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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

THE semi-centennial of the American
AgriculturiSt is celebrated by making
its number for January, 1892, special
issue, which may be said to mark an
erl in agricultural journalism. Until
fire deprived us of it, we owned COM
plete file of the AgriculturiSt, and we
have felt its loss greatly. The issue
under notice, if compared with that of
January, 1912, would show il a striking
manner the advance which has been
made in agricultural journalism, as well
as in the mechanical appliances of the
farm. Its wealth of illustrations is in
fact phenomenal, and that monthly of
this character can be sold for fifteen
cents a number, or 81 80 a year, marks
one of the most wonderful advances of
this wonderful century. Every person
ought to read the AgriculturiSt. But
slasl with all our advancement, how
many farmers there are in this broad
land who read little or nothing pertain
ing to their art! There is yet good
deal left for the coming century to ac-
complish on the farm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

SEVERAL times, lately, we have had
occasion to speak Of Governor Northen
of Georgia, but being an uncommon
name, my friends of the case have
printed it Worthen." Mike it
hen," boys, every time
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

WISCONSIN is wide-awake state in
all matters pertaining to agricultural
and horticultural progress. This is
testified in many ways; and not to
know what Wisconsin is doing in these
lines is to be ignorant of much that is
we'll worth knowing. We again have
to acknowledgement we do so with
sincere pleasure-the receipt of the
fifth annual issue of Wisconsin Far
mers' Institutes" at the hands of Hon.
William H. Morrison, state superin-
tendent. There is world of instruc-
ton and good reading in it, and such
reports constitute the best part of an
agricultural EDITORS library. Many
thanks, Brother Morrison.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
farm ano 8aroerr.

Address all inquiries or communications In relation
- agriculture to DIR. I. II. HosKINs, Newport, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

ness skill and astuteness would be ex-
ercised, not to trap and rob the honest
borrower, but to add TO his own integ-
rity of purpose the financial wisdom of
the lender. Knowing the returns from
his investment to be contingent upon
the successful labor of his debtor, he
would be transformed, by his interest
alone, from a hawk-like plunderer into
ga guide, philosopher aud friend"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

EDWARD ATKINSON, the eminent po-
litical economist, says, in the February
issue of the Popular Science Monthly:
Ga the observations of nearly half a
century of business life the writer has
been almost brought to the conclusion
that contracts would be fulfilled, COM
merce would go on, and debts would be
plid as fully, in the long-settled and
established communities now ex-
listing in many parts of this country, if
all laws for the collection of debts and
all acts of legal tender were repealed. {"
About fourteen years ago we expressed
in these columns our own conclusions
to this identical effect; but we worked
up to those conclusions not from the
starting point of the political economist,
but from that of the rural moralist.
Seeing how for so many years the fas-
cination of easy credit had enabled our
land-sharks here in rural New Eng
land to strip inexperienced young far
mers inheriting landed property, by ad-
vancing them money on mortgages, we
were led TO look into this question, and
to conclude that the abolition of legal
lied credit would take away this ruin
ously destructive advantage which the
law gives to the INSCRIPTIONS and
crafty capitalist over his inexperienced
neighbors. That Mr.. Atkinson has
reached the same conclusion from 80
different starting point is at least in
teresting, and gives us courage to hope
that what may have seemed an rides
cent dream will in time become real
lied benefaction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

II not unfrequently happens, when
mans friends urge him to "spunk
up, and be somebody" that the first
sign of spunk he shows will be toward
his advisers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

PUBLIC evils are rarely reformed by
public virtue, or wisdom. Our great
reformer is direful necessity. How
ever wise and just reform may look,
no sufficient incentive is likely to spring
from that fact. Inertia and gross self
ishness prevail, until the CALLING of the
iron collar awakens violent and danger
GUS commotion. Then concessions will
be made; but commonly just enough to
quiet agitation for the time. Progress
under popular government is success
sion of staggers, more or less in the
right direction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

