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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-06
DUDLEY PERKINs, ESTATE.

~ STATEOF VERMONT. Was hngton District 6.
In Probate Court. held at Montpelier, in and for
Dudley Il. Smith, Administrator of the estate of
Dudley Perkins, late of Planheld, In said District,
deceased makes application to said Court for license
to selrall of the real estate of said deceased stu
ated in said lainhed representing that the sale
thereof except the homestead, Is necessary for the
payment of the debts of the deceased aforesaid and
the expenses of administration of his estate; and
that sale of the homestead would be beneficial to
the widow of the deceased aforesaid Whereupon, it
is ordered by said Court that said application be
ferred 10 session thereof to be held at the Probate
ONCE, IN said Montpelier, on the sd day of May,
and. 1t is further ordered, that all persons in
terested he notified hereof by publication of notice
of said application and order thereon three weeks
successfully In the Vermont Wdtchndn a. State Jour
nal, newspaper published at Montpelier, and which
circuates in the neighborhood of those interested,
before said time of hearing that they may appear
at said time and place. and II they see cause, object
thereto. by the Court.-Attest,
$500 A. g. AVERILL, Register
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advertisements.
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Combines, in a proportion peculiar to itself,
the active medicinal properties of the best
blood-purfying and strengthening remedies
of the vegetable kingdom. 1t will positively
cure when in the power of medicine
Spring Debility, Headache, Dyspepsia, Ca
tarrh, Salt Rheum, Scrofula, and all Diseases
caused by low state of the blood
81 suffered three years with blood poison.
l took Hoods Sarsaparilla, and think | am
cured" MRS. M. j. DAVIS, Brockport, n. Y.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla beats all others, and
is worth its weight in gold" l. BARRING
TON, 1870 Bank Street, New York City.
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Forty pounds slage,
Thirty pounds brewers grains,
Three pounds linseed meal.
DAILY MEAL AND CORN-FoDDER RATION.
Five pounds corn-meal,
Six pounds corn-fodder,
Thirty pounds brewers grains,
Three pounds linseed meal
Brewers grains are the waste barley
malt, thrown out after being boiled to
make beer. 1t was intended that each
of these rations should contain equiva-
lent feeding value of the proteine, fat
and carbohydrate elements of nutrition,
and that they did so was shown by the
fact that change of feed from one to
the other seemed to make no difference
in the milk-though nothing is said
about the weight of the cows after each
course of feeding.
ing it with the report Gas it appears in
the Boston Weekly POST, we find we are
not quite correct in saying that but a
slight difference " existed between the
nutritive value of the two crops, acre
for acre. There was a difference of
$6.SS in favor of the grain over the 81
lage crop. There is no evidence given
to show whether this difference is at
tributable to the imperfect development
of the plants from close planting, or to
loss from fermentation in the silo. By
adding this difference to the difference
in cost of harvesting and preparing,
total difference is made in favor of
corn over silage of S10.56 per acre. But
in justice we must again call attention
to the fact that very extra pains were
taken in the experiment to utilize all
the dry stalks and the corn cobs by
shredding" and grinding, which is
not, and ordinarily would not be done
by our farmers. On the whole there
seems to be so little real difference that
a decision between the two would prop
erly turn on the questions of convent
ence and individual preference. If you
can grow sixty-eight bushels of corn
per acre, and make an acre of the fod-
der, after the removal of the ears,
worth to you $3.50 as feed, then corn
will be more profitable than ensilage to
the extent of $10.56 per acre.
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Is so vastly superior to any other sarsa-
parilla or blood purifier, that one has well
said: "Its health-giving effects upon the
blood and entire human organism, are as
much more positive than the remedies of
a quarter of a century ago, as the steam
power of to-day is in advance of the slow
and laborious drudgery of years ago."
"While suffering from a severe bilious
attack in March, 1888, a friend in Peoria,
ILL.,, recommended Hoods Sarsaparilla. l
tried the remedy, and was permanently
cured" J. "A SHEPARD, travelling agent for
Devoe s. Co., Fulton Street, N. Y.
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Purifies the Blood

