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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-02-18
CHAPTER III

with all my heart. ErncStinc."
Sweet n, the music ofripplinS waters
or muill 1T silver bells; sweet and low
rs the organ harmonics whi-poring 10
each o,hor among the carvings and
the soitoucd frcsc.os of some grand
old cathedral choir, wcro tho young
mans words aud they brought to
Erne,tinc such peace and rest rs until
this day her heart had never known.
"Oh, Henry" she said. and held
out her hands To him.
Again the bright young blood swgcd
to his checks. and with glad little
cry he threw hims Ii ino hor arms.
and like tired bird, lac nestled his
head upon her shoulder and shut ms
sycs To all tho world to dream of
Heaven.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-02-18
CHAPTER H.

Henry. will YOU b, minc?"
1t was the girl who spoke. and ST.
lcncc. shattered into thousand frag-
ments, fell crumbling to the floor.
The young man blushed scarlet, and
quickly hid his fec, in his hands.
With loving. gentle strength she
took them one by one away and gazed
fondly into his trembling, sweet brown
eyes.
"Ah. love-" she whispered. "looll
nt me. Lool, dorp into my soul and
see the heart that beats its sweetest
cadcnccs TO The measures of your
name.
She took his sensitive whito hands
in her own. AMI mod'slly ~ the daisy
looks upward to the morning sun ho
turned his eyes 10 hers.
There was n strange thrill in his
hear. burning in his checks. an in
dcscribable power ifting him upward,
upward, into a soft, sweet mir. which
filled his very being. as the fragrance
of fir and balsnm comes with life and
hope to the weak and wasted con-
sumptivc.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-02-18
CHAPTER ".

There let us leave them.
We can afford 40 leave them be-
cause neither of them app ar to bc left
particularly the Girl.
CHAPTER V.
Thus do We see wha th'rc is in Leap
Year 10 the hungrring ami thirstirg
soul of the Young woman who knows
enough to embrace her opportunities.
And embraces ,hcm. -- u dSkingtoR
Crii,c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Twas Faulty Calculation.

If DIR. Hoskins' autobiography is a
true story somebody ought to tell him
that one cause of his failure to make
farming pay was lack of calculation, as
his Yankee neighbors would say, as is
proven by his buying thoroughbred cat
tie without either money to pay for
them or feed to keep them; by putting
out hundreds of grape-vines before
ascertaining whether the fruit wonld
ripen in his latitude, etc. The lack of
" calculation " would have been equally
disastrous in other occupations
in those pursued by the successful
brothers. It's not fair, either, to make
such sweeping assertions as that farm
ing does not pay without some qualify
ing phrases, as :" l think" or " in my
case" or "under my observation.
The world is wide. Massachusetts, is
but small part of these great United
States, even if Boston is called the
" Hub of the universe" Was DIR.
Hoskins practicing physician at the
same time that he was trying to farm?
If so, he had too many irons in the fire
to get them all of the right tempera-
ture- DR.. Hoskins merely put the eX-
perience of a neighbor in shape for the
R,wal-Eds. and is that the only
farming that pays which adds to the
dollars and cents of the farmer? Is
experience worth nothing to himself
and to others? Are not the quiet and in
dependence of farm life worth more than
surplus gold? Is not he who makes two
blades of grass grow where but one
grew before public benefactor? Any
way it is fortunate for the hungry world,
since " the farmer feedeth ALL" that
not many farmers agree with DR.. Hos
kins in thinking that farming does not
pay" A Ne,O York Fa,merine," IN
Rural New Yorker.
So it seems that the autobiography
was not DR.. Hoskins' own, and so he
may not after all have millionaire
brother and may not hold the opinions
expressed in the fancy sketch of which
we gave the conclusion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
COmbed Down with q Pole Drag.

