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The Republican journal., 1877-02-08

HIRAM TAYLOR's OXEN Aside from the
enjoyment the easy conscience, and the
good name which a man gains by kindly
treating the animals in his care or owner
ship. he sometimes finds that his invest
ments in their good will are repaid four
fold in some unexpected way Hiram Tay-
lor, OF North Hampton, n H., foreman on
the farm OF Mr., French, while returning
home from Portsmouth, with It loaded OK
sled, one evening recently, within Il short
distance of home, attempted to get on the
sled, but slipped and fell in front OF the
sled in such a manner that the runner was
drawn upon his arm and held him so that
he could not move from his painful and
perllous position. When he fell, the oxen
stopped as quickly as possible, and patient
~ stood Tor two hours in the intense cold,
where one step forward would have
crushed the PROSTATE man to death be-
meath the heavy sled MIR. Taylor's cries
for help We're unheard Alarmed bv the
non-arrlval of the team, Mr. French took
lantern and went out to look for it abont
10 O'Clock. and soon found the oxen stand.
ing in the road and their driver partially
frozen and nearly unconscious. Quickly
unyoking the cattle, Mr.. French obtained
n stout lever and raised the sled from the
arm of the sufferer. extricated him and
got him safely home. Mr.. Taylor is noted
for his kindness to the animals under his
charge, and doubtless owes his escape
from horrible death to the gentleness
and obedience of the oxen that endured
the cold OF a winters night for hours.
rather than drag their load across the
body of their humane friend.
Moral. lfyou will not be kind to dumb
things from any better motive, do SO from
sheer selfishness, since they may sometime
be able to repay you with interest Port
land Advertiser
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I'm going 10 dic-~and | long to live 50.
Oh, Tom, save me, ~
Yes, yes" cried Tom. '-oh, good
heaven. what poison?'
AIR. Hoffman will know, bought it
OF him, Purilap, he can save me-" cried
Eve
And away went Tom. white AS death, to
the druggists around the corner.
lie burst into the shop like Il whirlwind
The LADY," he gasped The lady who
bought poison here an hour ago! She
took it by mistake. Can you save hey !?
Have YOU an antidote? She is dyirgn'
mo, no - said the old German. BE
calm be at rest! No, no she cannot die
OF dat. When Il lady ask me for poison
dat will not turn y rat black in de face
say to myself so: Il smells something;
and gives her i'll de paper shust a little
sugar and something's. She could take Il
pound Go home and tell her so. never
sell poison to womens dat cry and do not
wish de rat to become blacl, in de face.
So--be calm
So Tom flew home again. ana Eve re-
ioiced; and hearing that johnson was q
single man. who admitted himself to be
engaged, she did not rip the patch of his
coat IL she had 1T first intended
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mark I'wain's Roum-mate.

v hen Mark Twain lived here. says the
Virginia, New. Chronicle, he roQmed with
Dan De Duile. All the miseries which
Cullie ever endured and All the bad char
acter$ dated from that time. They lived
in several different lodging houses, and
were turned out Of them all, one alter an
other all on account OF Dan, who soon ac-
CURED 4 bad reputation second TO none IN
Virginia No respectable family would
harbor Dan who knew anything about
him, and the very mention OF his name
would cause landlady to hold up her
hands in Nirtu0us horror Uae morning.
Mark woke up aud heald the landlady'3
cat mewing about The door. which was
open Dan was fast asleep and Mari.
grabbed one OF his heavy boots and threw
it ith fatal precision at the intruder The
cat linped oil with i broken leg (the boot
weighed five pounds, and the landlady
secured the missile and waited for it, OWL
CT to appear, MARI got up. dressed and
vent out with both boots On. The land
| lady greeted him with peasan. smile,
| and when Dan got up and wa waking
about III his stocking feet hunting for his
lett boot, Ae received a acathinG tires3lng
down from the llndlady. Whu, without
allowing iIim to ctpian. ordered hin 10
leave the house. Mari vondoled him in
his trouble and said, "I'll stick 10 We,
Dan" The next house they moved into
had Il pantry close to the room assigned to
them Every night Mall, would steal two
or three lnlce pies and eat them without
civ ING Dan a SIGHT OF them. la the morn-
ING til" ltndlady would be brushing about
near the door. Dan would be asleep,
and Mark would open out i'll Il loud voice
rs follows. 'fDan, this business won't
do Those pies don't belong 10 you. In
the Iirst place lis petty larceny and then i'll
the next place it get crumbs in the bed.
Wen yet notice to quit pretty soon.
faint the Square thing ON the l:tnd-lady
Now this is the last time propose to
speak about this The landIadv, who
took in every word, would give poor Dan
notice 10 quit, and never hear Il word OF
explanation. ~ on 90, 90, DAN" Mark
would say, and his brotherlv fidelity touch
ed Dan to the very core. The next place
was an intensely respectable private fam
lily. When Mark expected to be out all
night he would slip up to the room and
s;rew a few halr-pins round promiscuous-
~, and scatter Il few down in tnc foot Of
the bed where they would be found when
The land;tdv Was making itup 1t would
be laid to Dan of course II got a family
here and want to bring my daughters up
respectable" would be the landladv's re-
mark, as She ordered Dan TO pack up.
''When they fire you out, Dan, it means
me, too" Mark would say, in tones OF
brotherly affection that melted Dams in,
her nature, and caused him to think there
were SEINE true men in the world alter all
and he used often to remark in speaking
of Twain. "A man who never shakes IL
friend in adversity is the noblest work Of
God"
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sunset at Iutsrlaksn,

