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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25

1t Is wonderful how much can be got in
to a little garden of three rods square in
the old style. Scarce rod from the back
door you come TO it. Here's plot piper
ennlal roots aud herbs to begin with. Two
punches Of pie-plant, the same of sage, and
thyme; clump of rue and wormwood,
and of double tansy that is not allowed 10
spread any. Dill and carraway sell-sow in
this trim border inside of the Gives, also
sweet matjoram, and by the path, handy
for nipping, roots of lennel, CLEARWATER
ed, are carefully planted. The asparagus
bed-you might cover II with tablecloth
is convenient TO catch all waste pot liquors
and beef brine. A trellis of grapes over
arching the path is cared for just the same
as lift bore every year. All the rakings
and rubbish of the garden are burned
where the annual "scullions" are to be set
onions like ashes.
There's a little rotation in the garden,
too, for the beans, peas and potatoes, are
planted this year in the quarter section &C.
cupied by corn, cucumbers, and tomatoes
last year. The beds are only single beds,
and lie side by side, like cards of ginger
bread, with their corduroy stripes of car
rots, beets, parsnips, and satisfy. The edg-
es are ru1fled with lettuce and dotted with
radishes. Three hills of squashes are plant
ed where the vines may push off in the
grass. The walk to tho privy skirts two
sides Of the little plot, with chance to lol-
ter in returning by various garden alleys,
musing over the wonders of growth as the
season advances. 1t is marvel-this old
fashioned garden. 1 haven't mentioned
half the things in it, but full as it is there is
always room for presents OF curious and
profitable roots from friends and acquaint-
ances, and great are tho visits held among
the green things between the mistress in
her cap, the master in his shirt sleeves and
gossipping neighbors.-HarUord COwrant
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25

There arc host of people who seem TO
have little else to do but TO consider their
physical condition and administer doses
for its improvement; people who are pos
lively dissipated and incorporate in their
use of medicines, and appear 10 think this
world not so much q vale of tears as of
drugs; people 10 whom new prescription
affords a delight only equalled by that
which a savant would derive from the pos
session of bone of the extinct megather-
ium. II they are in the least under the
weather, it never occurs to them to allow
Nature TO work out her own salvation, but
they take her affairs into their own hands,
and having small acquaintance with her
processes, the result resembles that of q
novice attempting the tasks of a superior,
and making them more difficult for that
superior 10 accomplish. One of the pecu-
liar pleasures of such persons consists in
persuading others to try their methods OF
cure. The most delicate compliment you
can pay them is 10 swallow some nauseat-
ing mixture upon their recommendation,
which all the while bears strong family
likeness to that of those who, with bad
compilations, assure you that soap is
wholesome for the skin, or of bald people
who extol the virtue of certain washes
which they have employed. This art OF
dosing does not interfere, however, with
the usefulness of the family physician, but
rather supplies him with practice by lay
ing the foundations for positive disease.
The stomach which has been uurighteous-
ly corrected rebels at length; the nerves
that have been too often artiicially sooth-
ed finally refuse to acknowledge the power
OF the chsrmer; the strength engendered
by stimulsnts proves but broken reed
Oppetites fortified by frequent tonics sur
render one day without reserve.
If the science of medicine itself is as yet
only experimental, must not amateur DOS
ing, beyond question, belong TO the most
Objectionable class Of empiricisms !-Har-
per's BIzdr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25
PLEAsANTRIEs

