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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

The SENSE OF PAIN.-The sense of pain
in the mouth guards the throat in the
stomach it affords a warning against i'm
proper food in fact, every part of the
body is susceptible Of pain, wherever that
sense is necessary to indicate disease or in
jury but the heart, the brain, and the
lungs, although the most vital organs, are
protected from injury by the sensibility of
the exterior parts of the body /; a high
sense of pain in them is unnecessary, and
they are almost insensible to it. The heart
beats upward of four thousand times in the
course of an hour, and if the pain from a
diseased heart were very acute it would
indeed be sad for the sufferer, but the pain
from a disease of that organ is seldom
more than an unsteady sensation, and this
more especially after violent exertion, being
a check to Unnecessary action, and so far
useful. Sudden death often occurs from
disease of the heart not from the heart
being suddenly diseased, but from the dis
ease causing very little pain and being
therefore unknown. The brain although
the source of sensation, is itself insensible
to pain; in surgical operations portions of
the brain lave been removed without the
patient exhibiting any sign of pain. The
lungs are highly susceptible of impurities
in the air and thus we are guarded against
the inhalation of injurious gases their sem
sibility during inflammation indicates the
danger and compels the necessary care /;
but they are almost insensible to pain from
mutilation or decay; in such case the sense
would be useless and an affiiction. The
lungs have been taken out without causing
pain and during their decay in consumption
the pain is very little.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

transient insensibility, but recovered on the
free application of cold water to his head and
q mustard plaster over his stomach another,
the editor, seers to nave fallen like a person
with apoplexy, and expired before | reached
him. In the remaining cases, perspiration
ceased, the skin became hot, the pulse ex-
cited, the eyes red, followed by debility .;
nausea, pain in the head and stomach, gidei-
ness, and insensibility. Then followed greater
dryness and heat of skin, the heart pulsated
powerfully, but the pulse was feeble, the
respiration was rapid and loud, pupil of the
eye contracted, and in one case commissions
ensued, l have followed no routine methcd
of treatment.-When the patient falls as in
apoplexy, and is of full habit, l have bled
with remarkably good results but in ordinary
cases, where the disease comes on more grad
ually, | remove the patient to a cool place,
but transport and disturb him as little as
possible, uncover the head and chest, and
freely use the cold douche. If the skin be-
ocmes cold and clammy, L use the douche only
as to the head and neck, and apply hartshorn
carefully to the nose. When he arouses l
give him water freely, and if be Vomits, it
aids his recovery. If he still remains drowsy
a blister applied to the neck or to the shaven
head is an important remedy.
In general, this treatment is all that is re-
quired, and as much of it may be safely car
ried out by any one, and as it's immediate ap-
p~lication is necessary to success, l have
frequently given these instructions to the
foremen of laborers, and had them most sue
c~essfully begin the treatment.
A person once recovered from sun-stroke,
must ever after be very careful about exposure
to the hot sun, the use of stimulants, and
excessive fatigue.-Though by exposure be
may not cause a return of the disease, he is
very liable to set up a train of nervous symp-
toms which may invalid him for life.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

BCCKwHEAT CCLTURE.-This cereal Is an
important and valuable crop to cultivate.
lite habits and chemical constituents are such
that a good remunerative crop is produced
upon land that would not produce a good
crop of wheat or barley. The time of SOW
ing varies with the season and locality.
Buckwheat is sown from the 22I of June to
the 9th of July nevertheless, II sown late a
good crop will oftentimes be produced. The
unInitiated should remember, that if sOwn
too early the drought and searching sun
blast the flower. rendering it unfruitful and
if too late is apt to be injured by frost before
maturity. 1t will grow upon any titled soil /;
a light loan is best adapted to this crop. |
am unacquainted with a crop that is 50 per-
fectly adapted to be sown on newly cleared
land as this one. Its rapid and dense growth
completely hides other slow growing plants
and obnoxious weeds from the genial influence
of the suns rays in fact. | have known a
piece of ground completely covered with the
Canada thistle-CirSium drUenSe-entirely
rid OF this pest by two crops of buckwheat.
1t has a spreading habit therefore, only such
quantities of seed should be sown as will cause
the plants to cover the whole surface when
in blossom. Those farmers who have made
the culture of buckwheat a speciality inform
me that one half bushel per acre is a sufficient
quantity, if sown evenly over the whole sur
face. The average yield Of this crop rs from
twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre, yet
on good soil and favorable season double this
amount is often produced. Not only should
it be sOwn for food for the human family, but
in sections where bees are kept the flowers
are their favorite resort. 1t is a most valua-
bic plant for ~ploughing in as a fertilizer
Rural Net0 Yorker.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

