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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
Uprising Against the Wolves.

DIR. William p. Vail of Newark, New Jer-
sey, venerable pioneer in the cause Of tenn
perance, in late letter of "reminiscences to
the Jerseymdn, writes sin the fall of 1918
there was an Eruption Of wolves into a part
of Morris county, New Jersey. In the day
time they were concealed in large wood,
but at night they roamed abroad, worrying
and killing the farmers sheep in the vicinity.
The county for miles around was aroused,
and a company of hunters undertook TO rid
the neighborhood of the pest The writer,
then a lad, has lively remembrance of the
time, for he joined in the sally and did his
little best to aid in the common cause. Well,
in two or three days, after killing three
wolves on the first days hunt and one or
two afterwards, the rest were driven back
to their place, and the trouble was over.
This uprising against the wolves was right.
Such nuisance must be abated, ii possible
What let the poor innocent sheep be torn
and devoured by wild wolves No, never
Raise hue and cry, and kill the brutes
"Now, this true history carries moral
and suggests pertinent lesson. There is a
malignant power abroad in our land and in
other lands, ten thousand times more hurt
| full and destructive than wild wolves. I'm
| like them, it does its work by day as well as
by night; not in secret only, but openly too
killing not the body only but the soul Dread
scourge, cruel as the grave; impelled by
greed of money, and hatred of honest, use
full and reputable labor void OF conscience
of pity, and of shame Yet the stranges
thing remains TO be told this destroyer i
shielded by law Our legislature and court
lagalize and sanction its destructive work, TO
the public good And implicated In man.
ways with this baleful, brazen wickedness
this conspiracy against God and humanity
are to be found not only the openly profan,
and ungodly, but members OF churches il
regular standing professed disciples o
him who came not to destroy mems lives
but to save them. Joining in unholy ALI
ance with in6dels and scoffers, the rockies
and dissolute, they bid the fell destroyer &
forth, than which no power on earth bette
deserves to be characterized as purely an
simply an enemy of the human race.
"If that question of the good Master
How much is man better than q sheep
was pertinent eighteen hundred years agS
it is equally so to-day. And by how muc
man is better than sheep, by 30 much
the liquor-traiic worse than the work thos
wolves were doing, and for which they wer
! hunted and killed and driven away"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

The following is taken from letter in ST.
Nicholas. If more parents treated their
boys in this way, it would be much better
for both al am little boy, ten years old.
When was four, my mother took me to
see my grandfather, who gave me a dollar.
When came home, my father offered TO
give me a heifer for the dollar and years
work at five cents day. | said all right,
and after the years work was done, he sold
the COW and gave ms the money, with which
| bought four year old COW. After q
while this COW had calf, and when he was
yearling, she had another. When the frs,
calf was two years old, traded him fol
another cow. The first COW by this time
had third calf, and the second COW also
had calf sold two Of the yearlings fol
twenty-three dollars, and had six dollars be
sides. put this this money at interest fo
ten cents on dollar year. Afterwards
bought another COW, selling the first old on,
for s27, buying two pigs. BY trading roun'
now have two cows, two calves, two pigs
a pony and saddle, and s2i in money at in
terest, all made in six years"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
Milk Analyses.

We are Through the kindness of President
Buckham) in the receipt of five analyses of
milk supplied by different parties near Bur
lington. They were made by Mr.. F. A.
Owen, agricultural student, U. V. M. and
S. A. c." The summary of these analyses
is contained in the following table,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
PILES

Itching Piles---Symptoms and Cure.
The symptoms are moisture, like perspiraton,
intense itching increased by scratching, very dis
tressing, particularly at night, as II pin-worms
were crawling in and about the rectum; the pri-
continue, very serious results may follow. DR.
SwAYNE's ALL-HEALfSG OINTMENT is a pleasant
sure cure. Also for letter, Itch, Salt Rheum
Scald Head, Erysipelas, BARRIERS Itch, Blotches
all Scay Crusty, Cutaneous Eruptions Price 30
cents, three boxes for Sl25 Sent by mail to any
address on receipt Of price in currency or three
cent postage stamps. Prepared only by DIR.
Swayne 4 Son, $50 North Sixth Street, Philade-
phia, Penn. Sold by all prominent druggists.
GEORGE q. GOODWIN a. CO.. Boston. Mass,
WHOLESALE AGENTS
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
Cheaper Fertilizers.

