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Evening journal., 1897-04-26
DIED.


COOK.-On She goth instant, Madeleine
NJ, infant daughter Of Arthur and
Margaret Cook, aged 10 months.
COLTON.-On April 10, 1897, John s..
son Of Catherine and the late e. b.
Cotton, aged 26 years.
DUGAN.-In Brandywine, Del. on the
Goth instant, John ", son of the late
John and Mary Dugan, aged % years.
GARDNER.-In this city, on April IS,
Miss Mary Gardner.
KELLY.-In this city on Friday, April
%, Mary, wife Of Neal Kelly, aged 35
years.
KELLEY.-Thomas a. Kelley, aged 50
years, son of John and Mary Kelley
of 519 Pine street, died on Tuesday
morning.
M'CARTHY.-In this city, on April 90
Michael Mccarthy, aged 81 years
Relatives and friends and Division
No. 6. Ancient Order of Hibernians
are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral, on Wednesday morning. the
2Sth instant, at o'clock, from his late
residence, corner of jackson street and
Maryland avenue. Solemn requiem
mass at st. Paul's Church. Interment
Cathedral Cemetery.
M'LAUGHLIN.-In Christiana hun
dred. Del. on April 23. 1897, Luke l.
Mclaughlin, aged 20 years.
sTIBER.-In this city, on April 20.
1897, Mary Ann, widow OF Otto Sti-
ber aged 63 years.
WORK.-Near Newport, Del. on April
10, 1897, Harriet l., wife of Stidham
Work. aged q years.
Evening journal., 1897-04-26
THE sMALLEsT MAN ON EARTH


Major Albert j. Criqui. who lays claim
to being the smallest man on earth, is
q years of age, weighs so pounds, and
is but 3S inches in height. He was
born in Newark, and only weighed four
pounds at the time Of his birth. On ac-
count of the very small size Of his feet
he was not able to walk until his fourth
year. He grew very little until his
fourteenth year, and since that time has
not grown at all.
The major received a good college
education, has a thorough knowledge
of German, French and English, and
is Of a most jovial and entertaining dis
position. His father tips the scales at
260 pounds, while the rest of the fam
lily are normally developed. Although
the major is an expert boxer, he has
never yet been able to meet any oppo-
nent of equal weight in the ring,
though he has at times given interest
ing exhibitions with five times heavier
men. A special bicycle, weighing but
Evening journal., 1897-04-26
ADJUSTMENTS
a NIGHT IN NEW YORK. "

jolly Nellie McHenry, who has been
a favorite exponent OF farce comedy
with the local play-goers for years, will
be seen at the Grand Opera House next
Wednesday night in a new play en-
titled "A Night in New York" by II.
Grattan Donnelly. The play is in three
acts, and is described as a satire on
New York life and the gay French ball,
with catchy songs, pretty dances, elab-
crate costumes and a competent com
pany, including John Webster, Charles
Morrison, Charles Eastwood, Joe
Sparks, J. Hays, Miss Henrietta Lee
Miss Fanny Brooks, Miss Viola Ray
more, La Petite Rosa and others.
Evening journal., 1897-04-26
me sUNSHINE sTATE

Is the title of a generously illustrated
pamphlet of sixteen pages in reference
TO South Dakota, the reading matter IN
which was written by an enthusiastic
South Dakota lady-Mrs. Stella Hos
mer Arnold-who has been a resident
of the Sunshine State for over ten
years. A copy will be mailed TO the
address Of any farmer or farmers wife.
II sent at once to John r. Pott, District
Passenger Agent. Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railway, 1856 Williams
St, Williamsport, Pa.
Evening journal., 1897-04-26

The Fame Hose Fire Company will
house the new combination hose wagon
and chemical engine of the Water
Witch Fire Company about the middle
Of June
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
A Noted Animal.

