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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10
The Future Of the Horse Business.

1t has been the generally accepted
prediction for the past two years that
there would be q revival in the horse
date there is not the slightest indica-
ton of anything of the kind occurring.
While it is true perhaps that it is not
yet time for turn in the tide of prices,
still in view of the fact that very few
colts have been raised-probably not
one where there were formerly twenty
and the frightful slaughter of an
imals in the West, as well as in other
parts of the country, it would seem that
by this time there should be some evil
dence of betterment. Every one was
looking for something in that line as
soon as spring opened, as the high price
of provender and the slaughter Of 80
many inferior animals which would not
pay for keeping, it was supposed would
act as an aid in bringing better prices
for those which were kept.
This however has not been the case,
here at least, as horses never before
sold 30 chesply as they do now. There
were an unusual number of farm auc-
tions in the spring, and in every case
horses sold for from $40 to 800 apiece.
A good team of farm horses not over
ten years old can be bought at forty
dollars, as was done quite recently at
such an auction. Think of it-a team
for the price of one COW!
There has been large number OF
horses brought into this section from
the West in the past two years and
sold at public sales. These animals
are warranted TO give satisfaction, all
in fine order and broken to harness.
They bring from $50 to 800 each,
rarely over that, although some excep-
tionally fine ones have gone as high as
$3.50, but these were for carriage use
and brought this price because OF
beauty, action and speed-such horses
as would have brought $3.50 or $500 a
few years ago. A neighbOr bought a
fiDe-looking horse, six years old, weight
200 pounds, warranted in every way,
for $46.
What encouragement is there in
these prices for farmers to raise colts?
None whatever. The cost of raising
and breaking would be more than the
animals would cost outright when old
enough to work.
The advent of the electric car and
the bicycle have perhaps been q factor
in bringing about the present depres-
sion, but the vast number OF horses
raised during the years in which stock
raising was booming in the West has
been the greatest cause OF 1t, and until
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10
ANIMALS of all kinds would keep il

ANIMALS of all kinds would keep in
better condition if linseed meal could
be used more literally. A small guam
tity given only two or three times a
week will show beneficial effects. 1t
protects against constipation and is q
very nourishing food, being not only
more concentrated than grain or hay,
but also more evenly balanced in the
proportion of the elements OF nutrition.
The Merino is propably the Oldest of
all breeds now known to man, and also
the most numerous. The purple robes
the Roman emperors were woven from
it's fleece and its origin is completely
lost in the night of antiquity. After
the Merino the Cotswold can be traced
farthest into the realms Of the past.
With the exception of the Southdown,
all our dark-faced mutton breeds are of
recent origin.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10
the present supply is considerably
lessened, we may look for no particular

the present supply is considerably
lessened, we may look for no particular
betterment. Fancy drivers, coach
teams and matched heavy drafts may
bring big figures in the large cities, but
to the average farmer there is no money
in the business, because his chances Of
raising the extra fine animals which
bring those prices are very slim. To
one such, he is likely to raise dozen
inferior ones. Then, too, the care and
training of fine horses is something
outside the line of the farmers bust
ness-is trade in itself. The man
who realizes the profit is not the one
who raises these horses, but the man
who buys and fits them up, then takes
them to the city market and disposes
of them. AS in other things, it is
the middleman who is making the
profit.
Now, as to raising colts with view
to better prices in future years, each
man must be his own judge. Perhaps
the prices will rise before colts raised
now would be ready to sell, but with
the present outlook with electricity and
other modes of locomotion which are
INV SOthihS ihto piOAbipOhSo, ehO uoo
of horses in our cities will certainly not
increase. On the contrary, it will sure
y diminish, for the possibilities in the
way of horseless cOnveyances are as
yet scarcely tried. We may confidently
look for great changes in the next fe W
years in this direction, and who knows
but we farmers ourselves may be riding
slong the roads in horseless vehicle.
Surely stranger things have happened
within the last decade.
am aware that with the waning of
the horse-breedipg industry blow is
given to farming generally; but that is
only one of many which it has had 10
bear in recent years. Farming is now
reduced to the point where it is fast
becoming science. 1t takes more
thought than ever before to make it a
success. The man who reads and stud.
les and takes advantage of all the helps
he can get will far out-do the one who
keeps in the rut of old-time practices
and methods of farming .-Country Gen.
tleman.
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Note and Comment.