How TO find out what's in name-Put
1t on the back of a note.
"A modest country editor says: "Our
editorials have boen crowded out this week
by pressure of interesting reading mat
ter"
-"Insults," says modern philosopher,
"are like counterfeit money. We cannot
help their being offered, but we are not
compelled 10 take them"
"A downtown man who went TO church
last Sunday, remarked aflerward that he
preferred the organ 10 the preacher. He
said there seemed 10 be a stop to the organ.
NorWich Bulletin.
"A New Bedford teacher ask ed his class
to explain the difference between "dear"
and "deer." One bright little fellow ex-
claimed, zone is biped and the other is
quadruped."
-"John," asked a doctor of the apotheca-
ry's boy, "did Mrs. Green get the medi-
icine 1 ordered?" 81 guess So" replied
John, "for saw Grape on the door-knob
this morning"
Deacon Jones, just deceased, had a
very red nose. The widow thought it ralh-
or persona in the minister to begin his fu-
neral discourse, "Auother shining light
has been taken from our congregation"
A country paper has this libellous par =
agraph: "Philadelphia has musical as
soc ation that is over fifty years old. One
or two of the young ladies have belonged
to it ever since it was organized"
-"What do you get from iodineH" ask
ed the medical professor. 1--WE get-a ali
usua lily get idiotic acid" "Have you been
tax ing some2" quietly asked the professor.
The only equi, alent in the Japanese
Ia nguage for tho English word baptism, or
| i'm mersion, is soaking. The Alliance
quote the following ludicrous illustration
of its application from a recent translation
of the Bible into Japanese: "In those days
| came John the Soaker, preaching the soak
ing of repentance. Repent and be soaked,
every one of you"
"A few days ago, a fiend in human
shape displ aced some rails on an Iowa rail-
way and threw passenger train from the
track. The villain was captured, and the
| indignant passengers were about TO hang
him on the spot, when the conductor an
nounced that the disaster had killed a
| prize package man. Then the passengers
let up on the rope, begged The wrecker's
pardon, called him their preserver, and
| took up purse of two hundred dollars for
him.
As a young man was looking over a
barrel of eggs in Jersey City:grocery, a
few weeks ago, he found upon one the fol-
lowing inscription "If this you see,
| young man, write just as soon as you can,
and let me hear from my favorite egg this
great boon humbly beg. Julia Brierson,
| Westfeld, Ohio" The youth at once wrote
to the al ove address, inclosing his photo
| graph, and received reply and picture
| from the writer of the lines. The cores
pondence continued TO The satisfaction oil
both parties, and the wedding is announced
| for next month.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25
COwardlIy Assaults.

When a candidate for high Office is so
well liked and so popular with the masses
as 10 make his defeat difficult in fair and
are not wanting who delight in manufac-
turing lies aud slandering his good name.
There are also those whose selhshness
prompt them to prostitute their honor, per-
vert truth and ignore right, for the sake of
injuring competitorHn business, whose
prosperity they envy, and with whose bust
ness sagacity they have not the talent 10
successfully compete in an honorable way.
These thoughts are suggested by the mean
cowardly attacks made upon me and my
medicines, by those who imagine their pc
cuniary prospects injured by the great po-
ularity which my standard medicines have
acquired, and the continual growth of my
professional practice. Narrow-minded
practitioners of medicine, aud manufacture
ers of preparations which do not possess
sufficient merit 10 successfully compete for
popular favor, have resorted TO such cow
ardly strategy as 10 publish all sorts of III
diculous reports about the composition of
my medicines. Almanacs, Receipt Boo ks,
and other pamphlets are issued and scattered
broadcast over the land, wherein these
contemplate knaves publish pretended
analyses of my medicines, and receipts for
making them. Some of these publications
are given nlRn -sOuuulnB names, pTeleuu 10
be issued by respectable men OF education
and position, for the good of the people
the more completely 10 blind the reader to
the real object in their circulation, which is
TO injure the sale of my medicine. 1.-THE
Popular Health Almanac is the high
sounding name of one of these publica-
lions, which contains bogus receipts, with.
out a grain of truth in them. Not less
void of truth are those which have been
published by one DIR. L., of Detroit, in
Michigan Farmer, and by other manufact-
urers of medicines, in several so-called
journals ofPharmacy. They are all prompt
ed by jealousy aud utterly fail in accom-
plishing the object of their authors, for
Notwithstanding their free circulation, my
medicines continue to sell more largely
than any others manufactured in this coun-
try, aud are constantly increasing In sale
despite the base lies concoted and circ-
lated by such knaves. The people find that
these medicines possess genuine merit, ac-
complish what their manufacturer claims
for them, and are not the vile, poisonous
nostrums which jealous, narrow-minded
physicians aud sneaking compounders OF
competing medicines represent them to be.
Among the large number of pretended
| analyses published, it is significant fact
no two have been at all alike--conclusively
| proving the dishonesty of their authors. II
Is enough for the people to know that while
| thousands, yes, / may truthfully say mill
ions, have taken my medicines and have
been cured, no one has ever received inju-
| ~ from their use. II. V. PIERCE, NJ. d.
Proprietor Of DIR. Pierce's Medicines
Worlds DispenAAry, Buffalo. n. Y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25