During spring " noted for cloddy
fields an Iowa agriculturist tried the
plank drag without satisfactory results,
but finally reduced the roughness to
fine filth in simple way, of which he
writes to The Farmers Revie1C : g |
took two poles eight feet long and
about five inches in diameter; laid
them on the ground about two feet
apart; bolted piece of two-by-four
scantling across the poles about two
feet from each end. | then laid a
piece of board on the scantling to stand
or sit on; hitched on and went for the
clods, and the way it ground and pull
verified those clods was a satisfaction.
| went over my corn ground once be-
fore and once after planting. 1t was
then like garden. My neighbors all
wanted to borrow it after they saw it
work. The philosophy of it is the
pole drag exposes but a small surface
to the ground to carry its own and the
drivers weight, and the space between
the poles allows the soil to roll and
tumble about, so that most of the clods
remaining unbroken after the first pole
passes over them are crushed by the
second one. If those who SOW flax
would use the pole drag they would be
astonished to see how much sooner
and evener the flax comes up. think
il very valuable tool in preparing
ground for any CROP"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Pm Handling Trust Funds.

Stepping into the store of Christian
business man one day / noticed that he
was standing at his desk with his hands
full of bills, which he was carefully
counting, as he laid them down one by
one After brief silence / said: Z" Mr..
Il, just count out $50 from that
pile of bills and make yourself or some
other person a life member of the
Christian Giving Society,"" He fin
ished his count and quickly replied,
" Pm handling trust funds now" His
answer quickly flashed light on the
entire work and life of a Christian, and
l replied to his statement with the
question: "Do you ever handle any
thing but trust funds?" If Christians
would only realize that all that God
gives us is "in trust" what change
would come over our use of money!
Pm handling trust funds now" Let
the merchant write the motto over his
desk; the farmer over the income of
his farm; the laborer over his wages;
the professional man over his salary;
the banker over his income; the house
keeper over her house expense purse;
the boy and girl over "pOcket money"
and what change would be made in
our business! A business man who
had made donation of 100000 to a
Christian enterprise once said, in the
hearing of the writer: " l hold that a
man is accountable for every cent he
gets" There is the gospel idea of
trust funds" Let parents instruct
and train their children to handle
trust funds - as the stewards of Gods
bounty and there will be new genera
ton of Christians. Thanks to Mr..
H for the suggestive remark, " Pm
handling trust funds now" 1t will
help us to do more as the stewards of
God. May it help others. Chris
tan Girer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
The Wire.WOrm.

For the third season we find that sui
phur repels the wire-worm and that
where there are no wire-worms there
is no scab on potatoes. For example,
here are ten hills of potatoes all smooth.
The seed-pieces were lightly covered
with soil and then the fertilizer and
sulphur were strewn over this soil. In
the next ten hills the sulphur was
omitted and we find the potatoes more
or less scabby. In the soil of the first
lot few wire-worms are to be seen
about the tubers; in the second, many.
Is it fungus that first attacks the skin
and fits it to the liking of the wire
worm? We believe not in our case.
And yet western readers tell us that
their pototoes are scabby and the wire
worm QuluS) is unknown. Two years
ago a dozen potatoes were sent to this
office covered with scab. The sender
stated that he had never seen a wire
worm and that the corrosions must
have been formed by fungus. Upon
a careful examination we found several
small wire-worms imbedded in the
scabby potatoes.-Rural Ne,0 Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

