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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

kiss that nasty thing?" gasped Mrs.
Primrose; sit turns my stomach to see
him."
"Why, that's his favorite plaything,
said mamma, calmly; "his papa says he
doesn't care anything about n doll till 1t
has lost every vestige OF responsibility.
He argues from that that Tommy will
make reformer or missionary.
Fiddlesticks |" calculated Mrs. Prim-
rose; then. changing the subject sud
denly, "How can you spend your preci-
Gus time on such 'fol-de-rols? T"
"Oh, keep this for company work.
/ have crocheted ever SO many little
sacks and pairs of socks when L have
been entertaining callers. Hove to do 1t
dearly"
'I'm glad you do Well, we must go,
rising and walking about the room.
"What pictures! Two children kissing
each other, naked baby, a child crying
over dead bird-bah! / should think,
Mrs. Tanning, You would want some
thing grown-up once in while"
81 am grown up, myself, and l like
contrasts" said mamma, laying down
her work and inviting us into the garden.
In going out we encountered the carriage
again, and in reply to my companions
frown, mamma explained that the chill
dren amused baby an hour at time by
wheeling him i'll the long, broad hall.
As we opened the kitchen door Mrs.
Primrose ran against Nell, upset the ba-
sin of water where the little one was
making soap-bubbles, and broke her
pipe. What was far worse i'll the lady
estimation, some of the water splashed
upon her own new poplin dress.
"Oh dear" she groaned; "well, it's a
good thing that the pipe is broken; the
child's no business to be sozzling round
in the water"
II dot nozzer pipe-free, four, five.
Mamma buy me pipes and pipes.
"Oh, yes; keep her i'll pipes and soap
suds; it's the cheapest possible way to
entertain her"
Mrs. Primrose elevated her nose, head
and all SO high that she did not see where
she was going. In consequence she
stepped directly into mass of clay, from
which the thunderers were modelling
dogs, cats, mice, etc.
"Take care you've spoiled my best
dog" screamed Jack Give been work
! NY ttl lIlS W liuht
his tail hang easy, so 'twould wag."
"And what about my new kid boots?"
groaned the Mortified Primrose.
One child was sent for mammals slip
spers, another directed to clean the
boots, and we went on toward the garden.
But the troubles of the child-hater were
not over. Intent upon criticising the
blithe young mother, and her many in
ventions, she took no heed to her ways,
and presently stepped plump into a well
that the boys had dug and filled with
water that very morning. The sudden
change of base caused her to lose her
equilibrium, and she fell upon rose
bush, tearing her lace shawl and scratch
ing her delicate hands.
The boys FASTENED en- masse to her
assistance, but she waved them off, called
for her damaged boots, buttoned them
over her wet stockings, and walked
majestically away. Her last words,
borne back upon the breeze, informed us
that she would never risk her life again
in house where there were ga raft os
young ones.
The children watched her exit in con-
WILSON'S of laughter; and the boys i'm
mediately set about making clay images
of the banished Primrose.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
Love-.

A young lady has Sunday-school
class of rather bright boys, averaging
between and 8 years. Recently she re-
quested each pupil to come on the fol-
lowing Sunday with some passage of
Scripture bearing on love. The lads
needed the reqdest, and in turn recited
their verses bearing upon that popular
topic-such as Glove your enemies. y
"Little children, love one another"
etc. The teacher said to the bow whose
turn came last, well, Robbie. what is
your verse;" Rising. he responded.
Song of Solomon, ii. 81 STAY me
with flagons, comfort me with apples:
for / am sick of lover
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

BE kind to the soap agent. He has
father, perhaps, and a mother, who knew
him III his innocent youth. Perhaps
even now, IN some western village. fond
hearts are beating for him and sweet
lips breathe loves dearest prayers for his
welfare. Therefore lay him down ten
DERBY, fold his hands peacefully ON his
breast and close his eyes gently as Won
put him to rest under the branches of
the weeping willow, where the birds
carol all through the summer DAVIS their
soft song. But plant him deep-plant
him deep.-Danbury Ne,cs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
The Wrong Remedy.

