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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
STARTLING.
This Has No Uncertain Sound.
What Does This Mean To Our
People?
1t Rings With A Great and
Grand Hope.
Something Thousands Are Seek
ing For.
A Fact OF Marvellous Import
To All.

NEwBURG, n. VA telegraphic dispatch
from Newburg, n. Y, reveals the fact that
most marvellous change has taken place
in the person Of one of its Oldest and best
known citizens. H, S. Shorter, Esq, is an
old man of rs years. and lives at 391 Broad
way, Newburg N. Y. 1t appears that Mr..
Shorter, who was an extensive lumber
dealer, began to grow languid, got tired
easily, was nervous and debilitated, until at
last he became so weak and exhausted that
he was just able to drag himself around.
He lost flesh and strength so rapidly and
became so alarmingly Frustrated that his
friends and relatives despaired of his life.
Now came the marvellous change.
Suddenly Mr.. Shorter was transformed
from his condition of extreme weakness to
one of strength his nerves grew quickly
strong and steady, his muscles became
vigorous, his blood was revivified and en-
riched, he gained 10 pounds in weight, and
to-day is in sound and perfect health.
Such a remarkable transformation in a
man of his age was nine days wonder.
OF course the cause was eagerly looked
for.
Your correspondent, determined to know
the truth for the papers readers, listened
to the following astonishing facts from Mr..
Shorters own lips:
"I feel now like new mani
"What do you think of taking an old man
of 70 years, physically weak and broken
Giving him new life, health and strength,
and adding 10 pounds of solid flesh to his
weak and debiltated frame
"And all in two months, with three
bottles of DR.. Greene's Nervura blood and
nerve remedy Well, that is just what has
taken place in me. Instead of being weak,
| debilitated and exhausted, just able to drag
myself around, feel now like new man |!
81 advise all to use DR.. Greene's Nervura
blood and nerve remedy !"
Surely this wonderful remedy is most
marvellous health restorer, and, without
doubt, the greatest medical discovery Of
the age.
| If it can thus give back health and
strength to an old man, weakened and ex-
hausted by disease, how much more surely
and certainly will it cure the thousands
| WIN arc Iun NiOWh WCdhJ hOi Nouo anu
Frustrated, who suffer from poor blood,
weak nerves, dyspepsia, indigestion, con-
stipation, malaria, kidney and liver CON-
plants, etc. For debility it is speedy re-
storer of strength and vigor. If you are
run down in health and need a medicine to
strengthen the nerves, invigorate the blood,
tone up the stomach and regulate the
bowels, kidneys and liver, DR.. Greene's
Nervura blood and nerve remedy, which is
purely vegetable and harmless, and is the
best remedy known in the world.
Use it, for it will restore your health and
strength. You can get it at any druggists
for 81.
1t is the discovery and prescription of the
well-known and successful physician, DR.
Greene of 81 Temple Place, Boston, Mass
the eminent specialist in the cure of nervou:
and chronic diseases, who can be consulted
free, personally or by letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
Clipped and Condensed.

