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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-01

However fashionable and attractive
the smooth Kersey or Melton Over
coat, the appropriateness OF. the rougher
fabrics for real cold weather is unde-
niable.
We have some glorious listers OF
Lapland Beavers, bodies silk. lined,
skirts worsted lined-one lot satin lined
throughout; also other less expensive
but excellent listers. But not every
man cares to own several top-coats, and
for all uses nothing surpasseS a good
Chinchilla Overcoat.
Our stock includes all varieties OF
rough Overcoats from finest fifty dol
lar Montagnacs down; but the Chin
chillas we sell at SlS to $50 combine
utmost durability with moderate cost.
ROGERS, PEET ~ co.
sFT6bA TES S WsaSSa.
sTORES >31dsL
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
CARROTS FOR STOCK.

4 Massachusetts farmer pro-
nounces the carrot the best root crop
for stock in this country. Its free
dom from disease and its good keep
ing qualities are greatly in its favor
as al important farm crop. 1t is an
excellent root for horses as we'll as
for cattle and sheep. 1t not only
contains much nutriment itself, but
when fed in connection with hay,
grain or fodder-as it always should
be-in small quantities, it aids large
" in the digestion of the drier food,
so that more of it is assimilated and
there is but little loss. In the north
the carrots must be harvested in
good season and be kept from freez-
ing, but in the south they may be
left in the ground quite often through
the entire winter without injury.
But it is in the north they are most
common and valuable as food for
barn stock. Every farmer should at
least raise enough for his own use,
and people in towns who keep ami
mails will find it not only useful but
economical to buy them and use them
in connection with dry forage New
England Farmer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
La w.

On the Importance of studying
natural law, Prof. 1. P. Roberts, in a
lecture in the New York dairy schools,
said
1T is all law in this world. If l
break moral law l may repent; if
it is a civil law which l break-by
stealing sheep or other property
if 1 have plenty of money and sharp
lawyer, will stand a pretty good
chance of keeping out Of state prison;
but if l break or violate a law of
agriculture, no power in earth or
heaven will shield or help me. There
is no use in going into the stable
and praying to the Lord to cause the
old COW to give more or better milk.
1t won't do, because He never will do
it. There is proper place in which
to pray, and there are some things
we may pray for, but more and bet
ter milk from a starved scrub COW,
isn't one of them. Faith without
works won't materialize. The Lord
once said: I give you dominion
but we have lost much of it since
then. Let US regain it all by study
ing law"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10

market at Chicago the Drovers' Jour
nal says: Extra choice horses will
continue to sell fairly we'll at any
time, while common scrub horses
will continue to sell at ruinouslv low
prices from this time forward until
next Spring"
A writer in the Americal Sheep
Breeder protests against the fash
ionable and, as he believes, cruel
practice of cutting off the tails of
sheep. He claims that "a sheep with
a tail will be more vigorous and
thrifty and will not succumb to any
malady so readily as one that is
docked."
Don't let the hens run all over the
garden especially if the garden be-
longs to your neighbor. In your
own garden it is a matter of how
much loss you will suffer if the hens
find a refuge therein. In your neigh
may involve a good deal more than
financial loss. 1t may, and very
likely it will, lead to a quarrel and
make great deal of trouble in which
both families will be involved, and
which will be continued for years, if
not for life.
Wheat fed whole to laying fowls,
and wheat screenings or cracked
wheat fed to young chicks, have al
ways produced the most desirable
result, thought must be remembered
that they must not be fed in the same
quantities as corn, or preparations
NJ corn The ten6epCv Of wheat
to produce a healthy growth, feed
one muscular tissues and aid 1nateri-
ally in causing the hens to lay often,
and rich eggs American Poultry
Yard.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
the heads of the administrators

