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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
Highway EngImtcrIng.

Good roads require something more than
the labor of farmers measured out i'm the
spring payment OF petty poll-tax. In fact,
farmers might devote half their time to
working on the road and country high
ways would then show but little improve
ment over their present condition. 1t is
not more work that is needed, but better
plans; the methods of construction must
be scientific. This means that there must
be new profession of highway engineer
ing. 1t may constitute a branch of civil
engineering, but it will extend into field
which the civil engineer has not the time
to enter schools and colleges should make
provision for this new profession. The
course of study will include first the inn
portance of good roads The student must
know that their uses are commercial. So
cial, political and military, and to what
extent each of these elements of our ma
tional existence and prosperity depend up
on the common means of intercommunica-
ton. This involves history of highways,
extending from the times of the Romans
and Egyptians, since it is well known that
their supremacy in the world of their day
was largely due to magnificent roadways.
There are many points of distinction be
tween road and a street which the stu
dent must master Coming specifically to
the road, attention must be given to its eN-
pense or economy Then will follow the
question of shape or cross-Section, surface
or finish, direction or alignment, and grade
or inclination. There is much to learn on
the subjects of location, workmanship,
maintenance and legislation. The mere
enumeration of these points is sufficient tC
show that good roads depend upon techni-
cal skill quite as much as railroad and
bridges. They can never be had by the
aimless blowing and scraping which the
path-master throughout the country orders
every spring, not even though the work
extended through the year.
1t must be that every farmer realizes the
money value of good roads. "In the
/ Western wheat region is statement in
the tenth census report, according to the
estimates received, it costs the ordinary
farmer more tt carry two bushels of wheat
mile than it does the ordinary railroad tc
carry ton, consequently when we get
west of Lake Michigan it rarely pays tc
grow wheat more than 20 miles from raj
or water transportation. Having beer
convinced of the enormous odds against
him in his competition with the rest of the
world, the farmer is helpless in the effort
to equalize the condition, so far as reaching
a market is concerned. He must turn hi,
roads over to some one who knows what
they lack and can supply it. The highway
engineer is necessity of the future.
Chicago Herdid.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
Economy in the Great Packing Houses.

Everything-withOut particuariZng too
closel y-every single thing that appertains
to a slaughtered beef is sold and put to use.
The horns become the horn of commerce;
the straight lengths of leg bone 20 to the
cutlery makers and others; the CUTS become
sausage castings: their contents make tertil-
iZing material: the liVerS, hearts, tongues,
and tails, and the stOmachs, that become
tripe, all are sold over the butchers coun-
tiers of the nation: the knuckle bones are
ground up into bone flour for various
uses: the blood is dried and sold as pow
der for commercial uses; the bladders are
dried and sold to druggists, tobacconists,
and others: the fat goes into oleOmargar-
inc, and from the houfs and feet and other
parts come glue and oil and fertiliZing in
gradients. over the Slaughter-house
found series of rooms heaped full Of
bones and horns. The bones had been
boiled to get the fat OF the marrow as we'll
as to clean them Then they had been
dried and shaken about until they were as
smooth and clean as cotton spools. The
knuckle joints had been cut off them. and
one room was filled with the ground-up
flour of those parts. The white and pretty
bones that remained were to be shipped to
Connecticut, England, and Germany, to be
worked into knife-handles, fan-handles,
toothbrush handles, backs for nail-brushes,
sides for pen-knlves, and into button hook
handles, shirt-studs, cuff buttons, and so
on, dd iHfHitlm. What was to become of
the horns was still more astonishing. BY
heating them and then tapping them skill
fully, the operatives had loOsened the soft
cellular filling which solidiies and strength
ems each horn. The substance around
this, between it and the inner surface of
the horn, goes for glue the rest is ground
up into bone-meal. The horns were then
to be sent to the makers of horn goods,
who, by cutting each horn skilfully and
then pressing it between heavy rollers,
manage to spread each one out into a fiat
ribbon. In this shape ii can be used in a
thousand ways. The artiiicers who do this
work cut each horn spirally, so that it be-
comes tight curl capable of being straight
ened out. BY immense pressure the curve
is taken out of it. Good horns sell at sips
a ton. 1t is by such thorough economy
and ingenuity-by losing nothing and vast
ing nothing-that the great firms in this
business monopolized their field, A small
butcher in the East cannot kill his meat and
market it in competition with the stock
yards packers, because he must waste what
they save and sell.-HdTper'S Weekly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

