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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18

fully concur with those who deny the pos
sibility Of spontaneous generation OF plants,
but il writer's wish TO extirpato the doctrine
they would better allow that certain seeds may
retain their vitality for indefinite years, II
deeply buried In the soil. II we are required
TO believe they must either grow or die at
once, the faith In Heterogeneous will die hard.
For instance: Our old log house was torn
down. and its garden and yard turned into
meadow which was moved for ten years at
least, possibly fifteen and when J plowed II,
plants Of borage, high mallow, (Malva Syl-
vestris) pinks aud peoples pprang up, none Of
which 1 am sure grew there while the land
was in grass. The borage, in particular, was
the first OF its species had ever seen. did
not know what 1t was until l was told, none
having been grown on the farm nor in the
neighborhood anywhere about within my re-.
collection but my parents remembered there
was a bed OF it in the old garden before l was
born.
The evidence is somewhat less complete az
regards the other pinks and mallows had
been grown more or less on the place, though
at some distance from the spot all the while,
and their seeds might have been carried there
in the nick of time. l have no doubt what
ever that they had laid over from the old gar
den along with the borage seeds. The timothy
always grew very thick and strong on this
ground, and being moved by hand such flow
eriug plants would certainly have been de-
tected II present in the grass. Again, a large
root of pokeweed or "shokeroor (Pnytolacca
Deoandra) grew by the roadside wall, the only
one anywhere near to my certain knowledge.
Not very far away was a piece of pasture
which had never been plowed, covered with a
close sod where no pokeroot ever grew.
Some years after the old root by the wall had
disappeared the field was broken up and young
poke plants came up in great numbers.
Where could they have come from unless
from dormant seeds? The pokeseed cannot
fly any more than potato can. Cor. ~ y,
Tribune
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18
WHY Shoe IHnrneaf

An advocate of non shoeing makes some
good points in the following in the N. Y. Tri-
bune Horses feet are first what nature
made them and next what man makes them.
Nature gives them a hard, tough, spongy
cushion, which is proof against wear because
it grows all the faster for being worn, and
the same fact applies to the whole sole of the
hoof. | am living in the mountain country
where the trails are often very rocky and
where the badly kept roads are worn in places
into mere beds of rocks or rocky gullies
which have reached bed rock" and can wash
no more. The young colts, both horses and
mules, are never shod until they are broken
to work, but are ridden under the saddle from
eighteen months old up to three years, when
they are put to the wagons.
farmer said to me the other day 81
must have my mules shod." why p ask.
ed. because they are three years old" he
replied. but why do they need shoeing
now more than year ago, when they have
been working right along?" "Oh, it is a
way we folks have we never shoe beast
until it is three years old" Then the shoes
make trouble The crust of the hoof is COW
cred by the shoe-bar and is kept wet and rots
and crumbles, and the growth is not healthy.
The frog is cut away, and having no work to
do, like an idle muscle, stops growing, and
the naturally tough and rapidly growing hoof
no longer grows and becomes soft.
A little fellow passed to mill last fall with a
bag of corn to grind. He was barefoot, and
the roads were dry and hard. l asked him if
his feet were not sore, and he said NO." and
showed me how the sole was calloused and ap-
peared quite proud of his ''callouses."
Paw don't need to buy me any shoes now ;
but when go to school next summer he is
going to get me some shoes. l don't like
shoes they make my feet sore. l can walk
over briers and run over rocks, and it don't
hurt me bit" Now, this young mountain
eer was Just like his fathers mule colts in re-
gard to his feet. Nature provided for its own
needs, and the feet were protected against the
wear by hard, horny growth just as my
| own hands are hardened where the pillow han
dies and the ak wear them, and when l wear
gloves to do the work my hands are blstered
How many diseases are produced by shoe
ing Consult any good veterinary work and
refer to navicular diseases among the causes
are bad shoeing and cutting the frog, SPAWN,
strains from shoe calks, sprains of the back
tendons, bad shoeing and calks, corns, bad
shoeing, quarter cuts from calks, and so with
seedy toe, laminitis, thrush, and every other
disease of the foot and most of those of the
limbs and injuries from falls and kicks of
other horses-all are owing to the shoes. An
unshod horse can walk on ice the frog, like
a rubber shoe, prevents slipping. shod
horse costs his owner its full value every five
years for shoeng, and is m&de 80 per cent.
less useful for it. II oxen can and do work
right along without being shod, why cannot
| horses.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18
Drought In Texas.

