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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

+ tsYes, . said Bass, tobacco Is bad 10Y
me. Lknowit, i feel it. is killing
ME by inches. Bat / can't swear of at
this time Of year, you know. l Idont
want to advertise myself an invecter-
ate liar. ''-- Boston Transcript
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

4 Ht p. auckland Il Sons, druggists, Of
Rayainnade an assignment.
'4Iliabilities, Sl3, ,0lV.8 They have been in
business over thirty years.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

The Northwestern Base Ball League,
In session In Chicago, decided to per-
NIT Sunday playing and selling OF liq-
uor on the grounds. .ss@t
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

], The last attempted assassi1atiof Of
the ear while on hisreceflt fiuntiha ex
petition, Was planned and carried ON
-tlfainan Wtl1 WIS reg;lraet ny me IEspss
seifieientand trustsVafliaY agent Of stllc
police, and the bo.sst et lttl laislil that if
every where appears to be- justified.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Eight years ago Virginia City and
Gold Hill, adjoining each other. and
practically one town, had $4,000 popu-
iation. There were merchants doing
business with $l ,000, 900 capital. There
were private houses that cost $l00, 600 TO
build and furnish. There were stamp
mills and mining structures that cost
$500, 600 each. There were three daily
newspapers, and q hotel that cost $500,
600. Among the people were score Of
men worth from 100000 to $50, ,000,-
600. Mackay and Fair both lived there.
There were three banks, gas company,
q water company, q SPLENDID theatre,
and 4 costly courthouse. Eight years
have passed, and the town Is q wreck.
Tire $4,000 people have dwindled TO
5000; the banks have retired from bu-
siness; the merchants have, closed up
and left; the hotel il abandoned; the
gas company is bankrupt, and scores OF
costly residences have eitherb been taken
to pieces and moved away or given over
To bats. Real estate cannot be given
away for taxes. Nothing can be sold
that will cost its worth to move away.
The rich men have all gone. Those
who remain are the miners, their super
|intendents, and the saloon men. and
gamblers. The mines are worked out,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

John Pehn, Of Youngstown, was ta-
ken to the Poor-house, on Saturday.
Twenty years ago he was worth. ST. OO,s !
900. During the labor strikes lie sold
to the strikers $50, 900 worth OF goods
| for which he was never paid. Drink
took the rest. .s. j
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

There Nste nearly 1870 IEttirdefss ifa sh.
country inrfng tie past year.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

The IkgisIatnre Will do well to let
the CongreAsioFAt aistriSts Asand just
as the late Republican Legislature
made theras If "a change isniade, how
ever, the proposition to attach Wood
county to the Seneca district and Put
nam county to this district meets with
favor among Denlecratsin this section.
This district as now organized is irreg-
alar IN form and it is believed was q
put up Job. Looping Off Wood and adj
ding ON Putnam would square Up the
district and make the h;both hand
some and healthy Bsya,t Dam.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17
FROM DAKOTA TERRITORY
FARGO, ID. r., Jan. II

FARGO, ID. r., Jan. II.
Ed NORTHwEsr:-After lapse Of
several months ! again find myself
wound up and duly tuned to grind ONT
a hymn unto this land of most magnif-
icent proportions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-06
CONTINUED from Third Page.l
Supposed owner and
Holcombe's Addition to St. Paul.


Holcombe,s Addition to St. Paul.
Supposed owner and
description. Lot. Block Benefits
P E Murphy 12 S11 0
Theresa Evoy. IL II 0
Same. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IL II 0
E NJ and A Johnston. 22 - II 0
Same and same .21 IL IL
Same and same. ...20 IL II 0
Same and same. .......19 10 II
Same and same. .....1S ~ II
Same and same. ...17 12 II o
Same and same. .......16 ~ II
d E Roselle NJ of M of1&2 13 go
John Z Davis So ofNhof1&2 ID "
Lettie Pratt So of. .1&2 IL IL U
VIM Prudy and Ossee
c Glendenning .......4 10 II O.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-06
Supposed owner and
Supposed owner and
George n Hillman, w so IT

description Benefits.
Brown g. Jones' 10 acres of SWH of
Sc Il, of section p town 2S, range %. $500 90
c w Griggs, j j Hill, NJ A Armstrong,
and estate of G Hewitt Commencing
ata stake $50. IA IT. W of Sc corner
dissection ., town 30, range %, thence
W 400 it., thence n i24215 it,, thence
Z 400 it,, thence 1242d # to begin
ming, being part of said section ., ex-
cept Pleasant avenue and st. Clair
street. .................. $500 90
Catherine Nininger ct al. Ma of sen of
SEA of section2, town 2S, range %, ex-
cept 400 it. of 1926 #. and
St, clair street ................. $500 90
section 2, town 20, range 30. 80. $1,000 90
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-06
Supposed owner and

