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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

LETTER TO A BRIDEGROOM, TO become
husband is as serious matter to Il man
rs 1t Is for woman to become II wife.
Marriage is no child's play; it b. ings
added care, trial, perplexity, vexation,
and it requires great deal of the happi-
ness which legtimately springs out of 1t
to make the balance heavy in Its favor
Very few people live happily in marriage,
and yet this is not because unhappiness is
german to the relation, but because those
who enter il do not know, first, how to
get married, and, second, how to live
married happily. You have already made
your choice-wisely, am bound to believe.
Those qualities Of character (which have
attracted you to choose rs you have should
make your love grow daily while you live
together.
As to the second point: If you wish to
live in harmonious union with your wife,
start out with the avowcd recognition of
the fact that she is your companion and
copartner Marriage usually makes the
wife neither of these. In many instances
she sees less of her husband than before
she married him. He comes, be goes, lie
thinks, he reads. works, and rder the
and facullies to The snrface and :. pI"ul. iovn,'
oped therebv-not ALWAYS svmnantrica,iy
but yigorousfv-not always 6srmoniou,ly'
but with Increasing power, Married men
do not usually shrivel up nor mt on a
look of premature age, but women fra.
quently do, and it is plain to me why thew
do.
Married women are shut up ia houses.
on hni nh. 10 q, l.
no inspiring influence, Their time is taken
up in meeting the physical wants of their
fanilies-cooking,w washing dishes. keen.
ing the house in order, sewing, reeeivino
company-not one of which has in i, q
tendency even to culture and elevation.
Married women are devoted to the house.
and this means life of yexation and
pettiness. 1t gives no sort of stimulus to
The spirit. So the husband, who is out of
doors, active, interested in measure, which
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

If religion is held to be delusion, how
can discussion be held with those who
deny its reality? Who would attempt to
demonstrate problem in Euclid to war
painted Sioux? Why endeavor to show
the Spirit to one who says there is no
Spirit, or demonstrate God to one who
says there is no GodP TIE antagonistic
attitude of a soul to that which is claimed,
makes all demonstration impossible.
Faith is not demonstra,ve fact any more
than Immortality is. Belief in these is
less mater Of pure reason than of
intuition. If n man is deaf, why cry in his
ear?--if blind, why hand him the picture
of Calvaryp 1t is time wasted, opportunity
wasted, power wasted-this attempt to
logically demonstrate the awful truths
revealed by the Spirit to human conscious
ness under the laws which dominate the
spiritual realm-truths based upon condi-
tions which are denied at the outset by
those who demand a sight of the invisible,
and the exact span of the measureless.
No wise man knowingly throws away
pearls only to be trampled underfoot at
last,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

SHORT VIEWS OF TRoUBLE.-It is n
great relief where there are so many
clouds Of sorrow, TO think that only one
cloud is likely to pour out its contents
upon US at time. To this also we must
add the reflection that the capacity of any
cloud is limited, and its contents not
therefore exhaus less. These thoughts
should cheer us and brighten our outlook
with tho rainbow of hope. All the fury
of the tempest is not to be borne at once.
We shall only have TO bear portion at n
time, and only so much as we can bear.
These short views of trouble had a good
illustration in the case of lady who had
met with a serious accident, which neces-
STATED II very painful surgical operation
and many months confinement to her
bed:
When tho physician had finished his
work and was about taking his leave, the
patient asked: doctor, how long shall
/ have to lie here helplossP" 10, only
one day at time" was the cheery
answer; and the poor sufferer was not
only comforted for tho moment, but many
times during the succeeding weary weeks
did the thought, "Only ono dayat a time,''
come back with its quieting influence
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

