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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-22
$4,000 IN GUARANTEED STAKES.

$4,000 IN GUARANTEED STAKES.
THE AMOUNT OFFERED BY THE YER
MONT HORSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.
The Vermont association of Road and
TrOtting Horse Breeders offers $4,000 in
guaranteed stakes for trOtters and PAGERS
at its annual exhibition, to be held at
Rutland, August ~, % and 20 next.
There will be IL races, as follows:
No. For trotting foals of 1893 and
later, $500.
No. 2-FOr pacing foals of 1893 and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-22
+. ID. IlINDES,
PITTSFORD, VT.

Breeder OF inbred Morgan horses, OF the
Daniel Lambert strain. Brood mares, colts
and hllies tor sale. i3 2dt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-22
Castoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children"
Dr.. G. G. OsGooD,
Lowell Mass.
"Castoria is the best remedy for children of
which am acquainted. l hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castora in
stead of the various quack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DR.. ]. F. KINCHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-22
JOSEPH BATTELLn


stations, in use: Inbred Morgan, Dennng
Allen, sire OF Lord Clinton Os' Thought,
sire OF Archie h. , lSla
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-22

Company, II Murray Street, New City
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-22

MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-11-21
lrgal Nutirrs.
SIiERIFF'S SALE.

STATE OF MAINE, HANCOCK, S.:
VINAkEN ON EXECUTION wherein Nathan
II. Powers is creditor, and Eppes q.
Gilley and Prudence j. Gilley are debtors,
and will be sold at public auction to the high
est bidder, on Saturday, the 21st day of De-
cember, a. d. 1895, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon at the Office of O. F. Fellows, in Bucks
port, in said county of Hancock, all the right,
title and interest which said Eppes q. Gilley
and Prudence j. Gilley have or had at the
time of the attachment on the original writ,
to wit: April s. 1895 in and to certain real
estate, situated in Orland, in said county,
and bounded and described follows, to
wit: Northerly by land owned or occupied
by Edwin p. Hutchings; easterly by county
road leading from Orland to Castine; south
erly by land occupied by Andrew CHM. and
westerly by the Eastern river, being about
ten acres.
Dated at Bucksport in said county Of Han
cock, this 10Th day of October, a. d. 1925.
J. w. PATTERSON,
Deputy Sheriff.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-11-21
GRADE IN-LESSON !.

THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
Who discovered America? If your
teacher should ask you this question,
those of you who have studied history
would at once answer that Christopher
Columbus discovered America in the year
1892. This answer would not be very lar
from right, and yet Columbus was by no
means the first white man who VISITED
this country. Bold seamen from the
north OF Europe had crossed the Wlld
waves of the Atlantic and sailed along
the eastern coast of this great continent
long before the discoveries OF columbus
opened the way for its conquest and set
Element.
Nine hundred years ago, people from
Iceland and Norway had formed settle
ments on the shores of Greenland. For
that land was then country green with
vegetation, and not a barren waste OF
snow and ice as it is at the present time.
1t had been discovered about the year
9S2 by a Norwegian chief, called Eric the
Red. at is a pleasant land,' he said,
''and if l but give it pleasant name
many people will gladly leave the colder
shores of Iceland and find new homes
here" And so he called it Greenland.
Among he first families that went from
Iceland to Eric's new settlement IN
Greenland was that of an old viking
called Herjulf. The eldest son OF Her]ul1'
a brave sea captain named Biarnl, was at
that time sailing in distant seas-whether
for honest purposes of trade or for Pill
lage, no one knows. When he returned
to Iceland late in the summer he found'
to his surprise, that his family had lett
the island, intending to settle IN the
green and pleasant land so lately dlscoV-
cred in the west. He at once made up MS
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repeat the same thing several times, and
saw that he was much vexed that the
horse should be sent away, he said, "Dc
you reproach those that are older than
yourself, as if you knew more, and were
better able than they to manage the
horse?"
81 could manage him." he said, "better
than others do"
"And if you do not, said Philip, "what
will you forfeit for your rashness?"
81 will pay the whole price of the
horse, " said Alexander.
At this the whole company fell to
laughing; but as soon as the agreement
was settled amongst them, Alexander
Immediately ran to the horse, and, taking
hold of the bride, turned him directly
toward the sun, having, it seems, OBJ
served that the animal was disturbed and
frightened by the motion of his own
shadow.
Then the youth, letting him go forward
a little, still keeping the reins in his
hand, and stroking him gently, when he
found him growing eager and fiery, let
fall his upper garment softly, and with
one nimhle leap securely mounted him.
When he was seated, by little and little,
he drew in the bride, and curbed him
without either striking or squirting him.
Presently, when he found him free from
all RIGHTEOUSNESS, and only impatient for
the course, he let him go at full speed, in
citing him now with a commanding voice,
and urging him also with his heel.
Philip and his friends looked on at
first in silence and anxiety for the result,
till, seeing Alexander turn at the end of
his career, and come back rejoicing and
triumphant for what he had performed,
they all burst out into acclamations Of
applause. His father, shedding tears, it
is said for JOY, kissed him as he came
down from his horse, and in his transport
exclaimed, so my son, look thee out a
kingdom worthy of myself, for Mace
donia is too small for thee!"
After this, considering his son to be Of
a temper easy to be led to duty by reason,
but by no means to be compelled, Philip
always endeavored to persuade him rather
than to command or force him. He saw
that he instruction of his son was too
difficult and important to be wholly
trusted to the ordinary masters in music
and poetry, and that it required, in the
words of Sophocles,
"rhe rudder's guidance and the curbs re-
-traint."
He therefore sent for Aristotle, the
most learned philosopher of his time,
and rewarded him with muniticence be-
coming the care he took to teach his son.
Alexander gained from him not only
moral and political knowledge, but
was also instructed in those more pro-
found branches of science which they did
not communicate to common scholars.
Plutdrch
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GRADE V-LESSON l.
ALEXANDER's FIRST TRIUMPH

