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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07

To RENT-A nice tenement on upper floor of
Leonard block Also one room on second floor.
Enquire of A V. May or Mrs Leonard at 26 Oak
street.
wANTEp-A cook and table girl Apply at
once at Mrs Fairs dining rooms, Grange build
ing, Elliot street
wANTED-A boy or young man on a farm, one
that can milk. WIN. II. TYLER, Guiford, VT.
wANrED-Two or three good pastures. A. G.
BARNES. BrattlebOro.
wANTED-Reliable American girl or woman to
take care Of child and assist about houseV ork in
family of three. Good home and wages. Ad-
dress High street, Brattleboro, Vt.
For sALE-Brockett & Tuttle top buggy in ex-
cellent condition H. r. LAWRENCE
To RENT-A cottage house with garden, on
Elliot street. S. w. EDGETT & Co.
Tenement to rent. D. P. Conn, IA Pearl street
For SALE-A phaeton. Enquire at
HIGGINs's STABLE.
wASTED-By q lady, good room with board.
Best Rrattleboro references Address,
H. L., SS Green street
Miss Lockrow starts a new evening class which
meets Monday and Thursday evenings at o'clock
The advanced class, at the old hour, 10 Tuesday
and Friday Visitors are invited also Tuesday
and Friday at 430 when the Misses class meets
and the same evenings at 7:15.
To-day more of those extra heavy crochet
spreads 81 cents, worth more money.
T.w. BARNARD.
SITUATION WANTED House cleaning. Inquire
at No. 4 Read street.
TENEMENT To RENT in my new house on High
street. n II. WHITE.
When you come to Brattleboro you want good,
substantial dinner You can get one at the res
taurant, Al Main street, under acknowledgement.
Meals cooked to order and lunches served at all
hours. J. G. BuRPEE.
Pension CLAINs-Promptly attended to.
JONI Hunt.
Cash paid for wool at Brooks House stables
j. o. SMITH.
Tenement to rent of five rooms, well connected
running water Inquire of Mrs o. L. Miner or
A. V. May.
Special value in turkey red, also cream and
bleached damask. T. W. BARNARD
Marcus Ward & Co s Royal Irish linen station
cry at Capp & Joness.
Razors shears and scissors-all WARRANTED to
cut. H. II. THOMPSON.
Beautiful framed pictures at low prices
CLAPP & JONES.
Waterman fountain pens the best Full as
sortment at CLAPp & JONES.
Have your pictures framed at Clapp & Jones's
SI.25 will replace that broken handspring in
your watch and warrant it for one year at G. w.
Sawyer's, opposite American House.
Popular sheet music and books Strings for all
instruments and musical supplies at Clapp &
Jones's
More new wrappers, also shirt waists in great
variety T w BARNARD.
To RENT-Pleasant convenient tenement six
rooms, barn, one box and two single stalls Large
garden. Enquire of
A. V. Cox or Mrs L. A. Cox
Today on front counter special value in heavy
crocheted spreads, 81 cents. T. w BARNARD.
Ten SOUTH MAIN STREET-Sunny convenient
tenement of six rooms and garden. Enquire of
A. " Cox or MRS L. A Cox
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07
A TEMPERANCB I,RssoN

y kev. w. F. Crafts, who spoke in the
congregational church at Newfane insf
thursday evening, gave the FOLLOWING
startling figures: If 1862 be put into ths
GIN mill, sl3 of this sum goes 10 the farm.
er Tor his products; if the same sum Il In
s vested IN the ~ chief home comforts In
spent on hats and caps, $37 eoes "a Iahor.
wnlle the same amount spent for Whiskev.
brings put 81 to labor. Again, the aver.
age earnings per family in our land a 1884
per year, and the average cost Of drink Der
lsamlly Is 500 each year, and II the billion
collars now spent for rum and tobacco
S Sn0ulu De spent for home comforts $780,
500 so nn6 d 1aoorers would be employed, and
SIoo'VOO,OOO more would 60 to the farm
ers. These figures were gathered from re.
~ statistics and point most conclussYely
W she cause OF most of the prlvatlon and
sunering everywhere endured.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07
ESTEYVILLE ETCH1Nas

John Daggett is visiting at Mrs. Herbert
Sanderson's.
n MN Z. A. Lord as one of the board of
oaIll1s Esteyville is well represented.
H. A witt returned from Owosso, Mich,
stay.
O. MRS Ken Whitney returned home from
OF. Aloans last Saturday after several
weeks stay with her parents.
mrs, ~ Heath, while out riding on her
wneel thursday morning, met with an ac-
cident, putting her elbow out of Joint
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07
ChIIdren,s Nightly Habits,