BROKEN LAws,-No man who is not a
fool, if he has de.icate machine for
weaving lace, would 90 to work to make
carpets with it, or be surprised if he did
that il would break to pieces with the
strain; or if he had an instrument of tone
and compass fit for rendering divine
harmonies. and chose to jungle only
waltzes and discords on it for years, he
would not be indignant at nature or God
if it was out of tune and forever incapable
of echoing heavenly music. Yet every
man of sense knows that his physical
brain is material machine, an ipstrumen ,
subject to material waste and injury just
as much as any Cremona. If he persist
emily maltreats it, he alone is responsible
for its ruin. God is not accountants. He
does not work material miracles for any
man, however good his motives in lie
may be. Christ himself woull not throw
himself down from the pinnacle even to
prove that he was the Son OF God. in The
hope that he would be mraculou,ly held
up. The man who puts an intorrable
weight on his brain throws himself down
in such hope, and the man who gives
up his real high mission for awhile in the
world, in order to grub money or 10 set
his family on a fashionable basis, in the
hope that he can go back to it at will
has thrown himself down suicidal height,
from which no angels will bear him up.
Each man and woman is set down mere
in the world with 4 stock of physical and
mental capacity subject to inexorahle
laws. 10 which ordinary common sense
will enable him or her to submit. If he
chooses to break them, not all the t.lth of
the patriarchs and apostles will savc him
from the punishment.
The earlier IN life We recognize thoir
strength and unalterablc fullillment, the
better we shall serve the purpose for
for which we are sent into the world
NeW York Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

AN ELEPHANTS REVENGE One of
those pests of society ~ practical joker"
visited II caravan in west of England
fair, and tried his stupid tricks on an
elephant there. He first doled out to it,
one by one, some gingerbread nuts; and
when the grateful animal was thrown of
his guard, he suddenly proifered it IL large
parcel wrapped in paper. The unsuspi-
cious creature accepted and swallowed the
lump, but Immediately began to show
signs of intense suffering, and snatching
up bucket handed it to bis keeper for
water. This being given to it, it eagerly
swallowed quantities of The fluid. "lia!'
cried the delighted joker. II guess those
nuts were tr!lc hot old fellow" "You
had better be off, exclaimed the keeper,
"unless you wish the bucket ut your head. )
The fool took the hint just in time, for the
onragcd animal, having finished the sixth
buckclful. hurled the bucket af er lis tor
mentor with such force that, had he
fingered moment longer, his life might
have been forfeited The affair WAS not
however, yet concluded. The following
year, the show revisited the same town !;
and the foolish joker, like men Of his gem
it's, unable to profit by cXperincc, thought
to repeat his stupid trick on The elephant.
He took two lots of nuts into the show
with him, nuts in one pocket and
hot in the other. The elephant had not
forgotten the jest played upon him, and
thel eforc accepted the cakes very cautious.
ly. At Elast,.the joker protlercd Il hot
one; but no sooner had the injured crca
ture discovered its pungency, than it
seized hold of its prosecutor by the coat
tails, hoisted him up by them, aud held
him until they gave way, when he fell to
the ground. The elephant now inspected
the severed coat tails, which, after he had
discovered and eaten all the sweet nuts,
he tore to rags, and nung after the dis
comiitcd owncr.-C ChtmbGrH JoN1Hal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28
temperance.
The Vision FnllilIed.

In loneliness and sadr ess, 'amODg The
caihivcs by lhe river Chehar.' sat the
porhct OF the isnfI Captive, but not
iorsaken: for, 10! the heavens were open
ed, and there passed before him strange
and wonderful vision IA whirlwind out
OF the north; cloud and fire, the likeness
of living creatures that turned not rs they
went; land their appearance md their
work was rs it we've II wheel in the mid.
die Of II Wheel
The vision stand in ,lul lcate TO day.
Among the captveS. "hound and double
irored" with fellols forged by usbanhs,
brothers, fathers. and sons, by social Gus.
tom and political strife, sat American
womanho,d The vision is repeated? 1t
is more than that. The heavens have
been opened; the burning Goals OF lire
have gone up and down the land; and IN
soms mysterious way the heroic sacrifice OF
the wilely deyo ion. tie lilia love,W oman's
const CT aicn and loyalty and all COZ gucr-
ing faith. have been blended with tho
spirit of the living creatura oi the vision.
Ii moves "straight forward; its voice,
carrying terror and dislnay tn the ranks
of tie captors, is "like the voice of the
Almghty;' j "appearance and its
wolk' is, "as 1t were, II wheel in the midi
die OF n wheel"
The woman's Christian temperance
union, binding together by links Of warm
est love and sympathy nd mutual effort
the women Of our land, sowing tho
country knce-decp with temperance
literature" bringing lis influence
to bear upon church and school and home.
upon prisons ard capitalists, and the
widely varying uaiionalilies thal make up
our people, is duly becoming more and
more vital force, pregnant with posi-.
blitcs. Here it touches the Hood mark
of rank and position, and alcohol is ban.
ishcd itom tho executive mansion; there
it grasps the levers of power, and IL great
state stands re,let med AID ju!ilant; now
it aspires to the highest possibilities OF
free. ON, claiming d Iight TO the elective
lrinchisc; and then It bows IN deep
humility OF soul, yelling lis face before tho
great II Ann and saying amid its 'c:~-
ful prayers
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28
SNOW.FLAkES.

