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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15

Buckwheat is much liked by poultry, il
is greedily devOured, and is more productive
of eggs early and in abundance than any
other grain.
There is no need of wiping dishes, except
spoon, knives and forks. They look full az
well if rinsed in hot water and drained in a
bucket.
A recent writer states that three hundred
and fifty bushels of potatoes remove ninety
pounds of potash from the soil on which they
are grown consequently wood ashes is cue
of the most valuable manures for this crop.
A correspondent IF the Greg" Gentle
sneciarTv TO the fSsseonS IN Fammal not molly
~.ft.en stock of cattle and sheep composed
only of animals not yet past their prime, but
they use no draft horse on their farms more
than seven years old.
To take stains out of silver. Steep the
silver in I've soap for the space of four hours
then cover it over with vinegar, so that it
may lie thick upon it, and dry it by a fire
after which dry rub off the whiting and pass
over with dry bran, and the spots will not
only disappear, but the silver will look ex-
ceedingly bright.
Cut a quarter of a pound of cheese into
small slices and boil it a minute in a teacup
iull of water ; beat one egg and one table
spoonful of -four together, adding gradually
one pint of milk pour it into the boiling
cheese and stir, and after a few minutes 1t
will be fit to serve for a supper relish,
The Philadelphia Weekly Press strongly
eommends charring as the best preseryative
of wood in the ground-fence posts, etc. 1t
says the best way to do the is to have a good
fire, put in the posts singly, and take them
out when done. A man in Nevada County
Cal, placed about eighty fence posts in one
pile and set fire to the ends they burned so
fiercely that nearly all of them were con-
sumed.
A useful cement for closing up cracks in
stOve-plates, stOve-doors, etc, is prepared by
mixing finely pulverized iron, such as can be
secured at the druggists, with liquid water
glass, to a thick paste, and then coating the
cracks with it. The hotter the fire then be-
comes, the more does the cement melt and
combine with its metal ingredients. and the
more completely Will the crack become closed.
Warts on cows teats may be removed by
washing frequently in alum-water made by
dissolving two ounces Of alum in a pint Of
soft water.
Uncle Jack in the Southern CuLhrQior
gives the following recipe for potato pudding
Taking good sound potatoes, wash them clean,
scrape off the outside skin thin, CRATE them;
to FIVE heaping table spOOnsfuls add one quart
Of boiling milk, and i've eggs, beat up with
FIVE spOOnsfuls of sugar, a lump of butter
about the size of an egg, a tea spoonful of
salt flavor with nutmeg OF other spices, To
suit the taste s+i- oil ~oit tossther- Nov
for the cooking Don't put it in a crust,
but in a clean oven stir a few times at the
start, to prevent sticking, and bake until
surely done.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15

How TO KEEP PASTURES IN COOP CONDITION,
1t is with a pasture as with a man, the in
come must be greater than the expenses, or
1t grows poor. Crops are the expenses. 1t
is quite possible to make the surface of any
soil un~productive and Improbable, by carry
ing of, more than is put on. Pasturing with
COWS that are yarded at night does this.
Sheep or beeves that remain upon the land
on the contrary. return more than an equi-
vaient in manure, and keep the land impro-
wing. Where plaster meets 4 want of the
soil it may be kept improving by sowing
broadcast a bushel aud a half to the acre
every spring, and feeding off the grass.
Many farms in the grazing districts in the
interior are kept Up mainly by plaster and
feeding. Some of them Will carry a bullock
to the acre. Other lands need lime, and the
lime brings in clover, and this plant, by the
large drafts it makes upon the subsoil and
the atmosphere, always improves the pasture.
In other districts ashes are accessible at rea-
sonable rates, and they are always a reliable
top-dressing. The effects are visible on some
soils, in increased crops of grass, for twenty
years. Cheap ashes will keep up any pas
ture, pay their cost, and leave a profit. So
will homemade compost, if a man will but
make and use it. Along the sea-board the
old pastures need nothing better than creek
mud and the weeds thrown upon the shore.
Too often these are allowed to rot on the
sand for want of labor to gather them. IT.
rigation is available in other cases, and where
the waters of a brook can be turned over a
pasture nothing more will be needed to keep
1t IN good condition. Changing soils often
tunes has a wonderful influence. Sometimes
on the sane field of twenty acres there will
be sandy or gravelly knobs nearly bare of
vegetation, and hard clay or muck in swales.
A top-dressing of the sand would pay on
the swales, and nothing could be better for
the knobs than the muck or clay. Our old
pastures to be kept profitable must have
something done for them. 1t will not pay
to devote ten acres to a single cow.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15
1860
Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
For Diseases of the Throat and Lungs,
such as Coughs, Colds, Whooping
Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma,
I'D C1-S,-1-4ion
Id Consumption