Breeder.
One Cause of Lameness.
A curious mistake, common among
blacksmiths, was pointed out to me
recently by a practicing veterinary
surgeon to whom 1 took horse
that had become lame gradually,
with considerable heat in the feet.
He drew attention to the fact that
most farriers, being right-handed,
unintentionally lower the left side of
the foot more than the right side.
AS a result the pastern does not set
quite evenly on the coffin bone, or
the bone suspended inside the wall
of the hoof, and in time the concus-
sion of the foot on the street pro-
duces soreness in the joint which
could not exist if the foot were level.
A trif1e out of joint, so to speak, the
foot at ght cannot repair the injury
received or the fatigue Of the day; it
gradually gets feverish and then
tender, and the horse is suddenly
seen to limp. I have noticed this in
hundreds of cases. The lameness
disappears in a few days if the
cause be removed by leveling up the
foot carefully. A person will expert
ence the same difficulty in his ankle
if he wear for few days a boot that
is run over at the heel. The soreness
will not be so pronounced for two
reasons: the boot is not worn nor
stood upon nights. and leather
furnishes more of a cushion than
iron when brought in contact with
the pavement.
Neither man nor horse is perma-
nently injured unless the faulty con-
ditions continue. How such an
error, almost unnoticeable, should
be so frequently committed is easily
understood when it is seen how much
faster the knife removes the horn
while being drawn than pushed.
The sheer lifts the foot and draws
tom Of what is then the right side,
but which is really the left of the
hoof, as his back is toward the
horses head. To pare thelef (right)
side of the hoof is more difficult or
unhandy and it is, as consequence,
left thicker. The horses forefeet are
so constructed that if they must
turn over, to turn out is less hurtful
than to turn in; hence, the first in
dication of lameness from this cause
is usually noticeable in the right
foot, the left side of that foot being
the lower, thus inclining it to roll in.
The lesson is, hire competent farriers
and be sure to keep the horses feet
level from side to side as we'll as
front and rear American Agricul
turiSt
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
FARMERS AND POLITICS.

An exchange says: I'VE have
always been in favor of putting
farmers who are fit for it into public
positions of honor and trust; and in
a farmer state like Vermont, we
ought to have a farmer governor a
large share of the time, if farmers
fit for the place can be had"
That's a grand good sentiment, but
''1et facts be submitted to a candid
world" Physically, intellectually
and spiritually, the farmer is no bet
ter, no worse than the rest of
humanity, except to talk about for
political purposes. In one state not
long since the farmers party elected
a United States senator, in another
state, a governor, in now and then a
district congressman.
Well what of it
Legislation is one thing; honoring
designing politicians another. Each
of these newly chosen lights, were,
of course, practical farmers; indeed,
the nights of their respective cleo
tons, they did with their own little
hands and little pals, feed the calves
and swine and milk. Not much. That
they were put into office by farmers
there is no question, which shows
the strength of that class, in ballot,
when united. 1t also proves that
the farmer is making use of his
thinking gear, is beginning to take
notice of things. That is not only
right, it is positive duty.
What are the farmers, wrongs?
Do you OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
etc control the grain elevators or
the INSCRIPTIONS methods of specu-
lators? When farmers combine to
handle their produce, without en-
riching so many 'niddlemen," then
some of their grievances will have
disappeared. Because mans voca-
ton is this, or that, is no argument
for or against his being chosen to
positions of honor or trust. BY all
means, should the farmer take an
interest in politics, but the benefit Of
their suffrage should be given to
that aspirant who has the brains
and is honest, whether he be farmer,
blacksmith, doctor, minister or mer-
chant or even if he is nothing but
lawyer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
WINTER CALVES.

Winter raised calves make better
milk COWS because they take more
readily to all kinds of food, and are
gentler because they receive more
personal attention from the feeder
than it is necessary to give to sum-
mer calves. In spring they are able
to subsist entirely on grass. When
weaned in the fall they are much
harder to winter. They should come
from September to December for a
winter dairy From paper read
by Mrs. Laura D. Morley before the
Indiana Jersey Breeders Associa-
ton
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
KEEP THE GIRLS ON THE FARM.

