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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
IMPROVING WORKOUT so,La
How rAie Nay Ne Doae wtth Osu,s,ss,
FeYtiliaera and GreaS Crops.

How rhse Nay ne Doss wish Os~.evssss
Fsrtilissrs and Greah Crops.
A Missourian, in letter to Prsixie
Farmer, says that one way to help rum
down land so that profitable crops can
be grown is by using commercial fer
tilizers These, If properly applied. will
often materially increase the growth and
yield of the crops, but it is questionable
If they add any appreciate permanent
fertility to the soil. There is one way,
however, by which the use of this class
Of fertilizers can be made an advantage,
and that is by increasing the yield of the
crops, larger amount of feed is secured
and this affords an opportunity of max
ing more manure, and the more animal
manure that can be secured the better
the chance for building up the SOIL
Clover is one of the best materials that
can be used to build up the soil, and
wherever clover can be grown the land
is not past redemption. But some soils
will not grow clover. 1t is SO devoid of
vegetable matter that the clover plant
will starve c'lt. and in this case either of
two plans IN be followed. One is to
use commercial fertilizers, and the other
is to seed to rye and as soon as rea-
sonably good growth is secured pillow
under and SOW buckwheat. 1t is not to
be expected that land so poor that it will
not grow clover will have sufficient
available plant food to grow even fair
crop of rye, but the blowing in of even a
light growth will supply some vegetable
matter and generally sufficient to make a
crop of buckwheat secure fair growth,
One advantage in sowing buckwheat
in summer is that it makes quick
growth and it soon shades the soil, and
shade in summer aids materially in the
process of nitrifcation. The buckwheat
can be plowed under early in the fall
and rye sown again, and in the latter
part of February or the first part of
March clover can be sown over this and
usually will stand, and if plowed under
will afford a sufficient amount of plant
food to grow crop. Vegetable matter
is necessary in the soil, and this growing
and blowing under Of green crops is one
of the surest ways of securing it. Land
that is not SO badly run down but that
it will grow good crops of clover can be
built up with less cost, as clover can be
sown with small grain and the first crop
be cut for hay and the second be plowed
under as a fertilizer. In this way the
cost of building up may be greatly re-
duced
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
Children Cry for Pitchers Cas.oria

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once. Ash
your friends about 1t. 23-1y
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
Methods of Seeding wheat.

AT the Ohio station the results from
Hing wheat at depths of from one to
|lr inches as compared with those from
King broadcast are very favorable to
! Hing in 1892. The average results
four seasons at the same station also
Tor drilling. Cross drilling has given
ter results than drilling one way.
roller following after each hoe of
drill did not add materially to the
ID of grain.
abulated data are given for an ex-
ment at the Indiana station, in which
eat was sown in drills on four plats
depth of from one to four inches. and
i've plats at rates of from one-half to
bushels of seed per acre. The depth
le drills seemed to make little differ
in the yield, but in general the
increased with the amount OF seed
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
Bee BuZzingS.

Beekeeper Doolittle favors comb honey
in the house apiary and extracted in out
apiaries, leaving the honey all on at the
out apiaries till the season is over
Crimson clover, or scarlet clover, has
been highly praised as forage and honey
plant. j. Fremont Hickman of the Ohio
experiment station says that it does not
succeed as far north as Ohio.
Beekeepers have generally settled down
to the use of the A by II section.
DR.. c. G. Miller, Marengo. nls., is pres
fdent of the North American Bee Keep
ers' association for 1898; Frank Benton,
Washington, is secretary,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
Children Cry tor Pitchers Castssia

Send 10 cents for q subscription to . Nvel
matyimonial Journal for old and young. Ad
6ress. Orange Blossoms. YarnouthpOrt, Mass.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16

Lanes Family Medicine
Noves tho bowels each day. In order 70 b
healthy ~ b necessary. 3.ly
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
The Best Breed.

