davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-04-07

The next morning Miss Chisholm
received the following letter by mail {:
"My Dear Miss Chisholm-W you
pardon me if 1 avail myself so late Of
long standing invitation to call, aud
may L hope to find you at homo this
evening? Cordially yours,
"P. Il. VAN TwEET."
Van Tweet found Miss Chisholm
both cordial and radiant. They talked
about the latest book of short stories.
They they switched off to discuss
operas and the visit of Partisan star,
and then Van Tweet brought Brown
on the taps.
"You know Charlie Brown, of
course?' he began.
ooh, very well. He favors me oc.
casionally with formal CALI" she
said.
well, you ought TO know him bet.
ter" said Van Tweet in his peculiar,
matter of fact way; she is really re-
markable character. OF course You
read in to-day's Beagle how be acquit-
ted himself in that row last night?"
ga row-Mr. Brown?" asked Miss
Chisholm, with a manifestation of
mild surprise. 'Is Mr.. Brown in the
habit of engaging in rows?"
Van Teet produced copy of the
Beagle and read:
Shortly past eleven o'clock last
night Mr.. Charles w. Brown, the we'll
known clubman was going home. He
heard woman's voice calling for help
near the corner of Walden street and
Verona avenue, which is rather dark
at that hour. Running in the direc-
ton OF the cries he saw three ruffians
bending over the postrate body of an
old man, and a young lady a short dis
lance away screaming for assistance.
MIR. Brown ran to the assistance of
the postrate man, dealing the first ruff.
fan a blow that sent him 5prawling in
to the gutter, and giving the second a
love tap on the angle of the Jaw that
made him forget the day OF the week.
The third man ciinched, but IN q trice
Mr.. Brown had thrown the fellow over
his head and was complete master Of
the situation. As soon as the assail.
ants could gather themselves together
they fed, leaving Mr.. Brown in undis-
puted possession of the field.
"Ihe facts developed by reporter
of the Beagle show that Mr.. r.. x.
Walter, the well known wholesale gro.
Ger, had attended one of the theatres
with his daughter, and had left the
cable car about three blocks from his
residence. Turning tho corner Of Wal
don street he was suddenly set upon
and knocked down by one Of the three
assnilants, who had evidently planned
TO rob him.
"Mr. Brown, in the struggle with
the last OF tho three men, was wounded
by knife thrust. 10 was able to
walk home, but bled profusely, and is
nnder the care Of surgeon. At the
time Of going TO press no interview
could be obtained with Mr.. Brown,
and the physician declines TO state
whether his injuries are serious"
Miss Chisholm had listened to the
account with pale face and trembling
lips, and when Van Tweet folded up
the paper and tossed 10 carelessly on
the table, he saw her eyes filed with
tears and her hands clasped.
ooh, the poor fellow !" sho ok.
claimed, in sympathetic tone OF
voice.
After all, thought Van Tweet, she
feels only q broad sympathy that
would be extended to any other man.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-04-07
0'ANI oNl1Lt" w. VA TUESDAY. APRIL Z. 1896 Who'll

no matter how obscure. She doesn't
love him.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-04-07
THE WORLDS WAY.

those
who knew him best
would never have
suspected it. A club
man, n bon vivant,
hero of an endless
array of more or less
nynitipn 1,-o .o
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Tends to Dignity.

Scntimentalsts may weep over It and
statisticians who re ard numbers ,ather
than the quality Of populations may scold
about it, but the fact remains that the ne
cessity which has forced women to earn
livelihood outside of home has tended to
dignity the position of the sex. A woman
is said to be supporting herself when she
earns money at outside of the home work,
in contradistinction to one-be she wife, or
mother or sister-who enacts the role Of
housekeeper, nurse, cook and maid of all
work for some man in return for her
clothes and maintenance, and who is spo-
ken of as "being supported. The homo
service, be it observed, is considered as of
no special account, the wife or mother,
however hard she works, being never re-
garded as self supporting. Vogue.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

