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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-20
Sunday school Convention.

The Windham County Sunday School
convention will hold its annual meeting
June / at Newfane. A full program has
been arranged. There is strong hope of
seeing large attendance. Let each Con-
gregational Sunday school of the county
endeavor to send full delegation. Enter
tainment will be on the basket plan. The
exercises will open at 10 o'clock at the
Congregational church, Newfane.:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-20
MIR. Moody Proposes Work i'm the Army
and Navy.

D. L. Moody has issued call for money
and for Christian laborers TO perform work
among our soldiers, similar to that per-
formed by the Christian commission dur
ing the civil war. "The work of thi
commission" Mr.. Moody says, twas felt
far and wide, and in many of the camps
effective and deep revivals were expert
enced, the results of which l have met
continually in the last 80 years" He
wants to raise 100000 for this work in
the present crisis. Some people in Harris
burg have subscribed $3.50 with which to
send bibles and testaments to the camp at
Tampa. The students at Mortified have
subscribed S75. Money sent to Mr.. Moody
will be strictly devoted to this purpose.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-20
NINE SPANISH WARSHIPS

Halifax, n. S., May ia report just
received from Getson's Cove on the west
ern shore of this province, says nine war
ships were sighted off Indian Island, near
Cape Lehave, this morning, headed in
southerly direction.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-20
SPANISH BOMBARDMENT.
Many Philippine Natives We're Killed
Two Weeks Before Dewey Sienced Admiral Monteos Fleet

VANCOUVER, c,
Information brought by Empress ni
Philippines fortnight Dewey
Spanish wships Cu which had
The wahps
The preceded Dewey's
in killing
o.
country uprngs
Seamba
ALLEGED PLAN BOMBARD AMERICAN SEABOARD CITIES.
LONDON
Montreal he Washington
cities
the of the North
cato
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-20

one valuable result of the punishment
OF John y. McKane. the Coney Island
politician who has just been released from
Sing Sing prison, is that he has lost his
vote and his competency to hold public Of
fee. If Gov Black could have been per-
suaded to pardon him at the 1lth hour, he
would have preserved his franchise.
There will be no postponement of the
opening of the trans Mississippi eXposi-
ton at Omaha on account of the war. 1t
is promised that everything will be in read
iness at the appointed time of June l.
Three carloads of Cancelled mortgages will
be one of the exhibits. Nothing less than
a whole train-load of populist statistical
tables will be available against that argu-
ment, says the Springfield Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-20
The state Treasurership.

BRATTLEBoRo, May II, 1898.
Editor Of The PhdRir:-Sometime ago
you made mention in your paper that Mr.,
w. II. Bracket of this place would be put
forward as a candidate for state treasurer,
provided any change should come in that
office.
1t is evident from what | have both seen
and heard, that a change will be made,
and it seems to me that if Windham
county can be united on Mr. Bracket he
will stand very good chance Of receiving
the support of a large part of the state.
He is too we'll known throughout the
county to need any further introduction,
and there is no question as to his ability to
lill this Office satisfactorily.
If we are TO scatter our forces, it is evil
dent to me that we will receive no recog-
milton whatever.
Very truly yours,
julius j. EsTEY.
Men who are in a position to judge ac-
curately of the political situation and pros
poets in the state believe that a change in
the state treasurership will be made this
year. and that Mr.. Bracket will receive
the nomination if he is properly supported
by his friends here at home. Mr.. Brack-
ett's candidacy was not brought out in
any spirit of opposition to Mr.. Field, the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-20
WEST HALIFAX.

There will be Aag-raisng'and exercises
at the Harrisville schoolhouse in district
No. 10, next Friday, May 27, at p. NJ.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

Bank Notes 10 Bibles.

