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VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1890
The Colonization Agent--again.


1t escaped my notice, last week, until I
had the proof-sheet in hand-at which time
It was too late for remarks-that the Colo
nizatiou Agent stated, during his lecture
in this village, among other facts, that Vir.
ginia sent out Thomas Jefferson to Africa
In 1901. in connection with the colonizina
enterprise! Wonder where the agent OBJ,
tanned his information?
1t is true that the Virginia Legislature
were holding secret conclayes on the subject
about that time; and they consulted Jeffer.
son in regard to it; but have yet to learn
that he went to Africa in connection with il
especially during the very year he was
elected President of the United States.
Thank my Vermont brother for the following
Hope to hear from him oftener in future.
For the Vermont TELEGRAPH.
Anniversary of the Ohio Anti.Siavery Sos
ciety.
OBERLlN Col. INSTITUTE. }
9th mo-, 9th, 1889.
Brother Murray - Three wears AGO the
friends of God and the slave, in Ohio, met
ID barn, and were periodically mobed for
the safety of our glorious union. But now
an excellent meeting house is thrown open
to them, and psuedo republicanism can
hardly raise an apology for a mob.
On the 10Th ult, about four hundred
good hearts and true, aye, and as manv
sound heads, assembled at Putnam, on the
Muskingum, opposite GAINESVILLE. and held
the fourth anniversary oc the Ohio Anti
Slavery Society. The citizens of Putnam
are principally from New-England. And
they retain the generous characteristics Of
the passengers in the May Flower, the Pu-
rltan fathers. They were hospitable to all.
To be an abolilionist was TO be welcome
to their homes. Party spirit and sectarian.
ism slank to the shades, the place of their
birth.
The meetings were held in VIM. Beech.
er's church. G. G. Finney Of Oberlin pre-.
sided. G. Bailey, OF the Philanthropist,
the Secretary, read the annual report. 1t is
an able document, and valuable as an his.
torical record. II discussed the political
bearings of the subject, the recognition oil
Hatien independence, and Congressional
proceedings, handling Clay without mittens
and Justly commencing the course of Nor
rls. 1t contained the account of Mahan's
arrest, Imprisonment and trial. The Ken
lucky slave drivers laws, which were so OBJ.
sequiously adopted by the collared legisla-
ture OF last winter, received merited atten-
ton. John B. Mahan, an open hearted, af-
table man, was present. He gave some
facts IN relation to himself A prison was
his abode for ten weeks. Most Of the time
he was manacled with twelve pounds Of
iron. His hands were at liberty, they fear
ed less from his fists, than his feet. Ha
was obliged TO pay the jailor ten dollars for
the privilege OF seeing his friends And
why all this /? All, base man he had as
sisted the poor in the name Of the Lord
On the trial il was not pretended, that he
had personally been in Kentucky, but in a
kind of mystical or ideal manner only vis-
ible TO the keen optics of Kentucky spatri-
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W by brother will not understand that bro,
forward the objection my O,rn. 1t was only in.
troduced as coming from the mouths of those wbc
love the creature And it was designed to pre.
sent 1t in such view that even they might see il,
fallacy.
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Culture OF Strawberries.

1t may not be very important for us Up
casters to enter into the cultivation of
strawberries when it is already done to
our hand by dame Nature, who seldom
fails to give US supply in due season in
the fields and meadows on every side.
And yet there is pleasure and con-
venience to the man who has leisure to
pay some attention to the culture of this
delicious fruit. When cultivated in gar
den 10 the proper manner, they are larger
and more delicious than when growing
wild in the felds-besides they NAV be
had at any time without treading and
tangllng the farmers grass, as is too often
the case. We have known some farmers
to plant a bed of strawberries in their
gardens and let them take care of them
selves In this way they produce but
little-seon crowd the beds with vines.
and present little else than solid maiting
of vines and leaves.
A writer in Hoveys Horticultural Mag
azine gives method adopted by a Mr..
Darke,5~we believe, who cul,ivates the
strawberry as an annual.
Towards August you will find that the
main root ola strawberry vine has streach-
ed out its runners, and occasionally nut
out tuft of leaves and few. roofs
he takes these tufts of leaves and roots,
cuts them off from the parent stock, and
sets them in good ground, covering or
protecting them during the winter. The
next summer they bear prosperousIy,
when he again selects new tufs-sets
them out as before-pulling up the old
ones. In this way he proceeds annually
and never fails to have good crop.
He recommends Keens' seedlings and
Downton's seedlings as the best varieties
to be managed in this way.-Me. Farmer
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nTnriah Academy.

