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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

TIE SIGNING OF THE DEcLARATIoN.-
In thinking of that instrument one is apt
to call up before him an august assem-
bage gravely seated around table,
with the declaration spread out upon it,
and each member of the continental con-
gress in turn taking Il pen and with great
dignity affiXing to it his name. Nothing,
however, can be farther from that which
actually took place. Very few of the
delegates, if indeed any, signed the origin
al document on the 4th, and none signed
the present one now in Independence nall,
tor the very good reason that it was not
:heh in existence.
On July 10 congress voted that the dec
laration be engrossed on parchment.
Jefferson, however, says that New York
signed on July 10. Consequently New
York must have signed the original copy
the hands of the engrosser. On what day
he work was done by the copyist is not
known. All that is certainly known is
that on the I'd of August congress had the
document as now engrossed. This is the
document in existence now In Indepen-
dence hall. 1t is on parchment or some-
thing that the trade calls parchment. On
that day august . it was signed by all
the members present. The original dec
laralon is lost, or rather was probably
destroyed by congress. All the
signatures were made anew. When the
business of signing was ended is not known
One, Matthew Thornton, from New Hamp-
shire, signed it in November, when he
became member for the first time; and
Thomas Mexican, from Delaware, as he
says himself, did not sign till January,
1777. Indeed, this signing was, in effect,
what at the present day would be called
'test oath" The principles of many of the
new delegates coming into congress from
the different states were not known with
of them might be tories
in disguise and thus each one was
required on first entering congress to sign
the declaration. In January, 1777, an
authenticated copy, with the names of all
the signers, was sent to each state for
signatures-a fact which may have put
stop 10 the business of signing. 1t shows,
however, the little importance that was
attached to this ceremony, that Robert R.
Livingston was one of the committee of
i've that reported the declaration, and yet
lid not sign it, unless his signature is lost
with the original document.
The truth is, the declaration of indepen.
ience was considered at that time of much
ess Importance than now; nor did the
;igners dream of its becoming a shrine
'f worship at the present day.-Harper's
Naqazine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

WHAT He DID WITH His IIANDs.-A
good example of what can be done by
oung man who takes and keeps his
hands out of his pockets was set by
one who graduated few years ago at
Harvard university. He determined to
become cotton manufacturer. Instead
of relying upon his general education, and
waiting for an opening, as many of his
classmates did, he began at once to pre-
pare specially for the business he had
chosen by entering n machine shop as a
workman-making full hour, and ac.
quainting himself with every part of the
machinery of cotton MILL From the
machine shop he went into he cotton mill,
aud by hard work and close attention
rapidly acquired thorough knowledge of
all the processes of cotton manufacture.
While some of his classmates we're wait
ing and looking for an opening in business.
and others were with difficulty filling
subordinate positions, he was rapidly
rising step by step, until he is to day in
charge of one of the largest cotton mills
in New England, with ample salary, and
what is better, is dscharging the duties
of his position with great satisfaction to
the company he serves.-Golden Days.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

How TO TELL ALL ABOUT TIE WEATH
ER.-The following table was constructed
by the celebrated DR.. Herschell upon a
philosophical consideration of the attrac.
tion of the sun and moon. 1t Is confirmed
by the experience of many years observa-
tion, and will suggest to the observer
what kind of weather will probably follow
the moons entrance into any of her
quarters. As a general rule, it will be
found wonderfully correct:
If the moon changes at II clock noon,
the weather Immediately after will be
very rainy, if in summer, and there will
be snow and rain In winter.
If between and 4 o'clock p. NJ,
changeable in summer-fair and mild in
winter.
Between 4 and o'clock p. NJ, in
summer, fair. if the wind is northwest /;
rainy, if south or southwest. In winter,
fair and frosty, if the wind is north or
northwest; rainy, if south or southwest.
Between 10 and Il o'clock p. M, rainy,
in summer and fair and frosty in winter,
Between II at night and 9 o'clock A. M,
fair in summer and frost in winter, unless
the wind is from the south or southwest.
Between and 4 o'clock A. NJ, cold and
very showery in summer, and snow and
stormy in winter.
Between and o'clock A. NJ, wind
and rain in Summer and stormy in win.
ter.
Between 8 and 10 o'clock A. NJ, show
cry in summer and cold In winter.
Between 10 and IL o'clock A. NJ, show
cry in summer and cold in winter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