Undoubtedly many diseases may be
prevented if the blood is kept pure and
the general health-tone sustained by
the use of Hoods Sarsaparlla. When
this is done, the germs of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

give, this week, the meaty and lively
paper of John Gould, which we find
closely reported-all but the Irish anec.
dote at the end--in the New England
Homestead, as follows:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

VERY few have any idea of the ex-
tent to which, in years past, this evil
has existed. Two estates that have
been in the course of settlement within
the last ten years, 10 a certain Vermont
county, had among their assets mort
cages on over seventy farms-every one
of which, we understand, was fore
closed. This is one of the causes why
there are so many abandoned farms ="
in New England; while so many of
these foreclosed mortgages, throwing
so much farm property on the market,
have also caused a great depression of
farm values.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Picture Of Health

and is in the front rank in her studies in the
High School. Her father is a well-known
police officer
"MessrS c. |. Hood & Co.:
II write to tell how much good Hoods Sar-
saparila has done for me. Sometime ago
had diphthera and was sick for year after
ward being
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Greatest Blood Purifier

ever brought before the people Some of my
friends say go away with your medicine /
said the same once, but since my daughter
has tnkpn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Weak, Blind and HELPLESS

used one bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla and
II made me real strong" MATTE A. COBB,
South Chester Avenue. Providence, RI
AS my daughter wanted to write how well
she liked Hoods Sarsaparilla, | thought
would say few words / think it is the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
la Grippe, Diphtheria

Pneumonia Scarlet and Typhoid Fevers.
Malaria, etc, cannot lodge in the system.
After all such Frustrating diseases Hoods
Sarsaparllla has been found of inestimable
value III restoring desired health and vgor,
and purifying the tainted blood.
FOR example, read the following from Miss
Matte A. Cobb of Providence, r. l., and her
mother. Miss Cobb is Young lady of Ii. a
, 1892-07-06

into power will be to ~reinstate all evictsd
tenants. This is being used as almost an
election cry already by leading and distin-
guished Anti arnellites, and coming as it
does from such responsible sources they are
perfectly justified in so doing, for Mr.. Glad
stone has never oontradicted these statements.
However the general election turns, grave
danger must arise when the people find out
that they have been duped and misled by
promises unprinoipled in their utterancs and
impossible in their execution, as those who
made them must have know at the time.
Mr.. Gladstone's return to office is eagerly
looked for by those who live By agitation,
which will entirely die out if he is defeated
at the polls, by all tomenters of lawlessness
and disorder, and by those who have every.
thing TO gain and nothing to lose by the dis
turbance and agitation which it must produce.
while it is dreaded by all those who have the
true interest of the country at heart, by all
who have a stake in it and whose prosperity
and welfare depend upon peace, and finally.
by law-abiding people Of al oreeds and sec,
tons. Your ohedient servant,
Dublin May 30. SENEX.
, 1892-07-06
EMIN PASHA.

The June number Of PstermaD's Mithei-
Lanqen. published at Berlin, contains the re-
port Of Emin Pasha's last expedition, written
by Dr.. Stuhlmann, who accompanied him,
from which it appears that Enin'S rimary
intention was merely to III Ike a geographical
investigation of the borderland between the
British and German spheres Of Influence,
which lies 1 deg, south of the equator, espe-
cially with a view to fixing the position of the
southern end of Lake Albert Edward. He set
out from Kahura on March %, 1891. and,
leaving Stanley's route to the north, marched
through unknown districts to the southern
coast of the lake, which was reached at the
beginning of May. Starting OH May Is from
the south end Emin continued his march in o
Rortherly direction, leaving On his right the
lake and the snow capped mountains beyond
it. One of these mountains DR.. StuhlmanR
assembled, reaching al elevation of nearly
14,000ft
On the way Emin fell in with his for
mer followers, who were living near Kaval-
Ii, On the Albert Nyanza, and from whom he
obtained some interesting details as to the
melancholy fate of his province. Out of this
band 1872 Soudanese joined the expedition,
which then continued its nOrtherly route as
far as Ituri 2deg. 13lnin North latitude ap-
pears to have been the most northerly point
reached by the expedition. Whatever his
object may have been Emin was compelled to
abandon it owing to the lack of provisions,
and the impossibility of getting bearers in
districts scourged by slave traders.
The homeward journey was begun on Sep
tember 80, following almost exactly the route
traversed on the outward march. Disease,
starvation, and hostilities bsre heavily on the
expedition, and Emin himself fell i'll and almost
completely lost his eyesight. 1t was found
necessary, owing to a severe outbreak of small
DOE, to divide the expedition, and on Decem-
Der 10 DR.. Stuhlmann was sent forward with
, 1892-07-06