Dr. e. Detchon's Anti Diuretic may be worth
more than 500 if you have a child who soils bed
ding from incontintence of water during sleep.
Cures old and young alike It arrests the trouble
at once 81; Sold by George, E. Greeue, drug
gist, Bratteboro, VT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07
Summary for Month of april, fs9,

Barometer Highest 3O6l. the 18th; lowest
90 81 the 27th; mean, 30:04 Thermometer-High
est, So the 3d. lowest, IS, the Goth; mean maxi
mum, 60:2; mean minimum, 34:S; mean range
% a; mean from maximum and minimum, a 3;
mean from tridaly observation, 4S.6; mean rela
tive humidity, 80 o. Wind-Highest velocity, 4s
miles. the 26th direction. N prevailing. S total
movement. 1886 miles. Preripitation-Total, 81
inches: number of days. 6. Fair. 49, clear, g;
cloudy 10. W. II. CHlLDS, Observer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07

II there ever was a s, ecihc for any one com.
plant, then Carriers Little Liver Pills are a spe-
clhc for sick headache, and every woman should
know this. Only one pill 2 dose. Try them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07

Licensed AuctiOneer
g. P. Miller, office with A. E. Miller, So Main
street, Brattleboro.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07

In the engagement of Miss Mary Howe
the theatre management offers us an ar
tlstic treat quite out of the ordinary. Miss
Howe is in truth an artist by the grace of
God Such bewildering flexiblity, purity
and correctness, in combination with snc6
beautiful tone and compass of voice as
possessed by Miss Howe may well be nro.
nounced unique. The singer began her
engagement as Lucia" a part we'll
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07

The anglers as a rule met with disap-
pointment on the opening of the front
fishing season last Saturday. The waters
were high and cold, and the trout did not
take the bait with avldity. The opening of
Marlboro South pond made that body of
water Mecca for % to 80 persons, who
occupied seven or eight boats The largest
number of fish caught in any one boat was
seven, and the whole number taken during
the day did not exceed 30. These fish
averaged in weight from II to IA ounces.
and were mostly Scotch trout instead of
the native square-tailed trout Louis
Pettee of Brattleboro landed two fish. one
weighing % ounces and the other one
pound. Henry Adams of Marlboro Sc
cured three that weighed over three
pounds. The veteran Joel Butterfeld
landed six fine fish. Many of the fisher
men were handicapped from the fact that
they went to the pond without landing
nets, and many of the trout which were
hooked escaped. The pond has been fshed
every day since Saturday, but no large
catches are reported. f. u. Dickinson
took party of six to the pond Tuesday.
and they returned with seven fish. The
largest, weighing % ounces, was caught
by DR.. Pettee. The trout brooks Satur-
day were lined with eager piscatorians,
but less than 20 fish of the legal length
are reported as a rule. Charles Lindsey
got string of 30 from the Wilder brook.
including four over ten inches in length
George Bishop brought in 20 from the
Morse Hollow brook in Halifax that
weighed eight pounds. Fred Cressy and
Chauncey Knapp lured AZ large trout from
the pools of a Green River branch on Mon
day. Hugh Adams caught six trout aver
aging one pound each at Marlboro South |
pond Wednesday.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
POULTRY NOTES.

A hens second year is her best one
for egg laying.
There is money in capons. Why
don't you go into the business?
Half dozen hens will dispose Of
your table refuse and make ii up into
eggs. Why don't you keep them?
If you have skinned, sour or but
termilk, mix your bran mash in it in
stead Of water. 1t Is a great egg in
Queer. or course the mash should be
seasoned with salt and red pepper.
Better keep those cockrels in yard
by themselves. Then you can feed
them fattening food that will not be
good for your laying hens and pullets.
Then when you want one to eat, You
can easily catch one.
To cure feather eating an exchange
gives the following: Take a piece of
wire of the thickness of an ordinary
bairpin, bind it round the top portion
of the bill near the end, sufficiently
tight as not to allow 1t to slip off. This
will not prevent the bird from eating
or drinking, but will prevent its clos
ing its pill sufficiently tight to draw
feathers and the bad habit is soon
forgotten"
Now clean out your hen houses and
yards. and burn up the old nests, and
put new straw in. Fill up the scratch
ing pen with leaves, straw and other
litter, and then sift coal ashes In It,
so the dust will fly when the hens
scratch among 1t. Place n dust box
in convenient corner and fill that
with sifted coal ashes, II you haven't
secured road dust. Get everything
right, tight and warm, mt once and
then you will be ready for the cold
weather.-Danville IN. " Breeze.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
New Calling for the Deaf.

