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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-02-12
DURkEE & BARROWS
BELLOWS FALLS VERNON
Bellows Falls Personals.

David D. Driscoll was in town Tuesday.
j. j. Fenton went to New York yester-
day.
C. f. Robertson was in Boston the first
of the week.
j. G. Clair and wife of Boston were in
town Monday.
V. NJ Rowell of Claremont was in town
last Thursday.
L. R. Plummer of Brattleboro was in
town Tuesday.
Carrie Smith is suffering from an attack
of neuralgia.
Monday and Tuesday.
Miss May Collins returned to Waltham,
Mass, last Sunday. ..
Miss Elvira Gorham goes to Boston to-
day for a short visit.
Mr.. and Mrs C. II. Gibson were in
Boston the first of the week.
M. A. Mcclure of Rutland was in town
Monday afternoon.
C. w. Stewart of Brattleboro has been
in town part Of this week.
Levi Wetherbee, who has been sick for
some time, is improving.
Mrs. Levi Wetherbee has been quite i'll
the past few days.
Miss Katie Maloney of Charlestown, n.
H., is visiting in town.
Mrs. Hunt Clark from Westminster
West visited in town Saturday.
w. D. Sullivan of Holyoke, Mass, Wis.
tied in town the first of the week.
Miss Alice Matthews of Wilton, n H.,
visited friends in town over Sunday
Wallace White is on business trip tc
Niagara Falls, having been absent week
or more.
Rev. Frank Hyde Of Bridgewater is Wis
iting his brother, j. j. Hyde, at Town:
hotel.
Mrs. S. H. Potter of White River juno
ton spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. +
H. Babbitt.
Miss Winnie Neyland of Still River
Mass, is the guest of her sister, Mis-.
Kate Neyland.
Miss Grace Gould of North Walpolt
began clerking in Durkee e. Barrows
establishment yesterday.
Fred Lewis was called to his home il
Pittsfield, Mass, the first of the week b,
the illness of his father.
Miss Frances R. Osgood returned Fri
day evening from five weeks stay in Phil
adelphia and New York
Mrs. DR.. Daley of White River juno
ton has spent a portion of the past weel
with friends here.
Chauncey Adams was called to New
York Saturday to attend the funeral of hi
brother; he returned Monday noon.
L. w. circuit and wife of Boston wer,
in town yesterday. Mr.. circuit is mem
Der of the firm Of CIRCUIT & Blakley of th'
Blue store
NJ. Hutchins of Springfield Mass.
superintendent of construction with tn,
New England telephone exchange, is il
town to-day.
Mrs. Weeks of Keene, former draw
ing teacher in the public schools, has beef
spending several days here at her brothers
Clinton Hatch's, and returned to her hom
yesterday.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-02-12

Mrs. E. A. Turner of Alstead, former
resident of Bellows Falls, is slowly conva.
lescing from an illness Of some months
with the rheumatism.
Mrs j. w. Naramore and child are
staying with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F,
P. Ball, during the absence of her nus
band, Rev. j. w. Naramore, who is hav-
ing vacation OF two or three weeks at his
old home in Sing Sing, N. Y.
DR.. E. R. Campbell and Conductor N.
j. Woodfall who managed the Nova
Scotia excursion last summer, are making
arrangements for another similar one fol
next June. The plans include visits in
Saratoga and Albany, thence down the
Hudson to New York, where another STOP
will be made, and home by way of the
Fall River line of steamers and Boston.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-02-12
SAMPLE COPIES.

THE TIMES believes if it has merit as a
newspaper an intelligent public will soon
find it out, if they can be induced to read it.
Hence we send out sample copies and
make trial offer this week to NEW sub
seribers to induce them to take THE TINES
and see how good newspaper it is. Re-
member two copies every week, each the
size of this, making together the largest
paper in eastern Vermont, for only $3.50
year. Any one not now a subscriber
can have it ON trial till July L, 1896, for
only % cents.
If you get a sample copy kindly take it
as personal invitation to at least try it.
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ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS
Comment Varinusly ON the Success of the
Popular Loan Here.


