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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-31

BUT connected with this subject is
another of great pOrtance-the crea-
ton of taste for reading, and a capac
ity to understand what they read
amongst the people. The amount of
valuable education communicated in
our rural common schools is so small,
and so poor in quality, that the major
ity of farmers in America come to full
age with hardly any adequate prepare
ton to understand even what should
be very plain writing on very plain sub.
iects. We have been many times dis
couraged, and have sometimes almost
despaired of our ability to find words
that are understandable, wherewith to
explain what seem very simple things
in connection with farm work, where
any kind of scientific knowledge is
concerned. This will never be bettered
until we have better rural schools.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-31

TIL o remedies
are now sold by
every druggist in
the land, and their
best proof OF gem
uine worth is in the
fact that on their
merit solely t h e Y
have achieved this
sale within a few
short years. Ask
for t h e m at t h e
Trading Post o n
the Frontier, and
you'll find t h e m
there. Go i n t o
tho foe bIa
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-31

SOME of our English friends express
great wonder that Americans are so
long in learning the Importance of
rootculture for feeding stock. We be-
lieve that a great many more roots
could be proiitably grown than are
grown in America; but writers on the
other side fail TO give due weight to
the fact that the countries where roots
lead as feeding crop cannot grow our
Indian corn. Here is plant easily
and cheapiy grown and handled, every
part of which, except the cobs, when
ripe, is greedily eaten by our animals.
1t is also, by means of the silo, or
otherwise, easily stored and fed out.
Our cold winters in the north, entirely
unlike the mild, moist winters of
western Europe, make it much more
difficult and expensive for us to handle
and feed roots, which require much
room, and are very liable to injury
from hard freezing. Take sliced corn
for instance. 1t will not freeze at
all in the silo. Indeed, it comes out
of it warm and steaming, when the air
may be at a temperature far below
zero. 1t is eaten up clean, and is very
nearly perfect ration, requiring only
a moderate addition of some more nj
trogenous food, easily furnished in the
various oil-seed meals, or oatmeal.
Surely, we can learn great deal from
European experience, and we ought to
study such experience more; but we
pray our European critics to put them
selves in our place, intelligently, be-
fore INDUCING in the pleasures of criti-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-31

Mrs. WHITAKER seems somewhat
to fear that the agricultural information
now so abundantly supplied to farmers
by the gratuitous issues of government
reports, and by experiment station
bulletins, may unfavorably affect the
interests of agricultural newspapers,
and of other periodicals of a similar
character. But this is contrary TO all
experience. The taste for reading,
once established, grows by what it
feeds upon. The same argument has
long been used against country news
papers with agricultural departments;
but our observations, both as a pro-
prittor of an agricultural weekly, and
as editor of an agricultural department
in newspaper, is that the latter tends
to form tastes that can only be satisfied
by the former. AS to the governmental
and agricultural college reports and
bulletins, we think the farmers generally
the reading farmers-depend upon
the agricultural journalists almost
wholly for a satisfactory criticism, ex-
PLANTATION and final judgment upon the
value of their contents. At any rate,
so long as the writers of most of these
issues are so technical, and therefore so
often obscure in their teachings, a good
deal of explanation will be needed which
only competent writers well versed in
science on one hand, and in practice on
the other, can furnish. The more good
reading that is sent out among the peo-
pie the faster they will become a read
inc OpOule
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-31

ALTHOUGH we are on record as say
ing that we would not build a silo if we
could otherwise protect our corn from
the Expectations of vermin, yet the past
winter has made us seriously consider
the evil of having to feed our corn to the
cows al temperature far below freez-
ing,-so far that large share of itmust
be used to keep up the bodily temporal
ture Vf the animals which consume it, and
is therefore so far total loss. II is true,
of course, that the heat in the silo is
kept up by the slow combustion of the
silage itself, but the conditions of the
silo are such that this waste is much
less than in the case of unsiloed dry
fodder
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
LET'S HAVE REPEAL.
Wall Street Waits While the SEN
ate Procrastiuates.


