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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20
GROWING. OLD.

softly, o softly the years have swept by thee,
Touching thee lightly, with tenderest care;
Sorrow and death they have often brought nigh til
Yet they have lett thee but beauty to wear.
Growing old gracefully
Gracefully fair.
Far from thc storms that are lashing the ocean.
Nearer each day to the pleasant Hone-hght:
Far from the waves that are big with commotion,
Under full sail, and the harbor in sight;
Growing old cheerfully,
Chcertul and bright.
Past all the winds that adverse and chilling.
Pa all the islands that lured thee to rest.
Past all the currents that lured thee unwlliugly,
Far from thy course to the land Of the Blest:
Growing old peacefully,
Peaceful and blest
Never feeling OF envy or sorrow
When the bright faces of children are SEEM
Never year from the young woudst thou borro,
Thou dost remember what lest between:
Growing old willingly.
Thankful, serene.
Rich in experience that angels might covet,
Rich in a faith that has grown with thy years,
Rich in love that grew from and aboveit,
Soothing thy sorrows and hushiny thy fears:
Growing old wealthy,
Loving and dear.
Hearts at the sound of thy coming are lightened
Ready and willing thy hand to relieve;
Many face at thy kind word has frightened
at is more blessed to give than receivo;'
Growing old happily,
Ceasing to grieve.
Eyes that grow dim to the earth and its glory
Have sweet recompence youth cannot know;
Ears that grow dull to the world and its story
Drink in the songs that from Paradise flow:
Growing old graciously,
purer than SNOW.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

EMBAKRAssED.-The Rev. Mr.-
was one of the most bashful men in the
profession and constantly getting into
scrapes though his nervous mistakes. AT
one time he Iose in his pulpit TO give out
the hymn. "This world is all Il fleeing
show" and after clearing his throat he
struck u high pitch of voice and began
solemnly:
This world is all falng shoe. y
Everybody smiled except the deacons,
aad the minister was covered with confu
sion as he began again:
"This world is all a shouting flow.'
This only made matters worse, and the
unhappy man cleared his throat with tire
mendous force and began once again:
"This world is all floating she"
Then he slammed the hymn book down,
and, wiping his clammy brow, said:
Brethren, for some reason | cannot
read that hymn as it should be read. We
will omit it, and the choir will please
sing the grand old lines beginning:
"Just as am without one tlea.'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

The ostriches on the ranch in California
have exploded the old story that the fema'e
covers up her eggs and leaves them to he
hatched out by the hot sun. The female
sits on the eggs in the daytime. and The
mele assumes that duty at night, allowing
lhe female to seek rest and recreation.
while he attends to the household duties.
The male is much more solicitous for his
household than in the female. 1t is not
unfrequently that the latter prefers to CAD
about Gather than take her turn at sitting,
and on such occasions her lord and m 's-
te p; administers to her desorvel chastise-
ment by kicking her heartily around the
paddock until she manifests proper con-
triton and signifies her willingness 10 set
tie down on the eggs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

