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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14
pressing For a Photography \,

"rhe question is often asked" said as
e%xperienced photographer, "why actors
and actresses take the most pleasing
pictures. 1t is because they study the
principles of art and good taste in their
profession, and understand how to
dress. Moreover, they usually bring a
selection of wells, flowers, curls, braids,.
laces, and so netimes costumes to give
the photographer q choice ofaccessorles.
They come when they are wholly at
leisure, and are not flustered. A red
face takes black, and they know it.
Then they do not load themselves down
with gewgaws and haberdasheries, to
show all that they have got In worldly
goods, Few persons know how to dress
for a picture like an actress. The best
material for ladies to wear when about
to sit for a photogra ph are such as will
fold or drapo nicely, like reps, winceys,
poplln satins, silks. Lavenders, lilac,
skv.p ne, purple, and French blue take
very light, and are worse tor a picture
than pure white. Corn colorand salmon
are better. CT ina pink. Rose pink, dark
pun pie, pure yellow, Muzarlle blue,
navy blue, tawn color, Quaker color,
dove color, ashes or roses, and stone
color show a pretty light gray II the
photogr .ph. Scarlet, clare, garnet,
sea.green, light orange, leather-color,
light Bismarck, and slate color, take still
darker, anu are excellent coiorst to photo
graph. Cherry, wine color, light apple
green, Matlernish green, dark apple
green, bottle greeu, dark orange, golden
and red brown show nearly the same
agreeable color inssthe picture. A black
| silk always looks well, and it takes we'll
if not decked with ribbons and laces
| that take white. Dark Bismarck or snuff
| brown usually take blacker than a black
| silk or satin, and are not easy to drape.
A silk, because it has more gloss and re-
fleets more light, usually takes lighter
than a wooden dress. Ladies' with dark
or brown hair should avoid contrasts in
theM costumes, Al light substances Tho
tograph more quickly than dark, and
ladies' with light hair shout dress in
something lighter than those whose hair
is dark or brown. Few l,dies under
stand how to arrange their hair so as to
harEonize with the form of the head,
but blndly follow the ttshion, be the
neck long or short, or the face narrow
or broad. A broad face appears more
so if the hair is arran ged low owe the
forehead or is parted on the side, and d
long neck becomes short-l,ke when the
hair is built up 'lgh, while a few curls
would make a most agreeable change IN
the effect. Powdered hair gives good eff
feet, and powder should be bestowed
upon freckies."
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14
How to be Charming.

Here is a nit of sensible advice for the
girls as given by the Youths Compan-
ion:
The popular belief among youag girls
is that ii is only a pretty face which will
bring to them the admiration aud love
which they naturally crave. No books,
i1 is said, have q larger sale than those
written that give rules for b auty, re-
clpes to destroy int or trerkles, and to
improve the skin OF figure.
Now, no recipe Will change the shape
OF the nose, or the color Of an eve But
any girl, by daily baths AMI Wholesome
TO I'd, and by breathing pure air, can
render her complexion clear and soft.
Her hair, nails, and teeth can be daintilv
kept Her clothes, however cheap, can
be fresh and becoming in C dior. She
can train her mind, eve if o. ordinary
capacity, TO be alert and earnest; and ii
she adds to these Il sincere, Kindly, sun
ny temper, she will win friends and love
us surely as if all the fairies had brought
her gifts at her birth.
But there is no use for woman whose
person is soiled and untidy, and whose
'emper is selfish and irritable at home,
TO hope to cheat anybody by putting on
hue clothes and a smile tor company.
The thick, muddy skin and soured ex-
preston will betray her.
John" said an artist the other day to
d Chinaman who was unwill nsiy acting
'sa model, "smile. l. you don't look
pleasant, Ill not pay YOU"
No use," grumbled the waskerman.
~ C"lnaman leelee ugly all the
time, ne lookee uglv," which is r Of
every other man and wonan in the
world as we'll as Of John Chinaman.
Jane Welsh Carlyle, when an old.
'lckly,, ugly woman, could SO charm
men hat a stranger. meeling her in q
stage coach, followed her tor miles post
haste, to return a parasol which she had
dropped. The charm lay in her bright
v'vacity of manner, and the keen svm-
pAthy which shone through her features.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14

preferred up to THANKSGIVING, after
which time dry picked has the prefer
ence. Small lat turkeys sell best b
seassn through, except at Thanksgiving,
and Christmas, when large, dry picked
BIRDS ouly are wanted. Geese sell best
%. ~ risflnaaO
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14
A Worn.Out Stumach,