Subdivision Of Lots l6 to % inclusive. Block =
Summit Park Addition to So. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-06
Bryant's Addition to St. Paul.
Supposed owner and
Supposed owner and
Jo,o-;.@;o-

l1V1ISIKt5.
A Yoerg. W Il of SwA of SW Il of
NE u of section 2, town 20, range %,
except Summit avenue, and part COW
cred by Bryant's addition. ........... $685. 90
T Anderson So of VIZ of Eh of
SW14 of SWA of NEA of section 2,
town go. Range 20, except Summit
ayarua G1O0 m
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12
WOrn-Out Farms,

The following is from Professor B. c. Led
zie, of the Michigan Agricultural College,
written to the Rural Spirit Il look with sin
cere pity upon many farmers who are settling
down into Encouragement over the condition
OF their farms their crops are light from the
lack OF manure, the manure heaps are small
from want of crops from want of anything
to sell they are too poor to buy fertilizers
and IN utter hopelessness they exclaim
Farming is a poor business Well. such
farming is poor business. l do not speak
OF this to the encouragement, but to give a
word of cheer-to point, if can, to some
way to better the farmers lot. l believe the
easiest and cheapest way to bring up a run
down farm Is by green manuring. Suppose
your farm IS too poor for clover, and grass
makes only feeble growth put on it a ma
nurlal crop that will grow, such as peas or
rye turn this under with your pillow. and
then you can raise something better keep
ieealhg your soil with everything your shovel
and team can command-ashes, leached ashes,
Il you can get them by drawing them within
hye mlles-muck, top soil, mari, anything that
will bring a green mantle over your belds.
Soon you can set the clover pump to work
pumping up to the surface the inexhaustible
resources of your subsoil. If an animal dies
don't stop to bewail your luck and exclaim
Everything goes to the dogs on my farm!
Don't send it 10 the dogs at all but compost
1t with muck, or even soil and thus secure a
valuable manure. Samson performed won.
der by taking honey from the dead carcass of
a lion, and do not wonder if you extract
wheat from the dead carcass of a COW. Pick
up all the bones you eau find, put them under
cover and mix with Two or three times their
bulk Of ashes from your kitchen moisten
enough so that the potash may act on the gel
atine of the bones stir them over once a
week, and IN month or two you will find the
bones so tender that you can cut and crush
them with one blow of your shovel beat the
whole into powdery mass, and you will have
manure better than the average of super-
phosphates which you feel too poor to buy.
Give handful of this 70 each hill of corn.
and see how it will wave its banner of green
and pour into your basket the golden heads
of wheat. But in bringing your soil into
good condition do not neglect green manur.
ing. Let every wind that blows over your
fields bring them blessing in the shape of
atmospheric plant food. Do all these things
patiently and hopefully, without urging your
soil beyond what it can do, and you will vet,
out OF the fullness of a grateful heart ex.
claim Bless God for the farm"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12
Agricultural.
Farmers' sire Insurance Compantes.--
Tuuu rnmunufps.