Probably never before in the whole history Of
medicine, has anything won so widely and so deeply
upon the confidence of mankind, As this excellent
remedy for pulmonary complaints. Through a long
series of years, and among most Of the races Of
men il has risen higher and higher IN their estm3'
ton, as it has becumR better known. Its uniform
character and power to cure the various affections
of the lungs asd throat, have made 1t known as a re-
liable protector against them. While adapted to
milder forms of disease and to young children, it is
a the same time the most ehectual remedy that can
be given for ~incipient and the dan
gcrous affections of the throat and lungs. As a pro
vision against sudden attacks Of Group. it should
be kept on hand in every family, and indeed as all
are sometimes subject to colds and coughs, all
should be provided with tins anudote for them.
Although settled Consumption i thought in
durable, still great numbers Of cases where the dis
ease seemed settled, have been completely cured
and the patient restored to sound health by the
TherrY PecfOrat. 50 complete l. its mastery
over the disorders Of the Lungs and Throat. that
the most obstinate Of them yield to it. When moth
ing else could reach them, under the Cherry Pee
toraI they subside and disappear
Singers and Public Speakers find great pro-
lection from 1t.
asthma l. always relieved and olen wholly
cured by it.
Bronchitis IS generally cured By taking the
Cherry PectordI in small and frequent doses.
For a Cough and CoId, no better remedy can
be had Take small doses three times a day and
put the feet in warm water at night, until the
disease Is broken up.
For InJlmcH-a. when It affects the throat or
lungs, tske the same course
For ULOoPistJ Cough, give small doses three
or four times 4 day.
For Group. give large and frequent doses until
the disease Is overcome.
No family should be without the Cherry Pecto-
rat on hand to protect them. in case of attack.
from the above complaints. Is timely use oflen
spares the patient n great amount Of suffering and
risk, which he would incur by waiting until he
could get other aid. Parents, keep ii in your houses
for the exigencies that arise. Lives dear to you
may be saved By it.
So generally are its virtues known, that We need
not publish certificates OF them here. OF do more
than assure the public that the best qualities 1t ever
possessed are strictly maintained.
Prepared by DR.. J. c. AVER & Co, Practical
and Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Mass, and sold
all round the world.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15

How TO SAVE Corn FospEK.-Much of the
value of corn stoyor is destroyed by careless
handling, even in districts where they store
it for feed. This is especially true of the
corn that Is cut up by the ground. and put
in shocks to cure. The curing process goes
safely while it rumains in the shock, but the
husking begins while the stalks are yet green
at the bottom, and the fodder is Immediately
stacked or carried to the barn, and stored in
bulk, 1t soon heats and moulds- If, after
busking, the stalks are bound Immediately
in bundles, of convenient size for handling,
and put into large shocks of thirty or forty
bundles, set up endwise, and capped with
straw, they will cure without moulding, and
make excellent fodder. Or the bundles may
be taken directly to the barn, or to an open
shed, and stored in the same way. The air
has free circulation through the interstices
of the bun lies, and the moisture is carried
off. Well cured corn fodder is nearly equal
in value to hay, and the extra labor of making
into bundles will pay.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15

makes the soap hard. A lady once put up
her ashes with mine for making soap. IL
was SO strong as to bear an egg entirely above
the lye. weakened mine and had no diff
Guilty. She tried an experiment, and boiled
all day still, as she expressed it, lit
would MT come worth a cent" An old lady
seeing it, told her to pour water into 1T. She
added nearly as much water as there was
compound in the kettle. Instantly the soap
came. "-Ar1erioan Agriculturlst.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15
Vermont Central and Sullivan
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9n
SUMNER ARRANGEMENT.
Commencing Monday JuJy l, 1869.
sr.lA.aa.nAs

