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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
FARM AND GARDEN.
MARKETING SHEEP.
Right After Shearing Is a Good Time
to Sell Them.

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to Sell Them.
When the sheep are sheared it is a,
good time to select out those 30 be mar
keted. Under present conditions it is
hardly advisable to keep sheep that do
not produce good tleeccs of wool. The
quality must be such as to bring good
prices, and the quantity must be suf-
ticicnt.
When a select flock is kept on a small
farm, nearly or quite all of them should
be good breeding ewes and bring good
lamb every spring in addition to grow
ing a good fleece of wool.
Many farmers make a serious mistake
in failing to feed their stock until they
are in a good marketable condition. In
many cases sheep well fattened for mar
ket will bring twice as much as those
sold in a poor condition. Not only js
more realized on account of the increase
in weight, but a better price can all
ways be had per pound for good fat
sheep than for poor ones. With prop
er management sheep can be fattened
easily and rapidly, but they are easily
cloyed by overlooking and require more
care in this respect than almost any
other kind of stock. Commence feed
ing a small quantity of grain and grad
ually increase until they are given all
that they can eat up clean. 1t is not
best to depend upon corn alone. While
it is one of the best fattening foods, yet
if given to sheep daily as their princi-
| pal ration they soon tire of it and will
| not thrive as they should.
Any animal, when fed heavily, should
have good variety, and this is es-
pecially true of the sheep. If kept in
good thrifty condition six weeks feed
| ing of all that they VIII eat of a good
| fattening ration will fatten them for
market. But with sheep that have been
| poorly wintered longer feeding will be
necessary. While corn can be made the
| principal ration, bran, shipstuff, oats,
| barley and oil meal should be given to
make up q good variety, and in this
way keep the sheep in good appetite.
See that they have all that they will
eat up clean and at the same time are
not overfed.
With old sheep the hest plan of fat
tening is on good farm pasturage,
changing from one place to another
every two or three weeks. It's difficult
to fatten old sheep on dry feed of any
kind. Fairly good success may be
realized by feeding ground grain, but
the more economical plan is to depend
upon good pasturage, selling whenever
sn%Ood marketable condition is reached.
rkIt is usually good economy to fatten
and market the old sheep during the
spring and early summer rather than TO
keep them over.
Always select a sufficient number of
young, vigorous ewes to take the places
of the old ones sold otf.-St. Louis he
public
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
SCIENCE OF FARMING.
The Modern Farmer should Be n Man
of Liberal l-ucation.

Farming is d scientific occupation as
much as most of what are called the
learned professions. 1t is an exact sci
ence, for in order TO he a successful agri-
culturist the farmer must be thorough
chemist, that he may determine the
composition of the soil he cultivates
and the articles cultivated in order that
he may supply the deficiencies in either,
otherwise failure will be the result.
The soil is like the cultivator and re-
CURES rest that it may recuperate, for
constant drainage, without a CORE
spending supply, can only act disas-
rrously. Many fine farms have been
ruined in this manner and are aban-
doned in consequence. Rotation in
crops is much insisted on, but unless
the articles rotated out of the soil by
the growing crop are rotated into it for
the benefit of its successor, the result
will be but veXatious to the owner.
Yet when these facts are made manifest
the farmer frequently SCOTS at the idea
that anything could be superior to the
methods employed by his ancestors,
and so he sticks to the same cd ruts,
regardless of consequences and piously
lays the blame on Divine Providence,
instead OF his own stupidity, and looks
askance at any an all who would ques-
ton his superior isdom! Is it any
wonder thAt with sub class farming
doesn't pay? Would it not be wonder
full if it did,. a. S. Carpenter, in
Farm and Home
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
TEMPERANCE.
"IF HAD KEPT MY PROMISE"
Sad Wall of n Condemned Murderer
Over His FntaE Mistnke.


