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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21
TUESDAY EVENING.

After singing by the Farmers Glee Club,
which was warmly applauded, Mr., f. X.
Moreland of Ogdensburgh, n. Y, gave the
audience an account of European dairy
schools, showing their importance, and
recognized usefulness in improving and in
creasing the dairy products of such coun-
tries as have established them. Mr.. More
land said 1t was easy to mark the man who
fails and the man who succeeds. The latter
reads the best agricultural journals, studies
his business and educates his children. 1t
is not the farmer who shows wise interest
in their welfare who has his children leave
the farm. He went on to say that we have
the world for our market II we would pro-
duce what the world wants, and in dairy
goods the world wants the best that can be
made A good dairy school is therefore
wanted in every state, where young men
and women can be fully taught by actual
practice how to make the best butter and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21
The Dairymen's Meeting.

The twenty.frst annual meeting of the
Vermont Dairymens Association was held
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of
last week. The attendance was quite as
good as at the two previous meetings, held
at Burlington and Rutland, and the inter-
est was maintained to the last. The la
mented death OF President Douglas devolved
the craftsmanship Of the meeting upon the
first vice-president, Judge Alney Stone of
Westford. The weather was cold, and the
hall, il possible, was colder, and the open.
ing ceremonies, beginning at ten o'clock
were made as brief as possible. An acct.
dent on the Burlington road delayed the
arrival of many, aud there were but few in
the hall. Rev Mr.. Mackay opened the
meeting with prayer, and ex-Chief- justice
Royce made the opening address, to which
Judge Stone responded.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21
farm ano 6aroen.

Address all inquiries communications In relation
to agriculture to DR. 4. II. HosKINs, Newport VI.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21

IT is, however, mistake to suppose
that the microbes of decay are all dan
gerous to man. Each of them seems
to have its specific work to perform,
and is powerless beyond that to harm
even weak organisms. Were it not so,
the handling and removal of organic
wastes would be very dangerous work,
which we all know it is not, even for
people not of sound bodies. Some of
the microbes which attack and annoy
US are easily destroyed, and the diseased
condition of the part attacked can thus
be cured" But the attacks are very
likely to recur, and at last to conquer
US, if we fail to take warning, and
avoid getting into that state and condi-
ton of body which attracts them, be-
cause it supplies them with nutriment.
When they once get at work they ag-
gravate the condition that attracted
them, and the " disease " Capt name y
extends wider and deeper, until life
is sapped and destroyed. Microbes,
strictly speaking, are nuisance-destroy-
ers. 1t is best, therefore, not to be a
nuisance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21

WHICH is best, good sugar, melted
as required, or canned syrup? We
should like the opinions of readers
upon this question. A writer in the
Mirror and Farmer says: " We seldom
can any syrup for our own use, as we
prefer the best pail sugar melted as we
need it from time to time. The ex-
quisite flavor, which is apt to deterior-
ate if the syrup is kept through the
warm weather, never does so in the
sugar, keeping perfectly the year
round"
SHEEP IN CoNNECTICUT.-The very
intelligentlg edited Connecticut Farmer
has leading editorial on this subject,
from which we cut the following ex-
tract: " From its first establishment
the Farmer has steadily and persist
emily urged sheep-raising upon the
owners of Connecticut farms. 1t has
urged it with small encouragement in
results. The fiocks of the state have
been dwindling instead OF increasing.
Farmer after farmer has given up what
seemed TO him losing fight Week
after week, year after year, our news
columns have been burdened with re-
ports of the ravages of dogs among the
flocks in every nook and corner of the
state. AS the sheep have diminished
in number these raids seem to have in
creased, at least we have never had
occasion to chronicle so many of them
as during the past year, AT every ses-
sion of the legislature attempts have
been made to secure more efficient
laws. They have failed, partly because
too many farmers were Indifferent or
even hostile, more because wool, grow
ers were agreed on nothing, a part de-
handing impossibilties, and the rest
with no very clear ideas of how to
abate the evil"
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ALL these facts have a direct appli-
cation to every sort of work on our
farms. Both vegetable and animal
microbes are in existence-some work
ing for us and some against us. 1t is a
microbe which, so far as we know, is
the only thing that makes the nitrogen
of our farm manures available as plant
food. AS regards our crops, the rule is
that the more healthy they are, the less
likely is any form of microbic life to
attack them. Over-nutrition, both for
animal and plant, is dangerous-more
dangerous, perhaps, than under-nutri-
ton; yet high farming, within moder-
ate limits, is, no doubt, the most
profitable. Light-clear sunlight--is a
powerful microbe killer" Microbes
work best in the shade, or in the dark.
Fresh air and light are the purifiers of
the world. The air is powerful as il
blows over the sea and the mountain
tops, where that active form of oxygen
called ozone seems to be formed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21
ALMOST A MIRACLE!
Read and Remember!

