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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-31
THE FUNERALS.

Sunday afternoon union funeral service
were held at the First N. E. church at
Wellington. Tie building was crowded
TO suffocatiou. six collins, four black ones
aud two white, formed sorrowful line,
end to end in front of the altar The
funeral procession filed out TO the cemetery
at o'clock, there being Que hearse, The
rest Of the collins resting in spring wagons.
Those that were buried were Mrs. Sas her,
Kitty Strain, John Adamson, Hart
Epson, Jim HASTE aud James Mayor.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
THE DAIRY IN COLD WEA TIER.

When the weather is cold enough
to keep the thermometer below fifty
degrees during the day there will be no
need for fire in the dairy-room or
box to keep the milk in if deep cans
are used Select corner in a clean
room, use cans made eight inches in
diameter and eighteen inches deep,
with close-htting covers. Set them
all in the corner of the room, putting
the fresh ones with warm milk in
them a little way from the others
when the weather is not very cold.
But in zero weather cover the cans
at night with one or two blankets,
SO that the milk will not freeze. If
one has never tried the deep, cold
method of setting milk, this will be
an excellent and economical way Of
making the experiment. The cans
can be bought of any dealer in dairy
implements along with the necessary
dipper. In skimming remember you
must take off nearly, if not quite,
one-third of the contents of the can
before you get down to the skim
milk. Keep dipping until you come
to it. You can easily tell it from the
rest American Agriculturist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
cows LESS A MYSTERY.

The dairy cow is yearly growing
to be less mystery. At farmers
institute in Genesseo, N. Y, John
Gould is reported as saying substan-
TALLY that there had been a great
change in the stable life of the dairy
COW. Today it begins with the calf.
Heretofore we have kept the dairy
cow as we did a steer. We sought
to make her hardy by exposure. To-
day hardness is not a factor. We
from the elements to save food and
increase her yield of milk. With this
new care we find a need Of knowledge
of foods, and of motherhood, neces-
sary, and the most successful of us
obtain it. Back of good feeding and
care is something else-high breeding,
making the best type of the animal,
today, an artificial one. Of the fif-
teen millions of COWS in the United
States of America today, less than
one million can lay claim to being
thoroughbred. SO that we must inn
prove and build up our native breeds,
and we should breed for a purpose,
first knowing what that purpose is.
When we have found it out we must
follow certain fixed rules. Do not
feed the calf sour milk nor dry timo-
thy hay, nor allow it to stand out
and fight flies, neither feed it too
much fat-forming foods. Give it
those foods that make bone, and the
red meat. Keep it growing and inn
proving. Generally the same cost
for food to make a pound of 3cent
beef will make a pound of 25 cent
butter. Have all heifers come in
milk early and in the fall, and handle
them carefully and kindly; begin to
develop the udder while the heifer is
yet a calf; you will then have no
trouble with them when they reach
the stage of motherhood. Give them
place in the stable and do not
change it; change causes loss.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
GLEA NINGS.

Some farmers give more attention
to blooded stock than they do to
properly rearing their own children.
1t is our firm belief that one-half OF
the failures in profitable butter max
ing are due to an ignorance of the
real butter status of the cows.-|Geo.
E. Newell.
Farming will bear more abuse, en-
dure more slackness, stand up under
m ore laziness and outlast more neg
lect than most any other kind of
business Maine Farmer.
He who can put a question fairly
and squarely to nature, and wait
perhaps lifetime for the answer, is
more than one man picked out of ten
thousand: but upon such men the
progress of our agriculture depends
The duty placed on hay by the
United States has been the best thing
that has happened to Canadian
farmers, for it has taught them to
feed it instead of selling. 1t pays
more sold in England as cheese than
IN the Sta ties a hay.
Apples grown in grass ground will
keep longer than the same fruit grown
on cultivated land. Late keeping
varieties therefore should always be
grown in grass lands. So said Mr..
Hadwen at a recent meeting of the
massachusetts, horticultural society.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
For tf1r Farm.
KEEPING POTATOES FOR PLANT
ING.

