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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10

me; see those holes in my horns?
They were bored to cure what that idiot
of biped calls 'hollow horn.' My
neck has regular procession of scars
where | have been bled, and my tail
has been split, time and again, to kill
the worm in it'll" "That was going
to extremes, wasn't it2" said the heifer.
"Shut up, you hussy, here comes that
biped, and 1 must make believe that /
am chewing my cud or he will think I
have lost it and will ram salt mack
erel down my throat to help me make a
new one. 1 wish l had been born a
horse, pig, or any other animal except
a cow"
THE great value of old maids in So
ciety has never been doubted by sensi-
bic people; but there is one benefit
which they have conferred upon agri-
culture that has not had the recognition
it deserves. Darwin says the amount
of clover seed produced in any given
locality was proportionate to the num-
Der of sold maids" there resident,
which he proved by the following state
ment: "There can be no clover seed
without the bumblebee, because no
other insect fertilizes it. The enemy
of the bumblebee is the common field
mouse. that steals into their nests and
destroys the Larvae and eats up the
honey. The enemy of the mouse is
the common house cat, and the solid
friend of the cat is the old maid. Cen
sequently, the more old maids the more
cats; the more cats, the less mice; and
the less mice, the more bumbebees
the more bees, the more clover seed"
ANYTHING that tends to take the
bounce out of an Englishman, or a
Yankee, is good medicine. To this eff
feet the remarks of the Stockman upon
one strain of American brag may be
of use: $50 much has been boastingly
said, in true spread-eagle fashion, Of
our feeding the natiOns,' that it may
have quite escaped public attention as
to the nations feeding us, and the va
riety and quantity of such feed. Doubt
less few realize it, as pretentious writ
ers have sometimes declared, with
gross inaccuracy, that one-fourth OF
our agricultural productions are ex-
ported, where our surplus is only about
one.tenth of the production. Instead
of obtaining all our food supplies from
our own land and waters, the imports
of sugar, fruits, wines, breadstuffs
meat, eggs, dairy products, vegetables
and fish, cost us half the value of oul
cotton crop, which nearly supplies the
factories of the world. Just as the cot
ton districts pay out 30 large share Of
their proceeds of cotton sales to buy
hog and hominy and the commones
of plantation supplies, just so large
share of the so-called agricultural sur
plus of the United States goes TO pay
for foreign products of the same clas
and kind as those we produce insult
fciently here, as we'll as for those which
are not produced here. Therefore GU
exports are not a surplus at all, and tn,
net surplus is reduced almost to zero.'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10

BUT our education ought to be some
thing more than intellectual. In addi-
ton it should be Misunderstanding in
its effect. A taste for good reading is
not hard to form in the young; and
when once it is formed, it is one of the
greatest of moral safeguards. A boy
who loves good reading is not easily
enticed from his home into the street !;
and besides this, taste for good read
ing drives out or preoccupies the mind
against evil books. Good books for
youth are almost without number; but
they are yet all too scarce in our farm
homes. Our boys will read something
and it is our duty to see that that some
thing is good and wholesome. The
mayor of Philadelphia says: IF all the
bad literature for boys could be de-
stroyed, it would almost free our station
houses and prisons of their youthful
criminals" A prominent judge, when
ever young boy is brought before hin
for crime, asks him the question, q" Wha
have you been readingP" and almost
without exception the act has been in
stigated and encouraged by the read
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10

HERE is very good illustration of
some of the above remarks, which we
cut from the Stockman and Farmer !:
"My, N.Y." said old Brindle, 4" but that
was big dose of salts took this morn
ing. 1t seems to me that every time L
am about to calve, the bigger the dose
of salts is." "What does he give you
the salts for?" inquired the heifer in the
next stall. 81 don't know" replied
Brindle, "unless it is because he has
inherited the habit from his father.
am a martyr to doctoring. Just look al
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10