Orators have shouted themselves
hoarse, and volumes have been
written, on the subject, keep the
boys on the farm" Even poets have
descended. UNFINISHED their souls,
and let fly some touching sentiments
in the same channel. But all down
through these years there has not
been heard, one solitary withered
zip, about keeping the girls on the
farm. No wonder the girls have
left. Such continued public ignoring
is an abundant reason. Recently,
however, writer's have awoke to the
Importance of having a few girls
scattered about in rural communities.
They have become so liberal in fact
as to actually acknowledge, in genu
inc print, that farmers wives and
daughters contribute more than one
half Gust shade more to the sue
cess of farmers business. 1t is also
admitted that in the life of a country
girl there is less variety, more drudg
cry, than for a country boy.
The daily routine of dishes, brooms,
mops, beds, etc. resembles monotony.
To keep the girls on the farm there
fore diversity is one Of the questions
to be considered, Julia Allyn, writes
the American Agriculturist
Flowers are always in demand.
If some of the common wild flowers,
generally to a great degree unknown
in cities, were found at a fashionable
florists, high prices would be paid
for them. The fields and woods
abound in them, and if neatly ar
ranged with ferns, leaves, and vines
they would commnnd a ready sale.
Many other occupations open to
girls might be mentioned, such as
raising canaries and keeping bees
which could be carried on together
With their household duties. The
idea of earning something is usually
the bait which allures the country
maiden to the shops and factories
and the evil influences of the crowded
city life. Cannot more varied in
dustries be held out as inducements
by which "our girls" in their quiet
country homes may become self
supporting and consequently more
contented.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
FOR THE FARM.

TAn communica tions for this department
should be addressed to the Agricultural
Editor Californian, ST. Johnsbury, VII
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
HORSES.
One Cause of Blindness.

1 am also positive that eye-blinds
on the harness tend to injure the
eyes of horses, and as they are
totally useless and unsightly APP
pendages, they should be abandoned
entirely. The open bride has be-
come more common, but it should
be universal Tight, close collars,
which squeeze the eyes of horses in
putting them on, are also very in
furious to the eyes of the animals.
l have known one case of permanent
injury to the eyes of an excellent
horse from this cause. Carriage and
draught horses should be provided
with divided collars, secured either
at the top or bottom, SO that they
are not required to be forced over
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
NOTES.

Should the farmer be educated ?"
In reply, Farm, Stock and Home
asks: Should the farmer wear
clothes, eat food. or live in a house?
We are Disguised with the custom of
treating the farmer as if he were
totally unlike other human beings.
In a recent review of the horse
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
PIANO FOR SALE.

before buying any other. Thousands of Sep
to be just as represented or no sale.
To the Barden Creamery Co.
Having been using one of your creameries
1 can say it does all that is claimed for it. l
could not be induced to get along without
it. AS long I keep dairy I make
more blu tier with less work in caring for the
milk. 1 can churn in from 20 to 80 minutes.
LYMAN STEVENS, Danvile, VT.
To the Barden Automatic Creamery Co.
can say that it works much better than
l expected. 1t makes more butter with less
taken out for 81 90 if could not get another.
1t churns in 80 minutes or less.
H PIERCE.
c. E. Kirk, Agent:
When you and Mr.. Barden here
last fall to sell creamery 1 told you 1
had been thinking for some time about
changing from the large pans to creamery
looked the Barden and told YOU 1
thought it was just what I wanted, and now
after over two months trial know it is. The
workm anship and action are perfect and it
does its own skimmng. There is no lifting
of cans nor gearing to fuss with. think the
difference in the quantity and quality of my
butter Will m ore than pay for it this year to
my wife begins to think is small item.
IRA G. SMITH.
East st. Johnsbury, an. 8.
For catalogue, price list or other informa-
ton address,
The Barden Cream Separator Co.,
Middle Granville, N. W,
Or CHARLES E. KIRK, Agent,
St. Johnsbury, VT.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10

"Castoria is so we'll adapted to children
that recommend it as superior to any pre-
scription known to me-
H. y. ARCHER, NJ. D.
III So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
New Advertisements.
SPECTACLES.

have full stock of Spectacles and Eye
Glasses IN all the styles and best manu-
features at just half regular prices and a
good fit guaranteed. Periscopic Spectacles,
Frnmeless Eye Glasses, Aqua-Crystal Specta-
cles, etc, are the very best made. Will be
sold at the prices others charge for
cheap goods and just Il the price you pay
travelling men. Everything in Optical
Goods at lowest prices. Cali and see how
GEO E. GROW
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10

Castoria cures Colo, Constipation, Sou
Stomach, Diarrhoea, Erucation, kills Worms
gives sleep, and promotes digestion, withou
injurious medication.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
Bargains in Safeties.