ALEXANDER'S FIRST TRIUMPH.
Philonicus the Thessalian brought the
horse Bucephalus to Philip, offering to
sell him for thirteen talents; but when
the attendants went into the field to try
him, they found him SO very vicious and
unmanageabIe that he reared up when
they endeavored to mount him, and
would not so much as endure the voice of
any of them.
Philip was displeased at their bringing
him so wild and ungovernable horse
and babe them take him away, but as
they were leading him away as wholly
intractable and useless, Alexander, who
stood by, said, "What an excellent horse
do they lose, for want of skill and spirit
to manage him!"
Philip at first took no notice of the
words of his son; but when he heard him
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The world will pity you for what you
lose; never for what you lack.
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GRADE III-LEssoN L.
JOHN CABOT.

GRADE III-LESSoN l.
JOHN CABOT.
How many of us have ever thought
how much the love of good food had to
do will the discovery OF our land! MOST
of the food eaten four or five centuries
ago was coarse and far from pleasant to
the taste, and the people were, ON tha1
account, very fond of all sorts OF Spices
which they mixed with nearly everything
they ate. These spices were grown only
in Asia, and the only way of getting
them which was then known, was 10
have them brought by caravans over the
deserts OF Arabia to some port on the
Mediterranean, and then by ships to
Europe.
It was one of the main objects of Column
bus to find an easier Way to the "Splce
Islands" of Asia, when he made his
VOYAGES of discovery, and we all know
how, instead of getting to Asia, he landed
on what we nov call the Western CONT
nent.
About the time that Columbus was
making his voyages there lived in Italy
man who was born in the same city that
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-11-21

Good advice: Never leave home on
journey without bottle OF Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrh9a Rem
edy. For sale by George A. Parcher.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-11-21
SUPPLEMENTARY READING.
CONDUCTED BY
f. w. LORD, OF ELLSWORTH.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

Hinder
n the republics
and we hope that
dlcmat erof en-
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NAMES LETTER BAGS.
Revenues from Hancock County's Pres
idpntiaI Post -OfIiceS.


The report of the first assistant post
master-general, just issued, shows that
the gross receipts from presidential post
offices OF the first, second and third
classes in the State of Maine for the fiscal
year ending June 80 last, amounted to
1863 1912. The total number of these
offices was sixty, and the salaries paid to
Maine people holding different positions
in them were SOS, 100. The amount of
receipts for postal matter handled is ex-
ceeded only by two other New England
states, Massac husetts having total of
s4S1S ,62S.S5 and Connecticut a total of
Il, 113, $685. 60. Receipts in New Hampshire
were S357, 1888; in Vermont, 1927, 062. 73 !;
and in Rhode Island, S45S ,S3954.
The gross figures for the three Hancock
county post offices of this class are as
follows:
RECEIPTS ENPENsEs. REVENUES.
Bar Ilarbor ss,464.2l S3,6Ga.64 S4,794.57
Ellsworth 5,S39l7 24l6.72 3,42245
Bucksport, 3,252.14 2,0lo,9S l,2l.'6
The world will pity you for what you
lose; never for what you lack.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08