those who were able to travel. He waited a
considerable time in Kinjawanga for Emin,
but hearing no tidings of him up to January
Is, he made his way in accordance with his
instructions, to the German station of Bukoba
on lake Victoria, where he arrived ON Feb
ruary Is. AS to the scientific results of the
expedition, it is stated that in all probability
Mfumbiro lies to the west of the Goth merI-
dian, and consequently belongs to the Congo
State. The mountains known by this name
are a group Of volcanoes of which, accord
ing to the accounts of the natives, one ia still
active. -Ttmes.
, 1892-07-06

9Th inst, at the age OF "a. Mr.. NASSAU was
a native of Demerara and Il son of whom
the colony had no reason to be ashamed.
He was active, intelligent, reliable, an hon.
ourel citizen, and q worthy husband and
father. He will be greatly missed both in
his business connection and in his family
circle. We regret to say that he leaves
a widow ana five or six children, the eldest
of whom is only 8 years of age. Mr.. Smith
was a native of Bermuda, but he had lived
so long in Demerara that he had become 'one
of US For many years he was one of the
employees of the now departed firm of Messrs.
Samuel Harvey & Co.. and OH one occasion
when that firm had a very aorid correspon.
deRce with Governor Hincks over some absurd
charge laid against them Of smuggling goods
ashore from one of their vessels, they referred
to their clerk Smith, as one whom they had
known from boyhood and in whom they had
the greatest confidence. Mr.. Smiths loyalty
TO duty was a conspicuous feature i'll his char
acter aud his record showed how his services
were appreciated, for during his long career he
was in only two houses in the Street. His great
height made him a conspicuous figure
wherever he appeared, and few better known
men were to be found in the city. He
was buried with masonic honours. Mr..
Smiths wife pre-deceased him only a few
months ago.
, 1892-07-06

-Publtc Opinion gives a long description
of a ball given by Mr.. and Mrs, Centeno at
their residence, Coblentz, at which the
beauty and manhood Of Trinidad were large
" represented. THE house and its approach
Is were Illuminated in manner that was
quite fairy-like and if we except the crle-
brated tetes de nuit in the gardens of the Pa
lace Of Versailles we may safely say that
We have never witnessed a more tasteful
illumination. Every tree in the avenue lead
ing up to the house was brilliant with light and
the very grass g~listened with radiancy. In fact
the illumination was without a precedent in
the history of The island. Inside the house,
there was a perfect wealth of floral deooIa.
tionS, and the rooms were literally bowers Of
roses. The supper table was beautifully
adorned and one magnificent corbetUe of
Mlrshal Mel roses excited universal admir-
atiop." This degree of luxury and grandeur
cannot be reached in Demerara now a-days
by a private citizen, and can only be approach
ed by combined subscriptions. There are no
suburban palaces around Georgetown, and We
are all waiting TIE coming of the gold digger
TO show us how social state ought to be main
tlined -Demsfara Argosy.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23
Give the Choir Some Chauoe.

