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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-01

The work of the teachers convention
committee was fairly started in the con
ference last evening. Now let there be
no tagging.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-01

If Ex-Fraud Hayes has been invited
to stump Ohio for Mckinley the news
papers have not found it out.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-01

The convention city Of tho northwest
will be another title for the Queen City
of the Rockies.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-01

at is easy enough for bourbon black,
guard newspapers to abuse Senator NJ.
5. Quay and w. w. Dudley, but not one
of them can prove that they ever com.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-01

no to The Bee Hive for bargains in NOTING
nam, yallenciene, and torchow lace This weet
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-01

New York Count Oysters.
Boston Fish Market, 10 North Warren
street. Telephone 81.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

how not to do it--as extensively as
possible-on professional stools; fixed
sneers upon all countenances at the
common farmer and his notions -
these are the clear characteristics of too
many on the stats of the establish
ments as they now exist. One of the
very first things for the voting farmers
to take in hand are the schools. Let
the bats and owls be driven out, and
wide-awake, honest, civil-spoken and
industrious persons, who are willing TO
acknowledge themselves the servants
of the public which pays them their
wages, put in their places. We shall
soon find enough capable leaders when
this is accomplished. The schools will
graduate them, and when graduated
they will be farmers who know, and can
do
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

A CORRESPONDENT of the Tribune
asks, and we want to know, too, why
are millers so anxious to fill their ele-
vators to the utmost during the thresh-
ing season if wheat undergoes the
enormous shrinkage that many agri-
cultural editors would have us believe?
l have often marketed wheat just be-
fore the new crop was harvested, and it
tested practically the same number of
pounds per bushel as it did when
threshed and the whole number of
bushels had not fallen short of machine
measure"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro.
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FiG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,
LOUISVILLE, Ky. VIEW YoRx. NV
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

CAREFUL tests have determined that
O Holstein milk averaged the poorest
and Jersey the richest in total solids
and fats. (2) Jersey skinned milk
proved to contain slightly larger per-
centage of solids than Ayrshire skinned
milk, Holstein skinned milk being
much poorer than that of the other
two breeds-the order or standing being
1917, 1914, ga. (3) The skinned milk
of the Ayrshire contained large per-
centage of fat throughout the entire
milking period, the separation of fat
seeming to be less perfect than with
the other two breeds. (4) The butter
milk of the Jersey contained less than
half as much fat as that of the other
breeds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

THERE is an element of consolation
in the condition of the labor market.
Farm help demands higher wages,
short days and easy work, all of which
is discouraging to employers; but right
here is the golden opportunity of
young men who have the real get-up-
and-get in them. Not being afraid of
work, these can secure the best situa-
tons and acquire the control of farm
property. Men who work for the in
terests of their employers are the ones
who come out proprietors in the long
run, every time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10
Right Sure to Prevail.

Those who have been interested in
the eminently successful work of
Professor J. W. Sanborn, formerly of
the New Hampshire Agricultural Col
lege, will recall that very successful
engagement of his as dean of the
Missouri College was closed some
three years ago, in consequence of a
too jealous defence on his part of the
rights of the institution whose interests
he had in charge. We notice now that
the visiting committee ofthe general as
sembly of Missouri, just adjourned, rec
commended the severance of the Agri-
cultural College from the University,
and that the former legislature ap-
pointed committee of farmers to in
vestigate the Agricultural College, and
report upon its separation. Further
more, the legislature, by a new law,
made it the regular duty of the State
Board of Agriculture to look into the
finances of the Agricultural College,
and into it's affairs, thus placing it
under the moral guardianship of the
board. Thus it is seen that the people
are coming to the support of these in
and where they have for a
time been crowded away from the work
they were given to perform, that,
finally, right is prevailing. The indus
trial classes--the farmers more espe-
cially-are coming forward to see to it
that their educational rights are re-
spected. 1t has taken twenty years to
bring some of them up to it-and all
have not got there yet-but a higher
intelligence is marching on, and sooner
or later all these institutions will be
brought into the work for which they
were established Maine Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

A WONDER WoRKER.-Mr. Frank
Huffman, young man of Burlington,
Ohio, states that he had been under
the care of two prominent physicians,
and had used their treatment until he
was not able to get around. They pro-
nounced his case to be consumption
and incurable. He was persuaded to
try DIR. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, coughs and colds, and at that
time was not able to walk across the
street without resting. He found, be-
fore he had used half of dollar bottle,
that he was much better; he continued
to use it and is to-day enjoying good
health. If you have any throat, lung
or chest trouble, try it. We guarantee
satisfaction. Trial bottle free at G.
Blakely's, Montpelier, vt. ....-, =, VI
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10
farm ano Garoem.
Editorial NOtings.