lating, bacteria. AL kinds of bacteria
are plants or vegetable organisms, ana
will multiply exceedingly fast If supplied
with the proper conditions. They are
cultivated in laboratories in jelly
like substance made from a species OF
seaweed. Professor Noble has simply
cultivated or propagated the bacteria
of the various clovers and other le-
gumes, using the ordinary agar-gt latino
solution, aud then placing enough to in
oculate half an acre in carefully sealed
bottle to sell TO farmers. He has named
this product Nitragin," and suggests
two ways of applying it. One is to di-
lutte the solution with a small quantity
of water and with it to moisten the
seed to be sown. The other is to use
a large quantity of water and moisten
about fifty pounds of earth. This is to
dried and then mixed with more earth
and the whole scattered over the field.
This work may mean that farmers,
even Vermont farmers, may save thou
sands of dollars by using leguminous
crops for feed and green manuring,
their successful growth being insured
by the use of commercial i" Nitragin."
We believe that one reason why the
horse bean failed in this state was ow-
ing to the lack of the proper bacteria
in the sol, and we hope that this, and
not something more difficult to over
come, is the cause of 80 much failure
in growing crimson clover. 1t may be,
too, that failures in red clover arise
from the same cause.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Good and Poor Flowing.

During the next sixty days more or
less blowing will be done upon hun
dreds of thousands of farms. The de-
gree of skill with which this work is
done will go very far toward determin
ing the yield of the crops which
the land will produce in the com
ing year. Yet, blowing seems to
be very simple operation. Almost
anybody can do the work, after fash
ion, and quite large proportion of the
farmers seem to think that they, or
their boys, or their hired men, can do
it well enough. Some of these people
are experts in this line of work, but
many of them fall very far below the
standard which every plowman ought
to reach. To do the blowing as it
should be done requires very close at
tention and no small degree of skill.
1t is not every one who can do perfect
work with the plow, and there are mul.
titudes of men who do not do as well as
they know how. This is bad, but what
must be considered worse feature of
the case is seen in the fact that the
great majority of farmers do not APP
preciate the Importance of having the
land plowed well. If they realized how
much depends upon having their work
done as perfectly as possible, they
would learn more about the methods of
doing it and would make haste to put
their knowledge into practice. 1t is
thought, by mary, that poor blowing
can be fully atoned for by extra work
with the harrow or pulverizer, but this
is an expensive error. The evils of such
blowing cannot be wholly rectihed, and
the man who will slight this work will
not be extremely particular about the
manner in which the succeeding opera
tions of tillage are performed Practi-
cal Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

THE TRUE REMEDY.-W. M. Re-
pine, editor Tiskilwa, H., "Chief,"
says: "We won't kee } house without
DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, coughs and colds. Expert
mented with many others, but never
got the true remedy until we used DIR.
Kings New Discovery. No other rem
edy can take its place in our home, as
in it we have certain and sure cure
for coughs, colds, whooping cough,
etc" 1t is idle Ito experiment with
other remedies, even if they are urged
on you as just as good as DR.. Kings
New Discovery. They are not as good,
because this remedy has a record OF
cures, and besides is guaranteed. 1t
never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles
free at G. Blakely's drug store.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Is 1t n Fancy Starter?

Possibly neither b Al or Hansen's
Tactic Ferment or a carefully home
made starter is "in it now. l hap
pened in a creamery the other day
where the separators and milk-receiving
vat were all cleaned up apparently in
pretty cod shape. AS am opposed to
the use of milk pumps on the general
principle of the weakness of human
nature, can't help looking little
sharp after it. In this case found
the suction hose of the pump lined with
thick layer of yellow-gray matter"
the pump evidently not being cleaned
properly. AS the said creamery lately
took very high score for its butter at
a show, can only presume that this
novel (?) and convenient starter is
abreast, if not ahead, of all others.--J.
II. Mourad, in Hoard's Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
An Erect Position.

