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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

Resumption being fixed fact, it is report
ed that the advocates of fiat money will limit
themselves, at the approaching session, to an
attack on the national banks. The banks are
in an excellent position to sustain the assault,
being generally quite Indifferent to a eontin-
ued existence, under their present liabilities
of taxation. They are, in many places, re-
ducing their capitals, and in some instances
winding up their affairs The average diyi-
dends of the banks last year were less than
six per cent, and this is not rate of profit to
make a very he fght upon. The national
banking system 10 he best that the wit Of
man has devised. 1t furnishes an absolutely
safe currency, receivable all over the country;
so that no man looks at a bill that has been
paid to him, except to see If it is counterfeit.
No man has lost dollar of all the millions
that have been circulated; and when bank
becomes insolvent its bills are just as good
as they were before. Should the system ever
be broken up by the attacks of demagogues,
the people would soon demand its restora-
ton but capitalists would be slow to rein
vest in a security that was made unstable by
ill-directed popular clamor, and that was liza
BILE to be influenced by the capricious legisla-
tion of Congress. -PT0uideHee Journal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

"She's pretty hot, amt shey" said back
woods passenger, addressing the engineer of
a Mississippi steamer that was racing with an
other boat "So-so," responded the engin-
eer as he hung an additional wrench on the
safety-valve cord to stop the steam from es-
Gaping Il reckon wen overtake that craft
soon" pursued the stranger" That's about
it," returned the engineer, giving the cord
another twitch and hallooing through the
trumpet to the fremen to "shove her up"
"One hundred and ninety-fve," hummed the
passenger, looking first at the gauge and then
at the boilers. '"lhats about where she's
rusticating," put in the engineer The pas
senger ran his fingers through his hair ner-
vously, and walked about the decks for few
minutes, when he came back to the engineer
and observed, Hadn't you better leave that
boat gog" Cant do it, Must pass her"
"But s'posen we should blow up" "Wen,"
said the engineer, as he peeped over the
guard to see how fast he was going ''if it is
the win of Providence for the boat to blow
up, Wen have TO stand by it," Then he hal
looed to the firemen to coal, and give a little
more turpentine and oil. The next moment
there was a splash in the river, but before the
yawl could be lowered the man had succeeded
in reaching the shore, and hallooed out go
on with the race. / guess I'll walk.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13
Miscellany.


The village sleeps: the moonbeams fall,
Pale, still aud cold, on roof and wall,
And food the empty street.
How slilll The dust lies all unstirred,
No sound Of rolling wheels is heard,
No tread Of passing feet.
Where trafIc hurried to and fro,
Only the night winds come and 90,
Whirling the dead leaves by.
The cold lake laps the pebbled shore,
And round each closely bolted door
The frost creeps silently.
The village sleeps-oh, blessed rest!
with hard hands folded on its breast
Lies oyerburdened Toll:
Grief smiles in dreams, its woes forgot;
Pale Want forgets its dreary lot;
The springs Of Care uncoil
The fevers that infest the day
Yield 10 tho night, and sink away
To pulses soft and even.
Eon JOY Ia still; Love nestles deep
In clasping arms whose touch makes sleep
A calm as sweet as heaven.
The night grows deeper; colder falls
The moot light on the silent walls;
Still creeps the steslthy frost;
And deeper grows the calm " rest
In throbbing brain and troubled breast,
BY day so passiou-tosscd.
Oh, blessings priceless, night and slcepl
Did never close the eyes that weep,
Did struggle never cease,
Did ne'er the balm Of rost come down
Upon the weary, toiliug town.
Then death were sole release.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

mother sat stitching and stitching away,
II r4iued aud her boys were indoor at play,
When Que Of them ca me and l-Gned on her chair,
And said with t0uchingly weared-Out air,
we've played every play in the world that we know
Nof, what shall we do ?"
Before poor mamma lad chance 10 reply,
The rest # the little ones gathered close by,
Ard the sum " their troubles all seemed the same:
''Wc wish We knew some wonderful game;
We've been sailors aud soldiers aud fOu ght battles too
N1w, what shall We do 2"
Mamma thought for moment then gaily replied,
Build palace Of blocks with pprtico wide,
Aud play that the owner had money to spend,
And wanted to decorate rooms without end,
And ordered some pictures painted by you;
ThH's what you can do.
"Now take each pencil and paper, and draw
lily, a unset, a shore, or a sea,
gorgeous wins ged butterfly chasing bee;
Or-lhrce little boys that are saying, like you,
Now, what shall We dor
The brighteuei-up children took pencils in hand,
(As amateur artists, yOu'll all understand)
And worked at their pictures until it was plain
Tho funny gray clouds had forgotten to rain;
And mamma had rest mot long one, it's true)
From "What shall we do9"
o sweet, patient mothers in this earnest way
Yuu doing fes work, while your little ones play
You are fAshoniug souls that hereafter shall rise,
Gods beautiful angels, winged, to the skies;
And heaven makes reply to your "Nhat shall we do 2
Since love teaches you.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

