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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
THE UNSEEN GOLD SUPPLY.
Some of the queer sources whence II
COmes-GOId Plated Rats.

From the Philadelphia Times.
The unseen gold supply" is a technical
term for gold that does not come directly
from the mines that Is, not nugget, dust
or bullion. and yet is one of the most i'm
portant feeders of the government coin
age.
This supply, unseen" in the commercial
marts, comes from several sources. The
best known is old jewelry, discarded be-
cause out OF style or broken, or because
it's hapless owner has suffered shipwreck
on the financial seas, and is compelled TO
throw 1t overheard as an anchor to hold
by.
article endures forever. Even heirlooms,
guarded for generations, are destined some
day to fall into irreyerent or needy hands,
and will ultimately go 70 swell the unseen
supply of the mints. Not that these odds
and ends may be sold there In small
quantities. Thousands of dealers all over
the country, are constantly gathering in
the unseen gold, little by little. When
their collection amounts in value to 500
the mints are ready to purchase it. but
Not less than $4,000. coo worth of gold
is used in the arts every year. In the
filling of teeth, also, millions of dollars in
gold are sunk annually, ana al OF this,
too, is lost, except that WHICH chances to
be in teeth extracted by dentists, who,
you may be sure are careful to see that it
is not wasted
of the unseen gold supply remains to be
described Perhaps you may think it
romance, but 1t is strictly true.
Have you hear that in France company
has been formed for the extraction of
gold from the microbes that are said to
feed on and attach themselves to the prec-
ious metal in countless billions? Well,
oueer as that idea is, the wide-awake
bows employed In our American watch-case
and jewelry factories, can more than
What do you think of their killing rats
and burning their bodies to abstract gold
from them2
In Furnishing jewelry. especially watch
cases. oiled rags are used, and these rags
become strongly impregnated with fine
particles of gold. Theoretically the boys
are supposed to take care that the rags
are put away at ngiht out OF the way of
the always present rats. Practically the
boys do Just the opposite thing. They have
some IDEAS Of their own on the subject,
and carry them out
Knowing how fond rats are of greasy
the rags are left with stud
fed carelessness where the rats win be
sure to find and dev0ur them. And what
happens then seems almost incredible
Six months Of the rubbing-rag diet fills
the interior machinery of the rat with a
thin gold plating that sticks TO him closer
than a brother He can never get rid
of It. 1t is there TO stay as long as as he
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

does and he stays as long as the rags
stter o'n are m tba ba nolS out inese
fat dropped by the sly boys and rubbed
into the floor by their feet They are
have fallen and so when the rats come
out at night and nibble the floor, they
get an extra supply of this unseen gold.
But the time comes when IL IS to bo
unseen no longer. That IS twice a year,
when the boys have a grand roundup,
catch and kill the rats by the hundred,
and then put them into a crucible and
burn them. The intense heat drives Off
all animal substance, leaving the gold in
the shape of nugget, the purest Of the
pure The value of this nugget depends
of course on the number Of "gold-plated''
rats cremated. IL is always enough, how
ever, to give the ingenious lads considers
able DOcket-unonev
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
Large orops Pay Best.

The time has long passed when poor
cultivation of large amount of cheap
land would enable the farmer thus man
aging to make a profit says the Ameri-
can Cultivator. Probably even in the
days when this was a common practice
the gain to the farmer was more apparent
than real. What he seemed to make bv
the surplus of his crops above the labor
cost of producing them was more than
offset by the decrease of soil fertility
When improved harvesting machinery
made II possible to cultivate large areas
it FASTENED the exhaustion of the soil
and ii also filled the markets with grain
sold 50 cheaply that it could not fur
nish the means for restoring the soil
fertility. that its growth had exhausted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
The MnrId,s Potnfo Crnn.

