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Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12
Sweet & hoTth's
Pine and TinbeIed Land Exchange,
General Real Estate Agency
Office Rooms "a and 35 Weston Building,
CanaI-st., Grand Rapids, Mich.

We have AZ present orders from responsible
parties who wish to invest in Michigan. Wiscon-
sin. Minnesota and Southern pine and tim
bercd lands. Call OF Us for qulch sales and
prompt returns.
Correspondence solicited.
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

Circulation Guaranteed 20 Be the
Largest OF All Michigan Dallles Ex-
cepI Those OF Detroit.
ar,ND R.Plns- MEnNEspAY. JrNE z.
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12
Country Real Estate for Sale.

Stanton hotel property, The Grand Cen
tral," l4IX4f. l. TsXfS located on corner Of the
two main streets OF the citv. stories. brick.
rents for Si.vO per year. all modern improve
ments; Will sell or trade for city property.
We also have several desirable farms near
city. and other parts of state. which We Will
sell cheap. and make payments 10 suit pur-
chaser.
Tmhercd lands wanted in all parts Of Michi-
gan. We want at once ten or twelve million
feet of hemlock lands located near railroad.
We have ~ acres OF good cedar land. well
located for water transportation, which we
Will sell al "a BARGAIN.
Correspondence solicited.
once hours from ..J a. III. - 90 D. M
SWEET & NOBTH'S EMPLOYMENT En-
CHANGE.
Successors to sweet & SMITH
Rooms Il aud 80 Weston Building, Canal ST.
Telephone lU-s.
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12
PERSONAL.

| ADVERTISE for woman by the name of
Elizabeth Il. Marshall. This was her name
before she was married. and had "a sister by
Tue name OF Margaret Marshall. and both
were daughters Of Andy Marshall. in Canada:
II found please write. Joseph Marshall.
FISHER station, Kent county, Mich 10;
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

RET1ER THAN BANKS and As safe "A bonds
~ is an Investment iu Levi Bros plat. south
DiFisi an street. Grand nion Real Estate Ex-
change, 3 and g. Tower block.
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

HoAt pss reAi any ioageg bat has lhe
chcaHrsl and besi iat ln fhe mATAft on
oar iAAtaioi street. al tlEhth w1ra plSl hrieeA
minutes N4lA ifaM tltN hall Turner a N4E-
raii, AeN Il hut.scillsu builalnE.
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

Il rutt - ~ ~ thAhki.si sh25 Ve ae lof
Ntt ia Sen aataNa. AKA 1s'Ss4s 81 IaaEa
t-sa4 haHias V4f homs &ua bes ) lsi 81 0nee
1i n 81 fros g.
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

SEVERAL HUNDRED LOTS around the sub
- ufliS also several farms for sale Or ex-
change for city property. Grand Union ER-
change and Employment Bureau. and 4.
To-
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

LeE SAiL-AI q bargain. house aud iei ou
thg liA lu a. desirable locality lu44irt at
- hast hf8dEest.. or ~ AtcEanic-st. AN
mediate possession given. lA
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

4 BIG BARGAIN in fue residences. in
u stores. acre tracts is always guaranteed ~
the Grand Union Employment Bureau and
Real Estate Exchange. l0gg q hInanS.
Agents. and / Tower block.
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

AANTED-keliable local aud travelling sales
" men, Positions permanent. special in-
duccmcnts uoN fast selling specialfies Don't
delay. salary from start. Brown Bros, MIR
serymeu. Chicago. IN. I-s
Telegram-herald., 1889-06-12

no RENT-Barber shop. established trade
L corner Of sixth street and Broadway. Ap.
ply ia grocery. It,s
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
-,DEsERTED FARMS"