KEEP your eye on the horse that has
a devilish disposition and sleepy APP
pearance.
THE good, steady, strong-gaited team
is the one that will do the most work
with the least worry these days.
To excite horses in warm weather is
worse than to work them hard. The
hotter the weather the cooler should be
the driver.
THE prospect of the English apple
crop is said to be far below that of a
weather during blossoming is the cause
of the poor showing.
Four COWS have died at Y Youngstown,
O., from the effects of eating a can of
dynamite. There was no explosion, it
being case of indigestion, but the car
cases were handled with great care by
those who disposed of them.
JAY GOULD years ago, it is said,
testified under oath that he controlled
legislation in the interest of his road by
working for the election of " favorable
men," In republican districts he was
democrat, but he was for the Erie rail-
road all the time.
AS to the future of agriculture, there
is no other way of judging it than by
the past. If we have made improve
ments in the past, we shall certainly
continue to do so in the future. Our
home demand is the farmers oppor-
tunity to make money, and our home
demand is surely increasing.
IT is surprising how much better a
team will stand work on hot day if it
has frequent drinks of cool water to
quench the thirst. The usual method
is to work the team full half day at
severe work and intense heat without
water, while the man who works this
way wants to drink every hour.
PROFESSOR THoRNE of the Ohio sta
ton says: "To grow wheat by adding
the chemicals to the soil is financial
failure. We must contrive some way
by which to catch and use the nitrogen
of the air. The great nitrogen trap of
the universe is clover, and the farmers
success depends upon the judicious use
of this crop"
THE horse that is appreciated on
the market is good specimen oil
| oOlO oloIipSb GLASS. ncIC may Ut
such thing as general purpose horse
that can occupy a place on the farm,
but when the cities are reached this
idea must be dropped. Business men
either want draft, driving or saddle
horses, and they want them distinctly
of their kind.
HON. ANDREW d. WHITE, formerly
president of Cornell University, says
"In my opinion, grain gambling as
at present conducted in this country, il
sort of cancer, whose malignant roots
extend to every town in the land where
there is ticker 1t is on many &C.
counts far worse than the lottery
ticket gambling, about which so much
has been said and DONE"
OF all the inattention and careless
ness pertaining to farm operations, the
neglect of orchards is the most unac
countable and surprising. 1t is seldom
that an orchard is pruned. This should
be attended to annually for similar rea
sons that the farmer should cut his bur
docks and curry his horses. Fruit treei
cannot do their best, or even fairly well
without liberal feeding.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. For sale by @. Blakely,
Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
Editorial NOtings.

WE would like to call the attention
of the farmers of northern Vermont
who may live handy to a railroad sta
ton to the fact that the strawberry is a
fruit that is always salable, and that
strawberries ripen later the farther
north they are grown. There is also a
great difference in the season of diff
ferent varieties, and for this purpose
the latest productive sorts should be
chosen.
THE Maine Farmers agricultural
editor, z. A. Gilbert, speaking of grass
as an exclusive crop, says: "a neigh
Dor across the way, in want of more
fodder for his rapidly-increasing herd
of dairy cows, has for several years
been practicing exclusive grass pro-
duction in place of the usual crop of
corn or of grain. His course is to pillow
in spring, manure, and seed at once to
grass alone. AS we write this, August
5, large field lays in the swath, just
cut down, that was plowed and seeded
the first day of May last, and crop OF
about ton and half to the acre is the
result. Experience has shown that
next year two heavy crops will be the
harvest, as, of course, this first crop
must be comparatively light"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
A HOUSEHOLD
CONUN DRUM.

Aofher-what shall we do with our John? He is
through the public schools and has special apti-
tude for anything that can see.
Father-Why not give him business education2
II will be invaluable to him In any walk IN life.
Why not send for the Prospectus of the Burdett
Business and Shorthand College, Boston9
Elevator entrance, 694 Washington Street,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

No laws seem capable of enforce
ment in this country which the money
power objects to. 1t makes no differ
ence, in state or nation, which party is
in possession. A good deal is pretended
to be done, but nothing is effectively
done which it is the interest of the
money power not to have done. Our
government in the United States to-day
is an oligarchy of interruptions wealth,
under popular forms. 1t is, in short, a
failure. There is not enough popular
virtue to sustain good government.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

DIR. E. @. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT.
MENT, specific for Hysteria Dizziness, Fits, Neu-
raigia, Headache, Nervous Prostitution caused by
alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness' Mental Depres'
sion, Softening of Brain, causing insanity, misery
decay, death, Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss
of Power in either sex, lmpoteney Leuc9rrhsa
and all Female Weaknesses, Involuntary Losses
Spermatorrhea caused by over-exertion OF brain
Self.abuse. Oyer-indnlgence, months treatment
81 6 for IS, by mail. We Guarantee six boxes to
cure. Each order for boxes, with IS, will send
written guarantee to refund II not cured; Guar
gist and sole ageut Is State Street, Montpelier W
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
AN UNFAILING SUPPLY OF GOOD WATER

