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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-03-01
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You know him well you've seen him on.
The man who holds his head ainft
And keeps bis eyclid winling;
He meets with little SYM a'hy
This man who wauld ihinkcr be
This Ounce who IN " he's thinking
He 10 his friends has naught To- say
The while ne strols along Broadway,
From them he's always shrinking;
He knows them, yet he sees them not,
Right past them he will hriskly trot.
This wretch who thinks he's thinIS!na
Each morning for an hour he'll stand
With plate glass mirror In his hand
indnlging In much prinkiug.
For, though hts friends he fails to see
Upon himself he'll gaze with giee.
This ass who thinks he's thinking.
Sometimes he'll at the corner wait
A. II deSisilng nations fate,
outlandish ideas linking
Together, all devoid of sense,
For common mortals too intense,
This fool who thinks he's thinkiaS
The while he in the street car sits,
His bullying prows he tightly knits,
Aud Keeps his orhs a-blinkins;
His stupid glances upward aim
He holds himself child OF Fame,
This dolt who thinks he's thinkiss
I've watched him sitting ut his lunch:
And, while his sandwich he doth MUNICH
His glass Of cider drinking,
He star-s around with vacant gaze,
As II recalling distant days,
This fraud who thinks he's thinking.
But, II he e'er falls overheard
And straight rope 10 him is lowered,
To rescue him from sinking.
You'll sse him seize II every time,
And to the deck he'll quickly climb,
For now he's really thinking
Addison y. Andrews IN Journalist
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-03-01
VOL. III.
Al rnE DENTISTS.

MY bosom was the universe
My soul the suuging sea,
Whose roaring pillows OF content
i.eapcd heavcnward with giee.
And Tar above their fcathery foam.
where stars with planets cope
To brighten their celestial dome,
Cleaned thousand orbs OF hope
My heart sweiied till Il nlled the space
Between the earth and sky
Stih one brief prayer could find no plAt
Within It's walls To lie;
And so On through the ethereal CLINE
Ny anthem prayers did Zee,
ReSounsiing tween the walls Of time
And OF eternity.
Then heaven was mine and mine the world
And mine the stars and sun:
And on through endless space were hurled
MY planets. one by one
The tempest shook his ruffi..d mana
Aud charged down ut my feet;
Grim death arranged his funeral train
Wound In his funeral sheet.
All powers above and all below,
Save mine, then ceased 10 be.
And aa cleft with but one blow
The earth from sea 10 sea-
The waters, from amazement could
Not pass the smallest ledge.
And petrtiicd the pillows stood
Upon the oceans edge.
The lightning was harmless toy,
Too weak Ia sinRe a hair:
Aud all the thunders could destroy
No strain of music there
My strength. alas how quickly was
II won and lost forsooth
The laughing gas gave out Just rs
The dentist pulled my tooth.
Minneapolis Journal
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-03-01

Il am afraid. said Algernon, in de
SpairiRg tone. that yon are disposed 10
make light of my declarations Of affec.
ion =
Why Mr.. he Jones, how could you
nave guessed ~"
"Guessed what?r
THAT ! have Your last le tier TO broth.
ef Harry 70 light a cigar With. Mer.
chant traveller
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09

A TTENTION called to THE TRANSIT AND
n BUILDING FUND SOCIETY of Bishop
William TaylOr's Self-suppOrting Mission. Send
contributions and communications to RICHARD
GRANT. Treasurer. Isl Hudson street New York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09
Making Farming Pay.

Is there any way to increase the
wealth OF country, or section of coun-
try, except by increasing the effective
industry of its people? Is not all that
we call wealth the result of properly
directed labor? If we are agreed to
say yes to this question, then is not the
next question that would naturally be
asked in this connection, " Is the in
dustry of our farmers exercised in the
most effective way?" If we should
put this question to almost any farmer
there is little doubt that he would an-
swer it in the negative, and could name
a large number, if not the majority of
his neighbors, who are not even doing
as well as they know in their farming.
Pursuring the investigation, with the
inquisitiveness of a census taker, we
might then ask if all or many of the
farmers are wasting, or otherwise I'M
wisely losing, any part of the produce
of their land, or of the money received
from its sale. OF a certain part of
them it would have to be said that they
unquestionably do those very things in
many instances.
There is good deal of agitation now
going on, with the view of lettering
the condition of farmers by means of
legislation. We are in favor of some
of the measures proposed for that end
very strongly so, as our readers know.
Yet we are not at all sanguine that such
legislation can be had. The effort to
pass the oleo law in Massachusetts, has
twice failed. We can see a great deal
of hope in coercive law to make New
England railroads more intelligently
liberal in their freight rates and facili-
ties to New England farmers. We
think these things should be pushed,
but we do not build largely upon our
hope that they will be. Meantime, can
not farmers themselves take hold of the
situation and make it perceptibly better
by self-help-not RENTING their efforts
in other directions? We think they
can. In the first place they can stop
some wastes, especially the enormous
waste of fertilizing material about our
barns. They can improve their stock,
in many cases merely by better care,
and can get more money for what they
! produce by giving more care to its pro-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09
Raising Calves on Skim.MiIk.

