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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
The Farmers Year.

1t looks now as though the coming
season is to be the farmers year 80 far
as profitable grain growing is con-
cerned. A careful resume of the wheat
situation from all standpoints includes
the strongest statistical position at the
beginning of the new crop in years.
This fact is a most important one. Not
infrequently grain prices advance
sharply, after the bulk of the crop is
out of farmers hands, they securing
but little benefit from the higher range
of values. This year the outlook is
promising, subject, of course, to posi-
BILE disappointments, for permanent
strength in the market, the profit accru-
ing from the higher range of quota
tions going directly into the hands eff
producers, just where it ought to 90.
At the same time it is to be hoped the
price may not be forced, through ma
nipulation, to such high lever that
later reaction may prove disastrous.
Wheat has been for months selling rel
atively higher than other cereals.
Indications now point to home
wheat crop 100 million bushels larger
than last year, yet prices to-day are
twelve to fifteen cents higher than in
August. Surely a change has taken
place of great significance. Following
our phenomenal crop of 1891, wheat
production in this country has been
only moderate, yet failed to arrest the
downward course of prices until last
fall. A reason for this may be found
in studying the course of the worlds
production. AS reported in the Liver
pool Corn Trade News, an undoubted
authority, the worlds crop of wheat,
oeginning with 1892, was 2. 440 millions,
increasing in spite of relative short
ages in this country to 1858 millions in
1894, but decreasing subsequently, I'M
til now it appears probable that 1897
will show liberal surplus for export
in the United States only. These facts
60 far to indicate why decreases in our
own crop, until now, have failed to
check the downward price tendency.
But with fair probability that the
United States and Russia will form the
only wheat surplus countries for months
to come the advantage rests largely
with our own wheat growers. Other
farm produce, sympathizing in no mean
degree with wheat values, taken with
evidences of returning industrial pros
perity, the outlook for American agri-
culture is unquestionably brighter than
for several years. - New England
Homestead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
The New Grass Culture.

1t is true in modern agriculture that
"old things are passed away, behold all
things are become new" And the
farmer who does not find out about the
new things in agriculture is going to
drop out of the race unless he learns to
find out the new ways, either from his
neighbors or from reading. The grass
crop is next to corn the most valuable
crop we raise. The yield per acre is
however, very small. In Vermont it is
little more than one ton per acre.
That this is not paying crop is very
evident. The problem is how to in
crease the yield, and it is most impor-
tant problem for every Vermont far
mer. Think of the size of an acre of
land and then of the size and price of a
ton of hay. Probably thousands of
acres of grass in Vermont do not pro-
duce a ton of hay to the acre. This
certainly does not pay. How can the
yield be increased7 For several years
Mr.. Clark, the inventor of the Cutaway
Harrow has been experimenting in
grass culture. His aim has been to
produce eight tons of hay to the acre.
He has not quite reached the eight ton
mark yet, but has produced over six
tons per acre.
Thousands of tons OF baled hay are
brought into Vermont every winter,
taking many dollars away which ought
to 60 into the pockets of our farmers.
Now that duty of S4 per ton has been
placed upon Canadian hay, there is q
prospect that hay will be higher unless
the crop shall prove to be larger than
common. For the tariff is really pro-
hibitive, as friend of ours who is q
Canadian merchant, tells us. So there
will be no Canadian hay to buy the
coming winter, unless the price goes
up here 30 high that our northern
neighbors can afford to pay the duty
1t is thus evident that the hay crop is
to be of greater importance than ever
in this state, and that one of the bene'
fits of the new tariff is coming to Yer.
mont farmers in the shape of better
prices for their hay. But how shall
they grow paying cropsp Advise every
reader of the WATCHMAN who is inter-
ested in this matter to send to the Cut.
away Harrow Co., Higganum, Conn,
for their pamphlet on grass culture.
Apart from the advertising matter, this
consists of three articles written by Mr.
81. w. COllingwood of the Rural Nen
Yorker and describing Mr.. Clark's
methods. Mr.. Collingwood has also
written several valuable articles ou
Grass Culture for the Rural New
Yorker. One of these articles appear.
ed in the issue of June 26, and it would
pay every grass grower in Vermont to
send five cents for the paper to Rura
New Corner, Chambers and Pear
streets, New York city.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