l am getting about as much stirred up
on the subject of "deseIt9d farms" as
was last year on politics. think the
Mirror and Farmer has hit the nail on
the head when it says that Yankee farm
ers are not raising up children enough to
take their places. This may be new
idea to some, but l will illustrate it by
giving a sketch of the farms in this vi
cinity, beginning with small one, the
owner of which has moved away. The
farm is for sale, but will not bring what
the buildings cost. The farm next ad.
joining has been lately sold by man
who has lived on it many years, but has
grown too old and tble to do the work
required on j., and as he has no children
to take his place, he sells and buys a
smaller one. The man to whom he hi 6
sold has one son old enough to go to
school. The next farm is inhabited by a
man who has spent nearly the whole of
his life upon the place which his father
bought when it was forest primeval." AS
he has no children the farm must soon be
given up. On the next place a man
lives alone. Next beyond is the farm OF
man who has two daughters. Each
has been married several years, but he
has only one grandchild. Next comes
large farm which might as well be
called deserted, the owner having sold
it to parties who desire it for the timber
on it. and the buildings, which are good
and suitable for large farm, are occu'
pied by transients. All of these farmt
but one have good buildings, with houses
painted and kept in good repair, and
half of them have also barns clap-board
ed and painted. There used to be q
school in the neighborhood and children
to attend it, but the school-house has
been for many ears annexed to one Of
the farm houses and utilized as a wood
shed. If this does not find its way Il
the waste basket, may write more
anon on the subject of the destruction
of our timber lands. "A c.. w. in Mont
pelier Waterman.
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ABANDONED" FARMS.
Items Having Direct or Indirect Bear
ing on This Subject.

Items Having Direct or Indirect Bear
ing on This Subject.
A farmer in Irasburgh told us last Sat.
urday that he tried piece of wheat on
his farm this year, and though it was
small, only one and one-half acres, he
harvested forty-two bushels of good
plump wheat. Could he have done bet
ter than this if he had gone West-ex-
cept in the size of his wheat field ? We
do not know why there is change in
Vermont in the productlveness of wheat,
but we have noticed for a number of
years gradual increase in this crop
here.-Burlington Independent.
Charles Holt, cattleman for several
years past in Colorado, has returned TO
his native town, and intends to buy a
farm there and settle down as one of the
Hartland farmers. He is a member of
the we'll known family of James G. Holt,
and will find hearty welcome to the
brotherhood of farmers. Real estate is
now as low as it can be, and the ten
-dency from this point is sure to be up
ward. In five years, or less, the town
will be out of debt and the farmer, after
the long night now ending, will find
himself standing again in the sunshine.
Oscar P. Davis shows evergreen sweet
corn, 90 rows, 10 inches round s inches
long. Hanging by this is a specimen of
Tom Thum pop corn grown by Oliver
Smith, 2 inches long, with circumfer-
ence corresponding to its length. This
is corn maximum and minimum. The
variety most popular here is the eight
row corn, though we have seen Que crib
of two hundred bushels this fall, that of
Frank Gilbert, of the twelve-row variety
which any farmer may be proud of. But
all varieties have done well this year land
the only shortage is in soft corn to feed
the pigs on.-COrreSpOndent Vermont
Journal.
The Beacon, a Boston weekly, said re-
Gently 1.-THE savings banks Of Maine,
New Hampshire, and Vermont are heav-
lily loaded up with farm mortgages, and
how their managers will be able to
weather the storm which is threatening
is a financial problem of large magni-
tude." This statement concerning the
State Of Maine is absolutely without
foundation. The matter has been care
fully looked up for the Maine Farmer,
and it is found that out OF $42 900, 00O
invested by Maine Savings Banks, not
one dollar is invested in Western Farm
Mortgages. That shows the conserva-
tive character of our Maine Savings
Banks. This ia from the Belfast Jour.
nal, and in addition we would say that
the Vermont Savings banks have main
tanned conservative policy in the mat
ter of Western loans.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
VACANT ENGLISH FARMS.

The London Evening Standard Of Free
Trading proclivities thus writes OF Kent !:
at is very unwelcome intelligence to
hear from a correspondent in Kent that
the number of farms falling vacant in
that county this Michaelmas is larger
than has ever been known Kent, the
headquarters of the hop-growers of this
country, has often been called the Gar
den of England and it would indeed
be difficult to find any other county
south of the Tweed which is so thor
oughly cultivated, or where rents have
been 80 high all round as in this part of
England, The terrible competition to
which Free Trade has subjected British
agriculturists and market gardeners has
for some years past rendered their bus
mess one of increasing precariousness
and anxiety, and it is only by the most
strenuous exertions, and by availing
themselves of all the resources of modern
science and machinery, as applied to the
cultivation of the land, that they can
hope to hold their own. The capital of
farmers is but limited, and if, under the
growing competition they have to con-
tend against, they are compelled year
after year to lose capital, the time inev-
itably comes when they must either
abandon their farms or get them at low
er rents. The farmer, it may be said ,
may recover lost ground by striking out
into fruit-growing or some other new
line but this requires not only capital
but time, and the farmer without capital
cannot afford to wait. In other counties
besides Kent the prospect before the
landlord and the laborer, as well as the
tenant, is anything but cheerful under
present circumstances. Fair Trade,
London.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
THE rREAsuRER susP ENDED.