A musical critic gives to the world
the following information: "A New
York musical journal claims to employ
on its staff a deaf and dumb boy, who
is sent to report concerts expected TO
be so bad that the regular critics will
not attend them. There is no novelty
in this idea. Deaf and dumb musical
reporters have been regularly employ
ed in San Francisco for long time
past. Only the other day, in report
ing a fashionable wedding, morning
contemporary stated THAT, as there was
no music, THE ceremony was very
short. or course the presumably al
fiicted person Detailed to report this
event could not be expected to hear
the programme Of vocal and instru-
mental music, lasting thirty minutes,
which preceded the wedding service;
or The music played During the cere-
mony, together with the usual pro-.
cessional marches. A close study of
musical Journalism ON the Pacific
Coast leads me to tine conclusion that
THE deaf and dumb reporter is a West
ern, rather than an Eastern institu-
tion."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07

he ties q unties them. We once knew
man who was hit by horn which
resulted In the loss Of both eyes.
Third-Horns are In the way In many
cases when the cows are eating. Some
OF the boards In front OF our cows are
worn through In that way.
Fourth--We have fifteen windows
In our tieup. Horns and glass don't
get along well together. We could not
screen them, as we wish to open and
close them often. Since dishornins
have had no glass broken by cows.
Fdfth--Cattle which have no horns
cannot hook fences or twist the tops
of favorite young fruit trees.
Sixth-We are obliged to drive our
cattle through the highway, and we
now have no fear that some traveller
will be injured by horns, either vi
ciously or accidentally.
The work Of removing a horn is
done so quickly that the pain Is trifiing.
The instrument acts like pair Of
shears. except that the baldes surround
the horn in the form of diamond,
making smooth cut. 1t does not
crush or splinter. We noticed very par
ticularly to see IL there was any loss
In milk or butter by the operation, and
there was none.-J. w. Kicker In
Maine Farmer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
For Exploring the Sea. Bottom.

A spherical box containing compress
ed air and large enough to hold three
or four persons, has been invented by
an Italian named Corzetto, for the pur-
pose OF exploring the sea-bottom. 1t
appears, however, that the invention
is not yet practical success, for when
Mr.. Corzetto, accompanied by two of
his friends, entered his sphere and was
lowered to the bottom Of the Bay OF
Spezia recently, the apparatus fcr
causing the sphere to rise to the sur
face failed to work. Unable to help
themselves, or to communicate with
the outer world, the three men remain
ed on the sea-bottom. In the mean
time the long submergence OF the
sphs'e had been noticed, and diver
was sent down to find out what was
the matter. At this time the sphere
; had been lying on the bottom nine
hours. and an equal length of time
elapsed before II could be lifted to the
surface. When 1t was opened the in
ventor was half-asphyxiated and bis
friends were unconscious, but all re-
covered; and Mr.. Corzetto Is not dis
couraged.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07

While the wheat is growing and the
manure is soaking down among the
clover roots, let Is talk Of some mat
tiers not directly connected with rails
ing crops. Our raspberries and black
berries do not look very well. They
are getting old and they do not recover
entirely from the freezing back they
got year ago last May. We hoped
they might, but they never will. They
do look more promising than they did
year ago, but we are not proud of
them at all. What we ought to do Is
to plough them under next spring, and
set out a new patch. However, as we
have a pretty large patch for family
use, some fifty square rods, / think
there will be enough for our use, and
we will let them stand. But half as
much ground with more thrifty plants
that with the care we gave them the
bed would not need renewing during
our lifetime; but l think now it is
better to set out a new patch every six
or eight years.
We have three strips of land that we
rotate with strawberries and clover.
There are about ten square rods in
each one, enough, say, to give us ten
bushels. We used to put out sixteen
rods, but our family Is smaller now.
we have a bed to bear next year, the
plants set out last May, in rows about
four feet apart, and two feet in rows.
After about two months they were al
lowed to Send out runners. and now
the ground is quite well covered. We
have lately stretched lines through and
hoed up the plants in the paths, leav-
inng about two-thirds Of the ground
covered with plants. Then we spread
rotten manure in the paths and around
among the plants, about two loads Of
it. This will make the berries larger
and nicer After the ground begins to
freeze, that Is, after growing weather
is over, we will cover the entire bed,
plants, paths and all, with clean straw
just deep enough SO one cannot see
'haCbSh ~. MS DiCNthtS dny
injury from freezing and thawing,
and we want the straw there for a
mulch, in the paths and among the
plants, next spring. After we were
through picking the old bed last sum-
mer, we ploughed under the vines and
narrowed the ground thoroughly, and
sowed clover seed. There is beauti-
full growth now, thick and heavy, an
entirely safe size for wintering. The
other strip Is in clover which will be
ploughed next spring to set out a new
bed on. These three strips are side by
side about thirty rods Of ground al
together. This with the land occupied
by raspberries and blackberries and
currants, makes about half an acre de-
voted to small fruits for our own use.
giving us large supply daily for ten
or eleven weeks, besides plenty for
canning. etc.-T. B. Terry in Practi-
cal Farmer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
A WILD CAT AT SCHOOL.