The nan who lives 10 eat, is quite like
! ~ to die of eating. The end may come
IRON a deceased liver, the failure of the
klaheye, govt, paralysis, or apoplexy.
Inc ailments that lead OH to it may be
many, various, and costly, the remote
cause of which may not even be suspec-
ted' the doctor only saying, whats the
use OF telling? they will eat what their
SOU lusleth."
or the fatal stroke may come IN a mo-
Iieht OF highest apparent health, some
iittie weakened vessel of tie brain Civ.
.u2 way, as the strong heart, after good
uihner, hurls the superintendent blood
10 the brain.
but eating may give death inst ad OF
il'e IN another way. The stomach is q
wonderfully strong organ. 1t will bear
an immense deal of abuse. No brute is
guilty OF 80 much. But there is y limit
10 What 1T can hear. Were it not 80,
ullliiohs or the nun, IN kind would more
Ilah enbrute themselves; for the brute
Keeps 70 his instinct, while mans appe
,i'e o'ten ontrages instinct, reason and
comInon-sense.
o the power to digest is in part de-
pehueht or the gastric juice secreted by
..'t stomach. This is IL limited quantity,
ana the food that exceeds this lrritates
,ne COATS OF the stomach and is thrown
'i" ~ IL an undigested, fermenting mass.
ne same process daily repeated in
iaai,s tfese coats, especially the nue.
pns membrane. which then pours out
,aige Quantities of mucu1 iphIegln). This
SUI, further Impcdes digestion.
lue llilP ttneI mpnt,tanp prnSsipp
nsa,ns' the tiny mouths of the gastric
s;alias' oosfructs their secretion. Medi-
1,nes are then in order, to stimulate
poth appetite and digestion at the ex.
pe,'se OF ultimate exhaustion.
AT length the gastric glands cease
mmiore aho more to secrete the digestive
nun '''e stomach loses all susceptibility
.sea 10 Tue PHYSICIANS medicines, and
tle person gradually s'arve-; the stomach
oe,is utterly worn out by incessanL over
"o'h. a friend and neighhor of ours
''ius died.-Youttl's Companion.
pr. Stocker who has been severely
5nnooed by the Lord Mayor Of London
o.tause he IS n J~ew-baiter, is Chaplain
VI ..ie herman court. His anti Jewish
se.t'hielts do not meet with any sym
la,ly among Engl shm.n. His
ss'1nres have been twice broken up by
5o',al's's. who gathered in Me mortal
nali III sufficient numbers to take pos
ses'oh. Recently they hoo;ea the doc
rJ,, ul ur!ed red flags, and seized the
revoiution,n
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14

81. $40 for Accommodations in the new cham
Der of commerce building.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14

Ella Wheeler, the gifted young WON
an, who has been appropriately called
the poetess OF passion, is tive ntv- four
years e,id. has red hair, and wears
stripped hosiery and Langtry bangs;
When she gets fairly started at someof
her hay-iever and fly blleter poetry the
church bells rim. and the fire depart-
n.ent turns out. So, on the whole, she is
considered as dangerous 81 parry to have
around as a camphene lamp or a coal
oil can. -
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14

