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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02
Our Mons ann Girls.
Five Little Slaves.

All Miss Griselda Grumblegirl,
Your lips are all awry;
frown is twisted, like curl,
Above your hazel eye.
We are so poor" hear you fling,
never can have anything
Come, take your sewing up, and stitch,
And will tell you true;
You are not poor, but very rich,
with slaves to work for you
Five little slaves who never tire,
who need no whip and ask no hire.
One pretty servant all the day
Takes boards of treasure bright
And stores them in your mind away;
His name is Perfect Sight.
Give him, my dear, the best Of care,
That when your old, he'll still be fair.
Another, smiling with his task,
Makes your dry crust of bread
Seem sweeter than the sweets you ask,
And wish you had, instead,
Oh! do not spoil him as you go,
Lest he into monster grow.
Another works in glare or gloom
Seizes the zephyr's sigh,
And brings to you such sweet perfume
As meney can not buy.
Watch over him, OF when too late
You1l find him grown less delicate.
Then there is sharp young Hearing; he,
with flying footsteps brings
Wise words, and floods of melody,
And stores of merry things.
BE wary, lest he chill with cold,
And fail to work when you are old.
The last is lord of all the rest,
And yet your servant, too;
He gives you joy when you're caressed
And kisses fall on you.
With these five little slaves, I'm sure,
You can not say that you are poor.
The Christian Lnio
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

BUCKLIN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. Sold by all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02
ADVERTISEMENTS.

There are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
lust as good as the Ivory"
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits,
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities Of
the genuine.
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon having it.
It's sold everywhere.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02
Cline Gables.
Montpelier & Wells R. R. r,
Taking Effect October %, 1889.

Leave Montpelier At At S s 4; % ~ ? n Is ;
arrive at Wells River at 9:55 A. NJ, 2; "a p. NJ,
o.: IS Z. NJ.
Leave Wells River H Id nj, 6' S a. a. =, M Il
p. NJ; arrive at Montpelier at 80 A. M, II 40
A. NJ, 3: 20 p. NJ.
Trains leaving Montpelier at $50 A. NJ. and | Is
p. make close connections at Wells River for all
points in the White Mountains and for points north
and south on the Passumpsic railroad also for
Boston and all intermediate points.
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 40 and 10 90
A aud u 90 NJ, 3: 10 and 5;25 z. Trains leave
Barre for Montpelier at 800 and II Is A NJ. and
Il so, =: IS and q: 10 p. NJ.
W. A. STOWELL, Superintendent
+. ". MORSE, General Passenger AgeHt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02
STATE OF VERMONT,
COUNTY COURT, MARoH TERM, 1890,
Vermont HqfadI Fire Insurance Company Sarah
c. and 4. s. Ne Clurf.


c. uHd T., y. Ne Ciure.
Whereas At the March term of Washington County
Court, ID. 1870 the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Montpelier, in the County of Washing
ton brought suit against Sarah C.aud +. s. Mcclure,
in AN action of note, declaring upon policy note,
No 1875 053 for the sum of five hundred dollars dated
November 10th, 1871 aud signed 10y the defendants,
which suit is now pending In said court, and,
Whereas, II is made to appear TO the court here
that the residence of the said Sarah G, and 4. 5.
Mcclure is without this state, 50 that the process of
this court not be served upon them is therefore
ordered by the court thar the said Sarah c. and H. ).
Mcclure be notified of the pendency OF said suit,
and summoned to appear and answer to the same at
a term of said County Court next to be held at
Montpelier, within and for the County of Washing
ton on the second Tuesday OF September, A. d. 1890
at nine O'Clock A. NJ, by the publication of the sub
stance OF said suit together with this order in the
Vermont Waterman & state Journal, weekly news
paper published az Montpelier In said county, three
weeks successfully, the last of which publications
shall be at least twenty days previous TO said second
Tuesday Of September, A, ID, 1880, which shall be
deemed sufficient notice to the said Sarah c, aud
Il. $. Mcclure
Dated at Montpelier, this cath day of June, A. d.
lsl0. LEIGHTON L. SLACK, Deputy Clerk.
}. ii, LUCIA, attorney for PLAINTIFF
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

GIVE not thy tongue too great liberty,
spoken is, like the sword in the scab-
bard, thine. If vented, thy sword is
in another's hand. If thou desire to
be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy
tongue. QUdrleS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

THE best sign that a man believes
anything is not his repetition of its
formulas, but his impregnation with its
pirit.-BrOokS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02
MILK Preventative.

