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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
Baseball iu Australia.

ARRANGEMENTS are i'll progress for taking a
company of at least twenty of the leading ball
players of America TO Australia Mir. A. G.
Spalding, the President of the Chicago Base
Ball Club, is at the head Of the undertaking,
aud wall accompany the party. Under his di-
rection the great cities of the anupodes will
be afforded fine exhibition of tue beauties Of
American baseball, compared with which
cricket is dull and lrfeless sport
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
The German Emperor Improving.

A BERLIN dispatch says that "a wooden
walk is being constructed in tho park at
Charlottenburg TO enable Emperor Frederick
% take outdoor exerc Sc. DR.. Bergman
visits the Emperor every Sunday in order to
reassure Germans who are opposed to Dr.
Mackenzie. DR. Mackenzie hopes 10 be able to
pay short visit to his London patients IN q
week or two, The Emperor has counter
manded the order for the spring review of
the ruards
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The Iowa Republican Convention m 4 at
Des Moines March 2l J. +. Dolliver was
chosen temporary Chairman, and. owing 10
the illness of Gov. Lsrrabee, was continued
permanent Chairman Congressman Dl-
vid r. Henderson was, by accama-
ton, selected a Delegate at-large TO
the National Convention, the bslloting
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
THE EASTERN STATES.

The purchase OF the Nail and Express, Che
leading Republ can afternoon paper of New
York City, by Elliott f. shepard son-in-law
of the late William II. Vanderbilt, is con-
strued az favorable to the interests of Chaun-
cey M. Depew as a candidate for the Presi-
dental nomination. The paper was owned
by Cyrus w. Field. and the price paid is un-
derstood TO have been s5)c.000
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
STOPPED THE U. S. MAIL.

Fast Train brought t. "A Standstill by n
Singular Incident.
Rather queer circumstance is reported
by La Crosse wis. telegram as happen
ing TO a fast mail train. Al a point a short
distance from Sparta there was flock OF
prairie chickens on the track. They flew
mp, but one of them did not get out OF the
way, and was struck by the engine and
pitched into the air. 1t fell on the bell
cord back of the cab and rang the bell. The
engineer did not know she cause Of it, and
brought the train TO a standstill as soon as
the air. brakes would do it. The dead bird
lying on the platform of the forward mail
car told the story.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28

Government Cases tn Be Brought Soon Will
Have Stronger Evidence.
The indications are that the decision of
the United States Supreme Court in the
Bell telephone suit will not interfere with
the prosecution of the so-called Govern
ment cases. The Government case, which
will probably be set for an early hearing
now that the other cases are out of the way,
has been carefully worked up by able law
yers. some of whom profess TO be willing
to stake their professional reputation on
the result, and are not dismsyed by the re-
cent decision.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
SENSATIONAL CHARGES.

the Removal of q. II. Rothacker as
Guardian of His Two children.
Omaha special
A very sensational petition was fled in
the County Court Tuesday by Mrs. s. +.
Rounds asking that o. II. Rothacker be
removed as guardian of his two children.
The petition alleges that during the past
three years Rothacker has been incapable
Of supporting himself that he has been
much of the time an habitual drunkard;
that he treated his wife with extreme
cruelty and has no love for his children;
that in August, 1883, he brutally assaulted
his wife, making her seriously sick, and
has continued to do SO at short intervals
since his marriage; that during her last
illness he left the city. leaving "a note for
has wife. which read Il shall never come
back" Many other allegations of like
nature are contained in the petition. The
case comes up for Tearing April IL.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28

THE bitter taste in cider in some cases is
undoubtedly caused by leaving the apples
lying in heaps until some of them mildew,
or are attacked 10y dry rot, which usually
means that as fast as the substance of the
apple decays fungus plants are present TO
suck up its juices. As matter of course
this kind of rot has an acid or bitter taste,
as any one may learn by trying il.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
The burlington Roads Trouble.