HONE FEELING. % ye fathers and mothers
who have sons and daughters growing up
around you, do ye ever think of your respon-
sibilty in this regard-your responsibility for
keeping alive the home sentiment in the
hearts Of your children? Within the limit of
your means, remember that the obligation
rests upon you to make their home the pleas
antest place upon this rolling earth; to make
the word "home" to them the synonyme
for Happiness" l would not have you i'm
port the vices of the outside world into your
homes for any purpose, but would have you
go to the utmost verge of what is moral to
provide at home those things which entice
young and growing persons away from home.
Aid let me assure you that you had better
spend you money in doing this than in osten-
tation or luxury and far, far better spend it
thus than TO amass a fortune for your children
to squander in the future. And not only as
regards amusements, but also comfort and re-
fnement-for children have a keen appreoia-
tion of these things-this is much the best
policy. Don't send your boy to schoolin lift
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

A New IDEA ABOUT CoNsUMprIoN.-T
popular belief in the ncurability of consump-
ton now seems to be on the road to complete
overthrow This change in sentiment has
not been brought about by any new method
in treatment, IL or has there been percept-
BILE enlargement in the number of those now
living who can claim that they have had and
have recovered from this disease but the
evidence upon which the revision in opinion
is based Is cyen more conclusive than that
which could by any possibility be obtained
from either of these two sources. 1t is SIM
ply this. that p0st-mOrtem examinations have
revealed the fact that pulmonary phthisis is a
complaint of much greater frequency than
has commonly been supposed, and that multi
tudes Of people have had the disease and have
been practically cured of it, who have never
so much as suspected the cause Of their i'll
ness. In a series Of examinations, made
some time since at the hospital at Edinburgh,
it was found that the lungs of not less than
one-third of those who died when over forty
years of age were in a condition that could
be accounted for in 10 other way than by the
supposition that at some period in their lives
consumption had existed, and had afterward
been checked or cured. Portions of the
lungs had been destroyed, but the cavities
formed had been healed by contraction and
adhesion of their walls, or the disntegrated
substance had been shut in by the formation
of fbrous tissues In the records of post
BiOrtem examinations at the Salpetriere Hos
pital, at Paris similar experience is found,
except that in this case the age was advanced
to sixty years and over, and Of this class,
more than one-half were shown to have suf-
fered from consumption at some period in
their lives There may be nothing new in
this to well-iuformcd medical men, but to the
non professional reader the information can
not fail to be reassuring. The disease is to a
great extent hereditary, and there are thous-
ands of people who every now and then are
visited by the gloomy thought that they are
labl, al any time TO fall victims to this dead
ly inheritance. If these can he made TO be-
lieve that they have already passed through
the ordeal a suppositon which, in the major
ty Of cases. would probably be the true one,
no slight addition will be made to the sum
total of human happiness.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

People ought to be careful how they ask
questions. A gentleman who suffered terribly
from the heat died. His minister was not
aware of the catastrophe, and, meeting the
daughter of his former friend on an August
day and thinking to have a little banter, said !:
-"Well my dear 1 hope your mother is
well, and your father-by the way, how does
he stand the heat nowadays ?" She was COM
PEELED to confess the truth that he was dead,
and then the question seemed to the clergy
man to be singularly inappropriate one.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13
FOR 1879.
THE SPRINGFIELD Union,

A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER
And "a Family journal OF General Hn-
Gelligence.
THE LARGEST, CHEAPEST AND BEST PAPER IN
INTERIOR NEW ENGLAND
Published Daily and Weekly at SOL Main St, Spring
field, Mass,
by THE CLARK W. BRYAN co.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

ting garments, collar all awry and chatting his
neck, buttons missing, and shoes down Mt the
heel Don't make a warehouse or clothes press
of his bedroom Don't feed him on sour bread
aud tough meat and burnt coffee. Don't let
noise, and dissensions, and msrule spoil the
hours he spends at home. Don't do any Of
these things if you can possibly avoid it; es-
pecially don't do them for the purpose Of lay
ing up money for his future use
The richest legacy you can leave him is a
lifelong, inextinguishable and fragrant recol-
lection Of his home, when time and death
have forever dissolved the onchantment.
Give him that, and he will, in the strength Of
it, make his own way in the world but let
his rccolections of home be repulsiye, and
the fortune you may leave him will be a poor
compensation for the loss of that tenderness
of heart and purity of life which not only a
pleasant home, but the memory of one,
would have secured. Remember this too,
that while he will never feel grateful for your
money when once you are under ground, he
will go to your green grave and bless your
very ashes for that sanctuary of quiet, COM
fort and refinement into which you may, il
you possess the means, transform your home.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

The three largest locomotives IN the
world built by the Baldwin works Phlladei-
phia, for the New South Wales G0Verhin1n', Sh
P- irava Skinned recently from New York. The
locomotive are valued at $4,000 each
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13
Paris Letter.