The best handles of small tools are made
from the wood of the apple-tree, which is
extremely hard, when dry, and possesses a
fine grain. Moreover, it does not check
easily after it has been dressed. In the
case of a plane, while the handle proper
will be of this wood, the best wood for the
block in which the cutting part of the
plane is fastened has been found to be
secondgrowth beech which has grown in
a clearing. The trunk of such tree be-
low where the branches start is used for
this purpose with the best results.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

Whoever nowadays sees corn topped?
Yet it is within the memory of those now
living when in many sections that was the
common method of securing the crop. 1t
was argued by farmers that the corn rip
ened better for allowing the sunlight to
rest on the ears, and secondly, that the tops
cut off above the ear were the only part of
the cornstalk worth saving. 1t is true cat
tie did eat these toppings in winter, but it
is not strange that corn fodder was not
much relied upon for winter feeding.
There was not much of it saved, and the
best part, the middle of the stalk about
where the ear forms, was always left to
waste i'm the field. After standing months
exposed to all kinds of weather, cattle
would not eat the coarse stalks left after
the topping. By and by some one thought
to try the cows opinion. 1t is always the
same. Break off every ear and pass corn
stalk before the COW. She will reach for
the middle, crunching it in her mouth, and
doubling up the stalk as she chews on it.
When she has eaten all she wants she bites
OFF the ends, being the extreme tops and
the coarser lower part. Any one who has
watched a COW eat cOrnstalks will never
waste good fodder by topping corn. Be
sides, it is now known that the corn yield
is lessened, and no advantage is gained in
early ripening. American CuHtUdtor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
The rnrmer., In,er..t In Good Roads.

In five years time, says Edgar l.. Wake
man, have tramped along 5000 miles of
British roads. Each time | step my feet
upon their broad, firm, even surface, every
drop of American blood in me tingles with
shame at the thought of the mnd pixies
and bottomless road sloughs of our own
splendid country-rch, great and strong
enough to match the roads of Europe
without weeks delay. And yet for five
months out of every year, and in a lesser
degree for the other seven, half of the peo-
pie of the farming communities are inprs-
oned and impoverished helplessly at home.
As one result, the people of the whole
country pay, in an indirect road-tax,
through annual sharp advances on all food
necessities of life, all of which the farmers
lose, "A sum each year enormous enough to
maintain as superb roads as England any
where possesses, around every section of
cultiyatable land in the entire United
States,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
Railroads.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD.
New London Division,

GOlNG SOUTH.
Trains leave Brattleboro as follows:-
SEES A. NJ, for Springfield and New York daily
5:45 4 NJ, for Boston, via Belchertown and the
Central Massachusetts X. r., and for Block Is
land. Express from PalmerD
9:22 A. NJ, Millers Falls, Springfield and New
York.
1925 A. NJ, for Milers Falls. Boston and the West
via HoOsac Tunnel line, Palmer. connecting
with Boston & Albany r. r., for and from
Springfield Pittsfield and Albany, and from all
points West, and New London.
las p. NJ, White Mountain Express for New York
2:50P. NJ, accommodation for Springfield and New
York.
4:45 p. NJ, steamboat train for New York via New
London, and express for Springfield and New
York
GOING NORTH.
Trains arrive in Brattleboro:-
1907 A. NJ, from New London and New York.
1245 p NJ, from Millers Falls, Hoosac Tunnel
Boston, Fitchburg, etc.
3:l4 p. NJ, from Palmer and New London.
1924 p. NJ, White Mountain Express.
6:35 p. NJ, from Springfield.
9:55 p. NJ Block Island express from New London
and from Boston. Mass, via. FitchbuTg and
Massachusetts Central road
1910 p. NJ, from Springfield and New York.
c. F. SPAULDING, Supt.
Corrected to Saturday, July ?, 1892.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize our advertised druggist to sell Dr.
Kings New Discovery for consumption. cough
and colds, upon this condition. If you afiiict
ed with a cough. cold or lung, throat or chest
trouble aud Will use this remedy directed,
giving II fair trial, and experience no benefit
you may return The bottle and have your money
refunded. We could not make this offer did we
not know that Dr. Kings New Discovery could be
relied on. It never dsappoints. Trial bottles
free at F. H. Holden & Co.'S drug store Large
size. so CENTS and 81 %
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

My son suffered night and day with rheumatism;
Your Sulphur Bitters cured him, and l am truly
thankful TO say they are an honest medicine
Mrs. w. II. Carleton, wife OF Deacon Carleton,
First Baptist Church. Winchester, Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

l.. b. Lord of Burlington has begun the
publication of the "Poultry and Horse Re-
view" a monthly paper whose aim, the
publisher says, will be to help the farmer
to catch "the little foxes" that spoil the
chickens and cut off the revenue from
horse ralsing-''and the most destructive
do not run on four legs" The initial
number looks well and is well edited, both
in its original matter and its selections.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08

