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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12

EARLY FLOWERS AND VEdETABLEs.-It
is not every family that can possess hot
bed in which TO start early flowers and
vegetables; yet all can have them by the
expenditure of little more trouble. A
kitchen window If the location Is SUNNY
will supply all the light one needs TO raise
few astcrs, balslms, stocks, verbenas, etc I.
and tomato, pepper, cabbage and lettuce
plants can also be started in small boxes
for flower pots. Take good, light soil ; If
possible mix 1t with leaf moIld, well crum-
bled up; bake the earth to destroy all the
larve Of worms, etc., and plant your seeds
over the surface, when the soil is cool IN
the hand. Scatter securing sand lightly
over the seeds shade from the sun for throo
or four days, and soon you will have guam
titles of plants Of all kinds. BE sure 10
plant your seed sparngly; do not crowd
the plants, thereby making them spindlinp
and slckly, and causing them to become
"wiredrawn." If they do grow tall and
slender, pinch off the upper leaves, and
this will make them more stocky. When
they are two or three inches high, trans
plant into thumb pots or large boxes. riv-
ing them room enough 10 grow. Keep the
plants IN the direct rays of the sun during
the Rrea err part of the day. The kitchen is
the best place for plants during the day-
removing TO warmer room at night-if il
has the sun because the air is moist. and
with 40 outer door II Is often freshened
Thus with little expense and some care,
every family can supply itself with all the
early flowers and vegetables they may de
sire. COaRtiy Gentleman,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12

Within the last two weeks an epidemic
of suicide among children has passed over
the country. One child steals n small sum
from his stepfather and in an agony of
shame kills himself, rather than meet the
eye of his mother. Another boy who had
committed like fault in the shop where he
was employed, puts pistol to his head
and blows his brains out, AFTER writing a
childish, pathetic letter in which he bids
everybody good-by, and tells his father he
sis not going to make trouble in the house
any more" These are but few of many
instances where some assignable cause
could be given but the last is that of boy,
who without any reason, a cheerful, merry
little fellow, in happy home, puts an end
to his life; very probably because he had
heard that others did it..
There is as all Psychologists know, con-
ta9ion of crime; governed by rules and re-
ierable to them, as any contagious physical
disorder. Suicidal manias have, at differ
ent times, passed over certain towns and
districts until the aid of the law was need
ed to arrest them. The women of Lyons,
during "A certain period, drowned them
ment interlered, and, by the public expos
ure of the bodies, put summary stop to
the practice. In Versailles, this mania,
| without any cause other than that of the
contagon of example, reached such
| height that the number of suicides during
one year was 300. Other epidemics of
crime, such as incendiarism, poisoning, the
| tarantula fever, which in the sixteenth CEN
fury drove thousands of the Neapolitans
dancing into the sea, have all ragged prnci-
pally among children, hysterical girls and
excitable boys. The causes of such mental
diseases are not hard to find. The unhealthy
condition of public thought from religious
or political action and, more than all, the
perpetual suggestion of any certain crime
by the press, to brains already thus diseas-
ed-every one of these causes operates in
the ease of our children. They are born, to
begin with, Of nervous race, half of whom
are debilitated by over-work, or the use of
tobacco or liquor. The climate is exhaust
ing, as no other; the ordinary pace of life
that OF race-course. The child of mid
dle-class family land it is in the middle
class these abnormal cases have occurred)
knows nothing Of the seclusion of the nur-
sery the frequent holidays, in which he
thinks all the world joins the blessed ig-
nOrance, that make the English and Ger
man child's life an Eden, where his soul
and body may grow strong and healthy to-
gether The American boy eats his share
of his fathers knowledge from the time he
can sit at table. Tammany Rings, murders,
social evils, are no mysteries to him I;
they Ill his ears at every meal and his eyes
whenever he looks into paper There is
usually no attempt to hide from him any
depth of human degradation or vice. Even
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12