Barker read one day of boy in Otta-
wa, who was being choked to death
with peach stone which had been
lodged in his throat, being saved by
Detective OConnor, who gave him a
blow between the shoulders, thus fore
ing the stone from the wind-pipe. His
mind was still on the story as he went
down town, and just as he reached the
corner of Boylston and fremont streets
he saw a reasonably good-sized man
holding a half-eaten peach in his hand
and evidently choking. Here was where
the Ottawa story came III very pat, and
Barker rushed up to save the mans life.
Drawing off, he struck the man a blow
between the shoulders that sent him ten
feet, and, following him, Barker asked
if the stone had come out. In less than
ten minutes from that time the would
be Good Samaritan was as well-whipped
man as could have been found in a
Sabbath-d days journey. Both eyes were
blackened, two teeth were gone, and his
nose reposed-not gracefully-on his
left cheek. "There," said the stranger,
in a satisfied sort of way, that will
teach you to let man alone when he
feels sick at his stomach, guess, and
Barker says that the stranger was per-
fectly correct in his remark. -Boston
GIObe
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

THERE have been lao duels in France
within eight months, without the loss of
q single life.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
Answers Easily Misunderstood.

The inundation of 1771, which swept
away great part of the old Tyne
bridge, Newcastle, was long remem-
bered, and alluded to as "the flood. 4"
On one occasion Mr.. Adam Thompson
was put into the witness-box at the as
sizes. The counsel asking his name re-
ceived for answer:
adam, sir-Adam Thompson.
"Where do you live ?"
cat Paradise, sir"
paradise is village about mile and
half west of Newcastle.)
"And how long have you dwelt in
Paradise ?" continued the barrister.
"Ever since the flood !" was the re.
ply, made in all simplicity, and with no
intention to raise laugh.
1t is needless to say that the Judge
asked for an explanation.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Equality.

Says the atlantic Monthly: "There is an
equality, but it is not of outward show II
is independent of condition IL does not de.
stroy property, nor ignore the difference OF
sex, nor obliterate race traits. It is the
equality of men before God, of men before the
law it is the equal honor of all honorable
labor No more pernicious notion ever OBJ
tanned Judgment in society than the com
mon one that to rise in the world is neces-
sarily to change the condition Let there
be content with condition discomfort with
individual ignorance and imperfection. We
want says Emerson, mot farmer, but a
man on farm What miscbievous idea
is that which has grown, even in the United
States, that manual labor is discreditable !
There is surely some defect in the theory OF
equality in our society which makes domes-
tic service to be Stunned as il il were dis
grace 1t would be considered humorous
suggestion to advocate inequality as a theory
or as working dogma. Let us recognize
it, however, as a fact and shape the efforts
for the improvement of the race in accord
snce with it, encouraging it in some direc-
tons, restraining it from injustice in others.
Working by this recognition, we shall save
the race from many failures and bitter dis
appointments, and spare the world the spec
tacle of republics ending in despotism and
experiments in government ending in an
archy"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Saving at Home.

One of the surest ways to save is TO have
every dish well cooked, that nothing is t
be thrown away as worthless. Were all tn,
money saved that is thrown out by un
seasoned vegetables, underdone and over
done meats, burned cakes and pies, scorched
oatmeal and rice, many dollars would be
added to the savings of the house. You say
" How can help it ?" If you cannot af
ford a cook, see to these things yourself
Money is wasted in little things more than
in expensive articles of food and if money
is an item to you, it is worth little trouble
Another way to save money is to buy only
the healthiest and best dishes. By setting
before your family good meats well cooked
good bread, rightly made, fresh fruits aud
vegetables, they will be healthy and save
you doctors bill. Time as well as money
is saved by having bill of fare for each day
in the week, to be varied by times and sea
sons. This saves the trouble of thinking
what to have next day. Another way to
save is by knowing just how to use all that
is left from to-day's dinner. A French
cook will make bountiful and enjoyable
dinner of what others would throw away.
Why should we not do as well One of the
largest outlets TO family's income is by
tea and coffee
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Weather Prophecies.