TINE Spring Term Of this 10 Institution closed on
i Wednesday May 18th. The public Exarn-
alton was highly interesting to crowded audi
ence, and evinced 10 all who witnessed the exer-
cises that the pupils had not spent their time in
vain. The advancement which they had made
IN the various branches of study attended to, far
exceeded the highest expectations,- and the
promptness with which they answered questions
when critically examined in the different studies,
did much honor 10 themselves, as well as prove
that their instruction lad been practical, SYSTEM
atical and Thorough.
| The Summer Term will commence (undeI the
superintendence, as heretofore, of Mr.. ID. Foote,
A. B. assisted by Miss Miner,) on "Wednesday,
May 29th.
| Tuition per Quarter as follows:
| Common English Branches, 80 90
Most of the Higher Branches, 3 90
Languages, Intellectual and Moral Philos-
ny, Botany, Algebra and Surveying, A 90
Drawing and Painting (extra) 100
1 Mezzotinto Painting (extra) 3 90
Board can be had in respectable families, in the
village, for q so per week. TRUSTEES.
Moriah, N. Y, May II, 1889. S6:3w.
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Miscellaneous,

WHO ARE THE SAvAGEs.-Rcv. Hen
ry Lyman, who was massacred sometime
since by the Battas, in the interior of the
Island Sumatra, was native of this
town. Recent intelligence from that ISL
and states that these people have since
been visited by Europeans, and that they
passed within few miles of the SPOT
where Messrs. Munson and Lyman were
killed. 1t has been ascertained that the
people Of the neighboring villages hear
ing that some men had been murdered.
who came among them to do good, had
conspired together, destroyed the huts,
and killed the people comprising this vii
lage. If this be true. it presents rare
instance OF summary vengeance, practised
by savages upon each other, for a suppos-
ed wrong done to civilized people. The
friends CT Mr.. Lyman, we notice, have re-
Gently erected marble slab in the grave
yard in this town, to his memory. It
stands contiguous to the tomb of that de-
voted friend of the aborigines of this
country, Brainerd. -NorthGmpton Couri-
er.
Why, we ask, is there not as much no.
tlce taken of the lynching of men who
would peaceably instruct the colored peo-
pie of these United States, in Gospel
truth, as those Sumatrans took of the
lyLching OF Munson and Lyman in their
island2
Reply. Slavery makes civilized PEG.
pie more savage than barbarians.
Query lst. Shall christians in anv
way show fellowship for such system
Query End Was there ever ANYTHING
more strange than the declaration of Hon:
Mr.. Strange of-North Carolina, made
the other day in Congress viz: that he
lived among people, who gloried in the
institution of sIauery as the source of
thear EMINENcE in moral point of view
CT. Reflector.
Not such notice.-ED. TEL
The REsPIRAToR.-Mr, Connie has
exhibited in New Y ork an ingenious con-
trlVancc called Respirator, invented in
England TO avoid the irritating effect of
cold air upon the lungs, in asthmatic and
consumptlve patients The Respirator Is
worn over the mouth. and is constructed
on strictly scientific principles. 1t con-
slsts OF the instrument proper end its ap-
pendages. The instrument is formed bv
number of wire plates or sleeves made
somewhat after the manner of those Of
Davy's safety lamp, and fixed in a flexed
frame The breath, in passing through
these plates, yields It's caloric, which is
taken up by the cold AIR which is drawn
through the Instrument during fesnirat;o,
thus raising it from the freezing point to
from 60 10 80 degrees. according to the
quality of the Respirator, used. The air.
too. in its passage inward. parts with the
grosser irritating particles which it NAV
contain. The Respirator is recommend
ed by some of the first medical men IN
England Mr.. Combe says that friend
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yERMoN TELL RAPH

3,500900. Admit this, then, to be the
number on hand for planting the the COM
ing spring, and make ten the ratio of in
crease, which, after deducting for ordinary
losses, is surely large enough, and we
shall have $4,000, 900; large number,
truly, bat moi enough to supply the little
State of Connecticut, small spot on the
map of the United States. The market.
therefore, cannot be oyerstocked. or the
price reduced, by the increase OF the next
crops
We think the Judge is too sanguine.
and that the inference he draws IN the
last sentence requires some qualification.
We believe the price of the next crop will
be reduced by the increase, but that prices
will remain sufficiently high to afford a
most liberal remuneration TO those engag-
ed in the mulberry business. The large
fortunes which were realized with such
magical celebrity, in many cases, last year
has given an impulse to the trade which
nothing else could; and though such large
receipts from Insignificant OUTLAWS are moi
to be expected this year, we doubt not thai
all reasonable anticipations will be real
lied,
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Agricultural.
For the Vermont TeIegraph.