81 tried dozen articles to cleanse my
blood, but never found anything that did
me any good till l began using Hoods
Sarsaparilla." w. II. PEER Rochester, N. Y.
"My wife was troubled with dizziness
and constipation, and her blood has been
in bad order in fact she has been all
run down. Hoods Sarsaparilla is doing her
a wonderful amount of good" f. NJ. BALD
WIN, druggist, Manchester, Ohio.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. ST. six for s.. Made
only by C. I. HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar.
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II was TOT hVe years SUFFERER WIFI
bois, all run down, and was at one time
obliged to give up work. Before taking
all of two bottles of Hoods Sarsaparilla, was
entirely cured" r. NJ. LANE, Pittsburgh, Pa.
az was severely afflicted with scrofula,
and for over year had two running sores
on my neck. Took five bottles of Hoods
Sarsaparilla, and consider myself entirely
cured" c. E. LovEJoY, Lowell, Mass.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S. Made
only by C. I. HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar.
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is of equal value for milk production.
1t has also been shown that as regards
the expense of replacing the plant food
removed from the fields, no practical
difference exists between the crops.
In quantity of digestible food and ex-
pense incurred in gathering and pre-
serving it, the balance is, however, at
present decidedly in favor of the field
corn"
1t should be understood, however,
that in preparing the fodder of the
grain crop, it was cut and shredded y
by machine which so softened and
prepared it that it was (when fed with
the grain) as well eaten as the ensilage.
Or, in the words of the report, "In
case of field corn this balance ex-
ceeded by $3.50 [$10.56?1 the balance
from the ensilaged fodder corn. This
assumes, of course, that the stalks are
carefully utilized as food; if they are
wasted, and corn-meal is regarded as
the only valuable product from field
corn, the balance Immediately changes
to 1924 in favor of the ensilaged fod-
der corn
This experiment tends to show that
with thorough farming, and skillful
feeding, grain crop of corn would be
rather more profitable than an ensilage
crop, and would occupy no more land
But with ordinary farming it would be
easier to grow fourteen tons of fodder
corn than siXty-eight bushels of corn tC
the acre, while the ordinary farmer
would not be apt so thoroughly to util
ize his dry fodder, or his cobs, both Of
which were nicely prepared and fed il
these experiments. II should be STATED
that in feeding both the silage and til,
dry crop, sufficient nitrogenous foot
brewers grains and linseed meaD wal
added to both to make a well balanced
ration. The rations were made up al
follows:
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GA Farmer" Stowe, VT, asks:
"Will you please answer through the
paper what kind of corn you would adj
wise people in our vicinity to plant or
SOW for fodder, and about the quantity
you would put on an acre if planted or
sowed in drills? Also if we could raise
our own seed proftably?
REPLY.-Corn sown for fodder should
be of variety not too late to nearly
mature the ears, for not until that stage
is reached is the full nutritive value at
tanned For Vermont, and especially
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-05-06
ART IN CUTTING DRESSES.
New Mysteries Being Taught In n Regular
School of Instruction.

Cutting the fashionable dresses for
ladies, with all the innumerable nppapages
connected Herewith, in an art indeed, and
1t frequently requires years to be proficient"
said prominent Broadway instructor. 81
perfected 800 ladies last year. This year |
may instruct rs many more. Heretofore
The business of cutting patterns for ladies
dresses has been confined to few who have
years of experience. Many ladies' cut their
own dresses, but the work is done in a slow,
inaccurate and unscieutifc manner. Some
guesses had to be made. The curves in the
body, those outlines of beauty, which the
garment should always snugly fit, were the
mere playthings of guesswork. For twenty
seven years | made cutting n study while
travelling through Ireland England and the
continent of Europe. In France l struck
upon new method, called the French COM
bination of squares. By it any lady in a
weeks time can learn to cut out, without
any bother about refitting, the most elabo-
rate dress. l find the American ladies apt
and decidedly of n mechanical turn of
mind.n
What class of scholars do you generally
have ?"
Every class. Ladies who simply want
to be instructed for their own benefit and
those who expect either TO teach it or go
into some large millinery establishment.
They come from Boston, Philadelphia, Chi
cago, Baltimore and indeed many of the
other cities. They generally represent large
firms and come to learn the quick, simple
and scientific method which is the French
square measure system"
will this system have any effect upon
the fashion of dressing in the United
States? ?"
" In the end it is bound to do 80. Look
what it has done for France. The Parisians
set the fashions for the world Their clothes
dt them. They are cut scientifically and
are not the patterns of guesswork such as l
see examples of every day in the streets
here. 1t is easier to cut correctly than
otherwise when the system is once attained"
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But she had not read three lines before
she flung the letter indignantly into the