It has happened. not infrequently,
that wealthy people CT eccentric char
acter have chosen to conceal a portion
of their money in the family Bible,
where IL has been discovered by
chance long after their decease.
A young nobleman, who was IL
financial difficulties some time since,
had occasion to refer to the family
Bible for date there recorded. In so
doing he came across number OF
Bank of England notes, amounting COL
lectivcly to considerable sum, which
more than met his liabilities. Then he
recalled his mothers dying words
that help might De found in the
Bible when all other sources failed.
Put he had paid small heed to the in
junction. and certainly never dreamed
of so practical fulfilment Of the words
referred to.
A needy student purchased an inter-
esting old Bible at secondhand. book
sellers recently, and was delight
ed to discover bank notes to the value
of $1,000 folded between the sacred
pages.
Another ancient Bible was found to
contain notes to the extent of fIn0.
This was owned by prodigal son. who
lived for many years unconscious OF
the wealth in his possession.--London
Tit-Bits.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
Derivation of the wo-l KIonlikc.

From Dawson the trail to the
mines leads over o steep hill to the
creek made so famous by its tributa-
ries; for there is not single mine on
ine principal stream, which in the
miners slang is called Klondike. And
vet this stream does in reality bear a
characteristic name given it by the
Indians, which is utterly murdered
by this pronunciation, now so COM
mop.
The Indians name the creeis
throughout the country fror: some
Characteristic in connection with the
stream itself; and as this one Is so
swift that in order to set their salmon
traps OF nets they were obliged to
use hammer TO drive the STAKES to
anchor them, the creek was named by
them Hammer Greek, or, in their
language, phonetically, Troan Dix.
The spelling klondike means obso-
lutely nothing, but has been accepted,
so l learn, by the Board OF Geograph-
ical Names of the United States
John Sidney Webb, in the Century.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
The Pretoria.

The Pretoria is the crowning tn
umph of the extensive shipbuilding es-
tablishment of Blohm & Vcss, at Ham
burg, Germany. and adds another sue
cess to the many already achieved by
years. She has a length over all OF
:5SG feet. a breadth of 62 feet, depth
of !2, and displacement Of 23,ooo
tons. No steamship in this world has
a greater carrying capacity. The Pre-
toria, measured as buildings are, is
seven stories high, and above her sew
en- decks, and seventy feet above the
surface of the water, is the captain s
bridge. from which the commander OF
this monster ship can control her
movements BY the most comprehensive
system of modern electrical signals
reaching to all departments OF the YES
sci.
The Pretoria has capacity for 20.OU
tons of freight, an amount which II
would take twenty-five railroad trains
of twenty-five cars each to transport
by rail.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

According to cable correspondent
os the New York Tribune, "the tone of
the Eugtish press toward the crisis
brought on by the destruction o. the
Maine AT Hayapa is sympathetic and
cordial, AID its just admiration for the
sef-ress-ains, moderation and conser-
vatis.r OF President Mckinley and the
American press is unboauded. Tho
American people ars' credited with g
snscadid exhibition OF one Of the bess
traits OF tae Aaglo-Sayon character,
H,ss os cooiness and self-nossession IN
ainonensoas crisis, which is aa uaan.
sxs-aa.e proof of the.r capacity for SELF
government, the common commen.
III Ens;aad IS taa, Americans can stand
.oa.ths verge of a p-ecipics and not lose
their heals 2oc show a2y symptoms o.
giidirsss.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

years thereafter. Farmers have many
an opportunity to bring home load
of manure from town which they do
not improve. For instance, when the
team goes to the blacksmith shop,
while the smith is doing the work
there can nearly always be load OF
manure got at the shop that the smith
is glad TO get rid Of / notice year
after year some farmers living out of
town some three miles who for years
have hauled wood into town OCCASION
ally, and never load of manure has
any one of them hauled home, and
their farms have got poorer and poorer
until they get but little more than
their seed back for their work. But
Just think; if would give q gold dol
lar to any one of those farmers for
each load of manure. no doubt there
would soon be value set on manure
in the town, and each farm wagon
would return loaded For an object
lesson 1 scatter load of manure on q
piece of land twenty feet wide and two
hundred feet long, and when I gather
the crop 1 note the difference with the
same amount of land adjoining that is
not manured, and I always find have
got my gold dollar out of each load OF
manure the first year.-Horace F.
Wilcox, Julian, San Diego County,
Cal, in New York Tribune.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
Care in Watering.