Mr.. EditOr:--I noticed, in your paper
of May 18th, short article, on the last
page. headed, "Open and Close Barns
for Hay"
The writer, in that article, mentions it
as peculiar, Il suppose that hay. switch
has been slightly damaged and sailed is
relished better by cattle than that which
is well cured without salt"
Soft hay, like that which has been dam
aged, might be preferred by most cattle,
SO hay dry and hard, as that often is
which has been thoroughly dried in the
meadow. and has suffered nothing during
its stay in the stack or barn.
This suppOsition, flor l regard it MOTH
ing more,) is in accordance with our own
observation among men. Many people
prefer soft bread, especially new, soft
bread, to that which has become more
dry and hard by age: altho' the latter is
much more conducive to health than
the former.
Blu. the sctaness Of damaged hay is not
the only reason (if anyl why the cattle
should prefer the damaged to the good
The salt would allure their taste; and
this would be a reason why they would
eat more Of the sailed, damaged hay. than
Of the dry, unsalted hay. have often
seen cattle leave very decent hay, not
sailed. and eat eagerly. straw that had
recently been moisiened with solution of
salt in water.
But admitting that cattle viii consume
more poor hay sailed, than they will good
hay moi sailed, they will doubtless be in
: better condition when kept on good hay.
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From the Genesee Farmer.

Prospect of the MuIficauIis Growers.
What will the multicaulis be worth
next autumn2 is question asked bv
| many; and a correct answer to which
would be very desirable. Positive cor
RICHNESS is not however attainabIe; and
when we look at the events of the mast
year. 1t IS clear those most accustomed to
conjecture may be wholly bafflled. That
the quantity necessary for the country, if
as We believe, we are to be a silk grow.
ing nation, will be far from being reached
by the growth of 1889, must be evident
II, on the contrary. the culture of the tree
is to be one of pure speculation. there is
something OF probability that the fever
will in some degree have subsidized by the
year 1910.
There seems to be two classes ofsneeu-
latlons on this topic; one from men who
suppose that prices next fall will be next
to nothing. and that the tree is now worth
no more than its actual value for the nro-
duction OF silk; the other suppose that the
prices oflast year, or the present one. will
be maintained. even if they are not ad.
vanced, and on this suppostion are mak-
ing large investments of capital in The
bushes. 1t appears TO US that the truth
lies between these extremes; that the ia.
| crease OF the tree is not at present. and
will be for several years, so great. as to
reduce them to their simple value for
feeding worms; while, on the contrary
| their general diffusion, and the rapidifv
with which they may be multiplied, must
nave a tendency to lower prices; result
10 exact proportion to their increase.
Judge Comstock, of Hartford, who
should understand this subject in all its
bearings, has the following remarks in a
paper In the CultuTist:
through am not aware that any cal
cuiations have been made on the quantfv
necessary for the supply of the country
yet estimates OF the actual number now IN
TINS country have been wade, by different
persons and on different data, but with
substantially the same results. All mite
in the opinion, that the number does mt
mltelia ~ vary from three millions
With respect to importations, but l;lile
need be said, as it has been ascertained
that not more than 100000 could be pro-
cured in all Europe for expectation to this
OF any other country. 1t is believed.
however, that a few will be imported
possibly enough to swell the number to
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q Or the Vegetable Hygean Universal
W Medicine of the British College Of
Health, London, imported by DR.. Geo.
Taylor 6 I-2 Wall street New York,
sole agent in the u S. for said College
can be had of the following persons ev-
cry packet sold in Vermont will be sign
ed in aoriting by PangLorn s. Brinsmaid,
Jewellers OF Burlington, Vt, State Agents,
also by the Sub-Agents selling them; if
not so signed-d not bug them. For sale by
Ira Button, Brandon.
Hiram L. Cheney, Rutland.
J. Pine & Co., Fct'y Point, Manchester
Joel Day, Royalton.
James FL. Murdoch, Woodstock.
Andrew Dawson, South Hero.
E. p. Walton & Sons, Montpelier.
Perry Marsh, /"
c. & J. w. Baxter, Derby Line.
S. E. Morse s. S. Lyman, Crafsbury.
Elijah Cleveland, Coventry.
Sabin Kellam, Irasburgh.
Amasa Paine, Lowell.
Otis L. Kelton, Montgomery.
0. A. Keith, Sheldon.
David Lyman, ST. Adams.
Jno. Kelsey, Danville.
VIM. Pierce, Lyndon.
Jonas Flint, St. Johnsbury
Foster Grow, Chelsea.
n. G. Goddard, Windsor.
M. S. auckland, Bellows Falls.
]. Steene, Brattleboro'.
J. Hagar, Middlebury.
w. E. Greene, Vergennes
}. w. Remington, Johnson.
Alfred Hartwell, Keesville, N. Y.
Rich'd Cotrill, Pittsburgh, N. Y.
Edmund Lyman, North Ferrisburgh.
Jas. Hull, Orwell
]. Frost & Co., Bridport.
G. F. s. B. Boyanton, Essex, N. Y.
c. B. Hatch, Westport, N. Y.
Maynard Kidder, Moriah, N. Y.
Remember every packet of the genuine is
signed by Pangborn & Brinsmaid.
DR.: GEO. TAYLOR, Sig Wall st.
Feb. 25. U. S. Agent
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'ONsOLATION TO THE AFFLICTED.
by JAMES MONTGOMERY.