AGE EoR CUTTING FOREST TREEs.-An
English official report furnishes some gen.
eral rules for fixing on the proper age for
cutting timber trees. Much depends on
the uses to which the wood is to be applied
Taking the greatest age given, as one ex-
IRENE, and the youngest for which timber
is used in this country, as the other, we
have the ages of all the way from one hun
bred years down TO eight or ten. For pur-
poses of fuel, where the experiment has
been carefully made in this country, 1t has
been found most profitable to cut all off at
intervals of eighteen years, and varying
according 10 soil and kind OF trees 10 TWEEN
ty-five years. In some places 1t might be
more profitable to cut young, densely
growing trees of certain kinds for hoop
poles at a much less period. In the report
we have above alluded to, much greater
ages are mostly recommended, the wood
being used for valuable purposes in manu-
featured articles. The ash, it is stated, may
be protitably cut at from thirty to forty
years, TO be used in the manufacture Of ag-
ricultural implements. The Scotch fir,
larch aud spruce are most advantageously
Nuh ~ AShh W
though in some locations u much higher
price map be obtained for certain special
purposes at a greater age. None of these
would be likely to pay, if grown long dis
iances from market, railway stations or
ssaports. Elm should never be cut except
for large timber, or at an age Of 80 or a 100
years. The linden is of little value before
90 years. Sycamore should be about 100,
as well as chestnut The oak is of slow
growth when young, but grows faster after
80 years. 1t is extensively used for agri-
cultural implements, furniture, boat and
bodybuilding, &C., and should be allowed
to grow till 1t has matured plenty of heart
wood, which should not be less than about
100 years old.
As already stated, wood which Is used
exclusively for the manufacture Of char
coal, would yield larger amount, during
4 series Of years, by close planting and
more frequent cutting, the second growth
sP ringing up and taking tho place Of tho
6rst.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25

THIS PATENT is now owned by
JOHN GORE and s. M. WAITE,
and a right to use it must be secured
from them, or its Infringement will
be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law.
Address JOHN GORE or s. NJ WAITE, Brnttleboro,
Vermont. tfl9
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25

The Scientific American gives some of
the circumstances which lead to the explo-
sion of kerosene lamps, the philosophy Of
all of them being that the flame may pass
down the wick and ignite the vapor which
accumulates In tho upper PORTION Of the
lamp. This vapor is not an explosive as
the term is ordinarily understood, but
when II is confaed SO that the gases result
ing from lis combustion cannot escape free
ly into the open air the vessel combining II
will be shattered. This ignition of the va
por may be brought about as follows -
l. A lamp may be standing on table
or mantel, and slight puff of air from The
open window or door may cause an explo-
sion.
2. A lamp may be taken up quickly
from table or mantel and Instantly ex-
ploded.
8. A lamp is taken out into the entry
where there is drart, or out of doors, aud
an explosion ensues.
4. A lighted lamp is taken up flight of
stairs, or is raised quickly to place it on
the mantel, resulting in an explosion. In
these cases the mischief is done by the air
movement-eilher by suddenly checking
the draft or forcing air down the chimney
against the flame.
5. Blowing down the chimney to extin-
guish the light is frequent cause of ex-
ploson.
6. Lamp explosions have been caused
by using chimney broken off at the top,
or one that has piece broken out, where
by the draft is variable and the flame I'M
steady.
Z. Sometimes a thoughtless person puts
a small wick into large burner, thus leav-
ing considerable space along The edges of
the wick. An old burner, with its air. draft
clogged up, which rightfully should be
thrown away, is sometimes continued in
use, and the final result is an explosion.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25
LEWIS q KELLEY's
Real Estate Loan Office,
sO2 NlcOlIst Avenue, MINNEAPOLIS, HMM.
NJ. W. LEWIS, Minneapolis.
A. +. KELLEY, formerly Of Putney, Vt.
302 kleOllst Avenue, =

