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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-01-18
FARM Notes.


Feeding sulphur in damp wealth
er causes rheumatism.
A wide range is essential to the
health and vigor of fowls.
The best prevention of roup
among fowls is warm, dry quarters.
The whole matter of profit is
largely determined by the feeding.
When feeding rye to poultry, it
is best to mix it with other grain or
soft feed.
You cannot feed the small breeds
as the larger ones without getting
them too fat.
The food for young fowls should
not be sloppy, as it tends to induce
bowel diseases.
The best food with which to fat
ten fowls is sweet potatoes, cooked
and mashed fine.
A very fat hen will be selected in
market quickest, but such hen is
not always choicest.
In feeding for market give va
riety of food SO as to secure good
proportion of fat and lean.
During freezing weather the care
full poultry man will see that water
vessels are emptied every night.
The objection to keeping ducks
and geese together is that the ducks
foul the water and food SO badly.
Warm feed tends to have the
same strengthening effect without
the injurious qualities of cayenne.
Throw lot of chaff from the barn
floor of the poultry house and throw
corn over it. 1t will keep the hens
busy.
A good plan of feeding is to give
oats and wheat alternately. They
can be fed either dry or soaked un-
til soft.
Ducks grow faster than chickens.
They sell for more, cost no more to
feed and need little care, especially
after they get started.
Season all soft feed with a pinch
of salt. A small quantity of fax
seed meal mixed with the morning
feed will be found beneficial.
Charcoal is much appreciated by
fowls. The best is formed by CHAIR
ed grains. Roasted corn is one of
the best ways of supplying charcoal.
One can waste good deal of food
in fruitless attempts to get eggs.
There is no better plan than to feed
the hens on a varied diet with the
necessary egg-shell material
From the 1st of January until
Spring is the most trying season of
the year for poultry, but with lit
tie care even this unfavorable sea-
son may be made profitable one.
1t is best to mate up your fowls
early, for occasionally one of the
hens will want to sit during the
latter part of Winter, and it is a
nice thing to have some eggs ready
when needed.
Moulting hens require a little
extra attention. Their rations should
consist of variety of food rich in
all the elements of nutrition, in
order to assist in the process of
feather growing.
For good breeder select roost-
er with plump, full breast, broad
across the back, wide between the
legs, that crows loud and long and
is anxious to divide every morsel
he finds with his mates.
If raising early broilers for mar
ket you should have the first batch
out now. Care must be taken to
push the growth as rapidly as pos
sihle. Earliness and good condition
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18

church and state"; that since the AdOp-
ton of that constitution "not a dollar
of public money" Gin this state) - has
ever been appropriated in
behalf of any religious enterprise what
ever"; and that Vermont is " the very
birthplace and the home OF the free
church and the free school," Neither
of these statements is true; and, be-
lieving that they are misleading, and
especially injurious to the young, per-
nit me TO offer few facts of history:
First.-Germanv is the cradle OF the
common school. Public elementary
schools were established in Saxony as
early as 1927, just about one hundred
years before any settlement was mode
in Vermont. In 1647 a school law was
enacted by the Legislature of Massachu-
sets, requiring every town of fifty
families to maintain school for teach
ing reading and writing.
Second. is not the birth
place of free church, if by free church
is meant that all men have equal civil
and religious rights. The Constitution
OF 1777, Section 9, Chap. 2, provided
that each m mber OF the house of rep
resentatives should make aud subscribe
q declaration, which contained the fol-
lowing sentences: 4" l do believe in one
| God, the Creator and Governor of the
universe, the ReWarder of the good and
PInisher of the wicked And | do ac-
knowledge the Scriptures OF the Old
and New Testaments 10 be eiVen by
divine inspiration, and own and pro-
TESS the Protestant religion" This re-
ligious test would exclude from the leg
islaiure IL Catholics, Unitalians, Jews
and infdels. Indeed, 1t is difficult TO
see how old Ethan Allen could sub.
scribe such a declaration, especially
when he was making his iguo ant at
tacks on the Christian religion. This
| Constitution was amended in 1856, but
the above declaration was retained uu-
til 1893, when the Constitution was
again amended. Article 3, Chap. l, of
the Constitution of 1777, contained the
following: Nor can any man ,Dh0
processes the Protestant religion be
justly deprived or abridged of any civil
right, as citizen, on account of his re-
ligious sentiment" etc. 1t is plain
that this Constitution did not establish
religious equality, and that its trainers
did not intend to. l have not very
carefully examined the histories of
other state constitutions. but Bryce, in
his " American Common wealths," Vol.
2, page 573, says that in Virginia, North
and South Carolina and Maryland dur
ing the Revolution, call religious dis
tinctions were abolished and special &C.
clesiastical privileges Withdrawn" Re
ligious equality, through the influence
of Roger Williams, was established in
Rhode Island in 1914.
Third.-Public money was frequently
appropriated to sectarian uses under
this Constitution for more than thirty
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Robert E. PattisOn for the Candidacy.

