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The Republican., 1891-10-09
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

WATCH that failing pasture and sup
plement it with grain.
DRAIN the barn yards. When q barn
is lake of water, it is no place for
cows or man.
CHEAP cows are the highest priced
cows that are ever sold. People are
not giving away good cows.
SELL the butter just as soon as it is
made. This the general rule. Butter
does not improve by keeping, and much
of it is badly injured by keeping.
GENTLENEss with the COWS. cleanli-
ness in the dairy operations and a
thorough familiarity with the modern
processes of dairying lead to success.
BRAN is an excellent element in the
cows ration. If we have the con,
veniences for keeping bran in good
condition, the mills have plenty of it to
sell just at this time.
A MAN cannot do everything equally
well. Some men will learn to milk a
COW well, and if you have such man
be Eer let him sit ON the fence while
you do the milking yourself.
IT is not too early to endeavor to i'm.
press up';1 t!sa mind that if the cows
are turned into the stalk fields this
fall, without the utmost care, the us.
ual number of dead cows will be the
result,
The Republican., 1891-10-09
FEATHER BEDS.


An 0ld-Time LUXURY That is Now Little
But Memory.
A wagon load of feather beds was re-
moved from one of the leading hotels
yesterday, and as the wagon drove away
the proprietor of the hotel exclaimed:
That is the last of the feather beds, as
far as the hotels Of Philadelphia are
concerned. We had to keep some for
the old people, but now the call has en-
tircly ceased, as the new generation
will have none OF them"
Inquiry revealed the fact that the
feather bed is now relic of ANTIQUITY,
and that few of them can be found in
the city. The double-action, patent-twist
wire bed, and the cool, hard hair mat
tress have usurped its place. The eli
mate hcreab bouts, patent heaters and
cheaper beds have practically driven the
feather-stuffcd commodity out of the
market.
The bed of to-day is the hair article.
All sorts of mattresses are on the
market-huslI, spring, cork and fine
wire mattresses have been introduced.
Various compositions have been in
vented. all calculated to take the place
of the feather bed, and after long wears
Of supremacy it has at last given way,
and save among the older people it has
no friends.
One who deals in bedding exclusively,
says that the sale OF feather beds has
been decreasing for score of years.
Although many of them are sold every
day, the number sold when compared
with the other kinds on the market is
very small indeed.
Young people won't have feather
beds. Many of them want hair mat
tresses, hair holsters and even hair pill
lows. In the summer these are GER
tainly preferable to feather bedding
because they are cooler. There is a
division of opinion as to the relative
merits of feathers and hair from a
standpoint of comfort, but hair seems
to have the call
"lt has been said that feathers are
unhealthy. This is a fallacy. They
have not been discarded for sanitary
reasons by any one. 1t is merely mat
ter of preference. The old folks want
feathers; the young people won't have
them. There being more purchasers
of bedding among the latter than the
former the sales are regulated accord
ingly.'
Remarkable as it may seem nearly
all the leading dealers in bedding aver
that they sell quite as many feather
beds during July and August as in be-
cember and January. Foreigners,
nearly all of whom used feather beds
in their native home, purchase them
here when they first start housekeeping,
but after becoming acclimated and
learning our ways they discard them.
Es our young people have done, and
take up the harder and COOLER bed of
the period.-Philadelphia Record.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

shows a common, tight packing box,
with hinged lid and two or more COM
partments for various feeds, salt, etc
1t should be covered with old tin to
keep out mice and have hook to hold
the lid down against animals that
might break loose in the night. The
hook should be attached to the bin
and clasp into a staple in the under
side of the lid. This fastening nc
horse, however cunning. will open. Al
A in. the cut is Il shallow box which
can be slid back and forth on cleats at
the top of two compartments. 1t will
hold bags, cords, etc, or can be used
for n hundred weight of oil meal.
The second illustration viii give one
a far idea of much better arrange
medt, but one that requires more labor,
expense and ingenuity for building
The feed has to ne lifted to the second
story and cmptied into small, tight
chutes holding two to three hundred
weight each, In the fronts of these
are strips of glass exposed one inch
wide to show as the feed lowers when
The Republican., 1891-10-09
FARM AND GARDEN.
FOR STORING FRUIT.