BY JAMES MONTGOMERY.
Lii up thine eyes, afflicted soul.
From earth lift up thine eyes;
Though dark the evening shadows roll,
And daylight beauty dies;
One sun is set, thousand more
Their rounds of glory run,
Where science leads thee to explore
In every star sun.
Thus when some long-loved comfort
ends,
And nature would despair,
Faith to the heaven Of heaven ascends.
And meets ten thousand there;
First faint and small, then clear & bright
They gladden. all the gloom,
And stars, that seem but points of light,
The rank of suns assume.
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of his, who had for some time coughed
so during, the night as to be hardly able
to sleep, was enabled to do so without dis
turbance on the first night Of wearing the
instrument, and until he recovered.
MELANCHOLY OcCURRENcE.-A friend
from West Point has furnished rs with
the particulars ofthe following melancholy
catastrophe which happened near West
Point, Troup county, on Monday last
Three young lads, one son of Mr.. Geo.
Reese, son of Mrs. Reese, and son of
Mr.. Norris, went to the river for the pur-
pose of bathing. They unfortunately ven
tured beyond their depth, ard were all
three drowned. When our informant left,
the bodies had not been found, having
then been in the water about four hours
Every effort was being made however to
obtain them.-COIumbas (GG) Enquirer
DEATH BY PoIsoN.-The ALBANY
Journal gives another instance of death
from eating the Musk-rat qceed, (Cicuta
Maculata.) A daughter of Mr.. Ellis, o.
Willet, Caurtland Co. partook OF it, sup
posing it to be Spikenard. Two other
girls who ale less abundantly of it, were
made very sick, but by use of emetics
were recovered.
THE WAY TO RAISE FUNDs.--The
Rev. E. Robinson, a Methodist minister
residing in Pownal, Me-, writes to the ed
itor of the Advocate of Freedom as fol-
lows:
Since the annual meeting at Augusta
| have thought it might, perhaps, be my
duty to contribute something more of TIL,
part of my scanty pittance, (for 1 have
never in either of the l6 years l have
travelled, received the whole yet-intc
from Sl25 to 250) to the furtherance o
this heaven-originated cause And as thu
plan OF permanent quarterly subscriptions
recommended blythe Executive Commit
tee, strikes me as very excellent one.
have concluded, for the present, and
hope to be able to do it, until every slav,
lin the United States is free, to pledge fol
myself my wife and six children, (for
they are all thorough going Abolitionists
the following sums, to be paid quarterly
viz:
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Poetry.
From the London Quarterly Review.