E~aGaaGssa sSsrA-a Easa
Leave uontpeIrrRts 50, A.N..9l Il ~. and 10 3s. ~
Ma Train leaves Odgenshursb at $40 D. m. Rruseis
ton aud Bellows Fails win trains for Boston. Worces
Ter, Springfield New YORK, aud with trains on the
P~assdmosie Railroad.
DAY ExrRsssteavss Montreal sts,4oA ~. ogdens
bur-a az $50 p. II, tor Isoy and New York. and ariv-
ing IN Boston VIA Lowell al 1850 IN
Ntssr EVrRsss leaves Ogdensburgh at leo. D. m.
Montreal A. $50 P n, arriving in Boston al $40 A. a.,
connecting AZ Bellows Fails with Cheshire f. 4. fol
r. Tor sfuJgheid, &c. and arrivinEiR New York a
I2,S0F.s
Craina GOtRg North and West
Leave Montpetierat 40 a. n ,4sA. n $50 Pr
and SOS P-N.
DAY Express leaves Boston via Lowell at s.oOA
in Montreal al 10 p a. ocdensbursh at 1910 a. m,
making close connections With trains for the West.
MAI TRAiN leaves Boston via Lowell al :. 90 A.M..vIs
Lawrence and FiIchbure al 30 A. a-Springheldat7,4 s
A. ~, for Burlington. and ~. Adams.
Trans leaving Boston va FIteHburg at 80 4. m, and
Springfield al : - a. M, connecting az White River.
junction with Day Express Trsrn-
A~ccoMxoo ALTON fRAIS leaves Mortified at 1.3S ~
for Burlington, Rutland, ST. Albans, Rouse's Point,
OsdenShurgh &C,
NIsHr Exrsxss rs AIx leaves Bellows Falls al 1000 p
n, receiving passengers frohd Vermont Valley r. R.
leaving New York at I9.t5 p ~, and from Cheshire.R
eT junction vjthtrsIn leaving Sostou al 600 P.s.. tor Bur
iineton, Rou~e's Point, MontreslSHd Osdensburgh, con
Meeting with Steamers aud the Grand Trunk trains
for the West.
Sleeping cars are attached to both the night expreS.
trains running between -. Adams and Boston and ST
Adams and Springfield, and Drawing Room cars. TO day
express trains.
Through ricketsfor Chioagoandthe Vest for saIe At
the principal stations
G.MERRILL, Supt.
st. Adams. July, l. 1899.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15
American and Foreign Patents
Il. a.. EDDY.

IA. IA. EkBDR
SOLICITOR OF PATENTS,
Late Agent of the United States Patent Office, Wash
ington, under the Act of 1897
No. as State ST., Opposite Kilby ST. Boston.
FTERa an extensive practieso OF upwards oitwenty
II years, continues 10 secure Patents in the United
countries. Caveats, specifications, BuudS, AssignmeEts,
snd all pa pers or drawings for Pasents. executed on rea-
sonabse terms. with diSpatIn- Researches made into
American and Foreign works. TO terminethe validity
aud utility of Patents OfInveRtiOns, and I gal and otheT
advieereaderedi all matterstouchinst the same. CopfeE
Assignments recorded in Washington.
No Agencyiu the Uhited States OSsssseszuPerioTfa
eilitiesfOr obtaining Patents ,oTaseertsiningt hepatentA-
hiIify of Inventions
iuthecourse ofhis
large practice. made, on twice rejected applications,
SIXrEEN aPPEA :, EVERY ONE of which was de
cided in hisfavo , the Commissioner Of Patents.
TESTIMONIALS.
81 resa.d N. Eddy as one of the mostcapable and
sueces siulD- &C i. ioHers with whom ! have had official
intercourse CHARLES MASON.
Commissioner ofPatentS.
"ihave no heS.iationia sSsurngin
cannot employ a person more competent aud trust
worthy aud moTecspabieO of patting their applications
in a form 10 secuTe for them an early and IA vorable con-
sIdeTati0R atthe Patent Ofhce.'
EDMUND BURKE,
Late Patents.
"Mr. r. H. Eddy has made for me thirteen apBica-
tions, in slIbutONE OF (which patents have been grant
ed, and thatOne is now pending Such uumiStakzble
proof OF great talent aud ability oH his part lesdsme
their patents, as they may be sure Of havingthe most
faithful attention bestowed on their cases, and atyey
reasonable charges" ION
Bog IN. Feb. L, 1859. y5yi
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15
cHAPTER ".
LESTER ESCAPES AND HEARS FROM ONE
IL lnft Dnr-il 1 nnNn- a. L. IL Il