A very handsome heading for lace
curtains is made by using the deep and
pointed fringe which now comes n all
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05

fit this concept. once lived in Germany
for two years, but certainly saw nothing
OF IL there then. Whether the stats
which Bismarck is molding will it the
notion ia at best o matter of faith and
hope. My notion of the state has dwin.
died with gro wing experience of life. As
an abstraction, the state is to rue only
all of-us. In practice-thst is, when il
exercises will or adopts line of action
1t is only little group of men chosen in
very hap.hazard way by the majority of
us to perform certain services for ali of
us. The majority do not 60 about their
selection very nationally, and they are al
most always disappointed by the results
of their own operation. Hence the state
instead OF Offering resources of wisdom,
right reason, and pure moral sense, be-
yond what the average of ms possess, gen.
orally offers much less of all these things.
Furthermore, 1t often turns out in prac.
tice that the state is not even the
known aud accredited servants of the
state, but, as has been well said, is only
some obscure clerk hidden in the re-
cesses OF government bureau into whose
power the chance has fallen for the mo-
ment to pull one of the stops which con-
troll the government machine. In former
days 1t often happened that the state
was q barber, fiddler, or bad woman.
In our day it often happens that the
state is little functionary on whom a
big functionary is forced to depend."-
Popular Science Monthly for December.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
Maine Pathological Report.

We are indebted to Secretary Sawyer
Of the Maine Pathological Society for a
copy of his report for 1882. Maine is
making good deal of money out of its
orchards, and fruit.tree planting for COM
mercial purposes is on the increase there.
good deal of this is-dae to the work of
the genealogical society in making gener.
ally known the best varieties and the best
methods of growing trees, planting and
caring for orchards, gathering, packing
and marketing the fruit. Probably in
this way this society has done the state
more good than all the politicians it has
produced in half century. But the
honors 60 to the politicians, and the pub
lie money, too, for it is easier to get half
million appropriated in any state in the
Union to some purpose of the politicians,
than to get $500 in aid of the work of
any industrial society, no matter how
beneficial. We do not say this to com.
plain of the politicians. They are what
the people make them. As long as pub
lie position is given by our votes, not to
the most meritorious citizens, but to those
who coax and fatter the people and "set
up" caucusses, and "pull wires," we must
expect misgovernment. the waste of pub.
lie money, and the languishing of all good
causes. The people, you and we, fellow.
voters, are alone to blame.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
Lead Poisoning.

Lead poisoning is often produced in an
unsupported manner. The occupation of
dressmaking might be regarded as one
likely to be exempt from it yet dress-
maker just admitted into the Leeds Dis
pensary, England, was found to have a
distinct blue line on her gums, with stimuli.
taneous symptoms, such as furred
tongue, inf animation of the lips, and gen.
eral debility-all signs pointing to the
probability of poisoning by lead. The
physician in attendance for some time
failed to discover the source of the lead
poisoning, and was beginning to think
the blue line had been caused in some
other way, when he accidentally learned
from a merchant that silken thread, being
sold by weight. and not by length, is some
times adulterated with sugar of lead. He
then questioned the patient, and she in.
formed him that it had been common
practice with her, when at work, to hold
silk as well as other kinds of thread in
her mouth, and that she had done this the
more readily with silk, inasmuch as it
often had sweet taste. This is sure
indication of the presence of lead, and all
thread possessing it should either be re-
jected or used with caution. It will be
found that the silk thread of the best
makers is tasteless, whereas some inferior
threads are sweet american Medical
Weekly
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
The Importance Of Rest.

1t is very strange how much we are told
about food, clothing, ventilation, drain.
age. exercise and other things which have
an influence on our health, and how very
seldom we think of rest. Aud vet, as a
remedial and restorative measure, it is of
the first Importance in many cases. Most
physicians know what to do, and when to
do 1t, but good deal of common sense is
required to discover how not to do some
thing, and when to let the patient alone.
A combination of drugging and fretting
kills more than half the sick people in the
world; q mans enemies ,cannot do him
near so much damage as his friends. The
world Is possessed with the notion that
when man is taken ill a terrible ado
must be kept up, an alienation of nursing
aud fussiDg; while preternaturally wise
and whispering doctors, sympathizing
friends, fearful relatives and chattering
nurses add their contributions to the
wrong side, and all because somebody is
ill and needs chiefly rest. We have not
yet, most of us, got rid of the old notion
of the ancients that disease is a person.
atty, something that is in the air, that
travels about, enters our dwellings and
finally seizes hold Of us; something akin
in the minds of the ignorant to goblin,
ghost, fiend, demon or witch, which only
pills or potions can exercise, kill or cure.
We are confident that many sensible
physician will say, if the patient will let
him, that two-thirds of all the maladies
of all the people in the world would get
we'll in few hours or days, if left to
themselves, with no other appliances than
such as instinct would suggest and COM
mon sense employ.-Propidenc Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
American Farm Stock.
The Farmers Repiew credits the follow
ing paragraph to A. N. "a. W.O Cheever