MRS. BRACKETT is TIE WIFE OF THE
REV. DAVID BRACKETT, PASTOR OF THE
FIRST +. BAPTIST CHURCH, OF THORN
Dixie, ME-, AND A LADY HIGHLY ES-
TEEMED BY ALL WHO KNOW HER.
SHE SAYS -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21

DROOKS, ME-, Oct. u, loJO'
GentS:-When | commenced the use of
DANA'S SARSAPARILLA for Rheunia
tism, had lost the use of my right arm
The SHOULDER JOINT WAS VERY TENDER
AND VERY STIFF. could not sew,
and could not get my hand to my
head. had great deal of pain in the
chest, especially around my lungs. My
skin was yellow and rough, and | was tired
all the time.
have now taken four bottles, and the
pain and soreness are gone. Complexion
natural, and tired feeling fast leaving. |
sleep well nights, and the STIFF JOINT in
the SHOULDER Is FAST REsUMING ITS NAT
URAL ELASTICITY. | can sew or do
any work as usual.
am still using the SARSAPARILLA,
and expect to entirely recover from the
effects of the rheumatism that has trou-
bled me so long | think DANA'S SAR-
SAPARILLA is DEATH TO RHEU-
MATISM.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21

PURE air, pure food, clean surround
ings, sufficient exercise-all are re-
quired to keep our farm animals
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21

ALL unhealthy ways of life, all per-
nicious habits of living, tend to bring
our bodies, and also the bodies of
beasts and the structure of plants, into
a state which invites decay. 1t is upon
such that the microbe seizes as its prey.
There are certain things harmless to us
with which we can fight the bacillus
or microbe, and stave off their action !;
but the surest protection is pure life,
both moral and physical. Living so,
the mcrobe is our friend, and through
his aid the righteous g. e., the right
DOING man inherits the earth, and
much more, for purity has the promise
of eternal life.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21

TIE Office and operation of microbes
has been. and is being, absurdly misun-
derstood ant misrepresented Aside
from the specific germs of certain dis
eases (and probably, when understood,
these form no real eXception), the mi
mute organic germs to which microbe"
or " bacillus are applied, are benef-
cent in their operation. Without them,
no organic matter, when dead, would
ever decay. Just think what the con-
dition O. the earth would be if the sub
stance of every living thing, vegetable
or animal, that had ever existed re-
NAMED undecayed and unperishable
upon its surfaced The function of the
microbe is to separate into its original
elements the dead remains of plants
and animals. II is highly probable that
none of them are capable of harming
perfectly healthy organisms. The al
tentative supposition involves the dis
appearance of life from the globe. In
the most terrible and devastating cpl
denies, large proportion of those ex-
posed are unaffected. The destruction
of weakened individual life is essential
to the preservation of life in general.
The lesson which our more complete
acquaintance with these minute vitali-
ties teaches us is the necessity to pro-
longed existence of purity of life, and
of life's surroundings. 1t emphasizes
most resoundingly the saying, " Clean
illness is next to godliness. We must
keep ourselves and our surroundings
from even the bepin ninps of rOttenness
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21