Previous to the storm of last Sunday there
had been nine days without rain, and we be-
gan to feel the effects of drought What
should we do here without rain as long as
Texas has been without iii A letter from
that state, in the National Stockman says;
"We are having one OF the worst droughts
in western and northwestern Texas that has
been known here for many years. 1t has not
rained on the Pecos river since last June.
There are large herds of cattle in the Pecos
valley, and they are reported to be very poor
and weak, and many calves will be lost. The
crops in Bell county and middle Texas are
standing the dry spell better than in many
other counties west Of us. The corn, wheat
and oats $50 miles west of Nolanville will be
very near failure If rain does not fall in a
very few days. No rain has fallen in Bell
county in four weeks. The oat crop il very
short. Cotton is looking well, for dry wealth, r
does not hurt cotton like other crops. Bust
ness is very dull. But few sales of cotton
have been made. Yearlings sell at 81, and
two-year. olds at $40. Sheep have no mar
ket. Wool is worth from 14c. to 18c., and
there are but few sales to report. The SELL
ers and buyers are too far apart in their
views regarding prices Produce is low.
Corn, Acc, per bushel oats, 30c.; wheat, 75c ;
bacon, 7lc.; butter lie; eggs, DC; Irish pc
tatoes, Sl.25 per bushel."
The last census reports % natives Of Texas
residing in Vermont. They should advise
their Texas friends to come here also. There
are plenty of farms here for sale at q low
price, where comforts and privileges are
found, to which the average Texas farmer is
a stranger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18

does not need not worry that they are being
ruined in a brothel or gambling den. When
he il sick kind neighbors will 3 that he does
not want, and when be dies they will tender
" carry hing 10 the grave without charging
his widow undertaker's rates for doing II.
These and similar advantages are the com
pensation Of farm life, but the farmer, accus-
toned to have and enjoy them from his boy
hood without money and without price, values
them but little at all, in considering his
condition. II does not occur to him that
neither wealth, station nor influence can Sc
cure them in the city, and too often he aban-
dons them 10 search for others with scarcely
a feeling of regret. But when he has lived
for a while in a tenemt mt house, when he Is
compelled TO breathe day in and day out the
fetid air OF the street. when he must seek IN
the common or upon the highway for the sun
shine that is shut from his hsbtation, when
the water with which he quenches his thirst
must be filtered and strained to rid 1t OF wig
glers and worms, when be and bis family can
not leave home without being dressed in their
Sunday Clothes when every vegetable that
goes into his kitchen is more or less shriveled
with age, and ancient eggs and patent butter
insult his appetite for fresh and pure food,
and war upon his digestion when be cannot
ride rod without paying for it every neigh
borly service in health OF sickness has mar.
Ket value Wnen tne hhlety VI us bohs hhu
the salvation of his daughters are subjects OF
constant anxiety, he begins, perhaps, to learn
that there are offsets to all he has gained by
moving TO the city. Aud when he sees half
the residents of the town TO which he has
moved begin as soon as the hot season is up.
on them to plan and contrive and save and
borrow in order to get back among the hills
for a few days or weeks of fresh air, pure wa
ter, beautiful scenery and the cleanliness,
GOODNESS and comforts Of the country, he
knows, or ought to, that in all these things
which he once held 80 lightly because they
we're free to him, there is money value
which can hardly be estimated too highly
The fact is the most of the people in this
world don't know when they are well OF. v
Distance always lends enchantment to the
view. We are all too apt to see only the hard
things in our own lot and only the pleasant
ones in that of our neighbor and far-away
acquaintance. We spend 80 much time wish
| ing for what we have not, that we do not half
| appreciate what we have, and to this feeling
Of envious unrest is to be ascribed half the
changes for the worse among US. Add to this
what is fictitious and extravagant in the pop
| ular estimation of what are called city advan-
| tages and fashionable and chronic DISPOSE
ton to consider country life barren and un-
profitable, which has no warrant in fact, and
we may, as we have said account for large
| share of the movement which has been stead.
! lily depopulating our farming districts and
! building up our cities and villages during the
| last twenty years.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18