From the London Quarterly Review.
The Dew Drop and the stream.-
The brakes with golden flowers were crown
ed,
And melody was heard around,
When near q stream, a dew drop shed
It's lustre on a violet's head,
While trembling to the breeze, it hung,
The streamlet as il rolled along,
The beauty of the morn confessed,
And thus the sparkling pearl addressed:
Sure, little drop, rejoice we may,
For all is beautiful and gay
Creation wears her emerald dress,
And smiles In all her loneliness
Aud with delight and pride see
That little Hover believed by thee;
Thy lustre with gem might vie,
While trembling in its purple eye'
You may rejoice. indeed it's true.'
Replied the radiant drop of dew,
rou will, no doubt, as on you move
10 hocks and herds blessing prove;
But when the sun ascends on high,
Its beam will draw me to the sky;
And must own my humble power,
I've but refreshed humble fower.'
Hold, cries the stream, nor thus repine.
For well tits known power divine,
Subservient to his will supreme,
Has made the dew drop and the stream,
Though small thou art, q that allow,
NO mark Of heavens contempt art thou:
Thou hast refreshed an humble flower.
And done according to thy power
All thirgs that are, both great and small.
One glorious Author formed them all.
This thought may all repining quell,
What serves his purpose, serves him well.
The above beautiful lines are the production
Mary Ceilings, servant girl from Deyonahir
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ana are sailed at proper times, than they |
will when fed with poor hay.
You say, Mr.. Editor, in remark ap-
pended to the article alluded to above, Il
have always found, if my observation has
been correct, that hay must be more thor
oughly cured for the stack than for the
barn. am unable, | confess, to account
for the fact, on philosophical principles
Will some better philosopher than | am
undertake the case?''
Now, while do not pretend to be
better philosopher than the Editor of the
Telegraph, have thought good reasons
may be assigned to account for this fact.
Whether those that shall assign will be
considered correct or not, do not know.
Where grass has been placed in a stack,
too green, or containing too much moist
ure, the heat of the sun, which will be
conducted far into the stack, will turn this
moisture, or tend to turn it, into yapor or
steam. This may be SO imperfectly done,
owing to the small quantity of heat con-
veyed far into the stack, that the hay will
become mouldy and smoky, and give a
similar appearance to that which has been
suffered to lie under shed, or in barn,
and become moulded. In portions nearer
the surface, the steam will be created in
greater quantity; the fermentation being
great. the hay will be the more injured.
At the same time this internal process
of fermentation is going on, the rain that
falls upon the outside of the stack will
be converted into vapor by the sun; the
moisture being rarifed by heat will rise
from the lower palt of the stack and pen
citrate into the hay, and aid the internal
fermentation at the same time that it in
Jures the more exterior part of the hay.
From these two causes large portions OF
hay-stacks are undergoing, through the
fall. winter and spring, kind of ferment-
ing process, calculated to injure the hay
rendering it smoky and mouldy. While
thorough drying may prevent to some
extent this internal process Of evaporation
and fermentation; no curing of hay can
prevent the destruction of the exterior Of
the stack, when it is built in the open air
On the other hand, when hay is pu
into tight barn, it may be carted in from
the meadow in a comparatively greenist
state-when it possesses that hvelines.
and freshness peculiar to good hay. Or
account of the uniform temperature o
! heat, and the fxedness of the atmosphere
the hay will be preserved in good condi
ton.
| have often seen hay come out of the
barn In the winter, when the red Glove
locks thrown upon the snow, blended tn,
| loveliness of the earth's summer-dress
with the beauty of It's silvered, wintr,
mantle, so fresh and bright had the ha,
been preserved. II
Hancock Factory Village, N. HI
| May 9th, 1899.
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THE USE OF FLOWERS.

BY MARY HowTTT.
God might have babe the earth bring forth
Enough Tor great and small;
The oak tree and the cedar tree,
Without a flower at all.
He might have made enough, enough.
For every want of ours,
For luxury, medicine, and toll;
And yet have made no flowers.
The ore within the mountain mine,
kequlreth none 10 grow:
Nor doth il need the lotus flower,
To make the river flow.
The clouds might give abundant rain,
The nightly dews might fall;
And the herb that keepeth life in man.
Might yet have drunk them all.
Then wherefore, wherefore, were they made
All dyed with rainbow light,
All fashioned with supremest grace,
Upspringing day and night.
Springing in valleys green and low,
And on the mountain high,
And in the silent wilderness,
Where no man passes by.
Our outward life requires them not;
Then, wherefore had they birth
To minister delight to man,
70 beautify the earth.
To comfort man,-to whisper hone.
Whenever his faith is dim;
For whose careth for the flowers,
Will care much more for him.