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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
How 1t Feels to Kill a Man.

81 believe 1 must have killed at
least dozen of the enemy during my
three years service in the army" said
Gen raj Charles f. Henderson. of Ne
braska. lone gets used to that sort
of business Just as surgeon becomes
hardened ard calloused in his pro-
feSsion. The first man that killed
was Lefore Richmond, when Mcclellan
was in command. l was doing picket
duty late one night, near the bank of
creek, and had been cautioned to be
especially watchful, as an attack was
expected. carried my musket at
half-cock, and was startled by every
rustic the wind made among the trees
and dead leaves. 1t was some time
after midnight that | saw Confeder-
ate cavalryman dashing down the OPP
posite side of the creek in my direc-
ton. AS he was opposite me fired
upon the horse and it fell. The cav
alryman regainei his feet in moment
and had drawn his pistols. 1 called to
him to surrender, but his only reply
was discharge from each revolver,
one bullet inhicting flesh wound in
my arm. Then let him have it full
in the breast. He leaped three feet in
the air and fell with his face down
1 knew | had finished him
1 ran and jumped across
the creek, picked him up and
laid him on his back. The blood was
running out of his nose and mouth
and poured in torrent from the rag.
ged hole in his breast. In less time
than it takes to tell it he was dead
without having said word. Then
my head began to swim, and / was
sick at my stomach. | was overcome
by an indescribable horror of the deed
l had done. l trembled all over and
felt as faint and weak as a Kitten. 1t
was with the greatest difficulty that l
managed to get into camp There
they laughed at me, but it was weeks
before my nervous system recovered
from the shock. Even in my dreams
l saw the pale face Of the cavalryman
and the specter haunted me like a
Nemesis long after had got over the
first shock of the affair. 1t was simply
horrible, but in time l recovered, AMI
at the close of the war 1 was quite as
Indifferent to the sacrifice of human
life as you can imagine"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
A Backing Mine.

1t will be strange if Nevada does
not yet turn out to be the boss pro-
Queer. She has already shown that
her mines are numerous and rich, and
almost every kind of metal has been
discovered within her boundaries. Sui
phur mines, mica deposits, salt and
boraX marshes have also been discov-
cred, but the latest discovery. and the
one which will throw all others in the
shade, is backing mine. In the
lower part of Mason valley there is
small lake, known as Mud lake. The
reason the lake was given this name
is because there is hardly ever any
water in it, and the bottom is soft and
muddy. When there is any water in
the pond, which is in the early spring
of the year, it has been noticed that it
was very black-about the color of
black ink--and the people have often
wondered what was the reason of this.
Last week Albert Thompson, who has
been resident of the valley for some
years, was passing the pond, and no
ticed that it was dry, the warm weather
having evapOrated all the water. He
noticed that the ground that had been
covered by water was very black, and
thought it a good time to examine
into the matter and see what color, d
the water. Taking his shovel he broke
the crust that had formed on top, and
found beneath soft, tet black, doughty
substance. He dug hole few feet
deep, and was convinced the stuff
went down. Upon leaving he took
with him chunk of the clay to ex-
pertinent with, and molding it into
small cakes set it in the sun to dry.
thinking it would make sort of black
chalk. When dry the cakes very
much resemble those small cakes of
stove backing that are sold in the
stores. In fact they resembled the
backing so strongly that the man wet
one of the little bricks, and rubbing it
on the stove, applied the brush. The
effect was marvellous ; and with a slight
amount of labor the old stove was
made to look like new piece of furni-
ture. Mr.. Thompson has made loca-
ton Of the lake, and is making prepa-
rations to put up small dry kiln.
The manner of preparing this black
ing will be similar to that of brick
making.-Lyon County (Nec) Times.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Care Of Trees After Being Tr nnspianted.