The Farmers Repiew credits the follow.
ing paragraph to A. N. "a. W.O Cheever :
"The native animals now being bred 80
largely in this country are going to be
the foundation stock for the herds of the
future. 1t is If no use to look for an entire
change to the new breeds. Such change
il practically among the impossibilities.
Farmers will not be required to make
any very radical change in blood, nor to
incur any exorbitant expense, in order to
fill their yards with animals that will be
stock they now hold. But we must learn
the requisites to successful breeding. We
must learn to select with good judg.
ment, cross wisely, feed judiciously, a, d,
in short, to do everything necessary, in
order to have animals born healthy and
continue thrifty and productive through
life, and leave progeny behind them
that will be equal to, or better than, them.
selves"
This is doctrine we have been preach
ing in the agricultural press for the last
fourteen years, but it is given the cold
shoulder by the agricultural editors gener.
ally, and by their ck-breeding con-
tributors always, because the latter have
their money invested in, and their hopes
of profit founded on, the established En-
glish breeds. Mr.. Cheever "a. W. has
had some experience in trying to estab-
lish an American polled dairy breed, the
Jamestowns, with, as we understand, a
good deal of success; but a breed must
still be brought across the Atlantic to be
taken any notice of, not to say to become
fashionable. As American farmers I'M
derstand their business better, and, intel
lectually speaking, stand more firmly
upon their feet, they will judge breeds of
cattle solely by their qualities, and not by
their origin. AS it now is, there is very
little encouragement for an American
farmer to try to develope the merits of
native stock, but it will not always be 80.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
Protecting Trees Against Mice.

One writer says: al know it is an old
remedy, but will repeat it.: When the
snow comes to stay trample il down
hard about the young fruit trees, and nary
field mouse will girdle them" Another
writer advises "piling, before the ground
freezes, a small, neat mound of soil around
each tree of the young orchard. To
properly protect as many as two hundred
in this way would be light days work."
Neither of these methods is as cheap and
effective as tying strip lath, or for larger
trees barrel slaves, cut in halves, around
the trunks of the trees. This can be done
more rapidly than moundipg, or stamping
the snow, and is perfect protection,
which the other ways are not. Where
the SHOWS are deep and frequent, and
crusts form, mice will often work under
the light snow on top of the crust, and
will thus reach the tree above the top of
mound. The treadipg of the snow must
be repeated after every snowfall, to be
effective, and this is sure to be neglected
We turn our strips every fall, and tie with
fresh string. The inside of the strips is
then covered with the Goblin moth worms,
in their thin cocoons, which the birds
clear off almost Immediately.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
The Home Farm.

Three years ago the Hon. S. L. Boardman
of Maine, for some twenty years editor of
the Maine Farmer, and for some four or
five years secretary of the Maine Board of
Agriculture, having accepted an invita-
ton to become the editor of the Boston
Cultiuator, removed to that city. But a
years experience in that office being
enough for him, he returned to Maine and
established at Augusta new agricultural
paper, under the above title, which almost
at once achieved great success. Being
at liberty to carry out his own ideas, and
rallying around him the large corps of in
telligent, practical writers whom his long
service on the Maine Farmer and else
where had made his personal friends, he
at once produced a paper which every
progressive farmer in Maine felt that he
could not do without. We do not remem.
Der an instance of new agricultural pa
per starting with such ga head of steam "
as the Home Farm, and the gauge has
shown no diminution OF pressure from
the first. Its matter is almost entirely
original, from the pens of practical and
successful oultivators in every branch.
T4hvA ssditing has been skillful, as might be
imposed, and the result has zen prob
ably the most rapidly growing volunteer
subscription list ever achieved by an sgri.
cultural journal in 30 brief time. The
fourth volume, just begun, is greatly en-
larged and otherwise improved, without
increase in price. which is $1,50 a year in
advance. In our judgment, it is the best
agricultural paper in New England.
Send for specimen copy to s. L. Board
man & Co., Augusta, Maine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
Aarirnlfnral
Vermont Apples In Maine.