\ MENAGERIE IN \ TEMrEef.-1he Dav-
EXPORT (lowa) Gazette mentions a troubled
journey made by Bailey q Co.'S Menagerie
and Circus, from Muscatine to Davenport.
The caravan started at IL o'clock at night.
Before a dozen miles had been traversed, i
terrific storm let loose its lightning, thun-
der, and water. The lightning was blind
ing in its brilliancy, the thunder was ter
rife, and the rain, violently driven by the
wind, came down in sheets, \ panic seized
the whole cavalcade-men, horses and ami
mails seemed terrorestriken. Eight of the
drivers deserted their teams, and it was
not long before wagons and horses were in
inextricable confusion damned up mass
of laundering animals and overturned ye-
hicleS. The darkness save when lightning
illumina ed the scene, was impenetrable
The Gagged lions, tigers, leopards, wolves
aud other wild beasts, became frightened
and roared and growled and shrieked in
very terror. The lightning came nearer
and nearer, until It's thunder seemed &c
breed in the midst of the caravan. The
elephants laid down in the road and re.
fused to move. Three of the horses were
struck by lightning and killed. 1t is q
wonder that no human lives were lost
At daybreak the scene presented heggar:
description.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11
9petru.
The Kingdom of Home.
BY WILLIAM RANKIN DURrEE-

For the following prize poem the proprie-
tors of the Hearth and Homep paid the author
500. The committee of award were Alice
Cary, Bayard Taylor, and q. A. Dana
Dark is the night, and 1itful and drearily
Rushes the wind like the waves OF the sea;
Little care j, as here i sing cheerily,
wife at my side and my baby on knee;
King, King, crown me the King:
Home is the Kingdom and Love is the King
Flashes the freight upon the dear faces,
Bearer and dearer as onward we go;
Forces the shadow behind US, and places
Brightness around US with warmth in The glow.
King, King, crown me the King:
Home is the Kingdom and Love is the King
Flashes the Iovelight, increasing the glory,
Beaming from bright eyes with warmth of thh
soul,
Telling of thrust and content the sweet story,
Lifting the shadows that over us roll.
King, King, crown me the King;
Home is the Kingdom and Love is the King
Richer than miser with P~erishing treasure,
Served with a service no conquest could bring
Happy with fortune that words can not measure,
Light-hearted 1 on the hearthstone can sing,
King, King, crown me the King:
Home is the Kingdom and Love is the Kingi
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11
Useful Hints.

An eminent physician in Hearth and Home
gives some hints on those subjects which are
appropriate to this season, and may be prac-
tically useful. He says that a high tempera-
ture filed with moisture necessarily produces
physical depression, and is most unfavorable
to health, especially of the old and feeble,
and Of the very young, and of those who are
suffering from exhaustive diseases. The
weather so far has been remarkably cool and
pleasant in Montreal and all over Canada,
disagreeably so at some of the watering places;
but the dog days are upon us, and downright
hot weather may be expected
When the weather continues as it has for
the last four days, day and night, the best
constitution must suffer more or less severely,
and the weak and exhausted sink irrevOcably
unless the greatest care be taken to preserve
the equilibrium of the system. 1t matters
little how hot the sun shines, provided the
air is dry preparation will then go on freely,
and the rapid evaporation from the surface
SO thoroughly cools the body, that the system
scarcely experiences the slightest depression.
A person may thus, when the air is dry, en-
dure a temperature that will boil eggs and
roast meats. Natures method of rendering
us caPuhio of resisting high dcsroes of heat
is, therefore, by cooling the body through
perspiration. Excessive perspiration, also,
creates thirst for cold finds, and these, taken
lhbtIudHyJ Etl1l luIbHcI COOL Tue DOuy. IL
follows that anything which tends to heat
the body, or diminish the natural cooling
processes, adds to the dangers of excessive
heat.
On a hot misty day, creating a close atmos-
phere and a Shiny feeling of the skin, due to
diminished perspiration, he says;
L have visited many families to-day for the
purpose of advising old people and invalids
TO retire to the coolest and best aired room
in the house, to use freely their palm leaf
fans the best fans ever made), to wear light
flannel, and drink frequently small quantities
of cool, but not cold water, or cold tea, battle
the head with bay rum, etc.-Where |
have found groups of laborers, | have urged
them to avoid ssimulants, to bathe the head,
neck and arms often with cold water, wear
wet cloths in their hats, drink frequently of
cool water, and avoid exposure, and if prac-
ticable, work, during the middle of the day,
and take free additions in the evening.
On a subsequent day, the heat and moisture
continuing, ne says -
The heat is beginning to tell upon the class
of people before mentioned have seen
several cases of so-called ISOLATION, coup de
sotef, or sum stroke, and heard Of others in
the practice of ~neighbors. The better term
Is heat exhaustion, for some of the worst
cases occurred in persons working in shops,
and one was am editor, struck down while
writing at his desk. In every instance 1 find
that the sufferer had violated the rules which
/ have giyen-the iaboreIs had been taking
stimuldnts freely some drank ice-water ex-
cessively the editor had overtaxed his brain,
ate a hearty dinner, and still continued to
work.
The symptoms had been various one had
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

