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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-02
War Notes.

The war with Spain is over, but the battle Of
disease with health is still on. 1t RACES hottest
in spring. Disease, bred during the rigors Of
winter, turks in the system to do its deadly work
You don't feel well. You have no appetite. You
are nervous You have indigestion, which you
think is a heart trouble. You are dizzy, feel
tired, discouraged, and about ready to give up
the battle Bakers Mandrake Bitters is the eff.
fective weapon in this warfare, and who is
armed with it, always conquers. Sold liquid in
bottles, and tablets in b9xes Price % cents for
either, 1t makes folks kn. 1t keeps folks well,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-02

The most
terrible cap
tivity a won-
an can eX-
perience is
to feel her
s elf com
pletely inca
pacitated for
all wonanly
duties,
bound hand
and foot, as
it were, by
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-02
Department Commander IIRrrIs's order
Concerning Grand Army Encamp-


Concerning Grand Army Encamp-
ment.
Department Commander Luther b. Har-
ris of the Vermont department of the
Grand Army has issued n general order
concerning the next annual encampment,
which, departing from all former customs,
is to be held at Montreal. Commander
Harris has received invitations from Mont
real societies, both civil and military, and
from individuals of all classes, who have
greeted with great cordiality the PROPOSE
ton of United States veterans to visit the
Canadian metropolis. The encampment
will be called to order at 10 o'clock a. NJ,
June 81. At 3 o'clock p. NJ. the election of
officers will be held, and a campfire will
begin at s o'clock, at which, it is expected,
Gov. Smith of Vermont and Lord Mimic,
governor general of Canada, will be pres
emit. The parade will be held June %, the
date of the celebration by Montreal organ
izatons of the feast of st. John Baptist,
and the st. John Baptist national associa-
ton will participate with the Grand Army
in the procession
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-02
THE VERMONT NEWS,
Catholic Order of Foresters.
Preparations FOR international Com
ventIon i'm Burlington June 10 10 ~.

PreparntIons for international Com
ventIon i'm burlington June 10 10 ~.
The international convention of the
Catholic Order of Foresters, which is TO
be held in Burlington June ~ to %, will be
the first of its kind ever held in any of the
New England states, and special efforts are
being put forth to make it n big success.
The program, so far as it has been ar
ranged, is as follows:
Monday, June 10, arrival of the dele
gates and high officers who will be met at
the station by the local courts and Sherman
military band, who will escort them to the
convention hall, where 30 candidates will
be initiated Merhens adjunct will be ex-
emplied by its author, who will be assist
ed by the degree team from Chicago.
Tuesday, June 20, the convention will
be opened with solemn high mass at St
Mary's cathedral at 9 A. NJ. At 1870 the
delegates will be welcomed by addresses
from the balcony of the city hall by Gov
f. c. Smith and Mayor Robert Roberts
At 4:30 p. NJ. the delegates will be ten
dered complimentary excursion on Lake
Champlain This will be followed by {
banquet in the evening, which will be
served in the armory. 1t is expected tn,
governor and the entire city government
will participate in the banquet. Toast
will be responded to by the guests and thu
| high officers.
Wednesday morning the delegates vii
assemble at the armory, where they viii
he assigned to places for the parade, whicl
will be held at l o'clock in the afternoon
Lunch will be served previous to the pa
rade. Wednesday evening there will be
moonlight excursion to Plattsburg. Or
Thursday there will be an excursion t.
Plattsburg, where celebration in honor o
st. Johns day will be participated in.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-02
HELD CAPTIVE.

such a ndition she
cannot be a happy wife or
mother; she cannot be an
efficient housekeeper; she
cannot be a woman at all
in any complete or salts
factory sense.
~ was afflicted for SEVEN
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-02
Red River
Farm Loans
In North Dakota, netting the
purchaser 6 per cent
Are the Safest
Investment
To be Found Today

Farms in this section are constantly increasing
in valu. thus adding to the security.
We have on hand very choice line Of loans
secured 10y mortgage ON farms in this section
Can aud examine what we have or WRIT. for
new list Of loans.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26
BIG TREASURY BALANCE
WHERE so MUCH MONEY HAS
COME FROM.
Tremendous Increase in Customs Re
ceipts and General Taxes Since An
exation.-About the Future.