Care Of Trees After Being Transpin mt ed.
Trees that are not on cultivated
land should receive especial care until
they have been set more than two
years. Trees that do well the first
year often die the second, because, sup
posing them them to be out of danger,
they receive no especial care. 1t is
very well understood that tree must
be looked after the first year, but not
understood as well as it should be that
they need particular attention the sec
Ond year. In our climate the sun is
very hot and we often have long-con-
tinued dry weather, sometimes so long
as to dry the earth below the roots of
trees that have been set but few
years. AS tree full of leaves exhales
a very large quantity of water every
day, the roots, to keep the tree full,
exhaust the moisture from the soil 81
rapidly that when capillary action is
checked by harj-baked crust on top
there is not enough moisture drawn
from below to supply water in sufli-
cient quantities to keep life in the
tree.
To keep the soil in a condition to
rapidly draw the moisture from below.
the top should be either well-cultivated
or well-shaded; the latter may be best
done by mulching, if done before the
dry weather commences. The mulch
should, if possible, be applied early in
the spring. 1t is wonderful what
the soil, whether it be well mulche or
left exposed to bake in the sun.
Trees that stand where they are eX-
posed to the hot sun, have no lateral
branches to protect the trunks for sew
eral feet above the ground, need some
thing more than cultivation or mulch
ing; they need to have something to
prevent the hot sun from shining on
the trunks. This can easily be done by
winding around the trunks coarse mat
ting, leaving it loose enough for the
air to circulate freely.
During the first year after tire be
set, if the land is not to be cultivated,
water should lie applied during dry
weather twice week, and when APP
piled it should he in quantities to moist
en- the earth several feet from each tree.
1t is rarely necessary to stake tree
except in very exposed positions; but
when stalking is resorted to, great care
should be taken to prevent the limbs
and trunk from chatting, by winding
mating where they touch the stakes.
Trees that are mulched rarely ever re-
quire watering the second year, but
sometimes in a season of protracted
drought it would be good policy to
water occasionally; in fact, in very dry
places it is sometimes necessary to do
s. to save the life of the tree. --UaSsa-
chtsettS Ploughmdn.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24

FRIED TOMATOES.--Slice fresh ripe,
tomatoes, and sprinkle with salt, flour
and pepper; fry in hot butter; when
all are done pour into your fry
ing pan one cup of milk, with one tea
spoon of flour mixed in it, and stir
till it boils; pour this over tomatoes
and serve.
CoACOANUT CAKE.-One and one.
half cups of butter, one and half cups
milk, two cups flour, two eggs and two
teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in
jelly tins. Icing--Whites of three eggs,
twelve tablespoons of sugar, and three
OF grated coacoanut. Place between
layers of cake when cool.
CARBONATE SODA WATER.-Put
into a tumbler, raspberry, strawberry
or any other acid syrup, sufficient in
quantity to flavor the beverage very
highly, then pour ice water till the
glass is half full, add half teaspoon
of bicarbonate of soda, and stir well
with a teaspoon. 1t will foam i'm
mediately and should be drunk during
effervescelce.
weight of three eggs in butter, sugar
and flour. Warm the butter and beat
the Ingredients together until very
light, bake in well buttered cups one
half hour. Subjective cups powdered
sugar, piece of butter size of an egg,
about one teaspoonful of hot water
poured on butter to moisten, beat
well and keep en- ice until needed.
CLAM CHowDER.--Cut fine one-half
pound salt pork, twenty-five clans,
three onions and one quart white po-
tatOes; put pork on 20 cook in two
quarts boiling water; season this with
pepper, salt, summer savory, thyme,
sage and parsley; cook one hour; then
add your minced onions and potatoes,
and last of all the clans; clans should
cook about twenty minutes only.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24

sufficient protection through the cold
weather. When spring comes they
will be found so rotted away as not to
interfere with the growth of the plants.
They have also the advantage of con-
tanning no weed seeds. 49,
An Ohio farmer says he rids his
clover field of weeds in the following
manner: AS soon after harvest as the
weeds show their heads well above the
clover he runs mower over the field
set just high enough to clip the
weeds and stubble and not disturb the
clover much. The weeds and stubble
are short and make mulch and the
clover soon grows and smothers the
weeds AMI makes fair crop of hay.
Thinning the fruit when it is quite
small, on apple, peach or pear trees,
will give better fruit and enough larger
to afford as many bushels as can be
had from small, overcrowded trees.
On heavily loaded trees from two
thirds to three-fourths of the fruit may
be taken Oft to great advantage. The
thinning may be performed by cutting
off with pair of sheep-shears, after
the fruit is set, so as to show defects
or insect marks, leaving the largest and
best.
Reports of an experiment made by
the State Agricultural college of Michi-
gan on their farm with sowing land
plaster on grass claim that two bushels
of plaster produced over two-thirds as
much increase as twenty loads of horse
manure. Theplaster happened to suit
exactly the requirements of this special
soil, and similar applications made on
other lands m ght fail to produce
marked results, though, as rule, plas-
ter is beneficial to grass and meadow
lands.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24

Neal Dow figures that 81, 800, 700, 900
are spent for drink each year.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
Farm and Garden Notes.

