Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-12-03

for money. There is not a gold standard
country on this planet where agriculture
is prosperous or labor adequately paid.
How about old Vermont with her neck
CALLED by the yoke of double taxation, her
farm lands not saleable for what they are
taxed in the gold coin for which she voted?
She plods along in the same furrow, turn
ing over the same stones, hacking the
same witch grass roots year after wear, and
voting the same republican prohibition
ticket; and if the emblem on the Aus
tralian ballot represented the royal prince
of Hades, ii would make no difference.
Why are two-thirds of the seats in the
little RED schoolhouses covered with dust
when they ought to be covered with bent
pins, paper balls and cuds OF gum, inter-
spersed with calico dresses and short
pants? Where, o where are these has
beens?' Echo answers where and, the
wind waiting it onward, the West ans
wers here Here the schoolhouses can
not be erected fast enough. All are
GRO wded, and more are being built daily.
Verify, this is a queer world, but as long
as we are on the sunny side of it so far,
we have no reason TO kick. The climate
is fine, and the sun shines every day;
roads fine, people fine, and everything
fine. Have seen some OF the finest scales
here that / ever dreamed of. Fairbanks,
Howe, and even Daddy Jones who pays
the freight are lot in 1t.
They are manufactured here, of course,
and the exterior is something like a small
cabinet, designed to rest on a table or
counter, and having wood corners, base
and top. with glass sides and ends, the
scale itself being a fine piece OF mechan-
ism enclosed. The construction OF the
whole is such a delicate matter that 1t is
necessary to use for the wood part that
which is grown in this altitude as wood
imported from another climate would
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scales OF less account.
With these scales a single hair from a
woman's head can be weighed accurately,
and this is youched for by MIR. John Skin
ner, superintendent OF the Western Chem
zeal company, formerly Of Royalton, VT,
and a gentleman OF undOubted veracity,
who uses n in his labratory. There are
many sizes OF these scales, and one is so
nicely adjusted that the amount Of lead
used in making a pencil mark on a piece
OF note paper may be seen to the last
hemi-, demi-, semi-quaver of a vibration.
They are still aiming at further fineness
in this line, and before January Y7 expect
to have on the market one that will weigh
a miners breath on the outside of the
glass, and determine whether it shows
any affection of the lungs or bronchial
tubes, or is adulterated with whiskey,
and also tell whether the latter is three,
five or seven years old Tell you what,
here Is where you find the finest OF the
fine, and il the Silver cause had been as
finely guarded in some of the pivotal
states as it was in Colorado, there would
be wailing and crashing OF teeth in Wall
street and the Bank of England to-day.
We have been invited up to Greeley for
Thanksgiving by my uncle and cousins,
who want us to remain a week and enjoy
the Duck and Wild Goose hunting, which
is now at its best. Not having any kius
to help dispose OF a plum pudding, or a
dog TO growl over the wish o of the
turkey, or even a cat to lick out the gravy
dish, we decided to go, and the price of
'spuds' is likely to go up in Greeley and
the quantity to be reduced, before we get
back
lOlhar locals ON next nage.N