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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-01
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Last fall, when tho Indianapolis Sen
tinel, in retaliation for the disgraceful
attacks upon Gov. Cleveland, publish
ed the story of Blaine's marriage, the
''Plumed Knight" flew to the nearest
telegraph Office and sent lightning or
der to Senator Harrison, telling him to
sue the Sentinel for $50, 900 libel, and
declaring dramatically that he would
protect the honor of his family with his
life, ii need be. The country properly
appIauded the defender of the snnctitv
OF his home, and the Sentinel man was
condemned far and near. Reader. yes-
terday James G.. Blaine dismissed the
suit, and withdrew the prosecution
against the publisher Comment is
unnecessary.-St. Cloud Times.
Just so. Comment never was neces-
sary. The ADVANCE said at the time
that Blaine should not have noticed
the slander at all. He is right now in
not wasting his money and time on a
libel suit. Every prominent candidate
except Butler, III the late campaign.
was charged with something crooked
In his domestic relations. Gen. Jack
son was 50 charged. We suppose it
was more or less true in every case.
But what has that to do with a mans
public life and usefulness?
We are glad to know that American
voters are not influenced by such scan
dal mongers. We do not believe half
dozen votes in the whole country were
turned away from Blaine, Cleveland
or st. John on account of the stories
published concerning their domestic
and private life.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-01

BLANKs.-Chattel Mortgage and
hattel Mortgage Sale Blanks for sale
at tins office in any quantity.
Horse Books. DR.. Foote'S Health
20 * and Mobiles County Maps for sale
at the ADVANCE0fiice.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
Recipes from a Young Miss.

APPLE DUMPING. One pint of
flour, one and one-half tea-spoonfuls of
baking-powder, one-half tea-spoonful of
salt, mix together; one tablespoonful of
butter, one egg, beaten light, one scant
cup of milk. Bake in biscuit tin and
add four or five apples, pared, cored
and sliced. Lay in rows on the top of
the batter. Sprinkle two tablespoon
fuls of sugar over it. Bake about twenty
minutes.
SAUCE FOR THE PUDDING.-Two
cups of hot water, one cup of sugar;
when it boils, add three tea-spoonfuls
of common starch, wet with little wa
ter, one tablespoonful of butter, and
two tablespoonful of vinegar.
FISH BALLs.-A coffee-cupful of
picked Goldfish and one pint of sliced
potato. Rinse the fish, and boil to-
gether. Then mash thoroughly, adding
salt and one egg, we'll beaten. Drop
with spoon into fine wire basket,
and set the basket into a kettle of lard,
smoking hot. BERNICE, Rutland, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
Cake and Pudding.

| send the following recipes, which
have tried and know to be good
COURT CAKE.-One egg, one and
half cups of sugar, one-half cup of but
ter, one cup of sour milk, two and one
third cups of flour, one half teaspoon
full of soda, two-thirds of nutmeg,
and one cup of chopped raisins.
DELMoNICO PUDDING. Scald one
pint of milk; mix three tablespoonful
of corn-starch in little milk, beat the
yolks of two eggs, add four tablespoon
fuls of sugar and little lemon. Stir
it into the scalded milk until it thick
ems. Pour it into pudding dish, place
it in the oven, and let it remain long
enough to form crust sufficient to
hold the frosting. Beat the whites of
two eggs to stiff froth, add two table
spoonfuls of sugar and little lemon.
Spread it over the top and place it in
the oven to brown. A. READER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
Another Good Letter.

Mr.. EditOr:-I am more interested
in The Household every week, and am
glad to know there are more sisters who
are ready and willing to join this band
of neutrality-suspicious. become ac-
quainted and exchange thoughts on
subjects that are fraught with so much
interest to each one of us; and, since
nothing is complete without woman
in it," we must be encouraged by the
pretty compliment, and do the best we
can to make this department useful and
instructive.
Since my early childhood have cul-
tivated flowers, and have a passionate
fondness for Gods sweet emblems of
purity, innocence and love. l have
also had good success in the cultivation
of currants. Mrs. G. will be richly re-
warded for her labor if she will perse-
we're in her " loving care" The COM
mon red currant is of good size and
very prolific if well cultivated. Last sea-
son those of the cherry variety in our
garden were large and looked very
tempting; they were not as prolific
as the common variety, and dropped
from the stems early.
Mrs. A. M, S. wishes for good recipes
for buildings. Here is one have used a
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
Fertilizer Materials.
not do.