No question is asked any oftener than
Which is the best breedr' The aver
age poultry keeper-especially the begin
ner-has an ambitious yearning for IA
general purpose fowl. Long as it's ad-
vent has been expected, and frequently
as it has been announced, the perfect
combination breed remains an unknown
quantity. There are some breeds whose
business it is to lay eggs, and they do it.
/ There are others that at almost any age
make a toothsome delicacy but to find
fowl that will at one and the same
time suit the broiler, the rooster and the
egg specialists is a little outside of ma
ture. There are, however, breeds which.
1 when properly handled, come near
enough to the all around ideal fowl to
meet the requirements of large class.
I For the benefit of this class will be given
the opinion of several authorities on this
I yexed question of best breed. The edi-
tor of Farm Poultry says:
The best breed and the best cross is
difficult to answer. Among the best
breeds we rank the Langshans, Plyn-
outh Rocks and Wyandottes. but the
Langshans are black feathered and dark
skinned, hence less desirable for table
use Ito sell in market.) Probably the
| White Wyandottes come nearest to a
perfect all purpose fowl, as they are she
very best of poultry and are very great
layers. For crosses Brown Leghorn male
on Plymouth Rock females gives very
great layers, but Leghorn male Drown
or white) on Light Brahma females gives
better poultry, combined with great lay
| ing qualities.
j. K. Felch, after 80 years. experience
with the various breeds, advises the
selection of Light Brahmas, Leghorns,
Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks as
paying the best for extra care, for all
practical purposes" A correspondent in
The Country Home says, tine nearest
general purpose fowls are the Plymouth
Rocks and Wyandottes. American Gull
tlvator says, Our American breeds, the
Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes. are
much alike i'll qualities and perhaps come
nearer general purpose fowl than any
Others"
The well known English authority
Tegetmerier, writes in London ex-
change: IF both eggs and fowls are de-
sired, Minorca hens may be kept. that
will in their first and second laying sea-
sons lay abundantly. If with these a
good short legged Indian game is run,
the chickens will be half bred, and thus
good eggs in abundance and good chick
ems for the table could be produced out
of the same yard.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
Relative Merits of Long and short Oats.

1t has been shown conclusively that
the short, plump oats like Welcome,
Clydesdale, ETC., are less digestible than
the long, thinner oats with thinner husks
or palese. 1t is also fact that the long
oats, which weigh less than the others
per bushel, have heavier kernels and are
more nutritious than the short oats. The
market. however. demands heavy oats.
If. then, we raise oats for market. the
Welcome class should be selected. If for
Dur own stock, then the long. slender
pats should be preferred. says The Rural
New Yorker.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria
When she had Children she gave them CastoriA
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27
Father and Son Reeoncild..,

The reconciliation of King Oscar Of
Sweden and his favorite son, Prince Os.
car, has at length taken place. The
king and the prince have hardly ever
met since the latter's morganatic mar
riage to Miss Ebba MunlI who was one
of his mothers maids of honor. Miss
Munk was not particularly pretty, but
had somehow or other succeeded in win
ming the affections Of Prince Oscar, who
was infatuated with her TO such n degree
that, notwithstanding the opposition of
his father and of all his relatives eXcept
his mother, he carried his way and mar
ried her, the ceremony taking place ct
Bournemouth in England.
Before this, however, Prince Oscar
had to renounce his claims to the sue
cession to the throne, as we'll as all his
privileges and prerogatives as a son Of
the king. He was deprived of the title
of royal highness, of all precedence save
that which he enjoyed as an officer in
the navy, and was reduced in every par
ticular to the rank of Il mere nobleman.
Moreover, he was practically banished
to Carlskrona, the great naval arsenal of
Sweden, where he lived quietly and un-
ostentatiously in small villa looking
out onto the port, winning universal
popularity by his unaffected and modest
demeanor. While there on one occa-
sion, he greatly distinguished himself by
saving from drowning Il sailor during a
terrible hurricane
Quite recently reconciliation between
father and son has taken place, and at
the request of King Oscar the Count and
Countess of Torbey have now left Carls-
krona and taken up their abode at Stock
holm, greatly to the satisfaction of the
queen, who has all along endeavored to
bring about more pleasant state of
affairs between her husband and her IA
voIite son.-Boston Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