An erect position is positively necessary
for good digestion and perfect health. 1t
can only be sustained by deep breathing,
strong chest muscles and vigorous exer-
else of the will power, but vigorous will
Is of the most benefit when supported by a
clear understanding. Therefore give your
children simple yet comprehensive talk
on the structure of the body and the COM
position of the bones. Impress upon their
minds the great need of keeping an erect
position now, while their bodies are grow
ing. Teach them, and not only teach them,
but prove to them by actual exercises, how
much more easily and gracefully the body
folds itself together when we stoop to pick
anything up or when we sit, and how I'M
necessary in the constant everyday activity
it is to bend the shoulders at all. Teach
them in walking to hold up the chin and
to look square ahead.
Wherever it is possible awake in your
children that innate pride which instinc-
lively associates the stopped form WI h
sluggishness and inactivity.-New York
Ledger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
AGRICULTURAL.
Buying Feed.

One advantage that the butter dairy
has is the fact that no fertility goes off
The farm when only butter is sold. At
present there is great advantage in
having grain so low in price. Butter
is low. If one can buy grain as low ac-
cordinely, he is far better off than he
would be with grain at the old price;
but, however low grain is, farmer need
to use their brains in buying feed.
Those who are not well informed are
liable to serious mistakes. When one
is buying feed, he should not only buy
feed but fertilizer. 1t is pretty well
known that ton of cotton seed meal
contains about S25 to sos worth of
plant food, as much as a ton Of many
kinds of fertilizers. You can take that
ton of cotton.seed meal and feed it to
your cows. When hay is worth $40 to
$12 per ton, your ton of cotton-seed
meal is worth about $40 for COW feed.
Then your manure pile will, if all the
liquid and solid portions are carefully
saved, be worth about $1S to $40 more
for the cotton-seed meal. Sounds like
a big story, doesn't it? But it is just
what the experiment stations tell us.
Afraid to feed the stuff Well, try
linseed meal They don't tell quite so
big stories about that, and it is per-
fectly safe. 1t costs more than cotton
seed meal, but comes next to it in ma
nurial and feeding values. A ton of it
has value of S21 as fertilizer, $50 to
1874 as feed, and the manurial value
would be about SIS.
j. w. Sanborn said years ago that this
way of feeding fertilizer to the cows
was eating your cake and having it,
too; AID it does come about as near that
as anything the farmer gets hold of.
The only thing that beats it in the
farming line is growing clover and get
ting fertilizer out of the air to feed
to your stock. It's away ahead of free
silver for helping the farmers, and, if
Bryan would only go to talking it to
his farmer audiences, he would do
them lots more good than by anything
he has said
You see farmer nowadays can't
afford to be ignorant Of such things.
There are not many of them rich enough
to afford such a luxury as ignorance.
There is no excuse at all any more for
being without the knowledge of some
of these simple principles of ur-to-date
farming. Farmers must learn. Knowl.
edge is power.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Home Life.

Never eat between meals unless you are
an invalid The meals of the day should
be substant Il breakfast, light lunch
and u good dinner DO not drink tea more
than once day and never with meat
Go to bed between 10 and 1 l., taking
warm but not hot bath first and add to
the bath little ammonia. This cleanses
the pores of the skin from the dust and
dirt of the day, and so allows FREQ perspi-
ration during the night, ard also induces
sleep. A glass OF cold or hot water taken
just before getting into bed fushes the
system and acts as sedatiye, while a glass
of hot water slipped in the morning often
cures even obstinate indigestion. Do not
read in bed and do not keep n light in
your room as it not only tires the eyes,
but consumes the good air we require for
ourselves. -Fttsburg Dispatch.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
THE HOUSEHOLD.
One Of His Names.

Never n boy had SO many names.
They called him Jimmy and Jim and James,
Jccms and Jamie, and well he knew
Who it was that wanted him too.
The boys In tho street ran after him,
Shouting out loudly, "Jim, hey, Jimp'
Until the echoes ltto and big,
Seemed to be dancing Jim Grow jig.
And little Mabel, out in the hall,
"Jim-my, Jim.myl' would swcetly call
Until he answered and let her know
Whore she might find him-she loved him so.
Grandpa who was dignifed
And held his head with an air Of pride,
Didn't believe in abridging names
And made the most that he could of J.a-m-e-s.
But IL papa ever wanted him
Crisp and curt was the summons, "Jimp'
That would make the boy on his errand run
Much faster than if he had said, "Aly SON."
Biddy O'Flynn could never, it seems,
Call him anything else but "JeCms"
And when the nurse old Mr. Il AicVyse,
Called him "Jamie" it sounded nice.
But swector and dearer than all the rest
Was the one pet name that he liked best,
"Darling" He heard it whate'er he was at,
For none but his mother called him that
-Pearson's Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Cleaning Black silks.