People OF the present day have little
conception of the rude simplicity that
marked the lives OF the early pioneers of
the west In 1888. Lexington, Ky, now
the seat of culture and learning, consisted
of few rude cabins, but the settlers who
had recently emigrated from Virginia,
determined to establish school for their
children. A teacher was employed and
an humble little schoolhouse erected. 1t
was tioorless cabin. covered with rough
boards, without win lows. and the chin
ney was constructed of clay and sticks
Yet it was picturesque spot, shaded by
great gaunt forest trees, and surrounded
by playground carpeted with wild grass
and blossoms, where tue barefooted,
sturdy Limbs pupils spor,el in the sun
shine.
One morning in May. Mr.. Mckinney,
the teacher, was seated al lis table in the
schoolhouse awaiting the coming OF the
scholars, many OF whom must come miles
through the forest, when his attention
was attracted by strange noise at the
haltopen door. Looking up. he beheld
O hsge wild cat with brisLles erect, tail
curled back and eye, afame.
The New England teacher. unaccus-
toned to the perilous life of the pioneer.
stood aghast, and with up!ifted fist and
frowning brow, yelled loudly at the in
trudsr. But pussie approached her as
sailant. gnaring her teeth and growing
angrily. Mckinney endeavored to strike
the cat a blow with stick but she wa,
too quick for him. and sprung forward
fastening her teeth in his side, at the
same time rending and tearing his flesh
with her claws. All efforts 10 disengage
the cnraged animal from her hold were
fruiilrss Beside himself with pain apd
not knowing what else to do. the young
man threw himself violently upon the
edge OF the table an pressed the animal
against the sharp corner with the whole
weight OF his body.
Under the severe pressure. the cat
uttered wild and discordant cries, and the
teacher uplifted his voice IN LOUD appeals
for help
Those living nearest the schoolhouse
soon located the unearthly soInd and
fastened Ia ascertain It's cause. The
teacher, exhausted with fri Int and fatigue,
to say nothing Of suffering. lay on the
floor insensible, and the tusks of the dead
animal W. re so locked between Mclkin
pey's ribs that the work OF removing them
was difficult.
A severefIlness confined the teacher TO
his bed Tor weeks after the adventure,
but lie finally recovered. and was u prom
incnt teacher In the blue grass region Of
Kentucky for many years, dying in Bour-
bon County in the year 1920. He often
told the story Of the wild cat coming TO
school to his pupils OF later days. an al
ways insisted that he would rather en-
counter half dozen Indians than one
wild cat.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
She Will Never Be Forgiven.

marian Drew will never speak to
me again." announced the girl In the
feltherLtrimmed hat, 80 IT'S no use
for any Of You girls to ask me to go
and call upon her when she gets set
tied"
"Why?" chorused all the others,
whats the matter between you? Did
you have your bridesmaid gown made
more pretttly than her wedding dressT
mo, but I've offended her past all
hope Of forgiveness, i know. So none
,of you had better give a luncheon TO
Marian and her maids. There'd only
be a scandal IL we were invited any
where together just now, and you can't
any of you leave me out"
"Oh, hurry up, tell us about 1t
quick"
well, you all know how stout Ma
rian is, and how she prides herself up
on her slender waist. I've known her
for years. and know that that twenty
seven inch waist Is her pet vanity. She
Thinks other people believe 1t about
twenty inches. We've argued about 1t
many a time; we did every time we
went to the dressmaker's about our
gowns for the wedding. Well, the
other day, just the day before her wed-
ding, / was down town, and saw the
dearest little dressing sacques you
ever saw for SO, and there was a pink
one chat looked exactly right f',r Ma
rian. So l bought 1t and ori.red 1t
sent to her. / didn't take 1t myself,
because l wanted her to see the bill
and know how much 1t cost. So I
wrote her the sweetest little note and
todd her how glad ! was TO be able to
get just the right size, and piled ON
the taffy about her slender waist and
about being sure the sacque would just
fit her. And ON, girls! what do you
think! I bought sacque for grand
ma at the same time, and you know
how stout She is, and yesterday she
came and opened the package, and
Marian had got the wrong sacque."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07