A CHICAGO dispatch of Monday says: "Not
wheel of a freight car turned in the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy yards yesterday. For
the second time within month the freight
business of this road is temporarily para
lyzsd, this time by the action of the switch
men,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
NEW LAND COMMISSIONER.
;. Nj. Stocksiager Succeeds to Gen. Sparks
Old Place-Maj. Anderson Made Assist

Washington telegram.

ant.
Washington telegram.
The President has nominated Strother
NJ. Stockslager, of Indiana, to be Commits
sioner of the general land Office, and
Thomas j. Anderson, of Iowa, to be AS
sistant Commissioner of the general land
office; also, Thomas III. B. Jones, of Dako-
Ia, to be agent for the Indians OF the
Fort Berthold agency in Dakota.
Maj. Thomas j. Anderson, tho nav
assistant commissioner of the general
land office, was the Democratic candidate
for Governor Of Iowa last year, and has
long been active in Hawkeye politics. In
the war he served as Major of the 40th
Iowa regiment. A good part of the time
since the war he has spent in the Territor-
les, SO that he has a full understanding of
the practical aspects of public land matters.
He went to Washington to ask for the APP
pointment as United States Judge in Wy
oming, but consented to accept the Assist
ant Commissionership of the Land Office.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28

NOTHING will put murder into mans
heart quicker than to unsuccessfully try TO
open a refractory car window for n pretty
girl, and have a man about two sizes bigger
than he is step across and open il almost
without an effort.-Puck.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-28
THE WESTERN STATES.

THE Insurance Commission OF Missouri
has brought suit against the Ancient Order Of
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08
NliAtellanrous Adrtrtis,aefs s
W. 1. MOORE eco.
Diasonals, CorkscreEs,
CaSSimereS /!

We have just received large stock
of Cassimeres and Cheviots for Trou-
sers and suitings in plain and Fancy
patterns. Our patrons all know what
the reputation of our house has been
in the past, for these goods, but our
present stock excel them all in style,
quality and prices (real free trade
prices.)
Call early and make your selection,
that you may have great many
styles to select from and haye them
made before the rush comes.
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08
CONTINUED ON FOURTH pAGE.l
A Sly Fox.

Necessarily, from the life it is COM
PEELED to lead, the fox excels in cum
ming devices. A good illustration of
it is this of the fox that, having cap
tured a large duck, found his home
ward progress obstructed by wall too
high for him to leap over with his bur-
den. Raynard made two or three at
tempts and ON each occasion fell back
baffied. Finally he sat down and look
ed at the wall for few minutes. Hav-
ing satisfied himself with the survey,
he caught the duck by the head, raised
himself up against the wall with his
fore paws as high as he could reach
and stuck the bill of the duck into a
crevice. The fox was now free for ac-
tion. He leaped on the wall with a
bound, reached down and catching the
duck by the neck, went off on the other
side with his plunder. The arctic fox
is known to be particularly wary. One
was killed by seizing on bait tied to
a string, which pulled the trigger of a
gun but another one. profting by this
experience, took care to go under the
bait and pull it below the line of fire.
Cases have been known also of the
arctic fox avoiding all risk and COM
pletely circumventing its enemies by
cutting the line attached to the trigger
and then safely removing the bait
Picayune.
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08