Anybody who says he can foretell the
weather a week or month ahead is fool
or fraud, and anybody who believes him
cannot be allowed even a choice of those
epithets. Vennor has failed again this win
ter, and so miserably that he has abjectly
abdicated, and in his own words "takes
back seat" But there are few cases in
which plausible conjectures may be made,
as when heavy drift of icebergs occurs off
the coast, which will considerably modify
the temperature of parts adjacent to the
sea- until the bergs have melted. In SINH
lar manner the heavy SHOWS reported this
winter in the British American territories
north of the Dominion of Canada may be
expected to give us a cold and backward
spring, similar to that Of 1878, until they
are melted. The northwest winds blowing
ing across these millions of square miles Of
snow must be greatly cooled, and they will
in time cool all the territory in the United
States across which they blow. So don't
plant your corn too early.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
A Sound Agricultural Journal.

This is term emphatically applicable to
our sterling contemporary, the Country Gen.
aenan of Albany, New York. Such is its
ambition, and its achievement realizes it.
No agricultural paper in the world surpasses
it in the wealth of timely, practical teaching
that enriches its columns. Every depart
ment is edited with intelligence and written
for by the best men in each specially.
Though not making its family and literary
pages as prominent as some of its rivals,
these departments, and especially the former,
Il judged by quality, takes very high rank.
The Country Gentleman seems naturally To
attract the best minds of our rural house
holds and TO enlist the best writers in its
service. Its founders, aud its present con,
ductors as well, have done true yeoman's
service in making American agricultural
journalism honorable the world over.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
I" Farming for PrOfit.o

Mr.. John E. Read, formerly of South
Amherst, Massachusetts, (whom some of our
present readers may remember as frequent
and able correspondent of the old Vermoni
Farmer while it was under our care) has is.
sued, through the well known publishing
house of j. c. McCurdy & Co, of Philadelphia,
a book with the above title. 1t is large
octave of eight hundred and ffty.six pages,
illustrated with many wood cuts, chrome
Autographs of fruits, aud handsome steel
engraved frontspiece. FIom an examination
of this work we are led to believe that it
will fiud wide circulation among the farm
ers of the Union. 1t is practical compen.
dunn of subjects relating to agriculture and
farm mechanics, fruit-growing and garden
ing, live stock, business principles and do
nestle economy. Every member of the
farmers family will find in it useful instruc-
ton in regard to their daily work. Such
books of reference, sound and reliable as
this one is, should find place in every ru-
raj household. We are not informed on this
point, but believe Mr.. Reads valuable work
is published by subscription. If so, it will
prove bonanza for canvassers, and do much
to reconcile farmers to the much.abused but
not the less useful "book agent"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
A Live Agricultural Town.

Such is the town of Poultney, Rutland
county, Vermont, if we may judge from the
observations of single visit At the SEES.
sions of the Poultney Industrial Society,
which We lately had the pleasure to attend
and take part in, there was manifestation
of vigor aud earnest effort for progress too
rarely seen. Notwithstanding the very I'M
propitous weather, the people filed large
hall at every session, listened with apprecia-
tive attention to the speakers, and by their
lively questioning and sensible debate of the
questions discussed, demonstrated a vital in
terest in and firm grasp of the pith and
point of the agricultural questions of the
time. Among the towns of Vermont that
maintain wide-awake agricultural organiza-
tons, Poultney must rank with the very
first. Let her example be stimulus to all
the rest. Fifty such societies in our state
would make progress and prosperity jump -
in old Vermont as never before. Let us
have them
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Chemistry and Housekeeping.