Special to the Globe
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-Wall street shows
little change from the reactionary ten
dency that has held the securities mar
ket in check tor the past month. Its
attitude is simply waiting one; not by
any means one of despoudency. The
overwhelming vote of the house of rep
resentatives for silver repeal produced
a large advance in prices: but buyers
did not sufficiently take into account the
possibilities of obstruction in the sem
ate. That obstruction. however, came
with force and persistency that has
taken the whole country by surprise
and put check upon all the revlving
tendencies which the house vote had
brought into play. The senate's delay
has been like the return of winter in
the middle of spring. 1t has nlpped in
the bud reviving confidence, and put
fresh check upon the industries that
were beginning to venture upon re-
neWal of operations. 1t has also had
the effect of reawakening distrust
among our foreign creditors. with the
result not only of stopping their buying
VI Jul oSCul lGICo, Uub dlSO VI CduSluS
some return of them to this center.
Such an interruption to an unQualifiedly
hopeful drift of affairs could scarcely
have less injurious effect upon the
stock market than has actually hap
pened. The wonder is that the relapse
has not been much more severe; and
the fact that prices now stand compara-
lively steady is evidence that Wall
street at least is far from hopeless as to
the senate ultimately adopting the re-
peal bill.
The firmness of foreign exchange, so
far as it may seem to foreshadow an ex-
port of gold, is not seriously viewed. AS
part of the gold lately imported came as
the result of various eXpedients for
temporary use, it is taken for granted
that some of it must go back to Europe
again. In the event of repeal, however,
that cannot be serious matter, for the
improvement in our foreign credit would
in that case create fresh European de-
mand for our securities, and the abun-
dance of cash pouring from all sections
into the banks will enable us to ear
reasonable foreign drain without incon-
venience. HENRY CLEWs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
CHINESE IN CANADA.
The Government Passes an Order
in Council.

in Council.
OTTAWA, Oct. 1.-Several attempts
have been made by labor organizations
of the Dominion TO induce the govern
ment to impose further restrictions on
Chinese immigration. The govern
ment has just passed an order in coun-
Gil which practically settles its policy
in this regard. The order. after reciting
the circumstances which called it forth,
says:
"Whatever sympathies may exist,
and whatever views may be held on
the subject generally-or more particu-
larly with reference to Chinese eX-
cluSl0n. or to such restrictions as are
demanded by the petitioners-they
must. in so far at least as exclusion is
concerned. be held to be subordinate to
the obligations SOlemnly entered into
between two great and friendly nations,
and no action should be taken which
could be construed by the imperial gov
ernment as inimical or be Infringing
upon treaty rights.
''In view of the commercial relations
in Canada with China, it is not eXpedi-
ent to change the provisions of the Chi
nese immigration act nor to take any
action that might be considered by the
| Chinese government as an invasion of
the spirit of the treaty obligations or as
all unfrlendly act.
''It Is deemed impolitic and unneces-
sary to recommend the alternative ex-
pedient of raising the capitation tax to
$500. The suggestion that every China
man or woman in Canada be taxed to
the amount of 5000 each year, and that
| said tax be paid into the treasury of the
municipality or city in which they may
be found is question for the consid-
Grafton of others than the government
| of the Dominion"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
. SURPRISING ADMISSIONS
From the Dozen Vienna Anar-
chists Under Arrest.