LONDON Feb. 6-The Westminster Ga
zetie says that the action of President
Cleveland in deciding upon popular osn
was fully justified and cannot fail to have
a favorable influence not only in the
United States, but abroad.
The st. James Gazette states that the
success of the loan is a useful reminder to
Englishmen that in spite of financial tl1A-
orders and the ''eccentricities of the adj
ministration. the United States is "a very
rich country and has g, great reserve
store of wealth among its people,
The St James Gazette says: The sue.
cess is not wholly hopeful of the prospects
of peacefully solving the Venezuela di3i
Guilty, and is only likely to add to the ;sg-
gressive self-confdence which caused The
presidents message and the new Oliey
doctrine TO be hailed with SO much entlIu-
siasm. We have no desire TO be pessilnis-
tic. but we search vainly for any indiea-
ton in the United States of a disposition
to concede anything. We have the alterh;i-
tives of submitting the whole claim to ar
?itration or mourning the hostility of The
Unired States. II is still a very unsatis.
factory and dangerous situation.
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H0OGsc Ds1lc are tastless, mild, efTec-
J AOOSs . fiAo tive All druggists. &c.
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Leap Year Ball.

The young ladies Of the Bellows Falls
Social club gave a leap year ball in Hiber-
Man hall Monday evening" about 20
couples were present, Weeden's orchestra
furnishing music. There was an order OF
dances of Is numbers. The floor directors
were Misses Kate Neyland and Mary
Flavin. The young ladies succeeded in
making the evening pass very enjoyably.
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Young Republicans Meet To-day.

The Young Mems Republican club meets
in Montpelier to-day. There will be a
banquet this evening, and covers have been
laid for 600 guests.
Frank L. Greene of St. Adams will act
as POSTMASTER and will call up COL Charles
A. Russell of Massachusetts, Gov. Wood
bury, Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Alfred A
Hall, Porter H. Dale, c. G. Fits, Paul
w. Orvis, R. W. Hubbard, j. A. DeBoer.
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Columbian Rail.

The Columbian Whist club ball given in
Union hall Monday evening was an unex-
pected success in point Of attendance,
about 80 couples being present. Beedle's
orchestra, six pieces, furnished music.
Supper was served in the Towns hotel din
ing rooms. The evening was successful
close of series of pleasing and enjoyable
social gatherings.
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should be dressed and shipped at
half the expense, and sell much
better. Therefore, ship more dressed
poultry and pay less charges. To
get the best prices, ship to some
large grocer, packing well in ice,
if too far to take in the wagon. The
refrigerator fret hit car is cheaper
than express.
Men who ship live poultry in the
crowded condition often received at
the city market should be prosecuted
for cruelty; and there is much suf-
fering because of lack of food aud
water on the journey. Thousands of
fowls die en- route. Better keep them
at home and bury them for fertilizer
upon their native fields.
The average farmer does not care
much about color in eggs, neither,
probably, does the average country
market; but for the fancy market
they must be of the required color.
New York seems to wish white eggs,
while Boston prefers the brown. Re
member that a crossing in breeds of
any kind will not give eggs of a uni
form appearance.
Now, and little later, breeders of
pure bred stock will be anxious to
get rid of their pure bred cOckerels.
and this is the time to buy them
cheaply. The differences i'm prices
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the free-for-all pace from $1,000 to
$4,000 for the Grand Circuit meeting
and it is said that assurances have
been received that Joe Patchen, Star
Pointer, Robert j., Frank Agan and
Rubenstein will all be there, with a
possibility also that John r. Gentry
will be in the lot.
John Fitzgerald, of Shaw, Tenn,
was in the city last Tuesday. John
has his good trotter. Black Dick, in
good shape and will start him at
the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Fair,
September 8. He will also start him
at the Maury County Fair in Octo-
Der.
Monday night last wild locomo-
tive on the L. & N. Railroad, ran
over and killed nine horses for Capt.
M. G. Campbell, at Cleburne Stock
Farm, this county. Seven of the
animals killed were colts by Brown
Hal and Mercury, the other two were
brood mares.
Lauretta ID. Is Good.
Mr.. r. P. Oodsons good mare,
Lauretta ID. captured another race
at Detroit last Saturday. The dis
lance was five furlongs, and Lauretta
outclassed her field of twelve, win
ming as she pleased. Time | :34.
Buying a Horse.
A well-known business man OF
Nashville was advised by his physi-
clan to take an hours recreation
every day on horseback, and a few
days ago he started out to buy a
saddle horse. He thus relates his
experience: II soon found a horse
that suited my fancy and on inquir.
ing the price the owner said $35(
cash was the least he could afford to
why, great Scott, do you know that
| can buy house and lot with tina
much money Perhaps you can,
he replied, but it is a horse you
want and not house and lot
then said to him that had been lee
to believe that horses were dir
cheap. To this he replied, Som,
horses are cheap, but they are of &
kind that you would not accept as {
gift
II concluded to look further
Down at Broad street livery stable
found good looking, good-gaitet
gelding that 1 thought would an
swer my purpose. The owner sait
the horse had splint and two o
three wind-puffs, but otherwise wa
all right. He asked 5000 for him.
told him | would see him again, ant
continued my search for a cheape
horse. In day or two found one
said to be the equal of any saddl
animal in the State, but the owne
could not be induced to take cen
less than $3.50 for him.
II have now spent two weeks try
ing to buy good horse at 10y
price, and am no nearer a trade nov
than the day started out. But
/ have learned one thing: All tn
cheap horses about Nashville are G
sort that are not worth feeding
In my rounds l learned that a rea
! good driving horse could not b
, bought for less than 5000, while
first-class animal is held at fror
' $500 to 800. Only Western ponie
! and scrub farm horses are selling a
from $50 to $50. Breeder an
: HOrseman.
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Poultry.