a day-at noon, q when Z shut them
up at four OF 1--WE p. NJ. When they run
out give them all they will eat. In my ex-
perience, there is nc way to get diseased
fowls easier than to keep them stuffed it
makes them lazy, and they won't work as
much as they ought, to keep in q healthy
condition.
1 never had any gapes in chickens. When
any fowl begins to droop, | give three large
best thing to cleanse a fowl I know Of. / fol-
low it for three days, give them nothing to
eat and plenty of pure water to drink. In
desperate cases give a half a teasroonful of
~tincture of lobelia. 1t will seldom if ever
fail of curing. 1t is a very cleansing and
powerful medicine for fowls.-H c. Wheeler,
For trough, Mass. IN Ru5rl Neto Yorker.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

CINDERs IN THE EYE.-The following is
from a communication in the Hearth and
Home, by an eminent physician
"' Called to prescribe for Mrs. Andrews
infiamed eyes learned that she had a bit of
cinder in her eyes occurred while travelling
in the cars four days ago: eye very much in
famed. painful and attended vita severe
headache. This is one of hundreds of cases
where a little knowledge would not have
been a dangerous thing, and would save a
world of pain. Nothing is more distressing
to a traveller than a piece OF cinder in the
eye, and no disorder is more easily remedied.
Calling the family together, | proceeded to
show them that it was not an eye-wash that
Mrs. Andrews needed to relieve her suffering,
but the removal of the foreign substance.
The cinder Will be found Just underneath the
margin of the upper lid, where there is a
small groove CT gutter for the flow of tears
to an inner angle of the eye. Foreign bod
les tend to fall into this groove, aud if they
are very angular, like cinder, they adhere in
spit of the current of tears which now flow
IN greater abundance, and sooner or later
carry off smooth substances. Now, if you
will raise the margin of the upper lid and
turn it over, the cinder or grain of sand will
be exposed and may easily be removed with
the point of a pencil, or with the finger Gov
cred by a handkerchief.
| then demonstrates this simple operation
on one of the boys, thus Taking my pencil
IN my right fingers, with the thumb and first
finger of my left hand | seized the eye-lashes
of the upper lid, and drawing the lid gently
out from the ball, pressed the point of the
pencil downward upon the upper surface of
the lid, about one fourth of an inch from its
margin, and at the same time carried the
margin upward over the pencil by the eye
lashes, when the lid readily rolled over the
pencil 50 as to expose completely the gutter
described. | then asked one of the young
ladies to perform this operation, upon her
mother, which. after two or three failures,
she accomplished, and as | had predicted,
small angular pieces of cinder were found
beneath the margin of the lid, which she
very adroitly removed with the point of the
pencil. Mrs. Andrews expressed immediate
relief. So much interest was felt in this
painless operation, that all in turn p rformed
1t, being much aided by requiring the person
operated upon to look downward when the
lid was being averted, and upward when the
operator wished to restore the lid"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

