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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-11
The Anti-AIonopo1ist.

The Marsh Harvester and Binder
Triumpaanty Successful and Distances all
Competitors.
1T Is THE LIGHTEST. SIMPLEST
AND BEST. AND DOES THE
BEST WORK. AS THE
LATE HARVEST
FIELD TESTS
SHOW
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-11
ALTON. Ill, May .3d, 1878.

aLIcN. III, Nay -oA, IO'o.
Messrs Cannon & Drering:
GENTLEMEN. Tue trial to-day was a COM
pete victory 1T this place. The grain cut was
green what, five feet ten inches bigh, ami
thick. and in p aces lodged. The Mccormick
and Woo We're with Us. We allotted
one half acre each. W. cat and bound ours in
Thirty one minutes, and without missing a
bundle or breaking wire, and with pair OF
mules weighing 400 lbs The Mccormick
cut theis i'll one hour and thirty minutes,
breaking four wires each ound on an average
Aud the Wnod stalled on the fouith bun die
aud sOcn broke down, and cut twice around
and Quit, The gram being too heavy and tilck
for the cal ac:ty OF their Binder. The victory
was clear and complete for the Marsh The
afternoon was RAINY, and it aimed all the time
we were cutting. McNalr tells ne that the trial
at Jel seville was success. lvXpe ito go to
Hilistoro Tomorrow. VIII hear from McNalr
III The Forming.
Yours respectfully, L. E. Snonts.
ALTON. H., May 22d, 1878.
Me>srs. Cannon * Deerine, Chicago, Ill.,:
Gentlemen In Ia field trial near Alton to-
day with the Wood anu the Mccormick
Haryesters ami Binders, the Marsh, as usual
Was victorious. The wheat in which We cut
was very heavy and green. measurDy IN
weight lat an average nearly SIX ieet. Hall
All acre was staked OFT and allotted for each
raei. in. TO cut and b.nd The Marsh went in
on ii,-r one-laif acre at about $50 p. m,
finished Up without "A >ioppage, Or without
once breaking the wire III thlts one minutes.
On her second round the Mccormick broke
Gown 50 that the Marsh had completed her
wtri; befoi., sic Was agau ready Tor action.
f,,ialiy, iis.v ever, they wad-d through, meet
;i.g ,,,.iv VIII. tt,r slight in onv-nlence OF hav
M IL stop tom ihf-e to our times IN every
r"uld OH account ui breaking their wire.
Time, one hour ard thltv minutes Til.
VI cod Binder brol<, down on the first round,
and WHEN in two hours sine was again ready
FL til. Held was unable 70 compete her work,
owing to the wet grain it was raiuing hard
choking her down. Some two hundred people
witnessed this trial and although a greater
portion Of them came as friends and supporters
OF the Wood and Mccormick, yet, at the close
of the trial, the public ~ preston was strongly
in favor OF the Marsh Harvester and Crane
Binder. After trial Mr. Aut.n produced 4
testimonial which was signed by many promi-
nent farmers. Obsdently yours,
Ii Ii Henninr
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-11

;, Dallas County, I Nas, Apiis s., 1875
Messrs Cannon L Deerine.
The MARSH Harvester and Crane Bi,l-r
bought OF solIr Agents, Afford 4 : .siy. is
working beautifully runs a. light as !. Ten
inch p!oF Nv" horses draw il with PEI frct
ta>'; IL cuts c.1an and binds splend,:lv. J.
W Bumpass.
We witne~se the RAINING &c above ina
chile, an'i certify that saire eats chem. RIM.
'Sht, binds splci.dlfiiy, amt altogether works
~ We'll As eoilii te desired NJ " sh.rrrl
H. I Rive. Z. u. Bn,nn.ss. " L. Bnln,n,-..
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-11
CANNON 4 DEERING.
Read the following reports
HO" IL WORKS IN TEXAS.