| Men talk of labor and capital as if they
were two essentially different things. They
are in fact essentially one. Ifa man builds
a factory, puts in machinery, buys raw
material, puts in workmen, he is said to
have invested his capital. The whole es-
adjustment is capital. If ii pays the whole
expense of running, including materials,
wear and tear and wages, and then some
thing over and above, that surplus is call
ed earnings. 1t is regarded as fresh capital.
Now man is grand mandatory. His
head furnishes power; his hands and feet
and muscles are machinery. Every man
is in himself capital. If it costs to run the
machine all that it earns, he will never
have surplus capital. If he lives on one
half of his earnings, then his invested cap
ital, that is, his bodily organizaton-pro-
duces so much surplus capital.
A day laborcr who saves three dollars a
week is a capitalist. If he puts his savings
into horse and dray, or into chest of
tools, or into a candy shop, he reinvests;
and now his capital is, primarily, his own
productive force-that is, himself; and Sec
ondarily, these new means of carrying on
business. Every step by which he rises
from poverty to competence is in the direc-
ton of augmented capital.
Every prosperous workingman is proof
to himself that there is no need of conflict
between labor and capital.
But suppose man to have gained by in
dustry enough money to buy two horses
and two drays? He cannot drive both of
them himself He hires a man. Now he
is not only laborer, but an employer
If his business increases till he owns
twenty or thirty teams, all his time will be
needed to superintend them he will do
head-work, and hire the hand work.
In each step upward his relations TO his
laborers are just and beneficent The inter-
ests are reciprocal. There is no mystery
or complexity about it. All the talk about
the normal and abnormal relations of cap
tal to labor is needless. Capital may I'M
dertake to do things prejudicia to the COM
mon veal, and require to be restrained,
and so just as much may labor.
of course the employer should keep his
agreements, and pay at the time provided.
Labor, on the other hand, should keep its
agreement, and render fair work for fair
price. But there are some practical sugges-
tons of value.
Payments TO laboring men should be At
short intervals, especially when the men
have families dependent upon them. 1t is
better to pay in money than in goods or
orders. The temptation to make double
profits on inferior goods leads selfish men
to take advantage of their "hands.' AL
though n payment by orders may secure
better goods sometimes than the men would
buy for cash, y,t, on the other hand, il
leads to carelessness and shitless manage
ment in the family. 1t is the interest of
every employer that his men should be in
teligent, thrift and good managers in the
household. 1t is his interest, even if he
works by no higher principle, TO deal just
ly, promptly and literally with all his
work men.-Henry Ward Beecher.
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worse than this : the troubles of tho family
-debts, stugglos, disagreements-are laid
upon his little shoulders with cruel care
lessness, at an age when he should not
know there was such a thing as trouble in
the world. American homes are sad and
mirthess beyond any others. The Amer
lean child is born, in nine cases out of en-, to
an Inheritance of utterly causeless gloom;
his hard working father, and head aching
mother are so occupied in striving for mon
ey or position for BIN that they forget
the careless sunshiny happiness which is
his birthright, and which their selfish
troubles have no right to cloud His own
brain, especially IL he he a boy Of any
promise, is forced, and over wrought he
is taught 10 read as soon as lie is weaned;
parents, teachers, public opinion, spur and
goad him thenccforth without ceasing; if
he is to go into trade his chance for educa-
ton usually stops at fifteen at twenty, if
he is to enter the professions into these
years he must crowd slnatterng of all sci
ences, knowledges, and arts.
Nothing but a sound body and the tonic
of perpetually happy, mrthful home
life could support him through this, and
produce rational, strong, helpful man to
take his part in the world, at the end.
When so many of our children have nci,h-
er, there il little reason for wonder that
they are willing, for the slightest cause, TO
turn aside and shirk the road, which from
the beginning has been made too bard for
them.-T1ibune.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12

