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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Social America i'm 1850.

The furniture, of city houses es-
pecially, often costly enough, was al
most without exception dreadful. The
carpets of enormous patterns and dis
cordant colors and the furniture of ex-
cessively vanished rosewood or some
like material, and always in SETS"
were things to shudder at. The cos
tunes of the women were in keeping
with the houses. Not only did the
ladies wear long trousers of some white
material that came so low that it was
impossible for the wearers to walk with
out getting them in dust or mire, but
the smallest girl-child was rugged out
in the same preposterous garments, it
being thought highly immoral for tot
of six to expose her ankles. The ladies'
boots, made usually of cloth, were
heelless, laced at the side and came not
quite to the ankle-bone, while the one
button gloves left the wrist entirely
bare. The nearer the female forehead
reached to the back of the head the
lovelier, many even shaving the central
portion to enhance their beauty"
Any hair that was golden or yellow was
thought almost deformity, and girl
with sunny tresses was looked upon as
hideous-was tainted as " red head {"
and generally used a lead comb or some
wash to make her golden tresses con-
form as nearly as possible to the pre-
vailing standard. All women plastered
their hair in hard, flat mass tight to
the skull with bandoline or some other
mucilaginous substance as low down as
the ears, and then had it twisted in
stiff wire-like spirals, or pulled out like
binders. Boston Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Deadly DishclOths.

l had some neighbors once-clever,
good sort of folks. One autumn four
of them were taken sick with typhoid
fever. The doctor ordered the vinegar
barrels whitewashed and threw about
forty cents worth of carbolic acid into
the swill-pail department. | went into
the kitchen and made cruel. l needed
a dishcloth, looked around for one and
found several. And such ragsl l
burned them all and called the daugh-
ter to get me dishcloth. She looked
around on the table. Why" said
she, "there were about dozen here
this morning." She looked in the
wood-boX, on the mantle-piece and felt
in the cupboard. WE'LL" l said, 81
saw some old, black, rotten rags lying
around and | burned them, for there is
death in such dishcloths, and you must
never use such again" took turns
in nursing that family for weeks, and |
believe those dirty dishcloths were the
cause of all that hard work. Cor.
Good Housekeeping,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
CarbOnaceOus Matter.

The idea that continual cropping de-
prives the soil of essential mineral
manures seems to be antagonized by
the well-known veteran experimenter,
Sir j. b. Lawes Of England, who is re-
ported as saying: Gwen in the long
cultured fields of England it is rare to
find a lack of the essential mineral
manures, and, with care to keep or
supply carbonaceous matter to the soil,
and not to allow the weeds to appropri-
ate the nitrogen as it becomes soluble
in summer warmth and moisture, soils
are not easily exhausted, even by heavy
crops" 1t is supposed that large
supply of carbon comes from the car
bonic acid contained in the atmosphere
which is eXhaled by growing plants. 1t
is also the product of the burning of
charcoal in oxygen gas; it is also, in
fact, produced whenever any organic
body is burned or decays in contact
with the air. Thus is seen the neces-
sity of supplying to the soil organic
material as it is found in stable manure
or green crops. Besides the mechani-
cal effect produced in the soil the de-
composition supplies carbonic acid, and
hence it is that Mr. Lawes speaks as he
does of the supply of carbonaceous
material as necessity in the growth of
crops upon soils containing supply
of purely mineral Clements German
torn Telegraph.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Don't Like the Change.

can eastern man." says an ex-
change, who has begun business in
California writes home in rather dis
couraging mood, advising his friends
to remain in the East. He says: You
do not appreciate that fact as well as
we do, sitting among the sand-hills
and disputing the right to them with
the fleas-sitting here amid frosts and
rain and cold and heat and looking
forward to eight months of drouth. 1t
may seem little enough to you, but as
for us, we want to see once more the
grand procession of the eastern sea-
sons--the banks of winter, the
Frightening blooms of spring, the rich
garniture of summer, the scarlet and
gold of autumn. We want to see a
stream of fresh water and well of the
same. We want to see silk hats and
short hair. We want something good
to eat, and to be where we can find a
decent house to live in for less than
$50 a month";"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Cooking Salt SaImen.