j. F. Hemenway of Chelsea has pur-
chased at Hoods Farm, Lowell, Mass,
the inbred Sophie's Tormenter bull,
Welcoomono, 4,6691. Welcoomono lie
out of daughter of Sophie's Tor
mentor, and by Gold Lane, a grandson
of Sophie's Tormentor. The Sophie's
Tormentors are noted for their high
finish, good front udders, which are
we'll rounded, and for their teats which
are of good size and squarely placed.
Welcoomono is also inbred to Catono,
who had twelve tested daughters, and
is son of Ona, test, twenty-five
pounds ten and one-half ounces to fifty
four pounds of milk in one day and
/ 1866 pounds in thirty days. This bull
was bred especially to get good front
udders, and this point is 30 intensified in
his breeding, that he should prove a
great success. We congratulate Mr..
Hemenway upon getting such bull,
and in the excellent judgment shown
in selecting from the famous herd at
the great Hood Farm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Experiment Station Report.

The Tenth Annual Report of the
Experiment Station has just been
issued from the press. 1t contains 224
pages upon agricultural topics, includ-
ing articles upon fertilizers, pig feed
ing, diseases of potatoes, apples, oats
and onions with remedies), weeds, in
sects, plum growing, seed termination,
fruit preservation, feeding trials with
cows, butter-making, etc. Eeach ar
ticle is carefully summarized so that
the gist of the volume is boiled down
into small compass for the busy reader.
The report will be sent without charge
to any Vermont address upon applica-
ton. Back issues will likewise be fur
nished and names placed upon the Yer
mont mailing list for future publications
upon request. A postal card addressed
to the Experiment Station, Burlington,
Vermont, stating desires, is sufficient.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
The Country Gentleman.

This is one of the old, solid, and sub
stantial papers. There is nothing SEN
sational in it, and it is wonderful how
this paper has kept 30 fresh, modern,
and up-to-date without getting into the
questionable methods 30 common at
this day. The news relating to agri-
cultural interests is told when it Is
news and concisely, pointedly, and
clearly. 1t numbers among it's con-
tributors most of the very best writers
on agriculture who give in its columns
some of their choicest productions, 1t
does not infict half and quarter pages
of "ads" all through it's reading pages,
but puts them by themselves. In me-
chanical execution it is superior to
most of the first-class agricultural pa
pers. In fact, we know of but one
other paper of this class which equals
it in this respect. By all means send
for sample copy to Country Gentleman,
Albany, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

Current Comment.

OATs.-The market is quiet, with prices
about the same as last week.
CHEEsE.-Receipts for export, 766 boxes.
We have to report continued dull market.
CoRN.-The market is a shade easier with
a fairly good demand noted. Receipts are
light and mostly billed for export.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY have been liberal
and demand has been only fair but receiv-
ers have been holding choice stock full
firmer than last week, owing to strong adj
vices from the country.
HAY.-Medium and low grades of hay are
in excessive supply, and it is hard to move
such at any price. The trade will not pur-
chase anything but the choicest hay, for
which full prices are readily offered, but
the supply OF this grade is limited.
FLoUR.-The -four market has been ex-
tremely quiet this week, the erratic wheat
markets causing buyers to hold off in antici-
patton Of lower -four values. Buyers will
only operate in hand to mouth fashion
and appear Indifferent az to the future.
BUTTER. - The market for fresh-made
goods is still extremely dull and there are
no indications OF improvement for some
time to come Most buyers are still liber-
ally stocked with cold storage goods and
are using an unusually small proportion of
fresh.
WooL.-Wool in certain lines is weak.
The top edge of quotations on Western I'M
washed wool has been rudely brushed off.
The reaction from the recent boom has set
in and prices, as usual, after week or two
of comparatively oull business are in buyers
favor.
LUMBER.-The demand for lumber during
the past week has been somewhat better
than it was week or more ago. 1t is to be
expected with the close Of the season near
at hand. The better demand, however, has
not materially put up prices any. Cargo
lumber really can be bought as low as it
could some weeks ago.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Live Stock Market.