O 10 for candy. red. yellow and blue;
Cocoanut, chocolate and cream candy too.
Fl for the little homes down the long
streets,
Where the mothers are busy preparing
these sweets.
r for the raisins. plum pudding they'll
make,
And swell to huge size in the juicy fruit
cake.
! for the icing, great field OF snow.
With tasty brown lump OF mountain
below.
s for the sugar, crushed fine as white
sand,
Being used in the kitchens all over the
land.
I for the turkeys that are dressed for the
In the north AMI the south and the west
and the east.
nj for molasses; little will do
For sweetening. browning AMI f!avoring
too.
A for the Apples 100 sour to eat"
But Just tart enough for the savory
mince meat.
S for old Santa Claus. coming tonight
When we lie fast asleep in dream of de-
light
II Louise II. Baker.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
SOAKING OATS FOR HORSES.

Economy is the order of the day.
loss by Indigestion is a problem which
every stock feeder must solve, and OH
its proper solution will depend in
great measure his profit or loss. Ev-
cry observant person has seen whole
grains Of oats in the dung of horses,
ard whole kernels of corn in the dung
OF other animals. Animals fed with
the whole grain eject n great deal at
all times that is not properly masti-
Gated or digested. 1t is only when
whole grains are passed that the waste
is noticed by the casual observer. This
waste would not be sc great II the
or crushing is widely practlced and
TO the advantage of the animal and
i,s owner. a French contemporary ad-
vises, with view to economical that
oats should be soaked few hours in
water. 1t states thai experiments
have proved that the ration can be
lessened about third. Horses whose
teeth are old very imrerfectly masti-
cate their oats, and others swallow
theirs quickly, thus losing their good
ness. Soaking the oats for three hours
Is said to remedy this inconvenience,
as the grain swells and softens and
the horses masticate and digest it bet
ter,-Farm, Stock and Home.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
INCREASING BUTTER FAT.

have not found any food which
materially increases the percentage Of
butter fat in the milk Of a given COW,
says Q. =. Goodrich Of the Wisconsin
University. The only way to reach
this result Is to feed so as to secure
more milk and consequently larger
aggregate Of butter fat. Tests show
that while 1t Is not practical to feed
fat into the milk the PERCENTAGE Of
fat is increased as the milk yield falls
off. 1t pays to feed a little bran or
grain feed even In summer, when cows
are on good pasture. They hold out
longer and the milk flow responds less
readily to changes in condition in pas
ture. In my own personal experience
this course has resulted in my cows
making an average of fifty pounds
more than when the practice was not
followed. The cost per head for the
extra feed thus expended was S. and
the increase in butter sold for $3.50
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
FARM IMPLEMENTS.

II Is doubtless true that 1t costs more
these days to stock farm with tools
and implements than 1t did In olden
times, when prices Of most farm pro-
ducts We're as high, II not higher, than
now. Yet, despite the cost, the new
implements do so much better work
that farmers find them a necessity.
All the more, therefore, they should
take good care of them when bought.
More tools rust by exposure to wind
and rain than are worn out by actual
use. The saving Of money by keeping
implements housed is the most prof
liable economy the farmer can prac-
tice.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
DIsHoRNING.

am often asked why we had our
rows dishorned. will briefly state
some of my reasons:
First-They are implements Of war
fare and only such, and In large herd
do serious damage by goring, and still
greater damage by the fear which the
weaker ones have Of the stronger.
Cows not only require food and drink,
but they also need protection from ev-
erything which tends In any way to
make them uncofortable; and fear of
torture interferes much with their hdp-
pipess. A person or an animal cannot
do their best work when In constant
fear OF some death-dealIng Instrument
being thrust into their vitals.
second-The person who tends herd
e horned cattle Is in danger whenever