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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
THE VEGETABLE sALAMANDER.

FIRE Cannot Injure the Rhopala, Hardy
Tree Of Colonbia.
There II tree of Colombia, the
Rhopale odorata, Of the order Protea-
ceae, which presents, says an article
quoted in Current Literature, a most
remarkable power of resistance to fire.
In the district Of Rolima it is customary
every year, during the dry season, to
set fire to the plains in order to de-
stroy all the dry weeds that, during
rains, might interfere with the growth
CT the young and tender vegetation.
This periodical confagration naturally
produces the most disastrous effects
upon the trees, which gradually disap-
pear without being replaced. since it
is difficult for an old tree to resist,
and still more SO for a young shoot
of one or two years. A single tree
forms an exception, and that is the one
above mentioned-the Rhopala. Small,
distorted and soraggy, and having a
wild and desolate appearance, this tree
not only does notssuffer from the fire,
but derives profit therefrom. 1t grad
ually establishes itself in localities
abandoned by other trees and installs
itself therein. We have here a very
typical case of survival of the fittest.
1t, alone capable of resisting fire, wit
nesses the disappearance of it's rivals,
and is seen to gradually encroach upon
an always more extended domain. Its
resistance to fire is due to it's bark. The
external portion of the latter, more
than than half an inch thick and
formed of dead cells and fibers, acts
like protective jacket with respect
to the more central and living parts,
and this assures its triumph in it's
struggle for existence against fire.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
wAsTEFUL DAlRYMEN.
Two Ways Of Doing the Same Thing De
eof1hod and uluotratod.

Two Ways Of Doing the Same Thing De-
scFibed and ulusteated.
This article is respectfully dedicated
to the dairymen Of the country, re-
marking by the way that the illustra-
ton of Peter Tumbledown's barn is a
little exaggerated, but not beyond q
condition oil are liable to reach who
pursue his method. Rain from the.
caves is conveying his manure down
into the nearest ravine. This will save
him the labor of carting it to the fields.
Just now the poor man is having hard
time. There is depression in the
barnyard where he has to walk when
coming to the barn or returning from
it. 1t is filled with black solution of
cow manure. He has to drain it away
or wade through it. The latter would
be the easier way and he would con-
tinue to do so were it not for the fear
of his patient wife, Nancy, who has
said so many times: "Now, Peter, just
look at your nasty boots!" This part
of the picture is not overdrawn. The
Peters" are very numerous. The rents
in his barn covering furnish plenty of
fresh air and sunshine for his ~~ws, and
them book fellers" say t4lese are
necessary to prevent tuberculosis. But
not all Peters are just like this one.
There are many grades of them.
Cows pass half the year in the stable,
and here is where they arc fed all the
grain they get. The quality of the
manure, of course, depends much upon
the amount of grain fed. l think any
observing farmer would indorse me in
saying that on the average where man.
ure is thrown under the caves. as in
Peters case, there is easily an annual
loss of fertility by teaching as muc!, in
value as five dollars per cow. \ roof
to cover the manure as represented in
one of the illustrations can be erected
for so cents a COW. Now 2O-cow
dairyman who throws the manure
under the caves loses nearly 500 year
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
Cure for scours I'm Calvaa.

We have tried pretty nearly every
thing in times past as cure for scours
in calves, which, try as we will, are
sometimes unavoidable where it is not
possible for one person to do the feed
ing every time. Even one overlooking
will sometimes cause the mischief to
start. Inst spring raw eggs were fed,
three or four times a day, to calf
which everything else had failed to re-
lieve. She soon gained strength. She
could not get up alone at first, and the
diseaEe was checked. To-day the calf
is q. strong as any. Very little milk
10 fed while giving the eggs.-Colman's
Rural World.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
A Hesrtless Experiment.