Robinson x Perry:
We started The machine bf Mr.. Welch Mr.
WEIGH says, Tel Mr.. Perry it works better
than looked for" Every .anan on the ground
said 1t did the best work of any # the ma
chimes. Their was a McCormck on one side
ana an Osborne on the other, and we could
the start and never lost bundle: and thy
ifoitea the ilur-es some OF :.ls time Viii = emit
i.g il, &c NJ. Howard, ';yo D..a.ap
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

EXERCISING IN OLD AGE.-At eighty gen
tleman in New York city commenced trying
to walk up the stairs of the Evening Post
building. and there are eleven flights of them,
of which there are nine from the street to his
Office. Any Of the elevator men will tell you
that, when the elevator is at all full. of he
will go cheerily up all the nine flights, seem
ingly none the worse for it, Within year
he also told the writer that he still continued
dumb-bcll and club work before breakfast
daily, and simply because it pays aud he is
certainly still wiry, active man, even though
il is siXty-two years since he wrote ''Thana-
topsis." Palmerston, fox-hunting when past
eighty Vanderbilt no youngster, without
groom or companion, urging his blooded trot-
tiers over Harlem Lane at slashing pace
Gladstone, at sixty-eight, Telling Hawarden
trees by the hour, and for the benefit the ex-
ercise brings-are but a few instances OF
what old men can do when they try. None
of these are more surprising than, in an in
tellectual field, the learning of German by
Caleb Cushing after he had passed seventy,
or Thiers's activity at nearly eighty. or, in all
ways than Mosess doing the forty years
best work in his life after he had passed
eighty, and yet with eye not dim nor natural
force abated. If some men, by oiling their
joints daily-for. as Mnclaren says. ~'they are
oiled every time they ARE put in motion, and
when they are put in motion only'-can keep
those joints from grating and cracking and
moving stifiiy, even into ripe old age, why
may not others as well g., And which of these
things which man can, if he will, do so readily,
cannot woman do as well II needs no money,
very little time, little or no present strength.
One thing only it does need, and that is per
severance. One-third of the time often given
to the piano will more than suffice. One less
study day of those which are to-day over
taxing so many schoolgirls, and instead judi
cious, vigorous, outdoor exercise aimed di-
rectly at the weak muscles, and taken AS reg
ularly as ones breakfast, and is there any
doubt which will pay the better, and make
the girl the happier, the filter for all her du-
ties and the more attractive rs well We
trust that the day is not far off when no boy
or girl viii be sent to a school where care is
not taken to develop vigorous healthy bodies,
and when that vigOr and health will be the
rule and not the exception among men and
women alike, and in every walk in life - va
liam Blaikie IN May Hdrper's.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

ent of the same department, began as a stamp
er on salary Of $500 a year, and so on
through the list. All but one of the 10 super
iutendents Of branches entered as clerks. In
short, here is civil service of the most approx
ed kind in successful operation in the best
conducted Of all the Government institutions
The clerks are quite satisfied to 60 down if
they are beaten down. Under the old system,
a man in the Post Office had but little chance
for promotion, except by the intrigue Of some
political clique. In giving men a chance to
be something, and perpetual stimulus TO
their ambition, Mr.. James has undoubtedly
wrought u marvellous improvement in the ser
vice. But he has done Letter than that for
by opening door of hope to man one
makes him man. Men no longer expect re-
moval on the caprice of n ward committee.
The Office offers them a career, and they have
every stimulus to faithfuness and excellence
1t it is found that the least efficient clerks in
the office are generally those backed by the
most eminent names, while the poor fellows
who have no hope but in winning the favor
of their superiors by fidelity and excellence
are altogether the most valuable.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03
Civil service In the New York Post
Once.