We take the following from the Rural
Home: "Every housekeeper is a practical
chemist, that is, she handles, compounds,
and in various ways has to do with chem
ical elements, chemical compounds, chem
ical affinities and chemical changes. But
not every housekeeper is "a scientific chem
ist. They observe and are affected by re-
suits without knowing causes and princi-
PIES Perhaps if many of our young ladies'
now going through course Of study in
Guiding chemistry, in our high schools and
seminaries, could know what opportunities
the housekeeper has for applying the science
in daily practice, they would hold their oc-
cupation in higher esteem. God is the
great chief chemist, and in examining, de-
composing and recomposing his compounds
we are studying the operations of his laws
and learning of him. Among the various
chemical operations coming under the OBJ
servation of the housekeeper few are of
more interest and Importance than ferment-
alton. This operation affects almost every
hiuu Vi ioou, duu ~ NOuli De we'll LOT every
house1eeper to learn all that is known by
scientists on the subject. 1t is great aid
to the housekeeper, and at the same time a
great annoyance. 1t enables her to make
light, wholesome bread, biscuits, short-cake
and sweet-cakes, but it also has tendency
to render unpalatable and destroy almost
every kind of food. Fermentation will
make bread and cakes light, but if carried
too far will render them sour aud useless.
1t will convert the juice of grapes, apples
aud other fruits, first into alcohol, and then
into acetic acid or vinegar, in which state it
becomes very convenient condiment for
the housekeeper, and is also used as pre-.
servative of fruits and vegetables used as
pickles. 1t changes the sugar of milk into
Tactic acid, which renders milk unfit for
many but not for all purposes. 1t destroys
the flavor of all kinds of cooked fruits or
cooked vegetables, and it putrefes and de-
stroys all kinds of meat. In fact, the house
keeper is obliged to be constantly on the
alert, especially in hot weather, to prevent
the destruction of her food through the
agency of fermentation, and it would be well
for her to study chemistry and learn all that
1t teaches relating TO the subject"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
The Results OF Experience,

Professor A. j. Cook of the Michigan
agricultural college has been making a tour
of the agricultural educational institutions
OF the country. He finds most of those
which have been established on an indie
pendent basis to be doing good work, and
growing in the confidence of that part of
the community upon which they must de-
pend for patronage-the forehanded and in
telligent farmers of the nation. OF those
agricultural endowments which have been
entrusted to literary colleges he has very
different report to make. He says al have
lately visited five of the best-known colleges
where agriculture is department. Nearly
all are rich, and have excellent professors
and splendid equipments. Yet found the
agricultural students numbering from zero
to half score, with the tendency strongly
toward the zero side, some of the best being
entirely without agricultural students Both
students and professors said freely this de.
partment was in bad soil, and worse at.
mosphere. Two professors formerly EN-.
ployed in distinctively agricultural colleges
told me that special agricultural colleges
were far more potent, and that to attract
students to the study of agriculture in a
university was losing game. A few Of
these agricultural departments, notably that
Of Yale, are doing credtable and worthy
work in the way of experimentation but
when we consider how numerous and we'll
equipped these departments are, we can
hardly avoid the conclusion, in view of the
paucity OF the results, that the spirit of the
institutions is adverse to such researches
Two or three of these institutions have tried
with more or less success to institute lecture
courses for farmers. In one case | was told
by the officers that the effort was an entire
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Value Of Closet Earth.