A NOVEL idea in raising squashes is
given by gentleman who last season,
despite of bugs and beetles, says that
he raised good crop by adopting the
following methods: He planted them
about the Goth of May AS soon as
they were nicely up he divided the
patch into two sections. One of them
he watered with solution composed of
a tablespoonful of kerosene in pail of
water, putting enough on each hill to
saturate the ground and wet the plants.
At an interval of about four days he re-
peated the dose, and so on until they
had been wet four or five times. The
other patch he watered with solution
of pail of water with half a tea
spoonful of crude carbolic acid in it,
repeated as above. In this, as in the
other, the plants escaped the ravages of
the bugs and gave good crops.
AN Ohio farmer says he never had
any success raising Hubbard squashes
until he took to planting them late and
follows: In early spring he manures a
strip of ground about a rod wide in his
garden, in which he plants his earliest
potatoes. About the middle of June
he makes a row OF hills through the
center of the strip and plants his
squashes. The potatoes are dug and
out of the way of the vines before they
run great deal and are no hindrance
to the proper cultivation of the squash.
He does not pretend to know whether
the potato-vines are distasteful to the
striped bugs or not, but he has found
that for some reason his Hubbard
squashes are not injured by these pests
when planted in the manner already
described. The 25th day of June last
he planted single row of squashes,
and they in time covered a strip on
which grew eight rows of potatoes. He
had fine crop of squashes, fully ma
tured, while the potatoes were just as
large and as many in hill as though
no squashes had been planted within
rods of them. Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

body knows how much easier it is to
cook good dinner than to wash the
dishes afterwards. Consider what
boy on farm is required to do-things
that must be done, or life would actually
stop. 1t is understood, in the first
place, that he is to do all the errands, to
go to the store, to the post-ofilce and to
carry all sorts of messages. If he had as
many legs as the centipede they would
tire before night. He is the one who
spreads the grass as the men cut it; he
slows it away in the barn; he rides the
horse to cultivate the corn up and down
the hot, weary rows; he picks up the
potatoes when they are dug; he brings
wood and water and splits kindling; he
gets up the horse and turns out the
horse. Whether he is in the house or
out of the house there is always some
thing to do. Just before school in win
ter he shovels paths; in the summer he
turns the grindstone. And yet, with
his mind full of schemes of what he
would like to do and his hands full of
occupation, he is an idle boy who has
nothing to busy himself with but
school and chores. He would gladly do
all the work if somebody else would do
all the chores, he thinks, and yet |
doubt if any boy ever amounted to any
thing in the world or was of much use
as man who did not enjoy the advant-
ages of liberal education in the way
of chores. -CharleS Dudley Warner.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
A Bulletin for Marines.

The official agriculture of Vermont
seems to be in a somewhat unsatisfac-
tory condition, judging from current
reflections upon it. A recent bulletin
from the State Experiment Station is
especially objected to on account of the
remarkable declaration from the pro-
fessor-director about COW pea crop
sat the rate of ten and one-third tons
of green fodder per acre, furnishing on
tenth of an acre an abundant feed for
nine cows for five weeks" A New
England Farmer correspondent queries:
Is this fish story?" and adds sar-
castle comment: Figured down to a
daily ration that amounts to saying
that six and one-ha!f pounds of green
COW pea per day is an abundant feed
for cow, it must be a very wonder
full forage crop, and | would like to
know more about it, Evidently the
COW pea and the silo are destined to
supply the every need of the Vermont
dairyman." A prominent observer of
agricultural inwardness informs us that
he could supply material for other
criticisms on the director of YER
mont's $4,000 Experiment Station,
university professor, etc." Is the
Green Mountain official one of the
boodlers of the Hatch grab? A
Rural Vermonter correspondent says he
was beaten by the station on the COW
pea and on the fertilizers" His sack
of seed was planted in good soil,
MANFRED with twenty two-horse loads
of manure per acre and kept clear of
weeds. The cows refused at first to
eat the neW-fashiOned fodder. So But in
time most of them, finding they could
get nothing else in the stable, did pick
it over, as if they loathed the sight and
smell of it (and why not the smell?).
Two cows ate scarcely any, but we
worried it out until the crop was gone,
to the great relief of men and cows.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
DehOrning Cattle.