iho san Is low,
on peak OF snow
Is PM ping with the sunset glow;
he rosy ligh;
Makes richly bright
III j0ngfrau'- we'd OF snowy White.
rom vale that sleep
Nights shadows creep
a. lake possession Of the steep,
" lille, As they rise,
The western skies
seem 10Th 10 leave 81 fair pri-5.
lie light Of da5
1et loves 10 stay,
Ana round thAf peaIly summit plA,
How fair sight
On plain OF light,
LoAtended for BY Day aud Night
Now fainter shine,
A - day declines,
lin Ia itrous height which lie resign.
Inc shadows gain
1li illuInned plain.
The Jungfrau pales, as il in pam.
Though daylight dies
he azure skies
seens glittering with thousand eye
Which watch with grace,
From depths OF space,
The sieeping ,iungtraus ioTaiY face.
But when is born
he ruddy dawn,
ioTorInner of the coming morn.
Along the skies
1t quickly ties
10 Eiss the Jungfrau opening eye.
The rosy blush
And timid flush
" Inch then Ger brow ana fac ii. ia Ii
Are pure ANA fair,
Reyund compare,
tIr-pleudent in til illumined All
And thus Away,
Hy night and day,
Tier varying suitors homage pay
And tinged with rose.
Or white with SHOWS,
he same fair. radiant form she show.
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FOWLE'S
PILE AND HUMOR CURE.

me greatest and only medicine ever discovered
and warranted perfect cure (or money rctnrnt d )
for a! The 'cost forms Of PILES LEPR0sY, ScRoF-
ulA, KHEuMArisM, SALT RIIEuM, CATARRH KID
MY DISEASES, 0'a aH diseases of the SKIN and
BLOOD: Entircia tegetabie. Internal and external
use II. d. FOW1.E CO., Montreal and Boston.
sold everywhere ST Bottle. Send for Pamphlets
eOW}mOSlt
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For Stomachs Out of Order,

No medicine will so rttectually improve the tome
Of the stomach these Pills, they remove all tcd
ity occasioned either by incompetence or improper
diet. they reach the l' and reduce it to healthy
action they wonderfully chcaciaus in cases OF
spasm-in fact they never fail III curing all disorders
OF he liver and stomach.
HrELOWAN'S FILLS are the best known in the
Bilious Complaints, Blotchps on the skin, Bowels,
Debility propsy, Dyseutcry, Erysipc
las, Female Irregularities, FrYers of all kinds Fs,
Gout, Headache, Indigestion, inflammation, Jaun
dice, Liver Complaints, iumbagO, Piles, Rhtuua
ti5m, Retention of urine, Scrotult kings Evn,
Sore Threats, Stone aud Gravel Tie DOuOurpuA
Inmors. Ulcers. 1rm OF all kinds VI eaknes9 IRON
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Commissioners Notice TO Creditors.

w L having been appointed by the Judge of PRO
w bate for the County of Waldo, to receive and
examine the claims OF the creditors Of
BENJAMIN SIDELINGER, late Of Troy,
in said County, deceased, whose estate is represent
ed insolvent, give notice that SIX months commenc.
ing the tenth day of October, 1876 have been allow
ed to said creditors to bring i'll and prove their
claims, and that will attend the services assign
ed us at the dwelling house Of L. NJ. Knowles, in
Troy, on the seventeenth day of February and
seventh day of April 1871 at ten O'Clock A. NJ.
JASON ESTES.
q. l.. Tl LEE.
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CIRCASSIAN LILY
EoR IMPROVING
The Complexion.

compilations world famed 1t will
not injure the skim but change the most swarthy to
lily whiteness. Prepared from the Original Recipe
by MISS MIRA WENTWORTH. Portland, Price,
Fifty Cents. Sold in Belfast by X. II. Moody, w o.
Poor and Rose Sheldon & Co., and By druggists
generally. tito
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TO Rent.