The Bowker Fertilizer Company of
Boston shows commendable spirit in
offering line of guaranteed fertilizer
materials for home mixing at moderate
prices. These embrace ground bone,
dissolved bone (plain bone superphos-
phate), potash salts, sulphate of ammo
MIA, nitrate of soda and dried blood. A
singular omission from this list is plain
acid phosphate (superphosphate) from
South Carolina rock, which was sold by
this firm last year, and would be much
cheaper and nearly as good as the acid
bone phosphate. Now if farmers will
encourage makers to deal freely in this
class of goods, and club together to buy
them by the carload, in order to get
reasonable freights, at the same time
informing themselves of the needs of
their crops and soils by intelligent and
careful tests, the cost of their purchased
fertilizers will be lessened, and they can
afford to use them much more freely.
This will be mutual benefit to the
maker and the user.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
The Blunderer.

A Calais, VT, correspondent calls our
attention to some stupid errors in the
Notes and Queries " of the Boston
Cultivator of February 7, and says: 81
wonder if they would crawl out of this
as they did out of your last hit. Like
the southern rebs, they want to be let
alone" The trouble with the Cultirator
is that it is run by set of " literary
fellers," that don't know as much as a
smart school-boy about matters of
science, and still less about practical
agriculture. For want of knowledge it
is utterly uncritical of what it publishes
and, though it has some good cor
respondents, it is blind guide in its
chosen specialties. But as family
paper it has considerable merit, and it
is with the exception of the Homestead)
the most outspoken for farmers rights
of any of the New England agricultural
journals. 1t made a great mistake
when it let Mr.. Boardman return to
Maine. He is man who knows what
he is writing about. He edits " his
new Home Farm, in the true sense of
the word, and it has the most really
sound agricultural matter in it of any
New England farmers paper.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
No Novelty.

Professor Maynard Of the Massachu-
sets Agricultural College propounds
a" new a" method of growing fruit and
forest trees in grass, which is identical
in every particular with the method
practiced by us for the last fourteen
years, even to the digging out on the
upper side of trees planted on slopes
and hillsides, and building out on the
lower side to form a basin to catch the
water that flows from above. This
method was described and illustrated in
the Rural Ne,o Yorker some six years
ago, at which time the apple trees 50
set were in bearing. Nearly four hun
bred such trees are now on our farm,
and have been treated with fertilizers
and mulching exactly as Professor May
nard advises. But the quid nuncs of
the Massachusetts, Horticultural Society
shake their wise heads, and say it will
not do
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04

long time, and it has never failed me
One and one-half tea-cupsful of -four;
one and one-half cups of corn meal,
one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, one
cup of raisins, butter the size of an
egg, one egg, one tea-spoonful of cream
of tartar, one of soda. Steam three
hours. Serve with sauce made of water,
butter and sugar, thickened with flour,
adding little sharp vinegar.
To cook head cheese or souse in bat
ter: For family of five or six, take
half a pint of sour milk, half tea
spoonful of soda, thicken with flour a
little thicker than for griddle cakes;
have ready the souse cut in small slices
about one-half an inch thick fry in a
buttered pan to rich brown. This is
good; try it. Mrs. G. L. FOWLER.
East Bethel, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04