THE Iron BAR.-Here Is a good lesson
from an iron bar. Read it, children y
bar of iron worth five dollars, worked into
horse shoes, Is worth $40 80; made into
needles, it is worth $500; made into pen
knife blades, it IS worth 1926 made into
balance-springs of watches. it is worth
S250,000. What a drilling the poor bar
must undergo TO reach al. that but ham
mered, and beaten, and pounded, and pol
ished, how was its value increased , 1t
might well have quivered and complained
under the hard knocks it got; but were
they not all necessary TO draw out its fine
qualities, and fit it for higher offices?
And so my children, al the drilling and
training which you are subject to in youth,
and which often seems 50 hard to you,serve
to bring out your nobier and finer qualities,
and fit you for more responsible posts and
greater usefulness in the world.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

end the baby YVES not very well, and kept
crying loudly, The Bedstead, I ought to
tell you, was broken, so we had made q
s~hakedown, and were sleeping on the floor.
Well, IN the middle of the night l heard
something Scratching. on the top OF the
house; On it went Until it was evident that
The creature, whatever it was, had torn the
thatch away, and intended to come IN
through the roof.
You may teliefe I watched the boards
earnestly and that when l saw one ofthem
showed aside and a great fawn-colored paw
thrust in, my heart gave a jump. There
was not time for much more, for the next
moment, the board being pushed away, a
hairy face with two red balls ofeyes glared
in upon us, and, then, down sprang a large
panther-coming upon the ground all-fonrs
like a cat. Kate and | pulled the clothes
over our heads, and each thought death
had come for what could two unarmed
women do against a hungry panther ?
Well, as we lay shaking ard wondering
the baby fell asleep, ard so stopped crying.
l heard the panther walk up to the bedside
and sit down; then he began a purring
sort of sound-wagging his tail upon the
ground next he lifted one of his paws and
tapped the bed covering pretty gently, just
as if he were wondering what kind of crea-
lures we were, and how he was to get at
us.
This was too much for Kate, she could
not bear the fear any longer, and, uttering
a fearful shrek, she sprang up, throwing
the bed-clothes over the astonished pam
Their.
The movement being so sudden and
unexpected, scared the panther, who sprang
up through the hole in the roof like light
ming, and [ suppose made the best of his
way to the woods. At any rate, we saw
no more of him, and nave had many a good
laugh at the adventure since. '@Eoreig1
S,rchange.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

SOD, IT'S TREATMENT y IT'S BENEPIT.-
Plow down sod you can not turn down too
much of it. Feed the ground with it. Ap-
ply ashes, specially and largely. plaster, and
most of all, manure. This last makes soil,
especially if compost. IF a compact. fine
coat is added, the roots will work up into it
Thus you will thicken your sod. Orchard
grass and clover are among the principal sod
makers, the one enriching below and the
other above. \ few years will form a sod
two years for the clover, and a few for the
orchard grass, which is sown with the clover
and resown when the clover disappears the
ground narrowed after sowing, which will
benefit the grass present, as the tough roots
can not well be brokon up.
Such "A sod will produce anything-such a
soil rather. 1t contains all the constituents
of plant food in the dccayed plant roots and
stubble. 1t is simply reproducing the same,
every time with an addition from the atmos-
phere.
1t is this sod that makes cur farms. 1t
makes them healthy and mellow gives them
Zig tness where there is clay-particularly
calculated for this, hut will benefit any soil.
1t is a corrector-this decidedly.
And sod is cheap, easily made, and with
benefit during the time-as great a benefit as
any other source of husbandry.
We know large farms of many fields Who'll
" In sod. 1t does you good to go over these
farms. The grass is established the sod is
old, most of it. Plaster is used largely, so
are ashes, so is manure, but no other stimu-
lating applications. There is one thing, how
ever, which seems next to MANURE, the most
eficacious, that is the fall growth left on the
ground, This keeps your sod, and makes
heavy crops, protecting and enriching.
These farms, spoken of before, always
yield well, and most heavily. The nutri-
ment is there to thrive. The soil mas lain,
" rested" so as to correct the evil effects Of
bad culture-wet blowing. 1t comes up rich,
loose, and will be thoroughly mellow when
rotten. This is the bed to give your seed to
(of any kind), and to stack down little
trouble about failure the catch is certain.
and the growth after the same.-Deifz'
Farm Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

