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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11


w me Young son Of Mrs Fanny Whitaker Fay of
worcester is recovering from pneumonia
Friends OF Lewis Higgins are glad 10 SOC hin,
firm. VIZ" '"0 present
\, The w. Q. 7; u will meet next Wednesday with
summer hour " viz "9"h'
A., Miss Benedict will hold a special meeting Of
une Loyal temperance legion at her home on Sat.
urday at 10 A. NJ. WV
cehty called TO Bellows Falls by the illness of her
mother, Mrs. Hall W
Mrs Nelson w Kimball of Dubuque. la has
returned from Europe with her son, who is again
taxing course at Harvard.
Mr.. and Mrs Truman Bnck of Omaha tbo Ia.
yer formerly Miss NJ j. Eager of this town spent
Ihe summer in Scotland for their health
The work of Mr. Kilburn's delft hands In ar.
lang angeeht OF all the curtains and the many pic
lures az the parsonage has been noted apprecia.
tNely from time to time of late.
MISS Billings, one of the two young women
evangelists who labored here few years ago, is
Tor the present supplying the pulpit of the Con
gregational church In Simondsville
Mrs. H. NJ. Hescock was summoned TO Charles
town, Mass, on Wednesday on account Of the Sc.
we're attack of pneumonia which came upon her
little granddaughter, Margaret Randall
Miss Eta Morse. after assisting in the care of
ner sister, Mrs: Chester White of Wardsboro
through bronchitis and typhoid fever has begun
her work as private tutor In Bradford, fitting lads
Smith college 'e ''''' i0'
The man from Connecticut" who never fails
when he comes to town to try to rouse an interest
Tor the better condition of the old grave yard on
Newfane hill, will be gratified to learn that a r
johnson and Chas Holland spent a day or two
last month in working on that historic spot.
Owing to unavoidable circumstances the date
OF the cornet bands concert, drama, supper and
dance is changed to Tuesday evening" the ed
The play to be rendered is "Triss, or among the
Rockies, In which Fayetteville dramatic club
will assist.
Three former Newfane girls, Mrs. Fred Randall
OF Charlestown, Mrs. VIM. Fay and Mrs NJ d.
Newton OF Worcester celebrated Thanksgiving
with their husbands around the festive board of the
latter at the Worcester home By the wav. M. d
Newton's new barn on Newfane hill is one Of the
best buildings Of its kind In this section and seems
to hold out promises of more Improvements on
the hill when the builder comes to take possession
of his highlands.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
JACKSONVILLE.

Mr.. Shumway has moved to the Upton farm
which he bought this fall.
Pastor Vail will continue next Sunday, at the
Methodist church, the topic of "Ezekiel's vision
of dry bones"
The North River creamery made 6002 pounds
of butter in October, 1900 more than the same
month last year.
The Unversalist Sunday school will give a
Christmas entertainment Dec. "a at 730 p. NJ
Santa Claus will be present.
We learn that Elva the oldest daughter of F.
W. Chase, formerly Of this place but now of Ne
braska is to be married Christmas.
Everybody turned out to the house warming at
w r. IL Parker's Wednesday evening. Presents
were brought and a good time had. Refresh
ments were served.
Last Saturday evening some 80 or 40 friends Of
Mr.. and Mrs S. G. Easton, by special invitation,
spent a very pleasant evening. Refreshments
were served. Valuable presents were brought
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
WEST WARDSBORO.

w. D. Putnam is home from Orange, Mass
The school in Podunk has not yet begun as no
teacher has been engaged.
Mrs. Wright and Mrs. p. w. Howe of Worces.
ter Mass have been visiting at r. E. Baldwin's.
Not many came to the first meeting in the in
terest of the Armenians, as it quite rainy, so
a second time was set last Friday evening and a
lively snow squall was then in progress Some
interesting items were read by several friends of
the cause and a very carefully prepared paper
was read by Mrs. E. o. Lyman. Nearly So has
been obtained by subscription.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
GROVE.

of Colrain.
Frank P. Green, who spent last week at this
place, has gone to Oakham, Mass.
Preston & Stowe have the improvements and
repairs on their barn nearly completed.
Mrs. E. B. Green has returl ed much improved
after two months treatment in Buffalo, NY
Mr.. and Mrs o. b. Dix have returned from
ten days visit among relatives and friends in
Worcester, Fitchburg aud Orange.
The next Farmers club will meet with Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. H. Higey Wednesday, Dec 10. It is
hoped there will lie large turn out as Mr.. Hig.
ley's people have a large house and raised
heavy crop Of beans this year
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
WEST TOwNSHEND.