In our first article on this subject (printed
June 16) we spoke of the over-manufactnr-
ing of our superphosphates, forced upon the
manufacturers by the chemists method Of
estimating the values of the different kinds
of lime phosphate. There are three of these
that is, three different compounds of lime
and phosphoric acid, called by chemists tri.
calcic, bi-calcic and mono calcic phosphates,
The following schedule of formulas will ex-
hibit the composition of each of the three
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
HANDSOME HAIR,

The Only Knopn Resforer Of Color and'Ier-
feet Hair Dressing Combined.
1t never fails to impart life, growth and yigor
to the weakest hair fastens and stops its falling,
and is sure to produce new growth of hair in its
original color causing it to grow thick and strong
10 Cents per Bottle; Six Bottles for -.
Address orders to DIR. SWAYNE g. SON, 800
North Sixth Street, Philadelphia. Sold by all
prominent druggists.
GEORGE q. GOODWIN a. CO.. Boston, Mass.
WHOLESALE AGENTS.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
Temperance.


Answer him softly. You cannot know
In the depths below,
How sharp was the struggle, the fight he made.
Ere the price he paid,
And yielded his soul TO the tempter's power
In hasty hour.
Answer him softly for It may be-
Like the sturdy tree,
Which tested in many storm, la strength.
To be rent at length
lie struggled full oft. and resisted we'll
Though at last he fell.
Answer him softly. lest you be tried
On your weaker side,
And fail as before you so many have done,
Who in thought had won;
Fail, too ere temptation had spent its force
In its subtle course.
Answer him softly; for none can tell.
When the storni-clouda swell,
Whose bark shall weather the tempest or whose
Its venture shall lose.
Speak gently the weakest may stand tho gale,
The stoutest may fail. --Trdpeiier.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

This will cost only sl5 more than our own
mixture, and be, as that is, equal in its ef-
feet upon crops to sl35 worth Of the best
superphosphates. We have no doubt that
the phosphate makers will deliver this mix
ture, or its equivalent (using perhaps some
other source of nitrogen, such as fish, or
blood,) for $50 per ton, and one ton will, by
analysis, contain as much phosphoric acid
and as much nitrogen as two tons of stand
ard superphosphate, Nth The potash (Which
makes it complete fertilizer) hro,cn in
and that is the way we can get CHEAPER
FFRTIIIzERs"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

Destroyydi ltwillrcllcvc lin !
mcdlntely pain in any place
where ii can be applied in
tcrnnlly or externally. For
cuts, bruises, sprains, &c. .
II is the very best remedy
known arrcsting h 0
bleeding ut once, reducing
the swelling and inflamma.
tion, stopping the pain and
healing the injury In a won
derful manner.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

BosTos, October H. 1870.
ar. II. EDDY, Eso-Dedr Sir:-You procured for me,
1870, rst patent Since then you have acted and
advised me in hundreds OF cases, and procured many
patents reissues and extensions. have occasionally
ployed the best agencies In New York. Philadelphia and
Washington but still give you almost the whole OF my
business in your line, and advice others employ you
Yours truly GEORGE DIAPER"
Boston, January |. lSS0. 2l-72
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

tons of commercial fertilizer we can buy for
Sl35. This mixture will analyze as we'll as
the purchased superphosphates but the
bone, being in the "insoluble" condition,
will not be reckoned SO valuable, according
to the Connecticut table. II, however, this
table is wrong (and our crops have for years
made proclamation to that effecD, then we
have got much cheaper fertilizer than
those which our neighbors have been buying
in the over manufactured phosphates de-
manded by the chemical authorities.
"Ohl" says some reader, "you may get
bones in that way, but can't" Well, every
body can get some, If they try. Still, it is
not necessary. Fine ground South Carolina
phosphate, costing 1876 ton, is, we believe,
just as good. Others say they cannot get
ashes. Let Them then, buy the same value
in high grade German potash salts, II we
could not do as we are doing now, we would
make mixture thus:
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