BILE. In some parts of this country
the natives have learned no better
than to spoil the favor of an excellent
beefsteak by frying it in lard. This
may seem incredible to housekeepers
in the more civilized portions OF the
country, but it is never the less a well
attested fact. Pork is the least diges-
tible of all meats, as wellas the most
nutritious, and the addition Of lard to
an article of food often makes indiges-
tible what would otherwise have been
no source of trouble to the most deli
cate stomach.
THE GREAT AMERICAN PIE-EATER.
The indigestibility of the American
pie is unquestionably due to the crust,
which has been saturated with lard.
One of the effects of the investiga-
tion made by the Committee on Agri-
culture has been to direct attention to
the necessity of popularizing in this
country some good and unobjectionable
substitute for hogs lard for culinary
purposes. The thrifty Frenchman,
whose reputation as successful cook
is worldwide, makes excellent use of
the olive in his kitchen. 1t is well
known fact, too, that much of the So
called olive oil that is used in France
and Southern Europe, and a great
deal of that which is imported into
this country from those localities is,
in fact, an oil extracted from the seeds
of the cotton plant, which were ship
ped abroad from America and are re-
turned to us bearing the well-known
label " Huile d. Olive.''
1t has been also shown that Oil
made-from cotton seed is quite as pure
and wholesome as the best olive oil,
and the quantity of this oil already
used in this country for cooking pur-
poses is large, and is constantly in
creasing. Here is purely vegetable
product, which chemists and physi-
clans declare is in every way unobjec-
tionable, and which is rapidly taking
the place of the product of distillery-
fed hogs, whose flesh is poisoned with
disease, and of the extracted grease of
{" smothered hogs' which is sold
under the label of "pure leaf lard,'
and "prime steam lard.'' In a recent
work DR.. j. P. Battershall, the chem
list says: Gas the result Of the pub
licity lately given to the subject of
food adulteration popular impress
sion has been produced that any sub
stance employed as an adulterant of,
or as substitute for another is to be
avoided per Sc.
PURE, CLEAN AND WHOLESOME.
Perhaps the common belief that for
all purposes cotton seed oil is inferior
to olive oil is the most striking illus
tration of this tendency. Now, as a
matter of fact, pure cotton-seed oil as
at present found on the market, is less
liable to become rancid than the pro-
duct of the olive, and for many culi-
nary uses it is at least quite as service
able.n
rCONTINIJED ON FOJrRTH PAGE1
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08
An Offensive Breath

is most distressing, not only to the
person afflicted if he have any pride,
but to those with whom he comes in
contact. 1t is delicate matter to
speak of, but it has parted not only
friends but lovers. Bad breath and
catarrh are inseparable. DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures the worst case
as thousands can testify.
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08

Borrowed garments seldom ft we'll,
nor do bogus remedies cure successful
ly. The real cure for coughs and
colds is DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Why sit doubled up like an old man,
my boy !! What's rheumatism Take
the good the gods provide thee, and
send 25 cents around the corner for
bottle of Salvation Oil and you'll ride
your Bicycle tomorrow.
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08
A LOVE SIGN.

On the thirtieth of October,
The superstitious girl
VIII pare an apple from top to stem
In long unbroken curl.
And throw it over her shoulder
With single dext'rous whirl,
And the shape 1t tails in on the floor
She anxiously will scan;
And whether that shape is like snake,
Or wheel, or an open fan,
She'll discover in it the initial
OF the name Of her best young man."
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08
Rheumatism

Is undoubtedly caused by Tactic acid
in the blood. This acid attacks the
fbrous tissues, and causes the pains
and aches in the back, shoulders,
knees, ankles, hips, and wrists.
Thousands of people have found in
Hoods Sarsaparilla positive cure for
rheumatism. This medicine, by it's
purifying action, neutralizes the acid
ity of the blood, and also builds up and
strengthens the whole body.
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08

OSf ut 1OfeS yOu nOWs us u
Lass with eyes of violet blue,
Lips as sweet as honey-dew,
Bonny little bride
Will helove you as to-day,
When your bloom has fed away,
When your golden locks are grey
Will his love abide2
Yes, if it is the true kind it will
survive all the inevitable wastes and
changes of life. But, it is every wom-
ans desire and duty to retain, as long
as she can, the attractions that made
her charming and beloved in youth.
No one can keep her youthful bloom
or equable temper if weighed down
and suffering from female weakness
and disorders. DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription is remedy for these
troubles. Sold by druggists.
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08

A clever swindler giving the name
of Moore practiced his little game in
Dover this week. much to the chagrin
and loss of livery stables, hotels and
riding house proprietors.
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08

He (cautiously)-What would you
do, Fannie, if I should kiss you?
Fanaie-Nothing, Harry. What
would there be for me to do You
could attend to it, co ouldn't you?
Middletown transcript., 1888-11-08

