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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
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The Fault f Modern Fashions

By no means can the sorrowful folly Of
woman's thraldom 10 fashion be brought
home to one more forcibly than by visit to
the cases In the British museum containing
the little funebral figures from the toms OF
Tans gra. The exquisite grace of raiment, the
delicate Undressing, varied to suit each DIFF
ferent cast of features, the care with which
beauty of form Is aecentuated I'M toad of being
wrapped up or distorted-al convince one of
the cruelty of the modern system which robs
our eyes of legitimate delight. How would 1t
be with us were IT the custom TO lly In the
fombs of our departed ones little stauettes
repres enting them in their best clothes ?
Should we not shrink from the criticism or
posterity?
1t must be confessed that women would
stand this ordeal better than men. Still, a
modern bail dress, with corsage cutting hort
Zontally across the bust, Is terrible violation
of the natural lines of the cure, especially
when. by means of long stays. the cincture Is
thrust away down where no sculptor would
dream of placing lt!-[Herbert Maxwell In
Popular Science Monthly.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation;
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable Substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Go. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
Women Dentists at the Worlds Fair.


Although 1t has been over 30 years since
the first woman of whom we have any record
began practlcing dentistry, 1t Is only during
The last 10 years that the number of women
entering the profession has been noticeably
Increased. Even now, with nearly 2CO
women prscticng dentistry in the United
States, 1t Is not uncommon to hear remarks
from the public Illustrating their surprise
when they hear OF women dentists.
The woman dentist will be given every OPP
portunty at the Worlds Columbian exposi-
tion to make herself known through the con-
crosses or exhibits if she chooses. Women
dentists are invited TO join the medical de-
pertinent of the Queen Isabella association
IAN organic ,t!on OF women) and to read
papers on subjects interesting to physicians
from dental standpoint at their congress to
be held the third week In june Emma l..
Ronoam
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Austin Corbin, In 1877, made an offer TO the
est IN the Concord railroad, which he increased
in 1891 TO s., 600 600. The latter proposition was
transmitted to the legislature by the governor
Gated the existence OF state rights in tbs road,
and after hearings. In which counsel appeared,
the court submitted to the legislature, March
81, 1891, without stating their reasons, but say
ing they would furnish them at future day,
decision that no state rights existed except By
condemnation under the right of eminent de-
main and the payment of the full yaiue OF the
road. They held that the right of the state to
buy the road was imperative. For two years
the opinion has been delayed, although senator
Chandler has made vigorous and constant calls
for its PRONUNCIATION. Saturday the court fur
nished an opinion setting forth The grounds mp
on which their opinion was based.
Somersworth, the youngest city of the state,
held Its fret election last week Wednesday ana
elected q Democratic mayor.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
why Women Do Not Faint.

Mr.. Besant asks WIZ women no longer
faint In fiction or in fact. Down to the time
of Miss Austen, young ladies tainted much
aud often In noyels--if spider fell on them,
il A rude fellow stared too hard at Ranelagh
aud on thousand other occasions. Now
adays novel with a swooning heroine would
BIO absurd, and In daily life, too. women re-
fra'n from going into faints. Mr.. Besant
eonjectures that 1t may be because women's
lives are healthier In these days. They cal
aud drink more sensibly and possess more re-
straint over their emotions. This may be
the reason, but 1t may also be because 1t is no
longer the fashion for women to be pretty
weakings. to weep at tender word or to
faint at a irown.-[Sau Francisco Argonaut
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
Copiuaal Wisdom.

she vino ne'er answers till her husband eools.
OR, II she rules him, never shows she rules
Is type of wife happily becoming common In
these days when women may hsye good
health, cheerful dispositions, strong nerves
aud clear minds, simply through the use of
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Before
the reputation and use of this remedy became
worldwide. irritable, cross, nervous, debill-
tsted women, suffering from displacs menis.
bysteria, and every female disease, were the
rule rather than the exception. The Favor
lite Prescription has proven to be the kew TO
q long and hsppy life-the key which es ct
uslly locks out that old array Of uterine Dis
orders. periodical pains. weak back, proiap-
sus, inflammation. liberation. nervous ex-
hsustion and general debility. See printed
guarantee on wrapper. Money refunded IL
Ii doesn't give satisfaction In every case.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taxation without Representation.
Ii the principle on which we founded our
government Is true, that taxation without
representation, and II women hold property
aud are taxed, It follows that wemen should
be represented in the state by their votes. l
think the state can no more afford to dispense
wife the votes OF women In Its affairs than
the family Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
The Voice in Despair.