HABITS OF THE OSTRICH. The,rinstincts
and habits are quite at variance with the
ieathered races in general. With merely
stumps of wings, bearing the same rcla-
ton to their bodies that the fore legs of
kangaroo do to that animal. Although
they cannot fly, their speed in running far
exceeds the swiftest horse. With hollow
bones, through which air passes freely from
large chambers TO the tip of each feather,
the more they exercise the lighter they are,
by the rareiaction of the air within. Their
specific gravity, therefore, enables them to
leap twenty and thirty feet at each step
when hotly pursued. The female lays an
egg every two days, when the season COM
mences, which continues sometimes two
months. She drops them in Ia hillucli ofsand,
which is heaped up with the feet. Forty
days are required for incubation. The
male bird is extremely attentive through
the long period of hatching taking his
turn on the nest when the female leaves
for food and exercise. a wonderful deter
mination of auerial blood to the under side
of the pelvis invariably takes place at that
particular juncturc, afiording vital tenn
perature just equal to that of his compan-
ion; otherwise the generation of ostriches
would have been extinct before the Dodo
disappeared.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12

A form of ntro-glycerine has been dis
covered, called lithofracteur, which is per-
fectly safe for all purposes of carrying, or
even firng-making no explosion, whether
1t is subjected to a violent shock, or ac-
tually set on fire, but as explosive as ever
when it is ignited by percussion capped
fuse. The manufacturers are the Brothers
Krebs & Co., of Cologne. Experiments
. recently made by a committee of the Brit
ish War Office at nt-Maur, near Shrews-
bury, seemed TO answer perfectly. The
Lithofracteur was heated to $40 degrees
Fahrenheit farther above boiling point
than boiling point is above freezing and
no explosion, or even ignition, took place.
The heaviest shocks were given to the IL
thofracteur in every form, and no explo-
sion took place. Even when ignited in the
ordinary way, 1t only burned slowly, with
out explosion. But when ignited by a
percussion-cappe fuse, imbedded in the
iithofracteur, the explosions were as forci-
BILE and violent as those OF ordinary nitro
glycerine. Thus 1t seems that nitro-gly-
cerine may be carried about in this form
without any danger of accidents, and yet
without any loss of Its enormous explosive
power.
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A SYSTEM OF FEEDING CATTLE has been

a SYSTEM OF FEEDING CATTLE has been
employed by some of the farmers of Wor-
cestcr county, by which il is claimed that n
saving of one-thrd is effected in the amount
of fodder consumed. II is called the Barre
mode of feeding, and is thus described in
the New England Farmer: All feelings
are regulated by clock placed in the barn
for the guidance of the person having the
cattle in charge. AT about 7.30 a. NJ, the
ii. :. soldering Is given, which consists of
the usual amount of hay given at time.
\ - soon as the cattle have eaten this sec
ond ioddering is given, and then third I;
this completes the amount for the morning
feeding. The cattle are then we cred and
returned to the barn. Roots or meal can
now be fed, but the mistake should never
be made of feeding these before watering,
as the roots would considerably diminish
Tn at thirst for water which is neoc -sary for
the health of the cattle, while many would
refuse to drink altogether. Nothing more
should be given until hali-pcst two in the
afternoon, that the cattle may have time
during this interval to digest their morn
/ ng meal, and Get q little rest for their di-
gestive organs before they are allowed to
eat more. Then feed three times and wa
ter ms before, which will take until > or
half-past o'clock. This constitutes the or
der for each day, but care should be taken
that these six ioddelings are given at the
proper time. If you chance TO have any
hay Of poor quality, it may be given at
The first ioddering, when it will be eaten
tl,ai or
achs regulated. 1t is but a change, and of
as much value when fed occasionally as the
best English hay.-SpIinafed Rspu6liddn
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|1He NMMN1SI J
[AlyEl&:S7Jillid