II soils are no. fully porous natur-
ally, or if they are we'll filed with
roots, it is quite common at this sea-
son for plants to fail when good care
seems to be given. The trouble, too
often. is that the water given rushes
through some tissure. or else does not
pass through at all; and, in either
case, the plant does not receive the
root watering which the owner appar-
entity gives. The motions are gone
through, without the proper result.
This state of things is especially bad
for decorative stuff like aspidistras,
palms aud ferns. One severe drying
at the root may destroy the usefulness
of such plants. For this reason let
the grower be sure the water applied
reaches its destination and does its
work. 1t may be good idea to plunge
the pot il tab of water.-Floral
World
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
A Curious Beouest.

The conditions attached to bequests
of money are often curious. An inte.-
esting Illustration of this is afforded
by an annual custom which takes
place in one of the cemeteries of New
castle-on-Tyne. Some years ago gen.
tleman left sum of money for the re-,
lief of the rates on condition that ceISs
tain members Of the corporation should
every year place wreath Of flowers
on his tomb. So, annually, as the an.
niyersary Of his death comes round,
the mayor and other members of the
corporation attend and hang wreath
on the granite obelisk which marks his
resting place. Thus his memory is
kept green among his fellow-citizens.
Golden Penny.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
Great Value OF Manure.

Do we farmers value manure as We
-aould? I am afraid we do not The
older ! grow the more value manure.
] have saying tina. every load Of
manure has gold dollar in it. My
farm is three-quarters OF mile from
a little town. and every load of coun-
try produce l see going into town I
say to myself there is gold dollars
worth of manure in that load, and I
must keep an eye on it. I keep one
farm hand, aad we have an under
standing that any part or part of day
that we are Dot busy the team must
haul manure, and many and many a
time wonder where the team is, and
I soon see it coming with load Of
manure, and I can get the gold dollar
out of each load the first year, and the
ground will show the effects for many
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

Near Ho.brook, in Apache County,
Arlzona, is the largest forest of petri-
6ed wood In the world and Land
'Commissione- Hermann is preparing
special report TO the Secretary Of
the Inie-io.. recommending that it be
q fores5 reserve and placed under the
protectionof the Government. The
material is rapidly being used up TO"
commercial purposes, andunless steps
are taken for It's preservation will scon
disappca-.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

and then at his occupation. was 4 GER
tain Robert Paterson. who. as this
stone commentaries. was born at Hag-
:Iesna. in 1112. Paterson was little more
than beggar. receiving such charity
rs was given TO him from day to day
by the kindly people among whom he
moved. He travelled about with his
little pony from churchyard TO church
yard. interesting: himself in taking
away the dirt and moss which accumu-
lated on the other tombs. many OF
which were those of famous Covenant
ers. 1t was the knowledge of this man
which. undoubtedly. inspired Scott to
tell the story which common assent has
placed in the very front of his great
works
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
Grinding Grain on the Farm.

One OF the farm economies which we
hope to see in every peigbborhood,
if not on every farm, are Small portable
mills run by two or three-horse power
engines, with which all the coarse grain
needed for feeding to stock
NAV be ground. This will provide
profitable winter work On farms, Of
which there is now far too little. 1t
will also save mach expense, not only
in millevs' tolls, but also in the cost of
making trip to mill with horses
or wagons or sleigls, and probably
waiting several hours while the grist
was being ground. Many a day We
have spent thus, with no profit except
to the miller, while ii We had farm
mill. and even horse power, We
could have made the horses grind
their own feed without much more Ia
Dor than is required to draw a grist OF
grain tc the mill and return, and per-
Fhaps in stormy day s. that. All
grain is much better:for stock after it
is gronnd: II can then be mixed with
cut hay o. straw, all Of which should
also be cut by horse or steam power
rather than by hand. The farm mill
is now sold at very reasonable rates,
aad one of suitable size to do all the
grinding required on the farm ought
to-bs in the possession of every farm
er.-Bosson Cultivator. A
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
Fatteninc Old Cows.

