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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

THE PEACE OF DEATH.-How peaceful
is the dwelling place of those who inhabit
the green hamlets and populous cities ol
the dead! They need no antidote for care
no armor against fate. No morning
sun shines in at the closed windows and
awakens them, nor shall, until the last
great day. At most, a struggling sun
beam creeps in through the crumbling
wall of an old, neglected tomb-a strange
visitor that stays not long. And there
they all sleep, the holy ones, with their
arms crossed upon their breasts, or lying
motionless by their sides-not carved in
marble by the hand of man, but formed
in dust by the hand of God. Gods peace
be with them! No one comes to them
now, to hold them by the hand, and with
delicate fingers to smooth their hair
They need no more the Establishments Of
earthly friendships. They need us not
however much we may need them. And
yet they silently await our coming.
Beautiful is that season of life when we
can say in the language OF Scripture,
Thou hast the dew of thy youth" But
of these flowers death gathers many. He
places them upon his bosom, and he is
transformed into something less terrific
than before. We learn to gaze and shud-
der not; for he carries in his arms the
sweet blossoms of earthly hope. We
shall see them all again, blooming in a
happier land.
Yes, death brings us again our friends.
They are waiting for US, and we shall not
long delay. They have gone before us
and are like the angels in Heaven. They
stand upon the borders of the grave to
welcome us, with the countenance of
affection which they wore on earth; vet
more lovely, more radiant. more spiritual!
He spake we'll who said that graves are
the footprints of angels. Lonqtellow.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

SCKArINGs OF HoRN.-rhe fine scrap
ings of any common cattle's horn stepped
in vinegar and bound hot as can be borne
upon wound will subdue pain almost
Instantly. and effectually subdue lockjaw
| have often used this remedy and have
never had failure. In wounds torn and
lacerated, as for example, where d nail has
been stepped ON penetrating the sole of
the foot, and tbs patient wild with pain,
countenance livid, teeth ohattering, limos
trembling and lockjaw seeming inevitable
with this remedy have produced perfect
quiet, relaxation of muscles and freedom
from pain, and even from soreness of the
wound In the space of fifteen minutes
time. .np.ir '"Hf." 'Hl YH.G 40 'H2 ,
was called in haste to SEGA young
man of Is years who had stepped on nail
found him almost in spasms, and had no
remedies with ME. In the house 9found
powder horn, and with a piece Of glass
went to scraping. As soon as 1 had a
common thimbleful barley covered 1t
with vinegar and heated it as hot as could
be borne, and, setting others TO scraping,
l applied it to the wound, changed often as
soon as cool, adding the scrapinS aocumu-
lated,and with this treatment had the boy
easy and out of danger in fifteen minutes.
| know not what there is in horn thst
produces this effect, which | have seen
many times, and have often wished there
might be some preparation Of this remedy
little more convenient to use than the
crude material.-J. A. KdV IN adams ca.
Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

Uses OF PAPER.-Under tho generic
term of paper, other substances used in
combination with paper pulp are compre-
hended in general descriptions and occa-
sional notices. When some wonderful story
is read of the substitution of paper for
wood, stone, the metals, for mortar, and
plaster, and concrete and other compost
ton, the reader should not understand
that this is the material defined by Web
ster as "a substance formed into thin sheet
or leaves. made of pulp obtained from rags
straw bark, or like substances, pressed
and dried" Paper, for so many and SO
differing uses are attributed to it, must
have something besides vegetable pulp in
its compositions. In fact, the term 'paper''
is msnomer for products that all their
special qualities from foreign materials,
held together by the paper pulp acting as
a matr.x. Thus, asbestor, ia filaments, or
powder, may be mixed with paper pulp
to form convenient uninfiammable and
possibly an incombustible material shaped
while plastic TO convenience for special
uses. So, clays in almost impal pable dust
may become a part of the paper pulp pro-
duction, and be a substitute for other ma.
terial. Other mineral substances may be
mixed with the pulp, and in short, there
appears to be scarcely any limit to
the uses that paper may be made of paper
pulp mixed with foreign substances,
moulded and pressed to form. 7
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