A singing class has been organized to be taught
by F. o. Mortified of Brookline.
The new officers of the Christian Endeavor So
ciety are President, Mrs. T. P. Barber; vice
president, G. n. Wood; secretary, Mrs. G. N
Wood; treasurer Miss Emma Whitman.
Rev. S. L. Vincent and family move this week
to Glover, followed by the best wishes of many
friends, who trust Mr.. Vincent will find appreca.
ton in his new field and that his labors may be
crowned with success.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11

When they put a man In
Jail, he cannot follow his
natural inclinations. He
cannot eat what he wants
to-he Is limited to a very
frugal diet. Is il not equal
ly true of a dyspeptic1 For
all of the real enjoyment he
gets out of life, he might
as we'll be in jail. He cam
not eat what he likes, nor
enough. He suffers much,
gets little sympathy. At
first, perhaps a little heavi-
ness in the stomach, a little
sourness, windy belchings
and heartburn. Headaches
and biliousness and a foul
, taste in the mouth in the
morning. Chronic consti-
patton is almost inevitable,
and means that the body Is
holding nnicountfe iunnurR
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11

fast; then that bearing-down feeling.
Her doctor says, "cheer up, you have
dyspepsia; you'll be all right soon."
But she doesn't get "all right" She
grows worse day by day, till all at once
she realizes that distressing female
complaint is established.
Her doctor has made mistake.
She has lost faith in him hope van.
ishes; then comes the brooding, NOR
bid, melancholy, everlasting BLUES.
Her doctor, if he knew, should have
told her and cured her, but he did not
and she was allowed to suffer. By
'chance she came across one of Mrs.
Pinkham's books, and in it she found
her very symptoms described and an
explanation of what they meant. Then
she wrote to Mrs Pinlham, at Lynn,
Mass, for advice, feeling that she was
telling her troubles to a woman.
Speedy relief followed, and vigorous
health returned.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound instantly asserts it's curative
powers in all those peculiar ailments
of women. 1t has been the standby
of intelligent American women for
twenty years, and the story recited
above is the true experience of hum
dreds of women, whose letters of
gratitude are to be fpund on file in
Mrs. Pinkham's libra
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
MARLBORO.

Hoy Adams is at work in a mill in Halifax.
II L. Hadlock is suffering from an attack Of
malaria.
Henry Brayman and family of Deerfield, Mass,
arc Visiting in town.
George Butter6eld has taken his brothers place
"a allows Falls while the latter is in Glens Falls
NJ ". to have his eye treated He hopes to re-
gain the sight Of the eye.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11

matter that should be gotten rid of. The
poison is being reabsorbed into the blood
and the whole body. Impurity in the blood
may lead to almost any disease. Constipa-
ton is the start of It all. DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets cure constipation, cure it
so il stays cured No other remedy in the
world will do that OF druggists.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11

Christmas is almost here and so are my holiday
goods, several consignments Of which have been
received during this season. THANK the public
for past favors, and solicit your patronage for
the future. would like to have you call to see
my goods whether you buy or not as 1t is no
trouble to show them. Mrs. E. A. Roberts
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
MEEKINS, PACKARD & WHEAT,

The true Christmas spirit pevades and
Never has such attractive holiday purchasing
nor have such low productions
tits wonderfully how far small short for
buying aud the earliest alwaysm fortunate
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
WRRT DOVER

The ladies' aid society meets with Mrs. T. F.
Boyle next Wednesday afternoon.
At meeting called Monday night it was voted
TO nave Christmas tree and officers were chosen
The night of the celebration will be announced
later.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
EAST DOVER

W. Howe. ''0' ''u H"'''' Ni' O.
A. ~, Y Halliday has exchanged his mill proper.
" Tor Wesley Harris's farm IL ia renortad that
Mr. Howe takes possession of the mill Jan /.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
FURNITURE FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS
It > always acceptabIe
Ladies' Desks.