WE have several times, in these
columns, pointed out the absurdity
of seeking for effective farm laborers
among the disconnected poor of our
great cities. If merely hearing of the
luxurious ways of city people discon-
tents our boys and girls on the farm
and entices them away, what should
we expect of men and women accus-
toned to the short hours and large day.
wages of the cities, soured by strikes,
and fortified by" independent " man
ners, far more fraught with truculent
insolence than with proper manly or
womanly pride? One or two city
working men, or women, are enough to
demoralize whole school district in
the country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

EIGHT years ago Silas Tabor of
Windsor, Maine, fell from a scaffolding
in his barn, distance of twelve feet,
striking upon his back. For several
weeks his life hung by single thread
When he had partially recovered he
made will, without the hopes of an
entire recovery. But his life was spared
for eight years. Last March, he was
working on the same scaffolding, and
fell in identically the same place, at the
same distance, and was killed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

THE experiment, often recommended
has lately been tried down in Con-
necticut, with the usual ludicrous result.
]. II. Hale of Glastonbury, Conn, is
pretty well known among reading
farmers as successful fruit-grower and
gardener, enterprising and intelligent,
and honored by his neighbors with
responsible positions in farmers or
CARNATIONS. Wages are naturally high
near New York, and help scarce on the
farms in all southern New England,
New York and eastern New Jersey.
AS we learn from the Ne,D York Post,
Mr.. Hale recently made public, through
the Hartford Courant, of which he is
agricultural editor, the fact that " two
hundred good men could at once find
employment on farms in Hartford
county" He details results, which the
Post calls curious, as in sense they
may be, though they are strictly in &C.
cord with wide and long experience
among farmers in like localities. One
man, who "knew all about farming"
"did not care to do any of the hard or
dirty work of the farm" and wanted to
eat with and be treated as one of the
family" Another would like to do
some of the light work of the farm,
keep the farm books and accounts, etc."
The case of third is thus described:
Gone man, who wrote rather bright
letter, said he was smart young man
Of twenty-seven, and self and wife
knew all about farm work, and would
like home in the country were hired
by friend, and they came from New
York on the boat, bringing along a
ten-year-old-girl who had not been
mentioned in letters. They arrived
Sunday morning. The smart young
man. instead of taking any interest in
the farm, even to looking about little,
spent all day in the kitchen, smoking.
The wife made no offer to help about
the house, although the farmers wife
was alone, and had even to get their
meals. Next morning the housewife
had to get breakfast for the family, and
later, when the smart young man and
wife came down, he asked, Why did
you not call us when breakfast was
ready?' And later, when told that such
help was not the kind wanted, he
had the cheek to ask for money TO
pay their way back to New York,
never for moment suggesting that,
if not wanted permanently, they would
at least like to pitch in 'and work a
little, to earn the money rather than
beg and borrow it,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

MAKING full allowance for all of this,
the American farmers are not going to
be fooled great while. They will
learn by experience, if not otherwise /;
and when they get the cobwebs out of
their eyes and brains we are going
to see some things in these United
States made very different from what
they are now.
THE first solid work to be done is to
find out which is master here-the trusts
and corporations, or the American peo-
Pile. We can not depend at all upon
the city press, or city voters, for any
real help in this business. They are
eaten up with the lust for riches; and
even the few among them who seem to
care for principles are too superfine to
be satisfied with the principles on
which this republic was set up. They
are too fond of spinning cobwebs and
splitting hairs. AS in religion the most
of them have got clear beyond the old
Bible, so in politics, or what they call
craftsmanship, they are even less
American than Alexander Hamilton
himself.
SUCH men can do nothing to restore
and fortify the American republic.
The hearts of the plain people, beloved
OF Abraham Lincoln, are all right.
They rather feel than explicitly know
what they want; but they will find
leaders who do know, whom they will
recognize with delight and confidence,
and who will lead them into the prom
ised land, far away from the phantoms
and the swamp-lights that momently
mislead them, but which they have the
horse sense to doubt, even while they
follow them.
ITis the misfortune of farmers that the
corporations have bought up their old
leaders, the lawyers. Can college pro-
fessors take their place? Very doubt
full. They must find leaders in their
own ranks, and learn to trust them.
The Post is seemingly little exercised
because the graduates of the state ag-
ricultural colleges mostly go into the
professions, rather than upon farms.
The plain reason is that those in
situations have been captured by guer-
rilla forces from the cheaper literary
colleges. Doctors of divinity in their
presidential chairs; puttering incapa-
bles, who know but little other than
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