Olu EuSlouudu, VIII was DrOuSuI up
to farm in the style developed in the
old country under the pressure of the
Napoleonic wars, gives it to the " soil
robbers" of our Great West. 1t is
good and we'll deserved, and well laid
on; but our Canadian friend must not
forget that England had its era of bad
and reckless farming, when it was
much older agricultural region than our
Great West. What is wanted in Amer
lean agriculture is not only more knowl
edge, but more capital. Where rich,
fresh land is cheap and plenty, and
money scarce, it is vain to expect such
farming as is to be seen in Great Brit
ain and France, or even in Vermont
and Quebec. But it is an evil which
must cure itself, as it surely will do,
before long. Under the title of "Queer
Farming" the Canadian Journal of
Agriculture says: Gin the western
states, it seems, man and four horses,
on sulky-plow can run over-we can
not say pillow five or six acres day,
the burrows being sixteen and one-half
inches widel In Minnesota, broadcast
seeders sixteen feet wide, with harrows
behind, put in eighteen acres of wheat a
day. Well, sixteen-inch burrows and
the seed only covered by one stroke of
harrow attached to broadcast seeder
may be cheap work, but the widest
Imagination cannot look upon it as good
work. No wonder the average of the
United States wheat crop is so low
eleven imperial bushels an acre in 1889
if this is the way they treat their land
in the great wheat-felds of the West.
One thing is certain-it will not be long
before the land will refuse to yield even
the present poor crops, and the farm
ers-do they deserve such an appel
lation?-will be obliged to resort to the
process 80 scornfully described by A
Southern Kansas Lady in an exchange
when l see my neighbor farmers
laboriously spending the time of two
men and four horses for five or six
weeks putting in forty or fifty acres, it
looks like hopeless task, even if trans
portation gives them an advantage of
twenty cents bushel.' Well, we will
with pleasure back the farmer who
spends the time of two men, etc, to
come out better, at the end of twenty
years from the present time, than the
man who scamps in the same super
ficies of land in ten days or so. In other
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10

The be New England states of
in Hampshire and Vermont
We U 'arly stationary in popula-
q ev bee the civil war; and their
i've p 6lation has considerably de-
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

Will our people ever learn to use
the English language intelligentlyi
In regard to legal tenders issued by
the government the writers almost
always say "redeemable" in debts
and taxes, in place of receivable
for debts and taxes, etc. Friends,
there is no such thing us redeem
ing money. Receivable is what
you mean. Get right and keep in
the middle of the road. The gold
bug never talks of redeeming gold
money, and it is made money by
the same sovereign power that lega
tenders or greenbacks are, and is
''redeemableo in the same manner
Cif there could be such a thing as
redemption applied to money! il
the payment of debts and faxes
Stop using that misleading word
and say payment" p" Money is
paid out and paid out and keeps on
being paid out as the water flows
ON forever in the stream. No re,
demptiOn about it.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

Seaator Allen, of Nebraska, made a
speech in reply to the dernagogue Dolph,
of Oregon, the other day, from which we
make the following extract. Senator
Allan said
'The people of this country distrust the
professions of the republican party, so far
as concerns its dealing with the interest
of the producer and the laborer. 1t will
not be the republican party that will come
into power, the uncompromising cham
pion of single gold standard; a party
that advocates the unlimited and un-
checked power of national banks; party
that advocates a scarcity of money; a
party that by its policy has produced
more Panics in the country in the last
twenty-five years than ii witnessed for
seventy-five years of its existence bsfote
that time. l wish to say to the Senator
from Oregon, and know it will sound
sweetly to him, that the Popu1ist party
will come into power i'll the lower branch
of Congress next year-the party that is
in favor of reinstating the silver money
of the Constitution, the party that has at
heart the true interest of the great toiling
masses of the country. That is the party
which will be intrusted with power in
1895, and not the republican or demo.
cratic parties.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