Town Companies
II the managers Of the large fire in ,urance
companies in this state cannot afford to have
good salaries the reason is not apparent 1t
costs on an average about S25 to insure $1,000
in these companies for term Of six years
On farm property the cost is little below
this general average. What is the actual risk
and what should it cost to insure The last
report Of the insurance commissioner Of the
state of Maine, says the Maine Farmer, gives
list Of % town companies carrying risks to
the amount of 81, ass, 449, and the losses on
these risks for the year reached only 81, 49,
50, or about 60 cents on each $1,000 insured
This is an insignificant tax. The Brunswick
farmers insurance company is one Of the
companies included in the above reckoning
1t has cost the farmers insured in this com
pany, in the last 20 years, only q mills on a
dollar for FIVE years, or 81 % on $1,000 for
the five years policy runs; yet this company
has been no more lucky than other town com
panies, and is taken as an illustration only
because a report from its president happened
to be at hand. OF the % town companies
doing business in the state, only nine had
lOnnto " pay uullhB lhG tdl1 anu lh6ho Nblb
Insignificant amounts, the heaviest being but
5000
The Patrons Androscoggin and the Oxford
County are companies doing business in pre-
cisey the same manner as the town compa-
MES and with like favorable results These,
however, insure only members of the order
of P. of Il. In the Androscoggin, for the five
years ending Dec. l. 1883, the assessments
were p mills on dollar, or Just what the
Brunswick has averaged in the last 20 years.
The company is now carrying over $500, 600
in risks, and is rapidly increasing the amount.
The Oxford company is carrying about the
same amount of risks and offers the same
favorable conditions to policy holders. With
these town companies and the Patrons COM
panies taking only farm risks, there are no
heavy individual risks, and so the loss at any
time cannot be heavy and from no cause
can there be a great aggregation of losses to
call for a correspondingly heavy assessment.
The conditions prevailing show this, and an
experience Of 20 years has proved it true in
fact.
Vermont farmers have been paying for in
surance more than three times as much as the
average cost in these % companies in Maine.
The average cost Of insuring $1,000 for five
years in 81 mutual fire insurance companies
in the state of New York is reported at 3.OG5.
This corresponds very closely with the result
Of town and cooperative insurance in Maine
as reported by the state insurance commits
sioner
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12

The following is condensed from an inter-
esting account of French farming by a cor
respondent Of the New York Sun. For hun
dreds of miles in the best portions of France
every inch of land is cultivated. Grapes are
grown on the abrupt hillsides and grain on
the level lands Normandy poplar trees trim
med to within six feet of the top, so that they
make but little shade, are grown with the Gull
tivated crops. Wood in France is worth as
much by the pound as corn in Kansas. The
boughs trimmed from the trees are used for
fuel to cook with. The French farmer never
thinks of burning wood to warm the room.
He sits in the cold all winter The average
French farmer does not yet know enough to
buy coal or kerosene. He lives poorer than
the poorest negro of the South
France has 1000, 600 land owners The
farms usually contain from one to ten acres,
and the country is literally one large garden.
Twenty acres is considered very large farm,
and there are millions of farmers that have
only from one-fourth of an acre to four acres.
The farms are in long, narrow strips, not
fenced, and generally without houses. The
French farmers congregate in little villages
composed of huts which contain also their
horses, hens and pigs, All French women
work in the field. They have nothing to do
at home 1t seems rather exaggerated state
ment, but the writer says that this is true of
the wives OF French, English, Irish and Ger
man farmers. They do not keep house"
like the wives of American farmers. They
have no houses to keep. The huts they live
in are like stables. They never wash a floor;
there is never table-cloth. The handsome
farmhouse standing by itself, surrounded by
trees and gardens, does not exist in France.
Some of the negroes of the South live like
kings compared with the French farmer The
Frenchman thrives because he spends moth
ing. He has no wants beyond the coarsest
food and shelter. He is thrifty he saves
money. The aggregated wealth of 80, 600, 900
poor degraded, barefooted peasants makes
France rich. The ignorance of the French
farmer is appalling. The writer never saw a
newspaper in French farm village. The
French peasant on his two acres. with his
barefooted wife cutting grain with a sickle by
his side, IS happy because he knows no better.
When a French farmer, who was cultiyat-
ing about nine acres, was asked if he saved
money, he answered ooh, not much; I 90
to all the fttes laid by 500 francs TS1OO7
last year. Iput it in the Caisse Eparnge."
This Is government savings bank taking
sums up to 1000 francs and paying 81 per
cent Nearly $500, 600 600 are deposited by
the peasant farmers of France in these banks.
The poor, degraded, half-fed farmers keep
the French treasury full of money. The Sun
correspondent believes that the French farm
er loves the republic; but the people of Paris
hate 1t. The latter want an emperor again
who will collect millions of dollars from the
country and spend it in Paris He would not
be surprised to hear any day that the republic
was dead and a new empire declared.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12