WHAT our farmers now lack is few
good leaders who, in the language of
the elder Harrison, understand the
principles of our government" Jerry
Simpson is within sight of that ideal,
and Governor Worthen of Georgia is
not far away; but the most of the chaps
who are captaining this affair show lit
tie knowledge of American history,
and are running wild among theoretical
underbrush where they are honest;
while many of them are dead-beats that
are working the movement for all it
can be made worth to them, and are
reaching out for official positions in
which they can sell out to trusting
constituencies.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

literature of the labor problem that
has been made for long while. 1t
shows that all there is to this problem
in many cases is the fact that men and
women are too lazy to labor and want
to have society support them. 1t is
safe to say that every one of Mr.. Hale's
correspondents is profoundly i'm
pressed with the fact that there is some
thing wrong in the constitution of our
society; that every one views with
alarm the alleged fact that the rich
are growing richer and the poor poorer;
that every one heartily endorses the
demand of the peoples party for
more money, and of Mr.. Bellamy's
nationalist party for control by the
people of the monopolies which are
crushing the life out of the Masses 1t
it one of the most melancholy results
of the preaching of the doctrine that
the government or the state can
make everything lovely if it only
will, that we are developing large and
growing class of people who have lost
all sense of independence and self-reli-
ance, and are unwilling to work at all
during the period while they are wait
ing for the good time coming when no
body will have to work"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

THESE city laborers, male and female,
are, as class, at bitter enmity with
their employers as a class-and are
utterly worthless, and worse than worth
less, except under skilled overseers,
and rigid discipline as to hours, stints
and quality of work. Put them into
the country where they find no disci-
pline, and you get precisely such results
as are described in the above extract.
Farther away from the influence of
cities, although we have many grades
of laboring capacity and purpose, we
have nothing resembling this spirit.
Both workers and employers are of sub
stantially the same class. We once, for
instance, employed on our own farm
for several seasons young man who is
a cousin to the present president of one
of the greatest universities in America.
That president once kept the district
school of our district; and his cousin,
above referred to, is now a rising law
yer in one of the new states recently
admitted to the Union. Several other
now prominent business and profess
sional men have, at one time or another,
as boy or man, picked our berries and
hoed our corn, or travelled daily with us
the streets of the county seat in our
market wagon, jumping off at the door
of each customer to enquire her wants
and supply them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

Mr.. BELLAMY's nationalist party !"
(why not spell it nationalist" and be
done with it?) is mere passing fad,
of no practical significance whatever
for the American people. The Post
seems to rank it with the farmers
movement, as of equal importance,
and in a sense-a very superficial
sense-they are alike. Neither of them
will accomplish anything directly, but
while Bellamyism is based on utter
misconceptions of our social and ma
tional needs, and of the character of
the American people, the farmers
movement has deep and serious mean
ing. The Post used to have men on
its staff who understood Ben Franklin,
Tom Jefferson, Ethan Allen and
Johnny Holmes-the latter now almost
but one of the first senators
sent by the state of Maine to Washing
ton, and still memorable as the man
who stigmatized even the weak corpo-
rations of those days as being unpos-
sessed of "bodies to be kicked or souls
to be damned "-and therefore utterly
out of place in our America, where
somewhere is funda-
postulate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10
FEMALE TROUBLES
ney Diseases, Cured by Danais
SarSaparilla after the most
noted PHYSICIANS failed

WASHINGTON MILLS, Me-, Dec. TO- 81.
Gents: For the last three years /
have been suffering from complication
of Diseases, and have employed the most
skilful physicians in the state, having been
treated by local physicians at home and by
physicians in Portland, Me- All my
physicians told me my disease
was so compile Gated, / could
never get we'll. And certainly all my
medical treatment gave me no relief. L
had no appetite, bowels in bad state,
female trouble combined with liver
and kidney trouble, so said my physicians.
| grew so weak and reduced, had done
no work for one year, when DIR.
Tribou, my physician, at the time, advised
me to try DANA'S SARSAPARILLA.
Soon after trying it l began to feel
wonderful change. | commenced to gain
in flesh and strength, and after taking three
bottles felt like another person. InOw
feel well and strong and am able
to do all the work in a family of
eight. l feel that 1 owe my health en-
tirely to the wonderful curative
power of DANA'S SARSAPARILLA.
| prize this valuable remedy highly, and
shall earnestly recommend it to all the
afflicted.
l cannot say too much in its praise for
all it has done for me.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. F. A. WENTWORTH.
Over three years have elapsed since the above
letter written. Mrs. Wentworth takes three
or four bottles of DANA'S SARSAPARILLA
each year to help Nature repel any attack upon
the citadel of Health, and as a result, enjoys
heavens richest blessing 3 Good Health.
eco thou and do likewise" Suffering one
remember we GUARANTEE CURE. viii
you try it'
Dana SdrsdparilLa Co., Belfast, Ne.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