Something over 25 millions of acres are
devoted to growing Irish potatoes in the
eight leading countries of the world.
In the. United States about three and a
quarter millions of acres are annually
planted to potatoes. and last year the to-
tai yield amounted to nearly SO0,OOO.0O0 of
bushels.
Germany is the largest producer of this
crop, planting seven and a half millions
of acres and producing III 100000 of BUSH
els.
Russia comes next with 100000 of acres
and a crop of 600,OO0,0O0 of bushels.
Then comes France with nearly 100000
acres and $40, 10000 of bushels.
This country comes next with $780, 900
acres.
Then in order. comes Australia with $780,
eco acres with little over 900 BUSH
els.
Great Britain plants 10000 acres and
makes a crop of 19O, 100000 bushels.
Hungary next with an area and crop
nearly as large as Great Britain.
Canada plants 500. 900 acres, and produces
about 60 600 600 bushels,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

knows that they make the best fence
posts. and that a fence thus provided
will outlast three others the wood is so
indestructibe. Branches trimmed from
main stem and used as props for Lima
beans I'm the garden have been in use
1t is said to be the firmest and best
wood for the use of railroad ties, and
for whatever other use an understandable
wood is needed.
catalpa trees2 They are good shade trees
for the street. Invaluable at home for
the same purpose, while as ornamental
trees they have always won favor.
never look at the great trunk of some
old catalpa tree but / ablnk Of the boon
II win some day be to the economical
fence maker; that Is, IL fences are In
vogue in the future.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
a "BLIXD PIcY $50 FEET DowN.
An Underground Bar which the Min-
ers Found Mighty Convenient.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.


From the Minneapolis Tribune.
newspaper man of this city, who has
been up in the iron mining country for
some time, reports the capture of a blind
pig by a deputy sheriff of st. Louis
county, in the Chantler mine, $50 feet be-
meath the surface of the earth.
The Chantler is one the numerous
mines in the Nermillion range, or hard ore
belt, In the northern part Of the county.
and ninety miles from Duluth The min
ers that work on the range and in the dir
ferent mines are mostly Hungarians or
Finlanders. They are very fond of alco-
hol, and when under the influence are
quarrelsome. They all carry knives with
wooden handles which they make them
selves. These knives, worn in a belt, are
drawn on the slightest provacation
Several Of the miners were arrested for
lighting in the mines and sent down to
Duluth for trial, and every one OF them
was drunk when taken from the mines.
The men who went down the shaft to
work in the morning, perfectly sober,
would come up at the end of their shift
mine and the authorities were at loss
to account for It until one of the min
fights told about a miner who sold LIQUOR
to the other men while they We're sup-
posed to be at work. Notice was sent
to the sheriff of st. Louis county, and a
deputy was ordered TO investigate it,
On arriving at Ely the official was taxi
en- to the very lowest shaft where the
informer had told him he would find the
blind pig This was over 200 feet under
ground The man who was said to sell
the liquor was called by the foreman and
asked about it. He could not speak Eng
lish, ana another miner was called to acr
as Interpreter. When Mosjeckja for thar
was his name. was made to understand
what was wanted. and that one of the
men present was an officer sent to arrest
him, he wilted at once and took the party
into a shaft that had not been worked
for some time, and showed them his
bar. which consisted of a board one end
resting on pile of ore, and the other
on an empty powder keg. His stock
on hand at the time of his arrest con-
sisted of four quart bottles Of raw alco-
hol, three quart bottles of very bad whis-
ky. and three powder cans fun of beer
There are numerous galleries or shafts
In the mine. and they are worked by diff
ferent gangs under separate foHemen
When a man wished to get a drink he
would slip away from his gang which
was an easy thing. TO do as the only light
furnished comes from the lamps in the
mems caps. Mosjeckja worked By himself
around the bottom Of the main shaft ana
50 was able to avoid any interferenco
on the part OF the foremen.
--Briggs-You know Cadets. don't you7
Braggs-oh, have a listening acquaint-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

The watermelon industry in the south,
saws the Florida Agriculturist, is a pecu-
liar one, and each year sees it increasing
IN volume and II the season is at all
favorable the watermelon crop is one of
the hest paving crops the southern farm
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
hind staggers in a Horse.