recent speech on Interstate Commerce.
From it we extract the following para
graphs, which may have an Illuminating
effect here in Vermont:
have no doubt that the power of
congress will be appealed tot is APP
pealed to now-not only to protect the
people, but to protect the railroads
themselves and the owners of those
railroads. Within the twenty years
since the railroads have formed their
connecting lines they have been eaten
to death by parasites. Every railroad
has had its little inner ring and all sorts
of cunning schemes and devices have
been made and entered into not only to
cheat the people, but to cheat their own
stockholders. / doubt if there is sim
gle railroad in our country that has not
in it and about it, composed of its Off
GERS, some of these parasites which pre-
vent proper dividends from being paid
to the stockholders. What are they?
The sleeping-car company is one. Rail
road corporations make an arrangement
with a sleeping-car company, an organ
ization entirely outside of them, to run
cars over their road Such contracts
become much more valuable property
than the road itself which carries the
cars over the rails.
Another mode is by express or freight
companies. believe that this is pretty
well broken up now, but for years ex-
press and freight companies have been
incorporated and lines have been
started-the Red Line, the Blue Line
and all sorts of lines-over the railroads
In this way property right was created
| by contract between the board of di.
rectors of railroad with some favored
individuals in the railroad, and then
| privileges and rates were given to the
express companies which bled and ate
the life and substance and property OF
the railroad stockholders. Those have
existed, and have no doubt we shall
be called upon to protect the stockhold
ers from this imposition. So with tel
egraph lines. Beside that, many boards
of directors, by voting themselves high
salaries and creating enormous expense
run the road not for the benefit of the
owners, but for the benefit of favored
few.
Therefore it is possible in our coun
try that railroad stock may sell for $40
or $50 share in the market, wher
every man knows that this railroad
stock will never pay dividend as long
as water runs or fire burns. But it is
the power to control the corporation
given by the votes of the stock that en-
ables men to seize and hold great cor
poration and pay enormous sums fol
the stock of the road, merely to exercise
the power granted by the corporate law
for their own gain and profit.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
Sorghum Sugar.

1t is generally understood that the
discovery of the fact that the sorghum
cane must not be worked until the seed
is ripe, if sugar is to be made, is a re-
cent discovery. But that is not the
fact. Soon after its introduction into
this country, experimenters made the
discovery. In the Massachusetts, Agri-
cultural Report for 1857, Part H., pages
233-34, Sam'l H. Bushnell states, as the
result of experiments in working the
cane at various stages of its growth:
/" think the seed should be ripe, or
nearly so, to make good syrup" " The
ripper the cane the better the syrup"
On page 235 j. F. G. Hyde is quoted
as saying, as the result of his expert
ence, " Unripe cane will produce grape
sugar, ripe cane the cane sugar.
b" Have no doubt that sugar can be pro
duced from the ripe cane" Mr.. Hyde
also states that the bagasse is worth $1t
per ton for paper stock. There is nc
doubt that, if the New England season
had been long enough to mature the
kinds of sorghum at that time expert
mented with, the Yankees would have
then and there solved all the problems
of its successful manufacture into botf
syrup and sugar. The experiment.
made recently seem to demonstrate
that, for sugar-making, even the earli
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
The Agricultural Editors Catalogue.

Any reader who would like copy of
the eighteenth annual catalogue of the
Memphremagog Seed Farm and Muir
sery will receive it free on sending his
Cor her) address to DR.. 7. II. Hoskins,
Newport, vt. Each correspondent of
The Household department may select
garden seeds, in papers, from this cata-
logue free, to the amount of one dollar;
or, if they prefer, we will send them
an order on James Wick for one-dol-
lar collection of his choice flower seeds.
These may be collections of varieties of
a single class-Asfrs, Balsams, Pinks,
Pansies, Phlox Orummond), Everlast-
ing Flowers, or Ornamental Grasses,
or they may be collection of miscel-
laneous flower seeds. These latter will
be of Mr.. Vick's selection, but in all
cases they will be first-class sorts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04

THE BUssEY BULLETIN. We are
much indebted to Professor F. H.
Storer, professor of agriculture in the
Bussey Institution, Boston, for a copy
of his last Bulletin QSS4). Professor
Storer is an industrious and skillful in
vestigator, and many of these reports
are of peculiar value. The one before
us, though not so striking in its con-
tents as some of its predecessors, re-
cords some excellent work. We regret
to learn that, through losses by fire, the
pecuniary resources of the institution
have been seriously impaired.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
Recipes.