VEAL CALvEs.-Prices steady and easily
sold at 81 to 54c per pound.
SwINE.-We rule steady at 81 to &c,
live weight; northern hogs at sc dressed
weight.
BEEF CATTLE. Supply fair when COM
pared with last week. Prices ruled steady
on Western and unchanged on Northern.
Demand was moderate.
Prices of market beef: A few choice,
5000 to $50; extra, 1928 to 5.75; first
quality, $4.75 to 500; second quality, $500
to A 80; third quality, $3.50 to $50.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-About 10000 head of
Canadian lambs came to market besides
those from New England. Market was
fairly steady. Sheep sold around cents
and lambs around cents per pound.
Prices of hides, tallow and skins: Brigh-
ton hides, to 7lc per pound; tallow, &c;
country hides, 81 to 7c per pound; tallow,
l to 1Ac per pound; pelts, 40c to $100 each;
calfskins, SOC to $1.40 each; dairy skins,
30 to 55c each.
Prices of store cattle: Working oxen per
pair, $50 to 1870; farrow cows, S12 to %;
fancy cows, $50 to 60; milch cows and
calves, $40 to 48; yearlings, IS to Is; two
year.olds, S12 to %; three-year-olds, $40 to
80; Western fat swine, live, 81 to 4c; North
erd dressed hogs, &c per pound.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
AGRICULTURAL.
Distance from Market.

This is coming to be one of the burn
ing questions of agriculture. A man
who lives only 20 miles from New York
city says that all stuff grown there is
sold through the commission merchants,
and they make just such returns as
Lleases them, which is seldom sufficient
to pay the cost of production. Thus
the farmers are cheated out of their
just dues. We know of town in Yer
mont where the butter buyers formed a
combine and agreed to pay only about
three-quarters of the market price for
butter. What made matters worse in
this case was that the farmers are to be
heavily taxed for an improvement
which will help the buyers far more
than it will the farmers. This is a
specimen of what is going on every
where. When a farmer can sell di-
rectly to the consumer, he can get pay
for his products; when he has to sell
them through another, he has to take
what the middleman gives him. No
matter what the farmer gets, the rail-
roads will get their profits, the middle
men will get theirs. The farmer can
whistle for his profits. So it goes. We
wish we had remedy to suggest, but
it makes us homesick to see how things
go. A text of Scripture often comes to
us: What will we do in the end thereof?
1t is certain that everybody cannot
live near market. The transportation
companies and the middlemen are a
necessary factor in the handling of
farm products. Unless the farmers
can combine and cooperate, we do not
see how they can avoid being robbed
by INSCRIPTIONS dealers. But there
ought to be laws and penalties for reg
ulatipg the sales of farm products by
the commission men, 30 as to prevent
the wholesale frauds on the part of
these men. Things are bad enough
for farmers at the best, there are dis
couraging things enough in the bust
ness, but when man has gone on and
worked hard all summer, raised a crop,
got it ready for market, then shipped
it, and gets only enough to partly pay
him for his work, and knows that a
part of the price which the crop brought
has been dishonesty kept back by the
commission man, what can he do?
Kick7 But whom? 1t is tough
problem, and we hope will find speedy
solution.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

year no one can tell. Six acres of corn
should winter the cows and horses and
fatten the pigs. The poorest of the
land should be left untitled and used
for pasturage for the present.
The cows should be MIXED by the
owner, as while one is milking he can
get lots of food for thought.
In addition, some poultry should be
kept and nearly all the food required
for the table should be raised on the
farm. About two hours work daily on
an average should suffice for raising
the crops and doing the work outlined.
OF course the potatoes would have to
be dug by hand and here it might be
well TO employ good stout workman
for few day in addition to this, an
acre or two Of small fruits should be
set out and what was not needed for
home consumption could be marketed,
always keeping in mind that there is
market and usually a good one for su-
perior products.
We think the $400 is now in sight,
and if this little effort to reclaim this
hillside is successful the crops can be
increased and the fruit area enlarged
year by year, more intensified agricul.
ture practiced until man who has
good executive ability can sit in his
study, direct the work and "extract +"
$400 year from the hillsides. But it
will require genius-the man must
love his work and he must be up to the
times. 1t is of little use to raise pota-
toes for potato bugs or cultivate corn
for the purpose of having it waste its
sweetness on the winter air.-County
Gentleman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