Our line is unsurpassed, one hum
dred and fifty patterns in every inn
aginable finish and ranging in prices
from Saga to 500. Four lines,
Saga, $3.75, $5.75 and So that have
no equal for the money.
In our line of medium grades
there are special values at $40, SIP
and $r3 among the best patterns ever
on our floor.
Fine productions in high grade
desks, brought out in solid mahog-
any, antique and Flemish oak-ex-
elusive designs.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
Book Cases,

From $2.25 to $50. Cases with
glass doors or with rod and rings
for drapery; 1915 for solid oak
case with adjustable shelves, panelei
back. You've doubtless paid SIS for
no better ones. Especially good
numbers at Sc, So, So and $I2. so.
Cases with glass doors from $40 up
ward.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
THE BLUES.
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE
DREADFUL FEELING.

What Is Meant by This Form OF Acute
AIisery-Where Doctors Make Mistakes.
When cheerful, brave, light-hearted
woman is suddenly plunged into that
perfection of misery, the BLUES, it is a
sad picture.
1t is usually this way
She has been feeling tout of sorts "
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11

ment. There are all woods-with
and without mirrors and small cup
board.
Solid oak chiffonier at Sc.
Better ones at SO.
Polished oak chiffonier with French plate
beveled mirror at S12.50 upward.
Choice styles in blrd's-eye.maple and curly
birch, from $40 &C upward.
Excellent values In gentlemen's dressing
cases in all the woods-with or without mir
ror, two small drawers at the top and some
with small cupboards.
Fourth floor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
Dictionary Holders

Practical and appreciated gifts.
AS low as S., adjustable to any
height and angle. The same style
with adjustable shelf at SO. Com
bination revol, ing book cases with
or without dictionary holders made
in antique oak, from SO upward.
Second floor
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11

ENARMING for profit in southern Californ Ia
IL where from one to six crops can be grown
yearly. Free passage given 70 each purchaser of
ten acres Of land. Epr full information, address
HEMET LAND co. Semet, Riverside Co., Cali
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11

for some time;
has ached, al
back also; hal
slept poorly;
been quite
nervous, and
nearly tainted
once or Is
twice; head Q6
dizzy, and
heart has
beat very
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11
ChiHoniers.

Not less than hundred different
designs to show you in this line of
furniture. S"rely every purchaser
can be suited from such an assert
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-11

Our collection of these choice
productions has claims for the crit
les, at prices that will attract the
economical.
Neve before has such an extern
sive line of raIe and rich specimens
been shown as characterize our pres
ent stock. Rugs from SIS upward.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
A California Bee Village.