The only question for the democrats
to consider at Chicago is the nomina-
ton of the best man who can be Sc
lected TO fight the battle of 1896. How
ever unpromising the outcome may be,
the duty of the party to offer to the ma
ton its best man and its best platform
is paramount, and whether the demo-
Gratis shall be the victors or veDquished
in the coming contest, they could have
no cleaner, better candidate than Rob-
ert E. Pattison. He is for honest
money, honest government, honest
politics and honest administration. The
parry that falls With such a candida tie
and such e pl atform can fight hopeful
battles in the future. Philadelphia
Times independently.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Told by Florence.

William j. Florence, the comedian,
had reputation for bright stories and
practical jokes. The following is said
to have been told by him at dinner
one nigSt, when the conversation
turned on travelling theatrical COM
panies: Years ago." said Florence,
was in small company skipping
from town to town. We had met with
extremely bad luck up to our landing
in the town of D. There we found
the lowest ebb of all, for when the cur
tain rolled up there were Just two per-
sons in the audience-a young girl in
an orchestra chair, and young man in
the front row of the balcony. We went
on with the performance, however, pos
sibly to warm ourselves more than any
thing else. According to my part, I
was helping the heroine to escape the
clutches of the villain, and in one of
my lines l said, Have you noticed
that even the bright moon is rising TO
light us on our way?' Before she had
time to reply, the young man in the
balcony called out, l am not so certain
about the young lady down stairs, but
can seeit all right. "-Harper's Round
Table.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18

years after lis adoption. From time to
time several statutes were passed. as
stated in the title to the Act of 1888:
To enable towns and parishes to
erect proper houses for public worship,
and support ministers OF the gospel"
For this purpose taxes were assessed
on the polls and ratAble estates Of all
legel voters, unless they could show by
o certificate signed by minister that
they belonged to come denomination of
Christians other than the leading one
in town; and warrants, signed by a
justice of the peace, were Issued to the
collectors, who were "invested with
the like powers of collectors of taxes"
AS to the effect of these laws, Thomp-
son says in his Vermont History, page
1856, that "sometimes persons were
much annoyed after they had submitted
to these humiiating regulations. The
last of these statutes was repealed in
October, 1S07-twenty years after the
Continental Congress passed the famous
Ordinance of 1887, which established
religious equality ia the vast territories
northwest of the Ohio river, and nine
teen years after the United States Con-
stitutlon had been ratified, which pro-
vided that g no religious test shall ever
be required as a qualification to any
office or public trust under the United
States" These Vermont statutes were
substantially the same as the ecclesiasti-
cal laws of Massachusetts, which were
repealed, or greatly modified, in 1911.
Fourth.-The Legislature at Ben
ninglon, in 1879, passed two laws that
should be noted. One provided that o
violator of the Sunday law could be
publicly whipped not exceeding
twenty stripes" and the other that per-
son guilty of high-handed bla .phemy
shall be put to death" Under this
Vermont Constitution man could be
imprisoned for debt. 1t was kind of
slavery to which the poor man could be
assigned. 1t was barbarous system
from a barb lrous age.
Fifth.-The Vermont Constitution
did not contain " the first constitutional
prohibition of slavery in the history Of
the world" The English Constitution
for hundreds of years had not allowed
slavery or serfdom. Lord Mansfield, III
the name of the whole bench, in 1772
decided, in the case of the negro Som
erset, that, Gas soon as a slave set his
foot on The soil of the British Island.
he became free" The fundamental
Iaw devised by General Oglethorpe fol
the government of his colony prohib
tied slavery and the sale of rum. This
was in 1888. Horace Greeley, who
ought to be competent judge, evil
IDENTITY intended to convey the impress
sion, in his " History of the American
Conflict" that the early abolition Of
slavery in New England was the result
of the fact that slavery did not afford g
pecuniary advantage" on account OF
our cold climate and barren soil. rather
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on pre-
scriptions from reputable physicians, as
the damage they will do is tenfold to
the good you can possibly derive from
them. HALLS Catarrh Cure, manufac-
tured by F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
o., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
sure you get the genuine. 1t is taken
internally, and made in Toledo, o., by
F. j. Cheney & Co, Testimonials free.
ca Sold by Druggists, price sew
enty-fve cents per bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Crystalized Principles.