The Lancet tells this story to show
the trials OF country doctor in France.
A young physician settled in a COM
mune, whose paupers he attended for
ten dollars per annum. One night,
soon after his arrival at this Eldorado,
he received an urgent summons to visit
a patient who lived at distance of six
kilometers from the village. On reach
ing the cottage-it was then II p. M. -
he found the doors closed and lights .x-
tinguished. In repy to his knocks the
door was opened by sturdy peasant,
who laughingly informed him that
there was no illness in the house, but
that his wife had wished to see if, when
anyone was i'll, he would come if sent
for! The unfortunate medico-s:nce
dead from overwo-k, and probably un-
derfeeding-r marked: II could have
felled him to the ground"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
4 Novel VIM.

There han been unearthed among Q
bundle Of old court documents at Balti-
more the following unique will, execut-
ed BY Mrs. Anna E. Kuhn years ago. It
reads as follows: "This. my Last will
and testament, ! bequeath all my jew
elry to Kate. my old clothes to Anna.
my books 70 Frank. my good wishes to
Herman and Philip. and request that
they 60 to church at least six times q
year. and Q sweet memory Of myself to
my loving better half, and also my In
heritanoe from my father TO 60 to Anna
and Kate Jointly. Ny last wish. Anna
r. Kuhn."
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
Horeee ReRular et the 1ath.

The horses which are used ON the
Kennebec rice fields are SO accustomed
to dropping through the ice that they
don't seem to mind it. They are yanked
out little roughly, to be sure, but they
take their medicine like the chickens
belonging to the family that was con-
stantly moving, which, every time they
saw a covered cart stop in front of their
house, would turn on their backs and
stick their legs into the air to be tied
together, ready for transportation.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
An Artistic Compliment.

A hairdresser in Boston numbered
among her patrons many gentlemen of
the medical profession. One day when
operating upon one of them he broke
forth in great glee: "Vat you dink.
dogtar? l hat been to dot hospital,
und vile Wait to go up und cut q man's
hair I see marble busts of de DOCTORS.
Dere was DOCTOR Stores, und deere vas
DOCTOR Peegelow NIT de Wig I dress
for him dose dwenty years, in marble.
Dink of dot! Won of my wigs in mar
ple!"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09

One good treatment to keep out Dor
ers and destroy bark lice il to wash
the tree thoroughly with strong soft
soap water, using one gallon of soft
with two gallons Of water.-St.
Republic.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
Another lmmense Log Raft,

Preparations arc making for building
another immense log raft on Puget
sound, TO be lowed by sea to San Fran
ciscoe. Last year large raft was lowed
from the Columbia river to San Fran
cisco and the undertaking was q big sue
cess.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
SALT BOX FOR COWS.
How to Get Up Convenient Arrangems

How to Get Up Convenient Arrangement
ut Small Expense.
Live stock should have a quantity of
salt fed to them regularly. The better
way is to place quantity OF salt where
it will be accessible to them at all
times, and this is done in no more salts
factory way than by the use of COW
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09


other things the circumstances concern
ing two persons Of the same patronymic
was identical The hour. the illness,
the vocation Of the sufferer, the arrival
on horseback, were accidental coinci-
dences which led nowhere and meant
nothing, though they might. with slim
ulating attributes. have furnished food
for the widest credulity.
A member Of the B. family Of Balti-
more was sent for one evening to sec q
convict who had expressed such an ur-
gent desire for the interview that the
jailer aoceded to his request to send the
message. which conveyed the singular
intimstion that 1t might be much to the
gentleman's advantage il he would
come to the prison. He found an evil
looking fellow who, having just received
a long sentence, which would in all
probability be life one, had been
moved by remorse to communicate to
Mr.. B. certain facts in connection with
a robbery Of his family plate in which
he said he had been concerned several
years before. The robber told his aston
ished nearer. who had long given up
any hope Of detecting the criminal or
recovering the property, that he and an.
other were concerned in the crime. The
silver had been placed in O bundle
which was in his possession. His con.
federate was to meet him at an agreed
place on the night following the bur-
glary aud they were then to make of to-
gether, but II he failed to keep the ap-
pointment It was q signal Of danger,
and the fellow who had the "swag"
was to understand that he had better
get it out of his hands without delay
and secure his own safety. The appoint
ment was not kept, and the thief. de-
string to make an effort at restitution.
however unlikely, had sent for Mr.. B.
to tell him that he had thrown the
package over the wall Of q certain
graveyard which he described, and that
it had fallen within the door Of tomb
which was standing open and Of which
he indicated the position.
Expressing suitable recognition Of the
intentions Of the repentant criminal. Mr..
B. left him. scarcely intending to pursue
the matter further. The next morning.
however. found him at the door Of the
sexton in charge Of the burying place.
The sexton. on hearing the description
Of the tomb, allowed at first some con-
fusion. which Mr.. B. understood when
he was reminded that the tomb described
was his own family vault. and the sex
ton. who had ct once remembered gross
carelessness Of his own. went ON to re-
call the fact that the time was that Of
the death and burial Of q cousin Of the
family. and to acknowledge that he had
never forgotten or forgiven himself the
accidental leaving Of the door Of the
tomb open the night following the funer-
al. The two repaired to the tomb and
found the package inclosed within It..
the silver furnished. but untouched. Just
as the thief had cast the family plate,
by an uneQualed coincidence. into the
family burial place Of it's owners. -Bos-
ton Transcript.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09