Please advise me what is the best known
treatment for what is called blind stag
GERS in horses2 l lost a fine horse on Mon
oay from this disease after being sick less
man twenty-four hours.
gave him at one dose. one quart whisky
ana 20 grains of quininn, and afterwards
save one pint more of whisky
as there anything in this treatment
sSher to help or injure the horseg
Luray, s. c. H. c. L.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

Questions and communications relative
to agricultural and horticultural subjects.
if addressed to Agri Editor, Drawer n,
attention
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
The Egyptian, or Ivory wheat

Tn the article on sorghums in late issue
of the Morning News you mention the pro
4,ct;veness Of the ivory or Egyptian
w !IItaat y As a reader of the News
VIVID wnTd' be glad if you will give the man
ner Of eultivating the grain, where seed
can be had, etc. Can dry SANDY iand be
If REQUIRE much rain to grow it? ]. d. H.
Gainesville. Fla
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

This sorghum has been catalogued IN
ae, q variety 90 names, African Egyp-
tian brazilian and ivory wheat" 1t is
cultivated like any other sorghum Rows
three feet apart and a stack left about
every foot in the row. In plating we pre-
lpare the land in the same manner as we
would for turnips. sowing in very shall
low drills, either on the level or slightly
raised hills. Sow the seeds, cover with a
rake then roll,
any crop we know of. OF course, the
Soil must be rich enough to grow GOOD
stack. The grain is smaller than that OF
Kaffir corn. but for breadmaking it Is
superior to any of the sorghums. As a
stock food it should be ground into meal.
For the poultry raiser, IL is the best
grain we know Of.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

We solicit articles for this department.
The name of the writer should accom-
pany the letter or article, not necessarily
for publication, but as an evidence of good
faith.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

--Briggs-You know Cadets. don't you2
Braggs-Oh. have listening acquaint-
ance with hfm.-Tit-Bits.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27

to freight rates, with towns like White
River Junction, Montpelier, or even Rut'
/ iano.
But time will disclose all the blessings
of the coming highway. Let us see just
what it is. 1t is macadam roadbed with
one or two steel tracks. The cost of Q
double-track steel railroad sixteen feet
wide, filled in between with broken stone,
is about 5000 per mile something less
than the macadam road pure and simple.
The cost OF rural one-track road is about
$1,000 per mile.
The rails are the ordinary thickness OF
boiler plate, gutter-shaped, five inches
wide, with square perpendicular Shout
der half an inch high and then an angle
OF one inch outward, slightly raised, thus
| forming a conduit for the water and rem
dering 1t easy for the wheels to enter or
leave the track. One horse will draw on a
steel track twenty times as much as on a
dirt road and five times as much as on a
macadam.
The New Jersey state commissioners of
public roads, supported by Governor Werts
in his last message, have recommended
this road to the people Of New jersey.
Would it not be well for the Vermont
grangers to discuss this question thor
oughly through the winter and spring and
bring the matter before Governor Wood
bury as material for his next message?
Would 1t not be well also to let this ques
ton be prominent in the election of the
coming legislature? And would it not be
good thing for the Vermont press to in
quire into it and discuss it in all it's bear
ings?
OF course there are arguments for and
against, and we need light. AS this arti-
Gle is only suggestive, | will leave it here
with brief quotations from letter to the
press by I. p. Hackleman, Albany, Ore
gon:
"It is a subject Of vital Importance to
the people of this country. have been
studying 1t for the last five years. The
highway of the future will consist of a
double steel rail track, made like an ordi-
nary steel car track, and viii be laid and
owned by the county or state.
No corporation must have any interest
in it. 1t should be owned and used by the
people. 1t would save the farmer enough
in five years to pay for building the road
and caring for it. On this road he can do
two weeks work in two days. 1t would
revolutionize country life, the isolation of
which is now disagreeable. Make it a
question of few minutes ride in the
coming motor wagon and the social prob
lem of country life is solved.
Lay your own steel rails and then put on
your horseless wagons and carriages, your
motors and bicycles, and questions of coun-
try home life, prices and good roads will
be solved"
s. RoHsoN.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27
Saturdays Caucus.