A REMARKABLE SALT LAKE.-United
States Marshal A. l.. Morrison of Albu.
querque, in New Mexico, and about so
miles from the Arizona line, which he
lately visited in company with Gen. John
A. Logan of Illinois and Surveyor General
Atkinson of New Mexico. The lake is
located on the top of Il volcanic mountain,
and evidently occupies an extinct crater.
The lake perhaps is three quarters OF a
mile in diameter, and IS SO strongly i'm
pregnated with salt that thick crust of
pure white salt of a spongy consistency like
floating ice encrusts the margin. 1t Is
so plentiful that it is carried away by the
wagon load 1t has long been used by the
Indians. The salt is white, of the purest
quality, and is destitute of sand or any
foreign ingredient. Its texture is porous.
like congealed white foam. The marshal
has one specimen enclosing the stem of
some vegetable which can be handled like
an apple by its stem. But the most cur
ious feature OF this lake is a tall circular
column of monument shaped formation,
which rises near the centre Of the lake to a
height of 100 feet, and which appears to
be composed of white lava thrown up by
a convulsion during some ancient geoogi-
cal period. The outside of this singular
column slopes from the base toward the
top, and Is sufficiently rough to admit of
Its being climbed. On reaching the top OF
the cone the interior was found to be
hollow like a tube, and at the bottom was
a circular pond Of water of bright emer-
aid green color-which was probably due
to the sparse rays of light that penetrated
Al - t,,Io taI frnY n
smooth mirror like surface of the water.
No incrustations of salt were found on the
interior surface rs on the outside, hut on
dipping the hand into tho pond it came
out perfectly white from the particles of
salt that adhered to it. 1t was evidently a
very strong brine. The marshal bathed
in the pond, and experienced very pleas
ant effect from this, one of natures baths.
Some time was spent in a study of this
remarkable lake and its mineral surround.
ings. The marshal also mentions DESC
late, arid plain composed of lava, 100
miles wide, situated beyond the Organ
mountains $50 called because their basal
tic like columns as seen at distance,
resemble the pipes of an organ.) The
great plain beyond is about so miles east
of Las Cruces. 1t Is entirely destitute of
water, so that persons crossing this
inhospitable waste have to carry it with
them. The remarkable feature of this
desert is an immense stratum Of gypsum
or selenite of pure white color. which
seen at distance, resembles huge snow
drift. This gypsum bed is several miles
in extent, and is sufficiently abundant to
supply the habitable globe for all purposes
for which it is used. There are other
remarkable physical appearances in the
region mentioned, which is scarcely known
to the outside world. 1t is a scene o.
wonders.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

ORIGIN OF BILIARDS,-The game OF
billiards was invented about the middle of
the sixteenth century by London pawn
broker named William Kew. In wet
weather this pawnbroker was in the
habit of taking down the three balls, and
with the yard measure pushing them,
billiard fashion, from the counter into the
stalls; in time, the idea of a board with
side pockets suggested itself A black
letter manuscript says: master William
Kew did make ons board whereby game
is played with three balls; ond all the
young men were greatly recreated thcrcat
chiefly the young clergymen from St.
Pawles; hence one OF ye strokes was
named a Cannon having been by one Of
ye said clergymen invented. The game
is now known by the name of 'billyard,
because William or Bill! Kew did first
play with yard measure. The stick is
now called kew or 'kuo.' 1t is easy
to comprehend how bill yard" had been
modernzed into blliard;' and the trans
formation of SKEW" or 'kue,' into "cne'
is equally apparent.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

HORSE NoTEs.-That the descendants Of
the noted stallion Justin Morgan are still
popular among breeders is shown by the
following communication from our Tun-
bridge correspondent: "In the early part
of this century the farmers of Tunbridge
extensively patronized the famous horse
Justin Morgan, and as his colts grew up
his popularity increased. During the last
three years of his life, proving incapable
of procreating, he was mostly used as q
draft horse; and in February, 1920 OF
1921, when he had just returned from
Boston in heavy team, he got SO severely
kicked that Gilman Folsom, now of South
Royalton, VT. mercifully killed and buried
him near the line between Tunbridge and
Chelsea, and only one mile from the
present stage route from South Royaton
Central Vermont depot to Chelsea. The
Bulrush horse and Clifford were foalcd in
runbridge, and Morgan Eagle near by.
Woodbury., Bulrush and Morgan Eagle
stood there season after season, sweeping
all before them, and so great was the
demand for Morgans fifty years ago, thai
Charles Morris Lamb, then a young man
in Tunbridge, now venerable and noted
lawyer in South Royalton, bred six colts
from Woodbury. in a single season. Thirty
years since Mr.. Hutchinson sold for the
western market an old stallion from
Morgan Eagle that left in Tunbridge
much superior stock. The present very
large Morgan, bred and still kept by
Hutchinson, continues to get excellent and
high selling colts, at the advanced age OF
twenty.three years. The Goodwin horse,
of Woodbury. and Bulrush blood, beau
tiful animal of moderate size, now sold
and gone, was raised bere, and his
progeny possess the true Morgan charac-
teristics.
Eat present the Morgan stock of this
town is we'll represented by the stations
Young Justin and Vampire, both by Tag
CARTS Abdallah, out of a Morgan mare
Nancy, formerly owned by Ansel Bur
bank, Taggart's Abdallah was by Farmers
Beauty. he by Clifford, he by Woodbury.,
by old Justin Morgan. The dam of Tag
gart's Abdallah was Lady Mack, by old
Abdallah. Young Justin made his first
race last fall at the Tunbridge fair, for
premium, and easily won without skip
in {. So, on a soft and long half mile track,
being five seconds better time than had
ever been made on that course. The
performance of Young Justin on that
occasion surprised everyone, and disinter-
ested amateurs declared they had never
seen his equal in an unframed horse that
had never been handled by professional
driver. He had been used for stock
purposes to within four days of the race.
Vampire is larger than his brother and by
many considered more beautiful, and his
speed greater according to his age.
Young JUSTIN and vampire" are
numbered 1920 and 1894, in the fourth
volume of "Wallace's American trotting
register" being STANDARD Bred" ami
mals.-Americdn CultiUator.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

