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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
should be properly devoted to only

should be properly devoted to only
one.
The New England Homestead is
pleased to note the increasing use OF
mnttOn as food on the farmers table
1t is a most healthful meat.
Be sure that the ground floor i'm the
poultry house is enough higher than
the surrounding ground to keep it per-
fectly dry. Damp floors are very pro-
ductive of disease.
Select good breeds of poultry and
properly manage them after you get
them. This is the secret of success in
the poultry business.
There is no place in this world that
is exactly right, no place where labor
is not required for securing comfort
able homes and the accomplishments
which go to make homes worth hav-
ing.
While it may not be generally known
or regarded, it is no doubt fact that
quite large list of the ailments to
which horse-fiesh is heir is due TO the
improper use of hay-nOt merely of
hay which is damaged or is of improp-
er kind, but the way it is fed.
MangOlds and Swedes frequently
contain ninety per cent. of water, while
the average sugar beets show but eigh
ty per cent. Hence, the New England
Farmer logically concludes, crop of
beets several tons less per acre than
crop of mangolds will contain more
nutritive matter.
An old farmer recently said, 81 used
to think, good many years ago, that
if stock were kept little short in win
ter they would grow enough more in
summer to make it up; but if an ami
NAL grows one or two pounds day in
winter, it is more likely to grow three
or four in summer than if it had not
grown at all in the winter"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
is 1T NOT A MISTAKE?
BY MRS. MARGARET r. SANGsTEl

BY MRS. MARGARET X. SANGSTER.
Others may have had an experience
through which | have passed once and
again, with an ever-deepening pain,
that of watching the failing strength
of a friend for whom there is no hope
of heightened days, while physician,
kindred and acquaintances forbid all
reference to the life beyond.
Sometimes it is dear aged one
again a darling girl, whose step has
scarcely crossed the mystic line where
wOmanhOOd and childhood meet. All
around are clear-sighted as the Angel
of the Shadow lowering on the thresh-
old. There is no hope of his passing
by. 1t is, for instance, consumption
which has marked its victim. The
hectic flush, the increasing emaciatiOn,
the growing weakness, the gasping
breath, and, alas, the clutching hope
fulness, which is proof against every
encouragement, tell their tale of
mOnrnful significance But how pa
thetic the enforced silence; how I'M
christian the shutting of eye and ear to
the beyond, which is drawing near.
1t is perhaps II little lamb of the
fold, dear to the Saviour, and knowing
herself dear, yet nobody must take the
little thin hand, and, holding it ten
DERBY, say, "Sweet one, living or dy-
ing, you are the Lords. You cannot
drift out of the world all alone. Jesus
is by your side. He will go with you
every step of the way. He will come
for you at the last moment, open the
last door, and take you Himself into
the place which He has prepared for
You"
saw such an instance a few months
ago. There was n studiOus stimulation
of cheerfulness OH every face, and this
not the cheerfulness of those who wish
the outgoing traveller GOd-speed, but
of those endeavOring to keep her from
realizing how i'll she was All sorts
of future plans were talked of and
thought about; school days, journeys,
this bright thing and that to be done,
when the sufferer should be well again.
So it went on, till suddenly one morn
ing the earthly cable slipped and she
was gone.
Suppose she had not been ready tn
gOi Dear friends, do we not make a
mistake when we so utterly ignore the
great change that is coming, and yet
we believe we look forward to where
Sweet fields beyond the swelling food
Stand dressed in living green
We put from our beloved and from
ourselves, as though it were a thing
too awful for speech, the inevitable
neutrality-suspicious..
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
THE FREIGHT BRAKEn1EN.