values of our purchased fertilizers are to be
reckoned accordingly, we are getting them
about as cheap as we can expect to. We
chasing by the carload for cash, but that is
all. If, however, these figures are erroneous,
If Gas Professor Tanner asserts and as En-
glish agricultural experience seems to dem
onstrate) the "reverted" phosphate,-that
which by keeping has changed back from
the onelime (mono-calcic) to the two-lime
(bi-calcic) FORMS really tcorh more, pound
for pound, as fertilizer, than the one-lime
form for ,chich we are charged t,oelue and a
half cents, then we can see clear chance
for cheaper fertilizers. According to Pro.
fessor Tanner the tri-calcic phosphate Of The
fine ground bone is also more ualuable as a fer
taizer than The mono-calcic phosphate which zoe
are now buying. This entirely accords with
our own experience for the past fourteen
years. The strongest and most satisfactory
fertilizer we have ever used has been mix
ture of one ton of fine ground bone with
two tons 600 bushels) of unleached hard
wood ashes. These three tons cost us, on the
ground,
For the bone. W "
FOR the ~ 70
Total''...''... s6o %
or s2l.66 per ton, and we never could see
any advantage in swapping it, ton for ton,
for any superphosphate we have ever used.
We have not had the courage to push this
before the public (though we have fire.
quently stated it, because the agricultural
chemists were all against us; but now that
Professor Tanner of England, Professor
Caldwell of this country, and other eminent
men, have found it out we venture again 70
put forward our own experience in the
matter.
We have indeed gone farther than this
and year and half ago at the meeting Of
the Dairymen's Association in Montpelier
we gave the details of our new method o.
using bones and ashes, and were there severely
criticised and admonished for our ignoranc,
by Mr.. Whitaker of Massachusetts. 1t il
a bad thing TO be ahead of the times-ant
tell of it.
This new method was worked out becaus
we thought $40 ton on the farm was to-
high a price for ground bone. We coul
buy bones in plenty for ten or fifteen dollar
ton, and by burning them in the kitche
stove 4 few at time during the winte
then pounding them fine on the barn aoc
with pestle made by inserting an oil
broom handle in one end of piece of bloc
wood, we got them as fine as the best groun
bone. The bones lost half their weight b
burning, and half a ton of the powdere
burned bones with two tons Of ashes mac
mixture almost as effective as the mixtul
Of raw bone and ashes. The cost was
follows:
The burned bone VI
'ouh ~
By adding three hundred and fifty poun,
Cd sulphate of ammonia, costing $l7 (tot
s57), we have fertilizer every way as
fectiye upon corn and potatoes as any thr
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

Vegetable, 1t Is harmless
In any case no matter how
applied or aiken. The gen
uine il never sold In bulk, but
only In our own bottles viii
words Ponds Extract T"
blown In the glass and our
trade.markon the outside bun
wrapper. BeiDdreofdHyimiid-
lions. Tryitonccfnd you will
never be without It for n SIN
gle day. Sold by all Druggists.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

BY adding three hundred aud fifty pounds
of sulphate of ammonia, costing sl7 (total
s57), we have fertilizer every way as Of,
fectiye upon corn and potatoes as any three
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

regard Mr. Eddy Of the capable and sue
csSVi practitioners with whom have had official inter
course. CHARLES MASON,
Commissioner of Patents"
"Inventors cannot employ person Trustworthy
capable OF securing for them early and favorable
consideration at the Patent Office
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
BUTTERFLIES AND BEES,

butterflies are merry things,
uayly painted are their wings,
And they never carry atinga.
Bees are grave and busy thing,
Gold their Jacket, brown their wings,
And they always carry atings.
Yet--isn't II extremely funny
Bees, not butterflies, make honey.
--Haiper's Young People.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
eMeiu adrrrfisenents.