1t is important to keep potatoes
intended for planting in as nearly
dormant condition through the Win
ter as practice BILE. On the approach of
the warm weather OF spring they are
more or less started into vigor; and
the early varieties-will often send
out sprouts one or two inches long
before the late ones show any dis
position for growing. The growth
of these early shoots draws on the
vitality of the tubers, and when
planted they make a more feeble
growth at the outset, and instead Of
coming forward as early as possible,
when every day of maturity is re-
garded as valuab BILE, they are put
back and DELAYED for use. So great
is this difference between early and
late varieties IN sprouting, that 1t
has sometimes been actually found
that the late sorts give earlier crops
than the reported early ones.
Some difference of opinion exists
among cultivators as to the degree of
low temperature which they should
be kept through the winter. Po-
tatoes are remarkable for their sensi-
tiveness to cold. They will freeze if
but little below the freezing point of
water, and are not like apples endur
ing several degrees of frost. 1t is
safe, therefore, not to approach too
near the danger line, and it would be
better, with the aid and guidance of
a thcrm ometer, never to go lower
than $50, at which point they will
remain strictly dormant. A uniform
temperature is important, and if al
ways at $50 it would be better than
a huctuating temperature even if
lower part of the time Cultivator
and Country Gentleman
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
PLUM TREES INHEN YARDs.

There is one kind of fruit that can
be better grown in the poultry-yard
than anywhere else. We refer to the
plum. Plant plum trees fifteen feet
apart, and fill the entire enclosure
with them, surrounding the fence
with a wire to keep the hens from
flying over. The land should not be
cropped, but ploughed in spring and
cultivated twice a month through
the growing season, sowing in sum-
mer oats at each cultivation, and the
last time in fall, sowing rye. The
fowls thus will get exercise with their
feed. Their droppings, together with
the green heritage ploughed under, will
keep the land rich, and either the
cultivation or the hens will destroy
or brighten away the curculio, secur-
ing good crops of fruit after the trees
come to bearing age.-[Boston Guilt
VatOr.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
THE FARMERS, CLUB.

Every town should havea farmers
club. Every farmer should attend it
faithfully. A well-conducted school
house club stands next to the agri-
cultural paper as a means of dissem-
mating useful knowledge among
the farmers. Theclu can deal with
The local issues of the particular sec
ton where it is held, while the paper
must needs be more or less cosmopol-
itAn- 1t is simple matter to have
q club. A few good, earnest, active
members are all that is needed.
There is very little need of a lengthy
constitution, or of wasting time over
obscure points of order. There needs
be chairman. who shall preside at
the meetings, and secretary to give
the required notices of the gather
iIgs. Long papers, as a rule, are
not desirable, but if every one will
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10

to such a pitch of well-balanced
wisdom and naturalness as one
generally encounters with Joy only
among the common people" Such
man, working in such a way. is
the best possible exempliication of
the essence of democracy and of
Christianity.
The Russian landowners and
mobiles, while not often personally
following the example thus set them
in the brotherhood of man and the
community of human interests,
have literally aided Tolstoi with
money, thus recognizing the efficiency
of his methods. The government,
though it has shown itself in other
cases distrustful of individual efforts
to fight the famine, has not only per-
mitted but encouraged the Tolstoi
plan. A cruel and malicious report
was lately set afloat that the reverse
was the case, but it has been con-
clusively contradicted by direct
cablegrams from Tolstoi and Coun-
tess Tolstoi to Miss Hapgood, who,
as, our readers know, has charge
of the American contributions to
Tolstoi's fund. To this fund many
of our readers have given, and we
heartily commend to others this
method of reaching the Russian suf-
ferers as direct, effective, and free
from waste or red tape.
The lesson that is suggested by
this man of genius who turns from
literary absorption to practical
philanthropy, by this "theorist"
who tramps from village to village
carrying food and comfort to the
needy, but this aristocrat in birth
who gives his peasant brother not
charity, but sympathy and loving
kindness, needs no ampli6ca ton. A
man like this not only gives noble
example to his class, but is an in
spiration to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Union.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10

We call your the fact that have the equipped
printing office in Northeastern Vermont and
prepared to print anything
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
CONCORD & MONTREAL R. r..
October, 5, S91.
Passenger Service
from St. JOhnSbury.