There is good deal of idle talk just
now going the rounds of the press, es-
pecially in the West, about the " crys-
talized principles" which certain
western candidate is supposed to rep.
resent. This is arrant nonsense. Re-
publicanism does not crystalize about
any one personal center, and any of
the candidates thus far named, includ-
ing all of the favorite sons" is as
much the embodiment of republicanism
as any other. No man has monopoly
ofrepublicanism, and the next campaign
is to be won by epubicanism-not by
any single republican who may be at
the head of the ticket. 1t is, therefore,
idle TO talk of crystalline candidates !;
the figure overreaches itself. 1t is, in
fact, misrepresentation transparent
Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Choosing the Delegates.

The New York Tribune publishes a
table of the delegates chosen to the re-
publican national convention up to Sat-
urday, March 7. Below is summary
of the Tribune's canvass:
Alabama, 2; Arkansas, 16; Florida,
s; Georgia, Il; Illinois, u; Louisiana,
ID; Mississippi, G.; Missouri, 2; New
York, 6; Ohio, s.; Pennsylvania, II;
Texas, IS; District of Columbia, 2.
Total, 1875. Of these 125 delegates 81
are instructed for Mckinley, or are sup
posed to favor his nomination; 25 are
for Reed, 10 for Culom, 6 for Allison,
6 for Morton, and, granting that the
Pennsylvania delegation will give a
complimentary support to Mr.. Quay, II
are for Quay. 1t is only just to say, of
course, that in the Southern states,
where so many contests have been in
stituted, the ultimate partition of repre-
sentation at ST. Louis by the cOnven-
TONS committee on credentials may
seriously alter present estimates.
Since this summary was made Ohio
has held it's state convention, adding
four to the Mckinley column and rails
ing it to IS. Iowa has chosen four dele
gates at large, making Mr.. Allison's
total 10. Mckinley is leading at the
present time, but his support is not
from the section that affords the surest
indication as to his ultimate position in
the race. BY the end of March nearly
one-third of the 900 delegates who are
to assemble at st. Louis will probably
have been elected, and the preferences
of the great majority of them will be
definitely known.
The state conventions to meet thii
month, with the dates set for them, are
as follows: Wisconsin, March IS; New
York, March "a; Texas, March "a
Minnesota, March "a; South Dakota
March 26; Massachusetts, March 81
Among the state conventions called TO
April are the following: Oregon, Apri
9; Kentucky, April 10; Nebraska, Apri
Is; Maine, April 16; New Jersey, Apri
Is; Illinois, April 10; Pennsylvania
April 90; Vermont, April 30; New
Hampshire, April 30.
Representation in the National Con
vention will be divided among thu
states and territories as follows:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18

MARVELLOUS REsULTs.-From let
ter written by Rev. j. Gunderman of
Dimondale, Mich, we are permitted IT,
make this extract: 81 have no hesiia-
ton in recommending DR.. Kings New
Discovery, as the results were almost
marvellous in the case of my wife.
While l was pastor of the Baptist church
at Rives Junction she was brought
down with pneumonia succeeding la
grippe. Terrible paroxysms of cough
ing would last hours with little inter
ruption, and it seemed as if she could
not survive them. A friend recon-
mended DR.. Kings New Discovery; it
was quick in its work and highly salts
factory in its results" Trial bottles free
at G. Blakely's drug store. Regular
size fifty cents and 81.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Reed and Media.