tFrom Scribners Monthly for May.l
Under Mr. james administration "A system
of genuine civil service has grown up. He
has steadily resisted the demands of polti-
clans that good clerks shall be removed on ac-
count of their lack of efficiency in ward poll
tics. 1t is said to be beautiful sight to see
him send for a superintendent and ask what
kind of a man the clerk is, in the presence of
the statesmen" of the Assembly district who
are urging his removal. A good report from
the superintendent and polite ''you see,
gentlemen, that it is impossible to remove
him, ends il, except that the ward states
men never think well of the POstmaster's ef-
fciency after that There is a notion preya-
lent that with every change of Postmaster a
pretty clean sweep of employees is made. But
only l04 removals have been made in Post
master James five years, and of this number
so were for drunkenness. This vice at one
time made sad havoc among the rank and file
of employees; but there is at present an eff
cent Post Office temperance society, and
there have been some remarkable reforma-
tions, while y sentiment in favor of temper
ance has diifused itself through all depart
ments of the office. While others have advo-
Gated it in theory, Postmaster James has ex-
emplifed civil service in practice. Promo
tions and salaries are now based partly on
length of service, partly on a careful system
of testing the correctness of work done, part
ly ON conduct, and partly on periodical re-
examination. This examination is not test
of the clerks knowledge of the names of the
extinct volcanoes in the moon, but trial of
his experiences in his work. For instance the
clerks who are distributing matter in the mail
ing department were recently required to
place correctly 200 cards containing the
names of all the post offices in Ohio, in a Sc
ries of pigeon holes labeled with the names of
the counties in that State. One man succeed
ed in making the distribution in hours and
20 minutes with only IL errors. The best
man at the New York table was yet more re-
markable. He put the whole 2,S4O cards
bearing the names of the post offices in this
State into their proper counties in l05 min
utes, with but single error. Awhile ago
there was a competition for the vacant chief
clerkship at a table, and the lowest man of
all, by sheer excellence took the place. -
Nearly all the higher officers of the New York
Post Office have come up from the ranks.
Even Mr.. Pearson, the Assistant Postmaster,
rose from clerkship in the Office and passed
through the various grades in the railway pos
tai service (of which he was one of the Origi-
nators) before attaining his present position ;
Mr.. Gaylor general superintendent of the city
delivery, began as a $500 clerk Mr.. Forces
ter, superintendent of the registry depart
ment, began as a 5000 clerk in the distribu-
ton department also Mr.. Wareing, the as
sistant general superintendent of the mailing
department, told me frankly that he came in
as porter. Mr.. Yeoman, the s-perintend-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

HEATING CITY BY STEAM-A meeting of
citizens of Auburn, n. Y, was held ON the
2jth ult., TO consider the practicability of in
Producing the Holly system of steam heating,
which has proved successful at Lockport, n.
Y, the past winter. 1t appears that they
have in Lockport some three main pipes laid
purposely (n order to test the system tinan-
cially) through sparsely settled streets. and
that they furnished with heat during the win
ter some seventy consumers. The result
shows that the system will pay, as these sew
enty consumers had been charged for warm
ing their dwellings the same amount rs
they had paid for their coal during the previ-
Gus winter, which amount reimbursed the
company for expenses. In thickly settled
districts there would be lower rates for the
consumer and profit for the company. The
loss of steam by condensation is only from
to >! per cent on mile Of pipe when the full
capacity of the main was used. In the
houses the steam as fast as condensed is col
lected in reservoirs, giving q supply of pure
soft water for domestic purposes The use of
the steam in cooking is thought to be IA great
improvement over the present methods The
cost of fitting up house of good average size
with radiators pipes, &c, all ready to be
heated with steam, is stated at Sl3J
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03
VERMONT ITEMS.

Henry C. Cady of Mortified was found
dead in his bed on Friday morning. He had
just returned from a western trip, and physi-
cal exhaustion is supposed to have been the
cause.
A piece of wood, violently thrown by a
saw in mill at Middlcsex the other day.
struck and killed young man named Ulysses
w. Goodell, crushing in his skull.
A span of horses were stolen from Calvin
Bixby of Ludlow last week, but the property
was recovered at Leicester Junction, where
the thieves were also arrested and gave the
names of +. A. Wardner and W. +. Jones and
his wife of Lowell, Mass.
John Moreau of Victory advertised his
wife the other day, and she took her revenge
by selling the family COW, the sheep and ev-
erything in the house and clearing out, leav-
ing him nothing but the clothes on his back.
The East Dorset Congregational church
WAS organized 10 years ago with IL members,
which afterward became reduced to four but
a recent revival has now increased the num-
Der to nearly 80.
Henry, johnson Il Lord of Burlington
wholesale druggists, i'll financial difficulties
1t is understood that they have effected a com
promise with their creditors at 37j cents on
the dollar.
Nine deer obtained last winter from the
AdirOndacks by the Rutland deer association,
for propagation in the state, We're turned
loose ON the mountains in Mendon last Satur-
day, and others, with White Mountain doe,
which Gov. Fairbanks has presented to the
association from his private park are soon to
follow. One of those turned out ON Saturday
came back toward Rutland Sunday morning
where il fed in meadow and children fed
it from their hands.
There was sad tragedy in Cambridge
Sunday afternoon. Barney Gray, Il young
man working for Thomas Edwards at East
Cambridge, shot his brother, John Gray, with
a shotgun killing him instantly. They We're
visiting with others in Edwards's barn, when
Barney took a fowling piece and pointed it at
John, saying, Look out I'll shoot You" i'm
medately firing, and the shot took effect in
the neck, nearly severing the head. The gun
was supposed to be unloaded.
The recent novel of ''Seola, whose scene
and epoch are before, during and after the
food of Noah, is the work of the wife of ex-
Gov John Gregory Smith of Vermont. Some
have conjectured that Rev Flavius Josephus
Cook was the author, but although he hes
been weaving a gorgeous romance about
Pliuy, Goethe, Byron, and others, including
the woman whom without any particular au-
thority he calls Phocion's wife,-he has made
no such daring fight of imagination as this
st. Adams N-Sprinaield Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