-s=ssssss7s'- -
The last will and testam ent'' of
Lord Byron was sold at auction in
London recently for S15 At the same
sale a characteristic letter of CARLYLE
to Mrs. Austin brought $50, and let.
ter of Byron to Coleridge $35. A letter
of George Eliot, complaining of the lit
erary criticism of certain persons, was
sold for S25; a letter from Nelson to Sir
William Hamilton for $40, and num-
ber of letters written by American
presidents and statesmen for Sl25.
Capt. Ben Thompson, of Kenne-
bunkport, Me-, was one hundred years
old recently. The old skipper is living
in the house in which he was born
December 90, 1898. His Oldest son is
seventy-one years old and lives with
him. He is erect and vigorous and at
wrestling at side holds or arms
length his son Evan to-day would be
no match for him. He shaves himself
regularly and during the first fall of
snow this season he was engaged in
making repairs of the road in payment
for his county tax. With the excep,
ton of extreme deafness all the cap.
Gill > litulLlcS ScGui W DG lItdCD-
The few civilized inhabitants of
our westernmost island possessions,
the Aleutians and Pribylovs, have now
been left for some weeks in their lone
~ winter condition. The rockeries oil
the Pribyloffs have once Or twice been
raided by seal poachers in Decent ber
but the thing is of too rare occurrence
l, nd "a,
Mike Healy, commander of the Bear
has left those waters. The little com
pany at Ounalaslta and the smaller set
tlement of whites in the Pribylov group
will see no new face until next MAY or
June, unless, indeed, some stranger
OF very tender age comes among them
not by way of the Pacific.
The tortoise is particularly sensi-
tive and fully twenty-four hours before
rain falls will look for u convenient
shelter. However bright the weather
may be, whenever tortoises are OBJ
served making for shelter rain is GER
tain to fall shortly afterward. This
presentiment, which exists in many
birds and beasts, is doubtless partly
due to the increasing weight of the
atmosphere when rain is forming. In
our own country the robin is said by
it's peculiar movements to give evidence
OF an impending change in the weather.
while in America the catbird is motor
ious for it's unerring instinct in giving
warning of an approaching thunder
storm. It's method is to sit on the low
est branch of a tree and utter peculiar
notes which it never appears to use
except as storm signal.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16
The American House of Lord.

The American House of Lords
known as the United States Senate
is demonstrating to the public
every session that it is becoming
more and more aristocratic the older
and wealthier it grows. The peo-
pie are indebted to it for more bad
legislation than for any thing else
it has ever accomplished. 1t was
this House of banker and monopoly
lords which placed the exception
clause" on the greenback that has
cost the tOilers of this country five
thousand millions nearly in clean
cash besides the incidental cost
arising from that act. Let this
aristocratic barnacle be abolished
and in order to start the ball let the
Peoples Party make this a plank
in their platform at their mex
National Convention.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

The Cecil Democrat is "out OF
sortso with Senators German and
"me too" Gibson for having coal
and iron taken off the free list in
the Wilson bill and placed among
the "protected" articles, and indig-
nantly asks:
"How are Messrs. German and
Gibson to account to their conSti
tuents for this fragrant and aggra-
waited breach of trust, for such il
isl
All, that is easily answered,
friend. "The constituents have
nothing to put in the Doodle bag
And this ''practical politics.
answer will satisfy every one of the
thick and thin free trade democrats
in the state next fall. Gormar
knows the Maryland democrat, as
Falstaff says, as well as the mar
who made him.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16
When a Ouietus Has Been Given.

Our esteemed Wall street friend, The
FiRanciey, of last week says:
"The financial condition of the country
corresponds very closely with that of last
week, i'll so far as this, that money re-
mains positive drug in the market, and
apparently will not be invested until a
QHietHS has been given to the initiation
theories of the pro-silverites, populists
and free coinage advocates.
We can assure The FinaRcier that il
these are the conditions on which invest
nents depend of the drug" money, it is
likely to remain long time uninvested.
Only the beginning of the agitation along
those lines has been seen. The Flnancie,
will find the populists very hard crowd
to give "quietus." We commend the
article Silver" published in this issue OF
the MIDLAND JOURNAL to the thoughtful
consideration of The FiRanciey, with five
or six million voters standing behind it,
ballots in hand, and it will begin to realize
the true conditions prevailing
The midland journal., 1894-03-16
An Appeal to the Million POpulist
Voters,