\ portion of my dwelling house Cedar Street
IA Good accommodations. Apply to
MILTON +. CARTER
Belfast. Dec. "A, lS16--tt24
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N ERVOUS DEBILITY.

Vital weakness or depression weak ex
hausted 1eehng, no energy or courage; the result of
mental over-work, Indescretions or excess
SEES, or some drain upon the system, is always cur
ed byHUMPHREYS' HOMEOPATHIC SPEC
IFlC No. %. 1t tones up and invigorates the sys
TEN, dispcls the gloom and dependency, imparts
strength and energy,-stops the drain and rejuve
mates the entire man. Been used twenty years with
perfect success by thousands Sold by dealers.
Price, $l.OO per single vial $500 per package of
five yias and So. 90 vial of powder Sent by mail on
receipt of price. Address HUMPHREYS HOME
OPATHiC MEDICINE COMPANY,
ly2S 562 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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en- day to Agents canvassng for our books
WV Terms and outat free. HUNT & Co., Rock
land, Mass. 4mos23
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Sanford's Steamship Go,
BOSTON AND LOWELL!

After this date the Steamer KAIAHDIN, Captain
WIN. r. RoIX, will make but one trip per week leay-
ing Belfast for Boston Mondays and Boston on
Thursdays touching at all the landings.
HS- Freight taken at usual rates.
Belfast Dec 49, 1876. ID. LANE, Agent.
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4" ~ Il a FAEMING AND STOCK LANDS
n III "a u for sale. Colonies organized and
U r. "a SNO cheapest transportation furnish
ed. The Immigrants Guide 60 pages, sent free.
DR.. AMMl BROWN, ,S Sears Building, Boston
SW3H
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MARX THESE FACTS.
The Testimony OF the Whole Worid.
HDILDW \ Y : PILLS.

HDLLDW \ \ : PILLS.
Extracts from Nariuue Letters
81 had no appetite Holloway PINS gave me :,
hearty one"
. our Pills are mary ellous."
81 send tor another box, and keep them in the
house."
'Dr. Holloway has cured my headache that was
chronic
II gave one OF your Pills to my babe for cholera
m0rbus. The dear little thing got well in day"
MY nausea OF morning is now cured"
''iour box of Holloway's Ointment cured me- OF
noises in the head. rubbed some of your Ointment
behind the ears, and the noise has left"
''Sendme two boxes; want one fora poor family.
81 enclose dollar; your price is + cents, but the
medicine to me is worth dollar"
send me five boxes of your Pills"
Let me have three boxes Of your Pills by rr1urn
mail, for ChillS and Fever"
l have over 200 such testimonials THESE, 'rt
want OF space compels me to conclude.
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For Cutaneous Disorders,

And all eruptions OF the skin, this Ointment is most
invaluable. IL does not heal externally alone bat
penetrates with the most searching cdects to the
very root of the evil.
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S2.882.3O5O 90

tREp ATWOOD, Agent, Wiuterport.
NJ. S. STAPLES. Agent, Beih.,1
II. II. MORRILL,, Grn'l Agt. Gardiner
.tW.u
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

GRASS IN THE HoUsE.-Grass has a
beautiful effect when growing from pine
cones, and requires no other attention than
slight watering, night and day. The
cones may be set in sand, soil or moss, MS
convenience or taste may dictate. While
they are yet dry and open, sprinkle in as
much soil as their scales will retain; next
sprinkle in fine grass seed, and finally
sprinkle water lightly over the whole.
The cones should be kept in II moderately
warm place, and ut first watered sparingy
once day. In less than week the seeds
will sprout, and soon the graceful spears
will begin to jet out in every direction 1t
is not absolutely necessary to introduce
any soil or sand, as the seed will grow
merely sown in the bare scales; but soil
at least serves to prevent the cones from
closing too tightly when mostened. A
very pleasing effect may be produced by
setting n wet sponge in glass bowl and
sowing it over with flax, grass or mustard
seed, or all four kinds mixed. Before
long it will be covered with thick growth
Of tender green, and, if it be ,iudiciously
watered every day, the mustard will in
time put forth its tiny yellow blossoms.
Children and invalids may derive delight
from watching these seeds growing in still
another way. Fill q common tumbler CT
goblet with water, cut out round of cot
ton batting, or Of soft thick flannel of just
the size to cover tue top surface, and lay it
gently under the water. Upon this scat
ter the seed-grass or flax or mustard, or
all miXed-and gently set the lumber
away in a dark place. In II few days the
seed will start; soon the roots will begin
to penetrate the cotton or flannel, slowly
sending down their delicate white fibers to
he bottom Of the vessel, while the top will
be covered with II little thicket of green.
Meanwhile, after the first thirty-six hours,
the vessel must be kept in II warm, light
place, and two or three times n week care
FULLY rcplenshed with water by means Of
Il teaspoon, siphon, or IL syringe inserted
beneath the edge Of the flannel. Water
crosses may be grown in the same way,
and, like the mustard plant, afford II pleas
ant relish when eaten with bread and but
ter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