without so much salt, but if kainit is
used w ould mix 1t in the leaf mold COM
post so as to make 800 pounds instead of
the 200 pounds of the muriate. The
muriate costs about four times as much
per ton as the kainit, but you get your
actual potash cheaper as you do not
have to freight all that salt. The salt,
will however, have no injurious effects
if we'll mixed in the compost, but may
tend to release any insoluble potash in
the soil, and thus in time to make the
soil poorer in potash. If not convenient
to use the compost this spring, then make
MKT ure us follows:
Acid phosphate, 1000 pounds; cotton
seed meal, 700 pounds; muriate of pot
ash 300 pounds to make ton.
Use 400 pounds of this per acre in the
furrow under the potatoes. The same
mixture used at the rate Of half a ton to
ton per acre will make good cabbages.
Our truckers here never use on early
cabbage less than a ton per acre of high
grade fertilizer. You can use all the
manure of any kind that you please on
cabbages and your land when made very
rich ought to be good cabbage land.
The best remedy that have ever tried
for the green worms on cabbage is air
Stacked lime and salt. mixed in about
equal proportions. and sprinkled on the
plants. 1t will destroy every larva that
1t touches. Frequent light applications
will keep them down. I hive recently
gotten out bulletin on "Trucking IN
the South" which will be sent to all
North Carolina farmer free on appl1ca.
ton to the director of this station, DR..
H. B. Battle, and to parties outside the
State on receipt of 25 cents 1t is a book
of about seventy pages, and has a full
series of fertilizer formulas. Sweet po-
tatoes crack when there is an excess Of
nitrogen in the soil in seasons of alter
nate dry and wet weather.
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Sweet Potatoes.
From the Ruralist.

From the Ruralist.
The sweet potato can hardly have too
much attention in a Southern agrlcult-
ural journal, and this year it's culGiva-
ton, use, and storage, and consideration
of new varieties, will deserve more at
tention than usual. In reply to an in
ouiry in Home and Farm, Mr.. Massey
gives the following valuable suggestions,
which those about to plant will do well
to consider and profit by:
The potato is largely made up of starch
and sugar. To enable the plant to
store these largely potash is needed in
good proportion. But to enable the
plant to use the potash it must be ex-
cited into vigorous growth with due
amount of nitrogen and phosphoric acid.
Plants need balanced food ration just
as much as animals To plants like the
sweet potato which need a large per-
cenEage of potash, stable manure is not
properly balanced as the nitrogen is in
excess of the other food. The farmers
are right in saying that land made too
rich with manure will cause the potato
to run to vines. There would be less of
this tendency, of course, if the manure
is reinforced with phosphoric acid and
potash, but still, with the heavy applica-
tion of animal manure you will have an
excessive vine growth. One thing is
doubtless needed In your soil. This is
drainage. The sweet potato abhors
wet soil, and will never do it's best on
soils that are inclined to be wet until it
is we'll under drained. Turning under
a good crop Of peas should not only sup
ply humus, but also as much nitrogen as
the crop needs. In the absence of pea
crop a compost made Of the rakings of a
pine woods, leaves and mold piled up in
the fall and mixed with lime, and ap-
piled heavily broadcast all over the land
will be best. When this is used, scatter
in the furrow, 300 pounds per acre, of at
mixture of 5000 pounds of acid phos'
phate and 200 pounds of muriate of pot
ash. prefer the muriate to the kainit,
as you get l. rye percentage of potash
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Jerusalem Corn.

Jerusalem corn is one of those non
saccharine sorghums we'll adapted to all
parts of the West where the rainfall is
slight, usually not exceeding 20 inches,
and will usually thrive where the sac
charine or amber varieties will fail for
lack of moisture. Jerusalem corn is
valuab both for it's fodder and seed
and when planted in drills and cultivated
to moderate extent, it makes very
valuable hay for roughage for all kinds
of stock. There is no doubt that it can
be fed profitably to steers and milk cat
tie as well as work stock in all parts of
Texas In combination with four or
five pounds Of cottonseed meal per day
it will in 100 days change the steer from
ordinary conditions to fat. Nine to II
pounds of cOttonseed may be used to
combine with Jerusalem corn instead of
the above amount of cOttOnseed meal.
Alfalfa can also be relied upon as val
liable forage plant if properly handled
the first year, care being taken to secure
a good tap root growth before the hot,
dry weather of summer begins. Mel
lotus alba or Bokhara clover is proving
a very valuable forage plant. 1t is a
biennial and will reseed itself every two
years. This can be grazed successfully
to some extent, while alfalfa will not
bear grazing. 1t makes a coarser hay
than alfalfa and is not so we'll liked by
stock, but when cattle or horses are &C.
customed to it they eat it greedily.-I.
Fl. Cornell. Director Texas Experimental
Station, College Station.
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has abandoned the trimming of the
plants, and would not have them trim
med, if done for nothing. as his exre-
rience is that they do better without it.
Value of the Sunfower.