SKINNED m TX is excellent for lay
ing hens, indeed for al poultry.
A correspondent of the Indiona
Farmer recommends the squash as Il
cheap green food for stock in winter.
Mix charcoal with the food when
fattening turkeys. 1t corrects acidity
of the stomach and prevents indiges-
ton.
Do not try co milk cows, especially
heifers, too rapidly; milk with steady,
continuous movement and not by
jerks.
Clover is so.easily injured by smoth-
ering that even the rakings should be
carefully removed where a second crop
is expected.
A writer in the Homs and Farm SAYS
that if you put a few castor beans in
the subterranean haunts of moles they
will leave the place.
A correspondent of the OHIO Farmer
says a strong steel-bladed case-knife
makes enc of the most simple, light,
cheap and excellent wedding tools.
Poisonous washes applied to the
foliage of trees, vines, ETC., are of no
avail against those insects which suck
the juices of plants instead of eating
the leaves or buds.
Fruit men say that the best way to
treat trees infested with borers is to
remove the earth about the base of the
trunk. Fill up the hollow after freez-
ing weather is well under way.
The soil has much to do in affecting
the shading and color of poultry, an /
it is point that is seldom taken into
careful consideration, though its i'm
portance is conceded by few.
Purslane is like green clover, excel
lent for pigs. Hens in confinement
also eat it readily. 1t is great nui-
sance in the garden, and the best way
to get rid of it is to cut it off with the
hoe or pull it up and take it to the pig
pen or the poultry-yard.
1t is said that weeds may be de-
stroyed for years by copious watering
with solution of lime and sulphur
in boiling hot water. This, if effectual,
will be highly important to such as
have garden gravel walks, pavements,
etc, through which grass and weeds
grow up.
Most failures to grow celery origi-
nate in not having the soil rich enough.
The manure intended for this crop
should. if possible, be applied the pre-
vious fall, so that it may become thor
oughly incorporated with the soil. This
will help keep the soil moist during
summer thoughts.
To kill the larvae of the peach Dor r
and prevent egg-laying. apply to the
base of the trunks the following com,
pound To ten gallons of soft soap add
as much hot water; then stir in half
pint of crude carbolic acid and let it
stand over night next add three times
its bulk of water and it is ready for
use.
If your cows leak their milk it will
be well to milk them three times day
while they are in full flow. Care
should be used in handling an animal
whose udder is distended by an I'M
usually large flow of milk, lest some of
the milk glands be ruptured. Be gen.
tie and do not milk too rapidly.
Save the late potato vines for COW
ering strawberry beds in winter.
Spread them thinly over the ground
late in the fan, and they will afford
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
HEALTH HINTS.

Don't sit or sleep in draught.
Don't go to bed with cod feet.
Don't stand over hot-air registers.
Don't lie on the left side too mnch.
Don't inhale hot air or fumes of any
acids.
Don't lie on the back to keep from
snoring.
Don't eat what you don't want, just
to save it.
Don't battle in less than two hours
after eating.
Don't eat in less than two hours
after bathing
Don't sleep in room that is hot
well ventilated.
Don't eat the smallest morsel unless
hungry, if well.
Don't eat anything but well-cooked
and nutritious food.
Don't start to days work without
eating good breakfast.
Don't take long walks when the
stomach is entirely empty.
Don't forget to take good drink Of
pure water before breakfast.
Don't jump out of bed Immediately
on awakening in the morning.
Don't wear thin hose or light-soled
shoes in cold or wet weather.
Don't strain your eyes by realing on
an empty stomach or when i'll.
Don't sing or holloa when your
throat is sore, or you are hoarse.
Don't eat between meals, nor enough
to cause uneasiness at meal time.
Don't forget to cheer and gently
amuse invalids when visiting them.
Don't sleep in the same undergar-
ments that are worn during the day
Don't take some other PERSONS medi-
cine because you are similarly afflicted.
Don't forget to rub yourself well all
over with crash towel or hands before
dressing.
Don't try to get along with less than
seven or eight hours sleep out of
twenty-four.
Don't try to keep up on coffee OK
hiCOHOllC Sull1uldllIS Wltu udtuTe ID
calling you to sleep.
Don't call so frequently on your sick
friend as to make your company and
conversation bore.
Don't make practice of relating
scandal or stories calculated to depress
he spirits of the sick.
Don't drink ice water when you are
very warm, and never a glassfrl at a
time, but simply sip. slowly.
Don't ruin your eyes by reading OF
sewing at dusk by a dim light or flick
ering candle, nor when very tired.
Don't fill the cash with SCOT, sugar,
or anything else to arrest the hem
orrhage when you cut yourself, but
bring the parts together with strips Of
adhesive plaster.
Don't call on your sick friend and
advise him to take some other medi-
cine, get another doctor, eat more, eat.
less, sit up longer, go out more fire.
quently; stay week and talk him to
death before you think of leaving
And lastly, when about to leave, don't
say "Well, 1 guess it's about time I
was going" and then hang around half
an hour before you know how to get
away. Say Good might" and 60 and
done with it.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24