saturdays CAUCUS
A petition was circulated last week anc
signed by twenty-three voters, asking
that the March meeting be conducted or
the s'long- BALLOT plan. Some who signed
the petition understood that they were
praying for exactlythe opposite Old
| fashioned town meeting with an open
ballot. ).
The petition having been filed and i
being determined that the "long- ballot
method should prevail,a caucus was called
to be held in the Edison hall Saturday al
ternoon, for the purpose OF filling the
ballot.
AT the appointed time, fourteen men
had copyrighted Horace Lamb was
elected moderator, and the following
town officers were nominated:
Town clerk, J. B. Eldredge; selectmen,
C. r. Granger, M. D. Church, A. y. Us
good; treasurer, B. 4. Lombard; overseer
Of the poor, HI. @. Soper; first constable,
IA. M. Flint: second constable, j. F. Mead !;
collector Of taxes, 9. r. Granger; listers,
J. p. Cleveland, J. r. Adams, z. >. Hail
auditors, j. D. Denison, ]. +. Mead,
George Blodgett; trustee OF the pubic
money, B. Z. Lombard; fence viewers, J..
Burridge, George Moulton, Park Osgood
town grand Jurors, d. c. Woodward, J..
W. Fargo; inspector of leather, j. b. New
CITY. r. G. Cone; pound keepers, w. >.
Wood, Luke Parish; wood and lumber IN
spectors, H. s. Booth, A. G. Osgood; roao
commissioner, j. B. Wells; prosecutor OF
suits. Z. r. Granger; school director, Al
len Priest.
success in view of the small attendance:
Other long ballots can and probably Will
be used. The result may be considerably
mi yad
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27

William Mann from northern New York
was at home over Sunday.
Miss Maud Hatch spent Sunday in Beth
ell with her sister, Mrs. Bundy.
Miss Julana Gay has been quite sick
lately at the home OF her brother, Mr..
Willard Gay.
Hon. Dudley Denison OF Royalton was a
recent guest at the home Of his son, J. D.
Denison, Esq.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ariston Sanford were in
Bethel, Saturday, to attend the funeral OF
the late A. d. Sanders.
DR.. Patrick Murphy, native of Ran
dolph, has been elected member OF the
New York state legislature.
It is curious fact that in this village
you can buy white sugar at five cents
pound if you do not wish to purchase
more than dollars worth; but il you pur-
chase by the barrel, you must pay five and
quarter cents pound. The philosophy
of this is not apparent at once, but an ex-
haustive study Of the principles govern
ing the business world would no doubt
throw an acetylene light on the subject.
In the mean time we buy our sugar by the
pound.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27
The Coming Highway.

We are passing through period Of IN
rest and change in the industrial world.
II Is we'll to be prepared for the best. Such
II seems to me is the inventio ion OF that
friend of the farmer and the laDoIing
man. Hon. John O'Donnell of Lowville,
N. Y. ,d
II promises to repopulate the region OF
abandoned farms, and to bring country
hamlets, like Rochester, Chelsea, Brain IN
tree and hundred others in Vermont, IN
to closer communications with the centers
OF trade. .,.u 49,
or to haul his products to town at times
when prices are the best, to restore the
natural circulation OF the body CONNER
cial. which just now is suffering, by the
policy Of the trunk lines, from congestion ,,ts
IN great centers and at competing points.
Thus it may place Randolph on par as
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27
For Weak Men with Nervous Debility
This Is Certainly the Chance OF life

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This Is Certainly the Chapca OF a life
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Weak men suffering from nervous
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Here is something which will power
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from seeking cure by the great spc-
cialists in these complaints owing to
the cost Of travel to the large cities and
the high fees charged by those emf
nent physicians.
| Here, therefore,is chance for weak
men in our community which should
not be lost. DR.. Greene Of "a Temple
Place, Boston, Mass, who has the larg-
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without doubt the most successful spe-
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27

Arthur L. Kennedy, the superin-
tendent of the wooden mills at Wi.
nooski, has invented a process Of max
ing fabrics perfectly waterproof and
at the same time as soft and flexible
as ordinary cloth. Garments made OF
this material are said to keep out rain
without any of that stiff, heavy, I'M
wieldy character usually found in rub.
Der and other waterproof goods. The
inventor has applied for patent
through his solicitor, George W. Ken.
nedy.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27
Tobacco Heart. :"
How II Comes and What II Is.
How a Man Can Use T0bac-
co Safely.

