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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

Miss Ella j. Wheeler of Boston has en-
dowed the Friends school at Providence
with the sum of $4,000.
Rev. S. M. Crothers has definitely &c.
copied n call to the Unitarian chorch of
Brattleboro, and will preach his first SER
mon July %.
Rev. G.. w. II. Clark. an esteemed mem.
ber of the New England conference and q
preacher of large experience, has been ap-
pointed to the pastorate of the NJ. f..
church at Enosburgh Falls, Vt.
Rev. Il. Morgan, the popular presiding
elder Of st. Albans district, was in attend
ance for two days at the recent seminary
conference. and reports good opening of
the work on his district.
Rev. 4. c. Stevens, d. D., of Brooklyn
formerly of the Vermont conference, has
been dangerously i'll for several weeks.
Some hopes are entertained of his recov-
cry.
Rev. A. B. Truax of the NJ. +. church,
Brattleboro, rejoices in the fact that the
parsonage is undergoing complete reno
vation. Brattleboro people think Bro.
Truax the right man in the right place.
The commencement exercises of Barre
academy occurred last week and class
of three gentlemen and eleven ladies were
graduated from tho institution. Enough
money has been subscribed to secure the
existence of the school another year.
Rev. DR.. Burns Of Hamilton, Ontario,
president of q Methodist female college,
who came into prominent public notice by
his letter of sympathy during the Thomas
heresy trial, has just been acquitted by the
proper ecclesiastical authorities.
Rev. II. f. Austin, of the Bellows Falls
NJ. E. church, has commenced giving the
five minute sermonette to the children be.
fore the regular sermon. Bro. Austin
followed up Children's day, which was
grand success, with sermon to the young
men on the following Sabbath.
Rev. A. 3. Dascomb, the pastor of the
Bellows Falls Congregational church is
very popular, being ono of the most talent
ed and best educated clergymen in the
state. He is making arrangements for
extensive repairs on his residence at
Westminster.
The London Methodist conference of
over 200 ministers has just been holding o
session at Woodstock, Canada. Among
other things it discussed the subject of the
Bible in the public schools, and adopted a
resolution promising to uso all legitimat tie
effort to secure the introduction of the
Bible into the public schools of Ontario.
Rev. J. w. Hamilton will ere long have
the largest audience room of any Protest
ant pastor in New England, tho Peoples
church when completed being expected to
hold 1000. Bro. Hamilton will fill il, too,
if any one in Boston can do it. Even in
the hottest Sabbaths in summer the chapel,
which holds 700 has been crowded, and
the best of attention is paid.
Rovs. w. N. Barber of Wilmington, L.
Smiley Of Putney. G. w. Jenkins, state
missionary; j. Clifford of Jacksonville, E
W Whitney of Brattleboro, S. II. McCol-
lister, D. D., of Bellows Falls; A. A. Rice
of Hnsdale, N. H.; j. b. Fsbor, S. Barber
and S. D. Flagg were present at the Wind
ham and bennington Universalst associa-
ton held at Vernon, June 18th and Nth.
An interesting meeting was reported.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

GRANGE DIsCUSsIoNs.-- For the last four
years | have been much among the grang-
es both in public and private meetings,
and no subject of practical importance has
been SO fully and so often discussed as the
subject of butter making, and it has been
clearly seen that a feeling of emulation
was being developed, which could but pro-
duce good results. No woman likes to be
outdone by her neighbor, and when one
sister tells of getting thirty-iive or forty
cents for butter, the other sister who is
selling for twenty gets bee in her bonnet
at once. When one farmer tells of getting
four hundred pounds from his cow, his
neighbor, who is getting but one hundred
and fifty, sees big hole in the skinner
that lie never knew of before, and forth
with he begins to investigate the cotton
seed and Indian meal question, and prob
ably he will batten up the cracks in the
tie-up and get load of saw dust for bed
ding. | know of nothing that will more
strongly influence ambitions men or wom
en- than this feeling of emulation, and
nowhere can practical questions be so
intelligently and unreservedly discussed as
in the grange.-Cor. of Maine Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