We all cry out against the monstrous hoped
skirt which Is coming into vogue. but there
1s no human power capable of Tending oil
that fashion which even the women folk pro-
TESS to regard with dislike. When Fame
Fashion utters her dictum, the men are no.
where In it, and the ladies. God bless 'em !!
have sin ply to obey [Chlcago News Record.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them castoria.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24

The trouble with most cough medicines Is
that they spoil the appetite, weaken digestion,
and create bile. Ayers Cherry PectnraI. on
the contrary, while it gives immediate relief,
assists rather than impairs the assim!atiye
prOceSs.-ady,
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24

DandrufI Il due to sn enfeebled state of the
skin. Halls Hair Remover quicsens the
nutrtlye functions of the skin, Dealing and
preventing the formation Of dandruti.-ady.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24

Rich, red blood as naturally results from taking
Hoods Sarsspariiia as personal cleanliness re-
suits from tree use of soap and water. Now Is
the time to take Hoods and only HOod's-ady.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24

ton Established.
In the life Of Robert Fulton, by Knox. It 4
| related that Samuel Morey, between 1870 anC
! 1874, made experiments on the Connection
river by prop ,lling boats by steam. The fact
| appear TO be these: Gen. Israel Morev of He
bron, Conn. moved 10 Oxford, N. H., ID
| 1865 aud 10 Fairlee, VT. In 1II2. He soor
after obtained a charter for ferry between
the towns of Fslrlee, VT. and Oxford. Y. n. E,
across the Connecticut river. lie had five
sons and two daughters. Tue second SON
Capt. ,mueI Morev, Is without doubt emit
tied to the credit Of having invented. built
and operated steam boat at his fathers fer
nv between Oxford ard Fairlee in 1870 to
1874, or more than Is years before Fulton
constructed the "Clsremont' on the Hudson
river, and is the person alluded TO In the b.
ography OF Robert Fulton,
Rev. Cyras Mann of Oxford. \. H., states
that he saw the steam bost made by Morey
In sue ,es. ful operation upon the Connecticut
river at Fairlee before 1893. He also states
that he built larger boat that ran from Hart
ford to the city of New York In 1874, where
1t was seen by Chancellor. Edward and
Judge Livingstone, and many others. He
also affirms that Morey exhibited the same to
Fulton and that there was correspondence
between him and Fulton.
Morey butt 5 model OF his steam boat and
took It to New York and there exhibited it.
rs be claimed, to Fulton, Livingstone and
others, the model OF which Is now 10 exis-
fence and Is In the possession Of his heirs
and win be exhibited at the exhibition In
Chicago.
The original engine 10 the boat which Nc
rey first opei aied across the ferry at Fsirlee,
be afterwards placed In a larger boat which
he constructed and which he called the Aunt
Sally" and took TO Fairiee pond aud piled It
there; but being unsuccessful in introducing
Il into commercial life, be became dis
coursged and sunk the boat IN Fa,rlee
pond. During the present winter a party
having knowledge Of the search Of waters
has been cutting holes In the fee with the
hope thst he might recover the remains. Nc
rey died IN 1912 and down 20 the day of his
death he claimed that he gave the idea 10 Full.
ton that al one time there was bargain be.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-22
Fifty Cent Wheat.