Any man who smokes to excess knows
what ''tobacco heart" is. 1t is weak
nervous action of that organ, alternateC
with occasional palpitatiOn, cold hands
and feet especially the latter), dimness oil
vision, specks before the eyes, dullness oil
the brain, shortness OF breath, dyspepsia
bad taste in the mouth mornings and dis
ordered bowels.
These are few OF the symptoms and
they are all due to the poisons of tobacco
Every man who uses tobacco has, every
now and then, days when cigar or pipe
doesn't taste good" and is thrown away
in disgust. "My stomach is out OF order''
or, must be bilious, lis the usual thought.
1t is neither. Your system is surcharged
with the poison.
Your kidneys find themselves unable to
throw off the Nicotine in the Urine. Con .
sequently every organ and tissue in the
body is clogged and poisoned.
Anything that will set your kidneys to
acting promptly and thoroughly will
quickly relieve you
DR.. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills will
do this and do it naturally and harmless
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poison OF tobacco, even when not used to
excess renders the Kidneys sluggish, and
every organ in the body feels the result.
Other poisons that should be thrown out
are not thrown out.
Hence the stomach, brain, heart, eye
and other symptoms.
By using DR.. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney
Pills, not only Nicotine, but every other
poison will be rapidly and regularly car
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tobacco and not feel its bad effects. A
cigar can never be said to "not taste
good"
And your general health will be perfect.
DR.. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills are
endorsed by the best physicians and sold
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mailed free. Address Hobbs Medicine
Co., Chicago or San Francisco.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27

NORTH bouSD-Night express, a. M; local pas
m. ' f' ''Ao r.
SOUTH BouND-Night express a. M; mail 1O:17 a.
M; express, 1885 p. M. local passenger 7:2O D. m.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27
Randolph.
MISS GEORGIA WHITE, Local Edito,
HE STUMBLED ON 1T.

HE STUMBLED ON 1T.
The Norwegian Doctor hansen,
In his boat, the schooner Fran,
Sailed to pass thesnorthern limit
OF all boats that ever swan.
With dozen stalwart sailors,
Who made up jolly band,
Long he cruised and then cast anchor
That he might explore the land.
Wandering er the frozen region,
Seeing real estate to sell,
The explorer stubbed his toe and
Very fortunately fell.
UP he jumped and hoped around there,
Anger filing all his soul.
Till he accidentally noticed
That he'd stumbled on the Pole!
Then he hoped for very transport
And forgot, in joyous cheers,
That twas careless thus to leave 1t
Sticking up there all these years.
Ere he left, he wisely creased 1t;
For he reasonably thought
That in any other climate
1t would loas since have been hot.
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(Other locals on next page.)
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Epilepsy 20 Years.
Cured by Dr.. Miles Nervine.

A few years ago, Mr.. L. W. Gallaher, was
an extensive, successful expert manu-
facturer OF lumber products. Attacked with
epilepsy, he was obliged to give up his bust
ness. The attacks came upon him most in
opportuncly. Ono time falling from carri-
ace, at another down stairs, and often in the
street. Once he fell down shaft in the
mill, his injuries nearly proving fatal. Mr..
Gallaher writes from Milwaukee, Feb. 16, '95.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27
Cuttingsville.

Beecham's pills for consti-
patton 1os and a5s. Get the
book at yow druggists and
60 by it.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-27

~ y the New Brunswick Rub
- - Der is BEST. At whole
sale by Warren Boot and
S0Shoe Co., Boston, Mass.