Through the chilly wintry morning.
Through the gloomy veil of mist,
Came the skow flakes thickly falling,
Hiding everything they kissed
Every window-sill and door step.
Aud the stones beneath their feet,
TIL pail of perfect whiteness
Covered all the silent street.
Soon the feet Of busy people.
Pass ing to their daily toll,
Trod the whiteaess out and marred it
With tue grimy stain of soil;
TIL the trapled mass presented
But sad and painful sight
Painful in its wretched contrast
With the snow of yesterniKht.
In the chilly wintry morning
Came little soul one day,
Sweet as any mountain daisy
Growing in its bed of clay.
Fair the face that shone above it,
1.-the the li2bs that made its prison;
1t was fairer than the snow flakes
Ere the morning sun had risen.
Soon the hasting feet of passion
Trod the soul and beat 1t down:
And sinful hand defiled 1t
In the markets of the town;
Till the face had lost its beauty.
And the limbs grown worn aud thin.
With the wretchedness that follows
In the deadly track of sin.
Sullied snow Is never whitened,
Never can be fair again;
But there Is purifying
For the sinful souls of men:
And the print Of evil footsteps
In the downward path we trod,
May be blotted out forever
By the mercy of our God.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

COOP CoMpANY.-One evening lady
of New York while on her way home Mt a
late hour without an escort, was approached
by lewd fellow, as tho boat on which
they rode neared the landing who asked: I:
Are you alonoP"
mo, sir" was the reply, and without
further interruption when the boat touched
she jumped off.
81 thought you were alone,' said the
fellow, stepping to her side again.
II am not"
"Why, don't see any one; who is with
youp"
"God Almighty and the angels, sir; |
am never alone!"
This arrow pierced the villains ho lrt,
and with these parting words, "You keep
too good company for me, madam, he
shot out of sight, leaving tho heroic lady
to enjoy her good company.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

GOoD WORDS FOR OATMEAL.-The oat
crop, which is so prominent in our farm
ing, is rarely utilized for farmers tables
In somewhat long acquaintance in the
rural districts, we do not remember ever
to have met with oatmeal cooked in any
form. This diet is a favorite Mt the break
fast table in our cities in the form of mush
and eaten with sugar and milk, is an
appetiziDg and wholesome article of diet
But upon the farm the oat crop is very
largely money crop, sold at the nearest
mail ket or railway station. If used upon
the farm it goes to the horse without
grinding, or, if ground, as provcnder for
the pigs. Almost everywhere we meet
with corn products upon the table, Indian
bread. the convenient johnny cake hasty
pudding. samp, hominy, corn bread, and
that finest Of all summer dishes, succotash
the sweet corn mingled with the sayory
juices of The bean, The wheat p ant is
we'll represented, in bread and other
forms of cooking, though it hai ceased to
be product Of many northern farms. In
all the region where rye has taken the
place OF wheat,rye breal is Il staple arIicle
of diet. Baked beans are about as popular
as ev,r, in tho rural districts, and are
likely 10 hold their own with the coming
generations. But oatmeal is ignored as
"a food for men. Among the people who
use it, and in the analysis of lie chemist,
it stands confessed rs one c' the most
nutritious and economical foods that can
be used Tho Scotch people are living
examples of what oameal will d. to make
an athletic race with plenty of brain, bone
and muscle. The Scotchman average
daily ration is > IA pounds Of oatmeal
and pint of milk. Ol this he thrves
and performs the labor of the farm.
Analysis shows that oatmeal is very rich
in nitrogcnous matter, and comes much
nearer wheat flour i'll nutritive value,
than is generally supposed. Tho follow
ing table shows their comparative value
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