The month of May is the carnival OF
bee life in California, and at no other
time of the year is the half work, half
play of bee-ranching so wholly fasci-
mating and delightful. After spring
showers are over, delicious warmth
and fragrance steam up from the Cir
cling foothills, where every notch and
byway is choked with towering wild
wood. The long blooming slopes stretch
sunnily to fruitful valleys, and the
whole riotous floral zone is voiced by
honey-hunting bees. Their lilliputian
cities are seen just without the open
arms of canons, the white hives ar
ranged with the precision of dwellings
along the streets. Sometimes these
mimic thoroughfares are shaded by
scattering oaks and sumac, or the green
umbrellas of elderberry bushes, now
iringed with freighted, creamy clusters.
Where there are no indigenous trees it
is not unusual for the thrifty apiarist
to plant grape-vines and orchard rows
between the hives, which serve the
double purpose of shade and forage.
A neighboring bee ranch is often four
to five miles distart t, and again this
Palestine of the New World shows
leagues on leagues of ideal pasturage,
left solely to the harvesting of wild
bees and various species of wasp and
humming bird, or to that interesting
lover of sweets the Mexican honey-lnt.
A typical Western apiary belongs to
the fOot-hill region Of southern Califor-
mia. Here the atmosphere has that de-
gree of heai and dryness essential TO an
abundant saccharine flow, and the high
gravelly soil grows a luXuriance of
which are the numerous varieties OF
sage. During the poisoning of these
aromatic spikes the amount of honey
stored by strong colonies is almost in
credible. A summers product will
often average seventy-ive to two hun
dred pounds hive, and instance are
not uncommon where single Italian
swarm has produced one thousand
pounds of extracted honey in one year.
This sage honey has rare virtues, and
is said to be more delectatle than the
famed nectar of Hymettus or Cha
mount, and whittier and finer favored
than the celebrated honeycombs of
Atacama. To set ones teeth through
an exquisitely frail comb trimming
with the delicate nectar of The white
Observation-Disclosures gustatory relish
not to be otherwise equalled More es-
pecially is this true II one has all the
concOmitants-a warm clean stone IN
der singing sycamore, mountain air
spiced with count So odors, the mono
tone of bees at their voluptuous toll,
landscape billowing up to gigantic sum
mits, and stream hard by to keep the
shout up in the heart.-Ninetta flames,
in Harper's Magazine for March.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
HAY AND STRAW.
Boston Wool Market.

MICHIGAN.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
AGRICULTURAL.
The Gluten Feeds.
by j. W. NEWTON.

Commercial feeding stufs vary much
in price from year to year. Last winter
there was time when COT tonseed meal
could be bought in northern Vermont
for 81 per hundred pounds. This winter
it is from twenty-five to thirty-6ve cents
higher. Corn meal ard wheat bran
are very low aud so is Peoria Gluten
Feed. Bran is so low that the milers
do not adulterate it as much as usual
any way, have succeeded better than
usual in getting good bran. l have
never fed Gluten Feed until this win
ter, and it has proved to be far better
than wheat bran and corn meal; bet
ter even than cottonseed meal. Per-
haps the fact that my grass was cut
very early has had something to do
with my success. Peoria Gluten Feed
is the kind sold here. The great diff
ference between the gluten feeds and
cottonseed meal is in the fertilizing
value. The last report of the Massa-
chusetts State Experiment Station es-
Inmates the fertlizing value of ton of
cottonseed meal at S26.S4, and that of
Buffalo Gluten Feed at S13.45 This
is serious disadvantage, and should
much prefer feeding cottonseed meal
were it not for the fact that it makes
the butter hard and brittle. To suit
my customers, l have to use feeding
stuffs which make a soft butter. Gu
ten feed and linseed meal with wheat
bran make butter which suits.
All Vermont farmers should read the
Experiment Station Bulletin on gluten
feeds and meals. Full information ia
given concerning these waste products.
The subject is made very plain in all
its details. Care must be used in feed
ing the gluten meals; the gluten feeds
can be fed with less danger. Four
pounds of wheat bran and four of GU
ten feed make large ration. Half that
amount will produce results that show
very pl,inIy. But different cows re-
quire different amounts of feed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

CURES, absolute, permanent cures
have given Hoods Sarsaparilla the
largest sales in the world and the first
place among medicines.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
An Improved Snow Roller.