Special attention given to the placing Of funds on
Real Estate in city and vicinity, that II will net
the lender ten per cent interest payable semi
annually. Mortgage deeds taken to secure notes
for principal with coupon notes attached given foi
the installments Of interest.
All loans made by us, as wen the Interest on
them, will be collected free Of charge, If wished also
titles examined taxes paid, property Sold debts coll
lected and prompt returns made.
Send for circular showing our method Of doing
business
REFEREEcEs Northwestern, State, Merchants and
National Exchange Natl Banks, Minneapolis Mimi.
Merchants National Bank, ST. Paul, Mimi; First Ma
tional Bank, New Albany, Ind; Vermont National
Bank, Brattleboro, VII Barber Trumbauer, bank
ers, Polo Ill. Parks Woolson, Springfield, Vt; 3.
II. baker, D. l. Shaw, Rev. A. Foster .futnsy, VI.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25
Land PLASTER. T: ;i:: a.: T.; 81:
DUDU PERUVIAN GUANO,
LAWN MOWERS.

ntendents Of the Centennial Ground In their report
said. "The Philadelphia was run side by side with
machines Of the other makes, but In short time the
difference was great that when we wanted more
machines procured the Philadelphia, and after the
hrst of August the difference was so great that we
used the Philadelphia almost entirely"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25
1T WILL CURE cATARRH
Remember that it
C$ $# HI: C$ $ $#;:,

On. WA. LADD, leading Druggist Of Claremont, Ger.
tihes as follows:
For many years have known DR.. A. J. Flagg "a "a
successful practicing physician, and assure the
public that his representations relative to the Couch
and Lung Syrup can be strictly relied upon. II has
been used in his extended practice with marvellous
success, and know it to be all that he claims for It,
WIN. NJ. LADD, N. d,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25

CLAREMoNT, N. H, September, 1875.
Dr.. FLAGG-My Dear Sir: Your Cough and Lung
Syrup has proved great benefit TO me- giving relief
from severe Coughs and Soreness Of the Lungs when
all other r,medes and phy seians had failed. have
never taken medicine more pleasant TO the taste or
more satisfactory in its results.
MRS. LYDIA WILEY,
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-14
Senate Bill No. 55.l


 An Act in Alteration of the Act Con.
 corning Domestic Relations.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House
 of Representatives in General Assem-
 bly, convened:
 Sec. l. That in all marriages hereafter contracted. neither husband nor wife shall acquire, by force of the marriage, any right to or interest in any property held by the other before the marriage, or ac- qulred after the marriage, except as to the share of the survivor in the.property of the other. as hereinafter provided. The separate earnings of the wife shall be her sole property. The wife shall have DOW er to make contracts with third persons. and to convey to them her real and per. S0nal estate, in the same manner as if she were unmarried. All her property shall be liable to be taken for her debts, except % far as protected by other statutes: but m no case shall be liable to be taken for the debts of the husband. And the hus- band shall not be liable for the wife's debts contracted before marriage, nor upon her contracts made after marriage, except az hereinafter specified.
 Sec. q All purchases made by either husband or wife in his or her own name shall be presumed. in the absence of no. tice to the contrary, to be on his or her private account and liability; but both shall be liable where any article purchase cd by either shall have in fact gone to the support of the family, or for the joint benefit of both. or for the reasonable ap- parel of the wife, or for her reasonable support while abandoned by her husband It shall, however, be the duty of the hus- band to support his family, and his prop. erty when found shall be first applied to satisiy any such joint liability; and the wife shall in equity be entitled to an in- demnity from the property of the hus. band for any property of her own that shall have been taken, or for any money that she shall have been compelled to pay for the satisfaction of any such claim.
 Bee. 5. On tha death of either husband or wife. the survivor, except in the cases mentioned in the next section, shall be entitled to the use for life of one-third in valne oI all the property, real and person. al. legally or equitably owned by the oth. CT at the time of his or her death. after the payment of all debts and charges al. lowed against the estate; such thlrd to he set out by distributors appointed by the Court of Probate, and to be set ont in any property real or personal, or both. ac- cording to the judgment of the distribu. tors. The right to such third shall not be defeated by any disposition of tho property by will to other parties Where there is no will the survivor shall fake snch third absolutely, and if there are no children 0f the decedent, or representa- nves Of children, shall take one-half ab-
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-14
House Bill No. 149.1

