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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-01-26

SOCIETY MEETINGS.

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M. Il. CHURCH-Rev. j. w Tay.oT, Pastor,
Services at IL o'clock a. IN. and 7Ia p. m. Sum
day school ct Il m. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at 7l5 o'clock All are cor
daily invited TO attend.
GEAYLING LODGE. No. s5s. \. a A. H..
meets in regular communication on Thursday
evening on CT before the full Of the moon
Transient members are fraternally invited to
attend. JF. HUM w. NJ.
A. TAYLOR, Secret Try.
MARVIN POST. No. 24O, G. A. r., meets th-
second Saturcay and fourth Friday in et
month. wN. wooDBURN, Post Commando
A. TAYLOR. Adjutant
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-01-26

ly swept i'll and out of a 14-year-old
boys mind as he sat faithfully working
at small sheet of paper, evidently
trying to maze fame and fortune from
such discouraging beginning. "Oh,
if it is pretty" said he, surely some
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-01-26
The LITTLE MUSIC-BOX.
BY MINNIE E. BISHOP.

H, mel how lonely 1 am,
and how few are the Joys
of life that L enjoy,
housed up in this little
room, day after day and
night aftor night
Other boys of my age
tell me to quit work and
enjoy myself at night
ANYWAY. But as the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
BONE MEAL FOR POULTRY.

Bone dust for mixing in poultry food
should be on an average about the fine
ness of fine oatmeal. There are usually
large pieces interspersed, but these need
not be taken out, as any too large will be
rejected. though the meal may be sifted
from any larger than peas if desired. The
price never being very much more per
pound than good meal, it should be used
literally with all the soft food, and about
one ounce mixed with every half pint of
dry meal before adding the milk or water.
In small yards, cut grass must be literally
supplied as well to the mixture; and on
such food the birds will grow wonderfully
and acquire a constitution which in con-
finement we have never been able to
attain in any other way. We may say
that burnt bones pounded have not by
any means the same effect, being reduced
to mere phosphate of lime with some
amount of animal charcoal: neither have
crushed raw bones. which have been stat
ed by some to produce similar results.
On the contrary, raw bones have been
proved by the very simple test of expert
ment to hasten laying in the pullet, and
furnishing or feathering out to maturity
in the cockerels, as might be expected
from the amount of fresh Jelly they con-
tain; hence, while excellent in modera-
ton for laying stock, or during limited
time to prepare cockerels for actual exhi-
bition, they are not adapted for the regu-
lar food for chickens whose period for
maturity the breeder for exhibition rath-
er desires to postpone. That this post
ponement and with itcOntinuous growth
is effected by dry bone meal, we have
most fully proved; and in the case of
weakly breeds, which have it for its
strengthening power. but which it is not
wished to increase in size, the changing
it at the proper time for raw bones will
produce all the desired effect. We have
often proved the value of bone meal, both
in the rearing of laying and exhibition
birds, but it is better not to use it for those
that are intended to be killed for the table
rs we do not want in them to develop
bone Southern Farm.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
THE OLD SQUIRREL RIFLE.
The Ancient Arm of "a Kentucky Hunter.
Loading u I1int Lock Gun.

The Ancient Arm of "A Kentucky Hunter.
Loading n Flint Lock Gun.
/ will describe the genuine ancient
Kentucky squirrel rifle. sketches of which
/ have in my possession, made from the
best models.
The barrel is four feet long and nearly
an inch in diameter, while the bore is but
little larger than common round lead
pencil Just great enough. in other words,
to take into it round leaden bullet of
about one-tenth of an ounce avoirdupois
in weight, The stock is of curly maple,
deliberately carved out of single piece of
wood, and extends from the sem-circular
brass heel plate to the brass half ring of
mounting under the fore tip of the barrel.
What is called the drop or bend of the
breech, is very slight as compared with
the fashion of the latest guns; indeed,
some of the old guns have almost straight
stocks and most of them have a grease
pot either opening in the heel plate or in
the left side of the stock near that plate.
The trigger guard is of brass and fanci-
fully curved, while the thimbles for the
ramrod are placed under the barrel stock,
in which is a semi-circular longitudinal
groove that becomes round hole in the
wood of the lower part of the stock.
The lock is the best model of flint and
steel mechanism, deliberately carved and
perfectly fitted into the right side of the
stock near the lower extremity of the
barrel. The trigger is double, the pos
terror one setting by a hair spring ar
rangement, regulated by an intermediate
IL, Al IL
releasing the hammer that bears the flint,
which in turn strikes open the steel pan
and drops its spark into the printing In
the under part of the stock, just behind the
guard, is tiny hole into which is thrust
a small quill, probably primary quill of
the golden winged woodpecker. This
feather is used to put into the "touch-
hole to prevent the powder from run
ming out during the process of loading.
The ammunition for this gun is the
finest Kentucky powder leaden bullets
nodded by hand and some strong, thin
white cotton shifting for patching" The
bullets are carried in pouch, the pow
der in finely carved horn. and the charge
is measured in boar's tooth charger.
To load the gun, put the feather in the
oouCh Hole dt lile pan, pour Ill d DOdI
toothful of powder at the muzzle and
then, spreading the patching cloth over
the mouth of the bore, lay on bullet
and press it down even with the rim of
the barrel, cut of the cloth as close to the
lead as possible, and with the ramrod
push the missile home to its bed on the
powder, Put the ramrod back in the
thimbles, take out the feather and fill the
pan with powder for printing; close the
pan and your rifle is loaded. Maurice
Thomson.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