ExTRACTt,lo-catv We.
getable Pam Destroyer and
Specific for Innamnations,
lfemorrhages, Wounds, Cuts,
Bruises, Burns, Sprains. sc, 4,
sc. Stopping the flow OF
blood, relieving nj once tho
pain, subduing the inham.
nation, fastening the heal.
ing and curingtht disease so
rapidly as 20 excite wonder,
admiration and graft ude.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
HEAL
ThYSELF!
PATE MIS-!

r. H. EDDY,
No. 70 State ST., opposite Kilby, Boston,
secures Patents IN the United States Great Britain
France and other foreign countries Copies OF the olans Of
any Patent furnished by remttng dollar Assignments
recorded at Washington. No Agency in the United States
posses superior aeieS for obtaining Patents or ascer
idinin0 the patentability Of inrentions.
r. II. EDDY, Solicitor OF Patents.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30

Leave Montpelier at $40 A. NJ, 1904 NJ, 10 SO A.
NJ, 40 2. NJ. and d. 90 p M
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17

is, used to protect from witchery and
sorcery, and many of the present time
believe it has singular properties for
curing all catarrhal troubles. The
Greeks believed that Phaeton's sisters,
lamenting his loss after his death,
turned into poplar trees and their tears,
which flowed continually into the river
where they stood, were CONCEALED into
amber.
The Greeks thought coral was formed
from the blood which dropped from the
head of Medusa, which Perseus hung
on the branches of a tree near by the
seashore. These drops becoming hard
were planted by the sea nymphs in the
sea, where they grew up in branches,
which, slowly uniting, became the
coral reefs.
In the early ages coral was used
incidentally as an astringent and given
also to newborn infants. And many
valued it for its power to vanquish the
devil and overcome his snares if worn
as an amulet.
There has also been much of super
stition connected with the way in which
certain rings should be worn, and good
or evil fortune prophesied as one con-
formed or refused compliance to the
"sign." Each finger had some sign
attached to it which was used as rea-
son for caution. But as each finger has
It's individual functions there is nothing
but what can be explained in the sim
plest and most common-sense manner,
without resorting to magic. witchcraft
or signs and wonders. The third finger
is now usually the ring-fnger-that is,
the wedding-ring finger. The ancients
supposed that a nerve in that finger
was intimately connected with the
heart, and it was therefore set apart for
this especial honor. On the contrary,
it has less Independent arteries than
either of the others. 1t cannot be bent
or Strengthened very much without
some motion or actions of the fingers
on either side; and as if in compensa-
ton for this deficiency is chosen as the
ring finger.-MrS. Henry Ward Beecher,
IN Christian Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17
0ur panng gaMs.
THE BABY'S PICTURE

:" We must carry our beautiful baby to town,
Some day. when the weather is fair, we said
We must dress him up in his prettiest gown,
:, And wave his hair on the top OF his head;
For all his cousins and all his aunts,
And both his grandmOthers proud and dear,
Declare it is shameful and every way blameful,
To have had no picture of him this year."
He was three months old when we took him be-
fore,
And he lag like lamb on his mammals lap,
And the darling now has twelvemonth more
Of bewildering graces from sock to cap.
Just look at his dear little laughing face,
At the rosebud mouth, at the violet eyes
Why the photograph-taker, that vanity shaker,
Will think this time, We have brought him a
priZel
We carried our child to the town one day.
The skies were SOFT and the air was cool,
We ROBBED him richly in fine array
Ribbons and laces and Swiss, and tulle.
He looked like prince IN the artists chair,
Sitting erect, and brave, and grand,
With big red apple, he scarce could grapple,
Held close in the palm of one dimpled hand.
He is taking it now!' We held our breath!
:, w, We furtively Reeped from behind the screen!
What a pose" we whispered; then, sill as
death,
Waited-and baby was all serene
Till the critical moment, when, behold,
The sun was catching that lovely look,
Such terrible roar it shook the floor!
And that was the picture the swift sun took:
wrinkled face, and close-shut eyes,
And mouth that's opened so very wide,
That our dear little sister slbyl-wise,
Declares she can see the cry inside.
Aunts and cousins and grandmothers dear
Haven't got over their anger YETI
But we thought it was funny, and paid our
money
For that strange phase of our precious pet.
Ali children older than baby think
Dear little children, blithe and sweet,
With your curls of gold, and your cheeks of pink,
And your naughty tempers sudden and feet,
What an awful thing it would be for you
If an artist should happen along some day,
And observing the pouting the frown or the
tiouting,
Should take picture of you that way.
-Margaret Il. SdngSter, in VIDE AoCdke.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17
SuperstitiOns Connected With Precious
Stones.