In the will the only condition is that
Milly shall marry his nephew and, OF
course, you are as much his nephew as
Charley is. Therefore leave it with
Milly; il she says yes say the same,
and you will both have something to Get
up housekeeping with"
No need to tell the joy with which
heard the unexpected news, or the
heartiness with which I thanked the
kind-hearted major.
''l'll go of and tell Milly at once,"I
said; but had not gone far when he
called me hack.
"You don't ask how much you will
have to start housekeeping upon," he
said.
what matter, sir, since you think
it enough p answered.
HIN; but you may as well know.
You might not think it enough"
"How much is it, then p asked.
Fifty thousand pounds,n said the
major.
And this is what Charley lost end I
gained by that journey illy (worth
more than all) and 10000
And now Charley won't speak 10 me
or to my wife for Milly and / are mar
ireland he says merely took ID
vantage Of him; hut say o I uasl ~,
say before, it is all his luck ana mine.
Gentlewoman. s9s 1.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03
BINDING.

Arrangements nave Deen perfected BY
which we can have Magazines bound at thu
following rates per volume: Hall canvas, o
cents; halt sheep, 50 cents; halt roam, 81; hal
morocco, el25. These prices are for tn,
common sized magazines, like the "Century,
"Harper's," etc. Publications having large
page will, OF course, cost more.
REGISTER co.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03

My cat showed little reflection except in
gratifying her Unsuitable curiosity. Ono
evening the arrival Of some gay young
alarm, but later, when they were playing
games and singing in the drawing room,
she crept down to an adjoining room
which was separated from it by glass
door and tore Il little hole in the muslin
portiere, through which saw her peoping,
with distendcd eyes of fright and inqusi-
tivoness. She ran any risk to see who en-
tered the house. herself unseen. People,
however, had less interest for her than
parcels 1t was Il common thing for her
to lift the lids of my bandboXes to see
what was in them.
On one occasion several Christmas pres
ents came to the house two or three days
in advance, and, according to custom, /
left them in my bedroom in the wrapping
paper, though Czarina cuaXed and used all
her Establishments to have them opened.
On Christmas eve after being out for sew
cral hours, | went up to dress, and on the
landing / met Clarina, Lalla Roukh and
PigWiggin coming out of my dark room
in single file, with il furtiVe walk and do
mc@ndr. They passed me rapidly without
recognition, slipped down stairs and dis
pcrsed. On striking ia light l found the
paper torn from the parcels and scattered
over the floor, some Of the strings united,
and the pastcboard boxes clawcd into peep
holes They must have been at work the
whole afternoon Temple Bar.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03