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They do not weaken by their action,
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Regular size, twenty-five cents per box.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except ON pre-
scriptions from reputable physicians, as
the damage they will do is tenfold to
the good you can possibly derive from
them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufac-
tured by F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
o., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
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sure you get the genuine. 1t is taken
internally, and made in Toledo, o., by
F. j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
GO Sold by Druggists. price sew
enty-dve cents per bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

D- THE quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for pholesale otg mot jobbng
prices unless otherwise Indicated, and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

CHOLERA morbus, cholera infantum,
diarrh9a, dysentery, and all those other
deadly enemies to the little ones are infalli-
bly, cured by DR.. Fowler's Extract of Wild
Strawb berry.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12

their lessons for the following day.
G AT o'clock supper is ready To this,
as to all the other meals, they go two by
two, after having previously all formed
INTO ranks in the playground. The supper
consists of stew, or more boiled beef, or
two sorts of vegetables. Sometimes an ap-
pie or few cherries, according to the sea-
son, brighten the not very festive board
In my time cherries were the most popular
dessert; after refreshing the inner boy
they provided him with missiles, which
were turned to good account on the spot
whenever the usher had&his back turned
For drink, should add, we had the same
mixture as Before.
After this frugal. rspast the boys repair
again, and always two by two to their re-
spective dormitories. Those who care to
indulge in a little washing may do so be-
fore going to bed so as to be clean the
following day. 1 say those who care:'
for never will an usher make a remark TO
French boy over 2-when he is no long
er under the supervision of a matron-be-
cause he is dirty, not even in the refrec-
tory. Provided he has cravat on nobody
will scold him for having a dirty neck. If
cleanliness is next to goodness, the French
schoolboy is most ungodly
The French schoolboy gets a holiday on
Thursdays-that is to say, no class is held;
but he has to be in the study room the
whole morning and evening. In the aft
ernoon he goes for walk for an hour or
two, when the ranks are formed again.
and they are marched back to what 1 have
no hesitation in calling their barracks. rot
to say their prison.
On Sundays the boy who has his parents
or guardians in town is allowed to go
home for the day, IL he is not kent In for
one of those hundred and one petty Of
lenses Invented at pleasure by the ushers
and their supporters. On leaving school
on Sunday morning he receives an ,,xeat
on which the hour of his leaving school
is marked and the parents are to write
on it at what time he has reached home
He Is obliged to be back at school at 10
O'Clock in the evening TO the minute. and
as before his parents are requested to
write on the exeat at what time he left
their house. He generally returns on sun
day night in a comatose state, and the
home fare, two good square meals. tells
sadly on the work he does on MONDAYS.
This regime is followed not only at school,
but in the colleges.
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himself with the o'clock breakfast, con-
sisting of cup of coffee and little katie
Aufage," (sliced cold sausage, ham. etc)
His majesty sticks TO his desk for the next
seven hours with scarcely an interruption.
At noon comes the luncheon, or "Gabel-
fruhstuck," consisting of a soup and a
slice of roast. At half-past is dinner
of six courses, comprising soup, fish, two
roasts, pudding and dessert. His mai
esty likes beer, but partakes of both beer
and wine very sparingly, although the wine
is changed for each cover. Liqueurs are
also served. The emperor drinks pref
erably dark Bavarian beer; half a pint Is
his quantum. When he has risen from the
table. Kaiser Franz Joseph has finished
his eating for the day and touches MOTH
ing more, even when in the evening he at
tends a theater. He is in bed by O'Clock,
and to his regular, moderate life he owes
undoubtedly his longevity and his spen-
did health and spirits.
That is how the emperor lives in winter,
but the arrangements must necessarily un-
dergo alteration on every occasion when a
state function takes place. Then the splen-
dor and lavishness of the imperial table
know no limits and the fifteen covers hide
tit-bitS from ever nationality, according to
the tastes of the guests. But hts majesty
is only at home when his table is laden
with the simple fare of his loyal Burger"
All the royal fruit and vegetables are
grown in the country, except when the
time of the year absolutely compels the
purchase of these abroad. The wines are
mostly Austrian or Hungarian, but also
include Burgundies, Moselle, and Rhine
wines, and Spanish sorts and champagne.
Next year at the jubilee exhibition the
emperor intends to have the dishes cooked
in the imperial kitchen sold in the eXhi-
bition grounds. The public will thus for
a consideration" be able to enjoy the piQ-
uant crumbs that fall from his majesty's
table and sip the wines from the royal cell
lars. The proceeds will go to chartable
PURPOSES
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12