Among the precautions against
cholera, says London Truth, it is sug-
gested that, as workers in copper in
Hungary, and those engaged in the
manufacture of brass and copper
articles elsewhere. never seem to catch
it, a thin disk of pure copper, about
two and half inches in diameter,
should be worn next to the skin, over
the pit of the stomach. and suspended
from the neck by cord.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
TIE WILLIAMS MANUFACTURING CO.,
347 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.
Continued from last tDeek)
How Watch Cases are Made.

1t is fact not generally known that the
James Boss Gold Watch Gases really con-
tain more pure gold than many "solid"
gold cases The demand for these watch
cases has led to the manufacture of very
poor grade of solid gold watch cases
low in quality, and deficient in quantity.
These cases are made from 4 to 10 karats,
and or karat case is often sold for II
or IA karats. 1t is NOT economy to buy
watch case so poor in quality that it will
soon lose its color, or one SO soft that it will
lose its shape and fail to shut tight, thus
letting in dust and damaging the works, or
one so thin that slight blow will break
the crystal, and perhaps the movement.
1t Is economy to buy James Boss Gold
Watch Case, in which NONE of these things
ever occur. This watch case is not an erperi-
ment-it has been made nearly thirty years
HAzLEToN, PA, Oct. "a, 1882
sold two James Boss Gold Watch Cases thirty
years ago, when they first came out and they are in
good condition yet. One Of them is carried by
shows the wear in one or two places, the other by
Mr.. Bowman, of Cunningham, Pa and I can pro-
duce one or both Of these cases at any time
SYLVESTER ESGLE, Jeneler.
Send rent stamp Keystone Watch Case Factories Pha.
dephia Pa for handsome illustrated Pamphlet
James Boss and Keystone Watch Cases made.
ITO be C0ntinued)
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24

Montana is so infested by bears that
the authorities pay S24 for each scalp
taken. Montana has $4,000 inhabi-
tantS.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
FI1EI0A
almiue

Cool nights begin to give you relief. They
make you think that since you worried
through the hot weather with your old
feather beds and hair mattresses you can
safely weather the fall Look Quit There
Is disease in the air. Animal beds are ac-
tive absorbents. What is in the air is in a
bed filled with conducting substance. II
It isn't It is not the beds fault. Worse than
this all animal bed filling gives off some
thing more harmful than 1t takes up-pen-
crates more than 1t absorbs.
That's why DR.. s. II. DurRin, Chairman Of the Bos
ton Board Of Health, says: Feathers are capable ~
receiving and retaining impurities like other porous
articles They are difficult to clean and purify They
carry more or less animal debris from the fowl which
makes them very unhealthy. They also create and
maintain fine dust, which is highly injurious"
How different with pure, notwithstanding,
aromatic, vegetable bed, like Pine Palmine
1t Is always dry, inviting and safe. It's
smells are never fetid, but are the invigor-
ating aroma OF the pine, which invalids
love, and which aresmedcine for hun
dredS OF ills
Says Mrs Walter Stevens, Syracuse, N Y: "1 had
not had good nights rest for five years. till got
one of your Pine Palmine mattresses would 20 to
bed and have to get up coughing and choking. Some
nights sat up half the night some, all night But
now can go to bed at nine and sleep till seven and
my asthma is all gone"
A clear case OF where distressing dis
ease was induced or aggravated by dust
andsmellsfr from animal bedding, and where
speedy cure was brought about by
breathing the aroma OF Pino-Palmine.
II there is no agent near you, send orders, with
length and breadth Of bed to Agent Pine Palmine
Co., lib Water st. Boston, Mass
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-09-11