CHAPTER CXI.
 An Act concerning the Settlement of Es-
 tates.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened.
 Sec. 1. The Court of Probate shall di- rect the executor, administrator, or trus- tee of an insolvent estate to cite, by ad- vertising in newspaper published in the county wherein said estate is situated. all persons interested to appear at the time and place appointed by said Court and designated in said notice, to be heard rel ative to the appointment of Commissions CTS to receive and decide upon the claims of the creditors of such estate, and after such hearing shall appoint twoor more disinterested persons to be such Commits sIoners who shall be duly sworn. and shall cause the times and places of their meet ings to be published one week in one daily newspaper or four times Tn one weekly newspaper published in the place nearest where said estate Is in course of settlement, and having a circulation in said district, and a copy of such notice shall also be sent to every known creditor of said estate, within ten days after such appointment.
 Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts incon- sistent herewith are hereby repealed.
 Approved March 15, 1877.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-14
House Bill No. 525. ]

CdAFTEh
 An Act in addition to An Act Concerning Paupers, being Title XIV of the General Statutes.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened:
 Sec. 1. Whenever there shall befound in any town in this State any indigent imbe- cile child who would be benefited by being sent to the School for Imbeciles at Lake vile, the Selectmen of such town shall make application to the Judge of Probate for the district in which such town is situ- ated, for the admission of such child to said school; and if upon inquiry, said Judge shall find that said child is a prop CT subject to be received into said school, he shall order said Selectmen to take such child to said school, to be kept and sup ported for such length of time as said Judge may deem proper. But said Select men shall not take or commit any such schlld to said school until the order of such Judge has been approved by the Govern or, and no child shall be received at. said school to be supported in any manner by the State without the approval of the Gov ernor.
 Sec. 2. There shall be taxed by the Comptroller two dollars and fifty cents a week for each week such child shall re. main at said school; and the principal of said school shall make his bill therefor quarterly, and present it to the Governor. upon whose approval it shall be paid by the State Treasurer, and the balance shall be paid by the parents or friends of said child. and, if it is pauper. by the town where said child belongs.
 Approved March g, 1877.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-14
ISenate Bill No. 45.1
 CHAPTER OK.

An Act relating to Commissioners of
 Turnpike Roads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
 That Commissioners on Turnpike Roads shall be permitted at all times, while in the performance of their duties, to pass through any toll gate upon the roads for which they may act as Commissioners, without the payment of any toll.
 Approved March 15, 1877.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-14
House Bill No. 182. l

CHAPTER CXu. An Act relating to the Instruction and
 Employment of Children. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
 Sec. 1. Section two, of chapter first, title eleven of the general statutes is here- by amended by erasing in the fifth and sixth lines of said section the words ''three months of the twelve next proceed ing any year," and inserting in place thereof the words "sixty days of the twelve months next proceeding any month."
 Approved. March 15. 1877.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-14
FPUBLlC ACTS oFTHE STATE OF
 CONNECTICUT.
PASSED AT TEE JANUARY SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1877.


 PASSED AT TEE JANUARY SESSION OF THE
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1877.
 Published by Authority.
 [Senate Bill No. 19.
 CHAPTER CIx. An Act repeating an Act entitled An Act concerning the payment of Taxes, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Tn General Assembly convened:
 Sec. 1. That chapter sixty of the Stat utes, passed May session, A. D. 1876, and approved June 57th, 1876, be. and the is hereby repealed from and after the first day of July, A. D. 1877; provided. this re- peal shall not affect the right of the State to demand and receive, or the duty of any person or corporation to. pay any taxes, monies or penalties which have been or may become due to the State under the provisions of said chapter, but the same may be collected in the same manner as though said act had not been repealed. Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts repeal cd by said chapter sixty, approved June 27th, A. D., 1876, are hereby re-enacted and declared in full force.
 ApprovedsFebruary 28. 1877.