Runs to houses and barns On the Ira Cutler farm
socalled) sugar orchard of about 800 trees with
new sugar house equipped with latest apparatus
The buildings consist of large farm house with ell
veniently located ON the 'Stet" Cutler farm $50,
one OF 800 trees. The buildings consist of one.
story brick house with ell and shed, and the neces
sary barns; also a one and one-half story frame
house The buildings and land are so arranged that
this property be divided into two good farms 4
desired. Both farms are now well stocked with
cows and sheep which will be sold to the purchaser
Of the farms, II wanted. At the same time and
place will also be sold
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

THE education we want in our rural
schools is an education that shall deeply
interest their pupils in rural matters,
and fit them for the intelligent pursuit
of rural avocations. Our ordinary
crossroads school is way behind the
times; but we cannot have better one
until we are willing to meet the ex-
pense of educating teachers as they
should be educated AS an exchange
says: 4" Natures resources are simply
inexhaustible. Great scholars, famous
scientists, and grandest poets always
turn to nature for inspiration, and
never grow weary of talking and writ
ing about her beauties. The boy says
he is tired of farm life. Tired of what?
Is be tired of sweet, green grass, of
pure air, of holy sunlight? Is he tired
of waving grain, of lovely flowers, of
rich, luscious fruit2 What does he
know of these thingsp He eats an APP
pie. Does he know that if converse
ton should turn on the ingredients of
the apple, the cause of certain taste
and smell, of form and color, that if he
could talk intelligently about it the
princes of learning would listen eagerly?
Does he know that if he understood all
about wheat that wise men would seek
his society? 1t is time that he learned
that there is more to think about and
to be entertained with on the farm than
any other place on earth"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

SPEAKING of success in farming, the
editor of an exchange says: Gin re-
gard to his profits in farming, if the
average farmer comfortably supports
his family on the farm and comes out
free of debt at the end of the year, we
think he has made farming success.
This is as much as the average business
man can do. The farmer ought not to
expect his living free and count only
the surplus above this as so much gain.'
Now all this is quite true. A large
majority of the merchants, manufac-
turers, mechanics, mariners, railroad
men, and, in fact, those of all avoca-
tons, fail to make more than a more or
less good living, and leave but little
property behind. The average farmer
is doing about as well as anybody ex-
cept the average millionaire, and there
are only enough of the latter in Amer
lea to populate one good-sized village.
Even these are not all happy. One of
them lately told farmer that he would
be willing to give every dollar he had if
he could eat his victuals with the relish
the farmer had for his. A few months
after, he died.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

THE worst of this matter is that our
people should believe themselves to be
so wicked that they cannot be induced
to properly support agricultural exhibit
tons without gambling attachment in
the form of a race-course. We do not
believe it is true. All that is needed is
one-half the energy and interest among
us, in our own behalf, that men in
other lines in life exhibit. Do the
mechanics fairs take that which for the
last fifty years has attracted richly
paying crowds in Massachusetts, and
the like in many other states, require any
such inducements to draw crowd,
and that not for two or three days,
but for month? There is no sort of
exhibition more interesting, or more at
tractive, on its own merits, than we'll
managed agricultural and horticultural
fair. Put as much money into such a
fair as is put into the tracks, grand
stands and trotting purses, have ii
managed strictly, intelligently, impair
TALLY, as such exhibitions ought to be,
and there will be no trouble about a
paying attendance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
farm ann Garoem.