Hay made in fiue day with the heat Of
the sun, says DIR. Vooleker, loses practically
nothing Of its value.
American corn ia delivered in England,
freight included, at about Cos. per bushel,
which English journals rightfully consider q
wonderfully low figure
A Nebraska man who sent lot of corn to
Chicago has realized just five cents bushel
on it, as twenty-five OF the twenty seven cents
for which it sold went to pay for transporta
ton and storage.
One hundred barrels of apples remove from
the land about ~ much phosphoric acid AZ
one hundred bushels OF wheat, and about as
much potash as fifty bushels of wheat.
writer in the Indiana Farmer speaks Of
curing some sick hogs by feeding them burnt
corn cobs. The cobs we're burned in a heap,
salt applied as the flame stopped, and a small
quantity of corn thrown over the whole.
Charcoal Is one of the best known absorbents
of foul gases. 1t is frequently given in hu-
man practice where the stomach is filed with
sour gases and undigested food. When given
with salt or magnesia, it clears out the stom-
aoh and bowels, and allays the irritation of
the intestines by removing the cause. Hogs
need charcoal, and this method Of supplying
1t appears as feasible as any.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18

HOW beht 80 hho B'cNhNs
Again some writer's are talking of the econ.
omy of hand picking potato beetles. "If this
is well attended to, there will be no eggs de-
posted on the leaves" they say. Do they
write from experience, or do they write such
stuff because it seems plausible. Years ago
we diligently picked off and killed, once ev-
cry day, every potato beetle to be seen on
patch 200 feet square, and yet there were, so
far as could be judged, just as many eggs de
posted and Matched as if this tedious work
had never been done while the soil between
the rows was kept hard by being walked over
no often. The fact is that the beetles are TO
be found in every crack of the soil, under lit
tie clods and stones about the stems and
creeping everywhere. One may pick of all
the beetles from the plants at 10 o'clock, and
at IL they will be az thick as ever. Hand
picking destroys just so many beetles certain
ly and there are just so many less; but it is
like removing mound of earth pebble by
pebble or emptying tub of water drop by
drop. The work has no appreciable effect.
We have tried every method of killing potato
beetles. For one entire season we tried Lon
don-purple, but found that if applied the least
bit too strong, it would injure the foliage.
Paris-green and water is also injurious to the
foliage, because the water collects wherever
the leaf will hold it, and evaporates, leaving
film of Paris-green. We now use pure
Paris green and plaster-one pound to bar
rel of paster-and see that it is thoroughly
mixed with rake and hoe. The first application
is made as soon as tie plants get well out of
the ground, and the second, when the bee
ties begin to deposit their eggs, aud the third
when the grubs make their appearance A
fourth application is not needed for early pc
tatoes. Rural Ne,o YORKER
If plaster to mix with the Paris green il
not convenient, sifted ashes will answer just
as well, and perhaps better. We have known
some instances in which hand picking of the
beetles, and brushing them with the Larvae in
to tin pans, has saved potato fields from seri
Gus injury. Yet if half wages had been paid
the hand that saved the crop in this way, the
potatoes would have cost high.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18
CONFECTIONERY NOTICE.

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Marlboro
commissioners TO receive, examine and adjust all
claims and demands Of all persons against the estate
OF CHAUNCEf b. BAILEY, late of Newfane, in said
district, deceased and all claims exhibited in Of
set thereto; hereby give notice that will meet for
the purpose Aforesaid at the Residence of Eliza A. Bailey
on Tue 10Th day of June aud 2ith day Of September
next from O'Clock A. NJ till O'Clock p NJ each Of
sald days and that six months from the 27h day Of
April, A. D. 1856 Is the time limited by said Court
for said creditors to present their claims to us for
examination and allowance
Dated at Newfane this "a day OF June, A. d. 1856.
% G chs.S sPA R1ssE' Commissioners.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18
Dr. Gnges'a Cures.