ALL house plants become dusty and
as the dust smothers them by closing
the pores Of the leaves, the plants should
be frequently washed or syringed.,
1T is said that the fine green leaves
of the red raspberry, gathered on fair
day and cured in an open room, are nor
inferior to most of the teas we buy.
ONE of the places to clean up now is
the yard around the dwelling house. 1t
makes quite difference in the appear
ance of home when the yard is clean.
A DITCH across a wet field will as
sist in draining large area, and will
perform valuable service by permitting
the teams to work on such land early in
the spring, instead of waiting for the
water to sink down or keeping the land
wet.
SHEEP will "dress out" forty-eight to
fifty-four per cent, fifty per cent being
fair average. In other words, live
animals, weighing ninety nine pounds,
should furnish about forty-fve pounds
dressed mutton, tallow, ETC., the re.
mainder being pelt and offal.
THE Florida phosphate deposits are
of great importance, yet their existence
was discovered 80 recently that few
persons not engaged in the sale of fer
tilizing materials have much knowl-
edge Of the large industry which has
sprung up in the peninsular state.
If the hedge fence is little defec-
tive, run two or three barbed wires
through its length. Barberry makes a
beautiful hedge, and is strong enough
for practical purposes with the added
wires 1t seems useless to set out new
roots of the same shrubbery where the
old has been destroyed.
ONE secret of successful farming lies
in the ready anticipation of what each
seasons work is to demand of the
farmer, and it is in the doing of many
things out of season, as many short
sighted people would look at. Try to
transfer a part of the spring work to
the fall and winter months.
A SURE way to weaken the constitu-
ton of stock is to breed for term of
years from that which is immature.
The natural tendency among farmers
is to do this very thing, selling the
brood sows because they are inclined to
grow fat; but the second and third
years they will bring larger and stronger
filters.
THOUSANDS of bushels of summer
and fall apples were wasted this year,
yet all of this loss could have been pre-
vented by the use of evaporators. If
individuals had an insufficient number
of apples to pay for procuring an evap-
orator, cooperative effort would have
placed the cost at but q small sum for
each individual.
THE special points in which the
Southdown breed surpasses every other
are as follows: A good and quick re-
turn for food consumed and the con-
version of the same into the highest
priced product. The fact that the flesh
OF the Southdown is the finest grained
and the best favored accounts for the
great demandfo 1t.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10

IF hen and chicks are placed in a
yard or confined on a small plat every
blade of grass, as we'll as every weed,
will be destroyed, and in few days the
plat will be as clean as if burned owe:
When hens are confined in yards the
yards are clean and bare of vegetables.
When the hens are Oh range they al
80 destroy thousands of young weeds,
which is not so noticeable, but which
is, nevertheless, the case.
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salesman you must necessarily expend
some money, you must be schooled in
methods of neatness, order and dis
patch, should not be satisfied with the
old methods of your grandfathers, but
be sure to keep fully up TO the best
rules as the days in which you live
Truman b. Barney, in New England
Homestead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10

BUcKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, cbapped 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 by G. Blakely,
Montpelier, vt.
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STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 90
LUCAS COUNTY, 'S'

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F. j.
CHENEY & Co., doing business in the
city of Toledo, county and state afOre-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of CATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use Of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
~ my presence, this 9th day of
}I'S'} a. ". 'G II ,1 w.
W. Notary Public.
HALLS Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
ca Sold by druggists at seventy
five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10

A THICK daubing of whitewash will
be an advantage to the fruit trees, even
at this season, and it may be sprinkled
over the ground, around the trunks of
the trees also, as partial remedy for
the destruction of spores.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10

GROUND, dried meat, which is very
cheap substance, is one of the best egg
producing foods for all kinds of poultry
that can be used. 1t may be mixed
with ground grain, and should be given
once day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10

TWAS run over by lumber wagon. Did
not expect to live. Was terribly bloated.
My friends bathed me with DIR. Thomas
great faith in Thomas Eclectric OIL" Mrs.
William II. Babcock, Norvell, Jackson Co.,
Mich.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

eE-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for phoiesae lots mot obbins
prices) unless otherwise indicated. and intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10

DIR. WOODS NORWAY PINE SYRUP brings
instant relief in cases Of asthma, bronchitis,
and all throat and lung diseases, down 10
the very border land Of consumption.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the Montpelier Public Id
brary Association will be held at the Library
Monday evening" March is, 1887, at seven and on
half o'clock, for the Of eecting trustees for
the ensuing year. FRED A. ROWLAND, Secretary b.
Montpelier, VT, February n, 1897.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10

Like bllousness dyspepsia, headache, consti.
patton, sour stomach, indigestion are promptly
cured by Hoods Pills. They do their work
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07
A BIC OFFICE IN
.CLEvE LAND.
NNNNNNNNNNNN