Take a piece of the salmon as large
as required for use; place it in pan of
fresh water until it is thoroughly satu-
rated the evening before the day you in
tend to use it. Then allow the water to
drip from the faucet on the salmon in
the pan for twelve hours-say over
night, the pan remaining in the sink, so
that the overflow can be carried off.
BY this time it will be fresh enough to
be palatable. The salmon should then
be dried with a dry towel and then
broiled on gridiron over a quick fire,
or fried as in the ordinary manner of
preparing other varieties of salt fish, or
it can be boiled and served as Goldfish,
and in innumerable ways, as the fancy
or ability of the cook may dictate. =
american Grocer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Antique Ornaments.

We were looking recently at some of
the antique ornaments dug up in Cyprus
by General Cesnola. Among them
were bracelets identical with the
bangles so commonly worn during the
past two or three years: plain gold
bands terminating in two snarling dogs
heads brought close together, but not
joined. They were "rolled plate" too,
for the bracelets consisted of copper
heavily plated with gold. Strange that
we should be wearing trinkets copied
from those worn before the Christian
era. There were daggers and pins for
wearing in the hair, whose counterpart
may be seen every day Assuredly
there is nothing new under the sun,
and this holds good in trinkets as well
as in everything else. Last year every
one was displaying the Egyptian oudia,
an odd-looking talisman containing the
eye of Horus. This year we see more
trinkets modelled after flowers and
other natural forms. What the next
fancy may be no one may conjecture. -
Emily Louise Tdplin.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Butter

There is one great essential thing to
be considered always, and that is per-
feet cleanliness. The cows must be
clean, their home wholesome, the hands
of the mixer perfectly clean, and from
the moment the milk leaves the COW
until it is consumed as butter it should
be carefully kept apart from anything
that could contaminate it, including
the smoke from the "goodman's pipe"
If the COW gives anything like good
milk, if this is carefully observed the
butter will sell well and there will be
demand in excess of the supply. The
churning should be performed regu-
larly and at perfectly even tempera-
ture. The butter should not be worked
with the hands and in no way subject
to contamination. There is an advan-
tage in butter factories in that a certain
uniformity is thus assured. If these
factories are to help farmers it can only
be done on the cooperative system,
that farmers who supply milk, cream
or butter may take all the profits. In
this way factory may be advantageous
The advantage of the cream-separator
over the ordinary skimming is settled.
DIR. Augustus Voelcker reported that
ninety-three per cent of the butter fat
of the milk had been obtained in the
cream from its use, against seventy
eight and one-half per cent by the or
binary process of skimming. 1t was
also proven by Danish experiments
that "when the separator was used the
quantity of milk required to make a
pound of butter was 24.4 pounds
when the whole milk was churned 26
pounds. "-NelG England Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Miscellaneous Items.

To fasten a child's night-dress so as
to keep the feet uniformly covered at
night: Cut the back of the night-dress
several inches longer than the front,
lap it up over and button on. This is
better than pinning together with safety
pins or fastening the even edges with
buttons.-Babyhood.
The wife of an engineer employed
in a mandatory in Providence, r. l.,
frequently runs the large Corliss en-
CINE when her husband can obtain other
employment, sometimes for several
days. She has entire charge of the en-
CINE, which she understands perfectly
a fact of which her husband is ex-
tremely proud
A NEW hustle, patented by a Kansan,
has just come into use, with blow-off
and a safety-valve. When the wearer
sits down the air escapes up her spine,
loosens her corset-strings and blows her
bangs into the most fashionable pose.
When she stands up the action tightens
the strings and expands her hustle,
whistles to her dog and sticks a pin
into her drowsy escort.-Erchange.
A BLUE-EYED brunette of the CITY
evidently has been reading up on agri-
culture, and writes to an exchange as
follows: 4 am not farmers daugh-
ter, and don't wish to be. prefer
the city to the country any day. pre-
sumo it is nice enough in summer, but
in winter l don't imagine it to be very
pleasant harvesting the winter wheat
and picking the winter apples. 1 don't
think any of you country girls can deny
that. "-Maine Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21