the muff, and any number of parcels can
be hidden in its vouminous depths. There
ere few fancy muffs seen, the plain ones
being more the style. The immense ones
are of gray sable, Russian fox, mink, err
mine, Persian lamb, astrakhan, seal.
brown fox. red fox, black sable, monkey
and bear. Many OF the muffs have a head
on top and tail hanging from one side
Bunches of tails trim the cape ends. There
are not many fancy muffs compared 10
the number Of fur ones.
A conspicuous feIture of these nuns
is the lining, which is of the most start
ling satin. The satin should match the
gown, and. if possible, the trimming on
the hat.
Women who march with a dog ar in
dulging in the widest vagaries in dog
coats. A dog wearing a coat of black
satin hld a sable cOuar are und his neck.
tied in place with a band Of blue satin
ribbon. A white handkerchief was in the
pocket Of his coat. He wore back satin
shoes topped with able
The young woman who walked with
this dog wore an astrakhan collarette of
dullest black with tan collar II had
square front. The shoulders were mere
epaulettes While on the march friend
ly dog met this woman and her com
panion and stopped a moment to whisper
a word. This dog wore a white broad
cloth coat trimmed with Persian lamb.
His shoes were Of gray satin.
Old furs are changed by the furriers In
to modern garments by trimming them
with silk, satin, velvet and laces, and the
result is decidedly beautiful. While furs
are unusually high-priced the fashions
are accommodating enough to permit the
use Of odd bits of fur left from cuffs,
muffs and caDes. Nina Goodwin.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12

les, and is quite ready at $50 to go down
to the study room, A pint of water goes a
long way in a dormitory of sixty French
boys.
In the study room, under the supervision
of an usher, called pion, he prepares his
lessons for the masters till 1855, all the
time his poor little stomach growing and
shouting to him, II say, boy, when will
that breakfast be ready?"
Breakfast is ready at s. Considering
that the menu consists of soup and bread,
l have always wondered how il could take
the cook so long to get it ready, During
the five minutes that ptecede breakfast
times q few boys go and have wash.
They so by the name. OF, aristos-swells,
or dudes" If you, slike-and excite great
scorn in the breasts, of the majority of the
school fellows.
Most boys keep chocolate or jam, or
buy some of the doorkeeper, Sto eat with
their bread. At $50 they have to be in
their respective classroomsN awith their
masters The class lasts two hours, after,
which they return to the study room to
prepare, until Il. for the afternoon class.
From y to ! they dine and play. Both
these words would convey to an American
or an English mind meaning that, I'M
fortunately, they do not convey either to
the mind or 10 the stomach of French
school boy.
of boiled beef and vegetables. Oh, how
we loved Fridays. when the fare consist
ed of haricot beans, or lentil, and we were
allowed to TASK for nnorew Not that the
dish was dainty. 1t was sauce mainly.
with some harcots or lentils swimming
about rn1 nantes in gurgite vasto; but
we cOuld7haVe as much as we wanted. and
the capacity of boys of IA Is 'unfllable."
Bread, in French lycees. is ad libitum,
When a boy has finished his place he holds
up his hand as q sign that he is ready for
another. A man, holding q. basketful of cut
loaves, Is stationed IN saeh a position as
will allow him to fill all these pairs of
empty hands as fast as they are put up
He filings, the boys catch. 1t Is quite a dex-
ferrous game. II the boy misses the piece
that was intended for him his neighbor
frequently catches and pockets it, partly
as a precauton against possible pangs of
hunger before the next meal partly for the
love of disobeying the rules, one of which
enacts that no food shall be pocketed. The
drink is humorously called attendance, and
is made up of a good tablespoonful Of wine
in a decanter of water.
The way in which French schoolboys
dine Is not so strange as the way in which
they play. Recreation has to take place in
more or less large yard, surrounded by
high walls, very much like a prison walk
Not tree. not a blade of grass to be seen
"A mere graveled yard, bare and unin-
wiling. There the boys walk, two by two.
or in larger groups, the big ones talking
politics, the clever and industrious ones
discussing scientific problems or questions
of literature and philosophy, the little
ones indulging in a game of top or mar
bles in one Of the corners Of the ground,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
AN EMPEROR'S DIETARY.
Description of Francis JOseph's Food
and Kitchen