RESULT OF THE RECENT FRENCH ELECTIONS
THE REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN
FRANcE-wHAT IT HAS AccoMPL1sHED-1T
APPARENT SECURITY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-13

These prices are invariable. We have no
travelling agents. Remit in drafts ON New
York or Post Office Money Orders, if pos
sible; and, where neither of these can be pro-
cured send the money in n rtgistertd letter
Address THE NEW-YORK TIMES,
New York City.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-09-25
Qxesti0n.-How long can you pas.

Glatestion.-How long can you pas
ture on it.
-Aasacer.-As soon as the corn is off
we pasture it, and thence on till Jan
uary. Severe cold kills it.
When you desire to seed field
with it, you SOW the seed at the last
blowing of the corn. just ahead of the
plow- 1t comes up and seeds itself
ever afterward. You can seed it ON
very few seed,
Q~eStion.-What is it that makes
SO much fertilizing material, when the
stock runs upon it
-Ansmcr.--I think sir, it waists a
good deal: bat the tap root especially
makes the fertilizer. I knew a gen
tleman in Florida who had had q
good deal of experience with it, and
asked him his estimate Of it as fer
tilizer. He replied, that he reckoned
it worth ten bushels of cotton seed to
the acre for corn, applied in the best
manner he could put it in.
After the horses and cattle have
eaten it down, we put in the hogs to
eat it up clean. The hogs will eat the
leaves and. fatten on them. When
I first mentioned it, I did so with
some delicacy, for the people in up
per Georgia now know nothing about
it. 1t is becoming a matter of COM
mercial Importance to us, The plant
crs buy and sell the seed. Some Of
the farmers are turning it under with.
great success If it Will grow in up
per Georgia our salvation is secured,
without rust proof oats and Bermuda
grass. The seed will mature about
the middle of September. 1t will
make two crops.-Renort Georgia
State Agricult,tra2 ,Society.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-09-25

sorts which have positive merits, are
overlooked and forgotten.
The Champion, we believe to be
one of this number, ripening an abun-
dant yield of fruit late in the season,
when most others are almost done.
Berries are Of medium to large size,
somewhat acid, but of a sprightly,
pleasant flavor. We shall plant it
more largely, believing it will prove
remuncratlve.
ADVICE TO PROSPECTIVE STRAW
BERRY GROWERS.
We would advise those who con-
template growing berries for market,
to purchase a few plants Of several
OF the most promising kinds, and fruit
them on their own soil for one year
at least, carefully noting the character
and habits of each. The practical
knowledge thus obtained will prove
Of much value, and save many dollars
as we'll as disappointments. OF late
years it has been only the large and
choice fruits, that have yielded the
grower much if any profit, and this
can be had only by thorough culture
and liberal fcrtilizing.
Probably well rotted barn-yard ma
nurc, well worked through the soil
before planting, followed by a Winter
top-dressing OF the same, will give as
good results as anything. Not hay:
ing tested any ofthe chemicalmanures
prepared specially for fruits, we are
unable to speak of their Value c.
Williams IN R,g'al Neac J oyhe1'.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-09-25

its possible uses. An Indian writer,
Mr. George w. Strettell, considers
from his experience gained in the
Indian Forest Department that a
large revenue might be derived from
such plants, especially those yielding
fibre-plants which require no care
in cultivation, which will grow in land
utterly unsuited to any other crops,
and which yield fibre practically
proved to be well adapted to the
manufacture of paper and textile fab
RIGS. He advocates the cultivation,
at first ifneed be experimentally, and
on a small scale, of several different
plants. and especially ofone, the Gallo
tropis Mga1ateo The fibre Of this
plant has.been pronounced by paper
makers and manufacturers Of textile
fabrics as excellent; and he shows
convincingly that after allowing for
the cost Of cultivation and OF extract
ing the fibre, the raw material might
be sold at such price as to add con-
sidcrably to the Imperial revenue.
Next to the discovery Of plants
yielding products now in demand for
industrial or medical purposes, We
may rank the invention of new uses
for the products Of plants now con-
sidered useless. But a small portion
OF the vegetable world has yet been
made tributary to man; and from
past experience it is safe to predict
that even the most noxious Of weeds
may yet prove to be Of the highest
utility.-&cie',tj7c american.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-09-25
Jute Culture.