KEFPING OF COws.-A correspondent of
the Germantown Telegraph wishes he could
make the truth vivid TO every keeper of cows,
that the care of them is something that re-
quires knowledge and painstaking in details.
Cows must not be neglected or deprived of
sufficient food. Good shelter and abundance
of food they must have if we would render
them profitable. Evenness of local temporal
ture is a necessity. If the weather is cold
or wet out of doors, they should be warm and
dry within the stable. If the sun shines too
hot they should have the privilege of shade.
When a COW becomes uncomfortable the flow
of milk is in proportion as you confer care
upon her.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

MuhcHfSo FSUIr TREEs.-A member of the
Oneida Community, writing on the impor-
lance of mulching fruit trees and plants of
every kind, says that he mulched a row Of
the Franconia raspberry, and also one of the
Philadelphia, side by side. The effect was
very marked. While the Franconias which
were not mulched were literally scorched,
and the leaves cr%umpled in the sun, the row
which received the mulching, carried through
nearly double the crop of fruit. The mate
rial used for mulching was old, half decayed
buckwhcat straw.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

To DESTROY Rose BUGs.-A correspondent
of the New England farrser gives this
method, which looks practicable, for getting
rid of the rose bug l find it an easy matter
to keep four or five hundred vines entirely
clear of these pests. l have also about TWEEN
ty common blush roses. l go out early in
the morning with a pail, and pick roses and
bugs together, as nearly all the bugs will
sleep in the roses. Ten minutes is time
enough to 60 through the whole. Follow
this a few years, and you will exterminate
nearly the whole of them.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-11

To BANIsH ANrs.-TO drive ants away
from grass lawns, walks or i)wer-beds,
sprinkle guano over their haunts. The am-
moniacal liquor from the gas-works will
answer the same purpose, care being taken
not TO use it too strong otherwise it will
destroy the grass or turn it brown.
Peonies may be propagated by root-cut-
tiugs, by seed or by division. The rarer
kinds of tree paeonies are often budded on
the more common.-Journdl of Horticulture.
Some of the truck horses in New York
city work under tents. That is, an awning
that extends the whole length of the horse is
affixed, with iron stanchIOns, to the harness
thus forming a very %effeetual shade.
All the domestic bees near Louisville have
disappeared. leaving their hives full OF honey.
The cause of this extraordinary exodus is a
mystery. In a circuit of twenty-five miles
ali the hives were deserted about the same
time.
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American and Foreign Patents

Ezs 81 ~
SOLICITOR OF PATENTS,
Late Agent OF the United states Patent Office, wash
ingtoni undet the Act OF 1887.
No IS state ST. ~Corrosite EiI6y ST. BOSTON.
FTER at extensive ~pfscIice oil upwards o twenty
"A years, continues To secure Patents in the United
States alsoi in Great Britain, France, and other loreign
countries. Caveats, specifications, Bonds,
and ailPape-s or drawings for Patents, executed on rea-
sona5le terms, with dispasJn. Researches made into
American ard Foreign Wcfks, to deteTmiHethe validity
aHd utility OF Talents OtiHveGtiOns, andi egal and other
advice re deTedin Misunderstanding thesame. Copies
ofclaims Ofany pateHtfuTRishedby remittingonedollsT.
Assignments recorded Washington.
No Agency IN the United States perioIfa-
ciiitiesfor obtaining Patents. oTascertaininet hepatenta-
bihty OF inventions.
ubscriber, inthecour se efhis
large nr1ctice, made, on twice rejected applications,
oided in isfavuThy the Commissions ct Patents
TESTIMONIALS.
q regard Nj Eddy a. one of the moStcspable and
ccesstulptaCtuione with whom / have had official
Intercourse CHARLES MASON,
Commissioner ofPateutk.
"IhaFe no Besitation IN ssurnc thstthey
cannot employ a person more competent and trust
worthy, and unacceptable of puttingth heir applications
IN a form TO secure for them an early aRdfav0Table con
sIderatioU stthe Patent Ofee.H
EDMUND BURKE.
Late Commissioned of Patenrs.
VI R-H- Eddy has made for me thirteen apDlica-
tons N alihuttNE OF (which patents have been grant
ed, and that one u now pending. uchunmisfakabl
proof OF great talent aud ability on his part. leads me
20 tecommend allinventorS to apply to him 10 procure
thelr patents, a. they may be sure Of havinsthe most
faithful attention bestowed on their eases. and aTveIt
reasonable eharses-n JOHN TAGHART.
BoSton. Fsh. J. 1862 F5yl