THERE ID more catarrh is this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and, by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it 'incurable. Sci
ence has catarrh proven to be consti-
tutional disease, and it therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses of from
ten drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucus sur
faces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimo-
malls. Address,
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Ia Sold by druggists at rs cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Treatment OF Cows.

The fact that dairy COWS should be
treated kindly and be kept as quiet and
contented as possible has been stated
and restated times without number.
Its importance is sufficient to Justify
all the attention which it has received.
An exchange says: "Not only this but
the general truth which such state.
ment contains has far wider applica-
ton. All domestic animals should re-
ceive kind treatment and should be
kept as comfortable as possible. Wheth-
er the animal is kept for work, for
breeding purposes, for fattening, or for
production in any other direction, it
is certain that the best results can only
be obtained by treating it kindly.
Fear, physical injury or nervous irri-
tation will certainly make the animal
less profitable than it otherwise would
be. Perhaps the cow is more suscep-
tible to injury from these causes than
any of the domestic animals, but they
all, even including the pig, will certain
ly show the effect of harsh treatment.
The kind treatment of animals was
formerly considered wholly matter of
sentiment, and this side of the matter
should still be regarded. Animals
should be we'll treated because it is
right and humane to make them COM
Portable. But now it is known that
cruelty or even neglect not only affects
the animals unfavorably but also causes
direct financial loss to their owners.
Consequently kindness to the live stock
can properly be classed under the head
of policy as well as under that of prin-
ciple. This subject is always timely,
but just now, when 80 many cows are
coming fresh, and the fattening season
for bullocks is at hand, it seems worthy
of special notice" Mirror and Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Let the Team Walk.

Roland Smith, in the Farm Journal,
says that one of his employers kept
three large teams, and always gave or
ders to trot them whenever level or
the load permitted. One time, being
laid up by sickness, the employer prom
ised to give suit of clothes, when he
got well, to the driver who kept his
team in the best order. Smith, who
believed in walking large horses, re-
solved to win the suit. 1t was six
weeks before the boss was around.
The first day of walking, the horses
having been trotted 30 much, were not
very ambitious, and their trip was not
completed till long after the other boys
were through and their teams put out.
The next night Smith finished his
rounds earlier. In ten days the team
would do as much in day on walk
as either of the other two, which were
logged at every opportunity, and began
to gain wonderfully in flesh and ap-
pearance. The same quantity of grain
was given as before, but he thinks he
rubbed them little more-he could
not help it, they were SO handsome.
He also frequently allowed them after
working to roll in the loan of freshly
plowed field or garden, which they
greatly enjoyed. Then they were
cleaned-first with broom, then with
a riceroot brush, followed by a big
clOth-rarely or never with curry
comb. When the employer was able
to visit the stable he did not know
Smiths team-coult scarcely believe it
belonged to him. After having all the
horses hooked up to wagons and seeing
this team walk away from the others,
he gave orders to all to "Walk your
horses" and took "Rollie" to first
class place and told him to pick out the
best suit in the store, for the lesson
learned was worth it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Cleansing Milk Cans.