A very successful feeder in Canada
uses the following method in raising
calves on skim milk: The calves are
fed by hand all the new milk they will
take three times day until about a
week old. Then skim-milk is added,
only little at first, but the quantity of
skim-milk is so increased and that of
the new milk so reduced that in two
weeks from the commencement of this
change skim-milK only will be fed. The
skim-milk is fed only when it is sweet,
as when sour it produces scours and in
jures digestion in other ways. The
skim-milk is fed at the temperature of
milk just taken from the COW. In heat
ing it portion of the milk is put on
the stove in pan or pail and heated
gradually till quite warm. 1t is then
poured into the portions respectively
set apart for each calf. The calves get
the milk three times day for, say
month from the beginning of the
change to skim-milk, but a less guam.
tity is given at noon, and if fed regu-
larry they may get all the skim-milk
they will take without injury to them.
When the change is being made from
new milk to skim-milk, fax.seed is
added to the milk. 1t is prepared as
follows: For two calves take half
teacupful of flax at night and pour on
two quarts of boiling water, allowing it
to steep till morning: it is then warmed
and added to the milk. The quantity of
the flax may be gradually but slowly
increased until lhree-fourths of tea
cupful of tlaX-seed, stepped in pro-
portionate increase of hot water, is
given to each animal. The flax for the
night meal is put to steep in the same
way in the morning. Milk is fed until
the calves are seven or eight months
old. They should have access to all the
clean water they will drink"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09
New York State Experiment Station.

We are indebted to Director Collier
for copy of the Eighth Annual Re-
port QSSO of this station, an octave
volume of about 400 pages. The
weather last year was very uufavor-
able for experimentation, and the re-
ports of this and other stations strongly
indicate that plot experiments can
not be relied upon to give consist
ent or conclusive information, even
with favorable season. Throwing
out the apparently unnecessary inroads
of fowls, the attacks of crows and black
birds, and the damage to plot crops by
the washing of heavy rains, the lack of
uniformity in the character and condi-
ton of the soil is alone sufficient to
vitiate even the most careful expert
ments. A practically uniform plot for
comparative experiments might be OBJ
tanned, with sufficient expense and the
requisite time; but this seems never
yet to have been attempted by any sta
ton. The experiments in the feeding
and management of farm animals were
carefully conducted, and the report in
this and other lines is capable of yield
ing considerable instruction to a care
full reader. The genealogical depart
= r.
it may be made of much use. The
horticultural tests of seeds and crops
seem carefully made, and for that farm
are useful; but how far they would be
a safe guide the state over it would not
do to decide. This, like other stations,
is in fact just beginning to learn what
it can not and what it can successfully
attempt, and the proper direction of
such as it does attempt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09
Self-Help.

The best things to improve farmers
condition are the things he can do for
himself. The worst and most vexatious
things he can seek are the things he
must wait for the government to do.
The farmers are not united enough
not earnest enough, not skilled enough
in politics, to bring the things to pass
which they would like to have. They
may, by sufficient and prolonged agita-
ton, get laws enacted; but if these laws
are such as moneyed interests dislike,
the farmers will find, in the majority
of cases, that they were so drawn or
amended as to amount to nothing prac-
tically.
But nobody can hinder a farmer
from saving all his manure, liquid and
solid. Nobody can hinder him from
tilling his land in the best manner, nor
from planting good seed, or buying
good fertilizers at the lowest cash price.
Nobody can prevent him from raising
good stock, feeding them in the best
and most economical way, caring for
them, or turning their products, or the
products of his fields, to the best pur-
pose. In short, nobody can hinder him
from being good farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09