FERTILITY OF DAIRY FARMS.-We trust
no one will think we are opposed to sci
ence in agriculture. The fact is, we have
taken our stand on the platform that sci
ence applied to agriculture is calculated
to do as much good as when applied to
any human affairs. Still it is apparent
that very much that goes by the name of
scientific agriculture is little more than
nonsense when tested by every day expe-
rience. We have now before us learned
treatise on the injurious effects of dairy
farming; and the conclusion is reached
that whenever much attention is given to
milk and cheese production, the land must
inevitably deteriorate.
In milk dairy we are told that two
thirds of all the COW consumes is carried
away from the land, nevermore TO be re-
turned thereto. What waste of mineral
matter! And then we have IL long sermon
on the nature of casem, and the other ar
tcles Of its composition that have been
carried away. But what are the facts
There are no farms so rich, no soils so fer
tile, us those known us making up the milk
diaries about the large cities. There is 10
better way to bring upa poor farm than
10 establish milk dairy on it. No matter
how poor it may be at the start, it gets bet
ter and better every year; and if one has
u farm to sell or to rent, to be able to say
it has been milk dairy is one of the best
advertisements. What then is the infer
ence? No doubt our friends are right
when they say that selling milk carries
away much mineral matter from the soil.
But it is not true that the land becomes
poorer for it. We fancy the soil is richer
in mineral constituents than it gets credit
for, or else that there is quite enough for
all purposes returned to the soil in the reg
ular manures of the barn-yard, which in
good milk-daries always abound, and in
consequence of which the farm-ground OF
II milk-dairy has so many fertiizing advan-
tages. -Gc'mantoe0n Telegraph.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

REGULARITY IN FEEDING.-Tt is very
comfortable in cold weather to sit by a
warm fire. Many who have the care of
stock dislike to leave warm quarters, and
cling to the fireplace, letting half hour
after half hour pass by, while the hungry
stock are shivering and hungering for
food and water. In thus waiting for food
and water, an animal looses flesh rapidly.
Brules are the best timo-keepers in the
world they know the very minute their
food should be supplied, and are disap.
pointed if it does not come. The good
stock breeder, therefore, should see that
regularity and promptness prevail in the
care and management OF stock Their
various wants should have attention at the
very minute, daily. If hired men will
not be prompt in taking care of stock, if
they do not sympathize with brutes in win,
ter, they ought to be discharged, and more
humane men employed in their places.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

How TO FEED STOCK IN WINTER-An
intelligent farmer, living in Randolph, has
very sensible letter in last weeks Mem
England Farmer on the above subject. in
which he criticises sharply the practice
recommended by some of feeding five or
six times n day. 1Ie also very Justly de-
cides in behalf of three meals for the bo.
vines instead of two, although the two
meal plan may be II little more conven-
lent, The method which the writer Zee
ommends as having been thoroughly lest
ed in his own experience, is us follows:
/. All corn fodder is put away at hu,k-
ing time, and straw at threshing time, So
as to be be kept clear of, at least, one rood
NOW of good hay. The straw is put in a
bay specially set apart for it, and the
stalks on temporary flooring over the
mows of hay, so that the hay can be taken
out as fastas needed.
2. When stock is put upon winter IA
tions, an estimate of the relative amount
OF each is taken, and in that proportion of
each is fed daily, allowing no straw to
come in after about the time of calvino
for cows, but continuing to young and
other cattle
3. If grain, meal, or roots, are to be
led during any part of the winter, an es-
innate is also made, and the daily ration
given from the beginning of winter al
lowing for slight increase of meal or
extras to cows, say ten days after calv-
ing, so that each animal expects and re-
ceives the same daily rations from No.
vember to May, as near as the average of
hay, corn fodder and straw can be made
TO hold out taking care that hay shall not
fail at last.
a. Foddering is done during the present
winter about as follows: In the morning.
cribs being clean, meal and bran equal,
mixed, two quarts; next, stalks enough for
morning feed put in the manager at once,
and lid shut to keep them there; next,
water AT noon, straw in manger. AT
night, nlanger filled with good hay, and
shut for the night. By morning, the stalks
and straw are almost entirely cleaned up,
not over two quarts being left, which goes
for bedding. have no poor hay to feed,
and never have fed in the yard during the
twenty-tour years of my farming. Cam
not say that some other system may not
be better, but an average of two hundred
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