Millet is an excellent food for
poultry. Nothing could be better
for feeding young chicks, or hens
which are not allowed a free range.
1t can be raised as easily as rye, and
yields a good crop Why it is not
more cultivated, we can not under
stand.
Early goslings are the best, but
raising them is very difficult. They
need no mother except for a few
nights, to accustom them to their
coop, which should be a good one
after that they will do well if prop
erly attended to. If well kept they
will mature in two years.
Geese are not raised often, be-
cause of the prejudice against them ;
becoming annoyed with their noise,
the owners get rid of them before
they know their true worth. No
matter how old, they are desirable
if they will keep fat on good pas
ture. An average one should weigh
nine pounds. If well kept they will
raise two broods a year.
Geese are more hardy and much
less JIOuDl6 Jllul 6lJlltI ClllChtuo VI
turkeys, and the profits are much
larger. During the summer all they
need is good pasture. They begin
laying when but a year old, and
from a dozen geese and three OF
four ganders one should receive 400
eggs in a season.
The only cause of mortality among
ducklings, if plenty of drinking
water is supplied at all times, is
cramps, resulting from dampness; il
this be guarded against by keeping
their quarters warm and dry, anC
] keeping them out of the dewy grass
and rain, one may reasonably expect
to raise every duck Matched.
After the feathers of ducks once
mature they may be picked every
six weeks from March to December
and since the feathers from Pekir
duck command almost as good price,
as those from a goose, these feather
will soon more than pay for the eX
pense of its raising and keeping.
Express companies are fatteninl
on crates of live poultry which
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one will have to pay now and next
spring is a great deal more than the
cost of the food for the intervening
time. Therefore, buy now.
While there is not so much money
got from the sale of poultry and eggs
from single farm as from some oil
the crops, there is more clear gam,
and the receipts are almost constant
during the whole year. If proper
attention were given the fowls, ana
proper encouragement given me
women folks" the receipts wouIu
grow surprisingly.
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MEN AND HORSES.