TIE DRAGON FLY, vulgarly called the
"devil's darning needle" in this country,
may be seen in sunny summer days NOV
ing with rapid flight about our streams,
ponds, and meadows, alighting for time
and then darting away. They are enor-
mously voracious, being among insects
what birds of prey are among their kind.
Though formidable to the minute creatures
on which they prey, they are perfectly
harmless to mankind. Otherwise they
are very useful to man, and destroy vast
numbers of gnats and other Insects which
are troublesome or destructive. If few
dragon flies be shut into house for a
short time they will exterminate the mos
quitos and flies and other vexatious blood.
suckers just as a few toads put into a room
will lid 1t of bugs, cockroaches, and like
pests.
These creatures have a peculiarly light
and airy appearance when on the wing.
and are beautifully colored. Their wings
are immensely large and powerful (con-
sid, ring the size of the insecO enabling it
to poisc itself and remain almost perfectly
stationary for II long time or dart with
almost incredible swiftness after its prey,
which its large, almost disproportonate,
eyes enable it TO see in every direction.
They are great ornaments to our meadows
and water ways in the long bright days of
summer Their habit of playing about
any moving object, now darting toward it
at full speed, sometimes almost brushing
it, and anon retreatng with equal speed,
its brilliant, FURNISHED colors cleaning in
the long afternoon sunshine, together with
its generally warlke and threatening
aspect, all combined to render it an object
of n superstitious terror known only to
early boyhood. Many sohoolboy COM
panion who has since sought I" the bubble
reputation" (and found it) "even in the
cannon's mouth" can to-day remember
the thrill which shot through his veins at
being suddenly confronted by this beauti-
full but formidable. looking insect while
going his lonely road to school, or may be
playing truant beside some favorite trout
stream. While the familiar and harmless
dragon fly is, in fact, to the average small
boy source of terror, to the great mass
Of humanity mere name-if anything
it is to the entomologist curious and in
insect of the genus hbeItulide,
and to the poet source of inspiration, as
witness the following:
1.-The knightly dragon-fy is your attendant,
And ts against the teld
And down the listed sunbeam rides resplendant |
With steel-blue mail and hield"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18
TIE WANDER Err.

The Denver Tribune publishes the following prett
little poem by Madame Helena Modjeska, the actress
Upon mountains height far from the sea,
found shell,
And to my curious ear this lonely thing
Ever song of ocean seemed to sing
Ever tale of ocean seemed to tell.
How came this shell upon the mountain height?
All, who can say
whether there dropped by some too careless hand
Whether there cast when oceans swept the land
Ere the Eternal had ordained the day?
Strange, was it not. far from its native sea?
one song it sang
Sang OF the mighty mysteries Of the tide
Sang of the awful, vase, profound. and vide
Softly with echoes of the ocean rang.
And as the shell upon tie noun tain height
Sings of the sea.
So do ever. leagues and leagues away
So do ever, wandering where may,
Sing, o my home-sing, my home, of thee.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

CIEERFULNEss IN CHILDREN.-A very
small matter will arouse child's mirth.
How still the house is when the little ones
are fast asleep, and their pattering feet
are silent! Take even hose poor, prema-
turely aged little ones. bread in the gutter,
cramped in unhealthy homes, and i'll used
it may be, by drunken parents, and you
will find that the child's nature is not
all crushed out of them. They are
gleeful children still, albeit they look so
very haggard and weary. Try TO excite
their mirthfulness, and before long a
laugh rings out as wild and free as if
there were no such thing as sorrow in the
world. Let the dear little ones laugh
then; too soon, alas! they will have cause
to weep Do not try to check or silence
them, but let their gleefulness ring out
gladstone repeal, reminding us of the
days when we, too, could laugh without
sigh, and sing without tears.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

DRINKS FOR THE HARVEST FIELD The
following is a capital drink for the harvest
field. When you have any heavy work to
do, do not take any beer or spirits. By
far the best drink is Thin oatmeal and
water, with little sugar. The proportions
are one-fourth pound oatmeal TO two or
three quarts of water. 1t should be we'll
boiled, then one ounce or one and half
ounces of brown sugar added. Shake up
the oatmeal well through the liquid. In
summer, drink this cold in winter. hot.
You will find it not only quenches thirst,
but will give you more strength and
endurance than any other drink. II at any
time you have to max, a very long day,
as in harvest, increase the oatmeal to one
half pound or three-fourths pound to three
quarts of water. Many will find piece
Of lemon peel boiled with it an improve.
ment.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