To the question, how to write, l should
say don't write at all, unless you are
sure you have the gift, which is Gol
given, born with you, and can no more
be made to order than can taste for
music when one has no ear for it.
Don't think you can write because you
are fond of reading stories and devour
everything which comes in your way or
because you think yourself as capable as
your friend, who has achieved a success
you fain would emulate. You must have
the ideal world in you and about you.
You must early be familiar with the
imaginary people you are to make real,
and who, if you are real yourself, will
come to you sleeping and waking, at day
dawn and sunset, and laying their
shadowy hands on yours will hold you
fast until you Jingle to your finger tips
and can no more keep from writing than
the bird can keep from singing when the
dew is on the grass and the morning is
at its freshest. If you have never ex-
perienced this glow of enthusiasm, if you
have no imagination and are taking up
writing as you would any other business.
because you think it will pay, or you
want fame and money, don't try to
write, for if you do it will be stilted and
unnatural.-Mary ]. Holmes in New
York Mail and Express.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Sarm Copies.
BOOM YOUR OUR TOWN.

The man who has faith in his town,
who believes it has something of good
before it, will not stand on the corner
of the streets and denounce its institu-
tions, lament the dull times, belittle its
enterprises, decry its public-spirited
and leading citizens, and find fault
generally with what is going on. He
will not discourage the young man who
Is DESTROYS of planting a home, or es-
tablishing himself in business. He
through the jaundice eyes of a chronic
loafer and grumbler, or judge by the
standard of disappointed ambition.
When a man denounces his town right
and left and threatens to leave it "be-
fore another week, if he can sell the
little real estate he has in it," the sooner
that man leaves, the better for the town.
He makes it the subject of cheerful re-
remarks; he writes about it the words of
hope and confidence; attractively sets
forth its advantages; sells all he can AT
his home, and buys all he can at his home
tries to invite trade from other places
instead of sending the people of his town
to other places to trade; takes personal
interest in all movements tending to de-
velop the resources of his community
whenever he goes abroad is so proud OF
his home that he will leave an impression
in the minds of strangers that there |,
no town on the continent like it. III,
will see in public improvements some
thing desirable, though it may add few
cents to his taxes. Such man as tina
is an inspiration and a blessing to tn
town. Multiply him by fifty, and yo'
could no more stem the tide of the pro
gress of the town, than you could turf
back the resistless waters of the Kenne
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
PHILOSOPHY OF ROTATION.

As the experiment work of this college
is carried forward in the direct interest
of economical farming, will turn aside
from the direct function of bulletin
which is to relate the results of investi-
gatiOns-tO state the reasons, in part,
upon which rotation is based, without,
however, going into evidence in support
of said reasons:
|. Rotations are valuable because
plants vary in the area of the soil in
which their roots grow, and from which
they derive the sustenance of the plant,
thus more completely utilizing the soil
within their reach.
2. There is a remarkable variation in
the power of plants to appropriate the
various elements of plant growth, due, at
least in part, to the character of the acids
secreted by their roots. Thus, one plant,
like the clover, has a high power of gath
ering nitrogen, and another, like wheat,
a very low power.
3. Plants vary i'm their weight of
roots. AS an illustration, clover carries
several times the weight of roots that
wheat does, and it will be seen that, in
asmuch as clover roots are very much
richer in nitrogen than wheat, and carry
enough nitrogen to grow a crop of that
grain, wheat will most advantageously
follow clover. Thus, likewise, other
crops follow each other advantageously.
L. Rotation of crops battles, in large
measure, the root enemies, both insect
and fungus, that prey upon them. Each
plant having its own peculiar enemies.
changing of plants removes them to fields
unoccupied by such enemies. This is
also true of the enemies of the above
ground growth of plants to an important
degree.
8. Plants vary in the amounts of the
varying elements of nutrition actually
taken up in growth. Thus, while wheat
takes only 4 pounds of potash for every
pound OF phosphorlc acld, potatoes take
1t pounds of potash for each pound of
phospIorlc ac,u. CONTINUOUS grown OF
Po,atoes wouiu eAi,"ust the potash vi the
son OF Vi suPplieu manure iohS oeiore
'''e pnosphoric ac'u wouio give out
q. The leaves of plants vary in their
power of gaining food and of vaporizng
water, and are roughly divided into broad
and narrow leaved.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