1nerC Is WtueSpItau PopUioi
prejudice against COW beef, and we
suspect that the doctors are very
largely responsible for it. Yet We
have SO often eaten tender and sweet
COW beef that our experience long ago
taught us that its quality was much
more dependent on the way it had
been fa.tened than it was on the age
of the COW. But it is, nevertheless,
true it is more difficult to fatten en-
old COW, or an old animal Of any kind,
than it is to fatten young animals. As
the teeth begin TO fail the food is not
SO we'll masticated as it used to be,
and as o consequence digestion is re-
tarded. The presence Of uudigestsd
food in the stomach creates fever, and
in this diseased condition not only
does tie animal fatten less rapidly,
but what flesh is put on is less tender
and sweet than it should be. The
common practice os fattening cows
with corn and milking them SO long IS
they can be MIXED helps to make poor
beef. The water and fat that so into
the milk are both much more needed
in the beef 10 make it as good rs 1t
should be.
4 COW properly fattened should be
given as much succulcat food rs sho
will eat, and at first fed with grain or
mea! rather sparingly. If she is very
thin in flesh her l:eef may be made all
toe better, provided this condition
does not show the impairment of her
digestive organs. When COW is fat
tened that when you begin feeding her
is little more than skin aud bones,
with enough flesh to hold them to-
gether, it stands to reason that most
of the flesh and fat yoa can put ON her
bv three or four months good feeding
will be new flesh and fat and Just as
good rs if put on wo-year-o!d heier.
The bodily system is being constantly
changed by the small veins which run
through the flesh, and which are al
ways carrying Of waste mater and re-
placing il with new. The old saying
used to be that the living body IS
wholly renewed every seven years.
/, But scientists are now agreed that
most parts of it are renewed much
quicker than this. as any one may see
by the rapid healing Of cut or bruise
when air and the germs it contains are
excluded from i.
Gid COWS sell a. ridiculously low
prices, rs may be seen each week in
the market reports. One weighing
9S5 pounds was during recent week
sold for only Sl6. This COW may have
been thin in flesh, bat If she was in
good health she wouid we'll repay
proper fatteaiue. Since ensiiase is
now so common It is much easier to
properly fatten old cows than it used
to be when they were mainly fattened
on dry hay, cornstalks and corn,
neither OF them the best material for
making sweet and tender beef. If
those VINO fatten old cows would make
an effort to do this properly, cow beef
might be made much better than it is,
aud the unreasonable prejudice against
it would disappear.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

Ine Chicago Post says: On the hcst
frial the iary in the case of Luerge-.:
stood nine for conviction to three for
scqmtta,. although in one ballot the
unmbe- for conviction rose to ten.,
The Jury OF MS second trial brought
in q UNANIMOUS verdict of guilty. 1t
also stood - % For the death pen
atty. fna!l! Compromising ca iApris-
onlners io:; life. Olt of tEenty-fo
mcn ccossa with Infinite pains who
hexrd all no evidence, twenty-one
have beea canyiaced beyond reason
Sb,e doubs Of ;Luetgert's guilt, one
vas In 6ou,: cad two woald have &c
quif:cd hi2L The final verdict is 9
grztefai relief to the community and
the charsc,er Of the penalty saves TO
MI those VINO cherish any doubt as to
Mrs. Luesgert's having been muir
dered 9. all, an anticipation OF ua-
ayailing :slnorse should she reappear.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

Res--A d.airal James Z. Jouett, OF
the United States Navy, declares his
belief ~ tac New York World that 1.-The
heavy ccast-defcass monitors are the
mos. powerful and best lighting ships
in the navy, andf believe that one OF
then cou,dwhip any two OF the heaviest
bat.leships aeoat. If war was declared
Iwould guarantee tn take the Puritan
and the Terror ana defend New York
Haroo- against all comers, and am
confident that / should win. While
they would afford me al excellent tar
get. with their lofty sides and heavy
uppc- wor,,,s, my vessels would offer
them, as did the Monitor At Hampton
Roads, practically no target at all. l
fhinE the United States should have
many more heavily armored cruisers,
the most efficient vessels for attack,
and next to the monitors the most re-
liable for defense. The fact that bat
tleships, owing to their size and weight,
are ponderous affairs and difficult 10
move makes them an easy prey for tor
pedoes and torpedo boats. The United
States should, in my opinion, continc
itself to feet of heavy monitors.
powerful flying squadron of heavily
armored cruisers, enough light cruis-
eIs TO represent our country and carry
our fag into the ports Of foreign Ma
tions, and large number of torpedo
boats and torpedo catchers to operate
In con ::anchon with the monitors. We
can do Better without the battleships
IN parsuing our course of abstaining
from e, tangiing foreign alliances and
minding our own business than with
.nyao;her class Of vessels. Give us
low free-bosrd monitors and torpedo
boats for coast defense and cruisers
for operations abroad
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