PoMPEn. The excavation Of, Pompeii
as begun in 1743, and about two iifths of
tho city have since been brought to light,
giving to the modern world a remarkable
monument of ancient civilization, This
work has also shown some thing Of the ma
ture and extent of the catastrophe which
overwhelmed Ponpeii. Phe destruc.
ton was not caused by lava, but by burial
in rain of ashes or cinders from Vesuvius
The larger part of the Inhabitants had
time to escape, but there is good reason to
believe that at least / 900 of them perished,
45O bodies having thus far been found, 1t
was happy thought of Fiorelli, some
twenty years ago. that by pouring plaster
of Paris ia the moulds left inthe soft ashes,
casts might be made of the victims
in the attitudes in which they met their
DEATH. This plan has been carried out
since then whenever hnmaniremain3 have
been discovered, and the result is that an
extraordinary collection of portrait statues
of the men of eighteen centuries ago is
being made. The archmolglsts ARE not
only restoring the stage but they are also
bringing before us the actors in that
terrible Roman tragedy of August A.. d.
rs. igl#n.l .113"l 'N ln 21nm'nm
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

THE SCARLET FEvER.-It is rs unnec-
essary for a child to die of the scarlet
fever as it is that it should be blind with a
cataract. Let us see. At anv time before
the body has finished its effecual struggle
we are able to help it, not by wonderful
medicines, but by the knowledge of anat-
omy and the application of common sense.
We consult the sympathetic nerve, and do
what it commands us to do. We must
give this child salt when it wants it; we
must give it acid when it has fever and
anxiously Graves it-not vinegar, but
lemon juice, because the first coagulates
albumen, and the latter does not, on
account of the surplus of oxygen which
it contains. To initiate the soothing
mucous in tho intestines, which is now
wanting, and to give some respiratory
food at the same time. we add some gum
arabic. To restore and relieve the injured
nerve. we apply moist warmth. In prac-
tice we can fulfill all this with the
following simple manipulations Undress
the child and bring it to bed at the very
first sign of sickness. Give it, if it has
already fever, nothing but sourish, warm
lemonade with some gum arabic in it.
Then cover its abdomen with some dry
flannel. Take well folded bed sheet and
put it in boiling hot water; wiring it out
dry by means of dry towels, and put this
over the flannel on the child's abdomen.
Then cover the whole, and wait. The
hot cloths will, perhaps, require repeated
heat. According to the severity of the
case, and its stage of progress, perspira-
tion will commence in the child in from
ten minutes to two hours. The child is
then saved; it soon falls to sleep. Soon
after the child awakes, 1t shows slight
symptoms of returning inclination for
food; help its bowels, if necessary, with
injections of oil, soap and water. and its
recovery will be as steady as the growth |
of greenhouse plant, if well treated. |
OF course, if the child was already diving, |
nothing could save it. or if it has already |
effusions in the lining of the heart or
brain; it is much better that it should die. |
But if the above is applied in due time,
under the eyes and direction of a compe-
tent physician, will guarantee that not |
one in a hundred children will ever die |
of scarlet fever. know this will startle
some of my readers, especially those who
have lost children already, but l shall 90
still farther. maintain that child will |
never get scarlet fever if properly treated.
If a child has correctly mixed blood, it
will not catch the disorder if put in bed
with sick child. This is still more
but nothing is easier of proof
Good Heath.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

FRIENDsHIPs,-It is taking the care
and sorrow and loss and trouble of another
as if it were your own that makes friend
ship, it is putting our souls under another
mans soul and bearing him as it were.
One goes up or goes down with the other.
You can't have many of these friendships,
they are too costly; there is not time
enough to cultivate many of them. You
can have kindly feelings towards multi
tudes, but when it comes to the matter OF
serving, and when your conscience is
another mans conscience. and your heart,
like bell, is struck every time that he is
in trouble is about as much as you can do
to take care of that one man.
When one really loves there is care.
lessness about ones own happiness, a
sense of the others growth; there is a
power and energy put forth in develop
ing the life of the loved one as if your life
lay in it. 1t is the nature of love to serve.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