One of the strongest reasons for conf
dence in the reelection of President Har-
business. 1t is not seriously denied even
by the calamity shouters that business
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08

is in excellent condition all over the
country. Our manufactures are all at
work and within the past week several
Of the largest of them have increased the
wages Of their operatives. Failures in
business are few and small in amount,
aud theSyolume of trade is large and
growing. 1t is rule which has adj
mitted of few exceptions, that admins
trations have not heen changed in times
of business prosperity. Business men
are timid and look with apprehension to
any movement which is likely to change
the conditions under which prosperity
has come. The election of Democratic
President is certain to change those
conditions or to bring a long period
of doubt and uncertainty which is
scarcely less disastrous. Hence every
business man is likely to feel today that
his interest will be best promoted by the
election of Harrison, and there will there
fore be strong inclination on the part
of all of them to vote in way to accom-
plish this result. Some of them will be
restrained from doing SO by their politi-
cal allegiance, but many of them will
break away from party and vote in the
way that seems most likely to conduce to
their business prosperity, that is for
Harrison and Reid.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08

The campaign committees on the eve
of election hold toward their respective
parties relation analogous to that of
commanders of an army on the eve OF
battle. Their business is to inspire their
troops with as much confidence as posi-
BILE. Hence it follows that the proclama-
tons which they put out will contain
altogether more of their hopes than of
their fears. Ever since 1890 the Demo
cratic national committee has on the eve
of a Presidential election expressed as
great confidence of victory as it does
now. 1t has always been certain that
there was to be an uprising of the people
in favor of the Democratic candidates.
1t is no more certain today than it was
four years ago when Cleveland was de-
feated by over sixty electoral votes; it is
no more certain than it was in 1872 when
it's candidate was overwhelmed Repub-
licans need not therefore be alarmed by
Democratic proclamations, no matter
how full of confidence they may be. They
are nothing but brag and buster, con-
cocted without any reference to the ac-
tual situation. They are expressions of
what the Democrats would like the situa-
ton to be rather than of what it actually
is.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08
WOODBURY. ( MOULT0N,
BANKEsRS,
Cor. Middle and Exchange SITS.
rov0 diff
The Attention Of Investors /!

Is invited to the Securities of the Northwestern
Guaranty Loan Company of Minneapolis,
MINI.
This company was founded in 1872, incorpo-
rated under the laws of Minnesota in 1884,
and had on Jan. 10Th 1892, according to the re-
port of the public Examiner and superintendent
of banks of the State of Minnesota.
Capital Stock paid in...... 81 ,25O 600 90
additional Liability Of stock
holders under laws of Minnesota 81 $50, 900 90
1t has never passed dividend, or defaulted
a payment. In a letter written by It's Vice
President to us on the 9th of june he SAYS,
1--WE are today mailing checks to our stock
holders the seventeenth Q7th) semi-annual
dividend at the rate of eight (8) per cent per an
mum. We will add Twenty-Five Thousand
dollars to surplus account July 1st."
We are offering for the present, at par and
accrued interest, The Gold Debenture Bonds
of this company issued in denomination OF $50,
of per cent payable Semi-annually.
These bonds are fully secured by q. deposit
of real estate and other loans, with its Trustees,
and also by guaranty fund.
We also offer Prime Commercial Paper,
Guaranteed by this Company in every case
secured by ample collaterals, at current rate
of interest.
We have handled large amounts Of this paper,
and in every instance 1t has been promptly paid
at maturity.
as when ever this has been made it has been
greatly to its advantage.
Inquiries by mail promptly answered.
CHAPMAN BANKING CO.,
1877 Middle Street.
ju2 eodn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY, NoyEBMER 8.
FOR PRESIDENT,
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WHITELAW REID.
FOR PRESIDENT,

OF course there is no uncertainty as to
where the electoral vote of Maine will
go. Mr.. Fred Emery Beane's blocks OF
ten device will accomplish nothing but
to convince the public that Mr. Became
has certain amount of humor in his
composition. Maine's six votes will go
to Benjamin Harrison. But no Republi-
can should refrain from going to the
polls because he feels that there will be
enough votes without his. A reduction
of the Republican majority in this state
would give good deal of encourage
ment to the Maine Democracy, and
might make it harder in the future to
defeat them. Besides it will be salts
faction to every Republican to feel that
he has done his part towards continuing
in power the present wise, progressive
and careful administration.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08
LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES

are, presumably, to cover a
period of years; and, as no man
can fOresee what his health is
to be, or whether he will live,
or be continuously prosperous
i'm business, it beh0oves him to
know at the start that his
.'rights'' are clearly defined
in the Policy itself, so as to
cover any contingency which
May arise. The Policies of
your Home Company, the
UNION MUTUAL, fully pro-
vide for this imperative need.
noy5 eOdtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08