yet sell III lOr twenty-five 10 Inlrty cents,
an advance of one hundred per cent A re-
tort was made to the effect that if the patron
was not satisfied, he need not send in his
milk or cream. There seems to be consider
able feeling on this subject among the
Franklin county dairymen, and Mr., Hun
gerford was warmly applauded.
Mr.. TINKHAM of Pomfret expressed his
opinion that the farmers who can make
make and market it themselves, selling TO
dealers or consumers as opportunity offers.
When the milk or cream of many diaries
are mixed, the better ones suffer for the
good herd, he is going to get left. Every
dairyman has the power to make better but
ter, and in that way command better
price. Personal care and interest are great
factors in this business. 1t does not pay a
good dairyman to send his milk to factory,
uni, IS each mans milk is tested there and
paid for according to its true value.
GOVERNOR HOARD of Wisconsin emphat-
ically endorsed this view of the question.
He said milk brought to the same factory
would vary from two TO six per cent in its
butter. If every mans milk were tested, it
would be an eyeopener to cow-keepers.
Mr.. TINKHAM made some remarks about
! feeding to the effect that good cow should
be fed for all she is worth. He favored the
most liberal feeding consistent with health
Dodge City times., 1891-07-10
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES

Can the government loan money?
Yes. She loans it to national banks.
Well, if it is right 10 loan to the banker,
can it be wrong to loan to the farmer?
Certainly not--Inter-State Alliance.
-"why should money be tight in the
richest country on earth?" asks the
New Nation. And this is its answer:
Because the people in that country
have not learned to make common
sense banking laws"
Brothers, do not overlook the great
importance of selecting good and true
men as delegates to the state meeting,
men who can go through the hottest
fire of opposition and come through un-
scathed with report to bring of duty
well performed. Alliance Waterman.
Silver was stealthily demonetized
in 1878. As soon as the crime was dis
covered the people almost without ex-
ception demanded its reconciliation
Yet eighteen years have elapsed and
the reconciliation has not been accom-
plished They have been trying to get
this reform through the old parties
Missouri World.
The brethren Of Mississippi are
making a gallant fight for alliance
principles The entire democratic force
inside and outside the state are in the
contest against them. 1t looks now as
though the alliance would surely win.
What victory it would be. and how
the henchmen of Wall street would
Dodge City times., 1891-07-10
IOWA BANKERS.


Their Hypocritical Solicitado For Wld0Ws
and Orphans.
Mr.. Joseph Sampson. OF Sioux City.
delivered an address before the convens
ton of Iowa bankers. which met In
that city recently. on the subject Of
silver, In the course of which he said:
Tho maintenance Of American credie
through q single standard OF value, which
shall be recognized by all nations, seems
not only desirable but necessary. because
many OF our greatest enterprises. giving
employment to thousands OF workingmen,
can secure capital at exceedingly low rates
Of interest only SO long as European lenders
can feel secure that the same quantity and
quality of money lent will be returned
They lend us their gold only upon condition
that gold Of equal weight and nneness shall
be repaid. Only by international agree
ments as to what may be considered legal
tender In lieu thereof, can existing or future
contracts be changed
This is briefly the position taken by
the bankers and capitalists of the coun.
try and the politicians who draw theii
inspirations from Wall street.
If the United States must ever b<
subject in its financial policy to the
colossal aggregation Of usurers and
rack renters that center At Lombard
street. London, the blood Of our fathers
will have been shed in vain. England
is notoriously the creditor nation Of the
world; her usurers and landed lords
have made of Erin monument Of pow
erty and misery known Of all the world.
and the streets of London are won't tc
resound with the tread of men, women
and children marching and crying for
''bread or blood!" Not content with the
ruin wrought at home they are reach
Dodge City times., 1891-07-10
SUMMER TOURISTS.