From the Dozen Vienna Anar-
chists Under Arrest.
LONDON, Oct "A special to the
News from Vienna says that the eXaml-
nation of twelve of the anarchists
recently arrested in connection with
the plot to blow up the house of parlia-
ment there has had the most surprising
results. The facts in possession Of the
police cannot yet be published, as the
chief or prime mover in the conspiracy
is not yet under arrest. The police
continue daily questioning the prison
ers, and have established proof beyond
doubt that The men in custody were
only the tools of an agitator, believed to
be a foreigner, and that his dupes do
not know much about him or about the
spot where he can be found. The police,
however, are continuing their inyesti-
cations, and express the hope that they
will soon be able to obtain a confession
from one of the men in custody, which
will show the exact origin of the plot to
blow up the house of parliament, and
which will lead to the arrest of the
foreigner who is believed to have been
at the head of the conspiracy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02

traditions. and however strongly they
may be prejudiced in favor Of free
coinage, they are yet fair men and hon
est men, and will not allow the senate
to be brought into contempt by stoop-
ing to mere obstruction debate. There
are several free coinage Democrats who
yet desire to submit legitimate argu-
ments upon the subject. When all
these have spoken have no doubt that
opposition to an immediate vote will
fall gradually away; that good temper
will reassert its sway, and the usual
sense of fairness of the minority toward
the majority will prevail. The people
are watc hing this debate in the senate,
probably, as they never watched de-
bate before, unless it was during the
war. They are learning, and hence the
nation can afford all the time given to
it. But it is my Judgment repeal will
come certainly within two weeks-pos-
sibly sooner"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
SIAM SIGNS The TREATY.
A SORT or AN UNCONDITIONAL SUR
RENDER TO FRANCE.
EVACUATION OF CHANTARooN
A About the Only Concession Made
by the French Repres entative,
De Villiers - The Fear EX-
Try to Hang On to Chantaboon
=Arpentine,S Revolution.

BANGKOK, Oct. IA final settlement
of the dispute between France and
Siam was arrived at today by the ac
ceptance upon the part of the Siamese
government of the drafts of new
treaty presented by NJ. de Villiers, the
special envoy of France to the govern
ment of Siam. The French envoy, it
will be remembered, gave the Siamese
government but forty-elght hours in
which to accept or decline the treaty
agreed upon today, threatening to leave.
Bangkok unless his demands were COM
piled with. From this it is judged that
the Siamese government has made an
unconditional surrender to France, and
that the latter country now has every
thing which she has demanded from
Siam, with the exception of the de-
mands which were considered in excess
in her ultimatum presented some time
ago. The signatures to the new treaty
will be affixed on Tuesday next, when
the French envoy expects to leave
Bangkok for Saigon.
A cable message received by the
Times from Bangkok says at II o'clock
yesterday morning the French gunboat
ASpic was seen to be getting up steam,
in order that De ViIliers might leave
that city. Later in the day, under eX-
treme pressure, Siam agreed to sign
both the treaty and the convention an
neXed. De Villiers will take his fare
we'll of the king on Wednesday. The
clause originally in the treaty whereby
Siam was to allow any number of
French agencies on the right bank
of the Mekong and cede gratuit-
ously all lands required for
clause substituted which only de-
mands facilities for navigation and
agency works. 1t was at first stipu-
lated that France should continue to
occupy Chantaboon until the complete
evacuation of the left bank of the
Mekong and the reserved zone has been
achieved. This appears to have been
withdrawn. The convention is now
preceded with prea mble declaring that
it settles finally all provisions of the ulti-
matum according to the declaration of
De VillierS, and that the French intend
to evacuate ChantabOon as early as pos
sible. Among the motives which led
Siam to accept the convention was the
honorable resolution of the king not to
sacrifice the Danish officers demand,
which De Villiers had abandoned with
the demand for reparation for the
Pakeran incident.
The United States gunboat Concord
has arrived off the bar at Bangkok.
The Times correspondent adds that
the treaty is comparatively satisfactory
to the convention, but most unsatisfac-
tory unless France fulfills her pledges.
The great danger, the correspondent
adds, is that Chantaboon, which is the
key to the gulf of Siam, will remain for
q long time in the hands of the Ere nch
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
LOCHREN IS JUST.
He Does the Square Thing When
ever Possible.