The New York Times gives an inter
esting account of the work and the
hardships of freight brakemen, especi.
ally on the Erie Road. The wages are
about 81 go day, but the men are
obliged to wait more or less of the time
without pay, or on half pay, SO that
they do well if they average $50 a
month brakeman who was inter
viewed gave the following vivid de-
scription of the hard places which
these men pass through:
1t is hardly necessary to say that at
this season of the year the hardships
of brakeman's life become almost I'M
endurable. Accidents that never reach
the public through the newspapers are
of daily occurrence. The sloping tops
of the cars, covered with snow and ice,
make walking on them extremely haz-
ardOus, though it has to be managed
somehow with reckless rapidity. A
misstep is pretty sure to be fatal.
While the train is in motion the brake
man must be at his post on top of the
train, no matter how cold the weather
or how binding the snow storm. He
must leap from car to car, running for
ward and backward, as fearlessly as
though he did not know that fall
meant instant death. Smoke from the
locomotive comes drifting past him i'll
clouds, filling his eyes with cinders
until they are sore. The cold strikes
through his clothes and benumbs his
limbs until he can hardly stand. The
sharp snow cuts into his face, stinging
like needles, until he feels like Shrek
ing with pain, but while the train rum
bles on he must remaiR ready to an
swer the call to brakes that is likely
to come at any moment.
One has to be among brakemen for
time to realize how many of them are
crippled. A man with ten sound fin
gers is almost an exception. Their
hands and faces are like the limbs of
the little Jellybys, perfect calendars of
distress. OF course if man loses a
leg or an arm, so that he is of no fur
Their use, he must leave the service I'M
less place can be found for him as
fiagman or caller. Accidents, particu-
larly in the winter season, are numer-
Gus. If it is mere loss of a thumb,
or a crushed foot, the chances are that
it is not heard of outside of the COM
pany's offices, but all such accidents of
a serious nature that occur in this state
must be reported to the rail- Dad COM
1t has been calculated
from figures thus obtained that seven
ty per cent. of train hands employed
on road for five years become Grip
pied. A railroad manual estimates
that 100 railroad employees are injur-
ed every year in the United States
while in the discharge of their duty.
In ten years this amounts to quite an
army of cripples.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04

Three weeks ago the representatives
of twenty-five bogus butter manufac-
|turers met at Pittsburg, Pa, and form
ed national association for the pur-
pose of mutual protection. Firms
whose estimated wealth is SlO0,0O0,-
1000 were represented, and it is their
Intention to test the legality of laws
|recently passed in New York, Pennsyl-
wanna and other states, prohibiting the
manufacture of these counterfeit pro
ducts. Such powerful organization
means mischief and disaster to the le-
ultimate dairy industry of the country.
National legislation is absolutely nee
|essary to- protect the rights of the dali
bymen. Farmers everywhere must
eOmbine and seek relief through their
Representatives in congress. Seven
EailliOns of farmers should have as
much power over congressional action
ms twenty-five bogus butter manufac-
Ituring concerns.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
Snow Flowing on the Central. Pacific

zone of the monster snow plOws used
on the Central Pacific railroad" says
the Virginia city (Nev.) Chronicle of
recent date, "came as far as Reno, car
rying several tons of snow on it's front.
These plOws look like two-story
house in motion. In cases where sec
tiOns of the snOwsheds over the track
on the Sierras are carried away by
slides, as many us IL ten wheeled loco
motives are coupled behind the power
fully braced monsters to clear the snow
from the track. Bucking through IL
snow blockade is usually done while
going down grade. The locomotives
take start of mile and strike the
snowbank at Il speed of 60 miles an
hour, driving the pillow as far as posi-
BILE into the mass with thrOttles wide
open and reverse levers hooked down
in the corner. After forcing the pillow
as far as possible into the wbank
with 600 tons of iron behind it under a
full head of steam, they back out agai II
and take another run and keep on
'bucking' until IL path is forced through
the obstruction and the track cleared.
The railroad company frequently issue
passes to adventurous persons anxious
to take trip on the hurricane deck
along with the captain of the pillow, but
one ride generally suffices to satisfy
their curiosity"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
sheep to Improve Soil.