TRUSTED IIIM.-A noted horse thief {,
named Muthart, while in gaol. in Phila-
delphia, lately, related singular incident
in his career, which on inquiry proved
to be true.
One evening he entered n stable on a
farm in Pennsylvania, saddled and bridled
fine horse, and was about to lead him
out when voice said calmly,-"lhee had
better put that horse back in the STALL"
Turning, he confronted middle aged
Quaker, quietly watching him with club
in his hand. al saw" said Muthart, That
he was no more afraid of mo than q lion
would be of cat, and that no was as
brave rs he was honest"
lie quietly marched tho thief into the
house and invited him to give an account
of himself Muthart asserted that he was
on his way to the next city in search of
work, and only meant to ride the horse to
town, and then turn him loose to find his
way home. The Quaker kept him over
night, and then gave him two dollars at
parting. Muthart went to the city, and
returned the money with letter of thanks.
-" | could not" he said "cheat tho man
who had trusted me-"
olE wafer Croft0n, whose refOrmatOrv
prisons at Luck, in ireland, are model. all
over the world, d,always addressed prisoner
as a man who had wandered into the wrong
road, and anXiously desired to be set right.
If there was any seed of good in the
man, this confidence warmed it into life.
The whole Luck system is designed to fit
the prisoner to return to the world and
bear the part Of an honest man in it.
When Mr.. Moody, the famous preacher,
first came to one Of our large cities a few
years since, he choose to preach in dis
used depot, rather than in church, and
so attracted crowds of di.solute women
who lived in the neighborhood to hear
him. They listened with streaming tears,
joining with fervor in many of the hymns,
which they had learned probably on their
mothers knee.
One of them on coming out sad,-"He
doesn't stand up like judge and tell me
you shall be damned but he says,-'We
have both fallen. Come, let us try and
climb up again."
That teacher, preacher or parent will
be most successful, who recognizes most
clearly the capacity for good in others.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

The BOYS WHO NEVER GOT hoME."-
Eh1 following tender and touching trib.
nle to the soldiers who never returned
from the war was written by George W.
Peek Of the National Tribune, in the form
1t letter of regret at being unable to
attend "camp fire" " of Grand Army
post at Janesville, Wis:
C. l. is pleasant now to chase the festive
bean around the camp fire and talk of the
nights when you slept on the ground in a
pup tent,' or on some battle field. with
your wet and muddy pantaloons' legs froz-
en- as stiff as a dried Goldfish, while you
dreamed that every star that was looking
down from above was the eye of dear
one at home, beckoning you to Hold the
Fort and hurry up and get through with
the confounded foolishness and come home
You can laugh now as you think how you
got up in the morning after such nights
rest-looking as though you had been
drawn through brush fence. You who
are left have right to ba happy. but in
the midst of your bean banquet let me ask
you to stand up with your tin cup of black
coffee and drink to The boys who never
got home.' the brave fellows who returned
lOt " ihOCb LhO lONCu OHco lu0J pdILCu
with twenty years ago. Lst US hope that
the great Congress above removed the
disabilities of the boys who left the va
cancies in their regiments, and that the
few chickens they took in the way of bust
ness from the enemy will not be entered
up against them on the Big Book, but
that the provost guard on duty at the gates
Of the Now Jerusalem will present arms
to them and tell the boys that they are
welcome to the best there is,and that when
we all get in our work here, and are ready
to Join our regiment in Heaven, that the
fellows that We buried years ago, may
stand on the parapet as Ae come strag-
Cling in, giveus the soldiers welcome with
three times three aud a tiger. And we
shall say to them, All right, comrades,
we should have been here bef)re, only we
were detained by business"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

In excavating the clay on Lord Nor
manton's English estate near Crowland
the workmen have exposed about three
acres of a subterranean forest, ten feet
below the surface. Some of the trees are
in an admirable state of preservation, one
gigantic oak measuring Is yards in
length. The trees are in such condition
that the oak can be distinguished from the
elm, while a kind of fir tree seems to be
the most abundant, the wood of which is
so hard that the tree can be drawn out of
the clay in their entirety of root and branch.
The surrounding clay contains guam
titles of the remnants of flags, grasses
and types of lower vegetable life. The
spot has been visited by crowds of people,
including the local scientific societies.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