81 remember" said Detroit boy to
his SUNDAY school teacher, you told me to
always stop and count fifty when angry
Yes. Well. I'm glad to hear it. 1t
cooled your anger didn't it?' "You see,
a boy he came into our alley and made
faces Mt me and dared me to fight, l was
going for him. He was bigger'n me, and
I'd have got pulverized. | rememhrre
what You said and began 10 count" 'And
YOU didn't ightP" mo, ma'am. Just as
got to fortv-two my big brother came
along. and the way he licked that boy
would have made your mouth W iter. |
was going to count fifty and then rum
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

A correspondent of the National Ltre
Stock Journal, Chicago, advises that in
the choice of a brood mare, that it is cs'
cntinl TO examine her pedigree to be sure
that she comes down from good family.
The choice should fall upon a roony frame.
that she may carry her foal and drop it
without being deformed. 1t is an old
axiom, that a roomy mare, with sound
constitution, good temper, and coming
own from noble ancestors, will produce
IN even forned, kindly disposed, excel
lent colt. The dam should he sound in
wind and limb, body and gearing, without
hereditary blemish to EMIL to her issue.
The mare should be free from weak
points. or imperfectly developed quarters,
unless Der parents on both sides were
remarkably sound and stous.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

Bluing made from the following receip
has been in constant use in many families
for several years. 1t does not injure even
the finest clothes, and tho cost is lri
fling compared with any other bluing,
The quantity here noted has been known
to last family of six persons a year
Get one ounce of oxalic acid, one ounce of
Chinese or Prussian blue (either will do,)
one quart of soft water. Put it in bottle,
shake 1t well for two or three days after
mixing 1t; after this do not shake it at ALL
If any of it settle to the bottom, you eau
fill the bottle after using the first water
If, when you buy it, III is not. powdered,
ask the druggist to powder it in mortar
for you. Unless the Chinese or Prussian
blue is pure it will not be a success; it
will precipitate and make clothes spotted.
Ask the druggist to warrant it; for If 1t is
all right 1t is unequaled by any bluing in
the market, and it is a matter of great
economy to use il; the quantity mentioned
costing only about twenty cents.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

English capitalists are erowing enthu.
siaslic over the possibilities of money
making by land purchases in this country.
The great investments made of late in
Florida have been much written about,
but other southern states are attracting
interested attention in Eugland. One tract
of about third of million acres in Tex
as has been bought by one English COM
pany, and another has lately bought over
a million nda quarter acres in Mississippi.
These men are confident that southern
land, which can now be bought for trihe,
must rapidly and greatly increase in value.
and their plan is TO make a small outlay
for drainage and the encouragement of
coloniz ,tion. with The belief that they will
be able either to exact paying rents or
sell at large profit.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

China possesses the longest bridge in the
world. Langang, over an arm OF the
China sea, and is five miles long, 20 feet
high, with roadway 70 feet wide, ard
has 800 arches. The paraphet is ba!us-
trade, and each OF the pillars, which are
IS feet apart, supports pedestal on which
is placed lion 2l feet long, made of one
block of marble The highests bridge in the
world is said to be the railway viaduct at
Garabit, in France. now being erected
over river in the department of Cantal.
Thebridge has total length of about 1880
! feet, near the middle of the great centre
arch, which is one of the noteworthy feat
ures of the structure. the height from the
river to the rail is Alb feet.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