Both the Democratic and Republican
parties have established headquarters and
are today preparing millions of campaign
documents to be sent out during this
campaign.
1t is the opinion of the shrewdest poll
ticians at Washington, that if the Peo-
pies party takes advantage of the blum.
ders and infanny of the present admins
/ tration, there will be no trouble in elect
ing Populists members enough to hold
the balance of power in the next Con
gress 1t is also admitted by the closest
observers among both the Democratic
and Republican politicians that the next
election of President will be thrown in
the House, which will give the Populists
the power to dictate who shall be the next
ton in the State of Oregon comes off i'll
June, and i'll Alabama in August. We are
almost absolutely sure TO carry Alabama
and we stand an even chance with either
of the old parties in Oregon. To help to
carry Oregon and Alabama is to help put
life and enthusiasm in our party i'll every
State in the Union
The Peoples party is composed of the
great common people of the country who
are poor and honest. 1t has no million
aires, bank or railroad corporations upon
which to call for campaign funds.
The National Committee has establish
ed headquarters at Washington where it
can procure all unlimited amount of CAM
paign literature at a small cost. One
thousand dollars used in our party will
do as much work as hundred thousand
dollars in either of the old parties.
After carefully considering the above
facts and the bright prospects for our
party in the coming campaign, we feel it
our imperative duty to appeal to our
people everywhere to come to the aid of
the National Committee i'll doing this
great work. In the last election our
party pol1ed more than million votes for
President.
We now earnestly appeal to 1000 of
of that number to give us S. each, 10000
to give us 81 each, 10000, so cents each,
&c, 1000, rs cents each, and the remainder
of the one million to give lis 10 cents and
S cents each. We also earnestly appeal
to all Peoples Party Clubs, Legions, and
Leagues to raise what funds they can for
the Committee, by taking up collections,
giving entertainments. etc. We make
this request because we believe it our
duty to do so. If our party ever attains
success, each member must contribute
to that success not only with his ballot
but with whatever means he can spare
To respond promptly and literally means
success that will bless the nation for all
time to come.
All contributions should be sent to M.
c. Rankin, Terre Haute, Ind, who is
Treasurer of the National Committee.
Very truly yours,
J. H. TURNER, H. F. TAUBENEcK,
Secretary. Chairman.
l.. J. McFARL1N, NJ c. RANKIN,
Secretary. Treasul er.
Reform papers please copy.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

The bill passed the Senate last
week providing that after May 1st
the Treasurer of Cecil county shall
act as Clerk to the Commissioners
and that no other person shall be
paid as clerk.
How much pay is the Treasurer.
Clerk to receive? This was the
form in which the bill was original
ly presented when the office OF
Treasurer was created.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

The long headed lawyers of the
Senate who have been placed there
to watch over the millionaires' in
terest are planning to get rid of the
income tax by adding sundry
articles placed on the free list to
the dutible list. They will most
likely succeed in this. The income
tax feature of the bill should be re
tanned and be graduated till enough
revenuewas derived from that source
to redeem the S50,000,00O fraud
ulent bonds issued by Mr.. Carlisle
when those bonds should be per-
emptorily called in under penalty
OF forfeiture and destroyed. Their
redemption should be for their face
value only, which would teach Wall
Street Shylocks a lesson they would
not soon forget.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

The Democrat quotes a plank
from the Democratic National plat
form and heads it EThe Democratic
Chart" F." This is evidently a mis-
take by the printer. 1t should read
The Democratic Cart. And the
cart was placed before the horse III
order to fool the people. They
naturally went to the horses tail tC
get in and got left.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

