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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1889-12-12
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

The laying of the corner stone Of the new
Pulitzer building for the accommodation of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25

elected district attorney. His career in this
office made him the famous Oakley Hall He
made a record for good works that stood him
in good stead through all his subsequent
troubles, and is still pointed to with pride by
his friends and supporters His worst en-
emies admit that his action as district attor-
ney was of great benefit to the city and his
record without flaw. He was next elected
mayor of New York, and in that capacity he
has ever since been studied.
1t is, perhaps, too soon to give an impartial
judgment on the affairs of lS6y-'71 or of
national affairs for the ten years following
the war. 1t was all men admit, the era of
waste and corruption. Many an honored
name was blackened forever; the reputation
of many brave soldier and many man
high in the national councils was sunk in
irredeemable blackness. The cities grew fas-
ter than lawmakers could pass reform char
tiers to suit. All city governments were adj
mittedly reckless and many corrupt; that of
New York, as it was the biggest city, was
confessedly the worst.
This could not last. In 1871 the explosion
came, and for months the papers were full
of the doings of Tweed. Sweeny, Hall and
Connolly Their pictures adorned all the
illustrated papers; Mast and other caricatur-
lists made millions merry with their exagger-
ated llneaments During tn era of corrup-
ton Hall was mayor, Sweeny CT chamber
lain or treasurer, Connolly city comptroller
and Tweed at the head of the street depart
ment besides being supreme in the matter of
public works, and, more than all i'll the po-
litical organization which elected all the city
government. In due time the "rng" got
control of the judiciary, and in 1869 they Sc
cured of the state legislature the celebrated
"new charter" which practically gave them
control of the city. Their doings gave occa-
sion for the so called explosion Of 1871" but
need not be recounted here
Suffice it to state that clerk revealed
the fact that general fund" and "city La
bilities" were terms which covered enormous
stealings, estimated at from $4,000, 900 to
S150O0,000. a citizens committee of seven
ty, with Samuel j. Tilden at their head, in
vestigated and prosecuted. Connolly fed
and died in exile. Sweeny, after long alb
sence, returned, and lives in obscurity Tweed
died in Jail. Hall was tried and acquitted.
He next tried his hand as a lecturer and
actor; then for a few years as editorial
writer on The World and afterward on
Truth. He then disappeared so completely
from New York life that most people are
surprised to learn that he is a successful law
yer in London, where he has taken the oath
of allegiance to the British government. He
now brings suit against Mr.. Bryce for libel,
and puts his damages at 10000, because the
latter has, in chapter SO of THE American
Commonwealth" given a very uncompli-
mentary history of Tweed. Sweeny, Hall
and Connolly" Such is the versatility OF
one specimen Of New York Americanism.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
BUTTER FOR SOUTH AMERICA.

A gentleman now in Brattleboro, who
spent some weeks of last year at Monte
vdeo on the South American coast,
noticed with surprise the statement
made in this column last week about the
low average price of butter (about 20
cents pound), and he expresses the
belief that great benefit would result to
the farmers of this country by estab-
fishing trade with South American
ports for our surplus butter products.
Such thing as good butter, he says, or
butter that is even tolerable, of native
make, is absolutely unknown there.
The nearest approach to this is milk that
has been partially churned in it's Journey
from the country districts to the cities
on the backs of animals. The only but
ter to be obtained in the city of Monte
vdo, with its $4,000 population and
immense foreign trade, that one of our
people will eat, comes from Norway,
whose people have already discovered
this opening for their dairy products
and are diligently making use of it.
This Norwegian butter is very nice,
and is put up neatly and securely in i'm
pervious tin packages holding one pound,
and these sell for rs cents each. At this
rate there ought to be good profit in
exporting some of our good United
States butter for South American use.-
| I BrattlebOro Phoenix.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
Prices of what farmers had to sell then !:

Farm labor, 1916, SO to IS per
month; farm labor, 1889, $40 to SIG per
month and found.
more, and everything sold now from the
farm brings nearly double what it did
then. Labor, a large item of expense
now, is more than compensated by the
great increase in crops per acre from the
use of commercial fertilizers.
Mr.. Peter Collier of the New York EX-
pertinent station responded to an invita-
ton from the same paper, in somewhat
elaborate article, in which he collates
various statistics to show what are the
exact facts of the case, and these facts he
summarizes as follows:
l. There has of late years been rela-
tive increase in the number of farms and
of farmers.
2. There has been steady decrease in
the average size of farms in this country.
3. There has been a steady decrease in
the relative amount of unimproved land
in the farms.
II ihclc has Dccu u great lucTtdSt III
the purchasing power of farm products.
3. There has been great increase in
the producing power of manual labor
through the introduction of farm imple-
ments and machinery.
6. There has been an enormous in
crease in the aggregate value of farms,
buildings, stock and implements of hus-
bandry.
7. The Indebtedness of farmers is APP
parently not increasing, and has proba-
bly, diminished very appreciably the
past few years.
s. There has been wonderful advance
in the intelligence of the farming popu-
lation, an increase in the demands of ru-
raj life, and the means found for the
qualification of such demands and de-
sires as this changed condition in the
average farmers life has imposed and
awakened.
On the other hand, 1t appears clearly
established that of late years there has
been a decided tendency to- ~ ''--h
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
STATE OF VERMONT-Distrlct OF Adj

The Probate court tor the district of Addi.
son:
To all persons interested in the estate OF
Daniel l.. Wright, late OF Weybridge, in said
district, deceased. GREETING:
BY the authority of the State OF Vermont,
you are hereby notified to appear before the
said Probate Court, at the Probate Office in
Middlebury, in said District. on the ith day of
November, A. ID. 1889. at 10 O'Clock, a. m, to
show cause. If any you have, why the &C.
count of Lucius j. Wright. executor of the
tate OF said deceased, should not be allowed,
and also why the residue of said estate should
not be distributed to the parties entitled
thereto. I'll
Dated at Middlebury, in said District, this
18th day OF October. A. D., 1889. W. w
AZ JAMES NJ. SLADE, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25

Just little while ago an occurrence
took place on the other side of the
ocean which, while by no means
without a parallel, is still a matter
that will interest all fond of studying,
in an amateur way, the transmission
of disease. A poor fellow died in Lon
don of typhoid fever, and his wife
sent to a friend in Glasgow letter
conveying the news of his decease
While the fever at the time was very
prevalent in the neighborhood where
the London victim died, there was no
sign of it in Glasgow then, but three
days after the receipt of the letter the
Glasgow friend grew sick with all the
typhoid symptoms. The doctors who
attended him SO diagnosed the case
and expressed the opinion that, not
withstanding the long journey be-
tween London and Glasgow, the letter
had carried the germs of the disease
New York Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
l.. A decrease IN cron nroduction.

l. A decrease In crop production.
2. A decrease in the value of the crops
produced.
We desire to quote also the following
remarks:
You mention as desirable information
in relation to this matter, "the cordi-
tions and qualities necessary to success,
and the reasons for failure where fail
ure occurs" and under this head would
quote what l have already published,
and which has thus far stood-as 1 fear
it must forever stand-uncontradcted
at is entirely within the bounds of
fact to assert that there are at least ten
per cent. of our farmers, in whatever
branch of agricultural industry they
may be engaged, who are getting
double the return Of the average of
Others engaged in that branch-twice
the bushels per acre, twice the pounds
of butter per cow-and this, too, simply
by improved methods and intelligent
application of the fundamental principles
of success which should govern their
practice"
AS evidence of this | will cite the in
stance of dairy farm of 1873 acres in
this State bought six years ago for
S11 800, which has since netted annually
a return of ten per cent on the invest
ment. The aggregate product lastiyear
amounted to $2,224.70.
have in mind three large herds of
dairy cattle, none of them other than
carefully selected grades, the average
butter product for these herds being
last year between 300 and 800 pounds,
more than double the general average.
have in mind large field of wheat
upon farm within sight of me as I
write-the famous Rose Hill farm of
Robert j. Swan. Esq, long president of
the board of control of the New York
State agricultural experiment station
and this field of wheat will average fully
40 bushels to the acre, more than three
times the average of the other wheat
fields in this State, and yet this very
field produced but 6 bushels of wheat to
the acre 40 years ago. But this result,
so full of encouragement as evidence
that our farming lands are not exhaust
ed of their fertility after half century
of cropping, has been secured without
the use of any commercial fertilizers,
but it forcibly illustrates the beneficial
result of drainage, for upon this farm
of about $50 acres are IS miles of tile
drains.
"Pay. viii farming pay?" replied
the gentleman who grew this crop of
wheat, to my question-"Of course it
will pay, and never better than now if
only it is conducted as intelligently as
is the mercantile and manufacturing
business of the country"
The vineyards of the slothful and of
those void of understanding have not
yet disappeared from the face of the
earth, and the results of Incidence and
ignorance are unchanged since the days
of Solomon but as class our farmers
are far from slothful, and while there
remains room for almost indefinite in
crease in knowledge, probably no coun-
try in the history of the world possessed
an agricultural class of equal intelligence
to our own; but too many of them in
their practice, while knowing the right
the wrong pursue, and for such only the
words of the prophet will suffice
"Cease to do evil. learn to do WELL
Il Country Gentleman.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25