THE PRIVATE SoLDIER.-One day the
private soldier will shine resplendent. a
blazing planet against the nebulous back
ground of half-forgotten field and line
officers. 1t has been ever the fate of the
private soldier. Napoleon is dead and
all his marshals are dead But the private
soldier who fought under THE Little
Corporal at Waterloo, is he not found in
every state? The "Iron Duke" is dead,
but does not the last surviving soldier OF
THE Guards" die in some place every
month"; Washington is dead, but his
body servant, is not his name Legion, of
Legion countyP And so some day the
last general who fought in the war of the
rebellion will pass away, the final colonel,
much against his will. must die. Majors
and captains will join the innumerable
caravan; but the last surviving private
soldier of every regiment that fought
anywhere will never leave US, but will
live embalmed in the perennial paragraph;
It'll suns shall rise and set no more. y
Robert j. Burdt lie.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

A FACT WORTH kNowING-It was nv
privilege recently to visit our contrv
almshouse at North Haverhil, N. H., for
the purpose of carrying Il supply of books,
magazines, papers and chromos to the
inmates of that institution as well as to
gather facts for the benefit of our state
superintendent of that department of
work, Mrs. NJ. E. Partridge of Claremont.
was at once observant If the ceanly
appearance of the house and its inmatcs,
as we'll as their apparent kindly thought
for the matron, Mrs. George, who accom-
panied me through the building. But the
most surprising statement was made By
the matron, that during her nine years Of
work in the institution, she had persuaded
fifty women to give up the use Of tobacco,
not compelled, but persuaded tbem In
some cases she had supplied, some little
luxury instead, while many had volunta-
rily discarded it to please her. By this
means she was saving the county $3.50 a
year, but better still, improving the physi.
cal condition of the women. a.. .......
visited the room Of very old lady
from my own town, carrying her some
Roman Catholic mementoes from her
friends, among which were holy water a
blessed candle and other things which
the priest had sent te,me for this purpose,
when he heard of my proposed visit; she
being of The Catholic faith.
After presenting these things in the
name Of the donors of which She seemed
to care less thsnI had expected, said to
her; -.,,..f. ,s.,....,, - .-'I,- f...- y.-,..,.
"Mrs. Donohue. have you any word to
send back to your Lebanon friendse"
Very naturally | expected a message of
thanks for the gifts she had received, but
or ignoring those. she said:
Tell the Lebanon folks that l hain't
smoked for two years, and l never want
TO smoke again.n And that after sixty
years use of tobacco!
Mrs. George assured me that there was
q markod physical improvement In many
cases, following the discontinuance OF the
use of tobacco. ~, ....., -,
Great Credits due this matron for her
wise care in this direction by which SO
many have been benefited. Why may
1ot other matrons do likewise P-Nrs N.
e. KaoG, IN Union Signal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

COsT OF BUILDING.-A friend of mine
purchased house few days ago, on
which he proposes TO make some radical
alterations. adding a mansard roof, build
Ing n two story extension, etc. Knowing
that was familiar with the details of a
similar experience recently, he called upon
me to get some idea of cost, etc. After
listening patiently to all his plans, told
him what he ought to do. 1t was 10 get
five people in whose judgme mt and expe,
rience he had confidence, explain his
plans TO them, and get them to put down
the cost. "Oh, yes," he remarked, "after
getting these five estimates, you average
them?' "Oh, no." said /, "you add them
all together, and then you will come
near the mark. ."-New York
Star.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