When w. Burns Thomson, known
throughout Scotland as the medical
missionary, was young man prosecut-
ing his medical studies, he was assist
ant chaplain of the Edinburgh prison.
There many strange and sad expert
sences in the lives of conyicts came to his
knowledge. The following, told bv
himself, and included in his biography
by Mr.. Maxwell, shows how one mis-
take in conduct may prove fatal to
character, and even to life itself
Mr.. Thomson was leaving Cation Jail
one afternoon, when the governor,
stepping from a group of officials, said
to him: Please wait; we are expect
ing heavy sentence"
In a short time the gates were opened
and the police van came in. When the
.clatter of bolts had ceased a prisoner
stepped out of the van. After glancing
for moment at the papers handed to
lin, the governor whispered to Mr..
Thomson one word: DEATH"
After the man was taken 20 his cell
1he young chaplain went to see him.
When the warden had left the cell the
prisoner looked earnestly at his visitor
and said: so you don't know me?"
Il do not recall having seen you be-
FORE" was the reply.
"But l remember you!" the prisoner
exclaimed, so bitterly that the chap
lain wondered for moment whether
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

he could ever have done him an injury.
Almost Immediately the condemned
man broke into a paroXysm of grief,
wringing his hands and crying:
oh, if l had kept my promise! If
had only kept my promise l should
not be here to-day"
He was a typical British tar, with u
free hand and a generous heart when
he was sober Under the influence of
liquor he had quarrelcd with his wife
and had pushed her downstairs to her
death.
1t seems that three years previous to
his trial and conviction for murder he
had been sentenced to 30 days in prison
because of a drunken row. Then he
attended the prison meetings held by
Mr.. Thomson, who, after one of these
gatherings, took the sailor into his phi
vate room, prayed with him and then
warned him earnestly against drink.
The murderer now told the chaplain
this, and ended his confession in these
words:
81 promised you faithfully that
would give it up, and SO did for awhile,
but it came back to me. Since then
l have been all around the world, and
10 think that l am here, and that it
has come to this!" Then followed an
outbu1st of agony and the plaintive
wall: "Oh, if l had kept my promise"
This for weeks was his remorseful re-
frain, until the moment of his eXecu-
ton. AS the unhappy man was led to
the scaffold he looked down upon his
black clothes and then at the good
chaplain.
80 William" he exclaimed, william
Did 1 ever expect to see you in mourn
ing for yourself?'
Trembling with emotion, he soon
after shook hands with Mr.. Thomson,
saying penitently as he did so: "Oh,
that l had kept ns promise!"
"Oh, if l had kept my PROMISE" is
the silent wall of many ruined life
Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
Jnps to Grow Tall On Meat Diet.

1t has been written that 10 man by
giving thought unto himself can add
one cubit to his stature. but the enter
prising Jap does not despair, and an
ordinance has gone forth eXhortirg the
people to eat more freely of meat, with
a view to increasing the average height
az the race. Whatever results may fol-
low the method proposed, they are GER
tain to be a long time coming; but it is
only another instance OF the determina-
ton on the part of the ,Japanse not to
let the slightest chance slip for attain.
ing all the advantages which they see,
or think they see, in western civilian
tion.-St. James Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
NOTES BY THE WAY.

An old coat is usually found upon an
old drinker.-Ram' Horn.
Munich breweries possess 1868 freight
cars, in which their beer is taken to all
parts of Europe, including Spain, Italy,
Turkey and Russia.
Bad as the saloon is, there is a worse
thing in society than it is. The senti-
ment in community that will tolerate
the saloon, that makes the saloon pos
sible, is worse than the saloon itself
j. i. Gambrell.
At the first cabinet dinner given at
the white house not wine but Potomoc
water was served. Mrs. Mckinley, or
rather her husband, obeys the orders
of the temperance women.-Washing-
ton Sentinel (Liquor).
The annual drink bin of the United
States is simply awful. If good people
could and would ascertain the facts
they would be much more willing than
they are now to tackle this question and
compel solution.-Lever.
The consumption of sherry and port
in England has decreased in the last II
years from 100000 gallons a year 10
4,70O, 900, while tea shows an increase
of 100000 pounds during the same
period, and light wines of nearly 2,O0O,-
900 gallons.
A children's fountain has Just been
placed in Oneida, N. Y, by the Loyal
Temperance Legion, the money for
which was earned by the young people.
In their programme Of dedication eX-
ercises the children marched with barn
ners from the Baptist church to their
fountain, decorating the W. C. T. U.
fountain as they passed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
cRINGlNG OF ALCOHOLIC DOGS.
Suggestive ResuIts of Experiments
hY n Scientist.