Sir j. b. Lawes of Rothamsted, Eng
Band, relates how a farmer improved his
|wOrn-Out soil with sheep. He made
the production of wheat the basis of
renovation stopped all tillage and en-
Hleavored to get the soil into pasturage
by giving it the plant food to enable it
ho grow good grasses. A flock of sheep
hvas allowed To run over the land dur
ing the day and folded there every
y light, and fed one pound each of cot
FOn-seed cake. The use of sheep in
IenOvating land is not new but the
practice has rarely been presented in
30 systematic manner. Sheep in
Hooks of one hundred, enclosed by
movable fences upOn a space twenty
'fwO by twenty-five yards, and the
Folds moved daily, would in ten days
bower an acre each, aud the manure of
bne Thousand pounds of the cake
'wOnld be well distributed upon this
amount of land, greatly enriching it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
VIII also Apply to Calves.

as always to he kept growing and thriv-
ing, without any checks either from
want of food, food of poor quality un-
suited to his needs, or from sickness.
Another extreme should always he
avoided, and with as much care as pow
erty of flesh, and that is excessive fat
ness, which usually occurs from too
much fat-prOducing food, excessive
feeding or want of exercise.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
Poor Cows Improbable.

A difference on four quarts of milk
per day at the low price of two cents
per quart makes for three hundred days
S24, which is the interest on 800 for a
year. This does not represent the en-
tire difference in value, as the progeny
of superior mixers will be worth
many times as much to raise as will be
the progeny of the inferior animal.
No farmer is rich enough to keep poor
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
Cnfs Around Barns.

Most farmers have enough cats, as
where a stock, however small, exists,
they breed rapidly, and soon become
too numerous. If petted at all, they
learn to hang around the house in win
ter and grow fat on scraps from the
table. But the same cats, if driven
ont of doors, will find good living in
barns and graneries, where they will
save many dollars worth of grain.
Barn cats are always good mOusers,
and they transmit this tendency to
their Young, so that even for house
service it is better to get a barn kitten
and tame il.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
The siIo anInstitution.

The silo has come to stay. 1t is a
great improvement on the old methods
of drying fodder in the variable eli
mate of New England. Several small
silos are better than one large one.
Depth is more important than size, as
the deeper the silO the more solid the
ensiIage. Whether filled slowly or
quickly, in good weather or bad, with
heavy weights or none at all, the ensi-
lage does not greatly differ.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
A ROnRh Coat.

1t is bad sign for cows or horses at
this season to have rough, staring
coat. 1t shows neglect of grooming
or lack of food during the winter, and
this cannot easily be made up after
wards. A rough coat is usually ac-
cOmpanied by vermin, which always
take to animals in thin flesh. If a COW
is poor in the spring, she will not be
worth much as a mixer the following
simmer
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
Winter Butter and Spring Chickens.

Cows coming in from the last of
February to the first of April are Civ
ing milk just when all the least sue
cessiul 4airymen are making their
butter, and for this reason just when
the price for ordinary butter is ut the
lowest. What condition the market
may he in IL few years hence no one
can determine with certainty. Good
winter butter and fine spring chickens
may become a drug in the market, but
it is hardly likely that such will be the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
Notes

}. j. ii. Gregory, the scotsman, esti-
'nttes the value of hen manure at
sabOut IL cents a year per bird.
A SOuth Haven, Mich, man paws
'SI3 dog tax and $3.50 on real estate.
The cost of fences is usually mere
than the value of the animals pastur-
Jed, and sometimes more than the land
'encloscd.
Don't keep too many fowls upon one
.place, and never attempt tO keep sew
raj varieties within the space that
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
Probate of will.