An aged negro in Austin, Tex, known
as Uncle Nose, prosecuted vagabo nd for
stealing his chickens. The old man IN ade
out clear case, describing his chicken "s
peculiar Spanish breed, of which hA
was sole owne in that section. The de-
fendent's lawyer sternly said; Uncle
Nose, you claim nobody elso has a1v of
those chickens bat you. Nov, what
would you say if were to tell yol thu
have half a dozen in my back yard AT
this time?" "Well, boss" resp'n tel
Uncle Mose,I should say dat ar tief he'
paid yer free with my chickens" That
ended the cross examin ttion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

The famous "Island No. 10," in the
Mississippi river. no longer exists. and
the place where it stood is known onlv by
slight ripple on the water. Before the
war it contained 400 acres, fine residence.
IA splendid orchard and all the concomi
tants of prosperous plantation. During
the war the shores were lined with batter
les supported by 1000 men.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

A dragon fly such as children call
devils darning needle" came near
.ausing highlfu dis .ster in II New
York school house Friday. 1t flew into
me of the rooms and some of the little
sirls were frightened and began to scream,
while Others ran out of the door. TIE
noise was heard in other rooms, cry of
tire was started, aud II number of children
went pell NELL into the stree. A crowd OF
2OO0 men and wlman collected in a few
minutes rushing for the entrance and
and shouting and the widest
confusion existed u llil n force of police
men came and restored ord II. There
were 2lOO children in the bu Hing, but
the sc,re started o. the lower tloor and
The teachers kept their heads and prevent
ed the general rush which woull surely
have cost many lives.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20
THE LIGHTS or HOME.

TIT FTsFrH - UT f'V''''1'
In many village window burn
The evening lamps,
They SHINE amid the degs and damps
Those lights of home
Afar the wanderer sees them glow,
Now night Is near;
They gild his path with radiance clear,
Sweet lights of home.
Ye Lode stars that forever draw
The weary heart,
In stranger lands or crowded mart;
o ! lights of home.
When the brief day of life is o'er.
Then may see,
Shine from the heavenly house for me
Dear lights of home.
II. I. King
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

New York's "best society" now cut
their own bread at the table on plate
made of wood from the holy land and
with knife purchased in Damascus.
except on great occasions, when the eldest
daughter, Just from Vassar, makes the
bread herself Then it is placed on
slab of marble from Italy and cut with an
TX from the woodshed Philadelphia
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

| Glass shingles are now being made in
Pittshurg. They're very handy for
mother, as she can see through tho
shingle and note just how much redder
the boy has been made.-BoSton Post.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

Ex Speaker Randall, at his summer
cottage, gives his visitors milk to drink.
The opposition TO him in certaindemocrat-
10 circles is not so comprehensive after
all, when you come to think of it.-Phila.
deiphid Nous.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20