In Iowa, near Il little place called De
corah, in Winncshek county, they have u
typical ice cave, said to be the finest speci-
men of that class of cavorns to be found
anywhere in the Mississippi valley. 1t has
been known for upward of 30 years and
was first scientifically described by the
White geological surveying party, in 1863
To this Iowa oddly the evaporation theory
of ice caves is especially applicable. The
walls and the roof are very near to the
surface, the latter being at no place more
than % feet below the level of the sur
roundingS. One fact which goes IA long
way toward establishing the truth of the
rapid evaporation theory rs applied to ice
caves in general is that where the walls of
Winneshiok : natural icehuuse are the
thinnest the accumulation of ice is the
thickest. The floors and base of the walls
are the only places where ice can be found,
and there only during the very warmest
portions of the year, the supply being
greatest in the months of July and August.
In Whites geological report, 1870, he says,
1.-THE wonderful Winneshiek ice cave is
about 100 feet i'll length, taking all of its
windings into consideration. st. Louis
Republic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03

ton; vice president, F. Stewart Stran-
ahan of st. Adams; treasurer. f. o.
Leonard of Bradford: executive COM
mittee. William II. DuB Bots of Randolph,
Carol :. Page of Hyde Park, F. f Bur
CESS of Burlington, j. w. Brock of Mont
pelier, william 5. Boynton of st. Johns
bury, George L. Dawley of Brattleboro
and Wayne Bailey of Rutland. Resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted record
ing the associations emphatic and un-
wavering opposition to the free coinage
of silver and to bi-metallism as far as
this term represents the maintenance by
the fiat of the national government of a
parity of gold and silver at fixed ratio,
and condemning as unwise any policy
that does not favor maintenance of the
present gold standard value.
A Bellows Falls dispatch says: The
present prospect of VermOnt's maple
sugar crop this year Is discouraging
owing to the unfavorable weather. The
season is two weeks later than the aver
age. March has been colder than for
many years. Four mornings last week
the thermometer registered below zero.
A few sugar orchards were tapped last
week in anticipation of warm weather.
but there has been no flow as yet. Prac-
tically no sugar has been made this
season. OF 5O,OOO,OOO pounds shown by
the census as the annual production In
the United States, over one-third is made
in Vermont. Last year the yield was
II, ,92l pounds of sugar and 993,GS5
gallons of syrup. Owing to the lateness
Of the season, the warm weather will
probably come suddenly and the sugar
season will be short. Good judges esti-
mate that there will not be over two
thirds of an average crop this spring, ant
perhaps not over one-half.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03
DOM ESTIC.

Ex-President Harrison left Indianapo-
lis Tuesday for New York and will be
married to Mrs. Mary Dimmck on April g..
The Fosdick bill, to prohibit the wear
ing of high hats by women in theaters, was
passed in the Ohio house Tuesday night.
The bill BOW goes to the senate.
Twenty colonies of Dunkards from six
different States passed through Chicago
last week on their way to new homes in
North Dakota. The cOlonists number
1900.
w. C. Mcdonald, the millionaire to-
bacco manufacturer of Montreal, has
Just given 100000 to McGill university
for the purpose of providing a building
for the study of chemistry, mining and
architecture. This brings Mcdonald s
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03
General l1ews.
MATTERS AT WASHINGTON.


Congress talks of adiourning early in
May.
There is no longer much hope among
the advocates of the Nicaragua canal
scheme of favorable action by the pres
ent congress on any bill providing for
government guarantee of the cost of con
struction.
Gen. Wheeler. Democrat, of Alabama,
has offered in the house a bin providing
that so long AS the gold standard is main
tanned in this country the salaries of all
officials, including congressman, but eX-
cepting United States Judges, shall be re-
duced to three fourths the salaries now
provided by law.
Col. Stump of the treasury immigration
bureau SAYS the tide of immigration has
again begun to flow from Europe to this
country in considerable volume. Immi
grafton Stacked up during the winter
months. but the prospects now are that
the number of immigrants that viii! come
this spring will equal. if not exceed, the
number in previous years.
The minis are now coming silver dol
lars at the rate of 100000 mo- tn from
the silver bullion purchased under the act
of July II, 1890. on hand. OF the mum
Der of silver dollars now being coined
l,O3l .375 will be held for the redemption
of treasury notes, being the cost of thl
bullion contained in 1000, 900 silver dol
lars at the average cost of silver bullion
purchased under the act of July II, 1890
The remainder, 4SG,475 dollars. will be
paid into the treasury as profits on tho
coinage of silver bullion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03
FOREIGN.