Alex Mckay writes that his horses,
Starplex and Satin Slippers, are both
rounding to, and he thinks they
will get part of the money at the
Buffalo meeting this week. Mr.. Nc
Kay had close call in the storm at
Port Huron, Mich; his tent was
blown away. and the stables were
flooded with water.
The dam of Miss Jennings 2:08A
is owned by @. H. Jennings, Queens
town, Pa, who also owns two of her
foals. She is by High Private. Miss
Jennings is by McEwen, he by Nc
Curdy's Hambletonian. Mr.. Luther
McAdams bought the mare Miss
Jennings from her owner, Mr.. Prior
Cochran, for 1925 and sold her after
wards to Mr.. Jennings for 5000.
The Maury County Fair people will
hold fair this year as usual some
time in October.
Mr.. r. E. Denham is working two
or three horses at South Side Park ;
he will probably go to Kentucky
with them next month.
Mr.. John E. Walker has moved
back to his farm from South Side
Park.
Trainer Ketchum of Hurricane
Stock Farm will probably start Black
Mark and Patsy d. at the Bowling
Green, KY, fair.
Rain interfercd with Ft. Wayne
Ind, meeting last week. Robert j s
mile against time of 2:03 was the
best performance of the week.
Star Pointer is getting in shape, as
is indicated by his trial mile in 2:lO
the other day.
Dyersburg 2:121a, by Tennessee
Dictator, has won twenty-One races
out of twenty-seven starts.
Good judges say Roam Wilkes cal
pace a mile in 2:04. His owner has
recently declined $4,000 for him.
The Seasons Best Records.
Here are the best records of thu
season at both trotting and pacing
and at different ages:
TRoTTERS.
year-old, Mary Beaufort, br f b!
Golden Slope, 1923.
Three-year old, Caid, blk c by High
wood, 2;l4H.
Four-year-olds, Pat L., b C by Repub
lican, 2:09A Bessie Wilton, bl by vii
tan 2:09A.
Five-year-olds Bouncer b m by Hum
mer, 2:ll4; Copeland, b. s. by -Delmal
2:llK.
Fastest mare, Fantasy, b m 6, b.
Chimes, 2:06R.
Fastest gelding; klamath, b g IL, b
Morookus, 2:07A.
Fastest new performer, Page, b g b
Polonius, 2:O9&.
PAGERS.
Two-year-old, Cricket Hill, b b
William NJ. Hill, 2:l9A.
Three-old-old; Dan O., by SimmocC
Ion, 2:ll&.
Four-year-old, Miss Jennings, CHI I
by McEwen, 2:0S4.
Five-year-olds, Pearl c. b m by Ro
Wilkes, 2O6k.
Fastest stallion, John r. Gentry, b
I, by Ashland Wilkes, 2:03A.
Fastest gelding, Robert j., b g s b
Hartford, 2:O2A.
Fastest mares, Pearl c., >, by Ro
Wilkes, 2O618; Lottie Lorraine by GaI
Wilks 2:06H
Fastest new performer, Miss Jel
nings, 2:OSA.
Probably the fastest mile ever driN
en- by a woman was that at Glenn
Falls, n. Y, August Z, when Mr.
f. H. Winch, of Middlebury, VT
drove Maj. Wonder mile in 2:l23
Splan and Newberger were in frOI
all the time for three heats in til
2:2S trot at Fort Wayne, Ind, Augu!
10, although the heats were not e.
ceedingly fast, being 2:l61a, 2:l6.
and 2:20.
Fleetwood has raised the purse
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Sheep.

Sheep.
Start right, even if upon small
scale. If you are not even able to
buy a small flock of pure bred or
high grade. sheep, put all you can
advantageOusly in pure bred ram,
and afterward do all you can in buy
ing good ewes. The flock will in
crease rapidly, not only in numbers,
but in worth.
If prepared to keep the flocks I'M
der good shelter in all bad weather,
the one medicine which can be used
to advantage for almost all sheep
diseases is sulphur. Throw it in
their feed boxes or on the ground
where their feed is thrown. Have
no fear of doing harm with it.
When sheep want salt they seem to
want it bad, and any disappointment
when they come to their clicking
place" seems to set them back. They
need salt as we'll as food and water,
and need it as positively as do other
animals. Never let the supply be-
come exhausted.
One night of slush and cold north
rain will kill the lambs and impair
the health or the older sheep if they
be not sheltered in a dry, warm
place. Build the sheep shelters
where these northers can not blow
through, and where the heavy rains
can not drench them.
The farm which is run for all it is
worth, " cultivated and cropped close
ly, and stocked to its fullest capacity
may yet have room for a flock of
sheep. They will crowd out nothing
else, and will do their full share in
adding to the profit of the seasons
work.
With a fair demand for mutton,
with fancy prices obtainable for early
lambs, with the small, but sure, re-
ceipts from the fleece, and with the
rapid natural increase, there is but
small chance for loss from small
number of sheep we'll handled, and
the care and room and cost will be
well returned.
Grow the mutton breeds of sheep il
you are near market where you
can sell meat, and let the fleece be 9
secondary consideration. Grow the
wool breeds if distant from market
or if you are going to keep sheep in
large flocks. This is the long anC
the short of the choice between
J them.
There is as good an opening fol
profitable work in the breeding Of
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high class, pure bred rams as in any
branch of the live stock business.
There is steadily increasing de-
mand for them, and it is quite time
we gave up our dependence upon
England for the improvement Of our
focks.
When you dip sheep do it thor
oughly, that the preparation may
have time to penetrate to the skin
and reach every diseased or infested
spot. Protect the ears, eyes and
nostrils with the hand, and souse
them clear under. Even take time
to scrub the scabby spots with a
brush while in the bath.
In trying to improve the mutton
quality of sheep do not lesson the
value of the fleece so much that you
gain nothing in the end. With the
MerinO for foundation, there is
perhaps no better cross than with
the Shropshire Downs. The bony
Merino frame is thus soon covered
with plump, juicy meat, while the
fleece is not lessened.
The fine grass of the hills is
especially attractive to sheep, but
the long wool breeds are at home in
the rich, level pastures, and do well
if the soil is dry. They are not such
rovers as the Merinos, but are con-
tent to fill up, lie down and fatten
and let their wool grow. They make
wool and mutton rapidly and profit
ahlV
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Horses.