Pail Mall Gazette's Vienna Telegram.
The Emperor of Austria is a pious Cath
olic who keeps as strictly to his fasts az
he does to his early rising. On such davs
he abjures all meat and contents himself
with fish-a dish that, like mutton is
rarity in Vienna-and various kinds of on,-
elettes. His majesty takes his fish nref-
erably with buttered potatoes. His chi
sine is peculiarly Viennese, and it is only ~
court and state dinners that the French
menu has any chance. The Vienna kitcb-
en- is closely allied to the German In the
simplicity and want of variety in the dish
es, and by the 'done-to-death', character
of the meats but is decidedly more tastv
and inventive, "Kaiserschmarrn" and the
dumplinglike 'Knode1" having a world
wide celebrity. His majesty, like his sub-
Jects, prefers large helplngs at the sacri-
flee of variety, and has particular weak
ness for dainty sort called "Frankfur-
ter NIT Kreu." 1t may be called his spec
ialty.
In summer the so-called second break
Sast is omitted, and the emperor contents
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
HUMBERT AND HIS DOCTOR.
Anecdotes of King of Italy and His
Dend Physician.

Pail Mall Gazette's Rome Letter.
The death of DIR. Carlo Saglione, private
physician of King Humbert, has produced
a general feeling of sorrow. Apart from
his professional attachments, he was well
known as a fine shot and passionate
lover of hunting. He had held the same
office under King Vittorio Emanuele, and
the present king, although he has a spec
ial dislike for doctors, regarded him and
treated him as a friend DR.. Saglione
spoke to me on one occasion of the strong
constitution of the Italian sovereign, his
passion for riding, hunting, and other Yo-
lent exercises. In the chase or at the
manoeuvres King Humbert is always the
first on horseback and the last to dis
mount, fresh and smiling, when his COM
panions are faded and worn out. DIR. Sag
lone was ever at his side-on the top of
the snowy Alps chasing the wild goat and
chamois, in the almost inaccessible forests
of Castel Fusano hunting the wild boar,
or on the immense sunny plains of LON
hardy to pass in review thousand and
thousands of soldiers.
Sometimes the king from his hunting
lodge of Castel F'usano goes to the sea and
amuses himself by shoveling sand into
cart. Take care, your majesty" said
much" "Ah! my dear Signor Doctor"
answered the king, resting his chin on his
two hands, which grasped the handle of
his spade, this muscular exercise does
me much more good than your prescrip-
tons"
Yes, but one must abuse nothing"
But tell you that I feel very well and
you are afraid you see in this poor shovel
a competitor" And laughing heartily
the king finished flling his cart.
However, by exposing himself in every
way without exercising any care, the king
contracted bronchitis. which has taken a
chronic form and has given him a rather
troublesome cough. This cough was
source of anxiety to the faithful doctor. as
he could not convince his patient of the
necessity for taking medicine. Occasion
ally the doctor was even sent away alb
ruptly by the king who would say, II
have not called you. Why did you come?
You may GO I thank you very muchr
One evening, however, the deceased doc
tor thought he had gained his point, and
he prepared for the king in his bedroom
the powders he was to take during the
night The next morning DIR. Saglione
rose very early, las King Humbert never
sleeps more than five hours) being very
anxious to know the effect of his medi-
cine. He was received in the bedroom
and at once asked, ''Well, how does your
majesty feel this morning."
Much better-I may say quite WELL"
was the response.
"Ah!' observed the doctor, rubbing his
hands with satisfaction, you see the re-
suit of listening to reason"
What do you mean?" asked the king.
THE powdersr'
"Bravo" shouted Humbert, "go into
the next room and see what you can find"
The powders We're in the waste paper
basket.
DIR. Saglione had eventually to abandon
ms post oelns struck down by paralysis,
but King Humbert, although Obliged n
have another physician In the person of
DR.. Quirico would not replace him off,
cially until his DEATH
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
THE MONTH OF FURS.
THE DECEMBER WOMAN is CLAD IN
THEM FROM HEAD TO FOOT.
little Fur Capes-The Fashion That
Govern the Wearing of All Kinds
of SLins-There Arc Furs For Pet
Dogs.
Copyright, 1897.