| The greatest truths are the simplest
and so are the greatest men.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the
beauty of the great action is gone, like the
bloom from n soiled flower.
More hearts pine away in secret anguish
from the want of kindness from those who
should be their comfort, than from any
other calamity in life.
"Splendid color, isn't itp" asked the
fishmonger, cutting open salmon.
"Yes," replied the purchaser, "looks as if
it were blushing at the price you asked
for it,"
Robert Collyer gives sound advice when
he says: Never say that the past was
better than to day is: read the new books
understand all the new ideas, and keep to
your faith in God and in man, and in the
victory of good over evil.
Somebody proposes the following
presidential ticket for 1884: For president,
Roscoe Conkling of New York; for vice
president, John l., Sullivan of Massuchu-
sets. Both candidates are ring men.
While more boys are born than girls it
is singular fact that there is a surplus
of female population. 1t is easily account
ed for. Fooling with toy pistols, playing
base ball, and falling off cherry trees, all
bo7ish pastimes, are six times more haz-
ardous than wearing corsets and jumping
the rope 500 times in one inning
Norristo Dn Herald.
The antophone company conduct their
correspondence by means of typewriter.
The company had occasion to send four
or five letters to an agent. way out in
Wisconsin, and they were amused a few
days ago to receive one from him closing
with these words: You needn't print any
more letters that you send me. for want
you to understand that l can read writ
ing"
A sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper
is that in which the sleeper sleeps. A
sleeper is that on which the sleeper which
carries the sleeper while he sleeps runs.
Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the
sleeper the sleeper carries the sleeper
over the sleeper under the sleeper until
the sleeper which carries the sleeper
jumps off the sleeper and wakes the
sleeper in the sleeper by striking the
sleeper under the sleeper, and there is no
sleeper in the sleeper on the sleeper.
London journals, while they admit that
American girls are famous for an elegant |
and refined type of lovliness, that French |
ladies are the best dressed in the world,
that the German youthful fraullns have the
fincst heads of hair, the Spanish girls the |
brightest eyes to be found anywhere. and
that in Venice and Florence may be seen
to this day direct descendants OF those Old
World blonde beauties still fresh and fair
on Titien's canvas, claim that young Eng
lish ladies remain ampler in limb, clearer
of complexion, and more hearty than any
others. This they attribute to plain food,
sound sleep, suitable clothing, exercise in
the open air, and IL plentiful application OF
soap and water.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

SpECTAcLEs AND EYE GLASSES. -Four
outof 1--WE persons who wear glasses wear
eye glasses. The fifth wears spectaoles
Ninety nine in every hundred who consult
either oculist or optician, are advised to
wear spectacles. AS rule, four. fifths OF
them refuse to accept the advice given.
Theo reason given is that eye glasses
look more, stylish than speclaces. The
eyes better than any spectaoles / could
find. so Some foolish young ladies and
gentlemen adopt eye glasses because they
think it gives them distinguished appear
lance.a Their use gives the wearer an
opportunity to attach 10 the costume bit
Of jewelry they could not otherwise sport
ia delicate gold chain, which may be
worn so that the ear is made resting
| place for The connecting link between
eye glass and vest or Dress With this
GLASS the eye glass is of no earthly use,
except as a means of injurng the eye.
Such glasses have no magnifying power,
and are as valueless to the weak or deform
ed eye as the single eye glass. Single
glasses arc worn only by Englishmen,
Anglotnaniacs. and idiots. Tho party
who wears one--it is always q man-may
be az once SET DOWN as q snoD. Ihere VIII
be no mistake. A sane man needs single
eye glass about as much asa cat needs two
tails. yort as a tramp needs Saratoga
trunk kr9! As few "men about town" wear
the single eye glass and few actors wear
them on the stage, they have attained a
certain, amount Of popularity, mainly
among the classes mentioned. The idiots |
include the ,"dudes'' So popular have
eye glasses become among those who are
compelled To Wear glasses to aid defective
sight that me use Of spectacles is confined
mainly to elderly people and to boys and |
girls. The fact that young children who
are troubled with affections of the eye
invariably wear .spectacles is known to
every observing man. The fact carries
with 1t a lesson. Z That is, that the child
does what the ocuiist tells itor its parents
to do. The person OF maturer years,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

The wall of n gentleman's house near
Edinburgh some years exhibited board
on which was painted threat quite as
difficult for the trespasser to understand
as the preceding:
"Any person entering these Enclosures
will be shot and prosecuted"
An eccentric old gentleman placed in a
field on his estate board with the follow
ing generous offer painted thereon:
IL will give this field to any man who
is contented."
1t was not long before he had an appli-
cant.
"Well, my man, are you contented
fellowP'
YES, sir; very"
TEen why do you want my tieldP"
The applicant did not wait to reply.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