Nine. Media, the prima donna, spent
an hour at the Capitol last week, and
enjoyed herself hugely. She had been
in Washington before, but never had
been in the Capitol. 1t was all new to
her. An Australian by birth, a cosmo-
politan in residence, she nevertheless
WAS delightfully."- ignorant Of the way in
which the wheels OF government are
made TO revolve. She had not even
heard of Senator PETER! Nine. Melba
is not of the stage, STACEY. She is of
the woman, womaply. With all the
emotions of a new discoverer, as Charles
Lamb would say, she wandered through
The corridors, delighted with everything
she saw. The awful solemnity of the
Supreme Court made her shrug her
shoulders in tragic despair, she laughed
at the way in which her musical voice
came echoing back to her in Statuary
Hall, and if she had endured the stu
pidity of the senate for more than ten
minutes she would have been bored.
She had comment for everything.
Doesn't this look comiy?" she said,
when she saw the presidents room,
with it's rich red and gold furnishings.
She met Speaker Reed in the course of
her excursion. "Why don't you have
a filht here2" she said, in laughing pro-
test. {" would much rather see fight
than hear a speech" "Then, why
didn', you let me know you were COM
ing? said Speaker Reed, CALAMITY.
81 would have had fight for your
special delight, and if you will only
wait l will 90 on the floor and start a
row this minute" But Nine. Media
couldn't wait, and the Speakers kind
offer came TO naaght. Washington
Post,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
May Withdraw from the Race.

Minnesota republicans are willing to
compliment Senator Davis, but they
want it understood that they are for
Mckinley after Davis has been compli-
mented enough. Davis objects to this,
and, as consequence, it begins to look
as if he would fail to get unanimous
delegation from his own state, and
would thus be compelled to withdraw
from the race.-Buffalo Express Gre
publican.)
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
There's Good (0 " Fighting Chance"

Unfading hope is glorious thing for
party. Courage under adverse cir
cumstances is always commendable.
There is, of course, Fighting
chance" and more than a lighting
chance" for the democracy. 1t has
chance to fight and chance to hope.
Strange things happen in politics.
Washington Post Independently.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Harrison HASN'T Forgotten 1892.

Several agents of the Morton boom
are in Indiana trying to make an ar
rangement with the old friends of ex-
President Harrison by which their sup
port shall be thrown to the New York
candidate. The friends of ex-President
Harrison will have short memories if
they forget the way in which Plat
fought their man in 1892 They are not
likely to be so forgiving as to join hands
with Plat now.-Buffalo Express Gre
puhlcsn).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18

han of the "moral superiority " of the
inhabitants. But enough of this. Yer
mont has made a great advance during
the century in almost every department
Of human activity. She is strong and
sound, and there is no occasion to tear
out or blot one page of her history.
T., Il. p.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
A Few Corrections.

Editor Of Wotchman One of our
prominent citizens and officials, a few
days ago, stated in a short speech,
which appeared in the newspapers.
that the Vermont Constitution of 1777
contained 50 the first constitutional pro-
hibition of slavery in the history of the
world"; that it also contained can
absolute prohibition of the dnion of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Morton and Mckinley as Winners.

Morton and Mckinley, on platform
of sound money and protection for
American industries, would not only
sweep the country, but from the very
day of their nomination would inaugu-
rate an era of untold prosperity for this
great and glorious Internationally
Standardization (Republican).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
W. G. Whitney Becomes Very Coy.

w lam c. Whitney grows more and
more 90, III his a tituGe toward presi-
dental uominetion. Is i, Gaze of
"sayng he would meier consent,
con,,u't d?' R rchcs,er DemCcrlt and
C1trniclD (R publicau)
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18

The fac sime of the official Label of the Maple
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
POLITICAL.
A SOlilOquy.