"Please do not outvoice the choir"
This notice has not yet made it's APP
pearance, but it may perhaps be looked
for by way of a compromise to the
more decided measures recommended
by a correspondent of the Guardian.
This person attended the commemora-
ton services at Ely cathedral, and
when the choristers and chapter, after
meeting the bishops at the west door,
came singing up the nave and turned
south and east into the procession path
round the choir, and SO out again un-
der the lantern, he desired nothing
bett sr than to listen. Unhappily be-
hind him was what he contemptuously
calls "a voice with young parson at
tached." The voice was n tenor: it was
even good tenor, correct in time and
tune. Its fault was, in brief, simply
its existence then and there. For this
voice behind seemed to fiji the place.
Might not the cathedral authorities,
asks the sufferer, request curates,
women, and ecclesiastical laymen (the
others don't sing having voices, or
voices having curates," to send in
their names the day before, so they
might be penned away in the north
transept or perhaps even outside tho
west Goor?-London News
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23

The drum muff of fur does excellent
duty as of yore for all utility uses, but
for dress purposes are sent out with
cloak or bonnet hundred and one
fancy muffs, designed for theater, opera
calling, etc. These mufls are variously
shaped and very elaborate. Birds, lace,
feathers, ribbons, buckles galloons and
fancy ornaments of cut jet, steel bronze
and silver are used in the construction
of a~oicles intended less to secure
warmth than ornament However, for
special occasions, these trifes, even
with the thermometer at zero, are not
to be despised. Imagination doubtless
keeps ont great deal of cold, and these
little fnger-cozies are at least visible
aims at comfort if they do but little
service. The larger, heavier muffs are
certainly best for general and useful
wear. Chicago Post
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23
TEACHING A HORSE TRICKS.
French feacher Says That 1t Is Hard
Work. Because Unnatural.

French Teacher says That 1t Is Hard
Work. Because Unnatural.
The greatest living trainer of per-
forming horses is the Frenchman Loyal.
He makes no secret of his methods,
which have often been published-latest
in that curious and entertaining book
by lie RouX and GARNER, 'Acrobats
and Mounte banks"
The horse, in the opinion of this ex-
perienced man, is one Of the dullest ami
mails created; it has but one fault-mem-
ory. 1t must be forced to learn its
tricks, which are imprinted on it's mera-
ory by the whip if it resist and by
presents of carrots if it obey. These
are associated in it's mind with certain
words or gestures, and it goes through
the list from fear of punishment on one
hand, and in hope of reward on the
other.
This is certainly different behavior
from the lively interest taFnn by horses
in racing. fox hunting and cattle herd.
ing, the active obedience and self-dis.
cipline of war chargers Or the steeds
used by tiremen; but in Il csc and SIM
liar instances the anim-@, naturally
gregarious and accustomed to compete
with his fellows, is doing C0hat seems
natural to him, and his er artions have
an object and result THAI ae can COM
prehend.
The feats OF the circus on the con-
trary, depend for their popularity large.
ly in forcing the animal to do what is
contrary to nature, such as strutting
about on his hind legs, posing himself
on pedestals where there is scarcely
room for his feet, lying down to be
tramped upon by his master or mistress,
balancing upon narrow pathway il.
imitation of an equili brist, and other
things-the more out of the way the
better in the estimation of the populace
in which il horse can take no Interest,
and must lose that self-respect and
pride which are so manifest in him un-
der under better circumstances. While
these teats are astonishing, they are
rarely graceful or agreeable to the
better taste.
Any horse, according to M Loyal can
be trained by judicious force; yet GER
tain breeds, as the Arabian horses and
those from Old Prussia are easier to
teach than any others, and the age is
of great Importance. The best educa-
tion is received between the fifth and
seventh years of the animals life; be-
fore that the horse is too eXcitable;
afterward, likely to be stiff. Frank
Leslie's Monthly
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23
CHILDHOOD.

remember, O, how plainly,
Just as though twas yesterday,
How % boy ana girl together
1 ana Bertha used to play.
How we wandered through the meadows
Culling flowers by the way,
As she'd list in rapt attention
10 each word l used to say.
Then we'd sit down meath the branches
O, the mape-naturo's nook,
A, VIC watched the suns reflections
Which lie mirrored in the brook
How she'd weave those fragrant flowers
IN wreath, with skill and ease,
Which She placed upon my forehead
A. kuclt upon my knees.
Aud us with sllv'ry laughter
She would bid mo rise sir knight
] felt prouder then know than
a monarch in his might
How we'd wander in the orchard
with its trees so grand and old
Where the ripcned fruit hung DER US
Like canopy of gold.
How ia climb among the branches
Though my head I'd often rap,
just 10 drop the rosy apples
FROM the tree into her lap.
Then we'd wander back together
As the evening shades appe ared
10 that dear old cottage homestead
To our young hearts so endearcd.
o, those halcyon days of childhood.
0, those golden days OF youth,
When each action was sincerity
Each spoken word the truth.
But that's many years ago
Though it seems but yesterday
That u boy and girl together
and Bertha used to play.
Prank r. Kerswell, in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23
HURRICANES AT WAR.
Titanic Combats Waged Between Fierce
West Indian Tempests.