LESTER ESCAPES n HEARS FROM HOME.
We left David Lester on his lonely island,
planning his escape, with a ship in sight
from the elevated point where he was at work
He waited till night and until a priest of the
idolatrous temple CAM to chain him and
then suddenly leaping upon the priest, he
bore him to the floor. chained and gagged
him, disguised himself in his priestly robes,
stained his face brown with dirt, went to the
shore where the canoes were lying entered
one of them, and padded out 10 sea in the
direction in which he had seen the ship.
He padded for hours with all his strength
end had gone so far that the lights of the
island could not be seen, and yet no ship had
been found and now the wind was rising
and a storm was threatening.
Oh, God Am 1 forsaken ?" he cried. in
awful anguish, seized with a fear that the
wind would take the ship from him. Must
| perish here -
At that moment when hope was dying, he
beheld a sight that turned all his wild woe
into yet wild ecstasy.
There, to the northward, was the ship,
standing directly towards him, with all sails
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-15
PRIZE CHURN COMPANY,
Dairy Therm

To The Farmers Of Vermont, Ne'V Hampshire
and Massachusetts,
We world catI your attention TO the above cut repre-
senting the PRIZE III Patented July 2lst, 1866.
aud Ocloher SIh- 1867, which has been in use for tho
past two years, and has hal a very large sale wherever
it has been offered, for the following reasons:
First, II j. a perfect butter maker, producing the
largest amount Of butter possible, from 3 given quantity
Of cream, in from three to twelve minutes, and wOrkIu
out the butter milk in the same time
Second, II l. easily operated and easy TO clean, which
: very essential n making good butter.
Third. u Is tho Ougbly mode of old growth pine, with
iron hoops and painted with oil paints.
Fourth, II has taken the highest premium for two sue
cessive years. 1867 and ls6S, at re Vert q II State Fzirs,
in competition with a number of other c. Irns.
In presenting cur CbuTn 10 The public, we ask for the
clio est scrutiny of butter makers, by a trial, which is
tia best proof.
To dealers IN Agricultural implements, who are unse-
q1ainted with the merits Of cur ChuTn, we will send one
for trial and inspection. at our lowest wholesale price
and If not saGifactOry, II may be returned, at cur OK
psuse.
PRIZE CHURN COMPANY.
S~PRINGFIELD, VERMONT.
FOR SALE BY
Z. SCRIBNER ------ MONTPELIER.
, 1869-04-02
The Lost Jewel.

l have never seen so perfect speciman
of female beauty as that of Della Howard.
She was Just on the verge of her young
womanhood when l knew her first. Petite
it form, yet with physical development so
singularly lovely that even in fashionable
theatre, crowded with The beauty and re6ne>
ment of city, she would have been singled
out as an object of peculiar admiration. Her
blonde features and golden hair we're made
brilliant and noticeable by the large black
eyes that were fathomless in their intense
light Large and lustrous they were indeed,
full of beauty that fascinated while it mad
dened you She was an orphan niece of
Howard, whom be had reared as his child.
"Unti recently" said Mr. p" she had
repaid his kindness with affection, and even
up to the event which drove her out into the
world alone, she had shown to him a love
which owed none of its fervor and sincerity
to pretension.'
His own daughter was of different style of
beauty, and with naughty and imperious
manner which repelled friendship and esteem
But that she had bid under all that calm
pride heart quick to feel and passionate to
resent real or supposed injury, her jealousy
of her cousin disclosed The admiration
which the orphan everywhere excited mad
deued her, and do not doubt she had sworn
in her fierce and bitter wrath to crush or
kill her.
You must not understand that knew this
until long afterwards. When Mr.. L
and myself were called on to investigate the
robbery which involved the loss of a valuable
diamond by a guest in the house, none sust
pected its existence But when, after pats
lent research, and a thorough examination of
the premises, we became satisfied that the
robbery had been committed by some one 10
the house, and so stated to Mr.. Howard,
noticed for Just one moment a wild light, q
cruel CLEAN of intelligence burn in the eyes
of his daughter. What it meant then did
know. but was even then sure it had an evil
significance.
I" You do not mean to tell me that one of
my own family has done this deed" sternly
demanded Mr. Howard
9That can be ascertained sir; but that
some one in the hoase did il. is evident I
rejoined. s .ss.a.
of course he demanded the stFictest invesi
tipatlor and, while the search was being
prosecuted, bis daughter exhibited evident
excitement But the missing jewel was
found at last in the wUrkbox Of Della How
ard. 1 knew the expression Of guilt too well
to coofound il with the look of Unaffected
surprise, which changed to amusement when
her cousin said:
aIsaw her put il thersl" se'fss :.
Astonishment, which for monent held
soul and sense spell-bodnd, passed quickly
away. The indignant blood flushed face Nnd
, 1869-04-02
Democratic Territorial Convention.