Bradford was the scene of intense ex-
element the last week when announce.
.ment was made that Treasurer Arthur
of the savings bank had been suspended
and that the cause of his suspension was
the making of an investment for an
amount that exceeded the worth Of the
property and also in certain Western
mortgages that are understood to have
no value. The state inspector Of finance,
L. o. Greene of Woodstock, wash town.
last week and made an examination I
the banks affairs. Mr.. Arthur was sus-
pended after the investigation. The
small depositors, mostly farmers, after
becoming aware Of the facts in the case,
made haste to draw out their money.
Rumor had it that the bank would not
declare the dividend which was about
due, but at the meeting of the board of
trustees, held Friday, dividend Of four
per cent, was declared, Arthur has turn
{ ed over to the bank his house and lot
and some stock he owns in the bank.
An official left the other day for the
West 10 look into the value OF the in.
vestments made by the late treasurer in
Western farm mortgages. Arthur re-
ceived salary of 81 900. George Len
non is at present acting treasurer. The
capital stock Of the bank is $50, 600
General Press Despatch. lr...
'The Bradford bank is per-
fectly solvent and it has a large surplus"
writes a gentleman thoroughly posted
on matters there. "Mr. Arthur, the
treasurer, is in town and has not stolen
or made away with a dollar I; and he
owes the bank nothing. A statement
from the trustees will he published this
week showing that the above statements
are true"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

The drummer always brings the latest
trick, Here it is
Take a spool of white batting cotton.
Drop it into your inside coat pocket and,
threading a needle with it. pass it up
through the shoulder of your coat.
Leave the end an inch or so long on the
outside OF your coat and take off the
needle. Four men out OF five will try 10
pick that whole thread off your shoulder,
and will pull on the spool until it actual,
ly does seem as though your clothes are
all hastings, and they were unravelling
not only your clothes, but yourself.
81 was in to Wilson Barrett in 'Claud-
ian in Boston last week." said the trsv-
cling man. SIT was in the most inter-
esting and pathetic portion of the play.
Everybody was rapt. was sitting bolt
upright, and didn't know or care to
know a soul around me, when suddenly
felt some one Juggling at that basting
cotton that l myself had clean forgotten,
l didn't say a word and did not move.
Foot by foot it unrolled. Half glancing
around, saw a mana total stranger
yaukiDg at that thread. II s facs was
scarlet. He had pulled out about ten
yards and was now hauling in hand over
hand. He didn't dare to stop because
he had decorated my back and the whole
aisle with basting cotton. He hardly
dared to go ahead. for he didn't know
what portion of my domestic interior
economy he was tr,hing with. Rip
Rip went the thread. Hand over hand
he ysnked it in. The aisle was full of
it. For Heavens sake will it never
end p said he above his breath. sat
perfectly still and ran the spool while he
pulled. How wanted TO yell. never
saw anything in my life half so funny.
The whole section of che house got onto
it. They didn't know whether to laugh
al me or him, and some looked on
amazed at the spectacle. At last the
stranger behind me gave one frantic rip
and yanked out about eleven yards on
one bunch and as the cotton got twisted
around his watch cham, over his eye
glasses, in his very hair and filled his
lap, / turned around and producing the
spool from my pocket said Il am very
much obliged for your interest and very
sorry that l misled you. You see have
about one hundred and twenty-fouT
yards left, but presume that you DOM
care for any more to night. | am hon
estly sorry but can't help smiling
THE man was a modest SORT of gen
tleman in appearance. His face was red
as fire even to his eyes. He looked al
me and then at the spool. He changed
color once or twice, and then as the
crowd caught on big laugh went W
right in one of the painful passages Of
'Claudian.' and the gentleman who hat
intended to pull that thread off Joined
in the laugh and said : Il will square
that up on my wife when | get home
but, my friend, swear to Heaven tina
| did think at one time that did thiui
at one time that was going to undres'
you where you sat-
at catches every time, and my owl
wife has been fooled twice on it."-LetC
istOn journal.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
NEWS AND NOTES.