facturers, miners or merchants, must
be hard to explain. 1t would be "pa-
ternal government " with vengeance.
After having had half the arabic land
of the country given to them gratis, if
these western farmers can not get a
living and pay their debts they had
better stop booming "the agricultural
resources of the great West" New
England farming is not rapidly en-
riching occupation, but it is better than
that.
WE don't believe the American
farmer can be gulled in this way. The
political whoopers will realize the fact
shortly, and all at once " something will
drop" And what do you suppose it
will be? 1t will be the farmers politi-
cal boom. The organizers and orators
will be off to fresh fields and pastures
new, denouncing by the way the" ig-
norant farmer" who did not come out
TO vote them into Off ce.
WE farmers might just as well admit
that it is yet difficult to know just what
is the matter. We need not be ashamed
of the fact, for the I" educated classes "
are no better off, if we can judge from
the fact that we find them on all sides
of the mooted questions. But one
thing almost any farmer ought to be
able to realize-that it needs better
education to farm worn land than it
does to farm new land. God furnished
our impoverished forefathers with a
virgin soil, rich in accumulated plant
food. We have seen the cream of this
skinned off, east and west, and the
crop averages have gone down, often
below the line of profit. If there is a
way to bring them up again we should
at least provide a chance for our chill
dren to learn that way. The only
means to that end is the introduction of
demonstrating into our free schools
everywhere. And here is safe cause
for farmers to support and one in which
they can certainly win if they will.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09
Improvement of Cattle.

"There is a great chance still for
the improvement of cattle, if breeders
will not confine their efforts to the
herd books" said an experienced stock
farmer the other day in our hearing.
" Is it possible that the herd books are
a hindrance to good breeding?' was
the query of the young man to whom
the remark was made. Certainly, we
say, they need not be. But registered
cattle do not, unfortunately, breed
even, and the error has been with
breeders of the registered stock-and it
holds with nearly or quite all of them
that the registered animals are all
raised and kept or sold as breeders in
stead of being severely culled, as they
should be. The registry is all right;
the trouble is with its application.
Breeders have been relying too much
on pedigree alone, when what was
wanted was first-class animal of its
kind to 60 with it. Selection with
pedigree will do great deal more in
improving stock than pedigree can do
alone.-Mdine Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09
farn ano 6aroen.

Address all inquiries or communications in relation
TO agriculture to DIR. 4. II. HosKINs, Newport, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09

duction. Some wastes may be cut off
in narcotics and stimulants which cost a
good deal, do no good, and often do
harm. We do not believe in cutting
down any innocent domestic indul-
gences-books, newspapers, friendly
visiting, or attendance at fairs, grange
meetings, lectures or whatever gives
recreation to the body or enlargement
to the mind.
Perhaps hard times are sent to us to
make us think of all these things.
They ought not to discourage us, for
our forefathers certainly had at times
far more bardships than now fall to the
general lot. Yet they pulled through,
and great, powerful and wealthy ma
ton has been built up. The respon-
sibility rests upon US, as in their time it
rested upon them, to push things, and
" out of this nettle, danger, to pluck the
flower, safety" We know that farm
ing is paying some amongst us-and
not always those who have had the best
chance. Let us look ourselves over
without Partially, realize our errors
and mistakes, and make an earnest
struggle to do the best possible in the
discharge of every duty, as well as to
demand and enforce every one of our
rights as citizens and farmers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09

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, 1890-07-09

JUST now the farmers are being
worked" by the silver kings, who
tell us that free coinage of low priced
silver is going to help us. These mon
archs have, no doubt, much affection
for us, but we must think that as yet
they have not so grown in grace as to
love us so much as they do themselves.
They want to fix it so that they can
have seventy-flve cents worth of their
silver made gratis into legal tender dol
lars with which to pay miners and
other working-men for their labor and
farmers for their crops. As bride to
indebted farmers, they tell them that
these cheap dollars will so initiate the
currency that the price of all farm
products will advance, and thus the
mortgaged farmers may pay off their
debts. But experience has taught us,
or ought to have taught us, that a
financial spree is much like an alco-
holic one-the reaction harms more
than the action helps.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09

I" A LAW protecting farms from dogs
would add millions of wealth to the
state" says the Connecticut Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09

1.-The South and West the office
seekers are whooping up the farmers to
demand practically free loan from
the government, upon the security of
their crops, deposited in national
warehouses. What right farmers have
to this kind of help, more than manu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-11
DELIBERATIONS OF TIE SENATE.

