allow a
pound of their freight to pass
over this road that can, by any
reasonable means, be given to
the Missouri Pacific. We think
the policy of the Gull road a
short sighted one, and the soon
er they abandon it and set them
selves to work to obtgan the
friendship OF every town on
heir line, the better it will be,
not only for the road but the
business interests of Galveston"
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.etter so as to mention other
matters of interest to the peo-
pie, but its length would pre-
clude it.
Rather an amusing piece of
strategy on the part OF the
Governor was revealed the 9TH
er night, in course of DR.. Mer-
wins speech on On higher edu-
cation. A bill was hanging fire
in the senate, since passed and
now pending in the House,
which appropriates $4,000,
and 100000 acres of land to
the great white elephant, CLASH
cally called the University.
The Governor became
alarmed for its success, and tel
egraphed for Drs. Curry and
Merw in to come at once and
address the House on the sub
ject; of course this was strictly
between them; but the inno-
cent DIR. IN course of his re-
marks stated this to be the OBJ
ject of his visit. and this the OBJ, !
Ject of DIR. Curry's coming. His |
innocence was the source of |
great merriment to the mem
bers and great modification to
the Governor. H. H.
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IT has not been great while
since there was a newspaper
funeral at Columbus, but the
death of newspaper seems to
have no more terror to the ad-
venturer in journalism, than the
death of aay does on the others
in a house. The Free Politician,
a greenback paper, is the latest
venture at Columbus. The F.
?. may make a success but the
old and reliable Columbus Citi-
zen will continue to hold its old
friends and gather new ones.
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The San Antonio Light does
not believe in hiring out con-
victs to work outside OF the pris-
on walls. 1t suggests that the
state fence in with a stone wall
that can't be scaled one thous-
and acres of land, and within
these walls organize all the in
dustries, agricultural and indus
trial, so that art may hold its
steady course hand in hand with
labor, leaving out nothing which
a convicts fancy may court or
TO which a convict,s ambition
may aspire. This would make
a sort of convicts paradise the
accomplishment of which is an
utter impossibility.
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TIE American Journal of Ed
ucation is accused by the Bel
ton Journal of having endorsed
a certain book in the following
words: "Gov. Roberts Texas
should be attached to a chain
and kept in every railroad sta
ton in the state, and should be
placed in the hands OF every
teacher, and taught as text
book in the normal schools"
The impression is apt to grow
on one that this wholesale en-
dorsement was paid for by the
governor, who is stauch friend
of the A. ]. of E. man, who by
special invitation of the govern
or made university speech to
the legislature.
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The Eastern Branch. S. z. Rr:

There is no telling what the
verdict of a petty jury will be,
or what woman's choice will
be in the selection of a husband,
and it should be added, there is
no telling what line a proposed
railroad will adopt. The Santa
Fe railroad having bought or
leased the Central and Mont
gomery railway determined to
extend it westward to its main
line; three surveys were made,
one from Navasota to the Quar-
ry in this county, the other to
Brennan and the third to Sny-
ders, point IS miles north of
BRENNAN. The line to Snyders
has been the one adopted and
it is said that material IS now
being taken there for the con-
struction of the road. In select
ing this route the Santa Fe has
virtually sat down on Brennan,
which place wanted the road
and would have done a liberal
part by the company to get it,
but not getting it, of course the
further away it goes the better
it is for US. The route on which
it is to be built is an uninhabit-
ed wilderness, and will so re-
main for the next ten years to
come, and in addition it is sep
arated from this county by an
impossible barrier, the Yegua
river or creek, a stream with a
wide and very muddy bottom. |
Had the route to Brennan which |
is far the shortest, been selected
only one bridge of any impor-
lance would have had to be
built, that across the Brazos
the route adopted has three
bridges, one over the Navasota,
one over the Brazos and one
over Old river, an old bed of
Brazos. Again Snyder's is on
4 post-oak fiat, the land being
Of comparatively no value and
n addition there is no settle
nents of any importance in the
'icinity, in fact Snyder's is no
'lace at all, it having been es-
ablished as a tie camp when
he main line was under con-
1.-THE Eastern branch
extended westward it will go
trough a comparatively worth
ess and very thinly settled por-
ion of the state, and will still
cave the territory to the south
rest Of Brennan open for some
nterprising railroad company.
IN air line from BRENNAN to ,
>ingsbury on the Sunset, takes
! some of the very best farm
,g counties in the state and /,
assed through the best por- /;
ons of Washington, Fayette :
nd Bastrop, old settled, popu- :
Jus and wealthy counties, that
ould at once afford a railroad
paying business without wait
lg the slow process of settle
emf and development. Bren- t
am now supports three or four y
lumber yards and had d
lie c. and M, essentially a p
mber road, been extended a
IRE it would have made one of s.
e best lumber markets in the
ate. Snyder's is inaccessible IL
r wagons and has no territory c,
thin reach to be supplied with T
mber, while it will be years ia
fore the line, has any local c,
avel or business. When the d
lnta Fe road places its bonds
r the extension on the market is
pitalists should investigate h;
fore investing; building-a road 81
one thing and doing a paying
siness on it is another. in
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M. Blaeier attributes the dis
appearance Of the sardine from
the coast of Brittany, where it
was once the source of a large
revenue, to a change in the d.
rection of the Gulf Stream. The
question was deemed so impor-
tant by the Paris Academy of
Sciences that special commit
tee has been appointed to in
vestigate the matter.
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The Orange Tribune says if
the people of east Texas believe
in an outlet to the Gulf of Mex
ico-deep water at Sabine Pass
they should elect a represen-
tative to congress who IS thor
oughly conversant with their
claims and competent to i'm
press them upon congress. The
coast of Texas is many miles in
extent and has many prospec-
tive seaports, each one is anx-
ious to become the great COM
center or metropolis of
Texas and the great Southwest.
In the nature ofthings there can
kat one southwestern me-
1Sh;ch place will it
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LEGISLATIVE.