A TRAMP in Indianapolis stole bar
Of soap. and the victim was SO over
come when he discovered his loss that
he followed up the thief and gave him
quarter.
A TRAMP stole razor and opened mp
. shop in q box car near the firebrick
works at Mexico. Mo. He shaved
twenty five men in half day, pocketed
two dollars and fifty cents and again
took to the road.
DIDN'T Apply to Him.-First Tramp
''Why did you throw away that news
paper SO spitefully. Bill?" Second
Tramp-"Bccause just come across an
article on diet headed: we eat too
much. .'"-Boston Herald.
NEAR Akron, O., n tramp got into n
field where a fierce bull was grazing.
''The race was eighty rods, and at the
end Of it the tramp made a flying leap
over a fence eight feet high and didn't
think he was doing anything wonder
full"
Dodge City times., 1891-07-10

feel! Let the fight go on; the alliance
will prosper and grow stronger in the
midst of it.-National Economist
The different leading papers are
sending out reporters to ascertain the
probable effects of the nomination of
Cleveland or Hill by direct and close in
vestigation of the sentiments of the
people. as affecting these two aspirants-
If these great dailies had any compre-
hension they might know that the next
presidential election will be contest
democracy against plutocracy, the p.o-
ducers and laborers against the blood
suckers and vampires, and that no
representative of Wall street need ex-
pect the support of the masses.-Alli-
ancc Herald.
Andrew Carnegie says: 'All the
acts of congress in the world can not
lessen its [gold'sl value" All bosh.
There is enough gold in the shape of
coin to supply the demand for it in the
arts for from fifty to oseventy-five years.
Let all nations demonetize gold and a
wenty-dollar gold piece would not be
worth five dollars in paper money or
silver. Suppose there were fifty years
supply of corn and it was imperishable.
What would it be worth? Two cents q
bushel? Hardly. With fifty years
supply of baled cotton on hand, what
would it be worth? The cost of storage
and hauling would be but little less
than the price. The stopping and linn
iting of the coinage of silver have
brought an ounce of it down from s.. %
to 81 cents Stop coming it entirely
and demonetizs the silver coins of the
world. thus throwing many years sup
ply on the market an ounce would not
be worth 25 centS-Missouri World
"A word of caution to the state alli-
ances. which are to meet in annual
session in the near future: During the
next alliance year We will doubtless be
confronted with stupendous problems.
Men of our order. and especially our
officials, will be tested in every way.
We know that efforts will be made to
buy and bribe them-that their patriot-
ism, their devotion and constancy to
principle, their moral manhood, will Be
tested Is never before. It il all impor-
tant that men be chosen to lead during
the next year who arc sound and solid
to the core; who can Withstand all
manner Of temptation; who will prove
pure metal in the furnace, and who arc
absolutely unpurchasable. Take NO
man for . leader who has the Office
itch The state presidents for the next
year and the delegates to the supreme
council are the most important posi-
tions to the alliance people that arc to
be filed for . year III not yeazs) to
come. The bEotherhood should keep
their eyes wide open and see that none
ls selected 10 these positinns but tAs
''tried and truA'-RaleigA On c) Pfo-
Dodge City times., 1891-07-10
me JULY VIDE AWAKE