How TO Cook RICE.-Rice is sbecoming
a much moro popular article of food than
heretofore. 1t is frequently substituted
for potatoes at the chief meal of the day,
being more nutritious and much more
readily digested. AT its present cost, 1t is
relatively cheaper than potatoes, oatmeal,
or grain grits of any kind. In preparing
il only just enough cold water should be
poured on to prevent the rice from burn
ing at the bottom of the pot, which should
have close-fitting cover .and with mod.
crate fire the rice is steamed rather than
boiled until it Is done; then the cover is
taken off, the surplus steam and moisture
allowed to escape, and the rice turnes out
a mass of snow white kernels, each sepa-
rate from the other, and as much superior
to the usual soggy mass as fine meay
potato is superior to the water soaked
article.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES STORl OF
HIS FIRST PoEM.-The first article OF
mine that ever saw the light was little
poem of four stanzas, entitled James
Tree" A little lad, son of the late Judge
Dewey OF Massachusetts, stuck a willow
twig into the ground of his fathers gar.
den, which took root after the manner of
such twigs, and grew into II tree. The
boy lived long enough to call this tree his
own, and TO secure its protection as such,
and then he died. After his death wrote
the poem, and it was published in the
Youths Companion, publication still
prosperous. | was then seventeen Tears
old, and that was forty-four years ago.
took the printed copy containing it from
the post Office, pecped within. and then
walked home on air. [ shall probably
never bo so absorbingly happy rs was
then. Earth has nothing like it-earth
never had anything like it-for me. l
have seen my work in type since then
until have been tired of the sight OF it.
but can never forget the great Joy of
that occasion. Smith College at North.
ampton now stands on the site of the old
Dewey Place, and when they cleared things
away for the new buildings they found an
old, gnarled willow tree. On learning
the history of the tree and the nature
of my own association with 1t, President
Seely had book rack, elegantly mounted,
made OF it, and sent it 10 me. OF course
it was installed among my household
gods.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

Five children. all of one family. were
instantly killed on the Harlem railroad,
near Cos Cob, N. Y, Wednesday, at 5 p.
NJ. They were children of John Lock-
wood OF that village, three girls and two
boys, the eldest IA and the youngest 4.
They were walking on the track, when
suddenly they heard train behind them.
They crossed over TO the adjoining track,
but hardly had they put a foot on it when
the New Haven express dashed up. Ut
terly bewildered and unable TO get out
either way, the children stood still for a
moment. The engineer saw them and
endeavored to stop the train, 1t was too
late, however, and the train dashed over
them, killing them instantly. Two were
literally ground up. What makes the case
particularly distressing one is that the
uncle of tho children, Frederick Lock-
wood, was the engineer of the train.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

The recent great overflow of the
Mississippi river seems not to have been
barren of good results. A correspondent
of the Memphis Agalanche. who has
travelled extensively through the Missis.
Slppi valley, says tina. the general opinion
is that no such overflow as the one lust
gone has been known in that section for
fully half century. Nor have the ac-
counts of damages and the destruction of
live stock and other property incident to
the flood been exaggerated. Plantations
are covered with sand and scooped into
mighty gullies, or covered with forest of
driftwood and debris to remove which re-
quires labor equal to that of first clearing
But the silt mud of the overflow, il is
universally admitted, has impaired new
and rich fertility to the soil, and the plant
ers look forward to bountiful crops 1.-THE
coming autumn.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

The late DR.. John +. Gray, Americas
pioneer home opathist, once gave to poor
sewing girl who came to him for advice a
vial Of medicine, and told her to 60 home.
take the dose and 60 to bed. She replied
that she could not do SOFAS she was depend
ent on her daily earnings for living.
"Then." said he, "Ill have to change the
medicine little" Taking back the vial.
he wrapped it in ten-dollar bill, and
returning it he repeated the order "Go
home and go to bee, and take the medicine,
wrapper and all"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

disciples should have been troubled or
disploased that they were brought to Jesus.
But their dIspleasure has incidentally
served an excellent purpose, just as did
the effort of the Pharisees to catch Jesus
in the matter of divorce. Had the Phari.
sees shown no disposition to ensnare him
we might have been without his clear and
positive statements in the matter, and had
his disciples been able to look upon the
children as he did we might have been left
without his tender words concerning them
and his expressions of infinite solicitude
for them as he took them up in his arms
and laid his hands upon them.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