For good many years past ballroom
reformers have been pretty constantly
agitating for the revival Of that stately
and classic dance, the minuet. The dis
inclination of young men to dance at all,
and their preference for the waltz when
they do condescend to ask for dance
has been an inert obstacle in the way;
but at last Herr Johann Strauss, the
famous Viennese musician, has sue
ceeded in obtaining trial of his pet
idea. At the White Cross society's char
table ball in Vienna 2S couples danced a
minuet. The men wore dress coats and
black knee breeches, while the young
ladies were all arrayed in white empire
dresses and sandals.
The experiment, we are told, was "a
great success" Perhaps we may pres
emily see the minuet in American ball
rooms. The cheapness and simplicity of
the dresses in which it, is danced will
lend it favor in the eyes of fathers of
daughters, but whether the daughters
will see the matter in the same light is
not quite SO certain.-San Francisco Ar
gonaut
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

along the coast. they frequently travelled
many miles over the ice on bays and in
Lets. Three nights were spent without
good shelter. They made a temporary
shelter of branches of trees and warmed
themselves at fires. Sleep was impossi-
bic owing to the cold
On one occasion it was necessary to
cross an arm of the sea II miles wide in
boat. The boat was leaky. Four row.
ers, the burgess and his wife, the guide,
dogs and sledge were all in the boat
They had to unravel rope to fill the
seams of the boat and prevent her from
sinking. They were caught in the run
ming ice and nearly carried out to sea.
The men gave themselves up for lost, but
they gained an isolated rock and finally
got to the mainland. The rest of the
journey, 1877 miles, was through the in
terror, crossing rivers by means of trees
lying across. Several snowstorms were
encountered, and 16 days were occupied
in the journey. Mrs. Burgess is the first
woman in Newfoundland to make such
a journey.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

What pleasure it is to see women
turn out in a well fitting tailor made
frockl With their short, neat, business
like skirts, patent leather boots, hair
done up tight and smooth, cravats spot
less and fastened with tiny pearl headed
safety pins, hats fitting well and perfect
ly secured, beautifully cut bodices and
well fitting chevrette gloves, they sally
forth, and though the day may be rainy
and boisterous they look little the worse
when they come home.
Even the men do not rival them in
turning up tidy after a long walk, with
the rain beating in their faces and the
wind trying its best to dishevel them.
For wear with the tailor made costume,
or rather with the tailor made skirt and
jacket, the ever comfortable blouse
bodice is with us always and shows no
signs of taking its departure-in fact, it
will be more seen than ever this spring.
New YoEk Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27
A Lenten Episode.

A certain metropolitan belle on late
bitterly cold day CHANGED to be crossing
town in Fourteenth street car with a
number of home going worlmen. An old
Irishwoman, laden with bulky market
basket, stood upon the platform loudly la
mentipg their slow progress. "Me hands
ull be froze aft me-" was her frequent
exclamation.
A Lenten opportunity to mortify the
flesh, thought the society girl to her
pretty self.
Your hands will keep warm if you
give me your basket to hold"
The old woman struck meditative at
titude and gave a long searching glance
over the others tailor made person. She
shook her head decidedly.
81 guess not. Me pocketbook's inside
that basket"
The blushing penitent deemed it un-
necessary discipline even for Lent when
rough fellow opposite took up her
cause with the protestation, "Ah, she's
all right. New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

The appearance Of those cheap imita-
tions of the genus swell upon the fashion
able thoroughfare on promenade is add
ing offensiveness to that which had al
ready aroused regret.
These overdone parsonages were wear
ing trousers too long and going without
topcoats during the cold weather Others
wore abnormal oatsreaching almost
to their ankles. Some of them wear rus
set shoes, giving rise to the suspicion
that they have escaped from Boston. But
all have a penchant for over large i'll
made boutonnieres and those dreadful
low crowned, cone shaped, extra wide
briinmed derby hats that are sight to
behold.
They are tho greatest set Of guys ever
let loose for the edifcation of an en-
lightened public. Where do they come
from? They are like unto the English
Johnnies that come over with the Gaiety
skirt dancers--the first of their kind
and perhaps they will disappear just as
did their English prototypes. .-Clothier
and Furnisher.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27
SmnlI Bows, Cannes.