PURIFYING RAIN WATER.-The Van
DoodleS have no cisern, and they have Il
barrel standing under the caves and catch
what water they can. Brother Van boo.
die is an easy, shiftless man. enc whc
means well, and means to have things
handy about the house for the patient
women, but, somehow, the time never
comes to fix things" He takes time
however, TO make great, substantial hog
pens with several compartments in them
one to eat in, and one TO sleep in, and one
to scratch in, and smooth down twisted
bristles, and be content generally. lie
also makes racks for the dining-balls OF
his sheep, and roofs for the little calves tc
stand under when it rains, and warm
straw sheds for his COWS in daytime, and
stables for them at night; but for his wife
and daughters he makes no extra fxings
nothing except what will meet the stern
demands of necessity. When | was
there the girls were getting ready to wash
the next day, and the barrel of rain water
was not very clean, the fine Int off from
the shingles was in the water, and stuff
that had blown in from the dusty street
but the oldest girl was not u bit discon.
certed, she knew what to do. She pound
some alum very fine and to the barrelfuI
of water she added two hepping table.
spoonfuls, slowly string it all the time
She said in the course Of three hours all
The sediment and impure particles would
settle to the bottom, and the water would
be found to possess nearly all the fresh.
ness and clearness of pure spring water
Home Magazine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

How RUBBER Doors ARE MADE.-The
proprietor of the Rubacr Works at Roch'
ester, N. Y, Mr.. j. 7. Stewart, is the
only manufacturer of rubber boots in that
state, and there are only seven or eight
factories in the United States.
The gum used is imported directly from
Africa, South America and Central Amer
lea, that from Central America being the
best, while the African gum is the poorest
The raw gum, which is nearly white, is
ground several times between immense
fiuted iron rollers, after which it passes
through the composition room, which pro-
cess is secret, but when it comes out the
gum has the black appearance of common
rubber.
The next process is that of passing the
rubber between chilled iron cylinders, of
many tons weight, which are kept very
hot and very smooth. A part of the rub
Der intended for the upper" is here
spread upon and fastened to long sheets Of
cloth of the requisite thickness.
The rubber cloth is now carried to the
cutters room, where it is cut out and sent
to the boot-makers. The boots are made
by men, the shoes or ordinary rubbers by
girls, while the overshoes are made by
eirher. One man will make twelve or
fourteen pairs of boots a day, and receives
twenty cents per pair. An active girl will
make from twenty-five 10 thirty pairs of
rubbers.
After the boot-maker is through with
his work the boots are placed in an oven,
E Il
10 Il temperature Of three hundred degrees.
They are then ready for boxing and
shipping. At this factory, about four
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07


TIE UTILITY OF SNow.-We have now
throughout the central and western parts
of this State about three and half feet Of
snow on in average, and nearly that per.
haps in other sections. This under ordin.
airy conditions means good year for farm
productions to follow. 1t is to be consid,
cred that if the snow lies as it is now fol
any considerable portion Of the winter, it
furnishes protection for every variety OIL
root and plant in the soil, and that when
it mels it is to fill the soil with water suf
iiclent to carry it along till June almost
independently of spring rains. 1t will
raise every spring and every stream, Il,
vel! rs supply the requisite moisture tc
the soil itself, and the effect of this will be
to secure to us favorable conditions O
moisture at season when it is essential
to the success and effectiveness Of al
Kinds OF natures that will be applied in
the spring for the crops of the coming
year.
On digging down 10 set telegraph poles
from Northampton TO Amherst, few
days ago, through every kind of soil
from the llghtest sand to clay, the work
men nowhere found more than two inches
OF frost or thereabouts, and if the deer
coating of snow continues, even that will
disappear, so that when the ground open;