AMBER AND It's ORIGIN.-According to
a recent volume on the flora of the animal
bearing formations of East Prussia by
Messrs, Goeppert and Menge, there must
have existed in that part of Europe in
ancient days group of conifers which
com prised specimens from almost all parts
of the world. There were present such
magnificent representatives of the Califor-
MIA conifers as the red wood, the sugar
pine, the Douglas spruce; the scarcely
less majestic balk cypress, red cedar,
Thuya, and Pinus rtgida of more eastern
states; the Chilean incense cedar, the par
asol fir, the arborvitae, the GtyptoStrobus
and the 1huyopSts of the eastern coast of
Asia; the Scotch fir, the spruce and the
cypress of Europe, and the calltris of
southern Attica. The causes which led TO
the dispersion and extinction in Europe,
in relatively recent times, OF so consider
able group of ferae would be interesting
to trace out.
From generations of these resin. bearing
trees along its shores have been produced
the deposits of amber for which the Baltic
is noted. The richest deposits are situated
along strip of coast between Memel and
Dantzic, but the real home Of amber has
been supposed to lie in the bed of the
Baltic, between Bornholm and the main
la1d. 1t rests upon cretaceous rocks, and
consists chiefly Of their debris, forming
peculiar mixture known as blue earth,
which appears to exist throughout the
province of Samland at a depth of 80 to
loo feet, and to contain an almost mex
haustible supply of amber. This strip of
blue earth extends along the coast for
sixty miles with breadth of twelve miles
an average thickness OF ten feet.
Immense quantities of amber are washed
out to sea from the coast, or brought
down by rivulets and cast up during
storms or in certain winds. The actual
yield by quarrying is 100000 to 100000
pounds year, or Eve times the quantity
estimated to be cast up by the waves on
the same coast.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

Lyndon literary institute is to be opened
again The needed S25,O0O being raised
for an endowment, the Hon. S. S. Thomp-
son agrees TO yield up his mortgage free
from debt.
During the asst week of May the births
of London exceeded the deaths by LIZA.
At that rate the population of the city
would increase over 81 900 a year from
births alone.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

The June roses are in full bloom now ,
and the air is full of unutterable sweetness.
There are three very happy people living
in the tiny gray cottage in one of the tiny
villages near the great city. Every day
brown faced man goes to his labor with
song in his heart, and returns home with
CHEEKY smiles and we'll filled hands. All
these bright summer days fair. sweet
girl works on husily, happily; and another
girl, not so bright, but very happy, picks
violets from the greensward and daisies
from the meadow. There is a song, TOO,
upon her lips. There is pathos in her
voice which Lrings glad tears to many
dear eyes as she sings:
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

| the gentle and refined and pure. Many a
preaching service or PRAYER meeting that
ought to have been a bethel or heavens
gate to the enraptured soul, has been
profaned by the camorous opportunities
of this usurper of human and divine aflec
tion. 1t is an idol god that consents
cheerfully to no second place on the throne
Put his demands side by side with the
demands of Jehovah in the heart of the
man who tries TO serve them both, and, in
he majority of cases, tobacco will win.
We may he putting this strongly, but
hen we are one of the fools, and, of course,
haven't sense enough to put it popularity.
But we think, nevertheless, we put il
ltruthfully. Many man has furnished
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18
Timber cut between June and sep,e

Timber cut between June and Septem.
Der keeps sound longer than if cut in
the winter. The old rule used to be to
cut timber in August, but any time will
do while the foliage is greatest. The
reason for this probably is that the leaves
on the tree help to dry it more rapidly
than 1t would If the leaves were removed.
The hot Gather of summer months is
more favorable for seasoning timber than
fall or winter. In very early spring while
the wood is full of sap is the worst time to
cut timber for keeping,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

But in the presence of this crowd of
aspiring young men the past, with all lis
broken arches, disappears from my eyes
and see only the great high road of
humanity on which you are travelling.
Press on. II you come to excellence in
knowledge do not lie down with it to take
pleasant dreams, but have tho cou age of
your opinions and plead for truth George
BdncrOU
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

There is grade of wheat in Oregon
known as goose wheat, so called because
it originated from few grains found in
the crop of wild goose. The wheat has
a hard outer husk, and the bran is very
coarse; it makes peculiar grade of flour.
Its exact duplicate is found in a small
province of Spain, and the inference is
that the wild goose must have made
pretty rapid time,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18
THE GREAT GULF:

Close by her side for so many years;
So close hear her beating heart,
And yet our souls as far apart
As though we dwelt in different spheres.
We're seas between and leagues of land,
could hear this with better grace,
But thus to look upon her face.
And thus to clasp and claim her hand.
And know, though would die for her,
That this is all have-that far
From me as any farthest star
Her heart is still wanderer.
This is deaths pang. What though there rolls
Wide wastes between our paths! thought
Can bridge that sea. but there ia naught
Can span the sea between two souls
-DemOreSt's MOnthIv for June
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

Pious lcelanders when walking in the
morning do not salute any one in the
house till, after fastening to the door,
they have lifted up their eyes in silent
prayer. Returning into the house they
greet every one with God grant you
good dayl' Before and after crossing a
river the devout Icelander will raise his
hat in token of the sense he entertains OF
his dependence on God.-SeLected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18
SILENT SORROW.