TIE CARS REFORMS -Oac hears 50
much Of Nihilism in conncctor with the
Russian government that little account is
taken of tbs vital reforms which the car
is really trying to bring ahuut. When
serflom was abolished the land was given
to the freedmen under a government
mortgage. They were charged 6 per
cent interest, and were expected TO free
tllrir holdings within u certain number OF
years Except in Il few Instances, the
snfranciiscd landhollurs had not been
able to meet their engagements and have
fallen into the hands Of the usurious
moncy-lcndurs, who keep them in abIoct
poverty. The intense hatred of the Jews
by the Russian peasants is attributable in
II great p rt to the fact that so many He.
brews are among those who have profited
by the misery of the Russian laborers
Tue three great reforms of the car are,
first, the snrrendering of the money pay
ment fthe government for the use of the
land. This went into effect the beginning
of the present year; but of course, it will
take time for the good results OF this
measure to be experienced. The next
reform is one in which equal difficulty will
be experienced in carrying out. Tc
save the leop.e from the usurers the
government is about to organize banks to
loan money to agriculturists at the lowest
possible interest 1t is this well-ii:tended
measure which has closed the money mar
ke's OF Europe againts Russia. In all
human probability Alexander will fail in
carrying on this well.meant measure.
The thild of his reforms is the resembling
Of the poll X. In its place he substituted
graduated income tax, rising from 5 per
cent in the lowest taxable incomes to 50
per cent on the highest; the object of the
autocrat being to discourage accumulation
of wealth in few hands, and distribute it
among the poorer population. The great.
est communist of the day is the car OF
all the Russians. This is why the Mill
isthave the warm symphathies of the no.
bles and very wealthy. The outcome
of all this will be watched with great
interest by all who, while they distrust
communistic legislation, would not object
to see it tried in any country save their
own.-DcmorcSC Monthly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

DISEASES From BAD TEETH.-It ap.
pears not to be generally understood even
among cultivated people, nevertheless,
although the fact has been dwelt upon
with emphasis by the best medical author
tiles, that the presence OF carious, crowded
or asymetrical teeth in the human mouth
is the progenitor of long train of ner-
vous diseases. comprising not only facial
neuralgia and its committant troubles, but
disease of the ear. indammatory as we'll
as functional, eventuating often in partial
loss of hearing, defects of vision, naso
pharyngeal catarrh, and other tormenting
maladies. One of our acutest and most
successful specialists in the treatment OF
nervous diseases has become so fully con-
vinced, by long experience, of the part
played by defective teeth in the develop
ment, not of neuralgia only, but even of
the more obscure neuroses, that he always
insists, as condition precedent to the
acceptance of the case, that q thorough
examination of the cavity of the mouth
shall be undertaken by competent den.
tist. for he says, not only may q single
diseased tooth result in persistent nervous
disturbance, but diseases of the brain,
decay or perverson of the mental faculties,
even epilepsy and tetatnic spasms often
have their starting point in dental irrita-
tions; and has observed cases in which,
while leaving the foundation for long
train of nervous troubles, the irritated
organ itself gave no sign, either by local
pam or vague discomfort, of the agency
it was constantly exorting to produce
serious disturbance at some distant point.
In common with most aural surgeons, DR..
Sexton has long since adopted the practice
of examining the teeth of every patient
brought to him for treatment of car trouble,
particularly Of partial deafness and of
general irritation of the organ; and,
speaking the other day of the large
number of pupils from the public schools
who attended the aurpl clinics at the hos
pital with which he is connected, sit is
rare,' he said, ito find single patient in
whose case dental irritation is not to be
considered among the prominent causative
factors. "-New Yorb Times
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

The MEDICINE OF SUNSHINE. - The
world wants more sunshine in its
disposition, in its business. in its heo"gy.
For ten thousand of the aches an pains,
and irritation Of men and woliiun We
recommend sunshine. 1t soolhes b. tier
than morphine. 1t stimulates bctt' + Than
champagne 1t is the b.st plaster for IL
wound. The good S 'lnari an poured ont
into the travellers cash more Of tins than
of oil. Florence Nightingale used it on The
Crimenian battle fields. Take it out into
all their alleys. on board all the ships. by
all the sick beds. Not phial full, not n
cup full. 1t is good for spleen. for liver
complaint, for neuralgia, for rleum ttiSm,
for failing fortunes, for melancholy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