Address all inquiries communications In relation
to agriculture to DR. T. II. HosKINs, Newport, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

AN exchange says; Congress has
been quite liberal in its appropriations
for agriculture this year, manifesting
more interest than has been shown
heretofore. All appropriations in the
line of agriculture have been materially
increased" This sounds well; but
when we consider that the largest sim
gle appropriation was $3.50, 900 for COM
mon garden seeds, to be distributed to
a comparatively few select persons in
each congressional district, while the
rest of the people had to buy, and that
this same wasteful Partially has been
going on for a quarter of century,
we can hardly feel like giving it very
enthusiastic approval.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

THE venerable John j. Thomas,
author of The american Fruit CultWiSt,
who devised the zinc strip labels for
fruit trees, which were recently criti-
cised in an item which was reprinted
here, says in regard to it, "The fact
that we have labels uninjuring and un-
injured that have remained without at
tention for various periods from fifteen
to twenty years, prove its efficiency
when rightly applied. The coil should
never go twice about the limb, and
should always be put on loosely; and
the zinc should be slightly rusted when
written on"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

AN exchange says: " For the first
time in the history of the New York
State Agricultural Society races for the
encouragement of the breeders of trot-
ting and running horses will be held at
the state fair this year." And there
goes the last of the pure, bona-fide
agricultural state fairs to the -, well,
we will say "dogs;" but we came near
writing word that would express the
truth much more exactly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
ZACH Farm Contains About ESQ Acres

Suitably divided into pasture tage and wood
lands, and will keep more than 80 cows. so
sheep the necessary teams and usual young stock.
The land is good state of cultivation the houses
and fences in good repair and there is ample barn
accommodation
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
Two Mountain Pastures,

One of $50 acres and one of so acres more loss.
situated in Orange about one and one.half miles
from the farms.
The property will be sold on liberal terms, which
will be announced at time of sale Application for
terms or other particulars may be previously made
to II. l.. EATON, Cashier,
First National Bank, Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
from about 100000 in 1887, when the
tax was imposed, to 8 100000 pounds in
1onO

from about 100000 in 1887, when the
tax was imposed, to 3, 940, 900 pounds in
1892"
HERE it is seen that a fraudulent
swindle, which our government "of
the people, by the people, for the peo-
ple," has nominally undertaken to reg
ulate and discourage, is actually pros
pering under an imperfect, badly
framed or badly.enforced law. Any
rascally business that has money or po-
litical influence behind it, from the
whisky trade to the oleo trade, defies
the will and robs and defrauds the great
body of the people with impunity.
Somehow, so far as the interests of the
plain people are concerned, and ire
spective of parties, they have no rights
that INSCRIPTIONS wealth can be made
to respect. -
THIS oleo business is injurious alike
to the farmer and the consuming public,
which wants wholesome butter, but is
compelled to take fraudulent substi-
tute at more than double its real value.
We elect and send to legislatures and
congress a class of self-seeking politi-
clans who are apparently engaged in
selling out the rights of their consti-
tuents for cash to the highest bidder
Trusts and oleo have had their way,
substantially, for twenty years, and
continue to have it. There is no use in
saying that our government-state and
Acknowledgement frame effective laws
and effectively enforce them. There
are plenty of instances to the contrary,
where wealth is interested in enforce
ment. The people are sold out by
their representatives.. There is no
other possible explanation of the long
continuance of unredressed wrongs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

IT is pretty tight place for an agri-
cultural editor to be in, when he cannot
conscientiously encourage his readers
to attend and exhibit his products and
livestock at county and state fairs
nominally agricultural, but actually as
much gambling establishments as the
Louisiana lottery.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