The extraordinary treasury balance
at the present time has been street
subject for weeks, and indications are
that much more will be said about it.
Not in the history of the country has
there been so much bona fide cash on
hand, and this too, on the very eve of
the annual collection of taxes and other
established revenues
The cash balance is now something
like $1,000 BY the LIST. of January
it will be nearly $4,000 900. This will be
after all the Withdrawals for salaries,
public works, etc. have been made.
The showing is extraordinary, but the
explanation is simple. One cause of
the increase is the enormous augmenta-
ton of customs receipts in the past two
years. From January to August of this
year 5000, 900 was taken in customs dues.
This is more than was received for the
entire biennial period a few years ago.
This will go on at the rate of 100000 q
month or more to the end of the year.
Another cause is found in the increase
in property taxes and business licenses.
But last year the collections were no.
thing like what they will be at the COM
| ing period. 1t is estimated that the
next collection will aggregate some
thing like 81, 100000, which is twice that
of five years ago. The tremendous in
crease this year will come from increase
of valuations of property, new proper
ties opened up and new sugar estates
| established.
OF course these estimates can not be
! relied upon as a permanency. Next
| year, or as soon as the United States
takes hold, the custom house receipts
will be lost. This will take over a mill
lion dollars a year. The post office re-
ceipts will go with it. of course the
country will be saved the pay rolls in
these immense departments, which is
! a considerable item to credit.
With the $2,500,000 on hand at the
! beginning of American administration
! the country will be able to discharge
all of it's obligations and be consider
ably ahead.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26
ELIMINATION OF ROMANCE.

The recent wedding of Jamie" Will
der and Miss Harnden at Alameda
took place under a live oak tree and
was the elimination of a real romance
The couple were fond of each other as
boy and girl fourteen years ago, wher
they carved their names, united by
a heart, on the same old oak tree under
which, in memory of old days, they
were tonight married. The fathers OF
the two We're clerks with Wells. Fargo
q Co., in San Francisco in 1850, Mr.
Wilder subsequently settling in Homo
lulu, where he acquired a fortune.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26
CHRONIC DIARRHoEA CURED.

This is to certify that 1 have had
chronic diarrhoea ever since the war.
got so weak I could hardly walk or do
anything. One bottel of Chamberlain S
Collie. Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy
cured me sound and well.
j. r. GIBBS, Fincastle, Va.
I had chornic diarrhoea for twelve
years. Three bottles of Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
cured me.
S. L. SHAVER, Fincastle, Va.
Both Mr.. Gibbs and Mr.. Shaver are
prominent farmers and reside near Fin
castle, Va. They procured the remedy
that place, who is we'll acquainted with
them and will vouch for the truth of
their statments. For sale by all dealers
and druggists. Benson, Smith & Com
pany, general agents, Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26
GILMORE AND HIS MEN.
The Yorktown Men Are Said To Be
Starving.


WASHINGTON, September 15.-The
Navy Department has apparently been
unable to ascertain anything concern
ing the fate of Lieutenant Gilmore and
fourteen of the enlisted men of the
Yorktown who We're captured by the
Pilipinos at Baler more than six months
ago.
News concerning this officer and men
has reached Washington in letters to
military officials from their fellow-offi-
GERS in the islands. The latest intelli-
gence comes through a Spanish planter
by the name of Cara, who was i'm
prisoned by the insurrectionists and
subsequently made his escape. Cara
described Lieutnant Gilmore and his
companions to the officers in Manila.
He said that the officer and fourteen
men We're at Bigau, where they are
subsisting off meager quantity of rice
valued at not more than one peSata per
man per day. The allowance was more
liberal than that for the Spanish pri-
soners, six of whom were allotted one
pesata per day. There We're fully 1000
of the latter at Bigau, Cara says and
all the prisoners Spanish and Ameri-
can, showed the effect of confinement
and the poor and insufficient food. He
is quoted as saying that the captives
could not stand such hardship and such
fare much longer.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26
Kaunakakai,
Lahaina,
Maalaea Bay,
Kihei,
Makena,
Kawaehae,
Mahukona,
Laupahoehoe,
and Hilo,