The French meth Il of cleaning black
silks is very simple, and the results are very
satisfactory. Tie silk is thoroughly brush
ed and wiped VITA u tjth, then laid on q
board or taDlo a.d well sponged with hot
coffee that has been strai"cd through II
piece Of muslin Tho silk is sponged on
the side intended to show. 1t Is allowed
to become partially dry and then ironed
on tho wrong side The coffee removes
the shiny look ard does not leave the pa
perry stiffness reduced by other liquids.
The silk appears thickened by this process.
Try it upon II nccktie, and you will be sur
prised at the results.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.
PULLED AND SECURED.
Current Weekly Comment.

LUMBER.-There is no quotsble change.
EGas.-Firm for choice fresh stock, which
sells at full prices.
Firmer tone for good stock and
values are stronger.
BEANS. - Steady and a fair demand.
Values well maintained
PoTAToEs.-There has been a moderate
demand, but there is a turn for the better.
FLoUR.-Market generally strong, but the
higher prices asked have been ksp down
considerably.
WooL.-Market steady and very firm, and
the situation ia much stronger. This IL par
licularly trre OF mediums.
BurrER-There is marked advance in
choice goods Market well supplied with
common lots, which sell bard
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

has cured the most desperate cases and
he can cur you. Although holding so
distinguished position in the ranks of
medicsl men, his skill aud treatment
are not beyond your reach.
If you are weak and suffering. if YOU
are nervously Frustrated, if you are af-
flicted with any kind of weakening
and exhausting malady, you can con-
suit DR.. Greene personally or by letter,
free. Do not think that because you
are far away from the city it is out of
your power to obtain the advice and
Treatment of this y ost eminent special
st of the age. the dscoverer of the
most tflicacious medicines ever APP
PHI d for the restoration of vitality and
vigor to the weak. If you cannot call
for pers onal consultation. write to DIR.
Greene, 81 Temple Place, Boston,
Mass, giving him description of your
condition. Tell him, as fully and freely
"a if you were telling confidential
friend, all your troubles, giving the
symptoms in detail. After he has
studied your case, he will advise you
by letter just what to do. His enor-
nous practice and vast experience
have endowed him with the lity to
understand your case from the descrip-
ton you give of it, Write to DIR.
Greene to-day. This is a golden oppor-
tunity for YOU, and it is to your intere st
to seize it while it is within your reach.
Delays are dangerous. Write to DR..
Greene at once and you will quickly be
restored to health, vigor and al The en-
joyments of existence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Vermont Dairy Reports.

MARSHALL CREAMERY AND CHEESE
FACTORY, North Clarendon, for July:
Milk received, 147, BAT pounds; cheese
made, ID ,205 pounds; paid for butter
fat, 1877 cents per pound; paid for milk,
per 100 pounds, 60 cents-not on four
per cent basis.
METTowEE CHEESE FACTORY, East
Rupert, for August. - Milk received =,
9S,251 pounds; cheese made, 5000
pounds; pounds of milk to one pound
of cheese, 10 IS; average test Dab
cock) four per cent; paid for milk, per
100 pounds, II cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Mince Pie.

A cup cooked meat, 2 cups apple, half
cup sultana raisins half cup jelly or
marmalado, "a lemon, a cup brown sugar, u
teaspoonful salt, half teaspoonful CHINA
mon, half teaspoonful allspice, half nut
meg. Chop the meat, which should first
be stewed until tender; chop the apple, and
then mix all thoroughly and bake between
two oruntR
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Clothes Baskets.

Clothes baskets used in laundry do not
as rule r.. Give sufficient attention and
therefore are tho cause of stains on the line.
When the week 5 washing is completed all
baskets should be well scrubbed, rinsed
and placed in the air to dry. From long
use many clothes baskets are stained at the
bottom and consequently are covered with
a piece of paper, cloth, etc. Instead Of
either Of these piece of white oilcloth or
macintosh sheet is preferable for it con-
tains nothing that can stain the clothes
and can be wiped dry after using.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Useful Microbes.