- In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. JOhnsbury within and for said district on the
Goth day of Feb, A. d. 1886.
An instrument purpOrting to be the last Will and
Testament of Asa L. French, late of st.
Johnsbury, in said district, deceased, being pre-
scented to Court by Elijah d. Blodgett, the Elk.
utOr tn eren named for Probate:
1t is ordered by said Court, that all persons
of said Court to be holden at the Probate Office
in st. Johnsbury, on the 18th day of March
A. ID. 1886, and show cause, if any they may have
against the Probate of said Will; for which
purpose it is further ordered that a copy of the
record of this order be published three weeks sue
cessvely in the CaledOnian, printed at St.
] ohnsb1ry, previous to said time appointed for
hearing.
By the Court Attest,
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge,
A true copy of Record, Attest,
3537 WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
PACIFIC NORTHWEST,

And hOmeward over the Northern Pacific Railroad
this part of the trip including Oregon Washington
Territory. Puget Sound, Vancouver Island, Idaho,
Montana, Lincoln Northern Dakota), and Mime
sofa, with halts at Portland, Tacoma, Seattle Vic
toria, st. Paul. Minneapolis, Lake Minnetonka, etc.
Incidental trip lin connection with all three ex
side trips if desired to Alaska and the Yellow
stone National Park.
In addition to the above, parties will leave
Thursday, March H. for California (last trip ON
Winter itinerary, and same date for Mexico
(secOnd and last excursion in special train of Pull
man Hotel Cars.)
w. RAYMOND. l. A WHITCOMB.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
Linseed Meal with Discretion.

In the celebrated experiments of the
ROthamsted farm i'll England it has
been proved that feed, to be of high
feeding value, must have a proportion
of not less than one of albuminOids to
four of carbO- hydrates, and much
larger proportion of albuminOids will
be of still greater value. The ratio of
corn is about one to seven clover hay,
one to three and one quarter; oats,
one to four; while linseed- meal has
nearly one to one. 1t therefore follows
that II judiciOus admixture of linseed
or cOtton-seed meal with any of the
above feeds will raise their value cor
respOndingly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04

The Perfection Spectacle in
Gold Frame
and fitted with
Spiral Temple
giving ease and comfort
The Adjustable Eye Glass, Perfection
itself"
Goods in Gold, Steel and Celluloid, fitted
with first quality lens, and at lowest prices.
G.. M. CARPENTER,
Home Art Store,
81 Eastern Avenue, st. JOhnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
OIeomargarine Men Score a Success.

Prof. Weber of Columbus, Ohio, has
made a discovery which it is mOdestly
claimed knocks the microscopic test
for distinguishing OleOmargarine from
butter higher than kite. Professor
Weber's discovery is that the mixing
of little water and salt with the cleo
margarine causes the bogus butter to
develop under the microscope exactly
such crystals in the form of Il st. An
drew's cross rs are found in the legti-
mate COW product. He moreover says
that the same result can be obtained
with pure tallOw treated in the same
manner. This discovery, if it be true,
destroys the usefulness of DR.. Taylsr's
Invention. from which so much has
been hoped, and brings the bogus but
Il ter makers to the front again jubilant
and triumphant. 1t is DIR. Taylor's
4tnrn next.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
SPECIAL BARGAINS

in Red Grey Scotch Granite 1.-THE most durable in
the wOrld.l Also in the Dark Quincy Granite, sam
Piles of which have on hand
Parties intending to purchase anything in this
line the coming should not fail to call and
ing.
Now is the time and this is the place to contract
for work.
HENRY r. MACK.
Hardwick, Vt, Feb. 1s, sc. 34tf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-04
Inc lONG0LA BOOT FOR LADIES

just FOUR DOLLARS per pair, and warrant
1any OF the fine shoes do. sell the LADIES
lid foxed, ScallOped vamp and quarter, Stylish
;oot, q buttons, for 800. Ny stock of Warm
think have the Largest Line of FANCY
atty of these goods at this season OF the year
at prices so low that they ought to command
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-10-26

Parlor and Sleeping Cars between Bristol
and Norfolk on Trains Nos. 1 and ,.
CONNECTIONS.
Leave Norfork $50 am daily with
through car to Richmond, and $50 pm
daily. Arrive Richmond 100 pm daily and
$40 pm daily, except Sunday.
Leave Richmond ma r. & p. r. h. at 1870
am daily, connecting with No west bound
W. r. K.
Leave Richmond at l1:3O am daily and $50
pm daily, except Sunday, with through car
to Norfolk, arriving at Norfolk 3:lOpm daily,
and 1000 pm daily.
All inquiries as to rates, routes, etc,
promptly answered.
If YOU are going 10 travel, drop a letter or
postal to Allen Hull Travelling Passenger
Agent, Roanoke, Va.
CHARLES G.. EDDY,
Vice-President.
w b. BEVILL,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
General office. Roanoke. Va Oc 22
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-10-26
The Coming Reformer.