DR.. BIGELOW, The Wonderful Dentist, who makes
many friends by his Painless Way Of Extracting Teeth and
every bitter who jealous Of his success
has nearly completed negotiations for Big Dental Office Ceve
thing settled he will be the Public Square and do
ing BUSINESS by the middle Of July He has the refusal of three
fine suits of and will de de upon this week. One thing
Cleveland will have larger grande Dental Office
than the owned and controlled by Dr. Bgeow He has, by @
the Largest Dental Business in Toledo and will be satisfied with
nothing less in Cleveland So watch his ads the Cleveland
but don't think he going leave Lora county for he not He
always employees competent to his Offices and does the
outside work himself By this he able to always keep the
posted the most convenient place to have teeth out by
his Painless Method You the doctor and Mrs Bgelow
the American House, Wellington Friday July l6, from ZOO
to 2O M aud at Obern Saturday July IT, and at his Eyra
every Tuesday People in the central and southern parts Of
the county find the doctor the place most convenient them
doctors Norwak and Eya dentists his Painless Method
You fnd them any day in the week Always call early
Extracting half price until further notice.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07

We can tell absolutely whether a
man has gained a pound in weight
during the year, but we cannot tell
by any such definite means the men
tai progress that has gone on in that
time. So you see we must be exceed
ingly careful in handling statistics OF
mental process.
But out of our highest scholarship,
men only very small percentage
about five-use tobacco, while of the
men who do not get appointments
over 60 per cent are tobacco users
Whenever it is desired to secure the
highest possible working ability by
the organism, as in athletic contests,
where the maximum of effort is de-
manded, all motor-depressant influ-
ences are removed as far as possible,
tobacco being one of the first sub
stances forbidden.
AS large part of the functional
activity during this rounding-out per-
lou, PERTAINS " BlONVh, NOuio ~ NV
seem logical to remove from the sys-
TEN all motor depressants, in order
that this line of activity may find its
highest resultant in increased size and
improved activity? This position has
been taken by the directors of gov
ernment schools, all over the world,
where the highest efficiency of the pu-
pills is made the object of the schools
and where efficiently trained inspec'
ton, freed from personal appeals and
special considerations, leaves the di'
rectors at liberty to manage the pu'
pills upon the most approved scientific
principles. 1t is satisfactory to note
also that many private schools have
taken this advanced position within
the last ten years.
May we not believe that, with {
higher grade of intelligence among
the patrons of schools, the same high
er standard will be demanded soon il
all similar institutions?
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wing about them, and to be powerless

dying about them, and to be powerless
to succor and to save. About these
starvation stations the savage sentries
pace up and down with ready rife and
barred machete, to shoot down and to
cut up any one who dares to cross the
line. And yet, who are these men
who are shot Uown in the night like
midnight marauders? And why is it
they seek, with all the desperate cour-
age of despair, to cross that line where
death is always awaiting their coming,
and almost invariably overtakes them?
They are attempting nothing that his
tory will preserve upon it's imperish-
able tablets, or even this passing gen.
Grafton remember. No, they are sim
ply attempting to get beyond the star
vation lines to dig there potatoes and
yams to bring home again to the hovel
in which their families are housed
with death and hunger all about them.
And they do their simple duty, not
blinded as to the danger or without
warning as to their probable fate, for
hardly an hour of their interrninable
day passes without their hearing the
sharp click of the trigger and the
hoarse cry of the sentry which precede
the murderous volley; and every morn
ing, through the narrow filthy lanes
upon which their huts have been erect
ed, the guerillas drive along the pack
mules bearing the mutilated bodies OF
those who have been punished cruelty
for the crime of seeking food to keep
their children from starving. This
colossal crime, with all the refinement
of slow torture, is so barbarous, SO
bloodthirsty, and yet so exquisite, that
the human mind refuses to believe it.
and revolts at the suggestion that ii
was conceived, planned, and plotted by
man. And yet this crime, this mur'
der of thousands of innocent men, and
women and children, is being daily
committed in Cuba, at our very doors
and welnigh in sight of our shores,
and we are paying very little heed tc
the spectacle.-Stephen Bonsal, in
Harper's Weekly.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07

: The transfer of public attention to
the tariff bill has reduced somewhat
the demand for immediate action on
the Cuban matter, and there is some
thing of a reversal of public opinion
now that people have stopped to
think it over. A good many people
who were inclined to criticise those
who voted against the resolution in
the senate now begin to see that
while it required some moral courage
to vote against it in the face of the
public demand in Ohio for action,
those who did so had good reason for
their action. They recognized the
fact that its passage would force the
question upon the president before he
was ready to act. The fact that the
president had sent his own represent
atives to Cuba to obtain facts and pre-
sent report which would enable him
to act, and that he could not do so in
telligently until those representatives
had reported, made it unjust to him
and to his administration to force ac-
tion before he should be ready The
resolution, if it should pass the house
and be sent to the president before he
was ready to formulate and enunciate
his plans, would embarrass him very
greatly and might result disastrously
1t is known that the administration
has outlined a definite Cuban policy
which the former administration did
not do in two years, and it is felt that
it should be given chance to carry
out its plans. Secretary Sherman''
views on the subject are well knowr
from his public utterances, the pledges
of the party which elected Presiden
Mckinley are well known, and he him
self has indicated in public and in pri
vate his desire for prompt and vigor
ous action. But it is felt that h,
should certainly be given time and op
portunity to digest and complete hi
plans before entering upon actor
which is liable to be fraught witt
grave results, and which might, unles
carefully handled, precipitate war an
the loss of human life.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07