1 have a few rare bargains that you want
Lowell Safeties at lowest prices. 1 Columbia
Safety, been used little will be sold cheap.
1 New Mail Safety used a little as good as
new, bargain. 1 Crescent Safety worth $50
for $40. 1 Universal Safety worth SIS for
$50. Both new and good. will be sold at a
discount to close out 1 Boys Safety, new,
for S25. a few Ordinaries or Bicycles at half
price to sell at once. All Cycle Supplies.
GEO. e. GROW.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
ORGANS,
DENTAL OFFICE FOR SALE.

n. B.-Drop me postal card if you wan
to buy piano or an organ. 1 will send yo
catalogues and tell you how to save dollar
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-05-01
4 Fetish Man.

From "Fetishism in Congo Land"
by one of Stanlcy's pioneer officers,
printed in the Century, VIC quote as
follows:
The fetish man under any name is the
authority on all matters connected with
the relations of man to the unseen. He
is the exorciser of spirits, the maker of
charms and the prescriber and regulator
of all ceremonial rites. He can discover
who "ate the heart" of the chief who
died but yesterday, whosit-was who
caused the canoe to upset, and give
three lives to the crocodile and the dark
waters of the Congo, or even who
blighted the palm trees of village and
dried up their sap, causing the supply Of
malafu, or palm wine, to cease, or drove
away the rain from district and with
cred it, fields of nguba (ground nutsl.
All this is within the ken of the Nganga
Nkisi, and he is appealed to on all these
occasions to discover the culprit, by his
insight into the spirit world, and hand
him or her 20 the just chastiscmcnt of an
outraged compcnity. This is the only
substitute for 'eligion that the African
savage possesses; its tencts arc vague and
unformulated, for with every tribe and
every district belief varies and rites and
ceremonies are as diverse as the fancics
Of the fetish men who prescribe them.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-05-01
THE POSTAL SUBSIDY ACT,
Establishing Of Steamship Lines
Between Southern Ports and
South America.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Special. For
some time representatives of commercial
organizations of New Orleans, Galveston
and st. Louis have been conferriug with
Postmastcr-General Wanamaker and 9th.
er postal officers with the view of estab-
iish'ng lines of vessels to ply between
New Orleans and Galveston and South
and Central American ports.
Ex-Governor Yarmouth, representing
New Orleans and Galveston, has con.
Quoted the principal negotiations, and
he took advantage of Wanamaker's trip
South with the President to urge the
has received advices from Wanamaker
showing that the negotiations have
reached what may be regarded as favor
able termination.
Wanamaker in the first place gave as
surances that the administration was
specially anxious to aid the South in de
vcloping commerce with South and Cen
trail America, as the nearness Of Southern
ports to the proposed new field of com
! merce renders them the natural trade
centres for our Southern peighbors. lie
| added that if the companies of steam
crs could be established from Southern
| ports TO Southern aud Central America
on terms to compete with projected
steamship lines from the East, then con-
tracts would be made with the South.
The representatives Of Southern CONNER
cial bodies claim that they can establish
lines with advantage over Eastern lines,
end they are gratitied with the assurances
that the South will be given fair show.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-05-01
A Home For Printers.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Especial. -
Ground was broken here for the national
home for aged and INDECENT printers.
The home is the outcome of donation
of $4,000 by George VIM. Ch,lds and A.
J. Drexel, of Philadelphia to the inter-
national typographical union. Subscrip-
tions from printers of the United States
have increased this fund sufficiently to
warrant the union in erecting building
at cost of $4,000. The land upon
which the home is being built consists
of 80 acres and was donated to the print
ers by A. A. McGooney and L. r. Mar.
tin, of this city. The structure will be
40 by $50 feet, three stories high, with
a 90 foot tower on each end. Red sand
stone quarried in the mountain of this
vicinity will be used in the construction
of the home
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-05-01
TIME TO AWAKEN.
A Wall OF Distress From New Hamp.
shire.
The Green Mountain State Is Visit
ed by "sockless Jerry" simp-
son, Who breaches ALI
ance Doctrines.