Ihe question with a number of farm
ers, what to do with wheat at the
present low prices" is perhaps partly
answered in the following article taken
from the american AgricuLurist.
With wheat at the extremely low
hgures of the past year, farmers will
either stop raising it, or they will feed
1t to their stock, and in that way realize
more than the market brice. I'm
doudtedly the latter plan will be found
good one. Just how much can be
realized by feeding wheat can only be
determined by experiment, and it is ad-
Vlsable to begin at once to find out the
way TO attain best results. So little
wheat has been fed to stock in former
years that it is difficult to give a very
definite idea ofits feeding value. That
IL Is worth more than a cent a pound
nearly all will admit, and the prices
paid for grain and middlings are more
proportionately, than the wheat will
bring if sold. It would seem to be
poor policy for the farmer to sell the
one and buy the other at the present
prices. There is no doubt but that oats
will bring considerably more than
cent pound for the next year.
Whenever wheat can be substituted for
oats as a feed, it will be advisable to
do so. Some farmers have expert
mented in this direction, and claim
that to four quarts of wheat are equal
to four quarts ofoats when fed to horses.
Others say that hogs fatten rapidly and
make good quality of pork when fed
upon wheat. If this is true there need
be no uneasiness in regard to disposing
of the wheat crop profitably, for fifty
cent wheat cannot fail to more than
double in price if sold as pork this year.
It IS best to soak oT chop the wheat
for feed, In beginning the feed. let a
small ration only be given, until the
animals become accustomed to the
change from the usual food. Sudden
changes of feed are never desirable in
any stock, and may result ip great
damage,
There is no doubt of the profit in
feeding wheat to poultry. No other
food is so good for laying hens, and a
oushel so fed is sure to bring many
times its market value in eggs. A
bushel of wheat has been known to
produce four dollars worth of eggs
and that in summer when eggs are
cheap. Perhaps not all hens will do as
well, but there is no question but that
1t will generally pay more than dollar
a bushel if fed to poltry,
Smyrna times., 1893-11-22
How to Cure the Tammany Evil.

New York Post (Dem)
The efforts that are being made in
New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo, ALBANY
and other quarters of the State to brine
viOlatOrs of the election laws to Justice
are of the highest Importance. If they
they shall result In sending not only
Mckane, but few other less conspic-
ious rascals to prison, the moral effect
will be incalculable. We have in this
State as stringent laws against all
crimes of this character as could be
drawn, and we have only to enforce
them to abolish from our elections the
unlawful performances which have
been growing in number and boldness
during the seven or eight years in
which the Hill-Sheehan-C -Croker-Mc.
Laughlin band of criminals have been
in control of the State. The figures of
the returns in Paddy" DIVERS Tam
many "banner district, (which we pub
lished, showed what zeal in Tammanv
Hall means. Mr.. Drokepls offer of a
banner" to the district rolling up the
heaviest Tammany majority was ac-
cepted by Diver, who is a Tammanv
police justice, as an incentive to Grim.
inal action at the polls. 1t has been ac.
cepted IN the same way in other dis
tricts in all recent municipal elections.
and the consequence has been that the
Tammany district leaders have been
engaged In furious competitions to
see who of them could do the most
cheating at the polls. The surest way
to break up this business is to send
some Of the leaders to prison, and If a
Tammany police justice could be in.
cluded in the number, the moral effect
OF the proceeding would be greatly en-
hanced.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-22
AN INCENDIARY AT WORK.

The burning Of the Seltzer barn on
one OF the Dupont farms in Brandy
VINE hundred on Monday night was a
dastardly deed The brutal attempt.
evidently by the incendiary, to kill a
valuable horse which had been saved
from the burning barn, was as cruel as
1t was despiCable.
Since December 26, 1879, five barns
on the properties of the Messrs. Du-
Font have been burned by incendiaries.
-Four persons are now serving long
terms OF Imprisonment in New Castle
JAN Tor having burned four of these
barns. 1t was hoped that the convic.
ton of the Clark family and Gibbons
had put an end to the series of incen-
diary fires on the properties of the
Messrs. Dupont, but it appears that
either a new conspiracy has been
formed, or that one of the original con
spirators who escaped arrest has taken
up the miserable work which was sun
posed to have stopped when the Mayne
barn was burned on November lltb.
1890.
The Messrs. Dupont did and admir-
able thing when they ran down the
conspirators and sent them to jail.
They performed a duty which won for
them the gratitude and commendation
OF the people of New Castle county.
The state has now at its disposal two
detectives and they should be put to
once to hunt them down, if possible. the
mlscreant who was responsible for the
IRE on Monday night. He should be
captured if it is at all possible. Society
demands that he be arrested, convicted
and sent to prison. Morning NeUs.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-22
fOF Ne smyrna IT.
A DAY AT CRAMPS.

