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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

her subject the care and education OF
children.
When these two brilliant young stu
dents were married two or three years
later their friends predicted a career
for them that has in no mean measure
been verified. Mr.. la Toilette was at
that time serving as district attorney
at Madison and soon after her marriage
Mrs. La Toilette entered the law school
of the state university. paving the way
by her easy mastery of its Guides and
the earnestness of purpose and strength
of mind which she brought to bear up
on them for all the women who have
since been graduated from that instltu-
tion. Her course completed, Mrs La
Toilette stepped back into purely CO.
nestle life which she has never since
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26
p.r,,v.,. From Low Handle Bars.

A physician Of Morristown, n. De-
reports a case of paralysis caused by ex-
cessive riding on wheel with very
much depressed handle bars. The rider
wns stricken while on the road. Inc
theory of the physician is that In mo
stopped position enforced by the drop
handle bar incessant vibration ahec's
the nerves injuriously.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

Norton is a painter and has been out
of work for some time. A brother who
lives in Minnesota promised him work
If he would go out there. He had no
money to pay railroad fare and was
wondering what he was TO do when he
saw bicycle parade and that gave him
the idea for his tent on a wheel. He
Immediately set TO work and construct
ed his raft and few days ago started
on his journey.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26
"''e the Babies w.,er

thon~s pe borne in mind that milk.
ID as 81 seemingly a drink, is solid
tba, 'Oon as 1t reaches the stomach.
unL =. "''nough 1t is a fluid and Is
\ ,.s as such it does not, and should
Illdrene the place OF water. which to
Illdrsn 20 20. so necessary. Very young
Lst ute. O,.en suffer severely from
Ia,herr "s'eularly in frosty or hot
By snnn oecause their nurses mistak-
hnk ~ pp ,s they have had as much
bad ana S"ey needed when the basin OF
milk has been disposed OF.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

niece OF the general. and that relation.
snip Is as near as any on the Washing
ton side. Major Ball Is cousin OF
George Washington Ball, who main
tanned regiment at his own expense
during the revolution, and who was a
friend OF Washington.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

have become the favorite study Of nov
elsts. AS her music has minor scale
differing from that of western music.
so her peoples ascend and descend the
gamuts of sentiments in intervals and
rhythms different from occidental emo
lity.-Nineteenth Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

Dvor engineer Buck of the East
\, -, bridge has made the assertion
lD No a' vis structure, though of steel,
en,a, thoroughly artistic and orna-
,tbor,. 10 prove what he said he
ono =, u, Tue publication of picture
s3O s ~ .ne towers. The steel portion
hlch levy eu, ABOVE the stone foundation.
= T% WI oe 22h feet above high wa
i"e towers will more nearly re-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

Why may carpenters reasonably be-
l;eve there is no such thing as stone!
Because they never saw II.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

MAJOR BURGES BALL.
Jade him a life member of their or
Imitation without the payment of
pes, Major Ball did not refuse to join
bem. He is the only member who
bys no dues The major was born in
be old homestead in Loudon County.
|irginia, and started out in life as n
pmble clerk. In 1910 he went west
bd gained great repute as an Indian
ehter and pioneer in California. He
lned the confederacy and seeded
ION the union which his historic kins-
pan fought so hard to establish, and
|hen the war was over he found him
u homeless and destitute. His grand.
lther, Colonel Burgess Ball. was a cou-
p Of Mary Ball, Washington's mother.
Y married Frances Washington,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

bro reproduced. MAJOR ban peais
|ss Int is by no means pulled up
Incering either his kinship to the
Feat patriot or the unmistakable like
Lss he bears TO him. Indeed, Major
I'M Is the only person who doesn't
Iem worried about the fact that wash
Igton and he are nearly related by
Bood He conducts his little business
HE own way. and is very polite to
\ his customers. The Sons OF the
|mercan Revolution, who take a great
[de in their ancestors, took him up"
hi thoroughly investigated his gene
low. He did not ask them to do 1t,
nd when they satisfied themselves
bat he was about as eligible for mem
knhip In their body as anybody and
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

AJOR Burgess Ball,
the nearest living
relative Of George
Washington, keeps
a cigar stand in the
court of the pen
sion Office at WASH
ington. The Illus
trated American
has just published
a new portrait OF
the major. which is
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26
Physicians Prescriptions In France.

In France there is law compelling
physicians to write their prescriptions
in the language of the country.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

HE late Abigail
Dodge, or Gail
Hamilton, was best
k n o wn probably
from her pungent
and rather erratic
writings and the
strong espousal of
the political for
tunes of James G..
Blaine.
She was of a fam
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26

semble those Of the Point bridge nv
Pittsburg than any qother American
bridge. THE commissioners said MI
Buck. have had in view the artistic
appearance of the bridge from the very
first Strength is of primary import
ance. of course, but there is no reason
why structure that is to stand for
ages should not be thing OF beauty
From the New York Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26
HALE JOHNS SON.
The Prohibition Candidate for the vice
Presidency.