parb pom elmer fniiternben Slamme per-
sebrt. Sn bas Soben unb @itben Der
Slammen mii6te ti6 bas bur9 bas linz
fallen Der VGume entitebenbe &ra6en.
ollie 10 Setunoen ienfte ii6 Elm 100 SUB
bober Gieienbaum CUR Groe, feline Spite
nit Seuer sefront. Wir bielten %unieren
atbem on uno i6auten gum armament emf
por, Oas bur9 Gau9 sei6wdrst mar unp
MIR bier unb ba tonnten mir einen S6im>
mer erbliden. Sect peritummt bas 6raden
Der faQenben 8Gume fir einen Nusenblid,
aber bas Seier bri6t bur6 bic Sunfelbeit
bes Walbes unb beginnt elm neues Ser
b~eerungswert. Die Slammen erbai6en bic
groBen Ydume unb bas 9aubperf i6milSt
rpeg, ipie Der S6nee bel benz erlten beiBen
SonnenbIid unb bann be9innt bas 6raten
unb &ai6en pieber. 0ir fra9ten ben Gons
bufteur, penn mir meiter fabren %fOnnten,
CT antportete urs: mad 2 Stunben. Qanse
SolSitiite aber batten bic @eleiie bebtdt unb
%besannen, iest gu bremen, II, MIR burd Die
Siilfe eini9er Gbineien, pel6e BON Der
ndditen Citation berbeiserufen wurben unb
bic SolSmaiie II megrdumten, wurbe bas
@eleile frei. Stunoen paren inbeiien per-
sansen, aber bas 6eler wiitbete redts unb
linfs INNER nod. gpnbutteur unb Mias
idiniit wdren 10 serne meter sefubren,
neil iie slaubten, baB bur6 bic furdtbare
Site Der !3u9 in Sranb 9eratben tOnnte.
ginen pollen balben Gag binbur9 beoba9s
teten mir bas 6euer, bann entfernte es ii9
mebr uno mebr BON uns, unb IieB uns
weiter fabren.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-09-11

aber nur Der Sail, wenn Ell ni9t wetB, wts
er es ansufaxsen bat. Nimmt man cine
carte %unrsiie, bldtterise grbbeerpfanae
uno iett ie in einen oft idledt Suberettens
ben Soben, no iie Der beiBen augult Son>
ne aus9eiett lit, obne S6atten uno bauf9
obne Ve9ieBen, 10 mirb le in ben metlten
Sauen I'M 6erbit ni6t msbr p~oranfOmmen,
wenn iie nidt gang uerbirbt, unb man fam
pom elmer iolden Bflanse I'M tommenben
Sum- feline Yeeren er1parten.
Die iuuse YfanSs muB I'M Serblt nod
feit Nursel faiien f%6nnen, wsnn iie i'm
ndditen Sabre fru9tbar iein iou. Gs 1T
baber anSuratbeu, i'm 9lusuit bic iunssn
Grbbeerp flansen in Slumentopfe, alts
@rbbeertditden, ODER YuppeOsdsltditdsn
gu ieten, iie gu besieBsn unb ar einem
i6attisen Ylate 3u balten. Nad einisen
@oden mirb bic Yflanse ftarfe WurSeln
baben unb fam bann nit einem Srbtlums
pen ms Srsie ueriett werben.
6ann bies gerfabren ni6t m0sli9 9es
madt werben, 10 lit weni9ites baraut ~
ieben, baB Der goben in ben bic Yfan3en
tommen, loder unb gut 9epiinst 1T NM
Oub ie Sdatten unb @aflsr i'm anfans
baben. Otan made elm Sod in ben @rllnc,
9teBe etpa elm Yeint @aiier binein un
lese oann bic gfanSe, uno fiue bas go9
NIT Groe. SSebe Yfanse ioIte i'm 4nfan9
I'M S6atten fteben. Sin blattrei9sr
SarmSmeis an Der iioli6en Seite Der
YfanSe einseitedt sibt binrei6eno S6atten
uno bis Die Sldtter perpelft finb, lit Die
PfanSe frdfis senus.
Die i'm 9erbit sepfanstsn @rbbeeren
iouten in ensen SOppelreiben itsben.
Die Yflansen auf 6 3ou, bic &eiben auf
IL GOD Gntfernuns. Smei SUB bapon
entfernet fam cine anbere 0Oppelreibe sss
ma6t merben.