The following article on this sub
iect is from the pen of IL. Fl. Stevens
in the Farmers TuQdicdtor 1t may
prove ofinterest to some ofour South
ern readers -" The months for SOW
ing are March; April OF May, gov
erned by soil and situation. The space
in the drills between the plants should
be six inches, and the drills should be
three and one-half feet apart. The
strong and vigorous growing plants
should be allowed to seed, and none
but seed from them should be used,
Sometimes broadcast sowing is adopt
ed, but the drill system is preferable.
The plant should be cut when III
flower and just before the appearance
of the pods, at such times the quality
of the fibre is superior 1t is gener-
ally cut near the root, unless the lower
end is overrun with suckers. AS q
preparation for sleeping, the plants
after cutting are generally stacked
for exposure to the action of the
weather until the leaves drop of, as
it ia believed that the leaves in steep
ing discolor the fibre. Shallowkwater,
on the border of lake or the bank
of a river, is the best for sleeping and
cleaning the fibre, and the stalks when
placed in the water should be cover
cd with brush or timber, or any other
material, for the purpose of keeping
them under the water and also to
ward off the sun. The rotting pro-
cess requires from two or three days
to month, being regulated by the
temperature OF the water and by the
condition Of the plant. Examination
of it should be made from day to day,
after the first two or three days to
determine if the proper degree Of rot
ting has been attained, which point
having been reached, the operator,
standing up to his middle in the Wa
ter, brings the stalks bundle by bun
die to the surface, and Selling the
bundle at the smaller or seed end Of
plant bends double portion Of
it about a foot in length. BY doing
this the inner or woody portion Of
the stalk breaks. While the outside OF
fibrous portion, which, by the action
of the water has got detached from
the stalk inside, remains firm. He
then takes the broken portion firmly
in both hands, holding thereby the
fibre and the broken portion Of the
the stalk, and then allows the bundle
to float straight before him i'll the
water, and by series Of steady Jerk
ing pulls at the portion he holds, he
gradually separates the whole length
of the fibre from the stalks, the fibre
coming off from the woody portion
in the way a stocking does from the
foot, if pulled from the toe. Another
method is to begin at the lower or
root end, and proceed as before de-
scribed After stripping enough fibre
from the woody portion to form a
handful, then take it by the middle
and dash it against the surface repeat
edly so as to wash off the glutinous
matter and other impurities, changing
the hand so that all parts of it may be
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-09-25
State Fair Committee.

We are not as yet in receipt of an
official report from the State fair
Committee of the Florida Fruit
Growers Association, but learn from
the Su1a md Press, of Jacksonville,
Of tie 9th inst, that meeting has
been held and action taken that has
been criticised by some other news
paper rejecting upon some of the
members Of the committee. In order.
that the public may clearly under.
stand the authority cf this State fair
committee, we reproduce the resolu-
tons creating it by the Florida Fruit
Growers Association at their annual
meeting in Jacksonville, January last:
"ReSolred: That this Association,
through its corresponding secretary.
of the different counties Of this State
to cooperate with this association
in organizing and holding a State
fair at such time and place as may be
fixed by the majority of such associa-
tons, and that action be taken on
this subject as soon as practicable"
Pursuant to above, the correspond
inc secretary called a convention of
the agricultural societies, which
convened at Gainesville, Florida,
May 1st, 1878, at which was passed
the following resolutions
Reso7red, That the time of hold
ing the next State fair be the third
Tuesday in February, 1879, continu-
ING four days.
ReSoired, That the place for hold
ing the next State fair shall be in the
county offering the greatest pecuni-
ary Inducements, such amount not
to be less than two thousand dollars
$4,000.
Re8oloed, That the chairman OF
this convention and the president Of
the Florida Fruit Growers Associa-
ton, and a committee Of seven, to
be elected by this convention, confer
with the different counties as to the
Inducements to be offered, and deter
mine for this convention the place
tor holding lar III teDruarT, 1879,
and to make all such arrangements
as are necessary to hold fair at the
time named under the foregoing res
olutions.
"Committee-C.C odrington, Pres
ident Of the Florida Fruit Growers
Association; DR.. c. J. Kenworthy,
President Of Agricultural Conven-
ton; w. ID. BIoxham Of Leor
county; John I. Inglis of Madison
county; D. S. Place Of Alachua
county: a. IBidwell Of Duval coun-
tv: G. A. Finley Of Columbia com
ty; b. X. Coaohman Of Levy coun
ty; G. f. Purcell, Of Hlillsborougl
county.
9 EosoNed, That the committee
appointed by this convention shall
he known as the State Fair Com
mittee of the Florida Fruit Grow
crs' Association. Fla. Dispatch.