SpeCldl 10 the GlODe.
w AsHINGToN, Oct. 1.-Saturday Sem
ator Dolph, of Oregon, took occasion to
bitterly criticise Commissioner Lochren
because, in obedience to the law of
March l, 1898, he had suspended pen-
sIonS when pensioners resided in fol eign
countries. The law was OH the pension
appropriation bill, and reads as follows:
That from and after July 1, 1898, no
pension shall be paid to a nonresident
who is not citizen of the United States
except for actual disability incurred in
the service"
Under this law the commissioner sus-
pended the pension of the widow of
Commodore Watson, residing tempor-
arily in Nice. She returned to America
at once to fix matters. Mrs. Watson sat
in the gallery during the Dolph assault.
Within thirty minutes of the time the
assault ceased she visited Lochren at
the pension Office, had personal inter-
terview with him, and he restored her
pension on her personal affidavit, he
knowing nothing of Dolph'S assault
The commissioner was also In receipt of
letter on the same subject from Judge
Morse, consul at Glasgow, Scotland, re-
questing the repeal of the law. as it
worked hardship on many persons in
that country. He at once sent a letter
to Mr.. Palmer, chairman of the senate
committee Oh pensions, with the follow
ing Endorsements:
Gentlemen: l respectfully forward
the enclosed letter from Judge Morse at
Glasgow, Scotland. Very many letters
of the same character are being received
at this bureau, and [ respectfully rec
ommend that the law alluded to be i'm
mediately repealed. 1t entails much
labor upon this bureau and is source
| Of veXation and annoyance to pension
| ers abroad, most of whom are within the
exceptions named in the act, but who
are put to the trouble and expense of
proving themselves within these eXcep-
tions. The result is that there are few
whose payments are cut off except wild
ows and dependent mothers, who are
the most needy and helpless class of
pensioners. Very respectfully,
WILLIAM LoCHREN,
Commissioner.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
Advised to Fight.

PARIS, Oct. deputy BasIy, in the
name of the miners syndicate, has is
sued an appeal to the coal miners on
strike in the Pas de Calais district. ask
ing them to continue the struggle in
their own interests, as we'll as in the in
terest of the miners of France at large.
PARIS, Oct. 1.-Adyices received here
from st. Etienne say that the miners
of that district at meeting held today
resolved to take part in general strike,
which is to begin after the miners here
have arranged upon some plan for con-
certed action with the miners of the
other coal fields.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
WEEKS COMING BACK.
Two Detectives in Costa Rfca to
Fetch Him.

Fetch Him.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Oct. DE
tectives O'Reilly and Won Gerichten,
who were sent here to conduct Francis
II. Weeks back to the United States,
have arrived. They express themselves
as confident, after a conference with
the government officials. that the evi-
dence will be sufficient to make their
long journey entirely successful, and
that, within reasonable time, they will
he able to land their prisoner safe and
sound in New York, where he will have
a chance to demonstrate whether he is
simply an unfortunate bankrupt or the
most despicable of criminals. A person
in whom Weeks is interested at present
is one Huntington, who made his ap-
pearance at San Jose fortnight since.
Common report has it that he repre-
sents Rudolph Huntington, of New
York, who controls interests that might
have been turned to Weeks financial
advantage, and that ne was sent 70 ar
range a compromise and save Weeks
from prosecution. Weeks calls him
Huntington" but the impression pre-
walls that this is not the mans right
name.
Don Muaro Fernandez, Weeks lawyer,
will bring forward abundant precedent
wherein the United States has refused
eXtraditon under certain circumstances
similar to these under which Weeks is
held here. The minister of war SAYS
that Weeks will be delivered upon
Soto <@f l. l..
a transgressiOn of the laws of the
United States. Such proof is forthcom-
ing, and there is every reason to believe
that Weeks will leave for New York
shortly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
UNITY IN THE RANKS.
This Is What the Irish Want,
Says MIR. Dillon.