At the late meeting of the Michigan
general association of Congregations
churches a dapper young student asked
DR.. L. Fl. Cobb, secretary of the Congre
gational union, "Will they allow a man
out west TO wear silk hatp" "Yes, sir,'
said the doctor, "but they want to know
what he's got under it,"
A woman's ministerial conference was
held at Boston last Friday, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe presiding. Lorenza Haynet,
Kate Gannett Wells, Annie Shaw, etc.,
were present. Letters were read from
Mrs. Phebe A. Hanaford and Frances
Power Cobb. The general opinion seemed
TO be that women were as divinely called
10 the work as men, had special qualifca.
tions for certain kinds of work, had
demonstrated their right by their success,
and should continue despite all opposition.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

NEVER BE AFRAID OF RIDICULE.-
Never let your honest conviction be
laughed down. You can no more exer.
else your reason if you live in constan,
dread of ridicule than you can enjoy life
if you live in constant fear of death. II
you think 1t is right 10 differ from the
times, and make point of morals, do it
not fot ir science, but seriously and grave
ly, as if man wore a big soul of his own
in his bosom, and did rot wait till ii
was breathed into him by the breath O.
fashion. Be true 10 your manhood 8
convictiona, and in the end you will not
only be respected by the world, but have
the approval of your own conscience.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

BREATHE THROUGH THE NosE.-Dr
Ward, physician 10 the me tropolitar
throat hospital, in an article on singers
throat troubles, in the Musical Critic
treats of the causes of catarrhal troubles
experienced by public singers, and repeat
the well known fact that the nose is the
only channel through which air should
pass during ordinary acts of breathing
the mouth being intended only as an
accessory breathing agent when, on Ger.
tain occasions-as, for instance, running
the lungs demand rapid supply OF
air, in passing through the nostris, is
warmed and sifted of its harmful ingredi.
ents, and thus prepared for its reception
into the delicate structures below. If it
passes directly into the mouth without the
above preparation, it will frequen, ly
cause irritation and inflammation of the
mucous membrane, lining the mouth and
throat, by being, in the first place, too
cold, and, in the second place. by contain
ing irritating particles of dust and other
matter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

WHAT MAKES Corn PoP.-Chemists
who have examined Indian corn find that
it contains MI the way from to l 1 parts
in hundred tby weighD of fat. By
proper nut ans this fat can be separated
from the grain, and it is then thick pale
oil. When oils are heated sufficiently in
closed vessels, so that the air cannot get to
them, they nre turned into ga0, which
occupies many times the bulk that the oil
did. When popcorn is gradually heated
and made so hot that the oil inside the
kernels turns TO gas. this gas cannot escape
through the hull of the kernels, but when
the interior pressure gets strong enough,
it bursts the graiu, and the explosion is SO
violent that it skaters it in the most
curious manner The starch in the grain
becomes cooked and taken up great deal
more sbace than it did before. '' "
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.
Temperance.

W. c. T. U. ITEMS County insti-
tutes have been successfully held in
Chittenden, Washington, Lamoille. Gale
dona, Orange and Orleans counties at
which Mrs. Mary G, G. Leavtt rendered
valuable assistance.
Grand Isle and Franklin counties hold
their institutes at Swanton. beginning the
evening of the 9TH and closing the 9Th.
Mrs. +. G. Greene, president of Vermont,
and Mrs. j. X, Barney of Rhode Island
are to make addresses. They are expected
also 10 assist at the Addison county insti-
tute which is to be held at Weybridge the
18th and 18th.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-13

SILK AND SORE THRoATs.-Sor throats
vanish when enclrcled in a silken kerchief
This is established beyond peradventure
The grandmothers knew all about this a
hundred years ago. They believed, too,
that silk would cure all other diseases,
and some of them thought it would heal
a broken leg "if only taken in time" 1t
forms an essential curtain for the electric
cylinder, and rubbed with quicksilver has
a mysterious power that imparts force to
its retention. The curative force of silk
is due to its electricity, and the medical
faculty recommend silken hose and silken
skirts for a thousand diseases.