Millmen and Dairymen. You can keep milk
and cream fresh week Uith0ut using ice Thor
oughly healthful. No expense. Send for sample
and circular. THE PKEsERVALINB MFG CO., "a
Cedar Street, New York.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
Care of MIX Vessels.

The Prairie Farmer says the best and
most thorough way to purify milk vessels
is to plunge them several times in q ket-
tie or tank of water, which, through the
process, is kept at boiling temperature.
We should always bear in mind that the
fungi and bacteria inhabiting milk YES
sells are of microscopic character, and
seams which appear clean TO the naked
eve may in reality be teeming with one
OF the most minute and destructive forms
of animal life.
In an article on the same subject COL
man s Rural World advises never to scald
milk utensils before washing, as scald-
Ing Will make the gaseous matter adhere
IN an lnsoluble form that can be removed
only by scrapiug aud securing, Fret
rinse the article in cold water thoroughly:
then wash in tepid water that the hand
can De Kept in, using a little alkali,
and when well washed and rinsed, scaId
with clean boiling water aad set aside so
that 1t will dram dry-don't wipe il. as
the article is likely to be cleaner than
the cloth. II it is matter of necessity
to wipe some articles. use a perfectly
clean cloth that nothing else has been
wiped with.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21

in diameter, not above three inches, and
it has small pipe or nozzle about the
size of goose quill leading out from one
side of it. You work i. with one hand by
repeatedly opening and closing the 1n-
gers upon It, and while in operation it
finely, and with considerable force sends
out discharge of the dry powder from
the pipe. Procure the powder and an
atomizer, and with the latter blow the
former into the ears of your cattle.
Every tick getting grain Of the powder
by coming into contact with 1t is
promptly killed, after which IL lets go its
hold and falls off. Two-bits' worth of
the powder Will be ample for treating
500 cattle.
Ticks on the udder or other parts of
the animal may be removed by an applI-
cation of kerosene.
Buhasch is the powdered flowers of
the pyrethrum plants. 1t is no more in
furious to man or cattle than would be
ground coffee.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
On Marking Cation

The Alliance Journal, published at
Montgomery, in the cotton belt of Ala
bama, says in that state, and it is sup
posed to re about the same in
all the cotton states, bad mark
ing of cotton by the farmers in
shipping is the source of much
annoyance and delay in the handling of
it. Often it is impossible to make out
the marks, and in many instances they
do not get their own cotton, due largely
to their own carelessness. Every farmer
should have a stencil with the initial let
tiers of his name cut out of piece of tin
and mark his cotton with it; also put the
number upon the bale, beginning with
one, and have all OF it placed upon
the railroad receipt. The advantage
of putting the number upon the
bale and upon the railroad receipt is
should the railroad lose the bale the
farmer can at once know the particular
bale lost and put in claim for that par
ticular bale; whereas, If the numbers
are not placed upon the bales, and one
should be lost, he would have to put all
of his railroad receipts in with the claim.
Another advantage of the numbers upon
the bale: 1t enables the farmer to keen
track of his cotton, and il there is any
mistake made in Weighing he can more
easily detect it and locate the bale upon
which 1t Is made. Cotton should be-
marked upon both heads of the bale. as
IL facilitates the truckers and checkers in
handling 1t. II these suggestions are OBJ
served there will not be any complain of
lost cotton
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
A Hint About Driving.