, TIE Coon FATHER - Father" beg IN
| The innocent child, as he leaned over his
nihcr's knee, You are an awful good
| man
Yes, | hope SO, my SON
You wouldn't cheat anybody out of II
cent, would youP"
"Of course wouldn't. Why do you
ask?'
"Suppos father, that you had ten
thousand dollars in Wabash preferred
which had cost you eighty"
Yes"
And they ent ''own to ii(ty.live.'
Yes"
"And suppose an old friend came here
! from Elmila who wanted TO buy stocks,
and could be talked into believing that
Wabash preferred wculd touch seventy
five before September, would you unload
on him at sixty and rake in the cashP'
"No-ahem that is-sec here, Syl-
vester, the ncxt-lino have II dear old
friend to call upon me and you listen at
he library door to catch our convels saton,
you'll get dividend on curiosity that
will last you lifetime! Tell your mother
to put you to bed an four ahead of time
for II week '-E'mirtt free Press.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

How TO LEARN,-Never forget what n
man has said TO you when he was angry.
If he has charged you with anything, you
had better look it up. A person has often
been startled from pleasant dream of
selfdeception by the words of an angry
man, who may wish his words unsaid the
next hour, but they are past recall. The
wisost course is to take home this lesson,
with meekness, to our souls. 1t was
wise saying of Socrates, that every man
had need of faithful friend and bitter
enemy; the one to advise, and the other to
show him his faults.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

For some years the following sentence
has stood as the shortest sentence into
which all the letters of the alphabet could
be compressed:-
81. Gray: Pack with my box five dozen
quills."
The above sentence contains 33 letters
A gentleman from Utica recently improved
on it as follows, using only 32 letters:-
"Quick, glad zephyrs, wait my javein
box"
Geo. w. Pierce, Boston lawyer, has
now forced 26 letters of the alphabet into
q sentence OF 81 letters, as below
Il. Badger: Thy wien jumps quick at
fowl.n
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28
SfltttipMs.

THY neighbor? 1t is he whom thou
Hast power to aid and bless;
Whose aching head or burning brow
Thy soothing hand may press.
Thy neighbor? lis the fainting poor
Whose eye with want is dim;
Whose hunger sends from door to door
Go thou and suCcor him
Whene'er thou meete'st human form
Less favored than thy own,
Remember tits thy neighbor worm,
Thy brother. or thy son."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

Some people find it difficult to decide
how much to give for good causes. The
Hon. VIM. M. Evart. says a good rule
for giving is to select person whose
circumstances are about equal 10 your
own. and when you have decided how
much he ought to give to benevolent
objects, give the same yourself.-Baptist
Weekfu.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

De Lesseps is just now hard at work
upon the plans for canal across the
islhmus of Malacca-a stupendous work
which will shorten the voyage between
Europe and the East fully four days.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28
VOL. XII.
TO &. &, DOTN
On his FjJtieth Birthddy.
ny W. II. CARTER, NJ, ID.

1wo-thirds of life's "three score and ten, ~
The years allotted unto men,
Are now passed over, and they say
This is your fiftieth birthday"
If what is passed you call to mind,
4 chequered web of life you'll find.
Some love of good and some of i'll,
Deed oft prevailing DER the will.
Good resolves and aim at right,
Often felt and put to flight,
Promise smiling but to wound,
Truth oft pursued and error found.
The tree of Hope, with little frnit,
And shiyered soon in every shoot.
In life's long path. whate'er has been
In all the changes you have seen.
Successive blessings have been strewn,
And day by day to you made known.
The clouds that often dimmed the day
Often have been blown away.
And many times. the source of light
Has dispelled the dark of night.
In the future may you find
More than those you've left behind)
Prosperous years, and clearer sky
AS the clouds are passing by;
And of all, which is the best,
Find calm and peaceful rest.
bradford VT, March Is, 1883.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

A Londoner one day by accident saw
the sun. "Eavens." said he, "'ow they
ave improved that there 'lcctric light. )"
After moments pause, during which he
gazed upon the novel sight, he added
re effectively "But 'ow in thunder did they
get i'm hup so 'ishP'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

There can be no doubt that oatmeal
cooked in various ways might he added to
districts with great advantage. 1t is one
of the best sustaineTs of muscle on tho list
of human foods. american AgrjcaltWriSt
for March