=, MANcAEsTER, N. H., Especial. / The
Weehty Budget says: Hon. Jerry Simp.
son, OF Kansas, visited our State last
week. Precious little welcome did he
SSt from the newspapers of the State
Inc message that he bore was not suited
10 tneir tastes. But he set the people to
thinking, and scores of those who heard
nun vent tarin He'd ffSst ssttAwiFcaexe.hhs
seen events that confirmed those people
in their belief The Supreme Court of
New Hampshire, responding to the
queries of the Legislature, has issued the
dictum, almost in so many words. that
the railroads have succeeded in defraud-
ing the State of its interest in the Con
cord railroad. The Legislature of 1882
as was generally understood, contcmplat,
ed no such result Not an advocate of
those bills by which railroad consolida-
tion, stock watering to large amounts.
and n revival of old and dead stock were
permitted, ever dared to suggest that the
people were surrcndcring any rights they
possessed in passing the act of 1889.
But the court has said that they did il.
That right which so sagacious a man as
Austin Corbin was ready to pay $500, 600
for it in 1889 and which he considered
WIN piooV,ooo, lHlS year the court Ill
effect declares has been waived, given
sway, utterly lost. And how? With an
understanding of what was being done9
No! But through subterfuge and chica-
nary. The act or 1889 pretended to Sc
cure the people in their rights, but the
| court does not hold that it did so. On
the contrary, it coolly informs the people,
Iy implication but not set words, that the
reservation of rights in that statute was a
| dcluson and snare, void and of no
effect. The act of the court in that re-
gard has been followed up by another in
the same direction the issuing of an
injunction by Judge Blodgett preventing
the laying of the rails on the old road
from North Weare to Henniker. This
last act of railroad arrogance is he last
straw to break the back of the long sutf-
cring patience of the people of New
Hampshire. 1t is reassertiOn in an ag-
gravated form of the Vanderbilt creed,
"The people be d---d." And if the
people do not resent it they deserve just
that fate and nothing better.
The Knights of Labor were organized
in this State for one purpose, the secur-
ing of n ten-hour law. When that was
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-05-01

zs1r nc recoru 81 the Legislature Of 1891
answer. Its first business almost was to
rass, absolutely without amendment,
bills injecting millions of dollars of new
stock into two railroad corporations and
Presenting TO their fortunate stockholders
gifts of millions of dollars which must
eventually come out of the peoples pock-
cts. 1t has followed it up by voting
down in the Senate the only measure in
The interest of the poor man that the
House could be induced to pass, viz: the
bill llallowing the poor mans five dollars
TO buy an equal proportion of transporta-
tion over its lines with the rich mans
twenty dollars. The same Senate is re-
lied upon to thwart the will of the people
IN the matter Of the construction of the
WcarelIenniker road as authorized by the
House of Representatives. The cxactons
and eXtortions of the railroads of Kansas
were at the bottom of the Farmers Ali
ance movement in that State. Have the
farmers and citizens of New Hampshire
less manhood than they?
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-05-01
The Atlanta Constitution remarks:

The Atlanta Constitution remarks:
First-class typewriter copy is hailed
with pleasure in newspapers and mags-
zine offices, but very little of it is first
class. It is positive relief to get q
manuscript legibly written on white pa.
per in good black ink, with pen that
makes broad stroke. The trouble with
many writer's is that they use a pen with
a fine point, and write hair-line scrawl
that is hard to read. It is possible to
make written copy as plain as print, and
this is whst every writer should do.