The term ''bordereau," used in the
Zcla trial to designate the incriminat-
ing paper allegedto have been written
By -Dreyfus, has puzzled good many
people not familiar with French idi-
oms. The New York Times has the
grace to add the English equivalent
(menoranduml. very much to the re-
lief and qualification of its readers as
well as that OF the public a. large.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
Cat Worms.

These are often troublesome in the
spring. They come out of the soil and
cut the little seeding plants of close
to the ground, then burrow. They
may be unearthed in the morning and
destroyed. 1t is better, however, to
spade the soil up in time, and let the
pests die from the effect of frost dur
ing winter. This is perhaps the best
means of riddins the soil of these
s'worms. Floral World.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

Tie Boston Transcript observes: To
taks pride in ancestry that was hon
est, clean and industrious, in men who
hesed and plowed and paid their
debts and prayed. and loved their
wives and children, is one thing; but
this indiscriminate and silly worship
of ancestry is quite another and
seems about the most ridiculous vag-
AIRY of this fad-pestered age.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
"OLD MORTALITY"
House Where Prototype of One OF
Scott's Characters Was Born.

House Where Prototype OF One OF
Scott's Characters Was Born.
The Hawick Archaeological Society
has preserved a literary landmark dear
TO every lover OF Sir Walter Scotts
writings. This is the house in which
the prototype Of "Old Mortality was
born. Every reader of that admirable
novel. in which Scott touches with so
firm grip the conflicting tastes and
interests of CovenanterS and Royal
lists. will remember that the story was
made to revolve round the renlinis-
cences Of famous old man, who was
a repairer of tombS in Scottish church
yards. The original Of "Old Mortal
ity." whom Scott had met onl. once,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

demanded that the ausleich-agreement
Of union-between Austria and Hun
gary be not renewed, and aroused the
widest enthusiasm among those who
are eager to see Hungary absolutely in
doDcndent -
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14

A newly discovered Spanish stone
has proved SO we'll adapted to itho-
graphic work that large company
has been formed. which threatens to
overthrow the Bavarian monopoly in
lithographic stones.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-04-14
The Flax Crop.


It Ess not without good reason that
Eastern farmers abandoned flax
growing. It's doom was sealed when
the cotton gin aud improve
ments in cottoa-s spinning machinery
made cotton goods 50 cheap that they
have almost entirely superseded for
common wear those OF flax. In Win
ter even a good part OF the clothing IL
made OF cotton, though woolen may be
worn next the skin and in the outer
garments. Flax is al expensive crop
for the farmer to grow. If the most
possible is to be made from it, the flax
must be pulled, and the entire plant
immersed in water until its woody
fibre has rotted. It is expensive i'll
still! another way, also. No crop takes
80 much nitrogen from the soil, aad,
as usually managed, makes no return.
The seed is sold as very low prices to
the oil mills, which extract the oil
aud dispose of the meal that is left
after grinding the fax as q by product.
Whoever buys this linsaed meal aud
feeds il gets double benefit. The
n cal is worth more than its cost price
if fed to stock, and exerement made
from it is worth nearly as much as the
meal costs. For this reason the East
ern farmer is often an extensive buyer
of oil meal, but he very seldom, in
these days, grows the flax from
which it is made. Spinning and
weaving fax, once so common among
New England housewives, have be-
come really lost arts since the increas-
ing popularity of cotton.
The cotton has also been so greatly
reduced in price that it is very unlike
" that the days will ever return when
flax viii be as extensively used for
clothing as it was within the memory
of elderly people. And yet fof sum
iner wear and fo- durability linen gar
ments are SO much superior to Gotten
goods that they will always be
used. But the work of managing the
flax from the field to the loom is now
largely left to machinery driven by
steam or water power, instead of be-
ing operated by human hand labor
American Cultivator.