Not long since smart seven.years.old
son of one of our preachers, after service
was over and the family had returned
home from church, said, Papa, do you
ever look at me while you are preachingP
The father. thinking that he was little
hurt by supposed neglect, said. Certainly
my son, often look at you and think OF
you when l am preaching" But to-day
did you notice me at all?" "Yes, L did
my son, several times" said the father.
"Well, papa, did you see me wink at you
two or three times?" mo, my son
what did you wink at nae for when was
proaching?n 81 winked at you, papa, to
stop; you were spinning it too long
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

England has just had a lightning rod
convention, which formulated the qualifi-
cations Of first.class protector thus: The
rod should not be sharply pointed but
preserve its size very near TO the end
which may be beveled off. About foot
below the top, however, there should be
attached copper ring with three or four
copper needles to draw off silent DISCHARGES
of electricity. All vanes or other iron
work upon building should be connect.
ed with the conductor. The rod should
be of copper, and perfectly insulated
with an earth connection.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

STAND Up STRAIGHT.-Dear children,
who wants to say word to you about a
very important subject which deeply con-
Germs your welfare. The subject is the
shape of your bodies. God knows the best
shape. lie created us upright in bis own
image. None of the inferior animals walk
upright. God fitted the great vital organs
in your bodies to an erect spine. Doyour
shoulders ever stoop forward9 Ifthey do.
so do the lungs, heart, liver and stomach
fall down out of their natural places. OF
course they can't do their work we'll. To
show you how this is l will tell you that
when you bend forward you can only take
about half assmuch air into the lungs as
you can when you stand up straight. As
| have said. God has so arranged the great
organs of the body that they can't do their
duty we'll except when the body is straight.
Oh, how it distresses me to sec the dear
children, whom love so much, bending
over their school desks, and walking with
their head and shoulders dropping My
dear children, if you would have strong
spine and vigorous lungs, heart. liver and
stomach, you must, now while you are
young, learn to walk erect. If one of my
children were about to leave this country
for Japan never to return, and were to
come te me and ask for rules to preserve
his health, should say II am glad to see
you, and will give you four rules, which,
carefully observed, will be pretty sure to
preserve your health" He might say TO
me: "Four are good many give me one,
but the most important one, and promise
not to forget it, should reply: "Well,
my dear child, if | give you but one, it is
this: Keep yourself straight, that is, sit
up straight; walk up straight, and when
in bed at night, don't put two or three
pillows under your head as though intent
on watching your toes all night; and be-
lieve that in this | should give the most
important rule which can be given for the
preservation of health and long life."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

CRUELTY TO IMMGGRANTS.-Th Senate
has plain duty to perform in passing at
once the bill to regulate the carriage of
passengers by sea, which the House has
already indorsed. This bill would bring
within reach of punishment the Royal
Netherlands steamship company, which
has made record of almost unparalleled
cruelty in its treatment OF immigrant
passengers. The steamer Nemesis of this
line, plying between Amsterdam and New
York, lately landed party of immigrants,
at the latter port, who disclose the fsct
that the steamer was little better than a
floating coffin. They left Amsterdam in
vigorous health, understanding that they
were to have wholesome food for them
selves and their children, but the smallest
Of the latter, slowed away in the steersge,
were allowed nothing but rancid drink
of condensed milk and salt water. AS a
result they soon sckened, ten died on the
voyage, three after the steamer reached the
harbor of New York. and five soon after
they were landed and taken to the hospital
on Wards Island. Others will probably
die from the effects of neglect and NAL
treatment. The steamer had left Amster-
dam May 10, and for few days the food
and drink was such as could be swallowed
but then the fare was suddenly changed.
Petty officers compelled the immigrantsto to
pay extra for eatable food, the surgeon, a
drunken fellow, refused medicine to sick
ones, the captain laughed brutally when
complaints were made, and as the voyage
drew near its end the officers had the au-
dauity to send through the filthy steerage
paper which they commanded the pas
sengers to sign. 1t was statement that
they had been handsomely treated by kind
and courteous officials throughout the
passage. DR.. Tuttle, who has many of the
suffering immigrants in the state hospital
at Wards Island, says that he never before
received ship load in such wretched
condition, and the commissioners of emil
grafton consider the officers of the Nemesis
"highly censurable." However, the
steamer was we'll off again before the de-
tails of the cruelty had been given.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