with tassels at the corner according to
taste. Then, after providing good store
of colored filoselle silks, the pattern is
made by inviting friends, relatives and
visitors to write their names wherever
they like on the cloth, one here,
another there, just as fancy or within
dictates. Their autographs are then
worked over in colored silk, in chain,
stem or satin stitch. Of course the
cloth is not considered finished until
the whole surface is completely filled
up with this collection of names going
hither and thither, up or down, in every
variety of character and color Such
cloth is highly original and a very
amusing and pretty decoration for
sitting or dining-room. -Erchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Food Tests in New York.
OFFICIAL ANALYSIS OF BAKING POWDERS
ADULTERATIoNs IN CREAM
OF TARTAR.

Under the direction of the New York
State Board of Health, eighty-four diff
ferent kinds of baking powders, en-
bracng all the brands that could be
found for sale in the state, were sub
mitted to examination and analysis by
Professor G.. F. Chandler, member OF
the State Board and president of the
New York City Board of Health. as
sisted by Professor Edward G.. Love,
the well-known United States govern
ment chemist. The official report
shows that a large number of the
powders examined were found to con-
tain alum or lime-many of them to
such an extent as to render them Sc
riously Objectionable for use in the
preparation of human food. Alum was
found in twenty-nine samples. This
drug is employed in baking powders to
cheaper their cost The presence of
lime is attributed to the impure cream
of tartar of commerce used in their
manufacture. Such cream of tartar
was also analysed and found to contain
lime and other impurities-in some
samples to the extent of ninety-three
per cent of their entire weight. All
the baking powders of the market, with
the single exception of Royal" (not
including the alum and phosphate pow
ders, which have not the virtue of even
an impure cream of tartar), are made
from the adulterated cream of tartar of
commerce, and consequently contain
lime to a corresponding extent. The
only baking powder yet found by chem
ical analysis to be entirely free from
lime and absolutely pure is the
Royal" This perfect purity results
from the exclusive use of cream of tar
tar specially refined and prepared by
patent processes which totally remove
the tartrate of lime and other impuri-
ties. The cost of this chemically pure
cream of tartar is much greater than
any other, and on account of this
greater cost is used in no baking
powder but the Royal Professor
Love, who made the analysis of baking
powders for the New York State Board
of Health, as well as for the govern
ment, says of the purity and whole
someness of the " Royal"
Il find the Royal Baking Powder COM
posed of pure and wholesome ingredients.
1t is a cream of tartar powder of high de-
gree of merit, and does not contain either
alum or phosphates or other injurious sub
stance. T.. Il. LOVE, PH.D.
1t is highly satisfactory to the house
keepers of this vicinity, where the
Royal Baking Powder is in general use,
that the investigations by the analysts
in Massachusetts, New York and Ohio,
the only states that have thus far taken
action upon this important subject,
agree in CHASING it as the purest and
most efficient baking powder in the
market.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21

salt regularly every day, and the cows.
improved at once and the increase was
steady until, on the same feed, they were
producing $50 pounds of milk day,
and instead of being kept at loss
yielded fair profit. The farmer needs
to be wide-awake and careful. A we'll
balanced ration, fed at regular hours
and in regular quantities, with atten-
ton to water, salt, bedding, and all the
points which go to make the animals
comfortable, will save money, particu-
larly in a season when feed is high
priced. / never found a work-hand to
whom could afford to trust the winter
feeding of my stock.-Cor. Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Farm Notes.