This is an age of inquiry and people are
beginning to realize the magnitude of the
evil caused by the use of injurious compounds
for the hair, which are prepared and forced
into market, by men who are not practical
physicians, and who may not be aware of the
Injury they are producing. These prepara-
lions have been analysed by competent chem
lists, and shown to contain poisonous SUBJ
stances, causing Nervousness, Headache, Par
alysis, and often fatal results.
In contrast with such injurious articles. we
call attention to the Hair Restorer prepared
by DR.. r. Greene, Superintendent Of the Bos-
ton Medical Institute, who has been sue
cessful physician in Boston for more than q
Quarter of q century. Dr. Greene uses Veg
etable Remedies only, and can assure the pub
lie that this Hair Restorer will do all that is
claimed for it, without possibility of injury
al hare tested sample of DR.. Greene's Hair
Re'torer, and find that no poisonous metals or
Injurious matters ezist in il.
c. T. IA CRSON, State Assayer."
The use of this Hair Restorer for TWENTY
five years has tested its superiority as dress
ing, and its power to preserve the hair and
scalp in healthy condition. 1t removes
dandruH, prevents the hair from falling off.
preserves its natural color, restores it when
prematurely gray, renders it soft and glossy.
promotes its healthy growth, and is the best
dressing ever discovered. While other prep
arations are sold at almost any price, DR..
Greene's Hair Restorer has sustained its good
qualities, its price, and its reputation. 1t is
prepared by Dr. II. Greene at the Medical In
stitute, "a Temple Place, Boston, and sold at
81 per bottle, or six for So, or sent by ex-
press to any part of the country. Pamphlet
sent free. Address DR.. Il. Greene, "a Tenn
pie Place, Boston, Mass.
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In determining what shall do in nay So
cial connections, am to take cognizance of
their consciencos.
A good driver drives with his eye on
every other driver in the street. II is not
enough for me to drive my own horse, and
take care of my own wagon. must look
out for other peoples horses and wagons as
well. l must make calculation MS to
whether that man who Is coming toward
me will come so near me, or so near. L
must consider whether l can best pass on
this side or on that side. ] must keep in
view the position of all the vehicles in the
street, and act accordingly. Unless I do
these things, am not good driver. And
a man in carrying his own conscience must
consider the consciences of others. lie
must see that in following the dictates of
his own conscience he does not do violence
to the consciences of other people.
The Apostle says, "Let every man be
fully persuaded in his own mind )" but it
does not mean that you must be persuaded
in your own mind, and make every one
agree with you. 1t means that A must be
persuaded in his mind, and that b must be
persuaded in his. And A has as much
right to his opinion as b has to his; and B
has as much right to his as A has to his. A
is bound TO respect BIS conscience and b is
bound TO respect AS conscience. You
have no more business to question the
right of a man to form his own opinion in
matters of this kind than you have to ques-
ton his right to adopt given method of
cooking, or of conducting any other de-
partment in the economy of bis househo' d.
The reason why there are so many sects
in the world is that men have been pun
ished for having honest consciences which
were opposed to the consciences of their
fellow-men. They have organized to de-
fend themselves. And when the time shall
come that man, being honest, and giving
evidence of il, shall be permitted, with
tenderness and charity, to hold his own
opinion in the community, there will no
longer be any need of sects for sects are
nothing but forts which men build in
which 10 defend themselves against the in
tolerance of those from whom they differ.
EXTRACT from Sermon of Henry Ward
Beecher.
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r IMPORTANT TO THE AFFLICTED.

II n
L DIR. DOW continues to be cnnsulted at his office
Nos Endicott Street. Boston, ON all diseases of
PRIVATE OR DELICATE NATURE BY q long
course OF study and practical experience Of unlimited
extent, Dr. d. has the qualification of presenting
he rstntroduced Them failed to the most alarm
meath his treatment all the horrors of venereal and i'm
pain and distress in the regions Of procreaon, In
hammation of the Bladder and Kidneys, Hydrocele,
Abcesses, Humors frghtfu Swellings, and the long
train of horrible symptoms attending THE class Of dis
ease, are made to become harmless the simplest
ailings of child. SEMINAL WEAKNESS.-Dr. d.
devotes great part of his time to the treatment Of
those cases caused by secret and solitary habit
which ruins the body and mind, uniting the unfor
tunate individual for business society Some Of
the sad and melancholy effects produced by early
habits of youth weakness of the Back and Limbs,
Dizziness Of the Head Dmness of Sight PapitAtion OF
the Heart, Dyspepsia, Nervousness, Derangement of
the digestive functions, symptoms, &c. The fearful
effects the mind are much to be dreaded; loss Of
memory, confusion Of ideas depression of spirits evil
forebodngs aversion of society," self distrust timdy
&C, among the evils produced. Such persons
should, before contemplating matrimony, consult a
physician of experience and be at once restored to
health and happiness,
Patients who wish to remain under DIR. Dow treat
ment a few days weeks, will be furnished with
pleasant rooms and charges for board moderate.
Medicines sent to all parts of the country, with full
directions for use, receiving description Of your
cases Dr. Dow has also for sale the French Capottes
warranted the best preventive. order by mail. Three
for 81 and red stamp.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12