by n Scientist.
tt was not until alcohol had been
given for nearly two months, early in
July, that it became quite noticeable
that Tipsy and Bum were little quiet
err than the others. This became grad
ually more marked. BY September they
were rather often caught mapping in
the shade, while Topsy and Mig were
playing actively. They had developed
also a cringiug, trembling timidity, for
which nothing either in my treatment
of them, or in their relations to the
other dogs could possibly account.
Whipping was most carefully avoided
from the first, a spat from the open
hand being my limit of severity. II
a switch was used, it was to strike the
ground or the fence and not the dog.
Practically they had received nothing
but assuring caresses at my hand, ana
still this unaccountablef fear, this cring-
ing and trembling like a'Chinese cui-
prit before his eXecutioncr.
Some may contend that the dogs were
not comparable in the first place. This.
of course, is possible, but l do not feel
that in this respect the experiment
could have been improved upon. The
presumption is, in fact, very strong
against any such Interpretation OF the
facts.
can conceive of no other interpreta-
ton than the evident one, viz, that we
have to do here with one of the physio-
logical causes or conditions of fear
From Experiments on the Physiology OF
Alcohol, by {. F. Hodge, in Appleton's
Popular Science Monthly.
Every fine picture OF the walls OF a
gin palace, or hotel bar, strips more
than one home Of its last decoration
Rams Horn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
Danger In Its MIIdness.

1t being admitted that the use Of to-
bacco is a great evil in the young, it
follows rs self-evident proposition
that any method which encourages it's
use must be more reprehensible than a
method which discourages its use; and
the cigarette above all other methods
presents this encouragement to the use
of tobacco. Inits mildness is concealed
its very capacity for doing harm, for
the reason that it teaches the use of to-
bacco.-J. {. Mulhall, NJ. D.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
Food for Young Chicks.

Feed young chickens first light bread
crumbled and moistened with milk for
a few days, then corn bread with
shortening enough to l.. <c 1t crumbls
we'll, and after awhile sine oatmeal;
then rice or grits. Such feed, if given
in full doses often enough, will make
chicks grow rapidly. They do not need
egg custard or any other dainties.
Plain, nutritious food is best for their
observation-disclosures Field and Farm.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

Cream together a quarter of a pound
each OF butter and sugar; add three
quarters of pound of strained honey
a teaspoonful of ginger, a quarter of q
rutmeg, half a teaspoonful of soda and
13l pounds of flour Roll thin, cut with
II cookie cutter and bake quickly
These will keep long time.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
PORTABLE PIG PEN.

portable pen is shown herewith. One
end protects the occupant from sun and
rain. Two trucks made from Il board
are screwed to one end, while handles
are placed at the other end. 1t can thus
easily be moved its length every day.
and quite bit of ground dug up and
fortified during the season. - Farm
Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
4 I<nnck.

"There is a good deal of knack in Sc
lecting an engagement ring" said the
young man with the betrothal habit.
''In the first place, it shouldn't be so eX
pensiye that the girl won't give it back {:
and in the second place, it should not
be so obviously cheap that she will give
it back as soon as she gets it."-Cincin-
natl Enuuirer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

Little Elsie docking at the giraffe
at the zoo)-Oh, mamma! They have
made that poor thing stand in the sun,
haven't they?
Mamma-Why do you say that, my
dear?
Look at all his freckles,-Philadel.
Lhia Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

Boil four medium-sized potatoes till
cone; dip in beaten white of egg, then
in powdered bread crumbs, and fry in
hot lard N. y. Ledger,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
PORTABLE PIG PEN.
1t Can Easily he Moved Its Length
Every Day.

Getting the pig out o; doors in the
summer is good for the pig. and often
good FOR the land on which th- Dig runs;
but the pigs efforts reeo direction, or
damage may be done. A convenient,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

Every fine picture OF the walls OF a
gin palace, or hotel bar, strips more
than one home Of its last decoration
Rams Horn.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-05-08
DISEASES OF THE SKIN,

The intense itching and smarting incl
dent to eczema, letter, salt-rheum, and other
diseases ofthe skin il instantly allayed by
applying Cfiamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment. Many very bad cases have been
permanently ca,redi by it. 1t is equally
efficient fonitthing piles end favorite rem
edy for sore nipples chappcd hands,, chill
blains, frost bites and chronic soros eyes.
For sale by druggists at Is cents Ter box.
TryDr. Caay's Condition EowdWx they
are Just what horse needs when in bad condi-
ton: Tonic, blood'purifier ard vcrmifuge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