AT the Ontario Agricultural College
recent experiment with peas showed
that it took thirty-tive pounds more of
cooked than of uncooked peas to make
one hundred pounds of pork, live weight
IT is said that an experienced butcher
" loads :" live hog in this way: "Back
the wagon up to the pen; place two
planks side by side, with one end in
the wagon and the other on the ground,
making an inclined plane. Then turn
the hog and tail toward the wagon;
put basket over his head, and as he
steps back to get his head out follow
him up, taking care that he does not
step over the side"
WHEN one gives an order to an agent
for fruit trees the novelties better be
left out, unless one wants to expert
ment. Better buy well-proved varie-
ties. Never sign a contract when the
order is given, allowing the nurseryman
to substitute his own selections should
he not chance to have the kinds or
dered. Many nurserymen keep stock
of free-growing, inferior varieties with
which to fill such orders. Inexperi-
enced men fool too much with miscel-
laneous varieties .-Moine Farmer.
PROFESSOR ROBERTS of Cornell"
says the Maine Farmer, " conducted
series of experiments last winter which
resulted in saving fourteen per cent of
the food consumed in the dairy by
warming the water to eighty degrees.
Several reliable dairymen claim there
is not only a saving of food, but an in
crease of twenty-five per cent in the
yield of milk" Several Vermont
dairymen are warming water for their
cows. What have they to say of the
practice? We would like to hear from
them.
MANY analyses of dung-liquor, or
water that has soaked through manure
heaps in barn-yards, have been made.
A fair average of this water gives OILS
per cent of nitrogen and SO per cent of
potash. In other words, every ton of
water that soaks through the manure
and runs down hill into the brook carries
with it three and one-half pounds of nj
trogen and seven pounds of potash.
This is expensive watering. This
leached manure is poor stuff. How
many winters would it take to wash out
value enough to pay for covered
yard? Exchange.
Says the National Live Stock Journal:
"In looking into the qualifications of an
applicant for work on the farm, one of
the first points for investigation-after
his moral character in its relation to the
children-is his experience and trust
worthiness in handling horses. A man
otherwise cheap enough would be q
dear investment if he should ruin the
disposition of one or two promising
young horses, train the teams with
which he works into bad habits, or be
guilty of general thoughtlessness in his
work about the stables. We would
discharge man as quickly for inefli
cheney in this line as for any other fault
relating to the quality of his services
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Sailing Dairy Cattle.

A Wisconsin dairyman lately told
me he MIXED seventeen cows last sea-
son and early in the summer ran out of
salt, and having read in an agricultural
paper that COWS do just as well without
salt he neglected to get another barrel.
The drouth came, the milk flow dropped
to about 200 pounds day, which gave
no profit, nor did it increase after the
pastures were freshened by rains. He
bought carload of millstuff and began
feeding, but still received only 220
pounds of milk day, and several of
the cows would hold up their milk once
or twice a week. Then he began to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21

THE homeliest man in Montpelier, as
well as the handsomest, and others are
invited to call on any druggist and get
free trial bottle OF Kemp's Balsam for
the throat and lungs, remedy that is
selling entirely upon its merits and is
guaranteed to relieve and cure all
chronic and acute coughs, asthma,
bronchitis and consumption. Large
bottles, fifty cents and 81.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

VIII be sold at public auction, the premises, ON
Thursday, March ~, 1855 at one o'clock =. NJ, the
farm, and buildings thereon, known as the bacon
Place" In Berlin. said farm Is supposed to contain
thirty five of land Also fifteen to twenty tons
of hay and one covered buggy.
@. W. II, DWINELL, Administrator.
Berlin, VT, March I, 1855.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21

EASTER bonnets worry many poor
women who can not get the needed ten
or twenty dollars to buy one. Diamond
Dyes will color the feathers, velvets
and ribbons to any fashionable shade.
BY their aid any woman can get up
stylish bonnet cheaply.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
An Autograph Table-ClOth.

Get piece of dark cloth of con-
venient size-olive, fawn color or dark
brown is best-edged all around with a
thick colored silk cord and ornamented
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21

HERE is a sentence for boys and
girls to read rapidly without tripping, if
they can: "She sells sea shells; shall
she sell sea shells?n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
sale!