n \ rood number for hammock and
ver.nda reading for old and young -
some of the tempting titles show.
One of the interesting features Is IN
illustrated article concerning . famous
piece of the handiwork OF one OF Aaw-
thorne's characters, deacon Shem
Drowne," Of the tale of 'DroWne's
Wooden Image;;" the WIDE AWAKE arta-
Gle lin two parts) relates to "Ye Boston
Grasshopper." namely. the big gilded
creature which forms the Faneuil Hau
weather-vane, and is written by Luz
cinda J. Gregg and Elizabeth Browne
Mcpherson, the latter a descendant OF
Hawthorne's Browne; it gives portraits
of the Grasshoppcr and of Peter Faneuli,
and views of the three Fancuil Halls
Other interesting illustrated articles
are ''Amy RoSsart's Embroidery, and
the Gates of Warwick" and ''Pussy in
Private Life" by Eleanor Lewis; no
table mention of notable cats of notable
people. There are two illustrated
stories, specially good reading for the
Fourth, 1.-The Anti-Boy Picnic" by
Helen A. Hawicy. and 1.-THE Rogucs'
Path" by James Mckay. the latter
historical tale of two plucky children.
The serials are Of goodly length: Five
Little Peppers Grown Up" Miss Ma
tilda Archambcau Van Dorm" and the
Italian child-life serial. The short ten
minute articles include "a Rush
Light" by Amanda II. Harris, "Sea
Daisies" by Mary E. Bamford. ''The
Chimney Swallow" by Rose Dalton.
'.Horology Problems" by E. II. Hawlcy
of the Smithsonian Institution. "Fig-
ure Drawing for Children" by Miss
Rimmer, and others And there are
several bright pieces Of verse. suited to
the popular taste. The four pages OF
"Men and Things" are highly enjoy
able.
WIDE AWAKE is $40 q year; 20 cents
q number. A specimen (back numbcr)
will be sent on receipt of cents. D.
Lothrop COMPANY, Publishers, Boston.
Dodge City times., 1891-07-10

stitute OF government Great Brit
ain, q monarchy. in 1916 led off
in the demonetization of silver. I'm
able to conquer America with lead
and steel she inaugurated that step
while yet smarting with the lessons
taught her by Decatur on the northern
lakes and by Andrew jackson and his
southern braves at New Orleans; and
stimulated to broader dreams of con-
quest by just having conquered France
at Waterloo, she sought in 1916 to COM
plete the conquest of France. just as
Germany thought to complete it after
Sedan in later years. But each time
France has held up her silver buckler
and fenced them off with her silver
hilted sword
Far reaching in her provision of
events, Great Britain sought by the
Dodge City times., 1891-07-10
IN ARMY AND NAVY.

TEE United States navy has a paper
boat.
A TORPEDO net constructed OF inter
locking steel rings is soon to be put to
practical test.
THE Italian army contains nearly
two million men, or. to give the exact
figures, 1.92S, ,07e. Among them are s5.-
600 Alpine soldiers, trained and Injured
to the hardships of mountain warfare.
BESIDES keeping dogs to watch over
camps the German army is training
them to hunt for soldiers hidden in tho
woods and fields, SO that after a battle
the wounded might all be found and
brought in.
GERxANY's new dispatch boat Meteor
Is, excluding the torpedo boats, the
fastest craft afloat. Her length is 2G3
feet, width 81 feet. draught IS feet, with
$50 tons displacement. Her engines de-
velop 5000 horse power. and at full
speed she goes "a knots an hour.
THERE are not enough graduates from
West Point this year to fill the vacancies
of commissioned officers in the regular
army. and not enough applications to
supply the required number Of cadets
for next year. It looks as II our young
men were not embracing the military
profession with very great ardor.
Dodge City times., 1891-07-10
THE TRUE MONEY STANDARD.

Tho QuantItstive Theory OF Aocey-The
Value of Each Dollar Depends ON the
Number Of Dollars Out
Thus by the universal competition to
get it the value of dollar is made to
depend upon the number of dollars that
are out This is principle that lies at
the very foundation of the science of
money. The law, stated broadly, is
that the value of each unit of money
in any country at any given time de-
pends on the whole number of units in
circulation in that country. The larger
the number of units out, population re-
naming the same, the less must be the
value of each unit; the smaller the
number of units out, population re-
naming the same, the greater the value
of each.
Notwithstanding the variance some
times found between the premises and
the conclusions of economic writers,
there is no economist of repute who
does not admit this to be fundamental
principle.
The true money standard of anv coun-
try is not the material of which the
money is made. The standard is not q
concrete object but numerical rela-
ton. 1t is the relation between the
number of units composing the none
tary circulation of the country and the
numbers of the population.
1t is the legal tender function that
constitutes money. 1t is the power
which the law imparts to any material
to pay debts and liquidate obligations.
1t cannot for a moment be doubted that
the money function. being conferred by