For Woodsville, Plymouth. Laconia Til
ton, Concord: Manchester, Nashua, Lowell
p. Arrive Boston sos a m, 5 O5, SIS
D. m.
Sundays LAO a. M, arrive Boston O5 a m
The 40 n. m. train daily has through
sleeping The 2. ga p. train has through
parlor cars.
For St Johnsbury via Plymouth and Wells
River.
Leave Boston 900 (ex.) a. m, 100, us
(ex.l p. N: Sundays 7.15 p. m
Leave Lowell 9.45 (ex.) a m, 1.47, 7.5S
(ex.l p: m. Sundays 7.5S p. m.
Leave Nashua Jc. 1915 (ex.) a. M, 2.13, $50
(ex.) p. m. Sundays $50 p. m.
Leave Manchester 1915 (ex.) a. m, a.
900 (ex) p. m. Sundays 900 p. m.
Leave Concord Ills (cx.) a. m, $50, $40
(ex.) p. N. Sundays $40 p. IN.
Arr. st. Johnsbury $40, 1856 pm. 2.17a M
The a. m. train from Boston has through
parlor car. The us p. m. train daily has
through sleeping cars.
T. A. MacKINNON, w. A STOWELL
Gen. Manager. Acting Supt.
F. E. BROWN G. P and T A.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
COUNT ToLsTor AND THE FAMINE.

In the amine-stricken and i'm
poverished condition of the peasant,
Tolstoi has found a practical op-
pOrtunlty Of illustrating his theory
of personal quality and the equal
bearing Of burdens. Together with
several members of his family, he
has gone out from the ordinarily not
too luxurious life of his country
home to one of positive hardship,
has reached the very heart of desti-
tute districts, and has ministered in
person to the halfstarved peasants.
One of the results of his efforts has
been the establishing of no less than
seventy free eating-houses, in each of
which fifty people are fed twice a
day. The Russian peasant is a much
enduring, reticent, patient being; and
when, with this i'll mind, one reads
of once strong men breaking into
weeping from sheer weakness, and of
women looking on stupefied while
their children die of hunger and cold,
hecan form some idea Of the character
of the scenes which Count Tolstoi
encounters daily. The panic" he
says. lis terror which people catch
ike 1HISCllOU one lIOul dHOlHeI, anu
which paralyzes their power of act
ing in concert" The actual suffering
is extreme, the outlook for the future
is gloomy. There seems no POSSIBLE
ity of permanent improvement until
a harvest whose seed is not vet
sown is reaped. The peasants are
without bread, without seed-grain,
without money, and almost without
hope. Among these wretched people
Tolstoi constantly moves about
clothed in his peasant blouse, aiding,
advising, encouraging, and distribut-
ing food and money with personal
judgment and extreme care. His
plan of assistance is the simplest
possible in organization. the cheap
est and most efficient in execution
The peasants know him as their
friend. trust him thoroughly, and
lean on his help with confidence and
hope. No one so well understands
the peasant character and peasant
ways a. does Tolstoi One well &C
quainted with him SAYS that she has
carried his own DISQUALIFICATION
not only externally but internally
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10

go prepared to bring forward a sim
gle subject. the programme will be
full, and the meeting an interesting
one. Occasionally some one from
another club may be invited to speak
at some length. and it is a poor
meeting that will let him sit down
with all his ideas unchallenged. The
club should be attended by the whole
family. and not simply by the men
folks. The women are as able as
any to make the evening interesting
and often more SOL American Agri-
cnlf11riSt
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
Guide.
Travellers Guide.
BOSTON & MAINE R. R.
PAsSUMPsEC DIVISION
WINTER ARRANGEMENT, October ., 1891
Trains Leave ST. > Oi.nsbury.

GOING SOUTH.
For Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Lowell
and Boston via White River Junction,
1925 a M, 9.O6 a.. m, 1927 p. m. Arriv
ing at Boston, sos a m, sos and 100
p.
For Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Lowell
and Boston via Wells River and P1ym outh,
40 a. M, 9.O6 a. M. 2.34 p. m. Arriving
at Boston, S. O5 a.. m, + So p. m, S.55 p. m.
For Bellows Falls, Northampton, Spring
field, Hartford, New Haven and New York,
1925 a. m, 9.O6 a. and 1927 p.
For Newbury, Bradford, Fairlee, Thetford,
Norwich and White River Junction, 2.25
am, o.O6 a. m, 1927 and COZ p. m.
9.O6 a. m, 1927 and COZ p.
For Wells River, 1925 a. m, lao a. m,
9.O6 a. M, 1927 p. m. "a p. m, 6.O7
p. m.
GOING NORTH.
For Lyndonvile and Newport, 2.22 a: m,
3.15 a. m, 1885 a. m, 3.13 p. m, 4.3S p.
m, 7.55 p.
For West Burke, Barton and Barton Land
ing, 3.15 m, 1885 a. m, 4-3S p. m.
7.55 p. m.
For Stanstead and Derby Line, Massawippi,
North Hatley, Lennoxvi1e and Sherbrooke,
3.15 a. m. 3.13 p. M, 7.55 p. m.
Ry., SIS a. m, 7.55 p.
For Quebec via Sherbro0ke and Quebec Cen
trail Ry., 3.15 am, 7.55 p. m.
For Montreal via SherbroOke and Grand
Trunk Ry., 3.15 a. m, 1855 p.
For Montreal via Newport and Canadian
Pacific Ry., 2.22 a m, 3.13 p. m.
JAMES T. FURBER, D. ]. FLANDERS,
Vice Pres. and Gen. Man. Gen. Pass. Agt
H. Z. FOLSOM. Div. Supt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
ST. JOHNSBURY AND
LAKECHAMPLAINR R. r