"A sure sign of returning spring. said
leading citizen in o contemplative
mood to reporter, as they watched a
party of street urchins "plucking tops
near one of the big down town buildings.
II often wonder how these kids man.
age to change their games simultaneous
ly with the season. Just as the birds be-
gin to coo and twitter and mate for the
nesting season, so the season of tops,
marbles, stills and kite flying are inau-
gurated among the young Americans of
the male persuasion. Girls skipping
ropes and hoops are nothing to them.
"The epidemic of taking up game
when its season rolls around is as con-
tagious as we are told the cholera mi
crobes will be next summer. One day
the kids all over the city may be doing
just anything for amusement, and the
next day every mothers son of them will
have an old pecked up top and piece of
cord plucking away for dear life. 1t is
instinct, | think, and nothing else that
prompts them to take up certain games
at certain seasons. Regarding the imi-
tation theory, there never was q person
who saw the first boy spin his top in any
season, and, furthermore, no boy could
start the epidemic by spinning his top in
the fall of the year" kansas City
Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

Certain ladies charged with the duty
of obtaining data for study of young
humanity, now send to new mothers lit
tie blankbooks provided with questions
as to when the baby first exhibited the
sense of hearing, when he first took note
of light, what were his earliest signs of
distress and many more such, The ques-
tions are designed to furnish hints for
an investigation extending over the first
four years of the childs life. In time
all the books will be collected and sent
to Germany as aids to the persons who
are one day to announce the results of
an elaborate study of mental develop
ment during infancy and early child
hood.-New York Recorder.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27
Feminine Even When In Peril.

One humorous incident connected with
the fire is told me by member of En-
gine 25. He was with few members
of that company attempting to save a
screaming young lady who was hanging
from the third story of the Ames build
ing. At the risk of their own lives they
finally placed ladder ON the burning
building, and one man took the young
lady from her perilous position and placed
her safely on the ground. Instead Of
running as fast as she could for her life,
she carefully took hold of her skirts and
lifted them so as not to wet them and
slowly picked her way among the debris
and on to the opposite sidewalk, where
she disappeared. Boston Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27
The Women of Brooklyn.

The wives cut great figure in Brook
lyn-a lovely figure, of course-and one
that reveals wholesome and normal con-
ditions. Everything tends to widen their
freedom-the quiet city, the saving in
rents, the absence of the men and the
fatigue or the desire for entertainment,
either or both, of the men at night
Therefore the women have had the op-
portunity to build up pretty rivalry
for self improvement. They get the lat
est books from the libraries. They go to
cooking school in order to shine at din
ners of their own preparing. They
flock to dancing school that they may
triumph at their own parties. They pre-
pare papers TO read in other houses so
that the others may read papers at theirs.
There is no whim of feminine fashion that
is set spinning in New York but whirls
when it gets over to Brooklyn-always
provided that it does not cost too much
or require going to the theater.
The women are the very backbone of
the churches in which they sing and
hold fairs, and by means of which they
figure in circles that are proud of them.
Is it any wonder that they cannot toll
crate New York, where the shopkeepers
won't send a purchase around the corner
without pay in advance, where the pews
are private property in the best churches,
and where a lady feels herself of no ac-
count in the hurly burly? In Brooklyn
the police understand who owns the
town, and the car drivers pull up in the
middle of block. Besides, if my lady
has no carriage, she observes that her
neighbors also use the horse cars.-Julian
Ralph in Harper's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