Should at any time Mrs. Partington
visit the great Ship yard, at Port Rich.
mond probably her first exclamation
would be well comparisons here are in
VldIOns." AT no time in its history does
the famous works present a greater
variety or more interesting display of
work than at present. Orders for CON
struction crowd upon others waiting
for their turn to be served next. Four
solid squares of river front are soon
gobbled up by the hulls of immense
battle ships and cruisers fitting out for
mayhap, battles of peace. Eight other
squares of dwelling houses away from
the river front are melting away before
the razee's band to make way for
towering foundries, forges, furnaces
and construction ships.
To stand under the tremendous bow
of the cruiser Columbia with lines of
knife like keenness against which the
tides OF the Delaware scarsely cause a
ripple, is at once suggestive of grace,
beauty and grey hound speed.
Well may this Chef d'aeuvre-be fitly
termed gem of the Ocean. On the
other side to the East, grim, surly and
defiant, looms the huge form of the
battle ship IndiGnd-belted for the
fray with armOred steel five feet thick.
cuddy holes piercing redoubts here
and there for the muzzles of quick fir
ing guns to peep out and play the
higher notes to the sullen boom OF the
heavy gHn9 in the batteries, Steel,
wood and coal are called into reouisi-
ton to protect the lungs of the fighting
gladiators, the boilers, while the lower
the engines are slowed away well
down in the d6pths-free from harm
says he, the gold laced commander.
The Massachusetts and Minneapolis,
sisters respectively of the Indiana and
Columbia, are yet in swaddling clothes,
chill, grimy and swarming with work.
men, This is the over board stock.
The frst to fly "0ld Glory" in com,
mission will be the Columbia, then the
first real battle ship of the new navy
the Indiana, then the Massachusetts. her
sister, and then that other pirate ofth
seas, the Minneapolis, she of the %
miles an hour type.
How time flies, only the other day
the great hull of the splendid Columbia
rested upon the ways and amid the
cheers apd plaudits of the assembled
thousands. A fair young girl stood
under the towering bow and as the
mighty form settled on the launching
ways with set teeth, dashed against the
steel plating the vintage of La Belle
France and the real arbiter of an ocean
war namely a fast cruiser took the
delicate perfumed bath and slid grandly
into the Delaware. JAMES B. SCoTT.
Philadelphia, NOpemher, 1893.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-22
Hints to Housekeepers.

pets. ''oH GAR
away. "-O'"S
Use Use a damp cloth for dusting fur.
day. '''H''S Once
Soap should not be allowed to lie in
the water. 0 ="
Ihin pine shavings make a good
hammock pillew.
10 cool off hot oven. set q nan of
cold water into it.
Draw paper bags over cans of frpit
to shut out the light.
fowdered alum mixed with white NJ
egge will remove sty.
Always keep the molasses Jug corked
ana the sugar box covered.
BAKING soda mixed with brick dnst
Will clean knives beautifully.
Iurpentine, rubbed on grease snots
WIN cloth, will remove them.
LeC ralslns stand Is minutes in hot
water before seeding them.
weak alum water will strenptben
the eye if bathed carefully in it.
An ounce of alum i'm a bo0ehao5 of
Putrid water will purify it in a few
hours. ~"
Half teaspoonful of baking soda in
a gallon Of hard water will render IL
soft. 1O0' ~
Covers of lard pals are useful TO mt
uhGer pots and pans when the stove ia
too hot. 10
TO keep the juice in a berry pie. pin
strip Of cotton cloth around the edge
while baking.
Never throw away food that can be-
warmed over. Some things are better
Tor second cooking.
The juice of one lemon in five cents
worm OF glycerine and a little rose
water will whiten the skin.
A spoonful of chloride of lime in a
quart OF water and strained will remove
mlIdew from cloth dipped into it.
:, Wash oil cloths once month in
skim milk" and rub once in three
months with linseed oil. Never use
soapsuds on them.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-22
highest OF all in Leavenng Power-Latcst u S. Govt Rcno
R>!a!:,!.I! q! BsttiRg Bs%5sg1!
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Preparing Poultry for Market.