BARGAIN No. 5.
Mems Dark Russet Calf Bal, new
bull dog toe. These shoes are all this
years goods, and are right in style. If
you can get fit they are worth full
price. Regular price, S4.00. August
price, 50 75 Sizes, 1.6, 27, 27t, 2-S,
2 81, 10.
BARGAIN No. 6.
Mems Dark Tan Vici Bal, new toe.
These shoes have been the best wear
ing of any of our tan goods this year.
Regular price, $3.50. August price,
$3.50. Sizes, 1-6t, II, 3 y, 2.S, 2 81,
10, 1-9t.
BARGAIN No. 2.
Mems Dark Vici, wide toe Congress.
Regular price, $500. August price,
1896. Sizes, No. 6, 81, No. y,
1-8t.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
The Coming Great Show
The UNITED FoREPAUGH-SELLs BROTHERS
MENAGERIEs, CIRCUS AND HIPPo-
DROMEs.

The selfshness and insincerity manifested in
some quarters by the attempt to discredit the
genuineness of the consolidation of the Great
Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Shows,
and to underrate their individual excellence, is
discounted and rebuked by hundreds of relia-
blenewspapers in over hundred cities. Among
them the New York Herald makes the follow
ing editorial statement:
Mr.. j. A. Bailey, sole owner of the Great
Adam Forepaugh Show, has concluded ar
rangements with Messrs. Ephraim, Lewis and
Peter Sells, by which the show known as
Sells Brothers Enormous Railroad Shows is
consolidated with the Forepaugh Show, thus
making the new aggregation one of the most
powerful in the world"
The potential arenic propretors represented
in this enterprise-and they are men of great
wealth and enviable standing-a the
following policy: To combine their resources
in securing rarer features and more talent to
avoid worse than wasting their means and
energies i'll fruitless opposition, and overtaXing
the patronage of any section, and to secure
such an increase in business, without any adj
vance over the prices charged by smaller shows
as will justify the really heroic experiment
The resulting benefits to both manager and
patron are apparent, and as no disposition to
modest other shows is manifested, if great in
fuences and effects result they will come from
inevitable popular comparison, and those who
tempt that must abide the consequences.
| Under the arrangements made the Adam
| Forepaugh Sells Brothers consolidation will be
| the only of the greater shows to visit Mont
pelier and it will appear on Thursday. Aug.
| 26. Each of the big enterprises of which it is
comprised is both locally and nationally fam
Gus for including the rarest wild beasts the
finest and most abundant hippodromatic and
| circus talent, and the most wondrous, startling
| and novel features procurable from every
quarter of the globe. The wild beast collec-
tons are enormous, costly and complete; the
| IL, IL
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
BARGAIN No. 1.

BARGAIN No. 1.
Mems Russell Oxford, needle toe,
Hathaway, Soule & Harrington make.
Regular price, SO 90. August price,
S150. Sizes, 16, 2-7, 1-74, s, I-9t, 10.
BARGAIN No. 9.
Mems Tan Oxferd, London toe.
Regular price, 81 so. Sizes. 1.54, Is,
80. August price, S1.00.
BARGAIN No. 3,
Mems Vici Tan Lace Shoes. new
round toe. Sizes, Log II, 8, 1-S3
10 Regular price. So 90. August
price, 80 30.
BARGAIN No. 4.
Mems Dark Russell Calf, needle toe,
Lace. (These are last years shoes,
needle toe, and are out of style), 80 we
close them at a very low price. They
were sold last year at 81 00-now at
81 50 If you can find your size they
are more than bargains. Sizes, 3.6,
2S, 10, 1-10t.
Any of our Ladies' Black Low 81
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

REAz PAsHA, the Turkish minister OF
war, has refused to execute the sentence of
death passed last week by packed court
martial at the Yildiz Palace upon several
young military officers for having made use
Of reasonable language. The war minister
insisted upon revision Of the sentence by
properly constituted tribunal. This the
Yiidiz authorities resist, preferring shorter
and surer method. There have been sever
al mysterious disappearance OF respectable
Turks recently, and report is current that
sixty persons suspected of maintaining re-
lations with liberal agitators have been
made away with by the secret police.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