Funny that fast young man never
begins to think about settling down
until it has become utterly impossible
for him to settle up.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

posts are most used? Are farmers
largely using their muck-beds, and if so,
how do they use them? Are roadside
weeds, brush and briers and pasture
ferns and foul growths utilized? Your
outlook is extensive and of course you
can tell us much and suggest many
help to the languishing, if not unremu-
nerative, agriculture of the land. Tell
US what you know of making "two
spears of grass" etc.
REMARKS BY EDIToR.-Mr. Hub
bard has indicated the direction to pur-
sue to make "two spears of grass grow
where but one grew before" 1t is by
utilizing the coarse growth, the road
side weeds and muck. Concerning ashes
or any other fertilizer, we know of no
better way to test their value than by
trial. That they prove of great value
to one farmer is no indication that they
will prove of equal value to another.
Soils differ so greatly, not only in their
composition but in what their treat
ment has been, that we know of no
rule except the test by trial which will
decide the matter. We have wanted
more manure, and to get it we needed
to keep more stock. To keep more
stock we needed more fodder. SO one
year we bought commercial fertilizers,
plowed up some meadow-land which
was not yielding what hay we thought it
should, and planted that much extra to
corn. The fodder which we got over
what the hay would have yielded, with
the grain and some purchased bran,
gave us the fodder, kept the stock and
gave us a start which we have not lost,
and the increasing manure-pile and
favorable seasons have enabled us to
gain a little every year. Regarding
Dr. Hoskins and his opinions, reply
will be found elsewhere. We think
Mr.. Hubbard could give us valuable
suggestions from the book of his own
experience. Will he do it?
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either for soiling or after being cured
for winter feed. The main error in
raising this corn has been, in the past,
that the seed was planted very thick
and the stalks, growing closely to-
gether, would be slender and of poor
growth. 1t was generally supposed
that stock relished such corn, as being
more tender than coarse, full-grown
stalks. Some sow corn still in this
manner, but it is far better to let in
more air and sunshine to develop the
nutritive value resulting from the gums,
starches and sugar in the corn-stalk If
it is grown too thickly there is small
amount of nutriment and little else
than water and the crude fiber. For
whatever purpose the fodder-corn is
planted it is far better to plant it in
drills and drop the kernels at least four
inches apart, or perhaps six inches, and
make the rows from three and half to
four feet apart. If the corn is planted
in hills four or five kernels of corn, in
hills a foot or foot and half apart,
with the rows separated as widely as is
the drilled corn, is mode of planting
which will secure far more satisfactory
results than the other course. -Mossa-
chusetts PlOughmdn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
DIR. T. ii. HOskins and the Black
Side OF Farming.

DR.. Hoskins evidently thinks that
farming does not pay. Whatever the
experience of others may be, we GER
tainly are surprised to know that farm
ing has not paid well with the doctor.
If we are to discuss the question of
profits as concerning an occupation, it
must be in comparative way. Will
the doctor tell us what does pay. The
doctor says one of his brothers is worth
$4,000 and another nearly million.
He does not say how these brothers
have accumulated these fortunes, but
he leaves us to infer that it was not by
farming. 1t is probably true that in the
last fifty years no man in the county in
which the doctor lives has accumulated
a property of million from any regu-
lar and honorable business. Very few
in that county have in the same fifty
years accumulated even $4,000, yet
that county is a thrifty county, COM
prising good homes. Educational and
religious institutions are well supported
and very few citizens are dependent
upon any form of charity for daily
bread. This county of Orleans exhib-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Value Of a Ration.

Seventeen cents per day, the Breeders
Gazette believes, was the calculated
value of the ration Professor Henry fed
to one of his cows, and from one COW
he received thirty-four cents per day
in butter, from another forty-five cents
and from another fifty-six cents. This
wide difference in results was due en-
tirely to the differences in the animals,
which were in turn controlled by selec-
ton and breeding. AS great differ
ence exists in the capacity of different
animals to lay on flesh on a given
amount of feed as is shown in the ca
pacity of different cows to yield milk
and butter. And the difference is so
great in either case as to make it
matter of the very highest importance
to the farmer that he possesses animals
of the very best productive capacity.
1t simply means half price or double
price for the food consumed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Don't Bandage the Horses Legs.

There is no surer way of making a
horses legs stock than to bandage them.
Let man put a bandage on his own
leg-beginning at the ankle and run
ming to the knee-every night and let
it remain till morning, and he will find
himself with swollen leg in three
weeks time, which can be reduced only
by handwriting and cold water after
the bandage is thrown away. A writer
who has visited the stable of Cicero
j. Hamblin in Buffalo found it in
charge of the well-known and popular
driver, Horace Brown. There were
twenty horses there in his charge-Belle
Hamblin, Justina and others. He says
that there was not bandage about the
place, that the horses were all in the
finest condition and he didn't see the
sign of puff on any of their legs
COlman'S Rural World.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Fertilizers.
BY 7. 8. HUBBARD.