-Four years is a long time for any to be pros
trated upon a sick-bed unable to sit up; that how
has been the with Miss Mary L. Faruum
of Peterborough, n. H., sister Of Mrs T. A. Robbins
Her case is well-knOwn one, and she has had the
sympathy of the entire community during those
weary months and years of suffering. Trial after
trial had been made by physician after physician,
which were followed by many failures, until one
with less fOrtude would have given up In despair.
She felt, however, that there yet help for her,
but from what source she knew not. She had de-
sire to try Dr. Cages treatment in which she thought
she could ray of hope. Accordingly application
made to him, and the results of his treatment
dressed for the FIRST time in four years, is up about
the house daily aud is really able to do considerable
light work. and feels sAnpuine Of full recovery in
due time Peterborough Transcript.
Alice Titus, Winchester, Y. H, scrOfula in eyes
ten weeks in dark room. Cured.
Oliver Pelren, Concord, N H., wife cured Of ovarian
difficulty and general female weakness.
Mary Smith, East Gambia, n. H., drupsy and ovari-
an tumor as large as a persons head. Cured
Isaac Buttrick Londonderry, n. H., wife cured OF
scrOfula, and sou Of deafness aud catarrh.
A. l.. Celey, West Andover, N H, makes oath
"My wife had been given up with consumption. DR..
Gage cured her radically"
Miss NJ. ]. Barnet, walpole, n. II, cured Of deaf
ness and catarrh.
Amos Young, Derry Depot N. H., catarrh and
scrofula; so bad that orihce was eaten through
roof of mouth. Cured.
G. A. Wheeler, Derry Depot, N H., says that his
child afflicted with spinal disease and weak
OF the muscles that she had never borne her heft
walked step until DIR. Gage treated the case,
they naturally oyerJ5yed to see their child able
to walk.
Levi Burt, Littleton, N. H., nervous prostration
etc. cured.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18
OOMMIssIOXERs NOTICE.


We, the subscribers being duly appointed by the
Hon Probate Court for the district of Marlboro Com
missioners to receive examine aud adjust all claims
and demands Of all persons against the estate Of
JOSEPH MORSE, late Of Newfane, in said district,
deceased, and all claims exhibited in Offset thereto,
aud six months from the 29th day OF May, A. d.
1885, being allowed by said court for that purpose,
do therefore hereby give notice that will attend
the business of said appointment at tue late resi-
dence Of said deceased, In NeWfane, in said Dis
rict the 26th day Of June aud I'D day of October
next, from O'Clock until O'Clock p. NJ, each Of
said days.
Dated at NewfaDe this Sd day Of June, 1856
CLARK TIMSON,( c.-,
% 2 WHEELER commissioners.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18
UndIgested Food

In the stomach develops an acid which stings the up
per part of the throat aud palate, causing heart
burn" 1t also evolves a gas which produces wind
on the stomach and feeling aud appearance of dis
tension in that organ after eating. For both this
acidity aud swelling HOseters stomach Bitters Ia
much better remedy than alkaline salts like hartshorn
and carbonate Of soda winegassful of the btters,
after before dinner, will be found to act rea-
BILE carmiuatiye preventive. This fine specific for
dyspepsia, both in its acute and chronic form, also
prevents and malaria fever, constipation liver
complaint, kidney troubles, nervousness and debility
Persons who observe in themselves a decline Of yigor
should use this fine tonic without delay,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18

An old physician retired from practice, having had
placed In his hands by an East Iuda missionary the
formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Ca
tarrh Asthma and all throat and lung affections also
a positive aud radical cure for Nervous Debility and
all Nervous Complaints after having tested its
derfu curative powers in thousands of cases. has felt
It his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows.
Acuated by this motive and desire to relieve human
suffering, will send free of charge, to all who desire
It, this recipe, in German, French English with
full directions for preparing and using Sent by mail
by addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. A.
MOVES 1l9 Powers block. Rochester, n. Y. 42eow
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NOTICE.
ESTATE OF MIRIAM FOSTER.