The amethyst was in some nations
given as a voucher for continued love
and confidence, and while worn it was
supposed that no power was able to
shake the trust thus sealed; but if lost
or defaced all the sorrows and evils
that are incident to broken faith and
estranged affections might be hourly
looked for.
The Persians made drinking-cups of
amethyst, under the impression that no
beverage drank from those cups could
intoxicate. After a time AMETHYST in
any shape, whether as a cup, necklace,
bracelet, or ring, was a sure protection
from intemperance. Many of the jew
ish rabbis and medieval writers assert
ed that when worn the amethyst SUBJ
jected its wearer to wild and bewilder-
ing dreams, and yet this was one of the
twelve stones which adorned the high
priests breast-plate. The amethyst,
with its royal purple or new wine color,
was from the dawn of Christianity
famed as the emblem of the blood of
Christ, and from that superstition it
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17

tive cry of the whip-poor-will filled the
night with poetry, but he didn't hear
any of it, all the same. "And, by
George" he said to friend fifteen
minutes later, g if didn't leave my hat
on the piano, and my cane in the hall.
I'm goat. Think of 'em? Forget
'em? Strike me blind if knew l had
any clothes on at all. What wanted
was fresh air, and l wanted about thir-
ty acres of it, and mighty quick, too.
-HdWE- Eue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17

You can get bottle or barrel of
oil off any carpet or wooden stuff, says
an exchange, by applying dry buck
wheat plentifully. Never put water to
such a grease spot, or liquid of any
kind.-Ronae Sentinel. We are going
into the oil business immediately.
When one can get barrel of oil at the
small outlay of little buckwheat and
an old piece of carpeting you may count
us in Yawcob Strauss.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17

In winter, clean carpets with dry
snow; have the room cool; sprinkle on
the snow; scrub first with broom, and
then sweep clean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-17

A woMAN's rite-The marriage-cere-
mony.
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Marriage Brokers.

Marriage brokers are quite ~ /.
business men in Genoa. 1ns! ~
pocketbooks filled with the 80 ~
manageable girls Of the dlasrsS
es, with notes Of their figures, s's
attractions, fortunes, etc. H. : ~
90 about endeavoring to ARA ~
nections; and when they sdoea
get a commission of . Or = pr s....s
on the portion. Marriage q
quite a matter Of calculation, ~
settled by the parents or feas -. Il
often draw up the contrast ~
parties have seen one anotnef, ~
only when every thing y s.fsn
a few days previous TO tne
ceremony, that the future nusDsas ~ y
troduced to his future pan -,
Should he find fault with net ls 8
or appearance, he may nlc..
match ON condition o. dss 4
brokerage and any other y
CURED. ssaxs
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induced to assume the character which

induced to assume the character which
he had so well enacted, entirely on
speculation. While making a survey OF
the neighborhood, few days before he
began to play his part, he had observed
the backward state of the landlords
garden; and believing that he would
readily catch at a chance of getting it
finished off in cheap way, and being
good hand at gardening, he
had hit upon the scheme which had an
swered so well. He had believed that the
robbers were not far from the locality of
the public house, and might come there
now and again, and so, could he lodge
there without being known or suspect
ed, he might come at all that he desired.
And as he had hoped, SO did it come to
pass.
The naturalist, who, it came out, had
long been receiver of stolen property,
and his son, whose first burglaries these
were, got each five years. penal servi-
tude; one of the other men-who came
from distant town, and were old hands
was likewise convicted and punished /;
but the fourth, for some forgotten rea-
son, got Off My friend came in for the
good reward offered in this case; and
for the part which l had taken in the
affair the jeweler gave me gold pencil
holder, which treasure as memento.
l-EnQliSh MAGAZINE.