An article headed as above, and
credited to the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
oorat, is now being extensively copied
into the papers, which says: "When O
horse stops and proposes to turn around
don't resist the turn. but give him a
quiet, horizontal pull in the direction he
wants to turn, so as to carry him farther
around than he intended TO go, and,
possible, keep him going around half q
dozen times. In most cases this will up
set all his calculations and he will 60
quietly on without much ado.
This may read all nice enough to the
dude who has never driven a horse, but
the practical man well knows that in
very many cases the advice given, if
strictly carried out, while it might upset
the plan of the horse, it would, at the
same time, be very apt TO upset the
buggy also. "When q horse stops and
proposes to turn round" he doesn t in
variably lay his plans for turning round
in large circle. Verify, some of our
agricultural editing is wonderful to con-
templatel We clip the extract from the
Texas Farmer of Dallas, where 1t ap-
peared without comment.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21

not being farmer Ia generally restricted
as to space about his premises, so that
economy of barn and stable room Is not
only an object but a necessity. While in
this regard you will have to utilize to the
best advantage the buildings at hand,
aim to make the stable apartment COM
Portable and healthy. You will find that
hand-cutting box, with which you can
cut up all your hay and straw, as 1t Is
fed, will make ton of fodder last d
great deal longer. and serve the wants
OF your COW better than IL fed loose.
Take hay in its common condition, for
instance; COW will eat of 1t gingeriy,
and practically dry off in milk on the
diet. Take the same hay and run 1t
through cutting machine, mix guam
tity of il up with q small portion OF
noistened meal, and the animal will eat
1t with avidity, at the same time IN
creasinc her milk secretion. There Is
great deal of nutriment in the hay, and
the only trouble lies in getting the raw
material into the cows stomach, where
1t can be digested. The treatment sug-
gested will do this, and at the same time
add something OF relatively greater
value TO keep the system properly braced
up. ChoppIng hay and straw is great
thing, whore economy of feed Is de-
sired.
Too many persons depend largely on
wheat bran as a COW food. 1t may do
reasonably well in connection with cut
hay, but fed alone it is about the poorest
food that could be given. The COW must
have coarse food--it is necessary for her
natural distenti,n.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
The Family Cow.

Thousands of persons in Texas who are
not farmers or rancbmen IN any sense of
the word, keep COW or two for family
use. 1t is good thing to do, but there
are often serious mistakes made In this
kind of COW keeping business. Mr..
George E. Newell, whose name is ia
miliar to the readers of agricultural lit
erature, writing for the Prairie Farmer
says very many of such cow keepers re-
gard the COW as they might their dog or
cat-simply an animal requiring food,
drink aud possibly shelter, nothing more,
OF course the COW requires all these, but
if the owners were to reflect a httle they
might easily come to the conclusion that
in the manner of offering these things,
and in their quality is gagged the cows
income 10 the family. True, the owner
of such cow may have little time to
spare that he could devote to giving her
his attention. He may be person
forced TO labor for his daily bread, and
hence have to be up and off before day
light III the morning, so the COW has TO
wait patiently for any attention she is to
receive. The wife looks after her,
eventually, but it may be she has to
stand around and rmoo' a long time
before she is let out to Craze for her
morning meal. AS rule her habits are
very irregular, aud just as such is the
case are her profits to her owner cut
down.
Mr.. Newell, by way of offering q few
hints TO such COW owners, says in the
first place is wanted a good cow-you
want as good a COW in the way of breed
as does your farmer neighbor. True,
YOU may not have a need to advertise on
pedigree, nevertheless you want a good
COW. II you can keep up but one cow
and need no more (your family being
smAlD il would probably be best for you
TO get Jersey.
A good COW is capable of yielding q
large flow of milk-just what your off,
spring need to blossom roses on their
cheeks and make their limbs plump and
hard.
Yes, a family COW is a great institution
nay, a blessing, when rightly man. |
aged. First in the managing part |
comes feed, self-preservation being the |
first law of nature. 1t is almost unnec- |
essary TO say "feed well, - because that |
has been the war cry so long that II rings |
lu the ears Of the most obtuse dairymGn.
Feed economically; that Is, give your
COW heroic quantity of such food as
will generate the most milk. Use good,
foods, and fight shy of
most of the so-called new discoveries in
The way Of cow rations. Feed on nothing
ave what you know TO be all right, and
10 1t with a liberal hand.
The laborer who owns only one cow,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21