AUSTIN, April 22.-Senat
The memorial committee
sented a lengthy report,
brief eulogies of the several
ators that have died sinces
regular session and offering 4
propriate resolutions.
House.-By Harry Haynes
A resolution fixing Monday al
ternoon for memorial day.
adopted.
The speaker signed the bill
repeating the subsidy laws and
the same goes to the governor.
A number Of committee re-
ports were received.
Bill appropriating $1,000 for
temporary buildings at the Lun-
attic asylum passed.
Land legislation occupied
considerable time.
Tho house passed a bill for
the republicationof the Revised
Statutes.
Austin April 24.-Senate-
The veterans pension bill was
taken up and discussed without
result.
The apportionment bill was
discussed and a motion to re-
commit it was lost. A number
of amendments were offered
and finally the bill was made
the special order for Tuesday.
House. A number of COM
mite reports were made.
The bill appropriating S6o,-
900 for the purchase ofthe Ray
mond house was considered in
committee of the whole.
The county tax bill was
amendeded and passed to en-
grosment.
Bill relating to hiring out
convlcts was amended.
Considerable time was occu-
pied in the discussion OF rail-
way bills without coming to any
definite conclusion.
At the afternoon session the
question Of opening the Pam |
handle counties to the location |
of veteran and confederate land |
scrip was discussed.
Austin, April 49,, Senate
Petition of citizens of Lee and
Burlesan counties relating to
killing game reported unfavora-
Bile.
The apportionment bill was
taken up, discussed at length
and passed to a third reading.
Report from joint committee
recommending repair of capital
for treasurer's and
:omptroller's departments and
he purchase of the Broegger-
noff building for the higher
courts and remaining state de-
,artments.
4
House-The governor sent in
! message recommending that
needy Texas veterans be pen
Toned.
Railway legislation was dis
used during the day, the SEN
iment being opposed to pass
ng any railway bill. The bill
'roviding fora commission will
be adopted.
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Scientific MISCELLANY.

1t has been pointed out tina
the fragrance of violets differ.
widely, being influenced evi.
IDENTIFY by the season and TEN.
perature, warmth and shelter
appearing most conducive tc
sweetness.
Herr Kraus has lately proved
that all plants organs swell and
contract periodically every day.
This phenomenon is due to var
iations IN the amount of water
contained at different periods
during the twenty-four hours.
The venerable French chem
ist and instructor, M. Chevreul,
has just celebrated his ninety
sixth birthday.
For the photography of birds
in their different positions in fly
ing, IN. Marcy employs an in
strument, like rifle in shape,
giving twelve successive images
per second, each image being
taken in the 1900 part OF a
second: In bright sunlight the
time of exposure is reduced to
the 1880 OF a second. These
views furnish an analysis of the
motion of birds in flight which
could not be obtained before
the perfection of the process OF
instantaneous photography.
1t is very generally known
that the existence of a planet
between Mercury and the sun
has long been suspected by as
tronomers, but if such an object
exists it is ordinarily rendered
invisible to telescopes by the
diffusion of the solar rays. Dur
ing total eclipse the glare of |
the sun is removed, and it is
hoped that the hypothetical |
planet may be discovered on
such an occasion. With that
purpose in view, many observ-
ers will eagerly scan the heav-
ems about the sun during the |
eclipse of May 18TH, which will
be chiefly visible in Africa.
The celebrated "Kent's Hole"
Of the biologists is located near
Torquary, in Devonshire, Eng
and. This remarkable cavern.
irst scientifically explored in
1924 by Catholic clergyman,
las given up remains of the
mammoth, rhinoceros, hyena.
TX, and ather animals now ex.
let in England, together with
many flints and other relics of
.ncient man. The earth in the
ave mas now been explored to a
.reat depth, and the finding of
human jaw far below the sur
ace has added a link to the :
hahn of evidence establishing 2
lan's great antiquity. +
A new method of preserving i
heat is to cause the heart of the s
nImal to pump boracic acid | h
Ito the tissues. For example. q
sheep is stunned by a blow, F
nd blood being withdrawn
ON the left jugular vein, a
rong solution of boracic acid, D
eept at blood heat, is injected. p
he heart of the still living ami o
al quickly pumps the antisep- II
; fluid into all parts of the o
'dy, and the sheep is then kill. II II
by the butcher in the usual u
ny. The cost is slight, and az
e meat thus treated will keep
veral weeks in the heat of o.
miner. S;