Winter Arrangement, October 5. 1891.
Trains Leave 81. Johnsbury.
GOING WEST.
For Danvi1le, West Danville, Walden, Green's
boro East Hardwick, Hardwick, M orris-
vile and Hyde Park, 7.35 a. m, 800 p.
M, AS p.
For Johnson, Cambridge Junction, Burling-
ton, Fletcher, Fairfield, Sheldon, Highgate
and Swanton., 7.35 a. M, 9. 20 p. m.
For Stanbridge, St. Johns, and NJ ontrea1 via
East Swanton. 500 p.
GOING EAST.
For East ST. Johnsbury, North Concord,
Miles Pond and Lunenburg, $50 a. m,
$40 p. m, $50 p m.
For Whitefe1d Fabyans, Crawfords, Glen,
North Conway. Fryeburg, Portland,
Bruins wick. Lewiston, Augusta, Watervil1e,
Bangor and st. John, $50 a. M, 2.4Op
H. E. FOLSOM, D. ]. FLANDERS,
Supt. Gen. Pass. Agt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
Barden
Automatic Creamery

before buying any other. Thousands of Sep
arators in use. All Creameries are warranted
to be just as represented or no sale.
To the Barden Creamery Co.
Having been using one of your creameries
l can say it does all that is claimed for it. 1
could not be induced to get along without
it. AS long l keep a dairy l can make
more butter with less work in caring for the
milk. l can churn in from 20 to 80 minutes
LYMAN STEVENS, Danville, VT.
To the Barden Automatic Creamery Co.
can say that it works much better than
l expected. 1t makes more butter with less
than half the cost. l would not have it
taken out for 500 if could not get another
H. PIERCE.
c. E. Kirk, Agent:
When you and Mr.. Barden here
last fall to sell me creamery 1 told you /
had been thinking for time about
changing from the large pans to creamery
but had not seen one that suited me. l then
looked the Barden and told YOU I
after over two months trial know it is. The
workm anship and action are perfect and it
does its own Swimming. There is lifting
of cans nor gearing to fuss with. l think the
difference in the quantity and quality of my
butter will more than pay for it this year to
say nothing about the saving of labor which
my wife begins to think is small item.
IRA G. SMITH.
East st. Johnsbury, Jan. s.
ton address,
The Barden Cream Separator Co.,
Middle Granville, N. W,
Or CHARLES E. KIRK, Agent,
st. Johnsbury, VT.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
OF Interest to Dairymen.

To those who think of buying a creamery
would be pleased to have them inVesti-
gate the merits of the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10