The practice of cleansing milk cans
at factories and creameries where steam
can be had has some advantages which
commends it for general adoption. An
objection to taking cans home 20 the
farm before cleansing is that if empty
the milk sugar and the acid which soon
so worked into seams and crevices, il
any there are, that hot water will not
thoroughly dissolve them away without
taking more time than the average
dairymaid is willing to wait, especially
if she does not fully appreciate how
very slowly they dissolve. Little &C.
cumulations daily soon cover the in
side of the cans with hard and insol-
uble coating which appears like gum,
and which nothing at her command
will remove but securing. Much scour-
ing soon wears off the tin, and the
naked iron quickly rusty away, to the
ruin of the can. All this is easily
avoided by steaming. A short dash of
steam instantly dissolves all that ad-
heres to the can and leaves it perfectly
sweet and clean, and free from any in
jury, thus saving the farmer time and
labor and the wear of the cans, and
accomplishing in but small fraction
of time what hot water could not do.
The gumlike coating which forms on
the inside of carrying cans, milkpails,
and other milk vessels, although appar-
emily insoluble, is exceedingly infec-
tious, and quickly contaminates the
milk that touches it and puts it on the
road to decay. The most essential item
in steaming is that its daily application
prevents the formation of the infec-
tious coating, and thus secures abso-
lutte sweetness.--The Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

A hundred years ago excavations in
Pompeii were made solely with view
to the discovery of art and Archaeology
cal treasures, no effort being made to
preserve the houses. The present
method is very different, and one of
the latest excavations is a house in
which all the interior arrangements,
furniture, wall decorations, ETC.. have
been preserved or restored.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

FOSSIL PnLs.-The demand is proof of
there worth-Dr. Agnew's Liver Pills are
beating out many fossil formulas at a quar-
ter box. They're better medicine Easier
doses and ten cents vial. A thousand all.
ments may arise from disordered liver
Keep the liver right, and you'll not have
sick headache, biliOusness, nausea, consti-
patton, and sallow skin. 20. Sold by W.
E. Terrill and Collins Blakley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptiOns, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. For sale bv G. Blakely,
Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

PAINLESS AND DELIGHTFUL CATARRH
REMEDY is the good word which John
Machines, Watbaback Bridge, N. s., has to
say Of DR.. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder, after
having suffered from catarrhal deafness for
years. In ten minutes from the first appli-
cation he had relief and after using one bot
tie his hearing was restored in ali its natu-
raj acnteness. Not an excuse for desparing
OF cure with such remedy within reach
of you. Is. Sold by w, K. Terrill and Col
Inns Blakley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

U-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers uhoiesaie ofs mot ,obbns
prices, otherwise Indicated. and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

THIS tells where health may be found,
and that is more important than making
money. II your blood is impure, Hoods
Sarsaparilla is the medicine for you. 1t
cures scrofula, salt rheum, rheumatism,
catarrh and all other diseases originat-
ing in or promoted by impure blood
and low state of the system.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

HOODS PILLS are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cure indigestion, headache.
New-York tribune., 1897-07-23
SENATOR WELLINGTON'S ILLNESS.

Cumberland. Nd. July % (SpeciaD-senator Wei.
llngton while apparently convalescent. Is SIN
weak Published repor.s that he is victim OF
tuberculosis were denied to-day by DR.. Carr his
phvsican who issued statement that, since re-
covering from the congestion Of his right lung. the
Senator's respiration is better and clearer than IL
has been for eight years. This statement, now
ever indicates that Mr.. Wellington has had a lung
affection. although he doctor denies that II Is OF
rho nature OF tuberculosis. II Is generally known
here that for several years the Senator has been
subject TO severe hcmorrhages. and that while he
was assistant treasurer at Baltimore four years
ago he was frequently troubled In that way.
Wh,n he was engaged In his fight for the senate
at Annapolis in january. 1896 he was for stseral
days almost completely prostrated by an attack
simiar 10 the one from which he Is now SUFFERING.
Again in last years campaign he endured another
and still more severe attack. The senator hae
been compelled TO give up temporarily pe'sUma, s,,,cn
70 his regret He will continue. however, as enar.
man OF The Republican state Committee: yaWr: .
Sloan one of his nearest friends. says that Mr.
WeIlIngton's condition is much worse than ne @ MN.
se,f viii admit although there Is no immediate
danger Other friends OF the Senator say that re
will be unable 10 go to washington UT Da''"'''
until after the heated term