Hale Johnson, candidate for Vice
President on the national prohibition
ticket, is good, patriotic citizen, with
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-26
GAIL DODGE'S LIFE.
a WOMAN WHO HAS LEFT HER
MARK IN THE WORLD.

me Lifelong Friend of Jane. a.
hiaine-Her Early Life as a School
Teacher and Governess "A ForeI-
bic Writer.
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[AJOR burgess BALL.
NEAREST LIVING RELATIVE
-, GEORGE WASHINGTON.

v,. . Cigar stand In Court of the
y.o.Iou once at the Capital He
resembles His Distinguished
relative.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
SHORT LUMBER.
SPRUCE.
Current Weekly Comment.

OATs.-The market has ruled quiet, but
values have hardened somewhat since last
week, with prices higher.
CHEEsR.-There is no sign of improve
ment in the condition of the market. There
is no demand except for small jobbng lots
EGGs.-The receipts have been larger, but
there has been no increase in the supply OF
really fine fresh stock. Eastern extras are
in light supply.
BUTTER.-Receipts are steadily falling of
and the decrease in the supply OF strictly
fine fresh creamery is especially noticeable.
The general demand is light and confined
closely to the best grades. Northern dairy
is in moderate supply and has a slow trade.
LUMBER.-Market quiet. Too many car
goes are arriving, and most of them OF poor
stock. Good stock brings good values.
Clapboards are most active, but not as
much so as month ago. Shingles are very
quiet Business in hemlock and other
boards is moderate Box boards are low.
WooL.-The condition of the market is
unchanged, There is little or no demand
and all grades, both of domestic and foreign
production, are neglected II is not sur
prising that the sales are as small as they
are when we consider how moderate the
wants OF manufacturers are, with more ma
chinery idle than employed, and how little
induCement there is for any one TO specu-
late There is absolutely nothing IN the
situation to encourage buying'-Commer-
cial Bulletin.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
The Scrub Bull Nuisance.

The scrub bull and the farmer who
raises him cause a good deal of the de-
preston in the dairy industry. 1t costs
nearly as much to keep a poor cow as a
good one; to keep 250-pound COW as a
150pound cow. Poor bulls mean poor
farming. When you drive through a
strange town, and see a miserable mon
grel bull in a pasture, you decide at
once that the owner is a scrub farmer.
But you may not always be right. 1t
may be his neighbours unruly bull
and if there is greater preventible nui-
sance in keeping fine cows, it is to
have somebody's degraded specimen of
toro get in among your COWS and up
set your plans about breeding Some
farmers are abominably careless about
this very thing, and if man has not
sense enough to keep decent animal
for his own use, he ought to know bet
ter than to damage his neighbors by
permitting such creature to run at
will. ANY one who has common sense
knows that bull calf from 300-pound
COW will be much more apt to produce
good COWS than one from 150-pound
COW; and yet how many men go on
breeding from animals that cause their
herds to degenerate rather than to
grow better. If law could be passed
and enforced, compelling the destruc-
ton of every bull in the state which
was not Observation-Disclosures, we
might say-it would make our diaries
very much better in few years. AS
such law cannot be made, each man
should be an unwritten law to himself
in this important matter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
AGRICULTURAL.
A Lesson in LabOr-Saving.

1t was in haying-time. A farmer
had hay TO put away up and back be-
side a silo. Ordinarily it would have
taken three men, or two men and a
good-sized boy-and they would have
had q sweating time. But this farmer
had things arranged so that all con-
cerned had an easy time. The motive
power of the arrangement was an old
mare, guided by small boy. On the load
was a twelve-year-old boy, who man.
aged the horse hsy-fork with ease. He
would put it into the hay, lock it, and
then lie down on the load until il was
time to pull the fork back for new
haul. True, he did not have long TO
rest; but it was far better fun than
standing on hay-mow and having
forkfuIs of hay flung into his face. A
few plank were laid across the top OF
the silo, and here the man stood, with
his head almost touching the ridge
pole. The hay was delivered upon
these plank in punches of about five or
six common forkfuls, and all the man
had TO do was to simply push the pile
of hay over the side of the silo, when
it fell down where it was wanted.
When the load was all off the man
jumped down on to the pile of hay and
pushed it down into the corners.
Meanwhile scores and hundreds of men
and boys, all over the country, were
toiling in the heat to pitch hay up and
back to the top of the NOW. This rig
saved the hiring of an extra mainland
paid for itself every season.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
How John Didn't Pay His Taxes.