BUT the truth is that very few of our
purely agricultural fairs, when we have
had them, have been managed in a
thoroughly business-like way. No man
who takes fine exhibit to them ever
has had any assurance that the awards
will be intelligently aud impartially
made. The judges are picked up with
little reference to their qualifications
they are rarely paid anything for their
services, and those services are usually
in strict accord with what they cost.
THEY do this thing much better in
Canada. We have attended a good
many fairs across the line, and we have
always been struck with the conscien-
| tiousness and the serious manner in
which the business of making the
awards was done. Awards 30 made
have to the winners high pecuniary
value, 30 great as to attract the best
and that best was equally sure to at
tract the best kind and the greatest
number of attendants. 1t is the best
thing that brings the most money; and
this is just as true of public exhibitions
as of anything else. And what shame
it is to see all our farmers fairs fall {
prey to horde of the vilest class O
gamblers! -
1T would seem to be absolutely i'm
possible to get any law to affect any
thing in this country which is opposed
by corporations, trusts, or wealthy
speculators-particularly laws for thu
benefit of farmers and plain people. A
business journal observes: 1t wa
some time ago demonstrated that in 81
far as the federal tax on oleomargarin,
aimed to discourage the use of tina
product and help the farmers butte
market, it had been failure. The ia,
returns for the last fiscal year go TO in
crease the force of the demonstration
there having been production of AZ,
2S3,l39 pounds of oleomargarine levie,
upon, which was 3,709,328 pound
more than the production of the pre-
vious year--at that time the heavies
production recorded since the lay
took effect. The average monthly pre-
duction of oleomargarine has increase
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

IT seems pretty mean for rich and
powerful nation, like ours, to rejoice
over poorer, but perhaps just as good
a neighbor, in the way contemporary
does when it says: "Our friends across
the Canadian frontier are very much
annoyed over the very great decrease in
their exports to the United States
within the past year In agricultural
exports in the year 1891 this decline
was very great, and it really promises
to become still greater in the current
year" -
YET that is the way all nations do
or, at least, all the Christian nations,
AS the Widow Bedott plaintively OBJ
served, we're all poor creeters." The
time may come when "nation shall
not lift up sword against nation; neither
shall they learn war any more "-not
even economic war;" as the political
economists call the war of tariffs.
SPEAKING OF the Bordeaux mixture
which by the ordinary formula is 9
rather bothersome thing to prepare
the Rural Nep Yorker says: " Ar
ounce of copper sulphate and an ounce
of lime to one gallon of water is {
formula that commends itself for sim
plicity, and no one is restrained from
making and using such mixture by al
oppressive sense that there is lot O
care, time and fussing required" Most
if not all, our readers know that cope
sulphate is simply what we buy in thu
stores as blue-stone, or blue vitriol.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
advertisements.
Auction Sale!

There will be sold, the premises, at public auc
ton, Tuesday, October IL, 1899. at one o'clock
p. NJ, the property known as the
Ira Cutler and "Stet" Cutler Farms,
Situated in the northeast corner of Barre and the
northwest corner of Orange, Vt. four and one.haf
miles from Barre village-the largest and liveest
place in Central Vermont There Is no better land
In this section of the state than is comprised in
these farms.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-29
NO. 124
IN PARKWAY LANDS.

The public eyccutioner of Paris, NJ.
Diebler, has guillotined 220 persons.
LIE VoLEUR (thc thief is the name Of
rcw popular weekly paper started in
Paris.
IloRsEs arc so plentiful in Bucnos
AyrcS that everybody owns at least
one. It is said that even the bcprars
beg on horseback.
PAEI0 has G7,GJ5 trees in its streets,
and each tree represents cost to the
city Of thirty-Gvc dollars. This 1la!:cs,
in round numbers, three million dollars
worth of trees in the streets.
THERE is curious snake GIydraci
ycti) IN South Africa that lives wholly
upon birds cggs. 1t has no teeth OF
siGhs of teeth in its mouth, the whole
dental array being located in the
stomach.
TIE first ice cream vcn1ers in Eng
land were Nc2politnn pca3a15ry of the
poorest type, but tho vendors now come
from ell parts of Italy, many being NJ
tivc3 Of the most remote country
districts.
THE native Australians have
weapon which Is called n "wurlncrc."
1T Is u straight stick, hollow at the end,
in which is PLACED the handle Of . dart
Tho dart IS thrown. bat the stick re-
mains il the throwcr's hand
IL SorHc OF the ancient temples Of
E|ypt. known to be more than four
thouGand years old, the stones were
dowc!cl t2Tcthcr with hour glass
shaped tics of tho Timarish or Shitti1n
wood, the dowcl sinks being only about
one inch dccD.