A correspondent of the Orlando Sen
tinel speaks as follows of the suntiower:
The sunfiower is popularity regarded
as cheap and comparatively worthless
plant, cultivated, perhaps, because the
owner of the cottage is hardly able to
have other and more gaudy and preten-
tiousplants to ornament his surroundings.
1t is, to be sure, somewhat coarse, tall
growing and hardy annual, SNOWY, and
in suitable place, by no means unattract-
i've. 1t was introduced from South
America as early as 1896, and has at
times been put to a great variety of uses
1t was found by experiments that a
bushel of sunf1ower seed will yield gal
Ion Of oil, and that an acre of ground,
planted three feet apart in rows, will
yield forty to fifty bushels Of seed. The
oil is as mild as sweet oil and equally as
agreeable on salads and as medicine.
The seed is raised with very little trouble
and makes excellent chicken feed. The
sprouts are eaten with oil and SALT and
bread is also made from the seed and
cruel for children. Itfattens fowls, and
it's leaves are excellent food for cattle in
summer and increases the quantity OF
milk in COWS. 1t is also good for sheep,
and the stems are useful TO support
elm bling plants and serve for fuel. The
seeds when roasted have the flavor of
coffee, and the infusion of them like tea
makes pleasant beverage. These i'm
portant uses ought to set people to think
ing.
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Money for Everyone!

I can't understand why people COM
plain of hard times, when any woman
or man can make from S. to $40 day
easily. All have heard of the wonder
full success Of the Climax Dish Washer;
yet we are apt to think we can't make
money selling it; but anyone can make
money, because every family wants one.
| made $478. SO in the last three months,
after paying all expenses and attended to
my regular business besides. You don't
have to canvass; as soon as people know
you have it for sale they send for Dish
Washer. Address the Climax Mfg. Co.,
Columbus, Ohio, for particulars. Go to
work at once, and you will very soon
have full pocket book and light heart.
| think it duty to inform each other
of such opportunities, and | also think
it duty to improve them while we
may. Try it at once, and publish your
experience so others may be benefited.
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weather which visited the State during
the winter but he added that they were
all inclined to make the best of the
situation, and are going to work to re-
cover their losses as quickly as possible.
He suggested that, in his opinion, the
results of the disaster would in the end
be favorable to the State if they brought
about a greater diversity of agricultural
products. Already many growers OF
that section of the State have made a
move in this direction, and a larger
acreage of sugar cane will be raised this
season than ever before. Jacksonville
Citizen.
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Potatoes Pay Well.

Mr.. A. L. Bennett has gathered &c
barrels of Early Rose potatoes from Al
bushels of seed He has received as
high as $40 per barrel for some and has
yet to hear from his best. We have on
exhibition few specimens and they are
certainly as large and fine as one could
wish.
Taking yield and prices obtained both
into consideration we are prepared tC
say that we know of no country which
can beat ours on Irish otatoes.-Courier
Informant.
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Orange Blossoms in Polk.

Our Office is today decorated with a
large bunch of new twigs from the trees
in the yards of the Orange hotel. The
branches are from II to 20 inches long
and yet they are holding large num-
Der of blooms and young oranges some
of them already larger than bean.
Many of the old groves in and around
the city are IN this condition and the in
dications are that there will be quite a
respectable crop of oranges in Polk
county this year and with no further &C
cidents next year will give us good fair
crop.-Courier-In
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DiversifYing Everywhere.

Hon. S. M. Sparkman, of Tampa,
Congressman elect from the First Con-
gressional District of Florida, reached
the city yesterday morning on bust
ness trip, and returned in the evening
to Tampa. He said that the farmers
and business men of the west coast
were feeling the results of the cold
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08

THE Universal Bolt Company of Mar
etta, Ohio, has brought suit in the Court
of Claims against the United States Gov
eminent for $1,000 for the royalties al
legged to be due on bolt locks used by the
Government in public works, principally
in river and harbor improvements.