The proprietors of one Of the large
Louisville distilleries have secured the
privilege of erecting within the Worlds
fair grounds log cabin "stillhouse," ,"
after the fashion of those found in Ken
lucky so years ago. The "stillhouse"
will be 40 feet long, So feet wide and 40
feet high. A warehouse will also be
built of logs, and between the two build
ings will be an observation tower. The
stills will be of highly polished brass,
and five barrels day will be produced.
The distillery will be run on the old
time plan by three graybeards from the
mountains of Virginia. They are 80
years of age. All the metal work will
be of highly polished brass, and the liquor
will run through glass tubes, SO that the
process can be watched from beginning
to end. Work has been begun already
on the log cabins. 1t is said that the ell
terprise will require an outlay of $4,000
Louisville Courier-J Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27
A New Iden In shlpbnildina..

A new idea in shipbuilding has been
developed at Belfast. There is an i'm
mense vessel on the stocks there which
has no keel for about 120 feet from the
sternpost, while six feet of the sternpost
is cut away, the hull of the vessel slop-
ing from the horizontal for the 100 feet
until level with the curtailed sternpost.
The bottom of the sternpost and the
actual stern of the vessel are not con-
,nected in any way. The vessel is twin
screw, and the propellors will work
through small aperture, with nothing
between them and the water beneath.
They will therefore always be in un-
broken water Boston journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

Chicago women have two notable wo-
mems clubs, known as the Fortnightly
club and the Womans club, and are ad-
mitted to the Saracen club as regular
members. Membership in the Fortnight
ly is limited to 175. This successful Or
ganization was formed for the purpose
of bringing together in some permanent
association the scattered elements of in
tellectual life among women. Quite the
opposite policy governs the Woman's
club, which was organized in 1875, and
has nearly 600 members. We have moth
ing in New York which corresponds with
this great body of women. Its work is
practical as well as literary, and deals
largely with the prominent social ques-
tions of the day. Acting through special
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

A correspondence has been started and
happily concluded as to the merit of her
majesty's Hindoostani handwriting. The
Times of India refuses to admit the merit
of her majestys tutor, OF of the actual
handwriting, while the writer of re-
cent article in The Strand Magazine as
sures every one that "the statement is as
ungenerous as it is untrue. l can assure
you that her majesty writes Hindoostani
better than many Englishmen who have
been studying the language for some
years." Surely such trivial matter
must be quite beside the question, and
far less important than that the queen
has voluntarily made herself mistress Of
a language spoken by so many of her
subjects.-Ladies' Pictorial.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27
A New Position For Women.

A new departure has been made in the
senate. Senator PETER has selected as
clerk to his committee his daughter, Miss
Nellie PETER. The committee of which
he is chairman is that to examine the
several branches of the civil service. 1t
is committee that seldom meets, and
the duties Of its clerk will not be oner-
Gus. This is the first time that woman
has been appointed to the clerlIship of a
senate committee, although there have
been instances where senators have en-
ployed their wives as private secretaries
Cor. Philadelphia Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27

In Favor of Universal Woman Suffrage.
A joint memorial has been introduced
in the Wyoming legislature asking con-
gress to submit to the states a woman
suffrage amendment to the United States
constitution. 1t reads as follows:
Be it resolved by the second legislature of the
state of Wyoming:
That the senate and house of representatives
of the United States of America be memorial
lied as follows:
We, your memorialist, the legislature of the
state of Wyoming, would respectfully repre-
sent to the honorable congress of the United
States that nearly if not fully one-half of the
citizens of this nation are, without cause or
reason, unjustly deprived of the right Of suf-
frage and participation in political affairs
solely on account of sex. Recognizing in the
women of America our equals in point of intel
lgence and culture, and believing that they
are not only fully capable of and justly entitled
to the right of assisting in the choice of those TO
whom the duty shall be assigned of making the
laws and managing the affairs of the nation,
but of actual participation therein, your me
morialist would therefore respectfully and
earnestly urge the honorable congress of the
United States to enact a law submitting to the
several states of this Union an amendment to
the constitution of the United States granting
full and equal political rights to the women of
the United States, and as in duty bound your
memorialist will ever pray.