Under whatever name Inflammation is found,
land the list is long onel there will Golden
Relief cure. Thus it is that it will cure felon,
applied externally, and also consumption,
taken in drop doses on small lump of sugar in.
ternally. You have sore, bruised fingcy. Put
the Relief on it and be surprised how quickly IL
Is well. On any other sore it is the same. One
drop applied to an old sore will cause it to heal
after all else has failed Cold-sores on your lip
are cured by il in one night. You have tried it
for sorethroat and found yourself cured almost
at once. Now your lungs are sore-infiamed-
IT quickly cures inflammation of the lungs. A
chronic cough-Consumption is on you. 1t will
cure your lungs No Inflammation, no consum,.
ton, It will not permit Inflammation to exist
Tnis Is why II cures coas0npton-just as il
would sore throat, or fiux3 folon, a toothachs
or neuralgia. The sore in your lungs is healed
ana you are well. One sore is not much unlike
another No Inflammation, no sore no con-
sumption. tablespoonful cures La Grippe.
II satisfaction not given money refunded. II
never disappoints. Take bottle home to-day.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

The chief event of interest at the
State capital during the past week
has been the open conflict between
the friends of Senator German OF
the one hand and the adherents OF
Mr.. Rasin on the other over the
Hayes assessment bill. l.-Balt. News
Maryland politics every time
And George Coulton is reported
boosting the old machine.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16
Ragweeds.

The pungent essay read by Mrs. Sinp-
ers at the Farmers Institute, entitled
''Ragweeds" is published on the first
page of the MIDLAND JOURNAL. 1t is a
strong plea for the ballot for women a
subject which is becoming of general in
terest and is steadily marching on" like
John Browns soul in the famous war
song.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

It's just as essy to try One Minute
Cough Cure as anything else. It's easier
to cure a severe cold or cough with IL
Let your next purchase for cough be
One Minute Cough Cure. Better medi-
cine better result better try it. DIR. l..
R Kinks Drug Store.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16
si.oo YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
Friday, March 16, 1894.

THE MIDLAND JOURNAL is print
ed on new type this week. We
mean to give our subscribers the
worth of their money whether they
give us the money or not.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

At Bridgeville, Delaware, a colt
minus the fore legs is the natural
curiosity of the place. The owner,
having an "eye to business,
charges 10 cents a sight and has
lots of custom, He is going to try
and raise the biped equine hoping
to get a big price for 1t from some
museum proprietor.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

There never was so shameless q
tool presided over the Treasury as
Carlisle.
Our government protective
policy consists in protecting rich
mems money and neglecting to pro
tect the people, which appears tC
delight numerous poor people.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cleanses
purifies and heals. It was made for that
purpose. Use it for burns, cuts, bruises,
chapped hands, sores of all descriptions
and if you have piles use it for them. DIR.
l.. r. Kinks Drug Store
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

The final adjournment of the Gen
eral Assembly is now only three
weeks off, and no bills Of any i'm
portance have yet been enacted into
laws.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16
How Well
You're Looking
Friends All Surprised
At the Wonderful Benefit From
Hoods SarsapariIIa.

&C. I. Hood g. Co., Lowell, Mass:
Gentlemen: Whenever meet friends now
whom have not seen for some time, the first
thing they generally remark concerns my fieshy
and healthy appearance. They ask what have
been doing 1 have one answer for all: oh!
nothing only taking Hoods Sarsaparilla.' 1
have been afflicted for thirty years with dry
Scaiy Eruption of the Skin,
affecting at times my entire body but mainly
confined to my limbs and more especially to my
legs from my knees down to my feet. The skin,
which had been a solid mass of dry scales for
years, broke out about year ago into running
sores. AT one time l had as many as nine on
one limb which were about the size of a silver
ten cent piece. They caused me great incOn-
The midland journal., 1894-03-16
4 orotpnsna succaas

Il cr0tOnsng suecos9
That's what DR..
Fenner's Golden
Relief is. 1t is o
specific for INFLAM.
NATION, reaching
: and curing IT wher-
ever it exists. Swell
ing and pain accom-
pany Inflammation,
SO it always cures
swelling and pain.