Herewith I send you an article entitled His
tory of Agriculture in the Southern States,
You may consider it rather long to appear in
single issue, but it is so divided off that you
may, II you ike, let it appear, say in two-col-
umn installments until the whole has been pub
ished. / consider it new theme for a news
paper, and fatter myself that the readers OF
your agricultural department will be pleased
with it, particularly the tables OF statistics IT,
however, it should so happen that you could
not publish IL please return the manuscript.
Denison, Tex. $40
After thanking you for the interest in
our efforts made manifest by the large
paper you have prepared for our use,
please allow us to say with much regret
that its great length throws it entirely
outside of our plans. 1t will afford us
much pleasure to hear from our friends,
and to publish every good thing they
may be pleased TO send us, but those
good things must invariably be short.
We regard variety as the spice of life,
and IN order that variety may prevail
with each weekly appearance of our ag-
ricultural department we must exercise
brevity. People ara not willing to read
long agricultural articles now-a-days,
and if they were it is not our disposition
to ask it of them. So don't send us
long articles-cut it short in every CASE
Then, again, "history'' would not
take well in the agricultural department
of a newspaper, especially If long drawn
out. The book writers have attended to
all that, and we can't get the consent of
our mind to interfere with the books.
The manuscript sent is held subject to
your order, accompanied by stamps to
pay return postage.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
Ticks and Texas Fever,

Enclosed please find bottle containing ticks
or spiders-we are at a loss to give them a name
Whatever they are they were taken out of the
ear of a COW which exhibited every symptom of
Texas fever, but which speedily recovered after
the insects had been removed. We wish to learn
what the insects and whether or not they
have anything to do with causing Texas cattle
fever. We would also ask what, II anything,
can be put into the ear of the COW that will Kill
the insects without injuring the animal? We
have talked the matter over among ourselves,
and knowing that The GAZETTE has at ali times
championed our stock interests, we have con-
cluded to place the matter in your hands. Please
publish results of your investigations in Weekly
GAZETTE, as there are hosts OF persons inter
ested in the same matter. ]. @. HARMA,
President Nolan and Fisher Livestock ASS ocia-
ton, Sweetwater, Tex.
The insects sent represent the ordinary
cattle tick common in about every sec
ton of the American continent. For q long
time has prevailed to a greater or lesser
extent, in this state the notion that it
might in some way be associated with
Texas cattle fever, but the most authen-
tic scientific Investigations have led to
the decision that it has nothing what
ever to do with the malady. OF course
such case as mentioned by Mr.. Harma
would look rather suspicious, but then,
all cattle affected by Texas fever do not
die; and furthermore, the symptoms,
though tallylng closely with those of the
fever. might not have pointed to O genu-
inc case. So early as 1868 specimens of
this same tick wero sent to Professor C.
V. Riley, now United States entomolo-
gist, for his Identification, and for his
opinion as TO whether or not 1t caused
Texas cattle fever. In his reply, pub
lished In the American Entomologist for
September, of that year, he stated that
the ticks could not possibly have any
thing to do with the fever.
The latest Investigations have shaped a
theory TO the effect that Texas fever is
due to microbe working in the blood
and tissues of the animal, and the thing
seems to be shaping towards the eopoiu-
sion that bad water taken by the cattle ia
the primary cause of infection. or course
the disease readily communicates from
one animal to another, but the belief
that it starts from bad water in the first
instance is rapidly gaining ground. Bad
water is supposed to be the natural home
Of these microbes, yet, when taken into
the animal economy, they speedily adapt
themselves to the peculiar conditions
found there.
The ticks are bad enough, OF them
selves, but simple means of removing
them from the ears without injuring. the
animal lies within the easy reach of all.
There is powder, harmless to man and
all the brute creation, but death 10 in
scots, which may be had at the drug
stores under the name of Persian insect
powders, or buhasch. There 10 also for
sale, usually, a small instrument of the
bellows kind called an atomizer. 1t is. |
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
Teosin,ta Will Not Do

Oflate some of the North Texas papers
have been highly recommending teosinite
(Rena luxurium) as forage plant for
this section of the state. Mr.. George
H. Hogan of Ennis, Tex, a man who
always knows what he is talking about,
tells the Stockman and Farmer that it
will not do at all. He says no forage
plant can be safely recommended for a
region where it will not SOW itself. This
kind of a job teosinite will not do above
80 deg. north latitude. 1t is very suscep-
TILE to even n slight frost. Why sholld
men throw away the chance to raise
peas, sorghum, milo maize, alfalfa field
corn, or dozen other old and well tried
forage plants, in order to experiment
with some humbug with high sounding
title? This thing of running after
strange gods is very expensive to the
runner, sometimes. 1t Is well enough
to experiment with new things where
there is a reasonable chance for success,
but where there is not, as Mr.. Hogan
has clearly set forth TO be the fact IN
this case, such experimentation would
be simply fragrant folly.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
What is Cream?