An Excellent House That Can Be Con-
structed at Small Expense.
Such houses may be constructed at
moderate expense, which, with proper
ly selected varieties, will afford fruit
through nearly the whole year. 1t is
not necessary to employ ice to main
tain a low temperature in hot weather,
such houses being adapted to large
establishments and requiring constant
care and much skill in their manage
meEt For the smaller and cheaper
structures the essential requisites are
uon-conducting walls and ventilating
windows, provision being made for the
admission of cooi AR on cool nights, to
maintain temperature slightly above
freezing, and thus preventing decay
during warm seasons. With such a
provision we have found no difficulty
in keeping such apples as the Baldwin
and Newton pippin through winter and
INTO the middle of June, and such win
ter pears as Nelis, Lawrence and
Malines into February and March. A
common practice is to erect frame of
siX-inch studs and cover both sides of
these with boards filling the space be-
tween the boards with sawdust; but a
better way is to nail on the building
oaper studs before the boards are ap-
piled, the studs being placed just fan
enough apart to give a slight lap to the
The Republican., 1891-10-09
LIFTING A MORTGAGE,
Sound Advice for Dairymen Who Are In
Financial Trouble.

Sound Advice for Dairymen Who Are In
Financial Trouble.
Many farmers are heavily in debt
and cannot afford to buy pure bred
stock or a large amount of grain to
feed their cattle. Money is a scarce
article and they are looking for Il way
to get more. Possibly they are in the
dairy business and want to get some
better stock to grade up, but they can
not raise dollar to buy another ami
NAL. Sell some of your poorer cows
for what they will bring and the hay
that would keep them until spring.
Take this money and buy some grain
with it, say equal parts of bran or oats,
cottonSeed or linseed meal. Begin to
feed each COW or 5 pounds of grain a
day with clover hay, corn fodder and
straw. As soon as your cows calve in
crease the ration gradually until each
COW has all the grain that she can make
good use of, say u pounds day. The
extra amount of milk will give you
money to buy some more and will pay
twice what the grain costs. Raise the
heifer calves out of your best cows and
who has been grading up with Jerseys,
GuernseyS, HOlSteins or whatever you
want and procure from him some of his
heifer calves out of his best native
cows. He will probably have all the
high grades that he wants and be glad
to let you have the half bloods. You
can get these for about So apiece when
week old You may also be able to
get bull calf, but take nothing but a
pure bred, no matter if he has not a
gilt edge pedigree he will be better
than high grade. Next year get some
more heifcr calves the same way and
the third year you will have some Of
your own.
Feed your calves 70 to II pounds a
day of whole milk until they are a
week old, when it may be partly
skinned When month old they may
be given all skim milk and about {
quarts day. Warm the milk to blood
heat and give it to them three times a
day. Fix rack so you can put in some
clover hay where the calves can pick
at it and put up box where you can
feed them grain. Do not turn them out
in a bare field or orchard but give them
a little milk as long as you have it and
keep them in small yard with clean
shed or stable where they can get away
from the flies and hot sun if it is in the
summer Handle your calves to make
them gentle and you will have nc
trouble with them when they are COWS.
Keep them growing and feed little
grain all the while and breed them
when Is to IL months old. Use the best
aged bull that you can find and one
that has by his heifers proved himself
to be Il good one. There is hardly any
one that is so situated that he can
not do this. 1t won't cost you any
money to speak of and you will be
making lots more in short time. AS
you improve your dairy you will i'm
prove yourself, and the more You learn
the more you will desire to know. You
will soon begin to read more, tC
think more and find out for your
self other ways of improvement.-Farm
and Home
The Republican., 1891-10-09