Wo,hington Dec. lO.-ln the senate today Mr.
Ch,ndler from the Committee on Naval Affairs, re-
portcd "A bill providing that the reduction ol mo
Engineer Corp, OF the Navy under the a't oi Nus"s'
: 1s33 shall be considered a, having ceased on Juno
80. le-0. Placed on calendar
The House amendments to the senate bills Tor puo
lie buiIdnr, al Madison. Ind sioux Clty Iowa. ana
Rock Island ILL.,. concurrcd ill., and the House
amendments 10 all the other public building 1iil' ot
thc senate were nOn-concurred in and committee "t
conference appointed on them all. Me''ie' Spooher,
Morrill, and Vest were appointed '"crce7 vi 'o p''
OF the senate. -,
Mr.. D,ph offered resolution (Which went over tI
IN omorrow) directing tho Committee ON privileges ana
Election, to inquire and report whether The rSh' 70
vo.e for Presidential Elector, Representatives III toni
orcs, and executive aad judicial officers "i s,ate os
H. ,emhe,s of the LEGISLATURE thereof - denied 70
any of the male Inhabitants II any state oeIn. l"euS'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-11
BROrGHr BACK TO TIE SNIP BY ANOTHER WAVE

Baltimore Dee. 10 C-pec.all-rhrilling stories are
told by tie captains Of incoming vessels oi the luY ol
the hurricane which last week swept the Atlantic
Captain Klagc, Of the Bark Amy, which arrived To-
day. SAYS that during terrific storm when began on
November 30 in latitude 81 IL. longitude Il 10 nc
.av several large vc~-cl, apparently in distress, but
was unable T. give any assistance, a his own YES
-ol wa, iu danger ~ undcrinS captain hA-e' ''N ,
that i'm twenty year. experience on the Atlantic ne
never before bchcid such sca,. Richard cam young
sailor vi, caught by one tremendous wave ana swept
aWtv \ few moments later another wave swept
over the ANY, caught the second mate. John Wilson,
and i'm "A moment he was over the baIk' soc' liz
comrades su nut they could DO nothlnG' ior
the bark was caught in another wave and thrown Under
great mas, Of water which threatened To cn,ulf her
A. -he struggled to right herself. u returning wave
struck her and when Il was run from her decA t"c
crow were surprised the form Of their lost mate
III, had been brought back hy the returning wave ana
,hou..h nearly uucon -ciou, had cutchcd at rope.
which hc held While the wave swept by. DurnS TINS
,,t.ru.nt the cargo suddenly shifted. ard the bark
l-tcd danscrou~ly. Fortunately the storm >ub>ided
af'.rward. III" vessel toud nave 1loou uc 9''4'
only Il lulc while l"n-cr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-11
COSTLY FuENITURE DAMAGED BY FIRE

Two alarms rung for fire IN the TOP story ol
Neuran & Co.'S furniture factory, at no -O3 fthA
A. . H. M Yesterday. electric light wire IN thc ce
,ltor well probably started tine flames IN th' N'r,'"
room a, Battalion CHIEF Campbell saw the wire 'chnh'
ont sharks when he led thc nrcmen up 10 the TOP H'o
Hole, were the roof, and the fire was 'Ntngni'h
bfr. it had extended beyond the story in which II start o.
N.uuan 4 Co. manufacture expensive furniture, ana Oh
the lower roors Of building were the Iarlor set'
which had been manufactured expressly for eNCongr'S
man Hand OF Philadelphia Louis Gnter OF HlchI"ohd
Va, and other wealthy nen. The Insurance pstro
covered up much OF the furniture, but s"cAc ana "ac
d,uac.d some Of the costly upholstered sets.
member of the firm that the loss by smoke, mr.
and water might reach $4,000. Fremen thought tha
the d,mag, could not exceed $4,000. Ine ropEV Is
Insured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-11
SHIPS TO san ~ THE AIR.