A Word TO BoYs.-Boys, did you ever
think that this world, with all its wealth
and woe, with all its mines and mountains,
oceans, seas, and rivers with all its steam
boats, railroads and telegraphs with all its
millions of grouping men, and all the sci
ence and progress Of ages will soon be Civ
en- over TO the boys of the present age
boys like you? Believe it, and look abroad
upon your inheritance, and get ready TO
enter upon its possession. The presidents,
emperors, kings, governors, statesmen,
philosophers, ministers, teachers, men OF
the future-all are boys now.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12

BLANKETING HoRsEs.-IIalf the people
do not seem to realize that the chest of a
horse needs covering quite as much as his
back. They think it is only necessary,
when they stop in the street, to throw an
old ragged blanket or piece of carpet over
his loins and leave the rest of his body ex-
posed. 1t would be poor overcoat for a
man that only covered his back, and yet a
horse has chest and lungs as well as a
human being. 1t is due to the horse, and
is for the best interest of the owner, to pro-
vide good blanket, covering chest, shout
ders and back.-Our Dumb Animdls
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TIIGmLi IMPORTANT TO FEMALE.

III IN DeIeale Health. DIT. Dow, Fhyscian and
Surgeon, No. Endicott Street, Boston, is consult
ed daily for diseases incident to the female system
Prolapsus Uteri, falling of the Womb, Fluor Albuu
Suppression, and other menstrual arrangements,
all treated upon new pathological principles, and
speedy relief guaranteed in few days. So Invariably
certain is the mode CT treatment, that obsti
nate complaints yield under it, and the afflicted person
rejoices in perfect health
Dr. DOW has no doubt had greater experience in the
cure OF diseases of women and children than any 9TH
err physician in Boston.
Boarding accommodations for patients who may
wish to stay in Boston few days under his treatment
DR. DOW since lS45, having confined his whole atten
tion to office practice for the Of private dis
and female complaints acknowledges superior
in the United States,
NB.-AI letters must contain four red stamps, or
they will not be answered. onice hours from A. M
to 9P. NJ.
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BOSTON
M { D
INSTITUTE,
No. "a Temple Place,
BOSTON.
B. d. RUSSELL, Pres't.
W. II. WILBUR, secr'y.
r. GREENE, NJ. D.,
supt. Physician.

The object in establishing this Institution
was TO attain the greatest perfection in the
preparation, practice and use of Vegetable
Remedies, and to secure permanent place
where Families, Invalids, or any person could
obtain the best medical advice, and such rem
edies as each might require, without the use
of poisonous drugs
DR.. Greene has been Physician of the Insti-
tute since its foundation, now more than
twenty-five years. Few men have had SO
large experience in the treatment of chronic
diseases. DR.. Greene is in his ffty-ffth year
and has devoted his life to this branch of his
profession, and his success, we believe is with
out parallel
Among the diseases to which he gives es-
pecial attention may be noticed Cancer, Scrof-
ula, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Consumption, Heart
Disease, Neuralgia, Asthma, Nervousness,
rheumatism, Paralysis, Spinal Diseases Dys-
pepsia, Liver Complaint, Female Complaints,
Faint Stomach, Erysipelas, White Swelling
Salt Rheum, Canker, Deafness, Kidney Dis
eases, Seminal Weakness, &c.
DR.. Greene's Medical Pamphlet, descrip-
tive of diseases and their proper treatment, will
be sent free to invalds.
Address. r. GREENE, NJ. D.,
"a Temple Place, Boston, Mass.
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