AS follows: Leaving Homo
lulu at p. m. on MONDAYS,
FRIDAYS and WEDNESDAYS, ar
irving at Hilo the following
afternoons.
Leaving Hilo at 2 p. m. on
Wednesdays, Mondays and
Fridays, arriving in Honolulu
the following evening.
Freight will be received at
Honolulu, at the Kinau "
wharf, on the day previous to
sailing and on sailing days up
to II M, for MAIZENA,, Hawai-
haze, Hilo, Papaikou, Pepee-
keo and Honomu.
Freights for Lahaina, Kihei
and Mahukona, and from Ka-
walhae and Makena, Will be
taken by the steamer " Kill
auea Hou sailing from Homo
lulu on Mondays at 5 p. NJ
The "Kinau will not take
freight for ports other thar
those indicated above.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26

Fine Book and Commercial Printing
at the Star Office.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26
WILL SEE KAMALO.

e. r. Biven, L. H. Dee and others left
yesterday afternoon for Molokai to
have a look over Kamalo plantation
The delegation holds and represents
stock in the company. Biven and Dee
were among the six men who signed a
request for the postponement of the
stock sale from Saturday last
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26
Hawaiian
Electric
Company.

The cleanest, brightest safest and really
a the long run, the cheapest and best light
,9r use in the family residence, is the mean
sascent electric light. Safe; nothing could
wa safer. A few days ago prominent gem
tlenan of Honolulu came rushing down to
iae office of the Electric Company and said:
olive me figures for wiring my house, and
vaut 1t done at once no more lamps for me.
Fast night lamp tipped over and it came
no near setting fire to the house and burning
w children and take no more risks.
This Is the sentiment Of quite number In
aae past few weeks, who have ordered their
6ouSes fitted with the perfect light.
mat think it over and make up your mind
An At YOU want the best and safest light; send
the Hawaiian Electric Company and tel
hem what you WALL.
We have a complete stock OF everything IN
ais line and have just received lot OF tine
Iery latest designs In chandeliers
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-02-22
Tillage

The object of tillage is to secure the
proper arrangement Of soil particles
with relation to each other. The STIR
ring Of the soil is very beneficial in the
destruction of weeds, but any system
that will keep the soil in the best ply
steal condition will also keep down the
weeds. Soil temperature can be consid-
erably Influenced by physical cOndi-
tons. The water-holding capacity OF
facility with which water can move
through the soil, and consequently the
supply Of plant food which may be
carried to the roots of the crop, the
amount of water taken to the surface
and evapOrated, are governed largely
by the arrangement of the particles.
The free access of air can be secured
in sufficient quantities, supplying the
necessary amount of oxygen, and the
soil can be placed in such a condition
of fineness as to allow the perfect root
development. The Importance of these
points make it necessary to give a
great deal Of attention to the prepare
ton of the seed bed.-EX.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-02-22

growing meat, we must take several
considerations into the account. The
standing argument in favor of the
American hog as he is at present rests
upon that one idea that he is IN easy
keeper. But the bacon pig is superior
in stamina, in breeding qualities and
in the quality of his meat, and he is
withal not a hard keeper. Now, put
the first named quality in the one
scale, and all the other named quail
ties in the scale, and tell me candidly
which weighs the most?
Look into this question, therefore, of
the bacon pig. Do not look at it
through the eyes Of prejudice. 1t is a
great question. The reception that we
give to it will have an important in
tiuence on the prosperity of this ma
ton. If the bacon pig is an existence
that we cannot afford to tolerate, by
all means keep it out. But if it is a
creation that will do us good, let us
try to possess it, Our American farm
ers have been singularly sharp to rec
OgniZe a good thing when they see it.
May they ever retain this commanding
Quality.-RuraliSt
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-02-22
Flowing in Pea Vines.