bee in a spring freshet. Success comes
to community when its people thor
oughly believe in it, and their works
law in every civilized community, and
the grumbler ought to be. The man who
is of any permanent good to the world
is one who plants himself in home, be-
comes useful and interesting member
of society, is active and philosophical,
encourages every laudable enterprise,
and sees in his town grand possibilities
for the future. Stand up for your town.
- Maine Farmer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
The Man Milliners of France.

If ladies are invading the trades and
professions which they could not before
equal rights We're thought of, the men
are avenging themselves. Most of the
French matters now work for both sexes.
and their shop windows vie with those
of the modistes in exhibition of trimmed
hats. smart, neat, stylish, and, in short,
tempting as they can be. A halter said
to me: Il would not venture to make
up flowers and flimsy stuffs into hats
and bonnets. A woman's fancy and
light fingers are wanted for that. But l
don't fear competing with no matter
what millner when the trimmings are
rich and solid. We keep an artist. who
has had medals in the Salon, to design
hats trimmed as you see Them" High
art is running into the channels into
which it flowed in the Eighteenth cen-
fury, and which We're left dry from the
time of the revolution up to few years
ago. The impetus was given by the
Universal exhibition, and. must l say it,
the corruption of the French theatre, as
well as the necessity under which mali-
ayers found themselves of pleasing the
eyes of gilded 'rastouquoueres, iS-
norant of French, and wishing. to show
their womenkind what Pa-isian style III
dress was.-Paris Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

care you disturbed Mt night and broken OF
your rest by IA sick child suffering and crying
with pain OF cutting teeth? If so, send at
once and get Il bottle of MRS. WINsLOw's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETHING.
Its value is incacuable. 1t will relieve the
poor little sufferer Immediately. Depend up
on it, mothers, there is no mistake about 1t.
Ii cures dysentery and diarrhPa, regulates
the stomach and bowels, cures VIM collie,
sottens the gums, reduces Inflammation, and
gives tone and energy to the whole system.
MRS. WINsLOw'S SOOTHING SYRUP FOR chill
DREN TEETHING is pleasant to the taste, and
is the prescription OF one of the oldest and
best female nurses and hysicians in the Uni
ted states. aud is tor sale by all druggists
throughout the world. Price III cents II bot
le. 4l-ly
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Sawdust by the Bale.

Baled sawdust is the latest output of
the saw mills of Maine. 1t is put up in
neat half cord packages covered with bur-
laps. A powerful hydraulic press is used
to press the packages, and the entire
supply is shipped to Boston, where it is
used by the street car companies for bed
ding for horses. A portion of it is used
for packing. The cost of transportation
is reduced about one-half by the baillng
process. expect 10 see the sawdust of
all the mills in the northwestern lumber
district utilized in this way before long.
Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

At a dinner not long ago one of the
guests remarked that Bavarian horses
were celebrated for their general worth
lessness. He said that dealer sold one
to a German officer during the Franco
Prussian war, and warranted him to be a
good war horse. The soldier came back
afterward in towering passion and said
he had been swindled. And how?"
said the dealer. "Why, there is not a
bit of go in him, and yet you warranted
him as good war horse" Eyes, did;
and, by George! he is a good war horse.
He'd sooner die than run!'-Exchange.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

Senior Isidoro Errazuriz. the Chilian
immigration agent in Europe, has been
ordered to offer free passage to Chill to
twenty Irish families who are expert in
the act of dressing flax. 1t is said the
plant grows wild there in abundance,
that it is of excellent quality. and that if
few people who understand preparing
the staple for market are once established
there the industry will soon be of great
importance. Boston Transcript.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Experience In Dreams.