If the reader had been within hear
ing distance, the other evening, he
would have heard the following re-
marks
Jeanette, them chickens are get
ting so they eat more than the hogs.
l guess they are about as big as they
was last year when zoe sold them. The
next time go to town I'll step in and
see what Smith will give as for them"
Jeanette said never word, but you
could see a determined look on her
face as she went slowly into the house.
The next morning, as she saw John
safely on his way TO the field, she
donned her hat, and through the kind
ness of neighbor was soon in town to
dispose of her chickens.
GOOD morning, Mr.. Smith. How
much are you paying for broilers this
morning?"
"Twelve and one-half cents pound.
How many have you got?"
81 think about fifty that would do"
answered Jeanette.
Well" said Smith, 81 have just
got an order from Cleveland for fifty
spring chickens, and they will just fill
Iue DlIl. w ueu Cau you pllhS tuSh III
Jeanuette's countenance fell.
"Mr. Brown is busy with his work,
and am afraid he won't want to spare
the time to bring them in. Couldn't
you drive out and get them?"
"Why, yes; l am coming out that
way this afternoon and III stop and
get them"
every well. Good morning."
That night when John came in to
supper Jeanette handed him fifty cents
and said:
81 sold Smith the chickens to-day.
Maybe you would like this to get you a
suit Of clothes"
And as she brought in the tea she
heard him say: "By snum! That's
the first time woman ever got ahead
of me. Ohio Farmer
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29

rural free delivery is tried the greater
will be its success. The mail carriers
should also be directed to collect the
mail at farm.houses and highway let
ter boxes.
Now is the time to overwhelm the
post-office departments with demands
for this extension of the postal service,
so that il will be as easy to receive or
send mail in the country as it now is in
the city. Make this chance the enter
ing wedge. Then let us all follow up
the matter until every rural community
has more mails, free collection and de-
livery, parcels post and postal frac-
tional currency.
This movement originated with the
writer, but has long since been es-
poused by all other agricultural papers
and farmers organizations. They
should all be ready and eager to i'm
prove the present opportunity. These
improvements will in short time be
more than self-supporting. Meanwhile
the government had better spend a
million or so for such direct benefit of
our rural people.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
OverwOrked Farmers.

Here is what the Ne,o England Home
stead has to say about too much neg
lected subject. Most men who do
farm work seem to imagine that there
is no limit to their strength, and the
results are often very sad Note how
the artists picture the American farmer,
as for instance, the illustrations in Mr..
Howell's new story in Harper's Weekly.
His long thin visage is too true pic
ture of many a well-to-do farmer. And
why is it that pie and mortgages al
ways appear in every story of New
England farm life?
AS a rule farmers work too hard.
Often they expend great amount of
energy and accomplish but little. I'M
proved machinery lessons the excessive
toll. In many places it is considered
beneath the farmer to use implements
upon which the driver can ride. Rid
ing plows, cultivators and harrows are
fit only for broken-down old men or
boys. This idea is gradually dying out,
but it is still too common. True, DUR
ing the winter months country people
have light work, but during the long
days of spring, summer and early au-
tumn, the strength is taxed often to
the utmost. One has but to attend the
gatherings of farmers to see the effects
of toll. Thin limbs and sharp faces are
too common. In place of these there
ought TO be an abundance of muscle
and rounded cheeks. for pure air and
out-of-door work make these possible.
Every device ought to be employed to
render farm work less irksome. Get
riding implements of all kinds. These
pull heavier, but horse flesh is thou
sand times cheaper than human flesh,
especially when the present condition
of the horse market is considered. If
a riding pillow or harrow requires an
other horse, get one. Horses are cheap.
Any unnecessary use of strength is a
detriment to the farmer himself and to
the whole country. AS long as the
most difficult method is used to accom-
plish farm work, the old, old question
of how to keep the boys on the farm
will remain unanswered. Adopt the
labor-saving machinery, the best meth
DDS, and farming will become more
profitable and less distasteful.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
Free Delivery Has Got to Come.