'"To pillow in the pea crop involves
an absolute loss from the sacrifice of a
valuable food crop, and we lose not
only the food value o. the crop, but lose
in the crop we tried to benefit. Wheth-
er the future benefit to the soil may
warrant it or not we have certainly
for the present sacrificed valuable
food crop, and have lost in crop by do
ing it.
"This is one of the points which l
have been for years trying to impress
on the Southern farmer, that no mat
ter if what is called green manuring'
could be practiced in the South with
out serious danger of injury insted OF
benefit to the soil, it is not good farm
practice to bury for manure a crop
which we could make valuable food
of, and at the same time recover in the
manure a large percentage Of it's ma
nurial value. A crop of cow peas on
land in fair heart is we'll worth $40 per
acre as food alone. If we bury this $40
worth of food, and at the same time
find that the doing it has decreased
the crop instead of helping it, it will
require a very big amount of future
Improvement to the land to make up
for the temporary loss. Then, too, we
question the fact that it may be better
for the land to pillow under the whole
growth rather than the stubble alone.
We certainly avoid the loss of crop at
once, and by the time that the buried
pea vines would begin to assert them
selves in the soil in the shape of plant
food, we would have the manure made
from the harvested peas in a better
shape for giving out it's plant food, and
will, in the meantime, have gotten a
profit from the feeding of the forage.
Good stock is the greatest lack on
Southern farms, and in no section of
the country can food of the best kind
for all kinds of stock be grown so
cheaply as in the South. In no section
are the humus-making properties Of
the barnyard manure needed more
than in the Southern Soil.'-Prof.
Massey.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-02-22
The Bacon Pig.

With lard at four cents a pound and
bacon and hams at eight to twelve
cents, the very natural desire of the
farmer is the breeding of the hog that
will produce more meat than lard ;
that will make bacon-side meat-that
will not all turn into lard in the ket-
tie, nor leave nothing but a scrap
when fried in the skillet. Prof. Thorn
as Shew, of Wisconsin University, in
the National Rural advocates the ba-
con pig and thus describes it:
The leading essentials in form of a
bacon pig are, first good length and
depth of body without excessive
width. Secondly, limbs strong and of
medium size. And, third, head and
ears and neck of medium size. That is
not a bacon pig which has very short,
compact body, frame broad in pro-
portion to it's length, and that stands
on small and short legs. 1t is lard
pig Nor is that a bacon pig which is
razor-back and greyhound in it's build.
1t is a scrub that would soon eat it's
owner poor. The bacon pig is not a
hard feeder. 1t is a pig that will turn
it's food, not into an unhealthy sub
stance that melts away in cooking, but
it will turn it into good meat.
But it may be asked, is not the ba-
con pig a harder feeder than the pres
ent type of pig? 1 answer, 1 think he
is, but think not hard feeder. Then
the question will naturally follow,
should we not give the preference to
the easiest feeding pigs? l answer no,
not necessarily. We should give the
preference to the pig that will bring
us the most money. Easy keeping
qualities is only one consideration. In
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-02-22
Secretary Wilson and South.

The Chicago Record publishes th"
following Interview with Sccretar!
Wilson.
''.The cotton grower" says the Sec
rotary, sis no more to blame than any
One-crOp man. All suffer when the
product is larger than the market.
wish the southern people could realize,
as l do, how we'll adapted their soil
is to the production of domestic ami
mails. Yet each Of the gulf states
spends in the neighbOrhOOd of $4,000
a year for mules brought from Mis-
souri, and the states farther north.
They could breed them at home just
as we'll. Grasses can be grown that
are entirely suitable for fodder, the
climate is mild, so that the animals
do not have to be sheltered, and the
pasturage can be had all the year
round. During the hot season an album
dance of fodder could be afforded by
growing such legumes as cowpeas,
sand vetch and the velvet bean. GeOr-
gia last year produced 5000 tons Of
cotton seed, enough to fatten all the
4OOO 600 head of cattle which we ship
ped abroad. If mixed with corn fOd-
der, crab grass or any other nutrient,
it is the best kind Of fattening materi-
all
81 do not see why the Southern
farmers do not produce more first
class saddle and carriage horses. They
have a few now, such as we saw in
Augusta, but they are far behind the
north in this particular, notwithstand-
ing their superior advantages. The ag-
ricultural department is just now is
suing a report on the foreign markets
for horses and the southern farmers
ought to study it,"
"The mutton Sheep" he says,
"thrives admirably in the south. 1t
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-02-22