1t is evident that the Democrats are
concentrating all their strength in the
State of New York. Without the cleo
toral vote of that State they know that
Cleveland cannot possibly win. Hence
nothing that money and fraud and bull
doing can accomplish will be left undone
to secure the vote of that State. They
have exceptional facilities this year be-
cause Hills legislature enacted law
which places the count in New York and
Brooklyn almost completely in the con-
troll of Democratic inspectors. 1t is to
facilitate miscounting, should that be
necessary, that they are opposing the
admission of United States marshals in
side the guard rail- There are plenty of
signs that with fair a ballot and count
they fear defeat, and hence are prepar-
ing to resort to practices that are com
mon south of Mason and Dixon's line,
but have been almost unknown in the
North of late years. But though New
York is absolutely essential to the cleo
ton of Cleveland, the Republicans can
win without it. So, even if the Republi-
cans are not able to defeat the frauds
which the Democrats are meditating in
the metropolis, the chances are still in IA
vor of the election of Harrison and Reid.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08

Look out for cheap substitutes! Beware of
new remedies. Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup has
stood the test for nearly fifty years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-08
We OFFER FOR SALE
Municipal Security
COMPANY
) 1-2Per Cent Bonds
DUE 1899.
Especially secured by Municipal Evidences vide
OF Indebtedness, deposited with the Trustee
The par value of such deposited debts and OBJ
legations, exceeding BY ten per ceng. me P RAJ
Security Company.
DIRECTORS.


Byron ID. verrilI, President, Attorney at
Law, Portland, Maine
Weston Lewis, President MaineTrust and
Banking Company, Gardiner, Me.
Stephen j. Young, Treasurer BowdOIn
College, Brunswick, Me.
L. L. Keith, President Machias Bank and
Treasurer Machias Savings Bank, Machias,
Me.
Theodore C. Woodbury., of Messrs. Wood
bury & MoultOn, Bankers, Portland, Me.
The bonds are in denominations of $1,000,
$500 and 800, bearing 51a Per Cent. interest,
payable semi-annually at the Company's Office
in Portland, Maine.
We have made careful examination of this
Security and can recommend these bonds for
Trust Funds, as we believe them to be a per-
fectly safe security, based as they are on the
promise of a Company in sound financial stand
ing, and secured by Municipal Obligations.
ton in regard to these bonds upon application.
Price par and accrued interest.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1892-07-01
THERE were but two candidates

THERE were but two candidates
before The McCook convention for
the congressional nomination-W.
E. Andrews and d. NJ. Nettleton.
Andrews was nominated for con-
gress and Nettleton was chosen as
presidential elector. Both will
get there 80. PROF ANDREWS, in
his speech in this city last Friday
night paid a tribute to James G.
Blaine, which o'ershadows all that
has ever been said of the great
statesman, when he said that Mr..
Blaine was "the only man in Amer
lea who had really risen above the
Office Of PRESIDENT The Sc
lection of John L.. McPheely, of
this city, as chairman of the con-
sressional committee was a timely
choice. and means a red hot cam
naign from start to finish. Nc is a
GOOD organizer and hard worker
himself and he will inspire the
other boys to active work also. Ii
Andrews is not elected it will not
be the fault of J. L, McPheeley.-
MilI-a Gazette.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1892-07-01
General John w. Foster

General John w. Foster was
Wednesday appointed secretary of
state by President Harrison and
promptly confirmed by the senate.
General Fosters diplomatic exper-
fence fits him for the position. He
has been minister to Russia, Mex
leo and Spain and had a great deal
to do with negotiating the recipro-
city arrangement with the latter
country. He has also represented
the State department in the nego-
t~iation of other reciprocity agree
ments, and no one has a more
thorough knowledge ofthat policy.
He has been under the present adj
ministration the diplomatic attor-
ney of the state department, and
in that relation has proved himself
a most able and useful official.
General Foster is said to be entire
ly familiar With every phase OF the
Boring sea controversy, and as the
arbitration is near at hand his
counsel will be important and val
liable. Besides his extensive ex-
perience in diplomatic affairs, the
new secretary of state is a lawyer
of superior attainments. He en-
Joys the full confidence of the pres
ident and is in complete harmony
with his views on all the subjects
with which the state department
has at present to deal. He is to
be credited to Indiana, although
for a number of years a resident
of the District of Columbia.-Bee.