DUBLIN. Oct. John Dillon, men,
Der of parliament for East Mayo, adj
dressed a large meeting today at Bally-
mote, near Sligo. Mr.. Dillon, during
the course Of his remarks, said that the
subject of the Paris funds had been
thrust before the public within the last
ten days. This unhappy discussion, he
added, had been the means of creating
public scandal and conveying the be-
lief that there was dissension in the
Irish ranks. He (Mr. Dillon) always
opposed public discussion OH this SUBJ
Ject, because it was useless and certain
to create bitterness, and, finally, be-
cause it interfered with the collection
of funds for the Irish cause in Ameri-
ca and Australia. If differences of
opinion existed as to details and
policy, as they must exist, they ought
never to go beyond the room where the
party sat, and the man who betrayed or
published such difference of opinion
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
CHOLERA ON IRONCLADs.
Awful Mortality on~ the Italian
Ship Carlo r.

NAPLES, Oct. 1.-Some cases of choI-
era have been discovered ON board the
Italian ironclads Affondatore and Italia,
which nave been ordered to the Lazar-
eta Au Asinara, the small island near
Sardinia, where the Italian ship Carlo
R., from Brazil, is being dlsinfected
after losing IA of her passengers from
cholera on her way back to this country.
after being refused permission to land
in Brazil. The Italian ironclads at
Asinara will undergo thorough course
of disinfection.
LEGHoRN, Oct. Eight new cases of
cholera ana one death from that disease
are reported here.
ROME, Oct. 1.-One new case of chol-
era was recorded here during the day.
HAMBURG, Oct. 1.-Two new cases of
cholera have been reported here since
yesterday. Two cases previously re-
ported have ended fatally.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
BORDER INSPECTION.
Sir Henry Tyler Not in Favor
of It.

New YORK. Oct. 1.-Sir Henry Tyler,
of London, president of the Grand
Trunk railway, is in the city. When
asked by reporter for his views on the
negotiations for American immigration
inspection in Canada, he said: 81 un-
derstand the Canadian government has
decided not to ratify the agreement re-
Gently reported, but will not interfere
with the arrangement for American in
spectorS at Canadian ports. The Grand
Trunk and other railway officials and
the Canadian steamship agents are all
in favor of the proposed inspection. If
inspections are not made at the ports
they would be all along the border, and
this would entail much delay and incon-
venience upon railway passengers, and
in the end hurt traffic."
Sir Henry denied that the Grand
Trunk is about to pass into American
hands or that Russell Sage Is negotiat-
ing for a block of its stock.
New YORK, Oct. 1.-Dr. Senner has
returned from Washington, where he
was in. conference with Supt. Stump.
They considered the regulations to be
carried out OH the Canadian border to
prevent the entrance of undesirable
immigrants.
"Ine arrangement tnat mas been
made is a most satisfactory one, al
though it is not with the Canadian gov
ernment," said DIR. Senner. THE CO.
operation of the Canadian railroad and
steamship companies has been secured,
and the agents will act with us. The
United States will send six inspectors
to Canada, and they will look out for
the ports of Quebec, Point Leids and
Halifax. Two others will guard Van
couver and Victoria.
"On the border line, where it is i'm
practicable to put immigrant inspectors,
the customs inspectors will do the work.
1.-The steamship aid railroad com
panies are both to aid the government
in singing out such people as are con-
tract laborers, polygamists and persons
likely to become public charges. Such
as escape the vigilance of the steam
ship companies will be caught by the
railroad companies or by inspectors,
and will be sent back as both
the steamship and railroad companies
have agreed to carry them under the
same conditions as the lines carrying
immigrants from European ports to the
United States.
| ITO such immigrants as are entitled
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02

was unfaithful to the unity of the party.
Therefore, he continued. when the fu-
ture was bright aud promising, when
everyone should do his utmost to pre-
pare the nation for one more mighty
struggle with their hereditary enemies,
it was an outrage on the national cause
to thrust the matter before the public.
Many said that they wanted to be in
formed about the fund; but they all
knew, and he. Mr.. Dillon, knew that
such questions as the Paris funds were
trivial compared with upholding unity
in the ranks. The man who struck a
blow at that struck blow at the heart
of Ireland.