Many of the agricultural papers are
having much to say about dehorning
cattle, and it seems to be quite popular
to advocate the practice. Most eX-
travagant claims in favor of it have
been made. We were never given to
taking the popular side merely because
others do, but rather have stood out till
good reasons for it were found. In
this case the reasons are not apparent,
and we are decidedly opposed to the
cruel practice. 1t does not kill to saw
off the horns, but it is cruel and I'M
called for. If horns are not wanted
breed them off, but never mutilate an
animal unless it becomes necessary. 1t
makes us smile to hear professional
horn-smasher claim he has saved one
third the cost of wintering his stock by
removing their horns. Our own stock
will wear horns so long as they grow on
them.-Mdine Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
How to Fertilize Fruit-Trees.

uaHere and there on all farms and in
most fruit gardens will be seen an
occasional tree or grapevine which
seems to lack vigor-does not grow
well, and yet seems to have no particu-
lar disease. The probabilities are that
the tree is dying of starvation and needs
a liberal supply of food. When you give
it this ration do not pile a load of
manure around the trunk of tree or
the body of grapevine. That is just
the place where it will do the least
good. Nearest the trunk of the tree
the roots are all large. The fibrous
roots-the feeders-are further off near
the ends of the roots. 1t is always safe
to assume that the roots extend as far
from the trunk in every direction as do
the limbs of the tree, and to properly
fertilize spread the manure all over
that area. Then fork it in and you have
done good work and done it well. If
some disease has begun its work on the
tree you will put the tree in a healthy,
vigorous condition, the better enabling
1t to successfully contend against its
enemies. We have seen numerous old
pear and apple trees, bearing poor and
gnarled fruit, which the owners con-
sidered of no value, but which such treat
ment as we have outlined above would
restore to their original usefulness. -
Orange County Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

BEGINNING at a farm half a mile
outside the limits of this village, and
following that line all the way to the
next town, distance of twelve miles,
there are eleven contiguous farms. On
every one of these farms the owners
have not only been able to get a living
but all have laid up money, and the
owners of every one are now what
might be called forehanded. Several
of these men are worth from $4,000
to $4,000 each, while one of them is
worth at least $1,000, and this has
been made off the farms on which they
now live.-St. JohnSbury Coledonian.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Resembling Jesus.

The familiar truth that being a Chris
tian means being like Christ is prettily
illustrated by writer in the QuiUer
" A little child, bordering in her heart
concerning the Lord to whom she
prayed, came to her mother with the
question, is Jesus like anybody I
know?' And in all reverence we, who
move amid Christian surroundings,
should be able to answer Yes to
question like this from little lips. Are
there not those helping and praying
for the children who, in some degree,
picture him whose arms were stretched
out to bless and comfort them? A more
vital question is this: Am myself
mirroring Jesus, if only to some little
child? or is his light in me obscured,
so that the fact that | name his name
binders, rather than promotes, his
glory? We know the tale of the little
one who objected to entering heaven
because mamma said that grandpa,
who was always so irritable, would, of
course, 90 there. Would that every
one who stands out upon the Lords
side would carry his spirit into the
home circle, the little things of daily
life, the lesser domestic worries, in
which the eyes of children and serv-
ants, and perchance many others, are
upon us, influenced by our example
and helped or hindered by our bearing.
A child should see God mirrored in its
mothers face, our Sunday scholars
should get some glimpse of the eternal
love from the teachers heart and looks.
This can come only as we tarry at the
mercy-seat, as we keep our own gaze
ChristWard' -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
A PHYSICIANS LETTER.

"GENT1EMEN: Il glad you my opinion of
SOAP and have long intended doing
1t has become household necessity with
If there unusually obstinate spot the clothing,
work ink daub my desk polish required
plate surgical cleansing preparation
the teeth and superior toilet soap needed
We buy by the box the wrappers and allow
thoroughly ripen
Now, had saved fifteen wrappers would ask you send
little girl drawing book in accordance with your 0nH
Combano4 but is all feel under obligation you
featuring IVORY SOAP for
We do hesitate recommend unquaiiedly all
1t the articles will do what
WORD OF WARNING.
There many white each represented be Gust good oy"
they ARE NOT but like all efes lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities Of
the genuine. Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it,
Coyrigh s6 by Proctor Gamble
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