There are some very remarkable things
about dreams. In the first place they are
twice as real as reality. Did you ever
fall down stairs in dreams2 If you have,
you must have observed that it is much
more terrible experience than falling
down stairs when you are awake-except
that you don't have the bruises to nurse
afterward. But the mental experience
of falling down stairs in dream is some
thing awful. Leader.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
STATE OF vEnMONT--District OF Adj


BE II remembered, that at q session OF the
Probate Court holden at Middlebury, within
and tor said district on the Sd day OF January,
A. ID. 1883.
Present Hon. Lyman f. Knapp, Judge.
Whereas, George Hammond, administrator
OF the estate of Orrin Abbey late of Middlebury
in said district deceased, has this day pre-.
sented to said court his petition in writing,
setting forth, that II will be necessary to sell
a part OF the real estate of said deceased, for
the payment of the debts and charges OF ad.
ministration; and also that it will be bened.
cial for all parties interested therein to sell
the whole of the real estate of said deceased,
and therein making application to said court
for license to make such sale. And said ad.
minstrator, having produced to said court
the assent in writing of all the heirs re
siding in this State, interested in said real
estate, 1t is ordered, that all persons inter.
terested i'm the estate of said deceased, be no,
fed to appear before said court at the pro-
bate Office in Middlebury, in said district, on
the sd day OF January, A. ID. lsss, at 10
O'Clock H. M, by publication of this order three
weeks successfully previous thereto, in the
Middlebury Register, "A newspaper printed at
Middlebury aforesaid, to show cause, il any
they may have, why said license should not be
granted.
LYMAN f. KNAPP, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

nyhing that the best of its kind to be initiated and
the fact that article counereed is the best possible
its There of the Ivory
Soap which gocers buy because they pay
profit than the vory will On of this profit the
grocer represent them be just good the Ivory they
but like all counter lack the peculiar and remarkable
qualities of the genuine Ask for Ivory Soap and insist
getting it.
by &
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
NOTICE.-Estate of
" Amanda NJ. Hayward.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court tor the District OF AID.
Olson, Commissioners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands of all per
sons against the estate OF Amanda NJ. Hay
ward, late OF Cornwall, in said District, deceas-
ed,and all claims exhibited in offset thereto.
hereby give notice that we will meet tor the
purposes aforesaid, at the office OF Beckwith
\ Co., on the LIST day of February, and 2d day
of May next, from 10 o'clock a. m. until 4
o'clock, p. m, each OF said days, and that six
months from the 10th day of December, A. ID.
1887, is the time limited by said Court tor
said creditors to present their claims to us
for examination and allowance.
Dated Mt Middlebury this 2sth day OF De-
cember, A. D. 1887.
A. A. FLETCHER, (Coms
50 G. 5. WAINWRIGHT,i S'
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-26
liza srnnk msrkat.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Jan. MISUNDERSTANDING
1900: shipments 100; market quality mostly
com mon bss5 shipping and dressed beet stesTs
steady, copmon slow and weak; good 10 choice
coTnfed 81 25G4 40; common 10 medium s. =
"a 20 stockers 81 a. so; feeding steers y 60
s5 %; cows 81 3e63 CO. uoVs- Receipts GiOO;
shipments 400; weak choice SC low 7, others
lUc lower; ranging from So GO 10 s. 10. sheep
Receipts 800; ahipments 800: msrEet weak
and shade lower; good to choice 81 C0ci s.
common 70 medium g GQS3 IS
CHICAGO, ILL, Las. Is = CaLiie-Receipts
7OCe shipments 5000; mark strong and high
er for good stock steers st s. tO15 70, stockeTs
snn 'eeGers g {. 03 40; cows, bulls ana mixed
81 C5G3 10; Texas cattle g 35dS 80. Hoss-Re-
er; mixed s. jOd5 A.; hesyY s. 5Od3 So
uEht S4xS5do IS; skips s. i0Gi IS Sheep-Re-
cg,p;s 10; shipments 2C00; market wosk and
I0c lower; natives s. Goa5 %; western G - - 0Va
The cable quotes: American cattle sIo" a;
London AT l2C for tOps.
NE1 YORK, jan. 25.-BeeYes-Rcceipts ex
elusive of carloads 20 arrive late, were -
car loads TO be SOLD Is Cerloads for sl-ughtereTa
direct anc czIloaus t0r expectation, ard there
| were 500 STATE ca It's IN tEe selling pens; the
marset was Gull aao depressed 8fd closed
very weak; common 10 good stee sold al
| 5 co; bClls and dry cows at s. 1S'e3 20. with 8
tup, + choice bulls 8. 81 co. ; esp -Receip.
! 4 o; market M with fair trade ana gooc
| clearance; sheep sold as from 81 5eG36 - pei
100 pounds, and Ian bs q. from q 55a7 =, vi
| ! c7TloaG sold 81 :! -
| q LOUIS. NO.. Jan. IS Cattle - 2sceIp
l41O; ,hipI. 1900 ;ma-se. active n stronger
cno.cs n ayy native steers 81 45G5 sCi fsir 4
m dunn % choke, $ lOG4 Is; etocAtrs AM
feedsra, tar & geo. g 0lG3 40: ranger
ordicarg to sc5d, 8 IA 30. Hoga-Ee
eeip;s $500, shipments 5n0; market active an
6rrn, ran .nx IRON 81 80 70 s. 20 shee
/ Rece'p,s 81; shipments TO-: The make
IS siesdy fair 30 choice 8 1td5 40
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-26
a Lucky Trip.