The prettiest of the new shot silks are
scattered over with chine flowers and
tiny garlands These make ideal gar
den party toilets. Crepe de chine also
is figured with exquisitely tinted flow.
ers as effective as hand-painted clus.
ters. Delicious china silks are dotted
with petit pois spot in color, and dresses
made of these silks are trimmed with
old point Alencon or draped with pam
niers and f1ounces of lace the color of
the gay dot in the silk. The lace also
forms the deep Stuart collar and trans
parent sleeves. An elegant toilet worn
at ball in the mountains recently was
made of cream crepe de chine dotted
with lilac, with founces of lilac silk
lace festooned at the foot of the sheath
skirt, with all the fullness plated in
the middle of the back and slightly
trained to lie a number of inches on the
floor The almost seamless bodice
hooked invisibly on the left side and
was cut slightly open in the throat and
finished with turned-down cape frill
OF lace that completely covered the
shoulders. A ruf1ie of the same lace
fell over the arms to the elbow, meet
ing Suede gloves of pale cream color
stitched with lilac silk.-Chicago Post
The Republican., 1891-10-09
ANOTHER LEAK STOPPED.
How to Prevent a Source of Considerable
Loss on Many Farms.

How to Prevent Source of Considerable
Loss on Many Farms.
A source of waste on many farms is
the bags from which horses are fed
oats direct. These stand on the barn
floor or in the stable where they are
placed as brought from town, and
mice and rats pick up the spilled feed,
rnaw the bags, waste more and foul
the remainder. The horses are said to
be off their feed frequently. Loose
in the yard, cows, horses and fowls
get to the bags and help themselves to
an injurious extent oftentimes, GER
ta.nly to the detr;mcnt of the owner.
These losses would construct many Il
grain bin that would be safe against
all dcpr2dations of animals, birds and
vcrnin and save the time and patience
Of the owner. The first Illustration
The Republican., 1891-10-09

paper as the rolls are successfully ap-
piled. The sawdust is omitted, as it is
liable to cause crevices by setting, and
TO be attacked by rats and mice.
If this air space and the two covers
with boards and building-paper are not
sufficient to make good non-conduct-
ing wall, nail vertical strips on each lath
and add another covering of paper and
another boarding, The roof is to be
made non-conducting in a similar way,
and the room is to be protected with
double doors and double windows. The
natural heat from the earth floor, with
these protecting walls, will prevent
the room from freezing. Fig. 1 in il
lustration represents the cross-section
The Republican., 1891-10-09

Tic farmer cannot do better than tc
SOW freely of clover. 1t helps wonder,
fully in keeping up the productiveness
of farm, and it is strongly to be
recommended. 1t is getting to be too
common practice for farmers to sell
off their hay, and as clover is not
wanted in market, but little is sown.
It would be much better all around for
the farmer to grow more clio, ,er, sell
less hay and keep more stock Elrm
Field and Stockman.
The Republican., 1891-10-09
4 sense of .ftllaaesI

A sense Of JNItnesS
and other troubles after eating ?
Then you need q "Pellet." Not
one of the ordinary, gripping, tear
ing pills-it's a sickness in itself to
take them. But one of DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellcts-the original Liver
Pill, the smallest and the easiest to
take. The easiest in the way they
work, too-they're mild and gentle,
but thorough and effective. Every
part of the system feels their health
full influence. They cleanse and
regulate the liver, stomach and bow
els. Regu1ate, mind you. They
prevent disease as we'll as care it.
They're purely vegetable and perfect
ly harmless. Sick Headache, Bilious
Headache, Constipation, Indigestion,
and all arrangements Of the liver,
stomach and bowels are promptly
relieved and permanently cured.
They're the cheapest pill you can
buy, for they're guaranteed to give
satisfaction, or your money is re-
turned.
You pay only for the good you
get.
This is true only of DR.. Pierce's
medicines.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

more will be needed. These chutes
should not be less than eight inches
square. and ten inches will be better,
allowing no clogging of feed. If de-
sired, the rat-proof bin shown may be
built upstairs and chute connected
with ea.h compar tment, always being
sure to slope tls, bottom of the bin in
every direction rapidly to the top of
the chnte. A button or hook should
uel Simmons, in Farm and Home.
The Republican., 1891-10-09
intellectual Culture.