But she had not read three lines before
she flung the letter Indignantly into the
sulky fire.
Married "a she exclaimed. "That ehildl
Is everybody crazy to get married, Won
der? And ste hopes pll excuse her, but
her husband thinks-folly and nonsensel
What is her husband to me? Betsey, my
chamber candle ~
/" Bless me, ma'am " said Betsey. "Wha,
has happened ?n
Everything |" said Mrs Medley. Don't
let me be called before eight o'clock to-mor-
row morning. I almost wish that could
go to sleep and sleep forever"
And Mira. Medley, in the silence and soil.
tude of her own room, fell to thinking to
what charitable institution she could leave
her money.
With the Psalmist of old she could earn
estly have cried; Vanity, vanity, all is
vanity.n
loved Philip" she snid "and l had
set my heart on Silvia Gray-and such a
match as it would have been !"
She was sitting at her luncheon the next
day, with her cockatoo on one side of her and
the poodle ON the other, when Betsey open.
ed the door.
Please, ma'am,' said Betsey, com.
pany."
g Botsey," said Mrs. Medley, 81 told you
was not at home to anybody to-day"
Please, ma'am," giggled Betsey, she
would come i'm
Who would come in ?" said Mrs. Ned
ley.
It's me, Aunt Medley" said Philip Bar
row, Z" and my wife. Don't be vexed."
The tall young mill superintendent came
in with his pretty wife hanging on his arm.
''Won't you kiss me, Aunt Medley" SAID
Mrs. Phil, putting up the rosebud lips
" for my mother sake 2"
''Eh ?n said Mrs. Medley.
Didn't you get my letter ?" said Philips
wife.
letter."
Mrs. Medley was more convinced than
ever now that she was asleep and dream
ing.
&c wrote you all about it," said Mrs,
Phil. Don't you know? 1 am Silvia
Gray. met Philip when he came out to
Denver to look at the new mill machinery,
and he would be married Immediately. lie
said he was sure you would forgive him.
Will you forgive him, Aunt Nedley?"
g Yes, my dear, will, said Mrs. Ned.
ley, her face frightening up like the full
moon peeping through mist wreathes. But
why didn't they tell me you were Silvia
Gray 7"
Philip wanted to surprise YOU" said
Silvia hiniging her head.
Well, he has surprised me- said Mrs.
Medley.
She went back to Hampden with the mill
superintendent and his wife, and slept in
the pretty pink-and-white bedroom which
Silvia had prepared for her with so much
pains and she praised Silyias chicken
salad and orange pies, and she even conde-
scended to approve of Phebe's half COM
pleted silk counterpane for life was all
couleuT de rose for her now.
1t is great thing for woman of Mrs
Nedley's age to have her own way
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-05-06
DANGER FROM ARSENIC.
Prof. Leflmnnn Tells in How Many Ways
IL is Used.