Pm GrOut,
The Major.
And Pm cut
For the governorship.
That's plain talk,
And = mean it.
I've been shelvod
Long enough,
While Brother BIZ
Has scooped the glory.
Now there's going
To be change.
I've said it
And what l say
Goes in this ) ear Of grace.
Don't think
I'm talking through my hat.
My lines are set
To catch the bird,
And, 10y my beard,
It'll not escape me.
I've friends abundant,
political, mean)
Whom | have served.
Nor do l hesitate
To now remind them OF it.
It's mighty queer
About Bill Stickney.
What ails the man?
How presumptuous
For him to seek the place
That | aspire to!
/ thought 1 had it pat,
And no contention.
My friends all told me
That 40 other name
Would he proposed.
II Stickney'd olly come
To me and said,
l want to be the governor
OF this ERE state"
We Gould have fixed it.
l would have said,
Help me this year
And, honor bright, next time
The Easr side'S turn comes
You shall have
My strong support"
But mol
Instead,
He list ma to some fool advisers
And measures lances with me.
But I'll do him up
la one short round.
I've not been on the turf
All these long years foc naught.
I'm not a farmer. lawyer,
Business man and sage
IT VI DOlbiDE.
A farmer!
Aye, the rub is there.
A magic word to conj,;re by
In old Vermont.
What though farm for fun?
Who knows but what
My bread depends upon it?
just note the granger vote
I'll pull on that one score.
a farmer-governor,
with dividends FIR >m western stocks
To exc the salary ou).
Oh, I'm distinctly in il,
And in case you want
To pull with the winning crew,
You'd better jump
Aboard my boat.
l knoH it's so
Because the Free Press says it.
Hurrah for GrOut!
| say. Herald and News
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-06-05
Confidence Well Maintained Though Prices
Are Lover and Demand Small.
COTTON HAS FALLEN An ElsHTH.
Yield. Promised Greater than Con-
sumption Last year-wheat Down
Three Cents-snk is a Shade Strong
er-Failures for the Week 23s.

R. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review of
trade says:
Continued exports of gold, amount
ing to SO, 900, 900, this week are recog-
nized as natural results and caused no
serious apprehension. The conviction
is that destructive schemes will not
succeed, althong political uncertainties
cause part of the business that might
be done to be impossible until the fu-
ture is more clear. Markets for pro-
ducts are weak, rather than stagnant.
The business is small but largely gov
erned by the belief in large crops and
insufficient demand.
Wheat has fallen Sc. Though low
prices bring larger Atlantic exports
than year ago; for the first time in
months -four included 1, 543, 973 bush
els for the week against 1, 433, 745 last
year, it remains true that for May
these exports have been only A, 702. TT
bushels. -four included, against So, 1884,
100 last year; while western receipts
are for the week nearly 10 per cent
larger and for four weeks s,048, 645
bushels against 1914, 572 last year.
Estimates differ widely, but nobody
looks for crop so short as to exhaust
the surplus in sight.
Cotton has fallen an eighth, in spite
of continued reports that famine is
near. Decrease in manufacture of 80
per cent at the North, and perhaps
that at the South, show the real nature
of estimates based on continued man.
ufacture at maximum rates. Receipts
still indicate crop of 1000, 900 bales
last year. and yield is promised much
greater than consumption in any year.
Except in print cloths, which are weak,
with stocks Of 1,723, 900 pieces in
sight, nobody can tell what quantity of
goods have been accommodating while
mills have been waiting for demand.
Wool sales, exclusive of q few specu-
lative transactions based on extreme
low prices, are less than 40 per cent
of q, weeks fair consumption, and for
May have been 12,712, 900 pounds
against 20, 800, $50 last year and 90
100, 900 in 1892. Prices are weaker,
washed Xxx l61c; Ohio delaine Ice and
about half the quantity sold is foreign.
The larger manufacturers took guam
titles of wool in January and are
taking scarcely any now.
Silk is shade stronger for italian,
but large auction sale of silk realized
low prices.
Failures for the week have been
239 in the United States and 20 in
Canada.