TITANIC COmDatS Waked between Fierce
West Indian Tempests.
We all remember Virgil's vivid de-
scription of the Cave of the Winds
where King AIolus sat on lofty throne
of rock, and with the waving of his
potent scepter calmed the fury of the
imprisoned tempests, roaring impa-
tiently around and round to find place
of escape from their confinement, until
at the command of Juno he let Eurus
and Notus and Africus and kquilo--the
southeast wind, the south wind, the
southwest wind, and the north wind
loose to roll up the sea from its very
bottom, and overwhelm the ships of
Eneas.
This personification of the winds was
universal in ancient times, and curiously
enough, the modern science of meteoro-
logy seems to furnish some justification
for it. There actually is a kind of in
dividuality in winds and storms, and
sometimes they contend with one an
other in a manner that would naturally
induce a lively imagination to lilSen
them to struggling giants of the air.
A striking instance of the aversion
occasionally manifested between two
great circling storms was furnished
at the end of last summer by the terri
BILE hurricane which devastated the ISL
and of Martinique on the 2Sth of August
and another hurricane which, having
on the day before passed Bermuda,
spent it's fury in the middle of the At
lantic Ocean.
The ordinary course of West India
hurricane is toward the northeast, up
along the United States coast. but it
was noticed that the Martinique storm
abandoned the usual track, and moved
off in an uncertain manner toward the
northwest, finally dying away in the
Gulf of Mexico without getting out into
the Atlantic.
This extraordinary conduct and ig-
nominious ending of hurricane that
had started with almost unexampled
strength and fierceness, is now ex-
planned by the fact that, in attempting
to move along the regular course toward
the northeast, it came into collision, so
to speak, with the other hurricane, that
had passed east of bermuda and was
Just crossing the usual track of the
West India tempests.
Forming two great eddies in the at
mosphere, these storms, with their fly-
ing clouds and canopies of streaming
vepor, repealed one another, and the
result was that the Martinique hurri-
cane, as if batiled and weakened by the
Bermuda storm-giant, retreated into
the Gulf of Mexico, and there ended its
career.
What word-picture of such battle
royal in the atmosphere Virgil would
have given us!--Youth's Companion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23
A FILTHY CITY.
The People of PeIsln Are Far From C

The People of Pekin Are Far From CIeanIy.
If ever you go to Pekin, China, do
not stir out of doors after dark" said a
young Englishman recently. "While
was travelling in the orient fell in with
several young men and together we Wis
tied the Chinese capital We reached
there late in the evening, and after din
ner some of the party proposed stroll
through the streets. 1t was quite dark
when they set out and street illumina-
tion in Peliin is not very advanced.
They returned in an hour or so, and, as
they entered our sitting-room, those who
had remained within exclaimed: For
heavens sake, what smell is that?" A
most uncomfortable stencil seemed to
come from the persons of our compan-
ions. They had perceived it themselves,
they said, but could not account for it.
Lights were procured and examination
showed our wandering friends boots
and trousers covered almost as far as
the knee with reeking filth. They
cleaned themselves but their boots and
trousers had to be thrown away.
by daylight next day we learned the
cause of the. annoyance. The Chinese
cities are very dirty. The streets are
the dumping ground of all sorts of refuse
and excreta. The modern conveniences
are unknown there and the people use
the open streets for all purposes The
result is that the pedestrian has to pick
his steps to avoid planting his foot in
well, where he would not like to place
it If you are in Pekin and must go out
at night, take lantern with you."-
Chicago Post