Fhe coming philanthropist-the man
Who is 10 confer on mankind a greater
boon than any Of his predecessors-is the
one who shall found a great training
school for cooks.
The coming Reformer-w larger Il
Than decorates the title Of any Of his pre-
1eccssors-is the man who will introduce
Nichen-seryice reform.
The greatest statesman before whom
ihe fame of all others will grow dim-is
,he one who shall devise a code Of cook
my laws in which cooks shall be com
PEELED to produce diplomas from the phi
lanthropists school and certificates from
Ihe Kitchen Service Reform Commission
before they are allowed to mix food and
COOK 1t for human consumption Wash
D.gtoH critic.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-10-26
OCTOBER %.
rYr PORK-PACKERS' STRIKE.
FUESDA Y



rbe New York CommtrciR BuistA. af-
.,ulcrring Go the sudden and absolute
t1ura of The great strike of The pork
hackers, has the following
THE Knights of Labor bosses who
ordered out these men have incurred
, 4erious responsibility There is not a
mani of an chat army of strikers who can
axe credit TO himself for having gained
ANYTHING beyond hard experience On
,bc other hand 1000 men viii lose good
having positions. without even q remote
chance of getting them back, and the
$4,000 who went out OF strike lose the
cum of $4,000 i'm the shape of wages.
ln addition tO this, the beci-butchcrs,
with whom an agreement had been made
that they were 90 work but eight hours
per day, viii have TO resume ON the ten
hour basis. OF not al all. As for the position
assumed by the owner or owners OF these
Establishments, twas justified by an over
ruling necessity They could not continue
,he eight-hOur system and compete with
she ten-hOur houses in other cities, nor
could they any longer afford 10 allow
their plant. machinery and investment TO
lie idle 20 per cent. Of the working time.
The loss occasioned by the wages paid TO
the men on the eight-hOur basis was only
O mart of the loss consequent upon the
idle time Even had the men proposed to
take eight hours pay for eight hours
slime the packers could better have AZ
forded to offer them twelve hours pay
for ten hours time, than TO pay twenty
per cent for idle time and attempt TO
...f a. n Of
hourS' more use of their plant, machinery
and money, as we'll as labor, for the same
oay I'm the Chicago Irj5une Of yester-
lay. Mr. Armour explains the situation
ILus:
Did you make any promises touching
WAGES and hours of work i'm the future?
NO. SIR The men have made an ab>0-
utc unqualified, and unconditional sur
nudcr The packers promised absolutely
.Othing except that such of our former en-
moves %, applied for work would be treated
81 new men
Rr Armour is further quoted rs say
ng he had an agreement with his beet
butchers. that they were to continue work
no the eight-hOur plan, and that at the first
animation of trouble they had left him
without conjunction. Ildi JHcg lCil''IllOu
be- would have kept his agreement with
them and they would have enjoyed the
sight-hour day Now, however, such OF
ttem as were re-employed would have to
work .en hours per day and there would
De no corresponding increase in their
pan Speaking of the facility with which
new men were secured he said tie packerS
r~rf re1Hy surprised ut tie num6er ch0 APP
ph,d T0, r0rk, md tint tie tr0nble ncQs nat
!. o,itiag men. JW tH peoenting droces q
Hv5a tr0m cominq here trom M parts IF the
.yun5y IN response to the adoertlsemeHts.
Now he continued, eve will stop those
who are about starting, but we shall pro
vide for those who are on the way and
get here within the next few days We
Mould De without the essentials Of honor
bid we refuse 10 do something for them.