BY fire at Colon, March %, Sc houses
were destroyed. The loss is placed at
$1,000, 900, and the insurance at 5000 900.
A special from Madrid says: A
violent attack upon Senator sherman is
published in the Impartial, which calls
him former slave trader, and asserts
that he wants the Cuban rebellion to
succeed in order to re-establish slavery
in Cuba.
A novel athletic tournament will be
held at Athens from April to l6, incu-
sive. Its purpose is to revive the famous
Olympian games, which were regularly
held every four years from 77G b. G. to
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03

fool knows that and very apparent every experienced
that such advertisements published in the hope
retaining the trade which the Improved United States Sepaa
winning away from them by its superior merits.
We call the attention of the dairy public still further
the fact that the Improved United States Separator has
only had suit brought against by any and
been enJoned but every person whom singing
petors claim enoned under their trivial and greatly
magnfed scaYecrO0 patent suit from using another Sepaa
entirely foreign every the Improved United States
Separator and in way relating affecting it, has since
that decree of the Court burchased and is wsig the
Improved United States Separator without moestaton and
therefore,
To Escape all Liability,
All darymen who wish be free from such liability of claims
of infringement should
Buy the Improved United States Separator.
Then they have the Separator that only exces all Others
on its merits but all liability of infringement avoided the
Improved United States SebaraOrS fully protected BY
orr patents.
)MPANY, BELLOWS FALLS, VT.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03
QUEER HEAD COVERINGS.
The Striking Hats That Used TO BE Worn
In Olden Times.

In Oluen IlmeBs
Douglas, earl of Morton, wore hat. 1t
was termed by the writer's of the period a
"steeple' or sugar loaf" hat, and possess
cd high, cone shaped crown and n narrow
brim The effect produced by such hat
upon the head of very tall man was more
striking than artistic. Stubs uses these
words in describing the hats of his day:
Sometimes they use them sharp on the
crown, perking up like the shaft of stee
pie, standing quarter of yard above the
crown of their heads some more, some less,
to please the fantasies of their wavering
minds. Some are of silk, some are of vel
vet some of taffeta, some sarccnet, ~1me
of wool, and which is moro curious, some
of certain kind of fine hair. These they
call beaver hats of 20s., 30s., 40s. apiece,
fetched from beyond the sea- whence a
great sort of other varieties do come. And
so common thing it is that every serving
man, countryman and other, even all indif-
ferently do wear these hats"
In Planches "Cyclop@dia of Costume
is shown a high crowned hat worn by
Howard, earl of Northampton, died 1914,
and II decided chimney pot" hat worn by
Thomas Cecil first earl Of Exeter died
1922. 1t Is turned up behind and has Il
silk band gracefully wound about it. The
brim is a little bent in front, giving to the
contour quite Line of beauty"
A song by Haywood testilies to the value
set on beaver hats in tho days of Elizabeth
The Spaniard's constant to his block,
The French inconstant ever,
But of all felts that may be felt
GIVE me your English beaver.
A hat called variously a copotain, capa
tain and coptanke was worn in the reign Of
Elizabeth and her successor. 1t is uncer-
tain what form these hats really took, but
] 5here is "A strong presumption that they
I were hats with high conical crowns, in
shape resembling those worn by the Welsh
peasants of today. If so, they were com
mon throughout the reign of James | and
were designated by Bulwer in 1858 sugar
loaf hats, which, according to his account,
became fashionable again in the reign of
Charles l, being worn both by men and
women. He says. "What were our sugar
loaf hats so nightly affected of late both
by men and women, SO incOmmodious ful
us that every puiIc Of wind deprived us OF
them, requiring the employment of one
hand to keep them UnT-Gentleman s
/ Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-03

394 A. D. The games are believed to
have been established by Hercules in
1922 b. c..