Are ashes needed on all new lands?
We are often told that when purchased
for twenty-five cents per bushel they
are cheap manure, and most people
believe it. DR.. Hoskins, your prede-
cessor, who now writes despondingly
of farming, used to tell wonderful tales,
and true, no doubt, of the renovating
power of ashes on his Newport farm,
and have had similar views, but could
never think there was so much virtue
in them as others did But we are
here on a calciferous sand-rock soil,
probably micacious calcarious shist,
and ashes do nor seem very etficacious
and are not in esteem. The timber
originally was largely maple, elm, bass
and birch. Does such soil need ashes?
Take all this first branch of White
river, from South Royalton to Wash
ington, and there seems little demand
for them. Is it so on all limestone
soils? On sandy, silicious soil, of orig
inal soft timber, there is little room for
question that they do good, but are they
overrated? DIR. Hoskins' suggestion
that farming does not pay indicates bill
iousness and dependency. What does
pay? Whence has the wealth of Ver-
mont come? The mines are few and
but moderately remunerative, its tim
Der limited and diminishing. What are
its sources of gain? If the gains of a
farmer, as compared with those of a
physician or a merchant, are small, is it
not to be remembered that these are
simply dealers in the gains arising
from the cultivation of the soil? If
this latter were much diminished, all
trades and all employments must cease?
Is it not somewhat amusing to hear
that farming does not pay when that
supports all the rest and is practically
the only source of legitimate gain to
the whole state? Second, what COM
SEE FIFTH COLUMN
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Clover.

Clover should be grown more abun-
dainty than it is on many farms. When
properly cured it makes very nutritious
hay, containing more muscle and milk
making material than ordinary hay.
All land to which it is suited should be
in clover once in every few years, as it
is in certain sense renovating crop,
its long tap-roots drawing upon the
lower portions of the soil where most
other farm crops fail to send their roots.
Fertility washed deeply into the soil is
thus brought to the surface again. A
clover stubble turned under makes the
best of preparation for wheat, corn, po-
tatoes and many other crops. OF course
if clover is grown to benefit land it must
be fed out, and not sold off the farm in
the shape of hay.-Mr. Cheerer, in Ne'c
Enqldnd Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

n VERBENAS and one Storm King Fuchsia use
u by mail o. j. RASNEY, Westminster West, Vt.
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advertisements.
100 Doses

One Dollar. Hoods Sarsaparlla is the only
medicine of which this can be truly said;
and it is an unanswerable argument as to
the strength and positive economy of this
great medicine. Hoods Sarsaparilla is made
of roots, herbs, barks, etc., long and favorably
known for their power in purifying the blood
and in combination, proportion, and process,
Hoods Sarsaparilla is peculiar to itself
For economy and comfort we use Hoods
Sarsaparilla." Mrs. C. BREWSTER, Buffalo.
floods Sarsaparilla takes less time and
quantity to show its effect than any other
preparation ever heard Of l would not be
without 1t in the house." MRS. c. A. NJ.
HUBBARD, North Chilli, n. Y. 100 Doses
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
FARM FOR SALE.

The farm known as the Hiram Dexter farm in
Williamstown consisting of one hundred fifty
of land and suitable buildings, one and one-half
miles from Williamstown village, on the road lead
ing to Brookheld will be sold cheap. Inquire of
j. L. DEXTER Boston, Mass. o. j. X. LYNDE,
Williamstown VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

THE Country Gentleman gives
method of making tree labels that are
truly indelible. Those who have ex-
perienced the perplexity of trying to
read the label on choice tree after it
has become defaced, and when it seems
as though you must find out the name,
will appreciate this. Take common
zinc strips, lay them on smooth board,
and with a long-pointed pick-punch
perforate the outline of the letters in
the metal. Several of the same name
can be pricked at once. Attach to the
tree in the usual manner.