The subscriber having sold his farm, and not in
tending to carry farming business longer, will
sell at auction on the premises where he now lives,
and which he has lust sold in the town of Painield,
on Saturday the 2lth day of March, A. ID. 1855 at
o'clock in the afternoon, the following personal
property viz. Fifteen good dairy cows, ten shoats,
thirty tons of hay, pleasure wagon, one sleigh,
two sleigh robes, one driving harness, one Granite
set of Fairbanks scales that win weigh six hundred
pounds, dairy utensils, two sappans, two plows, and
various other farming implements too numerous to
mention, and such as are necessary for use ON "A
large farm Terms of payment made known Al time
of sale. Sale positive, ORRIN W. CREE,
Plainfield, VT, March ~ 1855
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
TRUE TT IS
A. D. FarWell

Is to move into the store formerly occupied
by H. Lowe & Son before April lst In
order to tighten the task of moving we
shall try to sell every heavyweight
OVERCOAT, FUR COAT, ROBE, ETC.,
before the above date. We shall not quite
"give them away" but the prices will suit
vou, not us. A. d. FAREWELL
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Administrators Sale.

will sell at public auction on Saturday, March 81,
1883, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. ON the premises the home
farm of John Montgomery where he lived at the
time of his death, ON Little River" in Waterbury.
said farm is known the " DIR. Conant farm" 1t
consists of one hundred twenty acres good land,
evenly divided into tillage and pasture land. This
is of the best located farms on the river road
between Waterbury aud Stowe. | shall also offer
for sale at the time and place, all Of the per
sonal property belonging to said estate.
FRANK n, SMITH, Administrator,
FRANK II, ATHERToN, Auctioneer
Waterbury, March 49, 1883,
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The should still
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A WORD OF WARNING.
There many white represented be just good the No
they ARE NOT but like all lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities
the genuine. Ask for "voy Soap and insist upon getting it.
Copyright by Prcter& a
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-19
Legal Notice.

Robert ]. Potter and Benina f. Potter of the
state of Illinois will take notice that they have been
sued in the district court of Barton comfy state of
Kansas by the Abilene Mortgage Company; than
said Abilene Mortgage Company fled its petition in
SAID court the 9th day Of january, 1855 against
them and Caroline Wienetfe and Theodore Acker-
man, wherein they pray Judgment against the said
Robert J. Potter and Benina L. Potter in the sum
TO the said Abilene Mortgage Company. dated Au-
gust !, 1887; and they further pray judgment Of
quarter OF section two CO. in township sixteen &C.,
south OF range fourteen % west in Barton county
state OF Kansas and sale of said land 10 pay said
judgment and further decree foreclosing said de-
PENDANTS and each Of them from all interest in or
lien upon SAID land and you are further notified
that you M ust answer said petition or before the
18th day Of February, 1885, said petition viii be
taken as true and Judgment rendered according TO
the prayer thereof.
JOHN H. MAHAN,
lsEAL.I Attorney for Plaintiff.
Attest
IRA ID. BRoUGHER
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-19

containing twelve pages of type-writing)
be printed in tho record, but as Harris
objected to that, he proceeded to state the
chief allegation contained in it.
The following bills were presented and
placed on the calendar:
House bill relating to permissible marks
printed and written on second, third and
fourth class mail matter.
Senate bill for the extension and enlarge
ment of the Kansas City custom house
Among the bills introduced and referred
were the following:
By Mr.. Chandler-To alter the regula-
tons enacted by the South Carolina Legis-
lature in regard to the election of Repre-
sentatives in Congress.
By Mr.. Sherman, at the request OF the
colored clergymen OF North Carolina,
creating a commission to inquire into and
report on the material and mental progress
OF the colored race since 1865.
AS soon as the morning business was all
disposed of lat one o'clock) Mr.. Riddleber-
ger rose and moved that the Senate pro
coed to executive business, and the motion
was agreed to without division.
The Senate went into executive session at
one o'clock in the afternoon, and three-quar-
tiers Of an hour later took up the nomination
Of Mr.. Lamar. Its consideration lasted IN
til four o'clock, at which time the nomin-
alton was confirmed by IA vote OF 90 to %.
Riddieberger, Stanford and Stewart voted
with the Democrats. ALI the other Repub-
hcans voted or were paired against Mr..
Lamar, and all the Democrats were in his
favor. The discussion was almost entirely
confined to the Republican side. The prin-
cipal speakers were Edmunds, Evarts,
CullonI, Sherman, Allison, Hoar, Haw
ley, Ingalls, and Riddleberger-the last
named making two speeches. The