Poison lines the walls of hundreds OF
rooms in this city, and the occupants receive
it into their systems, and in majority OF
cases do not know what produces the i'll
health which they suffer- said Prof. Left.
mann to a reporter.
g Is the employment of arsenic in the
manufacture of articles for domestic use ex-
tensiye ?p was asked.
" 1t is both extensive and dangerous
The frequency with which it is found in
articles which one sees about the house
daily is alarming. II is discovered in large
quantities in many domestic fabrics and in
great many varieties of wall papers. know
of about forty different wall papers which
contain arsenic in dangerously large guam
titles 1t was once supposed that green
papers were the only ones which were ARISEN
ical, but at present arsenic is more frequent,
ly found in all papers of other colors. The
color, however, is not sure guide and is
not to be depended upon. People become
afraid to buy green papers, and if they are
freer from poison than they formerly were
it is due to the fact that the manufacturers
had to make them without arsenic in order
TO find sale for them. The green pig
ments used now for coloring papers are, as
q rule mixtures of non-arsenical blue and
yellow such as Prussian blue and chrome
yellow.
You will find to-day that the red and
blue are more frequently arsenical than the
green wall paper. Papers of any color or
shade may contain arsenic in dangerous and
fatal quantities. Prof. Edward S. Wood, OF
Massachusetts,, who has given me much i'm
portant information on this subject, said
different rolls of the same paper that some
contain arsenic and that some did not This
take it, is explained by the fact that the
CO Dring matter used in the manufacture of he
two rolls came from different lots, one
being pure and the other poisonous.
Arsenic is sometimes found in the white
groundwork of paper sold to cover the walls
of nurseries. In this case the poison was
probably used in the paste, which fastened
the pigment to the paper, and when used in
this way it is dangerous because it can be
detached in the form of dust, or in a humid
atmosphere it would be set free and form
arseniuretted hydrogen"
g Is arsenic used in the manufacture of
expensive papers 2"
" Oh, yes | think that no safety or pro.
lection can be secured by purchasing high
priced goods. In the samples of arsenical
paper here you see that some pieces marked
50 bolt contain more than FIVE grains Of
arsenic to the square yard"
The poisonous samples were of o vast
variety of shades, colors, patterns and
prices. Some glazed papers contained as
much as fifty grains of arsenic to the square
yard, and one sample showed, by analysis,
that one square foot held double the fatal
dose of arsenic for an adult. Samples of
calico showed the presence of arsenic also.
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SEEN IN THE KREMLIN.

I had heard and read great deal about
the Kremlin, but had no distinct idea of
what it was like until I saw il. l had no
idea of its vast extent that within its walls
were contained palaces, churches, monas-
teries and arsenals. The walls surrounding
all these structures are of vast extent, hight
and thickness. At frequent intervals are
watch towers of fanciful design. and the
battlements are all loopholed for the dis.
charge of missiles. Inside is the Red
Square, so called from the thousands of
Judicial murders there committed, and in
the center of it is group of statuary called
:" The Prince and Moujik." There are
many entrances into the Kremlin, but the
principal one is the Redeemer Gate, which
is considered holy place, ON account of a
certain famous statue which finds lodging
in one of its inches. When passing through
this portal every one is supposed to take off
his hat. The Convent of the Ascension is
strange freak of architectural fancy, but
beautiful withal. Near it is place where
the holy oil is manufactured, with which all
SsuSoioh ehiiuieu itie DhpllZeu- AROUND the
arsenal are hundreds of cannon taken from
the French, and there I saw that immense
piece of ordnance called the King of Can
non, but which, like the King of Bells, also
in the Kremlin, is fit for nothing but show.
The Ivan tower and the cathedral, with its
numberless costly thrones, are both monu-
ments OF human skill. 1t is ia this cathe-
dral that the Cars of Russia crown them
selves, no other than their own hands being
considered fit for the holy Office. The pal
ace, which has an unpretentious appearance
outside, being coated with stucco. is of
great extent 1t contains the St. Georges
Hall and numberless suits of apartments for
the guests of royalty. The throne of the
Gar was shown to me, and MS stood look
ing at it 1 almost trembled as thought of
the undisputed sway, of the limitless power
of life and death over hundred millions of
people, which he who had occupied it few
days before held.--Joln L.. Stoddard.
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THE YOUNG MANS CANE.
Fashion Changes In Walking sticks ny in
All Things Else.