The trustees Of the village have bought
three hundred feet of rubber hose for the use
of the fire department
The village school commences next Mon
day under the instruction of Mrs. Warren.
who will take charge of both schools.
Mr.. o. b. Lawton has three sheep that
have nine lambs
One of Mr.. Emerson Haynes's fine Jersey
cows died last week
Rev. A. w. Goodnow and wife, from
Bernardston, Mass, have been visiting in
town. He preached in the Baptist church
last Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Rockwell has gone to attend
conference, and will be absent next Sunday
1t is expected he will remain here another
year, as he is much liked
Rev. Mr.. Barber commences on his fifth
year next Sunday, with the Universalst So
ciety, and Rev. Mr.. Fowler his third year
with the Baptist church.
Rev. Origen Smith who resides in this
village, has commenced his eighth year with
the Baptist church in Guilford Wilmington
is much benefited by the influence of its good
minister's p
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

DIVORCES IN MAINE.-The Lewiston Me-
Journal says The recent statement of
Judge Virgin that there have been over 500
divorces in this State during the past year
one to every - marriages-may tend TO draw
attention from Connecticut and Indiana, and
place Maine in the front rank of divorce
States. Connecticut has within few years
modified her easy divorce laws, and Maine, it
is said, has the loosest divorce laws of any
State in the Union. 1t is certain divorces are
rapidly increasing, having numbered 400 in
1874. 500 in 1877, and two years hence they
will reach GOO. In addition to the usual com
mon law causes of divorce, including cruelty,
intemperance, and willful desertion, our laws
give Justices of the Supreme Court authority
to decree divorce in any case where he may
be persuaded at an ex parte hearing, that it
would be conducive to domestic harmony
&c. Under such divorce laws, when either
party TO the marriage relation wants to make
a change, it is not difficult to find a legal ex-
cusen
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03
Hlnaslale. ". II.

The Baptist society on Monday evening,
participated in a levee at their vcstry, and
had an enjoyable time
A dramatic entertainment is to be given
in Fisk's hall on Friday evening by the Hins-
dale Guard, and is to conclude with a social
dance.
Fire and accident insurance effected at
the Office of +. j. Barber on liberal terms and
in first class companies.
The Rev. c. A. Coult and family have
taken residence in E. n. Blanchard's dwelling
opposite Stebbins's block.
Work ON the new town house progresses
finely under its present management.
Foundations for the construction of two
new dwelling houses in the rear of Stebbins's
block are being laid
The primary, intermediate and grammar
schools in Union school district begin next
Monday morning
An organization for the enjoyment of
choice and select readings was effected here
last week, with Rev. H. H. Hamilton as presi-
dent, and Misses J. C. Archibald, A. NJ. Bar
rows, and Mr.. ]. A. Beers, executive commit
tee. n
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

A GREAT CITY IN CURIOUS PREDIcAMENT.
Chicago is in great straits. The city treas
ury is empty, the supreme court forbids the
borrowing of money in anticipation of the
taxes not yet collected, the police and fire de-
partments, largely reduced for the sake of
economy, cannot be paid and unless in some
way money can be procured in advance of
the collection of this years taxes, the munich
pal machinery must stop. 1t was proposed
recently to issue scrip bearing no interest and
redeemable in 1879 when the taxes for 1878
are paid, but iniunctions having been brought
against that end the police and iiremen dare
not take this scrip as pay for their labor.
There are four months salaries now due the
city employees. and with no money and no
power or authority to raise any, the situation
is decidedly interesting. The restlessness and
activity of the communistic forces in the city,
who would be dangerous customers with the
police force disbanded and who would enjoy
unrestricted plumber even for a few hours,
renders the situation still more critical, and
the spectacle of great city like Chicago una
BILE TO pay men for the cOmmOnest and most
necessary municipal services is certainly an
extraordinary one.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