Great truths are very simple truths
when finally they are comprehended,
but it takes long while to prepare any
mind to comprehend a great truth.
For years one may grope in darkness
concerning some phase of his spiritual
life or some perpleXity of a sacred
friendship or some seeming contradic-
ton in his innermost personal charac-
ter, when suddenly light will break
in upon the mind or upon the heart,
which instantly makes clear that which
before seemed hopelessly dark. A
great truth is then perceived in its
bearings upon, and so in its expana-
lions of, all that was bewildering and
disheartening to one who was in igno-
rance of that truth. What a new
sense of life and of hope comes with
such a new recognition of comforting
or of an enlightening great truth In
the JOY of an experience like this one
can wait and trust in other perpleXities
which may yet be similarly resolved
and dissipated. -Smddy-S School Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

GREAT LITTLE MEN.-Some of the
greatest men that ever lived were of
small stature and insignificant appear
ance. The reader will readily recall
many instances, Very small are DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets,
but they are far more effective than
the huge, old-fashioned pills which are
so difficult to swallow and so harsh in
their action. The Pellets F" are
gentle and never cause constipation.
For liver, stomach and bowel derange-
ments they have no equal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
A Boy on a Farm.

1t is my impression that farm with
out boy would very soon come to
grief. What boy does is the life of
the farm. He is the factotum, always
in demand and always expected to do
the thousand and one things that no.
body else will do. Upon him falls the
odds and ends, the most difficult things.
After everybody else is through he is to
finish up. His work is like woman's-
perpetually waiting on others. Every
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

THE NOME SECRET.-lt is three
years since Lieutenant MoXie first sent
the rich South American nerve food
plant called Moxie to DR.. Thompson in
Lowell, Mass. Since over 100000
bottles have been sold, and to-day it is
undoubtedly the most popular beverage
and nerve support in the world. 1t
has become the ordinary drink of hun
dreds of thousands of people all over
the world This business has grown
like a mushroom. When it was dis
covered to be rich nerve food there
was a struggle to possess it. The con-
test before the United States courts
has developed the fact that it has
actually recovered very large number
of old cases of helpless paralysis, old
drunkards, nervous wrecks and invalid
women suffering from nerve eXhaus-
ton. 1t has the same effect of other
rich foods. The secret lies in the
mode of artificial digestion, by which
no action of the digestive organs is
necessary to make it fit for immediate
absorption by the nervous system. This
was discovered by DIR. Thompson. The
process will dissolve an albuminoid so
finely that it can be evaporated like
water. 1t has to be as fine as this to
enter the nerve circulation. The
women are crazy for it and the drug
gists say the sale is just immense.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

INTER- IN SUGAR.-W. r. b., Cor
inth, VT, writes as follows: " Some
years l make over ton of sugar.
When the fire slackens and l syrup
down lime is apt to settle in the pan,
which is easily removed by filling the
pan with soft water and letting it re-
main over night. l often boil in
over four hundred pals of sap in a
single day and have no trouble from
lime unless / am careless about the fire. !"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

AS to the comparative product, we con-
clude that fourth acre of corn feed
would equal in weight one and half
acres of the COW ea."-Tribme.
The Tribune, or the sources from
which it obtains its information, had
better give us all the material " it
has on hand or obtainable, for the
farmers of Vermont are able to digest
all there is of material, and it may be
of use.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
M(oral ano Religious.
Beyond the Mist.

out Of the mist the river glides to us,
Glides like phantom strange and marvellous
Out of the mist
Into the mist the river passes on,
with nartcuate murmur flows anon
Into the mist.
And yet, perchance, upon its infant rils
Fair shone the sun amid the grading hills
Before the mist.
And when at last the full flood nears the main,
Perchance glory crowns 1t yet again
Beyond the mist. John W. Haies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-22

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