COOKIES. Two cups of sugar, one
cup of butter, two eggs, two-thirds cup
of sour milk, one tablespoonful of cara
way seeds, one scant tea-spoonful of
soda; flour to roll.
GINGER SNAPs.-One cup of molasses,
one cup of sugar, one cup of butter,
one-half cup of sour cream or sour
milk, one tablespoonful of vinegar,
one tea-spoonful of soda, one teaspoon
full of ginger; flour to roll.
STEAMED PUDDING.-One pint of
-four, one cup of milk, one egg, three
tablespoonful of butter, two tea
spoonfuls of cream of tarter, one tea
spoonful of soda, handful of raisins.
Steam two hours; serve with sweetened
cream. j. A. p.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04

est varieties, like the Amber and the
Early Orange, cannot be cultivated
with safety farther North than South
ern New Jersey. But good syrup can
be made every year, and sugar in good
seasons, in localities free from early and
late frosts, in New England. The
syrup, when carefully made, is far bet
ter than any molasses, and fully twice
as sweet as the best of the glucose
syrups. In the present state of the
sugar market, however, there is not
much encouragement to engage in the
business, were it not reasonably Ger.
tain that this depression will not endure
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
NJ. 7 W ILDEh, I TtSIUtTtl
w. j. BEAL. SecretQru.

THE meeting of the Board of Agri-
culture at Grand Army Hall, Newport,
February 10 and 20, was very success
full one, and noteworthy as being the
first farmers meeting held at that place
of which the same could be said. 1t
was real agricultural revival, and
though several members of the board
who were anxiously expected did not
put in an appearance, Messrs. Lane,
Davis and Perkins made strong team,
and the sustained and increasing inter
est of the six sessions showed that this
board answers to a strongly felt want
among the people. AS an immediate
result, the revival of the Newport
Grange is anticipated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
Experiments with Seed Corn.

Referring to recent experiments in
planting corn taken from the base, mid
die and top of the ear, made by DIR. E..
l.. Sturtevant at the New York Expert
ment Station, our friend Cheever of
the Neao England Farmer says: owe
know of no one who has attempted to
investigate the question Systematically,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04

THE Boston Cultirator, published for
country people, informs its readers that
ten-pound package of dynamite car
tridges " is about as large as the Boston
directory" That's Boston, all over.
The " Hub " is always tickled when
some condescending Briton calls it the
most English of American cities. But
this is OVERRIDING the stupidity of even
British conceit. 1t is gratuitous cock
neyism.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
The Next American POmOlOgicaI
Congress-.

Secretary Beal of the American Pomo-
logical Society sends US the following
notice:
The Michigan Horticultural Society
has invited the American Pathological
Society to hold its next meeting in
Michigan. The undersigned give notice
that the twentieth session of this ma
tional association will be held in Grand
Rapids, commencing Wednesday,, Sep
tenber 9th, 1885, at ten O'Clock A. NJ,
and continuing for three days.
All horticultural, genealogical, agri-
cultural, and other kindred associations
in the United States and British Prov
inces are urged to send delegations as
large as they may deem expedient, and
all persons interested in the cultivation
of fruits are invited to be present and
take seats in the convention. 1t is eX-
pected that there will be a full attend
ance of delegates from all quarters of
our country. No effort will be spared
to make it the largest and most. useful
meeting ever held by the society.
M. p. WILDER, President.
w. j. BEAL, Secretary.
We trust that Vermont may be well
represented at this meeting. 1t is a pity
that there is not public spirit enough
among ourfruit-growers to establish and
support state society auxiliary to this
grand national organization. 1t could
be made very profitable to us, both in
the collection and diffusion of knowl-
edge, and in various pecuniary ways.
Outsiders begin to think that old Yer
mont is about half dead, any way.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
agricultural.