A cultivated mind may be said to have
infinite stores of innocent qualification.
Everything may be made interesting to
it by becoming a subject of thought or
inquiry. Books, regarded merely as a
qualification, are worth more than all
the luXuries on earth. A taste for lit
erature secures cheerful occupation for
the unemployed and languid hours OF
life; and how many persons in these
hours for want of innocent resources,
are now impelled to coarse and brutal
pleasure. How many young men can
be found in this city who, unaccustomed
to find a companion in book, and
strangers to intellectual activity, are
almost driven in the long dull evenings
of winter to haunts of intemperance
and depraving society.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Republican., 1891-10-09
The Only One Ever Printed-Can You Find
the WOrdq

There is 8 inch display advertisement
words alike except one word. The same is
true of each new one ap caring each week,
from The DIR. Harter Medicine Co. This
house places a Crescent" on everything
they make and publish Look for it, send
them the name of the word and they will
return you book, beautiful Autographs or
samples free.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

1t is very important in this age of vast
material progress that a remedy be pleas
ing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken,
acceptable to the stomach and healthy in its
nature aud effects. Possessing these quail
tiles, SyEIp of Figs is the one perfect laxa-
tive and most gentle diuretic known.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

A HEN on farm doesn't mingle in pro-
miscuous society; she has her own cXclu-
siVe set-Tcxas Siftings.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

"Do YOU know Ms. Gossip is a very re-
liable woman" 'ImdCed!" Eyes; what
ever she says gocs."-Baltimore American.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

The poet informs, is westward. Emigrants
in that direction should be provided with
Hostetter's s. stomach Bitters as an antdo,e
to malaria, the bane to newly settled clear
ings. Moreover, the peerless fortifying
agent neutrIlizes the perncious effect of
damp and exposure, mental and bodily IA
tigue and nervous strain. Travellers, tour
lists, miners, navvies and mariners use it
with advantage.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

THE man with cork leg, 4 glass eye,
false teeth and a borrowed reputation is a
man of parts.-Dallas News.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

This circumstance adds weight to the
step am about to take,' remarked the con
Wet as he glanced down at his chain and
all.--Baltlnore American.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

"I'M dun" as he poor fellow said when
he opened the business letter. Columbus
Post
The Republican., 1891-10-09

WHY don't you try Carter's Little Liver
Pills! They are a positive cure for sick
headache, and all the ills produced by dis
ordered liver Only one p a dose.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

IT is not a good plan to keep pulletS
and old hens, fat and lean hens all to-
getner. They do not require the same
food aud will do better separate
The Republican., 1891-10-09

A GUN is like mule; when it Is over
loaded it kicks-N. Y. Herald.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

FOR twenty five cents you can get Carter's
Little Liver Pills-the best liver regulator in
the world. Don't forget this. One pill Il dose.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

THE bad debtor is generally a man Of
considerable mote. .n-Columbu Post.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

BURNING kisses necessarily follow a
spark k--Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

FoGG says a fierce thunderstorm reminds
him of an onion. 1t is peal on peal.-Bos
ton Transcript.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

AN Infallible Recipe What to do to oh
tain white hands-nothing.- Judy.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

"BEYoND the Breakers"-Ornaments out
of the Chldrcn'S reach.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

"THIs is unscamly,' said the man whose
coat ripped up the bacli.-W Washington Star.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

THE shoemaker who b"eathed his last
should not be pointed to as a man of phe
nomenal lung power Washington Star.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

IN touch with the player-the banjo
Mail and Express.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

Or thumb experience-Jack Horner.
The Republican., 1891-10-09

A MATCH box-Sparring exhibition.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-02

Mr.. Blaine has right to feel proud
of the sentiment which the action of
the British government, in attempt
ing to ignore the executive branch of
this government by appealing to the
Uuited States supreme court for help,
has evoked. 1t was the one thing
needed to solidify American senti-
ment in support of the stand taken
by this administration. To-day con-
gress is practically unit in support
of Mr.. Blaine, whereas there had
been a disposition previously among
Democrats to sneer at Mr.. Blaine's s
methods of conducting the Behring
sea negotiations. The sentiment now
existing among Democrats may be
judged by the action of Representa-
tive Enloe of Tennessee, who has in
troduced a resolution in the house re-
citing the action of the British gov
ernment and declaring that this ac-
tion is in derogation of the dignity
of the United States, and providing
that a copy of this resolution shall be
sent to the British government. Gen.
Hooker, one of the oldest Democrat
ic members of the house committee
on foreign affairs, says: "Mr. Blame
will come out all right, I have great
confidence in him. / differ with him
in politics, but have great confidence
in his ability to manage anything he
undertakes"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-02
Mine Explosion.