MeFChant TreVeIer. =
"What have you been doing for. siiving
lsteIy?" asked very tough-lookiE9 ci.i-
zen OF man who looked as II he might
be boon companion. 49,
Burglar ng."
"What was youriast job?"
az tackled tie residence Of real estste
agent lSst Digat"
Have any iuck?"
ayes; first rate"
"What did you gei?"
II got away without buying house
end IotM
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-26
CO1gOR MAERRTs.
zcosipaz q. An Unlted States Por-
REu DElSdCGt

NEW ORLEANS, La. Jan. 81 Cotton-sroi
c,osed steady AID unchanged.
osies $500 bales.
Stock SI4, SIC.
LOW ordinary Sc; Ordinary S3so; gcc6
Ordinary exc, lov uiddl!rg Lie; nliddlinS
s;tc, good uciddling lo5<c; midaltng fair
l0zc; fair 1l3sc.
Futures opened quiet, closing quiet but
eady and 2G6 points hi2hzE.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-26
On WALL STREET.
TIP Sleek MARKET The DRllest fsT
ssnT DAYS aBd Almost Completely
Barren of a Feature.
nos: Everything On the Give List HiEHe
The Advances Coz fl med 20 FracS
uonzl Amounts.
COMMERCIAL RESUME.

COMMERCIAL RESUME. -
ssec,al 70 the GEzette.
NEW YORK, jan. % -R3ilwsy bends
today closed as follows: Fort Worth and
NEWER CITY st 81; Texas and Pacific
incomes e. 20: Kansas and Texas IS st
se3: SIS at Csc; Houston and Texss Cen
nal 1'g as.Il4!; Central a. 1i34; Gulf,
Colorado and Ssnts Fe 10 Z. 10.
Sterling quiet.
Governments lower.
Silver, 900
Money 24@3 per ceat.
Wheat weaker.
C3:Ecn dull.
o. $50
Cyfse 30G40 points lower.
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK. jan. % The stock market
to-day waa the dQllest for many days, ard
wss Utmost completely bzrren cf 6
fsata.s, tncugh the ficn trading tone OF
the market lim,:ed dealings. TIE trading
WAS Oue OF came professional character,
but traders waTs weary Cf putting cut
further shor. lines, and il s0me direction
covering WAS attempted. The 1s!ket
opened firm, b9t vas uGusuallT Gull
and faa'ureless, though elow appreGia-
lion Of values took place which, With bat
slight interruptions, lasted until noon.
After thar time, however, il bacame posi-
uye}y stagGeEt, Doth as 10 business aDd
mcvement, hEt toward 2 o'clock more
animation Was developed and the best
prices II the day were resched, after
which there lgss no further feature enc
the close w2s very dull Dat steady 81 the
highest prices OF the day. Most everything
IS higher tonight, though the advance:
are confined 10 fractional amounts only
the most in portsn- being gang o. s pei
cen.. escn III nelaWEre and HUDSON, Mis-
souri, PzciGc and UoioI Pacific. whil'
Oregon Improvement is down Il pc,
cent and Manitoba / 4.
Railroad bonds we've quiet and irregu
l.r during the forF noon, hut rallied ans
became more active late in the day
Speculative Issues came more 10 tie from
thai usual Of late. minority OF the lis
are iractiJnEily higher this tvaniDg.
Government bonds were dull and heavy
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-26
Galveston.

GALVESTON, lex. Jsn. 2j.-0ctton -'spoi
closed quiet and unchanged. Ts
Gross receipts, 266T.
sales, 19.
Exports,
sShipments coas:wise, none.
Raj shipments, $50.
Stock. A, 9I3 bales
Low ordinary, Z Is -I6c: ordinary. 1860; good
ordinary, 91Sc; low nitdlin2, 9A.c; miodling
lOc; good m.ddlsng, 1920; middling fair. l05s :.