We commend TO our readers the fol-
lowing timely and pertinent remarks
from the NeU England Homestead.
Why cannot some of our Vermont
towns avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity for free delivery of mails? Few
farmers realize the value of quick COM
munication with the outside world. If
the National Grange had let alone
Lubin's wild export bounty scheme
and pushed for free delivery, it would
have been vastly better in our opinion.
The free delivery of mails in our
rural towns proved wonderful success
and a profitable investment for the
post.off department under Mr. Wan
amaker's administration. His success
sor, MIR. Bissell, kicked over the whole
thing, so far as possible, and even re-
fused to spend for this purpose the
money specifically appropriated for it
by congress. Such usurpation of au-
thority only served to direct attention
to this popular reform. AS result
the appropriation bill for the support
Of the post-of1ice department for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1897 au-
thorizes the use of $4,000 to defray
the expenses of experiments in rural
free delivery. 1t further provides that
the amount heretofore appropriated for
this purpose and still uneXpended, shall
be available for these experiments, thus
increasing it to possibly $40 600.
Hon. w. l.. Wilson, the present
ostmaster-general, writes that he
would be pleased to receive our sug-
gestons "as to the manner in which
these experiments should be con-
Quoted" We believe the methods en-
ployed by Mr.. Wanamaker cover the
case quite fully The free-delivery
system should be tried, however, only
where the people call for it. Hence
the farmers in our country towns
should at once send numerously
signed petition to the postmaster
general at Washington to try the ex
pertinent of rural free delivery at their
local post-oflice. Let hundreds of such
requests be promptly forwarded tC
Washington, for $4,000 will pay for this
service at great number of country
post-offices. The more extensively
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
A Bad Disease.

Under the above heading John Gould
gives the Practical Farmer some very
useful information. Many Vermont
dairymen know by sad experience the
workings of this new dairy pest, but we
have never seen much about it in the
press. AT the Vermont Dairymen's
Association meeting held at Norris
vile this disease was discussed, but
many present refused to believe there
was such a disease. They laid all such
things to the teat being stepped upon
by another COW. Every dairyman
should cut this out and keep for ref
erence, as the disease is one which is
liable to appear at any time:
From all quarters comes the COM
plant that new disease is making it's
appearance among the cows, affecting
their teats and udders, and often COM
pletely running the milk flow of the
COW. The trouble is in the nature of
garget, but CONNIE noes in an entirely
different way. A small sore, like a
blister, commences at the very end of
the teat, and refuses to heal, closing
the channel, and to get the milk it has
to be torn open each time. The dis
ease works its way up inside the teat,
the Inflammation getting more marked,
and at last gaining admission to the
udder; the inhammatory stages are
rapid, and all the troubles of real case
of garget are present, with this disad-
vantage, the flow of milk does not re-
turn with the reduction of the fever in
the milk glands. All treatment seems
to be of little avail, and the COW is
ruined. While hot water and like
treatment is valuable, it is too late to
prevent the loss, and treatment must
commence at the first appearance OF
the little blister. Take an ounce of
carbolic acid crystals and warm them
to liquid, and to this add an ounce OF
glycerine. Mix this in ten ounces OF
linseed oil; and then, with small
glass syringe, inject some OF 1t into the
end of the teat at least three times O
day, first washing and cleaning the teal
as well as can be done. The disease
seems to be another of germ origin
and as the carbolic acid is death tC
germs, the trouble is arrested at the
start. In some sections this disorder IL
very troublesome, and in our own stable
one OF our best COWS has lost two quar-
tiers of her udder, despite our efforts Il
cure her, not knowing at the start th'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
800. Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh, being a
constitutional disease, requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials. Address,
F. j. CHENEY e. Co., Toledo, o.
~ Sold by Druggists, seventy-fve
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
His College Course a Failure,

"Hezekiar," said Farmer Staokins to
his son, whom he was visiting, chow be
ye gettin long with this college eddica-
tion?'
First rate, father"
"Are ye good football playerP"
"No. / devote oil my attention to my
studies"
IAN ye don't play BASEBALL"
"Never,"
"Nor row boat9'
"No."
"Well 1 s'pose it's all right But dun
no how ye'ro goin ter let folks know ye've
been ter college when ye git back among
the neighbors. They'll say they don't see
no reason fur yer comm all this way from
homo jes' ter set down an read books. -
Washington Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
No GRIPPE

When you take Hoods Pills. The big, old-fash-
toned, sugar-coated pills, which tear you all to
pieces, are not in it with Hoods. Easy to take
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29

A PHILLIPS (Me.) farmer has hay in
his barn that was cut in 1867.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29

character of the trouble, or the rem
edy. When blister forms in the end
of cows teat, don't delay, but use the
carbolic acid at once.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

obtained by receivers for rhoesale lots mot jobbing
prices unless otherwise indicated, and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29


aud easy to operate, is true
of Hoods Pills, which are H.H
up ito date in every respect HIS
Safe certain and sure All
druggists. csc. C. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
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The how getting and
told lighter would have if he would
doctoring it,
the Baby the whole milking myself,
relish
if
would
believe what there milk sell what butter have engaged to
him if
mine consider the De
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