There are now nearly one thousand
Swedes in this city, and no better class
of people has come among us. They are
hard working and saving people and
make especially good farmers.-Mdn-
chester, ~ H., Press
A Democratic newspaper wants to
know "what kind of a Government we
will have if the Grand Army is to run
it p The men who managed to worry
along with it and thrash the life out OF
big rebellion at the same time, would
be quite as likely to keep the wheels
moving in good order in this piping time
of peace, as the men who tried to smash
them and failed.-Biddeford Journal.
The Vermont editors who were dead
headed, in luxurious train of vestibuled
cars, to Sioux City to sing its praises are
paying their bills. The Cdledontdn and
the Argus &c Patriot each boom the
place in several columns Of roseate wrIs-
ing and adOrn their tale with cuts OF the
corn palace. 1t IS remarked that these
two papers have been most Jealous in
throwing cold waller on the plans that
have been formed for booming Vermont.
- Waterman.
There is lesson worth needing in the
fact, that the horrible death of lineman
Feeks, in mid air, in sight of thousands
of people was caused by a telephone
wire charged with deadly electric cur
rent by contact with an electric light
wire. Electric lIghl wire should be kept
well apart from naked telephone and
telegraph wire, and also from branches
of trees and anything communicating
with the ground, and municipal regula
tions should enforce these and Other
necessary precautions.
The Vanderbits are rich, but they are
also Industrious, ard from last reports
they are intelligently industrious along
the lines in which they were educated
by their father and their grandfather
Their last endeavor-namely, IAN alliance
betw cen the Chicago and Northwestern
and the Union Pacific railway systems
means much to the public in comforta,
BILE and convenient travel and in thu
possibility of buying through tickets, no
alone for transportation, but for palace
car and baggage-checking service.
In 1880 there were nearly 10000
Swedes and Norwegians in the United
States, and since that date there ha
been a very heavy immigration, In 1888
we received $4,000 immigrants from
Norway and more than $4,000 from
Sweden. In 1882 the Swedish arrival
numbered 10000, OF course there is n,
class of immigrants that will take ranl
with American-born citizens, but tn
North of Europe furnishes the best. Tn
Anarchists, Socialists, and communist
hail from the South of Europe. Tn
Russian Nihilist does not emigrate.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
AGRICULTURAL NOTES

Farmers should cooperate more.
Improve old pastures by feeding sheep
on them. -
Fall blowing is often an economy Of
spring time.
Parsnips are better from exposure 10
winter frosts.
Keep your animal thrifty. Don't let
the mich COWS stand round shivering.
Is your harness hard and stiff ? Oil it
some cloudy day. Meats foot oil is I'M
surpassed for leather.
A farm does not pay IL it merely af-
fords living and prevents the accumu-
lation Of debt-Americdn AgriculturiSt,
Make and care for butter as we may,
it is best, like buckwheat cakes, when
eaten as soon after manufacture as pos
sible.--J. g., Ohio.
F. r. batch, daiiyman, of Carlyle,
Mass, informs the Farmer and Homes
that he estimates that his silo will save
him $3.50 this winter.
There is not an intelligent farmer in
Maine who can not start in the sheen
business with small means and a small
farm, if he will practice economy and
learn his business, but what can he in.
dependent in ten years.-L G. Libby.
The silo has or dua''y vorSed its way
into public f,Yor. uni ito number In
practical use in New England will be
more largely increased during this veal
than during any other twelve month";
since its establlshment.-Prof. L. b
Chamberlain, SfOrrS. Conn.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
ENGLISH PROVERBS,
The absent party is still faulty.
The ass that brays most eats the least.
Tho haaf