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Hon. Probate Court for the District Of Marlboro Com
missiOners to receive, examine aud adjust all claims
and demands Of all persons against the estate of
MIRIAM FOSTER, late Of Brattleboro in said dis
triet, deceased, and all claims exhibited In Offset
thereto hereby give notice that will meet for the
purpose Aforesaid at VIM. S. Newtons office in Brat
tleboro on the last Friday of June and last Friday
November next from two O'Clock until four O'Clock,
p. NJ, each Of said days, and that six months from
the 29th day of May A. d. 1896, is the time limited
by said Court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination aud allowance
Dated at Brattleboro this 3lst day Of May A. D.
1886.
% GEO. CITIER Commissioners.
]. II, SIMONDS, Executor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18

= The Probate Court for said District.
To all persons interested in the estate of JOHN F.
PARSONS late Of Halifax, In said district deceased,
Greeting.
You are hereby notified that this Court will decide
upon the allowance OF the accouut OF Butterhed,
administrator upon said estate decree distribution
thereof 10 the persons entitled at the thereof
to be held at the Probate Office in Btatteboro tn
last Monday. being the 18th day. Of June, A. D. 1856
when and where you may be heard in the premises,
IL you cause.
NJ E. W. STODDARD. Register
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See q E.w. sroDDARD. Register.
STATE OF VRRMONT, Marlboro, s. 5.

I J
To all persons interested 10 the Estate Of CLARK
JACOBS, late of Brattleboro, deceased, Greeting:
Whereas, FANNY 5. JACOBS has presented To this
Court an Instrument pu Importing to be the last Will Of
said deceased, for probate:-You are hereby notified
that this Court will decide upon the probate Of
said Instrument at the session thereof to be held
at the Probate Once in BratteborO. ia said district,
on the last Saturday Of June, A. d. 1885, when and
where you may appear and contest the same If you
cause ;2D y. W. STODDARD. Register.
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CTATE OF YRnMONT. Marlboro SIS.

- The Probate Court for said District.
To All persons interested in the Estate Of MILTON
WORDEN late Of Halifax, in said District, deceased
Greeting.
You are hereby notified that this Court will decide
upon the allowance Of the account Of Grace Norden
Administrator upon said Estate, and decree dis
trbution thereof to the persons entitled at tho session
thereof 10 be held at tho Probate Once Ia Bratehuro
on the last Saturday Of June, A. ID. l-S6, Vheu
see cause.
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ID The Probate Court Tor said Dlstrlct.
To all persons interested in the estate Of HAN
NAH BOYDEN, late Of Guihord, in said district
deceased, Greeting.
Whereas, Geo A. Boyden has presented to this Court
instrument purportng to be the last win of said
deceased for probate :You are hereby notified that
this Court will decide upon the probate Of said in
srument at a session thereof to be held at the Pro-
hate oce IN Brattleboro, IN said District the last
Saturday Of June, A. d. 1856, when and where You
may appear and contest the same. Il you see cause
"a +. W. STODDARD, Register.
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Auntie three months ago had the salt rheum so bad
that bis head Of sores, and had begun to
lose all hopes Of raising him but my druggist
mended Sulphur Bitters, and to-day he is fat and
clipper as any baby you ever saw, and he has not
on his head. And just think that after paying
out so much, few dollars worth Of Sulphur Bitters
shOnld cure him l-Mrs. j. @. Hall. L6Mell.
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CrATE YERMONT. Marlboro SIS.

- The Probate Court for said District
To all persons interested In the Estate Of NEWELL
LINDSEY late Of Brattleboro, in said District, deceas
ed Greeting.
You are hereby notified that this court will decide
upon the allowance Of the account Of John A. Lindsey
Administrator upon said estate, and decree dis.
trbuon thereof the persons entitled at the session
thereof to be held at the probate Office in Bratteburo
on the last Saturday Of June 1856, when and where
you may be heard in the premises, II you see cause
"a L W. STODDARD, Register.
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Why every one needs and should take Hoods sarsa-
parla In the spring.
lst Because the system is in It's greatest need.
I'd. Because the blood is sluggish and impure.
Hoods SArsaparilla purihes.
Sd. Because, from the above facts, Hoods sarsapa-
rla will do greater amount Of good now than at any
other time. Take it now.
We may not like hotel keepers, but we have to put
mp with them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18

Constipation Is positively cured by Carriers Little
Liver Pills. not by purglng aud weakening the how
els, but by regulating and strengthening them
THIS Is done by Improving the digestion aud tlmu-
ating the liver 10 the proper secretion OF bile when
the bowels VIII perform their customary functions
In an easy and natural manner. Purgative pills
must be avoided. ASK for Carer's Little Liver Pills
Price IS cents