With the aid of Mr.. Beecher he conceived
THE Box Syndicate Press" a powerful liter
airy influence of New York
During all these ventures young Box was
occupying position with the Scribners. He
has lately resigned the position, which is an
important one, accepting the editorship of
The Ladies' Home Journal, Of Philadelphia,
at a salary, it is said, Of $4,000 year. This
periodical has circulation equal to any
magazine in the world.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25

an unusually ac'
tive young lawyer,
with a peculiar tai
ent for getting at
the secrets of the
other side and re-
serving his o wn.
Such a man was
too useful in New
York city politics
to remain in OBJ
scurity, and he soon
became an active
political W ork er,
whose help W a s
much to be desired.
Ae c,,cb ba x,.ae
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
farm Copies.
THE PROFITS OF AGRICULTURE.

THE PROFITS OF AGRICULTURE.
Mr.. Edward Austen of Glencoe, Md,
at the request of the editor of the Balti-
more sun for his views on this question,
has written to that journal an interesting
letter from which we clip the following
Replying to your inquiry "Does Farm
ing Payy" | would say that when farm
ing ceases to pay 1t will be a sorrowful
time for those who live in cities, not ex-
cepting the publishers of as good news
paper as the Sun. OF course there are
periods, longer or shorter, when certain
crops cease to pay, or even show loss
in some sections of the country; but take
the country as whole, farming pays.
just at present there is much to dis
courage Eastern farmers who continue
to raise wheat and corn in competition
with the great farms of the West, where
they have virgin soil, requiring no
fertilizers, and where expenses can be
reduced to minimum as soon as harry
est is over: but the Eastern farmer, who
is obliged to raise some wheat in con-
nection with grass crops, may find a
little consolation in the fact that this
competition is growing less severe every
wear. as the wheat and corn properties
of these virgin soils are being exhausted.
When the far West is obliged to fertilize
the land in order to procure paying
crop (and this necessity has already
passed beyond the Mississippi riyer),
then the Eastern farmer will have the
advantage for export.
We have in this part of Baltimore
county rolling. well-watered country
and soil that responds promptly to
good cultivation. | include in the latter
a iudicious use of commercial fertilizers
and lime, with a proper rotation or
crops. Our farmers, as rule, are intelli-
gent and Industrious. They raise mixed
crops that will compare favorably with
any in the country, and yet there are
many complaints of its not paying and
some complete failures. Those who fail
at farming are apt to think they could
do wonders in the city. Well, when these
"failures" at farming do get to town
and take hand at business" the next
thing you hear from them is that the
tariff or ''monopolies" are "runing
things" Statistics will easily show
that for every failure to make comfor-
table living at farming there are score
or more that utterly fail in "business.'
The trouble, with few exceptions. is
with the man, and not his occupation.
Go through all farming districts Except
where there is an incorrigible SOLD and
you will find some who, with no more
than equal advantages, have kept free
from debt (and in many cases paid of
mortgages), improved their farm and
stock, educated their children and lived
in comfort. Success or failure, whether
in farming, trading or manufacturing
rests with the man, and not his occupa.
ton. Farming never presents chances
for fortune" but it offers living to
the intelligent and Industrious, with less
risk than any other calling.
Mr.. Austen draws the following COM
parison between the prices of sixty or
seventy years ago, and those of the
present day:
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them CastoriA.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25

The American Ma
gazine. He was a
personal friend of
II g n ry W ar d
Beecher, and after
Be &c h RS death
compiled a Beech
er Memorial" for
the family. He was
assisted in this work
by such men as
Gladstone,t the Duke
of Argyll, Oliver
Wendell Holmes,
DR.. Talmage and
others. Its publica-
ton attracted con-
siderable attention.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25

the offices of The
New York World
the other day was
a notable event in
the hi t DRY of
American journal
ism, no matter how
The World news
paper be regarded.
The structure is to
be thirteen stories
b | G h, and, it is
claimed, will be the
finest and best APP
pointed newspaper
buildin G in the
world. The a d.
dresses by Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew and
Governor Hill, of
New York, W ere
exceptional feat
ures of the corner
stone laying Of a
private building.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25