All poultry should be fat. Do not
XIII any poor birds, no matter how
high poultry is selling. Food in the
craw INJURIES the appearance, is liable
10 sour, and buyers object to paving
Ior TINS worse than useless WEIGHT
POULTRY being fattened for market
should be kept from food at least
twelve hours before killing. Stick in
IN the roof of the mouth with small
Keen knife blade, and while bleeding
commence stripping off the feathers -.
use great care not to break the skin
Wnen carefully dry-picked, it should
De hung up head down always twelve
TO fifteen hours to become thorouphlv
cool; for if packed with the animal
neat IN, 1t will be sure to SPOIL. PouI.
try for city market should have head
anu leet lett on, and intestins should
not be drawn. Turkeys and chickens
should always he dry-picked, and
when very fat and handsome will com.
mand a little higher price. Ducks
ana geese should be full feathered be-
lore killing, and after being well scalded
should be wrapped tightly in course
cloths about two or three minutes.
then the down will roll off with the
feathers. Scalded poultry after being
picked should next be "plumqed" bYY
being dipped up and down about two
seconds in water boiling hot and then
Immediately " into cold water about four
or hVe minutes. In our conclusion we
again say, use great care in selecting,
dressing and packing A handsome
appearance is in al! cases worth one
TO two cents per pound in selling.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-22
A PEST IN THE NORTHWEST.

Appeals have recently been coming
in to the Department of Agriculture
from farmers in the Northwest for aid
to exterminate the Russian thistle.
This pest, which by the way is not
really a thistle, but an annual nearly
allied to the saltwOrts, was introduced
into Scotland, S. D., II years ago, in
some faxseed imported from Russia.
1t took kindly to the soil, and no effort
being made to eradicate it, speedily
over ran South Dakota, establishing
itself by 1891 over territory of more
IMAM $4,000 square miIes, and now it
has invaded other States, and, if steps
are not speedily taken, it bids fair to
establish itself over the whole country
from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
Last year the damage to crops from
this pest was over $2,0O0,00O and this
year it is estimated that more than
double that amount of money has been
lost through the criminal carelessness
of the farmers of South Dakota.
This seems like strong language to
apply to those who permitted this nox-
ious weed to gain foothold, but it is
just. There is absolutely no excuse
for those to whom it is applied. The
very appearance of plant growing to
height of three feet and sending forth
dense and rigid branches, and flourish
ing alike in good or poor soils, should
nave been warning that an objection
able weed was among them without
waiting for intelligence from a botan-
lst, or until millions of dollars worth
OF damage was done. The situation is
particularly aggravating, because, as
the plant is an annual, there would
have been in the beginning not the
slightest difficulty in utterly exter
minating it within year or two, and
at scarcely any expense, while now it
is estimated that it will require $4,000
600 to do the work, an estimate pro-
bably far under the true amount.
If, instead of being a plant, this weed
had been wild animal, with one.half
the warnings which it gave of its dan
gerous character, the people would
nave turned out en- masse to kill it, but.
because it was plant, it has been al.
lowed to live its destructive life until
1t has reached a development where it
will puzzle even Mr. Dewey, the as.
slstant United States botanist, who is
now in the Northwest investigating the
subject, to find a remedy -PhiIGdeI-
phiG Ledger.