I1Oh OlNl YAH gONA
count in your neighborhood worth
nothing? Will they not each eat $25
worth before next spring, and then
either die or he sold or traded off
for song? Why not throw away
the $25 and be saved the care? and
just such neighborhoods are to be
found everywhere.
1t was once a usual thing to see
the farmers coming'into town in the
spring and summer with the colts
following their dams; but it is now
a rare thing, and the number of colts
has become very small. The low
price at which the services of first
class sires can now be procured and
the stimulus of better demand for
good horses will soon make a change
again.
Corn on the cob, well ground, with
half the bulk of oats, and mixed
with cut hay, makes valuable
ration for both horses and cows,
The German cavalry keep just such
supply for their horses. Not even
the ruminant COW will digest whole
grains without waste. The horse
does worse.
1t is mistake to train the young
colt too long with the old horse.
Let farmers awaken to the fact that
the fast walker is the valuable ami
NAL, whether for the farm, the road,
the street or for any description OF
work of practical kind.
A horse in the harvest field will be
helped more by "lunch" between
meals than by an increase of food
at the regular times; in fact, his
ration should be fixed and never en-
larged, in usual conditions, and he
should have ample time in which to
eat it.
One great advantage to the COM
mon farmer which draft horses have
over those of lighter weight is that
they need little or no training to fit
them for use. While to find ready
sale the driving horse must be OF
some beauty and style and de-
veloped speed, and taught not to
fear steam or electric cars, the larg-
er horse grows up to his work with
out special preparation.
When horse is off his feed OF
slightly ailing from any cause, bran
mashes with good nursing will
usually bring him around all right
and nothing is better for horse
than an occasional feed of roots, car.
rots, potatoes or turnips. The effect
of half peck of these regularly fol
morning meal will be quickly
shown.
A horse is particular as to the
water he drinks, yet will become
accustomed to any fit for human
use. Train him to take it before
feeding. The working horse is like,
ly to take more than is good for hin
if given access to it while heated; a
such times let him moisten his
throat and take his freer drink later
In the best managed stables
grooms are taught that horses cal
be better managed by kindness thai
by severity, and he who strikes o
kicks horse, or even swears at one
is promptly discharged. This il
business, not sentiment; and do no
be cruel to the horse in the use o
the currycomb about the bony part
of his legs.
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:1a0es1.| DObbinS & Ewing.
Agriculture.

In dry weather keep the cultivator
in constant use in the corn field stir
ring the surface soil, for this main
tains the mulch in the most effective
condition. Never plant any more
acres with this grain than you have
teams with which to stir and loosen
the ground promptly after each
shower, which compacts the sur
face.
In Connecticut the law went into
effect in July, which was passed two
or three years ago, allowing no wag-
on to haul a ton which has not a
three inch tire; a ton and half re-
quire one of four inches. If the law
would provide that the rear axle
must be six or eight inches longer
than the front one, such wagons
would become regular road makers.
New Jersey has taken the lead in
good roads; every region where the
improvements have been made, farm
lands bring better prices and farm
products bring larger profits, because
more easily and cheaply got to mar
ket. The same pair of horses can
draw double the load it could on soft
roads, and regardless of the weather
or rains.
Cut fresh meat into pieces suitable
for roasting or boiling, put into stone
crooks and cover with buttermilk; if
kept in a cool place, such meat will
keep for week or two in the hottest
weather, and lose none of its good
qualities. 1t is well to change the
milk every few days.
To measure your fields, put han
dies to bolt or pin running through
the hub of an old wheel; go around
the sides or across the field each way
pushing the wheel before you. Have
the wheel marked that you may
readily count the revolutions; know
ing the circumference exactly, the
length Of the field is easily calculat-
ed.