Everybody who has been in London knows
what labyrinth it is. and how difficult it is
to get about, even after tolemble acquaint-
ance with the city, without a map. 1t is next
to impossible TO direct any one anywhere in
consequence Of the irregularities Of the thor
oughfares, and particularly of the number of
streets bearing the same name just think
of it. There are 80 Richmond streets, 60
Norfolk 20 Devonshiry, 20 Brunswick 80
Cambridge, 81 Gloucester "a East-and- West,
90 North-and- South. 1876 New, 10 Union,
% King, % Queen, IS Princes, 100 George,
1l9 John, and dozens and scores that have
nothing to distinguish them except the dis
trict in which they happen to be. London is
probably =, 900 years old, and one might think
that in that time, with the richness of the
English tongue, each street might have a title
of Its own.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

If any of our many readers should happen
to visit Philadelphia either on business or
pleasure, sojoun at the "ColOnnade Hotel,
at the corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut, will
make him about as happy and contented as
he possibly can be away from Baltimore.
There is an amount of real comfort, as well as
elegance, about all the appointments of this
admirably -conducted establishment rarely met
with in an American hostelry. Without at
tempting TO particularize any of its special
merits, it is enough to say that everything is
in perfect order, that nothing is wanting to
make one altogether comfortable, and that an
unusual quantity of courtesy and good man
ners marks the conduct of all the attaches.
Mr.. II, j. Crump, who has entire charge of
the house, has clearly demonstrated the fact
that lie knows exactly how to keep hotel,
and under his capable management the Col
onnade will undoubtedly Five long and pros
per. "-BdHimOre Gazette.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

There is much in the following recent arti-
Gle from the London Week, which holds true
on this side of the water:
During the last three or four years de-
gree of license in chronicling personal gossip
has been taken which has never been exer-
cised with impunity in this country. and will
not long be tolerated now. No doubt sour
rilous journals have been known at many for
mer periods of our history, but they had an
uneasy life of it, and their fate was not such
as to tempt crowd OF imitators into the
field. All such papers run II certain and well
marked course. At first they surprise and
amuse the public. People like to see names
coupled with some disparaging allusion or
anecdote and the more names there are men
toned the better the paper sells. But at last
the blows begin 10 rain round too freely. The
nughers themselves get hit. People who
have perhaps supplied the materials for spicy
articles are staggered to find that they. too
are called up for punishment But what is
the editor to doY He must have the usual
supply of personal paragraphs. 1t is not pos
sble for him to spare his friends all must
be grist that comes to his mill. An ingenious
concoctor of these legends once avowed that
he always found them better and easier to
make up out of his own head than to wait
for the news to dribbe in. But this may
sometimes be dangerous work, and it is as
well to have little grain of truth in the budg-
ct of scandal. 1t gives it point If Lord A.
sends little item to-day, he is equally liable
to find that his own indiscretions are paraded
before the public the following week. Thus
the gossip-monger can go on shooting his ar
rows into every household. The end Of it is
that enemies rise up against the paper in all
directions, and tear it to pieces, and the liter
AIRY garbage gatherer is ultimately sent adrift
with his dirty stalls of offensive wares.
This. we say, is the end but in the pres
ent day it takes a long while sometimes to
reach the end. and in the meantime the trade
grows apace. Each new conner in the field
tries to Guido the last-to jump higher and
scream louder, to drag in more names of pri-
waite persons, to tell nastier stories, and TO de-
file still more the tone and character of pri-
waite life
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

A Boston Philadelphia, Chicago, or even a
New York defaulter, is generally satisfied to
steal 500, 900 or 500. 600 or $500, 900 from
n firm or bank or corporation in which he is
employed. He is willing to leave something
for his successors to steal. But the Chaces
and Hathaways of Fall River are not afflicted
with any such generosity. They say with LOU
is XIV, After me the deluge. :" and at once
create the deluge. Reputed to be pious, or
thodoI, God-fearing, they We're reluctant to
them. Consequently they appropriated ev-
erything themselves, thus nobly absorbing all
possibility of corresponding sin into their
proper persons, and consuming every oppor-
tunity for others to initiate their example
" J. Times.