A growing opposition to fusion with
the democrats is making itself mani
fest among the ablest and most infiu-
ential leaders in the populist party in
Ohio. One of these, Mr.. T. B. Rankin,
a well-lnown member of the party in
the state, in a recent interview on the
subject, said: 81 helped organize the
populist party in this county and it
was not organized to spite any other
party. It's object was to secure need
ed reforms, not to stab the democratic
party in democratic counties nor the
Republican party in republican coun-
ties. Our structure is laid on broader
foundations than that. was opposed
to fusion last year, but after the deal
had been made was in favor of stand
ing by the contract"
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07
STARVATION I'M CUBA

The situation in Cuba is perfectly
clear and simple. In the western prov
inces we find between three and four
hundred people penned up
in starvation stations, and prey to all
kinds of epidemic disease. They are
without means and without food, and
with only the shelter that the dried
palm leaves Of their hastily erected
bohios afford, and in the rainy season
that is now upon them that is no shell
ter at all. They all have less clothing
than the Patagonian savages, and halt
naked, they sleep upon the ground, ex-
posed to the noxious vapprs which
these low-lying swamplands emit.
They have no prospect before them
but to die, or, what is more cruel, to
zee those Of their own flesh and blood
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07

The progress of the tariff bill in the
senate is extremely gratifying, not on
ly because of the speed being made,
but because those features of the sen.
ate amendments which were unsatis.
factory to majority of the people Of
the country are being replaced by 9th
ers, which are practically those of the
house bill. The increase in the beer
tax and the tariff on tea have been cut
out of the bill, while the rates on pot
terry, sugar, and rice have been restor
ed to practically the house figures.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07
RELIEF IN SIX HOURS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the
"New Great South American Kidney
Cure" This new remedy is great
surprise on account of it's exceeding
promptness in relieving pain in the
bladder, kidneys, back and every
part of the urinary passages in male
or female. 1t relieves retention Of
water and pain in passing it almost
Immediately. If you want quick re-
lief and cure this is your remedy
Sold by z. w. Adams, druggist, Well
ington, Ohio.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07

A Massachusetts, paper announces
that the original leader of the silver
movement in that state is now "view-
ing life from behind the thick steel
bars of the county Jail" in that state.
There are intimations that similar
experience may befall one of the most
distinguished silver and anarchistic
leaders in Illinois. If things go on in
this way the democratic party is 60
ing to be shy on campaign orators
in Ohio this year.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07

Of course, the silver mine owners
put up" for the expenses of the so
called silver republican convention at
Chicago. 1t wasn't an expensive ad-
vertisement for them, either, as the
number of people to to taken care OF
was small and the amount of space
which they got in the press of the
country, was proportionally large.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07
Notice.

The following articles are offered
for sale cheap: Bedroom suite, hail
tree, five hanging lamps, gasoline
stove, bookcase, rocking chairs, and
other articles of furniture. Call be-
fore Monday. Mrs. A. B. LAMBERT.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07
E. L. FRENCH, Editor.
WEDNESDAY. JULY I, 1897.
EDITORIALS.

Lieut.. Peary has left Washington for
his trip to the artic sea in search OF the
of the north pole. Now that Andrea
and Peary are after the same prize, we
can expect to receive interesting news
from these explorers.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07
For Sale.

A good home for sale, House COM
modious, Well finished inside, in the
middle of three good lots, plenty OF
water and fruit, Terms easy, just the
place for farmer who wishes to retire
If B. Vanator, Ag't.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07

Summer excursion rates to Huron,
Zoar, Lakeside and Put in bay. Tick
cts sold any day during season, extreme
returning limit October 81 1897.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07
SPRING GOODS FOR SALE.

A full line Of spring goods at reason
able prices and work neatly done at
the millinery rooms of Mrs. s. Cady,
South Main St.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07

Photographers Association Of Ameri-
ca at Celeron N. Y. July II to 20 rate
Of one fare round trip July II and II
returning limit July 20.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-07
Notice,

Any one who wishes to receive pri-
vate lessons in shorthand and at 4
reasonable price may learn particular
by calling at the Enterprise office.