The absent party is still faulty.
The ass that brays most eats the least
The best physicians are DR.. Diet. DR.
Quiet and Merryman.
The better day the better deed.
The devil was sick, the devil a monk
would be.
The devil grew well, the devil monk
was he.
The ending of feast is better than the
beginning OF fray.
The eyes Of a msst do more VOL
than both his hands. ~
The highest branch is not the safest
roost.
The hotter war the sooner peace.
The lions skin is never cheap.
The more noble the more humble,
The more the merrier, the fewer the
better cheer.
The offended never pardons.
The path OF virtue is the path Of peace.
The still SOW sucks the most wash,
The sweetest wine makes the sharpest
vinegar.
There is luck in leisure.
There's no compassion like the penny.
The table robs more than the thief.
They love to much that die (, love.
They need tomuch whom m ing wi |
content. - .I
p Threatened folks live long. ... #.
Timely blossoms, timely fruit.
To child all weather is cold,
To give and keep there is need of wit.
To leave morsPl for the Duke Of Rut-
lnl-that is-:o leave it for the sake Of
manners, Manners being the family sur
name Of the Duke Of Rutland.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

Why is so much always said about the
cost OF monument, and so little con-
corning its artistic merits, when the
subject is discussed in the United Statesl
The cost is no criterion Of its merits and
is an unimportant matter. NJ. d. Haus-
sahaille mentions, as SIMPLIFYING que g.
ton" TIE query which was made him
in America, whether st. Peters in Rome
had cost more than the Capitol at Wash
ington ?-BOSton Journal.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

A subscriber of the Nep England
Fdrmer, who is in business in Boston,
has farm In the country which he
manages so as to pay him good profit.
He recently told US that he would fail in
his city business every six months II it
was managed as poorly as many farmers
manage their own business.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
ADVICE To MOTHERS.

MRs. WIEsLows SOOTHING SYRUP, for children
teething, is the prescription OF one Of the best 70
male nurses and physicians in the United States,
and has been used for forty years with never fail
ing success by millions of mothers for their child
rem. During the process OF teething its value Is
IL relieves the child from pain,
cures dysentery and diarrhea, gripping in the bow.
els and wind-colic. By giving health to the child
It rests the mother. Price 20 cents bottle.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
ARMED TO THE TEETH

Is q very common expression, but we think that
armed TO embellish and preserve them 70 ripe
old age is decidedly more appropriate. This can
be done by keeping yourself supplied with bot
DON'T, which will beautfy the teeth and preserve
them from the ravages Of decay, SOZODONT
contains no acids or gritty substances which In
jure the enamel, but is composed OF rare and an
iiseptic herbs, which have a beneficial effect on
the whole economy OF the mouth Sold by drug
Rists. loyl
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

He who steals my purse, steals trash,
but he who wantonly purloins my bottle
of Salvation Oil steals something that
enriches him indeed and leaves me bank
rupt, victim to aches and pains, a sor-
rowing, woeful citizen, until can slow
ly creep in the nearest drug store.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

Mr.. ElbIidge Cushman Of Lakeville
gets three crops a year from some Of his
land. A crop Of rye is cut IN the spring,
followed by hungarian: when this Ia of,
turnipa are planted in rows and harvest
ed late in the fall The land, meanwhile.
has been sown to rye which is ready to
cut again the next spring. Mr. Cush
man produces milk and cream.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
ONE FACT

Is worth column of rhetoric, said an
American statesman. 1t is fact, estab-
lished by the testimony of thousands of
people, that Hoods Sarsaparilla does
cure scrofula, salt rheum, and other dis
eases or affections arising from impure
state or low condition of the blood. 1t
also overcomes that tired feeling, Gre
ates a good appetite, and gives strength
to every part of the system. Try it.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

The consciousness of having a remedy
at hand for Group, pneumonia, sore
throat, and sudden colds, is very consol-
ing to parent. With bottle of Ayers
Cherry Pectoral in the house, one feels,
in such cases, sense ofsecurity nothing
else can give.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

Railway accident this morning" said
Blinkins, a suburban citizen, after he
had returned from his business in town
and met his wife at the station. SIS it
possible ?" Eyes the train was on time
both ways. Washington Capital.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

Mamma, mamma" sobbed a little
three-year-old girl, running into the
house, much offended, II wish you'd
whip the old hen. She won't let me see
the chickies. She dest lifted up her
dress, an they all run right under"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07

When Baby was sick, we gave her castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them CastOrIi