A decided fault of The common
roller is the diffusion of the pressure
over too large a surface; too little
where it is most needed, and too much
where but little is necessary, resulting
in lack of firmness in the tracks. We
do not notice it so much on the main
roads until the latter part of the season,
but on the less. travelled roads this
softness often continues through the
winter, provoking from many a mental
or muttered malediction on the roller
or its master. 1t is often difficult to
find and keep the track after the roller
has passed over it, and the tracks are
very liable to abound in cradle holes
toward spring.
All these objections are met in an
improvement which combines the goC d
qualities of the roller and scraper, with
out the faults of either, and which
now introduce-patent not applied for.
Imagine two bands, each foot wide
and four inches thick, with beveled
edges. Put them around the roller di-
rectly behind the horses, or at the
same distance apart "a the road paths.
This will bring much greater pres
sure on the tracks than the present
method, putting them in perfect order
at once, and largely reducing liabili y
of cradle holes. 1t is better than scrap
ing, as the snow is kept in the tracks,
thus frightening the sleighing season.
Two outside bands may be added, giv-
ing four tracks, but this would reduce
the pressure on the inside ONES where
it is most wanted. All the pressure
needed between the tracks is such as
will allow low-beamed sleds to pass
freely.
If necessary, a scraper may be fitted
to it. l use the word "bands" to
make it palmer, but they are made up
of spruce blocks four by four inches in
size, ten inches long on their face, and
beveled 80 that the base is foui teen
inches long. The base may be con-
caved to fit the curve of TIE roller, and
the edges beveled so thtt he Y W Il meet
each other at The face. The face and
end bevels should be planed smooth,
and coat of hot parafine applied to re-
pei the snow. Fl. L. BIXBY, Chel,ea
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
Watering Cows In Stable.

In no one thing have the dairymen
made more grievOus mistake, or one
that has caused them more pecuniary
loss, than in the careless way in which
they water their cows, says j. S. Wood
ward in HOard'S Dairyman.
1t is true little advancement has
been made. A very few, mere frac.
ton of one per cent, have been pro-
vided with conveniences for stable
watering, but where one is so watered,
hundred are still turned out into the
cold wind, often filed with sleet and
snow, to wander off to some pond or
brook and slide down the slippery bank,
get down on their knees and drink ice
cold water from hole cut in the ice.
A great many dairymen, however,
are doing better than that. They have
trough or tank in the yard and turn
the cows out to drink from that. But
Will a few with such conveniences
turn their cows out twice day to drink,
the great mass only get chance to
drink once in the twenty -four hours.
The dairyman goes to the stable about
nine O'Clock and turns the COWS out in
body to drink while he cleans the
stables. The result is that few of the
master cows monopolize the trough
and some of the cows get chilled wait
ing for chance, and go back to the
stable without drink. The next
morning they are abnormally thirsty
and rush to the water and swill down
a half barrel, more or less, of the cold
water, and 60 back TO the stable and
stand and shiver for hours, waiting for
the slow processes of nature to warm
up the great mass of cold water.
Cows drink large amount of water
when they can get it; much more than
oxen or young stock, especially cows
giving much milk. Few darymen stop
to think that about eighty-seven per
cent of all milk is water and that with
cow be supplied with the material to
make the solids, she cannot give the
milk; that COW in full flow of milk re-
quires from ninety to over 100 pounds
of water daily. If they did they would
see the folly of compelling them to
drink all this amount at one time. 1t
is fact that should be remembered
and considered by everyone, that all
the cows that have made phenomenal
records have been carefully wat ,hed
and watered many times in the day and
even in the night as well. If one will
put water where it is accessible at all
times and watch the cow, he will be
surprised to see how often she will take
drink. And every experiment made
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

winter to the more level fields; but
even on those with considerable slope,
IL plowed across the slope in the ia !,
there will be little wash. The dressing
of manure will help to prevent it, as
well as to protect soils of the lighter class
from the loss of fine particles by the
action of the wind"
DIR. H. A. Cutting claimed to have
proved by experiment that the ltnl
food in manure when washed out by
winter rains would sink into the frozen
ground, that it would pass downward
through ice, and he taught that there
was no loss on eep hilsides, unless
there was water enough to wash the
manure away bodily. If anyone thinks
there is danger of washing away of
plant food, it is easy to leave strip at
the bottom of the slope without manure.
If the land below needs manure, what
ever washes do IN on to it will certainly
not be lost; and the advantage of hav-
ing the manure spread upon the fields
when one is ready to begin springs
work is very great. If the manure Is
frozen in the pile at the barn, an axe
will be found the best tool to break il
up. But, as l have said, where the
cows are well Uttered, and horse ma
nure is put in the trench, it will break
up easily if frozen.