According to the census the people OF
this country have SS,0OO,00O invested in
induitries and something over $4,000, ,O0O,.
600 in mines and agriculture. New En-.
gland. with 4.0l0.529 inhabitants, holds
$2,652, ,076 ,586 or S66l27 per capita.
Next come the Middle States, with 11,756,-
O55 inha bitants, with S5,567, ,073, ,84S, or
$473.55 per capita. The west has 1854.
or S3S363 per capita; and the south
9Sl inhabitants. with $6,1S0 24,6I4
brings up the rear with 15, ,257 1893 inhab.
itants and S2.S60.2iS ,S9O-er 1921, $780,.
296 less than New England.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28
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that subject, but have not time or space
here to explain il; but would say if there
IS wrong being done. let every ono
learned or unlearned strive to right the
wrong either by organizations or other
"S'' X. A. n.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28

The best way far man 10 chew tobacco
is TO es-c chew it, and the best way for him
10 use liquors is TO refuse them.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1882-09-10

chas alturas son las mas grandes go
bre ell nivel del mar despues de
Sierra Nevada. A sus estribaciones
Sc levanta de un lado el pintoresco
y feraz vale de Liebana, en- la pro-
vincis de Santander, y del otro el
immortal sitio de Covadonga, cuna
de nuestra restauracion.
ALI nuestro Rsy sentir& dilatarse
su coraz6n ante Ia grandeza y rna.
jestad severa de aquellos elevados
sitios.
Dadss las especiales condolences
lie la polftica do verano, 8 60t,searia,
que hsmos dlcho, no podetnos ase.
gurar con certeza de que lado soplan
los variables vientos de "a opinion,
pues, como dice un colega, los hon.
bres politicos tratan, hablan. pro.
yectan entire 81 mil planes, inte ntan-
do acaso apoderarse iel secreto de
los otros, sin descubrir ell suyo. Es-
to es 10 que suelen hacer los pollti-
COS, en- esas afortunadas regiones,
durante Ia presente epoca del ailo.
Sc decfa por aiguien que las Cor
tes reanudarfan sus tareas en- el
presente mes de Setiembre. De
todos modos, pronto ell gigantic de
las batallas enseii ara su defOrmidad.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1882-09-10
A PROPOS1TO.
Oontinuaremos.

No ha muchos dias, tuvimos que
salir al encuentro dc un colega capi.
taleilo que Sc propuso atacar la re-
ligiosa, legal y entire nosotros obliga-
toria costumbre de abstenerse de
TODD genero de trabajos serviles en-
los domingos y dias festivos. Cree.
mos haberlo realizado en- terminus
que nuestro colega habra conocido
Ell error de sus opiniones y 10 intem,
pestivo de sus juicios acerca del par
ticular.
A esos neo 66erabs que, invocan-
do d cada paso ell libre albedrlo hu-
mano en- todas sus manifestaciones,
preteEden, no obstante, entronizar
ia servidumbre del trabajo perp6
tue, sin descanso para el corporal
sentldo, sin solaz aIguno para ell al.
ma, podemos cltar Ell ejemplo de 10
que Sc hace en- los pueblos que mar
chan a la vsnguardla de la civiliza-
cion, del progreso y de la libertad,
en- su acepcIon mas lata y general.
En- Inglaterra, que es pueblo INC .
delo de lnstltucIoues, las tabrlcas, los
talleres y demas centros de produc-
ci6n suspenden sus trabajos d las
tres de la tarde del sabado. FL do
mibgo es dia de complete descanso
para todos, y en- 81 nj aun Sc permi.
te la circulacion de las cartas por la
posta, nj de los carruajes por la via
p1blica. A tanto no hemos llegado
aquf, excepclon hecha del jueves y
v:ernes Santos, y ESQ que no somos
tan kbre cultsstGs como los haitian
tes de ia poderosa Albion.
Recientemente eE Alemania, ha-
biendo dispuesto la autoridad mill
tar de I'm distrlto pasar revista d las