THE "King of Liniments" should be in
every home. Neurotic Oil Is positively the
only liniment that can be called a general
household remedy. 1t is infallible for all
the countless aches and pains which flesh is
heir to, and is safely used, either internally
or externally, by even the youngest child.
1t acts quickly, relieving pain at once. A
bottle OF Neurotic Oil costs but twenty-five
cents and will work wonders.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
OUR ANNUAL MIDSUMMER

BARGAIN No. s.
One lot of Light Shade Tan, last
years shoes, round toe. Regular price,
$500. August price, 5000. Sizes,
2 6, 81, 2S only.
BARGAIN No. 8.
Ladies Tan Bicycle, High Boots, any
size we have left at 500 Regular
price, $3.50. Sizes, l 81, Id, 2-5. 6.
Ladies' High Tan Lace Shoes. Reg
ular price, $500. August price, 80 90.
Sizes, 81 to 81 only.
Mems Job Lot of Black Shoes, any
size, closing at 95 cents.
Mems Job Lot of Working Shoes, any
size, closing at 90 cents.
Lakes Serge Slippers, 80 cents.
Come early and get your size.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

W. II. BUTTON. the representative from
Middlebury in the last legislature, has re-
Gently been appointed to position In the
Department Of Justice at Washington, at a
salary of $1,000 year. Mr.. Button has up
to this time been the secretary Of the COM
mittee OF agriculture Of which Senator Proc
tor is chairman. Brainerd Avery, who has
been Senator Proctor's private secretary
for some time will succeed Mr.. Button as
secretary OF the agricultural committee.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

AT the cabinet meeting held IAst FrIuHy
at Ottawa, it was decided to send reinforce
ments OF mounted police into the Yukon
country. This course was determined upon
in consequence OF official reports from Dyea
that owing to the crush of pilgrims bound
for Klonkyke 1t will require double the
present detachment OF one hundred men to
preserve law and order. The government
is daily receiving protests from its political
supporters in the West against the new
mining regulations for the Yukon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

NEWS was received last week at San
Francisco from the Orient OF the wreck of
the steamer Sri Hong Ann, bound from
Singapore to Mslscca. The steamer foun-
dered in squall ten miles from MalAcca
and ITO people were drowned. Captain
Rawlins and ninety-six of the passengers
and the crew were saved.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

Mrs. ZLPHA BUELL. HoDGMAN OF Sara
toga, N. Y, the Oldest person in Saratoga
county, celebrated her one hundreth birth
day last Friday. She was born in Sudbury.
and still enjoys comparatively good health.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
BLANKETS IN AUGUST.

Special Cool Prices for Hot Bargains Wilson Tariff Banke2O
saved by buying NOW.
White Wool value
So 80 Under Dngey Bill would be worth
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
KNIT UNDERWEAR,

We have left of those July Sale
Saturday night
pink white rung Bached
1870 each hese both 25c gua Also the balance
finely finished goods 25c
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
BARNARD, SUMNER & PUTNAM CO.
Established 1912. Incorporated 1892.
woRCEsTET., MASS

Early Fall Showings in
Your ORDERS SAMPLES appreciated
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS, OF INTEREST--PERSONAL
and GENERAL.
w est Berlin.

Mrs. Charles Bailey is very sick with
cholera morbus. - Mrs. n III. Haskell
and mother, with a servant, are at their
cottage. - While George Spaulding and
Walter Keyes were hunting woodchucks,
Reyes accidentally shot Spaulding in the
arm, the ball entering below the shoulder
and fiattened on the bone. - The Ital-
ians have added new Office to the stone
shed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11
ALL DISEASES AND DEFO]

CATARRH CURED-Consumpto in the
incipient stage, bronchitis, asthma, rheuma-
tism, disease of the nose, throat, lungs, stom-
ach, liver, kidneys, scrofula, sores, ulcers, and
all chronic blood troubles, eczema, psoriasis:
pimples, blotches, and all skin troubles treated
and cured.
NERVOUS DISEASES.-Neryous Debility
from any cause, hysteria, neurasthena, chorea !,
St. Vitas dance, epilepsy, ETC., disease of the
spine, paralysis, locomotor ataxis, palsy and all
sqdh diseases positively cured by his
DISEASES OF WOMEN.-All diseases
pc culiar to their sex cured by new and pleas
ant methods without rings or supporters.