There is much meat in Professor At
waters report of the MiddIetown (Counecti-
cut experiment station. We take il up and
study it with lively interest and hearty
appreciation of the good work that il records.
Like all such works, it is suggestive of many
unsolved questions, aud makes us wish to
have our bright young instructor at our
elbow for questioning. The analysis given
of "closet earth " on page fifteen is one Of
the dark cases. This material consisted of
about two tons of mixed dried earth and
anthracite coal ashes, which had passed ten
times through an earth closet used by four
persons for six years. IL was estimated that
it had received all Of the feces and one-third
time. So far as could be judged by appear
ance and smell, it was precisely the same as
when first prepared for use. "Neither the
eye, the nose, nor the hand could detect any
change from the original condition. And,
judging from the analysis, neither could the
chemist There was but twenty eight one
hundredths of one per cent of nitrogen in it,
thirty-seven one hundredths of one per cent
of phosphoric acid, and thirty-three one hun.
dredths of one per cent of potash. The
moisture was only one and thirty.one one
hundredths per cent, and the total organic
and volatile matter ten and seventy-two one
hundredths per cent. The above figures
would make the total weight of phosphoric
acid fourteen and eight-tenths pounds, of
potash thirteen and two.tenths pounds, of
nitrogen eleven and two-tenths pounds in
the whole two tons or, reckoned to the in
dividual, the amount of these substances
would be, of phosphoric acid ten ounces, of
potash eight and onehalf ounces, and of nj
trogen seven and one-third ounces, EACH per
year. Calculating at the usual prices al
lowed for these constituents in the same or
analogous forms, the value would be, of
phosphoric acid six cents, of potash three
cents, of nitrogen ten cents; total for the
value of all the faces and one-third the urine,
per person, for a year, nineteen cents. 1t is
probable that much the greater part of the
nitrogen was dissipated by oxidation and
evaporation, but none of the phosphoric acid
or potash could be lost. The inference
would be that human excrement is prac-
tically of no value as a fertilizer, which is
directly contrary to the experience of all
observing cultvators. An experiment run
ming now for four years has shown us that
on piece of poor sandy land about half the
urine of three persons, diluted with water
and sprinkled upon one eighth of an acre of
grass, has given all the product of hay that
could be dried OH the ground at each of two
separate cuttings, one in June and the other
in August. Gardeners value night soil as
one of the best fertilizers they can get.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Hoods ,S0rS0D0riIIO

hit the nail on the head and restored her to health.
Among the agonies experienced by the dyspeptc, are
distress before after eating loss OF appetite rregu-
larlty Of the bowels wind or gas and pain in the
stomach, heartburn, sour stomach, &c, causing
mental depression, rrtabnlty and sleepless-
II you discouraged be Of good cheer try
Hoods sarsaparilla. II has cured hundreds 1t will
cure you If you give 1t a fair chance.
MEssRs. c. l. HOOP 4 Co.
Gentlemen-l was persuaded to try Hoods Sara
pafilla for my wife, who has been troubled with in
digestion and debility for several year, which had
really rendered her feeble. Before she had
taken the INT bottle her health commenced 10 inn
prove. She Is now taking the fourth bottle and her
lcaltl has steadily and permanently improved, and
hmy believe Hoods Snrslparila Is entitled 10 the
credii. GRO. W. BOsWOkIH, Amherst, n. H.
prepared by q. /. HOOD Co, Lowell, Mass. Price
sL0o, six for $500. Sold by Druggists.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
eGor Me Nonna.
SUN SPIRITS APPEAL.

SUN SPIRITS APPEAL.
Winter now Ia over,
sprinstlme ia begun;
BE thou. too, a gentle
Spirit Of the SUM
When thou hearst the friendless
And the orphan moan,
Think on thy past sorrow
Por their sake alone.
This Ia the sweet lesson;
Learn It, dear, from Inc;
Bring TO them the sunshine
We have brought to thee
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
HOME.

Homes not merely roof and room;
II needs something to endcar II.
Home Ia where the heart can bloom;
Where there's some kind lip to cheer IL.
what Ia home with none to meet,
None to welcome, none to greet us7
Home is sw sand only sweet
When th' res one we love to meet us.
Homes not merely four square walls,
Though with pictures hung and gilded,
Home IL where affection calls,
Fnld with shTines the heart hath builded.
Home 20 watch the faithful dove
Sailing meath the heaven above us;
Home is where there's one to love,
Home Ia where there's one to love us. Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

PROFESSOR ARNOLD maintains that cheese
can be made at six and half cents a pound,
with ordinary care and stock, but with care.
full selection and proper feeding it could be
made for Ave cents a pound.