Professor J. W. Robertson, dairy COM
missioner at Ottawa, Canada, under
takes to answer this question by stating
that cream itself is only that part of the
milk into which the globules OF fat have
been gathered in large numbers. Cream
has no regular or constant per cent. OF
fat; the range is from per cent. to 10
per cent. In 100 pounds of cream there
may be only eight pounds of butter, or
there may be seventy-f1ve pounds, ac-
cording TO its quality of richness. The
globules of fat have no skin, or organic
covering, distinct in constitution from
their own substance. Like drops of
quicksilver that have separated from
each other, they have no pellicle. But
sometimes the serum Of the milk be-
comes SO viscous that q quantity of it
will adhere to the surface of the globules,
and like coating OF gum, will prevent
their movement upwards, when the milk
is set, or their movement inward, when
the milk is treated in a centrifugal
machine. Cream is simply the fat of the
milk, no matter how IL may appear or
how IL may act in our treatment OF It.
Professor Robertson goes on to state
that IL quart of warm water be stirred
into every pailful of milk when 1t reaches
the dairy room, the separat ng of the
cream will be facilitated. The water
may be of a temperature anywhere be-
tween $50 degrees and $50 degrees Fab
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
!, TANSY PILLS,
ESTRAY NOTICES.


ESTRAYED-Beforem me, B. A. Mathers, j. p,
u precinct No. 2, Tarrant county, ON the 9Th
day of June, $780, one brown horse, about six
teen years old, about 14ls hands high, one white
foot, branded Y on Left shoulder and II on
right shoulder. Appraised at $40. Filed June
County Clerk, Tarrant County. Tex.
ESTRAYED before me, A. G, McCIung, J.
IL P, Precinct No. l, Tarrant county on the
18th day of April. 1890: One black mare. IA.
hands high. or 10 years old, branded L on
right shoulder and A on right hip; one black
mare or years old, Il hands high one sorreI
mare, 1871 hands high years old; one roam
on left shoulder; one bay mare, 1871 hands high,
years old: ell branded j. r. on left shoulder.
One sorrel horse, 1871 hands high, years old,
branded S on left hip. Appraised at $50.
Filed April 49, 1890. JOHN P. KING.
EsTRAYED before me, B. A. Mathers, j. P.
IL precinct No. Tarrant county, on the 18th
day OF May, 1880, one blue mare about lpa
hands high. branded on right shoulder, white
spot on left side, about Is years DID, white face,
saddle marks on back; appraised at So Filed
May %, 1890. JOHN P. KING,
ESTRAYED-Beforem me, ]. Il. Alexander, J.
IL p, Precinct No. s. Tarr.nt county, on the
9th day OF July, 1890, one gray mare about nine
years old, fourteen and one-half hands high.
No brand visible. Filed July 8, 1890.
JOHN p. KING,
County Clerk, Tarrant County, Tex.
ESTRAYED before me, B. A. Mathers, j. p,
u precinct No. 2, Tsrrant county, on the 18th
day of May, 1880, one brown or dark bay horse
hind feet, one white forefoot; branded on left
shoulder. Appraised at $50. Filed May 30, 1880.
JOHN P. KING,
County Clerk Tafrant County, Tex.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
a Plant for Name.

Please give me the botanical name OF the en-
closed flower or plant. The leaves are aromatic
TO some extent. 1t appears to be peculiar to
Texas as I have never seen it elsewhere. II
makes me think OF the lemon yerbena. b. E.
Waco, Tex.
It's botanical name Is Lippia cunefolia /;
we know of no popular name for it..
Botanically it is closely related to the
verbena, and if this particular species is
to be met with in any other state than
Texas, it has not yet been reported. 1t
was first noticed on the Wichita by DR..
TORY. Chemists have not yet looked
after its medicinal properties, SO far as
we know.