While plants are dropping their leaves and
taking on their cold winter aspect most peo-
pie think Of them as having made prepare
ton for winter alone, and to have matured
their wood and put on their bud scales, while
leaving all preparation for next years growth
entirely uncared for Nature is not so care
less matrou as this. Most Of our plants
have made ample preparation for spring in
fact in most of them the energies of the sea-
son have resulted in the storing away Of ma
terials or in the formation of vegetative or
gans which are all ready to start with the first
smile of spring. Most of our trees have the
next years growth now decided upon, if we
may use the expression, and just the number
of leaves and buds each twig is to produce is
already planned. The leaf-buds contain in
miniature these next years branches, snugly
tucked away under their protection of bud
scales. 1t remains for the plant next sum-
mer to lengthen out these minute branches,
and the more vigorous the plant is the longer
will grow the branch between each joint.
The number of leaves, however, will not be
greater than the number of undeveloped
leaves packed in the leaf-bud. If the season
is dry the interuodes, or spaces between the
joints, will be short and by August, perhaps,
the buds for the next spring will be formed
and the branch cease growing. If moist,
warm fall weather occurs the plant may begin
a second growth, extending the little branch
already stored in the bud, necessitating the
making of another bud-branoh later in the
season.
Early Towering plants have flowers already
formed in the blossom buds which are COM
monty larger and rounder than the lesf-buds.
1t is by making section of these blossom
buds that peach growers ascertain the oondi-
ton of the "fruit-buds" Most perennial
herbs have large underground buds or
"crowns" formed in the fall. These start as
soon as the ground begins to get warm in the
spring. Some plants, including a few of our
common weeds, terminate in the fall Tuber-
ous-rooted species, as potatoes and dahlas,
store away starch to aid in early spring growth.
Many shrubs, as willows, etc, have also an
abundance of starch stored in their twigs in
the fall II nericnn GnlkirntOr
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12
Poultry Fences,

Everybody knows how to make a fence for
the poultry yard, but everybody does not
know how to make a cheap fence Fences
are very expensive, and any plan that ena-
Dies person to make fence in such man
ner as to cost but little and yet be servicea-
BILE will always be adopted. The cheapest
fence is made of lath, but unless it is well
made it is worthless. The desire should be
to have the fence as strong as possible, and
the weakest place is near the bottom. The
objection TO a lath fence is that dogs some
times break through, not Intentionally on the
part of the dogs, but because the fence will
not withstand pressure. To make a good
strong, durable lath fence, six feet high, the
panels may be eight feet. Having placed
the posts eight feet apart, procure some good
shingling strips, (shingling lath) and securely
nail the bottom strip from post to post, and
six inches above the ground Nail the next
stripping exactly Is inches above the first
one. Thus the first strip will be six inches
above the ground and the second strip being
eighteen inches above that will consequently
be two feet from the ground. The third COR
top strip should be nailed three above the
second, or five feet from the ground. Now,
nail to the bottom strips half laths. AS a
lath is four feet long half hath will be two
feet in length. Let the bottom touch the
ground. Nail the lath to the two strips the
bottom OF each lath of course being on the
ground, the top of the lath is nailed to the
second, (or middle) strip. Place the half
laths one inch apart, which will keep in the
chicks as well as the larger fowls. Here it
will be noticed that you have a strong, close,
good fence, with the cross strips only Is
inches high and six inches only from the
lower stripping to the ground but the fence
is only two feet high.
Having made the fence only two feet high,
but close and strong, you now desire height.
This is made of the whole lath, which is
nailed to the middle and top strips, but in
stead of being only one inch apart, two inches
will be close enough. The fence will thus
be six feet high, and durable.
The practice of mailing whole lath with
half lath above it, is here reversed, as we
place the half lath at the bottom and the
whole lath at the top. There are several ad-
yantages to be gained by 80 doing. First,
the strips are brought close to each other,
making the pressure against two strips in
stead of one. The half lath can be placed
closer together with economy than with the use
OF whole lath. Should it be desired the whole
Iath may be at three inches apart as full Sc
curlty OF con hnement is made by the lower.
II Is cheaper to repair a rotten half lath than
whole one, and as such fences usually be-
gin to give out at the lower part first this is
a great advantage. Such a fence combines
strength, cheapness, and efficiency, and can
be made by any one
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12