By an explosion of fre-damp in
mammoth shaft of the FL. G. Friclz
Coke Co., Jan. 27, 10 miners were
hurled to death. The explosion sc
cured in the morning shortly after
9 o'clock and it is supposed was the
result of the ignition of miners oil
lamp. The after damp which fol-
lowed the explosion suffocated nearly
all. A few men realizing the awful
situation, fell to the ground, thereby
preventing the gas from striking them
There is not soul left to tell the
story of the dreadful calamity. The
persons not killed are in such criti-
cal condition that their deaths are
momentarily expected. Up to this
writing 60 bodies have been recovered
all without signs of life. The fire,
which broke out after the explosion,
was soon extinguished by the i'm
mense fans which were put in opera
ton. The gas has about all been
driven from the pit and the work of
rescuing the entombed miners has
been commenced. General Manager
Lynch of the H. c.. Frick Coke Co. is
on the=scene helping to devise means
for rescuing the perished workmen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-02
Silver.

Mr.. Morrill's speech in the Senate
on the Silver Bill, makes clear to the
simplest apprehension that this silver
expedient is of doubtful utility
worse still, that it is full of danger to
the welfare of the country. Under
silver supremacy gold will cease to
be a circulating medium. On the 1st
of November last past, the stock of
gold was nearly twice as great as
that of silver, being over 1921, ,O00-
600. Suppose that it be withdrawn
from use as money, what would re-
suit but the severest stringency in
the money market our country ever
knew? Then another thought presses
itself upon the rejecting mind. If
silver becomes dominant and gold is
expelled from the country, what will
be the effect of this on the value of
silver? Business men generally have
but one opinion, which is, that silver
in that case will suffer a greater de-
probation in its money value than it
has ever experienced before. There
is no doubt but the following passage
states a purpose involved in this sill
yer movement that great many per-
sons hope to see carried out:
Gone subterranean purpose can
not be concealed, though softly de-
MED, and that is to scale all debts,
public and private, or to supply a
medium for their liquidation at cost
largely reduced from that of original
contracts"
The senator thinks this silver poll
cy prevails, American securities held
abroad will speedily come pouring in
upon the country. Why not? We
are offering foreigners a splendid op-
portunity to unload their surplus sill
in this direction, but they see at the
same time that we shall pay them
back for it, by taking up the notes,
stocks and bonds they hold against
us, with our cheap money.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-02
Death of secretary Window.

William Window, Secretary of the
Treasury, died in New York of heart
disease on Friday evening last, at
10:11 o'clock. He had been invited
to New York to deliver an address
before the Board of Trade and Trans
portation and had just closed his
speech of some length, when he fell
from his chair, expiring a few min
utes later. He was supposed to be
in his usual health, though it was
known to some of his nearest friends
that he had suffered previously from
some trouble of the heart. He was
born in Ohio in 1929, and came early
into public life, entering congress.
The Boston Journal says:
tMr. Window was a conspicuous
member of the group of strong men
that Ohio has given to this public SER
vice and the republican party. He
united in a marked degree in his per-
sonality the buoyancy and vigor of
the West and the solid conservatism
of the East. This unusual symmetry
of character made him an influential
figure in the National House of Rep
resentatives and afterward in the
senate, and caused his appointment
to be universally applauded when he
was selected for the important duty
of Secretary of the Treasury first in
President Garfield's Cabinet, and
then in the Cabinet of President Har-
rison. Unquestionably Mr. Window
has been one of the main pillars of
the present administration, and he
will be greatly missed. His conduct
through the difficulties which even
now have not ceased to overshadow
the country has been such as to win
for him the profound esteem of his
fellOw-citizens. Even those who have
had to disagree with him on certain
features of his recommendations have
cheerfully recognized his ability and
integrity and his deep sense of his
responsibilities. One of the chief
circumstances that have enabled us
to come thus far almost unscathed
among the perils that have lately en-
vironed us has been the knowledge
that an experienced, capable and
trustworthy hand was on the helm of
the Treasury Department"
The Secretary left a wife and two
daughters and large number of per-
fFIn dc Il
and will be felt seriously by President
Harrison and his cabinet. The coun-
try is shocked at SO sudden and sad
misfortune.