The CARELESS Use OF ICE.--lt is only
in this country that ice enters so largely
into the apparent comfort of its inhabI-
tants, and very dangerous comfort it is.
Dyspepsia and rumber of other evils
follow directly in the train of the con.
sumption of ice To the great pitchers of
iced water so temptingy displayed on hot
lays may be trared Il number of malades.
for it is evident that no person can without
danger suddenly and violently lower the
temperature of his stomach by filling it
full of water at $50 Fahrenheit. That
valuable organ will certainly resent the
insult, especially if followed up by repeat
ed injuries of the same kind. In the
tropics, where the use OF ice has more
tenn ptations surrounding it than any other
part of the world, the inhabitants most
carefully avoid it. You cannot get
Cuban to indulge in iced water. People
who have been previously addicted TO the
foolish habit of using ice will, after visit
ing the West Indies. forever eschew the
dangerous practice. A party of men who
recently visited San Domingo on business
(who would go there for any other
reason?) ON their fist arrival mourned
greatly at the absence of ice. "Ah!' said
they. "when the English steamer runs in
here we will go aboard and have a treat
in the shape of good iced brandy and
soda" The steamer arrived in due course.
The ardent foreigners jumped into the
boat of the captain of the port Ia negro
gorgeously arrayed in uniform covered
with gold lace) and barely saluting the
captain, rushed to the saloon for the
coveted refreshment. 1t was duly absorbed
and the whole party rendered i'll in conse.
quence. None of them have ever touched
ice since that time. In the West Indies
it is only the colored race which patronizes
ice-to the white people it is not only no
luxury, but a dangerous enemy. Ice has
its uses; in the hospitals It is Invaluable;
for the preservation of provisions, espe-
cially fish, it is useful, although detrimen-
tai to flavor, If allowed to touch the meats
to be preserved; but as an article of
human consumption it should be avoided.
There Is yet an essay to be written upon
the maladies and woes produced by the
careless consumption of ice. 1t IL only
with us that this takes place. Abroad, ice
is simply luxury only resorted to at
times; even in California the residents
are wary of it. In short, ice is % very
good friend in moderation. but bitter
enemy when the intimacy is too absorbing
-Ne2o York Hour.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20
LIFE,

Life ia leaf Of paper white,
Whereon each one of us may WRITE
His word or two, and then comes night;
Though thou have time
But for line, be that sublime;
Not failure, but low aim is crime.
u II. Lo,oeH
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-20
Probate and Commissioners Notices, 500

For Notices of Liberation. Estrays, the Formation
and Dissolution OF Copartnerships, etc. Sl2 eich ior
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company the letter.
Notices in news columns 10 cents per line each nser-
tlon, but no CHARGES made of less than Ocents,
Notices of Deaths and Marriages inserted gratis lut
extended Obituary Notices Of Poetry Will be enarHsd
at the rate OF cents per line.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-11

An unnelited attack has been made
By tile Tienton Times upon the women
and gills Of the factories. The utter
ances are false III premise, and the con
clusi0ns %erroseous to an extreme. The
virtue of tie working classes is the adj
miration Of the worlJ. Common sense
teaches that labor is one Of the most
powerful aids TO virtue known in all
our economies, and that OF all tenden-
cies that lead to vice, likeness is one of
tine greatest promoters. We resent the
charge that the hard working girls of
the factories are baser in the scale of
virtue than these of other situations in
life. The girls are as virtuous and
naturally as. industrious as any Of their
sex eILthe globe, and the State of New
Jersey is proud OF the virtue of her
women.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-11

Last fall | saw the fattest horse 1
have ever seen; he dill nothing else but
tun a cider mill and every time he
stopped he helped himself to apples
The proprietor told me he was very
poor wien they bought him IA year be-
fore; of course they fed him we'll on
grain, but the philosophy Of the thing
IS, the apples acted as medicine. ono
of our farmers who keeps several work
horsts Informed Iue a few days since
that he occasionally fed sour apples to
his horses with excellent results. They
are a certain cure for worms, lie rec
ommends from a bali 10 a Whole pail
full once a week. Another man says
he has been in the habit of turning his
horses into the orchard in the fall
where they could eat as many apples
as they like3. lie found that they de-
rived much benefit from the feed and
gained much more rapidly than others
which did not receive any apple feed.
Most horses like apples and often a
bauiky horse viii start ii one is given
him. have known horses to eat near
ly a half-bushel at once without injury.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-11

Ku.kluX outrages are reported from
DETERMINATIONS Teaion of northeast
Georgia, the favori;e stamprns-gTound
Of The moon-shiners. They were COM
mitted By a band Of twenty-five or
thirty masked men mounted and heav
iy armed. Tie outrages were perpe-
trateli At night and the sufferers were
negroes, alo were driven from their
homes, iiagged ana ss1t. The Ku-kIN
desPela3oes are believed to he escaped
~eonvic,s, and preparations are bemg
made to hunt them down. sloull
they b. caught, uey viii be summary
dealt wiki, for Tie farmers CT north
east Georgia believe ia IS prompt bust
mss rs tie Vigilance Committees OF
the Far West.