In the warmer parts of Maine only
the standard market aldwins,
Greetings, Believers and Russets-are
grown for market. But only about one
quarter of the state, that portion within
thirty miles OF salt water, and not all of
that, can produce these apples. The rest
of the state requires something more re-
sistant to winters cold. In the last re-
port of the Maine Pathological Society
we notice that H. A. Sprague of Char.
lotte, Washington county, one of the
colder sections, speaks very favorably of
two apples of northeastern Vermont, sci.
ons of which we sent him several years ago.
OF Msgog Red Streak he says " It will,
I think, prove hardy, vigorous and pro.
ductive, but not 80 good for eating or
keeping as the Wealthy" with us it
is far better for cooking) OF Scott's
Winter Mr.. Sprsgue says: at has a
good flavor in the spring, and I think
will, when we'll known, be more popular
than Ben Davis" ct is also much
hardier) Mr.. Sprague agrees with us in
his opinion of the Wealthy, saying: al
think it will be for this latitude what
the Baldwin is further SOUTH" For five
years the Wealthy has not failed to keep
we'll until April.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05

"Ooe.fiftb of the farms in Waldo county
are morigaged one.tbird in Oxford and
onefourth in Cumberland. Franklin, Lin
coin and Somerset, while Kennebec has a
greater proportion and Aroostook the
largest Of all. For the past five years
farmers have been paying up steadily"
This is good news from our native state.
We wish that the facts on this subject
could be as easily learned in Vermont.
1t undoubtedly could be learned IL the
legislature would call for biennial reports
upon the condition of our real estate from
the town clerks, paying them fair
amount for the labor. But it is very rare
that our legislature does so sensible and
useful thing as to order the collection of
statistics showing the industrial and fiuan.
cial condition of the people. Watch their
transactions in any session, and you can.
not fail to observe that the heft of the
work consists in grinding the axes Of pri-
vate parties and corporations. If the last
Legislature had attended to the public
good as it ought to have done, the poor
depositors of the St. Adams Trust Com.
pany would not have lost their money.
But interested parties control the leaders
by "ways that are dark" and the rest of
our legislators follow the bosses like
sheep. If the towns would choose the
best men to represent them, and not 90
foolishly change them as soon as they
have "learned the ropes" we should be
better governed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
Truth from a Congressman.

The venerable "Cerro Gordo" Will
liams, United States senator from Ken.
lucky, attended the recent convention for
considering the contagious diseases of cat.
tie, and he made a speech, in which he
gave the farmers some information that
ought to be of value to them, though it
probably won't. The senator said that in
Washington all interests save those of ag.
riculture maintained lobby to secure
proper attention to their business from
congress, and that the agricultural inter
est, to secure any legislation in its behalf,
would certainly need to establish and
maintain one too. The senator proceeded
to state that when it came to knowledge
of the practical wants of the country, and
of their constituents, no class of men were
30 ignorant and incapable as the average
congressman. In this statement we find
the explanation of the other. The speak
or also gave his hearers piece of advice,
without much hope, in the light of past
experience, that it will be needed. He
said: "If you want your congressman to
attend to your business, which it is their
business to do, there is only one way for
you to express it so that they will under
stand what you mean, and know that you
mean it-make them feel it at the polls"
More than one-half of the voters in this
country are farmers, and yet who, after
considering the material of which con.
gress is composed, can honestly say that
the farmers are represented there. And
yet who is responsible for the character of
their representatives but the majority Of
the voters ? The fact is, the attitude OF
the average farmer toward congressman
is that of the old woman toward her min
lister. She was praising his sermon, when
q bystander ventured to ask her if she