preparation is the manuring the fur
rows in the fall with stable manure.
In this case it is best to balance up
the manure with an addition of acid
phosphate and kainit in equal parts or
four parts of acid phosphate to one
part of muriate of potash
For a complete commercial fertilizer
the bulletin recommends. Nitrate of
soda 400 pounds, acid phosphate 800
pounds, muriate or sulphate of pot
ash 200 pounds. TO be applied at rate
of 700 pounds or more per acre. Plant
plenty of seed so as to insure stand
after the various depredatOrS are done
with them. Twenty seed to the nlll are
none too many, and more would be
better than less. The seed is scattered
loosely over the hill in a space as large
as a hat crown, and each one pushed
into the mellow soil with the finger, a
process that is very rapidly done by a
trained hand Be sure to plant shallow,
an inch being plenty of depth.
Old melon growers never cultivate
when the dew is on the vines, and new
er under any circumstances turn a
vine. Any wedding needed after the
vines run can be done with a Scythe
cutting the tops above the vines. They
should not even be pulled by hand as
the tendrils may. have clasped them,
and the vine will be disturbed. A few
we'll anchored weeds here and there
are a benefit, as they prevent the wind
from blowing the vine about. But bet
ter than weeds is a light sowing of
cow peas, about one peck per acre,
just before the last blowing. The
Whippoorwill is the best for this pur-
pose-Bulletin Ga. Experiment Sta
ton.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-02-22

ing the lion of disease Many an attack Of
dangerous illness would be headed off if at
the first premonitory symptoms the victim
would strike quickly.
Those severe coughs, bronchial affections
and wasting diseases which merge into
consumption would never get their savage
teeth into the constitution if their early
signs were headed off by DR.. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery. It provides such an
abundance of rich nourishing blood that
tuberculosis germs have no chance to get
any Judgment in the lungs. 1t clears the
skin and purges all the impurities from
every organ. 1t invigorates the liver to
expe1 all bilious poisons from the circula-
ton It creates healthy tissue, vitalized
nerve fiber and gives solid strength.
~ have thought for long time" writes Mrs
Rose Petty, of I4ockvil1e, Chatham Co., N. c.
"that 1 would not do you justice if l did not
write and tell you how was cured of that dread
full disease called consumption, by using DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery had meas
les and pneumonia both at the same time, and
came near dying, and as was able to go
out was taken with grip, and then followed
consumption. My physician did all he could tor
thing that 1 could hear of that was good for
cough but grew worse, and would have died soon
had I not commenced using the Golden Med1-
cal Discovery felt improved before the first
bottle was finished. took six bottles, and after
that felt better and stronger than in ten years
before That six years ago, and to-day DO
not feel any symptoms of return of the disease.
friend being cured by using the same medicine.
He afflicted as was, and after every thing
failed to cure him he took DIR. Pieces Golden
Medical Discovery and was cured"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-02-22
Watermelons.

The yellow pine, wire grass region
is the home of the watermelon. A
warm, light gray soil, well drained,
with strong clay subsoil that will
daily give up it's moisture little by lit
tie. affords the ideal location for the
watermelon. A soil too rich in humus
is not desirable, as it's tendency is to
produce insipid and watery fruit that
will not ship we'll. Rotation is all i'm
portant. Never follow melons with
melons for at least four years. Prep
aration of soil should be thorough, but
not deep, as the roots Of the water
melon are always close to the surface.
Land deeply broken will make the
roots run deeper and will cause slow
growth. The richer the soil, the more
luxuriant the growth, and the hills
should be correspondingly further
apart On very rich land twelve feet
each way is none too far, and many
growers plant at this distance in poor
land. Ten by ten is the usual distance.
Many still adhere to the old-fashlOn-
ed mode of manuring hills and max
ing them up with the hoe, but the
most successful growers practice the
furrow system. The best preparation
for watermelons is crop of coWpeas
on the land the year before. After cut
ting them for hay or ensilage the SUD-
BILE is left on the land and turned I'M
der in the fall. Next to the COW pea