\ TEliLIN NrEW WEEKS,

\ TRIAL. ~ FEW WEEKS,
Chicago. Dec. 10 (spcralt-ln a few weeks there
viii be witnessed the Triumph 81 Of tn" greatest
inventions of modern timo,. or else some l'N'I H'''
raptal..t, VIII have to coufr-, thrm-elNc, IN" V'uu'
of an uu-uccc,- -fn inventor. Vt the Grand racine
Hotel today a stockholders meeting al the holIt
carmel Ncronautic Navigation Company, ot CH'aS"
wa. hch Mr. Prnuiuetou tho inventor. announcer
that within three week. We viii sail into Chicago IN
Ma ,-, ~ ,ur air,hips" Today's meeting wJs
yrtu,I,v fine first held II the stockhodor, Of h, cor
por-,t,.,p which II J., said. IN, already a pald mp
Genital Of 1o.OO1Ooo II j., opposed to invest TINS
mn IN the manufacture of hip, for travelling IN the
,.r Their, were present at 10 day m"ctinS either
, ,,r.ou or bv proAv the following stockholders :;
= rcnpirctou ~ Mount Carmel the president .
+ - I I-ud.rwond i. T.. G. Pu.h, and Mr. SINKS "i
r,l,p,r,. Ohio. Inca, Van Allen, oi New OH :
r.,r, rroyfort ana o. llawhcns, Of birmingham
rI,,. ". C. Dewey ard Frank smith, Of "Iahd
r,nid. Nich.: Il. II. Iucr. oi Mount Carmel e. /.
rn',,,,.rr,nd and James y PGSh, Of Chicago, ana
pthc,-.
At today', meeting the prospects OF the enterprise
y.c,. II -cu..,, i'm detail Nj. Pennington cNphncd
t,, t,o fr-t of the ship, with which II Is proposed
, ,,,,,t. fine air AZ a rat of speed exceeding tiat
nf oce,n steamer, now nearing 'onpcu"H' "u
that , r,,. for trial trip over the country Had been
,,..,,ioted This trial would occur IN about thice
w-cl- The ship would start from ihr plh' ~ tj ~
f,r,rc Al Mount Carmel. and travel o. -, ip'7
~, m ,,,.r. - would sail t. Chicago. ana rom tnrrc
tn New Yorl In addition I! MI PenhlIenn hl' i,S m
a. oci,t. there would be haf dozen newspaper 'tH
,bo;,:d and the inventor odiN hl-p nN hi any an the
,tnclholdcr, who desired 10 accompany III" VII ''o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-11
LAWLESNNESS ~ GEORGIA..

Aucnsta Ga.. Dee. 1O.-lcstcrday travellers along
thc Federal Road at the point where II passes ""' "i
Lumpkln County into Dawson County ionh' '"' "',''
badv ,f a white man hanging over IN" middle "l '"'
I fran . uroicctinr limb on a tree. ON the b~i
,,s fastened card reading: " Death 10 intorner>'
The IDENTITY Of the victim coud not Doe established
neither j, there any clew To the perpetrators "t th
deed The section has been in terror for some lhe "i
Illicit d ,rIll r, and the victim may either nave och
one. Of their own number VINO Wa ABOUT 1" ''" III
,ormcr or some Government detective.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-11

Cincinnati. Dee. 1o.-The superintendent of tle
Zn,loccl Al Garden, succeeded thi, cvcuiu, in killing
I'M. vicous elephant Chef. who received without
evident discontinue eleven bullets fired into ms
forehead last night. At the afternoon effort. hanh
attack was decided upon. The first ball was sent IN
the direction of h- heart II apparently produced no
effect The sccond was aimed At m, head behind an"
near thc ear This was cncciua and in few Seconds
fla. bi, fore gncr was dead. but until eleven morr
,ote ,rcrc fired making the thirteenth to-day. which,
with eleven last night, makes twenty fonr shots I'D
'u ,hi,f had been bound with chain, Or four years
rrrcptIv hi- actions became violent tlAt ms
innr thought he wa, insane and decided TO Kill HIM.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-11
THE wr>rrycHorSE couPlyYS AFFAIRS.

Put,burr Dee. lO.-Thc committee Of local bankers
recent, appointed uve-tat" the financial standing
~ the Westinghouse Electric Company finished It's
Labor, today. II, report l. urdcr-tof to be favor
able. The committee determined that In" electric
company stock, are worth over $50 per share and
decided 10 advance The r5ooo" recently requested o>
Vr Wc-tiuchoI-c on condition that IL" parties maIns
r ,, have tl, privilcsc Of naming the general man
aver for the company.
The fun Poard Of Managers Of the company AZ as
meeting thi, morning. resolved 10 request the stock
holders [, issue :u.0OO.OOO ~ preferred Stock