Copyright 1897.
Paris, Dec. 1.-Yague tidings of trouble
with the fisheries have reached here, but
they have not affected the fashions in furs.
Every woman wears them, and the sea-
son. now that it has started in, is a
pronounced fur season.
1t is remarkable how many different
kinds of fur have been found. There are
nine varieties in sable alone, one Of these
being the common black cat which is
called by a term which in English means
a roof sable"
It is wonderful, too, how many ways
they have of trimming furs and how many
different materials they can combine with
them. The loose, Uniting fur coat Is
a thing of the distant past, and the new
fur coat, jaunty and becoming, has taken
its place Russian biouses of fur or its
imitation are very stylish.
one of the most effective fur trimmings
is chiffon 1t is worn at the throat to re-
lieve the blackness of dark furs. Persian
lamb, astrakhan and sealskin are all free
ly trimmed with this chiffon.
One of the newest of Persian lamb coats
is made a Russian blouse, belted with a
broad patent leather belt. The jacket
blouses a little over the belt, and below
1t is finished with square tabs. A piece
of heavy white silk is set in over the
tabs to set off the black fur The dis
tinguishing feature is a jabot of chiffon
which begins at the throat and extends
down the left side of the waist. The chlf-
fon is of purest white, and 1t is necessary
to say that it must be renewed after each
snow or sleet storm.
The capes are of the Old circular shape
only a little longer, perhaps-that is, the
capes for evening dress. These are in
tended TO be worn with low-cut dresses,
ana must consequently be very warm
Several of these capes have appeared at
the theaters In the evening and in the
opera boxes. They are also worn on
very full-dress occasions, like wedding
receptions, when they are not removed
unless the guest cares TO take them off.
They are really so elegant that they form
a most desirable part of the costume
The distinguished feature in these capes
is that they are trimmed with fur. silk
lace chiffon, or any other material. Silk
is one of the most popular cape trimmings
a heavy gros grain silk being used. One
knd OF tur trims another, and of these
mink and chincilla are the most seen.
At very elegant wedding reception
which l attended I saw, an ermine cape
with the double eye that is so fashion
able. The eyes were long and very satiny
and on their background of white they
sat out in beautiful relief. This cape was
trimmed with a beautiful puff of black
gros grain silk which began at the throat
and extended all around the cape The
puff was fully three inches wide and vyas
edged with very tiny band of black Per
sian lamb. At the throat the cape was
caught with a big amethyst clasp set in
dun gold The cape was lined with a
bright rose pink, which became brilliant
in the light.
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well remember that formed a very poor
idea of what awaited me beyond the school
gates. Now that ] have seen the English
at school, 1t makes me shudder to remem-
Der what 1 had 20 go through as a French
school boy.
Things may have changed since / was
boy, but we in France are so routiniers
that don't suspect that they have chang
ed to a great extent My opinion is that
when French parents have decided on
sending a boy 10 years old to school till
he is 90 they have sentenced him to some
thing very near in severity, to ten years
hard labor or penal servitude.
This is how a French boy often spends