Sad are the words that men have spoken,
But i'll the speaking they find relief
Dear to the heart that is rent and broken
Is the passionate tale of it's wasting grief
But sadder vet is the silent sorrow
That grows in the stiffness from day to day,
And waits and yoarns for the great tomorrow,
Yet breads the thought of the far away
All ye are happy whose tears are flowing;
Your grief, like ship on the outward tide.
Has spread it's sails and the winds are blowing
Its canvas on the ocean wide
But he is saddest whose grief is lying
Deep down in the chambers of his breast
Away from the kingdom of tears and sighing,
Alone and still in its hushed unrest.
~ L Post
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

"Yes, bought with his blood,' echoes
her sisters gentle voice. "but led into the
light by dear human hand. God bless
the dear man !'-NatiOnal Temperance
Aduocdte.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

How much we might make of life if
every secret thought of love hlossomed
into deed. .-Harrtet BeechGr Stowe.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

state mentally, and was fretful and
intensely trying, keeping her sister awake
night after night by her complaints and
moanS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

A horse thief in western prison COM
plains bitterly that the chaplain is a
Presbyterian, while he was brought up a
Methodist.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

1t is no more possible for an idle man
to keep together a certain stock of knowl.
edge, than it is possible to keep together
Il certain stock of ice exposed to the
meridian sun. Every day destroys a
fact, relation, or an Inference; and the
only method of preserving the bulk and
value of the pile is by constantly adding
to it.-Ernestus.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

Churches don t make Christians, though
Christians make churches. The test is,
new aims and new ife-in word, Does
he believe anythingp The devil
hates creeds unless he can have the
making of them himself Strong beliefs
make strong men, weak beliefs make
weak men. Athanasius fought to the
death for an iota. DR.. Burton.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-18

Temptation is fearful word. 1t ind-
Gates the beginning of a possible series of
infinite evils. 1t is the ringing of an alarm
bell whose melancholy sounds may rever-
berate through eternity. Like the sudden,
sharp cry of fire in the night, it should
rouse us to instantaneous activity, and
brace every muscle to its highest tension,
-IillS
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-11-16
That Disgraexful Bargain.

That DisEraeeful Bargain.
The Asylum had been conducted
in a most satisfactory manner by
DR.. Dawson, but that gent eman
was removed without any cause
other than to make room f.r Gov
ernor Adams henchmen. The re-
suit Of Governor Adams action is
now seen. A quarrel between the
Superintendent and his former as
sistant gives the public q nasty
dose of politics in connection with
the management of an Asylum.
built for the purpose of providing
for q class of unfortunates, ire.
speciive Of politics, religion. sex or
color. Governor Adams should
not allow himself to be talked into
making appointments in such in
stitutions simply to reward his
political workers. The contro-
versy now going on between Berg
stein and Bishop is a disgrace to
the State of Nevada. Footlight.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-11-16

The silver Glance District.
1t begins to look as if the Silver
Glance District, where SO much
Carson capital is located, is soon
destined to be one of the richest in
the State. The B0die Free Press
of last Tuesday says: Yesterday 3
prospector showed us some wonder
fully rich quartz which he found
north of Sweetwater. or between
that place and the Mountain House
He would nat divulge the locality
Of the find, but it is probably s,me'
where in Silver Glance Dis riot
The quartz was fairly ribboned
with gold, and worth several dollars
per pound. The finder has been
prospecting several months, follow
ing up float rock, and at last was re-
warded by finding small but very
rich vein. That particular section
of country has been but super
ficially prospected. but it undoubt
eddy contains a mineral belt worth
looking after. Two or three COM
panies have been quietly working
there for some years, with results
that have not been made public;
but it is known that considerable
gold finds its way to the Carson
Mint, from this district, which. no
doubt, will some day attract more
attention than it does now. Willard
& Mcdonald have o snug little
mine there, which pays steadily,
and no doubt there are other local
tiles just as good, if as we'll de-
veloped.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-11-16

The Stockton Herald speaks these
truthful words Fair is cordially
detested in the State which he
makes q pretence Of representing.
II there is even one man in it who
does not despise and laugh at him
and rejoice in his misfortunes be
has never been able to make his
voice heard"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-11-16

A sporting paper in New York
nominates Arthur for the Presi
dsncy. He would pole the angler
vote to a fish hook. A campaign
document, with a sketch of that 50
pound bass at its head, would bring
all the fishermen in the country to
his standard, irrespective OF their
previous political predictions.
-(Stock Exchange.