The Democratic Territorial Convention for the
nomination of candidate for Delegate to Con-
gress, 20 be elected next June, and for the
transaction of such other business as may be
proper, will be held at Vancouver, Clark county,
on Thursday, 22d day of April next. The sew
eral counties will be represented upon the ratio
of two delegates for each Representative iu the
lower House of the Legislature, under the last
apporuonment
All who are opposed to the so-talled "Recons
struction measures" Of Congress, including the
universal extension of the right of suffrage to
negroes Cinnamon and other mougrel and iufe~
rior races aud 10 favor of an economical admin
istraton of the Federal, State and Territorial
governments by white men, for the orueft of
white men and their posterity, are cordially in>
vired to participate in the primary meetings for
the election of Delegates to said Convention.
FRANK p. DUGAN, J. d. POTTER,
THOMAS ROE. FRANCIS HENRY
February 49, 1869. Dem. Central Committee.
, 1869-04-02

DRUNK.-Young man, did you ever stop
to think how terrible that word sounds
Did you ever think what misery and woe
you brought upon your kind friends when
you degraded your manhood by getting
drunk Oh, it is fearful thing to trample
under foot the high claims that God and
man have upon you. Drunk How it rings
in the ear of the loving wife How it
makes the heart Of fond mother bleed
How it crushes out the hopes of doting
father, and brings reprOach and shame upon
loving sisters. Drunk See him as he leans
against some friendly house. He stands
ready to fall into the open jaws of bell, un-
conscious of his approaching fate. The wife,
with fearful eyes and aching heart, sits at
the window to hear her husbands footsteps,
but alas, they come not He is drunk The
husband, the parent is drunk, spending bis
time and money, when he should be at home
enjoying the pleasures and comfort of the
family circle. Drunk Spending the means
of support for liquor, while his family is
starving for bread, his children suffering for
clothing. Drunk His reputation is gone!
His friends, one BY one are reluctantly leav-
ing him to his miserable fate. He goes down
to bis grave unhonored aud untouched"
Drunk
, 1869-04-02

EVERY intelligent person in the United
States knows that the Government is shame,
fully and shamelessly plundered, right and
left, by friends aud enemies; but how II Is
done is not so well understood. Here Is
case recently brought to light BY an investi'
eating committee Of Congress: In looking
oyea the stationery bills for the Patent Once
presented by Washington firm Of cOntrac'
tors h was found that six index books, worth
seventy Eve cents each we're charged $50
each brown envelopes, wOrthsl, were charg-
ed siS Der thousand card tags, worth ~
we're charged s22; Patsnt. heads, worm 20 sxO
we're charged sI40; 100000 sheets o. PONG
paper, worth one cent and a'haif, were
charged eight cents. Of 1.-THE articles charged
at least one-half had not been delivered
, 1869-04-02

A SERVANT girl out West recently tried
whisky to kill rats She made it sweet with
sugar, crumbled in bread and set it in the
cellar A few hours afterwards she went
down and. found several rats, gloriously fud,
died, engaged in throwing potato pairing and
hauling one another up to drink.
, 1869-04-02

THE Des Moines (Iowa) Register says
there is family living near that city, 'in
which there are thirteen chiliren, all of
whom are deaf and dumb. The family is q
good one, and are much respected in the
community. We doubt whether there is
another family on earth with as much still.
ness in il as this