Among the things that interest young
mems fancy in the spring time are canes.
Almost contemporary with the Easter bonnet
and often before, the spruce young man in
almost every station Of life brings out his
cane. On far Sundays and in the middle
of the day on Chestnut street during the
promenade honrs nine cut of every ten
young men of fashionable pretentions may
be seen stalking or toying with n cane, gen.
orally with big horn or silver handle
There is a decided change in the style of
canes this season. The very swell cane is
thicker than ever-fully twice as thick
as the cane in vogue year or two
ago, and the tendency is toward dark woods
Malacca is quite the rage, and more canes
are sold made of that wood than any other.
A later thing, however, is to have canes of
the natural wood, without the bark stripped
off. These are now popular in London and
New York and are likely to be so in Phila-
delphia.
Small round hammered silver heads are
much in demand and upon these the fash
ionoble young men usually has his mono-
gram and address engraved, but later
thing is the buck-horn handle, partially
blazed in places, with the handle usually
noticed in front and often extending into
what is known in London rs "crutch."
The crutch cane will be the dude cane OF
the season and the "swell " way of carrying
it is under the arm, with handle behind and
the point Droiectinp downward Ieadino
jewelers. who deal in high-price canes say
that an unusual demand has sprung up
among fashionable young man for gold
headed canes, which are no longer in de-
mand for old gentlemen, such presentations
having very much gone out of fashion.
Some of these gold-headed canes have dainty
handles, deliberately chased
Among the men who sell canes on the
street corners and in the hotels, now sc
numerous and in the cane stores as we'll
the style of cane mostly sold is of natural
wood all one piece, with o crook, or what
is known as pistol handle. general
knock-around cane much sought after but
very scarce is the true Irish blackthorn with
the thorns smoothed off
A curious fact but little known is that
dagger and sword-canes have come into use
to a most extraordinary extent and some of
the fashionable young men in town carry
them. good many young men also effect
canes that have very small photographs in
side the handle that can be seen when held
10 the light.
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ONION RAISING IN THE BERmupAs.

The Bermuda Islands, tiny specks in mid
Atlantic, situated seven hundred miles or
more from our nearest coasts, possess o very
fertile soil, which enables their inhabitants
to supply our markets, to a large extent,
with early potatoes, tomatoes and some
other fruits of the earth, that are SO excel
lent in quality as to leave the demand I'M
satisfied. Among these vegetables are
onions of the finest and mildest flavor,
which have always been graded the highest
in quality and price, and the production of
which has proved source of great profit to
the 'Mudians.
Naturally, where the crops are of SO great
value, and where the cultivated land is of
SO limited an area as that of Bermuda, there
is disposition to tax its yielding capacity
to the full. This has been done until year
or two past by the lavish use of the gulf
weed, which the Atlantic waves consider
ately deposit in great quantity in all the
bays of the rock-ribbed coast. But in an
evil hour the Bermudian gardeners thought
to improve upon kelp as fertilizer by the
introduction of guano in its stead. The re.
suit of this high treatment of the soil, it APP
pears, has been injurious to the onion crops,
causing the bulbs TO rot in the ground.
After SO Improbable an experiment to both
producers and consumers it is certain that
in future the discarded seaweed, which has
proved itself so beneficial to the onion
patches in the past, will again be valued at
its real worth.
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THE PRINCE oFWALEs AS AspEAKER.

There are few men in England who car
make as good speech as the Prince Of
Wales. His voice is singularly far-reaching
clear, pleasant aud his delivery is simple
and dignifed. But ii must not be supposed
that the ease and fuency which now char
acterize his public discourses were attained
without trouble, or that the Prince is one of
mob of gentlemen who speak at ease,"
md have very little to say worth listening
TO. At first, when he had to address ON
Audience-and it fell to his lot to begin
speech-maling while he was very young in
deed-he spoke with some hesitation, and
he gave his audience the idea of one who
would be very glad when he could sit down /;
but by persistent practice he has acquired
command of language and felicity of ex
preston which commend his matter to the
most critical, while il is at the Same time
| judicious in substance and much to the
| point. No ono can make better case for
A charitable institution than the Prince, and
his appeals to the pockets of his hearers
when he is presiding at dinner to promote
the work of some benefcent association or
to further some useful and meritorious en-
terprise are SO successful that il is consider
ed the fortune of an evening, from finan-
cial point of view, is secured when the
Prince of Wales hns consented to take the
chair. On occasions of national importance
and interest, such as tho opening of public
institutions, the Princes speeches, carefully
prepared and excellently pronounced, are
models of what such work should be, set
ting forth the objects in view, the history of
the movement and the claims it has to sup
port or approval, in well-chosen and effec-
tive words. The Prince has had practice
enough certainly, for since his marriage he
has been associated with every movement in
the kingdom, and has been called upon to
open exhibitions, bridges and buildings,
parks and museums, " inaugurate statues,
lay OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, preside at commits.
sions and banquets year after year and hal
answered to the call with unfagging spirit,
cheerfulness and efect.-Harpers Maya
zine