Most farmers know something of the
harmful microbes or bacteria, because
the discoveries of scientific men have
shown that many of the most fatal dis
eases are the result of the action of
these organisms in the human body.
Fevers, tuberculous consumption, diph-
iberia, cholera, and many other dis
eases, are am'liar examples of this class
of diseases. SO, too, all putrefaction
and fermentation are the work of mi
croscopic organisms. They seem to
exist everywhere in nature, and have a
great deal to do with the well-being or
destruction of all earthly beings. While
many of them are harmless, many
more are not only harmless but most
useful in various ways. Some weeks
ago we noted the fact that Prof. Conn
had proved that good and bad flavors
in butter were caused by bacteria, and
that he had devised means to propagate
and disseminate bacterium which
produced fine flavor. Now the pa
pers are discussing another use of bac-
terra in agriculture.
1t is well known that certain plants
have power to take nitrogen from the
air and store it up in their roots and
other parts, so that it becomes avail
able to farmers for fertilizer. This
power of these plants is now known to
be wholly due to the action of bacteria.
These bacteria or microbes do not
work on the roots of oats, wheat, buck.
wheat, barley and grass. But they do
exist, multiply, and do their beneficent
work upon the roots of clover, peas,
beans, vetches, and all leguminous
plants This being the case, it follows
that even clover and other legumes
cannot acquire nitrogen from the air
unless the bacteria which do the work
are present. 1t is now known that one
cause of the failure of these plants is
due to the absence of germs of the
special form of bacteria which does
this gathering work But it
has also been found that if a soil is des-
titute of the proper bacteria, they can
be artiicially introduced, and, as they
propagate very rapidly, their dissent
nation is not very difficult matter.
All that is needed is some convenient
method of scattering the germs, spores,
or seeds of the bacteria upon the soil
where they are needed. A crude and
costly way was to scatter soil from
fields known to be properly inoculated
with the necessary bacteria. While
this was effective, there were many
reasons why it was not profitable OF
practicable. 1t removed good soil from
one field, and thus injured it to benefit
another, and was impracticable to any
but wealthy farmers on account of the
labor and expense involved.
Now, however, Professor Noble o
Saxony has introduced an entirely new
method of inoculating fields with nj
trogen-producing, or, rather, accumu
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 90
LUCAS COUNTY, S''

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of f. j.
CHENEY & Co., doing business in the
city of Toledo, county and state afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of CATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
~ my presence, this 9th day Of
!, / December, A. D., 1886.
A. W. GLEASON,
W Notary Public.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

FREE PILLs.-Send your address to
II. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get
free sample box of DIR. Kings New
Life Pills. A trial will convince you
of their merits. These pills are easy
in action and are particularly effective
in the cure of constipation and sick
headache. For malaria and liver
troubles they have been proved inval-
liable. They are guaranteed to be per-
fectly free from every deleterious sub
stance and to be purely vegetable.
They do not weaken by their action,
but by giving tone to stomach and
DO wells greatly invigorate the system
Regular size, twenty-five cents per box
Sold by G. Blakely, druggist.
Rp P1Ns rara Grst ada Ii, Narr Xnrlr
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
BLASTED LIVES.
DIR. GREENE'S BOSTON MUSIC NAIL
LECTURE TO MEN.

Miseries OF the Victims OF Premature De-
cay The Doctor Handles the Subject
without Gloves-The Hopeless Encour-
aged and Despairing Cheered - Means
Told for Restoration of vitality and
Vipor
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

THE. Chinese emperor has his do
minion acknowledged over 42lS,000
square mics of the earlh's surface, a
territory one-fourth larger than that of
the United States.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES
Boston Produce Market.

tB- The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for pholsaie lots mot job6in0
prices unless otherwise Indicated and Intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free.
f. j. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, o.
ca Sold by druggists at seventy
five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

rOOD'S PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bill
iousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 26c.