Miss De Gold-Ma, that man in the
upper left hand box is brute. He
has been ogling me all the evening.
Mother-That is young Mr.. McCash,
whose uncle died and left him one
hundred thousand last month. He is
looking for wife, they say and
Miss De Gold-He is nice looking
gentleman, anyhow. Can't we put
him on our list mal-Drake's Maya
zine. .. .D. ..t
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
A. OAkEY HALLS CAREER.


II Has Been an Exceptional One-His Suit
Against James Bryce.
The Honorable A. Oakley Hall, who is the
plaintiff In a libel suit against Mr.. James
Bryce, author of the american Common
wealth." has been lawyer, local politician,
mayor, actor, editor and, lawyer again, this
time in London and now he asks a British
jury to vindicate him with verdict for a10,
900 damages because Mr. Bryce had stigma
tiled him as a member of the Tweed ring"
Oakley Hall is of good old Krickerbocker
stock, and was born in New York in 1882
but has not favored the public with the par
ticulars Of his early life. He first figured as
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
e. W. Box.

The career of Edward W. Box, of Brook
Ign, has been quite remarkable in some re-
spects. He is a Hollander by birth, and is
now 25 years of age. He was only l6 when
he conceived a collection of autographs of
famous persons. In three years the collec-
ton numbered 10000 names, and received
favorable notice from the press He started
The Brooklyn Magazine when 10 years of
age and sold it to Mr. Bush who made il
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25
JOSEPH PULITZER, JR

but not more so than the fact that the actual
laying Of the stone was performed by Joseph
Pulitzer, Jr., son Of the proprietor, aged but
years. A cut of the young gentleman Is
here given tfI
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-29

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-29

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disease, well a. a means of relieving IT, is well
established and amply astssted during the last
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pies which beEct TIE pain aud inflammation
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-29
Second Street, Between Marion end Madison


A telegram received from Charles III. Wells O.
Tire Wells Puget SQUAD u1e. with Instructions te
uoatH shippers isat the steam schooner SIGNAL
is Withdrawn from tGe rou3e and viii not leave
for seattle on the 18th. as advertised.
GENENE y. kN>TEE. Acf Sasfile
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-24
Origin Of@.Uncle Sam"

Speculation has recently arisen regarding
the origin of the term ''Uncle Sam" as ap-
piled TO the United States Government
In the war of 1912, between this country
and Great Britain. Ebert Anderson, Of New
York, purchased in Troy, n. Y, large
amount of pork for the American Army.
1t was inspected by Samuel Wilson, who
was popularity known as Uncle SAM Inc
barrels of pork were marked 'tE. A, u D,
the lettering being done facetlous en-
plove of Mr.. Wilson.
When asked by fellow-workmen the mean
ing of the mark for the letters u 8, Tor
United States, were then almost entlrey
new TO them. said 'he did not know, unless
it meant Ebert Anderson and Uncle sam,
abiding to Uncle Sam Wilson.
The joke took among the workmen, and
passed currently, and Uncle sam" hlm-
self being present, was occasionally rallied
on the increasing extent of his possessions
Soon the incident appeared in print and the
joke gained favor rapidly, till 1t penetrated
and was recognized In every part or the
country, and, says John Frost, the Boston
historian, will no doubt continue so while the
United States remains nation.
1t is now firmly imbedded In the Mosaic
of our language, like ''Tippecanoe," Log
Cabin" and other short but expressive
the history of the Republic. Both ''Tippe-
canoe" and Log Cabin have taken on
renewed force and vitality since their adop-
ton by Hon. Fl. III. Warner, of Safe Cure
fame, in the naming of two of his great
standard remedies, the principal one known
as Warmers Log Cabin Sarsaparilla. They
are based upon formula SO successfully used
by our ancestors in the cure &C the common
ailments to which their arduous labors rem
dered them liable in the good Old Log Cabin
days.
The name of Warmers Safe Cure, like
wise, will be held in high esteem, as familiar
as a household word while it continues to
cure the worst forms of Kidney Disease,
which the medical profession confesses itself
INA BILE To IL