PROBABLY the editorial writer of the
Post can hardly imagine such a state
of society as this, if he is a city man
by birth and bringing up. But if he
can do 80, he must be able to see that
there is no place on any American farm
for the demoralized workers developed
by the conditions found in our great
American cities. They are as alien to
the atmosphere of New England farm
as would be Hindoo pariah. We
could not abide them, nor they us. We
are wide as worlds asunder.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

If you desire to have a competency,
first make yourself competent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

I IBERATI0N N0TICE.-This is to certify
~ that nave this day given my son. q. Is. Curtis,
his time the remainder of his minority / shall
after this date. w 'E CIJRTIS
Berlin, VT, May IS, 1884,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

Agricultural Editor lis it, or is it
not, proper to mix two messes of milk
together in the same pan-that is, the
evening and morning milkings? If so,
will the result be the same as If kept
separate? J. T. p, Waterbury, Vt.
REPLY Decidedly improper, be-
cause the result Of such mixing will not
be the same, nor as favorable, as when
the messes are set separately.-AGRI-
CULTURAL EDITOR.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10

THE Post, in this connection, phil
osophises as follows: "This is one of
the most valuable contributions to the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10
Two Enquiries.

Agricultural Editor would like to
have you inform me, through the
WATcHMAN, if it is going to pay to get
one has only four hundred or five hun
dred trees and an ordinary rig-pans
and heater. have copy of the i" Regu-
lations Relative to the Bounty on Sugar."
issued March 7. In them nothing is
said about how, when or where the in
specting, weighing, ETC., is to be done.
1, for one, don't feel like giving bonds
and getting a license without knowing
something more about the regulations.
H. H., Hardwick, Vt.
REPLY.-We should not bother about
the matter ourself. What do our read
ers think7-AGRICULTURAL EDITOR.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-15
Fine TAILOR MADE CLOTHING

for stylish These will
is skinny about these the price, which
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-15
Wanny's Kick,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-Postmaster
General Wanamaker, in a letter to
the postmaster general of Canada,
says a lottery has established an
agency at Toronto and is flooding
the United States with circulars.
AS all lottery tickets or circulars are
liable to customs duties, the post
masters have been instructed to stamp
the wards supposed liable to Gus.
tom duty" upon matter they believe
10 contain dutiable matters. Such
letter must be opened by the adressee
in the presence of the custom officers
and If found to contain lottery tickets,
are forfeited. The Canadian post
master has been requested, If proper,
to instruct the post master at Toronto
to stamp letters mailed from there
and supposed to contain lottery
matter, similarly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-15
Grand PARACHUTE LEAP
Took His Bride to a HoveI.

CRAwFoRDsvILLE, Ind, Oct. ia
divorce suit of most sensational ma
ture has been filed in the circuit court
of Fountain county, at Covington.
After three months of welded life
Nettie Petit asks to be divorced from
her husband, Milton Petit, who is
one OF the weslthiest men in the
county. He promised her every
luxury when they were married, but
as soon as the knot was tied took
her to a hovel almost devoid of
furniture, to live. In the three months
he expended but 50 on the housekeep.
ing, appropriated all the bed clothes
to his own use, forced her to use three
milk crooks for dishes and two rusty
knives, use dip candle, and to crown
his meanness beat her for throwing
away the head of a squirrel, saying
that he could not afford to buy am
munition to kill game to be thrown
away. She wants third of his large
estate as alimony. Petit once served
term in the legislature, but always
had the reputation of being some
what close.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-15
Remembered his Mother

VALPARAISO, Oct. l5-Balmaceda's
letter to his mother. written a few
hours before he committed suicide, is
as follows: Dear Mother-I go on
q long Journey. No time remains
in which to bid you farewell.
My implacabIe enemies will not
now succeed in condemning me.
The only thing 1 recommend is that
you maintain your religious faith.
Your son, MANUEL.
Procurator Fassett, supposed to
have been killed when the Junta
captured Valparaiso, is in Jail.