NE~ This department is wholly under the control
Of the agricultural editor, t. II. HosK1Ns, MD,
Newport w.. and he alone is to be held responsible
for the opinions herein expressed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04

GoFFART, the inventor of the ensil-
age system, says that he does not hold
that butter made from ensilage is as
good as when the cows are fed on fresh
maize; but while winter butter is al
ways inferior to that made in summer,
that from ensilage is of better quality
than that from any other feed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
How Railroads May Cypress the People,
Yet Pay no Dividends.

John Sherman of Ohio is one of the
ablest Of our statesmen. Through the
courtesy of Senator Morrill,, we have his
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
advertisements.
HOODS
SARSApARILLA

Has decided" claims upon the public. This
is positively proven by the immense good it
has done to those who have been cured of
diseases from which they have suffered in
tensely for years. as verified by the publish
ed testimonials, every one of which is pos
tive fact.
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CHELSEA. W.. Feb. "a. 1879.

CHELSEA, VT, Feb. "a, 1879.
MESsRS. C. !. HOOD * Co., Lowell Mass:
The 9th day of last June | was taken sick
with Il swelling on my right foot, and with an
My face was swelled SO that | could with diff
hculty see out of my eyes, and broke out
over the whole surface OF my body; my right
foot up to my knee was one raw, itching
mass, and my ankle and foot so lame and
sore could not step on it, and 1t would run
so as to wet n bandage through in an hour.
In this condition Mr.. w. +. Hood (of the firm
of A. K. Hood * Son, druggists, of this town,
handed me bottle of HooD's SARsAPARIL-
LA, and told me TO take 1t. did so, and by
the time had taken one bottle found that
IL was doing me good. have since taken
five bottles more. After had taken three
bottles my soreness began to leave me, and
have been growing better every day, so
that to-day / can walk without going lame
] have no soreness in my ankle ana ~ mas
healed all up, and does not run at all. owe
my recovery to your SarSaparllla. Wflte
this to let you know that think II deserves
the confidence of the public, especially those
who are troubled with humors.
Yours most truly.
JOSIAH PITKIN.
PS. Every person that saw me said that
! never would get over my lameness without
having running sore on my ankle; put
thank God have. j. 7.
Mother Sarsaparilla has such sharpening
effect upon the appetite. No other prepa-
ration tones and strengthens the digestive
organs like HOOPS SARsAPARILLA.
Price one dollar, or six bottles for five dol
lars Prepared only by G. l. HOOD & CO..
Apothecaries, Lowell Mass.
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Gbe Nousebolo.

e-H Communications for this column should he
sent to the agricultural editor. Dr. Hoskins. at
Newport VI
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-26
Melton on bis Muscle.

GREENvILLE, February 1S.-A sensa.
ton occurred in the United States Dis.
trict Court to day. District Attorney
Melton, in replying to Mr.. J. T. Nix of
the Greenville Bar, attorney for the de.
fendant in whiskey case, characterized
something that Mr.. Nix had said as
false.
Mr. Nix sprang to his feet and retort.
ed that the District Attorneys remarks
were "the falsest of the false"
The District Attorney put in prompt
rebuttal in the shape of blow with his
fist in Mr.. Nix's face, and followed it
quickly with another.
The battle being joined in earnest Mr..
Nix responded with his right arm, but
Marshal Tuomey put sudden end 10
bostilities by promptly occupying the
space between the belligerent lawyers
and separating them.
The Court sat astonished. The crowd
rose to their feet and there was small
interval of intense excitement in the
Courtroom.
Marshal Tuomey took the floor and
restored order in a short time, and all
WAS again serene. Both the attorneys
made ample apologies to the Court,
making their best speeches for the term,
and Judge Bryan reprimanded them
with some severity, but accepted the
apologies as satisfactory, and hoped tina
what had occurred would be an end of it.
It is thought that no further fighting
will follow.