Clear the brown path to meet his coulters CLEAN ,
10 on he comes behind his smoking team,
with tolls bright dewdrops on his sunburnt brow,
The lord Of the earth, the hero Of the plow
First in the field, before the roddeninP sun,
Last IN the shadows When the day Is done,
Lue after line along the breaking sod
Marks the broad acres where his feet have trod.
still where he treads the stubborn clods divide,
The smooth, fresh turrow opens deep and wide;
Matted and dense the tangled turf upheaves,
Mellow and dark the ridgy cornheld Cleaves
Up the steep hillside, where the laborinR train
slants the long track that scores the level plain;
Through the moist valley, clogged with oozing clay
The patient convoy breaks It's destined way.
At every turn the loosened chains resound,
The swinging piowshare circles giistening round,
Till the wide field one billowv waste appears,
And wearied hands unbind the painting steers
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings
The PEASANTS food, the golden pomp Of kings;
This is the page whose letters shall be seen,
Changed by the sun to words Of living green;
This II the scholar whose immortal pen
Spells the FIRST lesson hunger taught to men;
These are the lives that heaven-commanded toll
Shows on his deed--the charter Of the soil.
o. W. Holmes.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12
HEALTHIS WEALTH.

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guaranteed specific for Hystera, Dizziness, Conyul-
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&C. Each box contains one months treatment. 81 a
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ceipt OF price. We guarantee six boxes to any
case. With each order received by for six boIesac
compapied with s., will send the purchaser our
written guarantee to refund the money If the treat.
ment does not effect cure. Guarantees issued only
by II. c. WILLARD, Agent, Brattleboro Vt. 36tl9
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-12
The NARROW ESCAPE
Of "a Massac huseGts Engineer---TimeIy
Warning Of Mr.. John spencer, Rag.
gage Master Of ~. ~ A. h. h.

sleep after fatigue and health afie disease are
two OF the sweetest experiences known to man
Fourteen years Is long time 10 suffer, yet Mr.. Pc
yer l-aWlOr OF Dalton, Mass, had led misera BILE
He Tor mat period through the presence OF stone
IN the bladder. That he sought In all directions for
cue Is an almost superhuous statement. He OBJ
FAMED temporary relief, but nothing more Last
January he called on DR.. David Kennedy of Rom
dout, NY, who said, after examination 'Air Law
Tor, You nave stone ~ the bladder. We Will first
Try DIT. David kennedy's FaVOrite Remedy before
ing letter passed through the Rondout post-ofhce;
DALTON, Mass Feb. g.
Dear Dr. Kennedy; The day after came home
now. PETER IAVSIOR
DR.. Kennedy now has the stones at his once and
tney are sufficiently formidable TO Justify the claim
that hennedy's Fdvorite Remedy is the leading spe-
enc LOT stone ~ the bladder. In his letter Mr.. L.
clIeu MN Of rheumatism. The subjoined certih-
cate tells It's own story;
OLD BERKSHIRE MILLS
DALTON, Mass, April 27, 1891
Mr. Peter Lawlor has been a resident of this town
lOr the past II years, and in our EMPLOY for Is ami
IN all these years he has been good and respected
cltlzen OF the town and community. He mas had
some chronic disease TO our knowledge fer most OF
lhe ilme, but now claims TO be and is in apparent
good heath. CHAS. o. BROWN, Pres't.
DALTON, MASS, June ., 1884.
DR.. kennedy,-Dear Friend: Thinking YOU might
IKE 10 near again from an old patient, / am going
10 write you II is now three and half years
since nrst went to see you. AS told you then, ]
was troubled with kidney disease for about is years
ahd had seven of the best doctors to be found hui
received only temporary relief until / visited you
anu CONNIE nced taxing your Favorte Remedy. /
continue taking the remedy according 10 your al
rectlons, ard now consider myself a well man |
am very gratefully yours, PETER LAWIOR
Our letter OF April 27, lss2, holds good as far as
Mt MT. Lawlor's testimony is concerned regarding his
49, ~, ro 900. ChAs. U. BROWN.