Among DIR. Cages many triurnphs over
disease is his great discovery, by which he is
enabled to guarantee cure in every of
Hem orroidal Tumors or charge nothing. If
afflicted with any disease you consult
Dr. Gage free from charge.
Judge B. E. Badger of Concord N H.
says:-I have suffered 80 years with Bleed
ing and Protruding Piles and DIR. Gage has
entirely cured me by one painless application.
l was not inconvenienced-held court every
Daniel Quimby of East st. JohDsbury, men,
Der of family cured of terrible of bleed
ing and protrudng piles
Geo Gle of Littleton, also cured of bad
case and other troubles.
c. NJ. Badger of Barton has suffered years
VIM. J. Berry, Lyndonvile. cured of an in
jury to spine which physicians had tried
years in vain to help.
H. a. Hail. Barnet, cured of lung disease,
etc.
A. T. Gay, Groton, VT, cured of lung
disease and hemorrhage.
Mrs. w. E. Russ, White River Junction, VT,
given up with ovarian tumor large per-
sons head, female difficulties, heart disease
and dropsy- DIR. Gage cured her and he did
not see her.
Mrs. Orrin Weber, Manchester. N. H.
crutches fourteen years with terrible ulcers
on limbs. cured.
Mrs. Charles Bridgeman. Suncock, n. H,
had lucrative catarrh so badly that it had
eaten a hole through roof of mouth and de-
stroyed her palate; general health feeble;
cured eight years ago and is still well
and strong
Isaac Buttrick, Londonderry, N. H., SON
cured of deafness and catarrh; wife cured
of scrofulous punches neck.
DIR. Levi B. Dodge, Waterford VT, very
low with kidney disease, frightful bleeding,
etc. cured and DR.. Gage did not see him.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
GRATING A SUCCESS IN AMERICA

The universal favor in which graft
ing is held in America is a strong
presumption in its favor. We differ
among ourselves as to the best
methods of performing the operation,
but | have never heard an intelligent
American condemn the system as
necessarily bad or wrong. In 1890
there were growing in the United
States nurseries $40, 57O.666 apple
trees, Sc, 494, 1867 plum trees, II, 223,-
400 pear trees and 40, 1877, 1894 peach
trees, with enough other species to
make the total of trees SIS, DIG, 612.
All of these will go as grated or bud
ed trees to the consumer, aud he will
accept none other. 1t is true thai half
of them may die before they reach
bearing age from various causes,
but grating itself plays small
part in the failure, as may be seen in
the case of grapes and small fruits.
which outnumber the tree-fruits in
nursery stock, and of which less than
One-half probably reach maturity,
and yet these are all cutting
plants. 1t Is in nineteen cases out of
twenty the carelessness of the grow
er which brings failure Garden and
Forest
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-07-15
How a Fish Sees.

The medium in which fresh. water
fishes live gives them chance to sec a
great distance only in the horizontal
direction, and the proper adjustment Of
the eye would make, under usual con-
ditions, the optical axis take this direc.
tion. To me it seems impossible to ex-
plain the constant revolution of the eye
ball on any other hypothesis except that
gwen, viz: That the optical axis ex-
tends forward instead of sidewise.
When fish wishes to eat anything,
either at the bottom OF the pond or at
the surface of the water, it swims
directly toward the object; and in this
case the eyes arc instantly adjusted in
line with the body, so as to bring the
image of the particle desired upon the
posterior portion of the retina. In this
case they lose their usual horizontal
position.
If a fish wishes to turn to the right or
left in the water, says Professor Apgar
in the American Angler, the first move.
ment is that of the eyes in unison in the
direction of the turning. This would
be entirely unnecessary if the apparent
axis was the axis of most distinct vision,
as one of the eyes would see all that was
to be seen on the side of the turning.
After this movement of the eyes the
body turns enough to bring the eyes into
their normal position, then there is again
a movement of the eyes and next a move.
ment of the body. This causes a peculiar
jerking motion of the eyeballs during
the whole time of the turning of the
BODY,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-07-15
Iepers Proof Against Electricity.

"Down at Honolulu" said Harry Dia-
mond, ~ had a battery and worked the
innocent Kanakas with the old trick of
the five dollar gold piece. That is, I'd
place the piece in the bottom of n jar of
water connected with the battery. Then
Id tell the native boys that they could
have the money if they'd pick it out of
the lar and hold the hand on the other
pole of the battery at the same time. OF
course the moment their hands struck
the water the circuit was completed,
their fingers would be doubled up and
they couldn't touch the money il their
fortunes had depended on getting it. l
had many laugh and achieved quite
reputation among the boys as a wizard
who controlled the devils in the water. y
Zone day when several young ladies
were in the office lad came in, pushed
on by a number of companions who had
attempted to secure the So and failed.
He had been persuaded TO try for the
money, and | explained the trick to the
ladies in an aside as | arranged the ap.
paratus. The boy took the handle and
We all prepared for a great laugh.
"He put his hand into the water,
slowly drew out my flyer, and quietly
walked oil with it, while stood with
my mouth open, afraid to face those
girls, aud praying for volcanic eruption
to turn the trend OF thought.
"The boy had the leprosy, and the
electricity didn't affect him. San Fran
cisco Examiner.